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Letters It’s AboutTime

I enjoyed reading Tom Gogola’s article “Making Bank” (June 27, 2019).

In my former life as a legislative staff person in Sacramento, I was the consultant for the Senate Select Committee on Investment Priorities and Objectives, chaired by Senator John Dunlap, who represented parts of Sonoma County, including Santa Rosa, as well as Napa, Solano, Yolo and part of Sacramento County. I wrote a bill that would have created a California State Bank after the committee held hearings throughout the state. The lobbyists for the California Bankers Association (CBA) told me “the CBA does not want to see a pre-print bill hit the legislators’ desks.” Suffice it to say the CBA killed the bill and Sen. Dunlop was defeated in re-election in 1978.

The 15 largest banks in the county hold a combined $13.7 trillion in assets, almost doubling since U.S. taxpayers bailed them out in 2009, after the banks nearly destroyed our national economy with their reckless financial behavior. These are the same banks that finance fossil-fuel caused climate change, and along with PG&E’s negligence, are responsible for many of us to lose our homes, businesses and lives in the 2017 wildfires.

It is about time the citizens of this state created our own public banks as well as a state-owned utility.

John C. Harrington, PhD Napa

Impeach Now

I watched former Special Counsel Robert Mueller testify before Congress. During his testimony, he confirmed the results of his investigation: 37 indictments, at least seven convictions and guilty pleas, and more than 10 episodes of obstruction of justice by Donald Trump himself.

Given all of the evidence, I don’t understand at this point why Congress still hasn’t moved forward with an impeachment inquiry.

No one should be above the law in our country. Period. I don’t care who you are—if you’re the CEO of a company or the president of the

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United States of America. Donald Trump must be held accountable, just like any other American would be. If it had been anyone else who obstructed justice as blatantly as Trump did, they’d be behind bars.

Robert Mueller did his job and it’s far past time for lawmakers in Congress to step up and do theirs.

Some people say that we shouldn’t pursue impeachment because there are so many other issues to deal with. What about health care? Infrastructure? Climate change? Immigration?

And to these people, I say: Congress could address these issues and pursue an impeachment inquiry at the same time? That’s what we pay them to do.

It’s time for our representative and all of Congress to take action to hold Trump accountable and open a formal impeachment inquiry now.

We must do all we can to safeguard what we as Americans say we stand for by upholding the laws that support our citizens.

To allow our president to act criminally without impeachment threatens America now and future generations to come.

Paula Capocchi Corte Madera

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Heroes &Zeroes

By Nikki Silverstein

The stats are in from the January Point-In-Time Homelessness Count and it’s official: Marin reduced chronic homelessness by an impressive 28 percent since 2017. The Marin County Department of Health and Human Services attributes the significant decrease to creating new housing for folks experiencing chronic homelessness.

We still have a ways to go, with 1,034 homeless individuals in the county. To combat the issue, Marin HHS formed partnerships with local organizations, including the Ritter Center and St. Vincent de Paul, to find and keep housing.

Together, they’re following the best practices set forth by the national model Housing First, which prioritizes providing permanent housing for the homeless and then providing the necessary support to achieve stability and independence.

This approach is working well in Marin, with more than 160 people receiving permanent housing since October 2017. And, Marin’s emergency shelter system is also employing Housing First strategies to reach more vulnerable people.

Daytime residential burglaries are on the rise in San Rafael. With 14 reported in the last month —eight in Terra Linda—the San Rafael police department warns residents to lock their doors and set alarms before leaving home.

Most of the burglaries took place between 9am. and midnight. In all cases, no one was home when the rip-offs occurred. To gain entry, the burglars broke windows, used pry tools or simply found unlocked doors.

The San Rafael police have beefed up patrols during these morning hours. Detectives are following leads based on witness statements and evidence left at the scene.

If you have info about the burglaries, call 415.485.3000. You can remain anonymous.

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Upfront The El Paso mass shooting is being felt locally.

Nationalist Emergency Marin’s immigrant community faces the double-trauma of ICE raids and crazed racist killers By Tom Gogola

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e have been feeling the brunt of this administration— the brunt of the constant criminalization of immigrants, since 2015,” says Danielle Walker.

She’s the spokesperson at San Rafael’s Canal Alliance, the local immigrant services nonprofit that’s seen an influx of immigrants, mostly traumatized women and children who’ve been released from detention centers to

await their fate as asylum seekers.

They come to San Rafael because they either have family or have some other connection to the Canal District neighborhood. Now, says Walker, there’s an additional level of fear that communities such as San Rafael with big immigrant populations are becoming the targets of right-wing terrorists.

In the aftermath of the weekend shootings in El Paso and Dayton, and

on the heels of the mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival two weeks ago, local fears about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have been enhanced by the fact that brownskinned persons—or anyone, for that matter—can’t go to a Walmart in Texas without fear of being murdered by a Trump-supporting white nationalist.

This week, there’s been a lot of focus on the mental health of the shooters. But what about the mental

7 The Sonoma County Fair officials announced security upgrades would be in place as, like the general public, law enforcement struggled to make sense of the carnage and what to do about it.

Marin County Sheriff Robert Doyle is just as exasperated as the next citizen in light of these shootings, and say that in their aftermath “we should not necessarily be focusing on anything other than how horrific this was.”

The Gilroy and Dayton shootings, he adds, may not have had anything at all to do with race. He highlights the vexing issue of what law enforcement can or should do locally in the aftermath of shootings in other parts of the state or country. “As for public events, are we going to turn in to a military state, where we have armed people at farmer’s markets, playgrounds, public events?”

It’s not a rhetorical question for law enforcement when it comes to security at public events. As Doyle notes, “most people who lawfully own firearms don’t do this. I don’t know what the answer is. I guess the natural reaction is more security, but in Gilroy, the guy cut through a fence. Somebody could still get in if they wanted to. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t make it safer.”

He says the Marin sheriff ’s office has deployed officers in recent years at local events where there was a large gang presence.

“It’s a very difficult problem,” Doyle says.

And getting more difficult by the day. Gov. Newsom’s comments following the Gilroy shooting focused on the U.S. Senate’s unwillingness to take up meaningful gun control legislation when it comes to military-style assault weapons. Much of that reluctance has historically been tied to the NRA’s power and influence in Washington and its lawmakers.

Over the weekend just passed, Newsom could only amplify the growing sense of outrage after the El Paso shooting, which targeted Latino shoppers at a Walmart at the Texas border town: He said it was an epidemic. He said it was a crisis. And, he repeated what others have repeated in other states when mass shootings come to town—he said that the U.S. Senate had to act.

Instead: thoughts and prayers. The all-too-familiar ritual.

Newsom’s post garnered nearly seven thousand comments, many of which were in support of gun control and many of which were not. The comments provide a picture of the morass that this country finds itself in when it comes to gun violence and what, if anything, can be done about it, when citizens are so widely split on root causes and solutions.

So, while Newsom was being accused of dancing on victims’ graves to push his liberal anti-gun agenda, Trump was Tweeting that the weekend shootings would provide an opportunity for a GREAT law to come out of it (his capital letters) that would further put the blame for all this country’s ills at the hands of undocumented immigrants.

Texas is an open-carry state and Walmart is not a gun free zone. Numerous reports about the incident noted that there were several armed people in the Walmart at the time of the shooting. At least one of those persons told reporters that he feared for his own safety at the hands of law enforcement if he took action against the shooter.

Other California posters noted on Newsom’s FB feed that the problem isn’t white nationalist violence unleashed by Trump and his minions, it’s “a generation raised on Hollywood and videogame violence, poor parenting and schools, social media and yes, fake news.”

“What I’m most disappointed in is the lack of dialogue after these events occur,” says Doyle. People go silent, he says, or retreat to their ideological bunkers, or insist on convenient explanations. “Some people say it’s angry white men.

Others, it’s the mentally ill,” he says. The Gilroy shooter bought a weapon in Nevada and legally brought it to California, he notes, and further observes that a national ban on assault weapons won’t stop a perpetrator intent on turning that weapon into a fully automatic killing machine.

Social-media posturing is one thing. Protecting the local community is entirely another.

For members of Marin’s large immigrant community, the shooting added another layer of fear to a community that’s already been mobilized over Trump’s weaponization of ICE. They’re

not happy about Doyle releasing non-American felons to ICE, but Doyle says he’s on the lookout for everyone’s safety in the county.

There’s been an unfortunate conflation between the inhumane detention centers at the border with local policies around ICE and when the county should participate in the removal of violent felons from the community. Doyle’s dealing with the reality that not every immigrant is a shining example of the American melting pot. For example, one undocumented felon in Marin raped an unconscious person. “I defy you to say that I should have released that person back into the community,” says Doyle, who adds that locals outraged by conditions at the border detention centers have come to an errant conclusion: “That’s what the sheriff is doing here.”

He’s not, nor is he releasing those felons back into a community that’s dealing with a big influx of young, traumatized asylum seekers just released from prison-like conditions at the border. And, as Doyle notes, it’s unconstitutional for him to hold what would be ICE detainees in the local lockup, despite what some Marin County supervisors have suggested he do.

Walker at the Canal Alliance says there’s been progress between her organization and Doyle on the issue of his policy of releasing some felons to ICE. “There are outliers in every community,” she says. “And most immigrants don’t come here to commit crimes.” The goal, she adds, is to “ensure justice in our community, and fairness and justice in the immigrant community.”

The Marin community has stepped up in a big way on that front. At a Town Hall Monday afternoon Huffman told an overflow crowd at the Dance Palace in Pt. Reyes Station that Marin County “punches above its weight” when it comes to welcoming refugees from Central America.

Marin, he noted, surpasses San Francisco and Oakland on that front.

And many of them come through the Canal Alliance on their way to settling in the county. Recently, says Walker, they’ve been seeing at least three asylum seekers a day, including families and unaccompanied minors. It’s been going on for several weeks, she says, and most of the immigrants are women and children. “Our social services

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health of victims of hate-inspired violence? It’s an issue that the Canal Alliance deals with every day in its programs and services, says Walker.

“Whether it’s (English as a second language), or after-school programs, or in the front lines of social services or immigration,” she says, “ everyone is being ‘trauma informed’ on the effects of that climate on our community.”

Those effects range from numbness to rage to sheer terror.

And, at a certain point, it does feel like all that’s left is upper-case outrage to go along with a growing sense of outrage and fear at the apparent convergence of executivelevel hate speech and right-wing violence in this country.

Over the weekend, and in response to deadly shootings in Texas and Ohio that came on the heels of last week’s Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting, locally, U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman could only point out, in all upper-case on his Facebook page, that “ASSAULT RIFLES AND HIGH CAPACITY MAGAZINES THAT CAN INFLICT INSTANT CARNAGE LIKE THIS MUST BE BANNED.” Huffman was referring to the Ohio gunman who opened fire and killed nine people and wounded 27 others in Dayton, in a span of 30 seconds. His motives remain unclear and inchoate.

The El Paso killer spelled out his motives in a manifesto that took Trump’s words about an “invasion” at the border to heart.

State officials had already been decrying Republican fealty to the National Rifle Association at the time of the weekend shootings that have shaken the country. Speaking to reporters at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center following the Gilroy massacre two weekends ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom highlighted how California’s strict gun laws—semiautomatic weapons and highcapacity rounds are banned in the state—can’t stop a terrorist from purchasing one of the weapons where they’re legal.

The Gilroy shooter, Santino William Legan, purchased his deadly weapon, an AK-47-style assault weapon, in a Nevada gun store before killing three people at the popular Gilroy festival.

He committed suicide at the scene; reports that police shot and killed him within moments of the shooting were erroneous.

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The shooting in El Paso, she says, “is especially scary for immigrant communities with a high degree of an immigrant population, such as the Canal District of San Rafael.

There is pervasive fear anytime— ICE at the grocery store, shooters, or just violence against immigrants.”

The good news is that along with Marin’s welcoming attitude toward immigrants, it’s also a peaceful place when it comes to gun violence, unlike, say, Texas. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the county falls below the state and national average when it comes to firearms-related deaths.

Indeed, the county comes in at half the national average when it comes to firearms-related deaths per 100,000 population. In 2017, the county experienced 20 firearms related deaths, or six deaths per 100,000 residents. In California as a whole, the figure is eight per 100,000, and in the country as a whole, it’s 12 per 100,000.

And the county’s taken proactive steps to stem gun violence locally by addressing mental-health and domestic-violence issues as they intersect with gun violence. In late July, the Marin County District Attorney’s Office hosted a gun violence restraining order training to make use of a little-utilized state law that allows for firearms to be confiscated from persons who pose a danger to themselves or others.

A California law that took effect in 2016 allows family members or law enforcement to seek a restraining order “against someone they believe poses an immediate and present danger of harming themselves or others,” according to a release announcing the training.

The training was conducted by the San Diego city attorney’s office, which was a driver behind the gun-violence restraining orders and focused on issues such as domestic violence and dealing with persons with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease who may have access to firearms. The law was passed in the aftermath of 2014’s mass killing in Santa Barbara County where six people died.

At the same time California was wading into controversial waters around who can and who can’t own a gun—the Trump Administration was moving to end

Obama-era federal restrictions on gun ownership for persons with demonstrable mental-health issues.

Now he’s blaming mental illness on the El Paso killer.

Regional Second Amendment hard-liners who decry liberal attempts at gun control might also take note of an investigation that appeared in the Guardian in June of this year which found that the Bay Area had experienced a big and surprising drop in deadly gun violence between 2007 and 2017.

That report, among other highlights, showed that its possible to talk about high rates of gun violence in minority communities without calling those communities rat- and crime-infested shitholes, which is the president’s preferred rhetoric when it comes to places like Baltimore and Chicago. Last week, Trump teed off on the homeless crisis in San Francisco by way of extending his shithole-cities rhetoric to a region that’s largely been in open defiance of his presidency.

It’s too bad for Trump that the Bay Area, reported the Guardian, “is defying expectations on gun violence amid growing inequality and economic pressures,” across the 12 counties that comprise the region.

The Guardian found that even as Oakland and San Francisco are being transformed by gentrification (and are seeing big drops in gun violence along the way) that “outlying suburbs the towns where many residents forced out by gentrification have moved—did not see a corresponding increase in violence.”

There’s still around 300 gun homicides a year in the Bay Area, the Guardian ruefully noted—and many of those occur in places like Richmond and Oakland, where, like the rest of America, the majority of gun victims are African-Americans living in poor and segregated communities.

Much of the gun violence that occurs in Marin County takes place in the African-American majority Marin City. The takeaway is telling and sobering in its own right: The mass shootings are disastrous, horrific and soul-crushing but, as the Guardian reported “it’s this everyday toll of violence, not mass shooting casualties, that drives America’s gun homicide rate 25 times higher than those of other wealthy countries.” Y

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Real Deal Bay Area comedian, actor, playwright Brian Copeland mines the Trump era for laughs and empathy

By Charlie Swanson

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hen Brian Copeland moved from Birmingham, Ala. to San Leandro, Calif. at age 8 in the early 1970s, the town, which borders Oakland, was 99 percent white. Copeland, who's black, experienced racial profiling and affronts from his white landlords, neighbors, schoolmates and police.

After surviving childhood and finding his voice through theater, comedy and talk radio, Copeland experienced another affront, this time from African-American audience members or radio listeners who accused him of not being a “genuine black man.”

It’s a duplicity Copeland spent years trying to work out in his mind, and it’s a story he shares with audiences in his acclaimed one-man-show Not a Genuine Black Man, which

premiered in San Francisco 15 years ago, and which Copeland still regularly performs to sold-out crowds.

Not a Genuine Black Man is one of several hit one-man-plays Copeland has written and performed in the last two decades that address personal issues like his own struggles with depression in The Waiting Game and political issues like the truecrime story of The Scion. His latest, The Great American Sh*T Show with Charlie Varon, returns to San Rafael for a performance on Aug. 18 at the Marin Center.

“My father was never around, my mother and grandmother raised me, and my mother died when I was 14,” says Copeland of his childhood.

"So it was grandma, and she was always supportive of anything that I wanted to do.”

In fifth grade, Copeland was introduced to theater, and began performing in the school musical every year. The plan was for him to become a lawyer when he graduated from high school, but fate intervened when Tommy Thomas, better known as Tommy T, opened the original Tommy T’s Comedy Club about a mile from Copeland’s house.

Copeland was already a fan of comedy,—using a fake ID to get into clubs in San Francisco—and he approached Thomas about performing at an open mic.

“He said, ‘I’ve got a comic who’s sick tonight, can you do 15 minutes?’

And I go, ‘sure,’” Copeland says.

“Because I was 18 and stupid enough to think I could do anything.”

Still, he got laughs on stage and

got hooked on comedy. Copeland began working on his standup while also attending pre-law classes and working full time. Soon, he knew he had to make a choice.

“I gave myself one year with comedy,” says Copeland, who took a leave of absence from school and quit his day job when he was 20 years old. “If in one year I wasn’t doing anything with this or making any money, I would go back to school and the camera shop where I worked, but I never went back.”

He worked his way up the Bay Area comedy scene to become a headliner, and after signing a deal with Hollywood-based talent agency William Morris, Copeland often hit the road to open for performers like Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, Ray »10

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Brian Copeland teams up with Charlie Varon, left, in new show.

Charles, Natalie Cole and other legendary artists.

At the same time, Copeland made a name for himself on the radio, turning guest spots on KGO into a regular weekend program, The Brian Copeland Show, which debuted in 1994 and was for years the most listened-to radio show in its time slot.

In the mid–2000s, Copeland also did a weekly commentary feature for the station called Copeland’s Corner, and he was also often heard on the air with KGO veteran Ronn Owens of the Ronn Owens Report.

“When I started in 1975, I was doing the evening shift,” remembers Owens. “Brian would call in with an absolutely perfect imitation of the late Ray Taliaferro (KGO’s earlymorning host). It was so unbelievably good; I invited him into the studio.

That’s how we first got together.”

Most recently, Owens and Copeland teamed up for the R&B (Ron and Brian) Joke Hour, a segment in which Owens solicited jokes from the audience and read them aloud on the air. “The ones that were really good I kept, and the ones that were questionable, I gave to Brian,” Owens laughs. “The irony is that people love that show. I’ve

interviewed three presidents of the United States and people still ask me more about the R&B Joke Hour than anything else.”

Copeland’s broadcasting career also includes hosting programs on just about every Bay Area television station, including a five-year stint as co-host of KTVU’s Mornings on 2.

All the while, Copeland struggled with identity, depression and other internal conflicts that eventually came out in his playwriting.

“For years, I wanted to do a oneman show, but I had no idea what to do a show about,” Copeland says.

“I had (television and film legend) Carl Reiner as a guest on my radio show, and during the break I told him I wanted to write something, but I didn’t know what to write.”

“He said every writer and performer goes through this,” Copeland says. “He said, ‘For me, it was 1959, I had been (writing for television) with Sid Caesar for years, I had no idea what to do; and then I got this book by radio comedian Fred Allen, Treadmill to Oblivion.

In the book, Fred Allen says you have to find the piece of ground you alone stand on and write from

11 working on Not a Genuine Black Man. “There’s this fascinating moment when an artist discovers something, finds some new truth, some new way of speaking about reality,” says Varon. “For Brian, it’s both personal and political. He’s got this incredible cocktail of standup comedy, personal storytelling and a sensibility that is his and his alone.

He’s able to encapsulate pain and absurdity in the same breath.”

Varon calls The Great American Sh*t Show a completely accidental show that came about after he heard Copeland tell a story onstage about being called the n-word for the first time in years on the day after the 2016 election, from a guy driving a Prius no less. “An environmentalist and a racist,” Varon laughs. “All I know is: I left the theater a different person after hearing Brian’s monologue.” He approached Copeland about collaborating on a full show about life in the Age of Trump, and the two developed the show to say all the things they’ve been feeling since November 2016.

While The Great American Sh*t Show also touches on topics ranging from the #MeToo movement to the separation of families at the border, it’s not all despair. Rather, the show is a cathartic dose of laughter and insight Copeland and Varon both admit is preaching to the choir. “And the choir is really grateful for the sermon,” says Varon. “The show brings people together to acknowledge what we’re living through (and) how unprecedented it is, and to affirm that we can take action and work to change the situation.”

In addition to performing The Great American Sh*t Show in San Rafael this month, Copeland is preparing to bring back his popular “Best of SF Solo Series,” in which he invites other Bay Area monologists to perform in Marin, beginning in October.

“Brian is one of the most generous artists I’ve met,” Varon says. “He’s always looking for the next artistic gift he can give.”

Brian Copeland and Charlie Varon present ‘The Great American Sh*t Show’ on Sunday, Aug 18, at the Marin Center Showcase Theater, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. 7:30pm. $45. tickets.marincenter.org.

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there. I thought, what’s my piece of ground? I’m a married comedy writer in New Rochelle with my wife and kids writing for a comedy show in New York, and that idea became The Dick Van Dyke Show.’”

“That was Carl’s piece of ground, Dick van Dyke’s character was Carl,” Copeland says. Just as Reiner drew from his life for his storytelling, Copeland was inspired to write Not a Genuine Black Man from his own life experience.

“I got a crank letter at the radio station a few weeks after that and the letter said, ‘As an African-American, I am disgusted every time I hear your voice because you are not a genuine black man.’ I thought, bingo, that’s my piece of ground,” Copeland says.

“I have lived with that nonsense for a lot of my adult life, this whole being ‘too white for black people and too black for white people.’”

As much as Not a Genuine Black Man is a study in racial stereotypes and an autobiographical account of Copeland’s experiences, the show is a universal tale of being alone.

“At some point in your life, you’re going to be the only one—the only man, the only woman, the only Christian or Muslim or Jew,” Copeland says. “This whole racial-betrayal nonsense shows up in every culture.”

While writing the show, Copeland also learned about the widespread housing discrimination charges that were leveled against San Leandro organizations and landlords in the ‘70s.

“Now my story had changed, it’s not just my story, it’s the story of the evolution of the city,” Copeland says.

The show debuted at San Francisco venue The Marsh in 2004 and was scheduled to run six weeks. It ran for three years straight. Copeland took the show national for another eight years, performing it in over 30 cities, including a critically acclaimed run Off-Broadway.

He recently brought Not a Genuine Black Man back to the stage because of the highly charged racial and political climate of the day, performing it at The Marsh in between performing his latest work, The Great American Sh*t Show, in which he and actor/writer Charlie Varon trade off monologues about their experiences over the last three years.

Varon and Copeland first met in 2004, when Copeland was

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THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A SELECTIVE GUIDE

Soulful Swedish-born musician Anders Osborne plays off his new album, Buddha & The Blues, when he performs on Friday, Aug 9, at Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael. See Concerts, pg 20.

Darren Manzari

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Pop Art ZenPop is a term developed by art curator Marialidia Marcotulli and adapted by Marin native and acclaimed artist Nellie King Solomon, who displays a series of large-scale abstract paintings in her “ZenPop” solo show, now on exhibit at the 1337 Gallery. By using custom-made tools and inclined surfaces, Solomon creates architecturally inspired art that appears to be pulled apart or pushed together on canvas. See the show and others during the Second Fridays Art Walk at ArtWorks Downtown, 1337 Fourth St., San Rafael. 5pm. Free.

415.451.8119.

POINT REYES STATION

Underwater World The region where the Pacific Ocean converges with the North American continent is a place of incomparable richness, largely due to seaweed.

Specifically, it’s due to the 16 species of seaweed and algae that oxygenate the water, create habitat and form the foundation of the underwater food chain. If you’ve ever found yourself pondering these plants, then Josie Iselin’s new book, The Curious World of Seaweed, is for you. Iselin reads from the book on Saturday, Aug 10, at Point Reyes Books, 11315 Hwy 1, Point reyes Station. 7pm. Free. 415.663.1542.

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Did you ever think cocktails could be good for you? Well, they can, if they’re crafted using superfoods, those densely nutritious ingredients that contain large quantities of vitamins and minerals. Find out more and taste some healthy drinks at the Superfood Social, featuring Bay Area health practitioner and educator Rachel Balunsatin offering formation on how to get more good stuff in your body on a daily basis. Get social on Saturday, Aug 10, at Indie Alley, 69 Bolinas Rd., Fairfax. 3:30pm. $15. theindiealley.com.

Manchester guitarist and vocalist Nick Bold had already made his mark on the British scene with his ‘80s band Virginia Wolf when he appeared on the British TV hit “Stars in Their Eyes” and did an impeccable impression of Beatle George Harrison. That experience propelled Bold to take on Harrison’s role in multiple Beatles tributes. Now, Bold presents a solo show, “George!

The Concert,” in which he performs the icon’s music from the Beatles to the Traveling Wilburys on Sunday, Aug 11, at Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley. 4pm. $22-$27.

415.388.3850.

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INDIE: Trebuchet Petaluma band known for their emotionally stirring indie-rock and annual Christmas concert. trebuchetmusic.com.

JAZZ: Nate Lopez The eight-string guitar master is a one-man jazz band, performing extensively at North Bay wineries, bistros, bars and elsewhere. natelopez.com.

METAL: Immortallica North Bay tribute to Metallica is as fast and loud as a bolt of lightning. facebook. com/ImmortallicA707.

MUSIC FESTIVAL: Railroad Music Festival Set in the heart of downtown Santa Rosa, this free fest remains a community favorite. railroadsquaremusicfestival.com.

OPEN MIC: Tuesday Open Mic Night at Brew Coffee & Beer The inclusive weekly showcase includes local music, spoken word and more. brewcoffeeandbeer.com.

PUNK: One Armed Joey Melodic punk trio is on the rise in the Bay Area, blasting a classic sound with catchy hooks. onearmedjoey. bandcamp.com.

Reggae family Sol Horizon takes home their third consecutive NorBay Music Award.

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PROMOTER: Jake Ward North Bay Cabaret co-founder also produces public and private events. facebook.com/jakewardpresents.

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R&B: The Big Fit The eight-piece funk-soul ensemble, formerly known as Frobeck, are a hit at North Bay festivals and venues, with their dance-inducing rhythm. thebig.fit.

Announcing the 2019 NorBay Music Award winners By Charlie Swanson

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ur annual NorBay Music Awards online readers' ballot received its biggest turnout ever, and this year's winners include a lot of new faces among the North Bay's favorite bands, venues and more. The 2019 NorBay Music Award winners are…

to make effortless, eclectic Americana music. www.seancmusic.com.

ACOUSTIC: Dave Hamilton The veteran folk- and Americanasinger is a staple at local farmers markets, roadhouses and taverns. davehamiltonfolkamericana.com.

COUNTRY: Train Wreck Junction The seven-piece outfit appeals to country fans of all eras and ages. trainwreckjunction.com.

AMERICANA: Sean Carscadden Whether he’s going solo or leading his full band, Carscadden continues

BLUES: Dylan Black Project Possessing just the right touch of funk, soul and rock ‘n’ roll, the fourman band is a must-have for summer fun. thedylanblackproject.com

DJ (RADIO): Bill Bowker North Bay radio host is a champion of the blues and the arts on-air at the Krush 95.9 FM. Krsh.com.

DJ (LIVE): Joshua BluegreenCripps Full-time producer, promoter and performer has been featured at events across the Bay Area. partyevententertainment.com.

ELECTRONICA: Eki Shola Solo star continues to prove anything is possible with her innovative ambient electronic melodies. ekishola.com.

FOLK: Fly by Train Formed in 2014, the folk-rock five-piece act rides the rails of old school grassfed Americana. facebook.com/ flybytrain.

REGGAE: Sol Horizon Longtime reggae champions are shining as bright as ever. solhorizon.com.

ROCK: Two Lions Band Geyserville guitarist and vocalist Mitchel Slade leads the rock-fusion four-piece. twolionsband.com.

SINGER/SONGWRITER: David Luning Nationally-known North Bay troubadour plays with a keen ear and a huge heart. davidluning.com.

VENUE: Redwood Café The Cotati institution offers live music practically every night of the year. redwoodcafe.com.

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HIP HOP: Kayatta West Sonoma County performer brings a thoughtprovoking and empowering message to the music. instagram. com/kayatta_p.

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Awkwafina, center, offers a breakout performance in ‘The Farewell.’

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Benign Shadows Director Lulu Wang offers a dose of Chinese-American reality in ‘The Farewell’ By Richard von Busack

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ew York writer and performer Awkwafina played the Eve Arden part in Crazy Rich Asians. Blonde of wig and husky of voice, her wacky sidekicking made the film come alive. In The Farewell, she’s no longer a fashionable Singapore firecracker, but plays Billi, a young writer shrouded in earthtoned clothes, who has a teenager’s slump to her shoulders and who dwells under an almost-visible cloud of disappointment.

Billi is not a smiler—she has little to smile about. She’s broke, behind in the rent and was just turned down for a Guggenheim grant. Drawn back to the suburbs by a phone call, she

learns that back in China her Nai Nai—grandma (Shuzen Shao)—has stage-four lung cancer. We’re told there’s a saying that it’s not the cancer that kills, it’s the fear of it that kills. So, the family comes up with a fib: The X-rays show only “benign shadows” on the grandmother’s lungs. In order to see Nai Nai one last time, the relatives trump up a wedding for one of the cousins to a Japanese girlfriend he doesn’t really know that well.

While the family is in China, we see Billi endure the kind of friction she was trying to get some distance from. Her relatives give her trouble about how little money she makes as a writer. Billi’s dad (Tzi Ma) is a problem drinker. The mom (Diana Lin) has a

chilly, remote side. Like so many, Billi has a better relationship with her grandmother than her parents.

Director/writer Lulu Wang takes a straightforward approach, without the flashbacks customary in stories about families and memory. We see what Billi sees; how the China of her happy childhood is being bulldozed for a forest of soulless high rises. It’s in the wedding segment that The Farewell gets really fun, with the gaudy colors of the banquet hall—iridescent blue velvet curtains, landscapes in too-bright hues hanging on the walls—and the wellrehearsed staff welcoming the guests by chanting in unison, like cheerleaders.

It’s not a preposterously formal occasion. The emcee is in an aloha shirt.

A little kid picks up a whole crab and stares into its face with trepidation.

There’s a memory game—shot from a lazy Susan-mounted camera—where you take a shot of booze if you fail to keep the words straight.

Shao is a heartening grandma with a lot of salt to her; particularly entertaining when she’s laughing over old times with her fellow Red Army vets. She’s a figure anyone would love and grieve for, but it’s Awkwafina as a young woman feeling like a stranger in both the East and the West, who keeps this story tantalizingly tense.

‘The Farewell’ is playing at the Century Regency, 280 Smith Road, San Rafael.

415.479.6496.

The Art of Racing in the Rain (PG)

By Matthew Stafford

Friday August 9-Thursday Aug 15 The Art of Racing in the Rain (1:49) The Garth Stein novel hits the big screen with Milo Ventimiglia as a wannabe racecar driver and Kevin Costner voicing the inner musings of his pooch Enzo.

Biggest Little Farm (1:31) Documentarian John Chester and his wife Molly work to develop a sustainable farm on 200 acres outside of Los Angeles.

Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes (1:25) documentary explores the pioneering label that gave voice to some of the finest jazz artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Brian Banks (1:39) A football player's dreams to play in the NFL are halted when he is wrongly convicted and sent to prison.

Bring the Soul: The Movie (1:43) Catch the South Korean boy band in concert and repose as they share intimate insights with their many fans.

The Cat Rescuers (1:27) Documentary looks at the volunteers who care for New York City’s feral cats.

David Crosby: Remember My Name (1:35) The wintry rock icon sums up his life and career with self-lacerating wit and honesty; A.J. Eaton directs.

Dora and the Lost City of Gold (1:42) The indefatigable explorer leads a ragtag band into the jungle to save her parents and find a fabled golden city while she’s at it.

The Farewell (1:38) Acclaimed comedydrama about an impromptu Chinese wedding staged so its far-flung family can gather around their dying grandmother one last time.

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2:14) Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham are back, badder than ever and taking on cybergenetic superman Idris Elba; Helen Mirren costars.

Hello, Dolly! (2:30) Classic musical starring Barbara Streisand screens for its 50th anniversary.

It: Chapter Two (2:45) Pennywise the clown is back to terrify Derry, and the only people who can stop it are the nowgrown kids who fought him 27 years ago.

Kinky Boots: The Musical (2:15) It’s the acclaimed London stage production of the Cyndi Lauper-Harvey Fierstein musical about a failing shoe factory saved from receivership by a flamboyant transvestite cabaret star.

The Kitchen (1:42) Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss star as three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives whose mobster husbands are sent to prison by the FBI. The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2:01) Wistful, poetic drama about a Fillmore native struggling to remain in his rapidly gentrifying home town.

The Lion King (1:58) “Live-action” CGI reimagination of Disney’s cartoon classic about an African lion cub’s journey of self-discovery; Donald Glover, Alfre Woodard and James Earl Jones vocalize.

Maiden (1:33) Eye-opening documentary looks back at the 1989 Whitbread yacht race, the all-woman crew of the Maiden and their grueling 32,000-mile ’roundthe-world triumph.

The Nightingale (2:16) Set during the colonization of Australia in 1825, this revenge thriller finds a young woman going after the British officer who wronged her.

Nureyev (1:48) Documentary tribute to the ballet superstar features seldomseen footage and newly choreographed terpsichore by Russell Maliphant.

Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (2:41) Rambling ambling Quentin Tarantino Cannes fave about an aging TV action star and his stunt double in the New Hollywood of 1969; Leo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt star.

Parallel Love: The Story of a Band Called Luxury (1:37) The 1990s alt-rock band Luxury is skyrocketing toward national fame, until a life-threatening tour bus wreck shakes each band member to his core.

Pavarotti (1:55) Ron Howard’s tribute to the opera superstar features insightful interviews, seldom-seen footage and dazzling performances newly restored in Dolby Atmos.

Pixar Shorts Celebration (1:00) Showcase presents a collection of Pixar’s adored, classic short animated films.

Purple Rain (1:51) Prince stars as a tormented artist in this ‘80s classic musical drama.

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (1:48) A group of teens face their fears in order to save their lives in this adaptation of the children’s books.

Spider-Man: Far from Home (2:09) Spidey brings his arachnid act to Europe, weaving his web in search of Continental bad guys; Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson and Michael Keaton star.

South Pacific (2:47) Musical set in an island paradise during World War II finds two parallel love stories are threatened by the dangers of prejudice and war.

Toy Story 4 (1:40) When a new toy called "Forky" joins Woody and the gang, a road trip alongside old and new friends reveals how big the world can be for a toy.

Wild Rose (1:41) Jessie Buckley stars as a working-class Scottish mum who dreams of Nashville superstardom; Julie Walters costars.

Women’s Adventure Film Tour Several short films shown together celebrate inspiring women around the world.

Yesterday (1:56) A struggling musician realizes he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles after waking up in an alternate timeline where they never existed.

Northgate: Fri-Sun 10:50, 1:35, 4:25, 7:20, 10:05 Rowland: 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 The Biggest Little Farm (NR) Rafael: Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:15, 4:15, Mon 5 • Blue Note Records: Beyond The Notes (NR) Rafael: Fri-Sun 6:15 Northgate: Fri-Sun 11:15, 1:55, 4:30, 7:05, 9:50 • Brian Banks (PG-13) Bring the Soul: The Movie (NR) Northgate: Fri-Sun 4:30, 7 Lark: Fri 1; Sat 10am; MOn 7 • The Cat Rescuers (NR) David Crosby: Remember My Name (R) Regency: Fri-Sat 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45; Sun-Wed 11:45, 2:!5, 4:45, 7:15 Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) Northgate: Fri-Sun, 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Rowland: 11:10, 1:50, 4:25, 7, 9:35 Echo in the Canyon (NR) Rafael: Fri-Sun 8:20 The Farewell (PG) Regency: Fri-Sun 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7 Sequoia: Fri 4:35, 7:15, 10:15; Sat 12:45, 4:35, 7:15, 10:15; Sun 12:45, 4:35, 7:15; MonWed 5, 7:30 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (PG-13) Fairfax: 12, 3:30, 6:45, 9:45 daily Larkspur Landing: Fri, MonWed 6:30, 9:40; Sat-Sun 12, 3:15, 6:30, 9:40 Northgate: Fri-Sun 9:30, 12:45, 4, 7:15, 10:30 Rowland: 9:45, 12:55, 4, 7:20, 10:30 Regency: Sun 1, 4 • Hello, Dolly! (G) Fairfax: Fri 12, 3:30, 7 • It: Chapter Two (R) Kinky Boots: The Musical (R) Lark: Sat-Sun 1; Tue 6:30 Northgate: Fri-Sun, 11:50, 2:35, 5:15, 7:55, 10:35 Rowland: • The Kitchen (R) 12:10, 2:50, 5:25, 8, 10:35 The Last Black Man in San Francisco (R) Lark: Fri 5:30; Sun 8:45 Regency: Fri-Sat 10:45, 1:40, 4:35, 7:30, 10:25; Sun 10:45, 1:40, 4:35, 7:30 The Lion King (PG) Fairfax: Fri-Wed 11:45, 12:15, 12:30, 2:45, 3:15, 3:30, 7, 9:40, 9:55 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 6:40, 9:30; Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:30; Mon-Thu 6:15, 9:45 Playhouse: Fri-Sat 11:30, 12:15, 2, 3, 4:30, 6:45, 9:25; Sun-Wed 11:30, 12:15, 2, 3, 4:30, 6:45 Regency: Fri-Sun 11, 1:50, 4:50, 7:40 Rowland: 10:20, 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 10 Maiden (NR) Rafael: Fri-Sun 12:30, 2:30, 4:30, 6:30, 8:30; Mon 6:30, 8:30 Rafael: Fri-Sat 2:45, 5:30, 8:15; Sun 12, 2:45, 5:30, 8:15; Mon• The Nightingale (R) Thu 5:30, 8:15 Nureyev (NR) Lark: Sun 6:30 Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (R) Fairfax: Fri-Wed 11:30, 3, 6:15, 6:30, 6:40, 9:30, 9:50 Northgate: Fri-Wed 9:50, 11:35, 1:25, 3:15, 5:10, 7, 9, 10:35 Playhouse: Fri-Sat 12, 3:15, 6:30, 9:40; Sun-Thu 12, 3:15, 6:30, 7 Regency: Fri-Sun 11:10, 2:50, 6:30 Rowland: 11:20, 3, 6:40, 10:15 Sequoia: Fri 3:15, 6:50, 9:40; Sat 1:05, 3:15, 6:50, 9:40; Sun 1:05, 3:15, 6:50; Mon-Wed 3:35, 7 Parallel Love: The Story of a Band Called Luxury (NR) Rafael: Mon, 7 • Pavarotti (PG-13) Lark: Fri, Wed 10am Rafael: Sat 1:30 • Pixar Shorts Celebration (G) Lark: Fri 8 • Purple Rain (R) Rocketman (PG-13) Lark: Sat 9; Sun 10am; Mon 2:20; Tue 10am; Thu 12:30 Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Sun 11:10, 2, 4:35, 7:40, 10:25 Rowland: 11:40, 2:20, 5, 7:45, 10:25 Spider-Man: Far from Home (PG-13) Fairfax: Fri-Wed 12:50, 4, 7:10, 9:55 Rowland: 9:50, 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Lark: Sat 3:45 • South Pacific (NR) Toy Story 4 (G) Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 6:50, 9:20; Sat-Sun 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:50 Wild Rose (R) Lark: Mon 10am; Tue 9; Thu 3 Lark: Sun 4 • Women’s Adventure Film Tour (NR)

Yesterday (PG-13)

Lark: Fri 3; Sat 6:45; Mon 4:45; Tue 12:30; Wed 3; Thu 10am

We have omitted some of the movie summaries and times for those that have been playing for multiple weeks.

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

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

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Chandler Parrott-Thomas, left, Margaret Grace Hee, center, and Jensen Power share a sisterly bond in ‘Crimes of the Heart.’

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Sister Act Southern Gothic ‘Crimes of the Heart’ plays in Ross by Harry Duke

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he Ross Valley Players conclude their 89th season with a production of Crimes of the Heart, running in Ross through Aug. 11.

Beth Henley’s tragicomedy won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for drama and was followed by a film adaptation starring Sissy Spacek that nabbed three Oscar nominations.

The Magrath sisters are gathered at their grandfather’s home in Hazelhurst, Miss. in support of sister Babe (Margaret Grace Hee) who’s out on bail after shooting her husband in the stomach. Lenny (Jensen Power) is taking care of Grandpa after sister Meg (Chandler Parrott-Thomas) took off to Southern California in pursuit of a singing career.

Things haven’t turned out so well for any of them. Lenny’s given up hope of ever finding love because of a shrunken ovary. Meg, who left a broken heart in town, is back after suffering a breakdown and spending the last year working for a pet food company. Babe will soon stand trial for the attempted murder of her ne’er-do-well husband. Current problems and past grievances will test the bonds of sisterhood.

Full of the absurd and the grotesque for which the style of “Southern Gothic” is known, Henley’s play has six great character roles for actors, and director Patrick Nims filled those roles well. In addition to the three aforementioned sisters, there’s

Chick Boyle (Caitlin Strom-Martin), a neighboring cousin with a perpetually upturned nose; Doc Porter (Michel Harris), the man Meg left behind; and Barnett Lloyd ( Jeremy Judge), the wet-behind-theears defense attorney who’s taken Babe’s case for “personal” reasons.

The cast keep their performances nicely modulated, and no one succumbs to the urge to go full “Southern” and chew the scenery which, by the way, was provided via a finely detailed set by Ron Krempetz.

The action is relegated to the kitchen of the modest Mississippi home, along with a short staircase leading to the rest of the house and front and back entry/ exit ways. Subtle lighting and sound cues really enhance the environment.

Henley mines the dark material (suicide, infidelity, attempted murder, etc.) for a lot of humor, and none of it seems cheap. The ability of these women to carry on despite the harshness of their lives and to still have hope for better times to come is one of this show’s appeals.

Audiences looking for a little support in their lives might learn a little something from the Magrath sisters.

‘Crimes of the Heart’’ runs Friday– Sunday through Aug. 11 at the Barn Theatre in the Marin Art and Garden Center, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Ross. Thurs–Sat, 8pm; Sunday, 2pm. $15 - $27. 415.456.9555. rossvalleyplayers.com.

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The racy acidity of Napa’s SmithMadrone Riesling compares favorably with its Australian counterparts.

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mong the many clichés about Australia, few of them involve a nation of culinary sophisticates who know their way around the fine, dry Riesling category.

“We’re in a transition in terms of how Americans view Australia,” says Blair Poynton, who hails from Western Australia and is marketing manager for Old Bridge Cellars, a wine importer located in downtown Napa. The rugged image of Paul Hogan taking time out from wrestling crocodiles to throw a shrimp on the barbie is a thing of the past—although his efforts on behalf

of Australia’s tourism may have inspired many Americans to visit.

“What they’re mostly blown away by,” Poynton says, “is the quality of life and quality of dining there. It’s incredibly sophisticated and modern. We whinge about the quality of coffee, and so on.” And they know Riesling. “Even people who aren't really big wine drinkers would know that a Riesling is dry— even what the difference is between a Great Southern and a South Australia Riesling.”

Recently, I was surprised at how closely two Australian Rieslings matched up, stylistically, with a pair of Napa Valley wines.

Leeuwin Estate 2018 Art Series Margaret River Riesling ($22) A bit like a green Sauvignon Blanc, but without the extra helping of pyrazine (which can smell a little like cat pee), this has shy, young Riesling aromas of Pixie Stix, lime, aloe vera and mandarin orange, and smacks tartly of white grapefruit.

Trefethen 2018 Oak Knoll District Riesling ($26) A juicy refresher for summer evenings now, with aromas of white rose, rosemary, lavender and melon, and flavors of kiwi and lime, this will surely gain complexity with age.

Reminiscent of the Leeuwin, it’s crisp and dry, and should satisfy anyone who likes “New Zealandstyle” Sauvignon Blanc. d’Arenberg 2018 The Dry Dam Adelaide Riesling ($17) This is made with a touch more residual sugar, but the searing acidity typical to South Australian Riesling is such that all you notice is chalky acidity, lime juice and aromas of honeysuckle and golden apricots on toasted baguette points.

Smith-Madrone 2016 Spring Mountain District Riesling ($34) Holy honeycomb-lanolin gelato!

This wine’s two of a kind with the d’Arenberg, but a few extra years bring aromas like toasted honeycomb to the fore. Sounds sweet? It’s not sweet. Riesling can develop scents that seem tantalizingly dulcet, yet the wine remains crisp, dry and refreshing.

The lanolin note is like a softer version of the “petrol,” or mineral oil, aroma that aged Rieslings (and some younger ones, like the d’Arenberg) may show, and there’s a tinge of herb, as well—though it’s not as “würzy” as Gewürztraminer.

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The last time a volcano erupted in California was 1915; what mountain was it?

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In alphabetical order, what are the first two signs of the zodiac?

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What important part of the baseball playing field is 5.5 feet long by 3 feet wide?

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On June 16, 1963, the Russian engineer Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to do what (or go where)?

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5 There are two neighboring countries in East Africa whose country names

begin with “E,” and capital city names begin with “A.” What are they?

6 What two actresses starred in the 1991 film, Thelma and Louise?

7 The Japanese dish of battered and deep-fried vegetables and seafood is called what?

8 Which Beatles song contains a line sung in French? What is that line?

9 Who was the founder, around 1988, of the terror organization Al-Qaeda?

10 Phrases with numbers in them: 10a. The poorest and most undeveloped nations 10b. To refuse to self-incriminate oneself in a court trial 10c. A new surge of energy after a period of mental or physical exhaustion

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Sep 22 Illeagles Eagles Tribute Reservations Advised

415.662.2219

On the Town Square, Nicasio www.ranchonicasio.com

Thu 8⁄8 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $20–25 • All Ages

Southern Avenue with Todd Morgan Fri 8⁄9 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $12–15 • All Ages

Jerry's Middle Finger

Celebrates "Jerry Day" at Sweetwater Sat 8⁄10 • Doors 8pm ⁄ $27–32 • 21+

Fleetwood Mask

The Ultimate Tribute to Fleetwood Mac Sun 8⁄11 • Doors 3pm ⁄ $22–27 • All Ages George! The Concert starring Nick Bold as George Harrison Tue 8⁄13 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $16–19 • All Ages

Gangstagrass

Wed 8⁄14 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $15–19 • All Ages

Marty O'Reilly & The Old Soul Orchestra with Emily Afton

Thu 8⁄15 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $22–27 • All Ages

The Sophistikits

feat Eric McFadden, Eddie Roberts (New Mastersounds) & Wally Ingram Fri 8⁄16 • Doors 8pm ⁄ $27–32 • 21+

Tainted Love

The Best of the 80’s Live!

Sat 8⁄17 • Doors 11am ⁄ $17 All Ages, Children under 1 are free

The Music of The Beatles for Kids Sat 8⁄17 • Doors 8pm ⁄ $12–15 • All Ages

Yak Attack

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Calendar Concerts Anders Osborne Swedish-born and New Orleans-based rock and blues singer-songwriter plays a solo set in the Grate Room. Aug 9, 9pm. $25. Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael, 415.524.2773.

Charlie Hunter & Lucy Woodward Trio The Cookout Concert Series presents the guitarist and vocalist teaming up for a blast of blues and soul. Aug 11, 5pm. $20$25. HopMonk Novato, 224 Vintage Way, Novato, 415.892.6200.

George! The Concert Manchester musician Nick Bold stars as George Harrison in a flashback concert experience. Aug 11, 4pm. $22-$27. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.3850.

Clubs & Venues Ali Akbar College of Music Aug 10, Sandip Bhattacharjee. 215 West End Ave, San Rafael, 415.454.6372.

Belvedere Community Park Aug 11, 4pm, Pop Fiction. 450 San Rafael Ave, Belvedere, belvedereconcerts.org.

Gabrielson Park Aug 9, 6:30pm, Gator Nation. Anchor St, Sausalito, 415.289.4152.

HopMonk Novato Aug 8, Country Line Dancing. Aug 10, the ’85s. 224 Vintage Way, Novato, 415.892.6200.

Mantra Wines Aug 10, Charles Wheal Band. 881 Grant Ave, Novato, 415.892.5151.

Marin Country Mart Aug 9, 6pm, Friday Night Jazz with Masha Campagne Group. Aug 11, 12:30pm, Folkish Festival with Steven Gregory & West Coast Turnaround. 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur, 415.461.5700.

Menke Park Aug 11, 5pm, Bubba’s Taxi. Redwood and Corte Madera avenues, Corte Madera, 415.302.1160.

Mill Valley Depot Plaza Aug 11, 2pm, the King Street Giants. 87 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, 415.383.1370.

19 Broadway Nightclub Aug 8, Rhythms & Rhymes. Aug 9, Walk Talk with Noelle Glory & the Guarantees.

Aug 10, Ann Halen with the Hormones and Firebird. 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax, 415.459.1091.

Papermill Creek Saloon Aug 9, Kevin Meade and Highway One with Migrant Pickers. Aug 10, Brightsilver. Aug 11, 6:30pm, Jenny Kerr. 1 Castro, Forest Knolls, 415.488.9235.

Peri’s Silver Dollar Aug 8, Mark’s Jam Sammich. Aug 9, Tom Finch Trio. Aug 10, PSDSP and Milk for

the Angry. Aug 11, Soul Mechanix. Aug 13, Jake Hammerslag and friends. 29 Broadway, Fairfax, 415.459.9910.

Rancho Nicasio Aug 9, Gary Vogensen & the Ramble Band.

Aug 11, 4pm, Asleep at the Wheel. Sold-out. 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio, 415.662.2219.

Sausalito Seahorse Aug 8, Gini Wilson Jazz Ensemble. Aug 9, Jamie Clark Band. Aug 10, DJ Jose Ruiz. Aug 11, 4pm, Mario Salomon Orquestra. 305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito, 415.331.2899.

Smiley’s Schooner Saloon Aug 10, the Haggards. 41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas, 415.868.1311.

Station House Cafe Aug 11, 5pm, the Sorentinos unplugged. 11180 State Route 1, Pt Reyes Station, 415.663.1515.

Sweetwater Music Hall Aug 8, Southern Avenue with Todd Morgan.

Aug 9, Jerry’s Middle Finger. Aug 10, Fleetwood Mask. Aug 13, Gangstagrass. Aug 14, Marty O’Reilly & the Old Soul Orchestra with Emily Afton. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.3850.

The Tavern on Fourth Aug 9, Smiling at Strangers. Aug 10, Steady Eddy & the Shakers. 711 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.454.4044.

Tennessee Valley Cabin Aug 9, Creekside Fridays with Dead Again. 60 Tennessee Valley Rd, Mill Valley, 415.388.6393.

Terrapin Crossroads Aug 8, Colonel & the Mermaids. Aug 9, Top 40 Friday with Zach Nugent. Aug 10, Trio Del Mundo. Aug 11, Ashleigh Flynn & the Riveters. Aug 12, Grateful Monday. 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael, 415.524.2773.

William Tell House Aug 9, Rusty String Express. 26955 Hwy 1, Tomales, 707.878.2403.

Art Opening Art Works Downtown Aug 7-Sep 13, “ZenPop,” solo exhibition by Nellie King Solomon displays abstract works in which paint is poured, pushed and pulled.

Reception, Aug 9 at 5pm. 1337 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.451.8119.

MarinMOCA Aug 10-Sep 15, “Transcend,” artists of MarinMOCA offer compelling takes on nature, community, spirituality and more, exhibiting concurrently “Hungry Ghosts” mixed-media show and “Figurative Configurations” solo show by Judith Williams. Reception, Aug 10 at 5pm. 500 Palm Dr, Novato. 415.506.0137.

Comedy MarINSANITY Bay Area comics tape for a TV show and need a live studio audience. Space is limited, reservations recommended. Aug 12, 6:30pm.

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

Tuesday Night Live See standup comedians David Huntsberger,

Brent Pella, Nat Towsen and others. Aug 13, 8pm. $17-$27. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, 415.383.9600.

Events The French Market Outdoor antique market features vintage furniture, decor, clothing, jewelry and more, with crepes and live music. Sun, Aug 11, 9am. Free admission. Marin Civic Center, 3501 Civic Center Dr, San Rafael, goldengateshows.com.

San Rafael Art & Wine Festival Enjoy tastings from regional wineries local breweries, arts and crafts, a festive food truck selection and live music. Aug 10, 11am. Free admission; tasting tickets are $30. Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael, 415.485.3438.

Time For Your Stories Writer’s Circle Group provides a space to inspire and support beginning and seasoned writers.

Tues, Aug 13, 10:30am. $10. Novato Copperfield’s Books, 999 Grant Ave, Novato, 415.763.3052.

Field Trips Deer Island Stroll Join Ranger Lisa Wilson for a mid-morning hike and discover local wildlife and unique views of the preserve. Aug 14, 9am. Free.

Deer Island, Deer Island Lane, Novato, marincountyparks.org.

Inverness Morning Paddle Gentle naturalist-led tour is perfect for first-time and experienced paddlers. Wed, 10:30am. $88. Blue Waters Kayaking, 12944 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Inverness, bluewaterskayaking.com.

Sunrise Tour of Muir Woods See majestic trees and hear the story of the forest. Reservations required. Sun, Aug 11, 6:15am. Free. Muir Woods Visitor Center, 1 Muir Woods Rd, Mill Valley, 415.388.2596.

The Wild World of Plant Galls Walk examines an array of galls, structures built by plants to shelter and feed wildlife. Aug 11, 9am. Free. Mount Burdell Preserve, San Andreas Dr, Novato, marincountyparks.org.

Film Pixar Shorts Celebration Families are invited to see a collection of Pixar’s classic short animated films. Aug 10, 1:30pm. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.454.1222.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse Bring your blankets, low beach chairs, flashlights and picnics and watch the recent animated hit. Aug 9, 8pm. Free. Old Mill Park, Throckmorton and Cascade, Mill Valley, millvalleyrecreation.org.

Food & Drink Farm-To-Table Experience at Slide Ranch Enjoy a delicious meal featuring local and organic ingredients with optional

Glamping available. Aug 10, 4pm. $85. Slide Ranch, 2025 Shoreline Hwy, Muir Beach, 415.381.6155.

Sports Basement BrewFest Enjoy tastings from local breweries, tasty treats, music and a reusable commemorative cup to take home. Aug 10, 1pm. $15-$20.

Sports Basement Novato, 100 Vintage Way, Novato, 415.493.2633.

Superfood Social Enjoy some healthy cocktails and learn about superfoods from health practitioner Rachel Balunsat. Aug 10, 3:30pm. The Indie Alley, 69 Bolinas Rd, Fairfax, theindiealley.com.

For Kids CPC Summer Music Camp Children of all ages can be a part of a musical play for young voices. Aug 12-16, 9am. $60.

Christ Presbyterian Church, 620 Del Ganado Rd, San Rafael, 415.479.2712.

Lectures Marin Green Drinks Monthly lecture series features guest speaker Jonathan Campbell from Downtown Streets Team in San Rafael. Aug 13, 5:30pm. Free.

Lotus Cuisine of India, 704 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.456.5808.

The Way of Wabi-Sabi with Naomi Kubota Lee Experience the world of the Japanese aesthetic and compose very personal pieces of wabi-sabi art. Aug 11, 3pm. $35. O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, 616 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.4331.

Readings Book Passage Aug 8, 7:30pm,“More Together Than Alone” and “Drinking from the River of Light”with Mark Nepo. Aug 9, 8pm,“Perfect Sweat”with Mikkel Aaland. Aug 10, 8pm,“Prisoner”with Jason Rezaian. Aug 12, 7pm,“The Sun Is a Compass”with Caroline Van Hemert. Aug 14, 7pm,“Hollow Kingdom”with Kira Jane Buxton.

51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera 415.927.0960.

Point Reyes Books Aug 10, 7pm, “The Curious World of Seaweed” with Josie Iselin. 11315 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station 415.663.1542.

Studio 333 Aug 8, 7pm, Why There Are Words, literary series presents readers on the theme “Wilderness.” $10. 333 Caledonia St, Sausalito 415.331.8272.

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Seminars&Workshops To include your seminar or workshop, call 415.485.6700

SINGLES CLASS. Single & Dissatisfied? Tired of spending weekends and holidays alone? Join us to explore what’s blocking you from fulfillment in your relationships. Nine-week Single’s Group. Advance sign-up required. Space limited. Also offering weekly, coed (emotional) Intimacy Groups or Women’s Group, all starting the week of August 12th, and Individual or Couples Sessions. Office in Victorian in Central San Rafael. For more info, call Renée Owen, LMFT #35255 at 415-453-8117 or email reneeowen@sbcglobal.net or http://www. psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/renee-owen-sanrafael-ca/183422 GURDJIEFF LEGACY FOUNDATION New 4th Way Marin reading group focusing on In Search of the Miraculous. No prior experience necessary. Starts Mid August. Contact geomarch@Yahoo.com or Call 415-472-6063.

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Mind&Body HYPNOTHERAPY Thea Donnelly, M.A. Hypnosis, Counseling, All Issues. 25 yrs. experience.

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Home Services FURNITURE REPAIR FURNITURE DOCTOR Ph/Fax: 415-383-2697

Real Estate HOMES/CONDOS FOR SALE AFFORDABLE MARIN? I can show you 60 homes under $600,000. Call Cindy Halvorson 415-902-2729, BRE #01219375. Christine Champion, BRE# 00829362.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2019147148. The following individual(s) are doing business: MUSHROOM HOUR, 888 4TH STREET, UNIT 4, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: DARREN D. RACUSEN, 314 BAYVIEW ST, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on JULY 3, 2019. (Publication Dates: JULY 17, 24, 31, AUGUST 7 of 2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2019147171. The following individual(s) are doing business: 55 SHAVER BUILDING, 1028 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE BLVD., KENTFIELD, CA 94904: HALI A CRONER, 1028 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE BLVD., KENTFIELD, CA 94904. 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 JULY 9, 2019.

(Publication Dates: JULY 17, 24, 31, AUGUST 7 of 2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2019147219. The following individual(s) are doing business: FITZSIMON STEPHEN PLUMBING/STEVE FITZSIMON

PLUMBING, 266 MONTE VISTA AVE., LARKSPUR, CA 94939: STEPHEN G FITZSIMON, 266 MONTE VISTA AVE., LARKSPUR, CA 94939. 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 JULY 16, 2019.

(Publication Dates: JULY 24, 31, AUGUST 7, 14 of 2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 147210. The following individual(s) are doing business: COCO VIA SKIN AND BODY STUDIO, 160 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE BLVD UPSTAIRS UNIT, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: BRITTANY EVANS, 117 HAWTHORN WAY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on JULY 15, 2019. (Publication Dates: JULY 24, 31, AUGUST 7, 14 of 2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2019147228. The following individual(s) are doing business: DANDE11ION, 35 WINSHIP AVENUE, ROSS, CA 94957: JI YOUNG DELONG, 32 VALLEY CIRCLE, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941, ALLSION N. SUTHERLAND, 35 WINSHIP AVENUE, ROSS, CA 94957. This business is being conducted by

CO-PARTNERS. 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 JULY 18, 2019. (Publication Dates: JULY 24, 31, AUGUST 7, 14 of 2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2019147270. The following individual(s) are doing business: OARA, 3100 KERNER BLVD, UNIT V, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: MIND GUT HEALTH INC., 439 66TH ST., OAKLAND CA 94609. This business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on JULY 23, 2019. (Publication Dates: JULY 31, AUGUST 7, 14, 21 of 2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2019-147271. The following individual(s) are doing business: 1. DECKMASTERS, 2. HOUSESAVERS, 1201 ANDERSEN DRIVE, STE O, SAN RAFAEL CA 94901: DECKMASTERS LLC, 1201 ANDERSEN DRIVE, STE O, SAN RAFAEL CA 94901, This business is being conducted

by LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on JULY 23,

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 147236.

The following individual(s) are doing business: THE LITTLE STORE, 20 FOURTH ST., PT REYES, CA 94956: PETER NANTELL, 19123 HIGHWAY ONE, MARSHALL CA 94940, 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 JULY 18, 2019. (Publication Dates: JULY 31, AUGUST 7, 14, 21 of 2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2019147226. The following individual(s) are doing business: CURIOUS MINDS LEARNING CENTER, 47A TAMAL VISTA BLVD., CORTE MADERA CA 94925: TWO TEACHERS AND A BEAN LLC., 557 ACADIA DRIVE, PETALUMA CA 94954.

This business is being conducted by LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on JULY 18, 2019. (Publication Dates: JULY 31, AUGUST 7, 14, 21 of 2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2019147294. The following individual(s) are doing business: BYTE TECHNOLOGY, 101 GLACIER POINT, SUITE A, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: BYTE FOODS INC., 101 GLACIER POINT, SUITE A, SAN RAFAEL, CA 9490. This business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on JULY 25, 2019. (Publication Dates: AUGUST 7, 14, 21, 28 of 2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 147232. The following individual(s) are doing business: RECOVERY WITHOUT WALLS, 3 MADRONA STREET, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941. HOWARD KORNFELD MD, A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION, 3 MADRONA STREET, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941. This business is being con-

ducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on JULY 18, 2019.

(Publication Dates: AUGUST 7, 14, 21, 28 of 2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 147316.

The following individual(s) are doing business: SIMONE MARA CONSULTING, 548 WHITEWOOD DR., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. CHARLES YOAKUM, 548 WHITEWOOD DR., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903.

This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on JULY 29, 2019. (Publication Dates: AUGUST 7, 14, 21, 28 of 2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 147318. The following individual(s) are doing business: KITCHEN SICHUAN/ TOMMY’S BISTRO, 227 3RD ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901.

JIANWEI LUO, 163 CANAL ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901, This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on JULY 29, 2019. (Publication Dates: AUGUST 7, 14, 21, 28 of 2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2019147240. The following individual(s) are doing business: A.L. ELECTRIC, 527 BRET HARTE RD., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. ANTONIO LUSINCHI, 527 BRET HARTE RD., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901, This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on JULY 19, 2019. (Publication Dates: AUGUST 7, 14, 21, 28 of 2019)

OTHER NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 1902592 SUPERIOR COURT OF

CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS 1. Petitioner (name of each): Novatila Wangili Hansbrough and John Herndon Hansbrough III, has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Rex Manuel Hansbrough to Proposed Name: Manuel Rex Hansbrough 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: 9/6/2019, 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: July 8, 2019 Stephen P. Freccero Judge of the Superior Court James M Kim, Court Executive Officer, MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT

By Q. Roar, Deputy (Publication Dates July 24, 31, August 7, 14 of 2019)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 201902617 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS 1. Petitioner (name of each): Burke Mikolaj Halinovych, has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Burke Mikolaj Halinovych to Proposed Name: Burke Thomas Baldwin 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: 9/9/2019, 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: July 10, 2019 Andrew E Sweet Judge of the Superior Court James M Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT

By E. Anderson, Deputy (JULY 31, AUGUST 7, 14, 21 of 2019)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: Donald J. Lane CASE NO.: PR 1902827 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Brendan J. Wood and William J. Dugan.

A Petition for~Probate~has been filed by: Brendan J. Wood and William J. Dugan, in the Superior Court of California, County of Marin. The Petition for~Probate~requests that: Brendan J. Wood and William J. Dugan, be appointed as executor 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. Decedent died on 6-27-2019, a resident of San Rafael, Marin County CA. Bond not to be required for the reasons stated in item 3e. 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: 9/3/2019, 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. Petitioner: Zachary R. Rayo, Esq., Rayo Law Office, Inc., P.C., 3400 Bradshaw Rd., Ste A-4B, Sacramento, CA 95827 925-825-1955. FILED: July 24, 2019, James M. Kim, Court Executive Officer, MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By: K. Yarborough. Deputy.

(Publication Dates: July 31, August 7, 14 of 2019)

NOTICE OF PETITION FOR LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION AND AUTHORIZATION TO ADMINISTER UNDER THE INDEPENDENT ADMISTRATION OF ESTATES ACT: MARY HEROLD CASE NO.: PR 1902810 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Mary Herold. A Petition for~Probate~has been filed by: Douglas Herold, in the Superior Court of California, County of Marin. The Petition for~Letters of Administration~requests that: Douglas Herold, be appointed as 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. Decedent died on 4-25-2019, a resident of San Rafael, Marin County CA.

Bond not to be required for the reasons stated in item 3e. 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: 9/3/2019, 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. Petitioner: Piper Hanson, Crawfod & Hanson Law Offices, LLP, 1750 Franciso Blvd. Pacifica, CA 94044 650-738-0720. FILED: July 22, 2019, James M. Kim, Court Executive Officer, MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By: K. Yarborough. Deputy.

(Publication Dates: August 7, 14, 21 of 2019)

By Amy Alkon

Q:

Two weeks ago, I finally dumped my totally abusive jerk of a boyfriend.

I do miss him, but I know I made the right decision. I came to see that he was cruel, manipulative, sociopathic and toxic. However, I stupidly went on Facebook and saw that he already has a new girlfriend! I’m so pissed that I was replaced so quickly. I don’t want him back, but I do want to make him suffer, basically to get revenge for all he put me through. My friend keeps telling me revenge is unhealthy and toxic and forgiveness is good for you and I need to forgive him. Is she right?—Burned

A:

Revenge looks so Clint Eastwood-cool in the movies—less so when you get arrested for keying “micropenis!!!” into your ex’s car, right under a street cam.

The desire for revenge is basically the urge to punish people who’ve harmed us or those close to us. It’s widely believed to be a poisonous and maladaptive feeling that leads to poisonous and maladaptive behavior—like forays into the dark web to seek out a highly recommended but affordably priced assassin.

In fact, evolutionary psychologist Michael McCullough explains in “Beyond Revenge” that the revenge motive seems to be “a built-in feature of human nature,” a sort of psychological police force guarding our interests. It was likely vital to the evolution of human cooperation, which in turn led to essential human innovations such as flush toilets, open-heart surgery and the Dorito.

Research McCullough cites suggests the revenge motive serves three functions: deterring aspiring aggressors, deterring repeat aggressors and punishing (and reforming) freeloading moochbags.

The thing is, revenge has a companion motivation, forgiveness, which McCullough describes as “an internal process of getting over your ill will for an offender.”

Interestingly, whether we forgive appears to be context-sensitive, meaning it usually isn’t the particular crime so much as the particular criminal that matters. McCullough notes the forgiveness motivation seems to switch on when there’s a valuable relationship at stake—a continuing relationship between the harmer and harm-ee.

In your situation, however, there’s no ongoing relationship to motivate you to forgive the guy. And though forgiveness is correlated with mental health and even physical well-being, the assumption that forgiveness is always the best course of action is a little under-nuanced.

To decide what’s best for you, consider the reason you give for wanting revenge: because your ex was on to the next woman pronto after you dumped him. Also consider that you now identify him as a pretty terrible person and partner. Of course, the reality is, we all want to be wanted, sometimes even by people we really don’t have any business wanting.

But ask yourself something: In light of the sort of person you now see him to be, is it surprising in the least that he immediately latched onto his next victim?

Next, look at your life and calculate how much time and energy you’re investing in thinking dark and nasty thoughts about him. Is keeping the hate fires burning for him benefiting you? Does it feel energizing (that is, rewarding), or does it feel a bit poisonous, both psychologically and maybe even physically?

Sure, it’s understandable you’d long to do something—take some action, even the score—in response to feeling angry. However, if the reason for your anger is ultimately that you didn’t look too closely at whom you were getting together with, maybe what’s most productive for you now is deciding to let go of the past and working on being better at boyfriend vetting in the future. This starts with reviewing your last relationship from start to finish. Be intensely honest with yourself about all you overlooked about the guy and how you got used to his escalating levels of abuse as your continual “new normal.”By focusing on your part in this and how selective you need to be, you can shift into a sense of satisfaction that things will be different for you in the future.

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 August 7

ARIES (March 21-April 19): When it came time to write your horoscope, I was feeling unusually lazy. I could barely summon enough energy to draw up the planetary charts. I said a weak prayer to the astrological muses, pleading, “Please don’t make me work too hard to discover the message Aries people need to hear; just make the message appear in my mind.” As if in response, a voice in my head said, “Try bibliomancy.” So I strolled to my bookcase, shut my eyes, pulled out the first book I felt and went to a random page. Here’s what I saw when I opened my eyes: “The Taoist concept of wu-wei is the notion that our creative active forces are dependent on and nourished by inactivity; and that doing absolutely nothing may be a good way to get something done.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): There’s an

old Rosicrucian vow you might have fun trying out: “I pledge to interpret every experience that comes my way as a communication of God with my soul.” If you carry out this intention with relaxed playfulness, every bird song you hear is an emblem of Divine thought; every eavesdropped conversation provides hints of the Creator’s current mood; the shape spilled milk takes on your tabletop is an intimation of eternity breaking into our time-gripped realm. In my years of offering you advice, I’ve never before suggested you try this exercise because I didn’t think you were receptive.

But I do now. (If you’re an atheist, you can replace “God,” “Divine” and “Creator” with “Life.”)

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Below are unheralded gifts possessed by many Geminis but not commonly identified by traditional astrologers: 1. a skill for deprogramming yourself; for unlearning defunct teachings that might otherwise interfere with your ability to develop your highest potentials; 2. a sixth sense about recognizing artificial motivations, then shedding them; 3. a tendency to attract epiphanies that show you why and how to break taboos that may have once been necessary but aren’t any longer; 4. an ability to avoid becoming overwhelmed and controlled by situations you manage or supervise.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In 1993, I began writing a book titled The Televisionary Oracle. By 1995, I’d generated over 2,000 pages of material I didn’t like. Although I was driven by a yearning to express insights that had been welling up in me for a long time, nothing about the work felt right.

I was stuck. But finally I discovered an approach that broke me free: I started to articulate difficult truths about aspects of my life, about which I was embarrassed, puzzled and ashamed. Then everything fell into place. The process that had been agonizing and fruitless became fluidic and joyful.

I recommend you try this strategy to dissolve any mental blocks you may be suffering from: Dive into and explore what makes you feel ashamed, puzzled or embarrassed. I bet it will lead to triumph and fulfillment, as happened for me.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I’m overjoyed that you’re

not competing for easy rewards, or comparing yourself to the mediocre crowd. Some people in your sphere may not be overjoyed, though. To those whose sense of self isn’t strong, you may be like an itchy allergen; they may accuse you of showing off or acting puffed up. But freaks like me appreciate creative egotists like you when you treat your personality as a work of art. In my view, you’re a stirring example of how to be true to one’s smartest passions. Keep up the good work! Continue to have too much fun! I’m guessing that for now you can get away with doing just about anything you want as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Let’s enjoy a moment of poignant silence in honor of your expired illusions. They were soulful mirages: full of misplaced idealism and sweet ignorance and innocent misunderstandings. Generous in ways you may not yet realize, they exuded an agitated beauty that aroused both courage and resourcefulness.

Now, as those illusions dissolve, they will begin to serve you anew, turning into fertile compost for your next big production.

By Rob Brezsny

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Old rules and traditions about how best to conduct intimate relationship are breaking down. New rules are still incubating. Right now, the details about how people express their needs to give and receive love seem to be riddles for which there are no correct answers.

So what do you do? How do you proceed with the necessary blend of confidence and receptivity? Can you figure out flexible strategies for being true both to your need for independence and your need for interdependence? I bring these ruminations to your attention, Libra, just in time for the “Transforming Togetherness” phase of your cycle.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It’s time for

your once-a-year shout-out to your most audacious possibilities. Ready? Go ahead and say, “Hallelujah!

Hosanna! Happiness! Hooray for my brilliant future!” Next, go ahead and say, “I have more than enough power to create my world in the image of my wisest dreams.” Now do a dance of triumph and whisper to yourself, “I’m going to make very sure I always know exactly what my wisest dreams are.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): During the next three weeks, I advise you to load up on copious amounts of caffeine from Monday at 8am until Friday at 6pm. Then drastically cut back on the coffee and consume large amounts of alcohol and/or marijuana from 6:01pm on Friday through 6pm on Sunday. This is the ideal recipe for success. JUST KIDDING! I lied. Here’s the truth, Sagittarius: Astrological indicators suggest you would benefit from making the coming weeks be the most undrugged, alcohol-free time ever.

Your potential for achieving natural highs will be extraordinary, as will your potential to generate crucial breakthroughs while enjoying those natural highs. Take advantage!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I don’t

presume you should or will gleefully embrace the assignment I’ll propose. The task may indeed be too daunting for you to manage right now. If that’s the case, don’t worry. You’ll get another chance in a few months. But if you are indeed ready for a breathtaking challenge, here it is: Be a benevolent force of wild nature; be a tender dispenser of creative destruction; be a bold servant of your soulful dreams—as you demolish outmoded beliefs and structures that have kept a crucial part of your vitality shackled and latent.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’ve cast a feisty love spell that will be triggered in anyone who reads the first line of this horoscope. And since you’ve done that, you’re now becoming even smarter than you already were about getting the most out of your intimate alliances. You’re primed to experiment with the delights of feeling with your head and thinking with your heart. Soon you’ll be visited by revelations about any unconscious glitches that might be subtly undermining your togetherness, and you’ll get good ideas about how to correct those glitches. Astrological rhythms will be flowing in your relationships’ favor for the next seven weeks!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I estimate about 25

percent of your fear results from your hesitation to love as deeply and openly and bravely as you could.

Another 13 percent originates from an inclination to mistake some of your teachers for adversaries, and 21 percent from your reluctance to negotiate with the misunderstood monsters in your closet. But I suspect that fully 37 percent of your fear comes from the freefloating angst you telepathically absorb from the other 7.69 billion humans on our planet. So, what about the remaining four percent? Is that based on real risks and worth paying attention to? Yes! And the coming weeks will be an excellent time to make progress in diminishing its hold on you.

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

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