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country who think that injecting their very young children with products made and marketed by these companies may not be a good idea. They may prefer botanical medicine to pharmaceuticals, or have another basis for their choice. This is a very personal matter regarding one's own personal health. Or so one might think. When it comes to vaccinations, we are being told, it does not matter what we think—we must do as we are told.

violence in our society. Not just the number of children who are slaughtered, but the emotional and psychological trauma done to the children growing up thinking they might be killed at any time. Our leaders cannot or will not do anything about this imminent and exigent threat to our children. But they sure can get an antianti-VAXX bill through real quick. That is a no-brainer. It is something that only happens when money is being threatened.

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eptember is National Recovery Month. Generally speaking, it’s a month devoted to increasing awareness about substance-use disorder and celebrating the successes of those in recovery.

But I’m concerned with the statistics around treatment.

According to the 2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, some 21.2 million people above the age of 12 in the U.S. needed substance use treatment in the past year. “Stated another way,” the report says, “about 1 in 13 people aged 12 or older needed substance use treatment.” But only 10 percent of those people get treatment.

Why? Isn’t there a ton of money out there to address the opioid epidemic? I’ll tell you why many people would rather die alone than ask for help: stigma. Many of us carry a deep and weighted shame about experiencing addiction. We know our culture holds individualism and success in the highest regard—and that mentality is fertile ground for the judgement which says: “You did this to yourself. If you were a better (stronger, harder working, more caring, less selfish) person you wouldn’t be addicted. Just say no.”

Those of us who experience addiction come to expect that type of stigma from society. But where do people longing for recovery go when even the recovery community itself judges and rejects them?

For decades we’ve had a gold standard medical treatment for opioid use disorder—buprenorphine, methadone and naltrexone.

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he timing couldn’t be any better for 5G technology to appear on the scene.

Not because the fifth generation (hence, 5G) of mobile networking will connect people with each other—and all of their gizmos and gadgets—faster and better than ever before. That’s

certainly cool, even for the multitude of us who will never understand how it all works. No, the beauty in 5G’s timing is that it’s scary. It’s a Shiny New Thing for our already-frightening times.

Let me explain. Joe McCarthy’s Red Scare educated a nation in paranoia. Watergate taught Americans that even our highest– ranking leaders couldn’t be

trusted. And now, we live in a golden age of not being able to trust anyone or anything.

Electronic devices eagerly divulge our personal info to the likes of Amazon, Facebook and Russian hackers. In-home devices with sultry voices (Alexa and Siri) listen to our personal conversations and pass the gory details along to whoknows-where.

Beyond data breaches and techno-spying, though, are growing fears that tech advances come with big health risks. In the era of “fake news”—borne of a Sharpie-clutching president who thrives on conspiracy theories— public trust in supposedly trustworthy sources is at an alltime low, and public paranoia on a range of hot-button issues (vaccinations, for example) is the order of the day. Pythagoras and Aristotle must be spinning in their graves—or at least texting about reports of Russian hackers ginning up health risks of 5G to further divide Americans.

A quick spin through the history of 5G: It’s the fifth generation of mobile networks—1G gave you analog voice service via old–timey cell phones; 2G upped the ante to digital service, making it fancier and more reliable; 3G allowed for access to mobile data (streaming, email); while 4G provides for a portable internet to accompany cell service.

Provided it bypasses growing opposition to purported health risks, 5G will provide new levels of performance and efficiency to all mobile broadband services— and supposedly for cheaper rates (we’ll see about that).

Proponents and lobbyists compare the advent of 5G to innovations like the automobile and electricity. The same people also say once 5G is embraced globally (by 2035) it will potentially produce up to $12 trillion worth of goods and services and create some 20 million jobs. That’s the job of proponents and lobbyists— someone probably said similar things about 8–track players back in the day.

It doesn’t help that we live in strange times, or that President Donald Trump attempts to turn back every Obama-created plan to protect Americans from dirty water and air. Trump lifts bans on menacing chemicals. He champions asbestos. He rejected climate change as a hoax, and coddled the coal industry. The list is sort of endless, and 5G naysayers make at least one

propaganda outlet in this country—has been describing 5G as a Dangerous Experiment on Humanity and warning of adverse health consequences. RT America has been alarming its viewers with warnings ‘it might kill you.’”

Wheeler was unavailable for further comment, says a Brookings spokesperson.

While the Russians reportedly spread fear, American scientists struggle to dispel falsehoods about 5G—or at least conduct research that puts health risk into context without being charged with being a shill for the Telecom industry.

Dr. Steven Novella is founder and executive director of the Science-Based Medicine blog.

He’s an academic clinical neurologist at the Yale University School of Medicine, an author and host of The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe podcast.

The professor recently offered an online explainer on 5G’s potential versus its threats. He did not respond to requests for further comment.

“Imagine if a new technology was being proposed that would provide a substantial convenience, to the point that most people would use it in one form or another, and our economic infrastructure would be reshaped around this new technology. However, the technology involves some risk and scientists estimate that 50,000 people in the U.S. would die each year as a consequence of its widespread use. There is even risk to people who do not use the technology. With optimized safety measures and regulations we could get this number down to 35,000 or so. Would the new technology be worth the risk?”

Novella wasn’t talking about 5G. He was talking about cars.

“In 2017 in the U.S. 37,000 people were killed in automobile accidents. The point is that we accept some risk along with the convenience of some modern technologies. This context is important as we consider adopting new technologies.

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credible point: The government surely isn’t going to look out for their health and safety. Not this government, anyway.

Government brush-offs of health concerns are nothing new. Pacific Gas & Electric’s (PG&E) SmartMeters were supposed to improve the utilities’ ability to collect data, but some Californians complained of headaches and other maladies when meters were installed.

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), historically a rubber-stamp for PG&E interests in Sacramento, negated those complaints as delicately as a bulldozer. They dismissed the concerns and called it dumb science, which is another way of saying “fake news.”

With that in mind: Are there genuine health risks associated with 5G? The Russians want you to think so.

Tom Wheeler, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission from 2013 to 2017, recently presented a paper on the topic. Wheeler’s with the Brookings Institute these days and his paper lays down the history of litigation around claims of health risks that have been a part of the cell–phone revolution since the outset.

Lawsuits alleging adverse health effects from mobile phone exposure have been rejected by the courts under the so-called “junk science” standard. The Food and Drug Administration’s analysis of the debate echoes the conclusions reached by numerous courts that have adjudicated the matter: “The majority of studies published have failed to show an association between exposure to radiofrequency from a cell phone and health problems.”

According to a well-traveled New York Times story from last year that’s cited by Wheeler in his Brookings blog, the Russians are now trying to confuse matters: “Now, the Russian disinformation campaign has embraced this as a means of further sowing dissent in our nation.”

Wheeler argues that “RT America—the Kremlin’s principal

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minimize risk, and consider the overall risk–to–benefit ratio of any new technology. Demanding zero risk, however, is unrealistic and will likely cause more harm than it prevents,” he writes.

Novella highlights the promise of 5G—faster communication, decreased lagtimes—as he argues that the health-impact controversy over 5G’s risks are a question of context. “There is some controversy about the science itself,” he writes, “but mainly opinions vary in terms of how to interpret the implications of that risk.”

He calls for further research into the issue of EMF exposure, given that “the only proven biological effect of exposure to EMF, even at 5G frequencies, is slight tissue heating. There are many other effects hinted at in the research, but none have been reliably replicated and therefore are not established. Further, many of the biological effects are simply looking at changes in markers of biological activity.”

Novell’s point is that anti-5G research efforts to date “don’t

show actual hazard, just the potential for hazard if we make a chain of assumptions about what the markers mean.” He’s calling for more research even as he drills down on the “speculative hazards” associated with the 5G rollout.

“The majority of scientists, including organizations and regulatory bodies like the National Cancer Institute, the FDA, and the EPA, look at this research and conclude that the hazard is minimal and the current safety limits are adequate. But some scientists have looked at this same data and come to a different conclusion, emphasizing extreme caution. The bottom line is that the consensus is that there isn’t much potential hazard from 5G, but there is a lot of speculative hazard that is driving a lot of the media concern. We do need to continue to do research, as the technology changes, so this will be an evolving area that does need monitoring.

“But at present there does not appear to be a reason to ban the technology.”

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Although she’s a native of France, and her family enjoyed wine, a career in wine didn’t seem approachable to Ducrocq Weinkauf.

It wasn’t until she was in Chile, working for a forestry products company, that she got interested in studying wine and working for wineries. There she met Paul Hobbs, the international winemaker based in Russian River Valley. Had she heard of it? No, Ducrocq Weinkauf laughs, recalling their conversation.

Napa Valley? Nope. Then she asked, excitedly, “Is it near Santa Rosa?”

The winemaker was dumbfounded.

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After working for Hobbs in Argentina, Ducrocq Weinkauf moved to Sonoma County. But here again, everyday wine seemed less approachable. “I thought, ‘Wow, it’s going to be really expensive to drink wine that I like . . . I’m French, I never drink just one glass.’” So she started Picayune Cellars with a friend in Napa Valley.

The idea, at first, was to make a little wine they and their friends could enjoy, and sell some to bring down the cost. Well, the quality of the balanced, fruit-forward but food-friendly wine she blends from top sources, and the prices—for the area—proved popular. Now, she’s the sole proprietor of a tasting room and eclectic boutique in Calistoga.

Ducrocq Weinkauf explains the merchandise aspect: “It started with the knife and the blanket.” Her hometown is near France’s cutlery capital, and she imports Laguiole and Thiers knives from family owned businesses like Jean Dubost, Jean Neron and Goyon Chazeau.

She’s also a fan of Native American jewelry from New Mexico artists, and Pendleton blankets may be found alongside French linens from Jacquard Francais and Tissage Moutet. It’s all, and only, about stuff she likes and has found in her travels, Ducrocq Weinkauf says, and much of it’s from woman–owned enterprises. “Because we have some catching up to do!”

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Opponents of the technology believe 5G can mess with your DNA—or worse.

Sleeper Cells

North Bay activists warn of serious health impacts associated with 5G devices BY STEPHANIE HILLER

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he radio antennas poised to spring up on poles around the North Bay may look innocuous, but are they really? A debate over the fifth generation of wireless cellular technology—known as 5G—ensues while deployment begins across the region. As residents and elected officials ask questions about the potential health impacts the wireless transmitter proliferation brings with it, some localities debate bans on the new hardware.

However, recent FCC rulings designed to ease the way for 5G (under the rubric of National Security) give municipal governments little ability to restrict the new–and– controversial additions to the physical landscape.

At issue are the small devices affixed to light poles or other vertical spots surrounding homes, offices and public spaces.

Champions stress the benefits a speedier backbone for data– enabled objects will bring (See News, page 8). Everything from

color–shifting light bulbs and eco–friendly thermostats to card swipers used by yoga instructors and dog walkers will perform with less digital lag time. Critics decry small–cell ubiquity as a bath of invisible, cancer–causing radio waves penetrating soft human tissues—and decry the absence of local control over the 5G juggernaut now afoot.

Resistance to the small–cell rollout is growing. In early 2018, Santa Rosa was forced to walk back a 2017 agreement that would have allowed Verizon to improve its network by installing 72 antennas on wooden power poles

and streetlights around the city.

City councils in San Anselmo, Mill Valley, Ross, San Rafael, Petaluma, Sebastopol and the City of Sonoma all tried to get in front of the issue with ordinances limiting where the devices could be placed.

Last September the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted new regulations to remove barriers to 5G deployment, exempting installation from environmental review, a move that prompted the backlash. The city of Fairfax and the County of Marin joined more than 25 West Coast cities

microwaves—to transmit the ever– growing volumes of data received and generated on smart devices.

Promoted by the industry as being a hundred times faster than 4G, it will allow, for example, videos to be downloaded in seconds.

These so called “millimeter waves” are more powerful and shorter in length than current cell technology. The 5G system planned for the region requires many more cell towers closer together, including in residential areas.

Some 13 million towers would be needed nationwide, according to a recent report done by Google for the Department of Defense.

“Ten cities are now online,” says Verizon spokeswoman Heidi Flato. “We hope to have 30 by the end of the year.” There’s lots of competition for the 5G business, she adds, with companies such as T-Mobile and AT&T pushing 5G plans of their own. “There's definitely a race to 5G,” Flato says. “Verizon is ahead of its competitors and eager to deploy this technology.”

Small–cell towers are showing up cities and towns that are not yet “live.”

North Bay residents concerned about what they describe as negative health impacts of the new technology have pushed back against the proposed rollout.

Some 40 people showed up at the Sonoma City Planning Commission meeting on July 11 to oppose Verizon’s proposed installation of three towers in the city’s commercial hub. Many, but not all, say they suffer from Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS). For them, health is the primary concern.

The Planning Commissioners says their hands are tied because of FCC regulations, dating back to 1996, that deny municipalities jurisdiction over the towers.

Cities can only make decisions regarding the design of the cell towers, nothing more.

“There is no doubt that 5G will affect health,” says Dafna Tachover, citing the results of a $25 million study undertaken by the National Toxicology Program in 2017, which found a link between cumulative exposure

to electromagnetic radiation and two rare types of brain cancer and DNA breaks.

Tachover was the Director of Information Technology for the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) when she says she developed symptoms of electromagnetic sensitivity.

This month she delivered her three–hour lecture in Sonoma, Napa and Santa Rosa, explaining the research that continues to implicate wireless as the cause of her illness.

Her City of Sonoma talk took place in a classroom at Vintage Senior Center with the fluorescent lights turned off, where she reeled off references to numerous scientific studies claiming 5G has significant health effects.

A study published two decades ago by the National Toxicology Program (NPT) found that the effects of radiation exposure are cumulative. Researchers at NPT found long–time wireless users may develop headaches, fatigue, anxiety, insomnia and brain cancer when exposed to wireless vibrations. EHS is now established as a disability by the nonprofit American Association of People with Disabilities.

In Santa Rosa, installation of the new towers was already in process before residents took note. Like other municipalities around the North Bay, city officials’ hands are tied when it comes to the FCC’s recent rulings.

Gabe Osburn, the deputy director of development services for Santa Rosa, explains that the city only has jurisdiction over poles in the public right of way— namely, streetlights. “The council gave us the authority to approve installation on a pole–by–pole basis,” he says. But the wooden poles are not in their jurisdiction.

Verizon proposed 72 poles for Santa Rosa. It contracted with the owners of the wooden poles, PG&E, and began installing cell towers in residential areas around town.

The city held two public meetings and halted streetlight deployment while officials figure out their next step. Other North Bay cities have taken action in an effort to assuage residents’ concerns. Mill Valley, Belvedere,

Sonoma, Sebastopol, Petaluma, San Rafael, San Anselmo, and Fairfax have revised their telecommunications ordinances in an attempt to regulate the placement of the new towers, as did the Marin Board of Supervisors. These ordinances mainly regulate where cell towers may be installed and how close to one another they can be placed.

Petaluma’s ordinance is the strongest in the North Bay. It prohibits small–cell installation on city–owned poles, allows towers on electrical utility poles only in mixed–use commercial zones, (not in residential areas) and decrees a 1,500-foot setback from any two towers.

Assistant city attorney Lisa Tannenbaum says Petaluma sought to incorporate citizens’ concerns within the recently amended guidelines set by the FCC last spring.

“The industry claims that the guidelines give them more freedom,” she says, “but a suit in the 9th Circuit Court claims that the location of poles is beyond the jurisdiction of FCC. The FCC is responsible for regulating communications.” Resolution of this suit is expected by the end of the year.

San Jose and New York have sued the FCC to demand the amended guidelines be repealed.

“But even if those contested guidelines go into effect as written,” says Tannenbaum, “we believe we are still compliant.”

In California, Hillsborough, Piedmont and Danville banned 5G. They’re being sued by Verizon. In Sebastopol, Verizon yielded to citizen pressure and withdrew its applications for two new towers, thanks in part to the actions of the EMF Safety Network, a local nonprofit.

EMF Safety Network director Sandi Maurer says she began experiencing EHS symptoms in 2006. Finding no explanation for her discomfort, she called on Michael Neuwert, a local electrician who started researching the health effects of electromagnetism exposure in the 1980s. He came to her house to examine the wiring. ) 16

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in legal actions to challenge the FCC’s preemption. The court challenges bore some fruit. Last month, Oklahoma’s United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians won an order overruling the FCC’s attempt to prevent local environmental and historical reviews.

Members of the Sebastopol– based EMF Safety Network, founded by Sebastopol artist Sandi Maurer, recently marched through downtown San Rafael to bring visibility to the issue.

There’s a robust and regional grassroots letter–writing campaign to put the kibosh on 5G, and numerous local governments have weighed in with hearings and ordinances pegged at the health concerns. The drive by “Big Telecom” to expand its wireless data capacity is not going as smoothly as it may have hoped in the communities north of the Golden Gate.

5G is quite different than the generations that preceded it. It uses a different type of microwave, with a much higher frequency that enables faster transmission of information and optimizes new autonomous gadgets that talk to one another.

The connective infrastructure of the so-called Internet of Things that raised concerns across the North Bay centers largely on the antennae that need to be deployed by the thousands for 5G to work.

Owing to 5G’s wavelength, which is shorter and more powerful than its predecessors, the network requires that many radio broadcasting devices be installed—and that they’re located close to one another.

Epidemiologist Devra Davis is the director of the environmental think tank Environmental Health Trust. She’s written that 5G tech has the power to disrupt the flight patterns of bees and birds, and could also disrupt aircraft navigation. CBS news reported last May that the tech could interfere with weather forecasting.

5G is not simply a new generation of cell technology. It employs a powerful wavelength in the radio spectrum—higher frequency non–ionizing

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“When he shut off the breakers, I immediately began to feel better.”

Maurer set out to learn all she could about the effects of EMF. In 2007, the Sebastopol City Council took up a popular proposal to provide free WiFi. Maurer began going to meetings.

Despite her opposition, the council unanimously approved contracts to provide free WiFi but flip-flopped two months later and rescinded the contracts.

Maurer was more successful in her fight for an opt-out from smart meter installation, which also uses a pulsed–wireless technology. Now her organization is petitioning the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors to block 5G. Sebastopol activist Rebecca Godbe-Tipp reports the supervisors “told us no one has complained about the cell towers.”

There are no applications in the unincorporated areas yet.

“People say nothing can be done at the local level, but people really do have power. The science is already there, and we have a right to a safe community,” Maurer says.

In last year’s updated guidelines, the FCC ruled 5G towers would not be subject to two kinds of previously required review under the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) and environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). No public hearings were required.

In April, the California Court of Appeal cited the section of the 1996 law prohibiting towers in the public right of way if they “incommode” public use. The towers may be disallowed if they “generate noise, cause negative health consequences or create safety concerns. All these impacts could disturb public road use, or disturb quiet enjoyment.”

If the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals acknowledges the FCC does not control local infrastructure, that could support the fight for local control. In the meantime, the FCC’s attempt to usurp local control prompted legislation to restore municipal authority by Sen. Diane Feinstein

(S. 2012) and U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo (HR. 530).

North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman is a co-signer on Eshoo's bill. He says that while he’s “agnostic” on 5G and purported health issues associated with it, his emphasis is on localism and over-reach by the federal government on this issue. “I don't like the idea of the federal government—and especially this administration, which consistently shills for big business— running roughshod over our communities. I trust my local government to do its job.”

Verizon hasn’t begun the big push for 5G antenna in the North Bay—at least not yet, says company spokeswoman Heidi Flato, “We have not announced 5G launch for the North Bay yet,” she says.

The small cells installed so far aren’t a signal that 5G has arrived, only that it will: They “pave the pathway for 5G,” she says. Verizon’s working now to densify its 4G LTE network, she adds. “There's been a dramatic increase in data usage.

If you think of cell network as a highway, commuter lanes jam up at certain times of the day.”

Small cells add more capacity, she says, as if you were adding more lanes to a highway. “People are using data–rich applications such as video streaming. Small cells will allow more people to do more things.”

Flato didn’t address health concerns raised by activists about 5G, and directed inquiries on that subject to the Wireless Industry Association website https://www. wirelesshealthfacts.com/ Activists vow to keep up the fight. Anti-5G Novato attorney Harry Lehman notes, “If cities have the courage, they can stop this.”

“It's now established that this radiation is carcinogenic and harmful to health,” he says. “Cities that go along with the industry people are in direct conflict with their civic responsibilities.”

Stephanie Hiller has written on 5G health risks in her capacity as a columnist for the Sonoma County Gazette. Bohemian editors contributed to this story.

SONOMA

Wowie Bowie Though he’s been gone for over three years, David Bowie’s musical legacy and influence can still be felt everywhere.

This weekend, more than 20 local musicians feel the music when they perform as part of the fourth annual Bowie Forever tribute. Spanning two nights this year, the shows feature members of Bumblin’ Bones, Gentlemen Soldiers and other popular acts performing with special guests like Bay Area guitarist David Walker and bassist Shawn Miller. Bowie’s music lives forever on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 13 and 14, at Starling Bar, 19380 Hwy 12, Sonoma.

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Kosrof is an Ethiopian-born artist who uses the script of his native Amharic language as a core element in his paintings and sculptures. See the art, enjoy live music and dancing and celebrate the Paul Mahder Gallery on Saturday, Sept. 14, 222 Healdsburg Ave., Healdsburg. 6pm. RSVP requested.

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Ruby Season This year marks Redwood Arts Council’s ruby anniversary, and the council opens its 40th season of classical concert performances with a North Bay favorite, the internationally renowned guitarist Paul Galbraith, who makes his fourth appearance courtesy of the Redwood Arts Council. Galbraith performs his specialized 8-string “Brahms guitar,” held like a cello and picked like a harp, in a concert program that includes works by Bach, Haydn and other classical composers on Saturday, Sept.

14, at Sebastopol Community Church, 1000 Gravenstein Hwy N, Sebastopol.

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Walking & Words Now in its 24th year, the Petaluma Poetry Walk once again takes over downtown Petaluma for an afternoon of poetic readings and revelries at eight venues. First up, visitors can congregate at Hotel Petaluma, where Sixteen Rivers Press presents several authors reading from their recent releases.

The poetry walk moves to a different spot every hour, traveling to the Bank community hub and marketplace, River Front Café, North Bay Café, Copperfield’s Books, the Phoenix Theater, Petaluma Historical Library & Museum and, finally, Aqus Café. Sunday, Sept.

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FACES Photo portraits of unsheltered citizens display at this weekend’s Festival of Belonging.

We All Belong

Art event puts a face to homeless BY CHARLIE SWANSON

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n the face of a growing homeless crisis in Sonoma County, this weekend’s second annual Festival of Belonging, a project from nonprofit groups Homeless Action and Justicewise, invites the public to see the situation through new eyes, with a photography exhibit and discussion taking place at the Glaser Center in Santa Rosa.

The festival began last year as a means of supporting the homeless encampment located behind the Dollar Tree shopping area in Santa Rosa’s Roseland neighborhood. The city eventually dissolved that camp.

“It was the last long–standing homeless camp, so in a sense we thought of it like they were being evicted from their longtime home,” says festival–producer Gillian Haley.

“We wanted to support them just like we would any neighbor.”

That inaugural event last year

was a small gathering where people shared stories of homelessness and community. This year, the festival aims to help the community relate to the homeless neighbors through the medium of photography.

On Friday, Sept. 13, the Festival of Belonging opens with an art reception for the new exhibit, “Faces,” in which Santa Rosa's Salvador "Pocho" SanchezStrawbridge captures nearly 40 upclose-and-personal photographic portraits of local, unsheltered

people and shares their stories.

The festival continues on Saturday, Sept. 14, with a program dedicated to “Inherent Worth” and featuring a talk by Robert Sadler, who himself shoots stunning black-and-white formal portraits of homeless men.

“This year, we are presenting photos of people and stories of their lives—their hopes and challenges—to the general public as a way to build a bridge of understanding,” Haley says.

“The portraits are wonderful,” says Kathleen Finnegan, artistic director of the “Faces” exhibit. “Our photographer Pocho has the gift.

People just drop their defenses in front of his camera and the photos are natural, spontaneous looks at people as they really are. It’s quite a bit different from the public perception.”

The photos are shot in extreme close-up, with the subjects maintaining eye contact, to offer a portrait of “dignity in the face of adversity,” as Finnegan puts it. The exhibit will stay up until Oct. 30, with viewing hours Monday through Wednesday beginning Sept. 17.

Following Friday’s reception for “Faces,” the festival continues on Saturday afternoon with the discussion featuring Monterey County-based Robert Sadler. “He works with the homeless down there, and had the idea to do these portraits showing their essential dignity and worth,” Haley says. “They’re museum-quality portraits and he shoots in black-and-white, so we thought the contrast in styles was interesting.”

Sadler will talk about his own experience and compassion for the homeless, with a reception to follow.

“The idea for the Festival of Belonging is to awaken empathy and a sense of working together,” Haley says.

The Festival of Belonging takes place Friday and Saturday, Sept. 13-14, at the Glaser Center, 547 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa. Fri, 5pm; Sat, 4pm. Free.

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hile technically not set in a courtroom, Tom Topor’s Nuts, running now at Santa Rosa’s Left Edge Theatre through Sept. 29, has all the elements of a classic courtroom drama—a defendant, a judge, a prosecuting attorney, a defense attorney and witnesses. However, the question is not whether the defendant is innocent or guilty of a crime, but whether the defendant is competent to stand trial.

TESTIFY Heather Gordon, as Claudia, shines when she finally takes the stand in ‘Nuts.’

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Claudia Draper (Heather Gordon) will stand trial for manslaughter or be committed to a mental hospital.

District Attorney Franklin Macmillan (Chris Schloemp, whose suit should have garnered him a contempt citation), along with Claudia’s mother Rose (Bonnie Jean Shelton) and stepfather Arthur (Dodds Delzell), are determined to see her committed.

Claudia, with the help of attorney Aaron Levinsky (David L. Yen), is determined to have her day in court.

The play runs in real time with three acts of about 40 minutes each and two 10-minute “recesses” between the acts. The first act consists of testimony from Dr. Herbert Rosenthal (Peter T. Downey), the state’s evaluating psychiatrist. In the second, the parents testify and in the concluding act Claudia takes the stand in her own defense.

Set Designer Argo Thompson utilizes the entire studio theatre in recreating the claustrophobic confines of a Bellevue hearing room, so much so that when the court officer (Scott Wagman) instructed all in attendance to rise, some audience members stood up.

Director Joe Winkler has an A-list cast at work here, with particularly good work by Downey, as the smarmy psychiatrist, and Delzell, as the deceptively doting stepfather. The talented Gordon has little to do but appear perturbed in the background for the first twothirds, but she gets to shine in the last act when her response to one of the DA’s questions turns into a brutally blunt monologue.

The play, written 40 years ago, probably seemed more daring at the time, with its story of an educated, upper middle-class woman with family secrets who turns to prostitution. Now it plays like an extended episode of Law and Order: SVU. Its points about our flawed mental health system and the power of the patriarchy are (sadly) still valid, but they are wrapped in what is basically an unexceptional legal drama told by exceptional actors.

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Sam Chase & the Untraditional and Rainbow Girls play on Saturday, and Jay Som and Alex Bleeker perform on Sunday. Sep 14-15, 4:30pm. $10-$45 and up. Redwood Forest Theater, 17000 Armstrong Woods Rd, Guerneville, stewardscr.org.

Sonoma Harvest Music Festival

Headliners include Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals and Ms Lauryn Hill. Sep 14-15. $119 and up. BR Cohn Winery, 15000 Sonoma Hwy, Glen Ellen, sonomaharvestmusicfestival.com.

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Tribute band faithfully reproduces the sounds of the Eagles. Sep 13, 8pm. $25-$45.

Uptown Theatre, 1350 Third St, Napa, 707.259.0123.

Mads Tolling Trio

Versatile ensemble performs Latin jazz, swing and blues hits. Sep 14, 8pm. $30. The White Barn, 2727 Sulphur Springs Ave, St Helena, 707.987.8225.

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Sep 13, Hartyga. Sep 14, Four Inch Studs. Sep 15, songwriters in the round featuring Caitlin Jemma and Zoe Winter. 128 American Alley, Petaluma, 707.776.7163.

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6780 Depot St, Suite 120, Sebastopol, 707.861.9603.

Guerneville Plaza

Sep 12, Roy Rogers & the Delta Rhythm Kings. 16201 First St, Guerneville, rockintheriver.org.

Whiskey Tip

Sep 14, Men Evolving NonViolently fundraiser with Alien Hit Radio and Lee Vandeveer Band. 1910 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.843.5535.

Yoga Community

Sep 13, Dayan Kai. 577 Fifth St W, Sonoma, 707.935.8600.

HopMonk Sebastopol

Sep 13, Lagos Roots and Elektric Voodoo. Sep 14, 9pm, Electropical Sebastopol. Sep 16, Monday Night Edutainment.

230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol, 707.829.7300.

Luther Burbank Center for the Arts Sep 13, Kansas. Sep 14, Steely Dan. 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.546.3600.

Mystic Theatre & Music Hall

Sep 12, Marshall Charloff & the Purple Xperience. Sep 14, Iya Terra with For Peace Band and the Ries Brothers. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.775.6048.

Occidental Center for the Arts

Sep 14, the Musers and Late for the Train. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental, 707.874.9392.

Redwood Cafe

Sep 12, Benefit Concert for Andre’ Russell. Sep 13, Petty Rocks. Sep 15, 5pm, Gold Coast Jazz Band. Sep 16, the Blues Defenders pro jam. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.795.7868.

Sebastopol Community Church

Sep 14, 7:30pm, Redwood Arts Council presents Paul Galbraith. 1000 Gravenstein Hwy N, Sebastopol, redwoodarts.org.

SOMO Village Event Center

Sep 14, 4pm, the Ultimate Party with Wonder Bread 5 and Petty Theft. 1100 Valley House Dr, Rohnert Park, somoconcerts.com.

Spicy Vines Tasting Room

Sep 14, Adam Lieb and Friends. 441 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, 707.927.1065.

The Stone Foxes

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Sep 12, Christopher Turner presents Pher. Sep 13-14, Curtis Stigers. Sep 18, Slackers in Paradise with Jim Kimo West and Ken Emerson. 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.880.2300.

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Sep 15, 3pm, Rob Watson and Friends featuring Vernon Black.

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“Pointless Sisters Art Quilt Group,” exhibit of innovative fiber arts. Reception, Sep 12 at 5pm. 2060 W College Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.543.3737.

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“Whimsy & Would You Believe,” dual exhibits feature paintings

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Speakeasy-themed theatrical experience aboard the train includes a multi-course gourmet dinner. Sep 12, 5:30pm. $216. Napa Valley Wine Train, 1275 McKinstry St, Napa, 800.427.4124.

Tenth annual big-top party includes live music by Gogol Bordello and Lyrics Born, burlesque, sideshows and, of course, beer. Sep 14, 4:20pm. $40. Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds, 175 Fairgrounds Dr, Petaluma, 707.763.8920.

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Meander through the streets of downtown Petaluma and hear local poets reading at various venues.

Sep 15. Free. Fourth and Kentucky Streets, Petaluma, petalumapoetrywalk.org.

Comedian best known for television show “Workaholics” appears for a night of stand-up. Sep 13, 7:30pm. $20-$40. Sally Tomatoes, 1100 Valley House Dr, Rohnert Park, 707.665.0260.

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Crushers of Comedy presents the fast-rising comic. Sep 13, 7:30pm. $20-$28. Charles Krug Winery, 2800 Main St, St Helena; Sep 14, 6:30pm. $20$28. St. Anne’s Crossing Winery, 8450 Sonoma Hwy, Kenwood, crushersofcomedy.com.

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Enjoy Polynesian dancers, tropical libations and an island-inspired dinner buffet.

Sep 14, 4pm. $50. Friedman Event Center, 4676 Mayette Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.360.3021.

Fiesta de Independencia

Celebrate Mexico’s independence with authentic food, music and activities for the whole family. Sep 15, 1pm.

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

Fiesta en el Molino Bale Celebration of Mexican Independence Day includes dance, crafts, food trucks and more. Sep 14, 12pm. Free admission. Bale Grist Mill Historic Park, 3801 Hwy 29, Calistoga, 707.942.4575.

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Annual LGBTQ weekend features dance party, pool party, spa activities and more.

Sep 13-15. $30-$65. The R3 Hotel, 16390 Fourth St, Guerneville, 707.869.8399.

Santa Rosa Record Swap

Check out local vendors selling vinyl records and used music gear, live DJs and food trucks. Sep 15, 12pm. Free admission. Cooperage Brewing Co, 981 Airway Ct, Santa Rosa, 707.293.9787.

Film Capernaum

The highest-grossing Middle Eastern film of all time screens with pre-film lecture and post-film discussion.

Sep 18, 6pm. $6. Petaluma Film Alliance, 680 Sonoma Mountain Pkwy, Petaluma, petalumafilmalliance.org.

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Documentary on the groundbreaking science fiction author screens with director Arwen Curry in person on Friday. Fri, Sep 13, 7pm and Sun, Sep 15, 4pm. Free; $5 suggested donation. Sonoma Film Institute, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 707.664.2606.

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Ceres Community Garden benefit serves a family-style dinner under the stars with country-fair flair, live music

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Readings Occidental Center for the Arts

Sep 15, 3pm, “Living on the Fringe” with Abraham Entin. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental 707.874.9392.

Raven Theater

Sep 16, 7pm, ScripTease with Raven Players. 115 North St, Healdsburg 707.433.3145.

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Sep 13, 6:45pm, “Undaunted” with Jackie Speier, in conversation with Michael Krasny. $30-$35. 390 Morris St, Sebastopol 707.823.1511.

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Raven Players present the classic killer comedy. Sep 1329. $5-$28. Raven Theater, 115 North St, Healdsburg, 707.433.3145.

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Pegasus Theater Company performs a collection of six short plays written by Northern California playwrights. Sep 13-28. $15-$18. Mt Jackson Masonic Hall, 14040 Church St, Guerneville, 800.838.3006.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you climb to the top of Mt. Everest, you're standing on land that was once on the floor of a shallow, tropical sea.

Four-hundred-million-year-old fossils of marine life still abide there in the rock. Over the course of eons, through the magic of plate tectonics, that low flatland got folded and pushed upwards more than five miles. I suspect you Geminis will have the power to accomplish a less spectacular—but still amazing—transformation during the next ten months. To get started, identify what you would like that transformation to be.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In 1996, when Gary Kasparov was rated the world's best chess player, he engaged in a series of matches with a chessplaying computer named Deep Blue. Early on in the first game, Deep Blue tried a move that confused Kasparov. Rattled, he began to wonder if the machine was smarter than him. Ultimately, his play suffered and he lost the game. Later it was revealed that Deep Blue's puzzling move was the result of a bug in its code. I'll encourage you to cultivate a benevolent bug in your own code during the coming weeks, Cancerian. I bet it will be the key to you scoring a tricky victory.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): American hero Harriet Tubman escaped slavery as a young woman. She ran away from the wealthy "master" who claimed to "own" her, and reached sanctuary. But rather than simply enjoy her freedom, she dedicated herself to liberating other slaves. Nineteen times she returned to enemy territory and risked her life, ultimately leading 300 people out of hellish captivity. Later she served as a scout, spy and nurse in the Union Army during the Civil War, where her actions saved another 700 people. In 1874, the U.S. Congress considered, but ultimately rejected, a bill to pay her $2,000 for her numerous courageous acts. Don't you dare be like Congress in the coming weeks, Leo. It's crucial that you give tangible acknowledgment and practical rewards to those who have helped, guided and supported you.

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healthy. 2. A species needs a sizable population to retain genetic diversity; a few individuals aren't sufficient. 3. Humans have decimated the homes of the threatened species, making it hard for them to thrive. Conclusion: Cloning is an inadequate stopgap action. Is there a better way to address the problem? Yes; by preserving the habitats of wild creatures. Inspired by this principle, Libra, I ask you to avoid trying halfway fixes for the dilemmas in your personal sphere. Summon full measures that really work.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Though patched

together and incomplete, the 2,200-year-old marble sculpture known as the Winged Victory of Samothrace is prominently displayed at Paris' Louvre Museum. It's a glorious depiction of Nike, the winged goddess of victory, and is regarded as one of ancient Greece's great masterpieces. For hundreds of years it was missing. Then, in 1863, an archaeologist discovered it, although it was broken into more than a hundred pieces. Eventually, it was rebuilt, and much of its beauty was resurrected. I see the coming weeks as a time when you, too, could recover the fragments of an old treasure and begin reassembling it to make a pretty good restoration.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "I've

learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me," said actor Sidney Poitier. That can be a dynamic meditation for you during the next three weeks. I think you will derive substantial power from putting it into action. If you're ingenious and diligent about finding those positive outlets, your anger will generate constructive and transformative results.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1905, at the age of 30, Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote the novel Anne of Green Gables. It was a tale about an orphan girl growing up on Prince Edward Island.

She sent the manuscript to several publishers, all of whom rejected it. Discouraged, she put it away in a hatbox and stored it in a closet. But two years later, her ambitions reignited when she re-read the story.

Again she mailed it to prospective publishers, and this time one liked it enough to turn it into a book.

It soon became a bestseller. Since then it has sold over 50 million copies and been translated into 36 languages. I figure you Capricorns are at a point in your own unfolding that's equivalent to where Anne was shortly before she rediscovered the manuscript she'd put away in the hatbox.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The

Toxorhynchites are species of large mosquitoes that don't buzz around our heads while we're trying to sleep and will never bite our skin or suck our blood.

In fact, they're our benefactors. Their larvae feast on the larvae of the mosquitoes that are bothersome to us. In accordance with astrological omens, I propose you be alert for a metaphorically comparable influence in your own life: a helper or ally that might be in disguise or may just superficially seem to be like an adversary.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Audre Lorde

Stegner wrote, "Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for." I hope that in the last nine months, Virgo, you have resolved which of those three options is true for you. I also trust that you have been taking the necessary actions to claim and own that special place—to acknowledge it and treasure it as the power spot where you feel most at home in the world.

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identified herself as a black writer, lesbian, librarian, mother, feminist, civil rights activist and many other descriptors. But as ardent as she was in working for the political causes she was passionate about, she didn't want to be pigeonholed into a single identity.

One of her central teachings was to celebrate all the different parts of herself. "Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat," she testified. These approaches should be especially fun and extra meaningful for you in the coming weeks, Pisces. I encourage you to throw a big Unity Party for all the different people you are.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Earth's species are going extinct at a rate unmatched since the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. Among the creatures on the verge of being lost forever are birds like the Cryptic treehunter and Spix's macaw, as well as the northern white rhino and the vaquita, a type of porpoise. So why don't we clone the last few individuals of those beleaguered species? Here are the answers: 1. Cloned animals typically aren't

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