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Setting a Standard

Those animal-rights protesters exposed some horrific animal abuse at our local farms, as evidenced by the video they released (“Cage Match,” Oct. 24). I wish the Sonoma County Farm Bureau and the sheriff ’s department were more interested in stopping this illegal animal cruelty than covering up for them. The video clearly exposes the claims of Whole Foods as buying only from “humane” farms and wanting transparency as a shameless marketing ploy. Thank you to the protesters for making us aware.

Doug Moeller Santa Rosa

Game of Chicken

Nearly 100 people attended a workshop at Shone Farm in Santa Rosa this week called “Beyond the Fence Line” (“Cage Match,” Oct. 24), an event sponsored by the powerful Sonoma County Farm Bureau. By the end of the afternoon, it was pretty obvious that there is anti-activist collusion underway among the Farm Bureau, its friends and allies in the county, and local law enforcement.

Many regional ranchers clearly think that animal-rights activists are a menace to them and to society. Tawny Tesconi, executive director at the Farm Bureau of Sonoma County, condemned recent protests at local chicken farms

as “domestic terrorism.” Brian Sobel, from Sobel Communications, echoed her cry as he too lambasted “domestic terrorists.” Sobel didn’t mean pipebomber Cesar Sayoc. And he didn’t mean Robert Bowers, who shot and killed 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue over the weekend.

The Farm Bureau and law enforcement officials ought to be accountable to all of us, not to special interests with deep pockets and the ear of local law enforcement. And please, no more inflammatory language.

Jonah Raskin Sonoma

Character Counts

John Monte’s emotional letter (Letters, Oct. 17) is a mischaracterization of the issue. His cry of “what the hell happened to innocent until proven guilty” would be relevant if Brett Kavanaugh had been a defendant on trial for attempted rape. But this was a hearing, gathering information about Kavanaugh’s character to determine if he was qualified to sit on our highest court. He was not being considered for a prison cell. It is clear that Christine Blasey Ford and other women who also testified against his character knew him and were not random people trying to smear him.

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Mapping out the San Francisco Bay in 1775, Juan Manuel de Ayala named Alcatraz Island as “La Isla de los Alcatraces,” or “Island of the . . .” what?

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What 1596 Shakespeare play has an occupation and a city in the title?

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According to recent polls, what percent of U.S. adults describe themselves as absolutely certain they will vote in the upcoming midterm elections?

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5 What slippery animal does an ichthyologist study?

6 U.S. Senators serve a term of office of how many years?

7 In the list of the current all-time scoring leaders in the NBA, the top three

have names that begin with the same letter. Who are they?

8 What kind of sea inlet or ocean channel has an “audible” name?

9 In 1884, Viennese physician Carl Koller was the first researcher to discover

the amazing anesthetic properties of what plant?

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There are currently twice as many men as women in a room. After onethird of the men and one-third of the women depart, there will be 20 more men than women remaining. How many of each are in the room now?

BONUS QUESTION: The Wrigley company once claimed it needed 50 square miles of farmland to grow all the ____ it needed for its chewing gum.

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Heroes &Zeroes

By Nikki Silverstein

The Marin Art & Garden Center in Ross planned every fine detail of its fancy fall soirée. After all, it’s the nonprofit group’s most important fundraising dinner of the year, and it left nothing to chance. Except, oh no, who could control the darn tree down the street that decided to drop a limb on a transformer and knock out the center’s electricity just as the guests were arriving? (Even the bestlaid plans o’ party organizers go awry sometimes.) “As the sun set, we were panicking because our donors were about to be plunged into darkness— hardly the festive outdoor gala we were counting on,” says Molly Anixt, the center’s development manager. This party needed a few heroes to walk through the garden gates. Enter the Ross Valley Fire Department, who saved the evening by delivering a generator that kept the lights on, the guests cheerful and the celebration going. Many thanks to the firefighters for making the fundraiser a bright success.

A call placed last week to a Marin mom demanded a ransom for the return of her child. To make the experience more terrifying, the mother heard a child screaming for help. Although distraught, she sprang into action and began to follow the kidnapper’s instructions to drive to a bank, withdraw as much cash as possible and then head to a Western Union branch. The kidnapper threatened to harm her child if she disconnected the phone call, received any calls or made any calls. Fortunately, the mother’s coworker called the Marin County Sheriff’s Office to tell them about the situation. As the sheriff responded, an alert security guard at the bank saw the troubled parent attempting to withdraw the money and spoke with her. In the meantime, the sheriff verified that her child was safe at school. The entire incident was a hoax. The sheriff advises that if you receive a similar call, ask someone to phone 911 immediately to verify that your loved one is safe.

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Upfront Anderson & Associates names 17 Marin County clergyman in sex-abuse charges.

Roster of Abuse Law firm names names in widening Catholic Church sex-abuse scandal By Tom Gogola

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he law firm Jeff Anderson & Associates released a report last week that identified 26 Catholic clergymen in Marin, Napa and Sonoma counties with sexual-abuse histories.

The firm’s findings come as the California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has pledged to investigate childhood sexual-abuse charges in the Bay Area and the alleged cover-up by the Catholic Church.

A review of the firm’s thumbnail sketches of the 200-plus accused clergymen from the Bay Area may give insight into what the Boston Globe and

the film Spotlight highlighted—that for decades, the Catholic Church dealt with its pedophilia problems by apparently shuffling sex-abusing clergy from one diocese to another. And it indicates that numerous California Catholic clergy sex abusers may have gotten away with their crimes because of a 2003 Supreme Court ruling that rejected a California attempt to retroactively eliminate statutes of limitations for certain sex crimes, including those perpetrated against minors.

Here are the clergy members of the Roman Catholic church who at one time or another were assigned

to schools and churches in Marin or Sonoma counties, and who are alleged to have committed sexual assault against children, according to Anderson & Associates:

Marin County • Msgr. Peter Gomez Armstrong, according to the law firm’s report, has been accused of sexually abusing at least one child. He worked at St. Vincent’s School for Boys in San Rafael between 1975 and 1979, and died in 2009.

• Fr. James W. Aylward was

7 Lady of Loretto in Novato, in 1960.

The case was dismissed because of the statute of limitation, but the Diocese of San Jose lists Harrison as a clergy-member “with credible allegations of sexual abuse of children,” according to the law firm report. He died in 2006.

• Msgr. John. P. Heaney served from 1971 to 1974 at Marin Catholic High School in Kentfield, and again at St. Rita’s in Fairfax from 1974 1979, according to the firm.

Allegations against Heaney arose while he was the SFPD chaplain between 1976 and 2002, and he was criminally charged, in 2002, with multiple felony counts of child abuse that were dropped because the statute of limitations had run out. He died in 2010.

• The Rev. Gregory G. Ingels got his start as a clergyman at Marin Catholic High School in Kentfield in 1970 and was also assigned to St. Isabella’s church in San Rafael in 1982. “Multiple survivors have come forward alleging sexual abuse” by Ingels from 1972 to 1977, reports the Anderson law firm, while he was at the Kentfied school. He too was criminally charged with child sexual abuse, but the charges were dropped owing to the 2003 Supreme Court ruling. His whereabouts since 2011 are unknown, says the law firm.

• Fr. Daniel T. Keohane was assigned to St. Anthony of Padua, in Novato, from 2006 to 2009; a sexual-abuse allegation was made against him for activities he allegedly committed while he was at the Church of the in San Francisco in the 1970s. The San Francisco diocese deemed the allegations credible, as it recommended further investigation.

He took a leave of absence in 2015 and his whereabouts since then are unknown, reports the law firm.

• Fr. Jerome Leach served at St. Patrick’s Church in Larkspur from 1980 to 1983 and the Anderson report notes that he was alleged to have committed sex crimes there and at All Souls in San Francisco. In 2002, he was arrested and charged with child sexual abuse, but again, the statute of limitations had run out.

• Fr. Guy Anthony Mrunig spent his career as a clergyman at St. Sebastian’s in Kenfield-Greenbrae from 1971 to 1973; at Marin Catholic High School in Kentfield from 1972 to 1978; and at the Serra Club of Marin County from 1973 to 1977. The report says that multiple

survivors have come forward alleging sexual abuse while he was at Marin Catholic in Kentfield. He reportedly left the priesthood to marry a former student from the high school and his whereabouts since 1979 are unknown, says the law firm.

• Msgr. John O’Connor was placed on leave by the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 2002 “after it received an allegation of improper contact with a boy occurring more than thirty years ago,” the law firm reports. During his career, he was mostly assigned to churches in San Francisco, but was at St. Isabella’s in San Rafael between 1964 and 1971.

He was “absent on leave” between 2005 and his death in 2013.

• Fr. Miles O’Brien Riley was assigned to St Raphael’s in San Rafael from 1964 to 1968 and also worked as a chaplain at San Quentin State Prison during that time. He was accused of sexually abusing a girl when she was 16, and the Anderson & Associates document notes that the Archdiocese of San Francisco permitted Riley to retire quietly in 2003.

• Fr. John Schwartz was ordained in 1981 and, after assignments in Oregon, wound up at St. Anselm’s in Ross in 2004–06. No further information is provided by the Anderson report on allegations against Schwartz, whose whereabouts since 2012 are unknown, says the law firm.

• Fr. Kevin F. Tripp was ordained in 1968 and spent much of his career in Massachusetts, where, in 2002 the district attorney in Fall River released a list of priests under investigation for sexual abuse, and Tripp was on the list, according to the law firm.

The Massachusetts district attorney’s finding alleged that there were two persons who had been victimized by Tripp. The law firm determined that as of 2003, and according to a San Francisco Faith newsletter, Tripp was the executive director of the Marin Interfaith Council in San Rafael.

• Fr. Milton T. Walsh’s first clergy assignment was at Our Lady of Loretto in Novato before heading to Rome to get his doctorate in 1982. He reportedly returned to Novato on a break from his studies, “where he allegedly sexually abused a boy whose family he had grown close with during his time working at Our Lady of Loretto,” reads the law firm report; he was at Loretto between 1978 and 1980.

Walsh was arrested for the sexual assault in 2002 after being caught in a Novato police-department telephone sting where he admitted to the sexual abuse of a minor—but the charges were dropped. Yes, the statute of limitations case, again. His whereabouts since 2015? Unknown, says the law firm.

Sonoma County • Br./Fr. Donald W. Eagleson’s abuse charges stem from a 1971 incident while he was a Brother of the Holy Cross and allegedly sexually abused a youth. He was assigned to St. Vincent de Paul in Petaluma between 1986 and 1987. In 2002, he was assigned to Sacred Heart Church in Eureka, where another abuse allegation arose regarding his 1971 activities. He was at Nazareth House in San Rafael in 2004 when, the law firm reports, he died.

• Fr. J. Patrick Foley was identified last month, by the San Diego diocese he served in for decades, as a likely candidate to have committed sexual abuse against minors. After a 1991 leave of absence from the San Diego diocese, he arrived at Christian Brothers High School in Sacramento for a few years before landing in the Santa Rosa diocese, according to the law firm.

He was suspended in 2010 and his whereabouts since 2015 have been unknown, reports the law firm.

• Br. Joseph (Jesse) GutierrezCervantes was hired as a contract psychologist at Hanna Boys Center in Sonoma in 1984 and was fired two years later “after sexual misconduct allegations surfaced” that Gutierrez had sexually abused boys during therapy sessions.

According to the Anderson report, his current whereabouts, clerical status and whether he has access to children are unknown.

• Fr. Austin Peter Keegan “has been accused of sexually abusing at least 80 children and has been named in at least one civil lawsuit.

Keegan’s abuses are alleged to have started in the 1960s when he worked for the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the Diocese of Santa Rosa, where he served from 1977 to 1979. He was at St. Eugene’s Cathedral in Santa Rosa from 1980 to 1981, but the law firm reports his whereabouts have been unknown since then. Y

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subject to a civil suit alleging sexual abuse against a minor, which the law firm reports was settled by the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

After assignments to San Francisco, Millbrae, San Mateo, Washington, D.C., and Pacifica, Aylward arrived at St. Sylvester’s in San Rafael in 1990 and stayed on for five years. He was then sent to Burlingame for a few years and then to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Mill Valley from 1998 to 2000. His whereabouts are currently unknown, says the law firm report.

• Fr. Arthur Manuel Cunha was assigned to Our Lady of Loretto in Novato and served there between 1984 and 1986. He was absent on sick leave in 1986–87. From 1987 to 1989, his whereabouts were unknown, according to the law firm. He was absent on leave again from 1989 to 1991, and his whereabouts have been unknown since then. The law firm reports that Cunha was “arrested in 1986, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to 60 days in jail and four months of counseling in connection with sexually abusing two boys.” He’s been named in multiple civil lawsuits.

• Fr. Sidney J. Custodio was assigned to St. Raphael’s Church in San Rafael in 1955; sex-crime allegations against him were lodged while he worked at St. Gregory in San Mateo County. According to the law firm, his whereabouts have been unknown since 1975.

• Fr. Pearse P. Donovan was assigned to Marin Catholic High School in San Rafael from 1953 to 1955, and allegations of sexual abuse against him were levied when he later worked at St. Clement in Hayward. He’s been named in at least one civil lawsuit, reports Anderson & Associates. He died in 1986.

• Msgr. Charles J. Durkin is reported to have retired in 2002, “a month after the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office requested 75 years worth of church records related to abuse allegations,” reports Anderson. He worked at St. Sebastian’s in San Rafael in 1962, and lived at the Nazareth House in San Rafael after he retired in 2003. He died in 2006 and was the subject of an accusation of sexual assault that occurred while he was at the Star of the Sea in San Francisco, where he served from 1956 to 1961, and again from 1996 to 2003.

• Fr. Arthur Harrison was charged with criminally abusing a 10-yearold when he was assigned to Our

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Voter’s Guide, Part Two

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ello and welcome to part wwo of our voter’s guide for 2018. Read on as we recap last week’s endorsements and get into the weeds of some of the local measures being offered up around the county—and as we wring our hands and weigh in on the bitter and grueling race to replace Edward Berberian as Marin County District Attorney.

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STATEWIDE ELECTIONS

Governor GAVIN NEWSOM Recap: He’s not perfect, but then again, neither are we.

U.S. Senator KEVIN DE LEON Recap: It’s time for Dianne Feinstein to move on.

State Assembly MARC LEVINE Recap: Levine’s given us a number of good reasons to stick with him, including his recent bill that requires lobbyists to get training in workplace sexual harassment.

Secretary of State ALEX PADILLA Recap: His Republican opponent

appears to be running on a platform entirely devoted to suppressing the vote in California so that Donald Trump can lay claim to a popular vote victory in 2020.

U.S. Congress JARED HUFFMAN Well, gee, it’s not like there’s any serious opposition to the popular North Bay Congressman, and even if there was, we’d be endorsing Huffman again. He’s been a feisty critic of Donald Trump and a champion of local environmental issues, not to mention being one of the more accessible and generous elected officials we’ve encountered. Huffman called us from the road the other day as pipe bombs were being mailed to

numerous prominent Democrats and Trump critics—and we were moved to chuckle, however grimly, when he noted that the bombs can’t be separated from the bombast. The congressman recently told us that his career ambition is to chair the House Natural Resources Committee.

Huffman’s a politician who proves the point that the least ambitious of elected officials are oftentimes the most accessible of elected officials (hint, hint, State Sen. Mike McGuire).

STATEWIDE PROPOSITIONS

Proposition 6 OPPOSE Recap: Proposition 6 aims to revoke

Proposition 12 SUPPORT Proposition 12’s kind of a weird one, in that its detractors and supporters, or some of them anyway, are folks you’d expect to be on the same page when it comes to animal-cruelty issues and farming.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is opposed to Proposition 12, but we spoke to a member of the animal-rights group DxE recently who supports it. So here’s the deal: Current state law under 2008’s animal-welfare-oriented Proposition 2 says that chickens, pigs and cows have to be given enough space to turn around fully.

There’s no cage-free mandate in California even though Proposition 2 set out to make the state cage-free by 2015. Proposition 12 repeals the earlier measure, revises living-space requirements for hens, cows and pigs, and sets 2022 as the year when all the beasts will be freed from their cages at long last. Supporters in the animalrights world highlight that enforcement of animal-cruelty laws would be enhanced via a new mandate directed at the California Department of Food and Agriculture. (See “Cage Match,” Oct. 24. for more on Proposition 12.)

COUNTY RACE

Marin County District Attorney ANNA PLETCHER This is not an easy call, but we’re going with Anna Pletcher over Lori Frugoli for Marin district attorney.

Frugoli, currently a deputy district attorney with the county, has gotten a raft of endorsements from around the state and the county, including from outgoing District Attorney Ed Berberian, the Marin Independent Journal, Marin County Sheriff Robert Doyle, and district attorneys from around the region (Solano, Alameda, Sonoma and Sacramento district attorneys have all endorsed Frugoli).

Pletcher’s got her share of endorsements, too. Most notably

is the embrace of her campaign by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra. The Sierra Club’s on her side too, given Pletcher’s stated emphasis on going after environmental crimes in Marin County. She’s also pledged to bring back rape kits to Marin County so that victims don’t have to travel to Vallejo County for an exam after they’ve been sexually assaulted.

Frugoli is a former deputy with the Marin County Sheriff ’s Office (she worked their while attending law school), while Pletcher’s professional experience includes executive-management posts at the U.S. Department of Justice.

Obviously a key part of the job of district attorney is to work with police in bringing perpetrators to justice, and both candidates’ campaigns highlight that key aspect of the job, but Pletcher says that the relationship “has to be a bit of an arm’s length relationship” when it comes to investigating police misconduct. That’s exactly right.

This is not to say that Frugoli has a too-cozy relationship with the police or that there’s anything in her campaign that would indicate a bias toward cops—except for the raft of endorsements she’s gotten from law enforcement agencies. Frankly, we’d be entirely comfortable with either of these strong female candidates taking the reins with Berberian’s retirement.

But we’re leaning in the direction of Pletcher because of what we see as a pretty strong independent streak when it comes to how she perceives the district attorney’s relationship with local law enforcement.

MUNICIPAL MEASURES

Measure K: Larkspur SUPPORT This measure would extend a special parcel tax for paramedic services first implemented in Larkspur in 1983 and which currently costs $75 for each residential unit; the measure would raise it by $4 a year to a maximum of $91.50 per taxable living unit and extends the tax for another four years. No problem.

Measure L: Sausalito SUPPORT Measure L would raise Sausalito’s Transient Occupancy Tax »10

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Women of Industry Luncheon and Marketplace Thursday, November 15, 2018 18 Peacock Gap Clubhouse 333 Biscayne Drive, San Rafael

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2017’s SB 1, which slapped a new gas tax on gallons purchased and with an eye toward dedicating the annual revenue to fixing the decrepit transportation infrastructure in the state. Anti-tax Republicans would rather you snapped an axle in a Sausalito sinkhole than pay up at the pump.

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from 12 percent to 14 percent in order to address effects of tourism, by addressing traffic enforcement, dealing with the hordes of bikes, buses and taxis that come through town, and other tourist-related outlays; the hike is expected to raise some $300,000 annually.

Measure M: Sausalito SUPPORT

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Measure M seeks to simplify the Sausalito city code by reducing the number of business categories subject to licensing from 22 to four, and by imposing a minimum tax of $125 per business. It’s got the support of the local chamber of commerce, and our too.

Measure N: Corte Madera SUPPORT Measure N is another public-safety endeavor that sets out to continue, through 2023, a local $75 tax on residences to fund paramedic and emergency medical services. Call us a bunch of tax-and-spend liberals, but that sounds like a good idea.

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Measure O: Fairfax

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Once more with feeling: Fairfax, too, is proposing to extend its special tax for paramedic services for another four years. Fairfax residents contribute $79.50 a year; annual increases would tap out at a maximum of $91.50. That’s $91.50 worth of security should you wake up in the middle of the night with the taste of bitter almonds on your tongue. Similarly, Measure P in Ross and Measure Q in San Anselmo are also on the ballot, and they too continue the special local tax for paramedic services.

Measure V SUPPORT Measure V asks that voters increase the appropriations limit for the Stinson Beach Fire Protection District—expending tax dollars that voters have already approved so that

This 1917 painting by Childe Hassam makes us weep.

first responders can, like, do their jobs. Total no-brainer.

Bond Measure I: Shoreline Unified School District SUPPORT This measure would see the Shoreline Unified School District issue $19.5 million in bonds to construct new educational facilities and improve students’ access to technology.

Measure W SUPPORT Recap: As we wrote last week, Measure W aims to increase the West Marin Transient Occupancy Tax from 10 to 14 percent to pay for first-responder services and putatively put some effort into creating this thing called “affordable housing.”

Measure X OPPOSE Recap: This Bolinas-specific measure would ban street camping downtown via new proposed signage that would restrict overnight parking. As we noted last week, the measure basically criminalizes a person for living in their car. Not a good idea. Y

SAUSALITO

Artful Tribute

Celebrate the Mexican tradition of the Day of the Dead with friends, family and plenty of wine at the Madrigal Family Winery’s ‘El Día de los Muertos’ exhibit.

Part of the winery’s ongoing Sausalito Art & Wine Series, this third annual Day of the Dead show features artwork from regional and celebrated Latin American artists that pays homage to loved ones who have died. The show runs through November and opens with a reception on Thursday, Nov. 1, at Madrigal Family Winery Tasting Salon & Gallery, 819 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 6pm. Free; RSVP encouraged. 415.729.9549.

CORTE MADERA

Survivor’s Tale Late North Bay resident William Walters was one of thousands of homeless kids put on the Orphan Train and sent from the East Coast to foster parents in the American West, and his life is almost too fantastic to be true. He escaped his abusive adopters, hopped trains during the Great Depression, enlisting as a teenager in WWII and eventually found a slice of the American dream with a family of his own. Walters’ story unfolds in the new memoir, ‘A Last Survivor of the Orphan Trains,’ co-written author Victoria Golden, who reads from the book on Saturday, Nov. 3, at Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 1pm. Free. 415.927.0960.

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Life in Film Katinka Faragó is a legend in Sweden’s film industry. The producer is best known for her close-knit relationship with director Ingmar Bergman, whom she worked alongside for over 30 years, starting as a script supervisor on early classics like Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal in the 1950s, all the way up to production manager on Fanny and Alexander in the 1980s. This lifelong collaboration led to her being known as “Bergman’s right hand,” and Faragó shares stories from her life in filmmaking in a candid interview on Saturday, Nov. 3, at the Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St., San Rafael. 7pm. $11–$13. 415.454.1222.

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New Orchestrations The New Century Chamber Orchestra is one of only a handful of conductorless ensembles in the world, and welcome different guest soloists to partner with the 19-member string orchestra for each of its performances.

This weekend, the orchestra opens its 2018–19 season and hosts British violinist Anthony Marwood in a concert featuring Dvorák’s beloved Serenade for Strings and Seavaigers by London-born composer Sally Beamish. Known for his expressive performances and collaborative energy, Marwood sits with New Century Chamber Orchestra on Sunday, Nov. 4, at Osher Marin JCC, 200 N. San Pedro Road, San Rafael. 3pm. $29–$61. 415.444.8000.

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Dreams of 1990’s Gulf War inspired Santa Rosa artist Marsha Connell’s ‘Dream Vessels’ series.

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ike surrealism, the politicalart movement opposing totalitarianism in the aftermath of the horrors of WWI, the power of art and dreaming in these turbulent times holds the possibility for social change.

Last week, less than a month before the 2018 midterm elections, a cadre of Northern California artists shared their art and held a dialogue to raise awareness about U.S. domestic and foreign policies in the month-long mixed-media exhibition “Wake-Up! The Political Power of Art and Dreams,” held at the Claudia Chapline Gallery in Stinson Beach on Oct. 28, that now continues online.

Works in that show included Flag of Death, created by artist and gallery owner Claudia Chapline, which graphically depicts the reality of U.S.

foreign policy. Chapline says the piece came from a dream she had on March 11, 2006, the third anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

“I was standing on a ladder painting a large [American] flag,” says Chapline of the dream. “The stars resembled exploding bombs; the stripes, missiles.

A skeleton’s head emerged from the war machinery. When I awoke the next day, I sketched the flag in my journal, and then I made a small painting from the drawing/dream.

“For me, the flag painting symbolizes the discrepancy between American ideals and manifest American policy,” says Chapline.

Santa Rosa artist Marsha Connell’s “Dream Vessels” collage works, featuring landscapes spiked with light, were inspired by dreams Connell had a month after the Iraqi invasion of

Kuwait in August 1990. She dreamt that women writers, artists and poets were brought to observe preparations for the first Persian Gulf War when a voice boomed out, “The women soldiers will go first!”

“I felt a distress so profound there were no words for it,” Connell says.

A friend suggested the dream meant the artist was to bear witness, and the collages became her way to communicate and begin a healing process that ultimately brought her peace.

She calls the collages “Dream Vessels,” because each dreamlike picture contains a vessel. “The vessel offers the possibility of transformation, hope and reconciliation of opposites,” she says.

In “They Never Stood a Chance,” a seven-foot-tall installation inspired by a dream, artist Jennifer Lugris envisions

a metaphor for the North Korean government’s treatment of its people.

“When I was a child, I watched my parents stack receipts on a paper spike at their dry cleaning business,” remembers Lugris, a firstgeneration American. “In mid-2017, I started having a recurring dream about life-sized paper spikes, except instead of paper, clothing was spiked through and stacked tall, towering over me,” says Lugris.

“As I walk through and around the installation, I am reminded of the lives of my North Korean family, and I continue dreaming of the day the border will open and we will reunite.”

Joyce Lynn is founder and editor-in-chief of Plum Dreams Media. See works from ‘Wake-Up! The Political Power of Art and Dreams’ at plumdreamsmedia.com.

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t’s been a busy past couple of years for Richard Shindell. In 2017, he released his 10th fulllength solo album, Careless.

Then he reunited with former bandmates Dar Williams and Lucy Kaplansky to tour this year as Cry Cry Cry, the much loved folk supergroup who released a single folk-rock covers album in 1998.

Having wrapped up the reunion, Shindell is back touring solo. He performs in the North Bay with a show at HopMonk Tavern in Novato on Nov. 2.

“I’m really happy about both things. I like the record—it was a long time in the making. And then to immediately follow it up with this amazing opportunity to put Cry Cry Cry together, which I thought would never happen, it’s just a blessing.” says Shindell.

Given that Cry Cry Cry was originally a single album project, the reunion surprised Shindell as much as it did the fans.

“It’s funny. I think there are a lot of different reasons [we reunited]. I can’t point to any one causal thing,” says Shindell. “Lucy [Kaplansky] and I made a record together back in 2015— the Pine Hill Project. It was a Cry Cry Cry sort of project. There were other people’s songs, and the idea was to sing a lot of harmonies. It’s a record that Lucy and I had wanted to make for a long time. In fact, prior to the original Cry Cry Cry, Lucy and I had talked about making such a record and we never did. And partially that’s because Cry Cry Cry happened.”

Shindell notes that the purpose of the 1998 self-titled album was to hold a mirror to the folk community at that juncture.

“There was a deliberate effort made to record songs that we love by people that we knew in our community,” Shindell says. “Cliff Eberhardt for example. His ‘Memphis’ might be my favorite song on the record.”

The band also recorded songs by performers they weren’t as familiar with. “There’s a Robert Earl Keen song,” Shindell says. “I don’t know Robert Earl Keen, but he’s a heck of a songwriter.

Dar wanted to sing this R.E.M. song, ‘Fall on Me,’ so it wasn’t like we only wanted to do that one thing. There were songs that came from other areas.

“Ultimately what you want to do when you make a record is just find out what sounds good.”

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od bless all the actors who aren’t there because of their looks. The literally catty tragicomedy Can You Ever Forgive Me? commences nicely with Melissa McCarthy playing Lee Israel, surly, shabby and frumpy at a publisher’s office—meeting a deadline at 3am with the help of a big glass of something on the rocks. She’s fired for drinking on the job, even at that hour.

As she leaves, a younger employee mutters, “If I ever get like that, kill me.”

Israel snaps back: “If you ask me nicely, I’ll kill you now.”

This true-life tale of a drinker with a writing problem is set in 1991. Print hasn’t keeled over quite yet, but Israel, who’d previously published a number of celebrity bios, is having trouble landing an advance.

When vet bills for her ancient cat press her, Israel goes to sell a prized possession: a personal note from

Katherine Hepburn from the days when the two had collaborated on an autobiography.

The money is good enough that Israel falls into a unique field of crime: forging celebrity letters to sell to the local bookstores. She recruits her seedy drinking buddy, Jack (Richard E. Grant), but the scam turns out to have consequences. It also blights Israel’s potential friendship (friendship, or more) with pretty bookstore owner Anna (Dolly Wells), who has writing ambitions of her own.

The elegant soundtrack sports jazz crooner Blossom Dearie, the illfated country rocker Spade Cooley and a bit of Justin Bond covering Lou Reed’s “Goodnight Ladies” in a deserted cabaret. Ornery and salty as the film is, it has a cool counterpoint of loneliness to it. And it shows how lost even the recent past is—it has the sense of New York when it was

New York, when it was gritty and bad, and seemingly every business sign was missing a letter or a light.

There’s been studio-generated Oscar buzz for the untrustworthy barfly Grant plays, the kind of man who introduces himself as “Jack Hock: big cock”—dodgy and gay and British and drunk, a mountebank with fingerless Fagin gloves. Why not honor him now? Grant is a worldleading actor of smooth lowlifes, including the ill-starred writer Gordon Comstock in 1997’s A Merry War, an adaptation of George Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying. Oddly, the mood of Can You Ever Forgive Me? is closer to Orwell’s book about the writing life than the confession by Israel that the film is based on.

‘Can You Ever Forgive Me? opens Friday, Nov. 2, at the Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St., San Rafael. 415.454.1222.

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Friday, November 2–Thursday, November 8 The Animation Show of Shows (1:38) Cool compendium of international animation features eye-filling short subjects from France, Argentina, Canada, Brazil, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States.

Beautiful Boy (1:52) Timothée Chalamet delivers a career-defining performance as a real-life Marin meth addict; Steve Carell costars as his supportive Inverness dad.

Bohemian Rhapsody (2:14) Biopic traces the rise, fall and death of singer extraordinaire Freddie Mercury and how his band Queen redefined rock.

Can You Ever Forgive Me? (1:46) Melissa McCarthy stars as real-life celebrity biographer Lee Israel, who found greater fortune (and ill-fame) as a literary forger; Richard E. Grant costars.

An Evening with Katinka Faragó (1:40) The Rafael hosts an in-person clip-filled chat with the Swedish film producer who was Ingmar Bergman’s top associate for three decades.

Michael Jr. stars in a movie that’s part autobiography and part stand-up routine.

National Theatre London: Allelujah!

(1:49) Catch Alan Bennett’s new hit comedy about the bizarre goings-on at a small-town English hospital, direct from the West End in big-screen high definition.

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (1:39) Lasse Hallström reconfigures the holiday classic with Clara discovering a parallel universe of sugarplum fairies, brave soldiers and rambunctious mice; Keira Knightley and Helen Mirren star.

Overlord (1:49) WWII actioner with a horror-flick twist as D-Day paratroopers discover a Nazi experiment gone rogue in a Normandy church basement.

The Old Man & the Gun (1:33) Robert Redford’s final film role as a real-life charismatic 70-something bandit; Sissy Spacek and Tom Waits co-star.

First Man (2:21) Ryan Gosling stars as Neil Armstrong in a first-person account of the seven-year struggle to land a man on the moon.

The Push (1:30) Inspiring documentary follows scientist-athlete Grant Korgan as he literally pushes himself 100 miles to the South Pole despite a paralyzing spinal-cord injury.

Free Solo (1:40) Edge-of-your-seat documentary follows mountaineer Alex Honnold as he attempts to scale Yosemite’s vertiginous El Capitan—without a rope!

Red (1:30) Live filmization of John Logan’s London stage hit stars Alfred Molina as beleaguered abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko.

Funny Girl: The Musical (2:40) Acclaimed new West End production of the Jule Styne/Bob Merrill musical stars Sheridan Smith as Fanny Brice.

Skid Row Marathon (1:25) Documentary focuses on a group of homeless drug addicts who get a new lease on life as they train for an international marathon run.

The Grinch (1:00) Dr. Seuss’s greenhued, Yuletide-loathing grump takes on Whoville for the third time; Benedict Cumberbatch vocalizes.

Soft Cell: One Final Time (2:45) The synth-pop pioneers rock out one more time at a farewell concert filmed in 5.1 surround sound at London’s 02 Arena.

The Hate U Give (2:12) Acclaimed drama stars Amandla Stenberg as a black teen at a white prep school and the choices she makes after the police shoot her best friend.

Hymn: Sarah Brightman in Concert (1:50) The superstar soprano struts her stuff at the Festspielhaus in the Bavarian Alps with a little help from the Munich Orchestra, a 50-voice choir and the Ludwig Dance Ensemble.

Life and Nothing More (1:54) Timely, award-winning neorealist drama about a single mother struggling with race, class and poverty in contemporary Florida.

The Metropolitan Opera: La Fanciulla del West (3:45) California’s Wild West comes alive in Puccini’s rousing saga of romance, greed and mayhem.

More than Funny (1:30) Rising comic

Tea with the Dames (1:24) Eavesdrop as theatrical royalty Eileen Atkins, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith and Judi Dench dish the dirt over crumpets and oolong.

What They Had (1:40) Family dramedy about a woman struggling with Alzheimer’s, her desperate husband and their clueless kids; Blythe Danner and Robert Forster star.

Wild Strawberries (1:31) Ingmar Bergman classic about an elderly professor revisiting his past on a trip to Stockholm; Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson and Max von Sydow star.

Wildlife (1:44) Evocative adaptation of Richard Ford’s novel about a midcentury Montana family falling apart at the seams; Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal star.

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Lark: Fri 8:30; Sat 4:30, 6:45 Regency: Fri-Sat 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15; Sun-Thu 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30 Sequoia: Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10; Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:20; Mon-Thu 4:20, 7:20 Bohemian Rhapsody (PG-13) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12, 3, 6:10, 7, 9:25, 9:55; Sun-Wed 12, 3, 6:10, 7 Northgate: Fri 1, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Playhouse: Fri 3:30, 4:45, 6:30, 7:30, 9:25; Sat 12:30, 3:30, 4:45, 6:30, 7:30, 9:25; Sun 12:30, 3:30, 4:45, 6:30, 7:30; Mon-Tue 3:30, 4:45, 6:30, 7:30; Wed 3:30, 4:45, 6:30; Thu 3:30, 4:45, 7:30 Regency: Fri-Sat 12, 3:10, 6:10, 9:10; Sun-Thu 12, 3:10, 6:10 Rowland: Fri 10, 11, 1:10, 2:10, 4:20, 7, 7:30, 10:10, 10:40; Sat-Sun 10, 10:40, 1:10, 2, 4:20, 7, 7:30, 10:10, 10:40 Rafael: Fri 3:45, 6, 8:15; Sat-Sun 1:30, 3:45, 6, 8:15; Mon-Thu 6, • Can You Ever Forgive Me? (R) 8:15 Colette (R) Regency: Fri-Sat 11, 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55; Sun-Wed 11, 1:40, 4:25, 7:10; Thu 1:40, 4:25 • An Evening with Katinka Faragó (NR) Rafael: Sat 7 First Man (PG-13) Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 6:30, 9:40; Sat-Sun 12, 3:15, 6:30, 9:40 Free Solo (NR) Rafael: Fri 4, 6:15, 8:30; Sat-Sun 1:45, 4, 6:15, 8:30; Mon-Thu 6:15, 8:30 Funny Girl: The Musical (NR) Lark: Sun 1 Fairfax: Thu 6:01 Northgate: Thu 6, 8:15, 10:30; 3D showtimes • The Grinch (PG) at 7, 9:15 Playhouse: Thu 6 Rowland: Thu 6, 8:20; 3D showtime at 10:40 The Hate U Give (PG-13) Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 7, 10; Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:45, 7, 10 • Hymn: Sarah Brightman in Concert (NR) Regency: Thu 7:30 Life and Nothing More (NR) Rafael: Fri, Mon-Tue 6; Sat 2:15, 9; Sun 2:15, 7; Wed 4, 9; Thu 4:30, 9 The Metropolitan Opera: La Fanciulla del West (NR) Lark: Wed 6:30 National Theatre London: Allelujah! (PG-13) Lark: Sat 1 Nobody’s Fool (R) Northgate: Fri 12, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 Rowland: Fri-Sun 11:10, 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (PG) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:40, 1:40, 3:30, 4:30, 6:40, 9:15; Sun-Wed 12:40, 1:40, 3:30, 4:30, 6:40 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 7:15, 9:45; Sat-Sun 11:45, 2:15, 7:15, 9:45; 3D showtime at 4:45 Northgate: Fri 3:30, 8:35; 3D showtimes at 1:05, 6 Playhouse: Fri 3:45, 6:45, 9:15; Sat 12, 1, 2:30, 3:45, 6:45, 9:15; Sun 12, 1, 2:30, 3:45, 6:45; Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:45; Thu 3:45 Rowland: FriSun 10, 12:30, 5:30, 8, 10:30; 3D showtime at 3 The Old Man & the Gun (PG-13) Regency: Fri 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10; Sat 12:20, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10; Sun-Wed 12:20, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40; Thu 12:20, 2:50, 5:10 Northgate: Thu 7, 9:40 • Overlord (R) Lark: Sun 4:30, 7 • The Push (NR) Rafael: Wed 7 • Red (NR) Lark: Tue noon • Skid Row Marathon (NR) Lark: Thu 7:30 • Soft Cell: One Final Time (NR) A Star Is Born (R) Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 6:45, 9:50; Sat-Sun 12:15, 3:30, 6:45, 9:50 Regency: Fri-Sat 12:35, 3:45, 7, 10:05; SunWed 12:35, 3:45, 7; Thu 12:35, 3:45 Sequoia: Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50; Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:50; Mon-Thu 4, 7 Tea with the Dames (NR) Rafael: Sat-Sun 11:30 Regency: Fri-Sat 11:20, 1:55, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50; Sun-Thu 11:20, • What They Had (R) 1:55, 4:40, 7:20 Wildlife (PG-13) Rafael: Fri 3:30, 8:15; Sat-Sun 12, 4:45; Mon-Tue 8:15; Wed 5 Rafael: Thu 7 (script supervisor Katinka Faragó in person) • Wild Strawberries (NR) Showtimes can change after we go to press. Please call theater to confirm.

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n the past month, North Bay stages have been occupied by vampires, ghosts, a Thing and Transylvanian transvestites.

The Novato Community Playhouse now finds itself overrun with the most ghastly, heinous and terrifying creatures ever to set foot on a theatrical stage. I am referring, of course, to white, upper middle-class parents, the featured monsters in playwright Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage, directed

by Terry McGovern and running at the Playhouse through Nov. 11.

Alan and Annette Raleigh (Ken Bacon and Jena Hunt-Abraham) have come to the home of Michael and Veronica Novak (Marty Lee Jones and Heather Shepardson) to discuss the matter of a fight between their sons. It seems that the Raleigh boy smacked the Novak boy in the mouth with a stick and knocked out two teeth.

After a quick review of the Novaks’ statement on the incident (and the

decision to change the verbiage to reflect the Raleigh boy being “furnished” with a stick, as opposed to “armed”), the two couples sit down to awkwardly determine what to do next. Over the next 90 intermissionless minutes, the façade of civilized gentility will give way to tribal warfare.

Reza’s play has always seemed to me to be a grade B knock-off of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? If it was Reza’s attempt to show that who we appear to be is rarely who we really are, she’s at least 50 years late to that party.

What she adds to that familiar trope is the omnipresence and annoyance of cell phones in our lives and a considerable quantity of stage vomit.

Ah, yes, the vomit. Within the theater community, this show has acquired the nickname “the Vomit Play,” as there is a scene that requires (per the stage directions) “a brutal and catastrophic spray of vomit.”

While it’s always interesting to see how a company accomplishes this, it’s really little more than a device to represent the verbal garbage spewed by many on a daily basis. The Novaks and Raleighs have been vomiting on each other all evening, so why not take it to its logical conclusion?

Have I mentioned that this is a comedy? Yes, there are plenty of opportunities to laugh at the parents’ idiocy, but the joke is ultimately on the audience. Go ahead. Laugh at them, because they couldn’t possibly represent you.

The late, great cartoonist Walt Kelly’s Pogo line comes to mind: “We have met the enemy and he is us.”

‘God of Carnage’ runs Friday–Sunday through Nov. 11 at the Novato Theater Company, 5420 Nave Drive, Ste.C, Novato. Friday–Saturday, 8pm; Sunday, 2pm. $21–$27. 415.883.4498. novatotheatercompany.org.

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Ricki Lake’s new doc looks at the effectiveness of treating cancer with cannabidiol.

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eed the People is director Abby Epstein and executive producer Ricki Lake’s timely and compelling documentary about using cannabis oil as an alternative medicine for children with cancer. The film features half a dozen case studies of babies and teens who take this form of medical marijuana to reduce tumors. It is, as one believer states in the film, “not a cure, but an extension of life.”

“It wasn’t my medicine or my cause,” Lake says, “but my husband passed away, and [cannabis] was his passion.”

Marijuana is still classified by the DEA as a Schedule 1 drug, though, as the film notes, the government has a medical patent on marijuana.

In America, there has been minimal research on the effects of treating

cancer with cannabis—most studies show the negative, not positive effects—but in countries like Israel and Spain, there are encouraging findings about the drug’s healing properties.

Weed the People firmly establishes the drug-policy issue as a human-rights issue and follows several families benefiting from cannabis treatment to track their progress. “We met a little girl who was 30 pounds and six years old,” Lake says, “and this is crazy, but we moved her and her family into our house, and took her to osteopaths and a cannabis doc. Weed the People comes from our personal experience and natural curiosity.”

The film features several women on the front lines, including Mara Gordon, co-founder of Aunt Zelda’s, which creates and sells cannabis oils to patients, and Bonni Goldstein, a medical director at Canna Centers,

who lectures on the efficacy of cannabinoid therapy.

It is one of four documentaries Lake has produced on social issues, after The Business of Being Born, Breastmilk and the forthcoming Sweetening the Pill. The film, Lake says, was made “specifically to take the stigma away. It’s not about legalization, regulation or getting high; it’s about children dying of cancer and the heroic docs and scientists putting their time into this.

“There are enough films about drug reform and legalization,” Lake adds. Weed the People “was about the kids and following the stories, and hopefully to get change to happen.”

‘Weed the People’ screens at UA Berkeley 7 on Nov. 3 at 7pm, and again at Rialto Cinemas in Sebastopol on Nov. 4 at 2pm. Source: Alternet.

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Taming of the ’Shews Miyoko Schinner hopes to change the world—one vegan cheese wheel at a time By Tanya Henry

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y being here tonight you saved the lives of 27 animals that we did not eat,” says Miyoko Schinner to a crowd of over 50 who attended a recent opening party at Miyoko’s Kitchen in Petaluma.

When I last spoke to Schinner, in 2016, she was working out of a small space in Fairfax behind the Marin Museum of Bicycling, previously home to Good Earth Natural Foods. Even then she was bursting at the seams. Her operation fielded 45 employees who produced 10 different artisan vegan cheeses and sold them in local Bay Area stores.

Today, a mere year and a half later and two successful rounds of Series B financing that raised $14 million, Schinner has moved her operation into a 30,000-square-foot space in south Petaluma. The new space has a professional test kitchen

with shiny stainless equipment, a large production facility and a total of 96 employees who now work out of the newly minted Miyoko’s with a tagline that reads “Tomorrow’s Creamery.”

Schinner, a vegetarian since she was 12 and now a vegan, is clearly on a mission. “If we want to be sure the planet will be habitable for future generations, we each have a responsibility to change the way we eat,” says the longtime Marin resident who moved to Mill Valley in 1964. After going to college in Maryland and living in Japan for 10 years, she returned to Marin and now lives in Nicasio, where she founded Rancho Compasión, a sanctuary for goats, sheep, pigs, dairy calves and chickens—all saved from being slaughtered or rescued from abandonment.

While Schinner is single-mindedly focused on encouraging people to

adopt a plant-based diet, she also continues to make cashew-based faux dairy products that taste really good.

Her biggest sellers include a cultured vegan butter made with organic coconut oil and a vegan mozzarella that boasts just the right amount of firmness and flavor expected of the pizza-friendly cheese. Her full line is now up to 19 and includes cream cheese and multiple styles of soft cheeses, including my personal favorite, the aged Mt. Vesuvius black ash vegan cheese wheel.

Unlike most specialty-food producers, who strive to increase their sales so they can put more dollars in their coffers, Schinner has loftier goals. In an effort to feed the world with her compassionate and delicious products, Schinner, is striving—one vegan cheese wheel at a time—to fundamentally change a food system that is in dire need of an overhaul. Y

Holy crap, this place is huge!

This was my first thought as I got out of my car at a recent visit to Russian River Brewing Company’s new, second location in Windsor. I arrived at 1:30pm, just in time for a late lunch at the brewpub. Only five days after the grand opening on Oct. 11, I knew that a few amenities— especially the planned guided tours of the brewery and the tasting room—were still a few weeks off.

Nearly 150 people had already made the discovery and were dining in the indoor restaurant, the outdoor bar and in the comfortable leather chairs that surround the indoor fire pit. I order a Supplication and took a seat at the crowded indoor bar so I could better overhear what others thought of the longanticipated arrival of the RRBC’s Windsor outpost.

I am a total Fourth Street Santa Rosa RRBC brewpub loyalist, and as such, the Windsor menu made me feel like a stranger in a strange land: squash soup, steak and, alas, avocado toast. The pork schnitzel sandwich and the fries looked good. I put in an order and finished off the beer. A few minutes later, the food arrived, alongside a fresh Pliny.

The meal left something to be desired, and here’s hoping RRBC Windsor works out the openingweek kinks. The fries were hot, but also soggy. The schnitzel was cooked to perfection, but came on a sesame seed bun (pretzel is traditional). To my right, a patron who just paid $22 for a steak lamented to the bartender that he’d erred in ordering it. “Too dry.”

Minor gripes aside, the Windsor location allowed me to do something I’ve never done before: open a cooler and grab a six-pack of Pliny to go. There appear to be thousands of ice-cold beers for sale in the gift shop. The days of Pliny scarcity are over—at least for those of us living in the North Bay. Hallelujah!

Give owners Vinnie and Natalie Cilurzo space and time to work out the bugs, and RRBC Windsor should become a mainstay of the tourist circuit and a nice hangout spot for locals—especially during the rainy season, when the weather will compel people to curl up by the indoor fire with their favorite brew.

I’m looking forward to my second visit, on a day like that.

—Thomas Broderick Russian River Brewing Company, 700 Mitchell Lane, Windsor. Facility tours are scheduled to start Nov. 15.

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HopMonk Novato Nov 1, Trip with Big Twang Theory. Nov 2, Richard Shindell. 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 415.892.6200.

Sweetwater Music Hall Oct 31, the Mother Hips Rock & Roll Halloween Bash with San Geronimo. Nov 1, Angelex. Nov 2, IrieFuse and Sol Horizon.

Nov 3, Marin Charitable benefit with Super Diamond. Nov 4, Jeffrey Foucault with Dusty Heart. Nov 5, Tab Benoit. Sold-out. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.3850.

Iron Springs Pub & Brewery Nov 7, Jon Chi and friends. 765 Center Blvd, Fairfax. 415.485.1005.

The Tavern on Fourth Nov 2, Ryan the Operator. Nov 3, ColdSol. 711 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.454.4044.

Lighthouse Bar & Grill Nov 3, the 7th Sons. 475 E Strawberry Dr, Mill Valley. 415.381.4400.

Terrapin Crossroads Oct 31, scary songs with Scott Law and friends. Nov 2, California Kind. Nov 4, Leo Kottke. 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael.

415.524.2773.

Marin Homeless Aid Second annual benefit concert features North Bay favorites Fleetwood Mask and Illeagles. Nov 3, 7pm. $20-$50. Marin Center Veterans Memorial Auditorium, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. 415.473.6800.

Mild High Club Los Angeles-based psychedelic band rocks out in the Grate Room. Nov 1, 8pm. $20-$22.

Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael. 415.524.2773.

New Century Chamber Orchestra Orchestra opens its season with British violinist Anthony Marwood as guest concertmaster and soloist. Nov 4, 3pm. $29$61. Osher Marin JCC, 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael. 415.444.8000.

SONOMA Paula Abdul Multi-platinum pop star returns to the stage in “Straight Up Paula,” her first solo tour in 25 years. Nov 7, 8pm. $79 and up. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.546.3600.

The Lost Church Sneak Peek & Fundraiser Be the first to see the new performance space in Santa Rosa at open house event featuring local musician showcase. Nov 3, 6pm. Free.

The Lost Church Santa Rosa, 427 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. thelostchurch.com.

NRBQ Inf luential rhythm and blues act headlines a stellar afternoon show also featuring Marty O’Reilly, Flamin’ Groovies and others. Nov 3, 3:30pm. $40. Gundlach Bundschu Winery, 2000 Denmark St, Sonoma. 707.938.5277.

NAPA Pablo Cruise Veteran San Francisco rock and pop group fronted by David Jenkins is back in the North Bay for two shows. Nov 3, 7 and 9:30pm. $45 and up. Silo’s, 530 Main St, Napa.

707.251.5833.

Vernon Reid & Band of Gypsys Revisited Guitarist and founder of Living Color pays tribute to Jimi Hendrix’s final album, “Band of Gypsys,” with his quartet. Nov 1, 7 and 9pm. $20-$40. Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa. 707.880.2300.

Clubs & Venues Fenix Nov 1, Marin School of the Arts Rock Band.

Nov 2, Eric Wiley Band. Nov 3, Last Call Troubadours. Nov 4, 6:30pm, Miracle Mule.

919 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.813.5600.

Marin Center Showcase Theatre Nov 2, Jennifer Berezan with Chris Webster. Nov 4, 2pm, “Cole Porter Salutes Motown” with Noah Griffin and The Cole Porter Society. 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. 415.499.6800.

Mt Tamalpais United Methodist Church Nov 4, 5pm, Mill Valley Chamber Music Society presents the ATOS Trio. 410 Sycamore Ave, Mill Valley. 800.838.3006.

19 Broadway Nightclub Oct 31, Halloween ex-ska-vaganza with the Undertakers. Nov 1, Chris James & the Showdowns. Nov 2, First Friday Reggae NIght. Nov 3, the Highway Poets and House of Mary. Nov 4, Elvis Johnson blues jam. 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 415.459.1091.

Osteria Divino Oct 31, Passion Habanera. Nov 1, Ana Mandara Duo. Nov 2, Adam Shulman Trio.

Nov 3, Nicholas Culp Trio. Nov 4, Greg Jacobs Duo. Nov 6, Michael Fecskes. Nov 7, Jonathan Poretz. 37 Caledonia St, Sausalito. 415.331.9355.

Panama Hotel Restaurant Oct 31, Rusty String Express. Nov 1, Donna D’Acuti. Nov 6, Swing Fever.

Nov 7, Rivertown Trio. 4 Bayview St, San Rafael. 415.457.3993.

Papermill Creek Saloon Nov 1, OMEN. Nov 2, Koolerator. Nov 3, Just Friends. Nov 4, 6pm, Mean Bunny Band. 1 Castro, Forest Knolls. 415.488.9235.

Peri’s Silver Dollar Oct 31, Poison Ivy Halloween Circus Night. Nov 1, Liquid Green. Nov 2, Modern Monsters. Nov 3, Heartwood Educational Collaborative Benefit. Nov 4, Matt Bolton. Nov 7, Michael Brown and friends. 29 Broadway, Fairfax.

415.459.9910.

Rancho Nicasio Nov 2, Matt Jaffe Band. Nov 3, Lavay Smith’s Supper Club. Nov 4, LoWatters. 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.

Smiley’s Schooner Saloon Nov 1, Ayden Graham. Nov 2, Travis Hayes.

Nov 3, the Oakland Crush. Nov 4, Brian Belknap. 41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas. 415.868.1311.

Station House Cafe Nov 4, 5pm, Paul Knight and friends. 11180 State Route 1, Pt Reyes Station. 415.663.1515.

Throckmorton Theatre Nov 7, 12pm, Patrick Galvin and Jung-eun Kim. 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

415.383.9600.

Trek Winery Nov 3, Blithedale Canyon. 1026 Machin Ave, Novato. 415.899.9883.

Art Openings Madrigal Family Winery Nov 1-Dec 11, “El Día de los Muertos,” art exhibit features installation of Mexican artwork from regional Mexican artists and celebrated Bay Area Latin artists. Reception, Nov 1 at 6pm. 819 Bridgeway, Sausalito.

415.729.9549.

Marin Center Bartolini Gallery Nov 1-20, “One Place Deeply,” photographer Marty Knapp explores the Greenbridge Trail in this new show. Reception, Nov 1 at 6pm. 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. marincounty.org.

O’Hanlon Center for the Arts Nov 1-21, “Feast of Color,” vibrant group show is juried by Leslie Allen. Reception, Nov 6 at 5:30pm. 616 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. Tues-Sat, 10 to 2; also by appointment.

415.388.4331.

Throckmorton Theatre Nov 6-Dec 2, “November Art Show with Caroline Dahl & Ben Parker,” the contemporary embroidery artist and sculptor exhibit their new works. Reception, Nov 6 at 5pm. 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.

Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.

Dance Alma del Tango Studio Nov 7, 7pm, Learn Argentine Tango. 167 Tunstead Ave, San Anselmo 415.459.8966.

Knights of Columbus Hall Nov 1, 5pm, Introduction to Swing Dance.

167 Tunstead Ave, San Anselmo 415.215.8571.

Events Celebrate Native American Heritage Month Museum of the American Indian offers free admission every Sunday this month for Native American Heritage Month. Sun, Nov 4. Museum of the American Indian, 2200 Novato Blvd, Novato. 415.897.4064.

Circles of Forgiveness Ritual lets you experience forgiveness towards others and yourself. Nov 4, 3pm.

Sunrise Center, 645 Tamalpais Dr, Corte Madera. 415.924.7824.

Day of Wellness & Cannabis Exploration Guided yoga kicks-off a day of self-care experiences. Tickets are limited. Nov 3, 10am. $40-$125. Harmonia, 2200 Marinship Way, Sausalito. 415.332.1432.

Thrive Alive Join the community in an interactive program that improves brain wellness and increases longevity through socialization, music and moving. Wed, Nov 7, 1pm. $10-$25.

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

Film CinemaBites See award-winning documentary, “Theater of Life,” about chef Massimo Bottura and dine with St. Helena’s The Charter Oak. Nov 5, 5pm. $45. Cameo Cinema, 1340 Main St, St Helena. 707.963.9779.

Comedy

An Evening with Katinka Faragó Producer has worked in the Swedish film industry for more than 60 years, and is renowned for her professional association with filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. Nov 3, 7pm. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.454.1222.

Charles Krug Comedy Series Comedian Billy Anderson headlines a night of laughs and wine. Nov 2, 7:30pm. $28.

Charles Krug Winery, 2800 Main St, St Helena. 707.967.3993.

Napa Valley Film Festival The ultimate film, food and wine experience features independent and studio features with celebrity guests galore. Nov 7-11. Napa Valley, various locations, Napa. nvff.org.

Electile Dysfunction Presented by Evil Comedy. Nov 3, 7:30pm. $5. Arlene Francis Center, 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa. 707.528.3009.

Novato Green Film Series See the documentary “Made in the Shade,” which chronicles Sacramento’s path to becoming the ‘City of Trees.’ Nov 1, 6:30pm. Novato City Hall, 901 Sherman Ave, Novato. 415.899.8900.

Tuesday Night Live See standup comedians Jessica Michelle Singleton, Mark Christopher Lawrence, John Hastings and others. Nov 6, 8pm. $17-$27.

Petaluma Cinema Series See SPike Lee’s latest

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Senior Friendly Hikes in Marin Find out about the the best trails for a relaxing strolls. Nov 5, 10:30am. Corte Madera Library. 707 Meadowsweet Dr, Corte Madera. 707.924.6444.

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.

Transformational NLP Learn a new approach to achieving personal change and happiness. Nov 2, 7pm. Depot Bookstore & Cafe, 87 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.2665.

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masterpiece, “Blackkklansman,” with lecture and discussion. Nov 7, 6pm. $6. Carole L Ellis Auditorium, SRJC Petaluma Campus, 680 Sonoma Mountain Pkwy, Petaluma.

The Prairie Trilogy Filmmaker Rob Nilsson presents a screening of this newly restored trio of documentaries. Nov 1, 7pm. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael.

415.454.1222.

Weed the People Cannabis documentary focuses on how the plant helps children suffering from cancer, with director on hand for Q&A. Nov 4, 2pm. Rialto Cinemas, 6868 McKinley St, Sebastopol. 707.525.4840.

Food & Drink 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.

For Kids Halloween Engineering Challenge Explore, build and create haunted houses, monsters and other creatures using engineering skills. Oct 31, 3:30pm. Marin City Library, 164 Donahue St, Marin City.

415.332.6157.

‘The Nutcracker’ Storytime with Marin Ballet Nov 3, 5pm. Novato Copperfield’s Books, 999 Grant Ave, Novato. 415.763.3052.

Lectures Entering History: The Aims & Foundation of ITP Michael Murphy outlines Integral Transformative Practice and the process of awakening our body, mind, heart and soul over the span of a lifetime. Tues, Nov 6, 6:30pm. $25; $60 for three-part series. Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael. 415.485.3438.

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.

Mill Valley City Update Mill Valley mayor Stephanie MoultonPeters and city manager Jim McCann provide updates on topics of importance.

Nov 1, 1pm. Free. Outdoor Art Club, 1 W Blithedale Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.2582.

Save Van Arken Sanctuary Forest presentation on their ongoing efforts to conserve and restore the remote Mattole River on Northern California’s Lost Coast. Nov 2, 7pm. Episcopal Church of the Nativity, 333 Ellen Dr, San Rafael.

Senior Circle & Stretch Class Share the challenges of aging with the Center for Attitudinal Healing, followed

by Sunlight Chair Yoga session. Wed,

Book Passage Nov 1, 7pm, “The Last Pass” with Gary Pomerantz. Nov 2, 7pm, Epic Reads Meetup with several authors. Nov 3, 1pm, “A Last Survivor of the Orphan Trains” with Victoria Golden. Nov 3, 4pm, “The Boy Crisis” with Warren Farrell and John Gray.

Nov 4, 1pm, “Farsighted” and “How We Got to Now” with Steven Johnson. Nov 4, 4pm, She Writes Press panel with various authors.

Nov 5, 7pm, Left Coast Writers literary salon with Rebecca Foust. Nov 7, 7pm, “Hungry Ghost Theater” with Sarah Stone. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera 415.927.0960.

Book Passage By-the-Bay Nov 3, 11am, “Tomorrow I’ll Be Brave” with Jessica Hische. Nov 5, 5:30pm, “North on the Wing” with Bruce M Beehler. 100 Bay St, Sausalito 415.339.1300.

College of Marin Library Nov 7, 1pm, Poetry as Resistance with Javier Zamora. 835 College Ave, Kentfield 415.485.9475.

Commonweal Oct 31, 3pm, “The Haida Gwaii Lesson: A Strategic Playbook for Indigenous Sovereignty” with Mark Dowie. 451 Mesa Rd, Bolinas 415.868.0970.

Depot Bookstore & Cafe Nov 1, 7pm, “Born Under Fire” with Rina Z Neiman. 87 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley 415.383.2665.

Point Reyes Books Nov 7, 7pm, “Evolution” with Eileen Myles.

11315 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station 415.663.1542.

Rebound Bookstore Oct 31, 7pm, Hand to Mouth/WORDS SPOKEN OUT, featuring authors Catharine Clark-Sayles and Robin Lee and open mic.

1611 Fourth St, San Rafael 415.482.0550.

Theater 101 Dalmatians KIDS A fantastic theater experience for young audiences. Nov 2-11. $5. Steele Lane Community Center. 415 Steele Lane, Santa Rosa, atheaterforchildren.com.

The Addams Family Musical Through Nov 4. $15-$35. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.

Blithe Spirit A cantankerous novelist is haunted by the ghost of his late wife in this classic comedy.

Through Nov 4. $23-$33. Lucky Penny Community Arts Center, 1758 Industrial Way, Napa. 707.266.6305.

God of Carnage Two sets of parents try to civilly discuss a problem between their kids, but the night devolves into chaos in this biting comedy. Through Nov 11. $21-$27.

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

Hand to God Left Edge Theatre presents the award-winning comedy featuring a hand puppet possessed by the devil. Through Nov 11. $25-$40. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.546.3600.

Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play “The Simpsons” serves as inspiration for this original post-apocalyptic tale that is funny, bleak and bizarre. Oct 31-Nov 4. $10-$17. Evert B. Person Theater, SSU, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park. 707.664.4246.

The New Century Pegasus Theater Company presents a hilarious and affecting comedy. Nov 2-25. $15-$18. Mt Jackson Masonic Hall, 14040 Church St, Guerneville. 707.708.8604.

Outside Mullingar Two introverted misfits in rural Ireland take a journey that is heartbreaking, hilarious and deeply moving. Through Nov 4. $10-$25. Raven Theater, 115 North St, Healdsburg. 707.433.3145.

The Rocky Horror Show That sweet transvestite, Dr. Frank-N-furter, and his motley crew return in the original stage musical. Through Nov 3. Studio Theatre, 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa. 707.523.4185.

Sausalito Woman’s Club Scholarship Fund Benefit Marin vocalist Noah Griffin and local performers lead a musical night themed “Life Is a Cabaret.” Nov 2-3, 6pm. $45.

Sausalito Woman’s Club, 120 Central Ave, Sausalito, swcsrf.org.

The Spy Who Killed Me Get a Clue Productions hosts an interactive and humorous murder-mystery dinner theater experience. Sat, Nov 3, 7pm. $68 (includes meal). Charlie’s Restaurant, Windsor Golf Club, 1320 19th Hole Dr, Windsor. getaclueproductions.com.

Uncle Vanya Birdbath Theatres presents a new, surreal look at Chekhov’s classic tale of provincial Russian life. Through Nov 18.

415.426.0269. The Belrose, 1415 Fifth Ave, San Rafael. 415.454.6422.

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PublicNotices business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on OCTOBER 3, 2018. (Publication Dates: October 17, 24, 31 and November 7 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT— File No: 145586. The following individual(s) are doing business: ALL MARIN ELECTRIC, ALLMARINELECTRIC. COM, 8 BROOKLINE DR, NOVATO, CA 94949: ALEXEY BYCHKOV, 8 BROOKLINE DR, NOVATO, CA 94949. 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 OCTOBER 16, 2018. (Publication Dates: October 24, 31 and November 7, 14 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT— File No: 145553. The following individual(s) are doing business: ANGEL ISLAND TRAM TOURS AND CATERED EVENTS, ANGEL ISLAND STATE PARK, TIBURON, CA 94820: URBAN PARK CONCESSIONAIRES, 2150 MAIN STREET, RED BLUFF, CA 96020. 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 OCTOBER 11, 2018. (Publication Dates: October 24, 31 and November 7, 14 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT— File No: 145610. The following individual(s)

are doing business: MULTICULTURAL CENTER OF MARIN, 30 N. SAN PEDRO RD. STE. 250, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: MULTICULTURAL CENTER OF MARIN INC., 30 N. SAN PEDRO RD. STE. 250, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. 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 OCTOBER 19, 2018. (Publication Dates: October 31 and November 7, 14, 21 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT— File No: 2018-145571.

The following individual(s) are doing business: AMAZING GRACE MUSIC, 91 REDHILL AVE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: JUDY KAUFMAN, 93 MERCED AVE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960, JOHN PEDERSEN, 93 MERCED AVE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960.

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 OCTOBER 15, 2018. (Publication Dates: October 31 and November 7, 14, 21 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 145567. The following individual(s) are doing business: COMPACT CONSTRUCTION, 1422 CAMBRIDGE ST., NOVATO, CA 94947: BEN LAPLACA, 1422 CAMBRIDGE ST., NOVATO, CA 94947. 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 OCTOBER 15, 2018. (Publication Dates: October 31 and November 7, 14, 21 of 2018) OTHER NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 1803657 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS 1. Petitioner (name of each): Marianne Claire Atterbury Bernard, has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Marianne Claire Atterbury Bernard to Proposed Name: Claire Atterbury Bernard Miller 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: 12/3/2018, 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 circulation, printed in the county of Marin. DATED: OCT 11, 2018 Roy O. Chernus Judge of the Superior Court James M Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT

By C Lucchesi, Deputy (October 17, 24, 31, and November 7 of 2018) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ROSEMARY THERESA BOCK CASE NO.: PR 1802115 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: ROSEMARY THERESA BOCK A Petition for~Probate~has been filed by: MICHAEL BOCK in the Superior Court of California, County of Marin. The Petition for~Probate~requests that: HOLGER SIEGWART 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: JULY 30, 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~Probate Code, 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: HOLGER SIGWART, ESQ., SIEGWART GERMAN AMERICAN LAW, 1799 Bayshore Highway, Suite 150, Burlingame, CA, 94010 (650) 259-9670 FILED: Jun 19, 2018 James M. Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By: R Smith, Deputy No. 1171 (October 24, 31, November 7 2018)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 1803829 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS 1. Petitioner (name of each): DEBBIE WONG aka Debbie Wong Stompanato aka Ngan Ling Wong, has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: DEBBIE WONG to Proposed Name: DEBBIE WONG-STOMPANATO 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: 12/20/2018, 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 circulation, printed in the county of Marin. DATED: OCT 25, 2018 Roy O. Chernus Judge of the Superior Court James M Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By C Lucchesi, Deputy (October 31, and November 7, 14, 21 of 2018)

By Amy Alkon

Q:

A man asked me for my number at an event, saying he wanted to take me to dinner. I told him I’d just ended a relationship and wasn’t ready to date. Of course, he then said it’d be a business dinner, and I consented and wrote my number down. I feel that I had bad boundaries and wish (a) he hadn’t been so forward and (b) I hadn’t given my number. How could I handle this better in the future? I’m a pretty assertive woman, so my collapsing under pressure was disturbing.—Jell-O

A:

This is like your telling somebody who wants you to dog-sit, “Sorry, I’m allergic to dogs” and having her come back with “Actually, he identifies as a parrot.”

There are five major domains of personality that drive how a person acts, and they tend to be fairly stable across time and situations. These include conscientiousness—which reflects a person’s level of self-control and sense of responsibility to others. Another is extroversion—reflecting where a person falls on a spectrum from outgoingness to seeing social events as a form of torture.

Researchers find that women across cultures consistently come out higher than men in one of these personality domains: “agreeableness.” This is a “nice girl/ nice guy” personality trait that plays out in kindness, generosity warmth and a strong motivation to have positive interactions with others. Psychologist Joyce Benenson, who researches sex differences from infancy on, believes that women’s tendency to default to polite acquiescence in the face of conflict is an evolved tactic to reduce their chances of being physically harmed.

It’s likely that, as a woman, you’re a high scorer in the agreeableness department. However, as anthropologist Jerome Barkow points out, “biology is destiny only if we ignore it.” Recognizing your propensity to be “nice” allows you to preplan and have prepared answers for creative pursuers like this guy. For example: 1. You’re not ready to date. 2. You’re happy to take a phone call to see whether there might be a business opportunity. This should help you separate potentially lucrative business propositions from tarted-up versions of “There’s a very important meeting you simply must attend—in my pants.”

Q:

I lost a bunch of weight after a horrible breakup. I’m eating healthful food now—yay. But I’m very aware that I’m one of those flabby skinny people. I used to go to the gym regularly, but I stopped, and now it’s been two years. How can I motivate myself ?—Stick Figure

A:

There is an unorthodox but excuse-proof way to get yourself back to the gym: Hire a psychopath to chase you there with an axe. If, however, the psychopaths in your area are busy servicing their regular clients, you might try rethinking the power you give your feelings over your behavior. The fact that you have a feeling—“Waah . . . I don’t wanna go to the gym”—is no reason to listen to it and obey it as if you were its feudal serf.

Consider that unless there’s a national disaster or a wizard turns you into a decorative porch owl, you are physically capable of getting to the gym. Make a pledge to yourself that no matter how unmotivated you are to go there, you will just go. Giving yourself no choice in the matter, is important, because according to studies by psychologist Phillippa Lally, and others, repetition leads to habit acquisition—behaviors you repeat become automatic.

To kick off the campaign for the new gym-going you, do this robo-gym-going thing every day for two weeks, and then you can pull back to whatever your normal gym schedule would be. Give yourself a sense of accomplishment by monitoring your behavior. Check off days you go work out on a goal attainment app, or just color them in on a calendar. Giving yourself visual evidence of your progress should help you stay motivated during that time period before the physical results start to show. Kind of a bummer when you tell people you’ve been going to the gym and their response is, “And doing 20 sets of I’m not getting out of this car?”

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 October 31

ARIES (March 21–April 19) You have officially arrived at the heart of the most therapeutic phase of your cycle. Congratulations! It’s an excellent time to fix what’s wrong, hurt or distorted. You will attract more help than you can imagine if you summon an aggressive approach toward finding antidotes and cures. A good way to set the tone for your aggressive determination to feel better is to heed this advice from poet Maya Angelou: “Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.”

TAURUS (April 20–May 20) U2’s singer Bono,

born under the sign of Taurus, says that all of us suffer from the sense that something’s missing from our lives. We imagine that we lack an essential quality or experience, and its absence makes us feel sad and insufficient. French philosopher Blaise Pascal referred to this emptiness as “a God-shaped hole.” Bono adds that “you can never completely fill that hole,” but you may find partial fixes through love and sex, creative expression, family, meaningful work, parenting, activism and spiritual devotion. I bring this to your attention, Taurus, because I have a strong suspicion that in the coming weeks you will have more power to fill your God-shaped hole than you’ve had in a long time.

GEMINI (May 21–June 20) “Most of our desires are clichés, right? Ready to wear, one size fits all. I doubt if it’s even possible to have an original desire anymore.” So says a character in Gemini author Tobias Wolff ’s short story “Sanity.” Your assignment in the coming weeks, Gemini, is to refute and rebel against this notion. The cosmic rhythms will work in your favor to the degree that you cultivate innovative yearnings and unique urges. I hope you’ll make it your goal to have the experiences necessary to stir up an outbreak of original desires.

CANCER (June 21–July 22) If you’re a typical member of the Cancerian tribe, you’re skilled at responding constructively when things go wrong. Your intelligence rises up hot and strong when you get sick or rejected or burned. But if you’re a classic Crab, you have less savvy in dealing with triumphs. You may sputter when faced with splashy joy, smart praise or lucky breaks.

But everything I just said is meant to be a challenge, not a curse. One of the best reasons to study astrology is to be aware of the potential shortcomings of your sign so you can outwit and overcome them. That’s why I think that eventually you’ll evolve to the point where you won’t be a bit flustered when blessings arrive. And the immediate future will bring you excellent opportunities to upgrade your response to good fortune.

LEO (July 23–August 22) “Each of us needs

something of an island in his life,” said author John C. Keats. “If not an actual island, at least some place, or space in time, in which to be herself, free to cultivate his differences from others.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, Leo, you’ll be wise to spend extra time on your own island in the next two weeks. Solitude is unlikely to breed unpleasant loneliness, but will instead inspire creative power and evoke inner strength. If you don’t have an island yet, go in search!

VIRGO (August 23–September 22) I’m rooting for you to engage in experimental intimacy, Virgo.

I hope you’ll have an affinity for sweet blends and incandescent mixtures and arousing juxtapositions.

To get in the right mood for this playful work, you could read love poetry and listen to uplifting songs that potentize your urge to merge. Here are a few lyrical passages to get you warmed up. (1) “Your flesh quivers against mine like moonlight on the sea.”—Julio Cortázar. (2) “When she smiles like that she is as beautiful as all my secrets.”—Anne Carson.

(3) “My soul is alight with your infinitude of stars . . .

The flowers of your garden blossom in my body.”— Rabindranath Tagore. (4) “I can only find you by looking deeper, that’s how love leads us into the world.”—Anne Michaels.

LIBRA (September 23–October 22) Of course I want you to have more money. I’d love for you to buy experiences that expand your mind, deepen

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your emotional intelligence and foster your ability to create inspiring forms of togetherness. My soul would celebrate if you got access to new wealth that enabled you to go in quest of spiritual fun and educational adventures. On the other hand, I wouldn’t be thrilled about you spending extra cash on trivial desires or fancy junk you don’t really need. Here’s why I feel this way: to the extent that you seek more money to pursue your most righteous cravings, you’re likely to get more money.

SCORPIO (October 23–November 21)

“Penetralia” is a word that means the innermost or most private parts, the most secret and mysterious places. It’s derived from the same Latin term that evolved into the word “penetrate.” You Scorpios are of course the zodiac’s masters of penetralia. More than any other sign, you’re likely to know where the penetralia are, as well as how to get to them and what to do when you get to them. I suspect that this tricky skill will come in extra handy during the coming weeks. I bet your intimate adeptness with penetralia will bring you power, fun and knowledge.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22– December 21) Sagittarian poet Rainer Maria Rilke suggested that we cultivate an alertness for the everpresent possibility of germination and gestation. On a regular basis, he advised, we should send probes down into the darkness, into our unconscious minds, to explore for early signs of awakening. And when we discover the forces of renewal stirring there in the depths, we should be humble and reverent toward them, understanding that they are as-yet beyond the reach of our ability to understand. We shouldn’t seek to explain and define them at first, but simply devote ourselves to nurturing them. Everything I just said is your top assignment in the coming weeks.

CAPRICORN (December 22–January 19)

You’re in a phase of your cycle when your influence is at a peak. People are more receptive than usual to your ideas and more likely to want the same things you do. Given these conditions, I think the best information I can offer you is the following meditation by Capricorn activist Martin Luther King Jr. “Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.

Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”

AQUARIUS (January 20–February 18) Aquarian environmentalist Edward Abbey spent much of his life rambling around in the great outdoors. He was an emancipated spirit who regarded the natural world as the only church he needed. In an eruption of ecstatic appreciation, he once testified that “life is a joyous dance through daffodils beneath cerulean blue skies and then, then what? I forget what happens next.” And yet the truth is, Abbey was more than a wild-hearted Dionysian explorer in the wilderness. He found the discipline and diligence to write 23 books! I mention this, Aquarius, because now is a perfect time for you to be like the disciplined and diligent and productive version of Abbey.

PISCES (February 19–March 20) For

renowned Piscean visual artist Anne Truitt (1921–2004), creating her work was high adventure.

She testified that artists like her had “to catapult themselves wholly, without holding back one bit, into a course of action without having any idea where they will end up. They are like riders who gallop into the night, eagerly leaning on their horse’s neck, peering into a blinding rain.” Whether or not you’re an artist, Pisces, I suspect your life in the coming weeks may feel like the process she described. And that’s a good thing! A fun thing!

Enjoy your ride.

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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