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I was studying pre-Med in college, in hopes of becoming a medical doctor. Things were looking up, and life was good, until things took a turn for the worse. I began to have terrible back and stomach problems. For a young guy, I felt pretty rotten. My back hurt so badly that I had a hard time even concentrating in class. I was miserable. The medical doctors tried different drugs, but they only made me feel like I was in a “cloud.” I was just not getting better.

A friend of mine convinced me to give a chiropractor a try. The adjustment didn’t hurt, it actually felt good. I got relief, and I soon was off all medication. It worked so well that I decided, then and there, to become a chiropractor myself. Now for my kids, Hayden and Henry. They have been under chiropractic care their entire lives. And, unlike most other kids in their class, they never get the “common” childhood illnesses like ear infections, asthma and allergies. In fact, they have never taken a drug in their lives. And they are now 23 and 24!

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Moon Shot Great—Gov. Moonbeam II can panic about a “youth vaping epidemic,” but he can’t take decisive action to ban from California an industry that’s dooming human lives and biotic diversity and water quality: the hydraulic fracturing criminal syndicate (“The Nugget,” Sept. 25). Gavin, you’re a dimwit, and worse, a collaborator. Karma’s gonna catch up with you.

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Raving Review It doesn’t make sense to compare two different productions of two different plays as if they were written and performed with the same artistic intent (“Self Aware,” Sept. 15). Does room for meaningful reflection mean that the action of the play is interrupted now and then in order for the audience to reflect on the ideas presented? Does the play have a focus? Is it about all the tender and tense moments that comprise a relationship? Or about how different women view their bodies in relation to art and sexuality? How being on the spectrum can lead to funny moments? What’s

Country Classic Ken Burns kicks it. BY E.G. SINGER

ocumentarian Ken Burns delivers an extraordinary series, Country Music, that holds up a mirror to reflect the people and country we were and are. Diligent research, photographic and film archives, interviews and performances make it clear—this genre of music represents many cultures within our nation.

The story encompasses 70 years, from the 1920s to the mid1990s. During that time, musical instruments originating in Europe and Africa found adopted homes in the social and cultural environments of the rural Southern United States and Appalachia, before spreading westward through Oklahoma, Texas, the Mexican border and eventually to California. Tunes became infused with the playing of fiddles, guitars and other stringed instruments, as well as with gospel, to lift the spirits and bodies of disenfranchised and hard-working people worn down by their day’s labor. The stories told through song reveal the trademarks of human experience, some of it very difficult. As the country went through its own growing pains during the 20th century, so did country music—reinventing itself often. Many artists rebelled and sought experimentation and inclusion, both musically and culturally, allowing the tent to become large enough for all. The music not only survived, but thrived and was revitalized. But country music was not without its casualties. Many performers suffered extreme poverty growing up. Haunted by trauma, alcohol and pills, some could not escape their wounds and unrelenting demons. To their credit, these courageous and sensitive men and women were able to capture—through their plaintive lyrics, expressive voices, harmonies and melodies—the sadness and joy of their imperfect lives, live, on the phonograph record and over the airwaves. Their gift—a collective reflection and remembrance for their listeners and a reminder of our own common humanity. E.G.Singer lives in Santa Rosa. We welcome your contribution. To have your topical essay of 350 words considered for publication, write openmic@bohemian.com.

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BURNED OUT Journey’s End, October 2017

Trailer Park Blues Santa Rosa mobile park faces uncertain future BY WILL CARRUTHERS

early two years after the North Bay fires burned more than half the homes in Santa Rosa’s Journey’s End mobile home park, the Santa Rosa City Council is considering legislation to speed the closure process for the park, opening the possibility for a new housing project on the property.

Although Journey’s End is located just across Highway 101 from Coffey Park (the singlefamily home neighborhood that the fires also seriously damaged), the two neighborhoods are at very different points in their recovery. Coffey Park is well on the way to being rebuilt, but Journey’s End still looks much as it did after the fires. The delayed rebuilding process has, in part, to do with the park’s zoning and state rules governing mobile homes, long

a form of affordable housing in a state with sky-high housing prices. Unlike single and multi-family housing developments, the California Department of Housing and Community Development regulates mobile home parks and the city requires park owners to file a special report in order to close the park However, the city of Santa Rosa needs to update its rules for park closures with new regulations

for parks damaged in natural disasters, says David Guhin, Santa Rosa’s planning and economic development director. Once Journey’s End is formally closed, the property will be one step closer to a new beginning. Affordable housing developer Burbank Housing floated the idea of building housing on the land and giving preference to the former Journey’s End residents. In February, Kaiser Permanente chipped in $1.6 million to cover planning and design costs for the future development. Representatives from Burbank told the North Bay Business Journal the same month that it expected the project to take five years and $85 million to complete. The article did not specify how many units the project might include; however, it does state that Burbank “has control” over the property. Since then, Burbank has remained quiet about its plans. The developer has not applied for planning permits at Journey’s End—at this point that would be a premature step since the land is still zoned for a mobile home park, not conventional housing— and did not respond to the Bohemian’s request for comment in time for the paper’s deadline this week. On Sept. 30, the Press Democrat reported that Burbank would “take the lead” on the closure of Journey’s End. In order to build a multi-family housing development, Burbank will have to apply to change the zoning of the property. The property is currently zoned as a mobile park. The property owner did not respond to a request for comment. The city is taking the project one step at a time, with no specific plans about the future use of the land, according to Guhin. That said, the destruction of more than onehundred homes at Journey’s End was a big loss for the city’s affordable housing stock. Guhin calls mobile homes a “critical affordable housing source” for the city. “Replacing those units with mobile homes or another form of affordable housing will be paramount,” Guhin says.

The ordinance under consideration at the council’s Oct. 1 meeting would alter a 1996 city code requiring mobile home parks to file a report outlining the reasons for and possible effects of their closing. The current code does not describe the process of closing a park due to damage caused by a disaster, such as a catastrophic fire. In this case, the 2017 fires. The proposed amendment is part of Santa Rosa’s new Resilient City Combining District, a special zoning district created after the fires to help spur rebuilding in fire-affected areas.

“In an age where glossy lifestyle magazines for millennials feature tiny homes and manicured microhouses, mobile homes suffer from a lack of branding.” Although three Santa Rosa mobile home parks were partially damaged in the fires, the ordinance only applies to parks that lost more than 50 percent destroyed. Currently, Journey’s End—which lost 116 of 160 homes during the fires—would be the only park affected by the policy change. The proposed ordinance makes several other changes to the standard closure report procedure aimed at speeding up the Journey’s End closure process. Under the proposed ordinance, a public outreach period will be reduced from 30 to 15 days; the applicant alone will decide on a consultant to prepare a closure

report, instead of coming to an agreement with a representative of park residents; and the final decision will go directly to the City Council rather than the Planning Commission. The closure process for Journey’s End is further complicated because no one currently resides on the property because the California Department of Housing and Community Development, the agency that regulates mobile home parks, deemed the heavily damaged park unlivable, even for those residents whose homes did not burn down.

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D EBRIEF ER The Seashore will not release the public comments for several months, according to Gunn. Already, elk advocates are criticizing the process. “I have helped to collect hundreds of comments from other citizens who also want the park to choose wildlife protection and restoration and to phase out ranching,” forELK founder Diana Oppenheim writes in a letter to park Superintendent Cicely Muldoon. Melanie Gunn and the NPS refuse to accept those comments, stating a policy of not accepting bulk comments. “We can’t accept comments that have been submitted on behalf of others,” Gunn states. “So, we let that individual know, as soon as we got them, that she could take them back and ask individuals to send them.”

Rut Causes Although Point Reyes Station catches more than a few sun rays on a recent late-summer day, the northern tip of the Seashore, which is administered by the National Park Service, gets the Pacific Ocean’s full fog-machine treatment. At historic Pierce Point Ranch, a windbreak of gnarled trees just beyond the parking lot is hardly visible. Yet the bugling of unseen male tule elk is as clear as a bell. The term, “bugling,” with its upbeat, brass instrument connotations, doesn’t do justice to this haunting screech that’s about as wild as it gets, just an hour north of the Golden Gate. The rut, when male elk (called bulls) compete for influence with groups of females (cows), takes place from August to October, and it’s one of the Seashore’s many natural resource features—along with whale and elephant seal viewing—that draw up to 2.4 million visitors each year. There are plenty of other bulls and cows to see here, too. More than 5,700 dairy cows and cattle graze on Seashore land leased to dairy and beef operations. But considering

their smaller number, about 750 animals in free-ranging herds and fenced in at Pierce Point, the tule elk surely rank highly among visitors. “It’s not a popularity contest,” says Melanie Gunn, outreach coordinator for the Seashore, about the latest invitation for public comments on the Seashore’s plans to manage ranches and elk in the future. The comment period for the General Management Plan Amendment Draft Environmental Impact Statement closed on Sept. 23. “One really important thing for people to realize,” Gunn clarifies, “…it’s not a vote. And we try to make that clear to people. What we’re looking for is substantive information to inform the process.” Previously, the Park sought to implement an updated Ranch Management Plan (RMP), consulting the public in a series of workshops and comment periods. But a coalition of environmental groups, frustrated that the process did not include an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), sued and halted it. “Every park does it that way when they make a big management decision,” says Jeff Miller, a conservation advocate for the Center for Biological

Diversity. “They do that through an environmental review.” The park was trying to skip that step, according to Miller, who traces his activism in the park to family hiking trips when the Seashore opened in the 1960s. “When the park service tried to float the ranch plan, killing the elk was the last straw.” The Amendment Draft now includes a more specific plan, “Alternative B,” to lethally remove elk from a contentious herd that shares pasture with cows, while extending ranch leases to 20-year terms. This is the NPS’s “preferred alternative.” The statement does mention five more alternatives, from “no action” to “cessation of ranching operations.” “It wasn’t about kicking ranchers out, which is what ranchers fall back on when anyone asks questions,” says Susan Ives, whose organization, Restore Point Reyes Seashore, encourages public commentary on the plan. “It’s how to restore the native prairie—let’s try to bring back some of these native plants that are on the brink,” says Ives, who does not view the preferred alternative as an acceptable compromise. “There really weren’t a lot of alternatives that we could support.”

A preview of comments provided to the Pacific Sun highlight the disconnect between the Park Service mission, the environmental findings of the EIS and the preferred alternative. Among writers offering substantive perspectives, Ken Brower, who watched as a “fly on the wall” as his father, David Brower, worked with ranchers and politicians to establish the park, writes, “It is a historical falsehood—despite the widespread myth otherwise—that the park’s founders ever intended that ranching be permanent.” Judd A. Howell, former ecologist and research scientist at Golden Gate National Recreation Area, questions why the Seashore’s 5,700 cattle units cannot tolerate 124 elk among them. “The notion that elk are a ‘problem’ is obviously misguided, since elk coexist with cattle on BLM and Forest Service grazing lands throughout the western U.S.,” he says. It remains to be seen how many of the 7,000-plus comments received weigh in for or against the preferred alternative. Some may be classified as opinion only, and will not be incorporated at all, says Gunn. But they won’t be lost in the fog. “We provide a response to those comments.”

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Healdsburg offers a really tastylooking recipe on their website—a foraged mushroom and steak pierogi, stop the presses!—that they recommend you pair with one of their Cabernets. Go for it. More traditional versions include pierogi stuffed with cabbage or sauerkraut The Rodney Strong recipe is simple enough and looks like a fun way to spend a weekend afternoon when the only high crime or misdemeanor you’ll have to worry about is an abuse of flour. There’s

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despite whatever the guy on the other end of the phone is saying or sort-of threatening. The North Bay doesn’t have to worry about a lack of any reciprocal relationship with Ukraine, especially when it comes to food. For instance, an earlySeptember festival of Ukrainian foods and music took place in the City of Sonoma in early September (and how we pine for those recent and comparatively innocent days of preimpeachment yore!). The festival was, according to the Sonoma Press Index report, a serious and seriously fun event with authentic eats from Ukraine—wine herring, smoked mackerel, eggplant relish, pear soda—and all sorts of traditional music from the former Soviet republic. The Sonoma Ukraine event had a deadly serious mission along with the celebration, reported the Sonona paper. Organizer Tarney Baldinger, besides making the eggplant relish, was on hand to raise money for a Ukrainian warzone hospital and to help families of Ukrainian war veterans. Baldringer was also collecting clothing, medical supplies, “fabric for camouflage nets and pads for

tank seats, underwear for soldiers and men’s socks” at the event. Hey, it wasn’t quite $250 million in American military aid to help Ukraine stave off further Russian aggression on its eastern border, but then again, nobody was extorted to dig dirt on Sonoma’s city council in exchange for the assistance to Ukrainian war victims. The North Bay has already dealing with the long hand of Washington when it comes to the Ukraine, its culture and people. Mexican immigrants aren’t the only immigrants on Stephen Miller’s list of unfriendlies, apparently: Last year, the longstanding Worlds Friends Dinner in Sebastopol got caught up in international immigration affairs after Ukrainian students’ visas were denied and they couldn’t come to town for for the annual event. Maybe there was a perfect conversation with a Ukrainian leader over the past year, or maybe not, but the World Friends Day is back at full multicultural strength on Nov. 4. It’s being billed as “Where Sushi meets Borsch” and celebrates Sebastopol’s sistercityhood with Takeo, Japan and Chyhyryn, Ukraine.

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these more far-flung regions, there are few wineries but many isolated pockets of vineyard, best seen and felt on a bike ride—a terroir experience that’s rewarding even without opening a bottle. But, we will open that bottle. The Piccolo: Dutton Estate 2017 Dutton Palms Russian River Valley Chardonnay ($49) Anyone who can ride 30 miles out and back from Santa Rosa is no slouch, and this Chardonnay is no slouch, either. Picked from the vineyard that surrounds the family’s estate home on a hill in a picturesque little valley west of Graton, this dry-finishing wine is made with 40 percent new French oak, yet it’s just vanilla frosting on the apple cake, in flavor, not the butterball that some associate with California Chardonnay. The Medio plus Willow Creek: Bohème 2015 Stuller Vineyard Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir ($55) I cheated on the biking bit: I drove my car to this little Occidental tasting room to get an updated tasting note, but found that it’s much the same as the 2008 that I tasted way back when: “From a vineyard nestled in a bowl of trees, peeks in and out of vanilla, potpourri and savory marjoram aromas, but the plum fruit flavor is zaftig and fresh.” Ditto for the 2015, and the 2013, which is also still on offer, but even more silky and sumptuous. These wines are some of Sonoma Coast’s hidden gems. The Gran: Red Car 2013 Fort Ross-Seaview Syrah ($55) Where King Ridge meets Hauser Bridge before a notoriously steep descent, Red Car’s estate vineyard hugs the road. This neighborhood is lousy with big names in Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir, but the underappreciated varietal here is the Syrah. Ever been skeptical about a tasting note about “grilled blueberries”? This is it, for reals. Smoky, Malbec-like, road-tar aromas also come to mind, but when this wine hits the palate, it’s all about tangy, fresh plum skin sensations. If you prefer the Pinot from this Sonoma Coast locale, the tantalizingly aromatic, olallieberry and cherry scented, dry-finishing Red Car 2015 Fort Ross-Seaview Pinot Noir ($75) is much more than the region’s medio, indeed.

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ome breathe through scuba gear, while others hold their breath—and each carries a large rock. Until several years ago, these recreational divers preferred to spend a weekend visit to the North Coast diving for abalone—the giant, prized sea snails. This last month, though, they spent hours smashing purple sea urchins. “We’ve been hearing other divers already saying they’re seeing fewer urchins,” says Josh Russo, the president of the

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Russo’s group represents just one faction of a broader community of divers, commercial fishermen, biologists and state officials hoping to cull a plague of millions of purple urchins laying waste to the North Coast’s once lush and abundant kelp forests, bringing down an entire ecosystem with the iconic macroalga.

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FOUR PAWS PET RANCH

BEST ANIMAL ADOPTION CENTER NAPA

WINE COUNTRY ANIMAL LOVERS SONOMA

HUMANE SOCIETY OF SONOMA COUNTY

NAPA

JAMESON ANIMAL RESCUE RANCH SONOMA

FORGOTTEN FELINES OF SONOMA COUNTY

BEST ANIMAL HOSPITAL NAPA

NAPA SMALL ANIMAL HOSPITAL SONOMA

VCA PETCARE EAST VETERINARY HOSPITAL

BEST VETERINARY SERVICES

BEST BOUTIQUE HOTEL NAPA

MOUNT VIEW HOTEL & SPA SONOMA

HOTEL HEALDSBURG

NAPA

BEAU FLEURS SONOMA

CITY 205 FLOWERS

BEST LINGERIE SHOP NAPA

KNICKERS & PEARLS

NAPA

SONOMA

BEST EROTICA STORE

CALISTOGA PET CLINIC ANIMAL HEALING ARTS

romance BEST PLACE FOR SINGLES TO MEET NAPA

NAPASPORT STEAKHOUSE

IRENE’S FITTING ROOM

NAPA

PLEASURES UNLIMITED MILK & HONEY

BEST SEX THERAPIST NAPA

NAPA VALLEY COUPLES THERAPY CENTER SONOMA

BARBARA DAUGHERTY

BEST ROMANTIC DINNER

BEST COUPLES COUNSELING

NAPA

BOUCHON BISTRO SONOMA

CA’BIANCA

BEST STAYCATION NAPA

SPA SOLAGE SONOMA

FLAMINGO CONFERENCE RESORT & SPA HOTEL

BEST PINOT NOIR

SONOMA

SONOMA SPEAKEASY

THANK YOU!

BEST FLORIST

NAPA

DENNYSE STANFORD, PHD

8 PINOTS TO CHOOSE FROM!

SONOMA

KEVIN RUSSELL, MFT

BEST WEDDING EVENT PLANNER NAPA

ROQUE EVENTS PRODUCTION DESIGN SONOMA

NICKI WOLFE EVENTS + SPACES

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BEST OUTDOOR ART EVENT SONOMA COUNTY ART TRAILS

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BEST WEDDING RECEPTION VENUE NAPA

V. SATTUI WINERY SONOMA

OLYMPIA’S VALLEY ESTATE

BEST WEDDING CATERER NAPA

ELAINE BELL CATERING SONOMA

PREFERRED SONOMA CATERERS

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432 Aviation Blvd Santa Rosa

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Airport Health Club

Thank you for your continued support!

BEST WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER NAPA

T. J. SALSMAN PHOTOGRAPHY SONOMA

MARIA VILLANO PHOTOGRAPHY

health & wellness

Call for rates Come by for a tour and see why we’ve been voted best health club in Sonoma County! cardiovascular & strength training • award-winning 50+ programming • Ping Pong childcare & kid’s fitness • bootcamp & zumba • massage & salon services basketball & volleyball • racquetball & tennis • pilates & yoga • indoor cycling pickleball • climbing wall • 3 pools • steam room & hot tubs

NAPA

URGENT CARE, QUEEN OF THE VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER SONOMA

SUTTER URGENT CARE

BEST LASER SURGERY CENTER NAPA

WALTER TOM, MD, AESTHETIC LASER & VEIN CENTERS SONOMA

ARTEMEDICA

BEST LASIK EYE SURGERY NAPA

DR. GREGG BEACH, NAPA VALLEY OPTOMETRIC SONOMA

JAY BANSAL, MD, LASERVUE EYE CENTER

BEST PHARMACY NAPA

SILVERADO PHARMACY SONOMA

TUTTLE’S DOYLE PARK PHARMACY

BEST LOCAL HOSPITAL

BEST NUTRITIONIST

QUEEN OF THE VALLEY, ST. JOSEPH HEALTH

DR. RYAN LAZARUS, MS, CNS, DC

NAPA

SONOMA

KAISER PERMANENTE

MARY SHEILA GONNELLA, OCCIDENTAL NUTRITION

BEST HEALTHCARE CLINIC

BEST HEART SURGEON

QUEEN OF THE VALLEY, ST. JOSEPH HEALTH

GAN H. DUNNINGTON, MD, ADVENTIST HEALTH

SONOMA

NAPA

Let us help you meet your goals!

BEST URGENT CARE CENTER

NAPA

SONOMA

BEST HOME HEALTHCARE PROVIDER

BEST PLASTIC SURGEON

WEST COUNTY HEALTH CENTERS

NAPA

HIRED HANDS HOMECARE SONOMA

AT YOUR SERVICE HOME CARE

SANJAY C. DHAR, MD, SUTTER HEALTH

NAPA

STEVEN C. HERBER, MD, ADVENTIST HEALTH SONOMA

VICTOR LACOMBE, MD, ARTEMEDICA

NAPA

SEAN ROBERT KAER, MD, KAISER PERMANENTE

BARRY, LM, SONOMA COUNTY MIDWIVES

SONOMA

BEST ONCOLOGIST

DENISE COOLURIS, ND, HILL PARK INTEGRATIVE MEDICAL CENTER

BEST GENERAL PRACTICE PHYSICIAN NAPA

DELTA RUSCHEINSKY, MD, NAPA VALLEY MEDICAL GROUP SONOMA

TRINA BOWEN, WEST COUNTY HEALTH CENTERS

BEST INTERNAL MEDICINE PHYSICIAN NAPA

RUTH D. WILSON, MD, QUEEN OF THE VALLEY, ST. JOSEPH HEALTH SONOMA

GARY M. NICHOLS, MD, SUTTER HEALTH

BEST PEDIATRICIAN NAPA

ALLISON CRISP, DO SONOMA

THOMAS J. ZEMBAL, MD, SUTTER HEALTH

BEST OB/GYN NAPA

CANDACE THEAL WESTGATE, DO, ADVENTIST HEALTH SONOMA

AMY MERCHANT, MD, AISER PERMANENTE

BEST MIDWIFE NAPA

CLAUDETTE COUGHENOUR, CPM, NEW LIFE BIRTHING SERVICES SONOMA

NAPA

ARI UMUTYAN, MD, ST. JOSEPH HEALTH, QUEEN OF THE VALLEY SONOMA

IAN ANDERSON, MD, ST. JOSEPH HEALTH

BEST ER DOCTOR NAPA

ROBERT KLINGMAN, MD, ST. JOSEPH HEALTH, QUEEN OF THE VALLEY SONOMA

JOSHUA B. WEIL, MD, KAISER PERMANENTE

BEST ALLERGIST NAPA

NORTH BAY ALLERGY & ASTHMA SONOMA

STEPHEN ZILBER, LAC, ALLERGY RELIEF CENTER OF SONOMA COUNTY

BEST DERMATOLOGIST NAPA

KARYNNE O. DUNCAN, MD, DUNCAN DERMATOLOGY SONOMA

DALE WESTROM

BEST OPHTHALMOLOGIST NAPA

PAUL ROW, MD, EYE CARE CENTER OF NAPA VALLEY SONOMA

GARY P. BARTH, MD, EYE CARE INSITITUE

BEST ORAL SURGEON NAPA

JON ERIC STEFFENSEN, DDS

LISA TODD, LM, & KATHRYN

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INCREDIBLE CANINE TRAINING CENTER

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SONOMA

THANK YOU NORTH BAY!!!

Best Dog Obedience School 5 YEARS IN A ROW!!!

PAUL J. TIERNAN, DDS

BEST DENTIST NAPA

DARRELL QUIRICI, DDS SONOMA

ANDREW MCCORMICK, DDS

INCREDIBLE CANINE TRAINING CENTER

BEST ENDODONTIST NAPA

BLAKE MCRAY, DDS, MSD SONOMA

T. BRIAN BOZEMAN, DDS

BEST ESTHETIC DENTIST NAPA

ST. HELENA STUDIO OF AESTHETIC DENSTISTRY SONOMA

SEAN WILSON, DDS

OFFERING:

• private sessions • boot camp an intensive 3 week in board program with unlimited owner follow-up

BEST ORTHODONTIST NAPA

MARY COOKE, COOKE ORTHODONTICS SONOMA

TRAINING EVALUATIONS

JOSEPH ELIASON, DDS, SMILE ORTHODONICS

We have over 45 years of experience training dogs and their people. From helping you raise a well adjusted puppy to resolving serious behavioral issues—our expertise gets RESULTS!

BEST ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON

always FREE by appointment

incrediblecanine.com • 707.322.3272

NAPA

RYAN MOORE, MD SONOMA

Thank you clients and friends! Best Divorce Attorney Sonoma County

KARA M. OLHISER FAMILY LAW ATTORNEY AND MEDIATOR

CONNER, LAWRENCE, RODNEY, OLHISER & BARRETT, LLP Collaborative Practice Center 829 Sonoma Ave., Santa Rosa, CA 95404 707.523.0480 | kolhiser@clrob.com

BRIANT SMITH, MD, SUTTER HEALTH

BEST CHIROPRACTOR NAPA

DR. SCOTT HEUN, HEUN CHIROPRACTIC, INC. SONOMA

JACOB QUIHUIS, THE CHIROPRACTIC CENTER

BEST ACUPUNCTURIST NAPA

LESLIE SILVER ACUPUNCTURE SERVICES

SONOMA

JENNIFER MONIN, LAC, HILL PARK INTEGRATIVE MEDICAL CENTER

BEST HOLISTIC PRACTITIONER NAPA

JENNIFER DEIR, ND, NAPA NATURAL MEDICINE SONOMA

JOSHUA MARGOLIS, LAC, DOMTP, FARMACOPIA

BEST HOLISTIC HERBAL SHOP NAPA

NATURE’S SELECT SONOMA

FARMACOPIA

BEST PHYSICAL THERAPIST NAPA

ERIC ROBINSON, PT, NAPA VALLEY PHYSICAL THERAPY CENTER SONOMA

PAT HALL, PT, SANTA ROSA ORTHOPAEDICS

BEST SPORTS MEDICINE SPECIALIST NAPA

STEPHEN JOHN FRANZINO, MD, NAPA SPORTS MEDICINE & ORTHOPAEDICS SONOMA

TY P. AFFLECK, MD, SUTTER

BEST SPA/ HOT TUB STORE NAPA

NAPA VALLEY HOT TUBS SONOMA

CALIFORNIA CUSTOM HOT TUBS

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The Bohemian Best of 2020

Readers Poll

Vote online at bohemian.com (mailed ballots will not be counted)

The Bohemian publishes the North Bay’s longest running Best Of contest and we owe it all you the reader. We know a thing or two about what makes the North Bay special, but we certainly don’t know as much as the collective braintrust of Bohemian readers. We depend on all of you to ferret out the best taquerias, barber shops, dentists, brew pubs and everything in between. Some winners will no doubt be old favorites while others will rise to topple perennial victors. It’s up to you to tell us what’s cool and great about North Bay people and places. Armed

with that knowledge, we’ll then package it all up, come up with a clever, creative theme and then share your findings with the larger world. This year we’ve made a slight change. While we continue to celebrate all things indie and local (no chain stores allowed), we’re allowing votes for businesses that began in the North Bay but have expanded into other areas and those have been scooped up by larger companies—so long as you think they’re still cool. So think about what you love about the North Bay and vote! The deadline is December 31st. —The Editor

A few online voting rules:

Important! Check one of the following.

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My selections are for:

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Deadline for online ballots is December 31, 2019

Include your name and a daytime phone number Ballots are confidential, but you may be called to confirm your vote Only 20 ballots per IP address

First Place Winners will be chosen

Bohemian staff members, contributors, advertisers and their families may vote

Art & Culture

Best Art Gallery Best Ballet Company Best Band Best Charity Event Best Comedy Night Best Cover Band Best Dance Studio Best Festival Best Film Festival Best Indy Filmmaker Best LGBTQ Event Best Media Personality: TV, Radio, Print Best Movie Theater Best Museum Best Music Festival Best Music Venue Best Outdoor Art Event Best Outdoor Music Festival Best Outdoor Music Venue Best Performing Arts Center Best Performing Dance Company Best Photo Services Best Place to Dance Best Theater Troupe Best Videographer

Recreation

Best Bike Route/Trail Best Bike Shop Best Cycling Event

☐ Sonoma County ☐ Napa County Keep your votes to locally born businesses!

Best Gym Best Health Club Best Hiking Trail Best Horse Back Riding Best Martial Arts School Best Outdoor Adventure Tour Best Park Best Personal Trainer Best Pilates Studio Best Skate Shop Best Surf Shop Best Swimming Pool Best Tai Chi⁄Qigong Instructor Best Water Sports Company Best Yoga Studio Best Yoga Winery Experience

Food & Drink

Best Art Inspired Winery Best Bakery Best Bar Best Bartender Best BBQ Best Beer Label Best Bourbon Best Breakfast Best Brew Pub Best Brunch Best Burger Best Business Lunch Best Butcher Shop

Best Cabernet Best Cafe⁄Coffeehouse Best Caterer Best Chardonnay Best Cheese Shop Best Chef Best Chinese Best Chocolatier Best Cider Best Cocktails Best Craft Beer Selection Best Craft Brew Event Best Craft Canned Beer Best CSA (community supported agriculture) Best Diner Best Dining After 10pm Best Dive Bar Best Eco-Friendly Winery Best Emerging Winery (less than 1 year) Best Farmers Market (specify location) Best Food Delivery Best Food Producer Best Food Truck Best French Best Fried Chicken Best Frozen Yogurt Best Gin Best Gluten-Free Menu Option Best Happy Hour Best Ice Cream

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Best Indian (must specify town & complete biz name) Best Italian Best Japanese/Sushi Best Latin American Best Local Coffee Roaster Best Locally Made Food Product Best Mediterranean (must specify town & complete biz name) Best Mexican (must specify town & complete biz name) Best Micro Distillery Best Microbrew Best New Restaurant Best Outdoor Dining Best Pet-Friendly Winery Best Pinot Noir Best Pizza Best Port Best Ramen Best Restaurant Best Restaurant with a View Best Rosé Wine Best Rum Best Sandwich Shop Best Sausage Maker Best Sauvignon Blanc Best Seafood Best Server⁄Restaurant Best Sommelier Best Sparkling Wine Best Spot to Dine Solo Best Syrah Best Tea Shop⁄Cafe Best Thai (must specify town & complete biz name) Best Vegan Menu Best Vegetarian Best Vietnamese Best Vodka Best Whiskey Best Wine Club Best Wine Education Experience Best Wine & Food Experience Best Wine Grower Best Wine Label Best Wine List Best Wine Made From Sustainably Grown Grapes Best Winemaker Best Winery Charity Event Best Winery Event Best Winetasting Room Best Zinfandel

Family

Best Animal Adoption Center Best Animal Hospital Best Animal Rescue Group Best Baby Gift Store Best Birthday Party Place Best Children’s Clothing Store Best Children’s Consignment Store Best Children’s Educational Center Best Children’s Indoor Sports Center Best Children’s Museum Best Dog Obedience School Best Dog Park Best Doggie Day Care Best Kennel

Best Pet Boutique Best Pet⁄Feed Store Best Private School Best Public School Best Summer Day Camp Best Toy Store Best Veterinary Services

Home Improvement

Best Appliance Store⁄Repair Best Architect Best Carpet Cleaning Best Carpeting⁄Flooring Best Cleaning Service Best Contractor (Commercial) Best Contractor (Residential) Best Deck & Fencing Best Demolition Firm Best Electrician Best Emergency Preparedness Service Best Furniture⁄Home Furnishings Best Green Builder Best Hauling Best Home Improvement Store Best Interior Designer Best Kitchen⁄Bath Remodeler Best Landscape Design Company Best Landscape Supplier Best Landscaper Best Mortgage Broker Best Moving & Storage Best Paint Supplier Best Painting Contractor Best Plumber Best Real Estate Agent⁄Firm Best Roofer Best Self-Storage Best Solar Supplier Best Tree Service Best Window Cleaners

Romance

Best Boutique Hotel Best Couples Counseling Best Erotica Store Best Flower Farm Best Lingerie Shop Best Place for Singles to Meet Best Romantic Dinner Best Sex Therapist Best Staycation Best Wedding Caterer Best Wedding Event Planner Best Wedding Officiant Best Wedding Photographer Best Wedding Reception Venue

Beauty, Health & Wellness Best Acupuncturist Best Allergist Best Assisted Living Facility Best Barber Best Chiropractor Best Day Spa Best Dentist

Cannabis

Best Attorney—Cannabis Best Cannabis Body Care Best Cannabis Event Best Cannabis Label Best CBD Product Best Edibles Best Hydroponic Supply Store Best Medical Dispensary Best Mobile Delivery Best Pipe Shop Best Therapeutic Product

Everyday

Best Accountant Best Ad Agency Best Antique Shop Best Art Supply Store Best Attorney—Bankruptcy Best Attorney—Business Best Attorney—Civil Best Attorney—Criminal

Best Attorney—Divorce Best Attorney—Intellectual Property Best Attorney—Labor & Employment Best Attorney—Real Estate Best Attorney—Trusts and Estates Best Auto Dealer Best Auto Detailing Best Auto Glass Repair Best Auto Repair Best Bank—Business Best Bank—Consumer Best Body-Art⁄Piercing Place Best Bookstore—New Best Bookstore—Used Best Car Audio Best Casino Best Chamber of Commerce Best Church Best Clothing Alterations Best Clothing Store—Men’s Best Clothing Store—Women’s Best Costume⁄Festival Apparel Shop Best Co-Working Office Space Best Credit Union Best Culinary Store Best Digital Creative Services Best Ethnic Market Best Event Production Services Company Best Fashion Jewelry Store Best Financial Advisor Best Fine Jewelry Store Best Framing Shop Best Gift Shop Best Green Business Best Grocery Store Best Home Audio Best Insurance Agent Best Jewelry Repair Best Law Firm Best Locally Made Retail Product Best Mortuary Best Motorcycle⁄Scooter Shop Best Musical Instruments Store Best Natural Foods Store Best New Retail Business Best Nonprofit Best Optical Store Best Psychic Best Public Relations Firm Best Record⁄CD Store Best Recycling Center Best Repair (Computer) Best Repair (Phone) Best Resale Store Best Resort & Spa Best Senior Living Facility Best Shoe Repair Best Shoe Store Best Spiritual Leader Best Tire Shop Best Transportation Best Travel Agency Best Vape Shop Best Vintage Clothing Store

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Best Dermatologist Best Endodontist Best ER Doctor Best Esthetic Dentist Best Eye Lash Extensions and⁄or Brow Enhancements Best Family Practitioner Best Full-Service Beauty Salon Best General Practice Physician Best Hair Salon Best Health Care Clinic Best Heart Surgeon Best Holistic Herbal Shop Best Holistic Practitioner Best Home Health Care Provider Best Internal Medicine Physician Best Laser Surgery Center Best Lasik Eye Surgery Best Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) Best Local Hospital Best Marriage Family Therapist (MFT) Best Massage Services Best Midwife Best Nail Services Best Nutritionist Best OB⁄Gyn Best Oncologist Best Ophthalmologist Best Oral Surgeon Best Orthodontist Best Orthopedic Surgeon Best Pediatrician Best Pharmacy Best Physical Therapist Best Plastic Surgeon Best Psychiatrist Best Psychologist Best Rehabilitation Center Best Skin Care Spa Best Spa⁄Hot Tub Store Best Spray Tan Best Sports Medicine Specialist Best Urgent Care Center Best Waxing Studio Best Wellness Retreat

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BEST SPOT TO DINE SOLO

BEST HAPPY HOUR

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BEST RESIDENTIAL CONTRACTOR BEST GREEN BUILDER

BEST PIZZA BEST DINING AFTER 10PM BEST CRAFT BEER SELECTION

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Sonoma County

VOTE A CLEAN APPROACH TO A DIRTY JOB

BEST DOGGIE DAYCARE BEST KENNEL BEST DOG OBEDIENCE

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Sonoma County

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BEST AUTO REPAIR

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BEST RESALE STORE

BEST CHOCOLATIER

www.restylemarketplace.com

www.sonomachocolatiers.com

Sonoma County

Best toy store Sonoma County sonomatoyworks.com

SPARC.CO

NAPA

BARBARA REISMAN, MD SONOMA

ORREN PERLMAN, MD

BEST MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPIST NAPA

ELIZABETH ELLSWORTH, MFT SONOMA

KEVIN RUSSELL, MA, MFT

BEST LICENSED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER

SONOMA

home improvement

OSMOSIS DAY SPA SANCTUARY

NAPA

BEST REAL ESTATE BROKER

SONOMA

ARTURO RAMIREZ, SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY

ELAINA SCRUTCHINS, LCSW ELLEN L. BOWEN MSW, LCSW

BEST PSYCHOLOGIST NAPA

PATRICIA GRAY, PSYCHOLOGIST, PSYD, JD SONOMA

LOUISE PACKARD, PHD

BEST REHABILITATION CENTER NAPA

FOCUS FORWARD WELLNESS & PHYSICAL THERAPY SONOMA

SANTA ROSA ORTHOPAEDICS

BEST ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY NAPA

THE MEADOWS OF NAPA VALLEY SONOMA

SOLSTICE SENIOR LIVING AT SANTA ROSA

BEST WELLNESS RETREAT NAPA

INDIAN SPRINGS CALISTOGA

NAPA

Thank You Sonoma County Families! HOME BIRTH MIDWIFERY

SONOMA

PATTY MARKEN, BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS

KathRyn Barry, LM & Lisa Todd, LM

BEST MOVING & STORAGE

• Family-centered full-scope pregnancy and birth care • Water birth • 6 weeks of postpartum and breastfeeding support • 24/7 availability to clients • Free 1-hour initial consultation • Over 20 years of experience

NAPA

BELFOR MOVING SONOMA

REDWOOD MOVING & STORAGE

BEST SELF-STORAGE

490 Pitt Avenue, Sebastopol • 707.293.6612 / 707.486.5275 • SonomaCountyMidwives.com

NAPA

CALISTOGA SELF STORAGE SONOMA

STORAGE MASTER SELF STORAGE

BEST ARCHITECT NAPA

Best Vietnamese Restaurant

MERVIN & MCNAIR ARCHITECTS SONOMA

LARS LANGBERG ARCHITECTS

BEST COMMERCIAL CONTRACTOR

! u o y k n a h T Sonoma County for your continued support. From our family to yours.

NAPA

WILLOUGHBY CONSTRUCTION

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PACATTE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY

BEST RESIDENTIAL CONTRACTOR NAPA

HANES CONSTRUCTION SONOMA

KARMA DOG CONSTRUCTION

BEST GREEN BUILDER NAPA

DEVINE CONSTRUCTION SONOMA

EARTHTONE CONSTRUCTION

BEST ROOFER NAPA

CALIBER ROOFING SONOMA

CAPSTONE ROOFING

BEST SOLAR SUPPLIER NAPA

GREEN STOCK SOLAR SONOMA

VOTED BEST FRAME SHOP

SOLAR WORKS

BEST KITCHEN/BATH REMODELER NAPA

GOOD GUY BUILDERS SONOMA

DESIGNS BY RICK

BEST CARPETING/ FLOORING NAPA

ABBEY CARPETS UNLIMITED SONOMA

ALL PRO FLOORS

Thank You for supporting our Sonoma County legacy! BEST MEN’S CLOTHING STORE

LOUIS THOMAS Fine men’s fashion on a first name basis. Corte Madera 415.924.1715 Petaluma 707.765.1715

Sonoma County’s Premier Frame Shop for over 40 years…and Art Gallery Now inside Corrick’s 637 4th St, Santa Rosa 707.542.3599

BEST PAINTING CONTRACTOR

BEST ELECTRICIAN NAPA

MONTICELLO ELECTRIC SONOMA

SUMMIT ELECTRICAL SUPPLY

BEST PLUMBER NAPA

SHAW PLUMBING SONOMA

ELITE PLUMBING SERVICES

BEST LOCKSMITH NAPA

TAPIA LOCKSMITH SONOMA

LOCK STOP & KEY

BEST DECK & FENCING NAPA

ARBOR FENCE, INC. SONOMA

DECKMASTER FINE DECKS

BEST LANDSCAPER NAPA

HALL LANDSCAPE DESIGN SONOMA

SONOMA MISSION GARDENS

BEST LANDSCAPE DESIGN COMPANY NAPA

THE GARDEN GIRLS SONOMA

PERMACULTURE ARTISANS

BEST LANDSCAPE SUPPLIER NAPA

MID CITY NURSERY SONOMA

URBAN TREE FARM NURSERY

NAPA

BEST TREE SERVICE

SONOMA

LARSON BROTHERS PAINTING COY BROWN PAINTING

NAPA

PACIFIC TREE CARE FINE TREE CARE

NAPA

SONOMA

INSPIRED SPACES

BEST APPLIANCE STORE/ REPAIR NAPA

ST. HELENA APPLIANCE SONOMA

ASIEN’S APPLIANCE

BEST HOME FURNISHINGS NAPA

THE HOME INDEX SONOMA

BEST WINDOW CLEANERS

Best Green Business

NAPA

BLACK RHINO WINDOW CLEANING SONOMA

MATT’S WINDOW CLEANING

BEST HOME ORGANIZER ANGELA HOXSEY, HOUSE IN ORDER

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SONOMA

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COKAS DIKO HOME FURNISHINGS

BEST DEMOLITION FIRM

BEST HOME IMPROVEMENT STORE

E PONCE & SONS

NAPA

SONOMA

BEST HAULING

FRIEDMAN’S HOME IMPROVEMENT

BEST PAINT SUPPLIER NAPA

THE PAINT WORKS SONOMA

HAWLEY’S PAINT STORE

BEST CLEANING SERVICE NAPA

VALENCIA PRO CLEANING AGENCY

5% discount on labor for Go Local Rewards Card holders Premium Maintenance

Includes standard oil and filter change, tire rotation, full service inspection, dealer alternative price. Certain restrictions apply.

ALLEN’S HAULING SONOMA

JUNK KING

cannabis BEST HYDROPONIC SUPPLY STORE NAPA

ENDLESS GREEN SONOMA

BEST CARPET CLEANING NAPA

BEST PIPE SHOP

NATIONAL MULTI STEAM

STARBUZZ SMOKE SHOP

SONOMA

CALIFORNIA STEAM CLEAN

Certified Green Business

NAPA

SONOMA

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Oil Change Special $6999

SONOMA

CENTRAL VALLEY ENVIRONMENTAL

STEVES HARDWARE & HOUSEWARES

Eco-Centric & Tech-Centric Auto Repair

NAPA

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NAPA

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NAPA Co.

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Best Food Truck

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BEST MOBILE DELIVERY SONOMA

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BEST MEDICAL DISPENSARY SONOMA

MERCY WELLNESS OF COTATI

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task—like walking through a thicket of blackberries. The nuisance became a danger under the surface, where the numerous kelp stalks running to the seafloor like vines in a jungle created a drowning hazard. But the kelp today is all but gone, as are the prized sea snails that rely on it. In place of prior ecological diversity are chiefly one thing—purple urchins, tens of millions of them in the shallow waters of the North Coast. The animals proliferated starting about five years ago after a mysterious disease wiped out their main predator, the sunflower sea star. Almost simultaneously, a spell of warm ocean water caused a massive die-off of kelp. Urchins eat kelp, and prevent recovery of the vegetation. Abalone also eat kelp, and with their food source depleted they have starved and died by the millions. Urchins, though, can live for years without eating solid food. For now, the semistarved urchins rule the seafloor, eating any sprouts of kelp that appear and thereby keeping the ecosystem locked in its gray and dreary, barren state. Red sea urchins have also been impacted by the purple urchin scourge. Larger than the purple urchins, reds were until recently the valuable core of a small but thriving commercial market. Now, like the purples, the reds have little to eat, and their prized gonads have withered into unappetizing strips of gray flesh. The North Coast’s commercial urchin diving economy has collapsed. When—and if—all this will change is not clear. Urchin barrens have lasted for decades in other regions, making the future of California’s coastal marine environment look bleak. “These urchin barrens are very different from the barrens we’ve seen before in Southern California, where they were patchy and very small and the kelp system would often bounce back the next year,” Rogers-Bennett says. “These barrens are much more extensive and long-lasting.” In Van Damme cove, a few miles south of Fort Bragg, Russo

anchored four buoys to mark a large quadrant inside of which he and other volunteer divers smash urchins by the thousands. Russo’s plan, independent of more formally guided initiatives, is to create a clearing in the urchin barrens where kelp can potentially take root and grow. “It can’t recover if it can’t even start growing,” he says. The daily recreational bag limit on purple urchins is 35. However, an addendum made this year to state law bumped up the bag limit in Sonoma, Mendocino and Humboldt counties to 40 gallons per day. Russo estimates this equals 600 to 800 pounds of crushed urchins, with three or four urchins to the pound. State law prohibits wanton waste of fish and game, but it allows harvested fish or invertebrates to be used for bait. “We’re baiting with these urchins,” Russo says. “We’re not just smashing them. That would be illegal.” He notes rockfish, surfperch and lingcod swarm around divers as they work. “The law doesn’t say you have to catch what you bait, so we’re just baiting,” he says. Smashing urchins underwater has helped restore urchinated kelp forests before. It proved successful in Southern California, for one, where concentrated efforts to kill the animals allowed denuded giant kelp groves to grow back. But the scale of the problem on the North Coast far surpasses anything seen at any other time in California’s history, and the extensive barrens might prove more than hand-held hammers can undo. Smashing urchins is also controversial because the process can allegedly release eggs and sperm into the water, where the gametes might meet and produce larvae, and eventually more urchins. Russo says so few urchins in the overpopulated areas currently contain viable gonads that the concern is not legitimate. Rogers-Bennett doesn’t feel that citizen groups without scientific permits should be tackling the restoration effort, partly

because of the risk of promoting reproduction. “Most urchins in a barren are sterile, but you do find some that are reproductive,” she says. “We want to be sure nobody is smashing urchins during the reproductive cycle.” Purple urchins usually spawn naturally in winter months. However, she believes in the basic concept of creating bull kelp seed banks. “We need to create small pockets where we can defend the bull kelp,” she says. “This will keep the spore bank alive. If the bull kelp gets totally wiped out, it would make recovery almost impossible.” Another program to thin out the urchins involved sending the harvested animals to a commercial composting site in Ukiah. The Watermen’s Alliance, in fact,sponsored this project. Russo says the organization donated $80,000 last year to support the work of nine commercial urchin boats at several locations, mostly near Fort Bragg. But efforts like this one require volunteers. What’s different about Urchinomics’ proposal is that it creates an economic incentive to harvest the urchins. Proceeds from commercial sales will be used to pay divers, driving a profitable new industry. Urchinomics’ director of global brand marketing Denise MacDonald explains that the plan is to create a California market for purple urchins. She describes a dining arrangement where freshly cracked urchins, their golden uni exposed, are served on the half shell to restaurant diners, much the way an oyster bar works. On a per-urchin basis, proceeds could be substantial—a few dollars per animal—and financially, the model—which is being similarly tested in Japan, Norway and coastal sites in Canada where urchins have taken over the seafloor—looks good. Whether it will operate at a speed sufficient to reduce urchin densities remains the question. Uni is in high demand, ) 18

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seawater. Urchins are valued for their richly flavored golden gonads, or uni. But because these urchins ate their own food supply down to the bare rock, they now persist in a semi-starved state; their gonads have shriveled, turning gray and worthless. But Rogers-Bennett says it takes less than three months to restore them to health, and culinary value, on a diet of dried seaweed pellets. The project is part of an experimental collaboration with a Norwegian company called Urchinomics, which is pursuing a unique business model of making commercial industries out of overpopulated urchins. Scaling up the experiment into a viable business—which could occur over the next few years—will mean building onshore facilities with large tanks and recirculating seawater systems. It could also represent a symbolic step forward for sustainable seafood. “It wouldn’t just be sustainable—it would be restorative, where the more you take, the more you help restore the kelp forests of California,” Rogers-Bennet says. And California is hardly alone as a victim of escalating urchin numbers. In many regions around the world, changing marine conditions—including ocean warming—encourage the spread of urchins, which overwhelm underwater ecosystems when their numbers exceed the environment’s carrying capacity. This happened in Tasmania, Norway and British Columbia, among other regions, where local urchin species proliferated and destroyed once-magnificent kelp beds and seaweed meadows. In their place are what scientists call urchin barrens—rocky underwater seascapes where little but urchins dwell. Urchinomics is conducting trials in all these regions. In Northern California, bull kelp grew so thick as recently as five years ago that it posed a real hazard and a logistical consideration for recreational abalone divers. Often, the kelp was so dense that swimming over the surface became a grueling

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MacDonald says, and supplies are down, partly as a result of spreading urchin barrens. But taking on an urchin barren is no easy task, as overpopulated urchins are notoriously difficult to effectively cull. Mark Carr, a professor of marine ecology at UC Santa Cruz, believes the pace of catching, ranching, selling and serving the urchins may not be fast enough to make a significant dent in the urchin population. “The level of production and consumption is likely to have a pretty minimal effect on the vast current population of urchins on the coast,” he says of the Urchinomics’ business plan. “But having said that, any time you create an industry that might be sustainable out of an outbreak like this, you’re creating jobs and income providing an economic

alternative in areas where fisheries have been impacted.” He points to the spread of invasive lionfish in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico as an example; the introduced fish became pests of locust-like magnitude, and while efforts to fish them into submission didn’t work, they created a sustainable—and, one could say, restorative—fishery. “That just demonstrates adaptive capacity of human communities to respond to these disturbances,” Carr says. In Tasmania, urchin barrens replaced kelp forests over the past several decades. As in California, increasing water temperatures led to a kelp die-off, while the urchins prevented recovery. Scientist Craig Johnson, a biologist at the University of Tasmania, closely studied the local urchin barrens and

19 back into the urchin barrens of California. This would mean catching some in the wild and breeding them in captivity. Since survivors of the sea star die-off of 2013 likely bear genetic resistance to the disease that wiped them out, a newly established population might be able to persist and significantly cull the purple urchins. But in local water, there may not be any sunflower sea star survivors. “Unfortunately, we haven’t seen one since 2014,” says research diver Tristin McHugh, the Northern California regional manager for the seafloor monitoring organization Reef Check. The organization, which uses the help of volunteer scuba divers who count and record marine life, has surveyed California’s coastal ecosystems since 2006. Their data shows the various population trajectories of different species, with bull kelp presence dropping precipitously several years ago as purple urchin counts spiked. Now, says McHugh, patterns in fish abundance may be starting to emerge, with a recent dip in counted fish after a brief spike from 2013 to 2016. She speculates the abrupt loss of kelp made fish more visible to divers, creating an illusion of greater numbers. But the recent drop in observed fish suggests declining populations of rockfish, lingcod and other local species—the probable next victims of an ongoing trophic cascade. Russo says his smashing program is already making a visible difference in the numbers of urchins at Van Damme. “It’s not just us who see it—other divers have been mentioning it,” he says. Russo is optimistic about Urchinomics’ strategy, though he notes harvesting for uni creates demand for larger urchins only, leaving sub-adults and juveniles in place. “But if they go in and take out the big ones, and they let us smash the rest, I think we have a good chance,” he says.

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led experiments in which he introduced lobsters into overpopulated urchin barrens. Lobsters are a natural predator of urchins but have been fished to low levels in much of their range in Australian waters. Working in marine reserves where the lobsters could not be fished, Johnson and colleagues studied the predators’ effects on the urchins. They ate large numbers, he says, but in extensive barrens, the predation was never enough to allow algae to recover. As Johnson explained to this reporter in 2017, “You can pour in as many large lobsters as you like, and they will eat hundreds of thousands of urchins, but they cannot reduce the urchins enough for any kelp to reappear. Even if you turned all those urchin barrens into marine protected areas tomorrow, you could wait 200 years and you still wouldn’t get a kelp forest back.” In ecologists’ jargon, an urchin barren is the alternative stable state to the lush kelp forest. True to the name, a stable state is very stable. That is, unless a tremendous environmental upheaval—like a fast change in water temperature, the outbreak of disease or a predator introduced to the system—dislodges the urchins’ grip on the ecosystem, the urchin plague may never go into remission. As Johnson explains, it takes a great number of urchins to turn a kelp forest into a barren. Thereafter, however, it only requires a relatively small number of urchins to maintain that barren. Put another way, urchins must be almost entirely eradicated from a barren in order for kelp to reclaim the environment. “For all intents and purposes, once you flip to the urchin barren state, you have virtually no chance of recovery,” Johnson says. In Alaska, existing urchin barrens first formed several decades ago, and in Hokkaido, Japan, barrens have lasted for more than 80 years. Some scientists discuss the potential for reintroducing the predatory sunflower sea star

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Nonprofit art sanctuary di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art is a 200-acre oasis of galleries, a Sculpture Park and more. The entire site is on display at this weekend’s di Rosa Days festival, which invites the public to join in a day of activities including art-making stations with Nimbus Arts and Arts Council Napa Valley; an interactive sculptural playground installation by artist and educator May Jong; music by Royal Jelly Jive and others; food, drinks and pop-up talks. Get an all-access look at di Rosa on Saturday, Oct. 5, at 5200 Sonoma Hwy, Napa. Noon. $30; kids are $5. 707.226.5991.

Tracing its roots to the first century, alchemy is one of the most ancient and mysterious of human practices, in which alchemists attempt to change the natural world around them. Much like ancient alchemists, today’s artists often attempt to create new realities in their works. This month’s national juried exhibition at Arts Guild Sonoma, “Alchemy,” explores that concept with works chosen by Jenny Gheith, assistant curator of painting and sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. “Alchemy” opens Thursday, Oct. 3, with a reception on Saturday, Oct. 5, at Arts Guild Sonoma, 140 E Napa St., Sonoma. 5pm. 707.996.3115.

In 2016, Los Angeles actor, comedian and artist Heather Keller‘s world turned upside down when she received a breast cancer diagnosis. Her journey through the ordeal was filled with dramatic moments of love, betrayal, heartbreak and humor; and Keller collects all these moments together for her one-womanshow, Chemo Barbie, which she performs this weekend in Healdsburg. The show received universal acclaim for its mix of laugh-out-loud and life-affirming charm, and Keller will engage in a discussion with the audience following her performance on Sunday, Oct. 6, at Raven Theater, 115 North St., Healdsburg. 2pm. $10–$30. 707.433.6335.

The number of guitarists scheduled to partake in the upcoming Experience Hendrix Tour, a celebration of the music and legacy of Jimi Hendrix, is so extensive that it’s almost hard to believe. The artists appearing at the tour’s show at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts include Billy Cox of Band of Gypsys, Joe Satriani, Taj Mahal, Jonny Lang, Dweezil Zappa and many others joining together to pay homage to one of the greats on Tuesday, Oct. 8, at the LBC, 50 Mark West Springs Rd., Santa Rosa. 8pm. $69–$89. 707.546.3600.

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irector Nancy Kelly has been at her craft long enough to see her only feature film, Thousand Pieces of Gold (1990), come to life not once, but twice.

It concerns Lalu (Rosalind Chao), a Chinese girl sold by her parents and taken to the Old West, followed by her escape and a romance with a sensitive

Westerner (Chris Cooper). In a new 4k restoration, the film will play at the Mill Valley Film Festival on Oct. 6 and at Century Larkspur Oct. 8. The restoration happened thanks to Sandra Schulberg’s Independent Film Project, which saves indie films whose original masters are starting to deteriorate with age. The quality of the 4k restoration left Kelly in tears. “I’ll be struck dead by the film guys for saying

this,” she says, “but it looks better than it did originally.” Kelly and her husband Kenji Yamamoto, who produced and edited, made A Thousand Pieces of Gold on a slim budget. “We raised money but didn’t raise all the money we actually needed,” she says. “We had to find a gold rush town that wasn’t a tourist trap, and we couldn’t afford to take out the parking meters and billboards.”

Kelly heard about Nevada City, Montana. “It’s where they shot Little Big Man. This fanatical collector lived there. Whenever a mining town building was coming down, he’d number all the logs or boards, and transport them and put them back together there. The place had a Chinatown and we needed a Chinatown—as long as we were out of there by Memorial Day we could rent it for an affordable price.” Debuting at the SF International Film Festival, Thousand Pieces of Gold played all over the world. “We were hoping to have a theatrical release, but we left Cannes without a deal,” she says. “After a year we got a small distributor, Graycat Films, and it aired on American Playhouse. Every cable channel ran it when cable was a big deal. When VHS was the latest thing, we sold it to Hemdale. We didn’t have a choice.” The infamous Hemdale Home Video organization siphoned off the money, but happily, Yamamoto and Kelly still own their film. “When I look back on it, I realize that at every point where it got good distribution, things would evaporate,” she says. “Then you wait for the next big thing. We were lucky we had an agent who was honest and kept up with this stuff.” She and Yamamoto headed to L.A. to further their careers, subletting an apartment and getting jobs teaching at UCLA. Kelly recalled, “I went to a lot of meetings, and they’d ask me, ‘what do you want to do?’ And I’d tell them, and their eyes would glaze over. I didn’t have a sense of what would sell. Back then, it wasn’t female-driven films that would sell, and it also wasn’t women directors. The press says that what sells now are ) 22

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Stay Gold ( 21 stories of immigration, stories of women! Things might have changed. But L.A. wasn’t a good home for indies; this is really where we belong.” Kelly is from the working part of the Berkshires. She’s from North Adams, Massachusetts, on the silicon strip of Highway 128, a tech corridor that turned into a rust belt when globalization hit. Kelly later made a film Downside Up, about the beginnings of MassMOCA, the art museum built into the vacant Sprague Electric factory building where her father once worked. Documentaries about art are a specialty of Kelly + Yamamoto; they’ve done short pieces for KQED’s eclectic Spark and a profile of Rene di Rosa of the di Rosa preserve. “I got a degree in public health education, and so I was hired to do five short, dramatic films to teach UMASS Amherst students to drink responsibly,” she says. “I personally did not drink my way to college.” Kelly’s collaborator on the project was the filmmaker Gwendolyn Clancy, currently of Reno. Clancy headed west to Modoc County, and Kelly joined her. The two lived on a ranch for several years. Without film production equipment, much less electricity, it was hard to work. Coming down to San Francisco, Nancy met the SFAI-educated, experimental filmmaker Yamamoto and married him. Recently, Kelly and Yamamoto made a documentary about something that surprised her as a new arrival here. Kelly was in Point Reyes, riding the horse she brought down from Modoc. How could San Francisco be so jam-packed with people and still have all that unspoiled terrain just across the bridge? Nancy Dobbs of KRCB— founder of Sonoma’s only public tv station, who just retired this week—co-produced Kelly and Yamamoto’s Rebels With A Cause. It played Mill Valley in 2012. John Hart’s San Francisco’s Wilderness Next Door and L. Martin Griffin’s Saving the MarinSonoma Coast were Kelly’s guides

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to how a mix of local activism and federal action kept this heavenly domain from becoming a golfcourse-covered purgatory. Kelly hired Frances McDormand, a sometimes-resident of Bolinas, to do the narration. Since Thousand Pieces of Gold, Kelly and Yamamoto developed three feature films; one got as far as the casting stage before the keystone financer felt out. This didn’t stop Kelly, who is developing a new film, provisionally titled When We Were Cowgirls. Regarding her 40-year collaboration with her husband, Kelly notes, “We get along pretty well. Whoever is the director on a project has the last word. Kenji is this happy, cheerful optimistic person, and we fight to have the best first joke of the day. Sometimes I do, sometimes he does.” A word to the young filmmaker? “Oh, God. I think what Kenji said to me when I was ready to give up: nothing in the arts makes any sense. Go in one direction, and you just keep going. Keep getting ideas and doing them. I hope the parents of these young people don’t read that and start crying.” Mill Valley Film Festival takes place Thursday, Oct. 3, through Sunday, Oct. 13, at several venues in and around Mill Valley. For complete schedule and tickets, visit mvff.com.

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t’s a virtual Mermanpalooza in the North Bay as two theatre companies present “musical fables” with Ethel Merman connections. Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse runs Gypsy through Oct. 20 while Sonoma Arts Live runs Merman’s Apprentice, an original musical with a fictional Merman character, through Oct. 13. Merman’s Apprentice is a throwback to the classic Broadway musical—a simple plot, larger-thanlife characters, a little schmaltz and lots of songs to tell its story. Plucky 12-year-old Muriel

‘Merman’s Apprentice’ runs through Oct. 13 at Andrews Hall in the Sonoma Community Center, 276 E. Napa St., Sonoma. Thur–Sat, 7:30pm; Sun, 2pm. $25–$42. 866.710.8942. sonomaartslive.org.

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Plakenstein (plucky 17-year-old Emma Sutherland) runs away to Broadway and runs right into her idol Ethel Merman (Dani Innocenti Beem). Merman, who’s about to begin a short run in Hello, Dolly!, is impressed with Muriel’s knowledge of her career and takes her under her wing. The next thing you know Plakenstein is set to star in an all-juvenile version of Dolly! for producer David Merrick (Patrick Barr). Or is she? Playwright/lyricist Stephen Cole, a friend of Merman’s late in her life, joined up with composer David Evans to come up with this theatrical valentine to her and to Broadway. As the first full production of the show, co-directors Jaime Love and Larry Williams had no playbook to follow. Adding to their challenge, Cole and Evans were present for the final week of rehearsal, so last-minute changes continued to be made. The opening night performance went very well, but a few more changes should be considered. The first act overran a natural concluding moment and continued for two additional songs. The second act ran under 30 minutes. The acts should be better balanced. There’s nary a note of any Merman standard to be heard in the show, but Cole and Evans’ score evokes the feel and sound of classic Broadway with lyrics that are often clever—one jarring anachronism aside. (I highly doubt a song ostensibly written in the 1940’s and sung in 1970 would reference FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in a dress.) Sutherland is a dynamo as the title character. She more than holds her own with the estimable Beem, who catches the essence of Merman while wisely avoiding any attempt at impersonation. There’s a nice ensemble at work, with both Julia Holsworth and Sean O’Brien a lot of fun as Ethel’s Mom and Pop. A theatre-lover’s treat, the exceedingly pleasant Merman’s Apprentice is what All About Eve would have been in the hands of Walt Disney. Rating (out of 5): HHHH

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more like Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Unlike Judy Davis’ superior 2001 version of Garland, this victim is missing the other half of what made the woman behind Dorothy Gale such a sacred monster, a chronic no-shower and a meltdowner. Director Rupert Goold delves for backstory in tinted postcard images of MGM, where Garland underwent a species of child abuse—overwork and over-medication. On stage, after the film’s slow build, the performance of “By Myself” is just about perfect; well orchestrated and reflecting the dazzle Garland emitted. Also affecting is a very touching sequence about a late night with a pair of gay stage door johnnies (Andy Nyman and Daniel Cerquiera), who Judy flusters by revealing that their idol is just a lonely person who’d like to go get some dinner in a city that shuts down at 11pm. (Judy’s production design makes a point: Swinging London took place in a drab, decaying town that badly needed a coat of paint.) There’s a word for a lot of Judy, and that word is schmaltz; I preferred the previous arrangement where she’d sing “Over the Rainbow” and we’d cry, rather than the role reversal here. ‘Judy’ is playing in limited release.

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For Sonoma & Napa’s Best Oct 2 - Dec 31

ast week a man in a brand-new Metallica baseball hat stood outside a West Marin grocery and asked about the breed of a peculiar and hairless dog wandering nearby. “I’ll answer your question,” I responded. “But first—what’s with the Metallica hat? Are you with the band or something?”

The man, who appeared to be in his late 50s, pointed toward the store and said, “We just played with them.” It took a moment for the casual comment to register. What? You just played with Metallica? “Yes,” he responded, affably. His partner was inside shopping. “My husband,” he said, pointing again at the store, “he’s the conductor

of the San Francisco Symphony.” Much laughter ensued and the conductor emerged for the store with his parcel. Michael Tilson Thomas lives in these parts, and the symphony performed two nights of Metallica music, “S&M2,” in early September. It was the second time the Bay Area thrash metal titans have worked with a symphony. A movie of the shows is due out Oct. 9; it will play locally at the Rialto Cinemas in Sebastopol. The men departed. One of the high-holy hippies of West Marin was on the scene and noted, “You know, they say that conductors live longer than anyone—they have the longest life span.” It makes sense, the highholy hippie continued, and we checked off the various reasons why. Consider the aerobic aspect of a conductor fully in his element, for one thing. The musicians focus completely on the conductor as he gyrates and coaxes and persuades them to heights of symphonic glory. That’s ego-gratifying stuff right there, and quite uplifting from a spiritual perspective. Plus, the conductor is the star of the show and he or she’s got their back turned to the audience the whole time. That’s pretty punk rock. The high-holy hippie declared it his favorite interaction of the day, maybe even of the month, and everyone went about their business. Days later, news emerged that Metallica frontman James Hetfield had entered a rehab clinic and the band was canceling tour dates to deal with the shared trauma. Reports highlighted that Hetfield had been sober for 15 years and helped other musicians with their addictions during that time. Then news broke that longtime Grateful Dead lyricist and San Rafael resident Robert Hunter had passed on. A real double-shot of sad news. I always keep the “Uncle John’s Band” lyrics at bay for moments like these—when “life looks like easy street, there is danger at the door.” There’s a beautiful Jerry Garcia Symphony version of the song from Red Rocks that’s seen heavy rotation in my house this week.

Concerts SONOMA Experience Hendrix

Several legendary artists join together to pay homage to Jimi Hendrix. Oct 8, 8pm. $69-$89. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.546.3600.

Geoff Tate

Former member of Queensrÿche celebrates the 30th anniversary of the band’s best-selling prog rock concept album, “Operation: Mindcrime,” by playing it in full. Oct 6, 8pm. $30. The Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington St, Petaluma, 707.762.3565.

Santa Rosa Symphony Conductor Francesco LecceChong and guest pianist Garrick Ohlsson lead the orchestra in a program, “Unmasking the Stars.” Oct 5-7. $24 and up. Green Music Center Weill Hall, 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

NAPA Harvey Mason’s Chameleon

Veteran drummer performs with an ensemble of other jazzy all-stars over the weekend. Times vary. Oct 5-6. $29-$79. Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.880.2300.

It’s a Grand Night for Singers

Music Director Richard B. Evans accompanies singers from all over the Bay Area. Oct 5, 7pm. $20. Jarvis Conservatory, 1711 Main St, Napa, 707.255.5445.

Clubs & Venues SONOMA Aqus Cafe

Oct 4, Sasquatch Prototype. Oct 5, fingerstyle guitar summit with Teja Gerken. Oct 6, 2pm, Two Smooth. 189 H St, Petaluma, 707.778.6060.

The Big Easy

Oct 3, Chris King & the Gutterballs with Kevin Carducci. Oct 4, the Ring and the PBS. Oct

9, Wednesday Night Big Band. 128 American Alley, Petaluma, 707.776.7163.

Brewsters Beer Garden Oct 3, Rusty String Express. Oct 4, Jon Gonzalez String Band. Oct 5, Sausalito Slim & the Jets. Oct 6, Ain’t Misbehavin’. 229 Water St N, Petaluma, 707.981.8330.

Carole L Ellis Auditorium

Oct 6, 4pm, ZOFO Piano Duet. SRJC Petaluma Campus, 680 Sonoma Mountain Pkwy, Petaluma. santarosa.edu.

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Oct 4, Trace Repeat. Oct 5, Greenwaldo. 44F Mill St, Healdsburg, 707.385.9133.

Crooked Goat Brewing Oct 5, 1pm, CGB Oktoberfest with T-Luke & the Tight Suits and Myles & Myles. 120 Morris St, Ste 120, Sebastopol, 707.827.3893.

Elephant in the Room Oct 4, the Highway Poets. Oct 5, Lil Elephant. Oct 6, 6pm, Steve Pile Trio. Oct 8, 6pm, Glitter Fox. 177-A Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, elephantintheroompub.com.

Flamingo Lounge

Oct 4, Mercy & the Heartbeats. Oct 5, UB707. 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa, 707.545.8530.

HopMonk Sebastopol

Oct 3, the Crux with King Dream and Kelly McFarling. Oct 5, Tiger Fresh. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol, 707.829.7300.

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Mystic Theatre & Music Hall

Oct 3, the Human Experience and Gone Gone Beyond. Oct 4, Robert Earl Keen with Waylon Payne. Oct 5, Marian Call. Oct 6, Songhoy Blues. Oct 8, Steel Pulse with Dr Wood. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.775.6048.

Occidental Center for the Arts

Oct 4, SambaNoma. Oct 6, Barbara Higbie and Cris Williamson. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental, 707.874.9392.

Raven Theater

Oct 5, the Julian Lage Trio. 115 North St, Healdsburg, 707.433.3145.

Redwood Cafe

Oct 2, West Coast Songwriters. Oct 3, Awesome Hotcakes. Oct 4, Greenhouse. Oct 6, 4pm, Gypsy Kisses. Oct 7, the Blues Defenders pro jam. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.795.7868. Oct 4, New Hip Replacements. Oct 5, Tilted Halos. 401 Grove St, Sonoma, 707.343.0044.

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Oct 3, Susan Sutton. Oct 4, Valtierra Latin Orchestra. Oct 5, Yancie Taylor. 16280 Main St, Guerneville, 707.869.0501.

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Oct 6, 3:30pm, R&B and the Promise of Z. 19380 Hwy 12, Sonoma, 707.938.7442.

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Oct 3, Todos Santos. Oct 4, the Beer Scouts. Oct 5, Elima. Oct 6, Mike Saliani and friends. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma, 707.778.8776.

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Oct 5, FreQ Nasty with Ahee and Canabass. 130 Stony Point Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.578.1963.

Oct 5, Anthony Presti. 441 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, 707.927.1065.

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Oct 4, Brian Belknap. Oct 5, Charles Paul Henry. Oct 6, 1pm, Matt Bolton. 691 Broadway, Sonoma, 707.935.9100. Oct 5, 6:30pm, Trevor Kinsel Trio. 25 Matheson St, Healdsburg, 707.431.2800.

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Oct 6, 3pm, Rob Watson and friends featuring Vernon Black. 1207 Foothill Blvd, Calistoga, 707.942.5605.

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Oct 5, Nate Lopez. 1141 First St, Napa, 707.224.6664.

CIA at Copia

Oct 5, 6pm, Monica da Silva and Chad Algar. 500 First St, Napa, 707.967.2530.

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Oct 5, the Elvis Outta Rehab Show. 1403 Lincoln Ave, Calistoga, 707.942.9777.

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The Greatest Love Story Ever Sung" Sat 10⁄5 • 7pm ⁄ $28–33 • 21+

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Soiree at the Museum

“Saturday Night Live” alumni, actor and comedian comes to the North Bay. Oct 5, 8pm. $30. Sally Tomatoes, 1100 Valley House Dr, Rohnert Park, 707.665.0260.

Dance Siren’s Studio

Oct 4-7, Sirens Fest, belly dancing spectacular features dancing, workshops, kids activities and more. 234 Hutchins Ave, Sebastopol 707.239.7914.

The Saint

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Oct 3-Nov 3, “Alchemy,” national juried exhibit invites artists to express their dreams, desires and more. Reception, Oct 5 at 5pm. 140 E Napa St, Sonoma. 707.996.3115.

Redwood Cafe

Oct 8-30, “October Art Exhibition,” local art is curated by Eolah Bates. Reception, Oct 8 at 6pm. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati. 707.795.7868.

Santa Rosa Arts Center

Comedy

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Art Opening

HYPROV: Improv Under Hypnosis

Comedy master Colin Mochrie

North Bay Letterpress Arts Fundraiser

Standup comedy, bingo, prizes and more fun. Oct 5, 6pm. $20. Flamingo Resort Hotel, 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa, 707.545.8530.

Oct 4, Stevie & the Shufflenuts. 3020 St Helena Hwy N, St Helena, 707.302.3777. Oct 5, JourneyDay Rhorer. 1351 Main St, St Helena, 707.302.5130.

4-5, 10am. Guerneville Library, 14107 Armstrong Woods Rd, Guerneville, 707.869.9004.

Luncheon and reception includes silent auction, raffle and games and supports youth printing programs. Oct 6, 2pm. $75. HopMonk Sebastopol, 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol, northbayletterpressarts.org.

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Oct 4-Nov 22, “The Other Me: Masks That Reveal,” exhibit features masks, artwork based on masks, and themes of alter-ego, secret identities and concealment. Reception, Oct 4 at 5pm. 312 South A St, Santa Rosa. santarosaartscenter.org.

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Oct 2, Dave Mason. 100 California Dr, Yountville, 707.944.9900.

Arts Guild of Sonoma

"Johnny & June Forever: Hayes Carll Purple Glaze

Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater

and hypnotist Asad Mecci come together for a mindblowing show. Oct 3, 8pm. $45-$65. Lincoln Theater, 100 California Dr, Yountville, 707.944.9900.

Join the launch of a 28-day fitness challenge, with group exercises, local resources for fire victims, live music and more. Oct 6, 11am. Arlene Francis Center, 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.528.3009.

di Rosa Days

Art campus come alive with art experiences, music, food and pop-up talks with di Rosa volunteers. Oct 5, 12pm. $30; kids are $5. di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, 5200 Sonoma Hwy, Napa, 707.226.5991.

Fort Ross Harvest Festival

Featuring activities and games for all ages, seasonal foods, live entertainment and more. Oct 5, 10am. Free admission. Fort Ross State Historic Park, 19005 Hwy 1, Jenner, 707.847.3286.

Friends of the Library Book Sale The sale includes books, audiobooks, CDs, DVDs and VHS tapes for adults and children. Oct 2-5. Rohnert Park-Cotati Library, 6250 Lynne Conde Way, Rohnert Park, 707.584.9121.

Friends of the Library Comic Book Sale

Browse a large selection of thousands of comic books. Oct

Enchanting evening includes cocktails, dinner, live performance by Valley of the Moon Chamber Orchestra and laser light show. Oct 5, 5pm. $100 and up. Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, 551 Broadway, Sonoma, 707.939.SVMA.

UC Napa Master Gardeners Fall Faire

Lively event includes interactive scientific-based fun and activities for all ages. Oct 5, 12pm. $5; kids are free. UC Master Gardeners Napa County, 1710 Soscol Ave, Napa, napamg. ucanr.edu.

Zoppe Italian Family Circus

Guests of all ages are welcome to the big tent to see old-world circus acts from seasoned performers including acrobats, clowns, jugglers and more. Oct 4-6. $12-$45. Napa Valley Expo, 575 Third St, Napa, 707.253.4900.

Field Trips Madrone Audubon Bird Walk

Look for fall migrants and familiar county birds. Oct 5, 8:30am. Ragle Ranch Park, 500 Ragle Rd, Sebastopol, madroneaudubon.org.

Marvelous Maples Walks

Fall foliage walk celebrates Quarryhill’s collection of over 40 species of maple trees. Sat, Oct 5, 10am. Free with admission. Quarryhill Botanical Gardens, 12841 Hwy 12, Glen Ellen, 707.996.3166.

Redwood Fitness Hike

Experience Jack London Park’s spectacular ancient redwoods and stunning scenery. Oct 5, 10am. Free; parking fees apply. Jack London State Park, 2400 London Ranch Rd, Glen Ellen, 707.938.5216.

Solar Viewing & Public Star Party

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UNCHAINED Van Halen Tribute 2 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT

OUT OF THIS WORLD Actor Henry Winkler turns to wiritng chlldren’s books, and reads from his ‘Alien Superstar’ on Sunday, Oct 6, at Copperfield’s Books in Petaluma. See Readings, pg. 62.

Iron Maiden Tribute

Halloween Show! Costume contest and decorations! 10/26 Exotic Erotic Ball

the observatory’s telescopes and experts on hand. Oct 5, 11am and 8pm. Robert Ferguson Observatory, Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, 2605 Adobe Canyon Rd, Kenwood, 707.833.6979.

Film Cinema Under the Stars

Enjoy an outdoor screening of “The Princess Bride.” Oct 8, 7:30pm. Free admission. CIA at Copia, 500 First St, Napa, 707.967.2530.

CULT Film Series

Month-long Halloween celebration starts with a double bill featuring “Halloween 3: Season of the Witch” and “Trick or Treat.” Oct 3, 7pm. $10. Roxy Stadium 14 Cinemas, 85 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.525.8909.

East Side Sushi

Film screens as part of a series of family-friendly Spanish language movies playing in Healdsburg. Oct 6, 2pm. Raven Film Center, 415 Center St, Healdsburg, 707.525.8909.

Haunted Sonoma County

Local history has never been so spooky as it is in this new updated director’s cut of the 2016 documentary. Oct 7, 7pm. $11. Sebastiani Theatre, 476 First St E, Sonoma, 707.996.9756.

Let’s Talk About Death Film and discussion series screens “What They Had” and

opens a dialogue about endof-life topics. Oct 9, 6:30pm. $5-$15. Sebastopol Grange Hall, 6000 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol, finalpassages.org.

Metallica & San Francisco Symphony: S&M² Heavy metal legends and acclaimed orchestra team up again for a massive concert film. Oct 9, 7pm. Rialto Cinemas, 6868 McKinley St, Sebastopol, 707.525.4840.

OUTwatch Film Festival

Diverse LGBTQI film fest includes an entertaining and thought-provoking program of films over three days. Oct 4-6. Rialto Cinemas, 6868 McKinley St, Sebastopol, 707.525.4840.

Snoopy, Come Home

Remastered animated film featuring the “Peanuts” gang screens with kid packs and Snoopy on hand. Thurs, Oct 3, 6:30pm and Sat, Oct 5, noon. Rialto Cinemas, 6868 McKinley St, Sebastopol, 707.525.4840.

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

Sydney Pollack’s film about a Depression-era dance marathon screens with prefilm lecture and post-film discussion. Oct 9, 6pm. $6. Petaluma Film Alliance, Carole L Ellis Auditorium, 680 Sonoma Mountain Pkwy, Petaluma, petalumafilmalliance.org.

The Third Wife

Vietnamese writer/director Ash Mayfair draws upon her familial history to create this fictitious 19th-century drama.

Fri, Oct 4, 7pm and Sun, Oct 6, 4pm. $5 donation. Sonoma Film Institute, Warren Auditorium, SSU, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 707.664.2606.

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Crush Party

Old-fashioned grape stomping, food from the grill and over 45 wines highlight the party. Oct 5, 6pm. $125. V Sattui Winery, 1111 White Lane, St Helena, 707.963.7774.

Feast Above the River

Dine on the bridge over the Russian River in support of the Russian River Chamber of Commerce, featuring several chefs and award-winning wines on hand. Oct 6, 4pm. $150. The Guerneville Pedestrian Bridge, 16209 First St, Guerneville, russianriver.com.

Flavors of Fall

Chef John Ash leads a workshop on making the most of the season’s fare. Oct 6, 10am. CIA at Copia, 500 First St, Napa, 707.967.2530.

Harvest Festival at Landmark Vineyards BBQ and live music is paired with Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Oct 5, 11am. $40-$60. Landmark Vineyards, 101 Adobe Canyon Rd, Kenwood, 707.833.0216.

Oktoberfest at Cornerstone Festive fun

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includes beer, food, activities for kids and polka music. Oct 6, 11am. Cornerstone Sonoma, 23570 Arnold Dr, Sonoma, 707.933.3010.

Picnic in the Plaza

Bring a side dish to this community potluck and enjoy live music and games. RSVP requested. Oct 6, 12pm. Healdsburg Community Center, 1557 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, 707.431.3324.

Pinot on the River Festival

Enjoy some of the best Pinot Noirs from over 40 smallproduction artisanal wineries paired with artisan food vendors. Oct 5, 11am. $50-$65. Courthouse Square, Third Street and Mendocino Avenue, Santa Rosa, pinotfestival.com.

Whiskey Wednesdays

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

For Kids Belle & Mrs. Potts Etiquette Tea Party

Napa Bookmine

Oct 4, 5pm, “East Bay Cooks” with Carolyn Jung. 964 Pearl St, Napa 707.733.3199.

Napa Main Library

Oct 7, 7pm, “Elderhood” with Louise Aronson. 580 Coombs St, Napa 707.253.4070.

Northwest Regional Library

Oct 7, 7pm, “Reach Your Dreams” with Rafael Vázquez. 150 Coddingtown Center, Santa Rosa 707.546.2265.

Petaluma Copperfield’s Books

Oct 4, 4pm, “The Tornado” with Jake Burt. Oct 6, 4pm, “Alien Superstar” with Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver. Oct 8, 4pm, “Dino Does Yoga” with Sofie Engström von Alten. 140 Kentucky St, Petaluma 707.762.0563.

Readers’ Books

Oct 8, 4:30pm, “Dung Beetles of Liberia” with Daniel V Meier Jr. 130 E Napa St, Sonoma 707.939.1779.

Santa Rosa Arts Center

Dress up for an afternoon of traditional English high tea, fun and learning. Oct 6, 12pm. $50. Tudor Rose English Tea Room, 733 Fourth St, Santa Rosa, 707.535.2045.

Oct 3, 6:30pm, Speakeasy: Poetry & Music, featuring poet Caroline Goodwin and singer-songwriter Ben Roots, followed by open mic. 312 South A St, Santa Rosa santarosaartscenter.org.

Kids Night at the Museum

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After-hours fun for the little ones includes pizza dinner, games, art, crafts and cartooning. Oct 5, 5pm. $25$32. Charles M Schulz Museum, 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa, 707.579.4452.

Lectures Healing with Energy, Sound & Dream Work

Learn to use guided visualization, dream interpretation techniques, and sound healing to release stagnant energy and access creative power. Oct 4, 6:30pm. $54. Sebastopol Community Center, 390 Morris St, Sebastopol, 415.310.1682.

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Frank and Bruce Bagnell and open mic. 189 H St, Petaluma 707.778.6060.

Readings Aqus Cafe

Oct 7, 6:15pm, A-Muse-ing Mondays with Rivertown Poets, featuring poets Diane

Oct 4, 7pm, “Big Beautiful Cow” with Jillian Navarro. 775 Village Court, Santa Rosa 707.578.8938.

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Oct 5, 7pm, “The Farmhouse Culture Guide to Fermenting” with Kathryn Lukas and Shane Peterson. 138 N Main St, Sebastopol 707.823.2618.

Theater The Black Dragon Experience

Live action horror show is filled with gory special effects guaranteed to be remembered. Fri-Sat, 6pm. through Nov 2. $30. River Theater, 16135 Main St, Guerneville, livingartsproject.com.

Chemo Barbie

Artist Heather Keller’s onewoman show is about how a breast cancer diagnosis forced her to confront issues

of mortality, relationships, and mental health. Oct 6, 2pm. $10$30. Raven Theater, 115 North St, Healdsburg, 707.433.3145.

The Good Doctor

Santa Rosa Junior College takes on the Neil Simon comedy, adapted from Anton Chekhov. Oct 4-13. $15-$25. Newman Auditorium, SRJC, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.527.4307.

Gypsy

Production of the classic musical stars Broadway’s Kathy Fitzgerald as the iconic Mama Rose. Through Oct 20. $38-$48. 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.523.4185.

The Kitchen Witches

Long-time rival cooking show hostesses are forced into an unwanted partnership in this smash hit. Through Oct 13. $12$25. Cloverdale Performing Arts Center, 209 N Cloverdale Blvd, Cloverdale, 707.829.2214.

Merman’s Apprentice

Sonoma Arts Live becomes an incubator for this new play about the golden age of Broadway. Through Oct 13. $25-$42. Sonoma Community Center, 276 E Napa St, Sonoma, 707.938.4626.

Origin Story

Sonoma State University theater department performs the funny play about the quarter-life crisis. Oct 3-11. Evert B. Person Theater, SSU, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 707.664.4246.

Women in Jeopardy

Valley Players present the fun comedy about two divorcées who think their friends’ new boyfriend is a serial killer. Oct 4-13. $20. Lincoln Theater, 100 California Dr, Yountville, 707.944.9900.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In 1956, the U.S. federal government launched a program to build 40,000 miles of high-speed roads to connect all major American cities. It was completed 36 years later at a cost of $521 billion. In the coming months, I'd love to see you draw inspiration from that visionary scheme. According to my analysis, you will generate good fortune for yourself as you initiate a long-term plan to expand your world, create a more robust network, and enhance your ability to fulfill your life's big goals. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus-born

Youtube blogger Hey Fran Hey has some good advice for her fellow Bulls, and I think it'll be especially fresh and potent in the coming weeks. She says, "Replacing 'Why is this happening to me?' with 'What is this trying to tell me?' has been a game changer for me. The former creates a hamster wheel, where you'll replay the story over and over again. Victimized. Stuck. The latter holds space for a resolution to appear."

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): "The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them." So declared French author Victor Hugo. I don't share his view. In fact, I regard it as an insulting misapprehension. The truth is that the soul achieves flight through vivid fantasies and effervescent intuitions and uninhibited longings and non-rational hypotheses and wild hopes— and maybe also by a few illusions. I bring this to your attention because now is an excellent time to nurture your soul with vivid fantasies and effervescent intuitions and uninhibited longings and non-rational hypotheses and wild hopes. CANCER (June 21-July 22): I know people of all genders who periodically unleash macho brags about how little sleep they need. If you're normally like that, I urge you to rebel. The dilemmas and riddles you face right now are very solvable IF and only IF you get sufficient amounts of sleep and dreams. Do you need some nudges to do right by yourself? Neuroscientist Matthew Walker says that some of the greatest athletes understand that "sleep is the greatest legal enhancing performance drug." Top tennis player Roger Federer sleeps 12 hours a day. During his heyday, world-class sprinter Usain Bolt slept ten hours a night and napped during the day. Champion basketball player LeBron James devotes 12 hours a day to the rejuvenating sanctuary of sleep. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Actor and dancer Fred Astaire was a pioneer in bringing dance into films as a serious art form. He made 31 musical films during the 76 years he worked, and was celebrated for his charisma, impeccable technique, and innovative moves. At the height of his career, from 1933 to 1949, he teamed up with dancer Ginger Rogers in the creation of ten popular movies. In those oldfashioned days, virtually all partner dancing featured a male doing the lead part as the female followed. One witty critic noted that although Astaire was a bigger star than Rogers, she "did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and while wearing high heels." According to my reading of the astrological omens, you may soon be called on to carry out tasks that are metaphorically comparable to those performed by Rogers. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your number one

therapy in the coming weeks? Watching animals. It would be the healthiest thing you could undertake: relax into a generously receptive mode as you simply observe creatures doing what they do. The best option would be to surrender to the pleasures of communing with both domesticated AND wild critters. If you need a logical reason to engage in this curative and rejuvenating activity, I'll give you one: It will soothe and strengthen your own animal intelligence, which would be a tonic gift for you to give yourself.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Every time my birthday season comes around, I set aside an entire day to engage in a life review. It lasts for many hours. I begin by visualizing the recent events I've experienced, then luxuriously scroll in reverse through my entire past, as if watching a movie starring me. It's not possible to remember every

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single scene and feeling, of course, so I allow my deep self to highlight the moments it regards as significant. Here's another fun aspect of this ritual: I bestow a blessing on every memory that comes up, honoring it for what it taught me and how it helped me to become the person I am today. Dear Libra, now is an excellent time for you to experiment with a similar celebration.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "Depression is

when you think there's nothing to be done," writes author Siri Hustvedt. "Fortunately I always think there's something to be done." I offer this hopeful attitude to you, Scorpio, trusting that it will cheer you up. I suspect that the riddles and mysteries you're embedded in right now are so puzzling and complicated that you're tempted to think that there's nothing you can do to solve them or escape them. But I'm here to inform you that if that's how you feel, it's only temporary. Even more importantly, I'm here to inform you that there is indeed something you can do, and you are going to find out what that is sooner rather than later.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "How

inconvenient to be made of desire," writes Sagittarian author Larissa Pham. "Even now, want rises up in me like a hot oil. I want so much that it scares me." I understand what she means, and I'm sure you do, too. There are indeed times when the inner fire that fuels you feels excessive and unwieldy and inopportune. But I'm happy to report that your mood in the coming weeks is unlikely to fit that description. I'm guessing that the radiant pulse of your yearning will excite you and empower you. It'll be brilliant and warm, not seething and distracting.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I envision the next twelve months as a time when you could initiate fundamental improvements in the way you live. Your daily rhythm twelve months from now could be as much as twenty percent more gratifying and meaningful. It's conceivable you will discover or generate innovations that permanently raise your long-term goals to a higher octave. At the risk of sounding grandiose, I predict you'll welcome a certain novelty that resembles the invention of the wheel or the compass or the calendar. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Modern literary critic William Boyd declared that Aquarian author Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) was "the best short-story writer ever," and "the first truly modern writer of fiction: secular, refusing to pass judgment, cognizant of the absurdities of our muddled, bizarre lives and the complex tragi-comedy that is the human condition." Another contemporary critic, Harold Bloom, praised Chekhov's plays, saying that he was "one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre." We might imagine, then, that in the course of his career, Chekhov was showered with accolades. We'd be wrong about that, though. "If I had listened to the critics," he testified, "I'd have died drunk in the gutter." I hope that what I just said will serve as a pep talk for you as you explore and develop your own original notions in the coming weeks. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Pisces-born

Dorothy Steel didn't begin her career as a film actress until she was 91 years old. She had appeared in a couple of TV shows when she was 89, then got a small role in an obscure movie. At age 92, she became a celebrity when she played the role of a tribal elder in *Black Panther*, one of the highest-grossing films of all time. I propose that we make her one of your inspirational role models for both the coming weeks and the next twelve months. Why? Because I suspect you will be ripening fully into a role and a mission you were born to embody and express.

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