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TrashyValues

Go a bit north on Highway 101 to San Rafael on a Sunday and take the Lucas Valley Road exit and head east to McInnis Park. Before the golf course there are two soccer fields, one on the left and one on the right. On the right there is also a baseball diamond, not used right now. There are some pretty substantial crowds watching the matches on Sundays. My dog Marco and I go there for a walk often as there is a pleasant path around the fields, lots of trash containers to deposit the poop bags and the chance to meet other dogs.

The greatest opportunity, though, is to play Garbage Man. Every picnic table, every miniature grandstand and every group of families standing by the sidelines is surrounded by garbage— beer cans, water bottles, chip bags and on and on. All this in the presence of trash containers, many right next to them. One most disturbing details is the soccer field and diamond on the right are bordered by a slough that leads the bay that leads to the ocean.

I’ve often collected blowing plastic just before it blew over the bank.

I don’t know where the failure is here, but some family values there on Sunday seem to be in question.

Robert D. Bock San Rafael

Rim Shot

Sun readers have no doubt by now read that the prime minister of the United Kingdom has resigned over her incompetent relationship with Brexit.

This should come as no surprise.

After all, it is the end of May. Craig J. Corsini San Rafael

HistoricalWrongs

In American history the Reconstruction Era was the period from 1863 to 1877. It was a significant chapter in the history of American civil rights. It ended Confederacy and slavery, making the newly free slaves citizens with civil rights guaranteed by three new Constitutional amendments.

Reconstruction ultimately failed and for blacks its failure was a disaster whose magnitude continues to this day.

The Pew Research Center shows that among full and part-time workers in the U.S., blacks in 2015 earned only 75 percent as much as whites. The average hourly wages for black and Hispanic men were $15 and $14 respectively, compared with $21 for white men.

Black and Hispanic men have made no progress in reducing the wage gap with white men since 1980, due to no improvements in the hourly earnings of white, black or Hispanic men over this 35-year period. Inflation, plus the purchasing power of the San Francisco Bay Area, that now leads the world in number of billionaires, has created a disparity that will only grow worse each year.

Some view this growing disparity as not only unfair, but immoral.

Dennis Kostecki Sausalito

The state party is rudderless, says one progressive critic—even as it is all-powerful in Sacramento.

Blue in the Face Stung by sexual misconduct charges, state Democrats meet this weekend to elect a new maximum leader By Will Carruthers

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f the past several years are any indication, sparks will fly at the California Democratic Party convention this weekend in San Francisco.

Attendees of the gathering of Democrats—second in size only to the national convention—will bump shoulders with 14 announced presidential candidates, elect a new chair for the state party and vote on a variety of resolutions from Democratic clubs around the state.

But, as 2020 approaches with

24 candidates vying for the party’s presidential nomination, the larger debate over the direction of the Democratic Party is pungently acute in the North Bay, where even a pro-impeachment liberal environmentalist like Jared Huffman is viewed by some progressive party activists as a corporate Democrat, Joe Biden is accused of being a Republican and Bernie bumper stickers are as common on the road as traffic jams.

Conventions are always wide open

and messy affairs, since the many factions of the party are all under one roof. But given the “Trumpian” fallout from the departure of accused serial groper and former Chair of the California Democratic Party Eric Bauman late last year—this year could be a doozy.

Recent state conventions have highlighted the moderateprogressive divide in the Democratic Party across the country—even as the state is basically a one-party state »6

By Nikki Silverstein

A Marin Catholic High School runner made a heroic decision during an 800 meter race two weeks ago. When a competitor fell near Samantha Wallenstrom, she initially ran by, then reconsidered and went back to help the runner.

The precious time her good deed took could have ruined the sophomore’s chances to qualify for the California Interscholastic Federation state championships in track and field. Fortunately, she finished the race and qualified, as did senior Rayna Stanziano of Concord, the runner she assisted. In fact, Wallenstrom came in first and Stanziano came in second.

Wallentsrom’s show of sportsmanship even made national news.

This past weekend, the two girls competed again in the 800 meter race, this time at the state championships in Clovis. Stanziano took an early lead, until she was overtaken by Charlotte Tomkinson of Atherton. It appeared that Tomkinson, the favored runner, would take the title. Then, in the final 25 yards, Wallenstrom passed Tomkinson and won the race by less than a second. Divine intervention or good karma? Either way, congratulations to Wallenstrom for her big state win and her special award for good sportsmanship.

A Starbucks employee spied a spy device hidden in the coffee shop’s restroom. The creepy story unfolded at a Starbucks in Mill Valley when the staff member found a tiny camera inside an air freshener attached to the sink. Mill Valley police say the camera measures about two by two inches and uses batteries for power. They’re still trying to determine whether it has wireless capabilities. As if this secret surveillance isn’t perverse enough, the Starbucks, located across from Tam High, is a popular hangout for students. The police encourage caution any time you use a public restroom (especially if Chuck Berry is playing over the sound system).

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6 Blue in the Face «5 with a supermajority in Sacramento that’s gaining steam under Gavin Newsom. Still, the party will now have to deal with an additional layer of divide as a handful of the candidates for party chair are explicitly running as a rebuke against Bauman.

At the 2017 state convention, Bauman narrowly won election as party chair over his African-American opponent, Kimberly Ellis. She’s running against six other candidates this year. Most of them highlight their activist-progressive bona fides in campaign literature and pledge to move the party beyond the Bauman stain. In November 2018, Bauman stepped down as chair after party employees and activists accused him of sexual harassment for inappropriate comments and physical contact with staffers.

If no candidate wins 50 percent of the vote on Saturday, a second vote will be held on Sunday morning to pick a party chair.

“The priority of this convention is the election of a state chair,” says Pat Sabo, the chair of the Sonoma County Democratic Central Committee. “That will give us a better idea of where the party is going into the [convention].”

Dividing Lines In March, former vice president Joe Biden bragged that he had “the most progressive record of any candidate running” for president.

The line irked members of the “Sanders wing” of the party, who don’t consider Biden one of their own. Then again, Sanders isn’t even a Democrat. Marin County progressive activist and author Normon Solomon penned a column that month that said Biden “might as well be a Republican.”

While it’s true that all politics is local—locally, Democrats really don’t like President Trump and want their elected officials to do something about it. Sonoma County’s Alice Chan, an elected Democratic Party delegate from Assembly District 10, said whether or not to impeach the president has been an increasingly divisive issue in the party in recent months.

Climate change is another issue of great interest to local Democrats, who give no eco-quarter when it comes to Huffman. At the local level, Chan disagreed with

Huffman’s decision to join House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, but likes that he’s gone after Trump via impeachment. “[Pelosi] hamstrung the committee by depriving it of the powers routinely given to congressional committees: the power to issue subpoenas and write legislation,” Chan wrote in an op-ed in the Bohemian earlier this year.

“If we are truly facing “the greatest moral, economic and environmental imperative of our time”—and we certainly are— why hasn’t Huffman spoken up about the powerlessness of this committee?” Chan continued. For that matter, why hasn’t centrist Democrat Mike Thompson?

Chan says she’s proud that Huffman had recently publicly disagreed with Pelosi’s opposition to efforts to impeach Trump.

Huffman is one of about a dozen congressmen supporting impeachment proceedings against the president. Thompson is not one of them.

As the party’s been working to overcome the Bauman debacle, Sabo continues to believe that most disagreements within the party are over how to achieve goals shared among all Democrats.

“We have more in common than we think, but we might want to get there differently,” she says.

Recent skirmishes over universal healthcare, a policy included on the California Democratic Party platform, are an example of one divide within the party, with progressives criticizing elected officials over a lack of progress toward what’s presumed to be a shared goal on the state Democratic platform.

The Democrats currently hold all eight statewide executive offices along with a supermajority in the legislature. It’s not like they can blame Republicans for standing in their way.

In June 2017, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon pulled the Healthy California Act, a proposed universal healthcare bill, from consideration, arguing that it was “woefully incomplete upon reaching the Assembly for a vote.

His decision sparked protests from the bill’s backers, which included the California Nurses Association.

Several months later, progressive

Democrats in Humboldt County passed a motion by 16-11 that blasted Assemblyman Jim Wood for his role in the bill’s failure, and for “ignoring the clear will of the Democratic Party.”

Wood responded that he was not working in opposition to the bill, but that more groundwork needed to be done “to make the goals of this bill a reality.” Another attempt at universal healthcare was considered and shelved this year.

Wood told reporters that it was still premature to push for a California single-payer universal healthcare system.

Party Mechanics Attempts to guide the state Democratic party from the inside often come down to invoking over the party’s lesser-known rules and procedures. This fact came to a head in the North Bay at several public, but little-advertised elections, for state party delegates last year.

First, let’s consider the rules.

There are three ways one can serve as one of the roughly 3,000 delegates sent to the Democratic National Convention: serve as a member of a county central committee; be appointed by a state-level elected official; or win a seat in open, but little-advertised elections in each assembly district every other year.

The open elections, known as Assembly District Election Meetings (ADEM) have historically been viewed as one way for everyday Democrats to gain votes at the state convention without much investment beyond campaigning for the seat locally. That dynamic shifted somewhat this year when elected officials started to endorse slates of delegate candidates.

For example, in District 2, a sprawling district that stretches from Marin County to the Oregon border, Wood and Sen. Mike McGuire endorsed the California Rise Together slate. The slate included elected office holders and party members predominantly from Sonoma County. An opposing slate, the Progressive Labor Slate, fielded candidates from up and down the North Coast.

The decision by the elected officials to endorse candidates in the open election—a new practice, according to multiple local party members interviewed—struck some

progressives as an effort by elected leaders to win sympathetic delegates in a category usually not controlled by them.

“If they wanted to serve as a delegate, they could have just asked their assemblymember for an appointment,” says Chan.

In February, Bill Wong, California’s Political Director of Assembly Democrats, told the Northern California online political hotsheet, Redheaded Blackbelt, that state legislators in the lower house are allowed to endorse candidate slates under the state party’s bylaws.

“Assembly members are members of the Democratic Party and they are allowed by the party bylaws to participate in the ADEM elections in the same manner as any other engaged and committed registered Democrat,” Wong wrote.

The state party’s bylaws don’t weigh in on the role of money in the ADEM elections. While candidates for public office are required to report financial contributions and expenses of their campaigns, the party isn’t beholden to those campaign-finance rules.

The California Democratic Party didn’t respond to an inquiry about rules regarding financial disclosures in the district elections in time for the Bohemian’s deadline.

Sabo, the chair of the county central committee, called the practice of putting money behind slates “a slippery slope.”

“I think that money could have been better spent in [Sonoma County] rather than attacking each other,” Sabo said.

Despite the prominence of the electeds-endorsed slate members, the Progressive slate won 12 of 14 seats in the recent elections. How that translates this weekend remains to be seen, but local party officials are optimistic that, if nothing else, the party convention presents a chance for the state party to move beyond the Bauman debacle.

Convention Goals Mary Watts, a Rise Together candidate from Santa Rosa, was elected to serve on the state party’s executive board as representative for District 2. She ran for Santa Rosa City Council last year as a working parent and renter in one of the nation’s priciest markets—and lost.

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Blue in the Face «6 a new party chair can help mend some of the party’s culture revealed, in part, by the unhealthy culture under Bauman’s leadership.

“We need to acknowledge that we have had faults and that we want to make changes,” she says.

Rather than categorize party members as “progressive” or “moderate,” Watts says she tends to consider a party members’ stance on different issues.

“The bigger issue is that everyone can go into a room and focus on common goals,” says Watts. All eyes are on 2020 and she hopes the state party can help lead the national party to take back the White House and the U.S. Senate in 2020.

David Hildebrand, a candidate for northern chair of the Progressive Caucus, who got involved in electoral politics as a result of the Sanders campaign, believes the state party is not acting quickly enough on major issues such as climate change and universal healthcare. He

decided that pushing the state party to the left from the inside would be quicker than building a viable third party in time for 2020. He’s hoping for a positive result this weekend.

“This election is going to be a bellwether for the direction the party is moving,” Hildebrand predicted. “The person in charge of the party has to be that speaker pushing the issues and the platform In the past the [moderate] chairs have not done that because they don’t need to.”

Helen Sizemore, an elected delegate in Assembly District 2 hopes that a new chair will provide unifying leadership for a state party that Sizemore sees as adrift—yet seemingly all-powerful at once.

“I think the party is a ship without a rudder,” says Sizemore.

The election, she hopes, will start to set state Democrats on a new course.

Tom Gogola contributed to this report.

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“We are living in a powder keg,” wrote the Marin County Civil Grand Jury in its late April report on the state of wildfire preparedness in Marin County.

It’s Getting Worse California’s deadly wildfires, explained

By Julie Cart and Judy Lin / CALmatters

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warming climate complicates everything.

Hotter and drier seasons mean that big fires in December, once almost unheard of, are now common.

In earlier decades, fires late in the year might have sputtered out after hitting hillsides wet with winter rain. More recent blazes feasted on vegetation that has been sucked of moisture by persistent drought.

Even years of plentiful rain harbor dangers. Post-fire precipitation, especially very wet winters, can usher in the growth of non-native shrubs and grasses that burn quickly and spread fires faster than native species.

California’s bigger, more frequent fires are endangering more residents—nearly 90 perished

in the 2018 blaze that destroyed the Northern California town of Paradise. Forest fires are increasingly a misnomer as flames race across landscapes dotted with subdivisions and communities that have been carved out where trees once stood.

The trend of more Californians living in harm’s way complicates firefighting efforts and ramps up the danger fires pose.

Epidemic of dead trees California’s forests, which cover a third of the state, are now choked with some 150 million dead trees.

Weakened by a prolonged drought, which scientists link to climate change, California’s ubiquitous pines and oaks are

vulnerable to insect infestation and disease. Those giants crash to the forest floor and, unless they are removed, provide ready fodder for the next voracious fire. The die-off is catastrophic beyond the reach of state foresters to remedy.

In many communities of the central and southern Sierra Nevada mountain range, “80 percent of trees are dead,” said Ken Pimlott, former director of Cal Fire.

The state owns only about 3 percent of California’s wooded acreage. Some land is owned by cities, counties, Native American tribes and private holders. President Trump has criticized California’s fire management. But in fact, the biggest forest landlord in California, by far, is the federal government, which manages 18 national forests in the state.

The U.S. Forest Service has a longtime policy of putting out every fire, and quickly, which has packed the federal land with fuel to burn.

And its budget falls short of the cost of needed work to reduce that fuel.

The electricity factor Hundreds of thousands of miles of transmission lines and other electrical equipment are strung across California, drawing little attention—until authorities name utility equipment as the cause of a wildfire. One in 10 California wildfires is related to energy equipment, according to the state’s chief utility regulator.

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safety measures in place, hoping to ensure that their equipment won’t spark future fires. Among the firms’ strategies: more aggressively clearing brush and trees around transmission lines; swapping wooden power poles for metal ones and maintaining a network of remote cameras to keep watch on wind, smoke and other dangers.

None of these or other firemitigation efforts will come cheaply.

When a judge proposed new safety measures for Pacific Gas & Electric, the company said the work could cost $150 billion. Can be expected to foot much of the fire-mitigation bill as utility companies pass costs along to them.

Horrid air When fires burn in uninhabited wildlands, their corrosive effects can be carried hundreds of miles by the wind, causing stinging eyes, burning throats and severe coughing.

Local air districts issue warnings to residents to wear masks and avoid outside exercise. Hospitals

report increased numbers of patients seeking help for respiratory problems, and school closures can keep as many as a million children home as even indoor air quality deteriorates.

No state has done as much as California to reduce its output of planet-warming greenhouse gases.

Yet the smoke produced by major fires is so potent that a single weekslong blaze can undo a year’s worth of carbon-reduction efforts. State officials are concerned that what’s pumped into the air during fires could impair California’s ability to reach its stringent greenhouse-gas reduction goals.

A single wildfire can spew more pollutants into the air than millions of cars. Moreover, as more trees die, another weapon to combat climate change is lost: the prodigious ability of healthy trees to absorb carbon from the atmosphere.

Trees release a powerful pollutant, black carbon, as they burn. Black carbon is many thousand times more damaging than greenhouse gases.

And the damage doesn’t cease once flames are snuffed out; decaying forests

continue to emit harmful pollutants.

If a burned-out forest is replaced by chaparral or brush, that landscape loses more than 90 percent of its capacity to take in and retain carbon.

It has to be said that fires are not always bad. Naturally occurring fires clear overgrown forests, creating space for some plants and trees to revitalize. Researchers say less-dense forests are more natural and healthy.

But more often in California, wildfires ignite a furious competition for life. Fast-growing and opportunistic non-native plants rush in after fires, with the potential to wholly supplant native species.

This phenomenon doesn’t just erase an aspect of California’s botanical history; it affects its fire future.

Invasive grasses and weeds often burn more readily, fanning hotter and more frequent fires.

The costs Wildfires took scores of lives in California in 2018, the deadliest fire year in the state’s recent history.

Most of those deaths were related to the blaze that destroyed the town of Paradise. The numbers include people responding to the fires.

Not surprisingly, the wildfire tab is growing.

The state has exceeded projected fire-suppression costs in seven of the last 10 years. In 2018, California spent nearly $1 billion on fire suppression and emergency response, far exceeding the budgeted $450 million.

Cal Fire boasts one of the largest firefighting air fleets in the world, including S-2T air tankers and Huey helicopters. The state plans to upgrade the Hueys to Black Hawks and add C-130 Hercules cargo planes.

And rather than waiting to respond to a wildfire, emergency personnel have shifted to pre-positioning strike teams before a fire starts. It’s a strategy that costs more.

Seven of the 10 most destructive wildfires in California have occurred in the last five years. The financial toll for homeowners, renters and businesses in the past two fire seasons has topped $10 billion in insured losses each year.

The California Department of Insurance has reported claims from major wildfire seasons going back to 2007. The claims include damages reported to residential and commercial properties as well as auto and other lines of insurance.

The figures don’t tell the whole story. We know many wildfire victims lived in high-threat areas without insurance.

The utilities debacle PG&E filed for Chapter 11 reorganization in U.S. Bankruptcy Court on Jan. 29, 2019.

The utility, which provides natural gas and electricity to 16 million people in Northern and Central California, cited up to $30 billion in liabilities since many recent blazes have been linked to its equipment. Legal experts say it could take up to three years to rehabilitate PG&E, a process that could leave energy goals hampered and wildfire victims shortchanged.

Even before PG&E’s bankruptcy, there was debate about who bears the costs as wildfires become more frequent and destructive.

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Solutions?

In March, Gov. Newsom declared a wildfire state of emergency for California and waived environmental regulations to speed up forest management projects aimed at reducing the fuel load for the upcoming wildfire season. By removing dead trees or clearing brush, the programs aim to reduce the threat of wildfires by creating fuel breaks, defensible space and safe travel corridors around vulnerable communities.

Some environmental groups, however, question whether logging would damage ecosystems and suggest it’s more effective to clear vegetation around homes.

There are, however, some places where the risk is so great that fire scientists say homes simply should not be built there—even in a state where housing shortages have reached crisis levels. In California from 1990 to 2010, an estimated 45 percent of new housing units were constructed in the “wildland-urban interface”— where suburbia and rural towns back up onto wild, and combustible, landscapes. With more residences sprouting on the edge of wildlands or deep in narrow canyons, fires become an inevitability and firefighters have a tougher and larger territory to defend.

What to do? State lawmakers have already extended some state restrictions to local lands, and some have talked about possible rebates or other subsidies for residents who cannot afford to “harden” their homes. But essentially legislators are grappling with an unpalatable reality: Require even more extensive and expensive upgrades to existing homes, or ban building altogether in some areas. That discussion is as potentially explosive as the fires themselves.

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N EW S B R I E FS Mt. Flame We are living in a powder keg,” wrote the Marin County Civil Grand Jury in its late April report on the state of wildfire preparedness in Marin County. Strong words indeed—but that was just the beginning, as the jury issued a blistering 37-page critique of county fire preparation efforts and concluded with a recommendation that the county create a new public authority devoted to pre-ignition fire suppression efforts.

The grand jury’s last wildfire report, in 2013, was far less draconian in its sweep and indictment of the county— but the basic issues from 2013 remain the same: Inadequate vegetation removal efforts; poor evacuation planning; poor communication between agencies; and not much in the way of education-outreach when it comes to informing the public of the wildfire risks. And that’s not all.

“Marin County has been warned repeatedly that it stands one spark away from a major conflagration,” the citizens’ panel concluded, “but many of the county’s governments continue to conduct business as usual. Uncoordinated pre-ignition planning, jurisdictional rivalries, and a glacial pace for implementation of improvements has left the public in grave danger.”

Other facets of life in Marin County—including the eye-popping cost of living—have also played a role in making the county exceedingly vulnerable to a “mega-wildfire” such as those that broke out in Sonoma and Napa counties in 2017 and in Butte County last year. The grand jury noted that most of the first responders who work in the town of Paradise, also lived in the town of Paradise. They found that in 2011, between 20 and 30 percent of first responders live in Marin County. “That number is likely to be even lower now,” given the rapid spike in Marin’s cost of living over that time, they report.

The grand jury’s latest wildfire report also signals a shift away from one especially controversial recommendation the body made in 2013, when it encouraged the county to go along with a Marin Municipal Water District plan to use glyphosate-based poisons to eradicate invasive plants that are a known fuel for wildfires.

That recommendation was not adopted and the county and numerous towns within the county have enacted bans on the cancer-causing herbicide

(Gov. Gavin Newsom has called for a statewide ban).

Now the grand jury is calling for a special vegetation-removal cadre of firefighters to beat back Scotch broom and other fire-friendly vegetation using manual means. The county’s already taken up that recommendation in response to a report that pulled no punches in fingering civic leaders for largely dropping the ball on preignition suppression efforts.

One especially pointed observation from the civilian-led grand jury stands out: “In some cases, local government does not trust the public,” the jurors wrote. “It ‘spins’ information to avoid an adverse public response.

Government officials and first responders would like the public to believe that all evacuation routes have been cleared of roadside vegetation, all designated access and egress roads are accessible and passable, and that traffic congestion can be handled by police officers who will be in place at critical intersections. The public would be mistaken to believe this.”

Moreover, state fire-hazard maps are useless and outdated, they write—they haven’t been updated since 2007, and given the advent of fast-moving wildfires, ember showers and fire tornadoes, the civil grand jury’s concluded that the entire county is at high risk of catastrophic fire, regardless of what the state maps say. There are 69,000 homes in Marin’s so-called “wildlandurban interface” which comprises some 60,000 acres. The residences in these areas are worth an estimated $59 billion, according to estimates from the Marin County Fire Department. But the report also notes that the wildlandurban interface designation doesn’t mean much when considering that Coffey Park, in Santa Rosa, was not in the Sonoma County’s urban-rural and burned to the ground in 2017.

Public buy-in to emergency alerts (Marin residents are coming in at a pokey 35 percent participation in earlywarning sign-ups) and fire-management and evacuation plans is critical, the grand jurors conclude. Treating the public as an impediment and not an asset is dangerously short-sighted thinking, they charge, especially in the era of the unpredictable mega-fire: “Withholding information prevents people from planning ahead for their own evacuation or improvising as circumstances change. It is precisely the unpredictability of wildfire that makes it essential that all possible escape routes be known well in advance.” That same public may now be asked to OK a local quarter-cent hike in Marin’s sales tax to fund a new fire czar, whose role would be to coordinate fire prevention

efforts among the dozen-odd fire departments that service the county.

In making its provocative “powder keg” observation, the grand jury highlighted the topographic challenges in the county as a key driver behind their draconian call to action.

The geography is varied and most of the county is open space, it notes, “much of which has become dangerously overgrown.” This includes the vast sections of West Marin that are under the jurisdiction of the state and federal government (they contract with the Marin County Fire Department to provide fire service to the unincorporated parts of the county).

They’re not alone, as just about every other public agency and organization under the Marin sun gets smoked out in this report for failing to heed the crisis: “Despite the laudable efforts of Marin’s fire chiefs to create a bold new approach to pre-ignition and pre-suppression issues, other entities such as city councils, transportation agencies, environmental groups, regional and urban planners, and land-use activists are not addressing the wildfire risks that climate change has brought to our daily lives.”

(Environmental groups are singled out for opposing vegetation removal and controlled burns.)

The grand jury report is currently under review by numerous agencies and entities in Marin County—from the Inverness Fire District to the Transportation Authority of Marin—and their required-by-law responses to the report are due in July.

“We’re developing a draft response that we’re going to take to our June board meeting, says TAM deputy executive director Dan Cherrier.

The agency’s going to push back on the grand jury report, he says. The report singles out TAM for its failure to jump on to evacuation planning efforts.

“Emergency evacuation is not covered under the code that created TAM,” he says—not to mention that the authority doesn’t have any policing powers to enforce an evacuation plan. “We don’t have the mission nor the funds to worry about emergency evacuation,” he adds, noting that it falls under the sheriff ’s office and county emergencyservices office to come up with safe evacuation plans for the county. He also notes that TAM’s voter-approved spending plan from Nov. 2018 didn’t enhance evacuation buy-in and “was not something that the voters tasked us with.”

“They’re trying to do their role, too, he says of the grand jury’s effort, Cherrier adds. “We’re not saying that they are wrong,” he says—just that it’s not TAM’s job to provide for a safe evacuation route.

—Tom Gogola

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prepare wildfire mitigation plans that describe what they are doing to prevent, combat and respond to wildfires. The three largest utilities, Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric, plan to spend millions clearing brush and trees away from transmission lines, insulate or install underground power lines and install or maintain a network of remote cameras and weather stations to detect wind, smoke and other dangers.

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Bay Area party band Neon Velvet kicksoff Friday Nights on Main in Tiburon.

See clubs & venues, pg 20.

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THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A SELECTIVE GUIDE

POINT REYES STATION

SAUSALITO

SAN RAFAEL

MILL VALLEY

Marin nature-lover Richard Vacha is best known as the founder of the Marin Tracking Club and the Point Reyes Tracking School, and for essays and articles on the subject published over the last three decades. Vacha collects his fieldwork into a fascinating new book, The Heart of Tracking. Drawing from Vacha’s lifetime of outdoor experience and packed with keen insights, the book turns the primal art of animal tracking into an accessible portrait of our relationship to nature. Vacha debuts the book with a reading on Thursday, May 30, at Pt Reyes Books, 11315 Hwy One, Point Reyes Station. 7pm. Free.

415.663.1542.

Spend the weekend with the Spaulding Marine Center and immerse in history and ecology. First up, sailor, boat builder and concert violinist Myron Spaulding is honored in a concert featuring a recently uncovered collection of Spaulding’s sheet music performed by acclaimed musicians Benjamin Bregmen and Leo Baluk on Friday, May 31. Then, author and painter Laura Cunningham leads daytime ecological cruise of the Bay and an evening presentation, “San Francisco Bay in the Past,” that examines what the region’s wildlife looked like some 200 years ago on Saturday, Jun 1, at Spaulding Marine Center, 600 Gate 5 Road, Sausalito. Times and prices vary per event. 415.332.3179.

In its mission to save and share American gardens, the Garden Conservancy partners with the Marin Art & Garden Center and the Marin Garden Club for the annual Open Day Garden Tour this weekend.

Themed “Glorious Gardens of San Rafael,” this year’s self-guided tour includes six garden destinations, including the Marin Art & Garden Center’s 11-acre campus. Take the tour on Saturday, June 1, at several locations in San Rafael and Ross. 10am to 4pm. Day pass, $35; individual garden admission, $10. Kids ages 12 and under are free. advance tickets available at magc.org.

It began as a little wine and cheese gathering in 1981, but the annual Mill Valley Wine, Beer & Gourmet Food Tasting has evolved into the preeminent event of its kind in the Bay Area, attracting thousands to downtown Mill Valley for a chance to sample from dozens of sought-after wineries, breweries, chefs and other culinary artisans. As if you needed more reason to attend, proceeds from the event benefit the Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce and Kiddo! Mill Valley Schools Community Foundation. Sunday, June 2, at Depot Plaza, Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 1pm. $60 and up. enjoymillvalley.com.

Natural Perception

Waterfront Wonders

In Bloom

Crème de la Crème

—Charlie Swanson

ARTS

Rural Roots Locals lay claim to Point Reyes Station at Western Weekend By Charlie Swanson

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efore the art galleries and cafes, before the bookstores and the shops, Point Reyes Station was farmland, far as the eye could see. Even before the ranchers and settlers found their way to the peninsula, Native American tribes managed the land for thousands of years. Once the railroad reached the west coast, cattle and dairy farming came

with it, and today the region is still a food producer.

This weekend, the town celebrates that tradition of agriculture with the annual Western Weekend.

More than just a day on the farm, the long-running weekend features two-and-a-half days of community events, live music, and lots of food on Saturday and Sunday, Jun 1-2.

“I gauge my year by Western Weekend,” says West Marin

resident and actor, comedian and musician Stephen Horvat. “It’s when everybody is coming out of hibernation and it’s a chance to see everybody you haven’t seen in awhile and get ready for summer.”

Western Weekend is centered around Toby’s Feed Barn and Gallery as well as several other venues along the main drag.

Saturday’s fiesta opens with the 4H Fair, in which Marin, Sonoma,

Western Weekend happens Saturday and Sunday, Jun 1-2, at Toby’s Feed Barn, 11250 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station.

Sat, 1pm; Sun, noon. Free admission.

415.663.1223. The Haggards play on Saturday, Jun 1, at Old Western Saloon, 11201 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station. 9pm. $10. 415.663.1661.

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Peter Thoshinsky

The Haggards salute the Old West when they play as part of Western Weekend in Pt Reyes Station.

and Napa 4-H members exhibit their project work and participate in competitions. Then, ¡Cantemos Juntos! and the Point Reyes Children's Choir perform together before a massive Mexican dinner and the traditional barn dance.

Once the sun goes down on Saturday night, the action heats up at the Old Western Saloon when Horvat and his band of West Marin outlaw country compadres The Haggards headline a raucous affair.

“The Haggards have the tradition of playing at the Old Western Saloon on Saturday night and it’s usually the craziest show of the year,” says Danny Vitali, who co-formed the band with Horvat, Dylan Squires and Gene Fisher.

First formed as a satirical country band, the Haggards were born in the saloon and they pack the venue each time they take the stage. For this weekend’s show, the group is also planning on recording the set for a live album.

“There’s a lot of audience participation, jokes and skits, and strange and irreverent Haggards-style rock ‘n’ roll,” says Vitali of the show.

Aside from the concert, Vitali and Horvat use Western Weekend to celebrate the locals and the diverse community that has formed in Point Reyes Station.

“I’ll never forget the first time I went and was wowed by the awesome mix of Point Reyes cultures getting together,” says Vitali. “There’s a lot of Western wear, there's animals in the parade, there’s Straus ice cream getting handed out. It’s really fun.”

Sunday opens with a morning yoga session before the noon parade that starts at Toby’s Feed Barn. Locals can also enjoy Marin County Farm Bureau’s fundraising barbecue, chili cook-off and nonprofit exposition.

“There’s a sense of the Old West,” says Horvat of the weekend. “But, all different types of people can lay their claim to the town for a little while. It’s packed and lively and full of locals ready to have a good time.”

Greg Gorman

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Otttmar Liebert plays off his recently reissued LP, ‘Santa Fe Sessions’ on May 30

MUSIC

“ THE ‘LOVE THY NEIGHBOR’ ETHOS… has been all but choked out of this country’s lingua franca.

THIS MOVIE WILL COMPEL YOU TO THINK about why that happened.”

– Glenn Kenny, THE NEW YORK TIMES

®

THREE DAYS THAT DEFINED A GENERATION

woodstockdocumentary.com

EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT

STARTS FRIDAY, MAY 31

SMITH RAFAEL FILM CENTER 1118 4th St, San Rafael • (415) 454-1222

Q&A with WRITER/DIRECTOR BARAK GOODMAN SATURDAY, JUNE 1 after the 4:15 show.

Travel Tales Ottmar Liebert finds home

By David Templeton

‘I

enjoy touring, I really do,” says guitarist Ottmar Liebert in anticipation of his May 30 concert at Sweetwater Music Hall. “I enjoy performing live. It’s fun, especially after spending so much time in the studio. There’s

an element of surprise to a live performance that I look forward to.”

“Of course, these days, asking a musician if they enjoy touring is like asking them if they like to eat,” he adds, laughing. “Because if a musician isn’t willing to tour, they’re not going to make enough money to pay the bills. But fortunately, I like to eat and I like to tour.”

Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico since 1986, the German-born, multiple Grammy nominee and Platinum-selling artist is among the world’s most acclaimed Spanish and Flamenco guitarists, with a style that blends multiple global influences. He’s released over 30 albums since his 1990 debut, Nouveau Flamenco.

That, he allows, is a lot of music from which to assemble a set list.

“In concert, I usually do a mix of something old, something new, something that’s never been released, and maybe something totally unexpected, even to me,” says Liebert, who’ll be onstage in Mill Valley with percussionist Chris Steele next week. “I like to make decisions on the fly, which is why I do make a set list. But often I throw it out the window as soon as we start playing.”

Liebert suspects he’ll be playing a tune or two from The Complete Santa Fe Sessions, last year’s critically acclaimed reissue of his 2003 album, which features extensive digital reengineering and the addition of previously unreleased tunes.

“That’s an unusual project in that the original recording was done a long time ago, but I was just never happy with it,” he says. “When I looked at it again, a couple of years ago, I saw ways to make it come together to my satisfaction. Now I really love it a lot.”

Asked about how living in desert for 33 years has influenced his life and music, Liebert replies, “Having previously lived in cities all my life, there is something about the emptiness of the desert that just makes everything possible. I suppose I appreciate emptiness. I don’t like art hanging on my walls.

I want the empty space, and I want whatever it is I project onto it at a particular moment. The desert is the same way for me. It’s an empty canvas, and it changes all the time, depending on the time of day and the quality of the light.”

Ottmar Liebert performs on Thursday, May 30, at Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley. 8pm. $40$50. 415.388.3850.

FILM

Piano Man They told Elton to go to rehab and he said yes, yes, yes in ‘Rocketman’ By Richard von Busack

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o Rocketman commences with Elton John (Taron Egerton) dressed in a pomegranate-hued devil costume, striding toward a circle of metal folding chairs. In recovery you’re supposed to be anonymous.

Elton is there to state his full name and confess his polydrug abuse and sex addiction. The addicts hang on his words. One asks, “What were you like as a child?”

Not that question! A lonely prodigy in the London suburbs, that’s what, complete with ice

cold dad (Steven Mackintosh), and withholding mom (Bryce Dallas Howard in a role Gemma Arterton would have improved). Young Elton (Matthew Illesey) sings “The Bitch Is Back,” not a song one associates with 10-year-olds, to a crowd of dancing 1950s neighbors in a cul-de-sac. This lost kid keeps returning for encores throughout the movie. Sometimes he gazes at his grown-up self, wasted by drugs, or wearing stage costumes that look, as This is Spinal Tap had it, like “some Australian’s nightmare”.

Director Dexter Fletcher, who took over from Bryan Singer on Bohemian Rhapsody, bills this as a “true fantasy.” The fiction may be upfront—composite characters cannot sue—but it’s awfully familiar. First the new identity; a stage name taken from musician Elton Dean and, here, John Lennon.

British bluesman Long John Baldry, the actual source, and in real life the “someone” who saved Elton John’s life, is cut out of the picture.

The hungry years get their due, thanks to Stephen Graham as Dick

‘Rocketman’ open on Friday, May 31, in wide release.

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Paramount Pictures

Elton John is back in fashion in ‘Rocketman’

James, a cigar-chomping Denmark Street manager. That’s where young Elton meets Jamie Bell’s lyricist Bernie Taupin. Bell is so appealingly understated that it would seem to have been a better idea to make Rocketman a bromance between an anguished, flamboyant performer and his no-drama mate.

Then comes the cocaine nosebleeds, cascades of pills, blackouts and yet another cold shoulder from mom and dad.

Against this worn-out material, the live shows perk things up.

The closest Rocketman gets to the appealing delirium it seeks is when Elton rises up from a show at Dodger Stadium in his blue rhinestone baseball uniform, flies into the air and hits a passing jet plane like a skyrocket…then comes to consciousness aboard the plane, flying to some other gig.

Gauche as it can be, Rocketman has its pleasures, but the arrangements lack the firepower of Elton’s best live album, 11/7/70, and the songs are out of timeline, so we don’t see his development as a musician. As seen here, Honky Chateau seem to have been recorded after that unbearably twee megahit Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.

As Elton, Egerton has the voice close enough for memory’s sake.

But Fletcher favors tight closeups, making sure Egerton eats his heart out around an ever-changing selection of novelty eyewear. Like elderly performers, stage outfits are meant to be seen from 20-feet away.

It’s hard to feel the pain of a man when he’s dressed like Papageno in The Magic Flute.

To its credit, Rocketman isn’t nervous about Elton’s sexuality. One of Elton’s best songs, “Take Me to The Pilot,” is dubbed over the first tryst between Elton and his new love and new manager John Reid (Game of Thrones’ Richard Madden); the two can’t get their pants off fast enough. “Honkey Cat,” with its pleasing New Orleans licks on a Fender Rhodes, is dubbed over the new couple’s shopping spree.

Lest we forget, the road to excess is a toll road. Elton tells his therapy group that he loved every crazy moment of it, but Rocketman won’t buy that. Rock music trusts us to know what fun too much fun can be. Mainstream biopics may honor the flight paths of a star, but they always have to bring the story thuddingly to earth.

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Movies

• New Movies This Week

By Matthew Stafford

Friday May 31-Thursday Jun 6 Aladdin (2:08) Disney de-musicalizes itself in Guy Ritchie’s live-action remake about a princess, a sorcerer and a street urchin; Will Smith speaks Genie.

Avengers: Endgame (3:02) The Marvel mishegoss climaxes with the stillstanding superheroes heading into final battle with a universe-destroying miscreant.

The Bikes of Wrath (1:40) Documentary follows five Aussie bikers as they retrace the Oklahoma-to-California odyssey of The Grapes of Wrath’s Joad family and discover how much the novel’s central issues are still relevant.

Booksmart (1:45) Coming-of-age comedy about two high school brainiacs who make up for lost time (not to mention drinking, drug use and strong sexual content) the night before graduation.

Brightburn (1:30) A creepy little kid turns out to be a marooned extraterrestrial with a busted flying saucer and plenty of attitude.

Dark Phoenix (1:54) The X-Men are back and battling their very own Phoenix, who’s been dazed, confused and downright dangerous since a run-in with a mysterious cosmic force.

A Dog’s Journey (1:48) Bailey is back, letting his soul drift from one adorable pooch to another, each of them devoted to a cute little girl named CJ. Exhibition Onscreen: Van Gogh & Japan (1:30) Explore Vincent’s deep affinity for Japanese art and its profound influence on his work on a cinematic tour of France, Japan and Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum.

Faust (3:30) The Royal Opera presents a saucy new cabaret-Parisienne version of Gounod’s devil-may-care classic; Erwin Schrott sings the hell out of Méphistophélès.

42nd Street (2:35) Direct from London’s Theatre Royal it’s the classic WarrenDubin musical about a down-on-hisheels producer struggling to put on a show in the depths of the Great Depression.

Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2:11) Crypto-zoologists Ken Watanabe and Vera Farmiga take on not only the Big G but bro behemoths Mothra, Rodan and King Ghidorah!

The Hustle (1:33) Bedtime Story gets a sex change with Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson as two very different con artists fleecing the Riviera’s wealthiest men.

Jacob’s Ladder (1:53) Supernatural thriller stars Tim Robbins as a tormented Vietnam vet teetering between hallucination and reality; Ving Rhames and Elizabeth Peña costar.

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The Bikes of Wrath (NR)

Lark: Sun 6 (director Charlie Turnbull in person)

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Dark Phoenix (PG-13)

Fairfax: Thu 7 Northgate: Thu 7, 10; 3D showtimes at 8, 11 Rowland: Thu 7, 9:30, midnight

John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum (2:10) Keanu’s back as the slack-jawed ultra-assassin, this time with a $14 million bounty on his head and a posse of hitmen on his tail; Angelica Huston costars.

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Long Shot (1:55) Raunchy old-school political rom-com stars Charlize Theron as an overqualified presidential candidate and Seth Rogen as her starstruck, troublemaking speechwriter.

Exhibition Onscreen: Van Gogh

& Japan (NR)

Lark: Wed 6:30

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Faust (NR)

Rafael: Sun noon

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42nd Street (PG)

Lark: Sat 1; Tue 6:30

Godzilla: King of the Monsters (PG-13)

6:40; Thu 12:30, 3:30 Northgate: Fri-Sat 9:30, 12:45, 3:50, 5:05,

Ma (1:50) Horror flick stars Octavia Spencer as a lonely singleton who invites local teens to hang out in her basement…as long as they don’t go upstairs.

Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake (2:10) The Sadler’s Wells ballet troupe presents the cutting-edge choreographer’s audacious reinterpretation of the Tchaikovsky classic.

Nureyev (1:48) Documentary about the ballet icon features vintage footage and newly choreographed terpsichore by Russell Maliphant.

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.

Pokémon Detective Pikachu (1:44) The talking mascot super-sleuth voiced by Ryan Reynolds enters the Pokémonfriendly night world of Ryme City.

7:15, 10:25, 11:25, 3D showtimes at 10:35, 1:50, 8:20; Sun-Wed 9:30, 12:45, 3:50, 5:05, 7:15, 10:25, 3D showtimes at 10:35, 1:50, 8:20 Rowland: Fri-Wed 9:30, 12:40, 3:50, 7, 10:10; 3D showtimes at 11:10, 2:20, 5:30, 8:40

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Jacob’s Ladder (R)

Rafael: Thu 7 (filmmaker Bruce Joel Rubin in person)

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Ma (R)

Northgate: Fri-Wed 9:45, 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:55, 10:35; Thu 7, 9:30

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Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake (NR)

Lark: Thu 6:30

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Nureyev (NR)

Lark: Sun 3:15

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Pavarotti NR)

Regency: Tue 7 Sequoia: Tue 7

Rocketman (R)

Fairfax: Fri 12:20, 3:20, 6:35, 9:45; Sat 12:20, 3:20, 6:50, 9:45; Sun-Wed 12:20, 3:20, 6:50; Thu 12:20, 3:20 Northgate: Fri-

Rocketman (2:01) Over-the-top megamusical of a biopic stars Taron Egerton as small-town piano prodigy-turnedinternational superstar Elton John.

Saving Private Ryan (2:49) Immersive Steven Spielberg D-Day drama about a band of soldiers searching Nazi-held Normandy for the sole surviving brother of a mourning family; Tom Hanks, Matt Damon and Vin Diesel star.

The Secret Life of Pets 2 (1:26) Yet more insights into what your pooches and pussycats do when you’re out of the house; Dana Carvey and Tiffany Haddish lend voice.

The Souvenir (1:59) Incisive character study of a fledgling filmmaker and the fraught relationships that threaten her dreams; Joanna Hogg directs Honor Swinton Byrne.

Water Lilies of Monet (1:20) Explore the life and work of French Impressionism’s master of light and liquid on a cinematic tour through l’Orangerie, the Orsay Museum and Giverny itself.

Woodstock (1:36) Insightful documentary looks at how the legendary three-day rock concert encapsulated the social and political upheavals of its era, the summer of ’69 in particular.

Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:30; Sun-Wed 12:30, 3:30,

Wed 10:30, 12, 1:30, 3, 4:30, 6, 7:30, 9, 10:30 Regency: Fri-Sat 10:30, 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:50; Sun-Mon, Wed-Thu 10:30, 1:20, 4:10, 7; Tue 10:30, 1:20, 4:10, 7:10 Rowland: Fri-Wed 10, 1, 4, 7, 10

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Saving Private Ryan (R)

Regency: Sun, Wed 3, 7

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The Secret Life of Pets 2 (PG-13)

Northgate: Thu 6, 7:30, 10, 11; 3D showtime at 8:35 Playhouse: Thu 6 Rowland: Thu 6, 8:15, 10:30

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The Souvenir (R)

Regency: Fri-Sat 10:50, 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05; Sun-Mon, WedThu 10:50, 1:40, 4:30, 7:20

Water Lilies of Monet (NR)

Lark: Sun 1

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Rafael: Sat 4:15 (filmmaker Barak Goodman in person)

Woodstock (NR)

Due to this week’s holiday schedule, most showtimes were unavailable when we went to press, Please visit fandango.com for schedule updates. We regret the inconvenience.

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

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

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A James Dean fan club reunion turns ugly at Novato Theater Company

MUSIC

The Power of Memory James Dean disciples clash in Novato By Harry Duke

T

he members of a James Dean fan club reunite 20 years after his death in Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, the latest Novato Theater Company production running through June 9.

It’s set in the Kressmont Five & Dime in the West Texas town of McCarthy, just a stone’s throw from where James Dean filmed Giant. Some of the locals hired as extras formed a club known as “The Disciples of James Dean” and, fulfilling a pact they made upon Dean’s death, regather to commemorate Dean and reconnect with each other.

The club is led by Mona (Angela Squire), who claims to have spent

a night with Dean that resulted in a child. Sissy (Margot Biehle) was a good-time girl who went off and got married but is back while her husband works overseas. Stella (Karen Clancy) and Edna (Lindsay John) are odd “best friends,” seeing as how Stella delights in tormenting Edna.

A gathering of old friends means there are memories to be shared and secrets to be revealed. Many of those secrets are brought to light by a stranger who shows up at the Five & Dime. Joanne (Jayme Catalano) seems to know an awful lot about the goings-on in McCarthy, especially about store proprietor Juanita (Kristine Ann Lowry) and her late husband. She knows even more about Mona.

Why she is privy to this knowledge, and some of the other secrets revealed may have been more surprising when Ed Graczyk’s play premiered 40 years ago. Today’s audiences probably greet the revelations with a shrug more than a gaping jaw, and they’ll probably figure them out long before they’re disclosed. No matter. It’s the journey, not the final destination.

This all plays out over a nice set design by Mark Clark, alternating between the present and the past with younger representations of several of the adult characters, though the separation of past and present starts somewhat muddled.

Director Kim Bromley shows a

strong hand with this memory play and has a nice ensemble at work here. Squire is solid as a woman holding on to a delusion long seen through by others. Biehle is big and brassy as Sissy and the source of much of the play’s humor, while Claire Fogarty plays the younger Sissy with just as much brass and sass.

By no measure a “great” play, Jimmy Dean is a good play and gets a morethan-respectable mounting here. ’Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean’ runs Friday–Sunday through June 9 at the Novato Theater Company, 5420 Nave Drive, Ste. C, Novato. Friday–Saturday, 8pm; Sunday, 2pm. $15- $27. 415.883.4498.

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SWIRL

Copper Caper There’s a snake in the garden of organic wine

By James Knight

I

t’s click bait. I know it’s click bait. And yet, click on it I do.

Wouldn’t you want to know what’s so “deadly” about organic wine?

I receive a daily email of “afternoon news briefs” from a wine industry services company that, in itself, is a reputable outfit.

Some of the stories they aggregate from other websites, however, trend to the controversial, and thus, clickable in a hot moment of astonishment: “Organic Wine’s Deadly Carbon Footprint,” reads one. Say it ain’t so! “Organic Grape

Growing Harms Vineyard Soil, Says A Consumer Advocacy Group,” screams another. Lately, it seems there’s been a spate of such stories, with eye-catching headlines, taking jabs at the organic wine sector—an outsized villain, for the relatively tiny market share it enjoys.

The case against organic usually goes like this: growers have no choice but to use a formulation containing a heavy metal, copper, on their vineyards to combat downy mildew. Too much copper is bad for the soil. Thus, non-organic growers who have the choice to use synthetic pesticides treat the environment with more friendly, loving kindness, and drive their tractors less, to boot, since these treatments have a more long-lasting effect.

Sounds reasonable when the case is made by a “pro-science, consumer advocacy group,” like the one a writer for Forbes online guilelessly quoted. Sounds a little suspect when that group has been widely revealed, in Mother Jones and elsewhere, to be a mouthpiece for big businesses like Monsanto, which has an interest in promoting non-organic agriculture.

Might also be a problem that much of the winemaking world doesn’t worry about the particular kind of mildew that’s at its baddest in Bordeaux, where copper was applied without modern farming technology 150 years ago, or that copper isn’t actually the only material approved to combat various fungal infections for organic farming. As for conventional growers, do they indeed eschew its use, or is this a classic straw man— or red herring (I always get those mixed up)?

At least 18,000 pounds of compounds containing copper, including copper hydroxide, and copper sulfate, were used on Sonoma County vineyards in 2014, for example, on more than 41,000 vineyard acres. Sonoma County has less than 2,000 acres of certified organic vines, hardly 3 percent of the county’s 62,000plus vineyard acres.

Boom. Hear that pop? Was it an argument, or was it Korbel’s 2016 Organic California Champagne ($15.99)? Made with organic grapes, this riots with bubbles, and after a slight nod to butter cookie richness, delivers a mouthful of lean, puckery white grapefruit flavor. Fine by its own as a brunch sparkling wine, but it makes a solid case for mimosas, too. Y

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What object is missing in this photo of the Warrior jersey?

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Calendar Concerts MARIN Green Leaf Rustlers Parachute Days hosts the Marin supergroup led by Chris Robinson with opener San Geronimo. May 31, 5pm. $40. Love Field, 11191 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Pt Reyes Station. parachutedays.com.

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Comedy Tuesday Night Live See standup comedians JC Coccoli, Julie Kim, “Jammin” Jay Lamont, Sal Calanni, Forrest Shaw and others. Jun 4, 8pm. $17-$27.

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Point Reyes Books May 30, 7pm, “The Heart of Tracking” with Richard Vacha. 11315 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station 415.663.1542.

Theater Breaking Through The Returned Citizens Theatre Troupe presents heartfelt and thought-provoking true-life stories. May 31-Jun 1. Marin Shakespeare Company, 514 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.499.4485.

Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean James Dean fanatics throw a reunion party where a stunning stranger sets off a series of confrontations that smash their delusions. Through Jun 9. $15-$27. Novato Theater Playhouse, 5420 Nave Dr, Novato, 415.883.4498.

Grease Mountain Play returns for another summer of outdoor theater on Mt Tam. Sun, Jun 2, 2pm. $20-$45 and up. Cushing Memorial Amphitheatre, 3801 Panoramic Hwy, Mill Valley, 415.383.1100.

Moll Flanders Ross Valley Players present the adventurous play adaptation of the novel about a heroine of the 18th century. Through Jun 16. $15-$27.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 146770. The following individual(s) are doing business: THE COAST MIWOK MONUMENT PROJECT, 28 MOUNTAIN VIEW ROAD, FAIRFAX, CA 94930: LUCINA VIDAUVI, 5001 TAMARA WAY, SALIDA, CA 95368, STEPHANIE BURNS, 28 MOUNTAIN VIEW ROAD, FAIRFAX, CA 94930. This business is being conducted

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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 APRIL 9, 2019. (Publication Dates: May 15, 22, 29 and June 5 of 2019) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2019146717. The following individual(s) are doing business: MARIN COLLABORATIVE ASSESSMENT, 4340 REDWOOD HWY SUITE D-310, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: MARGARET BENEDICT-MONTGOMERY, 4340 REDWOOD HWY SUITE D-310, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903, MEGAN MCCONNELL, 4340 REDWOOD HWY SUITE D-310, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. 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 APRIL 19, 2019. (Publication Dates: May 15, 22, 29 and June 5 of 2019) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2019146785. The following individual(s) are doing business: LOU’S TAKEAWAY, 621 A DEL GANADO ROAD, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: ANTHONY RIZZI, 1814 ILLINOIS STREET, VALLEJO, CA 94590. 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 APRIL 29, 2019. (Publication Dates: May 22, 29, June 5, 12 of 2019) OTHER NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 1901812 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS 1.

Petitioner (name of each): Katherine Frederick, has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Katherine Frederick to Proposed Name: Sita

Katherine Frederick Khufu 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: 6/20/2019, Time: 9:00am, Dept: E, Room: E. 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: MAY 9, 2019 Andrew Sweet Judge of the Superior Court James M Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By E. Anderson, Deputy (May 15, 22, 29 and June 5 of 2019) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 1901716 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS 1.

Petitioner (name of each): Mischa Reuben Von Nachtigal, has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Mischa Reuben Von Nachtigal, Christina Marie Von Nachtigal to Proposed Name: Mischa Reuben Vaughn, Christan Marie Vaughn 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: 6/28/2019, 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: MAY 3, 2019 James Chou Judge of the Superior Court James M Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By E. Anderson, Deputy (May 15, 22, 29 and June 5 of 2019) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 1901819 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS 1.

Petitioner (name of each): Teresa Ann Smethers, has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Teresa Ann Smethers, Jayden Samantha Korinzer to Proposed Name: Teresa Ann Andersen, Jayden Samantha Korinzer Andersen 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: 6/28/2019, Time: 9:00am, Dept: E. 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: May 9, 2019 Andrew E. Sweet Judge of the Superior Court James M

Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By E. Anderson, Deputy (May 22, 29, June 5, 12 of 2019) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:Dale R. Blanton CASE NO.: PR 1901773 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Lena E. Avedano, Lena Elizabeth Avedano A Petition for~Probate~has been filed by: David L. Avedano. in the Superior Court of California, County of Marin.

The Petition for~Probate~requests that: David L. Avedano. be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: 6/17/2019, Time: 9:00AM, Dept.: J, Address of court: 3501 Civic Center Drive, PO Box 4988, San Rafael, CA 94913-4988. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California~Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the

date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California~Probate~Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in~Probate~Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: Robert J. Begley, Attorney at Law, 655 Redwood Highway, Suite 300, Mill Valley, CA 94941 415-388-2400 FILED: MAY 2, 2019 James M. Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By: E. Anderson (May 22, 29, June 5 of 2019)

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Q:

My sister dates super hot guys, but she’s always telling me that looks aren’t what matter and I should go for a man who’s stable and reliable. Is she looking out for me? How come she doesn’t follow her own advice? It seems weirdly hypocritical.—Puzzled

A:

Charmingly, the men your sister picks for herself look like they could work in strip clubs, while men she picks for you look like accountants who’ve invested strip malls.

Welcome to “the Juliet effect,” as named by evolutionary scientists Robert Biegler and Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair. In Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” Juliet’s mom—let’s call her Mrs. Capulet—was working her own agenda in giving her daughter advice on whom to marry. Mrs. Capulet was pushing her daughter to go for Count Paris, a boringly stable rich guy from a good family. Juliet, of course, only had eyes for Romeo, the off-limits hottie, whose family was basically the feuding Italian Hatfields to the Capulet’s McCoys.

It turns out that Shakespeare was something of an intuitive evolutionary psychologist. Parents do want the best for you—uh, that is, except when what’s best for you diverges with what’s best for them. The same goes for your siblings. These fun intra-family conflicts are called “parent-offspring competition” and “sibling competition” by evolutionary psychologists.

Biegler and Kennair researched the way these evolved conflicts play out over “transferable” versus “non-transferable” qualities in a woman’s partner. Transferable qualities are those that could directly benefit the children of a woman’s mother or sister—for example, a man’s ability to provide food, shelter, and/or “protection against predators or enemies.” (High status, too, would be transferable, because of the power and perks that come with.) Non-transferable qualities, on the other hand, are those— like hottie-hood—that suggest a man has good genes, which would directly benefit only his female partner’s own children.

Accordingly, Biegler and Kennair found that moms and sisters wanted hunks for themselves but would steer their daughter or sibling to the stable guy with resources.

Granted, this probably isn’t a conscious move on their part. However, you should be conscious when seeking advice from your family members about a guy that there could be mildly nefarious ulterior motives at play.

Q:

I was dating this guy, and it was super intense. He’s a big believer in soulmates, and he said he thought I was his. Of course, I was excited, and it all seemed really romantic, and then poof ! He was gone. Ghosted me. What makes somebody think simply disappearing is an OK way to break up? —So Upset

A:

Welcome to the dark side of the “We’re soulmates!” thing. It turns out that a person’s beliefs about the underpinnings of a successful relationship can affect how they end things—whether they tell you it’s over or just ghost you (wordlessly vanish from your life). There are “destiny beliefs,” which, in their strongest incarnation, involve believing in fate and soulmates—the notion that people in relationships “are either meant to be together or they’re not,” as social psychologist Gili Freedman and her colleagues put it. “Growth beliefs,” on the other hand, involve the notion that “relationships grow over time” and take work; you don’t just bump into your perfect partner in a train station and go off on the 6:07 to Happilyeverafter.

In line with this view of relationships as a gradual process of working out conflicts, the researchers found that romantic partners with stronger growth beliefs were 38.4 percent less likely to indicate that ghosting is OK. However, people with destiny beliefs, like your “Fate or bust!” ex, were 63.4 percent more likely to find it acceptable to take the disappearo way out.

In other words, don’t assume that anybody who believes in soulmates will disappear without explanation—going from an exuberant “Babe, you complete me!” to a silent “Boy, am I glad I didn’t give you my key!”

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 May 29

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the coming

weeks it will make good sense for you to travel down winding paths replete with interesting twists and provocative turns. The zigzags you'll be inspired to pursue won't be inconvenient or inefficient, but rather will be instrumental in obtaining the healing you need. To honor and celebrate this oddly lucky phase, I'll quote parts of "Flying Crooked," a poem by Robert Graves. "The butterfly will never master the art of flying straight, yet has a just sense of how not to fly: He lurches here and here by guess and God and hope and hopelessness. Even the acrobatic swift has not his flying-crooked gift."

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Has a part of

you become too timid, docile, or prosaic? Is there an aspect of your beautiful soul that is partially muzzled, submissive, or housebroken? If so, now is a favorable time to seek an antidote. But listen closely: the cure isn't to become chaotic, turbulent, and out of control.

It would be counterproductive to resort to berserk mayhem. Here's a better way: be primal, lush, and exciting. Be wildly playful and unpredictably humorous and alluringly intriguing. Try experiments that rouse your rowdy sweetness, your unkempt elegance, your brazen joy, and your sensual intelligence.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I prefer live theater over movies. The glossy flawlessness of films, accomplished by machines that assemble and polish, is less emotionally rich than the direct impact of live performers' unmediated voices and bodies and emotions. Their evocative imperfections move me in ways that glossy flawlessness can't. Even if you're not like me, Gemini, I invite you to experiment with my approach for a while—not just in the entertainment you choose, but in all areas of your life. As much as possible, get your experience raw and unfiltered.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I've got a message for you from Cancerian poet Tyler Knott Gregson.

Please read it every day for the next 15 days, including when you first wake up and right before sleep. Here it is: "Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim."

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 2003, a group of thieves

in Antwerp, Belgium pulled off the biggest jewelry heist in history. To steal the diamonds, gold, and other gems, together worth more than $100 million, they had to outsmart security guards, a seismic sensor, a protective magnetic field, Doppler radar, infrared detectors, and a lock. I mention this, Leo, because I suspect that in the coming weeks you will have a comparable ability to insinuate yourself into the presence of previously inaccessible treasures and secrets and codes. You'll be able to penetrate barriers that have kept you shut off from valuable things. (P.S. But I hope that unlike the Antwerp thieves, you'll use your superpowers in an ethical manner.)

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the northeast corner of Spain, bordering France, is an area known as Catalonia. With its own culture and language, it has a long history of seeking complete autonomy. On four occasions it has declared itself to be independent from Spain. The most recent time was in 2017, when 92 percent of the Catalans who voted expressed the desire to be free of Spain's rule. Alas, none of the rebellions have succeeded. In the latest instance, no other nation on Earth recognized Catalonia's claim to be an independent republic. In contrast to its frustrated attempts, your own personal quest to seek greater independence could make real progress in the coming months. For best results, formulate a clear intention and define the precise nature of the sovereignty you seek. Write it down!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A Libran blogger named OceanAlgorithms wrote, "I'm simultaneously wishing I were a naturalist whose specialty is finding undiscovered species in well-explored places; and a skateboarding mathematician meditating on an almost-

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impossible-to-solve equation as I practice my skateboard tricks; and a fierce forest witch who casts spells on nature-despoilers; and a gothic heroine with twelve suitors; and the sexiest cat that ever lived." I love how freewheeling and wide-ranging OceanAlgorithms is with her imaginative fantasies.

In light of current astrological omens, I encourage you to do the same. Give yourself permission to dream and scheme extravagantly.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Geologists aren't

exactly sure why, but almost six million years ago, the Strait of Gibraltar closed up. As a result, the Mediterranean Sea was cut off from the Atlantic Ocean, and within a thousand years, it had mostly disappeared. Fast forward 600,000 years. Again, geologists don't understand how it happened, but a flood broke through the barrier, allowing the ocean to flow back into the Mediterranean basin and restore it to its previous status as a sea. I propose that we invoke that replenishment as a holy symbol for the process you're engaged in: a replenishment of your dried-out waters.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I invite you to meditate on this proposal from freelance writer Radha Marcum: "The spiritual definition of love is that when you look at the person you love, it makes you love yourself more." I hope there's a lot of that kind of action going on for you in the next four weeks. According to my assessment of life's secret currents, all of creation will be conspiring to intensify and deepen your love for yourself by intensifying and deepening your love for other people. Cooperate with that conspiracy, please!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Is there

a creature on earth that's more annoying than the mosquito? I've never heard anyone gaze upon one of the pesky monsters sucking blood out of her arm and say, "Aw, what a cute little bug." And yet every year there is a town in Russia that holds a jokey three-day celebration in honor of the mosquito. The people who live in Berezniki even stage a "most delicious" competition, in which people allow themselves to be pricked by mosquitoes for twenty minutes, with an award going to whomever accumulates the most bites. I highly approve of the spirit of this approach for your own use in the coming weeks, Capricorn. If you have fun with the things that bother you, I bet they won't bother you as much.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It's the Forever Season, Aquarius. You have a poetic license to act as if your body will live for a hundred years and your soul will live for all eternity. You are authorized to believe that in the coming decades you will grow steadily wiser, kinder, happier, and wilder. During the Forever Season, you may have dreams like flying over a waterfall at sunset, or finding the lost magic you were promised before you were born, or discovering the key to a healing you feared would always elude you. As you careen through this unpredictable grace period, your understanding of reality may expand dramatically.

I bet you'll get practical epiphanies about how to express yourself with greater effectiveness.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A musical

historian from Cambridge University decided it would be amusing to perform forgotten songs that were written in the Rhineland a thousand years ago. His research wasn't easy, because musical notation was different back then. But he ultimately reconstructed the tunes in ways that he felt were 80 percent faithful to the originals. He and other musicians subsequently performed and recorded them. I propose a somewhat comparable assignment for you in the coming weeks, Pisces. You will benefit, I believe, from trying to recover the truth about events that occurred a long time ago and/or by trying to revivify old beauty that has new relevance.

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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