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Petaluma River brims with ‘fecal bacteria’ BY WILL CARRUTHERS

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he river winding through downtown Petaluma might be the city’s single most defining feature. The city’s annual Rivertown Revival Festival features views of the river and, farther south, recreationists use the water for entertainment and exercise every day.

Yet, since 1975, the state

has designated the water a contaminated water body due to excessive levels of bacteria tied to fecal matter. The river has also been included on the list for excessive amounts of pesticides, trash and sediment at other times.

Now, a state water oversight board may pass a plan laying out the steps to lower the levels of bacteria in the river and its watershed.

At a Wednesday, Nov. 13 meeting in Oakland, the

San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board will consider approving an amendment to the board’s water quality control plan for the region, a document known as a basin plan. The proposed amendment will set a cap on the amount of fecal indicator bacteria in the river’s watershed—the TMDL— and identify actions required to reach that goal.

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and cleanup plan, known as a Total Maximum Daily Load [TMDL].

Staff members working for the water board, one of nine similar regional bodies tasked with setting water quality rules in California, have been assembling the Petaluma River plan for several years, according to Farhad Ghodrati, an environmental scientist with the San Francisco Bay board.

Although there are over 100 potentially dangerous bacteria related to fecal matter, scientists generally only test for a few varieties. These “fecal indicator bacteria,” including E. Coli, are a sign that animal waste has contaminated the water body. If those levels are above the bar set by the water quality control board, they add the water body to a list of “impaired” waterways.

“High FIB levels indicate presence of pathogenic organisms that are found in warm-blooded animal (e.g., human, cow, horse, dog, etc.) waste and pose potential health risks to people who recreate in contaminated waters,” a report prepared by water board staff states.

The results of the Petaluma River tests weren’t good.

Multiple tests for traces of E. Coli between winter 2015 and summer 2016 across 16 testing stations in the watershed revealed levels far in excess of water board requirements.

For instance, water quality rules allow for the discovery of excessive levels of E. Coli in less than 10 percent of samples, but tests in the Petaluma River watershed showed excessive levels in 65 to 100 percent of samples in a series of six rounds of tests conducted over 18 months.

“This result shows that the magnitude of impairment in the river is pretty significant, and some of the highest concentrations we have seen in the region,” Ghodrati said about the E. Coli results.

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If the water board passes the proposed amendment, San Antonio Creek, a creek running along the border between Sonoma and Marin counties, will also be added to the list of impaired water bodies for excessive levels of fecal bacteria.

“The testing we did as part of this TMDL development showed that the bacteria levels in all tributaries, including San Antonio Creek, were well above the impairment threshold level,” Ghodrati, the state scientist, told the Bohemian.

Because the Petaluma River has long been unhealthy, the news that state scientists have discovered excessive levels of bacteria, while concerning, was not all too surprising to one longtime river recreationist.

Susan Starbird, a coach for the River Town Racers, a kayakracing group based in Petaluma, has been using the river since the 1980s.

While Starbird takes for granted that the urban rivers she uses around the Bay Area are somewhat contaminated, she still uses them with caution.

Although it is inevitable that kayak racers tip over in the river—“It’s part of the sport,” Songbird says—she makes sure her students rinse off completely before leaving each day.

Sources There are many potential sources for the excessive fecal matter in the river. Agricultural uses and various human sources, including city and county sewer systems, private septic tanks, boats on the river and homeless encampments are among the sources named in the water board’s report. For each source, the water board recommends actions to reduce bacteria levels.

The water board has set a zero tolerance rule for human waste, because it presents the greatest risk to humans and is entirely preventable if one follows the

proper procedures, according to the staff report.

“When operated properly and lawfully, sanitary sewer collection systems, [onsite wastewater treatment systems] and vessel marinas are designed to not discharge any human waste to waters,” the report states.

One major source of human waste may be the two public sewer systems within the watershed: the Sonoma County Water Agency’s small but aging sewer facility in Penngrove; and Petaluma’s larger city collection system.

“Sewer line backups, overflows and leaks occur, frequently during periods of wet weather, creating a potential source of bacteria on land surface that may be transported via urban runoff to the nearby water bodies,” according to the staff report.

Because recent tests by water board staff detected “fecal bacteria of human origin” throughout the watershed, “discharges from the sanitary sewer collection systems [are] a likely source,” the report states.

The county’s Penngrove facility, which serves 1,300 customers compared to the 62,000 served by the Petaluma system, is disproportionately prone to leaking, according to the report.

Between 2007 and 2017, Petaluma’s system overflowed 77 times, while the county’s Penngrove station spilled over just 17 times.

However, despite being a fraction of the size of the Petaluma system and leaking far fewer times, the Penngrove facility poured 534,331 gallons of sewage into the watershed over the 10-year period, compared to the roughly 818,475 gallons of overflow tied to the Petaluma facility.

Overall, the Penngrove facility’s mainlines were over four times more likely to overflow than the average public sewage system in the state, according to the water board’s report. The Petaluma system’s overflow rates for mainlines are below the state average.

Overflows are generally caused by “aging infrastructure

that needs maintenance or replacement,” according to the water board report.

In a statement, Brad Sherwood, Sonoma Water’s community and government affairs manager, said that recent upgrades to the Penngrove facility are expected to reduce the number of overflow events.

At least one problem remains.

Because the facility’s pump station is located in a flood plain, it must be disconnected from power during floods, according to Sherwood.

“Sonoma Water plans to use FEMA and local funding to elevate the pump station equipment so that the station can continue to operate during [floods],” Sherwood told the Bohemian. The project is expected to cost $900,000.

If the improvements are successful, they could bring the facility into compliance with the TMDL. Onsite wastewater treatment systems (OWTS) within the watershed, such as septic tanks owned by homeowners in unincorporated areas, may also be a source of human fecal matter. Owners may have to make changes to their systems pending review by Sonoma or Marin county authorities.

Farming facilities with horses and cows within the watershed are another possible culprit. All told, there are approximately 16,000 grazed acres in the river’s watershed, and 149 grazing operations within the watershed which are larger than 50 acres. If those operations are not following water quality controls properly, animal waste may make its way into the rivers and creeks.

Water board staff will test the waters five years after passing the plan to give local governments and businesses time to fix potential problems, according to Ghodrati.

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ow that the grape harvest is complete, it’s time to turn to the olive groves to pick, crush and extract the oil. According to Jamie Anzalone, in about a week, olives in Napa Valley will be ready for harvest, and he should know. As the former owner of two storefront olive oil companies in Upper Napa Valley, Anzalone’s experience dates back to 2011.

Initially lured from his roots in Buffalo, New York, to enroll in a food and beverage education at the Culinary Institute of America 20 years ago, Anzalone last worked at Solbar at Solage Calistoga as maître d’ before he switched his career to accommodate his restructured family life.

He knew he wanted to do something different, so when he found an available retail space on Lincoln Avenue, he transitioned to an olive oil sommelier and opened the storefront, Calistoga Olive Oil. He later changed the

name to Napa Valley Olive Oil and opened a second storefront in St. Helena.

At first, he bought olive oil direct from producers, but when the late Bob Pecota of Bennett Lane entered the store and asked if he’d be interested in picking from the 100 olive oil trees on his property, Anzalone accepted the opportunity to produce his own olive oil and began to research the process.

“That year when I picked olives, I took a gold medal at the 2012 New York International Olive Oil Competition,” he said.

“The valley proved to be the perfect growing area.”

He knew he was onto something—utilizing a crop he noticed usually falls to the ground and goes ignored. Through connections he made while working at Solbar, Anzalone arranged to source from olive trees at several wineries and estates within the Napa Valley.

His neighbor introduced him to some olive pickers and everything fell into place.

He worked with viticulturists on properties where he picked from the olive groves, advising them on pruning techniques and necessary nutrients. When the time is right for harvesting, he takes his crew in to pick and then press the olives.

Once they’ve harvested the olives, the processing begins at a local mill in either Sonoma or Lake county. The mill process takes about an hour per ton.

“Once they go in the machine,” he explains, “an hour later you’ve got fresh olive oil.”

Anzalone allows the oil to rest for 45 days, or until the sediment falls to the bottom.

The business deal varies with each grove, but in the case of Pecota, Anzalone forfeited 10 percent of the olive oil in exchange for owning the olives.

“Sometimes they hire me to pick with the crew, and they pay the mill and own the oil,” Anzalone explained. “I’m like a consultant. They keep the oil, but I can buy it back from them.”

When his family situation changed, however, so did Anzalone’s business model. His young daughter moved to San Diego with his ex-wife and he could no longer work 12-hour days with the new visitation in place. So, in one slick move, Anzalone closed the doors to both his storefront Napa Valley Olive Oil companies and succumbed to the online shopping world. That was in 2016, when he realized the online presence of his company was enough to sustain him.

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Next year, he plans to sell his olive oil and products at the St. Helena Farmers Market on Fridays, and every other Saturday at the Napa Farmers Market, alternating between the San Diego Farmers Market during visitation with his daughter.

Storefronts that carry his new label, Anzalone’s Olive Oil (honoring his Sicilian surname), include Cal Mart in Calistoga, Oakville Grocery and potentially the new Gary’s Wine & Marketplace in St. Helena.

Restaurants such as Perry Lang’s in Yountville serve Anzalone’s

Olive Oil with their bread service, and it’s also on the menu at Angèle’s Restaurant & Bar on the riverfront in Napa.

The new business model agrees with Anzalone, who has more time to spend with his daughter and more time to travel.

“Now, I love it. It’s the dream for me,” he said. “It’s afforded me a great lifestyle, freedom and the ability to make great olive oil—100 percent pure, property-specific from the Napa Valley.”

Anzalone plans to create a food line based on olive oil, and to create a healthy line of olive oil beauty products such as soaps and lotions, in the new year. He admits olive oil is best served in its raw form as a finish to soups, as a salad dressing, over risotto and for use in baking (he says it’s a natural preservative). His personal favorite is to make scrambled eggs pooled in his own olive oil.

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BLUE SKIES, RED WINE

Alexander Valley won’t let a little thing like the Kincade Fire keep them down.

Rock On Burnt but unbroken, Soda Rock pops corks amid the ashes

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he smoke wasn’t quite as thick this year in wine country, but the love needn’t be any thinner.

That spirit was on full display last weekend when I stopped by Soda Rock Winery, having heard rumor of a “pop-up” wine tasting, and found the parking lot nearly full, and the grounds teeming with wine tasters sipping caramel-scented Chardonnay. I could hardly get an elbow on the bar.

Yep—that Soda Rock, the Alexander Valley winery that recently burned down in the Kincade fire of October 2019. Turns out, the historic redwood barn adjacent the winery, although it leaks daylight through its spindly

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Unfortunately, we did have case goods there.” The Wilson Artisan Wineries group owns Mazzocco and Soda Rock.

“I went there yesterday and it was not a good day,” Favero says.

But he’s sanguine about the future.

“We’re going to pick ourselves up and rebuild and keep on going!”

For now, he’s focused on the challenges that power outages, evacuations and smoke present for the 2019 vintage. “We were very, very lucky this year, because about 97 percent of the grapes had been picked before the fire,” Favero says.

“The bad thing was, yeah, we had to leave some behind,” because of smoke tainted grapes, he explains.

“But you can’t win it all—it’s just the nature of the beast right now.”

Grapes safely picked and crushed, however, were bubbling away when the power went out. “I grew up in South America, where every other day we had a power outage,” Favero shrugs. “So I don’t freak out. But in the United States?

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“This is something brand new for me. I have never, in my 30 years of winemaking, been away from my fermentations for eight days,” Favero says. He could check on them nearly every day, but do little else. Nevertheless, he feels that the high quality of the fruit this year will prevail. “Whatever we had in tank before the fire, I think is going to be wonderful.”

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DAM’D IF YOU DON’T Some see an opportunity to revive fish runs by overhauling the Scott Dam and related infrastructure pieces collectively called the “Potter Valley Project.”

Saving Salmon Will overhauling Scott Dam save native fish?

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almon three feet long seem to clog the water as the chrome-colored fish, fresh from the ocean, begin their journey upriver toward the high-elevation gravel riffles where they were born. Here, in the remotest tendrils of the watershed, they will lay and fertilize the eggs that ensure the next generation of salmon.

At least that’s how it once was early each autumn on the Eel River. But nature’s security system for fish survival is only as good as the health of a river.

In the case of the Eel, a local power company built a dam on the Eel’s main fork in 1920. As a result, Chinook salmon lost access to about 100 miles of spawning habitat. Steelhead, which swam farther upstream into smaller tributaries, suffered even greater impacts. Intensive

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in-river commercial fishing, water diversions, logging and other land degradation took their toll, too.

Today, annual salmon runs in Eel River that once may have totaled a million or so adults consist of a few thousand. Lamprey eels, too, have dwindled.

Now, there is serious talk of removing Scott Dam, owned by PG&E since 1930.

For fishery proponents, such a river makeover is the optimal way to revive the Eel’s salmon runs.

“We want to see volitional passage, both ways,” says Curtis Knight, executive director of the conservation group California Trout.

Volitional, in this context, means the salmon are able to make their historic migration on their own—downstream as newly born juveniles and, later, upstream as sexually mature adults—all without the assistance of human hands.

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Potter Valley Project Congressman Jared Huffman began eyeing the orphaned dam-and-diversion operation as the future of the project came into question over the past several years. Recognizing an opportunity to revive fish runs by overhauling the dam and a variety of connected infrastructure pieces—collectively called the “Potter Valley Project”—Huffman rounded up more than two dozen local stakeholder groups, including tribes, environmental groups, government agencies and farmers, to weigh in and help steer the process.

Huffman determined that everyone with a stake in the Eel River, its fish and its water would need to make compromises.

“The two-basin solution is built around a fairly central compromise,” Huffman explains.

“There are certainly folks in the Russian River basin who, in their perfect world, would not be making changes to provide fish passage or alter the way the project is operated, and there are people in the Eel River drainage who would like to see the dam and the diversions go away completely.”

Huffman describes his vision as one of “coequal goals,” and a “twobasin solution,” which treats the needs of fish and people with equal consideration. The hope is that no stakeholders will be left high and dry, says Huffman, who represents people in both river basins.

ROCK ‘N’ ROLL This historic photo of the Scott Dam from October of 1920 shows concrete being poured and the dam’s

south end anchorage to the outcropping of what was assumed to be bedrock. It turned out to be a huge boulder, unattached to bedrock, and located at the base of a long landslide going uphill. This was apparently unnoticed by the design engineers.

But keeping this process civil to the end could prove a challenge in an era where water management often takes shape as a tug-of-war between farmers and fishery advocates.

A core consideration in amending the project to help fish will be a community of about 150 farms in Potter Valley, actually in the upper Russian River basin, which receive water from Lake Pillsbury, contained by Scott Dam, via a one-mile tunnel bored through a mountain in the first years of the 20th century.

Scott Dam effectively creates a pool of water that can be drawn from in the summer months. If the dam comes down, Potter Valley farmers will need an alternative source of summertime water—a complicated problem.

“If we didn’t have that diversion, you’d be putting a whole lot of people out of business,” says Mac Magruder, who irrigates 300 acres

in the Potter Valley for his grassfed meat farm.

Altering the operation of Scott Dam and the diversion tunnel a few miles downriver will require a new license—what California Trout, Humboldt County, the Sonoma County Water Agency, the Mendocino Inland Water and Power Commission and the Round Valley Indian Tribes are now pursuing. They will first conduct a feasibility study and submit it to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission no later than April.

Currently, representatives for the relicensing stakeholder groups try to talk in careful terms, without showing strong preference for one plan over another.

“All options are on the table,” says Janet Pauli, the chair of the Inland Water and Power Commission.

However, there is no doubt

that the interests of farmers and fishery advocates hardly align.

For farmers in Mediterranean climates where virtually no rain falls for four straight months, dams and aqueducts make farming possible.

Dam But for 21st-century river and salmon advocates, dam removal is the holy grail of achievements.

“A free-flowing river without dams is optimal for anadromous fish,” says Joshua Fuller, a fisheries biologist with the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service. “Unfortunately, in today's world that setting doesn't exist in a lot of places. It's a major reason why we have many listed salmonid species."

In Washington, the removal of two dams on the Elwha River five years ago reportedly resulted in increased returns of depleted salmon. ) 22 On the Klamath River,

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California Trout is one of several local groups and agencies now formally considering taking over the operation of Scott Dam from PG&E. As a hydroelectric facility, Scott Dam is not very productive, and with PG&E’s operating license scheduled to expire in 2022, the utility giant recently stepped away from the project. PG&E even briefly put the Potter Valley Project up for auction, though the offer attracted no takers.

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Fuller says providing access to the spawning habitat upstream of Lake Pillsbury is a key component of his agency’s Chinook-and-steelhead recovery plan. Creating that access would be, in some ways, simplest by removing Scott Dam. But it’s not the only way.

Building fish ladders is another means of opening the higher reaches of the watershed to spawning salmon and steelhead.

These winding stairways of cascading water allow migrating fish to climb up and over otherwise impassable dams. They allow juveniles to safely return downstream, too.

But the Eel River system poses complications. Scott Dam bridges a deep canyon, and building a fish ladder up and over the dam could prove technically difficult.

Ascending such a ladder might be difficult for fish, too.

The other big problem with relying on a fish ladder system at Scott Dam involves a non-native predator called the pikeminnow that was somehow introduced to the system in the late 1970s.

Pikeminnows, which can grow to about four feet in length, prey aggressively on smaller fish and are abundant in Lake Pillsbury.

Thus, a system that requires young salmon and steelhead to swim across the lake to the outflow might be a death sentence for many, if not most, of the fish.

The pikeminnow is a major reason why dam removal remains a favored option among environmentalists.

“A salmon smolt in a reservoir full of pikeminnows hardly stands a chance,” says Craig Tucker, a natural resources consultant working for the County of Humboldt.

David Keller, with the Friends of the Eel River—a stakeholder group but not one of the relicensing applicants—says elaborate systems are necessary

for assisting the juveniles across the lake.

“It would be extremely laborintensive and time-intensive,” he says. “You’d have to have people there at the right time, when the fish are coming through.”

Like Knight, he wants to see fully volitional passage.

“The only way that makes ecological sense is to allow the fish to do it themselves, and that means taking out the dam,” Keller says.

Keller thinks more efficient storage in Lake Mendocino, on the Russian River’s east fork just upstream from its confluence with the main fork at Ukiah, could meet summertime irrigation needs for Potter Valley farmers.

This would involve pumping systems that push water various directions, often against gravity.

It could also require increasing the height of Coyote Valley Dam to store more water in Lake Mendocino—what stakeholders say would be a very expensive strategy.

Using Lake Mendocino for new storage would be complicated, too, since the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which operates Coyote Valley Dam, prefers not to fill Lake Mendocino in the winter months and instead maintain significant available storage for flood control purposes. Only in the spring could surplus water be retained in the lake—though relying on late-winter rains in California is a chancy gamble. In many years under such a system, they may find it impossible to top off the reservoir with water for the Potter Valley farms.

“We don’t see increased storage in Lake Mendocino as a very likely, affordable option,” says David Manning, the environmental resources manager with the Sonoma County Water Agency.

Keller also says Scott Dam is a hazard and “a disaster waiting to happen.” He says its south side is “anchored to an ancient landslide” that is liable to continue sliding.

The dam is also situated almost

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The evolutionary sharpening stone that honed the Chinook into the most resilient and adaptive species of the Pacific salmon could not prepare the fish for the advent of the concrete hydroelectric dam. Beginning early in the 20th century, state and federal agencies reengineered California’s major rivers with massive walls of cement and steel, connecting canals and tunnels, and pumps to move water.

In their respective waterways, Chinook salmon nosed up against the newly built barriers. In the San Joaquin River, where salmon runs of half a million to a million fish survived for millennia migrating every summer through a valley as hot as the deserts of Saudi Arabia, Chinook evaporated into extinction about five years after Friant Dam’s completion.

While effective fish hatcheries maintained the Chinook of the Sacramento River, the Eel River’s salmon were already nearly gone. So was the Eel’s namesake representative species, the Pacific lamprey.

Now, salmon in California face even greater challenges than dams. Global warming will make the cold water the fish require for spawning a rarer and rarer asset. In fact, Knight, at California Trout, co-authored a report in 2017 warning that most of the salmon and trout species and subspecies in California are likely to go extinct if efforts are not

made to preserve their habitat. In some watersheds, there may be no saving the fish.

But rivers born in high elevations, and fed by yearround, ice-cold springs, have the potential to keep salmon and steelhead alive and running.

The uppermost tributaries of the Eel River constitute precisely this type of habitat.

“It’s high and it’s got cold water and it’s going to be cold for a long time,” Knight says.

Fuller, with the National Marine Fisheries Service, also sees that habitat as critical for maintaining salmon runs in a warmer future.

“Tributaries above Scott Dam contain high-value habitat with cold water and perennial flows essential for long-term population viability and recovery of anadromous salmonids within the Eel River," he says.

Human beings are more adaptable than salmon, and if they remove Scott Dam, nobody will perish, though the livelihoods some now enjoy could be shaped by new and unwelcome pressures.

“We have more than a lot to lose—we have everything to lose,” Magruder says.

Tucker, with Humboldt County, says he is open to all options now being discussed in the relicensing feasibility study.

But full dam removal is the one he thinks may be most amenable to salmon while still allowing human users to get the water they need.

“There are engineering possibilities for producing agricultural diversions without Scott Dam,” he says.

Huffman calls himself a “water wonk and a fish-head.” He says the potential of creating “a winwin” solution that sustains fish populations amid dense human populations and thriving farm economies drew him to the project.

But he also knows all bets are still off.

“There’s no guarantee that this plan holds together,” he says.

“There are centrifugal forces at play that could pull it all apart before the end.”

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on top of Bartlett Springs Fault, an offshoot of the Hayward fault that runs beneath Lake Pillsbury and which seismologists have modeled for the potential to cause a 7.5 earthquake.

“Scott Dam was not built for that level of shaking,” Keller says.

Writers have cited the hydroelectric barrier before as a poster child for poor dam building.

“This dam is literally a textbook example of where not to build a dam,” Keller says.

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His comedy sketches, celebrity impressions and parody-music videos have gone viral on sites like YouTube and gained more than 50 million views, and he’s been featured on Funny or Die, Mashable and more. Pella is also a star on the stage, and he’s headlined clubs across the country. Now, Pella hits the stage in Napa Valley, courtesy of the folks at the Laugh Cellar, who host him on Friday, Nov. 8, at Charles Krug Winery, 2800 Main St., St. Helena. 6:30pm. $20–$28.

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Located along Stony Point Road in West Sonoma County on the northern edge of Petaluma, the Washoe House has been open since 1859, meaning the iconic, red-walled roadhouse has 160 years of history. Celebrate this milestone at The Washoe House 160-Year Anniversary featuring a full day of fun that recognizes the landmark’s history and offers a cheer to its future with food and drink specials, live music, special guests and more on Sunday, Nov. 10, at Stony Point Road and Roblar Road, Petaluma. Open all day. Free admission. 707.795.4544.

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The Peace & Justice Center of Sonoma County empowers and inspires peaceful living and social justice in the community through activism, education and other avenues of engagement. This weekend, the Center recognizes those in the community who share their spirit at the Peacemakers Awards. The presentation and fundraiser honors the awardees, including criminal defense attorney and advocate Izaak Schwaiger and organization Petaluma Blacks for Community Development. The night also boasts live music and a silent auction to support the Peace & Justice Center on Saturday, Nov. 9, at Redwood Cafe, 8240 Old Redwood Hwy., Cotati. 7pm. $15–$20. pjcsoco.org.

San Francisco Bay Area banjo master Bill Evans brings together some of the best banjo players in the world every November eight years running for the California Banjo Extravaganza.

This year’s five-string celebration features incomparable old-school entertainer Leroy Troy, Virginiabased, three-finger banjo virtuoso Gina Furtado and Evans performing solo, in duets and as a trio in front of an all-star backing band featuring local favorites John Reischman, Chad Manning, Sharon Gilchrist and Dale Adkins on Sunday, Nov. 10, at the Sebastopol Community Center Annex, 425 Morris St., Sebastopol. 7pm. $23– $25. 707.823.1511.

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DREAM ON Pulitzer Prize– winning journalist and immigrationrights activist Jose Antonio Vargas reads from his new book, ‘Dear America,’ on Saturday, Nov. 9, at Copperfield’s Books in Petaluma.

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SURVIVAL ON SCREEN Natural-disaster documentary ‘Code and Response’ is

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s locals reel over the Kincade fire, the Napa Valley Film Festival (NVFF), running Nov. 13–17, keeps a grip on reality with apt screenings of powerful films.

First up, Code and Response, which tracks four coders bent

on using technology to fight the wrath of Mother Nature. The IBM-produced documentary goes inside the aftermath of some of the worst natural disasters of 2018, as four “coders,” from California, Japan, Puerto Rico and Mexico, use technology to support frontline first responders.

“We were compelled to get on the ground and learn more from

first responders but also learn from some local coders who are making a difference,” said executive producer/writer George Hammer. “When we actually saw towns turned to ash and the personal toll on individuals, it really hit home. I am pleased that we can premiere the film for the people of California as their battle with Mother Nature rages on and

their search for answers inspires the next generation of ideas.”

The war against anti-LGBTQ laws peacefully unfurls through a song in Gay Chorus Deep South, which takes viewers on an emotional ride of reckoning. The award-winning film follows the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, as they perform throughout the Southern states, to enlighten and shift thinking in a place where people remain divided over faith, politics and sexual identity.

Motherload propels the cargo-bicycle movement and the mission to decrease the carbon footprint, one cycler, bike and family at a time. Director Liz Canning went in search of a way to bike with her young twins and unearthed a new way of life. Canning posted a trailer for the film in 2011 and invited submissions that captured the cargo-bike experience. The effort fueled a crowdsource initiative that resulted in the feature-length documentary. “There’s a Fairfax family in the film who replaced a car with a cargo bike after watching the trailer online,” she says. “They were one of hundreds of local families whose lives were transformed by Jelani Bertoni and The Bicycle Works [one of two Marin-based cargo/utility/e-bike shops featured].”

Provocative programing continues with Coach, which follows the plight of San Francisco State Women’s Soccer Coach, Tracy Hamm, who the U.S. Soccer Federation denied access to an internationally recognized accreditation. Martha: A Picture Story, chronicles the life of Martha “Marty” Cooper who upset the continuum when she documented the first images of graffiti to appear in New York City subway cars in the 70s and became the first female photographer at the New ) 26

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Frothy features like Greener Grass step in to lighten the mood.

The farcical romp stars Upright Citizens Brigade mainstays Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe, who make their directorial debut. They set the film in a candy-coated, soccer-mom-infested, Stepford-like suburbia, where family members are “swapped,” braces reign, and social-climbing and neighborliness hit hilarious highs.

Good vibes roll on at the screening of I Want My MTV, where ‘80s-lovers and MTVworshipers unite. The buzzedabout doc takes viewers on a nostalgic ride that chronicles the rise of the network that brought music videos to the masses.

Commentary from Sting, Pat Benatar, Billy Idol and more is sure to get people dancing not only with themselves, but down the aisles.

The throwback theme continues at the Saturday-night Gala at Lincoln Theater, which encourages attendees to tease up their hair, stick on the shoulder pads and slide into a pair of acid-washed jeans to rock the night away.

A-list celebs will light up screens throughout the fest, starting with the Tuesday Sneak Preview of Ford V Ferrari (Matt Damon and Christian Bale) and the Wednesday Opening Night screening of Just Mercy (Jamie Foxx, Brie Larson).

This year’s Celebrity Tribute programing honors Kevin Bacon, Olivia Wilde, Vanessa Hudgens,

Jillian Bell, Mena Massoud, Kelsey Asbille, Dean-Charles Chapman, Jacob Elordi, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Liana Liberato and others, who should attend events on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

The fest rolls out the red carpet for locals with a new communityscreening program that grants Napa Valley residents free entry to all morning screenings at Lincoln Theater.

No NVFF would be complete without a hefty pour of winerelated screen talk. The closing night showing of Verticals delivers. The series, directed by Jason Wise, focuses on Napa Valley winemakers and the human condition that comes with the territory. The Sunday screening at the Uptown Theatre marks not only the world premiere of Verticals, but the launch of SOMMTV, the first food and wine dedicated streaming platform. Wise, whose filmmaking cred includes the SOMM trilogy, describes the venture as a Netflixlike streaming service for wine and culinary enthusiasts. After days of turmoil over wildfires, public safety power shut offs and the general state of the union, a clink of the glass to honor the strength and endurance of our valley and the people who inhabit it feels like the perfect “wrap” to the festival week.

Napa Valley Film Festival runs Wednesday, Nov. 13, through Sunday, Nov. 17, at several locations. Full lineup and tickets available at napavalleyfilmfest.org.

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settlement from an officer-involved shooting leads to a Pulitzer Prize–winning drama in ‘Between Riverside & Crazy.’

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Wait Until Dark–playwright Frederick Knott only wrote three plays, but two of the three (the other being Dial M for Murder) became theatre standards. Film adaptations led to increased audience familiarity with the material, robbing them of a bit of the suspense Knott built into his scripts.

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Photographer Sam Hendrix (Steve Cannon) unwittingly transports a child’s doll full of heroin from Canada to New York and leaves it in the care of his sight-impaired wife Susi (Olivia Marie Rooney). Soon a trio of very nefarious gentlemen (Ezra Hernandez, Matt Witthaus, Justin Thompson) arrive on the scene determined to get the doll surreptitiously by playing a deadly game of impersonation.

Director Meghan Hakes’ cast works well here, but lightingdesigner Vincent Mothersbaugh is the show’s MVP. Without giving too much away, lighting plays a big role in this play, and Mothersbaugh delivers.

Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis’s Between Riverside and Crazy won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a stack of theater awards. An odd mixture of comedy and drama, at its heart it’s a story of families—father/son, son/ fiancé, father-figure/son and the “brotherhood” of law enforcement.

Retired New York City police officer Walter “Pops” Washington (Corey Jackson) lives in a rentcontrolled apartment with his recently paroled son Junior (Sam Ademola), his son’s fiancé Lulu (Pilar Gonzales) and their friend Oswaldo (Jared Wright).

Walter’s former partner Audrey (Sandra Ish) and her fiancé Lt. Dave Caro (Mike Schaeffer) try to get Walter to sign off on a settlement agreement stemming from a shooting. The powers they represent aren’t above threatening Walter with the loss of his home to get his signature.

Walter, who always seems pissed, gets really pissed.

It’s a solid production, and credit director Argo Thompson for bringing some theatrical diversity—both in casting and subject matter—to the area.

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LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON The kid from ‘The Shining’ is all grown up and played by Ewen McGregor in ‘Doctor Sleep.’

Evil Never Sleeps Stephen King sequel sources Lynch over Kubrick BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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he best parts in Doctor Sleep, the sequel to The Shining (1980), do without Stanley Kubrick and Stephen King’s sense of gigantism. It’s not a haunted house movie trying to end all haunted house movies, even as it reprises shots of Danny pedaling his Big Wheel down endless hallways.

Director Mike Flanagan sources David Lynch, who scares me more than Kubrick ever did. The music is also familiar even beyond the quotes of Wendy Carlos’s Moog of Doom from The Shining, there’s that echoing violin screech they’ve been using since Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

We commence with a pack of non-humans. Like the other-world denizens in Twin Peaks, they live on “steam”—the distilled essence of pain and suffering. The best quality is hard to come by, complains Rose the Hat, the queen bee of this traveling coven. Something’s polluting the essences these days.

The lovely and malign Rose (Rebecca Ferguson) is kind of a witch, kind of a vampire. Though her age and exact backstory are vague, she might have become whatever she is now about the time Guns and Roses’ Appetite for Destruction

came out. The undead are always a little unfashionable in their dress.

The boy casualty of the Overlook Hotel, Danny (Ewan McGregor, at his best) grew up to be a mean alcoholic like his late dad Jack. Danny floats into a small town in New Hampshire and is bailed out by a good-guy municipal worker (Cliff Curtis) who is in AA. Cut to eight years later; the chip is in Danny’s hand, not on his shoulder. He landed a job as an orderly at a hospice, where his empathy is put to good use.

Meanwhile, there’s Abra (Kyleigh Curran) who has The Shining in abundance, a beacon bright enough to summon Rose’s family of fiends all the way cross-country. Abra has been in communication with Danny for years as a psychic friend.

He warns against challenging Rose and her gang. But being the headstrong, affluent, Harvardbound girl that she is …

As it ends, this movie starts to cycle a reunion of the old beasts from the Overlook. Flanagan hardly needed to revisit this familiar house of horrors when the story he’s telling was already a highly satisfactory horror movie: a bonbon for those of us who haunt theaters and suck up other people’s suffering.

‘Doctor Sleep’ opens in wide release on Nov. 8.

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GIVING BACK Marin’s Scott Mickelson produced the new benefit compilation album, ‘Blanket the Homeless.’

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wo years ago, North Bay musician and producer Scott Mickelson made headlines when he assembled and released After the Fire, Vol 1, a benefit compilation album that raised several thousand dollars for local fire-relief efforts.

Now he’s back with a similarly pressing cause, teaming up with Bay Area nonprofit organization Blanket the Homeless—which distributes blankets and care packages to unsheltered residents in San Francisco—to release a double-LP benefit album largely recorded in Mickelson’s Mill Valley studio.

“Everybody knows about the homelessness in the Bay Area, and everyone wants to try to do something,” Mickelson says.

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The project with Blanket the Homeless began on the heels of the success of After the Fire, Vol 1, when Mickelson approached musician and organization co-founder Ken Newman, who Mickelson had been producing for.

“He and I were wrapping up his first solo record and we got to talking,” Mickelson says. Together, they assembled a roster of popular bands to contribute to the record, first landing two-time Grammy winners Fantastic Negrito.

“They were on tour and couldn’t come in to record, but they gave me the rights to use their song, ‘Working Poor,’” Mickelson says.

From there, he was able to recruit 14 other acts, recording 13 bands in his studio for the Blanket the Homeless compilation.

Bay Area–based contributors to the album include the Brothers Comatose recording a new stripped-down version of their song “Angeline,” Sonoma County folk-trio Rainbow Girls singing their song “American Dream” and Mother Hips’ frontman Tim Bluhm performing his tune “Clean Me Up.” Other artists on the album include the Stone Foxes, King Dream, Goodnight, Texas, Whiskerman, Marty O’Reilly & the Old Soul Orchestra, John Craigie, Tobias the Owl and both Mickelson and Newman, who each contributed a new song. The album caps off with a special, unreleased version of Con Brio’s “Body Language,” recorded live in Amsterdam.

“Every artist came in open minded and gracious,” Mickelson says. “I didn’t ask artists to write songs about the homeless, I just wanted them to come in with something original and something they were excited to record.”

This week, Blanket the Homeless get a release party in San Francisco, and confirmed performers include King Dream, Ben Morrison of Brothers Comatose, Shannon Koehler of Stone Foxes and Avi Vinocur of Goodnight, Texas.

“I hope people show up,” Mickelson says. “It’s such a simple thing to do; come to a show, enjoy the music and help the homeless.”

‘Blanket the Homeless’ record-release party is Thursday, Nov. 7, at the Independent in San Francisco. 8pm. $15–$17. blanketthehomeless.org.

Concerts SONOMA Branford Marsalis Quartet

Jazz ensemble crosses stylistic boundaries and evokes a range of moods. Nov 9, 7:30pm. $35 and up. Green Music Center Weill Hall, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

California Banjo Extravaganza

Eighth annual banjo and bluegrass event features allstar performers. Nov 10, 7pm. $25. Sebastopol Community Center Annex, 425 Morris St, Sebastopol, 707.823.1511.

Portland Cello Project

Premiere alt-classical group perform a night in homage to Radiohead and other alt-rock icons. Nov 11, 8:30pm. $13.

Mystic Theatre & Music Hall, 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.775.6048.

NAPA Blood, Sweat & Tears

Legendary jazz-rock band sits in for three nights of concerts.

Nov 7-10. $55 and up. Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.880.2300.

Robert Cray Band

Cray has been bridging the lines between blues, soul and R&B for the past four decades.

Nov 9, 8pm. $45-$75. Uptown Theatre, 1350 Third St, Napa, 707.259.0123.

Clubs & Venues SONOMA 3 Disciples Brewing Taproom

Nov 8, John Rybak and friends. Nov 9, the King Must Die and Profits of Doom. 501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.978.2459.

Aqus Cafe

Nov 8, Barry Bisson and friends.

Nov 9, the Farallons. Nov 10, 2pm, Alan Early. 189 H St, Petaluma, 707.778.6060.

The Big Easy

Nov 7, Rancho Deluxe. Nov 8, Velvet Chamber and Fly by

Train. Nov 9, the Dorian Mode.

Nov 13, Wednesday Night Big Band. 128 American Alley, Petaluma, 707.776.7163.

Bluewater Bistro

Nov 7, 5pm, Oaktown Gold.

21301 Heron Dr, Bodega Bay, 707.875.3513.

Coyote Sonoma

Nov 8, Domenic Bianco & the SoulShake. 44F Mill St, Healdsburg, 707.385.9133.

Crooked Goat Brewing Nov 9, 3pm, the Passengers.

Nov 10, 3pm, Timothy O’Neil.

120 Morris St, Ste 120, Sebastopol, 707.827.3893.

Elephant in the Room Nov 7, Over Under. Nov 8, John Courage Trio. Nov 9, Steve Pile Trio. 177-A Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, elephantintheroompub.com.

Flamingo Lounge

Nov 8, the Hots. Nov 9, Saturday Night Salsa. 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa, 707.545.8530.

Geyserville Gun Club Bar & Lounge Nov 9, Highway Poets. 21025 Geyserville Ave, Geyserville, 707.814.0036.

Green Music Center Schroeder Hall

Nov 8, SSU Symphonic Chorus and Concert Choir. Nov 10, 3pm, Nella. 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

Murphy’s Irish Pub & Restaurant

Nov 7, John Beland. Nov 8, Hunka Hunka Hula Revue. Nov 9, O & the Riots. Nov 10, 4pm, David Gans. 464 First St E, Sonoma, 707.935.0660.

Nov 8, Cretan music concert with Ross Daly and Kelly Thoma. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental, 707.874.9392.

The Phoenix Theater

Nov 8, Frolic with Dirty Rice and Brain Death. Nov 9, LoFi Satellites and 6 Speed Supernova. 201 Washington St, Petaluma, 707.762.3565.

Redwood Cafe

Nov 7, Soulshine Blues Band.

Nov 8, Mr. Blackwell & the MBAs. Nov 10, Irish jam session.

Nov 11, the Blues Defenders pro jam. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.795.7868.

Reel & Brand

Rio Nido Roadhouse

Nov 9, 6:30pm, Carlos Herrera Latin Jazz Trio. 25 Matheson St, Healdsburg, 707.431.2800.

Lagunitas Tap Room

Nov 7, Nate Lopez. Nov 8, House of Mary. Nov 9, Shelby Ann. Nov 10, the Mutineers.

1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma, 707.778.8776.

Local Barrel

Nov 9, AltCity Band. 490 Mendocino Ave #104, Santa Rosa, 707.890.5433.

Main Street Bistro

Nov 7, Susan Sutton. Nov 8,

Free admission

Occidental Center for the Arts

HopMonk Sebastopol

Hotel Healdsburg

Pre-Party!

Nov 7, Tab Benoit with Whiskey Bayou Revue. Nov 8, Rodney Crowell with Joe Robinson. Nov 9, Corduroy and Longview. Nov 10, Alborosie & the Shengen Clan.

Nov 13, Reckless Kelly. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.775.6048.

Nov 8, Danish String Quartet.

1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

Nov 8, Moonalice. Nov 9, Sol Horizon. Nov 10, 6pm, Jesca Hoop. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol, 707.829.7300.

present Warren Miller’s

Mystic Theatre & Music Hall

Nov 8, Celebration of Joni Mitchell featuring Kimberly Ford. Nov 9, Road Eleven. Nov 10, 3pm, T-Luke & the Tight Suits. 401 Grove St, Sonoma, 707.343.0044.

Green Music Center Weill Hall

and Ssu Snow Club

Nov 9, Justice Grown Harvest Hoedown with Dusty Green Bones Band. 14540 Canyon 2 Rd, Rio Nido, 707.869.0821.

Russian River Hall

Nov 9, An evening of the (twisted) songs of Tom Lehrer with the Totally Incorrect Cabaret Singers. 20347 Hwy 116, Monte Rio, 707.243.3184.

Sebastopol Community Church

Nov 9, Redwood Arts Council presents the Minetti Quartet.

1000 Gravenstein Hwy N, Sebastopol, redwoodarts.org.

Spancky’s Bar

Nov 9, Dead Again. 8201 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.664.0169. )

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Winter starts with Warren Miller

We will show some of his daredevil movies.

Enjoy a clip of the 2019 film “Timeless” HUGE RAFFLE GIVEAWAY— 3 tickets for $5 Tickets sales support SSU Snow Club.

Win new gear and get ready to shred this winter!

Prizes include:

• Film tickets for Nov. 23 Mystic Theatre, Petaluma • 1 pair of Head skis • 2 Helly Hansen jackets • WME PARTY PACK with DVDs, beanies, caps, t’s, hoodie, faceshields

rescheduled to Wed, Nov 13 5–7:30 Live music: Aqua Velvets at 4:20pm at Lagunitas Petaluma Tap Room 1280 N McDowell Blvd Petaluma

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Valtierra Latin Orchestra.

Nov 9, Rhythm Drivers. Nov 10, Mac & Potter. Nov 13, Tumbleweed Soul. 16280 Main St, Guerneville, 707.869.0501.

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Nov 9, Lo Cura. 19380 Hwy 12, Sonoma, 707.938.7442.

Twin Oaks Roadhouse Nov 7, Country Line Dancing.

Nov 8, Hell and the High Water. 5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove, 707.795.5118.

NAPA Buster’s Southern Barbecue Nov 10, 2pm, Rob Watson and friends featuring Vernon Black.

1207 Foothill Blvd, Calistoga, 707.942.5605.

JaM Cellars Nov 8, the Good Tones. 1460 First St, Napa, 707.265.7577.

Roadhouse 29 Nov 8, Michelle Lambert. 3020 St Helena Hwy N, St Helena, 707.302.3777.

Taproom & Wine Bar Open Wed-Fri at 4PM & Sat-Sun at 12PM 44F Mill Street Healdsburg | 707.433.4444

Soul jah Family Band

11/15 Classic Reggae Covers

11/8

Domenic & Soulshake Reggae-Funk | 8PM | $5

Cellar presents 11/16 Laugh Comedy Competition at 7pm

11/9

The Fog Classic Rock | 8PM | $5

party band 11/16 konsept Soul, Funk, R&B Covers at 9:30pm

Black Light Dance Party DJ Dance Party | 9PM | No Cover Fat Chance Truckin’ Band Rock & Blues | 8PM | $5

11/22 Weekend at Bernies

11/15 11/16

Tonk Stumbleweeds 11/22 Honky Honky Tonk Rock ‘n Roll | 8PM | $5

Rock and R&B Covers

11/23 TROUBLE WITH MONKEYS Monkees Tribute

PEPPERLAND Beatles Tribute

60s Dance Night!

12/6 Monophonics Soul, Funk

You 1st Responders 11/23 Thank Benefit Featuring the Rhythm Drivers & The Pulsators Fundraiser | 6PM | $65

12/31 Soul, Funk, R&B Covers

JOOSE! Hard Rock Covers | 8PM | $5

1/25 when doves cry

12/6 12/7

Roem Baur Singer Songwriter | 8PM | $5

Plus! Karaoke Every Thursday Night 8-12

Tickets at: coyotesonoma.com

NYE with UB707 Aqua Nett

1/18 ‘80s Hair Metal and Beyond Prince Tribute

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Patrick Martin

Celebrated sleight-of-hand magician performs a comedic stage show for all ages. Nov 10, 3pm. Free with admission.

Charles M Schulz Museum, 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa, 707.579.4452.

Dance Evert B. Person Theater

Uptown Theatre

Raven Theater

Art Opening 11/8 the hots Rock Covers

The Laugh Center presents the Los Angeles-based comedian, impressionist, actor and director. Nov 8, 6:30pm. $20-$28. Charles Krug Winery, 2800 Main St, St Helena, crushersofcomedy.com.

Nov 8, Michele Korb. Nov 9, JourneyDay Rhorer. 1351 Main St, St Helena, 707.302.5130.

Nov 8, Switchfoot & Their Fantastic Traveling Music Show. 1350 Third St, Napa, 707.259.0123.

Sonoma

Brent Pella

Nov 7-10, Fall Dance Concert, SSU dancers, performers and artists create and perform original student-created works.

SSU, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park. 707.664.4246.

The Saint

Healdsburg’s Newest Music Venue!

Comedy

Arts Guild of Sonoma Nov 7-Dec 31, “Holiday Art Show,” one-of-a-kind works are on display and available to complete your gift giving.

Reception, Nov 7 at 5:30pm.

140 E Napa St, Sonoma.

707.996.3115.

Hammerfriar Gallery

Nov 9, 7:30pm, Dancing with the Stars at the Raven, local celebs and professionals pair up for this audience-voted performance. 115 North St, Healdsburg. $10-$45.

707.433.3145.

Spreckels Performing Arts Center

Nov 9-10, The Holiday Gift, original full-length ballet opens the holiday season.

5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park. $22 and up, 707.765.1771.

Events Cob to Code Fundraiser

Nov 9-Jan 25, “Formless Form IV,” exhibit by Ronald Y Nakasone explores the aesthetic and spiritual geography of the hand-written word. Reception, Nov 9 at 2pm.

132 Mill St, Ste 101, Healdsburg.

707.473.9600.

Living Earth Structures presents a fundraiser to help get low cost housing option approved with live music, film and presentation. Nov 11, 5:30pm. $20. Sebastopol Grange, 6000 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol, 707.320.3609.

Petaluma Mail Depot

Community Health Fair

Nov 7-30, “A Celebration of Creativity,” group show features 14 artists. Reception, Nov 7 at 6:30pm. 40 Fourth St, Petaluma. 707.762.8150.

Riverfront Art Gallery Nov 6-Jan 5, “Late Fall Show,” featured artists display vibrant works. Reception, Nov 9 at 5pm. 132 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. 707.775.4ART.

Event provides health screenings, community resources, fitness demos and healthy snacks. Nov 9, 8:30am.

Free. Sonoma County Family YMCA, 1111 College Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.545.9622.

Ms. Latina Wine Country

Fifth annual event celebrates diversity and strength with

competitive categories and special presentations. Nov 9, 7pm. $35-$65. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.546.3600.

Patchwork Show

Discover local craft and food makers at the inaugural event.

Nov 10, 11am. Free. Sonoma County Fairgrounds, 1350 Bennett Valley Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.545.4200.

Peace & Justice Center Peacemakers Awards Celebrate the achievements of the awardees while enjoying a night of music and silent auction. Nov 9, 7pm. $15$20. Redwood Cafe, 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.795.7868.

Sonoma Art Walk

Enjoy music, art, poetry and dance while supporting local businesses. Nov 7, 5:30pm.

Sonoma Plaza, First St E, Sonoma, 707.996.1090.

Warren Miller’s Timeless Pre-Party

See clips from the annual winter sports film series, enjoy live music from Aqua Velvets and win prizes and ski gear.

Nov 13, 5pm. Free admission.

Lagunitas Tap Room, 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma, 707.778.8776.

The Washoe House 160-Year Anniversary

All-day party includes live music, games, beer, prizes and more. Nov 10. Free admission.

Washoe House, 2840 Roblar Rd, Petaluma, 707.795.4544.

Winterblast

Annual winter festival features sofa parade, live music, local vendors, open art studios, beer, wine and more. Nov 9, 5pm. Free. SOFA Arts District, 312 South A St, Santa Rosa, 707.568.4204.

Field Trips Family Hike

Docent-led hike is good for all ages. Nov 11, 10am. Free; parking fees apply. Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, 2605 Adobe Canyon Rd, Kenwood, 707.833.5712.

Madrone Bird Walk

Walk through an expansive, hawk-rich region. Nov 9, 8am. Tolay Lake Regional Park, Cannon Lane, Petaluma, madroneaudubon.org.

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OTTER SPOTTER The River Otter Ecology Project presents

Realtor Coldwell Banker

“River Otters on the Rise” on Thursday, Nov 7, at Laguna de Santa Rosa Environmental Center. See Lectures, pg 34.

Marvelous Maples Walks

Fall foliage walk celebrates Quarryhill’s collection of over 40 species of maple trees.

Sat, Nov 9, 10am. Free with admission. Quarryhill Botanical Gardens, 12841 Hwy 12, Glen Ellen, 707.996.3166.

Medicine Walk for Times Like These

Join guides for an intentional and reflective all-day program.

Pre-registration required. Nov 10, 9am. Bohemia Ecological Preserve, 8759 Bohemian Hwy, Occidental, landpaths.org.

Mushrooms of Armstrong Redwoods Field Seminar Sonoma County Mycological Association leads a walk and discussion of fungi found in the forest. Nov 8, 9am.

Armstrong Volunteer Center, 17000 Armstrong Woods Rd, Guerneville, stewardscr.org.

Osborn Mushroom Blitz Traverse the Osborn Preserve collecting as many fungal species as you can find. Nov 10, 10am. Free. Fairfield Osborn Preserve, 6543 Lichau Rd, Penngrove, 707.795.5069.

Whale Watch Volunteer Training Learn how to assist the public in viewing the annual Pacific Gray Whale migration on weekends January through June. Nov 9, 9:30am. Free.

Bodega Bay Fire Station, 510 Hwy 1, Bodega, stewardscr.org.

Yoga & Mindful Walk Start with stretching at the Wolf House Ruins before a

walk in the park. Nov 9, 3pm. $15. Jack London State Park, 2400 London Ranch Rd, Glen Ellen, 707.938.5216.

Suzanne Wandrei I may also be available Eco Green Certified

for in-person visits at cell: 707.292.9414 Sonoma Roots Natural Medicine. www.suzannewandrei.com

Film CULT Film Series

Seminal concert film “Stop Making Sense” screens. Nov 7, 7pm. $10. Roxy Stadium 14 Cinemas, 85 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.525.8909.

In the Heat of the Night

Sociologist John Stover speaks before screening of the film about race and justice in the deep south of 1960s America. Nov 13, 6pm. $6.

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Napa Valley Film Festival

The ultimate film, food and wine experience features independent and studio features with celebrity guests galore. Nov 13-17. Various locations, Napa, nvff.org.

Theresa Sareo: Alive Again

New York-based singersongwriter and trauma survivor shares her story in documentary film and live talk. Nov 10, 3pm. Free. Lincoln Theater, 100 California Dr, Yountville, 707.944.9900.

Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago

Film about a pilgrimage in Spain screens in fundraiser for Journey Center. Nov 8, 6pm. $20. Third Street Cinema Six, 620 Third St, Santa Rosa, 707.528.8770.

What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?

Portrait of African-Americans in New Orleans is a passionate examination of cultural identity and social justice. Fri, Nov 8, 7pm and Sun, Nov 10, 4pm. Sonoma Film Institute, Warren Auditorium, SSU, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 707.664.2606.

Devil on a Bicycle, Circa 1971, Low-fired Ceramic Sculpture Ocumicho, Michoacán

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Get ready for the holidays with trained pastry chef Jennifer Smith leading an afternoon of baking decorative holiday cookies in a gourmet kitchen.

Reservations required. Nov 10, 11am. $110. Ackerman Heritage House, 608 Randolph St, Napa, 707.255.1836.

Napa Valley Wine Train Murder Mystery Tour

Speakeasy-themed theatrical experience aboard the train includes a multi-course gourmet dinner. Sat, Nov 9, 5:30pm. $216. Napa Valley Wine Train, 1275 McKinstry St, Napa, 800.427.4124.

Whiskey Wednesdays

Sample a different flight of whiskey every week. Wed. Goose & Gander, 1245 Spring St, St Helena, 707.967.8779.

Lectures

Long to Be Wild and Free” with Nathan Summers. 130 E Napa St, Sonoma 707.939.1779.

Decolonizing California History

Sebastopol Copperfield’s Books

Presentation is a benefit for the California Indian Museum & Cultural Center. Nov 8, 6:30pm. $10-$20. Christ Church United Methodist, 1717 Yulupa Ave, Santa Rosa. cimcc.org.

The Inner Path to Prosperity

Spiritually-inspired workshop for women offers effective practices for financial well-being. Nov 13, 10am. $47-$97. Collective, 961 Gravenstein Hwy S., Suite 130, Sebastopol, accesstoenrichment.com.

The Political Mind in 2020

Cognitive scientist and author George Lakoff talks about the frames that are defining the 2020 campaigns and our roles in expanding the conversation.

Nov 10, 2pm. $20. Vintage House, 264 First St E, Sonoma, praxispeace.org.

River Otters on the Rise

Learn about River Otter Ecology Project’s monitoring, research and results. Preregistration required. Nov 7, 6:30pm. $14. Laguna de Santa Rosa Environmental Center, 900 Sanford Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.527.9277.

Readings CIA at Copia

Nov 10, 11am, “Eating My Way Through Baseball” with Barry Weinberg, includes wine and food. $25-$45. 500 First St, Napa 707.967.2530.

Napa Bookmine

Nov 8, 6pm, Poet Laureates on Social Justice, presented in conjunction with the Napa Center for Thought and Culture. 964 Pearl St, Napa 707.733.3199.

Napa Copperfield’s Books

Nov 8, 6pm, “The Herbal Kitchen” with Kami McBride.

3740 Bel Aire Plaza, Napa 707.252.8002.

Petaluma Copperfield’s Books

Nov 9, 7pm, “Dear America” with Jose Antonio Vargas.

140 Kentucky St, Petaluma 707.762.0563.

Readers’ Books

Nov 7, 7pm, “Primal: Why We

Nov 7, 7pm, “Thriving as an Empath” with Dr Judith Orloff.

138 N Main St, Sebastopol 707.823.2618.

Sonoma County Library Nov 13, 7pm, “Arequipa Sanatorium: Life in California’s Lung Resort for Women” with Lynn Downey. 211 E Street, Santa Rosa 707.545.0831.

Theater Between Riverside & Crazy Left Edge Theatre brings the Pulitzer Prize-winning play to their stage. Through Nov 10. $28-$42. Left Edge Studio Theatre, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.546.3600.

Boom Two students trapped in a subterranean research lab are all that’s left of humanity in this comedy. Through Nov 9. $15-$30. Main Stage West, 104 N Main St, Sebastopol, 707.823.0177.

Mrs. Krishnan’s Party Indian Ink Theatre Company presents a family comedy that bridges boundaries and cultures. Nov 7, 7:30pm. $25 and up. Green Music Center Weill Hall, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

Wait Until Dark Classic edge-of-your-seat thriller plays out on the Monroe Stage. Through Nov 10. $25$29; $18 for all under 30. 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.523.4185.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Poet James Merrill

was ecstatic when he learned the Greek language.

According to his biographer, he felt he could articulate his needs “with more force and clarity, with greater simplicity and less self-consciousness, than he ever could in his own language.” He concluded, “Freedom to be oneself is all very well; the greater freedom is not to be oneself.” Personally, I think that’s an exaggeration. I believe the freedom to be yourself is very, very important. But for you in the coming weeks, Taurus, the freedom to not be yourself could indeed be quite liberating. What might you do to stretch your capacities beyond what you’ve assumed is true about you? Are you willing to rebel against and transcend your previous self-conceptions?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Musician Brian Eno made a deck of oracular cards called Oblique Strategies. Each card has a suggestion designed to trigger creative thinking about a project or process you’re working on. You Geminis might find it useful to call on Oblique Strategies right now, since you’re navigating your way through a phase of adjustment and rearrangement. The card I drew for you is “Honor thy error as hidden intention.” Here’s how I interpret it: An apparent lapse or misstep will actually be the result of your deeper mind guiding you to take a fruitful detour.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): We devote a lot of energy to wishing and hoping about the meaningful joys we’d love to bring into our lives. And yet few of us have been trained in the best strategies for manifesting our wishes and hopes. That’s the bad news. The good news is that now is a favorable time for you to upgrade your skills at getting what you want. With that in mind, I present you with the simple but potent wisdom of author Maya Angelou: “Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it.” To flesh that out, I’ll add: Formulate a precise statement describing your heart’s yearning, and then work hard to make yourself ready for its fulfillment.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries psychologist James Hillman said we keep “our images and fantasies at arm’s length because they are so full of love.” They’re also quite flammable, he added.

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and honey, a rose garden, saltwater baked in the sun.” The coming days will be an excellent time to indulge in your own fantasies about the special fragrance you’d like to emanate. Moreover, I bet you’ll be energized by pinpointing a host of qualities you would like to serve as cornerstones of your identity: traits that embody and express your uniqueness.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Studies suggest

that on average each of us has a social network of about 250 people, of whom 120 we regard as a closer group of friendly acquaintances. But most of us have no more than 20 folks we trust, and only two or three whom we regard as confidants. I suspect that these numbers will be in flux for you during the next 12 months, Scorpio. I bet you’ll make more new friends than usual and will also expand your inner circle. On the other hand, I expect that some people who are now in your sphere will depart. Net result: stronger alliances and more collaboration.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I blame

and thank the Sagittarian part of me when I get brave and brazen enough to follow my strongest emotions where they want to lead me. I also blame and thank the Sagittarian part of me when I strip off my defense mechanisms and invite the world to regard my vulnerabilities as interesting and beautiful. I furthermore blame and thank the Sagittarian side of me on those occasions when I run three miles down the beach at dawn, hoping to thereby jolt loose the secrets I’ve been concealing from myself. I suspect the coming weeks will be a favorable time to blame and thank the Sagittarian part of you for similar experiences.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Persian polymath Avicenna (980–1037 C.E.) wrote 450 books on many topics, including medicine, philosophy, astronomy, geography, mathematics, theology and poetry. While young, he tried to study the Metaphysics of Aristotle, but had difficulty grasping it. Forty times he read the text, even committing it to memory. But he made little progress toward fathoming it. Years later, he was browsing at an outdoor market and found a brief, cheap book about the Metaphysics by an author named al-Farabi. He read it quickly, and for the first time understood Aristotle’s great work. He was so delighted he went out to the streets and gave away gifts to poor people. I foresee a comparable milestone for you, Capricorn: something that has eluded your comprehension will become clear, at least in part due to a lucky accident.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What are the key parts of your life—the sources and influences that enable you to be your most soulful self? I urge you to nourish them intensely during the next three weeks.

Next question: What are the marginally important parts of your life—the activities and proclivities that aren’t essential for your long-term success and happiness? I urge you to corral all the energy you give to those marginally important things, and instead pour it into what’s most important. Now is a crucial time in the evolution of your relationship with your primal fuels, your indispensable resources, your sustaining foundations.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In addition to being a key figure in Renaissance art, 15th-century Italian painter Filippo Lippi had a colorful life.

According to legend, he was once held prisoner by Barbary pirates, but gained his freedom by drawing a riveting portrait of their leader. Inspired by the astrological factors affecting you right now, I’m fantasizing about the possibility of a liberating event arriving in your life. Maybe you’ll call on one of your skills in a dramatic way, thereby enhancing your leeway or generating a breakthrough or unleashing an opportunity. (Please also re-read your horoscope from last week.)

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “When she spoke of beauty, he spoke of the fatty tissue supporting the epidermis,” wrote short story author Robert Musil. He was describing a conversation between a man and woman who were on different wavelengths. “When she mentioned love,” Musil continued, “he responded with the statistical curve that indicates the rise and fall in the annual birthrate.” Many of you Virgos have the flexibility to express yourself well on both of those wavelengths. But in the coming months, I hope you’ll emphasize the beauty and love wavelength rather than the fatty tissue and statistical curve wavelength. It’ll be an excellent strategy for getting the healing you need.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Stand high

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran blogger AnaSofia Cardelle was asked, “What is your signature perfume?” She said she hadn’t found one. But then she described how she would like to smell: “Somewhere between fresh and earthy: cinnamon

long enough and your lightning will come,” writes Piscean novelist William Gibson. He isn’t suggesting that we literally stand on top of a treeless hill in a thunderstorm and invite the lightning to shoot down through us. More realistically, I think he means that we should devotedly cultivate and discipline our highest forms of expression so that when inspiration finds us, we’ll be primed to receive and use its full power. That’s an excellent oracle for you.

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