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Stepping Up County can do more to protect rural residents from fires

A well-written article (“Sole Man,” Jan. 23). This story was very informative and inspiring. Shows that dreams, they can come true.

BY DEBORAH A. EPPSTEIN AND CRAIG S. HARRISON

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ast November, the world watched with horror as residents of Paradise tried to escape from an oncoming wildfire on clogged roads, some so desperate that they abandoned their vehicles and fled on foot.

Government can reduce the risk from wildfires.

Sonoma County should enforce the state’s fire-safe road regulations to stop new development in fire-prone areas and better enable emergency access and evacuation. State regulations require minimum standards for developments in State Responsibility Areas (SRA)—which is most of unincorporated Sonoma County—that are accessed by long, narrow and often dead-end roads. Standards include minimum 20-foot road widths, periodic turnouts, no one-lane roads unless under half a mile and connect with a two-lane road at both ends, and dead-end roads only if 20 feet wide and no more than one mile long.

Thirty years ago, the California Legislature became concerned about development in fire-prone locations. It directed the Forestry Department to issue regulations to require firesafe roads for development. It did so in 1991. The county has chosen to exempt SRA regulations for roads built before 1992. This decision excludes most of rural Sonoma County from protection.

Yet a 1993 California attorney general opinion clearly says that state law pertains to all roads, not just those built after 1992.

Sonoma’s approach is contrary to other California counties. Napa County applies SRA regulations to all roads. In San Diego County, it’s difficult to get a building or business permit at properties without two ways out. Our lawyer, Kevin Block, has informed the county that any permits issued in violation of the standards are invalid.

Our interest began with the location of commercial cannabis cultivation in unsuitable rural areas that impact residents. But the regulations govern all new development in

SRAs, including new homes and wineries (but not rebuilding homes after the fires). We didn’t discover these regulations until cannabis program managers, eager to promote this industry and hungry for revenue, slammed door after door in our faces. They refused to allow us to establish exclusion zones even in fire-prone areas, failed to stop projects that don’t meet the ordinance’s criteria, and promoted projects that don’t meet zoning requirements or land-use policies.

The county has allowed inappropriate cultivation projects for two years under its amnesty program on roads that do not even approach meeting SRA regulations. Among them are Cougar Lane, Los Alamos Road, Palmer Creek Road, Matanzas Creek Lane, and Bunnell (Grange) Road. All are dead-end roads over a mile long that are very narrow, some under 12 feet wide. The October 2017 fires burned through many of these areas and destroyed homes. This is not a theoretical issue. For many of these locations, the county is prepared to allow a third growing season without permits being issued.

PG&E has declared bankruptcy because it may be liable for damages caused by large, destructive fires. But some of the blame also lies with a county government that allows development in remote areas with inadequate roads. PG&E is obligated to service those areas once the county allows development, but should the county allow development there at all?

Last month, retiring Cal Fire Chief Ken Pilmot suggested that California consider going beyond the current fire-safe regulations to ban new home construction in all areas prone to fires. Even if the county continues to disagree with the SRA regulations and excludes most pre-1992 roads from regulation, does issuing cannabis and other permits on unsafe roads make any sense? What can county leaders be thinking?

Deborah Eppstein, PhD, is a scientist and retired biotech entrepreneur who lives on Cougar Lane. Craig S. Harrison is a retired lawyer who lives in Bennett Valley.

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happened to that fountain that they were planning to put back in—I heard it has disappeared. How do you lose a freaking fountain that big? My guess: probably in someone’s backyard.

Best idea, I believe, to help the downtown: help the homeless. That is what they should be asking for help on.

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NATURAL REMEDY Time to check up on how those wattles are working.

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How to handle the inevitable post-fire toxins that follow the inevitable future fires BY IRENE BARNARD

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n the aftermath of the 2017 North Bay wildfires, a coalition of scientists, nonprofits, public agencies, private businesses and volunteers addressed a secondary catastrophe looming with the coming rainy season: toxic ash from the thousands of burnt structures that threatened to wash into Sonoma County waterways.

To prevent this environmental hazard, ecologist Erik Ohlsen of Sebastopol’s Permaculture Skills Center created the Fire Remediation Action Coalition Facebook group (“Natural Remedy,” Nov. 29, 2017). They quickly installed rice-straw wattles (expandable fiber rolls)—some inoculated with mushroom mycelium (fungus’ underground network) and compost bacteria— hoping to neutralize toxic runoff.

“PCBs, dioxins and heavy metals can be contained in ash,

and those can harm human health and wildlife, watersheds and aquatic creatures,” says Ohlsen.

Did these methods work? What lessons were learned that can help with future disasters, including 2018’s Camp fire? The answers are surprisingly complex.

Wattles seemed the simplest solution for stopping runoff, barring storms or mudslides.

Washington state mycologist Paul Stamets championed mushrooms’ transforming of toxins through chelation. Effective at cleaning

up oil spills and pesticides, mycoremediation can sequester— although not neutralize—heavy metals. But it hadn’t been attempted with large-scale, postfire toxic runoff. The team decided to try this tool, to save watersheds.

Materials were donated by Sonoma’s Gourmet Mushrooms, West Marin Compost and Sonoma Compost Company. Environmental groups Russian Riverkeeper and Clean River Alliance organized volunteers to help construct wattles donated by Petaluma’s Wattle Guys. Sonoma Compost soil scientist Will Bakx mixed the straw with manure, compost bacteria, and oyster and turkey tail fungi, which break down hydrocarbons like petroleum products in burnt structures. North Coast Regional Water Board monitoring coordinator Rich Fadness confirms that the board also helped provide and install wattles.

The fires’ huge scale prevented the team from accessing every gutter or culvert, so they prioritized areas with wider effects. Ahead of the rain, in Coffey Park, Bakx and Clean River Alliance’s Chris Brokate focused wattle placement at storm drains entering Coffey Creek (connecting to the Laguna de Santa Rosa and Russian River watershed).

Other teams installed wattles in Larkfield-Wikiup.

It was hoped that peer-reviewed data would show how well these efforts protected water resources.

But in the heat of the fires, there was no time to set up protocols for collecting data.

Currently, regarding 2017 postfire mycoremediation, Ohlsen says, “we don’t have conclusive evidence that it helped in any way.

But,” he stresses, “that doesn’t mean it doesn’t work.” His team worked as fast as possible under emergency conditions, trying everything to protect water.

Going forward, what lessons were learned? Forecasts predicted a warmer, wetter winter. Managing runoff is the main thing, post-fire, to avoid polluting waterways, says Ohlsen. Wattles, logs and other methods can intercept ash and sediment runoff. This more

determine approaches for particular conditions. Site-specific design and mapping help scientists determine and track strategies to adapt elsewhere, followed by rigorous monitoring and documentation, using scientific methodologies and peer review throughout. Funding and reliable volunteer/citizen science teams enable critical longterm follow-through and a planned, proven response to future fires.

The Permaculture Skills Center can be a meeting site. Cheap, available materials like wattles, wood chips, straw, mycelium and seed should be stored, ready for deployment. Sonoma County was fortunate that public agencies and nonprofits coalesced, using citizen action; other communities may not have such resources. Every post-fire rainy season, preventative community teams need to be ready, led by experienced practitioners.

“The best time to plan is now,” Ohlsen says.

Future fires are inevitable. Butte County’s Camp fire is now the deadliest and most destructive in state history. U.S. Geological Survey maps of the fire extent and likely resulting debris flow show its widespread threat.

Butte has organized its own Facebook coalition, the Camp Fire Restoration Project, and begun distributing donated wattles.

They’re talking with Ohlsen’s group, and worked with Fish & Wildlife to set up preapproved legal access to enter private property. Some landowners are on board, enabling testing through multiple seasons.

The project also has sponsors: Abundant Earth Foundation and Ecosystem Restoration Camps. These global restoration professionals provide organizing platforms, with groups forming in California, Europe and elsewhere.

Hopeful about the Paradise team, Ohlsen says organizing outside of emergency mode has caught on.

This is a multi-year process, he emphasizes. “We need to develop remediation teams for the next fire.”

Post-fire communal action must be harnessed into a restoration action plan. Ohlsen feels confident that by the next fire season, “there’s going to be some kind of team in place.”

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immediate, short-term deployment should focus on storm drains, streams with endangered species, and water supply.

Managing biomass takes longer.

“One winter isn’t going to wash all the pollution away,” says Ohlsen.

“The second year there’s still going to be issues with runoff and sediment.” Hazardous trees are being removed post-fire, but are hauled away instead of being used for erosion control or compost, encouraging moisture and fungi colonization.

Combating drought should be an important component of fire ecology, turning soil into sponge.

California land needs fire for nutrients and seed dispersal.

Burned wilderness areas don’t need remediation unless there’s human-caused erosion or runoff.

The team was already laying down straw, hospitable to certain mushroom species—“not because we thought it was a silver bullet, but because we need to use every tool in the toolbox,” says Ohlsen. Better mycoremediation practices, per Stamets, use wood chips, inoculated cardboard or straw bales, spread across drainage and culverts. Thicker biomass layers, and vigorous oyster mushroom varieties, encourage mycelium spreading.

“We got a lot of press, people got very excited about this idea that nature can heal our toxic world,” Ohlsen says. But mushrooms need dark, moist environments, rather than dry, sunny southern slopes. Scientists should determine site-specific technology using all available bioremediation tools.

In phytoremediation, plants like sunflowers and mustard break down toxins. Bacterial remediation uses compost tea, lactobacillus and biochar compost. “Within these natural allies,” Ohlsen says, “there’s lots of potential for cleaning up toxins post-fire.”

The next steps? “In order to prove this, we need monitoring through at least two wet seasons,” says Ohlsen.

“If we want to gather data, we must implement in areas that we can come back to.” Testing water and soil for toxins, and growing fungi or bacteria in labs, allows scientists to

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Star Power How the Michelin rating got its ‘rainure’ BY CHARLENE PETERS

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ftentimes, especially in today’s world of nutritional science and genetically modified foods, I wonder about the evolution of eating and etiquette.

Our Medieval past of eating with our hands continues to connect with our present when it comes to dining on chicken fingers and wings, tacos, hot dogs and french fries. Thanks to 16th-century Queen of France Catherine de’ Medici, we have evolved into a

civilized people who use utensils to eat most of our food.

Post–World War II, food engineers were put on the frontlines to create processed food in an effort to prevent famine. A typical family dinner entailed peeling off foil from an oven-cooked frozen dinner to which each family member consumed on a folding tray table while watching television.

Today, we still peel, but it is on occasion and without foil; we peel a biodegradable plastic film to reveal a healthier version of a frozen breakfast, lunch or dinner. Or we substitute a meal to consume the daily recommended vegetable and fruit intake in the form of a smoothie.

The driving force behind what works and what doesn’t in the food world is taste, but how did the idea of taste begin? Simply stated, the French can take credit.

The French Revolution and Napoleon’s influence on social life set the stage for taste—quite literally, in fact. Taste in reference to gastronomy grew from the term used in the company of music, art, theater, literature and architecture.

Taste was in itself a society of people who were ranked by social status. It wasn’t until 1739 that cooking became one of the fine arts, perfected by the French in classical culinary talent.

Before the gastronomic revolution, food served a medicinal purpose. People would consume iced drinks only to change body temperature, and those who had distaste for a particular food were viewed as hostile. Commoners ate root vegetables while the social elite indulged on meat, fruits and desserts. Taste was unessential until the second half of the 17th

century, about the same time sugar parlayed from its use as a pharmaceutical and was introduced in the form of desserts. Choices led to culinary temperaments, which in turn introduced the idea of multiple courses.

Variety is the spice of life, and this concept remains today, but the French will forever take center stage in gastronomy. If you want proof, take a trip to France and indulge in the various pastries, breads, cheeses, sauces and pâtés of which the rest of the world strives to emulate.

And remember where those Michelin stars began: In 1889 central France, André and Édouard Michelin created a tire company for which they developed a marketing campaign targeted to the almost 3,000 automobile owners at that time.

The idea was to create a guide for road trips. Travelers were most interested in the categorical status of dining they developed, and by 1926, the Michelin star was born to differentiate status. This year, the San Francisco Bay Area was awarded the most Michelin three-stars in all of the United States.

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Staunched by the freeway, sandwiched in between the Santa Rosa Creek and the mall, old First Street lives on in a one-block stretch that, incredibly, allowed an upstart, startup brewery to set up a taproom that officially opened for business on Black Friday, 2018.

But I didn’t have any trouble locating the spot, since I’d already been shown in by the side door last fall while on—full disclosure—some business.

Story goes like this: I had some wine grapes hanging on the vines after a first pick and hated to see them go to waste, so I placed an ad for home winemakers. No luck, except for this quirky brewer: Steve Doty wanted some grapes to co-ferment with his wild-yeastfermented beers.

When I looked around the yard at delivery, I saw no de-stemmer machine, and despaired at how Doty was going to get the grapes off the stems. By hand, he replied.

I felt bad for the guy—I’d done this before with maybe 50 pounds of Grenache grapes, and I’d vowed to never, ever do that again. But Doty happily said he’d put on some tunes and bring in some friends, and get it done. Now that’s dedication to the craft. But there’s more.

In the cellar, Doty explained an odd contraption parked there: it’s a coolship, a stainless steel sort of mystery ship that Capt.

Doty tows to sites around Sonoma County on still, cool nights during winter—as that’s the best time to capture wild yeast—to create a beer of true terroir. A coolship is a kind of post-brewing trap to acquire all the “bad,” souring yeasts that most modern brewing is dedicated to keeping at bay.

Shady Oak’s current offerings range from a tangy gose to a sweet, floral sour IPA, a bourbon barrelaged dark sour that speaks of boozy cola, and finally a grainy, not-sourat-all amber IPA because, as Doty says, “everybody’s got to sell a cheeseburger.”

Shady Oak Barrel House, 420 First St., Santa Rosa. Open Wednesday–Friday, 3–9pm; Saturday–Sunday, noon–9pm.

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ON GUARD Earik Beann and Oscar the dog stood their

ground and saved their home from the 2017 fires.

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Earik Beann lights a literary fire with ‘Pointe Patrol’

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hen wildfires swept across Santa Rosa in October 2017, local residents evacuated while reporters embedded themselves in the charred landscape. So it’s not surprising that early in his new book about the big blazes, Earik Beann encounters an Los Angeles Times journalist.

“It looked like we might get to be the story,” Beann writes. In fact, only a few reporters covered some of the doings of Beann

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and his pals as they extinguished fires, scared off looters and created a resilient community where none previously existed.

The book’s title, Pointe Patrol (Profoundly 1; $16.95), comes from the street, Viewpointe Circle, where Beann and his wife lived a quiet life in Fountaingrove until the firestorms struck. They're in their old home again, wiser about fires and firefighting.

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‘After my baptism by fire, I’m beginning to see myself as a Californian.’

He adds, “I was born and end of his riveting narrative, he raised in Tennessee, but after my recounts the relevant stats: 250 baptism of fire, I’m beginning to individual wildfires, 245,000 see myself as a Californian.” acres burned, 44 people killed Beann has never been a “hot and 90,000 forced to evacuate. shot,” as elite firefighters are He pays homage to the known, but in Pointe Patrol, he firefighters and police officers comes across as a hot shot in his heralded as first responders, own right: an adept team player and also shows ordinary folks and savvy firefighter. playing heroic roles during the Rebecca Solnit, the Novato transformation of Fountaingrove born and raised author, would from a quiet suburban point to Beann and his neighbors neighborhood to a no man’s land as the architects of the kind and war zone. of social networks that arise We see the author and his from disasters. In books about team thinking and acting like Detroit and New Orleans, and firefighters and crime preventers, in an article about Santa Rosa’s patrolling the streets every hour recovery from the fires for The on the hour, night and day. Beann New Yorker, Solnit describes went out with his dog, Oscar, a the birth of mini paradises in hound who seemed to be able hellholes. to sniff out looters and fires. If Still, no reporter has told the and when the team saw someone dramatic story that Beann tells who looked suspicious, they in Point Patrol, which is subtitled approached, asked questions How Nine People (and a Dog) politely but firmly, and then Saved Their Neighborhood either asked the person to leave from One of the Most or allowed them to stay if Destructive Fires in they had a legitimate California History. reason to be there.

Beann is one of A pickup truck the nine people. with buckets full His wife, Laura, of water was is another. always ready There’s to go where also Gary, and when they Wayne, Eddie, found a hot TJ, Mike, spot. Hoses Sebastian and were hooked up Dave, a retired to outdoor faucets fire chief. Their and extended names have all over the been changed neighborhood.

STILL STANDING Earik and to protect their The whole place Laura Beann, January 2019. privacy. was covered.

For the most Near the part, Beann keeps the narrative end of his account, Beann has close to the ground (the an epiphany: “I realized that author eschews an overview where you belong has nothing of the catastrophic fire) and to do with the home you own. within his own Fountaingrove It has everything to do with the neighborhood, though near the people around you,” he writes.

“We weren’t fighting for our own properties. We were fighting for our community.” That perspective is rare in the sea of stories that have memorialized the things people lost and the properties that were destroyed.

Beanne has the courage to look critically at himself, and to describe how and why he changed his mind about things like guns and people like “vigilantes.” He’s also frank enough to describe what he and his wife called “end-of-the-world sex,” and to ask key questions about the connections between social crises and ethnicity. He wonders, for

example, if the police would not have treated him with kid gloves if he were “a black guy.”

At the back of the book, there are eight black-and-white photos, including one of the author and his dog, Oscar, who was part of the team. Last weekend, at Copperfield’s in Santa Rosa, Beann sold and signed copies of his book and talked to friends, neighbors and one stranger who smiled and said, “I never met a real author before.”

Proceeds from the sale of the book go to families who lost a first responder. It’s a cause Beann happily embraces.

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Keep Healing

Last year, the Santa Rosa Arts Center called upon local artists to create work to help heal the wounds of the disastrous Tubbs fire in a show, “Healing by Art: After the Fires,” that brought the community together. Now the center is expanding on the healing with the new exhibit, ‘Healing the Environment,’ in which artists react to climate change and the ecological ails of the planet with paintings, photos, sculptures and other media.

The show open with a reception as part of SOFA Arts District First Friday Open Studios on Friday, Feb. 1, 312 South A St., Santa Rosa. 5pm. Free. santarosaartscenter.org.

N A PA AIM TO BOTHER Filmmaker, musician and activist Boots Riley screens his popular feature film debut ‘Sorry to Bother You’ and talks about his work on Monday, Feb. 4, at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park. See Film, p21.

California Stories

Al Jardine is back in the North Bay. The founding member of the Beach Boys was recently in Sonoma County with his old band mate Brian Wilson. Now Jardine shines on his own with two nights of intimate concerts featuring his hits and material from his recent solo album, A Postcard from California. Jardine tells stories of growing up in the Golden State in between playing songs alongside his son Matt Jardine and vocalist and musician Jeff Alan Ross on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 1 and 2, at the Blue Note Jazz Club, 1030 Main St., Napa. 7pm and 9pm. $49–$99. 707.880.2300.

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Strings Summit

A perfect outing for musicians and music lovers alike, the seventh annual Sebastopol Guitar Festival returns with a day of live performances, workshops for beginning or advanced players and exhibits of handcrafted guitars. The onstage offering includes afternoon sets from the likes of the Spin Cats and Ruminators, a guitar summit featuring Dave Zirbel, Bobby Lee, Jon Mitgaurd and Bobby Black, and an evening concert featuring Kevin Russell & Some Dangerous Friends and Soul Fuse. The guitar fest commences on Saturday, Feb. 2, at Sebastopol Community Center, 390 Morris St., Sebastopol. Noon to 10pm. $17–$35. 707.823.1511.

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Caring Concert

Twenty-five years into their musical career, Northern California rock and roll stapes the Mother Hips recently produced one of their best records yet with 2018’s Chorus. Next up, the Hips are hosting and headlining a special benefit concert to honor longtime fan Gregory Walsh, who died in 2017, and support the Declan Walsh Special Needs Trust, established for Walsh’s son. Songwriter Jackie Greene and folk group the Coffis Brothers & the Mountain Men join the Hips on Saturday, Feb. 2, at the Mystic Theatre, 23 Petaluma Blvd. N., Petaluma. 8:30pm. $48. 707.775.6048.

—Charlie Swanson

LADY OF THE CANYON Folk icon Joni Mitchell is honored by a cavalcade of music stars, who perform her songs in ‘Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration.’

Lifesaver

New concert film celebrates the life and music of Joni Mitchell

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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hen Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2016, the news was greeted by some with the retort that, if the Swedes were going to go in that direction, they should have given the prize to Joni Mitchell.

It would have been both a smart choice and a sentimental one, given the premature report of Joni’s death to a brain aneurysm in 2015. In recent years, she’s suffered other maladies. The cigs caught up with that crystalline voice, and a mysterious skin condition made her shun daylight.

Yet the party for her in Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration shows both the range of her music and

the affection that the world of music has for her.

The concert film compiles a two-night-long show last November at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, the city she analyzed in verse for years.

Not everyone gets Joni Mitchell: the strange guitar tunings, the high blue yodel or the throaty intimacy of her confessional mode. Writing about Mitchell, who was one of only two female performers in 1978’s Last Waltz, Roger Ebert said that he didn’t know what her song “Coyote” was supposed to be about. (It’s easy: it’s about Sam Shepard, or somebody like him.)

While Mitchell’s modes changed, from lissome folkie to thick-skinned blueswoman to jazz artist, one point stayed as constant as a northern star: both in age and in youth, Mitchell insisted on a woman’s privilege of traveling alone, sleeping with whom she pleased and holding firm to independence.

Lyrically, Mitchell’s viewpoint changed from hippie naiveté to embittered realist. If once she thought people were made of stardust, she came to fear they’re all just meat in a dog-eat-dog world, where “sex sells everything / and sex kills.” Always in her songs are diagrams of traps waiting for women. One side is the grim one-night-stand in “Down to You”; the other is a different kind of discontent in “Harry’s House/ Centerpiece.” There, Mitchell imagines the Scarsdale angst that could have been hers, lolling around waiting for the husband to return from the indelible cityscape she painted (“A helicopter lands on the Pan Am roof / like a dragonfly on a tomb”).

The concert is something for any Mitchell fan, from tricky jazz to the kind of crowd-pleasing

material that any semi-competent street busker can make sound good. Glen Hansard, whose busking style was visible in the movie Once, does “Coyote” here.

(Maybe the sainted Ebert would have understood the lyrics if a man sang them?)

Graham Nash sings “Our House,” about the Laurel Canyon place he and Joni shared once upon a time. Mitchell’s fellow Canadian Diana Krall covers perhaps the bleakest song Mitchell ever did, “Amelia,” about a woman’s search for freedom, what it costs and what it’s worth. James Taylor and Seal collaborate on a tune I cannot abide, “Woodstock”; if it seems particularly airy-fairy, remember that Mitchell actually didn’t play the Woodstock fest.

The vocally craggy Kris Kristofferson takes on “A Case of You” with Brandi Carlile, right before Carlile solos to cover “Down to You,” a startling sound-alike version of a very complicated song. Emmylou Harris (the other woman in The Last Waltz) covers Mitchell’s terrifying slide-guitar lament about heroin, “Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire.” Los Lobos perform the obscure but fine “Nothing Can Be Done.” The congas in the original must have attracted the Wolves.

Making a rare appearance, but not joining in on the music, is Mitchell herself. Buffeted by the years, she’s still everything Chaka Khan calls her here: a lifesaver.

‘Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration’ screens on Thursday, Feb. 7, and Wednesday, Feb. 13, at the Smith Rafael Film Center, 1114 Fourth St., San Rafael. Feb. 7 is sold-out; Feb. 13, 7pm. $15. 415.454.1222.

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MACABRE HOBBIES Karen Brocker (left) and Karen Pinomaki play a pair of murderous aunts in ‘Arsenic and Old Lace.’

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erial killing would seem to be a rather ghoulish subject matter for a comedic play, yet Arsenic and Old Lace has been an audience-pleaser for over 75 years. Sonoma Arts Live has a production running through Feb. 10.

Joseph Kesselring’s tale of the Brewster sisters and their pension for helping men meet their maker via elderberry wine debuted on Broadway in 1941, with Boris Karloff as black sheep Jonathan Brewster, and ran for 1,444 performances. A film adaptation followed in 1944, and though the play has since become a staple of American theater, it’s starting to creak.

Mortimer Brewster (Michael Coury Murdock) returns to his childhood home and to his aunts, Abby and Martha (Karen Brocker

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and Karen Pinomaki). After getting engaged to the local preacher’s daughter, Elaine (Julianne Bradbury), Mortimer is horrified to discover his aunts have taken on a most macabre hobby. They’re helping lonely old men find “peace” and disposing of their bodies in the basement. Fortunately for them, Uncle “Teddy” (Tim Setzer) believes himself to be Teddy Roosevelt and is always willing to dig a new lock for the Panama Canal and the latest “yellow fever victim.”

Mortimer figures he can pin everything on the obviously insane Teddy, but things get complicated when brother Jonathan (Mike Schaeffer) shows up with a physician friend (Rose Roberts) and a body of their own.

Director Michael Ross has some good talent at work here. Brocker and Pinomaki are delightfully dotty as the sisters, and Setzer invigorates the stage with his every appearance.

Michael Murdock, however, is too one-note as Mortimer, showing little range of emotion considering the insanity that’s going on around him. He rarely seems to be “in the moment,” often appearing to be casually awaiting his next line.

Julianne Bradbury is far more animated as Elaine, making one wonder what she sees in Mortimer.

Schaeffer and Roberts are two very talented actors, but I’m not sure these were the right roles for them. I found Schaeffer’s menacing Jonathan undone by his distracting John O’Hurley–like voice (O’Hurley played J. Peterman on Seinfeld), and Roberts’ baby-faced Dr. Einstein seems too youthful to capture the character’s exhaustion and desperation.

Nice stagecraft does complement the performances.

The black and white set by Michael Walraven and costumes by Janice Snyder evoke a classic-cinema, period-film feel.

Arsenic and Old Lace is definitely a nostalgia piece, best enjoyed by those familiar with it.

Rating (out of 5): ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’ runs through Feb. 10 at Andrews Hall, 276 E. Napa St., Sonoma. Thursday–Saturday, 7:30pm; Sunday, 2pm. $25–$40.

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n its ongoing mission to foster and support Sonoma County’s artistic communities, Creative Sonoma, formed by the county’s economic development board, once again hosts its flagship music conference, Next Level, on Feb. 10 at Luther Burbank Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa.

After taking a year off in 2017 to focus on fire recovery for artists, Next Level’s return marks a new chance for local musicians to gain industry insights from experts and connect with like-minded peers of the scene.

“Now that this is our third year, it’s remarkable to see how rich and diverse our music community is here,” says Creative

Next Level Music Industry Conference happens Sunday, Feb. 10, at Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa. 9am to 5pm. $25–$40. Early bird registration ends Jan. 31. creativesonoma.org.

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“We are reminded each year as we do this, that this is a supportive community of itself.”

With that in mind, Next Level’s theme this year, “Expanding Boundaries,” aims to show Sonoma County musicians ways to take their creative careers beyond the local community, beginning with a live-remote recording session to open the day’s event. Led by innovative music producer Cliff Goldmacher, the recording session will feature Sonoma County songwriter Bobby Jo Valentine onstage performing an original song backed by musicians playing in Goldmacher’s Nashville studio via the internet.

“We have people working and creating here in their backyard, but technology allows them to do so much more to expand the community of collaborators,” says Madsen.

Other tech-savvy sessions scheduled for Next Level include a talk by Grammy-winning producer Hank Neuberger on recording live sets for maximum results, and a discussion with Bay Area music manager Joe Barham on new revenue streams available to musicians through online communities like Patreon, in which fans donate monthly for exclusive content.

Sonoma County native Isabelle Garson, currently the chief creative officer with North Bay– based Second Octave Media, offers her expertise on managing social media and digital content for musicians to embolden their online presence and match their creative output with promotional material and advertising that delivers real-world results.

“We have an amazing wealth of creative talent, and a supportive and collaborative scene,” says Garson. “People just need a little bit of an extra push to get it out there on their terms, and Next Level offers that opportunity.”

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The Sebastopol Community Cultural Center Upcoming Concerts

Sebastopol

SONOMA Black Violin

Guitar Festival

Saturday, February 2 Noon - 10pm

FEATURING

• Concerts • Workshops • Luthier Displays • Songwriters Panel

Duo of violist and violinist Wil B and Kev Marcus incorporate hip-hop influences in their music. Jan 31, 8pm. $35-$45.

Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.546.3600.

The Mother Hips

performances by Soul Fuse

Steel Guitar Summit

Kevin Russell & Some Dangerous Friends Save the Date! 3/14 Greg Brown 3/22 Dervish & 4/6 Väsen Tickets and Information at seb.org or 707-823-1511

Veteran California rock band headlines the second annual Declan Walsh Benefit alongside Jackie Greene and the Coffis Brothers. Feb 2, 8:30pm. $48 and up. Mystic Theatre & Music Hall, 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. 707.775.6048.

Sebastopol Guitar Festival

Seventh annual event features day and evening programs of live music, lectures, panels and more. Feb 2, 12pm. $17-$33.

Sebastopol Community Center, 390 Morris St, Sebastopol.

707.823.1511.

MARIN Elvis Johnson’s Fairfax Blues Jam

Fireside Dining Sat & Sun Brunch 11–3

Lunch & Dinner 7 Days a Week

Din ner & A Show

“First Fridays” Feb 1 Paul Olguin & Fri

Loralee Christensen

Soulful, Powerful Songs 7:00 ⁄ No Cover Sat “Pride of Marin” Feb 2 Jerry Hannan Original Mischief 8:00 ⁄ No Cover

Petty Theft Weekend Fri Feb 8 & Sat Feb 9

Sun

Feb

Renowned drummer brings together some of the Bay Area’s top blues performers for a monthly jam session. Feb 3, 9pm. 19 Broadway Nightclub, 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax.

415.459.1091.

Ayurvedic Indian Head Massage • relief from tension headaches, & sinusitis • improves mobility in neck & shoulders

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Al Jardine

Wendy Dewitt’s

Founding member of the Beach Boys performs off his recent solo album, “A Postcard from California,” over two nights. Feb 1-2, 7 and 9pm. $49-$99. Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa. 707.880.2300.

“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

Clubs & Venues

Drew Harrison Feb 16 “Beatles and More” Sat

The Acoustic Show Moves Indoors!

8:00

Stompy Jones featuring Feb 23 Annette Moreno Sat

8:00

Reservations Advised

415.662.2219

On the Town Square, Nicasio www.ranchonicasio.com

Atlanta-based band crafts a sound indebted to classic rock, blues, country and folk.

Feb 2, 8pm. $35-$50. Uptown Theatre, 1350 Third St, Napa.

707.259.0123.

Dance Party!

SONOMA Shadows of Taos Pueblo by Mary Silverwood

456 Tenth St, Santa Rosa • Tue–Sat 11–5 707.781.7070 • calabigallery.com

Green Music Center Weill Hall Feb 2, NorCal Honor Band

and Select Choir. 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

HopMonk Sebastopol Feb 2, Illeagles. Feb 4, MNE singers series with RSNY. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol.

707.829.7300.

HopMonk Sonoma

Feb 1, Clay Bell. Feb 2, Ain’t Misbehavin’. 691 Broadway, Sonoma. 707.935.9100.

Lagunitas Tap Room

Jan 30, Hot Grubb. Jan 31, Twin Soles. Feb 1, Charles Wheal.

Feb 2, Hop Sauce. Feb 3, David Correa. Feb 6, Jon Gonzales.

1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma. 707.778.8776.

Luther Burbank Center for the Arts Feb 2, Marisela. 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa.

707.546.3600.

Mystic Theatre & Music Hall

Feb 3, the James Hunter Six with the Rev Shawn Amos. Feb 6, Groundation with Thrive. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma.

707.775.6048.

The Phoenix Theater Feb 2, Samsara and Seconds Ago. 201 Washington St, Petaluma. 707.762.3565.

Redwood Cafe

Jan 31, Julie Crystel with Collaboration Jazz Band.

Feb 1, the Stadler-Gibbons Band and Laughing Gravy.

Feb 2, Hangman’s Daughter and Zoe Winter. Feb 3, 4pm, the Easy Winners. Feb 3, 7pm, Rivertown Skifflers. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati.

707.795.7868.

Twin Oaks Roadhouse Feb 1, Late for the Train.

Feb 4, Blues Defenders pro jam. Feb 6, honky-tonk night.

5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove. 707.795.5118.

MARIN HopMonk Novato

Feb 1, Blame Sally. 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 415.892.6200.

Sweetwater Music Hall

Jan 30, Larry & His Flask with Willy Tea Taylor. Jan 31, Michael LaMacchia’s birthday bash. Feb 3, 10am, Brunch Show with the Plage Boys. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.3850.

Terrapin Crossroads

Jan 30, Jon Chi Band. Jan 31, Ross James’ Cosmic Thursday.

100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael.

415.524.2773.

NAPA Andaz Napa

Jan 30, John Vicino. Feb 2, Kyle Turner. Feb 6, David Ronconi. 1450 First St, Napa.

707.687.1234.

Blue Note Napa

Jan 30, Myron Mckinley Trio.

Jan 31, Sueños. Feb 3, 11:30am, Sunday Brunch with Mike Greensill. Feb 5, Napa High School Jazz Band benefit. 1030 Main St, Napa. 707.880.2300.

Ca’ Momi Osteria

Feb 1, Latin Night with DJ Jose Miguel. Feb 2, Cosmic Strings. 1141 First St, Napa.

707.224.6664.

JaM Cellars

Feb 1, House of Mary. Feb 2, Wiley’s Coyotes. 1460 First St, Napa. 707.265.7577.

Jarvis Conservatory Feb 2, It’s a Grand Night for Singers. 1711 Main St, Napa.

707.255.5445.

Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater

Feb 2, Varsity Vocals a cappella competition. 100 California Dr, Yountville. 707.944.9900.

River Terrace Inn

Feb 1, Craig Corona. Feb 2, Mark Harold. 1600 Soscol Ave, Napa.

707.320.9000.

Art Openings Charles M Schulz Museum

Jan 31-Aug 4, “Behind ‘Peanuts’: The Little RedHaired Girl,” exhibit explores the real-life story behind Charlie Brown’s unrequited love. 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa. Mon-Fri, noon to 5; SatSun, 10 to 5. 707.579.4452.

Healdsburg Center for the Arts

Feb 1-24, “Young Artists Show,” annual exhibit features works by students from Sonoma County elementary schools.

Reception, Feb 1 at 5pm. 130 Plaza St, Healdsburg. Daily, 11 to 6. 707.431.1970.

Santa Rosa Arts Center

Feb 1-Mar 22, “Healing the

Comedy Ryan Sickler

Masterful storyteller has appeared on stages around the country and popular podcasts online. Jan 31, 7pm. $20-$25. Barrel Brothers Brewing, 399 Business Park Ct #506, Windsor. 707.696.9487.

Masterful storyteller has appeared on stages around the country and popular podcasts online. Feb 1, 7pm. $20-$25.

Griffo Distillery, 1320 Scott St, Petaluma. 707.879.8755.

Events Art from the Heart

An exciting evening of art, food, fine wine, and music benefits SSU’s art gallery exhibitions, publications and lecture programs. Feb 2, 6pm. admission by donation.

University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park.

707.664.2295.

Roller Derby Bootcamp Get in on the action and train to be a derby athlete, referee or non-skating official. All skill levels welcomed, gear and skates provided. Through Feb 7. $50. Cal Skate, 6100 Commerce Blvd, Rohnert Park.

707.585.0500.

Swing into Action

Fundraiser for Sumatran Orangutan Society includes a presentation by wildlife photographer Suzi Eszterhas, live music, silent auction, hors d’oeuvres, wine, beer and more.

Feb 2, 3pm. $100. Beaumont Farms, 5580 Red Hill Road, Petaluma. suzieszterhas.com.

Film Bohemian Rhapsody Sing-Along

Recent acclaimed biopic of Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury gets a special screening. Feb 4, 7pm. $11.

Sebastiani Theatre, 476 First St E, Sonoma. 707.996.9756.

Shalom Bollywood

Film focuses on Indian cinema’s Jewish icons that helped shape

Bollywood from the turn of the 20th century to the present day. Fri, Feb 1, 7pm and Sun, Feb 3, 4:30pm. $5 donation.

Sonoma Film Institute, Warren Auditorium, SSU, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park. 707.664.2606.

Petaluma welcomes Marthe Cohn, a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany, as a guest speaker. Feb 5, 7pm. SRJC Petaluma Campus, 680 Sonoma Mountain Pkwy, Petaluma. 707.778.3974.

Sorry to Bother You

Mick LaSalle’s Oscar Talk

Screening of the critically acclaimed film is followed by the director Boots Riley speaking about his work as a filmmaker, musician and activist. Feb 4, 7pm. $10. Green Music Center Weill Hall, 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park. 866.955.6040.

Stopping Traffic

Sonoma County Human Trafficking Task Force hosts a screening of the documentary on the anti-sex-trafficking movement. Jan 31, 6:30pm. Free.

Raven Film Center. 415 Center St, Healdsburg. 707.525.8909.

Food & Drink Chinese New Year Dim Sum & Wine Pairing Handcrafted dim sum from San Francisco’s Koi Palace pairs with Napa wines for three seatings throughout the day. Feb 2. $75. Yao Family Wines, 929 Main St, St Helena.

707.986.5874.

Great Sonoma Crab & Wine Fest

Thirtieth annual fundraiser features local cuisine, awardwinning wines, and silent and live auctions. Feb 2, 4pm. $85 and up. Sonoma County Fairgrounds, 1350 Bennett Valley Rd, Santa Rosa, sonomafb.org.

Pliny the Younger Release

Get in line for the annual limited release of triple IPA some call “the best beer in the world,” now also available at RRBC’s Windsor location. Feb 1-14. Russian River Brewing Company, 725 Fourth St, Santa Rosa. 707.545.2337.

Tides Wharf Crab Feed Series features chilled Dungeness crab and all the fixings. Reservations are recommended. Feb 1, 5pm. $60 and up. Tides Wharf Restaurant. 800 Hwy 1, Bodega Bay. 707.875.3652.

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“San Francisco Chronicle” film critic discusses this year’s crop of Oscar contenders, his picks, pans and predictions. Feb 6, 7pm. $20 and up. Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa.

707.880.2300.

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Whose Live Anyway MARCH 3 RODNEY STRONG VINEYARDS DANCE SERIES

Writing Murder Mysteries

Trinity Irish Dance Company

Author Jonah Raskin gives a talk as part of the OLLI A La Carte series. Feb 1, 9:30am.

Glaser Center, 547 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.664.2691.

MARCH 7

The Wood Brothers

Theater MARCH 29

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.

Kip Moore - Room to Spare Acoustic Tour special guest Muscadine Bloodline

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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.

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.

The Spy Who Killed Me

Get a Clue Productions hosts an interactive and humorous murder-mystery dinner theater experience. Fri, Feb 1, 7pm. $68 (includes meal). Charlie’s Restaurant, Windsor Golf Club, 1320 19th Hole Dr, Windsor. getaclueproductions.com.

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For the week of January 30

ARIES (March 21–April 19) Here are your fortune-cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: You’ll be invited to make a pivotal transition in the history of your relationship with your most important life goals. It should be both fun and daunting! MARCH: Don’t waste time and energy trying to coax others to haul away the junk and the clutter. Do it yourself. APRIL: The growing pains should feel pretty good. Enjoy the uncanny stretching sensations. MAY: It’ll be a favorable phase to upgrade your personal finances.

Think richer thoughts. Experiment with new ideas about money. JUNE: Build two strong bridges for every rickety bridge you burn. Create two vital connections for every stale connection you leave behind.

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Here are your fortune-cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: You have access to a semiawkward magic that will serve you well if you don’t complain about its semi-awkwardness. MARCH: To increase your clout and influence, your crucial first step is to formulate a strong intention to do just that.

The universe will then work on your behalf. APRIL: Are you ready to clean messes and dispose of irrelevancies left over from the past? Yes! MAY: You can have almost anything you want if you resolve to use it for the greatest good. JUNE: Maintain rigorous standards, but don’t be a fanatic. Strive for excellence without getting bogged down in a counterproductive quest for perfection.

GEMINI (May 21–June 20) Here are your fortune-cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: Be alert for vivid glimpses of your best possible future. The power of self-fulfilling prophecy is even stronger than usual. MARCH: High integrity and ethical rigor are crucial to your success— and so is a longing for sacred adventure. APRIL: How can you make the best use of your likability?

MAY: Cheerfully dismantle an old system or structure to make way for a sparkling new system or structure.

JUNE: Beginner’s luck will be yours if you choose the right place to begin. What’s a bit intimidating but very exciting?

CANCER (June 21–July 22) Here are your fortune-cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: Your sensual magnetism peaks at the same time as your spiritual clarity. MARCH: You want toasted ice? Succulent fire? Earthy marvels?

Homey strangeness? All of that is within reach.

APRIL: Sow the seeds of the most interesting success you can envision. Your fantasy of what’s possible should thrill your imagination, not merely satisfy your sense of duty. MAY: Deadline time. Be as decisive and forthright as an Aries, as bold as a Sagittarius, as systematic as a Capricorn. JUNE: Go wading in the womb-temperature ocean of emotion, but be mindful of the undertow.

LEO (July 23–August 22) Here are your fortunecookie-style horoscopes for the next five months.

FEBRUARY: There’s a general amnesty in all matters regarding your relationships. Cultivate truces and forgiveness. MARCH: Drop fixed ideas you might have about what’s possible and what’s not. Be keenly open to unexpected healings. APRIL: Wander out into the frontiers. Pluck goodies that have been offlimits. Consider the value of ignoring certain taboos.

MAY: Sacrifice a small comfort so as to energize your ambitions. JUNE: Take a stand in behalf of your beautiful ideals and sacred truths.

VIRGO (August 23–September 22) Here are your fortune-cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: Master the Zen of constructive anger. Express your complaints in a holy cause.

MARCH: You finally get a message you’ve been waiting to receive for a long time. Hallelujah! APRIL: Renew your most useful vows. Sign a better contract. Come to a more complete agreement. MAY: Don’t let your preconceptions inhibit you from having a wildly good time. JUNE: Start your own club, band, organization or business. Or reinvent and reinvigorate your current one.

LIBRA (September 23–October 22) Here are your fortune-cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: Be open to romantic or erotic adventures that are different from how love has worked in the past. MARCH: You’ll be offered interesting,

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productive problems. Welcome them! APRIL: Can you explore what’s experimental and fraught with interesting uncertainty even as you stay wellgrounded? Yes! MAY: You can increase your power by not hiding your weakness. People will trust you most if you show your vulnerability. A key to this season’s model of success is the ability to calmly express profound emotion. JUNE: Wild cards and x-factors and loopholes will be more available than usual. Don’t be shy about using them.

SCORPIO (October 23–November 21)

Here are your fortune-cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: The world may finally be ready to respond favorably to the power you’ve been storing up.

MARCH: Everything you thought you knew about love and lust turns out to be too limited. So expand your expectations and capacities! APRIL: Extremism and obsession can be useful in moderation. MAY: Invisible means of support will become visible. Be alert for half-hidden help. JUNE: Good questions: What do other people find valuable about you? How can you enhance what’s valuable about you?

SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 21) Here are your fortune-cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: You’ll have the need and opportunity to accomplish some benevolent hocuspocus. For best results, upgrade your magical powers.

MARCH: Make sure the Turning Point happens in your power spot or on your home turf. APRIL: You should be willing to go anywhere, ask any question and even risk your pride if necessary so as to coax your most important relationships into living up to their potentials. MAY: If at first you don’t succeed, change the definition of success. JUNE: You can achieve more through negotiation and compromise than you could by pushing heedlessly ahead in service to your singleminded vision.

CAPRICORN (December 22–January 19) Here are your fortune-cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: A new phase of your education will begin when you acknowledge how much you have to learn. MARCH: Initiate diplomatic discussions about the Things That Never Get Talked About. APRIL: Revise your ideas about your dream home and your dream community. MAY: You have the power to find healing for your oldest lovesickness. If you do find it, intimacy will enter a new Golden Age. JUNE: Solicit an ally’s ingenuity to help you improvise a partial solution to a complex problem.

AQUARIUS (January 20–February 18)

Here are your fortune-cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: Start a new trend that will serve your noble goals for years to come.

MARCH: Passion comes back into fashion with a tickle and a shiver and a whoosh. APRIL: As you expand and deepen your explorations, call on the metaphorical equivalents of both a telescope and a microscope.

MAY: This is the beginning of the end of what you love to complain about. Hooray! JUNE: You’ll have an abundance of good reasons to celebrate the fact that you are the least normal sign in the zodiac. Celebrate your idiosyncrasies!

PISCES (February 19–March 20)

Here are your fortune-cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: You’ll have a knack for enhancing the way you express yourself and present yourself. The inner you and the outer you will become more unified.

MARCH: You’ll discover two original new ways to get excited. APRIL: Be bold as you make yourself available for a deeper commitment that will spawn more freedom. MAY: What are the gaps in your education?

Make plans to mitigate your most pressing area of ignorance. JUNE: Your body’s ready to tell you secrets that your mind has not yet figured out. Listen well.

Go to REALASTROLOGY.COM to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. Audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1.877.873.4888 or 1.900.950.7700.

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Real Beer!

After many years of investigating, planning and production, we’re excited to release the Oliver’s Own line of beer!

“What took you so long?” you ask? Well, we like to do things right, and needed to be assured the quality would meet our high standards, and of course, they had to be brewed in Sonoma County. So, it took a lot of time, effort…and tasting!

Real Food. Real People.®

In the end, we created a line of beers that will appeal to everyone. From a smooth Pils and juicy Hazy IPA, to a Single Hop Pale Ale and rich Porter, you’re destined to find a beer or two that suits your flavor profile and becomes your new go-to beer!

It’s time to say cheers with our new line of Oliver’s Own beers!

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