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Talking about teens and sexuality can be awkward and uncomfortable. But the issues and questions are critical: Why is sex education important for us to discuss now? How do we envision the future of sex education?

The issues that parents and teens face today often concern the over-sexualizing of teens. The discomfort parents face in this area can cause confusion and misconceptions of what real sexual intimacy is all about. Which is where this forum comes in. It’s time for parents, teens and community organizations to come together and discuss how we can more effectively deal with these issues.

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es, dear. It’s that time of year again, when the calendar declares St. Valentine’s Day as the one day the entire population is expected to set the stage for romance.

Although the legend of St. Valentine is murky, this sympathetic hero of the Middle Ages was alleged to be the first person to sign off a notecard

with “From Your Valentine.”

Beyond the notecards, the dozen red roses and the heart-shaped boxes of candies, there are lots of opportunities to shower affection on your sweetheart.

Expressions of appreciation are abuzz with restaurant specials and sweet activities sure to land you a bullseye from Cupid’s arrow. “If you have something sweet to tell her, say it with music, beautiful music,” sang Irving Berlin in his

immortal love song. And if you can’t sing—say it with food.

Sonoma County If you’re set to impress your favorite foodie, you’ll want to reserve one of the last spots available for the Valentine’s Day dinner at SingleThread Farm, Restaurant & Inn in Healdsburg ($325 per person). The 11-course dinner at this Michelin threestar restaurant is menu-driven by ingredients secured from the

property’s Alexander Valley farm, local Sonoma ranches, and coastal waters of northern California.

In the heart of downtown Healdsburg, Spoonbar—h2hotel’s signature restaurant—offers a sweet and savory four-course Valentine’s Day menu prepared by recently appointed chef Matthew D’Ambrosi ($65 per person).

The menu begins with a petite shellfish platter, followed by a butter lettuce endive salad and main choices of Mediterranean branzino with roasted lemon potatoes, garlic beet greens and shaved beets—or Tuscan-style prime ribeye steak. The meal concludes with a warm, flourless chocolate cake paired with chocolate ice cream, wild berries, candied pecans and gold flakes.

For those who want to send a truly over-the-top message of love, head to the Rooftop at Harmon Guest House in Healdsburg, the only publicly accessible rooftop bar with a fire pit and views of Fitch Mountain, the Sonoma Hills and downtown Healdsburg. On Feb. 14, an elegant three-course Valentine’s Day menu ($59 per person) begins with several canapés such as warm Dungeness crab cake, chilled prawn cocktail, beau soleil oyster, mignonette and warmed blinis topped with caviar. Lobster risotto is planned as the first course, followed by choices of red-wine-braised prime beef short ribs and mahi-mahi with crispy shiitake mushrooms and scallion salad. Dessert will not disappoint—a warmed Valrhona chocolate “ganache” fondue.

If your goal is to take romance up a notch, the best gifts are those that are handmade. Even better, why not forego the cost of a dozen red roses and make your own floral arrangement for your sweetheart?

On Tuesday, Feb. 12, from 6:30pm to 7:30pm in Petaluma, Angela Faustino of Faustino's Valentine's Succulent & Roses Arrangement Class will be at 101 North Brewery to offer a special class all about building a succulent arrangement with roses. The $35 class price includes the glass container along with everything you need to make what will be your favorite valentine decoration for you or your sweetheart.

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One of the most romantic ways to swoon your special someone is to ride the rail on the Napa Valley Wine Train ($165 and above per person). During a three-hour evening rail tour of vintage Napa Valley, you’ll pass spectacular landscapes on a ride that reflects old-world charm through one of the most romantic places in the world. The tour begins with a glass of sparkling wine, and a multiplecourse dinner is enhanced with a serenade by a strolling violinist.

At TORC, a high-energy restaurant in Napa, a four-course Valentine’s Day prix-fixe menu ($115 per person) begins with choices of boar terrine or Ossetra caviar ($250 supplement). Move on with more choices of duck, tagliatelle with truffles, short rib or 28-day dryaged N.Y. strip steak, and finish with a choice of desserts that include rouzaire affineur with quince jam and pistachio.

In downtown Napa, the CIA at Copia is cooking up some fun with the Chef’s Table Special Edition: Valentine’s Day ($150 per person).

In this interactive dinner event, guests will gather around the table in the Napa Valley Vintners Theater demonstration kitchen and watch Culinary Institute of America chefs work their magic as they teach tips and techniques.

Guests will enjoy food and beverage pairings, and chocolate truffles, departing with recipes to prepare shareable dishes for two.

Farther north in the Napa Valley, tickets are still available for a threecourse Sweetheart Dinner at the CIA at Greystone in Saint Helena ($125 per person). This event will take place in the historic barrel room and will showcase the talents of CIA chefs along with live entertainment of Marc Teicholz.

the Golden Gate Bridge, Angel Island, Alcatraz and the sparkling San Francisco skyline.

Now that you’ve set the stage for romance, dinner at the Michelin-starred Madcap Marin restaurant in San Anselmo is set to serve up a sweet menu on Valentine’s Day ($135 per person). Take a seat for dinner that begins with a lobster miso shot and evolves to the taste of a Shinjuku oyster with elderflower mignonette, shima aji with blood orange and young ginger, Stonington sea scallops with Ossetra caviar and salsify, Onsen tamago with black truffles and lemongrass, roasted Nantes carrots with pistachios, Flannery filet mignon, and a dessert course that features mignardises (sweet pastries).

Also in San Anselmo, L’Appart Resto is ready for the lover’s holiday with a prix fixe menu ($80 per person). Along with the regular menu, chef Alex has created a menu that lists lobster gratin with morels and spinach, paired with Laurent-Perrier’s Brut La Cuvée Champagne. Choices continue with herb-crusted roasted rack of lamb served with a butternut squash purée, crosnes (Chinese artichokes) and a black truffle sauce, paired with a 2015 Les Hauts de Lynch-Moussas, Haut Médoc.

For those sans sweetheart, there are more options to celebrate love.

The EV Lounge in San Anselmo has you covered with a Valentine’s Day Celebration for Singles ($5 per person). The Society for Single Professionals invites you to dress to impress, with unattached adults of all ages looking to connect in the name of romance.

In San Rafael, Wine & Design ($90 per couple) offers a signature Valentine’s Day Picasso portrait if you prefer to opt for a fun and hilarious celebration while seated across from your loved one, friend or family member (so that you cannot see each other's canvases).

Artists on-site will guide you with shapes and colors to create portraits of each other Picassostyle. You’re not allowed to peek at each other’s pictures until the Big Reveal at the end!

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Perfectly Claret The dusty old wine term behind bright and fresh wines

BY JAMES KNIGHT

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hen you’re not completely clear on claret, you’re already halfway to getting it.

And you’re not alone in posing the question: what’s a claret?

“Well, first off, let me congratulate you on pronouncing it correctly,” winemaker David Ramey replies (well, thank you, Mr. Ramey) when I ask him if visitors to his Healdsburg tasting room want for some clarification on the topic.

“That’s the first order of education.

It’s an English word: it’s clare-et,

not clare-ay! It’s meant ‘wine from Bordeaux’ to them for a long time.”

That’s not to say there isn’t a similar word sporting a silent t, says Ramey, noting that claret derives from a French word meaning “clear and light,” which describes the style of wine that—summing up a brief history of Bordeaux wine from the era of Eleanor of Aquitaine on up through contemporary modifications to the Tax and Trade Bureau’s labeling requirements for U.S. wines— English wine drinkers expected from the region for many years: a pleasant, ruby quaff that generally contains Cabernet Sauvignon with friends Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot and Malbec.

When Ramey made his first red for his own label, his distributors balked at his idea to call it “Petite Rouge.” So claret it was, and with good timing: soon afterward, the heavies from the EU stepped in, claiming claret for exclusive use

by French vintners. Ramey objects, noting that it’s not even a proper noun: “You cannot find it on a map of Bordeaux; it’s not a place.”

In any case, Ramey’s 2016 Napa Valley Claret ($42) has a grandfathered right to the label, and earns it squarely with light cherry color, red licorice aroma and sharp red currant flavor. Dry, tart and lightly tannic, with a slight dark roasted coffee top note, it’s an upscale “bistro wine” to be sure. But wait, what’s this? The back label says there’s eight percent Syrah in the blend. Is it still claret?

Of course, and there’s method to the admixture, says Ramey: “It’s a tip of the hat to the 1800s,” when some Bordeaux wineries carted in barrels of Syrah from Hermitage, in southeastern France, to boost their limpid blends—as you know, claret and rosé just don’t rhyme together.

Budget and claret go together in Francis Ford Coppola’s 2016 Black Label Claret ($21), which is Cabernet Sauvignon in the main, and a deeper—nay, opaque—ruby hue in the glass (no rules for claret, remember), but a buoyant little breeze of sweet, raspberry-soaked, creamy oak on the palate.

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Stephanie Land is an angry poor person with two kids— don’t mess with her. Read her book. BY DANI BURLISON

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It can feel like running uphill through mud. In the dark. With no cash to buy batteries for your flashlight.

In Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay and a Mother’s Will to Survive (Hachette Books), Stephanie Land carries readers through the exhaustion of living below the poverty line. The memoir paints a candid picture of parenting while poor, and the stigma of being a public-assistance recipient in “pull up your bootstraps” America.

“People who have lived in poverty or very low income, they’re always scrambling for the next thing,” says Land by phone from her home in Montana. “I think it’s just ingrained in you to not really relax, because you’re always looking at the next thing and what you can do to keep the income coming in.”

And Land certainly knows a thing or two about scrambling.

“As a poor person, I was not accustomed to looking past the month, week, or sometimes hour. I compartmentalized my life in the same way I cleaned every room of every house—left to right, top to bottom,” she writes.

As a young mother, Land fled an abusive relationship and found herself and her infant daughter Mia in a homeless shelter. From there she trudged along a rocky maze of transitional housing, community college, countless mounds of paperwork for public assistance like SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, what used to be known as “food stamps”), low-income housing and a stint as a landscaper before arriving in a drafty studio apartment that she paid for by cleaning houses.

Land first published a story about her house-cleaning experiences for Vox in 2015.

The viral essay, “I Spent 2 Years Cleaning Houses. What I Saw

Makes Me Never Want to Be Rich,” eventually led to a proposal for Maid. The book takes a deeper look at the issues addressed in the Vox story, and chronicles Land’s long hours of schlepping mop buckets and cleaning supplies into the homes of relatively wealthy strangers.

Land describes the sometimes eerie sense that settles across an empty home that maids visit for deep cleanings. The owners know little to nothing about the cleaners; many didn’t even know Land’s name. She was like a ghost to them. Yet, after spending up to three hours alone in the homes on a regular basis—scrubbing bodily fluids off of bathroom surfaces, tucking sheets into beds and transporting trash to outdoor bins—Land developed an intimate understanding of who the homeowners were and what their lives were like.

She knew how much alcohol they drank and where they stashed their cartons of cigarettes. She knew the types of pornographic magazines they preferred. She knew about their physical and mental-health issues from the various prescription pill bottles lined up in medicine cabinets and clustered on bathroom counters. She knew about their relationships and how much they spent on groceries and household items.

Housecleaning work is physically and sometimes emotionally taxing—there is a reason people hire help to do the cleaning for them: it is really hard work—especially for domestic workers with chronic health issues.

Though I’d never tell my manager about it, nerve damage in my spine prevented me from gripping a sponge or brush with my right, dominant hand. I’d had scoliosis, a condition that made the spine curve from side to side, since I was a kid, but recently due to the cleaning work it had pinched a nerve that went down to my right arm. . . . My

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left hand took over whenever the right one got too tired, but in those first months of six-hour days, when I got home I could barely hold a dinner plate or carry a bag of groceries.

Most people don’t realize that after paying for a cleaning service, workers themselves often receive close to minimum wage for their labor. Land’s first cleaning jobs in 2009 earned her $8.55 to $10 an hour. For cleaners with only one income-earner at home (and children to support),

this clearly isn’t enough to live on; low-wage earners often need the safety net of public assistance to make ends meet.

Yet public assistance can be problematic. Contrary to popular myth, being on public assistance is no easy ride and can be discontinued if paperwork isn’t completed accurately, or if monthly income exceeds the allowed amount—even by a few dollars. Land describes that at one point she was on seven types of assistance, from a low-income energy bill program to ) 14 low-income housing.

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The requirements and piles of paperwork were daunting.

And yet despite receiving various sources of government support to fill in financial gaps while working up to 25 hours a week (she wasn’t paid for travel time or for washing her cleaning rags at home), Land still barely kept her head above water. The stigma of her circumstances also brought an unwavering sense of shame; spending a few extra dollars treating herself and her daughter to a meal at a restaurant on a rare occasion made her feel reckless; allowing herself any time to relax evoked guilt and anxiety.

“I think the legislators and the general voting public are obsessed with whether or not poor people work for their benefits, and so I think a lot of the paperwork that’s required is just proving not only how poor you are, but proving how much you do work,” says Land. “Even if you do prove it, you have to prove it even more, on a sometimes monthly basis, and it’s degrading. I don’t think people really understand that part of it either. There’re a lot of things about the system that work against poor people and just make it harder for them.”

Land points to the proposed changes to the Farm Bill as an example of increased requirements for SNAP benefits.

Although Congress voted for an $867 billion Farm Bill in December, just a week later the Trump administration declared that it would continue seeking more stringent regulations on who can receive SNAP benefits, including increasing work requirements for older workers between ages 49 and 59, and for workers with young children ages 6 to 12. The proposed changes would affect over 1 million households nationwide.

The perpetual fear of living with financial instability and working hard—while constantly proving how hard she worked—wasn’t the only thing that weighed on Land. In Maid, she opens up about living in a state of shame for receiving benefits, and the stereotypes and resentment often

projected on to poor people, even by friends. She describes people commenting with snide voices, “You’re welcome” when they’d spot her using food stamps at the checkout line.

“It seemed like certain members of society looked for opportunities to judge or scold poor people for what they felt we didn’t deserve,” Land writes.

“They’d see a person buying fancy meats with an EBT card and use that as evidence for their theory that everyone on food stamps did the same.”

‘People are more apt to listen to someone who is on the other side and who is a success story, which I cringe at, because the system is not a successful system.’

For many, the mere idea of public assistance certainly evokes stereotypes and raises questions about who deserves help (and for those that are deemed worthy of help, how much support they deserve also comes into question). And of course, there’s a classist assumption that all moms use their food stamps strictly to buy junk food for their kids, which Land—unapologetically—said she did on special occasions.

“I used to do that for Christmas.

I bought candy with food stamps,” she says. “I used to buy treats for my kid because that was all I could get her. I couldn’t afford to get her a toy or a lot of stuff, but I could buy her a piece of candy with food stamps. To me, I’m giving my child a moment of joy.”

In addition to the stress of financial insecurity and the

Land eventually left Washington and completed her English degree at University of Montana’s creative writing program. She continued cleaning houses until her last year in school, when her second daughter was just a baby. Since graduation, her career path has taken an upward swing; in addition to getting Maid published, Land now works as a full-time writer.

She’s been a fellow at Center for Community Change and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and has published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Guardian, Salon, The Nation and elsewhere.

“I felt like I had to hold myself accountable to the degree, and I stubbornly kept myself to that— not that there’s anything wrong with side gigs or having to go back into cleaning,” she says.

According to a report issued by the U.S. Census Bureau in September 2018, there are 39.7 million people living in poverty across the country, and based on the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, there are over 900,000 house cleaners nationwide in 2017, earning an average of $11 per hour. Maid takes these impersonal statistics and the topic of income inequality and gives them a face. Her voice represents millions who are attempting to survive on low wages—and reveals the truth of what it’s like for so many single

I would hear the same thing again and again: “I don’t know how you do it.” When their husbands went out of town or worked late all the time, they’d say, “I don’t know how you do it,” shaking their heads, and I always tried not to react.

I wanted to tell them those hours without your husband aren’t even close to replicating what it is like to be a single parent, but I let them believe it did. Arguing with them would reveal too much about myself, and I was never out to get anyone’s sympathy. Besides, they couldn’t know unless they felt the weight of poverty themselves. The desperation of pushing through because it was the only option.

Land says her book is succeeding, in part because “people are more apt to listen to someone who is on the other side and who is a success story, and I cringe at that, because the system is not a successful system.”

In a perfect world, Maid would become required reading in schools across the country. In the very least, it should evoke compassion and stir empathy in people who have never walked in Land’s shoes. And hopefully that empathy can lead to big changes in how poor people are treated in America.

“I'm really hoping that my book changes the way people think about the lower classes and working classes,” she says, “and I'm hoping it increases their view of humanity, and gives them more compassion. I hope it sets up the stage for more books like mine to come out, from women of color and from more people in the margins.

“I think the world should be ready to hear from angry poor people.”

Stephanie Land reads from ‘Maid’ at Copperfield’s Books on Friday, Feb. 15, at 7pm (140 Kentucky St., Petaluma; 762.0563), and at Book Passage on Sunday, Feb. 17, at 7pm (51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera; 415.927.0960.

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Sometimes just walking behind a two-parent family on a sidewalk could trigger shame from being alone. I zeroed in on them—dressed in clothes I could never afford, diaper bag carefully packed into an expensive jogger stroller.

Those moms could say things that I never could: “Honey, could you take this?” or “Here, can you hold her for a second?”

The child could go from one parent’s arms to the other’s.

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SWING INTO ACTION Bay Area punk icons Swingin’ Utters headline a benefit concert for the Phoenix Theater with a slew of other heavy hitters on Saturday, Feb. 9, in Petaluma.

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Napa Valley welcomes four days of short films when the second annual Yountville International Short Film Festival returns to the culinary capital.

The festival features an eclectic lineup of more than a hundred short films from across the globe, programmed into more than 20 screening blocks. Also on the bill are several winetastings, culinary packages and other special events that pair well with the creative range of the featured films.

From world cinema to science-fiction and animation, there’s something for everyone. Thursday–Sunday, Feb. 7–10, in downtown Yountville. Times and prices vary. yisff.com.

The North Bay’s ubiquitous association with wine and craft beer is well known, though a growing batch of local distilleries are gaining national attention in their own right, and this weekend’s inaugural Wine Country Distillery Festival aims to celebrate over a dozen of those world-class tastemakers. Visitors can enjoy a visit with the distillers themselves, taste their spirits, nosh on local food and enjoy live music, raffle and a cocktail competition.

Benefiting Social Advocates for Youth, the festival shines a light on local spirits Saturday, Feb. 9, at Sally Tomatoes, 1100 Valley House Drive, Rohnert Park.

Noon to 4pm. $50; $10 for designated drivers. winecountrydistilleryfestival.com.

Created in 2016, the Play It Forward Music Foundation provides music education and instruments to local youth who otherwise would not have access to those resources. This weekend, the foundation invites the community to see the fruits of their labors with a massive party to raise funds for the group’s programs and scholarships. The afternoon begins with student showcase featuring musicians of all ages, a puppet theater performance by Benedettiville and evening performances by local favorites Copper Cats and Bootleg Honey.

Get ready to play on Saturday, Feb. 9, at Arlene Francis Center, 99 Sixth St., Santa Rosa. 3pm. $10. pifmusic.com.

Brooklyn-based rock band the Rad Trads distinguish themselves from the crowded scene with a punk-rock energy that incorporates soul and jazz techniques culled from the five members’ New York University conservatory training.

Immediately hitting it off as a NYC party band in 2012, the outfit has now performed on four continents and are currently on tour in support of their new album, On Tap, which sees all five members splitting songwriting and vocal duties while achieving a unified rock’n’-roll voice. The Rad Trads perform on Saturday, Feb. 9, at HopMonk Tavern, 230 Petaluma Ave., Sebastopol. 9pm. $10. 707.829.7300.

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ANOTHER ROUND Popular SF event series Red Light Lit is bringing a troupe

of storytellers to toast to love in the North Bay.

Love Stories Red Light Lit explores sex and romance in Healdsburg BY CHARLIE SWANSON

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ay Area collective Red Light Lit isn’t afraid to get taboo.

The small press and ongoing reading series, co-founded in 2013 and led

by San Francisco writer and editor-in-chief Jennifer Lewis, is a platform for emerging and established writers to explore topics of love, relationships, sexuality and gender in a safe setting.

Often appearing monthly in

San Francisco, Red Light Lit makes its way north to Healdsburg this weekend for a night of poetry, song and storytelling on Feb. 10 at Harmon Guest House’s Rooftop Bar. “The majority of the performers are female or identify as female or non-binary person,” says Lewis.

“Red Light Lit is a safe place for women to talk about sexuality.”

Transcending the titillation of erotica, Red Light Lit’s mission is to inspect the complexities of sex and romance, with personal stories of intimacy and identity

coming from a diverse range of experiences.

Last year, Red Light Lit published its first book, Love Is the Drug & Other Dark Poems, that covers the spectrum of sex from more than 30 writers and artists.

Headlining this weekend’s event is musician Josiah Johnson, best known as one of the frontmen of Seattle indie-folk band the Head and the Heart.

“He’s a lyrical songwriter who evokes that intimate mood of connection,” says Lewis. “He’s

providing the romantic portion of the show.”

Red Light Lit will also feature San Francisco poet and musician Sarah Bethe Nelson reading from her new poetry collection, Illuminate the Ruins, and poet and memoir writer Allyson Darling crafting personal poems on-demand for audience members. Lewis, herself an accomplished writer, will be reading a piece, as will Sonoma County journalist, documentarian and essayist Scott Keneally, best known for his film Rise of the SufferFests.

“He’ll be bringing the comedy,” says Lewis.

Accompanying the readings and music will be projected artwork from Santa Cruz–based gallery the Art Cave, showing images from their current exhibit, “Come-hither,” that celebrate the body and sexuality through illustrations, paintings and sculptures. Along with projected images, film composer David Williams will provide a musical score to the poetry.

“The show is highly curated,” says Lewis, who selects the performers and chooses which piece they will present from several submitted works.

“I curate it by picking the pieces that speak to each other, it’s almost presented like a play,” says Lewis.

“It looks spontaneous because it’s really unrehearsed, so it has that excitement of a live show.”

Audience members are often inspired to share their own stories after attending a Red Light Lit event, and Lewis encourages everyone to do so.

“The more we talk about things, the more compassionate the world becomes,” she says. “We share these stories so we can understand each other.”

Red Light Lit turns on the switch on Sunday, Feb. 10, at Harmon Guest House, 227 Healdsburg Ave., Healdsburg.

6:30pm. $20. redlightlit.com.

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SWEET PRINCE Keith Baker marvels as a brooding ‘Hamlet.’

What Dreams

Spreckels’ first stab at Shakespeare is a triumph

BY HARRY DUKE

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o see or not to see?

That is the question.

Anyone with even the slightest interest in theater has probably seen a production or two of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet in their lifetime. Considered by many to be Shakespeare’s—if not the world’s—greatest play, it’s one-third ghost story, one-third dysfunctional family drama and one-third revenge tale.

It’s also now the first-ever Shakespeare play to be mounted on the Nellie W. Codding stage at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center. Artistic director Sheri Lee Miller helms the production, which runs through Feb. 17.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. A spirit claiming to be the late king has appeared to Prince Hamlet to inform him he

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was poisoned by his own brother, Claudius, who then married the widowed Queen Gertrude and usurped the throne. The ghost has one simple request of Hamlet—revenge!

Miller has gathered an impressive roster of talent to essay the Bard’s classic roles. First and foremost, there’s Keith Baker as the brooding prince. Baker is a marvel to watch and to listen to as Shakespeare’s words come trippingly off his tongue. Peter Downey is magnetic as the scheming Claudius, shading his villainy with a glimpse into his humanity and his true love of Gertrude. Eric Thompson’s Polonius brings a welcome lightness to the stage and is sorely missed upon his “departure.” Chad Yarish as faithful friend Horatio, Danielle Cain as the easily swayed Gertude, Ivy Rose Miller as the doomed Ophelia and the entire supporting cast do honor to their roles.

The stark yet imposing set

by Elizabeth Bazzano and Eddy Hansen in conjunction with Hansen’s lighting design and Chris Schloemp’s projections design give the production an otherworldly feel. Costumes by Pamela Johnson pop against the dark and dank (courtesy of ample fog) backgrounds.

An extremely effective addition is a live music “soundscape,” composed and performed by Nancy Hayashibari. Accompanying many scenes, Hayashibari’s contribution to this production’s success cannot be overstated.

Look, folks, I’m no Shakespeare pushover. It’s overdone, usually underproduced and often interminable, but I get it. It’s royalty-free, has roles that are on every actor’s bucket list, and comes with a built-in audience. Yes, it’s long, but director Sheri Lee Miller has put together an outstanding production of Hamlet that should reach beyond that “Shakespeare” audience. Will they come?

Aye, there’s the rub.

Rating (out of 5): HHHHH 'Hamlet' runs through Feb. 17 at Spreckels Performing Arts Center, 5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park.

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BAND OF BROTHERS Digitally cleansed and colorized footage from

WWI shows life on the Western Front in ‘They Shall Not Grow Old.’

Paths of Glory

‘Lord of the Rings’ director takes on the ‘war to end all wars’ BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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ow well can cinema help us understand something as inconceivable as a war?

That’s the problem with the remarkable They Shall Not Grow Old, which arrives a few months too late for the centennial of the Armistice. Peter Jackson, of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, weaves together documentary footage from the 1914–18 war and oral histories by 114 Western Front vets recorded a half-century ago.

In a prologue, the New Zealand director explains that he was given great latitude in working with a hundred hours of footage from the Imperial War Museums. It took him and his team four years to digitally cleanse, colorize and adjust the speeds of film from hand-cranked cameras. Footage, underexposed or overexposed to the point of uselessness, now reveals its details.

As a result, the front becomes visible onscreen as it never has before. The jerky black-and-white phantoms, marching in their puttees and tin helmets, now move like human beings and have faces that can be studied. There are no dates, no names of spring offensives or locations, just one long voyage. First the enlisting—the Army took people as young as 16—the training, and the boat to France. Then the marching

to the zigzagged trenches, teetering on slippery duckboards over corpse-littered mud deep enough to swallow a man like quicksand.

Behind the lines, there’s toil or mild recreation: thin beer, brothels and ball games. Away from the front, the men pose with delight for the cinema camera, displaying captured German spiked helmets, and snuggling with the regimental goat.

Midway through, that new secret weapon arrives, the tank. The images here are clear enough that you can see the names painted on the sides of these oval-shaped steel monsters. At the blowing of a whistle, it’s over the top and into the face of the machine guns, through barbed wire snarled as thick as a blackberry patch.

This film is an achievement, but one feels that something is lost in translation, and it’s because of the narration. These old men are great subscribers to British understatement, and are observers of the law that one mustn’t grumble.

They Shall Not Grow Old helps us understand WWI, the scar between the old world of kings and horses, and our own world of total war and regimentation. It’s invaluable but has little immediacy—a strangely placid look at something that happened so long ago.

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The Purple Ones

Insatiable Tribute to Prince Tue 2⁄12 & Wed 2⁄13 & Thu 2⁄14 Doors 7pm ⁄ $40–45 • All Ages

Steve Kimock & Friends

Jeff Chimenti, Reed Mathis, John Kimock + Special Guests

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"The finest string band in America" —The Boston Herald

The Crooked Jades

Thu 2⁄21 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $30–35 • All Ages Grammy Winning Blues Legend Bobby Rush (solo seated show)

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Fri 2⁄22 • Doors 8pm ⁄ $12–15 • All Ages Performing and celebrating the music and magic of the Jerry Garcia Band

Jerry's Middle Finger

Wed 2⁄27 & Thu 2⁄28 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $35–40 All Ages

Jethro Tull's Martin Barre Band

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Fireside Dining Sat & Sun Brunch 11–3

Petty Theft Weekend Fri Feb 8 & Sat Feb 9

Boogie Woogie Queeen Feb 10 Wendy Dewitt’s Sun

“Piano Party” 4:00 ⁄ No Cover

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with The Steve & Carmen Show

A Romantic Evening of Dining & Dancing

Bring your sweetheart Thursday night for an evening with live music, dancing & fabulous food & drink!

February 14

Rock & Roll Party!

Feb 15 Beer Scouts 7:00 ⁄ No Cover Fri

Drew Harrison Feb 16 “Beatles and More” Sat

The Acoustic Show Moves Indoors!

8:00

Stompy Jones featuring Dance Feb 23 Annette Moreno Party!

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Tommy Castro & The Painkillers

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performer Eva D’Luscious moves to the music of Led Zeppelin in Petaluma this weekend.

Love Cats

OPEN MIC

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upid’s big day is coming up, and hearts will be fluttering all week in the North Bay, where a plethora of Valentine’s Day events dominate the calendars through Thursday, Feb. 14.

While candlelit dinners and heart-shaped boxes get some folks in the mood, others prefer to put on their dancing shoes and party for Valentine’s Day, and there are several local concerts in the coming days that are sure to conjure up some close encounters of the romantic kind.

The music gets started this weekend, Saturday, Feb. 9, in Petaluma, where the Mystic Theatre hosts “Whole Lotta Love,” a Led Zeppelin–themed night of rock-’n’-

roll burlesque. Set to classic Zep songs performed live by Scarlett Siren & the Howlin’ Tramps, the show boasts several risqué performers from the Bay Area and beyond, such as Sebastopol’s Bella Dukess, Oakland’s Bunny Pistol and Portland, Ore.–based Eva D’Luscious. No tips are collected at this production, but the show will support the Russian River Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence with an awesome raffle.

On Valentine’s Eve, Feb. 13, Sebastopol’s HopMonk Tavern turns into a classic nightclub perfect for old-school sweethearts, when Los Angeles vocalist Ned Rifken returns to the North Bay for the annual Sinatra Valentine’s Special.

This throwback performance also features guest singer Ariana LaMark and the locally sourced 17-piece Wednesday Night Big Band, whose members share a vast history of music, including performing with nationally renowned jazz artists and stars like Michael Jackson and even Old Blue Eyes himself. Dance the night away while indulging on wines and gourmet brews, and free chocolate for all.

On Feb. 14, things get funky at the Redwood Cafe in Cotati, with Project 4 Band’s special Valentine’s concert. Led by multifaceted entertainer Gerald Glasper, whose vocal impersonations range from James Brown to Tom Jones, this eclectic party band is known for its high-energy grooves.

In Napa Valley, local songwriter Zak Fennie is transforming his singer-in-the-round music series, the Valley Mavericks, into a romantic live music offering, the Valentine’s Mavericks, on Tuesday, Feb. 12, at the Blue Note Jazz Club in Napa.

Joining Fennie onstage will be songwriters Tabitha Jade, Owen Ridings and Grace Coyne to perform music with themes of love, heartbreak and everything in between. The “Locals Night” event means Napa County residents with ID get in free.

On Feb. 14, five-man a cappella sensation Rockapella light up the Napa Valley College Performing Arts Center for an evening of doowop, pop and R&B created without instruments or backing tracks, but with plenty of heart and harmony.

For more info on these and other shows, see music calendar, p22.

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Trinity Irish Dance Company MARCH 7

The Wood Brothers

A Conversation with

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HOUSE OF FLOYD

COVERS/TRIBUTE • DOORS 7:30PM • 21+

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FRIDAY

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Concerts SONOMA Santa Rosa Symphony Acclaimed symphony’s latest program, “Love Letters,” musically celebrates all kinds of love; romantic, platonic and familiar. Feb 9-11. $24 and up.

Green Music Center Weill Hall, 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

Swingin’ Utters

Old-school punk favorites headline a benefit for the Phoenix Theater with support from Western Addiction, the New Trust and others. Feb 9, 8pm. $15. The Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington St, Petaluma.

707.762.3565.

MARIN Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry & Subatomic Sound System

Grammy-winning dub and reggae pioneer celebrates the 45th anniversary of his album “Blackboard Jungle Dub” by performing it live for the first time on tour. Feb 7, 8pm. $32. Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael.

415.524.2773.

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NAPA Los Humildes

Formed in Modesto in 1972, the prolific Latin music ensemble continues to be popular on both sides of the border.

Feb 8, 7:30pm. $40 and up.

Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater, 100 California Dr, Yountville.

707.944.9900.

Fri 2/15 STAX CITY

Old School Memphis Soul/R & B Band

Sat 2/16 UB707

Classic Blues, R&B, Neo-Soul

Thu 2/21 (No Bachata) 7pm Flamingo and Laugh Cellar Present Comedian

DEREK SHEEN

Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra

February 22–24

28th Annual

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Annual concert features local artists LoWatters, Rainy Eyes and Teja Gerken. Feb 9, 8pm. $30. Dance Palace, 503 B St, Pt Reyes Station. 415.663.1075.

WITH PURCHASE OF A SHOW TICKET & A MEAL

Latin and Salsa music

Santa Rosa Tattoo y Blues Festival NEW HAPPY HOUR

Sweethearts of the Radio

Shadows of Taos Pueblo by Mary Silverwood

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German-born guitarist performs a stye of acoustic music he describes as “Nouveau Flamenco” that’s inspired by his longtime home of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Feb 7-9. $29-$55. Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa.

707.880.2300.

Clubs & Venues SONOMA Elephant in the Room Feb 8, John Courage Trio.

Feb 9, Mr December. 177-A Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg. elephantintheroompub.com.

Green Music Center Weill Hall

Feb 8, Joshua Bell. 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

HopMonk Sebastopol

Feb 8, Dimond Saints. Feb 9, the Rad Trads. Feb 10, Alison Harris sings the Mother Hips.

Feb 13, Sinatra Valentine’s Day special. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol. 707.829.7300.

HopMonk Sonoma

Feb 8, Timothy O’Neil. Feb 9, Straw Wattles. 691 Broadway, Sonoma. 707.935.9100.

Lagunitas Tap Room

Feb 6, Jon Gonzales. Feb 7, Ain’t Misbehavin’. Feb 8, Court n’ Disaster. Feb 9, Blithedale Canyon.

Feb 10, Timothy O’Neil. Feb 13, the Beguilers. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma. 707.778.8776.

Mystic Theatre & Music Hall

Feb 6, Groundation with Thrive. Feb 7, the Green and Eli Mac. Feb 8, Wonder Bread 5.

Feb 9, Whole Lotta Love Led Zeppelin Burlesque. Feb 13, the Expendables with Ballyhoo and Kash’d Out. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. 707.775.6048.

Occidental Center for the Arts

Feb 9, “the Billie Holiday Project” with Stella Heath Quintet. Feb 10, 4pm, Redwood Arts Council presents Amit Peled. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental. 707.874.9392.

Redwood Cafe

Feb 7, Jill Cohn. Feb 8, Dylan Black Project and Marshall House Project. Feb 9, Foxes in the Henhouse. Feb 10, Irish jam session. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati. 707.795.7868.

Whiskey Tip

Feb 8, Love in the ‘80s Valentine’s dance party.

Feb 9, Aquarius party with

Lee Vanderveer Band and Unityvybe. 1910 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.843.5535.

MARIN HopMonk Novato

Feb 9, Notorious. Feb 10, Glen Phillips. Feb 11, North Bay Blue Note Ensemble. 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 415.892.6200.

19 Broadway Nightclub

Feb 6, Bob Marley birthday party with Irie Rockers. Feb 7, Tom Finch Trio. Feb 8, Performing Stars of Marin fundraiser. Feb 9, China Cats with Talley Up. Feb 10, Dr Mojo. Feb 13, the Receders.

17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax.

415.459.1091.

Rancho Nicasio

Feb 8-9, Petty Theft. Feb 10, 4pm, Wendy DeWitt and Bruce Gordon. 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio. 415.662.2219.

Sweetwater Music Hall

Feb 7, Bob Marley birthday celebration with IrieFuse and Sol Horizon. Feb 8, the Purple Ones. Feb 9-10, Joan Osborne sings Bob Dylan. Sold-out.

Feb 12-14, Steve Kimock and friends. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.3850.

NAPA Blue Note Napa

Feb 10, 11:30am, Sunday Brunch with Mike Greensill.

Feb 12, 6:30pm, the Valentine Mavericks featuring Zak Fennie.

Feb 13, Liz Lokre. 1030 Main St, Napa. 707.880.2300.

Downtown Joe’s Brewery & Restaurant Feb 9, Jinx Jones & the KingTones. Feb 10, DJ Aurelio. 902 Main St, Napa.

707.258.2337.

Art Openings Art Museum of Sonoma County

Feb 10-Apr 20, “See Something, Say Something,” exhibit features three artists from diverse cultural perspectives who address issues of our times. Reception, Feb 9 at 4pm. 425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa. Tues-Sun, 11 to 5.

707.579.1500.

Sebastopol Gallery

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new jewelry created with the ancient makume gane technique of layering and folding metal for brilliant designs. Reception, Feb 9 at 4pm. 150 N Main St, Sebastopol. Open daily, 11 to 6.

707.829.7200.

Comedy As You Are

Local talk show focuses on members of the audience through playful and creative interviews. Feb 6, 7pm. Free.

Sebastopol Library, 7140 Bodega Ave, Sebastopol.

707.823.7691.

Chuponcito

Jose Alberto Flores, better known as the acclaimed clown, performs a Spanish Language set of comedy for adults. Feb 8, 8pm. $36-$69. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa.

707.546.3600.

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A Live Presentation

by James Steinberg “The Primary force and ‘root’ of all the esoteric traditions of humankind are the Adept-Realizers, those who actually Realize the Spiritual and Transcendental Nature of Reality.”

—Avatar Adi Da James Steinberg is a life long student of Adi Da and esoteric spirituality.

He is author of Divine Distraction, Love of the Godman, & numerous articles including “Avadhoots, Mad Lamas, and Fools.”

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FRIDAY • FEB 15 • 7 PM

Donations Requested Finley Center, 2060 W College Ave, Santa Rosa, Maple Room adidam.org/santa-rosa/events

Introduction is followed by a series of five workshops designed to enroll viewers as activists to prevent climate disaster. Feb 13, 6pm. Petaluma Bank Hub, 199 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. 707.347.9463.

Lake Sonoma Steelhead Festival

Enjoy food trucks, beer, wines, arts and crafts projects for the kids, archery, live music and more. Feb 9, 10am. Free admission. Lake Sonoma Visitors Center, Skaggs Springs Rd, Geyserville, lakesonoma.org.

The Land & Me: Landscape in the Round

Afternoon of creative collaboration will build ideas and works to become part of a public interactive performance to be held at the DeTurk Round Barn in March. Feb 9, 1:30pm.

Free. Finley Community Center, 2060 W College Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.543.3737.

Napa Barrel Bead Company Pop-Up

Local jewelry company founded by Napa native Rebecca Parker sells oneof-a-kind pieces that reflect wine country. Feb 9, 11am. CIA at Copia, 500 First St, Napa.

707.967.2530.

Noche De Amor

Celebrate love of friends, family and community with music, live auction and familystyle dinner to benefit the Healthcare Foundation. Feb 9, 6pm. $100. Sonoma Jet Center, 6000 Flightline Dr, Santa Rosa.

707.523.2800.

One Love Diversity Festival

Celebrate diversity through entertainment, food and student services and programs.

Feb 13, 10:30am. Bertolini Student Center, SRJC, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa.

707.527.4011.

Paws for Love

Gala fundraiser features silent and live auctions, gourmet food and wines, live music and a gallery of paintings by animals shelter pets. Feb 9, 6pm. $45$55. Finley Community Center, 2060 W College Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.543.3737.

Play It Forward Benefit Fundraiser for music lesson group features afternoon student recital, food, wine, and evening concert with the Bootleg Honeys and others.

Feb 9, 3pm. $10 donation.

Arlene Francis Center, 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa. 707.528.3009.

Second Saturday Cartoonist

Meet watch, and talk to political cartoonist Nomi Kane.

Feb 9, 1pm. Charles M Schulz Museum, 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa. 707.579.4452.

Film The Great Buster

Alexander Valley Film Society hosts screening of doc on Buster Keaton with Keaton’s granddaughter, Melissa Cox, in attendance for a post-film discussion. Feb 9, 1pm. $12.

Clover Theater, 121 East First St, Cloverdale. 707.894.6347.

Groundhog Day

Film plays as Laughing Monk Brewing releases their Brother Murray Hazy IPA dedicated to Bill Murray. Advance tickets recommended.

Feb 6, 6:15pm. Airport Cinemas, 409 Airport Blvd, Santa Rosa. 707.525.8909.

Leadman: The Dave Mackey Story

Filmmaker Billy Yang is on hand for a special screening of the doc about the first amputee to complete the Leadman marathon series, with pre-screening run. Feb 7,

6pm. Coyote Sonoma, 44F Mill St, Healdsburg. 707.385.9133.

The Sheltering Sky

Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1990 drama sends an American couple deep into the Sahara Desert, where they discover the transporting power of landscape and culture. Fri, Feb 8, 7pm and Sun, Feb 10, 4:30pm. $5 donation.

Sonoma Film Institute, Warren Auditorium, SSU, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park.

707.664.2606.

Yountville International Short Film Festival

Celebration of cinema features screenings, select film and wine pairings and other culinary events at multiple venues within walking distance. Feb 7-10. $25-$60 and up. Downtown Yountville, Washington St, Yountville. yisff.com.

Food & Drink Cabernet Season Food & Wine Pairing

Indulge in critically acclaimed Cabernet Sauvignon wines paired with bites from Chef Alex Lovick in intimate setting.

Space is limited, reservations recommended, Wed, 1:30pm. $165. Inglenook Winery, 1991 St Helena Hwy, Rutherford.

707.968.1161.

Cabernet Season Wine Tastings

Complimentary winetasting featuring select wineries and winemakers from the Napa Valley. Fri, 11am. through Mar 15. Free. Napa Valley Welcome Center, 600 Main St, Napa.

707.251.5895.

The Family Coppola Winemaker Dinner Join winemaster Sandy Walheim for a delectable evening. Feb 8, 7pm. $99.

Bayview Restaurant, 800 Highway One, Bodega Bay, 800.547.7788.

Petaluma Sons & Daughters of Italy Crab Feed

All-you-can-eat fresh cracked Dungeness Crab dinner includes raffle. Advance tickets only. Feb 9, 5pm. $50. Lucchesi Community Center, 320 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma.

707.585.2928.

Pliny the Younger Release

Get in line for the annual

Wine tasting, food, free chair massages and festive entertainment. Feb 10, 12pm. $55. Judd’s Hill Winery, 2332 Silverado Trail, Napa.

707.255.2332.

Wine Country Distillery Festival

Inaugural fest brings local distilleries together to celebrate their craft and share their spirits with locals and visitors alike. Feb 9, 12pm. $10-$60.

Sally Tomatoes, 1100 Valley House Dr, Rohnert Park.

707.665.0260.

For Kids Children’s Book Signing & Chocolate Tasting

oin author and sensory evaluation expert Orietta Gianjorio for this signing and tasting for children and adults.

Feb 9, 2pm. Free. CIA at Copia, 500 First St, Napa. 707.967.2530.

Lectures Art History Afternoons with Linda Loveland Reid Sonoma State University history professor offers a new art history topic each week.

Wed, Feb 13, 1:30pm. $25/$65 for series. Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S High St, Sebastopol. 707.829.4797.

Gallery Tour & Conversation with Linda Vallejo

Join a gallery walk-through of Linda Vallejo’s artwork by the artist herself. Feb 10, 11:30am. Free with admission.

Art Museum of Sonoma County, 425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa.

707.579.1500.

Getting Ready for Success in 2019

Take this time to examine, cultivate, and sharpen your focus and set in motion a year in which your business thrives.

Feb 12, 12pm. $10. coLAB, 427 Mendocino Ave Ste 100, Santa Rosa. entrepreneurnow.com.

Mick LaSalle’s Oscar Talk

“San Francisco Chronicle” film

Sex Education for Our Times

Panel of community organizations, teen clinics, teens and teachers answers your questions. Feb 7, 7pm. $10 donation. Arlene Francis Center, 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa.

707.528.3009.

WILD Napa

Join Napa Wildlife Rescue to learn what a wildlife rescue does and how you can help care for wildlife. Feb 13, 7pm. Free.

Napa Main Library, 580 Coombs St, Napa. 707.253.4070.

Readings Harmon Guest House

The timeless tragedy gets a powerful, eye-popping production marking Spreckels’ first-ever mounting of Shakespeare. Through Feb 17. $16-$26. Spreckels Performing Arts Center, 5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park. 707.588.3400.

Room Service

Set in 1937, a nimble-witted producer stumbles onto a great script in this classic screwball comedy. Through Feb 10. $10$25. Raven Theater, 115 North St, Healdsburg. 707.433.3145.

Sex With Strangers

Passion and intellects clash in this tantalizing take on modern love, presented by Left Edge Theatre. Through Feb 17. $25$40. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.546.3600.

The Spy Who Killed Me

Feb 10, 6:30pm, Red Light Lit, show explores love, relationships and sexuality through poetry, storytelling and song. $20. 227 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg 707.431.8220.

Get a Clue Productions hosts an interactive and humorous murder-mystery dinner theater experience. Sat, Feb 9, 7pm. $68 (includes meal). Charlie’s Restaurant, Windsor Golf Club, 1320 19th Hole Dr, Windsor. getaclueproductions.com.

Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater

A Streetcar Named Desire

Feb 11, 6pm, “Refugee” with Alan Gratz, benefits the Napa County Reads program $20$25. 100 California Dr, Yountville 707.944.9900.

Petaluma Copperfield’s Books

Feb 10, 2pm, “Shotguns and Stagecoaches” with John Boessenecker. 140 Kentucky St, Petaluma 707.762.0563.

Santa Rosa Copperfield’s Books

Feb 7, 7pm, “The Five Invitations” with Frank Ostaseski. 775 Village Court, Santa Rosa 707.578.8938.

Sebastopol Center for the Arts

Feb 9, 7pm, Rumi’s Caravan, evening of poetry and music in the ecstatic tradition returns for its 20th year. Free. 282 S High St, Sebastopol 707.829.4797.

Theater Arsenic & Old Lace

Sonoma Arts Live presents the classic dark comedy, directed

by Michael Ross (Always, Patsy Cline). Through Feb 10. $25-$40. Sonoma Community Center, 276 E Napa St, Sonoma. sonomaartslive.org.

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Hamlet

The classic Tennessee Williamspenned drama plays in the small studio theatre. Through Feb 17. $23-$28. 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa. 707.523.4185.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Sonoma State University presents the award-winning musical thriller by Stephen Sondheim.

Feb 7-17. $5-$17. Evert B. Person Theater, SSU, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park. 707.664.4246.

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How the media moved America on legalization

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merican views on marijuana have shifted rapidly.

In 1988, only 24 percent of Americans supported legalization.

But steadily, the nation began to liberalize. By 2018, 66 percent of Americans offered their approval, transforming marijuana legalization from a libertarian fantasy into a mainstream cause. Why has public opinion changed so dramatically?

In a study published this February, we examined a range of possible reasons, finding that the media likely had the greatest influence.

Our study ruled out a few obvious possibilities. For one, it’s not about marijuana use. Yes, its use has increased—but the increase from 10 percent to 13.5 percent is too small to have had much of an impact on attitudes. And it’s not about generational differences. Younger and older people developed more liberal views about the legalization of marijuana at a similar pace over the last 30 years.

Likewise, the pace of change has been similar across political parties, religions, educational levels, racial and ethnic groups and gender. As of 2016, 67.5 percent of Democrats and 47.6 percent of Republicans think that marijuana should be legal. As politically polarized as the country may seem, when it comes to marijuana, Americans have been changing their attitudes together.

What has likely made the biggest difference is how the media has portrayed marijuana. Support for legalization began to increase shortly after the news media began to frame marijuana as a medical issue. In 1983 and 1984, most articles on marijuana in the New York Times discussed problems related to the drug, such as crime. At that time, the Times was more likely to lump marijuana together in a kind of unholy trinity with cocaine and heroin in discussions about drug smuggling, drug dealers and the like.

During the 1990s, stories discussing marijuana in criminal terms became less prevalent.

Meanwhile, the number of articles discussing the medical uses of marijuana slowly increased.

Gradually, the stereotypical persona of the marijuana user shifted from the stoned slacker wanting to get high to the aging boomer seeking pain relief.

And, as Americans became more supportive of marijuana legalization, they also increasingly told researchers that the criminal justice system was too harsh—and the proportion of Americans who support legalizing marijuana has closely tracked with the proportion of Americans who think the criminal justice system is too harsh.

Our study found that the news media’s portrayal of marijuana began to change shortly before the public did—suggesting that the media influenced support for the legalization of marijuana.

Whatever the initial impetus, attitudes today are drastically more supportive.

Source: Alternet’s the Conversation. A longer version of this article with details on the study appears on Alternet.com.

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Astrology For the week of February 6

ARIES (March 21-April 19) Climbing mountains has been a popular adventure since the 19th century, but there are still many peaks around the world that no one has ever ascended. They include the 24,591-foothigh Muchu Chhish in Pakistan, 23,691-foot Karjiang South in Tibet and 12,600-foot Sauyr Zhotasy on the border of China and Kazakhstan. If there are any Aries mountaineers reading this horoscope who have been dreaming about conquering an unclimbed peak, 2019 will be a great time to do it, and now would be a perfect moment to plan or launch your quest. As for the rest of you Aries, what’s your personal equivalent of reaching the top of an unclimbed peak?

TAURUS (April 20–May 20)

Eminem’s song “Lose Yourself” was a featured track in the movie 8 Mile, and it won an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2003. The creator himself was not present at the Oscar ceremony to accept his award, however. He was so convinced his song would lose that he stayed home. At the moment that presenter Barbra Streisand announced Eminem’s triumph, he was asleep in front of the TV with his daughter, who was watching cartoons.

In contrast to him, I hope you will be fully available and on the scene for the recognition or acknowledgment that should be coming your way sometime soon.

GEMINI (May 21–June 20) While enjoying its leisure time, the peregrine falcon glides around at 50 miles per hour. But when it’s motivated by the desire to eat, it may swoop and dart at a velocity of 220 miles per hour. Amazing! In accordance with your astrological omens, Gemini, I propose that we make the peregrine falcon your spirit creature for the next three weeks. I suspect you will have extraordinary speed and agility and focus whenever you’re hunting for exactly what you want. So here’s a crucial question: what exactly do you want?

CANCER (June 21–July 22) Now and then the sun shines and rain falls at the same time.

The meteorological name for the phenomenon is “sunshower,” but folklore provides other terms.

Hawaiians may call it “liquid sunshine” or “ghost rain.”

Speakers of the Tangkhul language in India imagine it as “the wedding of a human and spirit.” Some Russians refer to it as “mushroom rain,” since it’s thought to encourage the growth of mushrooms. Whatever you might prefer to call it, Cancerian, I suspect that the foreseeable future will bring you delightful paradoxes in a similar vein. And in my opinion, that will be very lucky for you, since you’ll be in the right frame of mind and spirit to thrive amidst just such situations.

LEO (July 23–August 22) A study by the Fidelity financial services company revealed that in 43 percent of all couples, neither partner has an accurate knowledge of how much money the other partner earns. Meanwhile, research by the National Institute of Health concludes that among heterosexual couples, 36 percent of husbands misperceive how frequently their wives have orgasms. I bring this to your attention in order to sharpen your focus on how crucial it is to communicate clearly with your closest allies. I mean, it’s rarely a good idea to be ignorant about what’s going on with those close to you, but it’ll be an especially bad idea during the next six weeks.

VIRGO (August 23–September 22) Torre Mayor is one of the tallest skyscrapers in Mexico City. When workers finished its construction in 2003, it was one of the world’s most earthquake-proof buildings, designed to hold steady during an 8.5-level temblor. Over the course of 2019, Virgo, I’d love to see you erect the metaphorical equivalent of that unshakable structure in your own life. The astrological omens suggest that doing so is quite possible. And the coming weeks will be an excellent time to launch that project or intensify your efforts to manifest it.

LIBRA (September 23–October 22) Multitalented Libran singer and actor Donald Glover uses the name of Childish Gambino when he performs his music. How did he select that alias? He used an online random name generator created by the rap group Wu-Tang Clan. I tried the same generator and got “Fearless Warlock” as my new moniker. You might want to try it yourself, Libra.

The coming weeks will be an excellent time to add

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layers to your identity and expand your persona and mutate your self-image. The generator is here: tinyurl. com/yournewname. (P.S.: If you don’t like the first one you’re offered, keep trying until you get one you like.)

SCORPIO (October 23–November 21)

Leonardo da Vinci’s painting Salvator Mundi sold for $450 million in 2017. Just 12 years earlier, an art collector had bought it for $10,000. Why did its value increase so extravagantly? Because in 2005, no one was sure it was an authentic da Vinci painting. It was damaged and had been covered with other layers of paint that hid the original image. After extensive efforts at restoration, the truth about it emerged. I foresee the possibility of a comparable, if less dramatic, development in your life during the next ten months, Scorpio. Your work to rehabilitate or renovate an underestimated resource could bring big dividends.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 21) We can behold colors because of specialized cells in our eyes called cones. Most of us have three types of cones, but a few rare people have four. This enables them to see far more hues than the rest of us. Are you a tetrachromat, a person with super-vision? Whether you are or not, I suspect you will have extra powerful perceptual capacities in the coming weeks. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you will be able to see more than you usually do. The world will seem brighter and deeper and more vivid. I urge you to deploy your temporary superpower to maximum advantage.

CAPRICORN (December 22–January 19) There are two kinds of minor, boring little tasks. One is when you’re attending to a detail that’s not in service to a higher purpose; the other is when you’re attending to a detail that is a crucial step in the process of fulfilling an important goal. An example of the first might be when you try in vain to scour a permanent stain on a part of the kitchen counter that no one ever sees. An example of the second is when you download an update for an existing piece of software so your computer works better and you can raise your efficiency levels as you pursue a pet project. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to keep this distinction in mind as you focus on the minor, boring little tasks that are crucial steps in the process of eventually fulfilling an important goal.

AQUARIUS (January 20–February 18) Can you sit on your own head? Not many people can.

It requires great flexibility. Before comedian Robin Williams was famous, he spontaneously did just that when he auditioned for the role of the extraterrestrial immigrant Mork, the hero of the TV sitcom Mork and Mindy. The casting director was impressed with Williams’ odd but amusing gesture, and hired him immediately. If you’re presented with an opportunity sometime soon, I encourage you to be inspired by the comedian’s ingenuity. What might you do to cinch your audition, to make a splashy first impression, to convince interested parties that you’re the right person?

PISCES (February 19–March 20) Twitter wit

Notorious Debi Hope advises us, “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assho––s.” That’s wise counsel for you to keep in mind during the next three weeks. Let me add a few corollaries. First, stave off any temptation you might have to believe that others know what’s good for you better than you do. Second, figure out what everyone thinks of you and aggressively liberate yourself from their opinions. Third, if anyone even hints at not giving you the respect you deserve, banish them for at least three weeks.

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