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Rhapsodies BOHEMIAN

A Little Town Called Eldridge There’s a little-known part of Sonoma County that’s been a locals-only secret for over a century. Perhaps that's why so few, even among those living here, are familiar with the town of Eldridge, better known by its official name, the Sonoma Developmental Center.

This town has its own fire and police, its own water system and

even its own power plant. There are large commercial kitchens, a small convenience store, housing for thousands and room for thousands more in campers, RVs, tents, etc. And the best part is … it’s empty.

As we scramble to adequately house and feed thousands of refugees, I wonder at the myopia of our elected officials (this means you, Gavin the Guv and Susie G, the Supe In whose district lies this town) who seem to have lost all recollection of this place, seemingly ready-made for such a

THIS MODERN WORLD

disaster as we are once again facing.

I will not speculate as to the source of this myopia, but I have some very well-educated guesses. Whatever the source, it’s time to set aside the blinders—donkeys!!!—and OPEN SONOMA DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER TO FIRE REFUGEES, like effing yesterday.

Thank you ...

Peace,

SCOTT BRAUN Sonoma

By Tom Tomorrow

Outraged The Sonoma County Airport plans to add 16 more commercial flights in the Spring of 2020. Meanwhile they are installing solar at the airport. What hypocrites! A farce.

Is minding our carbon footprint even on the county government’s radar?

In my opinion, they only see increased revenues in their coffers. I doubt the solar production can possibly compensate for the 16 new flights added.

Few take global warming seriously.

The Sonoma County General Plan 2020’s Noise Element section Objective NE-1.3 states: “Protect the present noise environment and prevent intrusion of NEW noise sources, which would substantially alter the noise environment.”

How does adding 16 more commercial flights accomplish the goals of the general plan?

Unknowingly, we built our house on the flight path 39 years ago. My children were small and enjoyed identifying the type of planes flying over our house.

Back then, planes were small and quiet.

Not so today.

The airport runways were elongated by federal mandate in 2015. So, what does the county do? Bring in commercial jets. Many like the convenience of flying from Sonoma County, but it seems that people do not care about their carbon footprint and take no responsibility for what they are adding to the CO2 content of our planet. Lemmings to the sea.

My kids our grown and I am now a grandmother of three. I want to see them grow up, so things have got to change. It’s a new day and the challenges are great. Please remember this as you fly over my house and know you also have a stake in our survival.

LESLIE MIKULICH

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Rants PG&E must be seized BY PETER BYRNE

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ince being incorporated in 1905, Pacific Gas & Electric Corporation has booked $1 billion a year in profits (adjusted for inflation).

That adds up to $114 billion distributed as cash to shareholders instead of being applied to maintenance and upgrading the safety of the utility’s broken infrastructure—with deadly consequences.

Hundreds of people have lost their lives in fires and gas explosions caused by the utility’s deliberate negligence in prioritizing profit before performance decade after decade.

Generations of politicians, including Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom, looked the other way while pocketing PG&E’s massive campaign contributions. State officials allowed legions of PG&E lobbyists—including Platinum Advisors, owned by Press Democrat publisher Darius Anderson—to write and push past legislation protecting the powerful utility from meaningful regulation.

Most recently, PG&E benefited from legislation making it more difficult to seize the corporation’s physical assets under eminent domain laws. But the seizure of PG&E is precisely what can and must be done—and with haste, before the Golden State is transformed into a darkened, smoking cinder. Given that the utility’s shareholders already appropriated more than $100 billion in maintenance money in the form of excessive dividends, it makes zero sense to pay them a penny more in compensation for a criminally neglected asset that requires at least $100 billion in immediate public works attention.

Economists call energy utilities “natural monopolies,” meaning it’s more efficient for them to be owned and operated by localized, publicly owned utilities in the interest of the people than by Wall Street profiteers. A public utility commission staffed by responsible experts would do a better job of pooling and managing statewide infrastructure, maintenance and upgrades projects than the political hacks currently running the PG&Ecaptured agency.

WARNING: PG&E bondholders are trying to grab the utility’s assets, when they should just eat their losses and go home. You can’t win ‘em all. And Gavin Newsom is asking Warren Buffett to buy PG&E! That is a truly bad idea; Buffett siphons the veins of his acquisitions for shareholder profits. Hey, Wall Street, guess what?

PG&E is not for sale.

We, the people of California, already bought it with our money and our blood.

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SMOKED An aerial view of the smoke over Sonoma County from 2017’s fires echoes the current situation.

Power Plays Disempowering PG&E

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nce again, PG&E’s impact on the public has brought it a massive amount of negative attention.

On Monday, as the Kincade Fire continued to rage, the investor-

BY WILL CARRUTHERS

owned utility’s stock price tumbled.

A weekend of fire, widespread power shut offs and the evacuation of approximately 185,000 North Bay residents, many from Sonoma County, is the latest debacle for the bankrupt utility and its customers.

Approximately 960,000 customers across the state, including hundreds

of thousands in the North Bay, sat without power due to a widespread Public Safety Power Shutoff instituted by the utility.

In recent weeks, state politicians, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, have been more inclined to publicly criticize the state’s largest utility while Wall Street players continue to

consider whether they’re interested in purchasing the utility.

But this week has already brought multiple competing proposals by California lawmakers to drastically change the future of the utility.

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On Monday, Assemblymember Marc Levine, whose district covers Marin County and the southern half of Sonoma County, announced a plan to increase oversight of the utility by creating legislation to install a “responsible adult in the room to right PG&E’s wrongs.”

Under Levine’s legislation, which he plans to introduce in January 2020 when the state legislature returns, the California Public Utilities Commission would create a test to determine whether a Public Administrator should be appointed to oversee PG&E. The CPUC’s test would include “an analysis of PG&E’s financial health, the reliability of the utility’s infrastructure and its safety record,” according to a statement from Levine’s office.

“The Public Administrator would be authorized to work with PG&E leadership and make decisions necessary to restore critical infrastructure, ensure that proper safety protocols are followed and increase public confidence in the utility,” according to the statement Although the scope and powers of the role have not yet been fully defined, the Public Administrator would be something like that of an emergency manager appointed when a school board declares bankruptcy, Levine said in an interview with the Bohemian.

The Public Administrator would remain in place until PG&E reached requirements of the test created by the CPUC. If the utility failed to meet the CPUC’s requirements again sometime down the road, another Public Administrator could be appointed, Levine says.

Wall Street Brawl Still, with two massive power shutoffs in October and that start of several fires over the weekend that may have been tied to PG&E’s equipment, the legislature’s January session seems like a long way off.

“100 percent not true.” He has yet to comment on the Bloomberg report over the weekend.

Still, after a disastrous weekend for the utility and its customers, some analysts were speculating about whether any private bidders will still be interested.

PG&E has acknowledged that its equipment may have been involved in starting the Kincade Fire in Sonoma County on Friday and another fire in Contra Costa County.

On Monday afternoon, stock prices for PG&E Corporation, the publicly traded company that owns the utility, hit $3.80 per share, a new low.

Prior to the October 2017 fires, the company’s stock price briefly topped $70 per share in September 2017. The price has fallen with each successive debacle ever since. In January, the stock hit $6.36, then a historic low, when the utility announced bankruptcy.

Jared Ellias, a bankruptcy law expert at the UC Hastings College of Law, told the Sacramento Bee that the situation may be more volatile than the private investment players may have expected.

“Whether it’s turning the power off, or not turning the power off, PG&E can’t do anything right,” Ellias told the Bee. “That’s a much riskier investment than any of these guys thought.”

Meanwhile, a CitiGroup analyst told the bank’s investors that “the probability of a zero equity value continues to increase,” according to a MarketWatch report on Monday.

Still, the Sacramento Bee reported on Sunday that “a source close to the [PG&E] bondholders” said the group was still interested in bidding on the utility.

Watershed Moment On Tuesday morning, U.S. Congressman Ro Khanna announced his support for a public takeover of PG&E. “PG&E has been a disaster.

When you have a state that has Apple, Google, and Tesla in it, there’s no excuse for not getting power to our people,” Khanna, who represents San Jose and nearby cities, said in a statement. “I’m calling on Gov. Newsom to support turning PG&E into a customer owned utility. We need )8

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Meanwhile, financial interests appear ready to take over the bankrupt utility’s assets. In PG&E’s bankruptcy proceedings two groups of financial interests are battling over the chance to takeover the utility’s remains.

One group of bondholders, led

by Elliot Management, known as an “activist investor” for its habit of using its stake in companies to push for management changes, has been clashing with major stockholders in the utility.

Now Berkshire Hathaway, an investment fund owned by Warren Buffett, may be in the running as well.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is reportedly supportive of the idea of Berkshire Hathaway buying the utility, according to a report from Bloomberg News.

“We would love to see that interest materialize, and in a more proactive, public effort,” Newsom told the business publication.

“That would be encouraging to see. They are one of the few that are in a position to make a significant run at this.

Levine was not as interested, saying that Buffett’s firm, nor any other investor would not single handedly save Californians from “years of misplaced priorities”

by PG&E’s management team.

Furthermore, Berkshire Hathaway has a track record of investing in dirty energy sources, including coal. In a state focused on reducing its impact on the climate, that is a cause for concern.

“Buffett’s utilities are some of the dirtiest in the country,” Levine said.

Woody Hastings, an energy program manager at The Climate Center, a Santa Rosa nonprofit which advocated for the creation of Marin Clean Energy and Sonoma Clean Power, agencies that purchase their own mixture of power but still rely on PG&E’s lines to distribute it, called the governor’s reported endorsement of a possible Berkshire buyout “totally inappropriate.”

(DISCLOSURE: This reporter completed an unpaid internship at The Climate Center in the summer of 2013.)

In April, Buffett told CNBC, a business news channel, that reports that Berkshire Hathaway was interested in buying PG&E were

PG&E ( 7 to have more municipal public utilities providing energy.”

While the push and pull between those calling for a public takeover of the utility and those advocating for continued private ownership has been going on for over 100 years, the current moment may be historic, according to Hastings, the Climate Center energy analyst.

“PG&E is hugely vulnerable.

This is a watershed moment,” Hastings, the energy analyst, said on Monday.

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Assemblymember Marc Levine announced a plan to increase oversight of the utility by creating legislation to install a ‘responsible adult in the room to right PG&E’s wrongs.’

In the near-term, PG&E’s dangerous infrastructure needs to be replaced with modern equipment, including local electrical grids, energy storage infrastructure and production capacity, Hastings says.

“Every penny needs to be reinvested into making safety improvements, developing a 21st Century system, and combating climate change,” Hastings said.

In Hasting’s personal view, public ownership of some sort could help achieve those goals.

Although existing publicly owned utilities in the state may not be perfect, they are designed to be responsive to people, not profit, Hastings says.

Gov. Newsom reportedly does

not support a public buyout, and North Bay lawmakers appear to be somewhere in between.

On Oct. 18, State Senator Mike McGuire, who represent much of the North Coast, released a statement hinting at the need for bold action.

“PG&E has become too big and has failed us too many times. All options need to be on the table – including breaking up the utility,” McGuire said in the statement. His office did not respond to a request for comment about a public buyout of the utility.

On Monday, State Senator Bill Dodd, who represents parts of Napa and Sonoma counties, told the San Francisco Chronicle that he was “intrigued” by the idea of making the utility into a public cooperative, a model proposed by the Mayor of San Jose.

Levine said Monday that he does not currently support a public buyout of the utility. PG&E’s aging infrastructure, including 90-year-old transmission lines in Marin County, would constitute a “massive liability” for anyone, public or private, who buys the utility, Levine says.

Levine also said that San Francisco’s recent offer to purchase PG&E’s infrastructure within the city would have amounted to an effort to “cherry pick the best infrastructure and easiest lines to repair.”

The city’s $2.5 billion offer, which PG&E rejected in mid October, could increase the burden on other PG&E ratepayers, Levine says.

Dodd is also opposed to the idea of cities like San Francisco buying chunks of PG&E’s grid, according to the Chronicle.

Instead, Levine said Monday that someone acting in his proposed Public Advocate role could help PG&E “refocus its priorities on safety and increase needed public confidence in this essential public utility service.”

Levine’s “adult in the room” would be in a position to guide PG&E to reinvest any shareholder profits into much-needed infrastructure improvements, according to Levine.

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Nazi comedy from the writer/director of ‘Thor: Ragnarok.’

Kid’s Crusade

Taika Waititi channels Mel Brooks BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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ome people are going to hate Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit like they haven’t hated anything since Life is Beautiful, and understandably some will argue Nazis are never funny under any circumstances; no matter what ridiculous figures they cut with their rites, their idiot prejudices and their too-cool, Hugo Boss uniforms. Mel Brooks, whom Nazis shot at at the Battle of the Bulge, was always certain they were comedy gold. Even in these nervous times, can’t we accept Brooks’ judgement?

Jojo Rabbit is the diary of a Nazi wimpy-kid trying to fit in with the usual social absurdities; it’s just that the Reich heightened the absurdities. In a small village in 1944, young Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis) tries to be a good little Hitler Youth member. But he’s a thorough reject, drawing a portion of the scorn doled out by the Jugend’s scoutmaster, an invalided-out Captain Klenzendorf (Sam Rockwell). Jojo tents out at Jugend camp with his equally beta-male pal (Archie Yates), laying awake telling scary stories about Jews: “I hear they smell like brussel sprouts.” Recreations include a campfire of burning books—Jojo shows a little hint of reluctance before he tosses in a

volume and joins in the fun.

Then comes a test of manhood: to kill a bunny rabbit with his bare hands in front of his fellow Jugenders. He fails. Dejected, he’s visited by his imaginary pal Der Fuhrer (Waititi in contact lenses and shaky mustache) whose advice to Jojo is to BE the rabbit— faster than anyone. He races forth to be the vanguard in a race, snatches a potato-masher hand grenade from a bigger boy and tosses it. It bounces off a tree and blows up in his face.

Now with his face stitched up with scars, he’s an even bigger reject to everyone but his mom Rosie, a very relaxed and appealing Scarlett Johansson, with a buttery Marlene Dietrich accent. The

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THE BADDIES Sam Rockwell and Scarlett Johansson star in the new, satirical

convalescing Jojo learns there’s another woman on the premise.

Mom is secretly Anne-Franking young Elsa, a friend of the family, in the attic. Elsa corners simple Jojo and schools him on the Jews: do they hang upside like bats when they sleep? Can they read each others’ minds? As Elsa, Thomasin McKenzie (Leave No Trace) is consistently unsentimental and un-self-pitying.

Both Elsa and Rosie’s amused solicitude with this backward, fatherless kid is charming.

Moreover, they set up a border between the realm of the preposterously macho Nazis and the far more mysterious and interesting world of women. As in John Boorman’s Hope and Glory, all the comfort and intelligence is on one side and all the pain and stupidity is on the other.

To add some yang to this yin, there is a female Nazi, Frauline Rahmi; Rebel Wilson plays this platinum-blonde Brunhilda working with Klenzendorf. She birthed more than a dozen babies for the Reich and Wilson suggests, with her posture, that she can’t sit comfortably after all that parturition.

This uproariously satirical version of a quite-serious novel might be modeled on Carol Reed’s The Fallen Idol (1948) in the looming staircases and the expressionism of the boy’s world collapsing around him.

Like Waititi’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople, it’s certainly something you could take a smart, older child to see. Aspects are reminiscent of Kurt Vonnegut, both Slaughterhouse-Five and Mother Night. Jojo Rabbit’s elegant, if sometimes episodic, comedy is as Blaise Pascal described life; the last act is bloody, no matter how pleasant the play has been. There’s no comfortable way out of this tale— the rocky last 15 minutes will give Jojo Rabbit’s haters ammo.

Still, maybe nothing was as funny about the Nazis as their scurrying, ignominious end.

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ho sips Pinot Noir at an Oakland A’s game? I did, last summer, and found that it’s perfectly fine to break out the fancy red wine at the ballpark, if that fancy wine comes in a can.

The good folks at Francis Ford Coppola Winery (FFC) stocked a coliseum suite with a selection of their canned wines, to show how nicely they pair with casual, outdoor events. The gambit worked

so well on me, I looked for canned wine in the supermarket cold case on the next hot afternoon, settling for another brand’s Oregon Pinot.

But this time, no pleasant berry aroma erupted after a crack of the stay-tab. Instead, a big stink escaped. Reduction: it’s not a price cut, it’s a term that describes muted fruit, at best, or smells like cooked cabbage or winery drain, at worst. I bought a second can later, and it was fine. I called up FFC winemaker Tondo Bolkan to get the scoop on what’s going on.

“You definitely hit the mark on can-to-can variation,” Bolkan says.

Wine in a can is in a more reductive state from the get-go than wine in a corked bottle; and then variables like uneven coating on the inside of the can, the balance of oxygen and nitrogen levels, sulfur and the inevitable hiccups in the canning process may cause problems.

“It honestly just comes with the territory,” Bolkan says. “There’s no perfect canning line, where it just runs smoothly when you turn it on.”

But don’t chuck that can, because it’s not a mortal wine flaw. “It just needs some air and some time and it should be fine.”

FFC Pinot Noir ($24 4-pack 250ml) Pleasantly smoky despite being unoaked, teases the tongue with a little puckery tannin, this goes down easy like cranberry tea.

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Bonterra Young Red ($17.99 4-pack 250ml) This organically grown entrant in the purportedly hot new “chilled red” category is smooth and fruity, like a Beaujolais Nouveau. Easy on the tannins, it’s red that’s made like the rosé version, also available in cans. I had to ask: flash détente, “organic mega”? Nope. If your Thanksgiving table isn’t too formal, here’s the can for you.

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A child's drawing expresses gratitude at a shelter.

Many among evacuees’ most vulnerable

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ind gusts blow dense streams of dry leaves across the quickly filling parking lot at the Petaluma Veterans Memorial Building. The location is one of many evacuation shelters available to some of the more than 180,000 evacuees from Santa Rosa, Geyserville, Healdsburg, Windsor, Sebastopol and more locations extending all the way out to the California coastline.

Up to 187,000 people have now been evacuated from Sonoma County, where over 75,000 acres of land has burned and still burning with only a 15 percent containment as of this reporting.

Inside, dozens of cots with exhausted people and their belongings fill the room.

Breakfast tables and the last of the morning’s diners fill the next hall over. Organizers are staffing tables checking people in. More people arrive by the minute.

Evacuees' emotions range from stressed to going-with-the-flow.

April and Todd Axberg, both nurses at Kaiser Permanente

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and Santa Rosa Memorial respectively, arrived Saturday night from Santa Rosa. They camped out in their truck in the Petaluma Veterans Building parking lot with their dogs.

“I’m a veteran and ironically it’s the first time I’ve used the Veterans facility,” says Todd Axberg. Their former Mark West Springs home burned down in 2017 and they lived in a trailer for seven months while rebuilding.

They have lived in their new home for about a year now.

“We already knew generator life, so we were fine with the outages,” he adds. “But when the

wind started picking up we were acutely attuned to it.”

“We put a lot of work into the house but we don’t have a lot of connections there this time so it’s different from before,” says his wife, April Axberg, of leaving their home in the wake of fire danger.

The volunteers are busy and kind. One volunteer at the shelter said it was getting to capacity, but they weren’t turning people away.

The city of Petaluma released a statement Sunday that the County of Sonoma has arranged for more shelters throughout the region.

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HELPING HANDS Jenny Harrow and JoEllen DeNicola of the Integrative Healers Action Network sign up

evacuees for alternative therapies at the Kenilworth Recreation Center.

partners to open additional shelters on an ongoing basis to accommodate the many in need.

Volunteers or donations can go through Petaluma People Services Center to ensure that evacuees and first responders receive what they need in the most organized and sensitive way possible.

Margery Egge of Healdsburg describes the surreal evacuation process, “I couldn’t believe how peaceful it was, you just watch

your neighbors leave one by one,” she says.

Eventually she and her husband Ross Egge also left in their trailer and are now parked at the AMF Boulevard Lanes next to the Petaluma Veterans Building, which is near their daughter’s family.

Ultimately, the mandatory evacuations in potential fire danger zones made things more orderly for law enforcement and for people leaving their homes,

according to some volunteers at the shelters.

“It’s not as hectic as last time,” says Morena Carvalho, a volunteer at the Sonoma-Marin fairgrounds shelter. “It’s much more calm.”

While many evacuees can go stay with friends or family nearby, or take their RVs to safety, many more must stay in the evacuee shelters set up all over the Bay Area. For many of

the evacuated, life was already difficult. Immigrant communities and people of color, in particular, experience additional impact in these kinds of emergency situations including immigrant Latinx women who make up much of the home care, domestic, healthcare and hotel worker community.

“When fires hit, they are the most vulnerable,” says Mara Ventura, Executive Director for North Bay Jobs With Justice, which advocates for workers’ rights, “And for a lot of undocumented workers, a big impact is lost wages.”

One such group is home care workers.

“Many home care workers have been displaced,” explains Ventura.

“Some are going with clients to the shelter, or they are home without electricity. Often, their clients are with their families during an emergency like this.”

Another impact is the fear of seeking services due to immigration issues. That said, U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman said today that they received official assurance form the Department of Homeland Security that “Everyone seeking services or shelter from the immigrant community should do so with confidence that there will not be immigration enforcement activity.”

Additionally, while uniformed Sonoma County probation officers are at the Veterans Center, they are only there to help with providing additional security and not to ask anyone questions.

“We don’t want to cause any more stress, we're just here to help with security,” one officer affirmed.

Other obstacles include the reality that for undocumented families, federal help is not available. For those families, Undocufund Fire Relief provides assistance to those who can’t otherwise receive help. According to their website, after the 2017 fires, Undocufund “distributed almost $6 million to undocumented families in Sonoma County impacted by the fires to

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To be added to the volunteer list for bilingual or childcare volunteer services or if you have a request for bilingual or childcare volunteers, you can email Ventura: mara@northbayjwj.com

SIGN UP Lupe Maldonado helps evacuees as a bilingual translator

at the Petaluma Fairgrounds shelter.

Where to Check for Updates School Closures Sonoma County: www.scoe.org/storm-update.html Marin County: www.marinschools.org/Page/418 Napa County: www.nvusd.k12.ca.us/

Shelters List of Evacuation Shelters: www.socoemergency.org/home/ emergency/evacuation-centers/ All evacuation shelters are small animal -friendly. No identification is needed to stay at an evacuation shelter, and Government Agencies, such as ICE, do not have access to the shelters. English and Spanishspeaking staff will be there to make these safe, supportive places for all.

Resources To Be A Bilingual Volunteer: Send your name, languages spoken, when you can be available, where you can be available to mara@northbayjwj.com Undocufund Fire Relief: A resource for undocumented families who can’t seek federal assistance.

To donate or ask for assistance go to www.undocufund.org/ Showers: 24 Hour Fitness, located at 6 Petaluma Blvd North/Mill Building, is offering free showers at their facility through Friday, November 1st.

WORK Petaluma: Offering free coworking space, wifi, charging 9-5 M-F this week to anyone displaced by power outages or evacuations.

10 4th Street, Petaluma How to Volunteer and Donate Money: Volunteers and those who want to help with a donation can go through Petaluma People Services Center, which is coordinating volunteers and donations to assist with shelter and emergency response needs.

To help, please send an email to admin@petalumapeople.org, call 707-529-1201 or register in person at the Kenilworth Teen Center, 150 Fairgrounds Dr. North Bay Jobs With Justice: www.northbayjobswithjustice.org North Bay Organizing Project www.northbayop.org/ Integrative Healers Action Network www.integrativehealersactionnetwork.org

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west side of the city. Another similar wind event beginning early Tuesday morning on Oct. 29 could lead to even longer power outages.

Ana Paladi from Romania and Jarkko Hartikhainnen from Estonia are interns at the Michael David Winery in Cloverdale, “We arrived in August to work” says Hartikhainnen. “Right now we’re staying with friends from work on an air mattress on the floor. What can you do about it?”

They are two among many young interns who chase the wine harvests across the world, working in countries as far flung as Chile, Brazil, and Australia.

“I was riding my bike to work at 4 a.m. in the dark and could see the fire on the horizon and the helicopters working hard, they were like bees in a field,” Hartikhainnen says.

Even after the fire ends, volunteers are still needed.

There is a need for so many things, including people to do cleaning, night shifts, child care and entertainment, as well as therapeutic and bilingual volunteers.

At the Kenilworth Recreation Center in Petaluma, cheerful volunteers sort through the many donations, cook food and check people into the alternative healing room, where evacuees can receive acupuncture, massage and other therapies to help with trauma. Across the street in the shelter, volunteers are doing art projects with children and giving them ukulele lessons to distract them and help pass the time.

“The shelters may be around for weeks or even months in the aftermath,” says Ventura, “and we need to have as large a list of people as possible so we can make sure volunteers have adequate rest and are able to have their normal lives too.”

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support them in recovering and rebuilding their lives.”

Ventura is part of a network of community organizers who work with communities of color started by Criminal Immigration Specialist, Deputy Public Defender Bernice Espinoza as a Facebook group. She created it to coordinate services for immigrant and Spanish-speaking groups, especially in emergency situations when they can fall through the cracks.

“We can communicate needs we’re seeing in the places we’re working, we can put a call out to the network for what is needed, from bilingual services to culturally competent food,” explains Espinoza. Culturally competent food refers to the fact that many individuals won’t eat food outside their ethnic upbringing that they aren’t familiar with, and need more explanation before they feel comfortable with it.

The network is now coordinating bilingual volunteers and childcare for families at shelters, as well as a comprehensive list of volunteers.

“Our biggest role right now is compiling a master volunteer list, mostly bilingual people—not just Spanish—whom we’ve been dispatching to the shelters,” says Ventura.

The network of organizers is also coordinating with the local Methodist church to ensure that the latest information gets to the homeless since they don’t always have smartphones.

Cities and organizations are much more in synch this time around, thanks to work done in the aftermath of the 2017 fires.

“There were many good lessons learned during the 2017 fire, but it was hard to coordinate then. This time it’s been so much more connected. I really appreciate it and hope that in the debrief of this fire we plan to be even more coordinated with community organizations and county efforts.”

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The week’s events: a selective guide

Decade of Art

S A N TA R O S A

Time flies at Calabi Gallery in downtown Santa Rosa, which marks 10 years of eclectic, primarily 20th century art exhibits, this weekend.

Founded by art conservator and collector Dennis Calabi, the gallery opened on the Day of the Dead 10 years ago and celebrates the anniversary milestone with an art reception that showcases the diverse media the gallery’s become known for. Calabi Gallery’s 10th anniversary celebration commences on Saturday, Nov. 2, at 456 10th St., Santa Rosa. 4pm. Free admission. 707.781.7070.

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Treasured Legacy

Author Robert Louis Stevenson and the Napa Valley have been historically intertwined since he spent time in the region in 1880 and penned the book The Silverado Squatters. The Robert Louis Stevenson Museum in St. Helena celebrated and shared that history for 50 years, through artifacts, exhibits and other programs. This weekend, the museum hosts “An Evening to Treasure” 50th anniversary party featuring gourmet dinner, wine, live music, silent and live auctions and more on Saturday, Nov. 2, at Duckhorn Vineyards, 1000 Lodi Lane, St. Helena. 6:00pm. $125. stevensonmuseum.org.

R O H N E R T PA R K

Blue Class

No one plays the banjo like Béla Fleck. Whether he’s performing with the bands New Grass Revival and Béla Fleck & the Flecktones or collaborating with other artists, Fleck re-invents the traditional instrument and moves it beyond the boundaries of bluegrass into the worlds of jazz, classical and more. Such is the case when Fleck joins the Santa Rosa Symphony this weekend for the symphony’s latest concert, “Masters of the Modern Banjo,” happening Saturday through Monday, Nov. 2–4, at Green Music Center’s Weill Hall, 1801 E. Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park. Sat and Mon, 7:30pm; Sun, 3pm. $24–$87. srsymphony.org.

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Gateway Doc

The feature-length documentary film The Portal, created as a way to help shift humanity into a new era of mindfulness, explores how six individuals use meditation to overcome trauma, and offers a vision of inner peace for the whole world. The filmmakers developed it over the course of several years and will show The Portal on the big screen and share their message with audiences in Q&A on Monday, Nov. 4, at Rialto Cinemas, 6868 McKinley St., Sebastopol. 1pm and 7pm. 707.525.4840.

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CONSTANT WANDERER Emotional indie-rock staple Cat Power comes to the North Bay for a concert on Saturday, Nov. 2, at Gun Bun Winery in Sonoma.

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MAN IN BLACK Steven Kent delivers the music of Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash with a baritone authenticity.

Idol Worship

Cash & King tributes two titans BY DAVID TEMPLETON

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teven Kent was 13 years old when he met Elvis Presley backstage after a show in Las Vegas. “The whole experience was a bit of a blur, but the buzz around Elvis was like nothing I’d ever seen before,” says the Bay Area native now living in Sonoma County.

“People were pushing cameras

in his face, everyone wanted something from him, and I remember thinking, ‘This’ll make a person crazy eventually.’”

“The whole experience was a bit of a blur,” he explains, “but the buzz around Elvis was like nothing I’d ever seen before.

People were pushing cameras in his face, everyone wanted something from him, and I remember thinking, ‘This’ll make a person crazy eventually.’”

Years later, during a conversation with former Spreckels Performing Arts Center Manager Gene Abravaya, they discussed creating a Country Western–themed benefit event for Spreckels. Kent described an idea he’d been kicking around of doing a concert-style show featuring the songs ofPresley and Johnny Cash—who Kent has also met.

“I told Gene I was thinking about calling the show ‘Cash & King,’ and that it would weave the greatest

songs of Presley and Cash around stories of their lives, and a bit about what they’ve met to me over the course of my life,” says Kent.

The resulting show was a huge success, packing Spreckels main theater. What Kent had conceived as a one-time-only night of fun turned into a side-career when he began fielding offers to take the show on the road.

“We’ve gone on to do it all over the western states, but we haven’t done it again Sonoma County for a while,” he says.

That changes this weekend, Sunday, Nov. 3, 7 p.m., when Spreckels Performing Arts Center brings Cash & King back to the stage where it all began.

But back to the thing about meeting Cash.

“I met a guy named Earl Ball, a piano player, who worked in my band from time to time,” says Kent. “When he wasn’t touring with Johnny Cash.

He was Johnny Cash’s piano player!”

Over the years, Kent frequently told Ball how much he’d love to meet Cash—some day.

“After several years, I went to see Cash perform at Knott’s Berry Farm,” Kent says. “After the show, I saw Earl, and he grinned at me and said, ‘Turn around.’ And there was Johnny Cash, standing right behind me. My legs almost buckled. I’ve seen a lot of famous people in my life, but I’ve never been around anybody who had the charisma or gave off the excitement I felt from being around Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley.

Speaking of Presley, Kent still remembers his chat with the King back when he was 13.

“I told him, ‘I’m a singer, and I want to be just like you,” says Kent. “Elvis stopped me and said, ‘No no. Always be yourself.’ I’ve remembered that to this day.”

Cash & King plays Sunday, Nov. 3, at Spreckels Performing Arts Center, 5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park. 7pm. $30-$40. 707.588.3400.

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IN THEIR WORDS Real interviews become staged memories in ‘The Laramie Project’

Never Forget

The show goes on in Healdsburg

BY HARRY DUKE

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t’s been more than two decades since 21-year-old college student Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, beaten, tortured, tied to a fence and left to die in a remote area near Laramie, Wyoming. The savageness and “How could it happen here?” nature of the crime captured the world’s attention and Shepard’s funeral and the subsequent trials of the two perpetrators garnered massive media coverage.

New York-based playwright Moisés Kaufman (Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde) noted the coverage and pondered why this particular crime seemed to resonate with so many. Within a month of the murder, Kaufman and members of his Tectonic

Theatre Project headed to Laramie to interview members of the community. The Laramie Project, running now at Healdsburg’s Raven Performing Arts Theater through Nov. 3, was the outcome.

Not so much a play as it is a staged documentary, it consists of re-creations of the interviews conducted by the theatre company with members of the community, friends of Shepard, law enforcement and the medical professionals who cared for Shepard.

Director Steven David Martin has a cast of 10 (Zack Acevedo, Jeremy Boucher, Christi Calson, Matt Farrell, Athena Gundlach, Elizabeth Henry, Grace Reid, Austin Schmidt, Steve Thorpe and Katie Watts-Whitaker) essaying over 60 different roles, from the bartender who served Shepard and his killers their last drinks to the local Catholic priest who was turned away by other local religious “leaders” when seeking their support in conducting a vigil. It’s a very strong ensemble, led by Thorpe as playwright Kaufmann as well as the emergency room doctor who first treated Shepard and Shepard’s father, among others. Thorpe’s delivery of Dennis Shepard’s heart-wrenching statement to the Judge on the question of sentencing is devastating.

High-quality technical work supports the performances. Set design by Michael Mingoia, lighting design by Dan Spears and sound design by Tom Leukens all evoke the sparse Wyoming setting, beginning with a silhouette of the surrounding mountains and sections of that horrid fence. Projections are effectively used to provide context and there’s an interesting use of a live video feed.

It’s nice to believe things like the events in The Laramie Project can’t happen here, but before this community pats itself on the back for being so progressive, ask the students of a local high school about members of their community trying to disrupt their recent production of this show.

Rating (out of 5): HHHH ‘The Laramie Project’ runs Fri– Sun through Nov. 3 at the Raven Performing Arts Theater, 115 North St., Healdsburg. Fri–Sat, 8pm; Sun, 2pm.

As of press time, the show plans to run as scheduled. $5–$28. 707.433.6335. raventheater.org

TALK TO ME Iranian-American

comedian and podcaster Zahra Noorbakhsh is one of the TEDxSonomaCounty speakers.

Walking the Talk

TEDxSonomaCounty finds harmony

BY DAEDALUS HOWELL

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on’t let the extra initial fool you. TEDx isn’t the “X-treme” version of a TED Talk, the popular speaking format of the technology, education and design nonprofit devoted to “Ideas Worth Spreading.”

Rather it’s a self-organized iteration of the famed annual event with local versions all over the world—including Sonoma County. Now in its eighth year, the event annually sells out and this year will likely prove no exception, says speaker, curator and producer Marilyn Nagel.

“It reaffirms that our community absolutely thrives on the stimulation and the innovative ideas that are shared every year by our speakers,” Nagel says, explaining that the event follows the official TED-regulated format.

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The theme of “balance” gives shape to this year’s lineup—bringing a little “harmony, health and vitality” to the general discord that informs our contemporary experience.

“We look at what topics are current and of interest to people and we felt that more and more there are areas of polarization,” Nagel says. According to Nagel, these aren’t just obvious divergences in political perspectives but a range of issues like those pertaining to the environment or the precarious balance of leisure and our overuse of technology.

Speaker highlights include Anisya Fritz, proprietor Lynmar Estate Winery; Anne DevereuxMills, founder of Parlay House, a modern salon for women; Bobbie LaPorte, a former Fortune 50 executive and six-time Ironman triathlete; James Kelly, a worldchampion downhill-skateboarder turned empathic entrepreneur for social justice; Zahra Noorbakhsh, an Iranian-American comedian, writer, actor and co-host of the #GoodMuslimBadMuslim podcast; and Marcus Benedetti, president and CEO of Clover Sonoma— among half a dozen others.

“This year we're absolutely delighted that we have a predominance of women onstage,” Nagel says. “We were wanting a greater gender balance and diversity. Two of our speakers are women leaders in the tech field— Dr. Radhika Dirks, CEO of artificial intelligence company XLabs and Andra Keay, who is the head of a robotics and AI consortium.

So, we are very fortunate to have outstanding talent in the area.”

Nagel says her organization likes to balance speakers who will appeal to what they alliteratively summarize as “head, heart and humor.”

“We want to help our audience look at things in a new way, be inspired to consider their lives in a new way and walk out with some tools and tips and ideas about their own lives,” she says.

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orth Bay rock and roll band New Copasetics believes in serving a healthy dose of Americana, soul and roots music in a melting pot of sound that can be found on the group’s debut LP, Twang-ucopia (Balanced Diet), available now on CD and soon on vinyl.

The album is the band’s debut, though the members in New Copasetics are veteran musicians, led by bassist Tim Eschliman and guitarist Sean Allen and featuring drummer Kevin Hayes and vocalist/ keyboardist Dallis Craft.

“I came out of the Midwest to go to San Francisco State and I knew I’d like the music environment out here,” Eschliman says. “San Francisco in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s was the most dynamic, risktaking music scene.”

Eschliman steeped himself in the Mill Valley music scene of the ‘70s, playing with Etta James, Commander Cody and the Moonlighters and forming acts like the Christmas Jug Band and later Rhythmtown-Jive, delving into New Orleans R&B, blues and other genres.

With New Copasetics, Eschliman wanted to get back to the rock, and he recruited Allen first.

“He’s got a clean, direct telecaster

sound,” Eschliman says. “He’s got a musicianship that shows through.”

Now, the four-piece outfit specializes in male-female vocal harmonies sung over roots-rock rhythms.

“Everything really came together,” Eschliman says about adding Craft and Hayes. “And, if you don’t capture that moment, record it at least, it will just slip away.”

Fortunately, Eschliman is also the man behind Globe Records, and has released albums under the label for decades. New Copasetics recorded the majority of the debut album live in studio, and the result is an immediately catchy, often upbeat and sometimes even sublime mix of both originals and selected covers.

The album title, Twang-ucopia (Balanced Diet), is a nod to the band’s eclectic tastes and Allen’s signature guitar and pedal steel vibes.

“Every time we’ve done a show, it occurs to me it’s not a hyperfocused genre of music we’re doing,” Eschliman says. “There’s such a variety of stuff, and after playing I feel satisfied, we’ve covered a lot of ground and I feel better for it.”

New Copasetics play an album-release show on Friday, Nov. 1, at Redwood Café, 8240 Old Redwood Hwy., Cotati. 8:30pm. $10. As of press time, the show plans to run as scheduled. 707.795.7868. newcopasetics.com.

Concerts SONOMA Buzzy Martin & The Trespassers

Longtime North Bay musician plays an afternoon benefit concert for kids at risk.

Nov 3, 2pm. $10. HopMonk Sebastopol, 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol, 707.829.7300.

Cat Power

Celebrated indie-rock singersongwriter Chan Marshall performs at the outdoor amphitheater. Nov 2, 5pm. $55.

Gundlach Bundschu Winery, 2000 Denmark St, Sonoma, 707.938.5277.

Santa Rosa Symphony Conductor Francesco LecceChong leads the orchestra in a program, “Masters of the Modern Banjo,” featuring Bela Fleck. Nov 2-4. $24-$87. Green Music Center Weill Hall, 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

NAPA Eric Martin & Friends

San Francisco musician, best known as co-founder of supergroup Mr. Big, plays a benefit concert for local bassist Mark Chole’s recovery following a stroke. Nov 2, 6:30 and 9pm. $15-$30. Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.880.2300.

Three Dog Night

Classic rock stars celebrate 50 years of chart-topping hits.

Nov 3, 7pm. $39-$69. Lincoln Theater, 100 California Dr, Yountville, 707.944.9900.

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Oct 31, House of Mary. Nov 1, Bob & Brandon. Nov 2, Mario Aparicio Group. 189 H St, Petaluma, 707.778.6060.

Arlene Francis Center Nov 2, Brazilian Choroloco Trio. 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.528.3009.

The Big Easy

Nov 2, Featprints tribute to

Little Feat. Nov 6, Rockville Roadkill Big Band. 128 American Alley, Petaluma, 707.776.7163.

The Phoenix Theater

Nov 2, Ghost Army with Stimuli and Zeroclient. 201 Washington St, Petaluma, 707.762.3565.

Oct 31, Rowdy River Special.

Nov 1, the SoulShake. Nov 2, the Stick Shifts. 229 Water St N, Petaluma, 707.981.8330.

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Nov 3, 3pm, Hannah Jern Miller. 120 Morris St, Ste 120, Sebastopol, 707.827.3893.

Elephant in the Room Oct 31, Halloween BooGrass costume party with Dirty Cello. Nov 1, the Fixins.

Nov 2, Calioca. Nov 3, 6pm, Brother Spellbinder. 177-A Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, elephantintheroompub.com.

Flamingo Lounge

Nov 1, Off the Record. Nov 2, Luv Bomb. 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa, 707.545.8530.

Gundlach Bundschu Winery

Oct 31, 6pm, Halloween costume party with Whitney. 2000 Denmark St, Sonoma, 707.938.5277.

HopMonk Sebastopol

Oct 31, “Vicious Villains Soiree” with Ultimate Fantastic and the Fungineers. Nov 1, Achilles Wheel. Nov 2, the Rubinoos.

230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol, 707.829.7300.

Lagunitas Tap Room

Oct 30, Mangobus. Oct 31, Roger Bolt & Borderline. Nov 1, Timothy O’Neil Band. Nov 2, the B-Stars. Nov 3, the RevTones.

1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma, 707.778.8776.

Murphy’s Irish Pub & Restaurant

Oct 31, Halloween costume party.

Nov 1, Scarlett Letters. Nov 2, Vitamin Girl. Nov 3, 4pm, Mark Dennis and friends. 464 First St E, Sonoma, 707.935.0660.

Mystic Theatre & Music Hall

Oct 31, Fruition and Bear Market Riot. Nov 6, Charley Crockett with Abraham Alexander. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.775.6048.

Newman Auditorium

Nov 1, Bennett Friedman Jazz Quartet. SRJC, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.527.4307.

Occidental Center for the Arts Oct 31, Halloween with

Nov 1, New Hip Replacements.

Nov 2, the Del-Novas. 401 Grove St, Sonoma, 707.343.0044.

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The Colors of Fall Photography

Bring your camera and learn from professional photographers Ron Berchin and Deborah Large. Preregistration required. Nov 2, 8am. $35. Jack London State Park, 2400 London Ranch Rd, Glen Ellen, 707.938.5216.

Natural History Hike

Explore diverse ecosystems on Sonoma Mountain with Sonoma State student and community naturalists. Sat, Nov 2, 10am. Free. Fairfield Osborn Preserve, 6543 Lichau Rd, Penngrove, cei.sonoma.edu.

Night Hike at Saddle Mountain

Join LandPaths and Ag + Open Space for a magical night.

Pre-registration required. Oct 31, 5:30pm. Saddle Mountain Preserve, Cleland Ranch and Calistoga Road, Santa Rosa, landpaths.org.

Film CULT Film Series

John Carpenter’s “Halloween” and its sequel screen together.

Oct 31, 7pm. $10. Roxy Stadium 14 Cinemas, 85 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.525.8909.

DIY ROOTS Portland, Oregon’s five-part indie-folk veterans Fruition perform on

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The Favourite Vernon Black. 1207 Foothill Blvd, Calistoga, 707.942.5605.

Ca’ Momi Osteria

Nov 2, Laura Weinbach and Anton Patzner. 1141 First St, Napa, 707.224.6664.

JaM Cellars

Oct 31, Roem Baur. Nov 1, Broke in Stereo. 1460 First St, Napa, 707.265.7577.

Roadhouse 29

Nov 1, Ali & Mark Band. 3020 St Helena Hwy N, St Helena, 707.302.3777.

The Saint

Nov 1, Cactus & Oak. Nov 2, JourneyDay Rhorer. 1351 Main St, St Helena, 707.302.5130.

Art Opening Calabi Gallery

Nov 2-Jan 11, “Calabi Gallery Ten-Year Anniversary,”

celebrate a decade of fine art with the eclectic gallery showcase. Reception, Nov 2 at 4pm. 456 10th St, Santa Rosa.

707.781.7070.

Upstairs Art Gallery

Oct 30-Nov 17, “Dawn to Dusk,” local artist Linda Barretta exhibits oil paintings depicting light throughout phases of the day.

Reception, Nov 3 at 2pm. 306 Center St, Healdsburg. 707.431.4214.

Events 33Arts Open Studios

Meet artists in the community and enjoy live music, refreshments, art for sale and more. Nov 2-3, noon. Free.

33Arts, 3840 Finley Ave, Bldg 33, Santa Rosa, 415.601.5323.

Bark After Dark

Evening features Italian dinner, wine and beer, raffle and auction to raise funds for the Animal Shelter League. Nov 2, 6:30pm. $35-$45. Rohnert Park

Community Center, 5401 Snyder Ln, Rohnert Park, 707.588.3456.

Botanical Dimensions Book Sale & Swap Find and swap books on ethnobotany and support the organization’s library.

Nov 2, 1pm. Free admission.

Occidental Center for the Arts, 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental, 707.874.9392.

Calistoga Art Center Dia de los Muertos Mixer

Family-friendly event includes arts and crafts, altars, puppet performance, poetry reading and more. Nov 1, 4pm. Free.

Calistoga Art Center, 1435 North Oak St, Calistoga, 707.942.2278.

Dia Sonoma

Sonoma’s city-wide celebration of Dia de los Muertos includes live music, community altars, kids activities and more. Nov 2, 12pm. Free. Sonoma Plaza, First St E, Sonoma, 707.996.1090.

An Evening to Treasure

Robert Louis Stevenson Museum celebrates 50 years with presentations, live music, local dishes, wine and live and silent auctions. Nov 2, 5:30pm. $125. Duckhorn Vineyards, 1000 Lodi Lane, St Helena, stevensonmuseum.org.

Guerneville Library Halloween Open House

Annual event includes treats, fun and games for all ages.

Oct 31, 3pm. Free. Guerneville Library, 14107 Armstrong Woods Rd, Guerneville, 707.869.9004.

Holiday Craft Fair

Support over 50 local artisans selling handmade items to delight all ages. Nov 2, 9am. Free admission. Citrus Fairgrounds, 1 Citrus Dr, Cloverdale, 707.894.3992.

Napa Vision 2050

Land management and agricultural seminar looks

at holistic and regenerative practices. Nov 2, 8:30am. $125. Enchanted Hills Retreat, 3410 Mt Veeder Rd, Napa, 707.780.2050.

Santa Rosa Doll & Toy Show

Browse vintage toys and modern dolls with the family and get up to 2 free doll appraisals. Nov 3, 10am. $6. Veterans Memorial Building, 1351 Maple Ave, Santa Rosa, santarosadollshow. blogspot.com.

Field Trips Autumn Bounty Trek: A Wild Food Foraging Adventure

Wildlife ecologist Meghan Walla-Murphy and foraging expert and chef Coby Liebman lead a multi-day walking trek from Bohemia Ecological Preserve to the coast. Nov

Visionary auteur Yorgos Lanthimos’s period piece screens with pre-film lecture and post-film discussion.

Nov 6, 6pm. $6. Petaluma Film Alliance, Carole L Ellis Auditorium, 680 Sonoma Mountain Pkwy, Petaluma, petalumafilmalliance.org.

Fiddler on the Roof Sing Along

Academy Award-winning musical screens as part of Sonoma County’s Jewish Film Festival. Nov 5, 1 and 7pm. $11-$14. Rialto Cinemas, 6868 McKinley St, Sebastopol, jccsoco.org.

The Portal

Documentary on meditation and mindfulness screens with filmmakers on hand for Q&A. Nov 4, 1 and 7pm. Rialto Cinemas, 6868 McKinley St, Sebastopol, 707.525.4840.

The River

Jean Renoir’s first film in color screens with sponsorship by the Sitting Room Community

WASTED! The Story of Food Waste Environmental Education Coalition of Napa County hosts a screening of the film about the problem of food waste and how to stop it. Nov 1, 6:30pm. $10. CIA at Copia, 500 First St, Napa, 707.967.2530.

Food & Drink Bodega Land Trust Dinner & Fundraiser

Local chefs prepare a bountiful fall harvest dinner, with a silent auction and live classical guitar

by Pablo Rodriguez. Nov 2, 5:30pm. $20. McCaughey Hall, 17184 Bodega Hwy, Bodega, 707.874.9001.

Chili Cook-off

Honoring Their Service Hear stories from a panel of six women veterans whose service spans the decades. Nov 3, 3pm.

Santa Rosa Central Library, 211 E St, Santa Rosa, 707.545.0831.

Intro to Zen Workshop

Learn the basics of Zen meditation and how to extend it into daily life. Nov 2, 9am. $55. Sonoma Mountain Zen Center, 6367 Sonoma Mountain Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.545.8105.

Why You Like It: The Story of Your Musical Taste

Pandora Radio Music Genome Project architect and composer Dr. Nolan Gasser presents an evening of music and conversation. Nov 5, 7:30pm.

Free; parking fees apply. Green Music Center Schroeder Hall, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

Readings Aqus Cafe

Fundraiser for Dogma Animal Rescue features adoptable animals, delicious food and live music by Brother Spellbinder.

Nov 2, 1pm. $20. Rio Nido Roadhouse, 14540 Canyon 2 Rd, Rio Nido, 707.869.0821.

Nov 4, 6:15pm, Amuse-ing Mondays with Rivertown Poets, featuring poets Diane Moomey and Raphael Block and open mic. 189 H St, Petaluma 707.778.6060.

Howell Mountain Harvest Celebration

Nov 6, 6pm, “The Lager Queen of Minnesota” with J Ryan Stradal. $15-$45. 1282B Vidovich Lane, St. Helena 707.968.5097.

Indulge in wines from the region and gourmet bites and silent auction. Nov 2, 1pm. $75.

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Wine & Food Affair

Enjoy a full weekend of wine and food pairings throughout the Alexander, Dry Creek and Russian River Valleys. Nov 2-3, 11am. $75-$95. Wine Road wineries, various locations, Healdsburg, wineroad.com.

Lectures The Deep State Then & Now

Journalist and author David Talbot explores the hidden history of American from WWII to today. Nov 2, 3pm. $20. Sonoma Community Center, 276 E Napa St, Sonoma, 707.938.4626.

Gallery Talk with Tracy Ferron

Exhibiting artist discusses her work. Nov 2, 1pm. $10.

Museum of Sonoma County, 425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa, 707.579.1500.

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Theater Between Riverside & Crazy

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

The Black Dragon Experience

Live action horror show is filled with gory special effects guaranteed to be remembered.

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

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Nov 1, 7pm, “Naming the Unnameable” and ”The Lotus & The Rose” with Matthew Fox. 138 N Main St, Sebastopol 707.823.2618.

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

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Oct 31, 8pm, Halloween Story Time for Grown Ups. Nov 1, 6pm, “Speaking for the Unspeakable” with Eli Whitney. Nov 2, 4pm, “50 Hikes with Kids: California” with Wendy Gorton. Nov 3, 3pm, Napa Valley Writers Open Mic. 964 Pearl St, Napa 707.733.3199.

Nov 2, 7pm, “Psychedelic Mysteries of the Feminine” with contributing authors Kathleen Harrison and Annie Oak plus editor Chiara Baldini. Nov 3, 3pm, Tribute to Chester Aaron with local authors. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental 707.874.9392.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Do you have any skills in fulfilling the wishes and answering the prayers of your allies? Have you developed a capacity to tune in to what people want, even when they themselves aren’t sure of what they want? Do you sometimes have a knack for offering just the right gesture at the right time to help people do what they haven’t been able to do under their own power? If you possess any of those aptitudes, now is an excellent time to put them in play. More than usual, you are needed as a catalyst, a transformer, an inspirational influence. Halloween costume suggestion: angel, fairy godmother, genie, benefactor.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Author Amy Tan

describes the magic moment when her muse appears and takes command: “I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything cracks open, the writing is freed, the language is full, resources are plentiful, ideas pour forth, and to be frank, some of these ideas surprise me. It seems as though the universe is my friend and is helping me write, its hand over mine.”

Even if you’re not a creative artist, Taurus, I suspect you’ll be offered intense visitations from a muse in the coming days. If you make yourself alert for and receptive to these potential blessings, you’ll feel like you’re being guided and fueled by a higher power.

Halloween costume suggestion: your muse.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): More than a century ago, author Anton Chekhov wrote, “If many remedies are prescribed for an illness, you may be certain that the illness has no cure.” Decades later, I wrote, “If you’re frantically trying to heal yourself with a random flurry of half-assed remedies, you’ll never cure what ails you. But if you sit still in a safe place and ask your inner genius to identify the one or two things you need to do to heal, you will find the cure.”

Halloween costume suggestion: physician, nurse, shaman, healer.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian artist Marc Chagall (1887–1985) was a playful visionary and a pioneer of modernism. He appealed to sophisticates despite being described as a dreamy, eccentric outsider who invented his own visual language. In the 1950s, Picasso observed that Chagall was one of the only painters who “understood what color really is.” In 2017, one of Chagall’s paintings sold for $28.5 million. What was the secret to his success?

“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works,” he testified. “If from the head, almost nothing.” Your current assignment, Cancerian, is to authorize your heart to rule everything you do. Halloween costume suggestion: a heart.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Dead Sea, on the border of Jordan and Israel, is far saltier than the ocean. No fish or frogs live in it. But here and there on the lake’s bottom are springs that exude fresh water. They support large, diverse communities of microbes. It’s hard for divers to get down there and study the life forms, though. The water’s so saline, they tend to float. So they carry 90 pounds of ballast that enables them to sink to the sea floor. I urge you to get inspired by all this, Leo. What would be the metaphorical equivalent for you of descending into the lower depths so as to research unexplored sources of vitality and excitement? Halloween costume suggestions: diver, spelunker, archaeologist.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “We have stripped all

things of their mystery and luminosity,” lamented psychologist Carl Jung. “Nothing is holy any longer.”

In accordance with current astrological omens, Virgo, your assignment is to rebel against that mournful state of affairs. I hope you will devote some of your fine intelligence to restoring mystery and luminosity to the world in which you dwell. I hope you will find and create holiness that’s worthy of your reverence and awe. Halloween costume suggestion: mage, priestess, poet, enchantrix, witch, alchemist, sacramentalist.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “One language is never enough,” says a Pashto proverb. How could it be, right? Each language has a specific structure and a finite vocabulary that limit its power to describe and understand the world. I think the same is true for religion: one is never enough. Why confine yourself to a single set of theories about spiritual matters when

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more will enable you to enlarge and deepen your perspective? With this in mind, Libra, I invite you to regard November as “One Is Never Enough Month” for you. Assume you need more of everything.

Halloween costume suggestion: a bilingual Jewish Santa Claus; a pagan Sufi Buddha who intones prayers in three different languages.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In his novel Zone One, Scorpio author Colson Whitehead writes, “A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.”

He means it in the worst sense possible: the emergence of the ugly beast who had been hiding behind social niceties. But I’m going to twist his meme for my own purposes. I propose that when you stop pretending and shed fake politeness, you may indeed resemble an ugly monster—but only temporarily. After the suppressed stuff gets free rein to yammer, it will relax and recede—and you will feel so cleansed and relieved that you’ll naturally be able to express more of your monumental beauty.

Halloween costume suggestion: your beautiful, fully exorcised monster.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I am

glad that I paid so little attention to good advice,” testified poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. “Had I abided by it, I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.” This is excellent advice for you.

I suspect you’re in the midst of either committing or learning from a valuable mistake. It’s best if you don’t interrupt yourself! Halloween costume suggestion: the personification or embodiment of your valuable mistake.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Cleopatra was an ancient Egyptian queen who ruled for 21 years.

She was probably a Capricorn. All you need to know about her modern reputation is that Kim Kardashian portrayed her as a sultry seductress in a photo spread in a fashion magazine. But the facts are that Cleopatra was a well-educated, multilingual political leader with strategic cunning. Among her many skills were poetry, philosophy and mathematics.

I propose we make the REAL Cleopatra your role model. Now is an excellent time to correct people’s misunderstandings about you—and show people who you truly are. Halloween costume suggestion: your actual, authentic self.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Around the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the 11th sign of the zodiac, Aquarius, will be capable of strenuous feats; will have the power to achieve a success that surpasses past successes; will be authorized to attempt a brave act of transcendence that renders a long-standing limitation irrelevant. As for the 11 days and 11 hours before that magic hour, the 11th sign of the zodiac will be smart to engage in fierce meditation and thorough preparation for the magic hour. And as for the 11 days and 11 hours afterward, the 11th sign should expend all possible effort to capitalize on the semi-miraculous breakthrough.

Halloween costume suggestion: 11.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Author Robert Musil made a surprising declaration: “A number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit.” I propose we make that one of your mottos for the coming months. I think you have the potential to be a flawed-but-inspiring individual who’ll serve as a dynamic force in assembling and nurturing a brilliant social unit. So let me ask you: what would be your dream-come-true of a brilliant social unit that is a fertile influence on you and everyone else in the unit? Halloween costume suggestion: ringleader, mastermind, orchestrator or general.

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