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Letters Powerage

My argument: for those seniors on a fixed income, or those living in hospital beds or needing to refrigerate their meds, it’s tough to have a power outage for two days (“Paradise Glossed,” Nov. 21).

PG&E said they wouldn’t reimburse groceries this year if they decided to turn off the power! And for folks who are ill, who had money to go buy a generator or fuel to start it or the ability to turn it on? What about those with a well? Their power outage means they can’t hose down their roof or barn?

Catherine Renee Gumina Via Facebook PG&E should not be turning off our power every time it gets windy to try and solve their transformers causing fires!

J. Kirk Feiereisen Via Facebook They have to. I know it seems rough, but when the winds get going and the dry trees snap . . . PG&E is being sued for the deaths last year, and will face more for Paradise. Gotta turn off the ignition factor.

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Twenty-five years ago, when I wrote False Hope: The Politics of Illusion in the Clinton Era, I didn’t expect that the Democratic Party would still be mired in Clintonism two and a half decades later. Such approaches to politics continue to haunt the party and the country.

The last two Democratic presidencies largely involved talking progressive while serving Wall Street and the militaryindustrial complex. The differences in personalities, and behavior, of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama diverted attention from their political similarities. In office, both men rarely fought for progressive principles, and routinely undermined them.

Clinton brought the country NAFTA, welfare “reform” that was an assault on low-income women and

families, telecommunications “reform” that turned far more airwaves over to media conglomerates, the repeal of Glass-Steagall regulation of banks that led to the 2007–08 financial meltdown, and huge increases in mass incarceration.

Obama bailed out big banks while letting underwater homeowners sink, oversaw the launching of more missiles and bombs than his predecessor George W. Bush, ramped up a war on whistleblowers, turned mass surveillance and the shredding of the Fourth Amendment into bipartisan precedent and boosted corporate privatization of public education.

It wasn’t only a congressional majority that Democrats quickly lost and never regained under Obama. By the time he left the White House, nearly a thousand seats in state legislatures had been lost to Democrats during the Obama years.

Thanks to grassroots activism and revulsion toward President Trump, Democrats won back the House last month and recaptured one-third of the state legislative seats that had been lost while Obama led the party and the nation.

During the last two years, progressive momentum has exerted major pressure against the kind of corporatist policies that Clinton set into cement atop the Democratic Party. But today, the party’s congressional leaders, like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, are still in a mode loosely replicating Clinton’s sleight-of-tongue formulas that have proved so profitable for corporate America, while economic inequality has skyrocketed.

As 2018 nears its end, the top of the Democratic Party is looking to continue Clintonism without the Clintons. Or maybe Clintonism with the Clintons. A real possibility is now emerging that Hillary Clinton will run for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination—but whether she runs or not, Clintonism is a political blight with huge staying power. It can be overcome only if and when people at the grassroots effectively insist on moving the Democratic Party in a genuinely progressive direction.

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won all nine Academy Awards for which it was nominated, including Best Director, Bernardo Bertolucci (who died a few weeks ago). What’s the title of the film?

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Saturday Night Live’s most frequent musical guest, who performed nine times between 1975 and 2018, is what 77-year-old singer-songwriter?

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the world’s second largest country in area. What are these places?

10 Identify these words that contain the letters “s-p-a,” in that order: a. Language of Iberia b. To enter someone’s space without permission c. Home of heavenly bodies BONUS QUESTION: Five country names end with the letter l: one in Europe, one in South America, one in Africa and two in Asia. What are they?

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Heroes &Zeroes

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Puff, puff, puff away on your vape juices and menthol cigarettes now, because beginning Jan. 1, specialty tobacco stores in unincorporated Marin won’t sell flavored tobacco products anymore. Even better, a ban for all sellers in the area goes into effect on July 1. The county follows the lead of Sausalito, Fairfax and Novato, as they previously legislated against the merchandise. Damning data shows that vaping more than doubled in the past two years among Marin’s seventh, ninth and 11th graders. “After decades of progress on the reduction of tobacco use, we’re losing ground,” says Matt Willis, Marin County’s public health officer. Most cigarette users become addicted at a young age, and they started by using the flavored stuff, which introduces them to addictive nicotine. What’s the allure for kids?

Remember, big tobacco is a genius marketer. Yummy flavors, including cotton candy, buttered popcorn and bubble gum, mask the harshness of regular tobacco. Kudos to the Marin County Board of Supervisors for the new prohibitions.

Who does Marin County Sheriff Robert Doyle think he’s fooling? Not us. He announced last week that he will no longer alert U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to inmate release dates, unless the person has been charged with or convicted of a serious crime. We previously blasted Doyle on his policy of sharing inmate info with ICE, and at first glance, it appears he’s changed his icy position on the matter. Nope. It’s all smoke and mirrors. You’ll still find release dates for jail inmates on the sheriff’s office public booking log webpage. Gee, is that info invisible to ICE? No. In addition, if ICE calls for information, Doyle’s office will provide it. What changed? In essence, nothing. Sure, the sheriff is no longer contacting ICE directly with an inmate’s release date; however, he makes it readily available online. Good try, Doyle, but we’re not buying that you’ve seen the light. We wish you’d remember that you work for Marin, not ICE. Got a Hero or a Zero? Please send submissions to nikki_silverstein@yahoo.com. Toss roses, hurl stones with more Heroes and Zeros at ›› pacificsun.com

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orth Bay Sen. Mike McGuire has teamed up with Sen. Jim Beall, D-San Jose, in the first big affordable-housing legislative foray of the 2018–19 Sacramento session, after state voters overwhelming supported the Proposition 1 affordable-housing measure this year.

The bill, SB 5, opens a window

into a sort of Redevelopment 2.0, as it sets out to replace the controversial funding mechanism for affordable housing that was lost when the state dissolved its redevelopment agencies in 2012.

Those agencies were, reports McGuire in a press release, the largest single source of funding for affordable housing in the state.

They were also a source of

widespread abuse and were a major drag on the state budget, which led to their demise in 2012. There were more than 400 redevelopment agencies (RDAs) around the state at the time of their dissolution under Gov. Jerry Brown’s leadership, including the Marin County Redevelopment Agency. The county has one of the »8 priciest real estate markets

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Following the Great Recession, the Budget Act of 2011 eliminated the RDAs in order to protect funding for core public services at the local level—schools being high on that list—according to the state Department of Finance. Numerous legislative attempts have been made since 2012 to revive, incrementally or in whole, the redevelopment agencies, which were engaged in funding economic-development efforts and making improvements to low-income areas.

The problem, as Steven Greenhut reported in a 2017 piece at CalWatchdog.com, was that the RDAs, which were originally devised in the 1940s to fight urban blight in the state, were assailed by critics “for their use of eminent domain on behalf of private companies; for running up debt without a vote; for the subsidies they ladled out to developers; and for financing bigbox stores and auto malls rather than helping inner cities spruce up.”

Greenhut noted that the RDAs have been slowly creeping back into California policy, given that the redevelopment industry, “the developers, lobbyists, city officials and low-income housing advocates, never really went away,” he writes.

The legislators say their bill is focused on seniors, nurses, teachers, veterans

and all low- and middle-income Californians, and it’s got the support of developers, lobbyists and low-income housing advocates (city officials can’t be far behind). Housing California, the AFL-CIO, the League of California Cities and the California Conference of Carpenters all sent letters in support of the McGuire-Beall bill.

Senate Bill 5 got some heavyweight wind in its sail from California voters as well, who overwhelmingly passed Proposition 1 this year, which put the affordable-housing crisis front and center as a statewide priority.

Governor-elect Gavin Newsom signaled support for re-upping the RDAs in his campaign this year, and Beall’s office says SB 5 aligns with Newsom’s campaign priorities.

Redevelopment 2.0 emphasizes the affordable-housing component over economic development, which lawmakers say will be a hedge against the sorts of corruptions of the RDA model that led to big-box build-outs under the old redevelopment regime. And the bill includes a threshold requirement that at least 50 percent of funds sent to localities are used for the development of affordable housing.

Further and more politically dodgy additions to the bill are forthcoming, says Beall’s office, that will set out to establish and enforce the percentage of housing units that must be affordable, versus those

that are market-based, in any given development that would utilize Redevelopment 2.0 funds.

Besides the affordable-housing emphasis, the lawmakers say their bill will also support transit-oriented development and build resilience from sea-level rise, along with providing rigorous state oversight and, according to the release, “taxpayer protections to ensure that affordable housing construction occurs quickly and local governments are accountable for the expenditure of funds.”

One major difference between the political landscape in 2011 and today is the advent of the permanent fire season in California, with all the destruction and chaos that has entailed. The state has watched thousands of homes and buildings go up in flames in the past couple of years and has left firescarred places like Paradise in need of some major redevelopment of their own to deal with.

Does Redevelopment 2.0 grapple with the New Abnormal? Beall spokesman Rodney Foo says that “while the bill does not specifically designate fire-stricken areas per se, it does provide funding of up to $2 billion that can definitely help cities rebuild. More importantly, the bill has a guarantee set-aside of 20 percent for rural communities, where there are many homeowners who were hit by wildfires.” Y

N EW S B R I E F Frugoli Wins It took a while, but the razor-close race for a Marin County district attorney to replace Ed Berberian has at last been called, and Lori Frugoli will take office as the county’s new DA. Her opponent, Anna Pletcher, sent out a gracious note this week recapping her campaign for the post as she recounted a hard-fought race.

Frugoli is a former police officer with the Marin County Sheriff ’s Office, and Pletcher is a former lawyer with the U.S. Department of Justice. In her campaign, Pletcher emphasized some issues of a more progressively oriented bent, some directed at police accountability. She advocated for Marin County to bring its rape-kit exams back to the county, emphasized

environment crimes and also called on Marin County Sheriff Robert Doyle to refrain from cooperating with agents of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.

It’s a bittersweet moment for Pletcher. Even as she conceded the race to Frugoli, she wrote to supporters that her campaign had already made a difference in the county, noting Doyle’s announcement last weekend that he would indeed end the MCSO policy of proactively cooperating with ICE agents.

Frugoli edged out Pletcher in a midterm election notable in Marin for participation by residents. As Richard Halstead over at the Marin Independent Journal recently reported, turnout in the county was 82.44 percent, a Marin record for midterms.

It was a rough and hard-fought

campaign filled with accusations of lies, lies, and more lies, but Pletcher offered a gracious note of good luck to Frugoli in her message to supporters conceding the election this week. This paper endorsed Pletcher over Frugoli—the IJ went with Frugoli—but said in our endorsement that both women were qualified for the post. They both pledged, for example, to work to proactively expunge low-level pot charges from the county books, and that’s music to our ears.

Our concern was whether Frugoli— who was widely endorsed by law enforcement agencies locally and around the state, and by Doyle—would be the best choice for district attorney if faced with investigations of police wrongdoing in the county. The jury’s out on that concern—and we wish Frugoli the best as well.—Tom Gogola

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Monday, December 10, 2018 is the final day to pay the 2018-2019 first installment of property taxes without penalty. Property taxes are due now and property owners are encouraged to pay early to avoid late penalties.

WAYS TO PAY: • Postmark by Monday, December 10, 2018 • Deliver to Tax Collector by 5:00 p.m., Monday, December 10, 2018 • Pay online or by phone by 11:59 p.m. on Monday, December 10, 2018 Property owners who have not received a tax bill, especially those who recently purchased real estate, should contact the Tax Collector’s office. Non-receipt of a tax bill does not excuse a property owner from paying taxes by the December 10, 2018 deadline.

MARIN COUNTY TAX COLLECTOR Civic Center-Room 202 P.O. Box 4220 San Rafael, CA 94913-4220 Regular Office Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Monday - Friday Extended Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Monday, December 10, 2018 • Pay online with Assessor Parcel Number: marincounty.org/taxbillonline • Pay by phone with Tax Bill Number: 1-800-985-7277 • There is no service fee when paying with an e-check • There is a credit/debit card service fee of 2.35% percent with a minimum fee of $1.49 • The service fee for credit/debit card transactions is not retained by the County, they are paid to the service provider Property Tax Postponement for Senior Citizens, Blind, or Disabled Persons The State Controller’s Office (SCO) will accept new PTP Applications until February 10, 2019. Late applications are accepted!

To be eligible for PTP, you must: • Be at least 62, or blind, or have a disability; • Own and occupy the home as your primary place of residence; • Have a total household income of $35,500 or less; and • Have at least 40% equity in the property.

Go to the SCO website at sco.ca.gov/ardtax_prop_tax_postponement.html for more information. If you have any questions, call 1-800-952-5661 or email postponement@sco.ca.gov For more information regarding property tax bills and payments, please visit marincounty.org/taxes, or call the Tax Collector at (415) 473-6133.

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The Rent Kept a-Rollin’ D.C. rail conference provides sobering perspective on SMART and affordable housing in North Bay By Thomas Broderick

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HE FUTURE IS RIDING ON METRO” Never had I ever read such a prescient message as the one stamped at the bottom of my rail-ticket receipt. It was Oct. 27, and I had just bought a SmarTrip card at the Metrorail’s Reagan Airport station in Washington, D.C., and was on my way to a big conference about the benefits and problems that ensue when a new commuter train comes to town.

I was in D.C. to report how the conference’s findings might intersect with the Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit system that’s been running up and down the North Bay for the past year, with lots of questions buzzing around about what it will mean for the region moving forward. In linking Santa Rosa with San Rafael,

can SMART be seen as an arbiter of what’s to come for a region crippled by an ongoing absence of affordable housing? Alas, yes.

I have a personal and professional affinity for train travel. I was, ten years ago, an intern at the Central Japan Railway Company (aka JR Central).

One of JR Central’s subsidiaries, Nippon Sharyo, performed the final assembly of SMART’s rolling stock at its Illinois plant. JR Central was hosting a reunion event in the nation’s capital for all former interns, and I was invited to the all-expensepaid junket. The event included a conference at K&L Gates—the law firm that represents JR Central domestically—followed by a reception at the swank St. Regis hotel.

I hopped on a plane to learn more

about how JR Central’s business might affect train travel moving forward for SMART—well, especially for millennial SMART riders of the scrappy freelancer variety, who can barely afford to live in the North Bay as it is, but who love to ride the train whenever possible.

There was the big takeaway from the Washington conference. For all the talk of “transit-oriented development” in the North Bay, for all the civic concern about affordable housing, workforce housing, tiny homes, rent control and etc., the research points in one direction when it comes to commuter trains: they drive up real-estate prices in regions where they’ve been built.

It’s no fault of the train systems, of course, and SMART faces its own

affordable-housing problem as a company in need of a reliable, and preferably local, workforce that it can retain.

“There are many instances of transit-oriented [development] nationwide that include affordable housing,” says SMART spokeswoman Jeanne Mariani-Belding via email.

“Those land-use issues typically rest with local jurisdictions. Businesses throughout the North Bay, including SMART, are feeling the effects of the lack of affordable housing and the challenges that creates in terms of hiring and retaining people.”

SMART has been rolling along for just over a year, offering lots of discounts and fairly priced monthly passes for commuters, and when I took my parents on the green

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How far through the roof do prices skyrocket? He exclaimed that the prices of commercial and residential real estate rose “from $5 a square foot, to $20 or $30 dollars a square foot.”

As he spoke, any idea of owning a home in the North Bay devolved from dim hope to cruel joke. And he just kept talking. Schlicting showed attendees before-and-after photos of western Washington, D.C., that illustrated the effects of what happened when the Metro line was extended. This was a part of town where you never wanted to get caught after dark, he reported, which now boasts high-density, high-rent apartment clusters over each station.

The buildings are typically 15 to 20 stories, and the clusters looked like their own mini cities.

Schlicting’s presentation evoked the regional mantra about high-density development in urban areas: the model could support the continuance of the regionally accepted wisdom of urban-growth boundaries—if North Bay residents are willing to accept a SMART corridor that’s dotted with tall apartment buildings at every train stop and that abandons any pretext that those buildings will be set aside for local workforce housing.

When it comes to passenger rail systems, Schlicting stressed that they are not built for the people who live in the region; they are built for people who are going to move their to pursue new economic opportunities.

Without attendant population growth, systems such as SMART can’t sustain themselves and risk becoming another Napa Wine Train.

Schlicting wasn’t alone with the words of warning. Every speaker’s message clashed with the current reality in Sonoma and Marin counties: new rail lines only make sense as long as local communities along the route invest heavily in affordable housing.

Until that day happens, SMART will remain a niche product.

Santa Rosa’s Press Democrat has already been reporting that one of SMART’s most significant challenges is that it appeals mainly to the “white and well-off.” Many of today’s riders choose to use SMART even though they could drive.

The conference broke up and we headed to the St. Regis’ James Monroe Room, where JR Central hosted a swanky shindig. I approached general manager Nakayama, and we talked a bit about the company’s rolling stock, its cars. How would the company deal with domestic orders for new cars now that Nippon Sharyo no longer operates a factory in the United States? He said the company would try to honor its previous price structure for open contracts.

His answer implied that prices had nowhere to go but up, but what else is new?

I assured Nakayama that Sonoma and Marin county residents appreciated that they had an

alternative to the jam-packed highway, high gas prices and road rage. We happily chatted about the beautiful Northern California scenery and how he or another JR Central manager travels here once or twice a year to check up on SMART. Keep on checking. New SMART train cars might be added to accommodate demand, and train tickets may get pricier in coming years.

And if the conference experts are right, the northern Sonoma County real estate market should boom when the train line is expanded north—for better and worse.

I asked SMART to weigh in on this irony: Even as the railroad struggles to retain its workforce—because of the high cost of living in the North Bay—rail experts maintain that the commuter system is itself driving up the cost of living here. The SMART response was to send links to its fare schedule and to note that the railroad does provide steep discounts to senior and student riders.

I’d suggest readers of lesser means start saving up for that $400,000 chicken-shack in affordable-for-now Cloverdale. And I’ll join with fellow millennials as we keep our fingers crossed for some SMART-adjacent affordable housing to emerge, somewhere along the gentrified line.

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Novato? Santa Rosa?

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machines this August, plenty of riders were traveling north to and from San Rafael, for work and fun.

Despite a few notable collisions involving pedestrians and trucks, the much-delayed SMART rollout has been a success, and a net positive for the region. But the success may also herald a less-than-desirable new challenge for North Bay residents. When the commuter rail comes to a region, the price of housing tends to go up, and then up some more. That’s a critical issue for a region that is struggling mightily to square up its housing scene to sync with the promise of a 21st-century SMART rail system that’s accessible and affordable to all.

It was a cold, blustery day in the nation’s capital that suggested a harsh winter was right around the corner.

The White House was a sad sight with all the extra security and barricades that extended 70 feet from the main wrought-iron fence, to say nothing of its occupant.

Circling back around to K&L Gates, I stepped into a conference room full of JR Central employees, former interns and my Japanese-American relations professor from Vanderbilt, James Auer.

He made it possible for students like me to participate in the internship. After a few minutes of greetings, we sat at our assigned seats to find materials detailing JR Central’s latest advancements in maglev technology, and the company’s impressive growth in the decade since I interned.

The first speaker was deputy general manager Rikuhei Daimon, who organized the reunion. Telling us that we would always be members of the JR Central family, he introduced Masahiro Nakayama, JR Central’s general manager in the United States.

Nakayama filled our heads with visions of the N700S Shinkansen, the train model that in the near future will connect Dallas and Houston in 90 high-speed minutes. Neat.

The most eye-opening talk—and the one that’s very relevant to North Bay residents—was given by rail researcher Mike Schlicting, a former JR Central intern and a current doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Schlicting discussed his research into the economic impact of reliable passenger rail on economically depressed and underdeveloped areas. The findings are clear, he said: when a city has access to fast and dependable rail transportation, rents and real estate prices go through the roof. Poorer residents are pushed out, replaced by urban professionals.

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Americana rockers the Black Lillies, from the Americana heart of Knoxville, perform Dec. 12 at HopMonk Tavern in Novato.

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Marin County’s public lands and Northern California’s national seashores shine in the documentary ‘Rebels with a Cause,’ which tells the story of how volunteers, ranchers, farmers, conservationists, politicians (from both parties) and others came together to preserve West Marin’s stunning scenery from overdevelopment.

This week, the city of Novato and community partners Environmental Forum of Marin, Marin Conservation League, and Sustainable Novato host a screening of the film with filmmakers Nancy Kelly and Kenji Yamamoto appearing in conversation on Thursday, Dec. 6, at Novato City Hall, 901 Sherman Ave., Novato. 6pm. Free. 415.899.8900.

Acclaimed musicians Patrick Ball, Lisa Lynne and Aryeh Frankfurter are all masters of the harp, and together they make up a legendary trio that share tales and music from Celtic legend and traditional folk stories.

This season, the trio performs a new holiday show, ‘A Winter Gift,’ that steps into a magical world of Irish and English literature with selections such as “A Child’s Christmas in Wales,” a chapter from The Wind in the Willows and more set to original pieces of music on Friday, Dec. 7, at the Community Church of Mill Valley, 8 Olive St., Mill Valley. 7pm. $10–$20.

415.388.5540.

Multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Brian Jackson is best known for his musical collaborations with poet, singer and author Gil Scott-Heron in the 1970s, crafting several acclaimed albums that still resonate with audiences.

Continuously active in music, Jackson tells the stories of how some of his and Scott-Heron’s best-loved works came to be in ‘Spider and Stick: American Griots,’ on tour now. Inspired by the ancient oral tradition of the griot, a traveling African troubadour, Jackson’s intimate show comes to the North Bay on Saturday, Dec. 8, at Fenix Supper Club, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael. 7:30pm. $25–$30. 415.813.5600.

Human rights activist and author John Prendergast has focused on peace in Africa for over 30 years and documents his efforts in books like the new ‘Congo Stories.’ Examining how the people and resources of the Democratic Republic of Congo have been used and abused for 500 years, the book combines photographs by Ryan Gosling (yes, that Ryan Gosling) and stories from young Congolese activists. Prendergast appears with researcher Fidel Bafilemba, author Dave Eggers and journalist Chouchou Namegabe to read from Congo Stories on Friday, Dec. 7, at Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 7pm. Free.

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SPOTLIGHT ON Bob Minkin

Mill Valley Bob Minkin’s rare photos of Marin music legends like Phil Lesh and Jerry Garcia see new light in ‘The Music Never Stopped.’

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Darkroom Star Longtime concert photographer celebrates Marin’s music scene By Charlie Swanson

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ob Minkin has always been a collector. Before he got into music, he collected comics, stamps, things like that. Once he fell for rock and roll as a teenager, he started collecting concerts.

“It was such an experience, and I wanted a souvenir for myself,” says Minkin, who developed a passion

for taking photos at live shows in his hometown of Brooklyn.

A certified Deadhead, Minkin first came to the Bay Area to photograph the Grateful Dead at Winterland in 1977. “Around that time, I was friends with the publisher of Relix magazine, based in New York—they covered that scene,” says Minkin.

“He started publishing my pictures

and paying me. I thought, there’s something to this, and I never stopped.”

For the last 40 years, Minkin— who would move to Marin with his family in 1990, after a decade of frequent visits to the area—has amassed a collection of live concert photos numbering in the hundreds of thousands. He shares the best of

the best from his time in the North Bay in a new book, The Music Never Stopped: Marin County’s Music Scene, that boasts over 500 never-beforeseen images, including performance shots and intimate backstage, offstage and at home photographs of over a hundred local musicians.

Highlights include a rare shot of the Jerry Garcia Band performing in Fairfax in 1981 (pictured) in a set that featured Dead bassist Phil Lesh joining Jerry onstage, a rare treat for JGB fans.

“It blew me away to see Jerry in this low-key setting,” says Minkin.

“When he came to New York, it was always a big deal, but here in Marin, it was like, ‘Oh, yeah, he’s playing in Fairfax, wanna go?’”

Covering the Marin music scene closely, Minkin says there was a brief lull in the late 2000s, after the original Sweetwater closed in Mill Valley, but since the opening of Terrapin and the new Sweetwater, the local scene is as strong as ever.

Minkin is currently the house photographer for the Sweetwater Music Hall as well as a prominent presence at Terrapin Crossroads and other venues, and he has established himself in the scene and gained access to stars like Mickey Hart, Bob Weir and others featured in the book.

Categorized by city and venue, The Music Never Stopped is a virtual concert road trip for Marin music lovers. “The idea was to honor the musical heritage of Marin, to honor the musicians, and to honor the fans,” Minkin says. “I’m a fan, too.”

Minkin’s book also includes several contributions from musicians like Steve Kimock and Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann, a forward from Phil Lesh and an introduction from Pete Sears—all of which add personal insights into the stories behind the shots.

Minkin also gives room in the book for the younger musicians coming up in the scene. “A new generation has picked it up and are moving it forward,” he says. “So truly the music never stopped, and, hopefully, it never will.”

Bob Minkin appears on Friday, Dec. 7, at the Depot Bookstore & Cafe, 87 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley.

7pm. Free. 415.383.2665.

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Gatekeeper Willem Dafoe goes to the heart of lucidity and madness in new van Gogh biopic by Richard von Busack

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upposedly there are 35 films about Vincent van Gogh. It’s a tribute to the depth and clearness of Willem Dafoe’s acting that the latest, At Eternity’s Gate, is as affecting as it is.

At Eternity’s Gate is director Julian Schnabel’s best film, giving a smallcamera approach to the drama, shot amid the medieval ruins and hills of the South of France. These landscapes are given a little digital toasting to make this fairest place on earth (except for Northern California, of course) look like van Gogh’s paintings, gilding the weeds, purpling the shadows and bringing out the bright orange stripes in the painter’s straw hat to match the accents in his self-portrait.

Dafoe is very pure here. The

rawboned face hides nothing, showing lucidity even in the torment of his madness. This film doesn’t poeticize the artist’s insanity, as per the complaints comedian Hannah Gadsby made about the received idea that van Gogh painted because he was mad, instead of despite it.

Schnabel even airs a conspiracy theory of how the artist died. True, he was persecuted. The greatgrandparents of the people who charge you to see van Gogh’s house signed a petition to get him out of Arles. But the vortex of the sadness is the abandonment by his friend Paul Gauguin (a calm, unflamboyant Oscar Isaac). Such an unfortunate friendship, between a man who needed love so desperately and a man who never really cared much about that kind of thing.

Schnabel has the good taste to black out the self-mutilation, but in the end, he corners his subject clinically with a pair of interrogations, one by the doctor Felix Rey (Vladimir Consigny), the other by a priest (Mads Mikkelsen). As a longtime fan of Emmanuelle Seigner ever since Bitter Moon, I enjoyed watching her measured friendliness as Mme. Ginoux as she chats with van Gogh about books, before he scares her off with his intensity.

The film could have used a bit less of Tatiana Lisovskaya’s soundtrack—a lot of piano with the hard-pedal leaned on; it clashes with At Eternity’s Gate’s successful attempt to give van Gogh an aura of silence and space.

‘At Eternity’s Gate’ opens Friday, Dec. 7, at the Smith Rafael Film Center.

At Eternity’s Gate (PG-13)

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Friday, December 7–Thursday, December 13 At Eternity’s Gate (1:51) Willem Dafoe stars as Vincent van Gogh in Julian Schnabel’s vivid, immersive look at the painter’s final years.

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: Don Quixote (2:55) The talented terpsichoreans of the Bolshoi interpret Cervantes’ legend of the wandering, befuddled, romantic knight.

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.

Die Walküre (4:50) The Royal Opera presents the second entry in Wagner’s Ring cycle with its gods, monsters, Siegmund, Sieglinde and the ever-rousing Ride of the Valkyries.

The Doors: Live at the Bowl ’68 (1:31) Catch the legendary rock band in their only complete filmed concert, gloriously remastered in Dolby surround sound.

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.

The Favourite (1:59) Snarky 18th-century period piece examines the balance-of-power relationship between frail Queen Anne, aide-de-camp Lady Sarah Churchill and wannabe royal Abigail Masham; Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone star.

The Front Runner (1:53) Hugh Jackman stars as Gary Hart, the telegenic Democratic senator whose 1988 presidential campaign was derailed by his extramarital affair with Donna Rice (Sara Paxton).

George Takei’s Allegiance on Broadway (2:30) Direct from New York, it’s Takei’s bittersweet musical about his family’s experiences in a WWII internment camp; Lea Salonga costars.

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 green-hued, 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.

Love Live! Sunshine!! (4:14) Highdefinition broadcast of superstar anime group Aqours’ fourth live concert at Japan’s Tokyo Dome; in Japanese without English subtitles.

Mirai (1:55) Ambitious Mamoru Hosoda anime about a four-year-old’s journey through time and space with his baby sister, a teenager from the future.

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

Mortal Engines (1:51) Dystopian fantasy flick about a future world in which London is an all-consuming city on wheels and only one young woman can stop it in its tracks.

National Theatre London: Antony and Cleopatra (3:30) Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo star as the ill-fated, empireclashing lovers in Shakespeare’s epic tragedy of passionate power politics.

Never-Ending Man (1:25) Documentary follows anime legend Hayao Miyazaki as he undertakes a new project—in CGI instead of his beloved hand-drawn animation.

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.

Once Upon a Deadpool (1:59) Wiseguy soldier of fortune Ryan Reynolds takes on supervillain Josh Brolin with lots of help from a squad of mutants; Leslie Uggams co-stars.

The Possession of Hannah Grace (1:25) A coroner working the graveyard shift suspects that a disfigured corpse is possessed by demons.

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.

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.

Served Like a Girl (1:43) Documentary focuses on female vets of Iraq and Afghanistan who’ve overcome injury, homelessness, abuse and PTSD through the Ms. Veteran America competition.

Shoplifters (2:01) Delicate Japanese drama about a family of petty thieves transformed by a homeless urchin.

Somm 3 (1:18) The third entry in the sommelier-centered series looks at the legendary 1976 Paris blind tasting when California’s upstart cabs outscored the vaunted French stuff.

The Winter’s Tale (2:55) London’s Globe Theatre presents Shakespeare’s sweeping romantic dramedy about a Sicilian king and a mysterious shepherd girl.

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Beautiful Boy (R)

Bohemian Rhapsody (PG-13)

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Bolshoi Ballet: Don Quixote (NR) Boy Erased (R) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (R) Creed II (PG-13)

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Die Walküre (NR) The Doors: Live at the Bowl ’68 (NR) Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (PG-13)

Rafael: Fri 3:15, 5:45, 8:15; Sat 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15; Mon-Thu 5:45, 8:15 Sequoia: Fri 4:35, 7:15, 9:55; Sat 1:05, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55; Sun 1:05, 4:35, 7:15; Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:15; Thu 4:35 Fairfax: Fri-Sat 1, 4, 7, 9:55; Sun-Wed 1, 4, 7 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 6:45, 9:50; Sat-Sun 12:15, 3:30, 6:45, 9:50 Northgate: FriTue 12:35, 3:55, 7:10, 10:20 Regency: Fri-Sat 11:10, 2:20, 5:30, 8:35; Sun-Wed 11:10, 2:20, 5:30; Thu 11:10, 2:20 Lark: Sun 1 Regency: Fri-Sat 11:15, 4:20, 9:30; Sun, Wed 11:15; Mon, Tue, Thu 11:15, 4:20 Rafael: Fri, Mon-Tue 8:30; Sat-Sun 1:15, 8:30; Wed-Thu 4:30 Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:10, 3:30, 6:30, 9:40; Sun-Wed 12:10, 3:30, 6:30 Northgate: Fri, Sun-Mon 11:10, 12:40, 2:15, 3:50, 5:25, 7, 8:35, 10:10; Sat 11:10, 2:15, 3:50, 5:25, 7, 8:35, 10:10; Tue 11:10, 12:40, 2:15, 3:50, 7, 10:10 Playhouse: Fri 3:30, 6:30, 9:30; Sat 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30; Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:30; MonWed 3:30, 6:30 Rafael: Sun noon Lark: Wed 7:30

Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:35, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50; Sun-Wed 12:35, 3:40, 6:45 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 6:30, 9:35; Sat-Sun 12, 3:15, 6:30, 9:35 Northgate: Fri-Tue 1, 7:20, 10:25; 3D showtime at 4:15 Regency: Fri-Sat 11, 12:20, 1:45, 3:10, 4:30, 5:55, 7:20, 8:50, • The Favourite (R) 10:10; Sun-Thu 11, 12:20, 1:45, 3:10, 4:30, 5:55, 7:20 Free Solo (NR) Rafael: Fri 4, 6:15, 8:45; Sat 1:30, 4, 6:15, 8:45; Sun 1:30, 6:15, 8:45; Mon-Tue 6:15, 8:45; Wed-Thu 8:45 The Front Runner (R) Regency: Fri-Sat 11:30, 4:50, 10:05; Sun-Thu 11:30, 4:50 Regency: Tue 7:30 • George Takei’s Allegiance (NR) Green Book (PG-13) Regency: Fri-Sat 12:35, 3:40, 6:55, 9:55; Sun-Wed 12:35, 3:40, 6:55; Thu 12:35, 3:40 The Grinch (PG) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12, 2:20, 4:40, 7, 9:20; Sun-Wed 12, 2:20, 4:40, 7 Northgate: Fri-Tue 12, 2:30, 5, 7:25, 9:50 Playhouse: Fri 4:30, 7, 9:15; Sat 12, 2:15, 4:30, 7, 9:15; Sun 12, 2:15, 4:30, 7; Mon-Wed 4:30, 7 The Hate U Give (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Tue 12:50, 4, 7:15, 10:25 Instant Family (PG-13) Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 7:15, 10:05; Sat-Sun 11, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:05 Northgate: Fri-Tue 10:55, 2, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Lark: Sun 4:20 • Love Live! Sunshine!! (NR) Mirai (PG) Northgate: Sat 12:55 Northgate: Thu 7; 3D showtime at 10 • Mortal Engines (PG-13) • National Theatre London: Antony and Cleopatra (NR) Lark: Sat 1 Regency: Thu 7:30 • Never-Ending Man (NR) The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (PG) Northgate: Fri-Tue 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 The Old Man & the Gun (PG-13) Regency: Fri-Sat, Mon 1:55, 7:05; Tue, Thu 1:55 Northgate: Tue 7, 10; Wed-Thu 10:50, 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:40 • Once Upon a Deadpool (PG-13) • The Possession of Hannah Grace (R) Northgate: Fri-Tue 10:35, 12:55, 3:20, 5:40, 8, 10:25 A Private War (R) Regency: Fri-Wed 2:10, 7:30; Thu 2:10 Ralph Breaks the Internet (PG) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:20, 3:15, 6:50, 9:35; Sun-Wed 12:20, 3:15, 6:50 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 7:30, 10:15; Sat-Sun 11:05, 1:50, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Northgate: Fri-Tue 10:50, 12:25, 1:45, 3:15, 4:35, 6:10, 7:30, 9, 10:20 Playhouse: Fri 3:45, 6:45, 9:25; Sat 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:25; Sun 12:45, 3:45, 6:45; MonWed 3:45, 6:45 Robin Hood (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Wed 11, 1:55, 4:45, 7:35, 10:30 Schindler’s List (R) Northgate: Fri-Tue 10:35, 2:45, 6:55 Lark: Tue noon • Served Like a Girl (NR) Rafael: Fri-Sun 3:30, 6; Mon-Thu 6 • Shoplifters (R) Rafael: Thu 7 (includes pre-screening wine tasting and post• Somm 3 (NR)

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Northgate: Fri-Tue 11:05, 2:25, 5:35, 8:50 Sequoia: Fri 3:45,

A Star Is Born (R) Tea with the Dames (NR) • White Christmas (PG) Widows (R)

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6:45, 9:45; Sat 1:30, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45; Sun 1:30, 3:45, 6:45; Mon-Wed 4, 7; Thu 4 Rafael: Fri-Sun 11:30 Regency: Sun, Wed 2, 7 Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:50, 6:55, 9:50; Sun-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:55 Northgate: Fri-Tue 12:30, 3:40, 7:05, 10:10

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& Friends 4:00 ⁄ No Cover Click’s Birthday Dec 8 Danny Party with The Hell Yeahs! 8:30 Sat

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or Marin audiences seeking live, holiday-themed entertainment, local theater companies are currently presenting an ecclesiastical musical and a one-man holiday reminiscence.

In 1985, writer-composer Dan Goggin adapted his line of greeting cards that featured nuns saying outrageous things into a cabaret show and then an off-Broadway musical.

That show, Nunsense, told the tale of the Little Sisters of Hoboken putting on a variety show to raise funds to bury the last of 52 nuns accidentally poisoned by the convent cook. That basic plot has sustained the Nunsense franchise over six sequels and three spinoffs.

The College of Marin presents Nuncrackers: The Nunsense Christmas Musical, the holiday version of the popular franchise. This time, the Sisters are broadcasting from a TV studio in

the basement of the convent where they host a cable-access show to raise funds for the Mount St. Helen’s School.

Under the imperious guidance of Sister Mary Regina (director Lisa Morse) and the assistance of Father Virgil Manly Trott (Izaak Heath), the Sisters and their parochial school students will sing, dance, tell groan-inducing jokes and perform a habit and tutu-clad version of The Nutcracker.

It’s a silly piece of holiday fluff, performed earnestly by the (mostly) youthful cast. It wouldn’t hurt to have an understanding of the tenets of Catholicism, but if you’ve seen Sister Act, you’re good to go.

In San Rafael, the Belrose is hosting David Templeton’s Polar Bears, an autobiographical piece about the lengths a father will go to keep his children happy. His own belief in Santa Claus obliterated at the tender

age of four, David (played by Chris Schloemp) is intent on seeing his children’s belief maintained until a reasonable age—a task that becomes increasingly difficult to maintain as his marriage ends, his ex-wife succumbs to cancer and his children grow older.

Not as somber as that sounds, it’s actually a rather sweet and humorous tale told well by Schloemp.

‘Nuncrackers’ runs through Dec. 9 at the College of Marin Studio Theatre, 835 College Ave., Kentfield. Thursday– Saturday, 7:30pm; Sunday, 2pm. $15–$30. 415.485.9385. pa.marin.edu.

‘Polar Bears’ runs through Dec. 15 at the Belrose, 1415 Fifth Ave., San Rafael.

Friday–Saturday, 7:30pm; $20–$25.

707.338.6013. thebelrose.com.

Tiburon Tidbits There are worse places to spend your surplus $12 million By Tom Gogola

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n online search for “Tiburon” and “infamous” unsurprisingly yields a bounty of entries devoted to nearby Alcatraz Island. But as I discovered recently, there are a number of other infamous indicators online that provide for a handy spotlight into this wealthy enclave along the Bay. One can’t get to Alcatraz directly from Tiburon, but stay at the Lodge at Tiburon and there’s a ferry that takes visitors across the shark-infested waters to Fisherman’s Wharf, where another ferry’s waiting for a trip to the prison,

whose most infamous inmate may well have been Al Capone.

Tiburon hasn’t produced felons on the order of a Capone, but as Socketsite reported in 2016, an “infamous Tiburon mansion” sold that year at a price-reduced $12 million. The Gilmartin Drive manse had been the site of not one, but two separate and distinct spasms of white-collar crime—in 1999 and again in 2007—which involved Ukrainians, diamonds, Chinese telecom, an FBI raid, and millions of stolen dollars.

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of the San Francisco Bay—and which drove an intense battle in town over a 2017 proposal by some residents to coax their neighbors into spending bazillions of dollars to pay PG&E to bury the power lines to improve the views (and perhaps stop a fire in its tracks?). Numerous not-bazillionaire opponents to the plan shared their public comments with the township, including one resident who lamented those “infamous” Tiburon zoning ordinances that are designed to protect, if not enhance the views at all cost!

You can see, however, why some folks want to bury the power lines and spend all their time gawking at unobstructed views of San Francisco bay. The firm Mahoney Architects recently posted a photo that’s a big hit on the luxe-home online circuit of gawkery. On its website, the firm brags cheekily of “our infamous Tiburon window seat” (pictured) as being part of a magazine spread at Houzz.com.

As anyone can plainly see, that bench is inspiring and peaceful and looks like the perfect place to take a nap after a huge meal at the Tiburon classic Don Antonio’s— which also gets not one, but two nods to the power of online infamy.

An online posting shared by the restaurant on its website celebrated Don Antonio’s staying power in a town with an “infamous attrition” rate for restaurants. And a Yelper howled with joy after a meal at Don Antonio’s about the Italian joint’s “infamous Bolognese.” Don Antonio’s has now joined my growing, if not infamous, list of must-eat-at Marin destinations— and which reminds me that Tiburon, besides translating into “shark,” also means “gluttony” in Spanish.

And there’s nothing like a long bike ride through the towns and hills of Marin County to counteract the sinful effects of gluttony on one’s mind and body—which is where the late Tiburon resident Robin Williams comes into this tale of infamy. Williams was an avid bicyclist in the county, and a 2014 remembrance after his suicide that ran in the Hollywood Reporter noted that Williams used to ride around Marin all the time on customized bikes, his “infamous body hair” providing a hilarious contrast to the shaved legs of other road cyclists. Y

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and Stick: American Griots” with Brian Jackson. 919 Fourth St, San Rafael.

415.813.5600.

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HopMonk Novato Dec 5, Tony Lucca and the Contenders.

Dec 7, Kevin Russell & Some Dangerous Friends with Twang Ditty. Dec 8, Illeagles.

Dec 12, the Black Lillies. 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 415.892.6200.

Donna De Lory Veteran vocalist presents “An Evening of Sacred Song & Devotional Pop Music” with Tom Finch and others. Dec 9, 7pm. $28-$35. Mill Valley Community Center, 180 Camino Alto, Mill Valley. 415.383.1370.

KITKA Vocal group’s “Wintersongs” holiday program includes sacred and secular pieces inspired by cosmic wonders and earthly rituals of the winter season. Dec 9, 5pm. $25-$35; kids $10. Osher Marin JCC, 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael. 415.444.8000.

Rainbow Girls Harmonic folk trio perform over four nights as part of Project Amplifi’s Artist Residency series. Dec 6-9. $5-$10. Smiley’s Schooner Saloon, 41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas.

415.868.1311.

SONOMA Tony Bennett The preeminent singer of the 20th and 21st centuries continues to be loved by audiences of all generations. Dec 11, 7:30pm. $89. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.546.3600.

The Slackers New York City ska revival kings play with reggae fusion band the Aggrolites and others. Dec 9, 8:30pm. $18. Mystic Theatre & Music Hall, 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. 707.775.6048.

We Rock for Tots Benefit Show Toys for Tots fundraiser and toy drop-off features Points North, Bill Decker Band and others. Dec 8, 7pm. $12-$15. The Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington St, Petaluma. 707.762.3565.

NAPA Bob James Trio Multi-Grammy Award winner has collaborated with many pop and jazz crossover artists over the past 50 years. Dec 7-8, 7 and 9pm. $39-$79. Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa. 707.880.2300.

Dweezil Zappa Ever-evolving guitarist and son of Frank Zappa plays choice cuts from his dad’s catalogue as part of a world tour. Dec 9, 8pm. $40-$70. Uptown Theatre, 1350 Third St, Napa. 707.259.0123.

Iron Springs Pub & Brewery Dec 5, Cubed. Dec 12, acoustic xmas with Lorin Rowan. 765 Center Blvd, Fairfax.

415.485.1005.

Key Tea Dec 7, Dirty Cello and the Rivertown Trio.

921 C St, San Rafael, 808.428.3233.

L’Appart Resto Dec 6, the Blue Rooster Combo. 636 San Anselmo Ave, San Anselmo. 415.256.9884.

Marin Center Showcase Theatre Dec 7-8, “Sounds of the Season” with Mayflower Chorus. 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. 415.499.6800.

Marin Center Veterans Memorial Auditorium Dec 11, 7pm, Marin Symphony Holiday Pops Concert. 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. 415.473.6800.

Marin Country Mart Dec 7, 5:30pm, Friday Night Jazz with Pamela Rose. Dec 9, 11am, Folkish Festival with the Jim Kweskin Quartet and the Rivertown Skiff lers. 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur.

415.461.5700.

Mill Valley Community Church & Tamalpais Hall Dec 7, 7pm, “A Winter Gift” with Celtic harpists Patrick Ball, Lisa Lynne & Aryeh Frankfurter. 8 Olive St, Mill Valley.

415.388.5540.

San Anselmo Library Dec 12, 12pm, fiddle and banjo concert with John Pederson of Amazing Grace Music. 110 Tunstead Ave, San Anselmo.

415.258.4656.

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

415.332.9922.

Sausalito Seahorse Dec 7, Bait and Switch Blues Band. Dec 8, Benefit for Camp fire victims with Dynamic Divas. Dec 9, 4pm, Avance. 305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito. 415.331.2899.

St Vincent’s Chapel Dec 8, “Holidays in Harmony” with Novato Music Association Chorus. 1 St Vincent’s Dr, San Rafael. novatomusicassociation-chorus.org.

Station House Cafe Dec 9, 5pm, Doug Adamz. 11180 State Route 1, Pt Reyes Station. 415.663.1515.

Sweetwater Music Hall Dec 5, Har Mar Superstar and Sabrina Ellis.

Dec 6 and Dec 8-9, Golden Gate Wingmen featuring John Kadlecik, Jeff Chimenti, Reed Mathis and Jay Lane. Dec 8, 10:30am, Mick Berry drum recital. Dec 9, 10:30am, Blue Bear Youth All Star Band Showcase.

Dec 11, Crossroads Music School Holiday Concert. Dec 12, A Rat Pack Christmas.

19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley.

415.388.3850.

The Tavern on Fourth Dec 7, Wiley's Coyotes. Dec 8, Bricoleurs. 711 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.454.4044.

19 Broadway Nightclub Dec 5, Damon LeGall Band. Dec 6, Chris James & the Showdowns. Dec 7, First Friday Reggae Night. Dec 8, ugly sweater rock show with Pardon the Interruption. Dec 9, Dusty Green Bones Band. 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax.

415.459.1091.

Throckmorton Theatre Dec 7, Holiday Concert with Deborah Winters and the Peter Welker AllStar Band. Dec 12, 12pm, Phillip Brezina and Ian Scarfe. Dec 12, 8pm, Throckmorton Chorus’ Winter Concert.

142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

415.383.9600.

Old St Hilary’s Landmark Dec 9, 1 and 4pm, Musae holiday performance. 201 Esperanza, Tiburon.

415.435.1853.

Trek Winery Dec 8, Amy Wigton. 1026 Machin Ave, Novato. 415.899.9883.

Panama Hotel Restaurant Dec 5, EMK. Dec 6, Charlie Docherty. Dec 11, Panama 3. Dec 12, Vardo. 4 Bayview St, San Rafael. 415.457.3993.

Clubs & Venues

Papermill Creek Saloon Dec 6, OMEN. Dec 7, Swamp Thang.

Dec 8, Howie’s Persuasion. Dec 9, 6pm, Papermill Gang. 1 Castro, Forest Knolls.

415.488.9235.

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Peri’s Silver Dollar Dec 7, Swoop Unit. Dec 8, Soul Ska and Koolerator. Dec 9, the Upbeats. Dec 11, Joseph Demaree. 29 Broadway, Fairfax.

415.459.9910.

Fenix Dec 6, the B Street Project. Dec 7, Mitch Woods Xmas Dance Party. Dec 8, “Spider

Rancho Nicasio Dec 7, the Ed Earley Band. Dec 8, Danny Click’s birthday party with the Hell Yeahs.

Dec 9, 4pm, Robert M Powell and friends. 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio. 415.662.2219.

Woodacre Improvement Club Dec 8, Charlie Hunter Trio. 1 Garden Way, Woodacre.

SONOMA Green Music Center Schroeder Hall Through Dec 5, Opera and Music Theatre Scenes: The Mariachi Story. Dec 7, 8pm and , Dec 8, 3pm, “Early Music Christmas: Let There Be Light” with Sonoma Bach. 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

Green Music Center Weill Hall Dec 8, Navidad Mexicana with Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles. 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

Gundlach Bundschu Winery Dec 5, Chris Robinson Brotherhood. 2000 Denmark St, Sonoma. 707.938.5277.

Mystic Theatre & Music Hall Dec 7, Andre Nickatina with D-Lo and J.Lately. Dec 8, the Grain with the King Street Giants and the Big Fit. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. 707.775.6048.

NAPA Blue Note Napa Dec 5, Eki Shola and Michael Fortunato.

Dec 6, Sal’s Greenhouse. Dec 12, Holiday Swing Party with Svetlana & the Delancey Five. 1030 Main St, Napa. 707.880.2300.

Uptown Theatre Dec 6, Jake Shimabukuro. Dec 8, Aaron Lewis. 1350 Third St, Napa. 707.259.0123.

Gallery Openings Artist Within Gallery Dec 7-Jan 25, “Image & Sources,” featuring work by artists from Cedars. Reception, Dec 7 at 5pm. 603 San Anselmo Ave, San Anselmo. 415.454.2568.

Mark Drive Studios Dec 7-8, “Mark Drive Studios Holiday Open Studios,” come and see studio artists at work. Reception, Dec 7 at 5:30pm. 11 Mark Dr, San Rafael. Fri, 5:30 to 8pm; Sat, 11:30am to 5pm. markdrivestudios.com.

Robert Allen Fine Art Dec 6-Jan 31, “Abstract Works on Canvas,” group exhibit features William Leidenthal, Carol Lefkowitz and Michael Moon. 301 Caledonia St, Sausalito. Mon-Fri, 10 to 5.

415.331.2800.

Comedy MarINSANITY Bay Area’s top standup comics tape for a TV show and need a live studio audience.

Space is limited. Dec 10, 6:30pm. Free.

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

StoryNights Enjoy high-caliber performers from the worlds of standup, slam poetry and more.

Dec 6, 8pm. $15. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

415.383.9600.

Tuesday Night Live See standup comedians Trenton Davis, Cole Parker, Daniel Dugar and others. Dec 11, 8pm. $17-$27. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

415.383.9600.

Events Chanukah Art & Light Makor Marin leads a Chanukah art project and hike incorporating song and stories. RSVP requested. Dec 8, 3pm.

Free. O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, 616 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

415.388.4331.

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Reigning ‘Queen of World devotional music’ Donna De Lory returns to Marin for a concert with local stars Tom Finch, Chris Krotky, Ben Leinbach and Sophia Mae Lin on Dec. 9 at the Mill Valley Community Center.

Dickens Family Victorian Holiday Party Travel back in time to meet Charles Dickens, hear him read from his famous works, watch his characters come alive and enjoy parlor games and dancing. Dec 7, 6:30pm. $9-$12. Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael. 415.485.3438.

Hawaiian Holiday Craft & Bake Sale Shop for unique Hawaiian holiday gifts and enjoy mini-plate lunches, with raff les, live music by Kani’olu and Hula performances. Dec 8, 10am. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 240 Channing Way, San Rafael. 415.479.4131.

Guide Dogs for the Blind Graduation Ceremony Family fun abounds when guide dogs and those who raise them celebrate graduation.

Dec 8, 1:30pm. Free. Guide Dogs for the Blind, 350 Los Ranchitos Rd, San Rafael.

415.499.4000.

Holiday Sip, Shop & Stroll Local merchants offer demos, holiday gift ideas, stocking stuffers and sidewalk specials. Dec 6, 5pm. Free admission.

Bon Air Center, 302 Bon Air Center, Greenbrae. bonair.com.

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For lovers of holiday music that’s wintry, Old World and a little haunting, Kitka, performing Dec. 9 at the Osher Marin JCC, can’t be topped.

Indoor Antique Market: The Big Christmas Show Two-day extravaganza that brings together some of the West’s best antique dealers. Dec 8-9, 10am. $8. Marin Center Exhibit Hall, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. 415.473.6400.

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Marin Art & Garden Holiday Fair Celebrate the season with music, refreshments, crafts, kids’ activities and shopping bargains galore. Dec 8, 10am.

Marin Art & Garden Center, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross. 415.455.5260.

Marin Center’s Pop-Up Holiday Boutique Shop for locally produced original arts and crafts. Through Dec 7, 11am. Free. Marin Center Exhibit Hall, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. 415.473.6400.

Mill Valley Makers Fair Learn and create during the holiday season by making handmade items.

Dec 8, 10am. Mill Valley Community

Center, 180 Camino Alto, Mill Valley.

415.383.1370.

Northgate Artisan Fair Shop locally crafted jewelry, art, clothing and more while enjoying food, drink and music. Sat, Dec 8, 11am. Oak Plaza at Northgate, 5800 Northgate Mall, San Rafael. 415.479.5955.

Sausalito Winterfest Thirty-first annual event includes Saturday’s lighted boat parade and fireworks on the water and Sunday’s Jingle Bell 5k with runner’s brunch and children’s fun run. Dec 8-9. Gabrielson Park, Anchor St, Sausalito. winterfestsausalito.com.

Spirited Marin Holiday Marketplace Festive shopping weekend raises money for Marin-based nonprofits with local vendors, music, treats and more. Dec 8-9. Marin Country Mart, 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur. 415.461.5700.

Thrive Alive Join the community in an interactive

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Field Trips Fungus BioBlitz Try to identify and document every fungus species you see. RSVP required.

Dec 8, 12:30pm. Roy’s Redwoods Preserve, Nicasio Valley Rd, San Geronimo. marincountyparks.org.

Kule Loklo Open House & Workday Visit a replica Coast Miwok village that offers a glimpse of life in pre-European California. Dec 8, 10am. Free. Kule Loklo, Pt Reyes National Seashore, Olema.

415.464.5137.

Napa Holiday House Tour Candlelight tour of a dozen historic homes features festive music and refreshments.

Dec 8, 2pm. $35-$40. Art Association Napa Valley, 1520 Behrens St, Napa. 707.255.1836.

Point Reyes National Seashore Association Holiday Open House Public celebration of local, state and federal parks and marine sanctuaries in West Marin includes staff and other members of the community. Dec 7, 5pm.

Free. Bear Valley Visitor Center, Bear Valley Rd, Olema. marincountyparks.org.

Sunrise Tour of Muir Woods See majestic trees and hear the story of the forest. Reservations required. Dec 9, 7am.

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

Film Mind Reels Thought-provoking film series screens “Served Like a Girl.” Dec 11, 12pm. $20, $10 optional lunch. Lark Theater, 549 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur. 415.924.5111.

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Readings

Off the Grid Food Trucks Eat your way through the largest gathering of mobile food trucks in Marin, listen to live music and take in great views. Sun, 11am. Marin Country Mart, 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur. 415.461.5700.

Book Passage Dec 5, 7pm, “Mistral” with Rachel Cobb.

Dec 6, 7pm, “Jewel of Abundance” with Ellen Grace O’Brian. Dec 7, 7pm, “Congo Stories” with John Prendergast, Fidel Bafilemba, Dave Eggers and Chou Chou Namegabe. Dec 8, 1pm, “Change Your Genes, Change Your Life” with Dr Kenneth Pelletier. Dec 8, 2pm, “The Dragon of Emerhill” with Breton W Kaiser Taylor.

Dec 8, 4pm, “Almost Nothing” and “Lost Time” with Eric Karpeles. Dec 8, 7pm, “Wandering in Cuba: Revolution and Beyond” with Linda Watanbe McFerrin and Joanna Biggar. Dec 9, 4pm, “The Wonderful W” with Gwen Gordon. Dec 10, 7pm, “This Immeasurable Place” with Jennifer Castle and Blake and Lavinia Spalding. Dec 12, 7pm, “Tales of the Radio Traveler” with Russell Johnson. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera 415.927.0960.

Sausalito Gingerbread House Tour & Competition Stroll the shops around Sausalito and view elaborate, festively decorated gingerbread houses galore. Through Dec 30. Downtown Sausalito, Caledonia Street, Sausalito.

For Kids Marin Sensitive Santa Children with sensory issues can enjoy a Santa experience in a calm environment, with therapy dogs and a sensory playground. Dec 8. by donation. All Children Academics, 1665 Grand Ave, San Rafael. 415.258.9572.

Saturdays with Santa at Bon Air Celebrate the season with Santa and support SF-Marin Food Bank and Toys for Tots. Sat, Dec 8, noon. Bon Air Center, 302 Bon Air Center, Greenbrae, bonair.com.

Lectures Building a Vocal Community Daytime workshop and evening concert is led by Dr Ysaye Barnwell and Bay Area performers. Dec 8, 10am and 7pm. $35$75. St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, 101 Donahue St, Marin City. 415.332.1011.

Children’s Books Galore A team of booksellers present and recommend new books for the young readers on your holiday shopping list. Dec 6, 10am. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 415.927.0960.

Petaluma Cinema Series Director Peter Bogdanovich’s classic 1973 film “Paper Moon” screens with lecture and discussion. Dec 12, 6pm. Carole L Ellis Auditorium, SRJC Petaluma Campus, 680 Sonoma Mountain Pkwy, Petaluma. petalumafilmalliance.org.

Entering History: The Aims & Foundation of ITP Michael Murphy outlines Integral Transformative Practice and the process of awakening our body, mind, heart and soul over the span of a lifetime. Mon, Dec 10, 6:30pm. $25; $60 for three-part series.

Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael. 415.485.3438.

Rebels with a Cause Documentary on how a vast amount of Marin County was saved from development screens with filmmakers in discussion. Dec 6, 6pm. Novato City Hall, 901 Sherman Ave, Novato. 415.899.8900.

Gauguin: A Spiritual Journey De Young Museum docent shares stories about artist Paul Gauguin and his enigmatic art. Dec 11, 12pm. San Anselmo Library, 110 Tunstead Ave, San Anselmo.

415.258.4656.

Rockin at the Lark Concert film “The Doors: Live at the Bowl ’68” gets a 50th anniversary screening. Dec 12, 7:30pm. $10-$18. Lark Theater, 549 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur.

415.924.5111.

Holiday Tips for Living Well with Diabetes Lunch-n-Learn series serves up a big helping of useful information to help you manage your diabetes more effectively.

Dec 12, 11:30am. Marin General Hospital, 250 Bon Air Rd, Greenbrae. 415.925.7000.

Welcome to the Men’s Group Filmmaker Joseph Culp presents and discusses his provocative comedy-drama about the male psyche. Dec 6, 7pm. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.454.1222.

Myths & Facts about Hospice Care Presented by Teresa Tooker of Hospice by the Bay. Dec 10, 10:30am. Free. Corte Madera Library. 707 Meadowsweet Dr, Corte Madera. 707.924.6444.

Book Passage By-the-Bay Dec 6, 5:30pm, “Bering Sea Strong” with Laura Hartema. 100 Bay St, Sausalito 415.339.1300.

Depot Bookstore & Cafe Dec 7, 7pm, “The Music Never Stopped: Marin County’s Music Scene” with Bob Minkin. 87 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley 415.383.2665.

Point Reyes Books Dec 6, 7pm, “Flyover Country” with Austin Smith and Forrest Gander. 11315 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station 415.663.1542.

Theater Anne of Green Gables Family musical is based on the classic novel. Through Dec 9. Sonoma Community Center, 276 E Napa St, Sonoma. 707.938.4626.

Annie Broadway classic about everyone’s favorite orphan is a family favorite holiday musical.

Through Dec 16. $22-$35. 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa.

707.523.4185.

Border People Actor and playwright Dan Hoyle performs one-man show based on interviews with people who live on borders both literal and metaphorical. Dec 8, 8pm. $18-$26. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

415.383.9600.

David Templeton’s Twisted Christmas Live!

Former North Bay holiday tradition returns from hiatus and features local celebs sharing off-the-wall holiday tales. Dec 9, 7pm. $30-$35. Spreckels Performing Arts Center, 5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park. 707.588.3400.

Every Brilliant Thing Left Edge Theatre presents the poignant and humorous story of a young boy who lists everything worth living for. Through Dec 9. $25-$40. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.546.3600.

The House of Yes Skeletons come out of the closet for a family full of secrets during an eventful Thanksgiving dinner. Through Dec 16. $15-$30. Main Stage West, 104 N Main St, Sebastopol. 707.823.0177.

Le Cirque de Bohème Old-style circus troupe presents a new show, “Yesterday,” with an amazing cast of characters. Through Dec 16. $27-$55.

Cornerstone Sonoma, 23570 Arnold Dr, Sonoma. cirquedeboheme.com.

Mrs. Warren’s Profession Humor and irony disguise this typical situation comedy of many a parent-child relationship. Through Dec 9. $15-$20.

Russian River Hall, 20347 Hwy 116, Monte Rio. 707.524.8739.

Nuncrackers the Musical Holiday show is filled with “Nunsense” humor and beloved caroles. Through Dec 9. $20-$30. College of Marin Studio Theatre, 835 College Avenue, Kentfield.

415.485.9555.

The Odd Couple Ross Valley Players put on one of Neil Simon’s finest comedies. Through Dec 16. $15-$27. Barn Theatre, Marin Art and Garden Center, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross. 415.456.9555.

Scrooge in Love After “A Christmas Carol,” Scrooge’s life takes a turn for the romantic in a new musical. Through Dec 16. $20-$40. Lucky Penny Community Arts Center, 1758 Industrial Way, Napa. 707.266.6305.

Spin Off Imaginists’ alternate universe finds the average American family navigating new episodes of wackiness, weekly. Through Jan 26, 2019. $5-$20. The Imaginists, 461 Sebastopol Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.528.7554.

The Tailor of Gloucester Delightful family musical, based on the famed Beatrix Potter story, is a holiday treat for all ages. Through Dec 16. $16-$34. Spreckels Performing Arts Center, 5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park.

707.588.3400.

Transcendence’s Broadway Holiday Spectacular New holiday celebration for all ages features performers from Broadway. Pre-show VIP experience available. Dec 6-7, 7:30pm. $39 and up. Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater, 100 California Dr, Yountville. 707.944.9900.

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

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 145745. The following individual(s) are doing business: MOLLY MAID OF MARIN + W. CONTRA COSTA COUNTIES, 3095 KERNER BLVD, STE K, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: BATCH ENTERPRISES, INC, 3095 KERNER BLVD, STE K, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on NOVEMBER 16, 2018.

(Publication Dates: November 21, 28, December 5, 12 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2018145721. The following individual(s) are doing business: IVANA VANOVA BOOKKEEPING & CONSULTING, 100 TIBURON BLVD., SUITE 220, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: IVANA VANOVA, 124 HILL PATH, CORTE MADERA, CA 94925.

This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on NOVEMBER 13, 2018.

(Publication Dates: November 28, and December 5, 12, 19 of 2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2018145752. The following individual(s) are doing business: ONSITE ASSETS, 30 ASH AVENUE, CORTE MADERA, CA 94925: LAURENCE MACKLER, 30 ASH AVENUE, CORTE MADERA, CA 94925. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on NOVEMBER 16, 2018.

(Publication Dates: November 28, and December 5, 12, 19 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2018145800. The following individual(s) are doing business: DMS CONSULTING, 22 AUDUBON WAY, NOVATO, CA 94949: DAVE M SMIGIELSKI, 22 AUDUBON WAY, NOVATO, CA 94949. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on NOVEMBER 29, 2018.

(Publication Dates: December 5, 12, 19, 26 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2018145805. The following individual(s) are doing business: HALE YES PRODUCTIONS, 500 SAN RAFAEL AVE, BELVEDERE, CA 94920: MARY

BOURKE, 500 SAN RAFAEL AVE, BELVEDERE, CA 94920.

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 29, 2018. (Publication Dates: December 5, 12, 19, 26 of 2018) OTHER NOTICES 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.

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PublicNotices 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 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: JOHN THOMAS FRIGAARD CASE NO.: PR 1804190 To all heirs, beneficiaries, credi-

tors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: John Frigaard, John, T. Frigaard, John Thomas Frigaard A Petition for~Probate~has been filed by: Ellen Goldstein in the Superior Court of California, County of Marin.

The Petition for~Probate~requests that: Ellen Goldstein be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. 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: 12/31/2018, Time: 9:00AM, Dept.: J, Address of court: 3501 Civic Center Drive, PO Box 4988, San Rafael, CA 94913-4988. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California~Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California~Probate~Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court.

If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in~Probate~Code

section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Peter J. Bassing, 700 Larkspur Landing Circle, Ste. 199, Larkspur, CA 94939-1754 (415) 258-9987 FILED: NOV 20, 2018 James M. Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By: E. CHAIS (November 28, December 5, 12 2018) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ROSEMARY THERESA BOCK CASE NO.: PR 1802115 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: ROSEMARY THERESA BOCK A Petition for~Probate~has been filed by: MICHAEL BOCK in the Superior Court of California, County of Marin. The Petition for~Probate~requests that: HOLGER SIEGWART be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: JANUARY 7, 2019, Time: 9:00AM, Dept.: J, Address of court: 3501 Civic Center Drive, PO Box 4988, San Rafael, CA 94913-4988.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California~Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California~Probate~Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in~Probate~Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: HOLGER SIGWART, ESQ., SIEGWART GERMAN AMERICAN LAW, 1799 Bayshore Highway, Suite 150, Burlingame, CA, 94010 (650) 259-9670 FILED: November 26, 2018 James M. Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By: E. Chais, Deputy (December 5, 12, 19 2018) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: RANDALL GREGORY TOM also known as RANDALL G. TOM CASE 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 the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. 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: 1/14/2019, Time: 9:00AM, Dept.: J. Address of court: 3501 Civic Center Drive, PO Box 4988, San Rafael, CA 94913-4988. If

you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California~Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California~Probate~Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in~Probate~Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: ROBERT I. SIMON, 45 BELDEN PLACE, 2ND FLOOR SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94104 (415) 434-3608 FILED: NOV 30, 2018 James M. Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By: K. Yarborough, Deputy.

(December 5, 12, 19 2018) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 1804289 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS 1.

Petitioner (name of each): Annette Marie Prandi, has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Annette Marie Prandi to Proposed Name: Anet Prandi 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: 1/25/2019, Time: 9:00am, Dept: A, Room: A. The address of the court is same as noted above; 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. 3.a. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the Pacific Sun, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin. DATED: NOV 28, 2018 Andrew E. Sweet Judge of the Superior Court James M Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By C. Lucchesi, Deputy (December 5, 12, 19, 26 of 2018) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 1804051 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS 1.

Petitioner (name of each): Jessica Ruby Oqvist, has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Jessica Ruby Oqvist to Proposed Name: Jessica Ruby Oqvist Bello 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: 12/19/2018, 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: NOV 9, 2018 Roy O. Chernus Judge of the Superior Court James M Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By C. Lucchesi, Deputy (December 5, 12, 19, 26 of 2018)

By Amy Alkon

Q:

I get very lonely around the holidays. My family is just my parents, and they’re far away. I don’t have a boyfriend right now. I have many friends and good people in my life, but instead of hanging out with them, I find myself isolating. So . . . it seems my treatment for loneliness is loneliness, and then feeling sorry for myself that I’m home alone. Help!—Pity Party Animal

A:

Each of us gets into the holiday spirit in our own special way. Some of us build gingerbread houses; some of us build gingerbread psychiatric hospitals. To understand how you can long for human connection and (ugh!) long to avoid it at the very same time, it helps to understand the mechanics of loneliness—the pain we feel when we’re disconnected from others. Like other emotions, loneliness is “adaptive,” meaning it has a function. It most likely evolved to motivate ancestral humans to behave in ways that would help them survive and mate.

The problem is, our psychology is complex, and work orders laid out for us by different emotional adaptations—different functional feelings—sometimes conflict. For example, the sadness that comes with loneliness is also motivating—only it can motivate you to lie facedown on the couch. This probably seems anything but useful, but psychiatrist and evolutionary psychologist Randolph Nesse explains that the slowing down in energy that’s a partner to sadness gives us time to examine our behavior, figure out whether we might do better with different tactics, and, if so, change our MO. It’s important to take stock like this—to a point. But if you remind yourself of the evolved job of emotions, you’ll see that it’s sometimes in your interest to override them. In short, you can do your sadness homework without making your loneliness worse by spending your entire holiday mumbling into the throw pillows.

Tell your besties that you could use some cheering up, and give yourself an emotional work assignment: going to a minimum of three parties over the holidays where groups of your friends will be in attendance. Keep in mind—while you’re lifting what feels like your 3,000-pound arm to apply mascara before going to some shindig—that we’re bad at predicting what will make us happy or unhappy. Chances are, once you’re at the party, you’ll catch a buzz from the eggnog, get laughing with your friends, and accidentally slack off on your fashionable nihilism—your muttering that it’s all nothingness and you’re alone in the universe except for your unpaid debts.

Q:

I’m a 32-year-old guy with a really great female friend. We talk on the phone, grab food, etc. She even kept me company in the hospital after I got into a motorcycle accident. I’ve started falling for her, and I want to ask her out, but I’m afraid of losing her friendship.—Conflicted

A:

It’s just a bit of a twist on the friendship ring. You’d like to give her a friendship penis. Risk researchers find that decision-making in the face of uncertainty, when we can’t be sure of what the outcome will be, is really hard for us. However, by plugging in all the information we have, positive and negative, we can make an educated prediction about how things are likely to turn out—and whether we can afford the loss if our effort is a bust.

For example, if you have only one friend and if you’re pretty sure you could never make another—say, because you live on one of those tiny desert islands in a New Yorker cartoon—you might decide it’d be too costly for you to risk saying something. And if, on a scale from 1 to 10, your friend is a 9.2 and you’re more on the bridge troll end of the spectrum (in both looks and career prospects), your chances of romance with her might be pretty slim. (Shrek is not a documentary.)

If, after weighing the pros and cons, you decide to ask this woman out, you could simply say, “I’d like to take you on a date. Would you be interested in that?” Yes, it’s possible that doing this would tank your friendship, but chances are, you’d just act a little weird around her for a while. Then again, if you said nothing and constantly agonized over wanting her, you might also end up acting all weird—in ways that would make continuing your friendship impossible. (OK, so she’s not into you, but maybe if you send her yet another love poem written in your own blood . . .)

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

Astrology

For the week of December 5

ARIES (March 21–April 19) When I write a

horoscope for you, I focus on one or two questions because I don’t have room to cover every single aspect of your life. The theme I’ve chosen this time may seem a bit impractical, but if you take it to heart, I guarantee you it will have practical benefits. It comes from Italian author Umberto Eco. He wrote, “Perhaps the mission of those who love humanity is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.” I swear to you, Aries, that if you laugh at the truth and make the truth laugh in the coming days, you will be guided to do all the right and necessary things.

TAURUS (April 20–May 20) You have a

cosmic mandate and a poetic license to stir up far more erotic fantasies than usual. It’ll be healthy for you to unleash many new thoughts about sexual experiments that would be fun to try and novel feelings you’d like to explore and people whose naked flesh you’d be interested to experience sliding and gliding against yours. But please note that the cosmic mandate and poetic license do not necessarily extend to you acting out your fantasies.

The important thing is to let your imagination run wild. That will catalyze a psychic healing you didn’t even realize you needed.

GEMINI (May 21–June 20) In my continuing efforts to help you want what you need and need what you want, I’ve collected four wise quotes that address your looming opportunities. (1) “What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be?”—author Elizabeth Gilbert (2) “Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from.”—Rebecca Solnit (3) “You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary.”―Frederick Buechner (4) “Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”―Nathaniel Hawthorne CANCER (June 21–July 22) I’ve called on author Robert Heinlein to provide your horoscope. According to my astrological analysis, his insights are exactly what you need to focus on right now. “Do not confuse ‘duty’ with what other people expect of you,” he wrote. “They are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily.

Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect. But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is not merely difficult, but impossible.”

LEO (July 23–August 22) What does beauty

mean to you? What sights, sounds, images, qualities, thoughts and behavior do you regard as beautiful? Whatever your answers might be to those questions right now, I suggest you expand and deepen your definitions in the coming weeks.

You’re at a perfect pivot point to invite more gorgeous, lyrical grace into your life; to seek out more elegance and charm and artistry; to cultivate more alluring, delightful magic.

VIRGO (August 23–September 22) You know

the expiration dates that appear on the labels of the prescription drugs you buy? They don’t mean that the drugs lose their potency after that date. In fact, most drugs are still quite effective for at least another 10 years. Let’s use this fact as a metaphor for a certain resource or influence in your life that you fear is used up or defunct. I’m guessing it still has a lot to offer you, although you will have to shift your thinking in order to make its reserves fully available.

LIBRA (September 23–October 22) Libran rapper Eminem is renowned for his verbal skill.

It may be best exemplified in his song “Rap God,” in which he delivers 1,560 words in six minutes and four seconds, or 4.28 words per second. In one stretch, he crams in 97 words in 15 seconds, achieving a pace of 6.5 words per second. I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will also be unusually adept at using words, although your

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forte will be potent profundity rather than sheer speed. I encourage you to prepare by making a list of the situations where your enhanced powers of persuasion will be most useful.

SCORPIO (October 23–November 21) In

May of 1883, the newly built Brooklyn Bridge opened for traffic. Spanning the East River to link Manhattan and Brooklyn, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world. But almost immediately people spread rumors that it was unstable. There was a growing fear that it might even crumble and fall. That’s when charismatic showman P. T. Barnum stepped in. He arranged to march 21 elephants across the bridge. There was no collapse, and so the rumors quickly died. I regard the coming weeks as a time when you should take inspiration from Barnum. Provide proof that will dispel gossipy doubt. Drive away superstitious fear with dramatic gestures. Demonstrate how strong and viable your improvements really are.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 21) Robert Louis Stevenson published his gothic novel Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in 1886. It was a bestseller, and quickly got turned into a theatrical production. In the ensuing 132 years, there have been well over a hundred further adaptations of the story into film and stage productions. Here’s the funny thing about this influential work: Stevenson wrote it fast. It took him three feverish days to get the gist of it, and just another six weeks to revise. Some biographers say he was high on drugs during the initial burst, perhaps cocaine. I suspect you could also produce some robust and interesting creation in the coming weeks, Sagittarius—and you won’t even need cocaine to fuel you.

CAPRICORN (December 22–January 19)

A blogger on Tumblr named Ffsshh composed a set of guidelines that I think will be apt and useful for you to draw on in the coming weeks. Please study these suggestions and adapt them for your healing process. “Draw stick figures. Sing off-key. Write bad poems. Sew ugly clothes. Run slowly. Flirt clumsily.

Play video games on ‘easy.’ OK? You do not need to be good at something to enjoy it. Sometimes talent is overrated. Do things you like doing just because you like doing them. It’s OK to suck.”

AQUARIUS (January 20–February 18) Aquarian athlete Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player who ever lived. He was also the first to become a billionaire. But when he was growing up, he didn’t foresee the glory that awaited him. For example, in high school he took a home economics class so as to acquire cooking abilities. Why? He imagined that as an adult he might have to prepare all of his own meals.

His ears were so huge and ungainly, he reasoned, that no woman would want to be his wife. So the bad news was that he suffered from a delusion. The good news was that because of his delusion, he learned a useful skill. I foresee a similar progression for you, Aquarius.

Something you did that was motivated by misguided or irrelevant ideas may yield positive results.

PISCES (February 19–March 20) The Bible

does not say that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute or even a “sinner.” There’s no mention of her sexual proclivities at all. Delusional ideas about her arose in the Middle Ages, instigated by priests who confused her with other women in the Bible. The truth is that the Bible names her as a key ally to Christ, and the crucial witness to his resurrection.

Fortunately, a number of scholars and church leaders have in recent years been working to correct her reputation. I invite you to be motivated and inspired by this transformation as you take steps to adjust and polish your own image during the coming weeks. It’s time to get your public and private selves into closer alignment.

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