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Congressional Kegger Sen. Grassley: Good afternoon, Judge Kavanaugh.

Judge Kavanaugh: Burrrp. Sorry.

Sen. Klobucher: My father was an alcoholic who experienced blackouts.

Have you had blackouts when you drank too much?

By Tom Tomorrow

Judge K.: Of course not. I have no recollection of blackouts. [Snarling] Do you have blackouts, senator?

Sen. Booker: Judge— Judge K.: This whole thing is a circus, a travesty, a conspiracy orchestrated by the left wing!

Sen Feinstein: On the contrary, Judge Kavanaugh, this investigation is part of our Constitutional duty to advise and consent.

Judge K.: Look, to cool things off, let’s have a beer. I loved beer, as I testified earlier. I still love beer. In fact, I’d like a beer right now, more than anything.

I love beer more than anything, even more than my family. Roll that keg in here, will you?

Sen Feinstein: Judge Kav— Judge K.: Senator, I’ll bet you and Blum don’t drink beer! You drink $100 wines in San Francisco! But you can still have blackouts. Do you ever have blackouts, senator? Especially at your age . . .?

[Takes big swig from a plastic cup.]

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Sen Harris: Judge Kavanaugh, that’s disgusting and incredibly inappropriate.

You owe Sen. Feinstein and the rest of the committee a big apology for this outrageous behavior.

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21 Gun Salute Students gather in Santa Rosa to Remember Parkland BY TOM GOGOLA

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The NRA lashed out at the bill for destroying the Second Amendment rights of minors—just as the organization lashed out at the heroic minors from Parkland High School who have embarked on a national campaign calling for smart and effective gun laws— through the ballot box.

Earlier this year, the gun group headed by Oliver North thought they had a great gotcha on their hands when they mocked outspoken Parkland survivor David Hogg for reportedly being protected with armed security guards while protesting at NRA headquarters. Hogg and his family were the subject of death threats earlier this year that prompted an FBI investigation.

Hogg and his Parkland allies helped prompt a similar legislative effort in Florida—to restrict gun ownership to those over 21—and was met with a lawsuit from the NRA, but also a surprise vote of support from Gov. Rick “Red Algae” Scott. The NRA has since moved on to trashing Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford and declaring that the Kavanaugh spectacle just ended represents a “dangerous precedent” for American boys, in the words of NRA crisis actor Dana Loesch.

It’s unclear what the connection is between the rights of drunk young men to sexually assault women and get away with it, and their sacrosanct gun rights—but whatever it is, that’s the dangerous precedent right there.

The Parkland shooting galvanized youth across the country to take on gun control and school-safety in a serious manner. On Sat., Oct. 13 the Social Action Committee of Congregation Shomrei Torah in Santa Rosa is presenting a documentary about the 2017 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, along with a panel of local student activists and a video conference with a Parkland survivor. For more info go to www.cstsr.org Tom Gogola is the News and Features editor of the ‘Bohemian’ and ‘Pacific Sun.’ Open Mic is a weekly feature in the ‘Bohemian.’ We welcome your contribution. To have your topical essay of 350 words considered for publication, write openmic@bohemian.com.

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downtown Healdsburg and take a spin around Dry Creek Valley. From Grove Street, venture into the new roundabout and take the right at Mill Street, which becomes Westside Road. After the bridge at Dry Creek, it’s a right turn at Madrona Manor onto West Dry Creek Road, a quiet, lightly trafficked and meandering back road.

Before West Dry Creek deadends, it’s a right at Yoakim Bridge to busier Dry Creek Road. (Road Warrior option: turn left for a steep out-and-back detour to the great vines of the Rockpile AVA.) A ways past the Dry Creek General Store, look for Lytton Springs Road, which wends east into the hills. It’s an easy climb through woodland and pastureland, past the Healdsburg Municipal Airport, until the view opens to a hillside of gnarled old vines, standing by themselves without trellis wires, leaves flecked with gold in autumn.

Founded in 1959 by a gang of Stanford scientists, Ridge first gained fame for their Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon from the Cupertino area, but they soon discovered venerable Zinfandel vineyards like Lytton Springs, which they purchased in 1991 and farm organically.

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The scenic route back to Healdsburg is a right turn on Chiquita Road, leading back to Grove Street. Look for the left-hand turn into the Foss Creek Pathway just after Dry Creek Road, and we’re on the home stretch of this easy, twenty-mile ride spanning over a century of wine-making.

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he age of the motorcar had hardly begun when the vineyards at Lytton Springs were first planted on bench land above Dry Creek Valley.

Back then, wine-country visitors might first glimpse this new planting of Zinfandel, mixed with other varieties in the old school California style, at the pace of a horse cart—and that’s about the speed that I can push my bike uphill to rediscover this treasure from the past that’s still putting out great wines every year, thanks to the team at Ridge Vineyards.

To better appreciate the vineyard’s context, I start this ride in

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t’s the vegetarianoption challenge: Pick a restaurant whose very soul is wrapped up in meat and place an order that studiously avoids any meat. How hard can that be?

This is not so hard to do at Healdsburg’s The Wurst, the Matheson Street brathouse that offers numerous sausage sandwiches, hot dogs, hamburgers and their traditional accompaniments (fries and a shake)—all coming in at under $10 per offering. The average price

point at Wurst is rare enough indeed in this pricey-eats part of the North Bay, no offense to the haute cuisine destinations that define the town.

The falafel hamburger has several things going for it: One, the falafel is non-crumbly and reasonably tasty in its own right. It isn’t boring. Two, the “hamburger” is dressed Mediterranean-style, which means fat black olives and a zippy smear of cucumber yogurt sauce—aka, tzatziki—that counter balances any implication, fair or otherwise, of non-beef blandness in the faux burger. I rather liked it—reminded me of the Sunshine

Burgers of my post-college youth, and to my ruggedly fickle palate, the Sunshine Burger is the greatest take on a fake burger ever.

Back at Wurst, a classic softseeded bun seals l’affaire of the veggie-mind.

From the grilled sausage menu—I admit it’s hard to blow past the Detroit Polish, the Harissa Hottie, the Tricky Chick—but that field-roasted eggplant sausage hits all the right hot-dog notes: it’s a texturally honest and flavorfully light link that provides the requisite ‘pop’ of a hot dog upon launching one’s maw into its seasoned glory. I called in and

HEALDSBURG ordered one with the caramelized onions and sauerkraut—the first two toppings are gratis. Dude on the phone says, “Sir! I have to warn you—there is bacon in the sauerkraut, is that okay?”

Warning received. Warning ignored. Of course it’s okay, man!

I’m here to enjoy a veggie lunch while not being a puritanical nightmare about it. Bring the sauerkraut, brother, bring it!

Bottom line: It’s a dang good faux dog, kraut or no kraut.

Which brings us to the garlic fries.

So, I put in a lunch order from Santa Rosa recently and then jumped in the car to pick up the food, a twenty-minute or so ride up Highway 101 to Healdsburg.

By the time I got back to the office, the fries were cold—it was all my fault for ordering them takeout. It was a heap of shoe-stringed potato-ness, a massively generous order topped with flecks of parsley and cheese. I ate a few and closed the container, with a vision. As soon as I get home, I thought-slobbered, those suckers are going onto a baking pan into the oven, for a re-crispification treatment.

Wurst has all sorts of house-made condiments but my dipping sauce du jour is a dollop of mayonnaise mixed with Sriracha sauce.

I obsessed, perhaps unhealthily, over this culinary reheat scheme while slurping down the remains of the Wurst chocolate shake I’ve ever had—which is to say, that milkshake was spot-on: frosty and thick, but not so thick that it clogs the darn plastic straw.

Oh crud, I just admitted to using a politically incorrect plastic straw.

But don’t I get some credit for hewing veg in this bustling house of hot dogs and hamburgers?

Bacon bits notwithstanding?

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How lobbyist and media investor Darius Anderson and a senator’s son gambled and lost their bid for a big casino payday BY PETER BYRNE

THE FLOP Anderson sued Graton Rancheria for $43 million, only to be penalized to the tune of $725,000.

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onoma County resident Darius Anderson is one of California’s most powerful men. For decades he has advised and raised campaign funds for prominent state Democrats, including Willie L. Brown, Nancy Pelosi, Jerry Brown, Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris.

Anderson’s Sacramento lobbying firm, Platinum Advisors, advertises that it generates “billions of dollars in work for our clients” by navigating their deals through mazes of government bureaucracy. Anderson’s

Kenwood Investments is developing Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, in partnership with public and private entities.

But one deal Anderson tried to navigate more than a decade ago ended with a finding of fraud directed at another investment company owned by Anderson, Kenwood No. 2.

Anderson, 53, is the managing member and chairman of Sonoma Media Investments, which owns the Press Democrat and its affiliate publications. He promotes himself as a champion of liberal social causes, a philanthropist, a public servant, a man of integrity who cares about his community—especially racial minorities. That image has not survived judicial scrutiny.

After a two-month arbitration trial ended last November, three retired state judges declared that Anderson and his partners in Kenwood Investments No. 2 LLC (“Kenwood No. 2”) defrauded a Sonoma County Indian tribe between 2002–03. They ordered Anderson’s investment firm to pay $725,000 to the tribe to cover its lawyer’s fees and arbitration costs.

In a settlement arrangement, Kenwood No. 2 agreed not to appeal the judges’ findings, and the Graton Rancheria agreed to let Anderson’s firm pay less than the dollar amount of the award, says Joel Zeldin, the tribe’s arbitration counsel.

According to the arbitrating judges, Anderson breached his consulting contract with the

tribe, which now owns the Graton Resort & Casino in Rohnert Park.

The judges found that Anderson and his associates “fraudulently induced” and “breached” an agreement to assist the tribe in developing a Las Vegas-style casino business.

The ruling, by retired Superior Court judges William Cahill, Read Ambler and Richard A. Kramer, concluded a long legal battle between Anderson and the Graton Rancheria. It shed light on how a powerful man who, the judges ruled, sought to enrich his business at their expense.

The judicial proceedings took place behind closed doors at the San Francisco office of the JAMS mediation organization. A final binding arbitration award was issued by the judging panel this year, on April 26. It was confirmed

by Superior Court Judge Richard Ulmer on June 1.

The 53-page arbitration report details how Anderson and his associate, Douglas Boxer, harmed the Graton Rancheria in multiple ways, including the loss of millions of dollars.

Boxer was a lobbyist for Platinum Advisors and Anderson’s partner in Kenwood Investments No. 2.

He is the son of former U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, who, in 2000, wrote federal legislation that restored the national sovereignty of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and authorized the tribe to establish a casino business.

In early 2002, Anderson and Boxer approached the tribe’s chairman, Greg Sarris, a novelist and professor of creative writing and Native American studies at Sonoma State University. They proposed that the newly empowered tribal nation hire Platinum Advisors to help it acquire reservation land and start a business to make it self-sufficient.

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Sarris trusted Boxer because the lobbyist’s mother had sponsored the legislation that re-established the tribe’s sovereignty. After Anderson presented a promise-filled PowerPoint to the tribal council, it voted to hire Platinum Advisors.

Fifteen years later, arbitrators declared that Anderson and Boxer had breached their contract to deliver adequate professional services in the tribe’s interest, damaging the casino project’s prospects. Kenwood No. 2 received $1.2 million in cash payments at the expense of the tribe, the arbitrators found.

According to the arbitration document, the Graton Rancheria was afraid to expose these actions when it discovered what Anderson was doing in 2003, fearing political retaliation by the consultants.

The story only came to light because in November 2013, Anderson demanded that the Graton Rancheria pay Kenwood No. 2 a percentage of the projected revenue from its recently opened casino. Anderson insisted that the tribe pay his firm $43 million; he threatened to compel arbitration if it refused.

The tribe refused. It sued Kenwood No. 2 in state superior court, claiming that its sovereign immunity prohibited Anderson from compelling arbitration of his claim.

In November 2015, the court ruled that the tribe had waived its sovereign immunity defense in its contract with Anderson. In 2017, that judgment was affirmed by the appellate court, and the JAMS arbitration commenced.

Anderson claimed 2.5 percent of the Graton Resort & Casino’s net revenue for the first seven years of its operation, despite

ALL IN A three-judge arbitration panel let the chips fall where they may.

the fact that after 2005, the tribe had ceased doing business with his company. Insisting that the Graton Rancheria had “unjustly enriched” itself at the expense of his firm, Anderson demanded that it pay his attorney fees, too.

But it was the tribe, not Anderson, that had been wronged, the retired judges ruled. After months of sworn testimony, the panel ordered Kenwood No. 2 to pay the tribe’s attorney fees because it was Kenwood No. 2 that had breached the consulting contract, and Anderson’s claims to the contrary “lacked merit.”

The two trials generated thousands of pages of testimony, depositions and exhibits. The court record of the arbitration award was partly redacted and relabeled at Anderson’s request, according to Zeldin.

Anderson’s and Boxer’s names are replaced by “Person A” and “Person B,” respectively.

“Platinum Advisors” is replaced with “Company 1.” “Kenwood No. 2” replaced “Kenwood.”

The names of politicians and descriptions of their actions are blacked out. But who they are and what they did is clear from the narrative context and from contemporaneous news reports.

How It Began In March 2002, the Graton Rancheria signed a contract with Platinum Advisors as its “exclusive agent” to provide it with “strategic advice and consultation” and to develop “political visibility.” The contract granted Platinum a right of first refusal to “partner with the

tribe in any business opportunity it pursued.” The idea was to attract investors.

From the get-go, Boxer worked to convince the tribe how “‘much of a home run a casino would be’ rather than organic food processing, grape growing, strip mall, or senior assisted living facility,” according to the arbitration award. It did not take much convincing. Casinos attract cash like black holes eat planets.

Even as Anderson and Boxer worked with the tribe on a public relations campaign to further a casino project, they were making secret deals to benefit themselves, the arbitrators found.

According to a declaration filed by Anderson in 2015, he, Boxer, Jay Wallace of Platinum Advisors and Stuart Sunshine, a San Francisco city official, created Kenwood Investments No. 2 LLC in January 2003.

The arbitration judges ruled that Anderson’s new company shadowed Platinum Advisors’ tribal consulting activities, while serving a hidden agenda to make money for its principals—at the tribe’s expense.

Without informing Sarris or the tribe, Anderson and Boxer struck a deal to buy 1,736 acres of tidal wetlands near Highway 37, a major road connecting San Francisco and Oakland. Kenwood No. 2 paid $100,000 for an option to purchase the swampy property, which it sold to the tribe for $750,000.

Even as Kenwood No. 2 was secretly securing the option, Platinum Advisors was advising the tribe to select the Highway 37 site for its casino, even though it

was a politically impossible place to pour acres of concrete.

“The site was part of 50,000 acres of tidal wetlands that conservationists had been trying to protect and restore since the 1970s,” noted the arbitration judges, who were incredulous that Anderson had suggested it.

The attempt to locate the casino on the wetlands site proved to be a public relations and monetary disaster for the tribe.

As Anderson and Boxer were negotiating to buy the swampy land in late 2002, they were also negotiating casino-management deals with several Las Vegas–based casino operators, including Station Casinos, Harrah’s, Maloof and MGM, without telling the tribe.

In February 2003, Anderson sent a request for proposals (RFP) to potential casino operators.

The proposal represented Kenwood No. 2 as the “exclusive development partner” and “financial advisor” for the tribe. It stated that Kenwood No. 2 would evaluate the proposals and select the casino manager for the tribe.

Kenwood No. 2 had no contractual relationship with the Graton Rancheria when it issued the RFP. The tribe’s contract was with Platinum Advisors.

According to the arbitration award, “the evidence established that the Tribe was unaware that Kenwood No. 2 had sent an RFP to operators and had not approved the contents of the RFP drafted by Kenwood No. 2.”

The trial revealed that Anderson’s RFP instructed potential casino operators to bid their services on the basis of several unusual assumptions: The operator would commit to buying Kenwood No. 2’s option to purchase the Highway 37 land and then buy the land from the seller on behalf of Kenwood No. 2, which would be the “titleholder.”

The RFP assumed that the casino would be built on the Highway 37 site controlled by Kenwood No. 2 and that there were no other possibilities.

The operators could charge the tribe 20 percent of the casino’s net revenues and were to “assume a management fee to ) 14 Kenwood No. 2 of 10

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The operators would pay Kenwood No. 2 “development fees” of $2.5 million up front to purchase the option on the Highway 37 site, and another $2.5 million when the tribe took over the site—$5 million total.

“Lastly, operators were required to pay Kenwood No. 2 ‘pre-development fees’ of $8.4 million ($200,000 per month) for advisory and consulting services.”

The operators were not required by the RFP to make upfront cash payments to the tribe, or to provide any specific amounts of money for the tribe’s maintenance costs (i.e., its ability to maintain its existence until the casino began generating revenue).

Anderson received and evaluated four responses to the RFP, which he did not share with the tribe. Notably, Harrah’s proposed to take up to 24 percent of the net gaming revenue as its management fee. Improving on the terms of the RFP itself, Harrah’s offered to pay $100,000 a month to the tribe for the casino’s maintenance, along with $4 million pre-development fee.

Harrah’s also offered to donate $100,000 per year to set up an educational scholarship fund for tribal members. And it offered to make a one-time $25 million Quality of Life loan to the tribe.

Harrah’s declined to pay a percentage of net revenues to Kenwood No. 2, although it offered to pay Anderson $50,000 a month in consulting fees, if the tribe approved of the arrangement. Harrah’s pointed out that such an arrangement was not normal business practice; it would have to be approved by the National Indian Gaming Commission.

Harrah’s expressed concern about the truth of Anderson’s claim to be representing the tribe’s interests. It asked to be put directly in touch with the tribal council before proceeding further.

Anderson rejected Harrah’s proposal without consulting with Sarris and the tribe or informing them of the proposal’s existence.

Station Casinos’ response

to the RFP was far more favorable toward Anderson. It suggested that Kenwood No. 2 and Station Casinos partner to manage the casino. It proposed divvying up 30 percent of the casino revenues—20 percent to Anderson, 80 percent to Station.

The Las Vegas–based corporation offered to pay Anderson $10 million cash up front and $15,000 a month for consulting services. It offered $100,000 a month for tribal maintenance, but it did not offer the tribe any development fees, scholarships or loans.

On March 7, 2003 Anderson and Boxer asked the Graton Rancheria to assign the Platinum Advisors contract to Kenwood No. 2, and claimed it would not change the terms of the agreement.

But the assignation did change the terms of the agreement. The new arrangement gave Kenwood No. 2 new authority to act as the tribe’s exclusive agent. Kenwood No. 2 was allowed to negotiate a cut of the casino operator’s management fee for itself. And, importantly, the tribe agreed to waive its sovereign-immunity defense in the case of a contract dispute—a concession it later regretted.

Anderson and Boxer had been negotiating with gaming corporations since the fall of 2002. They first told Sarris and the tribe that they had issued RFPs on March 11, 2003.

Brian Campbell, a tribal member doing legal work for the tribe, got wind of the RFP and asked Boxer for a copy. Boxer gave Campbell a copy but did not tell him about the responses that had been received.

Boxer later testified under oath that he had given drafts of the RFP to the tribe before it was sent out in 2002. The tribe’s witnesses testified that Boxer did not do that. Campbell testified that he

was surprised that Anderson had asked for 10 percent of the gaming revenues and $5 million in upfront fees in the RFP. On March 14, 2003, Anderson told the tribal council about the existence of RFP responses. He did not disclose Harrah’s offer to the tribe of tens of millions of dollars in cash.

He told the tribe that Station Casinos had made the best proposal for “superior overall economics.”

Even as members expressed outrage at Anderson’s selfdealing behavior, the tribal council accepted his recommendation that Station Casinos be selected as its casino operator.

Suspecting that Anderson was more motivated to benefit himself than the tribe, the Graton Rancheria hired attorneys from California Indian Legal Services (CILS) to watch over its interests. The CILS lawyers noted that it was a conflict of interest for Anderson to negotiate with Station on behalf of the tribe while he was also negotiating with Station on his own behalf for a cut of the management fees. Anderson agreed that he would not negotiate a separate deal.

On April 22, 2003, the tribe signed the revised agreement with Kenwood No. 2. It provided that Anderson’s company would receive 4 percent of the net gaming revenues for seven years (later reduced to 2.5 percent).

Anderson agreed to donate $25,000 annually to the UCLA College of Indian Law Program.

The next day, according to trial exhibits, Anderson secretly made a separate consulting agreement with Station Casinos, despite his promise that he wouldn’t.

Kenwood No. 2 contracted to assist Station Casinos “maintain its relationship” with the tribe.

Station Casinos agreed to pay Anderson $20,000 per month as it bought the option on the Highway 37 site for $750,000, netting

A panel of retired judges ruled that Anderson had breached his contract with the Graton Rancheria.

Kenwood No. 2 a $650,000 profit.

Station Casinos agreed to pay Anderson a total of $9.5 million for achieving various “milestones” as it helped the tribe to navigate the bureaucracy of getting its casino up and running.

Anderson did not tell the tribe about his side deal with Station Casinos. “The evidence indicates that Kenwood No. 2 intentionally kept information regarding the Station/Kenwood No. 2 agreement secret from the Tribe,” the arbitrators found. “[Exhibit] 490 [Douglas Boxer] notation: ‘don’t tell Sarris: negotiation.’

Boxer did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

In fact, they did not learn of the secret side agreement’s existence until June 2003, when Station Casinos included a copy of the side agreement in the paperwork accompanying its negotiations with the tribe, the arbitrators found. Station Casinos declined to comment.

Draining the Swamp On the same day they signed the side agreement, Station Casinos and Anderson announced that the Graton Rancheria planned to develop the Highway 37 site for a casino. A coalition of environmental groups that supported the Bay Delta Restoration Plan to restore local wetland habitats enlisted local, state and federally elected officials to vehemently oppose erecting the casino.

The tribe’s attempt to “appease these groups by offering to restore hundreds of acres of wetlands on the property” was a non-starter. After Sen. Feinstein “threatened to redraft the Tribe’s restoration language to obstruct the Tribe’s ability to open a casino anywhere,” the Graton Rancheria backed down and nixed the wetlands as a possibility.

The tribe ended up paying for and donating the Highway 37 wetlands to the Sonoma County Land Trust, which has restored it.

The wetlands debacle ended up costing the tribe about $5 million, which included paying for the unusable land and for Kenwood

that Anderson and Boxer had fraudulently induced the tribe to contract their services. Their duty to be loyal to the tribe was violated by a series of actions, they found: Anderson and Boxer represented that Kenwood No. 2 had “experience and abilities that it in fact lacked.”

Kenwood No. 2 breached its contract when it bought an option for the Highway 37 land without telling the tribe, and then promoted the land to the tribe as suitable for the casino site despite its unsuitability for development.

Anderson and Boxer sent out request for proposals for a casino manager that benefited Kenwood No. 2 at the expense of the tribe and without telling the tribe of the existence of the RFPs. They rejected Harrah’s proposal without telling the tribe or informing it about Harrah’s reservations regarding the RFP terms, including concern about Anderson’s option to buy the Highway 37 site and his consulting-fee demands.

They entered into undisclosed consulting agreements with Station Casinos “to the detriment” of the tribe. “Kenwood No. 2 defrauded the Tribe by promising to remove all conflicts of interest from its role as negotiator of the Tribe’s operator contract, and by suggesting that it would obtain compensation for this services only from its separate contract with the Tribe.” (Station Casinos was itself a party to the arrangement, although the judges did not address that issue.)

“Despite causing major problems and virtually no effective assistance to the Tribe,” Anderson claimed that it was the tribe that had breached the consulting agreement with Kenwood No. 2. Anderson’s pursuit of his “unmerited” claim against the tribe caused it to spend significant amounts of money and to “suffer business risks and distractions.”

The judges ordered Kenwood No. 2 to pay the tribe’s attorney fees and costs of $725,657.48, and to receive nothing for itself.

Anderson did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

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No. 2’s profit on the land-purchase option.

Without Anderson’s assistance, Sarris and the tribe went looking for an alternative site to build their casino, and eventually bought 270 acres in Rohnert Park for $100 million. The tribe had little or no contact with Anderson and Boxer after 2005, when it stopped using their services.

Boxer testified that Kenwood No. 2 did significant work for the tribe prior to 2006. The trial record reports that in 2004 Boxer “‘killed’ a bill” in the state assembly that would “require gaming tribes to negotiate with local governments to mitigate the impact of casinos.”

Boxer said at trial that he had designed publicity and lobbying campaigns for the tribe; helped it to create a financial budget and to find office space; and “assisted tribal members in securing personal loans.”

The arbitrators determined that lobbying on the tribe’s behalf violated California law because Kenwood No. 2 was not a registered lobbying firm.

Regardless, the judges found that Anderson and Boxer did not materially assist the tribe in jumping through the complicated governmental, environmental and financing procedures necessary to obtain a gaming compact and open the casino.

Sarris testified that the tribe felt that “Kenwood No. 2 was providing little or no value . . . and the Tribe wanted to sever its relationship with [Anderson and Boxer] but was afraid that if it did so, [they] might retaliate and use [their] political connections against the Tribe.”

The tribe estimated that it ended up paying Kenwood No. 2 $10,000 an hour for the services it did receive before the contract ended.

Nonetheless, the tribe invited Anderson and Boxer to attend the opening party for the Graton Resort and Casino on November 5, 2014. That same day, Anderson demanded that the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria wire a payment of $43 million to his bank account.

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Jewish Jazz

Virtuoso guitarist Amos Hoffman and world-class pianist Noam Lemish have each spent a lifetime collecting Jewish folk melodies and performing multifaceted jazz. Now they’ve mixed the two as the Amos Hoffman & Noam Lemish Quartet, with a new album, Padres.

The quartet offers a recital performance on Thursday, Oct. 11, at the Green Music Center’s Schroeder Hall (1801 E. Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park; 6:30pm; free; $5 parking; 866.955.6040), then play as part of the Parlor Jazz series from Healdsburg Jazz Festival on Saturday, Oct. 13, at Paul Mahder Gallery (222 Healdsburg Ave., Healdsburg; 7:30pm; $25; 707.473.9150).

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BACK IN THE NORTH BAY Longtime Sonoma County star and now NOLA-based Americana master Eric Lindell tours through Duncans Mills, Cotati and Petaluma on Oct. 14–16. See Clubs & Venues, p21.

Wine Country’s annual LGBTQI film festival, OUTwatch, returns this weekend for a schedule of thoughtful and engaging cinema—both feature films and documentaries—that showcases the best in gay, lesbian and transgender films from the last year. The OUTwatch film fest opens with the biopic Mapplethorpe, about famed photographer Robert Mapplethorpe’s rise to stardom in the 1970s and ’80s, starring Matt Smith (Dr. Who) and includes a recently restored version of the 1996 film The Watermelon Woman closing the event. In addition, six other features screen from Friday to Sunday, Oct. 12–14, at Rialto Cinemas, 6868 McKinley St., Sebastopol. Times Vary. $20–$70. outwatchfilmfest.org.

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Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, the North Bay’s art community has emerged from the 2017 wildfires with renewed dedication and new work. Support the scene with Jessel Gallery’s upcoming exhibit, ‘From the HeART,’ that’s dedicated to those artists affected a year ago by disaster. Wine country landscape artist Patrick O’Rourke, Calistoga painter Karen Lynn Ingalls and other local artists who were affected display their work, and a raffle and proceeds from the sales will directly help the artists rebuild their lives. “From the HeART” opens with a reception on Friday, Oct. 12, at Jessel Gallery, 1019 Atlas Peak Road, Napa. 5pm. Free admission. 707.257.2350.

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The biggest smash musical sensation on Broadway since Hamilton is the multi-award-winning Dear Evan Hansen, about a high school senior overcoming severe social anxiety.

The play recently found itself the subject of a novelization that expanded on the characters and story. This month, Copperfield’s Books brings the musical’s creators Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, along with novelist Val Emmich, together for a special event featuring conversation and live musical performances as ‘Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel’ takes the stage on Monday, Oct. 15, at the Mystic Theatre & Music Hall, 23 Petaluma Blvd. N., Petaluma. 7pm. $27; includes signed copy of the book. copperfieldsbooks.com.

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TALK TO ME: Bay Area native W. Kamau Bell speaks on topics both political and personal when he appears in Petaluma on Oct. 20.

Bell or High Water W. Kamau Bell offers wise (and funny) words at Wine Country Spoken Word Festival BY DAVID TEMPLETON

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alking about what is and isn’t funny is like talking about what does and doesn’t turn you on,” says comedianauthor (and TV host) W. Kamau Bell. “Like comedy, what turns you on is super personal, and it’s probably nobody’s business. We don’t need to compare notes and argue with each other about what turns you on

as opposed to what turns me on. ‘You’re turned on by that? Well, you should only be turned on by what turns me on!’ We start doing that, and we’re back in the puritan era. Comedy is like that. How often have you laughed at a joke, only to be told you shouldn’t have laughed?

They’ll say, ‘Hey. That’s not funny!’ But the truth is, it’s just not funny to them.”

Bell has had plenty of experience on both sides of such laughter.

One of the country’s most notable political comedians of the day, Bell’s work has often been described as polarizing, and at the same time, has been praised for its ability to unite audiences by finding the humor in their commonalities as well as their differences. Bell’s new book, The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell, is an entertaining collection of essays with the binder-

busting subtitle “Tales of a 6’ 4”, African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama’s Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian.”

His new Netflix comedy special, Private School Negro (which went live in late June), has been acclaimed for Bell’s winningly wise, affably baffled observations about life, race, fatherhood, politics, and the everyday oddities, frailties and upsets that make us all human.

Ben Jardine, of the Under the Radar website, said of the show, “In an era of political and social strife, Bell is the bright comedic light we all need.”

Bell will be in Petaluma on October 20, to headline day two of the second Wine Country Spoken Word Festival.

Launched last year by Petaluma-based comic and storyteller Dave Pokorny and his wife Juliet, an event producer and former Pixar Studios employee, the festival brings together some of the best comics, poets, storytellers, authors and speakers in the country.

In addition to Bell, this year’s festival features poet-performer Steve Connell, comedian Zahra Noorbakhsh, storyteller Bil Lepp, poetry slam champion Denice Frohman, and Tennessee storyteller Elizabeth Ellis. Some of the shows will be major showcases featuring several performers at once, with smaller up-close-and-personal appearances, where single performers deliver highlights of their repertoire or talk about how they create their material.

“I like to support local things, and this is just local enough to qualify as local for me,” says Bell.

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Bell or High Water ( 17 degree away from everyone else, so I’ve had plenty of opportunities to hear from Dave about the things he’s doing up in Petaluma.

Now I finally have a chance to come see for myself.”

The festival includes stand-up, improv, storytelling, poetry, TEDx-style presentations, and readings from published works.

“I’m probably a little light on the poetry,” Bell says, with a hint of his famous Muppet-ready laugh.

“But to me, this is the best place to be, that place of existing in between all of these different styles and definitions. I feel like we too often segment different types of performances into categories. When I was in the UK, I learned quickly that they do a lot less of that over there. What they define as ‘stand-up comedy’ has a much broader definition.”

Bell would like to see more of that here in the U.S. “I think comedy is people talking on stage, either into microphones or not,” he says.

“Sometimes it’s really funny and sometimes its less funny, but it’s always about being in a room with people, finding humor in real-life situations, telling and sharing stories that come from a whole range of different perspectives.”

That wider definition encompasses Bell’s approach to comedy. “[If] someone asks me to define what I do in one word, I’ll still say ‘comedian,’ because that’s the core of who I am. I might not tell jokes, but I am funny, even if the things I talk about aren’t funny. Which is pretty funny, if you think about it.”

A successful Bell show is one in which he establishes a connection with his audience before launching into an improvisational, in-the-moment exploration of the thoughts, concerns and observations he’s been musing on.

“I have three kids,” he says, “so I don’t have the time to overthink my material. I never sit in the corner, gently rolling over my thoughts for hours. My approach is to take a piece of paper and a sharpie an hour before I go on stage and kind of mine my brain for the things I’ve been thinking

about. And then I just basically wing it from there—and sometimes I’m as surprised by what I say as the audience is.” It’s risky business.

“As comedians, we take that risk all the time—the risk that what we says will not be viewed as funny to some people. Every comedian, no matter successful they are, has had somebody come up to them at some point and say, ‘I don’t like that joke. It offends me.’ Or ‘I don’t think you should be making light of that subject.’ I think it’s the job of a comedian, at those moments, is to decide: A) Are you a person I want in my audience? Because if you’re not, then I’m okay with offending you. And B) If you are a person I want in my audience, how important is it to me that you like this joke or that joke?”

Bell has, on occasion, changed material because of such conversations. But he does it very rarely. “If a story I tell or a joke I make is about identity, and I have somehow put down a person’s identity— especially if that identity is of some group that is being oppressed a lot right now in America—then I might say, ‘You make a good point. Let me see if I can find a way around that and still keep the joke, or part of that joke. But sometimes people are just offended. . . If someone is out there in the audience, scowling and crossing their arms, letting me know I’ve offended them, I can say in my mind, ‘You’re offended? Okay. Well, I hope the next joke doesn’t offend you, or, you know, good luck in your experiences with laughter in the future.’ Because there are ways to find the humor in the world around us, and there’s just no way to tell a joke that is funny to everyone. It’s not my job to make everyone laugh, anymore than it’s your job to laugh at every joke I tell. So let’s both do our jobs, maybe everyone in the audience will laugh some of the time, if not all of the time, and we’ll all end up having a pretty good time.”

The Wine Country Spoken Word Festival runs Friday-Sunday October 19-21, at the Mystic Theatre, 23 Petaluma Blvd. No. and Hotel Petaluma, 205 Kentucky St. Showtimes and ticket prices vary. Full schedule at davepokornypresents.com.

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BY JULIA ALVAREZ powerhouse Dani Innocenti Beem follows up her award-winning work as “Mama” Rose with another star turn as Dolly. She’s joined

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Among the acrobatic ensemble, keep your eye out for Zach Frangos. This young man can dance.

Alas, all of this fine work was completely undermined by the incompetent execution of the sound design. The evening was a nonstop series of microphone mishaps, sound-level issues and music-track mistakes that gave the show the feel of a disastrous dress rehearsal rather than an opening night triumph.

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There are times, however, when the poor execution of those elements so overwhelms the other components on stage that it negates the fine work otherwise being done.

Such was the case with the opening night of the Sonoma Arts Live production of Hello, Dolly! running now through October 21.

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from across the country to play along with the North Bay’s local collection of rock stars. “I do everything from rock ’n’ roll and reggae, to Tex-Mex and flamenco. I figure good music is good music.”

Mosso has been hosting events and promoting shows in Healdsburg since he founded an open mic at Bear Republic Brewing Company in the 1990s. He’s brought international acts like the Wailers to the Raven Theater, put on local music showcases at the Ravenous Café and played in eclectic bands like Crazy Famous and Crowbot.

When the space for the venue became available last year, Mosso contacted longtime friend Stokeld, and the two partnered up. Stokeld coined the name the Elephant in the Room to acknowledge the watering hole’s beer-focused offerings in the heart of wine country.

“You could tell people just really needed some music in this town,” says Mosso. “I’ve been seeing people coming in that I haven’t seen in years. It’s been sweet to see people out there smiling and dancing.”

This week, the Elephant in the Room packs several live shows into its calendar. On Friday, Oct. 12, eclectic jazz-funk band Sakoyana plays a blistering set of original jams. On Saturday, Oct. 13, a double-bill brings the Reverend Hylton out of Atlanta in for an early evening set of melodic Americana before San Francisco roots-rock and reggae act Burnt parties down. Sunday, Oct. 14, is what Mosso is calling his “Elephalooza” with a lineup starting at 2pm featuring Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, Aqua Velvets and Lagunitas Brewing Company founder Tony Magee’s band, Alice Drinks the Kool-Aid. On Oct. 27, the pub celebrates its one-year anniversary with another daylong concert party.

“I want people to feel like this is a sanctuary,” says Mosso of the venue. “I want to be able to create a safe space for people to enjoy music and each other.”

CHEERS! It’s OK to talk about this Elephant in the Room.

Room for All

Healdsburg pub hits all the right notes

BY CHARLIE SWANSON n a town of wineries and tasting rooms, Healdsburg’s the Elephant in the Room has made an impact with craft beers and live music—and the locals love it. The intimate venue is the product of Healdsburg native, musician, booker and occasional bartender KC Mosso and Santa Rosa public-house Toad in the Hole founder Paul Stokeld.

By joining their passions together, the pair have crafted the Elephant in the Room into a friendly local venue that this month marks a year of camaraderie.

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“It’s been quite an adventure,” says Mosso, who books bands

The Elephant in the Room is located at 177 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg.

Open daily, noon to midnight. elephantintheroompub.com.

Concerts SONOMA COUNTY Parker Quartet

Redwood Arts Council presents the Grammy Award-winning classical ensemble. Oct 13, 7:30pm. $10-$30. Sebastopol Community Church, 1000 Gravenstein Hwy N, Sebastopol.

707.823.2484.

Soweto Gospel Choir

South Africa choir performs a program, “Songs of the Free,” in honor of Nelson Mandela’s 100th birthday. Oct 12, 7:30pm. $35 and up. Green Music Center Weill Hall, 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park.

866.955.6040.

Wine Country Ragtime Festival

Nationally known jazz and folk performers kickoff the weekend at the Reel on Friday, with shows at several locations Saturday and Sunday. Oct 12-14. $10-$20. The Reel Fish Shop & Grill, 401 Grove St, Sonoma. winecountryragtimefestival.com.

MARIN COUNTY Masters & Mariners Music Series

Folk and cabaret bands joins the boating community for a night connecting maritime life and song. Oct 14, 5pm. $15$25. Spaulding Marine Center, Foot of Gate 5 Road, Sausalito.

415.578.8690.

Parachute Days

Final concert in the collective’s season features West Marin bands El Radio Fantastique, PSDSP and others. Oct 13, 3pm. $10-$35. Love Field, 11191 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Pt Reyes Station.

The Zemlinsky Quartet Mill Valley Chamber Music Society presents the ensemble performing an all-Czech program for Czechoslovakia’s 100th anniversary. Oct 14, 5pm. $35; free for youth. Mt Tamalpais United Methodist Church, 410 Sycamore Ave, Mill Valley. 800.838.3006.

NAPA COUNTY Michael Glabicki

Founder and frontman of platinum-selling band Rusted

Root shows off a new sound with longtime collaborator Dirk Miller. Oct 14, 6 and 8pm. $17-$35. Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa. 707.880.2300.

Napa Live: Inside & Out

Live music crawl includes musicians performing in stores, parks, plazas, patios and throughout Napa’s many venues.

Oct 14, 12pm. Free. downtown, Main street and Town Center, Napa. donapa.com.

Clubs & Venues SONOMA COUNTY Aqus Cafe

Oct 11, Honkeytonk Stumbleweeds. Oct 12, the Musers. Oct 13, the Farallons.

Oct 14, 2pm, David Bennet Cohen. 189 H St, Petaluma.

707.778.6060.

Arlene Francis Center

Oct 11, Columba Livia with Aly Rose Trio and Garrison Krohn & Dovekeeper. 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa. 707.528.3009.

Barley & Hops Tavern Oct 12, Awesome Hotcakes.

3688 Bohemian Hwy, Occidental. 707.874.9037.

The Big Easy

Oct 12, Trebuchet with Lapel and Silas Fermoy. Oct 13, the Hots.

Oct 16, Eric Lindell. 128 American Alley, Petaluma. 707.776.7163.

Bluewater Bistro

Oct 11, Michelle Lambert.

21301 Heron Dr, Bodega Bay. 707.875.3513.

BR Cohn Winery

Oct 14, 2pm, Dustin Saylor.

15000 Sonoma Hwy, Glen Ellen.

707.938.4064.

Brewsters Beer Garden

Elephant in the Room

Oct 11, Sakoyana. Oct 13, 5pm, Reverend Hylton. Oct 13, 8pm, Burnt with Perro Bravo. Oct 14, 4:30pm, Alice Drinks the Kool Aid and Aqua Velvets. 177-A Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, elephantintheroompub.com.

Flamingo Lounge

Oct 12, the Stomp Kings. Oct 13, Santa Rosa Salsa night.

2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa.

707.545.8530.

Geyser Peak Winery

Oct 13, 12:30pm, Sonoma Goods. 2306 Magnolia Lane, Healdsburg. 707 857-2500.

Geyserville Gun Club Bar & Lounge

Oct 13, the Aqua Velvets. 21025 Geyserville Ave, Geyserville.

707.814.0036.

Oct 14, 3pm, Eric Lindell. 23577 Steelhead Blvd, Duncans Mills.

707.865.1441.

Green Music Center Schroeder Hall

Oct 11, Noam Lemish and Amos Hoffman. Oct 12, Judicael Perroy. Oct 14, 2pm, Navarro Trio. Oct 16, Jazz Combo Concert. 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park. 866.955.6040.

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HopMonk Sebastopol Oct 12, Gene Evaro Jr. Oct 13, Kingsborough. Oct 15, Winstrong and the Fya Squad Band. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol. 707.829.7300.

Oct 12, Ain’t Misbehavin’. Oct 13, Matt Santry. Oct 14, 1pm, Dawn Angelosante and Tony Gibson. 691 Broadway, Sonoma.

707.935.9100.

Oct 13, Robb Fisher Trio. 25 Matheson St, Healdsburg.

707.431.2800.

Lagunitas Tap Room Oct 10, IrieFuse. Oct 11, the Rhythm Rangers. )

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Oct 11, Ty Segall and White Fence. Oct 12, St Lucia.

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Oct 13, Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Concert Band.

Oct 14, 3pm, Julie Fowlis. 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park.

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Cloverdale Arts Alliance Gallery

Oct 13, 3pm, Michael A Gabriel.

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Oct 14, 3pm, Matt Bolton.

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707.981.8330.

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Oct 12, Mellosmoove. Oct 13, Jinx Jones. Oct 14, Relatively Dead. Oct 17, Myrtle Lane. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma.

707.778.8776.

Wed, Acrosonics. Oct 11, King Daddy Murr and Prince of Thieves. Oct 12, David Bennet Cohen and friends. Oct 13, Sean Carscadden. Oct 14, Sonoma blues jam. Oct 16, American Roots Night. 452 First St E, Ste G, Sonoma. 707.996.1364.

Luther Burbank Center for the Arts

Oct 14, 3pm, Symphony Pops concert featuring Ellis Hall. 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.546.3600.

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Oct 11, Willie Perez. Oct 13, Bad Ass Boots. Oct 16, Mac & Potter.

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707.869.0501.

Mc T’s Bullpen

Oct 12, DJ MGB. Oct 13, Trim.

Oct 14, George Heagerty.

16246 First St, Guerneville.

707.869.3377.

Montgomery Village Shopping Center

Oct 11, 5:30pm, Matt Mauser’s tribute to Sinatra. 911 Village Court, Santa Rosa.

707.545.3844.

Mystic Theatre & Music Hall

Oct 10, the Growlers. Oct 11, Myles Parrish. Oct 12, the Purple Ones. Oct 13, Jeff Austin Band. Oct 14, Papadosio with Frameworks Live Band. Oct 17, Ott with Kaya Project and Nick Holden. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. 707.775.6048.

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Occidental Center for the Arts Wed 10⁄10 • Doors 8pm ⁄ $37–$42 • 21+ MVFF Music Presents

Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir

Thu 10⁄11 • Doors 6pm ⁄ $40 Concert + Film • All Ages MVFF Music Presents The Dynamic

Miss Faye Carol in Concert + Film

Film Screening of "Evolutionary Blues - West Oakland Music Legacy" feat Faye Carol + Fantastic Negrito, Sugar Pie Desanto and many more

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10.12 10.18

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10.19

Sun 10⁄14 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $25–$30 • All Ages

11.08

Honus Honus

Drive-By Truckers bandleader

Patterson Hood with Rainy Eyes

JOHN PAUL HODGE 8:30-11:30 (no cover)

8:30-11:30 (no cover)

THURSDAY

FIRST THURSDAY OPEN MIC 8-10 Hosted by Randall Burrows

THURSDAY

COMPLICATED ANIMALS 8:30-11:30 (no cover)

11.01

Mon 10⁄15 • Doors 8pm ⁄ SOLD OUT! • All Ages Music Heals International’s 5th Anniversary Benefit Concert featuring Jackson Browne with Greg Leisz and Special Guest Paul Beaubrun Fri 10⁄19 • 2 SHOWS Early Doors 6pm & Late 9pm ⁄ $51–$56 • 21+ An Intimate Solo/Acoustic Listening Performance

SATURDAY

AUDIO ANGEL & M-TET 8:30-11:30 ($7)

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Sun 10⁄21 • Doors 11:30am ⁄ FREE • All Ages Roger McNamee of Moonalice (solo) Sun 10⁄21 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $28.50 • All Ages (((folkYEAH!))) Presents Terry Reid (solo)

12.31

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Oct 13, the pickPocket ensemble. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental. 707.874.9392.

Paul Mahder Gallery

Oct 13, Amos Hoffman & Noam Lemish Quartet. 222 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg.

707.473.9150.

The Phoenix Theater Oct 12, Hylian Guilty with Scapegoat and the Seafloor Cinema. 201 Washington St, Petaluma. 707.762.3565.

Red Brick

Oct 11, Daria Jazz Trio. Oct 12, South Country. Oct 13, the Poyntlyss Sistars. Oct 14, Steve Freund Blues Band. 101 Second St, Petaluma. 707.765.4567.

Redwood Cafe

Oct 12, Joanne Rand Band. Oct 13, Rockin’ Johnny Burgin. Oct 14, 3pm, Celtic fiddle and Irish jam session. Oct 15, Eric Lindell.

8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati.

707.795.7868.

The Reel Fish Shop & Grill

Oct 13, Pato Banton. 401 Grove

Sonoma Speakeasy

Spancky’s Bar

Oct 12, Union Jack & the Rippers with the King Must Die and Infex. Oct 13, Band of Friends. 8201 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati. 707.664.0169.

Starling Bar

Oct 12, John Paul Hodge. 19380 Hwy 12, Sonoma. 707.938.7442.

Twin Oaks Roadhouse Oct 11, Levi’s Workshop with Willy Jordan. Oct 12, Bad Mother Nature. Oct 14, Achilles Wheel.

Oct 15, the Blues Defenders pro jam. 5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove. 707.795.5118.

Viansa Winery

Oct 13, 11am, Rhyme and Reason. Oct 14, 11am, Justin Brown. 25200 Arnold Dr, Sonoma. 707.935.4700.

Whiskey Tip

Oct 12, Brothers AESOP with Motorboat. Oct 13, 4pm, Surfer Rosa acoustic show. Oct 13, 9pm, Northbass. Oct 14, 4pm, John Rybak. 1910 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.843.5535.

MARIN COUNTY HopMonk Novato

Oct 14, 5pm, Poor Man’s Whiskey and the Sam Chase.

224 Vintage Way, Novato.

415.892.6200.

19 Broadway Nightclub

with Jackson Browne. Soldout. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.3850.

Terrapin Crossroads

Oct 10, Lonesome Locomotive.

Oct 11, Ozomatli. Oct 12, Achilles Wheel. Oct 13, Colonel & the Mermaids. Oct 14, Alex Jordan Band. Oct 15, Grateful Monday with China Cats. Oct 16, Jason Crosby and friends. Oct 17, Ancient Baby. 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael. 415.524.2773.

NAPA COUNTY Blue Note Napa

Oct 10, the Reverend Shawn Amos. Oct 11, Jelly Bread. Oct 12-13, Morgan Heritage. Oct 16, Mix It Up open jam. Oct 17, Alvon Johnson. 1030 Main St, Napa. 707.880.2300.

Buster’s Southern Barbecue

Oct 14, 3pm, Rob Watson and friends with Vernon Black.

1207 Foothill Blvd, Calistoga.

707.942.5605.

Ca’ Momi Osteria

Oct 12, Cloudship. Oct 13, the Incubators. 1141 First St, Napa.

707.224.6664.

Deco Lounge at Capp Heritage Vineyards

Oct 13, Johnny Smith. 1245 First St, Napa. 707.254.1922.

Downtown Joe’s Brewery & Restaurant Oct 13, Jinx Jones & the KingTones. Oct 14, DJ Aurelio. 902 Main St, Napa.

707.258.2337.

JaM Cellars

Oct 11, Kyle Turner. Oct 12, Roem Baur. Oct 13, Fellow Vessel. 1460 First St, Napa.

707.265.7577.

Oct 11, the Sonic Steps. Oct 12, Prezident Brown. Oct 13, Marin Biology cocktail party with DJ Gavin Hardkiss. Oct 14, the Nimbles. Oct 16, the Otters. Oct 17, songwriters in the round with Danny Uzi. 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 415.459.1091.

Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater

Rancho Nicasio

River Terrace Inn

Oct 14, 3pm, Mariachi Real de Oro with Steeven Sandoval. Oct 16, Beatles vs Stones: A Musical Showdown. 100 California Dr, Yountville. 707.944.9900.

Oct 12, Rivertown Trio with Julie Bernard. Oct 14, 4pm, Paul Olguin and Loralee Chistensen.

1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio.

415.662.2219.

Oct 11, Jason Bodlovich. Oct 12, Mark Harold. Oct 13, Brian Coutch. 1600 Soscol Ave, Napa.

707.320.9000.

Sweetwater Music Hall

Oct 12, Second Street Band. Oct 13, the Cripple Creek Band. Oct 14, 4pm, Napa Valley Jazz Society presents Larry Fuller Trio. 530 Main St, Napa. 707.251.5833.

Oct 10, Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir. Oct 11, Faye Carol with Fantastic Negrito and Sugar Pie Desanto. Oct 12, Half Pint. Oct 13, Honus Honus.

Oct 14, Patterson Hood and Rainy Eyes. Oct 15, Music Heals International benefit concert

Silo’s

Uptown Theatre

Oct 12, Get the LED Out. 1350 Third St, Napa.

707.259.0123.

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Grow and explore.

Calabi Gallery

Oct 13-28, “Art of Social Commentary,” featuring both historical and contemporary artists weighing in on myriad issues of concern. Reception, Oct 13 at 4pm. 456 10th St, Santa Rosa. Tues-Sun, 11 to 5.

707.781.7070.

Study and appreciate film on a new level. Intensive study in film making practices, and overviews of key concepts and film theorists.

Info Session Sunday, October 14

NAPA COUNTY

3:30 - 4:15 p.m. (before Tokyo Story)

First Street Napa

Ives Hall 101, SSU

Oct 10-Dec 15, “Art Responds: The Wine Country Fires,” several North Bay artists contribute to a commemorative exhibit.

Reception, Oct 10 at 6pm. 1300 First St, Napa. 707.257.6800.

$5 parking pass required in SSU general lots

sonoma.education/film

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Jessel Gallery

Oct 12-30, “From the HeART,” show is dedicated to and supportive of local artists who were affected by the 2017 wildfires. Reception, Oct 12 at 5pm. 1019 Atlas Peak Rd, Napa.

Daily, 10 to 5. 707.257.2350.

Comedy 5x5 Upstairs Unit $40 5x10 Upstairs Unit $60 Imaginary Landscape by Alejandro Salazar, 2017

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707.546.0000

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Charles Krug Comedy Series

Comedian Dave Nihill headlines a night of laughs and wine.

Oct 13, 7:30pm. $28. Charles Krug Winery, 2800 Main St, St Helena. 707.967.3993.

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Bay Area comics. Oct 13, 8pm.

Free admission. Rincon Valley Tap Room & Bottle Shop, 4927 Sonoma Hwy, Santa Rosa.

707.595.5516.

Dance Luther Burbank Center for the Arts Oct 17, 8pm, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, show features a mix of styles ranging from ballet to hip-hop. $20$49. 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa 707.546.3600.

Events Blind Scream Haunted House

Two terrifying haunted-house experiences under one roof get you in the mood for Halloween.

Oct 12-31. $15-$35. SOMO Village Event Center, 1100 Valley House Dr, Rohnert Park, blindscream.com.

First Responder Appreciation Dinner

Local first responders are invited to join a celebration of their commitment and sacrifice, with dinner, drinks and live music. Oct 14, 4pm. BR Cohn Winery, 15000 Sonoma Hwy, Glen Ellen. 707.931.7946.

Fort Ross Harvest Festival

Featuring activities and games for all ages, seasonal foods, live entertainment and more. Oct 13, 10am. Free admission. Fort Ross State Historic Park, 19005 Hwy 1, Jenner. 707.847.3286.

Maker Music Festival

Enjoy a hilarious and unforgettable night of magic from the acclaimed entertainer.

Oct 13, 7:30pm. $25. Sebastiani Theatre, 476 First St E, Sonoma.

707.996.9756.

Celebration of DIY music and instrument makers includes performances, presentations, exhibits and hands-on activities. Oct 13, 11am. Chimera Arts & Maker Space, 6791 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol, chimeraarts.org.

Magic 8 Open Comedy Night

The New Chinese Acrobats

Will you laugh at this open mic? Signs point to yes. Oct 14, 7pm. Whiskey Tip, 1910 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa.

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Standup Comedy at Rincon Valley Tap Room

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Clover Sonoma Family Fun Series presents world famous touring show featuring highlevel acrobatics. Oct 11, 6:30pm. $16-$21, $5 for ages two and under. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa.

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Sebastopol Cemetery Walk

Sixteenth annual walk includes live vignettes portraying the dearly departed, with light supper and homemade treats.

Oct 12-13. $40. St Stephen’s Church, 500 Robinson Rd, Sebastopol. 707.823.3281.

Vikingfest

Celebration of Norwegian heritage includes food, music, reenactments, raffle and more.

Oct 13, 10am. Free. Sons of Norway Hall, 617 W Ninth St, Santa Rosa. 707.579.1080.

Field Trips Clif Family Ride

Eagle Cycling Club leads a looping bike ride through Pope Valley. Oct 14, 8:45am. Clif Family Winery, 709 Main St, St Helena. 415.747.6965.

Redwood Hike

Experience California’s spectacular redwood state parks for the first time or rekindle your love for them, courtesy of Save the Redwoods League. Sat, Oct 13, 10am. Free.

Jack London State Park, 2400 London Ranch Rd, Glen Ellen.

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Weekend Along the Farm Trails

Sonoma County farmers open their gates and barn doors to offer a behind-the-scenes peek at life on the farm. Oct 1314. Free. Sonoma County farms, various locations, Sonoma, farmtrails.org.

Film For Our Lives: Parkland

Documentary about students of Stoneman Douglas High School overcoming mass shooting screens with panel of local activists. Oct 13, 7pm.

Free. Congregation Shomrei Torah, 2600 Bennett Valley Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.578.5519.

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Film about transgender elder and activist Major GriffinGracy screens with live music by electronic musical project Ah-Mer-Ah-Su. Oct 13, 7pm.

$20 and up. Arlene Francis Center, 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa.

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Wes Anderson’s “Isle of Dogs” screens with lecture and discussion. Oct 17, 6pm. $5-$6.

Carole L Ellis Auditorium, SRJC Petaluma Campus, 680 Sonoma Mountain Pkwy, Petaluma.

Santa Rosa Film Sprint

Competition gives teams a prompt and two days to write, film, edit and submit a 3 to 7-minute short film. Oct 12-14. $10 individual; $50 team. Arlene Francis Center, 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa. srfilmsprint.com.

Food & Drink Eat Like Sam (Brannan) Dinner

Sharpsteen Museum hosts an authentic dinner just like Calistoga’s founder would have eaten in the 1860s. Oct 17, 5:30pm. $125. Hydro Grill, 1403 Lincoln Ave, Calistoga.

707.942.9777.

Mad Hatter Tea Party

Take a trip down the rabbit hole for a Mad Hatter-themed tea party. Oct 14, 12pm. $50.

Tudor Rose English Tea Room, 733 Fourth St, Santa Rosa.

707.535.2045.

Oktoberfest at CIA Copia

Festive afternoon features local brews, German fare, live music and more. Oct 13, 12pm. Free admission. CIA at Copia, 500 First St, Napa. 707.967.2530.

Soba Workshop & Hoshigaki Workshop with Sonoko Sakai

Cooking instructor shows you how to make Japanese noodles on Saturday and how to work with hand-dried persimmons on Sunday. Oct 13-14, 11am. $125 each day. Healdsburg Shed, 25 North St, Healdsburg.

707.431.7433.

Stone Brewing Dinner The perfect pairing menu features Napa’s newest brewery. Oct 13, 6pm. River Terrace Inn, 1600 Soscol Ave, Napa. 707.320.9000.

Lectures Natural Medicine Workshop Gather plants together,

unexpected melodramatic humor and surprises. Through Oct 27. $15-$20. Russian River Hall, 20347 Hwy 116, Monte Rio. 707.524.8739.

Second Saturday Cartoonist

See several of author Christopher Durang’s one-act comedies. Through Oct 14. $12$25. Cloverdale Performing Arts Center, 209 N Cloverdale Blvd, Cloverdale. 707.829.2214.

Meet, watch and talk to awardwinning illustrator Matt Gaser.

Oct 13, 1pm. Charles M Schulz Museum, 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa. 707.579.4452.

What It Means to Be Green in 2018

Join a thought-provoking and delicious afternoon with innovators in the field of upcycled foods. Oct 13, 11am. $135. McEvoy Ranch, 5935 Red Hill Rd, Petaluma.

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Hello, Dolly!

Award-winning actress Dani Innocenti stars in the Broadway classic, presented

by Sonoma Arts Live. Through Oct 21. $25-$40. Andrews Hall, Sonoma Community Center, 276 E Napa St, Sonoma. 707.938.4626.

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Oct 14, 2pm, “Coratina” with Orietta Gianjorio, includes olive oil tasting. 500 First St, Napa 707.967.2530.

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Oct 13, 1pm, “15-Minute Meals for First Responders” with chef Rob Merrick. 610 First St, Shop 4, Napa. 707.726.6575.

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The creepy and kooky family gets the song-and-dance treatment in this hilarious show. Oct 12-28. Spreckels Performing Arts Center, 5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park.

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Two run-down characters try to make something more of their lives in this warmly told drama. Oct 12-28. $15-$30.

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The Night Alive

Valley Players present the world premiere of the witty and poignant play

by Bay Area playwright Lorraine Midanik. Through Oct 14. $20. Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater, 100 California Dr, Yountville.

707.944.9900.

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Oct 12, 7pm, “Exiled” with Katya Cengel. Oct 13, 2pm, “Boats on the Bay” with Jeanne Walker Harvey. Oct 13, 7pm, “The Winter Soldier” with Daniel Mason. Oct 17, 4pm, “The Wall in the Middle of the Book” with Jon Agee.

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Oct 17, 6pm, “Movers and Shakers: Women Making Waves in Spirits, Beer & Wine” with Hope Ewing. 816 Vallejo St, Napa 707.255.5591.

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That sweet transvestite, Dr. Frank-N-furter, and his motley crew return in the original stage musical. Oct 12-Nov 3. Studio Theatre, 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa. 707.523.4185.

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HeadCount’s been around since 2004, and is a steady nonprofit voter-registration presence at jam-band concerts. Now they’re joined by CannaCraft on a national tour underway that’s bringing the registration push to pot-illegal states like Michigan, Illinois, South Carolina, Missouri and Arizona.

Based in Santa Rosa, CannaCraft lays claim as the state’s largest manufacturer of delicious and medicinal edibles, tinctures, topicals, flowers and vaping products.

The 15th annual Emerald Cup is taking place at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds on the weekend of Dec. 15–16 and organizers have just added a bunch of musical acts to the itinerary. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band from New Orleans will blare out the pro-pot tuba-pumping second-line music; American funk band the Funky Meters will get . . . funky—and they’ll be joined by electronic musicians STS9, Rising Appalachia, Los Angeles soulsters the Elevators, Brooklyn Afro-beaters Antibalas and others.

The Emerald Cup is anchored by its annual competition of the best of the best when it comes to flowers, concentrates, edibles, CO2 cartridges, topicals, and all sorts of CBD products. The contest kicks off on Oct. 15, when contestants can offer their product to the judges; the contest intake continues through Nov. 18. The theme this year, say event organizers, is “a celebration of the new ways of thinking and living within the cannabis culture.”

The Nugget’s judgement: that is a worthy and timely theme.

Smokin’ Sonoma The Sonoma County Cannabis Advisory Group will next meet on Oct. 16 in the supervisors’ chambers and there’s a whole lot on the agenda. The electeds will consider proposed amendments to the zoning code, “including but not limited to allowing adult use/recreational cannabis with a use permit; increasing restrictions on allowed locations for cannabis permitting; adding and amending setbacks; extending the term of cannabis use permits; allowance of centralized cannabis processing on agricultural land; the removal of a 24-hour notice for inspections; amending definitions and ordinance language to align with state law where appropriate; and other amendments as recommended by the Planning Commission.”

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GEMINI (May 21–June 20) “It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life, from its very beginning, is a mystery to you,” writes Gemini author Jamaica Kincaid. I disagree with her because she implies that if you’re human, your life is a complete and utter mystery; whereas my observation has been that for most of us, our lives are no more than 80 percent mystery. Some lucky ones have even deciphered as much as 65 percent, leaving only 35 percent mystery. What’s your percentage? I expect that between now and Nov. 1, you can increase your understanding by at least 10 percent.

CANCER (June 21–July 22) You Cancerians may not possess the mental dexterity of Virgos or the acute cleverness of Geminis, but you have the most soulful intelligence in the zodiac. Your empathetic intuition is among your greatest treasures. Your capacity to feel deeply gives you the ability to intensely understand the inner workings of life. Sometimes you take this subtle acumen for granted. It may be hard for you to believe that others are stuck at a high-school level of emotional skill when you have the equivalent of a PhD. Everything I just said is a prelude to my advice.

In the coming weeks, I doubt you can solve your big riddle through rational analysis. Your best strategy is to deeply experience all the interesting feelings that are rising up in you.

LEO (July 23–August 22) Do you ever experience stress from having to be so interesting and attractive all the time? It may on occasion feel like an onerous responsibility to be the only artful egomaniac amid swarms of amateur egomaniacs. I have a suggestion that might help. Twice a year, celebrate a holiday I call Dare to Be Boring Week. During these periods of release and relief, you won’t live up to people’s expectations that you keep them amused and excited. You’ll be free to be solely focused on amusing and exciting yourself, even if that means they’ll think you’re dull. Now is an excellent time to observe Dare to Be Boring Week.

VIRGO (August 23–September 22) A Chinese proverb says, “Tension is who you think you should be.

Relaxation is who you are.” I’m happy to let you know that you are currently more receptive to this truth than maybe you have ever been. Furthermore, you have more power than usual to change your life in ways that incorporate this truth. To get started, meditate on the hypothesis that you can get more good work done if you’re calm and composed than if you’re agitated and trying too hard.

LIBRA (September 23–October 22) My astrological analysis suggests that life is conspiring to render you extra-excited and unusually animated and highly motivated. I bet that if you cooperate with the natural rhythms, you will feel stirred, playful and delighted. So how can you best use this gift? How might you take maximum advantage of the lucky

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breaks and bursts of grace that will be arriving?

Here’s my opinion: be more focused on discovering possibilities than making final decisions. Feed your sense of wonder and awe rather than your drive to figure everything out. Give more power to what you can imagine than to what you already know. Being practical is fine as long as you’re idealistically practical.

SCORPIO (October 23–November 21)

How far is it from the Land of the Lost to the Land of the Lost and Found? What’s the best route to take? Who and what are likely to provide the best help? If you approach those questions with a crisply optimistic attitude, you can gather a wealth of useful information in a relatively short time. The more research you do about the journey, the faster it will go and the more painless it will be. Here’s another fertile question to meditate on: is there a smart and kind way to give up your attachment to a supposedly important thing that is actually quite burdensome?

SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 21)

In her only novel, Save Me the Waltz, Zelda Fitzgerald described her main character like this: “She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.” That’s a bit too much like fairy-tale wisdom for me to endorse it unconditionally. But I do believe it may sometimes be a valid hypothesis—especially for you Sagittarians in the coming months. Your faith in yourself and your desire to have interesting fun will be even more important than usual in determining what adventures you will have. I suggest you start now to lay the groundwork for this exhilarating challenge.

CAPRICORN (December 22–January 19) Russian philosopher George Gurdjieff taught that most people are virtually sleepwalking even during the day.

He said we’re permanently stuck on automatic pilot, prone to reacting in mechanical ways to every event that comes our way. Psychology pioneer Sigmund Freud had an equally dim view of us humans. He believed that it’s our normal state to be neurotic; that most of us are chronically out of sync with our surroundings. Now here’s the good news, Capricorn.

You’re at least temporarily in a favorable position to refute both men’s theories. In fact, I’ll boldly predict that in the next three weeks you’ll be as authentic and awake and at peace as you’ve been in years.

AQUARIUS (January 20–February 18) In the late 19th-century, American botanist George Washington Carver began to champion the nutritional value of peanuts. His influence led to the plant being grown and used more extensively. Although he accomplished many other innovations, including techniques for enhancing depleted soils, he became famous as the Peanut Man. Later in life, he told the story that while young he had prayed to God to show him the mystery of the universe, but God turned him down, saying, “That’s for me alone.” So George asked God to show him the mystery of the peanut, and God agreed, saying, “that’s more nearly your size.” The coming weeks will be a great time for you to seek a comparable revelation, Aquarius.

PISCES (February 19–March 20)

Every year, people discard 3.3 million pounds of chewing gum on the streets of Amsterdam. A company named Gumdrop has begun to harvest that waste and use it to make soles for its new brand of sneakers, Gumshoe.

A spokesperson said the intention was to “create a product people actually want from something no one cares about.” I’d love it if you were inspired by this visionary act of recycling, Pisces. According to my reading of the cosmic omens, you now have exceptional powers to transform something you don’t want into something you do want.

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