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The author’s comment about Pick of the Litter—“it almost makes me want to gouge out my eyeballs, grab a stick and be led around the county by a highly trained Labrador”—is so incredibly insensitive, it’s almost beyond belief (“Five Easy Splices,” Nov. 7).

I’m sure he thought it was a clever little joke, but it’s completely inappropriate. You think being blind is funny on any level? Yes, the puppies are cute and they’re actually gifts from heaven to the sightless, but that off hand remark is totally classless. The author should apologize for this lame attempt at humor.

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Sonoma State Business Degree, at College of Marin

Both my daughters attended, and graduated from, the Novato Charter School (“Midterm Exam,” Nov. 7).

This is a public charter school, under the purview of the Novato Unified School District, and of course, the state. The director of 16 years, Rachael Bishop, and her viceprincipal, Jeffrey Erkelens, ran the school with great circumspection and adherence to the rules laid out by both the district and the state.

That said, the Novato Charter School never suffered controversy or had scandal stain its reputation and name.

On the contrary, Bishop and Erkelens elevated Novato Charter to an awardwinning school that served (and still does) as a model for how well charter public schools can operate and succeed. Novato Charter School is a jewel in the crown of the local school district in Novato.

Jonathan Derovan Novato

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Like most things in today’s world, it’s in with the new and out with the old. Driving is a good example of this. Have you noticed the changes?

The “old” is formal driver’s training, which included parallel parking, that I undertook during my teen years in high school.

“New” is the lack of respect for rules of the road and unchecked driving skills. Of course the DMV has nothing to do with this but rather today’s “me first” culture is making the changes. Just look at the behavior of drivers today: • The “Stop” and “Yield” signs are merely suggestions, and are to be ignored if no one is near.

• The posted number on a speed limit sign is optional; the driver’s attitude and personality determine the actual speed.

• “Caution” and “Slow” signs mean slow down, at least to the posted speed limit.

• Stopping before turning right on red is done only if it necessary.

• The far line of the crosswalk at an intersection is where the stop is made (if at all), and braking begins just before the near line.

Looking left or right is optional, and people in the crosswalk shouldn’t be there.

• Traffic coming out of driveways has the right of way.

• Ignore any parking stall marked “Compact,” as long as the vehicle can get into the space. It doesn’t matter what kind of vehicle it is, and straddling the lines is the other driver’s problem.

• A high-end brand vehicle (and most SUVs) means that driving regulations don’t apply to this driver, so don’t expect any courtesy, but do expect to have your right of way violated.

• Changing lanes is done at will, and cutting off another driver is that driver’s misfortune.

• Signaling for a lane change or turning is done (if at all) at or after the action. Other drivers should not be given prior warning.

• Tailgating is a signal that the vehicle in front must move out of the way, no matter what the situation.

It seems that in order to survive, as I “share” the road, I have to learn how to drive all over again, per the list above. At this age, it’s going to be difficult, so cut me some slack as I take to the streets. Wish me luck.

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What Marin county park is named for those native, edible plants growing wild in the Bay Area’s swampy, salty wetlands?

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What country is the world’s largest producer, as well as the world’s largest consumer, of that creamy spread Nutella?

b. The chocolate-based flavoring of Nutella is mixed with what flavorful nut?

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b. It became popular because it was the first to offer customers what benefit?

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People in the World by Forbes magazine (2010). Elusive Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán is better known by what two-word nickname that means “shorty”?

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He slipped Mexican incarceration, but the gringos extricated him and he’s currently on trial in Brooklyn. He was head of what infamously ruthless cartel?

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This team sport has been competed at every summer Olympic Games since 1936; the United States’ men’s team has won gold all but three times. The only other winning teams have been Soviet Russia, Yugoslavia and Argentina. What Olympic team sport is this?

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What heavy equipment company is named for the animal whose name derives from “hairy cat” in French?

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NOVEMBER 18TH - DECEMBER 9TH Lincoln Theater, Yountville Chamber of Commerce and the Town of Yountville are proud to present our 2nd annual FREE Holiday Movie Series. Bring the whole family to experience these modern holiday classics on the big screen: The Santa Clause, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, The Polar Express and The Muppets Christmas Carol.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2ND @ 3PM Soprano Marnie Breckenridge returns with Symphony Napa Valley, under the direction of Michael Guttman, to offer a selection of holiday favorites by Bach, Vivaldi and Handel. This program features the Messiah, one of the most magnificent achievements in classical music.

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DECEMBER 6TH - 7TH From Transcendence, the award-winning creators of Broadway Under the Stars in Sonoma Valley comes this holiday celebration for all ages, with performers from Broadway shows such as Wicked, White Christmas, Mary Poppins, Mamma Mia and more.

DECEMBER 15TH - 16TH Napa Regional Dance Company’s beloved production of The Nutcracker is back for its 18th season! Join Clara and her Nutcracker Prince on an enchanted journey through the Snow Flake Forest to The Land of Sweets with the Sugar Plum Fairy and Cavalier in this timeless classic.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22ND @ 7:30 PM Spend the holidays with this tribute to ABBA! From Dancing Queen, Waterloo, SOS and Take a Chance on Me to Voulez-Vous, Super Trouper, Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! and many more not to mention a seasonal sprinkling of Christmas music to celebrate the holidays.

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Dec. 1st & 2nd • 1:00 & 5:00pm Meet & greet costumed characters after matinees!

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Bananas at Large, a San Rafael music store, has given back to the community for decades. To the tune of $100,000 a year, the store donates to local schools, music-making nonprofits and other charities, including Little

By Nikki Silverstein Kids Rock, Women’s Audio Mission, the American Cancer Society and many others. Owner Alan Rosen lobbies state and national legislators to make music and arts core curriculums in our schools. You can read about these philanthropic efforts on the Bananas at Large website. But there’s work that Alan performs quietly, never expecting we would find out about his good deeds. For instance, last week on Facebook, he learned about a senior gentleman who lost an entire guitar collection, which took 70 years to build, to thieves. Each stolen instrument carried a special meaning for the man, and he had spent all of his free time in the guitar studio, playing music and giving lessons. Alan donated enough guitars to keep him teaching.

We also heard tell that an East Bay teacher was burglarized and Alan sent him guitars the next day. During last year’s fires, he contributed goods, coordinated concert fundraisers and helped house his staff. Alan, you’re a mensch and we applaud your support of the community.

When Stanton Klose of Terra Linda walks around his neighborhood, he’s astounded at how often he gets cut-off by drivers rolling through a stop sign and crosswalk. Many of them look the other way and never see him. He asks us to remind folks that drivers could be cited for two infractions, each of which puts a point on their record, not to mention the minimum fine and fees of $237. And that’s if they don’t hit anyone. On the flip side, Marc, a Tiburon resident, wrote on Nextdoor that pedestrians should always make eye contact with drivers before crossing the street, even though the law gives walkers the right of way. Drivers are human and make mistakes. We say everyone should be careful and look both ways.

Got a Hero or a Zero? Please send submissions to nikki_silverstein@yahoo.com. Toss roses, hurl stones with more Heroes and Zeroes at pacificsun.com.

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

11:30am–3:30pm 12:30pm–1:30pm: Lunch Program 1:30pm–3:30pm: Marketplace opens to the public

Congratulations to our 2018 Women of Industry Award Honorees Mary Kay Sweeney, Homeward Bound & Stephanie Plante, CPi Developers The event features a sparkling wine reception, a unique marketplace shopping experience, gourmet luncheon and valuable networking opportunity.

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eady or not, nearly two months of holiday fun and cheer are coming your way. To help navigate the season and keep your spirits bright, we present our select guide to holiday fun leading up to Christmas.

—Charlie Swanson

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Bay Area chanteuse Deborah Winters jazzes up the holidays when she performs on Dec. 7 at the Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley.

EVENTS Marin Turkey Trot Work up an appetite with one-mile, 5k and 10k runs. Proceeds benefit San Francisco-Marin Food Bank.

Packet pickup, Nov. 19 and 21; race, Nov. 22. Indian Valley College, 1800 Ignacio Blvd., Novato. $25–$55. marinturkeytrot.com.

San Rafael Parade of Lights & Winter Wonderland Thirtyninth annual event in the heart of Marin features a grand parade and tree-lighting ceremony, with snow sledding, kids activities, a holiday market and more. Festive window displays light up the scene while live

music and holiday entertainment packs in families from around the Bay Area. Nov. 23–24. Fourth and B streets, San Rafael. Friday, noon to 8pm; parade begins at 5:30pm; Saturday, 9am to noon.

800.310.6563.

Point Reyes Open Studios Spend part of Thanksgiving weekend with artists in their studios throughout West Marin during the 20th annual free, selfguided tour. Includes displays and demonstrations. Nov. 23–25, 11am to 5pm. pointreyesart.com.

Bolinas Museum Turkey Trot Ninth annual family-friendly walk is a popular post-Thanksgiving

tradition in West Marin. Prizes, treats and Bloody Marys are waiting at the finish line. Nov. 24. 48 Wharf Road, Bolinas. 8am. $10–$25; kids nine and under are free.

415.868.0330.

ICB’s Winter Open Studios More than a hundred painters, sculptors, fabric artists, jewelers, photographers and other artists under one roof all open their doors for this 50th annual event to let you discover new and unique works of art where they are created. Nov. 30– Dec. 2. Industrial Center Building, 480 Gate Five Road, Sausalito.

11am–6pm. Free admission. icbartists.com.

Breakfast with Santa at Sausalito Yacht Club Annual family event features breakfast prepared by elves and a visit from Santa. Dec. 1. Sausalito Yacht Club, 100 Humboldt Ave., Sausalito.

8:30am and 10am. $15–$18; kids under two eat free. RSVP required.

415.289.4152.

Sausalito Gingerbread House Competition & Tour Twelfth annual citywide event features more than 30 businesses and merchants participating in creating festive and delicious gingerbread houses.

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12 Holiday Arts 2018 «11 Mill Valley Holiday Craft Fair Fourteenth annual fair features over 55 artists selling handmade arts and crafts, including jewelry, glasswork, fiber arts, ceramics and more. Dec. 1.

Mill Valley Community Center, 180 Camino Alto, Mill Valley. 10am to 5pm. Free. millvalleyrecreation.org.

Belvedere-Tiburon Landmarks Society Holiday Art & Craft Sale Local artists bring a wide range of gifts and holiday items to browse in a farm-cottage setting. There will be jewelry, glass works, knitted items, vintage books and baked goods, with door prizes and hot cider. Dec. 1, Landmarks Art & Garden Center, 841 Tiburon Blvd., Tiburon. 10am to 4pm. Free. 415.435.1853.

Marin Symphony offers an evening of holiday-inspired choral and classical music at the Holiday Pops concert on Dec. 11 at the Marin Center in San Rafael.

diversion from the hustle and bustle of holiday shopping. Dec. 1–31.

Downtown Sausalito. Maps are available at participating merchants or at sausalitogingerbread.com.

Osher Marin Festival of Lights Marin’s biggest Hanukkah party includes festive foods, glow-inthe-dark dancing, live music, an artisan crafts marketplace and kids activities like Lego dreidel building, bouncy house hopping and cookie decorating. All are welcome. Dec. 2.

Osher Marin JCC, 200 N. San Pedro Road, San Rafael. 11:30am–2pm.

Free admission. 415.444.8000.

Sausalito Woman’s Club Holiday Open House Santa makes an appearance for this community event. Toys for Tots and Giving Tree donations are appreciated.

Dec. 2. Sausalito Women’s Club, 120 Central Ave., Sausalito. 3pm.

415.332.2700.

Mill Valley Winterfest Annual celebration includes snow-sledding, a visit from Santa, live entertainment, refreshments, children’s activities and a treelighting ceremony. Dec. 2. Downtown Plaza, 85 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 11am to 5pm. enjoymillvalley.com.

Dickens’ Family Victorian Holiday Party Hosted by characters from Charles Dickens’ works, this annual party boasts parlor games, dancing, crafts and light refreshments.

Dec. 7. Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission Ave., San Rafael. 6:30pm. $9–$12. falkirkculturalcenter.org.

Sensitive Santa Holiday event for children with special needs features an online sign-up to eliminate the stress of waiting in a line, a sensory-friendly playground and activities, therapy dogs from Marin Humane Society and a professional photographer. Dec. 8. All Children’s Academics, 1665 Grand Ave., San Rafael. Free; $20 donation includes raffle ticket. 415.258.9572.

Makor Marin’s Chanukah Art & Light The community organization dedicated to offering outdoor experiences that incorporate a Jewish curriculum hosts an expressive and exploratory day of art and learning at the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts.

First, take part in an art project in the center’s studio. Then, head into the sculpture garden for a hike that incorporates storytelling and singalongs that celebrate the Festival of Lights. Dec. 8. 616 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 3–5pm. Free. RSVP requested. 860.987.3110.

Sausalito Winterfest Thirty-first annual event includes Saturday’s Lighted Boat Parade on the water with dozens of brightly decorated vessels and fireworks. Then, Sunday’s Jingle Bell 5k features a runner’s brunch and children’s fun run. Dec. 8–9. Sausalito Waterfront.

Saturday, 6pm; Sunday, 8:30am. winterfestsausalito.com.

SHOPPING Marin Center’s Pop-Up Holiday Boutique Shop for locally produced original arts and crafts including jewelry, woodworks and fashion accessories. Nov. 29–Dec. 7, Marin Center Exhibit Hall, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. 11am to 7pm.

Free. marincounty.org.

Dance Palace Artisan Craft & Holiday Market This 48th annual event offers art and fine crafts from favorite local artisans and boasts an expanded holiday market with live entertainment, kids craft stations and gourmet food. Nov. 30–Dec. 2. Dance Palace, 503 B St., Point Reyes Station. Friday, 4–9pm; Saturday, 10am–5pm; Sunday, 10am–4pm.

Free admission. dancepalace.org.

Muir Beach Holiday Arts Fair Head to the coast for some holiday shopping that boasts unique and handmade fine art, crafts, jewelry, gourmet treats, holiday knickknacks and more. Dec. 1–2. Muir Beach Community Center, 19 Seacape Drive, Muir Beach. Saturday, 10am– 5pm; Sunday, 10am–4pm. Free admission. muirbeachartsfair.com.

Marin Indoor Antique Market Christmas Show Over 70 booths of antiques and collectibles features vintage and estate jewelry, furniture, Native American and Asian art and more. Dec. 8–9, Marin Center Exhibit Hall, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. Saturday, 10am to 6pm; Sunday, 10–5pm. $8. 415.473.6800.

Spirited Marin Holiday Marketplace Festive shopping village features Marin-based sellers and raises money for local nonprofits, with a special Airstream photography exhibit, seasonal drinks, music and more. Dec. 8–9.

Marin Country Mart, 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur. Saturday, 10am to 8:30pm; Sunday, 10am to 5pm. spiritedmarin.org.

PERFORMANCE Marin Center Just Dance Academy Winter Performance commences Nov. 18. 2pm. $22–$27. Vocalist Evan Tyrone Martin stars in “An Unforgettable Nat King Cole Christmas” Nov. 27–28. $60. Stapleton Ballet performs The Nutcracker.

Dec. 1–2. 1pm and 5pm. $26–$38.

Performing Arts Academy of Marin’s Holiday Spectacular gets festive Dec. 1–2. Saturday, 7pm; Sunday, 2pm. $22. Mayflower Chorus presents

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You better watch out when veteran rocker Jerry Joseph leads a two-night holiday concert residency Dec. 21 and 22 at Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley.

“Sounds of the Season” Dec. 7–8. Friday, 8pm; Saturday, 2:30pm and 7:30pm. $8–$22. Marin Ballet’s Nutcracker returns Dec. 8–9. 1pm and 5pm. $25–$45; Candy Cane Party following each 1pm performance is $10. “Sister’s Christmas Catechism” offers holiday mystery Dec. 14–15. $60. Marin Dance Theatre’s “Sophie and the Enchanted Toyshop” makes for a sweet treat Dec. 15. 1pm and 5:30pm. $32–$40.

Singers Marin offers annual performance of “’Tis the Season . . . Sing Joy!” Dec. 17. 4pm. $25–$40. Windham Hill’s Winter Solstice marks the season Dec. 21. 8pm. $25–$65. 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. 415.473.6800.

Sweetwater Music Hall Start the holidays with a post-Thanksgiving bash featuring rock band Jerry’s Middle Finger, Nov. 25. 5pm. $12–$15.

“A Rat Pack Christmas” pays tribute to Frank Sinatra’s birthday, Dec. 12.

8pm. $25–$30. The Christmas Jug Band make their way back to town for two spirited shows, Dec. 17 and 20. 7pm, 8pm. $19–$27. Jerry Joseph & the Jackmormons invite guests

like Steve Kimock to play two nights of holiday magic Dec. 21–22. 9pm. $25–$40. 415.388.3850.

Throckmorton Theatre Michelle Schmitt’s 10th Annual Holiday Concert benefits the community on Nov. 29. 8pm. $25–$100. Deborah Winters and the Peter Welker All Star Band jazz up the holidays Dec. 7.

8pm. $25–$35. Narada Michael Walden Foundation’s Annual Holiday Jam returns Dec. 15. 8pm. $100–$175. 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.

Holidays in Harmony Novato Music Association Chorus comes together in song for this annual winter concert. Nov. 30– Dec. 2 and Dec. 8. St. Vincent’s Chapel, 1 St. Vincent Drive, San Rafael. Times vary. $5–$20. novatomusicassociationchorus.org.

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Join Charles Dickens and his family for the joyous Dickens’ Family Victorian Holiday Party on Dec. 7 at the Falkirk Mansion in San Rafael.

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Dec. 1. Osher Marin JCC’s Hoytt Theater, 200 N. San Pedro Road, San Rafael. 7pm, Balkan dance lessons; 7:30pm party. $10–$35.

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Marin Symphony’s Holiday Concerts Spend the most wonderful time of the year with the acclaimed symphony orchestra, who present several concerts throughout the season. First, the chamber chorus shines in the Holiday Choral Concerts

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Kitka: Wintersongs The Oaklandbased women’s vocal ensemble channels Eastern European melodies with traditional vocal styling. Kitka perform a program of critically acclaimed, winter-inspired music ranging from Slavic folk carols to Eastern Orthodox choral works, Yiddish, Sephardic and Hebrew songs for Hanukkah. Dec. 9, the Kanbar Center for the Performing Arts, Osher Marin JCC, 200 N. San Pedro Road, San Rafael. 5pm. $10–$35. 415.444.8000.

First Presbyterian San Anselmo Chancel Choir Daniel Canosa conducts a performance of three versions of the “O magnum mysterium,” by Javier Busto, Morten Lauridsen and Ola Gjeilo with orchestra. Dec. 9. First Presbyterian Church, 72 Kensington Road, San Anselmo. 10am. Free. 415.456.3713.

Very Merry Singalong on Tomales Bay West Marin nonprofit Sound Orchard leads a special selection of familiar carols, interfaith holiday music and nonsecular songs for the season. Dec. 13.

St. Columba’s Sanctuary, 12835 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Inverness. 7pm. $10-$20. soundorchard.org.

Stapleton Theatre Company The theater arts division of the Stapleton School of the Performing Arts presents A Christmas Carol: The Broadway Musical, an adaptation of the Charles Dickens tale. Dec. 13–16.

The Playhouse, 27 Kensington Road, San Anselmo. Thursday–Friday, 7:30pm; Saturday–Sunday, 2pm. $16–$22. stapletonschool.org.

Marin Oratorio Boyd Jarrell directs the College of Marin choir’s performance of world-beloved works by Franz Schubert. Dec. 15–16, James Dunn Theatre, College of Marin, 835 College Ave., Kentfield.

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Country and folk star Victoria George plays an album-release party for her new record ‘Victoria George and the High Lonesome’ on Thursday, Nov. 15, at Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael.

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‘Rize’ & Shine Singer-songwriter and political satirist Roy Zimmerman leaves no musical stone unturned in his new album, RiZe Up, which delves into folk, country, pop, Cajun and even Broadway styles to convey a message of peace and justice. In today’s ever-conf licted world of politics, Zimmerman uses laughter to break the ice and offers encouragement and hope in his music, which has been heard on HBO and elsewhere. Hear for yourself when Zimmerman comes to the North Bay for a night of music and comic relief on Thursday, Nov. 15, at the Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley.

8:30pm. $20. 415.383.9600.

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Former visual effects master Peg Hunter has recently found a voice for justice and community as a documentary photographer. Her work focuses on social issues, such as immigration, that affect families and communities across the country. This week, Hunter displays her collection of photos on those subjects in the new exhibit ‘Confronting Borders,’ that rallies for communal respect and human bonding. These powerful images are joined by exhibits from Bay Area artists Johanna Baruch and Igor Sazevich, and open with a reception on Saturday, Nov .17, at Gallery Route One, 11101 Hwy. 1, Point Reyes Station. 3pm.

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This weekend, the ranch hosts its Olio Nuovo Experience, where guests get to harvest and mill fresh olives into oil and enjoy a lunch that incorporates the freshly bottled goods. The event also features a walking tour of the ranch, oil tastings and informational insights into the world of olives on Saturday, Nov. 17, at McEvoy Ranch, 5935 Red Hill Road, Petaluma. 10am. $185. 866.617.6779.

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Merry Bombast Epic new Led Zeppelin photo book will crush your Christmas tree By Tom Gogola

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he question that’s inevitably asked is: Does the world really need another book on, by or about classic-rock legends Led Zeppelin?

Of course it does, and especially around the holidays (so someone else can buy it for us). The listening public’s craving for the virile, swinging bombast of Zep is insatiable. And in the 50th anniversary year of the founding of the band, there’s a fat new book of photos and backstage ephemera to commemorate the half-century mark, simply called Led Zeppelin, by Led Zeppelin.

It’s the first official membersanctioned photo book about the band, and arrives on shelves about a decade removed from Zeppelin’s

outstanding 2007 reunion concert at the O2 club in London, which featured Jason Bonham filling in for the late drummer John Bonham.

There are plenty o’ pics from the well-regarded reunion show in a book that’s organized chronologically and roughed out around the band’s eight original studio albums and live album (The Song Remains the Same) that were issued from 1969 to 1979. Led Zeppelin spans the whole of the band’s career—from early shows in San Francisco to the current day.

There are plenty of backstage band shots, onstage band shots and lots of shots of giant crowds at epic rock festivals such as Knebworth. A 1970 snap of Bonzo wearing an ugly sweater and sitting behind a small

drum kit is kind of precious. A welltraveled backstage shot of Jimmy Page chug-a-lugging a bottle of Jack Daniels is kind of gross.

One curiosity about Led Zeppelin is that the book is short on documentation of the first Led Zeppelin reunion, the 1985 Live Aid concert universally declared to be horrible, or at least by Rolling Stone magazine. That’s the same Rolling Stone which declared, upon the release of Led Zeppelin I in 1969, that Jimmy Page was a writer of “weak unimaginative songs and the Zeppelin album suffers from his having produced it and written most of it.”

It would have been cool to see that rather imbecilic review also be a part of Led Zeppelin, which is reminiscent of those big Taschen art books that

come out of Germany (the publisher is a British concern called Reel Art Press), and is indeed as heavy as a lead balloon and as big as the Hindenberg. It will take up most of the space under my Christmas tree this year—and may in fact topple it.

The book’s getting good press in the lead-up to 2018’s season of consumer chaos—may “Black Dog” be your spirit guide on Black Friday this year. As its members prepare to ride the stairway to heaven, the AARP magazine recently threw some positive press to the book as it noted the band remains the third best-selling rock outfit in history, after the Beatles and the Eagles. The charts bear it out: every time Zeppelin reissue their catalogue—most recently with the 2014–15 remasters—the offering goes gold or platinum, at least in Norway.

At 400 pages, the book will leave longtime fans and newcomers to the band alike with a clear sense of the outsized debauchery and musical genius that the quartet brought to bear over a decade when they indeed ruled rock and roll with a hammer borrowed from the Gods (along with numerous purloined riffs from black American bluesmen—but they’ve at least paid those dues).

The roster of shutterbugs whose work peppers Led Zeppelin includes the likes of Bob Gruen, Ross Halfin, Eddie Kramer and many others, and the generous smatterings of ephemera include backstage passes, vintage ticket stubs, a photo of the 7-inch of “Rock and Roll,” and a few letters and memos from Atlantic Records, whose Ahmet Ertegun signed the band in 1968. One letter was written by the band following the death of John Bonham from alcoholism, in 1980, letting the world know that they would not, could not, continue without the animal ferocity of Bonzo, rock’s greatest drummer.

The photos, though not all of them, are annotated with descriptions and histories provided

by Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones, in the back of the book. There are also fullpage quotations in the basically unreadable “Zep font” from Plant, Jones and Page peppered throughout. The annotations make for some pretty interesting reading, though the gist of the textual conceit in Led Zeppelin is a song that rides the same theme of maximum self-regard throughout— regardless of which living member is making the claim: We were a pretty »20 goddamned great band, huh?

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Although most of us welcome the holiday season, the month of November, with the end of daylight savings time, means we are entering the dark time of the year.

We know the risk factors for developing prediabetes, and although not everyone who fits into these categories will develop the disease, they have been shown to be strong indicators:

November is also National Diabetes Month, and it’s a perfect opportunity to shine some light in these darker days with some good news about prediabetes. Affecting 86 million US adults, prediabetes is a condition in which blood sugar levels are higher than normal but not high enough to be called type 2 diabetes.

• Being overweight • Being over age 45 • Your parent, brother or sister has type 2 diabetes • You are physically inactive • You are African American, Hispanic/ Latino, American Indian, Pacific Islander, Southeast Asian American.

• You had gestational diabetes (diabetes during pregnancy) or had a baby weighing more than nine pounds at birth.

Here’s the good news. Research shows that prediabetes is largely preventable and reversible, without medications or other high risk interventions. Plus, some low risk medications, when added to lifestyle changes, can further reduce A1c for pre-diabetics who have not quite reached goal. More than 50% of patients who have prediabetes can significantly decrease their progress toward type 2 diabetes with two important and achievable changes in lifestyle.

• Lose just 7% of your body weight (for example, 15 pounds if you weigh 200 pounds) • Engage in moderate exercise (such as brisk walking) 30 minutes a day, five days a week.

Prediabetes is typically a silent disease, with no distinct outward symptoms. Your body’s cells, meanwhile, are not responding as well to the amount of insulin your pancreas is producing; your pancreas then has to produce more insulin to keep blood glucose levels normal but is having a hard time keeping up. Blood sugar levels rise, eventually leading to a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes.

More good news. If you think you may have or be at risk for prediabetes, there are many resources to help. The best place to start is with your physician. One of the first things he or she will do is to order some form of blood glucose testing. Blood glucose tests are either random or fasting tests in which you can’t eat or drink anything but water for eight hours before your test. An A1C test, which tests your blood sugar average over a three to four month period, does not require you to fast before the test.

If your doctor has ordered an A1C test, here’s how he or she will interpret the results.

Below 5.7 percent, normal 5.7 to 6.4 percent, prediabetes 6.5 percent or higher, diabetes The results will help your doctor to make recommendations for diabetes self-management and make a plan to continue monitoring your blood glucose levels and track your progress.

A diagnosis of prediabetes or type 2 diabetes may come as a surprise or even a shock to some individuals. Because of our western culture, however, especially with our high levels of inactivity and our tendency to overeat and choose not-so-healthy foods, people who have developed prediabetes are not in the minority. In 2015, 30.3 million Americans, or 9.4% of the population, had diabetes.

More recent data shows the percentage at 12.4%. In 2015, 84.1 million Americans age 18 and older had prediabetes with recent data showing 35-40% with the condition.

This raises the incidence of diabetes or prediabetes in the population to almost 50%!

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That Robert Plant is a pretty great singer, huh?

Geek Loves In the gaming scene this holiday season, the Nintendo Switch is still the hot property to have. While most of the console’s current releases are older games, the ability to play them anywhere remains a big draw. Blizzard’s Diablo 3 is now six years old, but remains the pinnacle of dungeoncrawling, hack-’n’-slash gaming, while critical darling Undertale brings its engaging storyline, lovable characters and unique RPG gameplay to a Nintendo console for the first time. Oldschool fans will want to check out Grim Fandango, the classic point-and-click adventure game in the land of the dead.

The perfect gift for gaming friends is Nintendo’s latest killer app, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, to be released on Dec. 7. This mascot fighting series, famous for including video-game characters from across Nintendo’s vast library, promises an upgrade both in content and playability, and features a roster of 72 characters, drawn some of the most famous games in history.

OK, now let’s talk about comic books. Grant Morrison, legendary writer of such classics as Justice League, Animal Man and All-Star Superman, has returned to writing a monthly ongoing comic for the first time in years with ‘The Green Lantern.’ Featuring the adventures of Hal Jordan, a member of the intergalactic police force called the Green Lantern Corps, the comic has Morrison’s trademark high concepts and bizarre happenings, balanced out by human drama.

The series just started, so now’s your chance to pick up the first issue for your prospective DC Comics fan. If they’re more fans of Marvel, however, pick up the first few issues of ‘SpiderGeddon,’ Marvel’s next big-event comic where Spider-Men from across the multiverse join different sides in an battle over Spider-Man’s very mortality, while in the background comes a menace that threatens to destroy them all. Eek, it’s Donald Trump in a cape!—Alex T. Randolph

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etaluma indie-folk outfit Trebuchet likes to spread musical cheer each winter by performing a special holiday-themed concert, “A Very Trebuchet Christmas,” that’s become a community tradition over the last four years.

Next month, “A Very Trebuchet Christmas” returns for another free, family-friendly and festive soirée on Dec. 15 at the Petaluma Woman’s Club.

The four members of the band, drummer Paul Haile, keyboardist Lauren Haile, bassist Navid Manoochehri and guitarist Eliott Whitehurst, are known in the North Bay scene for their often somber folk-rock melodies and emotional lyrics on albums like 2017’s Volte-Face, though they revel in the merriment of the holidays.

“Most of our songs are super-sad and it’s fun to just make the opposite sometimes, and Christmas is a good excuse for that,” says Lauren Haile. “For

me personally, I feel like people dismiss Christmas as adults, and I like to lean into the spirit of it.”

This year, Trebuchet has also put their joy to tape, recording a full-length holiday album, Spend Your Christmas With Us. Coming off of a recent remix and covers album, That’s What Friends Are For that featured local bands and artists reinterpreting Trebuchet songs, the new Christmas album finds the band performing eight original tunes and seven covers of classic songs like “Jingle Bells” and “Silent Night” that the group injects with their three and fourpart harmonies to great effect.

“When we first started doing Christmas music, we just did one song for fun,” says Whitehurst. “The idea of the Christmas show came about after we would go to Volpi’s [Restaurant in Petaluma] and do a sing-along.”

After that initial Christmas concert four years ago, the band received resounding joy from the community, and “A Very Trebuchet Christmas”

has grown each year. This year’s concert also features sets from local favorites like the Timothy O’Neil Band and boasts a massive holiday music sing-along that’s been a staple of the show since the beginning.

Copies of Spend Your Christmas With Us and sheet music of the album’s tracks will be available at the show.

“People don’t have a lot of opportunity to sing Christmas songs in any public capacity other than caroling, so this is a way for a big group of people of all ages to come together and celebrate,” says Paul Haile.

“I enjoy that it’s truly an all-ages family event,” says Manoochehri.

“People who have toddlers aren’t going to take them to a loud rock show. Well, this is like a quiet rock show about Christmas.”

‘A Very Trebuchet Christmas’ celebrates the season on Saturday, Dec. 15, at Petaluma Woman’s Club, 518 B St., Petaluma. 7pm.

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he Coen Brothers anthology The Ballad of Buster Scruggs portrays the frontier as a place of death so sudden and terrible that the word “ironic” is too fancy for it, with demises as swift as a dropped anvil in a Road Runner cartoon.

As filmmakers, the Coens often create equal and opposite reaction to film classics, spinning off of ideas they’re trying to top, honor or besmirch.

(This tribute to Westerns starts with a common prestige-movie beginning of the old days: a hand opening a leatherbound volume and turning the pages.)

But the half-dozen tales are closer to Ambrose Bierce than Louis L’Amour.

One of the briefest, “Near Algodones” with James Franco as an unlucky bandit, seems to be a riff on “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.”

The longest, “The Gal Who Got Rattled,” has moments as sincere as the Coens’ best film, True Grit.

This tale opens at a boarding house, where Alice (Zoe Kazan) spends her last night in civilization before

joining a wagon train on the Oregon Trail. Her companions are her useless brother and a yappy, troublemaking terrier named President Pierce.

Kazan is sweetly appealing in a sunbonnet during a slow, cautious romance with trail boss Billy Knapp (Bill Heck, courtly and gallant—the kind of cowboy you buy movie tickets to see). He dallies with the idea that he could settle down with her in the Willamette Valley, but then a war party of Indians show up. The brutally staged skirmish is worthy of the Randolph Scott era in Westerns.

In the title episode, the chummy, white-clad Buster Scruggs (Tim Blake Nelson) rides in, playing his guitar on horseback and warbling “Cool Water.”

This sunshiney rambler shows us his wanted poster, which gives his alias as “the Misanthrope.” We find out how he earned the name after greasy tavern polecats urge him at gunpoint to play a dead man’s hand, aces and eights in spades. “Things have a way of escalatin’,” he drawls. If the Coens’ Hail, Caesar! seemed like inside baseball, this

savage assault on the milk-drinking cowboys of yesterday delves even deeper into semi-forgotten movies.

One of the best of these tales is the finale, a straight-out tale of terror called “The Mortal Remains” that follows a party of five bouncing down a dark road in a stagecoach: a smelly, talkative trapper (Chelcie Ross), a philosophizing Frenchman (Saul Rubinek) and a haughty dame (Tyne Daly). Riding up top is a corpse sewn up in canvas, the property of other two passengers: one, a formidable Irishman (Brendan Gleeson); the other, a twinkling-eyed dandy named Thigpen played by an astonishing Jonjo O’Neill, who sets a claustrophobic mood that goes from hideo-comic to absolutely deadly. Asked if he’d known the deceased well, Thigpen smiles: “Yes— at the end of his life.”

Frontier humor: it always means the kind of joke on someone who’ll either die or who’ll wish he was dead.

‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ streams on Netflix starting Nov. 16.

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By Matthew Stafford

The Animation Show of Shows (NR) Beautiful Boy (R)

Bohemian Rhapsody (PG-13)

Friday, November 16–Thursday, November 22 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.

Anna Karenina: The Musical (2:05) Direct from Moscow, it’s a new musical version of Leo Tolstoy’s epic romance—complete with ice-skating.

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.

Bolshoi Ballet: La Sylphide (2:00) The acclaimed dance troupe presents Bournonville’s romantic fable of a young Scotsman ensorcelled by an ethereal winged creature.

Boy Erased (1:55) Tue story about a gay teenager forced to choose between losing his family and undergoing conversion therapy; Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman star.

Burn the Stage: The Movie (1:23) Catch the popular South Korean boy band in concert, backstage and in exclusive oneon-one interviews!

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.

Colette (1:51) Keira Knightley stars as the saucy pioneering feminist author of fin de siècle Paris.

Creed II (2:10) Adonis Creed and Rocky Balboa are back, facing another overwhelming opponent as well as their fraught shared history; Michael B. Jordan and Sly Stallone (and Dolph Lundgren!) star.

Exhibition Onscreen: Degas—Passion for Perfection (1:30) Take a behind-thescenes tour of the Fitzwilliam Museum’s acclaimed Degas exhibition and learn more about the great French impressionist painter.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crime of Grindelwald (2:14) Gellert, Newt and the rest of the J. K. Rowling Players are back and grappling with arcane matters of wizardly bloodlines; Jude Law is Albus Dumbledore.

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 Force (1:33) Sundance-winning documentary focuses on the Oakland Police Department’s struggles to reform itself as the Black Lives Matter movement takes hold across the country.

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!

The Girl in the Spider’s Web (1:57) Stieg Larsson’s ever-beleaguered computer hacker Lisbeth Salander returns for more violence, language and sexual content.

Green Book (2:10) An African-American classical pianist embarks on a dangerous

concert tour through the Kennedy-era South with a bouncer from the Bronx as his chauffeur; Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen star.

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

Instant Family (1:57) Newlyweds Rose Byrne and Mark Wahlberg get more than they bargained for when they set out to adopt a child and end up with three.

Inventing Tomorrow (1:44) Documentary follows six scientists from across the globe as they search for solutions to today’s most pressing environmental challenges.

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

Liz and the Blue Bird (1:30) Naoko Yamada anime about the troubled relationship between two high school girls, one an oboist, one a flautist.

Maria by Callas (1:53) Documentary tribute to the legendary diva examines her career and life through interviews, performance footage and never-before-seen home movies.

More than Funny (1:30) Rising comic Michael Jr. stars in a movie that’s part autobiography and part stand-up routine.

National Theatre London: The Madness of King George (3:40) Live from the Nottingham Playhouse it’s Alan Bennett’s epic history of the unbalanced George III and the plot to overthrow him.

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.

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.

A Private War (1:46) Rosamund Pike stars as real-life globetrotting war correspondent Marie Colvin in Matthew Heineman’s tribute to old-school journalism.

Prospect (1:40) Sci-fi thriller about father-anddaughter prospectors looking for gemstones on a remote and dangerous alien moon.

Ralph Breaks the Internet (1:54) The video-game bad guy and his sidekick Vanellope embark on a quest along the information superhighway, wreaking havoc as they go; Ed O’Neill and Gal Gadot vocalize.

Robin Hood (1:56) Everyone’s favorite socialist-anarchist outlaw is back, this time in the form of Taron Egerton; Eve Hewson and Jamie Foxx co-star as Maid Marian and Little John.

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.

Widows (2:08) Action-filled caper flick about four women paying off their late husbands’ criminal debts stars Viola Davis, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez and Robert Duvall; Steve McQueen directs.

Bolshoi Ballet: La Sylphide (PG) Boy Erased (R)

Burn the Stage: The Movie (NR) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (R) Castle in the Sky (PG) Colette (R) • Creed II (PG-13) • Exhibition Onscreen: Degas— Passion for Perfection (NR) Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (PG-13)

First Man (PG-13) The Force (NR) Free Solo (NR)

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The Girl in the Spider’s Web (R)

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Green Book (PG-13) The Grinch (PG)

Instant Family (PG-13)

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Inventing Tomorrow (NR)

Life and Nothing More (NR) Liz and the Blue Bird (PG) • Maria by Callas (PG)

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Lark: Sun 10:40; Mon 4:30; Thu 10, 8 Regency: Fri-Sat 11:25, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15; Sun-Mon 11:25, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30 Fairfax: Fri-Mon 1, 4, 6:10, 7, 9:25, 9:55; Tue 1, 4, 7, 9:55 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 6:45, 9:50; Sat-Sun 12:15, 3:30, 6:45, 9:50 Playhouse: Fri 3:15, 6:15, 9:10; Sat 12:15, 3:15, 6:15, 9:10; Sun 12:15, 3:15, 6:15; Mon 3:15, 6:15; Tue 3:15 Regency: Fri-Sat 12, 3:10, 6:10, 9:10; Sun-Mon 12, 3:10, 6:10 Rowland: Fri-Mon 10:50, 2, 7:20, 10:30 Lark: Sun 1 Fairfax: Fri-Tue 12:30, 3:35, 6:40, 9:45 Regency: Fri-Sat 11:10, 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10; Sun-Mon 11:10, 1:50, 4:40, 7:20 Sequoia: Fri 4:20, 7, 9:40; Sat 1:40, 4:20, 7, 9:40; Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7; MonWed 4:20, 7 Lark: Sat 7:30; Sun 3:30 Rafael: Fri 3:30, 5:45, 8; Sat-Sun 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8; Mon-Thu 5:45, 8 Regency: Mon-Tue 7 Lark: Fri noon, 6:30; Sun 5:20; Mon 12:15; Tue 10, 2; Wed 8:30 Northgate: Tue 7, 10:10; Wed-Thu 12:40, 3:50, 7, 10:10 Lark: Wed 6:30 Cinema: Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:45, 10:15; 3D showtime at 7 Fairfax: Fri-Tue 12:35, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 Northgate: Fri 12, 1, 3:10, 4:10, 6:20, 7:20, 9:30, 10:30, 3D showtimes at 11, 2:15, 5:30, 8:15; Sat-Sun 1, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30, 3D showtimes at 11, 2:15, 5:30, 8:15 Playhouse: Fri 3:30, 6:30, 9:30; Sat 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30; Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:30; Mon-Tue 3:30, 6:30 Rowland: Fri-Sat 10, 10:40, 1:10, 1:50, 5, 7:30, 10:50, midnight, 3D showtimes at 4:20, 8:10; Sun-Mon 10, 10:40, 1:10, 1:50, 5, 7:30, 10:40, 3D showtimes at 4:20, 8:10 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 6:30; Sat-Sun 12, 6:30 Lark: Mon 7 Rafael: Fri 4, 6:15, 8:30; Sat-Sun 1:45, 4, 6:15, 8:30; Mon 8:30; Tue-Thu 6:15, 8:30 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 7:15, 10; Sat-Sun 11, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10 Rowland: Fri-Mon 10:10, 1, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Regency: Tue 7; Wed-Thu 10:35, 1:30, 4:25, 7:20 Fairfax: Fri-Tue 12, 12:50, 2:20, 3:20, 4:40, 7, 9:20 Playhouse: Fri 4:30, 7:15, 9:30; Sat 12, 2:15, 4:30, 7:15, 9:30; Sun 12, 2:15, 4:30, 7:15; Mon-Tue 4:30, 7:15 Rowland: Fri-Mon 10:20, 11:10, 12:40, 1:40, 3, 4:30, 5:20, 7:40, 10:10 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 7:30, 10:15; Sat-Sun 11:05, 2, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Northgate: Fri-Sun 11, 2, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Rowland: Fri-Mon 10:30, 1:20, 4:10, 7, 10 Rafael: Fri noon (free admission; RSVP at Eventbrite.com; WaterInsights founder Sahithi Pingali in person) Rafael: Sat-Sun 11:30 Lark: Sat 5:30 Rafael: Fri 3:40, 6, 8:20; Sat-Sun 1:20, 3:40, 6, 8:20; Mon 6; TueThu 6, 8:20

National Theatre London: The Madness of King George (PG-13) Lark: Tue 6:30 The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (PG) Rowland: Fri-Mon 11, 1:30, 4, 6:30, 9, 11:30 The Old Man & the Gun (PG-13) Regency: Fri-Sat 12:15, 2:40, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10; Sun-Mon 12:15, 2:40, 5:15, 7:40 Pick of the Litter (NR) Lark: Fri 10:15, 4:30; Sat 3:45; Tue 12:15; Wed 2; Thu 2:20, 6:20 A Private War (R) Regency: Fri-Sat 11, 1:40, 4:30, 7:05, 9:50; Sun 11, 1:40, 4:30, 7:05; Mon 11, 1:40, 4:30, 7:10 Lark: Fri 2:20, 8:50; Sat 9:15; Mon 10:15; Tue 4:10; Wed noon • Prospect (R) Fairfax: Tue 6, 8:45 Northgate: Tue 7:05, 9:55, 3D showtimes • Ralph Breaks the Internet (PG) at 6, 8:45; Wed-Thu 10:30, 11:30, 1:30, 4:30, 5:30, 7:30, 10:20, 3D showtimes at 2:30, 8:30 Playhouse: Tue 6 Rowland: Tue 6, 8:45, 3D showtime at 11:30pm; Wed 10:30, 1:20, 7, 10, 3D showtime at 4:10 • Robin Hood (PG-13) Northgate: Mon 7:15; Tue 7:10, 10; Wed-Thu 11, 1:55, 4:45, 7:35, 10:25 Widows (R) Fairfax: Fri-Tue 12:50, 3:50, 6:55, 9:50 Northgate: Fri 4:20, 7:25, 10:30 Wings of Desire (PG-13) Lark: Sat 10:10; Sun 7:40; Wed 3:40 We have omitted some of the movie summaries and times for those that have been playing for multiple weeks.

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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David Templeton

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Chris Schloemp tries to keeps the jolly elf alive in ‘Polar Bears.’

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hen after 16 years the Sun and Bohemian’s theater reviewer David Templeton hung up his critic’s hat, his stated purpose was to turn his full attention to other pursuits: artistic, journalistic, theatrical and otherwise. Since then, he continues to write for the papers and took a featured role in Left Edge Theatre’s pole-dancing extravaganza The Naked Truth.

An “otherwise” pursuit for Templeton would be directing, and he’s about to do just that with his holiday-themed oneman show Polar Bears, opening Nov. 30 at San Rafael’s Belrose Theater.

Templeton describes Polar Bears as “a heartwarming holiday tragedy.”

Say again? “I wrote it,” Templeton says, “because I’ve read scads of stories about Christmas and families and Santa Claus, but never have I read any story about that unique passage

of childhood, and parenthood, that is the moment that kids stop believing, and the ways their parents help or hinder that rite of passage.”

It’s an autobiographical tale of an average father who finds himself in a bit over his head one holiday season and goes to increasingly outlandish lengths to keep his kids’ belief in Santa alive.

It seems his own faith in Santa was disrupted when Templeton was four years old, and he’s hell-bent on making sure that doesn’t happen to his kids.

Polar Bears had two successful productions in Sonoma County with Templeton under the direction of Sheri Lee Miller. For the Marin production, Templeton takes over the directing reins and has cast actor Chris Schloemp in the role of David Templeton. Sound strange? “I’m actually not thinking of it as Chris playing me,” Templeton says.

“He’s playing a character named David, who did some things I did, but I told

him from the beginning to think of David as a fictional character.”

What’s it like for an actor to be directed by his “character”? “Being directed by the guy you’re performing is a little intimidating,” Schloemp says, “but also very rewarding, in that there are always those nagging questions you want to ask. Here I get to ask them at every rehearsal.”

So, in a season full of Nutcrackers and Christmas Carols, where does Polar Bears fit in? “I think anyone who loves Christmas stories but has grown tired of the same old cloying, overly sentimental holiday stories will appreciate it,” Templeton says.“That was the intention, and based on audience reactions in the past, I think we’ve succeeded.”

Actors Basement presents ‘Polar Bears,’ running Nov. 30–Dec. 15 at the Belrose, 1415 Fifth Ave., San Rafael.

Friday–Saturday, 7:30pm; $20–$25.

707.338.6013. thebelrose.com.

Flores, 301 Corte Madera Town Center, Corte Madera. 415.500.5145.

Cortemadera.floressf.com.

Common Meal

The pretty-darn-scary-when-seen-upclose Dungeness crab is in the news and on the menu.

DINING

Chiclets and Niblets Flores brings the flava’ By Tanya Henry

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ew things bring back memories of my childhood visits to Baja and Mexico more vividly than Chiclets. It was south of the border where I first encountered mini boxes that contained one or two squares of the brightly colored chewing gum. I was enamored. At Corte Madera Town Center’s newest restaurant, Flores, a large bowl of the multicolored treats are offered up like books of signature matches, or after-dinner mints.

This is the second location for Flores (the first is on Union Street in San Francisco) and though open less than a month, the lively space

has transformed the longtime and former PF Chang’s into a convivial, bustling eatery with indoor and outdoor seating, a banquet room and a massive bar. Gray cinder-blocks and woven basket–like light fixtures ignited more memories of Mexico, and though the spacious room still needs warming up, the food and the service have hit their stride.

Consistency for restaurants is everything. By the looks of it, Flores’ favorites (including the citrusroasted and fried pork shoulder carnitas and chile rellenos stuffed with spinach, mushrooms and cheese) are every bit as good as the flagship’s take on these dishes.

But it’s the appetizers that excited me the most on a recent visit— especially the bowl of ceviche mixto campechano, which brimmed with spicy, marinated fish, shrimp and squid. A smoke-tinged sauce of chiles and tomatoes made for an exquisite base to showcase the fresh seafood.

Likewise, two generous tostadas de cangrejo featured house-made crispy tortillas piled high with a mixture of Dungeness crab, pickled onions and lettuce. The crab takes center stage in this tasty starter.

And then there’s the tequila— over 50 options to choose among and almost as many mescals. A handful of speciality cocktails on

There’s something in the air. A bug of sorts. A smoke-driven sickness that seems to be afflicting everyone. Help is on the way, this Sunday, when the Commonweal (480 Mesa Road, Bolinas) offers a forum and feast on the uses of food as medicine, “with an emphasis on anti-inflammatory, blood sugar stabilizing foods, and an understanding of anti-oxidative, longevity-supporting and anticancer foods.” A chef demonstration will be provided by Anna O’Malley, and there’s a potluck lunch in the Commonweal’s garden. The event’s being put on by the Natura Institute of Ecology & Medicine.

Attendees are invited to bring gardening gloves and stick around for a bit of garden-tending after the event. Tickets are $40–$50, and the event runs from 10am to 1pm; garden-tending is scheduled from 2pm to 4pm. naturainstitute.org/ ground-of-wellbeing.

Grateful Crabs There will be Dungeness crabs for Thanksgiving this year, even as the California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced last week that the commercial Dungeness season has been delayed in waters north of Bodega Bay. The reason is yet again the appearance of high levels of domoic acid in crabs caught above the Bodega line. The commercial season for Dungeness in waters from the Bodega Head State Marine Reserve to the Mexican border will open at 12:01am on Nov. 15. Crabbers will be busily setting their gear in the 18-hour window that precedes the season opener, on the 14th. Domoic acid is a neurotoxin produced by a marine algae that flourishes in warm ocean waters. The ocean waters are warming, the sky is filled with smoke, the president is a nightmare—but we’re grateful for that big ol’ crab with all the trimmings this year.—Tom Gogola

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the drinks menu utilize everything from chocolate and allspice to passion fruit and mole bitters.

The De Flore margarita combines mescal, curacao, lime and orange in just the right amounts.

Flores is a good fit for the retailheavy Corte Madera Town Center.

Soon-to-be-weary holiday shoppers will now have a refuge to refuel with a margarita, a taco—and a brightly colored piece of gum.

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Calendar Concerts MARIN Evan & the Live Oaks Project Amplifi hosts the rowdy Oakland Americana outfit for a four-night residency in West Marin. Nov 15-18. Free to $10.

Smiley’s Schooner Saloon, 41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas. 415.868.1311.

Hiroya Tsukamoto Composer and singer-songwriter from Kyoto, Japan, presents a blend of folk, jazz and world music. Nov 18, 4pm. $20-$25.

Old St Hilary’s Landmark, 201 Esperanza, Tiburon. 415.435.1853.

Super Jelly The Send It Foundation hosts a benefit jam with George Porter Jr, Jennifer Hartswick and others. Nov 20, 8:30pm. $75. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.3850.

Victoria George Northern California country rocker plays an album-release party for her new LP, “Victoria George and the High Lonesome.” Nov 15, 8pm. $20-$25. Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael.

415.524.2773.

SONOMA Mary Flower One of the world’s finest purveyors of traditional blues marries the genre with touches of ragtime, folk and jazz. Nov 16, 8pm. $20-$23. Sebastopol Community Center Annex, 425 Morris St, Sebastopol. 707.823.1511.

Matisyahu Weekend of acoustic performances is a rare opportunity to see the innovative reggae and jamband artist unplugged. Nov 16-17, 9pm. $60-$75. The Reel Fish Shop & Grill, 401 Grove St, Sonoma. 707.343.0044.

My Foolish Heart Award-winning soprano Carolyn Bacon sings Gershwin, Bernstein and more in a one-night-only cabaret. Nov 18, 7:30pm. $25. Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. 707.763.8920.

The Righteous Brothers Blue-eyed soul pioneer Bill Medley is joined by Bucky Heard singing the duo’s biggest hits. Nov 18, 7pm. $49-$69. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.546.3600.

NAPA Chris Isaak Wickedly talented crooner is back in Napa for his 2018 Holiday Tour. Nov 17, 8pm. $80-$115. Uptown Theatre, 1350 Third St, Napa. 707.259.0123.

Evening of Wine & Song Enjoy music by the Napa High Chamber Choir, a silent auction, appetizers by Kitchen Door and Hall wines. Nov 17, 6pm. $60. Hall Winery, 401 St Helena Hwy S, St Helena. 707.967.2620.

Phosphorescent Songwriter Matthew Houck’s longrunning band mixes ragged country and bittersweet gospel. Nov 18, 8pm. $25.

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

707.880.2300.

Clubs & Venues Angelico Hall Nov 16, Dominican Chorale 60th Anniversary Concert. Dominican University, 50 Acacia Ave, San Rafael. 415.457.4440.

Fenix Nov 15, the Bobby Young Project. Nov 16, Freddy Clarke & Wobbly World. Nov 17, Carmen Jones’ 50 Birthday. Nov 18, Shana Dinha. 919 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.813.5600.

George’s Nightclub Nov 17, DJ Alex. 842 Fourth St, San Rafael.

415.226.0262.

HopMonk Novato Nov 15, Dry Ice Queen and Sound Wave.

Nov 16, Joyride and Shred Zeppelin. Nov 17, Chick Jagger and Stung. 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 415.892.6200.

Iron Springs Pub & Brewery Nov 14, Jen Rund. 765 Center Blvd, Fairfax.

415.485.1005.

L’Appart Resto Nov 15, Todos Santos. 636 San Anselmo Ave, San Anselmo. 415.256.9884.

Marin Country Mart Nov 16, 5:30pm, Friday Night Jazz with Susan Sutton. Nov 18, 12:30pm, Folkish Festival with Misner & Smith. 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur.

415.461.5700.

19 Broadway Nightclub Nov 15, KoolWhip with Book of Birds.

Nov 16, the Legends Dance Party with DJC and DJ Spooky. Nov 17, Crossroads music school concert. Nov 18, Wound Up Rooster.

17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 415.459.1091.

No Name Bar Nov 15, Michael LaMacchia Band. Nov 16, Michael Aragon Quartet. Nov 17, Chris Saunders Band. Nov 18, Sebastian West and friends. Nov 19, Kimrea & the Dreamdogs. Nov 21, Felsen. 757 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 415.332.1392.

Osher Marin JCC Nov 17, “Sing the Beatles” with the Quarry Persons. 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael.

415.444.8000.

Osteria Divino Nov 14, Nathan Swedlow Trio. Nov 15, Passion Habanera. Nov 16, Nathan Bickhart Trio. Nov 17, Ian McArdle Trio.

Nov 18, Brian Moran Trio. Nov 20, Noah Frank Trio. Nov 21, Jonathan Poretz. 37 Caledonia St, Sausalito. 415.331.9355.

Panama Hotel Restaurant Nov 14, Michelle Lambert. Nov 15,

Deborah Winters. Nov 20, Wanda Stafford. Nov 21, Arthur Javier. 4 Bayview St, San Rafael. 415.457.3993.

Papermill Creek Saloon Nov 16, Fairfax Social Club. Nov 17, El Radio Fantastique. Nov 18, Highway One with Kevin Meade. 1 Castro, Forest Knolls.

415.488.9235.

Peri’s Silver Dollar Nov 15, John Courage Trio. Nov 16, Poison Ivy Variety Show. Nov 17, Junk Parlor.

Nov 18, Fog Holler. 29 Broadway, Fairfax.

415.459.9910.

Rancho Nicasio Nov 16, the Beer Scouts. Nov 17, the Original Rancho All-Stars with Dallis Craft. Nov 18, 4pm, Todos Santos. 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 Nov 15, Toque Tercero flamenco show.

Nov 16, Pride & Joy. Nov 17, Julio Bravo & Orquestra Salsabor. Nov 18, 4pm, Mazacote. 305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito.

415.331.2899.

Station House Cafe Nov 18, 5pm, Ninth Ward Millionaires.

11180 State Route 1, Pt Reyes Station.

415.663.1515.

Sweetwater Music Hall Nov 15, the Soul Travelers. Nov 16, 6 and 9pm, Foreverland. Nov 17, Corduroy and Alice in the Garden. Nov 18, 2pm, Rock of Ages. Nov 19, Lukas Nelson and friends.

Sold-out. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley.

415.388.3850.

Terrapin Crossroads Nov 16, Phil Lesh and friends. Nov 17, Andy Coe Band with Scott Law. Nov 18, Grahame Lesh Band. Nov 19, Grateful Monday. Nov 20, Three on the Tree & One on the Drum. Nov 21, Los Gardeners. 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael. 415.524.2773.

Throckmorton Theatre Nov 15, Roy Zimmerman’s RiZe Up. Nov 17, the Quitters with Stevie Coyle and Glenn Houston. Nov 21, 12pm, Jose Lopez and Heidi Wilcox. 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.

Trek Winery Nov 17, Chime Travelers. 1026 Machin Ave, Novato. 415.899.9883.

Art Openings Bay Model Visitor Center Nov 20-Jan 26, “The Sausalito Renaissance,” exhibit tells the story of the birth of mid-century modern art in Sausalito. Reception, Nov 20. 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 415.332.3871.

Gallery Route One Nov 16-Dec 23, “Confronting Borders,” photographer Peg Hunter captures

community and common ground, with painters Johanna Baruch and Igor Sazevich also exhibiting. Reception, Nov 17 at 3pm.

11101 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station. Wed-Mon, 11 to 5. 415.663.1347.

MarinMOCA Nov 17-Dec 23, “Memory & Perception,” an exhibit that reveals how artists interpret the world around and within them. Reception, Nov 17 at 4:30pm. 500 Palm Dr, Novato.

Wed-Fri, 11 to 4; Sat-Sun, 11 to 5. 415.506.0137.

Comedy Sandra Bernhard Acclaimed comedian and actress takes the stage as part of her “Sandemonium” tour. Nov 16-17, 7 and 9pm. $42 and up.

Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa.

707.880.2300.

Dave Nihill The winner of this year’s San Francisco International Comedy Competition headlines a standup showcase. Nov 17, 8pm. $20. Trek Winery, 1026 Machin Ave, Novato. 415.899.9883.

Team Trivia Contest Jeopardy style questions, songs and visuals hosted by comedian Clark Peterson.

Nov 16, 6:45pm. $3. The Club at McInnis Park, 350 Smith Ranch Rd, San Rafael.

415.492.1800.

Tuesday Night Live See standup comedians Stephen Furey, Michael Menendez, Shanti Charan and others. Nov 20, 8pm. $17-$27. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

415.383.9600.

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 18. Museum of the American Indian, 2200 Novato Blvd, Novato. 415.897.4064.

Thrive Alive Join the community in an interactive program that improves brain wellness and increases longevity through socialization, music and moving. Wed, Nov 21, 1pm. $10-$25. St Columba’s Episcopal Church, 12835 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Inverness.

415.669.1039.

Under the Stars Outdoor evening of art, live music, performance, storytelling, cinema and hot cocoa. Nov 16, 6:30pm. $15. Headlands Center for the Arts, 944 Fort Barry, Sausalito. 415.331.2787.

Field Trips Give Thanks to Food Family Farm Day Engage in life on the ranch with a

Music Owl Wars Look and listen for the owls that call Muir Woods home in a 5-mile dusk hike.

Reservations required. Nov 17, 3pm. Free with admission. Muir Woods Visitor Center, 1 Muir Woods Rd, Mill Valley. 415.388.2596.

discussion about incarceration criminal justice reform with human rights attorney Jessica Jackson Sloan and social justice advocate Watani Stiner. Nov 18, 4pm.

Free. Mill Valley Community Church & Tamalpais Hall, 8 Olive St, Mill Valley.

415.388.5540.

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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.

Inventing Tomorrow Documentary follows six young scientists as they tackle complex environmental issues, with discussion to follow.f Nov 16, 12pm. Free. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.454.1222.

San Anselmo: A Walk in Time Travel back in time on a visual tour of downtown San Anselmo with historian Dick Miner. Nov 17, 11am. San Anselmo Library, 110 Tunstead Ave, San Anselmo.

415.258.4656.

The Last Film Filmmaker Alex Cox presents a restored version of the 1971 film directed by Dennis Hopper. Nov 15, 7pm. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael.

415.454.1222.

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.

Souls of the Vermilion Sea Documentary focuses on the struggle to save the world’s most endangered marine mammal, the vaquita. Nov 15, 6pm. Bay Conference Center, 3152 Paradise Dr, Tiburon. 415.338.3543.

Warren Miller’s Face of Winter Annual winter sports adventure film screens.

Nov 17, 8pm. $19. Marin Center Veterans Memorial Auditorium, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. 415.473.6800.

Food & Drink Beaujolais Nouveau Celebrating the first wine of the harvest all day with special menu items and pairings.

Nov 15. Left Bank Brasserie, 507 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur. 415.927.3331.

Lectures Environmental Forum of Marin Congressman Jared Huffman and award-winning Bay Area authors Arlie Hochschild and Mark Hertsgaard offer a lively evening of discussion. Nov 19, 7pm.

Corte Madera Community Center, 498 Tamalpais Dr, Corte Madera.

Is There Life After Death?

Amy Call speaks about a near-death experience and its effects on her life and consciousness. Nov 16, 7:30pm.

Unity in Marin, 600 Palm Dr, Novato.

415.475.5000.

Mass Incarceration in America “Under the Redwoods” presents a

William J Perry Talk Former U.S. Secretary of Defense speaks about his illustrious career and his book, “My Journey At The Nuclear Brink.” Nov 15, 1pm. Free. Outdoor Art Club, 1 W Blithedale Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.2582.

Readings Book Passage Nov 14, 7pm,“Lady in Ermine” with Donna DiGiuseppe. Nov 17, 4pm,“Mostly White” with Alison Hart. Nov 17, 7pm,“The ECOlogical Calendar” with Chris Hardman. Nov 18, 12pm, “Undaunted” with Jackie Speier. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera 415.927.0960.

Book Passage By-the-Bay Nov 14, 6pm, “Marinship” with Eric Torney. Nov 15, 5:30pm, “Family Matters” with Yvonne Postelle. Nov 16, 6pm, “In Harmony With the Tao” with Francis Pring-Mill. 100 Bay St, Sausalito 415.339.1300.

Marin Art & Garden Center Nov 14, 6pm, “California Field Atlas” with Obi Kaufman. 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross 415.455.5260.

Guitarist Hiroya Tsukamoto plays original hybrid-folk at Old St. Hilary’s Landmark in Tiburon on Nov. 18. See Concerts, p26.

$15-$27. Barn Theatre, Marin Art and Garden Center, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross. 415.456.9555.

provincial Russian life. Through Nov 18.

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

Shrek the Musical Santa Rosa Junior College theater arts department presents the play based on the Oscar-winning film. Nov 16-Dec 2. Maria Carrillo High School, 6975 Montecito Blvd, Santa Rosa. 707.527.4307.

The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley New holiday classic that revisits Jane Austen’s world from “Pride & Prejudice” makes its world premiere. Nov 15-Dec 9. $10-$52. Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.5208.

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

707.708.8604.

The Spy Who Killed Me Get a Clue Productions hosts an interactive and humorous murder-mystery dinner theater experience. Sat, Nov 17, 7pm. $68 (includes meal). Charlie’s Restaurant, Windsor Golf Club, 1320 19th Hole Dr, Windsor. getaclueproductions.com.

The Odd Couple Ross Valley Players put on one of Neil Simon’s finest comedies. Nov 15-Dec 16.

Uncle Vanya Birdbath Theatres presents a new, surreal look at Chekhov’s classic tale of

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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 November 19th. 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 Especially with the holidays approaching, this safe, supportive/ exploratory on-going group has been extremely helpful… some say “life-changing!” The GROUP FOR MOTHERLESS DAUGHTERS, Women who have lost their mothers through death, illness (including mental illness/narcissism, etc.), separation or abandonment in childhood, adolescence, or adulthood meets alternate Wednesdays, 6:30 – 8:00 PM in Kentfield. Women address relevant issues in their lives including loss and grief, relationships, trust (self and others), family of origin, work, parenting (motherless mothers), self-care, and much more. Women gain acknowledgement, validation, and ways in which they’ve coped through difficult times. Contact: Colleen Russell, LMFT, CGP, herself a motherless daughter, who’s developed and facilitated this group since 1997. Phone: 415-785-3513; Email: crussell@ colleenrussellmft.com; website: http://www.colleenrussellmft.com. Individual, Couple, Family, Group Sessions and Workshops also offered.

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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

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PublicNotices 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) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2018-145670. The following individual(s) are doing business: MARIN SPEECH WORKS, 131 CAMINO ALTO SUITE E-3, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: RENEE TIMARCO MS, CCC, SLP, 820 LOVELL AVE, 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 OCTOBER 30, 2018. (Publication Dates: November 7, 14, 21, 28 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2018-145581. The following individual(s) are doing business: ARIGATOU JAPANESE FOOD TO GO, 2046 FOURTH ST, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: TAKUJI ISIZAKI, 118 BAYO VISTA WAY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901, HISAKO ISHIZAKI, 118 BAYO VISTA WAY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901.

This business is being conducted by A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP. 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: November 7, 14, 21, 28 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 145650. The following individual(s) are doing business: KLA ENTERPRISE, 72 BAHAMA REEF, NOVATO, CA 94949: KELLEIGH LYNN ALDRIDGE, 72 BAHAMA REEF, NOVATO, CA 94949.

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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 26, 2018. (Publication Dates: November 7, 14, 21, 28 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 145680. The following individual(s) are doing business: THACKREY & CO., 240 OVERLOOK ROAD, BOLINAS, CA 94924: SEAN THACKREY, 240 OVERLOOK ROAD, BOLINAS, CA 94924. 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 NOVEMBER 2, 2018. (Publication Dates: November 7, 14, 21, 28 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT— File No: 145691. The following individual(s) are doing business: CALEX CONSTRUCTION, 28 PHILLIPS DR., APT. 31, SAUSALITIO, CA 94965: SERGEY NOSACH, 28 PHILLIPS DR., APT. 31, SAUSALITIO, 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 NOVEMBER 5, 2018. (Publication Dates: November 7, 14, 21, 28 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 145701. The following individual(s) are doing business: THE POWDER ROOM BRIDGET EDWARDS, 546 MAGNOLIA AVE, LARKSPUR, CA 94939: BRIDGET EDWARDS, 14838 ECHO RIDGE DR NC, NEVADA CITY, CA 95959.

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 NOVEMBER 7, 2018. (Publication Dates: November 7, 14, 21, 28 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 145698. The following individual(s) are doing business: CHAPMAN LAW GROUP, A.P.C., 950 NORTHGATE DR., STE 307, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: CHAPMAN LAW GROUP, A.P.C, 950 NORTHGATE DR., STE 307, 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 NOVEMBER 6, 2018. (Publication Dates: November 7, 14, 21, 28 of 2018) OTHER NOTICES 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 WONGSTOMPANATO 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) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 1803890 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS 1. Petitioner (name of each): MARY ANN GRILLER, has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: MARY ANN GRILLER to Proposed Name: MARY ANN SCIALLO GRILLER 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: 1/4/2019, Time: 9:00am, Dept: 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 30, 2018 Roy O. Chernus Judge of the Superior Court JAMES M. KIM Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By E. CHAIS, Deputy (November 7, 14, 21, 28 and December 5 of 2018) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 1803837 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL

INTERESTED PERSONS 1.

Petitioner (name of each): Carolyn Elizabeth Peyser, has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Carolyn Elizabeth Peyser to Proposed Name: Saskia Anand Abheeti 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: 12/13/2018, 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: OCT 25, 2018 PAUL M. HAAKENSON Judge of the Superior Court James M Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By E. Chais, Deputy (November 14, 21, 28 and December 5 of 2018) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: RANDALL GREGORY TOM also known as RANDALL G. TOM NO.: PR 1800372 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: RANDALL GREGORY TOM also known as RANDALL G. TOM A Petition for~Probate~has been filed by: WALTER TOM in the Superior Court of California, County of Marin.

The Petition for~Probate~requests that: WALTER TOM 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: 12/17/2018, Time: 9:00AM, Dept.: J, Room: Address of court: 3501 Civic Center Drive, PO Box 4988, San Rafael, CA 949134988. 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: ROBERT I. SIMON, 45 BELDEN PLACE, 2ND FLOOR SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94104 (415) 434-3608 FILED: NOV 6, 2018 James M. Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By: E. CHAIS (November 14, 21, 28 2018)

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I’m a 28-year-old guy with an amazing girlfriend. She gets upset and sometimes cries, and I never know how to soothe her. I’m afraid to say the wrong thing, so I don’t say anything at all. Of course, she then gets more upset, thinking I don’t care. But I do care, and I want her to know.—Tongue-Tied

A:

When things get emotionally fraught in a relationship, it’s tempting to wish for a simpler existence—like being a dog so all that’s expected of you is to not pee on the rug, and to sit still while the girlfriend dresses you up as a bee.

In fact, if you’re like a lot of men, a female partner’s tears are liquid kryptonite, causing you to pretty much lose consciousness while appearing to be totally awake and ambulatory. Women may not entirely get this—or the extent of it— because of some sex differences in emotion processing.

Generally speaking, putting it in collegiate terms, the female mind majors in psychology; the male mind majors in physics—though individual male and female minds vary, of course. Research by psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen finds that women tend to be the “empathizers” of the species, driven (from childhood on) to identify others’ “emotions and thoughts, and to respond to these with an appropriate emotion.” Men, on the other hand, tend to be “systematizers”—driven to understand the inner workings of the blender.

The good news is, there’s a secret—even for the most emotionally inarticulate man— for comforting an upset woman: you don’t have to be Shakespeare; just don’t go all shutupspeare. For example, last week, when I was bummed about something—to the point of tears—I was on the phone with my boyfriend, and he said the sweetest thing: “I’m bad at this” (meaning knowing what to say) “but I want to help you feel better.”

This made me feel loved—and better. Also, it was kind of sexy.

As an emergency measure—if even the words about not having the right words fail you—you can communicate your desire to comfort her with a hug, hair stroking and other loving gestures. Again, just be sure to make some kind of effort to soothe her, lest she add feeling emotionally abandoned by her boyfriend to her boo-hoo list.

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My husband’s parents asked to be in the delivery room while I’m giving birth, and he said yes—without asking me. Now he doesn’t want to tell them otherwise, which is weird because he isn’t usually lacking in assertiveness. I get along fine with my in-laws, but I don’t want them in there with me.—Horrified Mom-to-Be

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There are those men who understand what it’s like to give birth—those who’ve passed a kidney stone the size of a decorative lawn boulder out a slim fleshy tube normally meant for urine.

You are not doing a one-woman show in the delivery room; you are the lead character in a medical procedure, one that can involve pooping while pushing, horror movie-esque blood spatter and impressive strings of screamed profanity (interspersed with tender maternal utterances like “GET THIS DEMON SPAWN OUT OF ME!”).

Sociologist Erving Goffman pointed out that we all engage in constant “impression management,” editing our behavior to control how others see us. (Choosing how much of our selves to make public is a big part of this.) Goffman explains that losing control—not being able to present our desired image—is deeply disturbing to us, leading to feelings of shame and compensatory strategies to clean up the damage.

(Never looking your father-in-law in the eye again sound good to you?)

You say your husband generally isn’t lacking in assertiveness. Chances are, in the wake of his saying yes instead of “Gotta check with my wife,” he would feel bad about going back on it. (Maybe part of his impression management is coming off as a man of his word.)

But back on his word he must go, because it’s your choice whether you make your private parts public parts. Not surprisingly, you feel you put your best foot forward with your feet in shoes under the dinner table—not in stirrups while the in-laws go sightseeing with the iPhone up the, um, Grand Canyon: “Look, Ralph . . . there’s a little fist coming out! Quick!

Get a shot for our Instagram!”

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Astrology

For the week of November 14

ARIES (March 21–April 19) Interior designer

Dorothy Draper said she wished there were a single word that meant “exciting, frightfully important, irreplaceable, deeply satisfying, basic, and thrilling, all at once.” I wonder if such a word exists in the Chamicuro language spoken by a few Peruvians or the Sarsi tongue spoken by the Tsuu T’ina tribe in Alberta, Canada. In any case, I’m pleased to report that for the next few weeks, many of you Aries people will embody and express that rich blend of qualities. I have coined a new word to capture it: tremblissimo.

TAURUS (April 20–May 20) According to

my astrological intuition, you’re entering a phase when you will derive special benefit from these five observations by poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. 1.

“There are truths that you can only say after having won the right to say them.” 2. “True realism consists in revealing the surprising things that habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.” 3. “What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.” 4. “You should always talk well about yourself ! The word spreads around, and in the end, no one remembers where it started.” 5. “We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.”

GEMINI (May 21–June 20) Adolescence used to be defined as a phase that lasted from ages 13 to 19.

But scientists writing in the journal The Lancet say that in modern culture, the current span is from ages 10 to 24. Puberty comes earlier now, in part because of shifts in eating habits and exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals. At the same time, people hold on to their youth longer because they wait a while before diving into events associated with the initiation into adulthood, like getting married, finishing education and having children. Even if you’re well past 24, Gemini, I suggest you revisit and reignite your juvenile stage in the coming weeks. You need to reconnect with your wild innocence.

You’ll benefit from immersing yourself in memories of coming of age. Be 17 or 18 again, but this time armed with all you have learned since.

CANCER (June 21–July 22) Cancerian

baseball pitcher Satchel Paige had a colorful career characterized by creative showmanship. On some occasions, he commanded his infielders to sit down and loll on the grass behind him, whereupon he struck out three batters in a row—ensuring no balls were hit to the spots vacated by his teammates. Paige’s success came in part because of his wide variety of tricky pitches, described by author Buck O’Neil as “the bat-dodger, the two-hump blooper, the fourday creeper, the dipsy-do, the Little Tom, the Long Tom, the bee ball, the wobbly ball, the hurry-up ball and the nothin’ ball.” I bring this to your attention, Cancerian, because now is an excellent time for you to amp up your charisma and use all your tricky pitches.

LEO (July 23–August 22) “Everyone tells a story

about themselves inside their own head,” writes fantasy author Patrick Rothfuss. “Always. All the time.

We build ourselves out of that story.” So what’s your story, Leo? The imminent future will be an excellent time to get clear about the dramatic narrative you weave. Be especially alert for demoralizing elements in your tale that may not in fact be true, and that therefore you should purge. I think you’ll be able to draw on extra willpower and creative flair if you make an effort to reframe the story you tell yourself so that it’s more accurate and uplifting.

VIRGO (August 23–September 22) In describing a man she fell in love with, author Elizabeth Gilbert wrote that he was both “catnip and kryptonite to me.” If you’ve spent time around cats, you understand that catnip can be irresistible to them. As for kryptonite: it’s the one substance that weakens the fictional superhero Superman. Is there anything in your life that resembles Gilbert’s paramour? A place or situation or activity or person that’s both catnip and kryptonite? I suspect you now have more ability than usual to neutralize its obsessive and debilitating effects on you. That could empower you to make a good decision about the relationship you’ll have with it in the future.

By Rob Brezsny

LIBRA (September 23–October 22) “I had to learn very early not to limit myself due to others’ limited imaginations,” testifies Libran astronaut Mae Jemison. She adds, “I have learned these days never to limit anyone else due to my own limited imagination.” Are those projects on your radar, Libra?

I hope so. You now have extra power to resist being shrunk or hobbled by others’ images of you. You also have extra power to help your friends and loved ones grow and thrive as you expand your images of them.

SCORPIO (October 23–November 21) The

United States is the world’s top exporter of food.

In second place is the Netherlands, which has 0.4 percent as much land as the U.S. How do Dutch farmers accomplish this miraculous feat? In part because of their massive greenhouses, which occupy vast areas of non-urbanized space. Another key factor is their unprecedented productivity, which dovetails with a commitment to maximum sustainability. For instance, they produce 20 tons of potatoes per acre, compared with the global average of nine. And they do it using less water and pesticides. In my long-term outlook for you Scorpios, I see you as having a metaphorical similarity to Dutch farmers. During the next 12 months, you have the potential to make huge impacts with your focused and efficient efforts.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22– December 21) “The world is like a dropped pie most of the time,” writes author Elizabeth Gilbert.

“Don’t kill yourself trying to put it back together.

Just grab a fork and eat some of it off the floor.

Then carry on.” From what I can tell about the state of your life, Sagittarius, the metaphorical pie has indeed fallen onto the metaphorical floor. But it hasn’t been there so long that it has spoiled. And the floor is fairly clean, so the pie won’t make you sick if you eat it. My advice is to sit down on the floor and eat as much as you want. Then carry on.

CAPRICORN (December 22–January 19)

Novelist Anita Desai writes, “Isn’t it strange how life won’t flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forward in a kind of flood?” I bring this to your attention, Capricorn, because I suspect that the locks she refers to will soon open for you. Events may not exactly flow like a flood, but I’m guessing they will at least surge and billow and gush. That could turn out to be nerve-racking and strenuous, or else fun and interesting. Which way it goes will depend on your receptivity to transformation.

AQUARIUS (January 20–February 18) “Miracles come to those who risk defeat in seeking them,” writes author Mark Helprin. “They come to those who have exhausted themselves completely in a struggle to accomplish the impossible.” Those descriptions could fit you well in the coming weeks, but with one caveat. You’ll have no need to take on the melodramatic, almost desperate mood Helprin seems to imply is essential. Just the opposite, in fact.

Yes, risk defeat and be willing to exhaust yourself in the struggle to accomplish the impossible; but do so in a spirit of exuberance, motivated by the urge to play.

PISCES (February 19–March 20) “Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear,” warned author G. K. Chesterton. “It annoys them very much.” My teachers have offered me related advice. Don’t ask the gods to intervene, they say, until you have done all you can through your own efforts.

Furthermore, don’t ask the gods for help unless you are prepared to accept their help if it’s different from what you thought it should be. I bring these considerations to your attention, Pisces, because you currently meet all these requirements. So I say go right ahead and seek the gods’ input and assistance.

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