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Letters

It’s the easy life for Mr. Holbrook, late of the ‘Pacific Sun’ and ‘Bohemian.’

So Long

Yesterday, Sept. 25, was my last day as editor at the Pacific Sun and Bohemian. After four and a half years, I’m leaving hanging up my newspaperman’s fedora.

The Bohemian and Pacific Sun will be in good hands. Gary Brandt, who has been with the Bohemian for 17 years and has worked on more than 800 weekly issues, has been promoted to managing editor and will be responsible for shepherding the papers to press. Charlie Swanson will take on an expanded role as arts editor. News editor Tom Gogola will have a larger role as well, as he focuses the Bohemian and Sun’s coverage of local issues, public affairs and investigative journalism.

As a 20-year veteran of news business, I’ve long believed in the value of a free press. With our democracy teetering on the whims of a venal and ignorant president, I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to say the press and the ballot box are all that stand between us and Tweet-powered authoritarianism.

With the contraction of the media landscape, I also believe independent, alternative journalism is more critical than ever. The Press Democrat, Napa Valley Register and Marin Independent Journal all do fine work, and we’re

lucky to have them. But democracy thrives on a range of voices and the willingness of journalists to go where daily newspapers can’t or won’t.

The Pacific Sun and Bohemian will continue to go there to tell the stories we think need telling.

It’s been a privilege to serve as editor.

Thanks for trusting us with your stories, and, most of all, thanks for reading.

Stett Holbrook Santa Rosa

Hot-Tubbers Who Care

Hardly a day goes by when the reality of homelessness in Marin County doesn’t hit home and break your heart. It’s heartwarming to realize that in one of the most affluent communities in the world, a spirit of compassion and empathy lives large. From Adopt a Family of Marin, to the St. Vincent de Paul Society, and many more caring resources in between, it is with an outright sense of pride to be residing among those citizens a politician once referred to as “misguided Marin County hot-tubbers.” May Marinites always be so misguided.

Dennis Kostecki Sausalito

By Howard Rachelson

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San Francisco’s three highest peaks all stand at least 900 feet (275 meters) above sea level. What are they?

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What ghoulishly popular 1960s TV series featured characters named Pugsley, Wednesday, Morticia and Gomez?

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The world’s longest-living vertebrate can live 150 years or more; what is this not-so-large land animal?

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To visit the “Green Monster,” you’d have to buy tickets for what historic baseball stadium, home of what team?

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The world’s top three oil-exporting countries are located on three different continents. What are they?

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The recent Emmy Awards were dominated by which two movieproducing and -distributing companies?

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Heroes &Zeroes

By Nikki Silverstein

The president of the Novato Chess Club, Christopher Major, teaches an after-school chess program for 50 kindergartners through eighthgraders to share life lessons and help improve academic performance. As a retired special-education teacher and founder of two nonprofits for children, including the Novato Chess Club, Major recognizes the need to keep students productive after school, rather than sending latch key kids home alone. He’s also a member of the San Rafael Harbor Rotary Club, which helps support his Marin chess activities. The success of his chess club prompted him to start a similar program in Uganda, where he taught chess to teachers from 10 Ugandan primary schools. We’ve established that Major is a major hero—but there’s more. He also developed a plan to motivate at-risk youth to attend college by taking them on day-long college tours. Thank you, Mr. Major, for your dedication to children in Marin and around the globe.

A white van drove up to an elderly man’s home in Sausalito and two hustlers jumped out of the vehicle. Did the pair know that the homeowner suffers from dementia?

Were they giddy about their easy mark or did they just get lucky?

Either way, their con cup runneth over, because the gentleman was home alone while his caregiver was away. The fraudsters explained they were from Global Smog and were there to maintain the heating ducts.

After they tinkered with the furnace, they presented the homeowner with an invoice for more than $8,000.

They were oh-so-helpful by writing out the check themselves and having him sign it. Apparently, that was so simple they decided to write out another one, this one bearing the name or an alias of one of the culprits. That check was cashed right away. It takes a special kind of wicked to take advantage of the elderly, so let’s look out for our neighbors.

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Upfront Critics of SB 10 say the new law may handcuff criminal-justice reform.

Get Out of Jail—Free?

California moves to mend its predatory money-bail system

By Tom Gogola and Alisha Green

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hen legislators introduced the bill to abolish cash bail in California, it promised to be a victory for progressives trying to reverse the crisis of mass incarceration. By the time SB 10 became law, however, its strongest supporters had become its most vocal critics.

What would have been a milestone for social-justice advocates instead exposed divisions in the criminal justice-reform movement. As it wended through committee, the American Civil Liberties Union withdrew its support for SB 10, along with criminal-justice reform advocacy groups around the state.

Authored by state Sen. Bob Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, and Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Oakland, SB 10 aimed to eliminate an industry that turns freedom into a commodity and disproportionately penalizes people of color and the poor. What Gov. Jerry Brown signed last month replaces the money-based system

Marin County Sheriff Robert Doyle says that “with the proper risk assessment, the courts will make the right decisions and release people” who are likely to return to court and don’t pose a risk to the public. “Bail-reform proponents wanted to take the court’s ability to make the decision out of the courts, and I know that they are not pleased about it,” but Doyle stresses that Marin County has a robust risk-assessment protocol already in place. “Marin people maybe get released sooner than in other, more conservative counties. We have one of the lowest incarceration rates in the state of California,” he adds.

Doyle agrees that the money-bail system had a built-in “inherent bias,” where people of lesser means could be unduly victimized. “I agree with the premise,” he says, “but that being said, the court is the proper place to weigh the benefits of the risk assessment. I don’t agree that more people are going to stay in jail” because of SB 10.

Rob Giordano, Sonoma County’s interim sheriff, takes a similar view of SB 10. The county has a vigorous pretrial services program and risk-assessment tool, and SCSO spokesman Spencer Crum says that “SB 10 doesn’t change much of what we already do with pre-trial assessments. [Giordano’s] biggest concern is safety to the public and fair treatment to all, which this bill seems to accomplish. . . . [Giordano] doesn’t see an impact in overall jail population. It will likely be around the same numbers of people in custody but those people in custody will have a reason to be in custody and not just that ones that can’t afford bail.”

Sacramento politics kicked into gear in August as SB 10 worked through committee. “[Sen.] Hertzberg made the calculation that in order to get the bill out of the Assembly it would be important to have the support of other stakeholders in the criminaljustice system,” says Natasha Minsker, head of the ACLU’s California Center for Advocacy and Policy. The ACLU, she says, eventually opposed SB 10 for three reasons: “Liberty should be the norm, but SB 10 is weighted in the direction of detention,” she says.

She notes as well that the bill offers insufficient protections for risk-assessment protocols already in place. And, she adds, “the way the

bill is written, the default position is that the probation department will be in charge of pretrial services.” Nonprofits that offer pre-trial services are a better bet, she adds, by focusing on support services, housing and substanceabuse treatment. “With probation, they bring it to a criminal justice mindset, which is focused on surveillance and supervision.”

To win over judges and probation officers, Hertzberg reworded the bill to err on the side of jailing arrestees as opposed to setting them free until trial. That’s what killed it for the ACLU, which withdrew its support over fears that overreliance on computerized risk assessments could perpetuate racial and socioeconomic biases in the criminal justice system.

Hertzberg says he considered pulling the legislation after the bill’s original coalition fractured. But he saw the backlash as an example of the enemy of the perfect being the enemy of the good, and calls the resulting law “pretty damn good.”

“We don’t live in a fantasy land,” Hertzberg says. “We live in a place where SB 10, as written, did not have the votes.”

One criminal-justice reform organization that withdrew support was Silicon Valley De-Bug. Its investment in the bail bill had to do with it drawing inspiration from Santa Clara County, which keeps pre-trial services independent from law enforcement.

“The Santa Clara model is just that—it is a model and best practice, and what all the counties should be moving toward,” says Minsker.

SB 10 does “provide opportunities for local courts that want to be very proactive, to continue to be very proactive” in keeping pre-trial detainees to a minimum.

The bill also allows for courts to be more restrictive, she says, adding that she expects that more conservative counties in the state to head in that direction.

“There are opportunities,” says Minsker, “for places like Santa Clara and Marin counties,” to do away with the “predatory bail industry.

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with one of algorithmic risk assessments, giving local judges broad discretion to lock people up before they’re convicted of anything. The bill passed with the support of North Bay lawmakers Sens. Mike McGuire and Bill Dodd, and Assemblyman Jim Wood.

In the weeks and days leading up to the decision, the ACLU— and even some A-list celebrities, including Kim Kardashian and John Legend—led a campaign urging Brown to veto the bill. “#BailReform is needed,” Legend wrote to Brown on Twitter, “but NOT #SB10 which replaces predatory for-profit bail system with a system that threatens to expand unfair incarceration of communities of color.”

The new rules take effect in October 2019, giving California a framework “so that rich and poor alike are treated fairly,” Brown said after approving the bill on Aug. 28.

The San Francisco public defender Jeff Adachi was less optimistic, saying SB 10 merely “hands the keys to the judges.”

The Marin County public defender Jose Verala says that even as legislators “gutted a lot of the really interesting and progressive parts of the bill in committee,” he’s nonetheless holding out optimism that judges in Marin County will “do the right thing” and hew to the intent of SB 10. The county was already a state leader in pretrial services before SB 10, he says, thanks to previous reform efforts undertaken about a decade ago.

Flawed though it may be, California’s money-bail reform effort is the first of its kind in the nation. The basic function of bail is to make sure a person returns to court, but poor people are all too often faced with a choice of taking a plea bargain or sitting in jail until their trial, if they can’t make bail.

“Pre-trial detention to incentive plea bargaining is a horrible mischaracterization,” says Verala, of how bail is supposed to function in the criminal justice system.

Sponsors of SB 10 say the reform bill stood no chance of passing without buy-in from law enforcement and the courts— namely the Judicial Council of California and the Chief Probation Officers of California, which largely drove the 11th-hour revisions. The California Sheriffs’ Association did not take a position on the bill.

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Harvest of Redemption

A Jew in jail and beyond By Jonah Raskin

at one of his properties. That deputy had a gun, a snub nose .38.

“He was not a member of our collective or our operation,” Kubrin says. “He was a pal who needed a place to stay.”

A longtime Sonoma County marijuana activist who spoke in confidence told me, “Every American has the right to have guns. That right applies to marijuana growers.”

Kubrin echoes that sentiment.

“Jewelers can have guns to protect their diamonds,” he says. “Cannabis cultivators should have the same constitutional right.”

After his arrest, Kubrin was lucky to be able to rely on his wife, Heather, his kids, his friends who showed up in court to lend their support, and his lawyer, Chris Andrian, who has defended marijuana growers and dealers for decades. Kubrin also had the backing of a rabbi named George Gittleman and the congregation at Shomrei Torah in Santa Rosa.

“It was a hard time for Yarrow,” Gittleman says. “His whole life was turned upside down. Prison wasn’t on his agenda.”

Gittleman pauses for a few moments and then adds, “Most of us don’t know what it means to go to jail. You lose your time and you can lose your humanity.”

Gittleman’s comments come just after the celebration of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur at Shomrei Torah, which were followed

by Sukkot. Thousands of years ago, Sukkot was the most important Jewish holiday because it was the time of the year when people found out whether they had enough food for the year ahead, or would starve.

“Sukkot is about the fragility of physical existence,” Gittleman says.

“Yarrow Kubrin came to understand that fragility when he went to jail.

After visiting him, I knew he’d be OK and would likely go on to counsel others. He had a great attitude.”

Jews like Kubrin, who observe Sukkot, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and who worship at synagogues, don’t ordinarily find themselves in handcuffs and in court facing years behind bars.

Judge Rene Chouteau sentenced Kubrin to one year in jail and four years under supervision. Before he surrendered to the authorities, Kubrin gave up his real estate

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Most of us don’t know what it means to go to jail. You lose your time and you can lose your humanity. —Rabbi George Gittleman

license, said goodbye to everyone he loved and entered Sonoma County’s North County Detention Facility, where he served one year. He has until October 2019 before his four years of supervision are over.

“My sentence felt like a bullet coming at me in slow motion,” Kubrin says, adding, “It injured my soul, but there was a silver lining to my experience. I shawshanked my conviction.”

In the movie The Shawshank Redemption, two convicts, played

by Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, are redeemed by their acts of human kindness.

The characters in the film inspired Kubrin. But he was also disappointed by the realities of the criminal justice system “Unfortunately, the emphasis in the probation department, here and elsewhere, is on punishment, not on rehabilitation,” Kubrin says.

Behind bars, Kubrin—who grew up and went to public schools in San Francisco—made the best of a bad situation. It helped that Rabbi Gittleman visited him regularly.

It helped, too, that Kubrin signed up for classes, studied the Old Testament, wrote letters for inmates who needed a bit of his poetic license, befriended “men with terrible addictions” and steered clear of trouble. On one occasion, Kubrin says, guards took prisoners out of their cells, beat them bloody and locked them up again.

“I was the only openly practicing Jew in the jail,” Kubrin says. “If you’re a Jew behind bars, you’re a distinct minority and you’re viewed as the enemy by many of the other prisoners who think Jews are inferior human beings.” He adds, “I saw more swastikas while in jail then while watching the History Channel for years. Most of the swastikas were tattooed on white inmates as a symbol of white pride.”

Kubrin was released on Halloween 2017. That night, he went out trick-

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or-treating with his son and daughter in Sebastopol. This September, he celebrated the Jewish New Year.

Then it was on to Sukkot.

Six months after he was released from jail, Kubrin began to volunteer with the Sonoma County Growers Alliance. Soon afterward, he became a cannabis-industry consultant. Later, he returned to the Healdsburg real estate office where he had worked for years and where he had built up an extensive clientele. But he returned as an unlicensed associate and as a marketing manager, not as an agent.

Since his release from jail, Kubrin has also talked to his congregation about cannabis and shared his experiences behind bars.

California Assembly Bill 1793, which has passed both house of the California State Legislature, but has not been signed by Gov. Brown, would allow for some marijuana convictions to be expunged from the record. Kubrin thinks he won’t be eligible. After all, he deposited large amounts of cash from the sale of marijuana in an Exchange Bank account. In the eyes of the law, he was guilty of money laundering. He said he was trying to be transparent.

Kubrin claims that tens of thousands of dollars that the police confiscated at his house never made it to the evidence locker.

“We’re going to have to deal with the whole banking issue if we want to change the law and keep people out of jail,” Kubrin says. “We’re also going to have to address the problem of police misconduct. It’s not about one bad apple, but about a whole system that’s bad.”

On the earthly scale of saints and sinners, the old Kubrin falls somewhere between the two. In jail, among men with criminal records, he was delivered from the unthinking, risk-taking life he’d been living and became aware of his own flawed humanity. Out of denial came acceptance. Y

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ail can be hell. But not many people know that jail cells can also be a place of rebirth. Yarrow Kubrin lives in Sonoma County with his wife and children. A longtime marijuana grower and dealer, he knows the two extremes that exist behind bars and inside thick walls.

Kubrin will not harvest a crop this year, though he has a bumper crop of memories in his head. As a religious Jew, he knows the joy and the sadness of Sukkot, the Jewish holiday celebrated at the end of September that traditionally marked the end of the harvest time and the culmination of the cycle of the agricultural year.

“I understand why people connect to spirituality while in jail,” Kubrin says. “Spirituality is a natural reaction to depravity.”

Locked up for a year, Kubrin saw the kind of depravity he had never seen before. He also experienced a sense of spiritual uplift.

Kubrin’s life crashed all around him in 2010 when he was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana with intent to sell. It was the third time he was busted on pot charges. In 2010, Sonoma County police found the three big no-no’s—cash, cannabis and guns— in his house. District Attorney Jill Ravitch depicted him as a threat to public safety and a menace to his own family. Local media wrote damning articles. The stories about him continue to haunt him.

What about the guns?

According to Kubrin, the weapons that the police confiscated—many of then unfired collectables intended for sports hunting—were legally acquired, legally registered and locked away. He says he did not have the key to unlock the cabinet were they were kept.

“I come from a family in which guns were part of our heritage,” Kubrin says. “My father, David Kubrin, helped to register black voters in the Deep South in the 1960s. The KKK pursued him. He raised me with the idea that every family should have a rifle.”

Prosecutors say Kurbrin had assault rifles, flak jackets and a shrine to the Sopranos.

What’s also significant in Kubrin’s case is that none of his or his father’s guns were at the site where cannabis was cultivated, though a friend who was also a deputy sheriff was living

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THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A SELECTIVE GUIDE

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Island of Blues

Voted the Best Nonprofit and Best Senior Services in the Pacific Sun’s 2018 Best Of issue, San Rafael’s Whistlestop is a haven for older adults and people living with disabilities in Marin County.

This weekend, the group is raising funds to continue serving the community with the massive Whistlestock music festival. The afternoon includes music from Grammy nominee Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio, B. B. King Entertainer of the Year winner Tommy Castro & the Painkillers and rising stars Matt Jaffe and Bella B, all performing on Saturday, Sept. 29, at Lagoon Park, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. Noon. $150. whistlestock.com.

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Harvest Sounds Embrace the spirit of autumn and the season’s harvest through music this weekend, when Lincoln Theater artists in residence and special guests from the Napa Valley musical community present a chamber orchestra concert as part of the For the Love of Music series titled “Fall Fusion.” Classical compositions and contemporary music all get the fusion treatment with renditions on popular tunes that promise unexpected and delightful fallthemed fun for all ages on Sunday, Sept. 30, at the Lincoln Theater, 100 California Drive, Yountville. 3pm. Free. 707.944.9900.

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Uplifting Music

For those in the North Bay who live in institutions or are otherwise isolated from society, the only chance to see quality live music and performances is from local nonprofit Bread & Roses Presents, which hosts hundreds of programs a year. Now the public can get in on the love with the Bread & Roses Fall Benefit Concert, hosted by Marin staple Johnny Colla, a founding member of Huey Lewis & the News, and featuring sets from Benjamin Andrews and Ezekiel McCarter of Con Brio and party band Dark & Stormy. Monday, Oct. 1, at Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley. 7:30pm. $52 and up. 415.388.3850.

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Hearts of Darkness

The great Sally Field reads from her new memoir, ‘In Pieces,’ on Saturday, Sept. 29, at Dominican University in San Rafael.

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Award-winning journalist and former Pacific Sun contributor Nikki Meredith does not shy away from the darker aspects of humanity in her new true-crime memoir, The Manson Women and Me: Monsters, Morality & Murder, which examines the crimes of Manson family members Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel. Meredith began visiting Van Houten and Krenwinkel in prison years after their crimes and developed a unique perspective, which she shares when she reads from her book and speaks on Wednesday, Oct. 3, at Outdoor Art Club, 1 W. Blithedale Ave., Mill Valley.

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Walter Salas-Humara will gladly take that comparison to Townes Van Zandt, or to Nirvana, or to whatevs.

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Story Teller Walter Salas-Humara shares his American story By Charlie Swanson

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n the landscape of Americana music, few songwriters travel as much ground as well as veteran songwriter Walter Salas-Humara.

The child of Cuban refugees, SalasHumara embodies the melting pot of the American experience and shares his story through his songs.

This week, he also shares the bill

with Jeff Crosby when they appear in the North Bay for two shows.

“There’s a couple different ways to approach a musical adventure, so to speak,” Salas-Humara says. “One is to create and identify yourself with a sound, and the other is to tell stories that connect emotionally with people.”

Salas-Humara has crafted two dozen albums of rock, country and Americana over his 30-year career.

The bilingual songwriter first made his mark as the founder of longtime New York City country-rock revival group the Silos in 1985. Now living in Flagstaff, Ariz., he embraces his culture and heritage on his latest solo album, 2018’s Walterio, which features traditional storytelling folk, psychedelic rock and Latin-inspired sounds.

“Over the years, you get categorized in certain ways,” SalasHumara says. “Now they call it Americana, or whatever. But I’ve also been compared to everything from Nirvana to Townes Van Zandt, which usually pisses artists off, like, ‘I’m so misunderstood,’ but to me the whole thing’s funny.”

Throughout Walterio, SalasHumara’s lyrics alternate from funny to poignant, with two tracks sung in Spanish, including the opening track “El Camino de Oro,” which he describes as a “power to the people” anthem. The record also contains some of his most melodic ballads to date, such as the reflective “Come in a Singer,” sung from the point of view of an aging artist.

“When you’re young, you think, ‘I’m going to be a great artist, because art is so important, one of the important things in life,’” he says. “When you get older, you realize it’s just about making the art for yourself. If you start worrying about if anybody gives a shit or not, you’re screwed.”

Partnered with Nashville-based songwriter Jeff Crosby on the current tour—with the performers sharing band members—SalasHumara is excited to visit the North Bay. “It’s really a tight band,” he says.

“There’s a good mix of dancing, beautiful singing to spark emotions, and Jeff ’s really sexy. Well, I’m like the old sexy guy and he’s the young sexy guy.”

Walter Salas-Humara and Jeff Crosby perform in Petaluma on Thursday, Sept. 27, at 4:20pm at the Lagunitas Tap Room (1280 N. McDowell Blvd.; free; 707.778.8776), and in Bolinas at 9pm on Saturday, Sept. 29, at Smiley’s Saloon (41 Wharf Road; $10; 415.868.1311).

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he straight-faced lunacy visible in the restored 1982 documentary The Atomic Cafe proves Einstein’s comment that the bomb changed everything but our way of thinking.

It’s an unforgettable hideo-comic montage of newsreels, civil defense broadcasts and “schoolastic” films, edited together by Kevin and Pierce Rafferty and Jayne Loader. (Loader will be appearing at a one-night-only screening in San Rafael.)

It’s a no-narrator, no-comment montage of footage from the dawn of the atomic age, rich with mid–20th century faith in the American authorities. It repeats the old wisdom of the 1950s, that all we need to hold back the fury of an atomic war is a broom to sweep up the broken glass, and the certainty that the authorities will turn up to deliver some useful instructions.

This Mondo Atomico sees the world: American Southwest towns embracing

their proximity to uranium mining and testing grounds by using “atomic” as a synonym for “Modern.” It also visits the South Pacific, where the Micronesians are given a nice government patronizing before they’re irradiated by hydrogen bomb tests.

To accompany this mix is a savory soundtrack of topical songs. The religious seized the idea that the advent of the atomic bomb was the sign of the imminent return of Our Lord, as per Lowell Blanchard & the Valley Trio’s “Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb.” Meanwhile, hipster Slim Gaillard takes the coming holocaust as a cue to sip his “Atomic Cocktail.”

The weird light-heartedness about the bomb is such that the Enola Gay’s bombadier, Thomas Ferebee, jests on the radio that post-blast Hiroshima “looked like Ebbets Field after a double-header with the Giants!”

Key to not worrying and loving the bomb is the downplaying of radiation as well as the size of the explosion. “The

affected area might be a poor picnic site,” intones a government official, and here too is the common 1950s lie that hiding under the desk during a bomb blast would be enough to save your bacon. Thus The Atomic Cafe’s most fondly remembered retrieval—a civil defense cartoon about doughty old Bert the Turtle advising children to “duck and cover!”

It was easy enough to soothe kids about the end of the world by portraying the event to come as a monkey scaring a tortoise with a firecracker. Here it is, 70 years later, and students are still having to hide under their desks, ducking and covering because of active shooters. The Atomic Cafe is a true horror comedy, with a wealth of death’s-head humor that even Dr. Strangelove can’t match.

‘The Atomic Cafe’ screens Sept. 29 at 7:30pm at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center.

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Friday, September 28–Thursday, October 4 Above and Beyond (1:35) Cinematic celebration of NASA’s 60th birthday features moon landings, the Martian surface, the edge of the solar system and a glimpse into our intergalactic future.

An American in Paris: The Musical (2:20) Direct from London’s West End it’s the Tony-winning stage production of the beloved Gene Kelly movie musical; the Gershwin boys provide the tunes.

Assassination Nation (1:35) Twenty-firstcentury horror flick in which bloody Salem witch trial–esque retribution is exacted through texts, posts and selfies.

The Atomic Cafe (1:26) Cult-classic mashup of Cold War newsreels and government training films casts a jaundiced eye on the Atomic Age. Bisbee ’17 (1:52) Eye-opening documentary captures the 100th anniversary re-creation of Bisbee, Arizona’s darkest day, when townspeople herded striking miners into the desert and left them there to die.

BlacKkKlansman (2:15) Rollicking Spike Lee comedy tells the true story of a black Colorado cop who infiltrated the local chapter of the KKK; Topher Grace co-stars as David Duke.

The Cakemaker (1:45) Acclaimed drama about the complex relationship between an Israeli widow and the German baker still yearning for her dead husband.

Crazy Rich Asians (2:00) A provincial New Yorker heads to Shanghai with her boyfriend only to discover that the guy’s one of China’s wealthiest and most eligible bachelors.

Eighth Grade (1:34) Coming-ofage comedy focuses on a supposedly unremarkable 13-year-old girl as she navigates the fraught final week of middle school.

Fahrenheit 11/9 (1:13) Rambunctious Michael Moore documentary about the absolutely imperative necessity to get politically involved and the strange new world we awoke to on Nov. 9, 2016.

Filmworker (1:34) Acclaimed documentary about Leon Vitali, a rising star of ’70s cinema who gave it all up to become Stanley Kubrick’s indispensable, obsessive and largely unsung right-hand man.

Hell Fest (1:29) A group of clueless teens are terrorized by a serial killer at a horrorthemed amusement park.

Juliet, Naked (1:38) The Nick Hornby novel hits the big screen with Ethan Hawke as a reclusive rocker, Chris O’Dowd as his No. 1 fan and Rose Byrne as his longsuffering girlfriend.

Life Itself (1:57) Rambling look at a young couple’s courtship and marriage stars Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Annette Bening and a host of others.

Lizzie (1:45) Chloë Sevigny stars as legendary axe murderer Lizzie Borden in a modernist retelling of the 19th-century true-crime corset-buster.

Love, Gilda (1:26) Documentary explores the life and work of Gilda Radner through clips from her Saturday Night Live heyday,

interviews with old cronies like Chevy Chase and Laraine Newman, and narration by the late Gilda herself.

Manhattan Short Film Festival (1:30) You’re invited to watch nine unique short subjects and vote for your favorite. Finalists will be eligible for next year’s Oscars!

Mill Valley Film Festival The 41st annual cinematic soiree features seminars, workshops, galas, in-person tributes and hundreds of movies from around the globe.

My Neighbor Totoro (1:26) Hayao Miyazaki’s family-friendly tale of two city girls who move to the country and befriend a forest-full of magical creatures.

National Theatre London: King Lear (3:40) Ian McKellen delivers an acclaimed performance as the aging, deluded monarch in Chichester Festival Theatre’s contemporary retelling of the Bard’s timeless tragedy.

Neil Young: Heart of Gold (1:43) The venerable singer-songwriter is filmed in concert at Nashville’s hallowed Ryman Auditorium by Jonathan Demme.

Night School (1:51) Comedy stars Kevin Hart as the leader of a group of misfits who take adult ed classes in pursuit of a passing GED. The Nun (1:36) Two Vatican agents take on an evil force inhabiting a cloistered abbey in ever-spooky Romania.

Operation Finale (1:49) Historical thriller about the Israeli Secret Service plot to abduct Adolf Eichmann from Argentina to stand trial for Nazi war crimes; Ben Kingsley stars.

Pick of the Litter (1:21) Inspiring documentary follows a litter of puppies on their two-year odyssey to become guide dogs for the blind.

Searching (1:41) Twenty-first century century thriller stars John Cho as a distraught dad who tries to track down his missing daughter through the cookiecrumb clues on her laptop.

A Simple Favor (1:56) Twisty postmodern noir stars Anna Kendrick as a suburban mom searching for her mysteriously missing BFF (Blake Lively).

Smallfoot (1:36) Cartoon comedy about a Yeti community’s astonishment at the discovery of a tiny-toed human being.

A Star Is Born (2:16) Version four of the romantic tragedy stars Bradley Cooper as a spiraling country music star and Lady Gaga as the ascending nova who loves him.

22 July (2:23) True story of the horrific 2011 terrorist attack on an Oslo teen leadership gathering; Paul Greengrass directs.

Venom (1:52) Tom Hardy as Marvel Comics’ lethal yet enigmatic superhero; Michelle Williams co-stars.

White Boy Rick (1:51) True story of a Detroit police snitch-cum-drug dealer who was abandoned by the system to a life in prison.

The Wife (1:40) An old married couple look back on their eventful life as they travel to Stockholm to pick up hubby’s Nobel Prize; Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce star.

• Above and Beyond (NR) Alpha (PG-13) An American in Paris: The Musical (NR) Assassination Nation (R) • The Atomic Cafe (NR) • Bisbee ’17 (NR) BlacKkKlansman (R)

Regency: Sat 12:55 Northgate: Fri-Wed 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:55, 10:25 Lark: Sat 7:30 Northgate: Fri-Wed 8:15 Rafael: Sat 2, 7:30 (filmmaker Jayne Loader in person) Rafael: Fri, Mon-Wed 8:15 Regency: Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 9:45; Sun-Thu 12:30, 3:40, 6:50 Sequoia: Fri 3:50, 6:50, 9:50; Sat 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50; Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:50; Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:50 The Cakemaker (NR) Lark: Fri 6:30; Sat 5; Sun 10:15; Mon 12:05, 9; Tue 3:15; Wed 12:50; Thu 10:15 Christopher Robin (PG) Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:05, 1:35, 4:35, 7:15, 9:45 Crazy Rich Asians (PG-13) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 1, 4, 7, 9:50; Sun-Wed 1, 4, 7 Northgate: FriWed 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:20 Sequoia: Fri 4:20, 7:20, 10:05; Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:05; Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:20; Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:20 Fahrenheit 11/9 (R) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:20, 3:30, 6:50, 9:55; Sun-Wed 12:20, 3:30, 6:50 Regency: Fri-Sat 12:50, 4, 7:10, 10:15; Sun-Thu 12:50, 4, 7:10 Filmworker (NR) Lark: Tue 5:30; Wed 10:30 Hell Fest (R) Northgate: Fri-Wed 12:35, 3, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 The House With a Clock in Its Walls (PG) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20; Sun-Wed 12:50, 3:30, 6:30 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 7:15, 9:45; Sat-Sun 11:15, 1:40, 4:10, 6:45, 9:15 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:10, 12:25, 1:40, 3:05, 4:30, 5:40, 7:10, 8:20, 9:50 Playhouse: Fri 4, 6:45, 9:30; Sat 1, 4, 6:45, 9:30; Sun 1, 4, 6:45; Mon-Wed 4, 6:45 Juliet, Naked (R) Regency: Fri-Sat 11:30, 2:10, 4:35, 7, 9:30; Sun-Thu 11:30, 2:10, 4:35, 7 Life Itself (R) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 6:45, 9:40; Sun-Wed 6:45 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 6:30, 9:15; Sat-Sun 11, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10 Northgate: Fri-Wed 4:05, 10 Lizzie (R) Regency: Fri 11:40, 2:15, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05; Sat 4:50, 7:30, 10:05; Sun, Tue 11:40, 2:15, 4:50, 7:30; Mon, Wed 11:40, 2:15; Thu 2:15, 4:50, 7:30 Love, Gilda (NR) Rafael: Fri 4:30, 6:30, 8:30; Sat-Sun 2:30, 4:30, 6:30, 8:30; Mon, Wed 6:30, 8:30; Tue 8:30 Manhattan Short Film Festival (NR) Lark: Fri 8:50; Sat 10; Sun 7:45; Mon 6:20; Tue 12:30; Wed 3:15; Thu 4:30 • Mill Valley Film Festival runs October 4-14 at the Lark, Larkspur Landing, Rafael and Sequoia; call (877) 874-6833 or visit mvff.com for schedule Regency: Mon, Wed 7 • My Neighbor Totoro (G) National Theatre London: King Lear (PG-13) Lark: Sat-Sun, 1; Wed 6:30 Lark: Thu 7:30 • Neil Young: Heart of Gold (PG) Night School (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:15, 2, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 The Nun (R) Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:55, 2:35, 5:20, 8, 10:35 Operation Finale (PG-13) Regency: Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:50, 7, 9:55; Sun-Thu 12:40, 3:50, 7 Pick of the Litter (NR) Rafael: Fri 4, 6; Sat-Sun 2, 4, 6; Mon-Wed 6 The Predator (R) Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 7, 9:35; Sat-Sun 11:10, 1:50, 4:25, 7, 9:30 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:45, 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:30 RBG (PG) Lark: Fri, Mon 4:15; Tue 10:20 Searching (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Wed 1:30, 7:20 A Simple Favor (R) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:05, 6:55, 9:45; Sun-Wed 1:10, 4:05, 6:55 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 6:45, 9:30; Sat-Sun 11:05, 1:55, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11, 1:50, 4:40, 7:35, 10:25 Playhouse: Fri 4:15, 7:15, 9:50; Sat 1:30,

4:15, 7:15, 9:50; Sun 1:30, 4:15, 7:15; Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:15 Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12, 1, 2:30, 3:30, 5, 7:30, 9:55; Sun-Wed 12, 1, 2:30, 3:30, 5, 7:30 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:20, 4:20, 7, 9:30; 3D showtime at 1:55 Playhouse: Fri 3:45, 6:30, 8; Sat 1:15, 3:45, 6:30, 8; Sun 1:15, 3:45, 6:30; Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:30 Rowland: Fri-Sun 11:30, 2, 7, 9:40; 3D showtime at 4:30 • A Star Is Born (R) Cinema: Thu 7, 10:15 Fairfax: Thu 7, 7:15 Playhouse: Thu 7 Rowland: Thu 7, 10:20 Rafael: Tue 7 (director Paul Greengrass in person) • 22 July (NR) Fairfax: Thu 5, 7:40 Northgate: Thu 5, 7:40, 10:20; 3D • Venom (PG-13) showtimes at 6:20, 9 Playhouse: Thu 5, 7:40 Rowland: Thu 5, 7:45; 3D showtime at 10:30 White Boy Rick (NR) Northgate: Fri-Wed 11, 1:45, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 The Wife (NR) Rafael: Fri 3:30, 5:45, 8; Sat 1:40, 3, 5:15; Sun 1:40, 3:30, 5:45, 8; Mon, Wed 5:45, 8; Tue 5:45 Smallfoot (PG)

Because there were too many movies playing this week to list, we have omitted some of the movie summaries and times for those that have been playing for multiple weeks. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Showtimes can change after we go to press. Please call theater to confirm.

CinéArts Sequoia 25 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley, 388-1190 Century Cinema 41 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, 924-6506 Fairfax 9 Broadway, Fairfax, 453-5444 Lark 549 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur, 924-5111 Larkspur Landing 500 Larkspur Landing Cir., Larkspur, 461-4849 Northgate 7000 Northgate Dr., San Rafael, 491-1314 Playhouse 40 Main St., Tiburon, 435-1251 Rafael Film Center 1118 Fourth St., San Rafael, 454-1222 Regency 80 Smith Ranch Rd., Terra Linda, 479-6496 Rowland 44 Rowland Way, Novato, 898-3385

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The cast of Marin Theatre Company’s ‘Skeleton Crew’ are in the running for Outstanding Ensemble.

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Standing Out Theatre Bay Area readies the red carpet for the best from local stages

By Harry Duke

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heatre Bay Area has announced the nominees for its fifth annual TBA awards, and North Bay companies have snagged multiple nominations.

The TBA awards honor excellence in professionally oriented theater through a peer-based, Bay Area– wide adjudication process of artists and productions from companies who are members of Theatre Bay Area and pay an awards registration fee. Participating Marin-based companies include Marin Musical Theatre Company, Marin Shakespeare Company, Marin Theatre Company, Mountain Play Association, Novato Theater Company and Ross Valley Players.

Theatre Bay Area divides its awards into three tiers using budget, Actors’ Equity Association contracts, and number of required TBA adjudicators as determining factors.

The Marin Theatre Company received five nominations in its tier, including Chris Fitzer for Properties Design for Skeleton Crew, an Outstanding Ensemble nod for the cast of Skeleton Crew, Margo Hall and Joy Carlin for Outstanding Performance in a Principal Role in a Play for their work in Skeleton Crew and Marjorie Prime, and Dave Maier for his Fight Choreography in Shakespeare in Love.

The Marin Shakespeare Company received two nomination in its tier, both for Richard Pallaziol’s Fight

Choreography in its productions of Pericles and Hamlet.

Fighting must be big on Marin County stages, as Zoe SwensonGraham was also recognized for her Fight Choreography in the Ross Valley Players production of The Game’s Afoot and the Marin Musical Theatre Company production of Pippin.

Marin Musical Theatre Company also garnered a nomination for Outstanding Performance in a Featured Role in a Musical for Tim Ryan’s portrayal of Nicely Nicely in its production of Guys and Dolls.

Ross Valley Players were recognized in the Outstanding Production of a Play category for The Tin Woman.

Sonoma County’s 6th Street Playhouse, Cinnabar Theater, Left Edge Theatre, Sonoma Arts Live and Spreckels Theatre Company collectively received 25 nominations in 16 categories over two tiers, and Napa County’s Lucky Penny Productions received seven nominations over six categories in its tier.

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Market on Wheels The Rollin’ Root rolls to underserved communities By Flora Tsapovsky

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o bridge the gap between farmers markets and those who don’t live near one, the Agricultural Institute of Marin (AIM) launched the Rollin’ Root this past month.

A mobile farmers market of sorts, Rollin’ Root is a truck packed with fresh produce and dairy products from local farmers and artisans, traveling through various Marin locations on Thursdays.

Focusing on low-income communities of older adults, the refrigerated truck, stocked with goods from the Civic Center farmers market, stops at Whistlestop Active Aging Center in San Rafael, the Marin Valley Mobile Country Club in Novato and the Maria B. Freitas Senior Community in San Rafael. As of Sept. 27, a fourth stop at the Marin City Community Development Corporation in Marin City will be added.

“Many people in Marin are interested in visiting the farmers market,” says AIM CEO Naja-Riese says, “but have transportation hardships.

We’re combining the convenience of the food truck with the freshness of the farmers market.”

The Rollin’ Root—formed through AIM’s partnership with the Healthy Eating Active Living Community Health Initiative, a partnership between the League of California Cities and the Public Health Advocates—emphasizes healthful food and everyday mobility, but NajaRiese says anyone can shop from the truck. For the communities it visits, the Rollin’ Root truck has become, he says, “a real event, something our senior communities are able to look forward to each week, a place to connect with their neighbors and learn about seasonal products.”

Alongside the vegetables, fruit and yogurt, Rollin’ Root hands out recipe cards and educational materials.

Building on the warm welcome the program has received so far, NajaRiese carefully plans the future.

“Given it’s a new initiative, we want to be thoughtful on how we expand,” he says. “We’re looking into West Marin, and even San Francisco and Oakland. We’re looking to fill a need.”

Visit agriculturalinstitute.org/mobilemarket for more information.

Concerts MARIN Bread & Roses Fall Benefit Concert Nonprofit arts organization hosts a concert with Ziek McCarter and Ben Andrews of Con Brio, Dark & Stormy and Johnny Colla.

Oct 1, 7:30pm. $52 and up. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.3850.

Whistlestock Benefit concert for Marin’s Whistlestop features Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio, Tommy Castro & the Painkillers and others. Sep 29, 11:30am. $150. Lagoon Park, Marin Civic Center, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael.

415.473.6800.

SONOMA Johnny Marr Iconic guitarist and founding member of the Smiths plays a solo show. Sep 28, 7pm. $50. Gundlach Bundschu Winery, 2000 Denmark St, Sonoma. 707.938.5277.

Las Cafeteras Los Angeles outfit blends Afro-Mexican rhythms and rhymes in dynamic live performances. Sep 28, 7:30pm. $25 and up.

Green Music Center Weill Hall, 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

NAPA First Aid Kit BottleRock presents the Swedish sisterly folk duo, with Australian songwriter Julia Jacklin opening. Sep 29, 8pm. $45.

JaM Cellars Ballroom at the Margrit Mondavi Theatre, 1030 Main St, Napa.

707.880.2300.

For the Love of Music: Fall Fusion Chamber orchestra performance offers variations on classical pieces that embrace the spirit of harvest. Sep 30, 3pm. Free. Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater, 100 California Dr, Yountville.

707.944.9900.

Clubs & Venues Angelico Hall Sep 30, 3pm, Dominican guest concert series with Jiji and Gulli Björnsson. Dominican University, 50 Acacia Ave, San Rafael.

415.457.4440.

Downtown Tiburon Sep 28, Friday Nights on Main with the Fundamentals. Main St, Tiburon. 415.435.5633.

Fenix Sep 27, Larry Vann & the House Band. Sep 28, Michael Skinner & the Final Touch Band. Sep 30, tribute to Carole King with Dallis Craft Trio. 919 Fourth St, San Rafael.

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First Presbyterian Church of San Anselmo Sep 30, “The Birth of Venus” with ECHO Chamber Orchestra. 72 Kensington Rd, San Anselmo. 415.456.3713.

George’s Nightclub Sep 28, Cyphy. Sep 29, DJ Jorge. 842 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.226.0262.

HopMonk Novato Sep 28, Aerocksmith with Ann Halen. Sep 29, Hackjammers and Rock Candy. Sep 30, Stephen Kellogg and Bob Hillman. 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 415.892.6200.

Iron Springs Pub & Brewery Oct 3, Late for the Train. 765 Center Blvd, Fairfax. 415.485.1005.

L’Appart Resto Sep 27, the Rusty String Express. 636 San Anselmo Ave, San Anselmo. 415.256.9884.

Marin Country Mart Sep 28, 6pm, Friday Night Jazz with Lee Waterman and Jazz Caliente. Sep 30, 12:30pm, Folkish Festival with Mads Tolling and friends. 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur. 415.461.5700.

19 Broadway Nightclub Sep 26, Frankie Bourne Band. Sep 27, Rhythms & Rhymes. Sep 28, the Asteroid No 4. Sep 29, El Cajon. Sep 30, 4pm, tribute to Johnny Cash with Jimmie Ray. 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 415.459.1091.

No Name Bar Sep 27, No Room for Zeus. Sep 28, Michael Aragon Quartet. Sep 29, Chris Saunders Band. Sep 30, Timothy O & Co. 757 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 415.332.1392.

Osher Marin JCC Sep 30, a cappella with the House Jacks. 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael. 415.444.8000.

Osteria Divino Sep 27, Barrio Manouche. Sep 28, Passion Habanera. Sep 29, Marcos Sainz Trio. Sep 30, Brian Moran & Katiana Vilá Duo. 37 Caledonia St, Sausalito. 415.331.9355.

Panama Hotel Restaurant Sep 26, Lorin Rowan. Sep 27, John Hoy. 4 Bayview St, San Rafael. 415.457.3993.

Papermill Creek Saloon Sep 26, Judy Radiloff. Sep 29, Sky Blue Band.

Sep 30, Papermill Gang. 1 Castro, Forest Knolls. 415.488.9235.

Peri’s Silver Dollar Sep 27, Mark’s Jam Sammich. Sep 28, Swamp Thang. Sep 29, the Bad Thoughts. Sep 30, Heather Normandale. 29 Broadway, Fairfax.

415.459.9910.

Rancho Nicasio Sep 28, Jeffrey Halford & the Healers. Sep 30, Commander Cody & His Modern Day Airmen. 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio.

415.662.2219.

Sausalito Cruising Club Mon, Joe Tate & Blue Monday Band jam session. 300 Napa St, Sausalito. 415.332.9922.

Sausalito Seahorse Sep 27, Toque Tercero flamenco night. Sep

Smiley’s Schooner Saloon Sep 27, Aubryn. Sep 28, Sunhunter. Sep 29, Jeff Crosby and Walter Salas-Humara.

Sep 30, Sunny War. 41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas.

415.868.1311.

Station House Cafe Sep 30, 5pm, Paul Knight and friends. 11180 State Route 1, Pt Reyes Station. 415.663.1515.

Sweetwater Music Hall Sep 26, John Doe Folk Trio. Sep 27, John Oates. Sep 28-29, Petty Theft. Sep 30, Lydia Pense & Cold Blood. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.3850.

The Tavern on Fourth Sep 28, Skunk Funk. Sep 29, Trace Repeat.

711 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.454.4044.

Terrapin Crossroads Sep 26, Grant Farm. Sep 27, Circles Around the Sun. Sep 28-29, Melvin Seals & JGB birthday show. Sep 30, Nathan Moore. 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael. 415.524.2773.

Throckmorton Theatre Sep 28, the Black Market Trust. Sep 29, Blame Sally. Sep 30, 5pm, Kimrea’s Pro Showcase with Grant Ewald. 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.

Art Openings Marin Society of Artists Oct 3-27, “Ingenuity,” juried sculpture and fine crafts exhibition features a wide variety of media and styles. Reception, Oct 12 at 5pm.

1515 Third St, San Rafael. Wed-Sun, Noon to 4pm. 415.464.9561.

Throckmorton Theatre Oct 2-28, “Rodney Ewing Solo Exhibit,” artist examines human interactions and cultural conditions in his collage works. Reception, Oct 2 at 5pm. 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.

Comedy Don Friesen The only two time winner of the prestigious SF International Comedy Competition takes the stage for a night of laughs. Sep 27, 7:30pm. $20-$25. Trek Winery, 1026 Machin Ave, Novato. 415.899.9883.

Evil Comedy Show Devilish improv comedy sketches and standups offer the funniest in gallows humor. Sep 28, 7pm. Arlene Francis Center, 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa. 707.528.3009.

Tuesday Night Live See standup comedians Matt Fulchiron, Krista Fatka, Priyanka Wali and others. Oct 2, 8pm. $17-$27. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.

Events Community Media Center of Marin Orientation Get answers to all your media questions, including how you can produce content and get it on the air in Marin. Oct 2, 7pm. Free.

Community Media Center of Marin, 819 A St, San Rafael. 415.721.0636.

Fairfax Art Walk Artists, musicians, poets and makers are showcased in this family-friendly event. Sep 28, 5pm. Free. Downtown Fairfax, Bolinas Road, Fairfax.

Mystery Writers Conference Participants work closely with mystery writers, agents, editors and publishers, as well as investigators and crime-fighting professionals. Sep 27-30. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 415.927.0960.

Thrive Alive Join the community in an interactive program that improves brain wellness and increases longevity through socialization, music and moving. Wed, Sep 26, 1pm. $10-$25.

St. Columba’s Episcopal Church, 12835 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Inverness. 415.669.1039.

Field Trips Madrone Audubon Society Bird Walk Search for fall migrants birds. Sep 29, 8am.

Point Reyes National Seashore, 1 Bear Valley Rd, Pt Reyes Station. madroneaudubon.org.

Sunrise Tour of Muir Woods See majestic trees and hear the story of the forest. Reservations required. Sep 30, 7am.

Free. Muir Woods Visitor Center, 1 Muir Woods Rd, Mill Valley. 415.388.2596.

Film The Atomic Cafe Filmmaker Jayne Loader presents a screening of the restored indie cult classic, with Q&A. Sep 29, 7:30pm. $11-$13. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.454.1222.

Best of the Fest See the feature film, “Letters from Baghdad,” which screened at the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival. Sep 27, 7pm. $10-$12. Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S High St, Sebastopol. 707.829.4797.

LunaFest Traveling film festival spotlights films by talented women filmmakers with thoughtprovoking themes. Sep 27, 5:30pm. $10.

Sonoma State University, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park. lunafest.org.

Petaluma Cinema Series Shot in Santa Rosa, Alfred Hitchcock’s “Shadow of a Doubt” screens with pre-show lecture and post-show discussion. Oct 3, 6pm. $5-$6; $45 season pass. Carole L Ellis Auditorium, SRJC Petaluma Campus, 680 Sonoma Mountain Pkwy, Petaluma. petalumafilmalliance.org.

Tribute to Paul Greengrass Program features an onstage conversation with the director and a screening of his new film “22 July.” Oct 2, 7pm. $25. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael.

415.454.1222.

Food & Drink Blue-Ribbon Winners from the American Cheese Society Cheese expert Janet Fletcher leads a

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Sep 29, 1pm. $65. Healdsburg Shed, 20 25«19 North St, Healdsburg. 707.431.7433.

Breakfast at Breathless Pair a sweet or savory French crepe from Brittany Crepes and a glass of bubbles in the tasting room and garden. Sun, Sep 30, 9:30am. $23. Breathless Wines, 499 Moore Lane, Healdsburg. 707.433.8400.

Fresh Starts Chef Event Cristina Topham of Sonoma’s Spread Catering presents a delicious menu of Lebanese specialties. Sep 27, 6pm. $60. The Key Room, 1385 N Hamilton Pkwy, Novato.

415.382.3363, ext 215.

Grape to Glass Tasting Join winemaker Amy Ludovissy for a barrel sample and learn about the winemaking journey. Sep 30, 11am. Free. Viansa Winery, 25200 Arnold Dr, Sonoma. 707.935.4700.

Hands Across the Valley Taste the latest from noted chefs and winemakers, with silent and live auctions benefitting Napa safety-net food programs.

Sep 29, 4pm. $125-$250. Charles Krug Winery, 2800 Main St, St Helena. 707.253.0868.

Intro to Charcuterie Taste a range of artisanal goods and learn about the art of cured meats with food writer and educator Vanessa Chang. Sep 27, 7pm. $20. Driver’s Market, 200 Caledonia St, Sausalito. 415.729.9582.

Kendall-Jackson Harvest Celebration Enjoy the best of Sonoma County’s bounty with fresh produce, bites, wine, food demonstrations, live music and more. Sep 30, 11am. $150. Kendall-Jackson Wine Estate & Gardens, 5007 Fulton Rd, Fulton. 707.576.3810.

Off the Grid Food Trucks Eat your way through the largest gathering of mobile food trucks in Marin, listen to live music and take in great views. Sun, 11am.

Marin Country Mart, 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur. 415.461.5700.

Pie, Pie & More Pie Pie-making demo and contest features natural ingredients and delicious competition at the farmers market. Sep 29, 9am. Marin Country Mart, 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur. 415.461.5700.

Lectures Deep Writing Workshop with Susanne West Work with a variety of writing prompts and processes to help free the imagination.

Sep 26, 6pm. Corte Madera Library.

707 Meadowsweet Dr, Corte Madera.

707.924.6444.

Media Mixer Get into the spirit of the Day of the Dead with traditional Mexican refreshments and music amid a gallery of Latin-inspired art. Oct 3, 7pm. Free. Community Media Center of Marin, 819 A St, San Rafael.

415.721.0636.

Meditation at Whistlestop Learn how to lower stress levels, reduce anxiety and depression, and restore healthy sleep patterns. Thurs, 3:30pm. $5. Whistlestop, 930 Tamalpais Ave, San Rafael. 415.456.9062.

Senior Circle Share the challenges of aging in a safe and supportive environment in partnership with the Center for Attitudinal Healing. Wed, 10am. Free. Whistlestop, 930 Tamalpais Ave, San Rafael. 415.456.9062.

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Senior Stretch Class Presented by Sunlight Chair Yoga. Free for Silver Sneakers insurance and church members, drop-ins welcome. Wed, 11am. $8.

First Presbyterian Church of San Rafael, 1510 Fifth St, San Rafael. 415.689.6428.

Sufi Women’s Organization Luncheon Lucia Martel-Dow, director of Immigration Legal Services at Canal Alliance, speaks on the rights of immigrants. Sep 29, 11:30am. $35. The Club at McInnis Park, 350 Smith Ranch Rd, San Rafael. 415.492.1800.

Tai Chi Class David Mac Lam teaches classic Yang-style and Taoist-style meditation. Mon, 11am. $8-$10.

Whistlestop, 930 Tamalpais Ave, San Rafael.

415.456.9062.

Valley Voicestra with Allison Jeanne All vocal skill levels are welcome to sing together in a new four-week improvised singing workshop. Sep 27, 7pm. $90. San Geronimo Valley Community Center, 6350 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, San Geronimo. soundorchard.org.

Readings Angelico Hall Sep 29, 1pm, “In Pieces” with Sally Field, in conversation with Janis Cooke Newman. $40. Dominican University, 50 Acacia Ave, San Rafael 415.457.4440.

Book Passage Sep 26, 7pm, “Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win” with Jo Piazza. Sep 27, 5pm, “The Long-Lost Love Letters of Doc Holliday” with David Corbett. Sep 27, 7:30pm, “Under My Skin” with Lisa Unger. Sep 28, 7pm, “In the Midst of Winter” with Isabel Allende. Sep 30, 7pm, “Dear America” with Jose Antonio Vargas.

Oct 1, 12pm, “Transcription” with Kate Atkinson, includes meal and signed book. $55. Oct 2, 7pm, “American Prison” with Shane Bauer. Oct 3, 7pm, “Winners Take All” with Anand Giriharadas. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera 415.927.0960.

Book Passage By-the-Bay Sep 26, 6pm, “The Tango War” with Mary Jo McConahay. Oct 2, 6pm, “Twenty Years of Life” with Suzanne Bohan. 100 Bay St, Sausalito 415.339.1300.

Corte Madera Library Sep 27, 4pm,“The Absolutely Positively No Princesses Book” with Ian Lendler. 707 Meadowsweet Dr, Corte Madera 707.924.6444.

Outdoor Art Club Oct 3, 7pm, “The Manson Women & Me” with Nikki Meredith, in conversation with her daughter Caitlin Meredith. Free. 1 W Blithedale Ave, Mill Valley 415.383.2582.

Rebound Bookstore Sep 26, 7pm, Hand to Mouth/ WORDS SPOKEN OUT. 1611 Fourth St, San Rafael 415.482.0550.

Director Paul Greengrass (‘United 93,’ ‘Captain Phillips’) appears in conversation for a tribute from the Mill Valley Film Fest and to screen his new drama, ‘22 July,’ on Oct. 2, at the Smith Rafael Film Center.

Theater Artist Occupied Festival The Imaginists present their first annual performance festival featuring renowned Bay Area dance and theatrical artists. Sep 28-29, 7pm. $15-$25. The Imaginists, 461 Sebastopol Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.528.7554.

Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa.

707.546.3600.

The River Bride College of Marin drama program presents the imaginative play inspired by Latino folklore. Sep 28-Oct 14. $10-$20. College of Marin Kentfield Campus, 835 College Ave, Kentfield. 415.457.8811.

As You Like It Shakespeare Napa Valley presents an interactive and family friendly adaptation of the comedy. Through Sep 30, 7pm. Free admission. CIA at Copia, 500 First St, Napa.

707.967.2530.

Tapas Short Play Festival Pegasus Theater Company performs a collection of 10-minute plays written by Northern California playwrights. Through Oct 7. $15-$18. Mt Jackson Masonic Hall, 14040 Church St, Guerneville. 800.838.3006.

A Chorus Line Classic musical is for everyone who’s ever had a dream and put everything on the line to make it come true. Through Sep 30. $18-$30.

Novato Theater Company, 5240 Nave Dr, Novato. 415.883.4498.

Time Stands Still/Church & State Raven Players’ mini-rep presents two contemporary plays about complex issues; performed on alternate days. Through Oct 7. $10-$25. Raven Theater, 115 North St, Healdsburg. 707.433.3145.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time This stage adaptation of the novel about a teenage detective is funny and enthralling.

Through Sep 30. $16-$26. Spreckels Performing Arts Center, 5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park. 707.588.3400.

Twelfth Night Ross Valley Players present Shakespeare’s enduring comedy of mistaken identity and unrequited love. Sep 28-Oct 21. $12-$27.

Marin Art & Garden Center, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross. rossvalleyplayers.com.

Guys & Dolls The broadway classic opens 6th St Playhouse’s season with high-stakes fun.

Through Oct 7. $25-$35. 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa. 707.523.4185.

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The Naked Truth Left Edge Theater opens their season with the comedy about five women struggling to conquer pole dancing. Through Sep 30. $25-$40. Luther Burbank Center for the

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SINGLE & DISSATISFIED? Tired of spending weekends and holidays alone? Join with other single men and women to explore what’s blocking you from fulfillment in your relationships. Nineweek Single’s Group, OR weekly, ongoing, coed Intimacy Groups or Women’s Group, all starting the week of October 1st. Groups meet on Mon, Tues, & Thurs evenings. Space limited. Also, Individual and Couples sessions. Central San Rafael. For more information, call Renee Owen, LMFT #35255 at 415-453-8117 GROUP FOR MOTHERLESS DAUGHTERS, women who have lost their mothers through death, illness, separation, or estrangement in childhood, adolescence or adulthood. A safe place to grieve and to explore many influences of mother loss in relatonships, parenting, individual goals, trust, etc. Facilitated & developed by Colleen Russell, LMFT, CGP, since 1997. GROUP FOR FORMER MEMBERS OF HIGH DEMAND GROUPS, “spiritual,” “religious,” “philosophical,” “Eastern,” “Coaching/Improvement,” etc.

Safety and trust in discussing experiences and coercive influence in groups and families with leaders who claim special status and who use unethical, manipulative methods to recruit and indoctrinate with increasing demands on personal lives. Facilitated and developed by Colleen Russell, LMFT, CGP, since 2003. Contact: Colleen Russell, LMFT, GCP. Individual, Couple, Family & Group Therapy. 415-785-3513; crussell@colleenrussellmft.com

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 145247.

The following individual(s) are doing business: DIVORCE WITH DIGNITY-MARIN, 7 MT. LASSEN DR., SUITE A-116, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903; EMPRESS INDUSTRIES, LLC, 7 MT. LASSEN DR., SUITE A-116, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. This business is being conducted

by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on AUG 24, 2018. (Publication Dates: September 5, 12, 19, 26 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 145301.

The following individual(s) are doing business: LABYRINTH DESIGN, 85 MEERNAA AVE, FAIRFAX, CA 94930: JOHN WINSLOW HARVEY, 85 MEERNAA AVE, FAIRFAX, CA 94930. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on AUGUST 31, 2018.

(Publication Dates: September 12, 19, 26 October 3 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2018145260. The following individual(s) are doing business: MARIN ARTIST MANAGEMENT, 1010 B STREET, SUITE 300, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: DENNIS D

STRAZULO, 157 SCRAMENTO AVE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on AUGUST 27, 2018.

(Publication Dates: September 12, 19, 26 October 3 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 145314. The following individual(s) are doing business: PINECREST MANOR BED + BREAKFAST, 203 MORNING SUN AVE, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: ANA M. MORRISON, 203 MORNING SUN AVE #2, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 4, 2018.

(Publication Dates: September 12, 19, 26 October 3 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 145354.

The following individual(s) are doing business: FLORENDIPITY PHOTOGRAPHY, JOCELYN JK INTERIOR DESIGN, 124 LAUREL PLACE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: JOCELYN J. BARNETT, 124 LAUREL PLACE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 10, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 145319.

The following individual(s) are doing business: BAY AREA MODERN REAL ESTATE, EAST BAY MODERN REAL ESTATE, SAN FRANCISCO MODERN REAL ESTATE, WINE COUNTRY MODERN REAL ESTATE, 2144 FOURTH STREET, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: MARIN MODERN REAL ESTATE, INC, 2144 FOURTH STREET, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 4, 2018.

(Publication Dates: September 12, 19, 26 October 3 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 145315.

The following individual(s) are doing business: TURNING POINT SPA, 655 REDWOOD HWY #275, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: LAURENCE MCKEE, 55 RODEO AVENUE, SAUSALITO, CA 94965. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 04, 2018. (Publication Dates: September 12, 19, 26, October 3 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 145188.

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PublicNotices doing business: COMMON KNOWLEGE GROUP, 42 MOODY CT., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: SUSAN STUART CLARK, 42 MODDY CT, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on AUGUST 15, 2018. (Publication Dates: September 19, 26, October 3, 10 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2018145269. The following individual(s) are doing business: JULEMS, 7 ETHEL LANE, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: JUDITH L LEMMENS, 7 ETHEL LANE, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on AUGUST 28, 2018.

(Publication Dates: September 19, 26, October 3, 10 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 145381. The following individual(s) are doing business: BAY AREA BOAT WORKS, 720 CABIN DRIVE, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: MICHELLE CREASY, 720 CABIN DRIVE, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 12, 2018.

(Publication Dates: September 19, 26, October 3, 10 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 145431. The following individual(s) are doing business: GREEN DRAGON ENTERPRISES, 517 VERA CRUZ AVE, NOVATO, CA 94949: ROBERT M. MCNUTT, 517 VERA CRUZ AVE, NOVATO, CA 94949. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 20, 2018.

(Publication Dates: September 26, October 3, 10, 17 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 145255. The following individual(s) are doing business: JOVITA BEAUTY SALON & SPA, 874-B FOURTH ST., SAN

RAFAEL, CA 94901: ALICIA M. REID, 874-B FOURTH ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on AUGUST 27, 2018. (Publication Dates: September 26, October 3, 10, 17 of 2018) OTHER NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 1803053.

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS 1. Petitioner (name of each): KRISTY JILL VERMEULEN AND JASPER GJ van WOUDENBERG have filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Julia Anna Sophia van Woudenberg to Proposed Name: Jules Anna Sophia van Woudenberg. 2.

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING a. Date: 10/15/2018, Time: 9:00am, Dept: A, Room: A. The address of the court is same as noted above; 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. 3.a. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the Pacific Sun, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin. DATED: AUG 27, 2018, Andrew E. Sweet, Judge of the Superior Court, James M. Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT

By E. Chais, Deputy (September 5, 12, 19, 26 of 2018) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 1803065.

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS 1. Petitioner (name of each): STEPHEN WILLIAM HAMMOND has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Stephen William Hammond to Proposed Name:

Steven Blake Hunsicker. 2.

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING a. Date: 10/10/2018, Time: 9:00am, Dept: B, Room: B. The address of the court is same as noted above; 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. 3.a. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the Pacific Sun, a newspaper of general circula-tion, printed in the county of Marin. DATED: AUG 28, 2018, Roy O. Chernus, Judge of the Superior Court, James M. Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT

By E. Chais, Deputy (September 5, 12, 19, 26, October 3, 10 of 2018).

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 1803111 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS 1. Petitioner (name of each): Celina De Leon has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Leona Ixchel Caldarelli to Proposed Name: Leona Ixchel Caldarelli De Leon 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. if no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING a. Date: 10/18/2018, Time: 9:00am, Dept: B, Room: . The address of the court is same as noted above; 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. 3.a. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the Pacific Sun, a newspaper of general circula-

tion, printed in the county of Marin. DATED: AUG 30, 2018 Roy O. Chernus Judge of the Superior Court James M Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT

By T Jones. Deputy (September 12, 19, 26, and October 3 of 2018) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 1803153 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS 1. Petitioner (name of each): Victoria Ann Arigi has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Victoria Ann Arigi to Proposed Name: Vicki Gotham 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. if no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING a. Date: 10/17/2018, Time: 9:00am, Dept: B, Room: . The address of the court is same as noted above; 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. 3.a. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the Pacific Sun, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin. DATED: SEP 4, 2018 Roy O. Chernus Judge of the Superior Court James M Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT

By E. Chais. Deputy (September 12, 19, 26, and October 3 of 2018) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 1803272 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS 1. Petitioner (name of each): Rachel Lorraine Malloy has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Rachel Lorraine Malloy to Proposed Name: Sam L. Malloy 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that

includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. if no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING a. Date: 10/26/2018, Time: 9:00am, Dept: B, Room: . The address of the court is same as noted above; 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. 3.a. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the Pacific Sun, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin. DATED: SEP 12, 2018 Roy O. Chernus Judge of the Superior Court James M Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT

By E Chais, Deputy (September 19, 26, and October 3, 10 of 2018) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: Michael W. Pitman CASE NO.: PR 17 020168 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Gigi Michele Loughner A Petition for Probate has been filed by: MICHAEL W. PITMAN in the Superior Court of California, County of Marin. The Petition for Probate requests that: JOHN MICHAEL PITMAN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: OCT. 22, 2018, Time: 9:00AM, Dept.: J, Room: Address of court: 3501 Civic Center Drive, PO Box 4988, San Rafael, CA 94913-4988. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and

mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California ProbateCode, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Timothy J. Chambers, 1724 Mandela Parkway, Suite 1, Oakland, CA 94607 (707) 863-9800 FILED: Aug 14, 2018 James M. Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By: R Smith, Deputy No. 1171 (September 19, 26, October 3, 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 145414.

The following individual(s) are doing business: BUILDING ALCHEMY/BA SQUARED, 124 FERNWOOD DRIVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: TIMOTHY VINSON, 124 FERNWOOD DRIVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901, LISA VINSON, 124 FERNWOOD DRIVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by A MARRIED COUPLE. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 17, 2018.

(Publication Dates: September 19, 26, October 3, 10 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2018145409. The following individual(s) are doing business: LITTLE STARS DAYCARE, 23 CORRILLO DRIVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: PATRICIA N SILVA, 23 CORRILLO DRIVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 14, 2018.

(Publication Dates: September 19, 26, October 3, 10 of 2018)

By Amy Alkon

Q:

My girlfriend, who’d been traveling, lost track of what day it was and was surprised when I showed up on the usual night I come cook her dinner. She was happy to see me but said she needed to finish this one “urgent work email.” How nice. Dinner would get cold while she took forever. Instead of getting started in the kitchen, I sat down angrily on the couch. “What’s wrong?” she asked. I said, “I’ll just sit here till you’re ready!” She got angry, saying that I should have just asked her how long she’d be or told her I felt bad. She then went on about how I have a “toxic” habit of this sort of “passive-aggressive” behavior, and I need to stop “acting out” before it ruins our relationship. I love her and don’t want to lose her. Help!—Doghouse

A:

There will sometimes be reasons you are unable to communicate using the spoken word: Your jaw is wired shut. You are gagged with duct tape. A wizard has turned you into a cocker spaniel. Otherwise, when you’d like another person to do something, it’s best not to express this to him or her in code: “I want you to meet my needs—right after you guess what they are!”

Passive-aggressiveness is a kind of coded communication, a form of “indirect speech,” which is a way of saying something without flat-out saying it. The term “passive-aggressive” was coined by a military psychologist, William Menninger, during World War II. He used it to describe soldiers who instead of saying no to a direct order (hello, ugly consequences!) wiggled out through “passive measures,” including “procrastination, inefficiency and passive obstructionism.”

Menninger’s term was useful in military memos because, as historian Christopher Lane puts it, the Army couldn’t exactly issue a directive against “pouting.” However, there was no research to support it as anything more than a tactic in a certain situation as opposed to a “personality disorder.”

Yet, in the 1950s, a group of psychiatrists writing the first edition of the mental disorders bible, the DSM, took a big, unscientific leap. They willy-nilly added passive-aggressiveness to the list of personality disorders in the book, perhaps because without an official “disorder” label (and diagnostic codes that go with it), health insurance companies wouldn’t pay therapists to treat it.

But consider the weaselly, “passive-aggressive” tack those soldiers took. Though their indirect approach to getting their way was militarily unhelpful, it was anything but “maladaptive” for them personally. In other words, indirect communication like theirs is often adaptive. As I pointed out in a recent column, per psychologist Steven Pinker, it’s a crafty way to communicate a potentially inflammatory message without causing offense, the way baldly stating one’s feelings would. For example, there’s the social relationshippreserving hint about table manners, “Wow, Jason, you’re really enjoying that risotto!” instead of the more honest “Gross! You eat like a feral hog on roadkill!”

Thing is, avoiding causing offense can go too far, like when it’s driven by a long-held and unexamined belief that you’re offensive simply by existing and having needs.

Understanding that, explore the root of your own passive-aggressive behavior. My guess? It’s fear of conflict, or fear of the results of conflict. At some point it was probably protective for you to avoid conflict and the direct engagement that could lead to it, like if you had a volatile and abusive parent. But as an adult, indirect communication should be a tool you use when it suits the situation, not a behavior you robotically default to.

Consider that conflict, when expressed in healthy, non-inflammatory ways, can be a positive thing, a source for personal and collective growth and deeper relationships. But to take advantage of this after years of auto-burying your feelings, you’ll need to start by articulating to yourself what you want in a particular situation. Next, while ignoring the protests of your fears, express your needs and/or feelings to the other person with healthy directness: “Hey, can you guesstimate how many minutes till you’re done with your work?” and maybe add, “I have a special dinner planned, and I don’t want it to get cold.”

Admittedly, some conflicts end up in gridlock. However, you’re far more likely to get your needs met if you don’t just fester with resentment or turn every relationship interaction into an intricate game of charades: “Sorry, honey. Still don’t get it. Are you angry or doing a rain dance?”

Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon at 171 Pier Ave. #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or email adviceamy@aol.com. @amyalkon on Twitter. Weekly radio show, blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon.

Astrology

For the week of September 26

ARIES (March 21–April 19) Do you have any

skills at living on the edge between the light and the dark? Are you curious about what the world might look like and how people would treat you if you refused to divide everything up into that which helps you and that which doesn’t help you? Can you imagine how it would feel if you loved your life just the way it is and didn’t wish it were different from what it is? Please note: people less courageous than you might prefer you to be less courageous.

But I hope you’ll stay true to the experiment of living on the edge between the light and the dark.

TAURUS (April 20–May 20) According to

Popbitch.com, most top-charting pop songs are in a minor key. In light of this fact, I encourage you to avoid listening to pop songs for the next three weeks. In my astrological opinion, it’s essential that you surround yourself with stimuli that don’t tend to make you sad and blue, that don’t influence you to interpret your experience through a melancholic, mournful filter. To accomplish the assignments that life will be sending you, you need to at least temporarily cultivate a mood of crafty optimism.

GEMINI (May 21–June 20) Gemini

regent Queen Victoria (1819–1901) wore crotchless underwear made of linen. A few years ago, Britain’s Museums, Libraries and Archives Council accorded them “national designated status,” an official notice that means they are a national treasure. If I had the power, I would give your undergarments an equivalent acknowledgment. The only evidence I would need to make this bold move would be the intelligence and expressiveness with which you are going to wield your erotic sensibilities in the coming weeks.

CANCER (June 21–July 22) I’ve taken a break from socializing, my fellow Cancerian. In fact, I’m on sabbatical from my regular rhythm. My goal for the coming days is to commune with my past and review the story of my life. Rather than fill my brain up with the latest news and celebrity gossip, I am meditating on my own deep dark mysteries. I’m mining for secrets that I might be concealing from myself. In accordance with the astrological omens, I suggest that you follow my lead. You might want to delve into boxes of old mementoes or reread emails from years ago. You could get in touch with people who are no longer part of your life even though they were once important to you. How else could you get into intimate contact with your eternal self ?

LEO (July 23–August 22) Here’s a quote from A

Map of Misreading, a book by renowned literary critic, Harold Bloom: “Where the synecdoche of tessera made a totality, however illusive, the metonymy of kenosis breaks this up into discontinuous fragments.”

What the cluck did Harold Bloom just say? I’m not being anti-intellectual when I declare this passage to be pretentious drivel. In the coming days, I urge you Leos to draw inspiration from my response to Bloom. Tell the truth about nonsense. Don’t pretend to appreciate jumbled or over-complicated ideas.

Expose bunk and bombast. Be kind, if you can, but be firm. You’re primed to be a champion of down-toearth communication.

VIRGO (August 23–September 22) A data research company, Priceonomics, suggests that Monday is the most productive day of the week and that October is the most productive month of the year. My research suggests that while Capricorns tend to be the most consistently productive of all the signs in the zodiac, Virgos often outstrip them for a six-week period during the end of each September and throughout October. Furthermore, my intuition tells me that you Virgos now have an extraordinary capacity to turn good ideas into practical action. I conclude, therefore, that you are about to embark on a surge of industrious and high-quality work. (P.S.: This October has five Mondays.)

LIBRA (September 23–October 22) Biologists are constantly unearthing new species, although not new in the sense of having just appeared on our planet.

In fact, they’re animals and plants that have existed for

By Rob Brezsny

millennia. But they’ve never before been noticed and identified by science. Among recent additions to our ever-growing knowledge are an orchid in Madagascar that smells like Champagne, an electric-blue tarantula in the Guyana rain forest and a Western Australian grass that has a flavor resembling salt and vinegar potato chips.

I suspect you’ll be making metaphorically comparable discoveries in the coming weeks, Libra: evocative beauty that you’ve been blind to and interesting phenomena that have been hiding in plain sight.

SCORPIO (October 23–November 21)

There is no such thing as a plant that blooms continuously. Phases of withering and dormancy are just as natural as phases of growth. I bring this fact to your attention to help you remain poised as you go through your own period of withering followed by dormancy. You should accept life’s demand that you slow down and explore the mysteries of fallowness. You should surrender sweetly to stasis and enjoy your time of rest and recharging. That’s the best way to prepare for the new cycle of growth that will begin in a few weeks.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22– December 21) If you were ever going to win a contest that awarded you a free vacation to an exotic sanctuary, it would probably happen during the next three weeks.

If a toy company would ever approach you about developing a line of action figures and kids’ books based on your life, it might also be sometime soon. And if you have ever had hopes of converting your adversaries into allies, or getting support and backing for your good original ideas, or finding unexpected inspiration to fix one of your not-so-good habits, those opportunities are now more likely than they have been for some time.

CAPRICORN (December 22–January 19)

An 81-year-old Capricorn man named James Harrison has donated his unique blood on 1,173 occasions.

Scientists have used it to make medicine that prevents Rhesus disease in unborn babies, thereby healing more than 2.4 million kids and literally saving thousands of lives. I don’t expect you to do anything nearly as remarkable. But I do want to let you know that the coming weeks will be a favorable time to lift your generosity and compassion to the next level.

Harrison would serve well as your patron saint.

AQUARIUS (January 20–February 18) On a spring morning some years ago, a smoky aroma woke me from a deep sleep. Peering out my bedroom window into the backyard, I saw that my trickster girlfriend Anastasia had built a bonfire. When I stumbled to my closet to get dressed, I found my clothes missing. There were no garments in my dresser, either. In my groggy haze, I realized that my entire wardrobe had become fuel for Anastasia’s conflagration. It was too late to intervene, and I was still quite drowsy, so I crawled back in bed to resume snoozing. A while later, I woke to find her standing next to the bed bearing a luxurious breakfast she said she’d cooked over the flames of my burning clothes. After our meal, we stayed in bed all day, indulging in a variety of riotous fun. I’m not predicting that similar events will unfold in your life, Aquarius. But you may experience adventures that are almost equally boisterous, hilarious and mysterious.

PISCES (February 19–March 20) I’ve got

three teachings for you. 1. Was there a time in your past when bad romance wounded your talent for love? Yes, but you now have more power to heal that wound than you’ve ever had before. 2.

Is it possible you’re ready to shed a semi-delicious addiction to a chaotic magic? Yes. Clarity is poised to trump melodrama. Joyous decisiveness is primed to vanquish ingrained sadness. 3. Has there ever been a better time than now to resolve and graduate from past events that have bothered and drained you for a long time? No. This is the best time ever.

Go to realastrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. Audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1.877.873.4888 or 1.800.350.7700.

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