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THIS MODERN WORLD

By Tom Tomorrow

Too Many Vineyards Since the October fires, I have read periodicals and listened to the news regarding accounts of the catastrophic fires and the tragic aftermath, but nowhere has there been any mention of water use by the wine industry. Vineyard owners sink wells hundreds of feet into aquifers, divert water from rivers, streams, creeks, and seem not to care about how their practices affect the environment.

If wineries keep extracting groundwater and diverting water from natural sources, the environment will become drier leading to more extensive, catastrophic fires than the North Bay fire.

Since so many people have to start over, it is time for people involved in the wine industry to become introspective, to take a long, hard look at their practices and change them in a way that respects people, animals and the natural world—it’s time for the wine industry to be accountable to the people who live in Sonoma County and to stop catering to tourists.

While I understand that the county needs the revenue that is generated by the wine industry, too much is too much. Too many vineyards, wineries, tasting rooms, event centers. Too many mountains, hills, woodlands, meadows and fields destroyed in order to plant grapes. Too many animals dead on our roads because what once was their habitat is fenced off to protect vineyards. Too much traffic and inebriated people driving county roads that they do not know.

‘Do me a favor. It could change your life. Take a little child in your arms. If it’s your own kid, all the better, but if not, borrow a little dude.’—Hank Mattimore 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.

Due to the tragic fires, thousands of people have lost homes, belongings, businesses and animals, so I say to the people in the wine industry, “Slow down.” People in this county are suffering and will be in shock for a while.

Nothing is normal in Sonoma County, and no one will ever be the same. We are a changed people. Please change your winery practices to something that involves the whole, not just the few.

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The Power to Protect A chat on what’s most important— dude to dude BY HANK MATTIMORE

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ey you, Mr. Big Shot. You know who you are. You get off on power and accumulating wealth and feeling important and successful.

Por favor: do me a favor. It could change your life.

Take a little child in your arms. If it’s your own kid, all the better, but if not, borrow a little dude.

Take the child in your arms. Hold it close. Feel its tiny heart beat against your chest. Don’t be afraid.

Give your head a rest from Dow Jones or that Rolex watch that graces your wrist. What’s that you say? “It’s starting to drool over my expensive suit. Someone take the kid back!” No way, buddy. You need to spend some time at this. The drool comes with the territory.

Look at its tiny fingers; feel the soft, perfect skin. Yeah, you’re a guy, but you’re a human being. Let yourself go soft and squishy for a moment. See how vulnerable this little dude is?

Wow! The protector in you is calling from the depth of your belly. Mama and Papa Bear are one.

You feel for the moment almost godlike power—power mixed with weakness and vulnerability. You hold in your arms all that matters most in life (even more than the beemer in your garage).

You are transformed into the person who is both lover and loved, the kind of man you really want to be.

And the trust. Good Lord, we are so afraid to trust anyone anymore, but this little child trusts you. The baby trusts you, weak and flawed human being that you are. Suddenly, from deep within you comes the power that only trust and love can bring you. You will use your power to protect and defend the little dudes in the world. They trust you.

Now you can let the child in your arms go to someone else.

What’s that you say? You want to cuddle it just a little longer?

Yeah, I was hoping that would happen. Kids have a way of reaching you, don’t they? Way more than the latest “stuff” you accumulate. You go, dude. Love ya!

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The Hard Cell

Marin County native Jason Rezaian’s long road from an Iranian prison BY TOM GOGOLA

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hen the chips were really down for Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post reporter and former Iranian hostage says he’d reflect on one of his late father’s Yogi Berra–type malapropisms.

His father, Taghi, an Iranian émigré to Marin County in the 1950s was “filled with jokes,” says Rezaian, “He had these sayings that didn’t make 100 percent sense, but when

you thought about it, they did.” His dad, well-known in the community, ran a Persian rug emporium in San Rafael for decades, and Rezaian says he still has lots of relatives in and around the Bay Area, though he hasn’t lived here for years.

While reporting on Iranian life for the Post in 2014, Rezaian and his Iranian wife, Yeganeh Salehi, were arrested by Iranian security forces and accused of espionage.

He spent 544 days in the country’s most notorious prison, known as Evin—around six months of those in solitary confinement. His ordeal

is recounted in Prisoner, a memoir just published on the late Anthony Bourdain’s imprint at HarperCollins, Ecco Books. He’s back in his hometown for several readings scheduled around the Bay Area.

The Marin County native, a graduate of Marin Academy High School, is in his early 40s and lives in Washington, D.C., now with his wife. Before their hostage crisis, they’d decided that they’d never have kids—now he says they’re considering it, though with a laugh he adds that the nine-month window has not yet opened.

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Rezaian was subjected to intense psychological torture during his ordeal, which ended when he was freed as part of President Barack Obama’s negotiation of the Iran nuclear deal in 2015. His detainment included multiple threats that he’d be executed. He was repeatedly told to sign a confession as a condition of his release but heroically held the line against his captors and only ever admitted to doing his job at the Post, which was to report on Iranian life from the streetside and culturally engaged perspective of a returning son.

One of his dad’s Yogisms came in very handy, he says. “If you worry, you’re going to die,” he would advise his son. “If you don’t worry, you’re going to die. So don’t worry.”

He tried to not worry, despite his guards’ numerous threats that they’d cut off his fingers and toes, that he’d be executed. He spent months in a solitary confinement cell in the prison, and even there, he says, his natural optimism helped him to deal with the soulcrushing conditions.

“You have to keep separate sets of mental books,” he says by way of explaining how he survived long periods in solitary. (As his plight unfolded, Rezaian would eventually spend significant time with other inmates in a two-person cell.) “On the one hand, the fear and anxiety is omnipresent. But you learn that if you let that take everything over, it takes everything over. This is not a place where I or anybody wants to be, and I looked at my situation as always: I’m in this prison, considered one of the worst in the world. But just around me, I could see people who were in worse situations, cellmates who were more isolated, who couldn’t speak to the guards.”

Rezaian would come to look forward to his interrogations, he says in his book, because they would at least afford him human contact. He eventually came to appreciate that he was a player in a big unfolding negotiation between the United States and the Rouhani regime. He thought: “This is horrible, but it could be worse and worse and worse. Some days, it did get worse. Other days,

there were glimmers of hope. I’m optimistic by nature.”

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he brutal murder of Rezaian’s colleague, Jamal Khashoggi, hangs over our conversation, as does the gourmet ghost of the late Anthony Bourdain, who filmed Rezaian for his Parts Unknown show in a segment about Persian cuisine, before the hostagetaking, and urged him to write Prisoner after his release.

First, Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist who was murdered

by Saudi Arabian officials last year: “The one thing in which the murder of Jamal and what happened to me are connected, or have in common: both are two instances of authoritarian regimes using extraordinary means to silence journalists who were writing about them. Full stop. Not even writing about them in ways that they didn’t like—in my case it was taking the pen out of my hand, and getting leverage with America. In Jamal’s case, it was simply, we are going to silence this person in an audacious and horrifying way so that other people are silenced too.

“I don’t want to compare and contrast the Iranian and the Saudi regime, they are both terrible, but I will say that this act by the Saudi regime, along with the war with Yemen, the crackdown on dissent within their own borders—I don’t think this is something that most Americans can wrap their minds around. They routinely behead people.”

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he first few weeks of Rezaian’s confinement were filled with fear and bewilderment. “I didn’t know what to think,” he says, and in his book writes how he repeatedly claimed his innocence and that this was all a big mistake. That was the first few days, he says. “Then the reality sets in.” His guards told him that the whole world already thought he was dead anyway, that the Washington Post didn’t care, and neither did the Obama Administration.

“Then the fear of influences on your thinking comes in,” he says.

The guards would take him out of his “tiny vacuum sealed cell,” and then at least he’d be having interactions with people, even if they were threatening to cut off his fingers. Now Rezaian saw his captors let down their guard a bit.

They threatened him with physical violence but never beat him. “Then you start to see—this is a hostagetaking. This particular moment in this country’s trajectory is not going to be served by killing an American.”

Still, he did fear that he’d be left behind in the Iran nuclear deal since scrapped by Donald Trump.

Rezaian feared it might be a long time before he was released.

What he could not and did not know while in prison was that his older brother, Ali, his employers at the Post, officials in the Obama Administration—not to mention Marin Congressman Jared Huffman—were working on his release from the day he was arrested. “I can’t say it because I’m a journalist working for the Washington Post,” he says with a laugh, “but vote for Huffman!”

He credits the pol for his dogged efforts on his behalf; Huffman was at a German airport to meet Rezaian when he was released.

Upon his release, Rezaian recalls that it was encouraging to him to know, in hindsight, that every time then-Secretary of State John Kerry met with his Iranian counterparts during the nuclear negotiations, Rezaian’s name came up in the negotiation.

That was encouraging. “What’s disheartening,” he says, “is that

several [Americans] have been taken hostage since I was released, and there is no conversation going on with the United States and Iran right now, and for those people who are saying, ‘Don’t talk to evil, don’t negotiate with evil,’—well, that’s shortsighted,” and of no comfort to the hostage’s families.

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the way that this administration has responded to the death of my colleague, someone I was getting to know.”

“The most noteworthy thing about Iran is its people,” Rezaian adds and highlights an ancient culture with rich musical, literature, poetry, film and food traditions.

“My money is always on the Iranian people,” he says. “They are resilient, they are smart, and over time they’ve made it clear that they are dissatisfied, the majority of them, with the rulers of this country.”

He suggests that the United States, as it promotes policies advertised as good for fomenting democracy and good for Iran, should take a look at whether travel bans and crippling sanctions are accomplishing the mission. “How can we say we support your quest for freedom when we’re not going to let you come here?”

Rezaian recalls a time in the 1960s and ’70s, before the Iranian hostage crisis, when Iranian students comprised the highest percent of foreign-born university students in America—many of them receiving their education in the Bay Area, long a destination for Iranian immigrants. “I don’t think there is hatred of America,” he says.

Rezaian’s time spent reporting on the streets of Iran left him with a clear impression that, instead, “Iranians are probably one of the most pro-America populaces” in the Middle East. “People are tired of the ‘Great Satan’ state media stuff.”

Despite the longstanding Friday ritual of burning American flags in Tehran, he insists, “there is not rabid anti-Americanism in Iran.”

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nd then there’s Bourdain.

Rezaian says the author and TV host’s 2018 suicide “remains, continues to be, the hardest thing that my wife and I have to grapple with.” He’ll get stopped on the street, he says, by Bourdain fans who saw Rezaian and his wife on his show during an episode filmed in Tehran six weeks before he was arrested. Rezaian says of himself that he’s not a gourmand but is a big lover of food (he lost lots of weight in prison, he recollects in the book), and in an

interview, recalls a Marin youth filled with visits to the bustling multi-ethnic food scene on Fourth Street in San Rafael. “It was one of the great culinary destinations that nobody knew about where you could find food from all over the world,” he recalls.

During his ordeal in Iran, Bourdain’s celebrity status, he says, “gave a spotlight to our imprisonment that nothing else could.” The episode aired numerous times during his imprisonment and Rezaian says with obvious emotion that he “had no idea the lengths to which [Bourdain] was advocating for me publicly and privately while we were there.”

A few weeks after their release, Rezaian and his wife met with Bourdain for a meal in New York City. “This is a guy we are meeting for the second time, 20 months after the first time. It was an incredible roller coaster ride for us in the meantime—and it turned out he had been an incredible friend to us while we were in trouble.”

Bourdain encouraged Rezaian to write his story, and he did the “traditional thing,” he says—wrote a proposal, shopped it around to 14 publishers, six of whom made offers, including Bourdain’s Ecco imprint at HarperCollins. Rezaian then got an email from Laos, from Bourdain. “It was more like, whatever you decide, I’m going to be there for you,” Rezaian recalls.

Bourdain added, “‘I’ll be a vocal and spirited advocate no matter what.

Give my offer some consideration.’

When you get something like that, how can you say no?”

Rezaian sighs and reflects on his interactions with the late Bourdain.

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Thou King o’ Grain!

Single malt whisky is not just for the Scotch

BY JAMES KNIGHT

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eems that I misjudged the gloom of a gray Friday morning as I set out on a bicycle trip to Sebastopol, because the light rain forecast for later that day begins before I’m halfway out of Santa Rosa. By the time I reach the door of Spirit Works Distillery, I’m drenched from a cold, steady rain. That’s just as well, for I’m here to taste single malt whisky, and now I’m feeling properly Caledonian.

The birth of Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns, is celebrated in that nation, and here and there around the world, on Jan. 25. While the proper tipple for that occasion must surely be “Scotch Drink,” to which the poet dedicated one of his famously feisty, merry odes, I want to know if I can find a local version here in the craft-brew-crazy North Bay—after all, beer is made with the very same stuff: malted barley.

I’m on a path with few fellow travelers. “Ninety percent ask for bourbon,” says Lauren Patz, head distiller at Spirit Works, of the customers who want to know what else they’ve got besides wheat and rye whiskey. As for the other 10 percent, “They ask if we make Scotch. They don’t ask us if we make single malt.”

It’s a distinction with a difference: Scotch whisky comes from Scotland. Single malt is a category of malt whisky that comes from a single producer, most notably but not necessarily one in Scotland. At Spirit Works, Patz has a few samples of hidden gems waiting for me: one, distilled last year from California-grown barley and sweetly reekin’ of charred oak and spice, is very “Spirit Works” in character, much like their wheat whiskey. Another, at three and a half years, is smoothed and deepened by time. They’re holding this one back until later in 2019.

At Alley 6 Craft Distillery in Healdsburg the latest single malt is hard to resist. Sappy and creamy, with vanilla and butterscotch notes, it’s a hint of Glenrothes without so much as a day spent in a sherry cask. Distiller Jason Jorgensen is amused by the bias that some craft spirits observers have against the faster, small-barrel system of aging whisky he employs. “I get a kick out of it,” he says. His view is, it’s a short life, why wait for this pleasure?

Surely Burns, who lived lustily until 37, would agree.

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Sole Man Sonoma County’s Dominic Ciambrone kicks it BY MICHAEL BARNES ominic “the Shoe Surgeon” Ciambrone has never been afraid to step out on his own. Growing up in Santa Rosa, Ciambrone was always building things by hand in the backyard of his childhood home.

Instead of following instructions when building forts and making things out of Legos, he created something new.

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The 32-year-old Ciambrone’s backyard is now in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake neighborhood, and what he creates now are highly sought-after, one-of-a-kind sneakers.

And those who surround him these days are famous athletes and musicians. But one thing remains the same from his early days in Sonoma County: he doesn’t follow instructions; he follows whatever’s in his head.

At one point, what was in Ciambrone’s head deteriorated into a cacophony of tormented voices brought on by severe anxiety and drug abuse. The noise became so unbearable that it eventually sent Ciambrone leaping out of a second-story window and landing in a muddling haze of prescription drugs and psychiatric care seven years ago. He says that he felt the need to turn to drugs and alcohol to feel “normal and escape reality.”

“After he jumped,” says his mother, Kim Ciambrone, “I remember the doctors telling us that our son was delusional—that he thinks he makes shoes for Justin Bieber. My husband and I said, ‘He does make shoes for Justin Bieber.’”

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The doctors found it hard to believe, but truth is often stranger than fiction. Ciambrone’s big break came when he was introduced to Justin Bieber through a mutual friend while delivering a pair of custom-made sneakers for musician will.i.am to wear at an MTV Video Music Awards show.

The Shoe Surgeon and the Biebs hit it off, and Ciambrone found himself fulfilling a few dozen

orders of shoes for one of Bieber’s upcoming tours. Then, after Law & Order: Special Victims Unit enlisted his services for a 2011 episode titled “Personal Fouls,” Ciambrone’s work catapulted into the sneaker stratosphere.

But before he could continue to keep celebrities’ sneaker games looking fresh, Ciambrone needed a fresh outlook himself. Kim recalls her son being diagnosed

with bipolar disorder and prescribed a cocktail of mood stabilizers, anticonvulsants and antidepressants. “Dominic had one of those Monday-through-Sunday pill boxes, and some pills he had to take were just to offset the side effects of the other pills. It really put him in a fog,” she says.

The lack of clarity was stifling his creativity and distorting his artistic vision. “He didn’t want to

continue taking the medication because of the damage it was doing to his body,” she says. “He felt more like a zombie than a human.” Ciambrone turned to a traditional Chinese medicine clinic in Petaluma, where he underwent a full-body cleanse.

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FROM SCRATCH Dominic Ciambrone can sell a pair of shoes for what his first

industrial sewing machine cost: $3,500.

iambrone’s interest in fashion began in middle school. “My older cousin let me wear her original 1985 Air Jordan 1’s in high school. It was the first time that I felt like I was able to wear something without having to say anything to express myself,” Ciambrone says.

The experience inspired the then-16-year-old to try his hand at sneaker design by airbrushing Jordan’s with model paint and tinkering with the iconic Nike “swoosh” by removing it from the side of the shoe and gluing it to the top. Ciambrone’s DIY-alterations caught the attention of his friends, who implored him to customize their kicks in the same fashion.

Taking liberties on an original design was nothing new for Ciambrone, as he told Hypebeast earlier this year. He was counterfeiting Chuck E. Cheese prize tickets with his brothers at the age of 12, and quite literally graduated from the ball pit with his next venture: hawking counterfeit high school graduation tickets for $15. It proved to be a lucrative racket, until his younger brother was caught and prohibited from participating in the ceremony.

When Ciambrone graduated from Santa Rosa’s Elsie Allen

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High School, in 2004, he didn’t ask for a new car or laptop as a graduation gift; he asked for a sewing machine. His grandmother gave him a Brother Pacesetter PS1000 13-stitch machine. Designed more for clothing than shoes, it was the perfect introductory tool for the young Ciambrone to realize his potential. In 2005, he enrolled at Santa Rosa Junior College to study fashion design, but there was one problem.

“I just couldn’t sit still,” he says.

Ciambrone’s time as an SRJC Bear Cub was over before it started, and at the age of 19 he moved from Santa Rosa to Charlotte, N.C., to stay with his grandmother.

The move opened up his view on what fashion was and could be outside of his wine country stomping grounds. “You could go to a kiosk in a mall in Charlotte and people there were airbrushing shoes,” Ciambrone says. “That just didn’t exist back home in NorCal.” While in Charlotte, Ciambrone teamed up with a local shoe customizer who designed the cleats for the Carolina Panthers in the 2003 Super Bowl—a connection that accelerated Ciambrone’s learning curve.

Eventually, his fascination with

13 that entailed and what needs to be presented to someone when you ask for a loan.” Ciambrone, 21 at the time, was able to enlist the help of Guy Fieri through a mutual friend, who provided him with some valuable financial insight. he Shoe Surgeon remembers his humble beginnings, when he often worked for free and felt fortunate to charge someone $100 for his designs. “There were times where I wasn’t making any money,” he says. “The friends and family I had in Santa Rosa helped feed me and pay my rent.”

Ciambrone can now pay his rent with just one higher-end pair of his current lineup of custom shoes.

His website offers shoes ranging in price from $200 to $3,500—not bad for someone who once operated entirely out of his parents’ garage with one sewing machine.

Ciambrone hasn’t forgotten where he came from, crediting the “old leather spots” in Petaluma and Sebastopol with helping to trigger his success. He frequently returns home to visit family and friends, and credits his father with instilling in him a “strong work ethic and eternal sense of optimism” as a foundation that got him where he is today.

A husband and a father now himself, Ciambrone has a new appreciation for the pair that raised him. “I’m extremely grateful to have had the most loving, hard-working parents,” he says. “As a parent myself it puts life into a different perspective.”

Ciambrone recently collaborated with retail giants eBay and Farfetch on charity events that raised money for victims of the North Bay wildfires, and now has his sights set on raising awareness for mental-health issues. “The goal is to share my struggles of the mental challenges and diagnosis of what I went through to help others out of very bad situations,” he says.

“This upcoming year I’m focused on devoting more of my time to be an advocator of mental health awareness. I want everyone to learn more about themselves and talk about the dark feelings they may have.”

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Charlotte mall culture led to his first design job at a No Fear clothing store in Charlotte. As assistant manager, Ciambrone was able to put his customized kicks on display for $120 a pair, a price point that netted him a mere $20 profit after his labor costs.

When Ciambrone moved back to Santa Rosa, he began searching for local shoe-repair shops that would give him the chance to further hone his skills and expand his craft—easier said than done.

“The first person I approached shoved me away,” Ciambrone says. “He was cussing at me, and said he wouldn’t work with me because I’d steal all his business.”

He finally took a step in the right direction when he and met his future mentor, Daryl Fazio, in Windsor. Initially, Fazio, who had more than 30 years changing soles under his belt, was reluctant to work with Ciambrone, due to the younger man’s relative lack of hands-on experience. The Shoe Surgeon eventually swayed Fazio with his determination.

“Daryl really helped me learn how to properly sand and sew,” and showed me “what machines were best to work with,” Ciambrone says. He would go on to apprentice at Fazio’s shop for five years, in conjunction with learning from Michael Carnacchi, a custom-fitted boot maker at the Apple Cobbler in Sebastopol.

“I remember Michael’s eye for detail and passion for craft, and Daryl’s amazing work ethic, and how he built relationships with customers,” Ciambrone says.

Before Ciambrone could set up shop and begin work as a selfemployed shoe stylist, there was some paperwork to submit. His father, Lou, owner of Santa Rosa’s Canevari’s Deli, required him to draw up a loose business plan.

In return, Ciambrone’s parents made an investment in their entrepreneurial son in the form of a $3,500 sewing machine.

“It wasn’t like I wanted him to draw up this fully realized business plan that was going to work.” Ciambrone’s father says.

“I just wanted him to see what

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Cannes award-winning filmmaker Rob Nilsson (Northern Lights) is in the North Bay to present a remarkable series of short documentaries—Prairie Fire, Survivor and Rebel Earth—that makeup ‘The Prairie Trilogy.’ The trilogy of films tells the story of North Dakota’s Socialist Nonpartisan League, who fought a hard-won battle in 1916 to regain voting rights that had been taken from them by those in power. See the three short docs and engage in a discussion on the films’ continued relevance in our current political climate on Friday, Jan. 25, at Occidental Center for the Arts, 3850 Doris Murphy Court, Occidental. 7pm. Free. 707.874.9392.

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Sonoma County artist and gallery owner Mary Fassbinder spent over three years and traveled more than 70,000 miles to create her latest collection of paintings. Now she displays her works in a new exhibit, ‘The National Parks Painting Project,’ that features dozens of plein air paintings of each of the U.S. National Parks. Showcasing the vast natural beauty in the United States, this timely show aims to promote preservation and conservation of the country’s resources. Running through March, “The National Parks Painting Project” opens with a reception on Saturday, Jan. 26, at Petaluma Arts Center, 230 Lakeville St., Petaluma. 5pm. Free.

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GOT YOUR GOAT But why else take up yoga, if not so little cloven hoofs can perch on your back?

Animal Form

Inside the shocking and controversial practice of ‘goat yoga’ BY DAVID TEMPLETON

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oat yoga isn’t really about the yoga.”

So says Alana Joy Eckhart, of Santa Rosa’s Goatlandia Farm Animal Sanctuary, as she gently places a two-month-old, three-legged Nigerian dwarf goat named Poppy in the lap of a visiting journalist.

“Goat yoga,” smiles Eckhart, stepping back to let Poppy

snuggle in for a scratch behind the ears, “is all about joy.”

Goat yoga, a real and admittedly offbeat practice—in which humans do yoga in the presence of goats—originally began in 2016, in Corvallis, Ore. That’s where Lainey Morse, a one-time marketing expert and longtime goat lover first coined the ear-catching phrase, teaming up with a local instructor for

popular goat yoga sessions on her rural farm.

Goat yoga now stands alongside a widening array of alternative yoga offerings, from the popular hot yoga offered at many studios, to Lagunitas Brewing Company’s weekly yoga-and-a-beer sessions, to yoga classes surrounded by fish at San Francisco’s Academy of Sciences, to Jedi yoga (yes, that’s a thing, too).

With just a little effort, depending on where you happen to be, you can experience yoga on beaches, yoga on horses, yoga on paddleboards, yoga in caves, yoga in planetariums, yoga in bowling alleys, yoga on ice, yoga with snakes and yoga with sloths, plus karaoke yoga, nude yoga,“ganjasmoking yoga, heavy metal yoga, laughter yoga, and even Harry Potter yoga, which is pretty much what it sounds like (Downward Facing Dumbledore, anyone?).

And in Cloverdale, for what it’s worth, a local studio called the Yoga on Center has recently struck a resonant chord with its popular weekly class titled “Yoga for the Inflexible Male.”

But few innovations have made as big a leap into the mainstream as goat yoga.

“The beginnings of goat yoga, I suppose, were a bit of an accident,” explains Lainey Morse, contacted at her farm in Oregon, from which she now oversees a growing nonprofit called Original Goat Yoga, with satellite locations all over the country. At the moment, the organization’s sole Bay Area location is in Morgan Hill.

The fact that her life is now built around goats and yoga is still something of a wonder to Morse, she admits. “I’d started something called Goat Happy Hour at my farm,” she says. “I called it that because everyone who came and spent time with my goats always left happy.”

Morse says she learned firsthand about the power of goatrelated therapy when her life took several unexpected turns.

“I’d been diagnosed with a disease and was going through a divorce at the same time,” she says, “and I was thinking, ‘I should be more upset. I should be really sad.’ But I’d get home from work and spend time with my ) 16

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goats, and it just made me feel good. My goats definitely kept me from slipping down the rabbit hole of depression.”

Goat Happy Hour led to other events, including kids’ birthday parties. It was during one of those that a local yoga instructor suggested that it would be fun to do a yoga session in the field with the goats.

“I said, ‘OK, but the goats are going to be jumping all over the yoga students,’” recalls Morse, who agreed to give it a try, and soon after came up with the term “goat yoga.”

“It just sounded so ridiculous and fun,” she says, “though I assumed that only our friends and family would come and do goat yoga—and maybe not even them.

Then we had our first class, and it was sold out instantly.”

Morse took pictures and sent them to Modern Farmer magazine.

“I thought their readers might find it kind of cute,” she says.

The magazine ended up sending our a reporter and running the story, with great pictures of people doing yoga with baby goats on their backs, and in short order, Morse got calls from The Oregonian, the New York Times, Huffington Post and others. The resulting demand was instantaneous, with the waiting list for people eager to experience goat yoga growing to 2,300 names.

“It was wild. It just absolutely changed my life,” Morse says.

“I was probably doing 30 or 40 media interviews a day, while also having a full-time job that I loved, and had had for 10 years. I finally decided, this just doesn’t happen to people, and I’d regret it if I didn’t take the opportunity life was giving me. So I quit my job and went all in on goat yoga.”

Morse says she’s often asked, “Why goats?” She has two logical responses.

“For one thing, goats have tiny little pellets, like rabbits do,” she points out with a laugh. “Goat poop doesn’t stink, and it’s not messy, so if a goat happens to drop its pellets on your yoga mat, you can just shake it off. It’s no

big deal. But if you’re doing yoga with a pig or a cat or a dog, and it poops on your mat, that’s not going to be pretty.

“And the other thing,” she says, “is that goats, quite simply, are the most loving and gentle creatures.

Goats are the perfect therapy animal.”

Initially, Morse attempted to trademark the term “Goat Yoga,” but after spending more than $20,000 on lawyers, she grew tired of having her efforts denied.

So instead, she trademarked the phrase “Original Goat Yoga,” now the official name of her company. During the time it took to accomplish that, however, Morse watched as goat yoga blew up all over, breeding countless imitators, clones and copycats.

“I struggled with it for a while,” she says. “It was a hard pill to swallow, that this thing I’d developed took off without me. Then, other people started trying to call their businesses ‘Original Goat Yoga,’ too. So I had to deal with that. I never dreamed that the world of goat yoga would become such a cutthroat, competitive business.”

Morse hit another snag when she was told that she couldn’t legally hold classes on her property because it was zoned for farming and not for business.

That, ultimately, is why she developed her current business model of working with existing goat farms to use the Original Goat Yoga name, methodology and marketing muscle.

Today, she says she takes a lot of pleasure in seeing how widespread her weird little notion has become, and that so many people are reaping the mental, physical and emotional benefits of goat yoga. In November, she published The Little Book of Goat Yoga, and according to Morse, it’s selling remarkably well.

“It’s amazing to me that there are so many people around the world doing this crazy thing I started,” she says. “I know its not exactly healing diseases or anything, but it’s making people forget about their problems for a while, it’s connecting them

to nature, and that’s worth something to me.”

Which brings us back to Goatlandia.

This morning, the air is filled with the sounds of roosters crowing, dogs barking, birds singing and goats and sheep bleating. Goatlandia, somewhat rain-dampened and mud-slushy, is otherwise quiet after the morning feedings have concluded, thanks to Blum, Eckhart and a team of volunteers. Owned by acclaimed (and now retired) restaurateur Deborah Blum, the two-acre sanctuary—a certified 501(c)(3) nonprofit, largely volunteer-powered and funded almost entirely by donations—is devoted to the care, protection, resuscitation and (under the right circumstances) the adoption of goats, pigs, chickens and other farm animals.

“That’s our mission,” says Eckhart, “to rescue goats, sheep, ducks, chickens and pigs, give them a safe and loving home, and also educate people on a more conscious, eco-friendly lifestyle.”

Many of Goatlandia’s current 150 residents, spread between the Santa Rosa farm and another location in Sebastopol, were rescued from farms or ranches where they would have been euthanized— the fate three-legged Poppy avoided—or used for food. Some were abandoned or surrendered to Goatlandia after outgrowing their previous owners expectations.

According to Eckhart, many of the current residents were taken in after the 2017 fires.

“We take a lot of pride in what we do,” Eckhart says, “bringing home animals who would otherwise be killed.”

In 2017, Eckhart, a trained yoga instructor, decided it was a nobrainer for Goatlandia to start offering goat yoga sessions of its own. The farm’s open field with a wooden deck proved to be the perfect spot for classes. Goatlandia, she says, has about 20 goats at the moment, all of which are brought out whenever a goat yoga session is taking place. Each and every goat has an engaging backstory.

That definitely goes for Poppy.

“Poppy’s original owners wanted to euthanize her, because she needed to have her leg amputated and it wasn’t worth the money and effort for them,” says Eckhart. “So we adopted her, we paid for the amputation. When she arrived here, that same day, she looked around and did a little threelegged happy dance, and we knew that she was supposed to be here.”

Poppy even has her own Instagram page, the result of having been featured on Animal Planet, on the show Tanked, in an episode that aired last fall.

“Poppy’s kind of famous,” says Eckhardt. “And she loves doing goat yoga.”

Unfortunately, somewhat echoing Lainey Morse’s story, Goatlandia has butted up against land-use restraints. Due to zoning restrictions, the facility has had to heavily cut back on its public events, now offering goat yoga only as small, private gatherings for donors. As a result, Blum and the whole Goatlandia team are currently in the midst of a fundraising drive, with a dream of purchasing a new property where Goatlandia can return to doing public events, can establish an organic farm, offer bed-andbreakfast experiences, vegan cooking demonstrations and more.

When that happens, goat yoga will be a large part of the new facility’s public outreach program.

The farms supporters, not to mention the goats, will pretty much demand it.

“It’s just such a joyful thing, doing yoga while goats are leaping all around you, climbing on you, curling up next to you,” laughs Eckhart. “It’s still physical, and it’s still a good workout, but it’s really all about the happiness of connecting with these creatures in a joyous way. And it’s as good for your soul as it is for your body and mind.”

To learn more about donations, volunteer opportunities or other ways to support Goatlandia, visit their website at goatlandia.org. To learn about Original Goat Yoga, and its classes in Morgan Hill and other locations, visit goatyoga.net.

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Familiar Farce

‘Moon Over Buffalo’ gets laughs, but little else

BY HARRY DUKE

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heater companies love to produce theater about theater.

6th Street Playhouse gets in on the act with Ken Ludwig’s 1995 door-slamming farce Moon Over Buffalo, running through Feb. 3.

Buffalo, N.Y.’s Erlanger Theater is hosting the repertory company of George and Charlotte Hay (Dodds Delzell and Madeleine Ashe), grade-B actors and grade-A hams who never made it big onstage.

Spending their waning years touring second-rate theaters and playing roles more appropriate for actors half their age, they’re on the ropes when word comes that Frank Capra is coming to see them perform and possibly cast them as replacements for the leads in a bigbudget period film.

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George, as she’s just found out he’s been lying about an affair he had with company ingénue Eileen (Victoria Saitz). Charlotte announces she’s running off with family attorney Richard (Joe Winkler), which sends George into a drunken spiral.

Once she finds out the Capra story is true, it’s up to Charlotte, her recently returned daughter Rosalind (Chandler ParrottThomas), her daughter’s ex-lover and current stage manager, Paul (Robert Nelson), and Charlotte’s hearing-impaired mother, Ethel (Shirley Nilsen Hall), to sober up George in time for the matinee.

There’s also confusion over Rosalind’s current fiancé, Howard (Erik Weiss), who’s mistaken

by Charlotte for Capra and by George for Eileen’s vengeful brother. Things conclude with a performance of Noël Coward’s Private Lives mashed up with Cyrano de Bergerac.

Director Carl Jordan has a terrific cast of comedic talents running, jumping and rolling through Ludwig’s tale, which comes off as a lesser knock-off of his superior Lend Me a Tenor. All the elements are there (mistaken identity, feuding lovers, etc.), but at its core, it’s a hollow re-do that starts slowly before hitting its stride. More problematic, the characters as written simply aren’t very likeable.

The show only works if you care about the characters and want them to get out of their mess. I just didn’t.

The cast is game and their timing is great, with each squeezing some laughs out of their characters. Delzell gets to play half the show soused, Parrott-Thomas is quite delightful as Rosalind, and while Weiss’ physical comedy is always fun to watch, I’d really like to see him do something different with his next role.

Moon Over Buffalo is a case where the whole is less than the sum of its parts.

Rating (out of 5): HHH ‘Moon Over Buffalo’ runs Friday–Sunday through Feb. 3 at 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W. Sixth St., Santa Rosa. Thursday, Jan. 24, and Friday–Saturday, 7:30pm; Sunday, 2pm. $20–$30. 707.523.4185.

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FUNNY FACES John C. Reilly (left) and Steve Coogan are almost unrecognizable

as classic comedy duo Laurel and Hardy in new biopic.

Make ’em Laugh

An aging Laurel & Hardy get personal in charming drama ‘Stan & Ollie’

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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on S. Baird’s biopic Stan & Ollie has a certain inflationary quality, regarding the appeal of a comedy team in their sunset years. But in lovingly recreating Laurel and Hardy’s mid-1950s tour of Britain, it’s a film with lots of charm.

The road is tough on two aging performers. It’s bad when no one shows up at the music halls, and its worse when they’re congratulated for surviving their has-been status.

At a seaside pavilion, the hostess toasts them: “Still going strong, and still using the same material!”

Stan Laurel (Steve Coogan) is revealed as the sparkplug of the act, the writer who understood the formula. No matter who else was around them, on screen or stage, Laurel and Hardy needed to be the only person in each other’s world.

As befitting his massive flesh, Oliver (John C. Reilly) has trouble with his vices. He accumulates exwives and has a taste for gambling that takes whatever money the alimony leaves. New complications come with the arrival in London of the team’s wives, who are united in mild detestation of each other.

Stan’s Russian and haughty Ida (Nina Arianda) is a bit of a princess compared to Oliver’s spouse, Lucy (Shirley Henderson, first rate as always). Seeing Ollie and Lucy laying down together in their room at the Savoy, him immense, her tiny, one gets the pleasure of marveling at the way opposites attract.

Performing Laurel and Hardy’s cherishable “Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” Coogan and Reilly may be even better singers than the originals. They eclipse your memories of their models, with Coogan imitating Stan’s monkeyish head scratch and Reilly, through the fat suit and makeup, evincing the beatific side of Ollie.

It doesn’t break new ground, this biopic, but it has its stinging moments. When the two get into a fight about an old rift, this time Ollie’s slow burn is real, and so is Stan’s hesitant peacemaking.

John Paul Kelly’s lavish production design drips with nostalgia; it can be a tad too sweet and rich for the times, but it’s more evidence that this film was a labor of love.

‘Stan & Ollie’ opens Friday, Jan. 25, at select theaters.

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evin Sylvester, known as Kev Marcus in the duo Black Violin, has been looking for a new house near his longtime home of Fort Lauderdale. He got a few laughs from the process.

“The Dolphins training facility is, like, five minutes from where we’re moving,” says Sylvester, who is six-foot-two and a muscular 275. “This Realtor, he was like, ‘So, are you playing for the Dolphins?

What are you doing?’ And I’m like, ‘No, I’m actually a violinist.’ I love that moment when they’re just not expecting to see that.”

Marcus’ counterpart in Black Violin, Wil Baptiste (Wil B.), is also classically trained and also six-foot-

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two, although more of a slender build. And they relish the idea that they’re breaking stereotypes in the way they bring together classical, hip-hop, soul and pop in their music.

Before they could introduce their unique musical hybrid, the duo took a side trip. In 2004, Marcus and Baptiste won three rounds of Showtime at the Apollo, and while in New York for that show, they got the opportunity to meet with Alicia Keys.

She asked the duo to join her band for a performance during the 2004 Billboard Music Awards, a performance that opened the door for Marcus and Baptiste to land jobs in the touring bands of several big-name acts, including Kanye West, Jay-Z and Linkin Park, as well as Keys.

Eventually, though, the two decided they couldn’t abandon the dream of making their own music. That meant focusing on Black Violin.

The career move seems to be working out. Over the past year or so, the duo have built a presence writing music for commercials, television, movies and other media.

Meanwhile, their audience grows with each new release: Black Violin (2008), Classically Trained (2012) and Stereotypes (2015). The most recent album shows considerable growth, as the synthesis of classical violin and hip-hop (with bits of pop and soul filtered in as well) becomes more seamless and dynamic.

Black Violin have a new album finished and may preview some of the new songs on tour this winter.

As on recent tours, Marcus (on violin) and Baptiste (on viola and vocals) will be joined by drummer Nat Stokes and turntablist extraordinaire DJ SPS. “The four of us combine to really give a show that we can basically guarantee you’ve never seen anything like it,” Marcus says. “It ends up being a great show.”

Black Violin perform on Thursday, Jan. 31, at Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa. 8pm. $35–$45.

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Concerts SONOMA North of the Bay Artists Gathering 2019

Clubs & Venues SONOMA

Fundraiser for the Phoenix Theater features local favorites like Analog Us, Aly Rose Trio and Willow & Hound. Jan 26, 8pm. $10. The Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington St, Petaluma.

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American roots music star mixes her Appalachian childhood and teenage years in Brooklyn in “Bone Hill,” a work that tells her family’s story through drama and music. Jan 24, 7:30pm. $25 and up. Green Music Center Weill Hall, 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park.

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Sonoma County Philharmonic Conductor Norman Gamboa leads the community orchestra in a program of music, “Fantasies and Enigmas,” at a new venue. Jan 26, 7:30pm and Jan 27, 2pm. $15; students 18 and under are free. Jackson Theater, Sonoma Country Day School, 4400 Day School Place, Santa Rosa. socophil.org.

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Jan 23, Emily Hamilton Duo. Jan 24, Flowtilla. Jan 25, Joe Valley. Jan 26, Savannah Blu. Jan 27, Matt Reischling & the Black Box. Jan 30, Hot Grubb. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma. 707.778.8776.

Luther Burbank Center for the Arts Jan 25, 10am, “A Trip Down Memory Lane” sing-a-long. 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.546.3600.

Mystic Theatre & Music Hall

Jan 26, Colter Wall with Vincent Neil Emerson. Jan 29, Reverend Horton Heat with Big Sandy and Voodoo Glow Skulls. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma.

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The Phoenix Theater Jan 24, Sage the Gemini. 201 Washington St, Petaluma.

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Michael Nesmith Former member of the Monkees performs his classic 1972 album “And the Hits Just Keep On Comin’” in a seated show. Jan 26, 8:30pm. $50$65. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley.

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NAPA Rosanne Cash Pre-eminent country music singer-songwriter performs off her latest album, “She Remembers Everything.” Jan 27, 8pm. $50-$70. Uptown Theatre, 1350 Third St, Napa.

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Cassandra Wilson Celebrated jazz musician and vocalist incorporates blues and folk music into her work. Jan 25-26, 7 and 9pm. $65-$105.

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Annual comic convention highlights reading, art, crafts and imagination, with authors, illustrators, cosplay and larping.

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Jan 26, JJ Grey & Mofro. 1350 Third St, Napa. 707.259.0123.

Art Openings Petaluma Arts Center

Jan 29-Mar 23, “The National Parks Painting Project,” exhibit

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Charles Krug Comedy Series

Comedian Steve Bruner headlines a night of laughs and wine. Jan 25, 7:30pm. $20-$28. Charles Krug Winery, 2800 Main St, St Helena.

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Dance Swan Lake

Presented by Atlantic City Ballet. Jan 26, 2pm and 7pm. $40-$55. Napa Valley Performing Arts Center, 100 California Dr, Yountville 707.944.9900.

Events Burns Night Supper

NapaShakes celebrates the birthday of Scotland’s Bard, Robert Burns, with music, food and festivities. Jan 25, 6pm. $100. The Gallery at

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Field Trips Winter Walks at Quarryhill

Executive Director Bill McNamara leads the walk and reveals hidden gems. Wed, 11am. through Jan 30. Free with admission. Quarryhill Botanical Gardens, 12841 Hwy 12, Glen Ellen. 707.996.3166.

Film Arrangiarsi (Pizza... & the Art of Living)

Fascinating and philosophical trip to Italy celebrates pizza and the art of making something from nothing. Jan 27, 4pm. $12. Raven Film Center.

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No Small Matter

Documentary on early childhood education is presented by First 5 Sonoma County and Cradle to Career.

Jan 24, 6:30pm. Free. Third Street Cinema Six, 620 Third St, Santa Rosa. 707.528.8770.

The Prairie Trilogy

Feature-length assemblage of three short films show how everyday Americans rose up against money and power to regain their voting rights in 1916 North Dakota. Jan 25, 7pm.

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Three legends of the wine industry sit down in Paris to taste the rarest bottles of their careers in this film ,screening with wine reception. Jan 26, 5pm. $15. CIA at Copia, 500 First St, Napa. 707.967.2530.

Tahoe Adventure Film Festival

Non-profit event for the B-Rad Foundation covers the full spectrum of adventure films.

Jan 25, 7:30pm. $14 and up.

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Food & Drink East Coast Wines: The Other Wine Country Tasting and presentation is hosted by Friends of the Sonoma County Wine Library. Jan 24, 7pm. $15-$25.

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Napa Valley Restaurant Week

Locals and visitors are invited to dine throughout the valley and experience the legendary food and wine culture. Through Jan 27. Napa Valley, various locations, Napa. visitnapavalley.com.

Readings

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Moon Over Buffalo Classic lighthearted farce concerns a struggling acting ensemble desperate to be seen by a famed director. Through Feb 3. $20-$30. 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa. 707.523.4185.

The Scion Brian Copeland presents a new solo play about Stuart Alexander, who murdered three government meat inspectors in 2000. Jan 26, 7:30pm. $40.

Cloverdale Performing Arts Center, 209 N Cloverdale Blvd, Cloverdale. 707.829.2214.

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

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Jan 26, 3pm, “Marathon Swimming: The Sport of the Soul” with Paul Andrew Asmuth, presented by Copperfield’s Books. 1314 Spring St, St Helena.

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Imaginists’ alternate universe finds the average American family navigating new episodes of wackiness, weekly.

Through Jan 26. $5-$20. The Imaginists, 461 Sebastopol Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.528.7554.

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Jan 26, 1pm, “Trains to Concordia” and “A Train to Nowhere” with Marilyn Campbell. 610 First St, Shop 4, Napa. 707.726.6575.

Napa Copperfield’s Books

Jan 29, 6pm, “The Book of Help: A Memoir in Remedies” with Megan Griswold. 3740 Bel Aire Plaza, Napa 707.252.8002.

Readers’ Books

Jan 24, 6:30pm, “The Eulogist” with Terry Gamble. 130 E Napa St, Sonoma 707.939.1779.

Santa Rosa Copperfield’s Books

Jan 25, 7pm, “Winter’s Graces” with Susan Stewart. Jan 27, 1:30pm, “Pointe Patrol” with Earik Beann. 775 Village Court, Santa Rosa 707.578.8938.

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Get a Clue Productions hosts an interactive and humorous murder-mystery dinner theater experience. Sat, Jan 26, 7pm. $68 (includes meal). Charlie’s Restaurant, Windsor Golf Club, 1320 19th Hole Dr, Windsor. getaclueproductions.com.

Swallow Three women deal with psychological trauma in this recent Edinburgh Festival Fringe favorite. Through Jan 27. $15-$30. Main Stage West, 104 N Main St, Sebastopol.

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Gov. Phil Murphy promised when he took office a year ago, but the Garden State is teetering on the verge of legalization right now. In November, committees in both the Assembly and the Senate approved a legalization bill, but final approval was delayed.

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Illinois Incoming Democratic Gov. J. B. Pritzker is another new chief executive who made marijuana legalization a key plank of his platform. With the Democrats in control of both houses as well as the governorship, Illinois could soon join Michigan as a Midwestern marijuana outpost.

New Jersey Well, it’s taken longer than the 100 days Democratic

New York For years, Andrew Cuomo staunchly opposed marijuana legalization, but the Dem governor reversed course last year.

After a Health Department study that found legalization’s positive effects outweighed its negatives, he unveiled his legalization plan with a proposal for a heavily taxed and highly regulated industry.

Delaware A bill to legalize marijuana won a majority in a House floor vote last year but fell short of the super-majority needed under state law, because it included a taxation component. While that bill’s authors both retired, so did a number of House members who either voted against it or abstained.

Minnesota Incoming Gov. Tim Walz wants to legalize marijuana, and his Democratic Farm Labor Party took control of the House in the November elections. Incoming House Speaker Melissa Hortman hasn’t endorsed the notion, but did say marijuana reform will be taken up in that chamber this year.

New Mexico Incoming Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham favors marijuana legalization, arguing that it would be a boon to the state’s economy.

Democrats control both the House and the Senate, and House Speaker Brian Egolf says if a bill made it to the House floor “it would probably pass.”

Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo is a recent and somewhat reluctant convert to the cause.

House Speaker and fellow Democrat Nicholas Mattiello has been similarly reluctant, but, like Raimondo, is feeling the pressure of looming legalization in neighboring states.

This article was produced by Drug Reporter, a project of the Independent Media Institute.

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ARIES (March 21–April 19) We might initially be inclined to ridicule Stuart Kettell, a British man who spent four days pushing a Brussels sprout up 3,560-foot-high Mount Snowden with his nose. But perhaps our opinion would become more expansive once we knew that he engaged in this stunt to raise money for a charity that supports people with cancer. In any case, the coming weeks would be a favorable time for you, too, to engage in extravagant, extreme or even outlandish behavior in behalf of a good or holy cause.

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wizard known as Buckethead is surely among the most imaginative and prolific musicians who has ever lived.

Since producing his first album in late 2005, he has released 306 other albums that span a wide variety of musical genres—an average of 23 per year. I propose that we make him your patron saint for the next six weeks. While it’s unlikely you can achieve such a gaudy level of creative self-expression, you could very well exceed your previous personal best in your own sphere.

GEMINI (May 21–June 20) Novelist Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes, a fictional character who personifies the power of logic and rational thinking. And yet Doyle was also a devout spiritualist who pursued interests in telepathy, the occult and psychic phenomena. It’s no surprise that he was a Gemini, an astrological tribe renowned for its ability to embody apparent opposites. Sometimes that quality is a liability for you folks, and sometimes an asset. In the coming weeks, I believe it’ll be a highly useful skill. Your knack for holding paradoxical views and expressing seemingly contradictory powers will attract and generate good fortune.

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In 2006, a 176-yearold tortoise named Harriet died in an Australian zoo owned by “Crocodile Hunter” and TV personality Steve Irwin. Harriet was far from her original home in the Galapagos Islands. By some accounts, evolutionary superstar Charles Darwin picked her up and carried her away during his visit there in 1835. I propose that you choose the long-lived tortoise as your power creature for the coming weeks. With her as inspiration, meditate on questions like these: 1. “What would I do differently if I knew I’d live to a very old age?” 2. “What influence that was important to me when I was young do I want to be important to me when I’m old?”

3. “In what specific ways can my future benefit from my past?” 4. “Is there a blessing or gift from an ancestor I have not yet claimed?” 5. “Is there anything I can do that I am not yet doing to remain in good health into my old age?”

LEO (July 23–August 22) John Lennon claimed that he generated the Beatles song’ “Because” by rendering Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” backwards. Even if that’s true, I don’t think it detracts from the beauty of “Because.” May I suggest you adopt a comparable strategy for your own use in the coming weeks, Leo? What could you do in reverse so as to create an interesting novelty? What approach might you invert in order to instigate fresh ways of doing things? Is there an idea you could turn upside-down or inside-out, thereby awakening yourself to a new perspective?

VIRGO (August 23–September 22) The Tsonga language is spoken by more than 15 million people in southern Africa. The literal meaning of the Tsonga phrase I malebvu ya nghala is “It’s a lion’s beard,” and its meaning is “something that’s not as scary as it looks.” According to my astrological analysis, this will be a useful concept for you to be alert for in the coming weeks. Don’t necessarily trust first impressions or initial apprehensions. Be open to probing deeper than your instincts might influence you to do.

LIBRA (September 23–October 22) The old Latin verb crescere meant “to come forth, spring up, grow, thrive, swell, increase in numbers or strength.” We see its presence in the modern English, French and Italian word “crescendo.” In accordance with astrological omens, I have selected crescere and its present participle crescentum to be your words of power for the next four weeks. May they help mobilize you to seize all

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emerging opportunities to come forth, spring up, grow, thrive, swell and increase in numbers or strength.

SCORPIO (October 23–November 21)

When animals hibernate, their metabolism slows down. They may grow more underfur or feathers, and some add extra fat. To conserve heat, they may huddle together with each other. In the coming weeks, I don’t think you’ll have to do what they do. But I do suspect it will be a good time to engage in behaviors that have a resemblance to hibernation: slowing down your mind and body; thinking deep thoughts and feeling deep feelings; seeking extra hugs and cuddles; getting lots of rich, warm, satisfying food and sleep. What else might appeal to your need to drop out of your fastpaced rhythm and supercharge your psychic batteries?

SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 21)

When people tell me they don’t have time to read the books I’ve written, I advise them to place the books under their pillows and soak up my words in their dreams. I don’t suggest that they actually eat the pages, although there is historical precedent for that.

The Bible describes the prophet Ezekiel as literally chewing and swallowing a book. And there are accounts of 16th-century Austrian soldiers devouring books they acquired during their conquests, hoping to absorb the contents of the texts. But in accordance with current astrological omens, I suggest that in the next four weeks you acquire the wisdom stored in books by actually reading them or listening to them on audio recordings. In my astrological opinion, you really do need, for the sake of your psychospiritual health, to absorb writing that requires extended concentration.

CAPRICORN (December 22–January 19) Among the top “how to” search inquiries on Google are “how to buy Bitcoin,” “how to lose belly fat fast,” “how to cook spaghetti in a microwave” and “how to make slime.” While I do think that the coming weeks will be prime time for you to formulate and launch many “how to” investigations, I will encourage you to put more important questions at the top of your priority list. “How to get richer quicker” would be a good one, as would “how to follow through on good beginnings” and “how to enhance your value” and “how to identify what resources and allies will be most important in 2019.”

AQUARIUS (January 20–February 18) A motivational speaker and author named Nick Vujicic was born without arms or legs, although he has two small, unusually shaped feet. These facts didn’t stop him from getting married, raising a family of four children and writing eight books. One book is entitled Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life. He’s a positive guy who has faith in the possibility of miracles. In fact, he says he keeps a pair of shoes in his closet just in case God decides to bless him with a marvelous surprise. In accordance with current astrological omens, Aquarius, I suggest you make a similar gesture. Create or acquire a symbol of an amazing transformation you would love to attract into your life.

PISCES (February 19–March 20)

About 11 percent of the Philippines’ population is comprised of Muslims who call themselves the Bangsamoro. Many resist being part of the Philippines and want their own sovereign nation. They have a lot of experience struggling for independence, as they’ve spent 400 years rebelling against occupation by foreign powers, including Spain, the United States and Japan. I admire their tenacity in seeking total freedom to be themselves and rule themselves. May they inspire your efforts to do the same on a personal level in the coming year.

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