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The LaurelTie

Marin County has the distinction of having harvested from a California laurel tree from Mount Tamalpais and thence providing the “Last Tie” for the First Transcontinental Railroad in the U.S. It is my mission to hand-deliver letters from the Marin County Board of Supervisors recognizing this fact to both the official May 10 Golden Spike 150tth Anniversary Ceremony celebrating the completion of the first U.S. Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Point, Utah, and to the May 11 Golden Spike Conference of the Chinese Railroad Workers Descendants Association, in Salt Lake City, and to further convey awareness to others.

As Chair of the Board, Irish Literary & Historical Society of the San Francisco Bay Area, I am pleased to convey appreciation to the Hibernian Society of Utah for all they do for Irish heritage, all their civic contributions to Utah and particularly for their participation in celebrating the collaborative efforts of all the people who built the First Transcontinental.

As the iconic Gold Spike has been largely associated with the capitalists who financed and administered the construction of the Transcontinental—let the “laurel tie” be associated with the workers, the Chinese, Irish, Italians, emancipated African Americans, Mormons and all others who actually labored and

built the railroad. The laurel, ancient emblem of victory, fellowship and peace is a fitting symbol of tying our country together.

J. Patrick Goggins Mill Valley

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President Trump's political opponents are doing this nation and the entire world a huge disservice by criticizing President Trump as being too friendly with Russia's President Putin.

The fate of the entire human race hangs by the most slender thread over the abyss of nuclear war. This possible nuclear holocaust is the greatest danger ever faced in our species' history of one million years. Preventing this unbearable tragedy from happening must become the highest priority of every responsible human being.

I urge all those who are justifiably angry with President Trump for so many of his reactionary policies to suspend their anger toward him in his dealings with President Putin.

Improving the U.S.'s relationship with Russia and specifically with President Putin is of the greatest importance in preventing the outbreak of a nuclear war with Russia.

Therefore I totally and unconditionally support President Trump's efforts to create a friendlier relationship with President Putin.

Saving humanity from a nuclear holocaust is our first duty as intelligent and responsible people.

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Heroes &Zeroes

By Nikki Silverstein

Contrary to popular belief, the Tour de France course doesn’t include the Mill Valley–Sausalito Multiuse Pathway. To prove it, officers from the Mill Valley Police Department and Central Marin Police Authority were out on Sunday issuing warnings to speeding cyclists. The speed limit is 15 mph in open areas and decreases to 10 in congested areas.

We walk on the path regularly and were relieved to see the officers.

Most cyclists are considerate, but those zooming around like they’re training for a triathlon create a dangerous situation for everyone. In the past few years, there have been some serious accidents.

Share the Path is the motto of this beautiful 3.7 mile trail along Richardson Bay. About 3,000 people use it every day, including cyclists, walkers, folks in wheelchairs, dog walkers, kids on skateboards, parents with strollers and even horseback riders. That’s multiuse.

Thanks to the Mill Valley PD and Central Marin Police for laying down the law and keeping us safe.

Pacific Gas and Electric Company recently received the green light from the California Public Utilities Commission to raise the average Californian’s electric bill by about $3.50 a month. That may not sound like much, but keep the pocketbook open: Critics of the beleaguered utility giant warn it’s the first of many spikes to come as the utility tries to recover costs associated with the California wildfires.

The company has filed for bankruptcy while also requesting to increase its annual profits from 10 to 16 percent to help attract investors.

“To increase returns on Wall Street investment at a time when you haven't even settled the victims' claims is not only tone deaf—it’s jaw droppingly wrong,” said Gov. Gavin Newsom in response, and even as a federal judge just gave the go-ahead for PG&E to pay $235 million in performance bonuses in 2019.

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Upfront Ting’s bill takes on cities and counties that supported Prop. 64, only to enact marijuana moratoriums

Out of Joint Assembly bill would force municipalities to open retail pot shops By Tom Gogola

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s Scott Weiner works with fellow state senator Mike McGuire to selectively preempt local zoning laws to ease the way for more housing construction, Assemblyman Phil Ting—another Bay Area Democrat—is trying to do something similar for the pot industry.

If Ting’s AB 1356 passes, it would force cities and counties to allow one cannabis retail permit for every four liquor licenses in the jurisdiction.

That is, only if more than half

of the electorate in a jurisdiction voted for Proposition 64’s adult-use legalization in 2016.

For cities that already allow recreational sales, like Santa Rosa, Ting’s bill wouldn’t make much of a difference. But jurisdictions whose elected officials have banned retail recreational cannabis sales despite majority support from residents—including Fairfax and Marin County’s unincorporated areas—could be in for a ride.

Some 75 percent of all cities and counties have banned retail pot

business, according to state research highlighted by Ting. His bill aims to reverse the trend.

“Californians voted for Prop. 64 to replace the illicit market with a legal system that would grant Californians safe access to cannabis products, while also creating good jobs and significant tax revenue,” Ting said in announcing his bill. “However, these goals can only be fully realized if enough licenses are granted to meet existing demand. This bill will ensure the legal market can succeed.”

His bill is supported by labor

7 towns and cities from Novato to Fairfax have rolling moratoriums banning non-medical cannabis retail establishments. Nearly 140,000 Sonomans supported legalization, with 94,500 against. Sonoma’s cannabis rollout has been stymied by residents’ pushback to commercial grows and other cannabis businesses in their midst— and a complicated, expensive and time-consuming licensing protocol that has conspired to keep black market sales at about 60 percent of pot sales statewide, according to industry estimates.

In March, San Rafael launched its recreational adult-use cannabis program—the first municipality in Marin County to emerge from a post-legalization moratorium.

The Marin County supervisors have enacted a delivery-only adult-cannabis regime to the unincorporated areas. They’ve selected four companies as its go-to delivery selections—Buttercup & Spring, Elite Herbs, Inc, Express2You, Inc., and Mohave Distribution— but still hasn’t given them the green light to start delivering. (The county already has a longstanding medical-cannabis delivery apparatus in place.) The county says it has no intention of opening the local retail economy to recreational storefront sales, which may put it at odds with the Ting bill, should it pass.

Recreational storefronts are not happening in San Rafael, either, even as Ting’s bill makes it way through committee. On March 4 the San Rafael city council amended its medical-cannabis policy to allow existing licensees “the ability to serve the adult-use market,” but the new rules don’t permit new storefront cannabis retail in San Rafael. According to the city, four licenses will be issued for cannabis testing labs; two for infused product manufacturing; five for non-storefront deliver; and three for distribution.

Novato remains under a cannabis moratorium. On May 6 the planning commission held a workshop to review a draft proposal to regulate and tax commercial weed facilities in the city, which are currently banned. A draft ordinance is under consideration that would regulate the size, number and location of commercial cannabis activity allowed in town. Like many

jurisdictions around the state, the city enacted a moratorium on pot businesses following legalization; it was extended to November 14.

And, even as Fairfax can lay claim to Marin County’s only storefront cannabis shop—the Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana—the pot for sale there is not available over-thecounter to recreational users. The town recently voted to let the alliance deliver to non-medical consumers in Fairfax.

The town is also under an ongoing cannabis moratorium and town leaders, are examining the potentials and pitfalls of, for example, allowing cannabis microbusinesses in town.

Those are small, vertically organized pot businesses where the weed is cultivated, processed, and sold on-premises.

General Issue By any account, it looked like a pretty busy day in early May at Xavier Becerra’s office. The state attorney general pushed out four press releases on May 2, mostly directed at holding Washington D.C. accountable—but also at police accountability in the state.

In one announcement, Becerra denounced President Donald Trump’s rollback of offshore drilling rules that came about after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

He also stood ready to defend Californians against Trump’s “faith-based” refusal-of-care announcement at the National Prayer Breakfast this week, that will, Becerra charged, “allow broad, sweeping refusals of care based on religious or moral objections, even in emergency circumstances.”

The AG further announced that California, leading a coalition of 20 states, had filed a reply brief to Trump’s challenge to their lawsuit, California et. al. v Trump, et al., over the president’s national emergency declaration at the southern border.

The fourth release didn’t directly criticize Trump—though it could have, given the president’s public embrace of racial profiling—as Becerra announced a new video to help enhance public buy-in of an ambitious police-accountability law.

In 2015, the state of California passed the Racial and Identity Profiling Act, (AB 953), a first-in-thenation law which requires, by 2023, that all law enforcement agencies across the state collect detailed

information and recordings of stops and searches, including data on the officers’ perception of the person being stopped, in order to combat “policing profiling” of suspects. But earlier this year, the board that was created with the passage of RIPA released a report that found very little evidence of racial profiling in California in 2017.

The California Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board was created to “shepherd this data collection and provide public reports with the ultimate objective to eliminate racial and identity profiling and improve and understand diversity in law enforcement through training, education, and outreach.”

In 2017, it cast a wide net to determine the extent of the racialprofiling problem in California— but the results indicated that there was practically no racial-profiling problem in California.

Of the 453 agencies subject to RIPA reporting in 2017, 79 said they had no civilian complaints reported that year. The RIPA board was split on what the data meant: For some law enforcement representatives it meant that there wasn’t much of a racial profiling crisis in California. For policeaccountability advocates, it meant that the data-collection process under RIPA was either flawed or corrupted by the police “blue wall,” or both.

This spring, eight big police agencies—the California Highway Patrol, the Los Angeles Police Department, the Los Angeles County Sheriff ’s Department, the Riverside County Sheriff ’s Department, the San Bernardino County Sheriff ’s Department, the San Diego County Sheriff ’s Department, the San Diego Police Department, and the San Francisco Police Department—sent a year’s worth of data to the state Department of Justice on April 1, to be analyzed for next year’s annual report.

As it reported a low number of civilian complaints in its 2017 study, the board addressed a possible absence of public buy-in in RIPA’s data-collection process as the culprit behind what to many policeaccountability activists were seen as surprisingly low numbers.

The board aimed in the annual report released in March to “enhance the transparency of the stop data collection process by providing the public with

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organizations and veteran’s groups that have called for expanded access to medical cannabis. Ting’s bill passed the Senate Business and Professions committee on April 29 and is headed to the appropriations committee later this month.

“Despite voters approving Prop.

64, there are cannabis deserts across the state where veterans and patients have to drive long distances to a licensed shop,” said Aaron Augustis, founder of Veterans Cannabis Group, in response to Ting’s bill.

“We served our country and want to work with our local cities, counties, and state governments to ensure our veterans have safe access across the state to medicinal cannabis. AB 1356 is crucial for veterans’ access.” To the south, the local pro-weed advocates at the Silicon Valley Cannabis Alliance have come out in support of AB 1356.

Locally, Shivawn Brady, a member of the Sonoma County Advisory Board and a board member at the Sonoma County Grower’s Alliance (whose crops often find their way to Marin’s medical and recreational community) says she personally supports Ting’s effort to nudge municipalities’ participation in the cannabis economy, especially as it benefits local medical-cannabis users who might otherwise have to leave their town or county to get the medicine. “This bill has the potential to serve those folks that are underrepresented,” including the disabled, working class people, and veterans who rely on medical cannabis.

Ting’s bill would require that cities and counties to issue cannabis equal to 25 percent of the number of liquor store licenses in the jurisdiction—a reasonable ratio, says Brady—or one license for every 10,000 residents. Organizations including Urban Counties of California have cast a wary eye, saying it would “force local jurisdictions to approve licenses for medical and recreational cannabis retailers.”

The bill applies to jurisdictions that approved Prop 64. In Napa the vote was 37,000 for, 23,333 against.

Napa has issued a handful of cannabis licenses since legalization.

In Marin County, an overwhelming 96,000 residents supported Prop 64 while 43,200 voted it down. But, with the exception of San Rafael, Marin

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Out of Joint «7 detailed information on how the data is collected and submitted and how the Department [of Justice] and law enforcement agencies ensure the integrity of this data.”

That information includes the date, time and duration of a stop, the reason for a stop, the officer’s perception of the race, ethnicity, age, gender, disability or language fluency of the person stopped.

The RIPA rollout is pegged to the size of law enforcement agencies.

Under the law signed by then–Gov. Jerry Brown, agencies with more than 1,000 peace officers had to file their first reports with the state Department of Justice by April 1 of this year. Agencies with between 667 and 1,000 peace officers will submit their first reports by next April 1; those with between 334 and 667 peace officers will be RIPAcompliant by 2022; and agencies with fewer than 334 officers will issue their first reports in 2023. With 202 sworn officers and 114 other employees, that’s when the Marin County Sheriff ’s Office will start to participate in RIPA. —Tom Gogola

Tunnel Vision The California Department of Water Resources announced last week that it was withdrawing proposed permit applications for former Gov. Jerry Brown’s twin-

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tunnel ‘WaterFix’ project in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

The move formally puts to rest Brown’s much-derided and decadeslong pursuit of two massive waterand fish-conveyance tunnels to ensure water security in the state while protecting the fragile Delta ecosystem.

That plan would have cost California at least $20 billion—and up to $70 billion by some estimates.

Gov. Gavin Newsom pledged to pull the plug on Brown’s plan as a candidate and has called for a smaller, single tunnel to modernize the state’s water delivery system.

The DWR says the single-tunnel project is needed to protect water supplies from seawater intrusion into the Delta, and to mitigate potential damage from earthquakes. “It will be designed,” says DWR of Newsom’s tunnel vision, “to protect water supply reliability while limiting impacts on local Delta communities and fish.”

North Bay State Sen. Bill Dodd cheered Newsom and the DWR’s move to rescind the Brown-era applications and twin-tunnel plan, which he describes as “fatally flawed.”

“By closing this chapter on the euphemistically named WaterFix,” says Dodd in a statement, “I believe we can move to a thoughtful, collaborative approach that meets our water needs while safeguarding the environmental and economic vitality of the Delta.” —T.G.

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I also had the opportunity to sit in on a White House briefing by Press Secretary Ziegler. It was interesting to see Ziegler parrying the difficult questions of the veterans of the Washington press, THIS WEEK in view of the fact that he got his start in public relations work with the Republican Caucus in the Legislature in 1961, which your correspondent then headed. Zeigler handled himself with aplomb and good humor and yet was firm when it came time to switch subjects. —John Busterud, May 7–May 13, 1969 A ban on oil drilling off Point Reyes was approved by the White Years House, according to Congresswoman Barbra Boxer. The area is Ago targeted to become the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary.

THIS WEEK —Newsgram, Steve McNamara, Week of May 5–May 11, 1989

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In the eerie wake of the Columbine High tragedy, a 17-year-old San Rafael High senior was arrested after admitting to publishing a Web site that listed students and teachers he wanted to kill. The suspect, WEEK whose identity was not released due to his age, was charged with making terrorist threats. Peers familiar with the situation say he was just fooling around. School officials are not: The perp received a five-day suspension, after which he'll be on extended leave pending an expulsion hearing.

—Mike Thomas, Newsgram, May 5– May 11, 1999

Years Ago

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Super Soy Me

One week living on Amy’s Kitchen By James Knight

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ike any typical chump, I planned to start an ambitious new diet on New Year’s Day. Fine, the day after New Year’s Day. The diet was strict, but had just one simple rule: Eat food, mostly frozen, as much as I want, on a $100 per week budget. And here’s the kicker: Eat only food that’s made by Amy’s Kitchen, the privately held natural foods manufacturer based in Petaluma. Yes, it was a bold plan.

Day 1: I load a frozen, gluten-free tofu scramble breakfast wrap in the microwave oven, starting the day’s calorie count at 300. At lunch it’s a chili mac bowl, 420 calories,

and later a spinach pizza pocket sandwich, 280 calories. Dinner brings a longtime favorite to the table; veggie loaf with mashed potatoes, peas, and carrots. But those 340 calories don’t feel like enough, so I round out the evening with a spinach pizza snack, and 380 additional calories.

Day 2: I’m a little hungover. Ugh, what happened?

The Perils of a Cruelty-Free Diet I’m on this diet partly to see if man can live on Amy’s alone. While it’s

a controlled experiment, it’s not an inhumane experiment, so I did not forswear the enjoyment of a few glasses of wine with dinner, before dinner, or after dinner.

Besides, eliminating the beverage variable might have skewed the results, right? Instead, I opt for certified organic wine, in the spirit of Amy’s Kitchen, whose listed ingredients are nearly all prefaced with “organic,” save the sea salt and black pepper.

The problem: after unpacking five frozen meals from five cardboard cartons, I’d only packed in 1,720 calories on that first day. No doubt the wine hit a little harder because

that’s well below the 2,000 daily calories that nutrition labels are based on, or the recommended 2,400 calorie diet of a moderately active male of my age, and weight.

Ah, that weight. The other reason for the diet was to lose a little of it. I demur from saying what that weight is, lest some readers then wish to knock me around a bit, but suffice it to say that I feel like the image of some kind of corpulent, late career Orson Welles. (More like Audrey Hepburn, remarked a more portly friend a few years back. That smarts a bit, but then again—such style!) What’s that about body »10 image self-acceptance? Stuff

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breakfast scramble, 360 calories, and veggie sausage, 55 calories, I set out by bicycle for the company headquarters in Petaluma. Am I helping to offset the carbon footprint of these packaged meals, or is their economy of scale inherently more efficient than my home stovetop? Will there someday be fewer veal crates, like the ones that I’m passing by on Stony Point Road, because of vegetarian options like Amy’s provides? These are things I think of on my ride. Besides that biking in heavy traffic sucks veggie meatballs.

It wasn’t enough. On Lakeville Highway, a few blocks short, and fatigued, I have to turn back or else miss the last SMART train back to Santa Rosa until late afternoon.

Breakthrough at the Drive-Thru

Amy’s burritos are as local as it gets.

self-acceptance in a cheeseburger. I demand to get back that flat belly that I haven’t seen since age 29, and I’ll try any diet in that service. The allure of Amy’s is the quick and easy calorie counting, printed right on the box, and de facto portion control.

The convenience of simply reheating frozen food, too, leaves more time for that moderate activity.

Lesson learned, on to Day 2: Country bake breakfast, 420 calories; veggie sausage, 55 calories; brown rice and vegetables bowl, 260 calories; meatless Italian sausage, mushroom and olive pizza, 930 calories. Yes, I know the pizza is supposed to be three separate servings, but the day’s total is only 1,665 calories. Yet I feel stuffed. Might be because I’m not used to consuming so many carbohydrates (see the surprise tally at the end of the article), and that’s

a criticism I’ve heard of products like Amy’s: organic or not, isn’t it too high in sodium, too stuffed with carbohydrates, like other processed snack foods? When I announced my dietary goal to someone at the company (who shan’t be named), in fact, the response was: “But what about vegetables?”

In an era when consumers are being advised to eat whole foods, and lower on the food chain, Amy’s occupies an interesting space in between the good reputation of organic foods and the bad rap on processed foods. Frozen foods have taken some heat since the “TV dinner” days of my childhood, when, notwithstanding mom’s cooking being the best, it was a special treat to have those tin foil tray dinners once a week. Meanwhile, Amy’s Kitchen, launched by Rachel and Andy Berliner in 1987 (the original

conceit was that they couldn’t find any time-saving convenience foods that were of homemade quality, after the birth of their daughter, Amy, who is now a co-owner in the company), has puffed up from one pot pie sold in what used to be called “health food” stores in Northern California and Oregon, to 260 products sold in megastores the likes of Target, in 29 countries. Revenue in 2017 totaled $500 million.

Can they stay true to homecooked ideals at such a scale? I’ve got to get behind the kale curtain, and see how the organic tofu sausage is made.

Amy’s, Can You Hear Me? Day 3: I’ve had no luck trying to contact the public relations desk at Amy’s, so, fueled only by their

I get a new idea on the train, remembering the Amy’s DriveThru restaurant in Rohnert Park.

It’s a long shot, but at the very least, after ordering a single veggie cheeseburger and fries (alas, I am not asked to “super-size” my order to the signature double patty “Amy” burger), I can ask for any kind of help at the register. I’m in luck— Dave Wolfgram, president of Amy's Drive-Thru Restaurants, is working on his laptop a few tables over. He seems genuinely concerned and promises to hook me up with HQ. Although this joint is as bustling as it was on my first visit over three years ago (“Understanding Amy’s,” Sept. 9, 2015), Amy’s has rolled out their takeover of the fast food nation at, well, an organic pace. An outpost in SFO (Amy’s “fly-thru”?) is scheduled for July, with a Corte Madera drive-thru opening in 2020.

How the Organic Tofu Sausage is Made I’m in! I meet Paul Schiefer for a tour of Amy’s flagship production facility, which has been located on Santa Rosa’s Northpoint Parkway since the early days. Schiefer, who is a nephew to the Berliners, grew up with the business, and is now senior director of sustainability.

On the way to the dressing room where I’ll don a smock, hairnet and

11 this time, my frozen bean burrito (and another 160,000 of them per day) has been hand-rolled just across town. (Soups are made in Idaho, however; pizza in Medford, Ore.)

The Results At the end of a week, I had to stop the experiment. Not necessarily because I felt “over stuffed” on just 1,940 calories, as I noted on Day 6, or “strangely tired” on Day 7. My weight jumped up at first, but I ended up a few pounds lighter. Still, I would have been willing to carry out a more rigorous one-month experiment. But if I didn’t bust my waistline, I busted my budget: $140 for seven days.

I should note that the company does not endorse an all-Amy’s diet. Instead, they offer meal plans on their website incorporating fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts, and smoothies, most with just one Amy’s product per day. That said, I felt that I might have had a real serving of veggies with their Asian-inspired entrées, like the dumplings in savory Hoisin sauce, and for a frozen food, they tasted fresh enough. And in the harvest casserole bowl, there’s surely close to a half-cup of sweet potatoes, kale, and Swiss chard—it’d be hard to excuse all that quinoa otherwise.

According to Schiefer, I’m correct in my assessment that while the frozen food business is stagnant in general, Amy’s is bucking the trend, and has been growing faster than the category for years. Still, some of the traditional tray-style dinner styles have been pulled off the line: RIP, Southern meal, chili and corn bread, and good ol’ veggie steak and gravy.

All told, I ate not more than 1,700 calories per day. The protein count averaged 67 grams daily, not bad, and carbohydrates actually averaged less than the Daily Value, at 200. But sodium indeed hit more than 3,200 milligrams per day, higher than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendation of less than 2,400, but a little under the average American’s intake. Amy’s does offer low sodium versions with less than half that of the typical entrée.

The next week I flipped a 180 and launched an ultra-low-carb diet of meat, cheese, and vegetables for the next month. I felt pretty good on it.

And I gained back five pounds. Y

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beard net, I’m already distracted by a novel sight: two vending machines in the break room are stocked with Amy’s entrées. They’re sold to employees for just $1 to $1.50. But the Blue Sky organic cola in the adjacent vending machine, Schiefer admits, isn’t as popular with employees as Pepsi. No strict diets here: there’s a Frito-Lay option, too.

Workers are everywhere on the plant floor, monitoring computer screens, carting multi-level tray carts here and there. Look, there goes my old friend, the lentil loaf ! Over there, veggie sausage, destined for a country bake. In one room, which is as big as most winery cellars I see, pinto beans cascade in an industrial waterfall, while a worker tends to a steaming kettle perched high in the middle distance.

A smaller room houses one of the largest tofu making facilities on the West Coast, according to Schiefer.

Here are whole soybeans, soaked and removed of fiber, which goes to a dairy. Then, hot soy milk pours forth, and further down the line, blocks of fresh tofu, some 9,400 pounds per day, are cut and sent on to their rendezvous with organic oats, organic bulgar wheat and organic onions and more to, yes, make the tofu sausage.

On the kettle deck, an enchilada sauce has just been made—we see it later on down the line, where freshly frozen entreés clank off the conveyor belt. Tomato sauces are made from fresh tomatoes.

Vegetables such as broccoli may be fresh, or flash frozen, since there are only two harvests a year from their supplier. “We’d rather get it all fresh, in season, than go to the ends of the earth to bring it in,” says Schiefer.

In the burrito room, bean and cheese filling plops onto tortillas, made fresh in the room next door, in a way that my minder from the marketing department doesn’t wish me to photograph. But it’s all hand work after that. One employee tells me, still folding while turning away from the assembly line to explain, that she’s been honing her technique for 21 years, shaping the filling, and folding six or more ways in a flash of hand movements I can hardly follow.

One thinks of frozen foods as the ultimate deracinated, nonlocal product. But here, I have the dissonant revelation that, at least for the North Bay, this is truly local. All

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Sundial THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A SELECTIVE GUIDE

FAIRFAX

Big Sounds It’s being billed as a “micro music festival,” but there’s nothing micro about The SoundFest, which is coming to Fairfax for three big nights of live music featuring more than 40 larger-than-life local bands and artists like DJ Williams (Karl Denson) and his Shots Fired band, skate and soul guitar maestro Tommy Guerrero, Bay Area drum and hammond masters Amendola vs Blades and many more performing. The SoundFest sounds off Friday through Sunday, May 10-12, at 19 Broadway Nightclub, 17 Broadway Blvd., Fairfax. 4pm each day. $20-$40. thesoundfest.com.

STINSON BEACH

Still Mad Rarely are dancing shoes required for a film screening, though they are an important part of this week’s presentation of The Mad Hannans: On Stage & Screen. The 2017 documentary about legendary Marin band, the Mad Hannans, which was filmed as brother Jerry and Sean Hannan reunited after a decade apart, plays in between a solo performance by Jerry Hannan and a full band concert from the group. Sponsored by the Stinson Beach DocFest, the event happens Friday, May 10, at Stinson Beach Community Center, 32 Belvedere Ave., Stinson Beach. 6pm. $10 suggested donation.

415.868.1444.

NOVATO

Weekend of Laughs Back by popular demand, the Novato Comedy Weekend once again offers two nights packed with Bay Area standup stars to benefit the Novato Theatre Company.

The weekend is hosted by frequent NTC actor John Griffin, most recently seen in dark comedy Loot, and the two-day lineup of comedians includes Red Scott, Hanna Evensen, Dan Linley, Joe Nguyen, Paul Conyers, Chad Opitz, Jeen Yee, Ray Connolly, Kevin O’Shea and Mark Smalls. See for yourself on Friday and Saturday, May 10-11, at Novato Theatre Company, 5420 Nave Dr., Novato. 8pm. $20 per night. 415.883.4498.

POINT REYES STATION

Intimate Arts Each spring, Gallery Route One presents the Lucid Art Residency Exhibition, displaying work by resident artists at the Lucid Art Foundation, which encourages artists to interpret the beauty of the local environment. This year’s exhibit is joined by “Autumn,” featuring photo portraits of elder citizens by Marin photographer Marna Clarke, and “Redwood Memories,” in which Mendocino County artist Linda Macdonald transforms vintage California postcards into oil paintings. All three exhibits open with a reception on Saturday, May 11, at Gallery Route One, 11101 Hwy One, Point Reyes Station. 3pm. 415.663.1347.

—Charlie Swanson

Veteran singer-songwriter Tom Freund plays off his latest acclaimed album, East of Lincoln, on Friday, May 10, at Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael.

See concerts, pg 20.

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ARTS

Memory Lane May Madness car show features family fun, vintage V8s By Charlie Swanson

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hen it first roared to life in 1986, the May Madness car show was already a blast from the past. Greg Borrelli created it to revisit his high school days of cruising up and down Fourth Street in downtown San Rafael back in the ‘60s and ‘70s.

Though Borrelli passed away in 1998, his legacy lives on today in the now-named Greg Borrelli May Madness Car Show and Parade, marking its 31st year on Friday and Saturday, May 10 and 11, in San Rafael.

May Madness is now helmed

by Borrelli’s longtime friend and associate Rick Lewis, who’s been a part of the tradition since its inception in 1986. “I worked for Greg Borrelli when he owned the pawn shop San Rafael Loan,” says Lewis, who currently runs Gold

Rush Jewelers. “He had a ’32 Ford Roadster, and when he had it restored finally, he wanted to cruise with his friends on Fourth Street, and at that time it was not allowed.”

Cruising had been a longstanding tradition in San Rafael during Borrelli’s youth, even garnering a scene in American Graffiti. Unfortunately, by the middle of the ’80s, the San Rafael Police Department put an end to it. Lewis cites Borrelli’s connection to the merchants association and relationship with then Mayor Al Boro for getting the show off the ground.

Through the years, the event has grown exponentially, now attracting thousands of visitors each May. “It brings back a ton of nostalgia, myself included,” says Lewis. “When I was a 19-year-old kid, I had a ’65 Impala Super Sport convertible, and

my friends and I would pile in the car in Fairfax and we’d cruise in San Rafael. It was a great time.”

In addition to the car show and parade on Saturday, May 11, this year’s May Madness is reliving the memories with it’s first-ever Friday Night Cruise on May 10, with engines revving up at Terra Linda High school and moving through San Rafael. Afterwards, a barbecue at the Elks Lodge raises funds for under-served Marin youth to experience Camp Chance.

“It’s a way to have that fun again” says Lewis. “We all have our project cars, mine’s a ’68 Cougar, and we’ll get to relive that experience.”

Saturday’s show will boast the largest collection of classic cars in the history of May Madness, and Lewis says those who wait until the day-of to register their car may be turned away. “I’ve walked each

block, counting spaces and trying to figure out how to add more cars,” he says. “It’s very touching that people want to spend their day with us.”

For the general public, Saturday’s show also features food trucks, live music, refreshments and a parade led by a 1928 San Rafael police car.

Another after-party at the Elks Lodge rounds out the weekend.

“It’s great to see friends and families come to this event,” says Lewis. “People who grew up in Marin and have moved away; they come back here to do things they did when they were young.”

Greg Borrelli’s May Madness Car Show and Parade happens Friday and Saturday, May 10-11, Fourth St., San Rafael. Fri, 6pm; Sat, noon.

Free admission; Fri BBQ is $35.

Maymadnesssanrafael.com.

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This weekend’s May Madness is San Rafael’s ode to classic cars and cruising culture.

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Carolyn McCoy

Marin rockers San Geronimo are taking a trip to the ‘Dark Side’ this week in Mill Valley.

MUSIC

Full Moon San Geronimo takes on Pink Floyd’s celestial masterpiece By Charlie Swanson

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oots-rock meets progrock this week, when Marin’s longtime Americana outfit San Geronimo performs Pink Floyd’s seminal 1973 album, Dark Side of the Moon, in its entirety on Friday, May 10, at Sweetwater Music Hall.

It’s a show that San Geronimo has performed in the past, though it’s been a while. In fact, the group as a whole has been in a state of flux in the last year while co-frontmen Jeremy D’Antonio and Darren Nelson have spent time focusing on solo projects.

“I think we’re trying to figure out where we’re going to land as musicians,” says D’Antonio, who spent last month recording

solo material with members of Merle Haggard’s old band. “We’ve been exploring avenues that San Geronimo doesn’t usually cover, but we always come back to San Geronimo.”

Formed over a decade ago, the five-man Americana machine began life under the name Tiny Television, the group that D’Antonio brought with him when he relocated to the North Bay from Colorado.

Once Nelson joined the ranks, San Geronimo enjoyed a long-running residency at Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael, and became known not only for their original tunes, collected in 2016 on their Better Days LP, but also for cover shows like the one coming up on May 10.

“Actually, we grew as a band by learning to play someone else’s material —it’s a great growing experience,” says D’Antonio.

While the group rarely makes a habit of playing cover shows, they are eager to once again cover Dark Side of the Moon, one of D’Antonio’s favorite records.

“My earliest memories are probably listening to that record with my dad,” he says. “It’s ingrained in me at this point.”

Of course, D’Antonio is not alone in that sentiment, and Dark Side of the Moon is still one of the bestselling records worldwide.

“We’re pretty true to the record, but there’s no other way than to make it our own a little bit,” says

D’Antonio, who points out the sounds of pedal-steel player Dave Zirbel, bassist Mike Anderson and drummer Danny Luehring. “They bring so much to the table, and put the San Geronimo stamp on it.”

For the show, the group will also welcome special guests Phil Ferlino (New Monsoon) on keys, Teal Collins Zee (Mother Truckers) on vocals and Alex Garcia (Analog Us) on saxophone and synthesizer. “The songs are so good, it’s kind of hard to mess them up,” laughs D’Antonio. “Everybody brings their own twist to it.”

San Geronimo and friends perform ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ on Friday, May 10, at Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley.

8pm. $20-$25. 415.388.3850.

FILM

Rio Bravo New doc observes the wild side of the U.S.-Mexico border By Richard von Busack

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he lunatic proposal to wall off America’s southern border from sea to sea is a waste of both time and treasure.

The implications of this partisan folly look even worse after watching Ben Master’s The River and the Wall.

It documents a 1,900 mile journey from the shoulder of Texas to its toe down at the Gulf of Mexico. Five travellers follow the Rio Grande, America’s fourth largest river. It’s just one front for this proposed ‘big, beautiful wall.’

According to this gloriously photographed study, only 3 percent of Texas is publicly owned. Most of that is in Texas’s Outback, the Big Bend region. It is titanic country, 800,000

acres of open land. It’s remote, often tractless, a place to stir the soul of anyone who loves a western movie.

The area is so rugged that it has to be seen just so that the wall can be laughed off properly: vertical cliffs facing each other hundreds of feet above the river, mesas, box canyons and bluffs. Says Masters, it’s ”like the Grand Canyon without the crowds.”

The five-person adventure is carried out on mountain bike, on mustang back and in canoes. The trip includes a surprise snowfall that turns the road to mud, and a passage downstream through the rapids. Director Masters travels with ecologist Jay Kleberg, river guide Austin Alvarado, photographer Filipe DeAndrade and a Coachellabeanie-wearing, Cornell-trained

ornithologist named Heather Mackey.

She’s there to observe the subtropical bird and butterfly haven at Bentsen Rio Grande Valley State Park. See it now, if you can; this habitat may well soon be scraped by bulldozers and divided by the wall to be.

Part of the incalculable price of the wall is the closure of wildlife corridors over the border, even after the creatures there had started to come back from extirpation—bears, bighorn sheep and pronghorns, among others.

A 2006 law lets the government ignore environmental issues when seizing land for border security. Some potential victims in the deep south of Texas are farmers who may lose access to the Rio Grande water, as well as rich fields, arable year-round. Farmland

‘The River and The Wall’ is now streaming on Vudu.

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To document the massive Rio Grande, ‘The River and the Wall’ filmmakers travelled by canoe and other means.

might be ceded to Mexico just because it’s easier to build a wall on a levee than on a riverbank.

The travellers do face potential danger, in the south near Brownsville. Boating by night, as they were advised not to do, they encounter a party of illegal crossers.

They might be ordinary mojados or they might be dangerous narco traffickers, on the job satisfying the U.S.A.’s sweet tooth for drugs.

In America, we have an estimated 11 million undocumented residents, most of them here on overstayed visas. Over the decades, the matter has been a source for sidestepping bipartisan twaddle: seen here, presidents Trump, Obama, Clinton and George W. Bush’s exact wording differs, but what they said comes down to the same empty phrase: “We’re a county of immigrants, but we’re also a country of laws.”

University of Texas at Austin scholar Victoria deFrancesco Soto, interviewed here, argues that “folks don’t choose to be undocumented.

When people say ‘get in line,” many times the line doesn’t exist.”

Democratic Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke and Republican Will Hurd here agree that the wall is, as Hurd puts it, “the most expensive and least effective way to do border security.”

The River and the Wall sometimes goes in for homemade YouTube travel documentary–style whimsy.

At one point Masters cuts away from something interesting Hurd was saying just to show DeAndrade clowning around about his saddle-soreness as a novice horse rider. Masters has a point, though. Two of these travellers, DeAndrade and Alvarado, were once illegal immigrants. DeAndrade, an irrepressible guy with a pierced lower lip, is now an award-winning photographer for National Geographic.

Both men are evidence not of what we’re losing by having immigrants, but what we’re gaining.

It’s unclear whether factors such as beauty, remoteness, or common sense will save a wilderness that makes the heart soar to look upon it. One proposal is combining Big Bend National Park with the Mexican nature reserves on the far side of the Rio, similar to Waterton Glacier International Peace Park on the Canada-U.S. border. The River and the Wall displays such majesty that one understands how words fail the likable travellers: ”Isn’t nature neat?” one exclaims.

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Movies

• New Movies This Week

By Matthew Stafford

Friday May 10-Thursday May 16 The Aftermath (1:48) Retrograde soap opera stars Keira Knightley and Alexander Skarsgård as strangers thrown together in the rubble of post-WWII Hamburg.

Ask Dr. Ruth (1:40) Lively documentary portrait of the indefatigable author, Holocaust survivor, Israeli sniper and world-renowned sex therapist.

Avengers: Endgame (3:02) The Marvel mishegoss climaxes with the still-standing superheroes heading into final battle with a universe-destroying miscreant; Scarlett Johansson stars.

Batman Forever (2:01) Caped Crusader Val Kilmer takes on the Riddler (Jim Carrey) and Two-Face (Tommy Lee Jones) when he isn’t mentoring Robin (Chris O’Donnell) and romancing Nicole Kidman.

Bolden (1:48) Long-awaited biopic of Buddy Bolden, the New Orleans trumpeter who more than anyone invented jazz at the birth of the 20th century; score by Wynton Marsalis.

Breakthrough (1:30) True tale of a mother’s faith in the recovery of her presumed-dead son; Woody Harrelson narrates.

El Chicano (2:22) An LA cop goes Zorro to avenge his brother’s murder, take down a drug cartel and defend and protect the City of the Angels.

Chinatown (2:10) Robert Towne’s detective classic about a missing heiress, a mysterious woman and the depraved and corrupt Los Angeles water system stars Jack Nicholson as shamus Jake Gittes; Roman Polanski directs.

The Curse of La Llorona (1:33) The legendary Mexican bogeyperson stalks children and priests in disco-era LA! Everybody Knows (2:12) Asghar Farhadi thriller stars Penelope Cruz as a vacationing wife with a missing daughter, an amorous ex and family secrets aplenty.

Gloria Bell (1:42) Julianne Moore triumphs as a fifty-something cubicle drone who spends her nights clubbing and making time with John Turturro.

Hotel Mumbai (2:05) Unrelentingly tense thriller about the 2008 siege of India’s Taj Hotel by a group of terrorists; Dev Patel and Armie Hammer star.

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

The Intruder (1:42) Suspense thriller about a young married couple and a Napa Valley dream house that comes with an unlisted liability…Dennis Quaid.

Iyengar (1:47) Documentary portrait of the renowned yogi looks at how his teachings have enlightened and inspired practitioners around the globe.

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

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.

Maharshi (2:58) Indian actioner is about a wealthy businessman who returns to his homeland to protect the rights of downtrodden farmers.

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2:12) Terry Gilliam’s trippy decades-in-themaking passion project about a cynical Mad Man and a delusional shoemaker who thinks he’s Cervantes’ quixotic hero.

The Mustang (1:36) A Nevada convict gets a new lease on life when he joins his prison’s wild horse training program; Bruce Dern plays the regulation old-coot trainer.

Nureyev (1:48) Documentary tribute to the ballet superstar features seldom-seen footage.

Penguins (1:16) Disney documentary follows a young Antarctic penguin on his difficult quest to nest, mate and start a family.

Pill Head (1:20) Indie sci-fi comedy thriller about an art student who becomes the subject of a psycho-pharma experimental program complete with paranormal side effects.

Pokémon Detective Pikachu (1:44) Supersleuth Ryan Reynolds enters the Pokémonfriendly night world of Ryme City and uncovers a plot to destroy the universe!

Ramen Shop (1:30) Tasty tale of a young chef who hopes to reconcile age-old animosities between Singapore and Japan by melding the two countries’ signature cuisines.

Red Joan (1:41) Judi Dench stars as a retired secret agent running from her troubled, conflicted past; Trevor Nunn directs.

Satan and Adam (1:18) Documentary tribute to the Harlem blues duo from their early street-busking days to fame, fortune and (inevitably) friction.

Shazam! (2:10) Big/Superman mashup in which a luckless 14-year-old blossoms into a grown-up superhero with totally dope superpowers; Zachary Levi stars.

Storm Boy (1:38) Colin Thiele’s beloved children’s book hits the big screen with Finn Little as a lonely Australian lad who bonds with an orphaned pelican; Geoffrey Rush costars.

Tolkien (2:30) Nicholas Hoult stars as the orphaned future author navigating pre-WWI England with a group of likeminded misfits.

The White Crow (2:07) Biopic focuses on the early life and career of ballet superstar Rudolf Nureyev, from poverty-stricken childhood to 1961 defection; Ralph Fiennes directs.

The Aftermath (R) Amazing Grace (G)

Lark: Fri 8:50; Mon 2:10; Tue 10; Wed 4 Regency: Fri-Sat 12:15, 2:40, 5, 7:20, 9:50; Sun-Tue, Thu 12:15, 2:40, 5, 7:20; Wed 2:40, 5, 7:20 Sequoia: Fri 4:40, 7:20, 9:45; Sat 2, 4:40, 7:20, 9:45; Sun 2, 4:40, 7:20; Mon 4:40, 7:20; TueThu 4:40 Rafael: Sat 2 • American Graffiti (PG) Ask Dr. Ruth (NR) Rafael: Fri, Sun 3:45, 6; Sat 5; Mon-Thu 6 Avengers: Endgame (PG-13) Larkspur Landing: Fri 5, 9; Sat-Sun 10:25, 2:15, 6:05, 9:55 Northgate: Fri, Mon-Wed 10:15, 11:15, 12:15, 1:15, 2:15, 3:15, 4:15, 5:15, 6:15, 7:15, 8:15, 9:15, 10:15; Sat-Sun 10:15, 11:15, 12:15, 2:15, 3:15, 4:15, 5:15, 6:15, 7:15, 8:15, 9:15, 10:15 Regency: Fri-Sat 11:10, 3, 6:50, 9:40; Sun-Thu 11:10, 3, 6:50 Rowland: Mon-Wed 9:30, 1:20, 2:40, 6:40, 9:10, 10:30; 3D showtimes at 10:50, 5:20 Northgate: Sun 4 • Batman Forever (PG-13) Bolden (R) Rafael: Fri, Mon-Thu 8:30; Sat 7:15; Sun 1, 8:30 Breakthrough (PG) Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:55, 1:50, 4:45, 7:40 El Chicano (NR) Northgate: Fri-Wed 9:25pm Lark: Sun 3:30 • Chinatown (R) The Curse of La Llorona (R) Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:05, 12:35, 3, 5:35, 8, 10:30 Lark: Fri 6:45; Sat 2:40; Sun 6:40; Mon 12:10; Tue 2:10; Wed 10; • Diane (NR) Thu 11:50 A Dog’s Journey (PG) Fairfax: Thu 6:05 Everybody Knows (R) Lark: Fri 10; Sun 8:40; Mon 8:30; Thu 1:50 Gloria Bell (R) Lark: Fri 12:40; Sat 9; Mon 10; Tue 6:20; Wed 1:50 Hotel Mumbai (R) Regency: Fri-Tue, Thu 11, 4:20; Wed 11, 7:40 The Hustle (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Wed 9:55, 12:30, 2:55, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 Rowland: Fri-Wed 10, 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 10 The Intruder (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:55, 2:30, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 Rowland: FriWed 10:30, 1, 3:30, 6, 8:30, 11 Iyengar (NR) Rafael: Sat-Sun 1:15 • John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum (R) Fairfax: Thu 7 Northgate: Thu 7, 9:55 Rowland: Thu 7, 10, midnight Little (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Wed 1:45, 7:35 Long Shot (R) Larkspur Landing: Fri 6, 9:15; Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Northgate: Fri-Wed 9:50, 12:55, 3:55, 7, 10 Rowland: Fri-Wed 10:10, 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:50 Northgate: Fri 9:30; Sat-Sun 12:55 • Maharshi (NR) • The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (NR) Rafael: Fri-Tue 7:45 Rafael: Fri-Sun 3:30, 5:30; Mon-Tue 5:30; Wed 5; Thu 7:30 • Meeting Gorbachev (NR) The Most Dangerous Year (NR) Lark: Fri 2:45; Sat 7; Sun 10:45; Mon 4:30; Tue 8:30; Wed noon The Mustang (R) Regency: Fri 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05; Sat 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05; Sun, Tue, Thu 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40; Mon 11:30, 1:55, 4:30 Nureyev (NR) Lark: Sun 1; Wed 6:30 Penguins (G) Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:05am Fairfax: Wed 7 • Pill Head (NR) Pokémon Detective Pikachu (PG) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:15, 3, 6:15, 9; Sun-Wed 12:15, 3, 6:15; Thu 12:15, 3 Larkspur Landing: Fri 5:15, 7:50, 10:25; Sat-Sun 11, 1:40, 4:20, 7, 10 Northgate: Fri-Wed 9:45, 11:35, 12:25, 2:10, 4:55, 6:10, 7:30, 10:10; 3D showtimes at 3:10, 8:55 Playhouse: Fri 3:30, 6:30, 9:30; Sat 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30; Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:30; Mon-Thu 3:30, 6:30 Rowland: Fri-Wed 9:15, 11:50, 2:30, 5, 6:50, 7:40, 9:40, 10:20

Ramen Shop (NR) Red Joan (R) • Satan and Adam (NR) Shazam! (PG-13) Tolkien (PG-13)

Lark: Fri 4:45; Mon 6:30; Tue 12:10; Thu 10 Regency: Fri-Tue, Thu 1:50, 7:10; Wed 5:10 Rafael: Wed 7 (director Scott Balcerek in person) Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:30, 4:25, 10:20 Fairfax: Fri-Sat 1, 4, 7, 9:45; Sun-Thu 1, 4, 7 Regency: Fri 11:20, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10; Sat 9:30, 11:20, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10; Sun-Thu 11:20, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30 Sequoia: Fri 4:20, 7, 9:40; Sat 11, 1:40, 4:20, 7, 9:40; Sun, Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7; Mon-Tue 4:20, 7; Thu 4:20 UglyDolls (PG) Northgate: Fri 9:45, 12:05, 2:35, 4:45, 7:05; Sat-Wed 10, 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:20, 9:45 Rowland: Fri-Wed 9:10, 11:30, 1:45, 4 • What We Left Behind: Star Trek DS9 (NR) Regency: Mon 7 Rafael: Fri 3:15, 5:45, 8:15; Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15; • The White Crow (R) Mon-Thu 5:45, 8:15

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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Abstract Rhythms ‘Jazz’ plays like, well, jazz By Harry Duke

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he Oxford Dictionary defines “jazz” as a type of music of black American origin characterized by improvisation, syncopation and usually a regular or forceful rhythm.

The same definition could be applied to Nambi E. Kelley’s Jazz, her theatrical adaptation of Toni Morrison’s 1992 novel of the same name. Awoye Timpo directs the Marin Theatre Company

production running through May 19 in Mill Valley.

Death hangs over this story like a coffin lid, which is exactly what the scenic design by Kimie Nishikawa evokes from the opening. Below it

‘Jazz’ runs Tuesday–Sunday through May 19 at Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave., Mill Valley. Tuesday – Saturday, 7:30 pm; Sunday, 2:00 pm. $25–$60. 415.388.5208. marintheatre.org.

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Kevin Berne

Joe (Michael Gene Sullivan) and Violet (C. Kelly Wright) share a dark past in ‘Jazz.’

is the grave of an unknown person, surrounded by mourners. Enter a woman who begins to rail against the deceased before pulling out a knife with the intent to disfigure the corpse.

We soon learn that the woman is Violet Trace (C. Kelley Wright), wife of Joe Trace (Michael Gene Sullivan), and that the deceased was a young girl named Dorcas (Dezi Soley). She was Joe’s mistress and Joe shot her after she attempted to end the relationship. Violet is beside herself trying to understand why Joe would enter into that relationship. The story then moves back and forth in time and location as Violet and Joe’s story is told.

Having not read the book, I can’t tell you whether or not the playwright successfully captures the essence of the novel, or what is kept or lost when a 229-page novel is reduced to 95 uninterrupted minutes.

What I can say is that the nonlinear approach is often confusing.

Scenes and dialogue are repeated, ostensibly from different points of view, but that is often not very clear. A parrot (portrayed by Paige Mayes with wonderful physicality in a terrific Karen Perry-designed costume) seems to exist only to chirp “I love you” to Violet.

By the end, we do get a sense of why Joe did what he did, but the morally ambiguous conclusion is unsatisfying.

What is more than satisfying is the caliber of performance brought to this tale by a cast of Bay Area stalwarts and guest talent. Wright and Sullivan give towering lead performances and are given a bedrock of support from Margo Hall as Alice Manfred, Dorca’s aunt and guardian. Soley spends a great deal of time on stage as a “living” painting, but really comes alive in her portrayal of Dorcas.

Strong work is done by the entire ensemble.

Jazz isn’t the most comprehensible play. Actually, it’s a bit of a mess, but a well-produced and well-acted one.

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Ingredients for Tony Tutto’s pies come from local farmers markets.

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Pizza For a Song Tony Tutto sets up a new shop By Tanya Henry

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hen Greg DiGiovine aka Tony Tutto quit the music promotion business and decided to follow his passion to open a small pizza restaurant in Mill Valley, he could never have imagined where he would be 11 years later.

After losing his lease on East Blithedale, Tutto, who once managed Carlos Santana, began looking for a new location in Marin to serve his by now well-known and loved pies with names like Peter, Paul & Pesto, A Love Supreme and a Whiter Shade of Pale. Tutto looked at over

100 spaces throughout Marin, but it was the sweet, light filled spot in downtown Ross, that he “fell deeply in love with—I saw the light literally and figuratively,” said Tutto who was especially taken by all the greenery in the small town. And after a decade of contending with busy traffic and limited parking, Tutto knew he had found a home for Tony Tutto’s next incarnation.

Tutto wasn’t sure how he would attract new customers and bring back his large established following from Mill Valley. “I decided to let people smell their way to my new location,” explained Tutto who opened his

doors last October for five days and offered free pizza and drinks to anyone who walked in the door. By the last day—the place was packed.

Along with his musically named pizzas, Tutto also offers calzones, lasagna and soup. His selection of specialty beers numbers over 50.

Focaccia with seasonal toppings is a new addition to the menu. Daily pizza and focaccia specials often include whatever is fresh at the farmers market. Recent specials included pies topped with fiddlehead ferns and asparagus and another boasted brown piopini mushrooms.

Though Tutto is careful not to

promote his food as vegetarian, there are no meat items on his menu and most of the ingredients are organic.

To say that Tutto has come a long way since the day he decided to follow his pizza dreams with his cash-only pizzeria where orders were placed on Post It Notes is an understatement. The self-described shy guy who was accustomed to promoting others is now a veteran restaurateur with a loyal and beloved following.

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Calendar Concerts MARIN San Geronimo Marin band performs Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” in its entirety with special guests. May 10, 9pm. $20-$25. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.3850.

The Soundfest Micro-music festival features three nights of local acts like PSDSP, the Crooked Stuff and others. May 10-12, 4pm. $20-$40. 19 Broadway Nightclub, 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax, thesoundfest.com.

Tom Freund Americana star plays off his new album “East of Lincoln,” with special guests Wally Ingram, Steve Adams and Dan 'Lebo' Lebowitz. May 10, 8:30pm. Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael, 415.524.2773.

Clubs & Venues MARIN The Belrose May 11, “The Sound & Spirit of 20th Century Paris” with SonoMusette. 1415 Fifth Ave, San Rafael, sonomusette.com.

Fenix May 9, Kayla Gold showcase concert. May 10, Vernon “Ice” Black. May 11, AXL/DC. May 12, Susan Z student showcase. 919 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.813.5600.

Panama Hotel Restaurant May 8, Kurt Huget. May 9, Lady D & the Tramps. May 14, Panama 3. May 15, Loren Rowan. 4 Bayview St, San Rafael, 415.457.3993.

Papermill Creek Saloon May 10, Nico Jett and friends. May 11, Mike Henderson with the Mean Bunny Band.

May 12, Papermill Gang with American Forest and Margo Cilker. 1 Castro, Forest Knolls, 415.488.9235.

Peri's Silver Dollar May 9, Mark’s Jam Sammich. May 10, Stymie & the Pimp Jones Luv Orchestra. May 11, benefit for Aaron Saul. May 12, King Street Giants. May 14, Jake Hammerslag and friends. May 15, Liquid Green. 29 Broadway, Fairfax, 415.459.9910.

Rancho Nicasio May 10, LoWatters. May 11, Jacob Aranda. 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio, 415.662.2219.

San Rafael Elks Lodge May 11, 6pm, May Madness after party with Pride & Joy. 1312 Mission Ave, San Rafael, 415.453.1108.

Sausalito Seahorse May 10, the 7th Sons. May 11, Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers. May 12, 4pm, Mario Arsenio and DJ Jose Ruiz. 305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito, 415.331.2899.

Smiley’s Schooner Saloon May 10, Andrew St James and Doncat. May 11, Coastal Scrubbers. 41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas, 415.868.1311.

Sweetwater Music Hall May 9, Cowboy Junkies. Sold-out. May 12, the Moondoggles with Josiah Johnson. May 13, open mic with Austin DeLone. May 14, ScreenSense Does Sweetwater: Unplugged in Mill Valley. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.3850.

The Tavern on Fourth May 10, Oakadelic. 711 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.454.4044.

HopMonk Novato May 9, Country Line Dancing. May 10, Gurf Morlix and Blackie Farrell. 224 Vintage Way, Novato, 415.892.6200.

Terrapin Crossroads May 9-10, Phil Lesh and friends. May 11, Chum: a tribute to Phish. 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael, 415.524.2773.

Marin Center Showcase Theatre May 10-11, Mayflower Chorus Spring Show. 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael, 415.499.6800.

Vladimir’s Czech Restaurant May 11, 6pm, Paul Schneider Trio with Fred Lamberson. 12785 Sir Francis Drake, Inverness, 415.669.1021.

Marin Country Mart May 10, 6pm, Friday Night Jazz with the Susan Sutton Trio. May 12, 12:30pm, Folkish Festival with Delphi. 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur, 415.461.5700.

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No Name Bar May 9, Mo’Lasses. May 10, Michael Aragon Quartet. May 11, Darryl Rowe. May 12, Doug Nichols and friends. May 13, Kimrea & the Dreamdogs. May 15, Jamie Clark Band. 757 Bridgeway, Sausalito, 415.332.1392.

Art Works Downtown May 10-Jun 7, “Coastal,” exhibit explores the Bay Area’s coastal region, from Santa Cruz to Bodega Bay. Reception, May 10 at 5pm.

1337 Fourth St, San Rafael. Tues-Sat, 10 to 5.

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Osher Marin JCC May 12, 3pm, “American Masters” with New Century Chamber Orchestra. 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael, ncco.org.

Gallery Route One May 10-Jun 16, “Lucid Art Annual Exhibition,” group exhibition features abstract and eco-art inspired art. Reception, May 11 at 3pm. 11101 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station.

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Osteria Divino May 9, Sulkery with Julio De La Cruz. May 10, Ian McArdle Trio. May 11, Walter Earl Trio. May 14, Michael Fecskes. 37 Caledonia St, Sausalito, 415.331.9355.

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Area graduate art programs. Reception, May 12 at 2pm. 944 Fort Barry, Sausalito. Sun-Fri, noon to 4. 415.331.2787.

Comedy Novato Comedy Weekend Several top standups and improvisers get together to perform in a benefit for Novato Theater Company. May 10-11, 8pm. $20 per night. Novato Theater Playhouse, 5420 Nave Dr, Novato, 415.883.4498.

Events 12 x 12 Art Show & Silent Auction Bid on works donated from over 30 local Marin artists during the Mother’s Day Tea Dance featuring the Albany Jazz Band. May 12, 4pm. Dance Palace, 503 B St, Pt Reyes Station, 415.663.1075.

The French Market Outdoor antique market features vintage furniture, decor, clothing, jewelry and more, with crepes and live music. Sun, May 12, 9am. Free admission. Marin Civic Center, 3501 Civic Center Dr, San Rafael, goldengateshows.com.

Marin Rose Society Rose & Photography Show Annual event features fragrant exhibit of expertly-grown roses, speakers, demonstrations and displays. May 11, 11am. Bon Air Center, 302 Bon Air Center, Greenbrae, bonair.com.

May Madness Car Show & Parade Longest running car show and parade in Northern California honors the heritage of Hot Rods and inspires the next generation of car enthusiasts with modified, new, electric cars sports cars and more. May 11, 12pm.

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NatureBridge at Golden Gate, 1033 Fort Cronkhite, Sausalito, naturebridge.org.

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Marin Green Drinks Monthly lecture series lets you network with people living and working as green as they can. May 14, 5:30pm. Free admission. Lotus Cuisine of India, 704 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.456.5808.

Understanding Medical Cannabis As We Age Marin Gardens Delivery discusses how medical cannabis can help you. May 14, 11am.

Whistlestop, 930 Tamalpais Ave, San Rafael, 415.456.9062.

Readings Book Passage May 9, 7pm, “Charged” with Emily Bazelon.

May 10, 7pm, “Moon Camino de Santiago” with Beebe Bahrami. May 12, 1pm, Yes She Can author event. May 13, 7pm, “The Flight Portfolio” with Julie Orringer. May 14, 7pm, “Surprise, Kill, Vanish” with Annie Jacobsen.

May 15, 1pm, “Black Death at the Golden Gate” with David K Randall. May 15, 7pm, “Iola O” with GM Monks. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera 415.927.0960.

Book Passage By-the-Bay May 12, 2pm, “Enid Foster” with Allan Hayes. May 15, 6pm, “The Bellman's Secret” with Heidi Barnes. 100 Bay St, Sausalito 415.339.1300.

Point Reyes Books May 10, 7pm, “The New Farmer's Almanac IV: The Greater We” with various authors.

11315 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station 415.663.1542.

Theater A Bright New Boise College of Marin presents the humorous and compelling comedy. Through May 19. $10$20. Studio Theatre, College of Marin, 835 College Ave, Kentfield.

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Jazz Theatrical production is adapted from Toni Morrison’s novel. Through May 19. $25-$39.

Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.5208.

Farm-To-Table Experience at Slide Ranch Enjoy a delicious meal featuring local and organic ingredients prepared by chef Gabriel Powers. May 10, 5pm. $85. Slide Ranch, 2025 Shoreline Hwy, Muir Beach, 415.381.6155.

Ragtime: The Musical Sweeping musical tells the story of three families in pursuit of the American Dream, with 21-piece orchestra. May 10-26. $28-$40.

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

Mad Hatter Tea Party Wear your maddest hat, sip tea and enjoy pastries. May 15, 2pm. $8. Margaret Todd Senior Center, 1560 Hill Rd, Novato, novato.org.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2019-146652. The following individual(s) are doing business: MARIN ONLINE MARKETING, 209 MARIN ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: PATRICK KILLIAN, 209 MARIN 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 APRIL 09, 2019. (Publication Dates: May 8, 15, 22, 29 of 2019) OTHER NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 1901250 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS 1.

Petitioner (name of each): Jazon Amari Basped, has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Jazon Amari Basped to Proposed Name: Jazon Amari Polk 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: 5/13/2019, 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: APRIL 2, 2019 Andrew E. Sweet Judge of the Superior Court James M Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT

By E. Anderson, Deputy (April 10, 17, 24, May 1 of 2019)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 1901413 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS 1.

Petitioner (name of each): Kelly Lynn Buttolph, has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Kelly Lynn Buttolph to Proposed Name: Kelly King 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: 5/30/2019, 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: APRIL 12, 2019 Andrew E. Sweet Judge of the Superior Court James M Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By J. Chen, Deputy (April 17, 24, May 1, 5 of 2019) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 1901576 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS 1.

Petitioner (name of each): Haytham Al-Imam, has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Haytham Al-Imam, Loretta M. Al-Imam, Nicholas S. Alimam, Philip J. Al-Imam, Peter E. Al-Imam, Jake C. Al-Imam to Proposed Name: Sam Alimam, Loretta M. Alimam, Nicholas S. Alimam, Philip J. Alimam, Peter E. Alimam, Jake C. Alimam 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: 6/14/2019, 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: APRIL 24, 2019 Stephen Freccero Judge of the Superior Court James M Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT

By E. Anderson, Deputy (May 1, 8, 15, 22 of 2019) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:Dale R. Blanton CASE NO.: PR 1901485 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: BERNARD CLYDE COHEN, also known as B. Clyde Cohen A Petition for~Probate~has been filed by: Clifford R. Cohen, Esq. in the Superior Court of California, County of Marin. The Petition for~Probate~requests that: Clifford R. Cohen, Esq. 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. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: 5/28/2019, Time: 9:00AM, Dept.: J, Address of court: 3501 Civic Center Drive, PO Box 4988, San Rafael, CA 949134988. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must

file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California~Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California~Probate~Code.

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

If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in~Probate~Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: Knapp, Petersen & Clarke 550 N. Brand Blvd., Ste. 1500, Glendale CA 91203 818-545-5346 FILED: MAR 22, 2019 James M. Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By: E. Anderson (May 1, 8, 15 of 2019) NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the mobilehome described below will be sold as is at public sale on June 14, 2019 at the hour of 10:00 a.m. at Space C-10 at Marin Park located 2130 Redwood Highway, Greenbrae, California in order to satisfy the lien claimed by the owner of the above mentioned mobilehome park, Marin Park, LLC, for storage and other related charges incurred by Jean Franken. The mobilehome park owner may participate in the sale. Unpaid Rent: $1,561.04; Holdover Damages: $1,334.32; Storage Fees: $2052.60; Attorneyís fees and Costs: $1,477.61. The sale will be free and clear of all claims, liens and encumbrances of record except for possible liens of unpaid mobilehome registration fees and unpaid taxes, if any. The Mobile Home Park owner has obtained possession of the space pursuant to a judgment entered in an unlawful detainer action in the Marin County Superior Court and the mobilehome owner has vacated the subject mobilehome. Presently there is no right to keep this unit on Space C-10. However, after the sale is concluded, the management

may entertain offers of financial consideration from the buyer in exchange for granting the buyer permission to leave the unit on-site in the future.

Any prospective buyer wishing to reside in the unit must qualify for that right via the application and approval process. If the management approves this unit to remain on Space C-10, then the successful bidder will be responsible for discovering and correcting all violations of Community Rules and State Regulations. Details are available at the Mobile Home Park on-site office located at 2140 Redwood Highway, Greenbrae, California. In the event that a post-sale agreement re: future occupancy is not reached, then the Mobile Home Park owner reserves the right to require the removal of the mobilehome within 48 hours after the sale. Prospective purchasers must tender a cashierís check for the full amount of the purchase immediately at the conclusion of the sale.

Except for the warranty that this sale is authorized by law, absolutely no warranties of sale are made. The park reserves the right to postpone and reschedule the sale without further notice. The general public will have access to the Mobile Home Park premises for purposes related to this sale. This sale does not include any contents of the unit and the successful bidder is responsible for the lawful disposition of all remaining contents of the unit. The Mobilehome is described as: One (1) 2003 Fleetwood Homes of Calif., Inc., Westfield Single Family Mobile Home, Model #6522L 2004 California HCD Decal No.: LBF1215; Serial No.: CAFL317A26603WF12; HUD Label/Insignia No.: PFS0813758; Length: 58’8”; Width: 15’6”. Marin Park LLCís claim for sums unpaid for rent from September 1, 2018, through October 31, 2018, and per diem damages from and after December 18, 2018, is set forth above and must be paid by the registered owner or other party in interest within 10 days of receipt of this notice in order to redeem the mobilehome, remove it from Space C-10 and stop the sale. The Registered Ownerís payment of the sums demanded by this Notice will not reinstate the tenancy (and sub-tenancy, if any) under a rental agreement in default.

By Amy Alkon

Q:

My boyfriend dumped me and moved out of our place. I’m on the lease and can’t afford to break it, but it still feels like “our place,” and that’s making it hard to move on. My hippie friend said I should burn sage or light a candle and do a “letting go” meditation. Um, OK. Can you please explain how rituals like this are bogus and unscientific so I can get her off my back?—Annoyed

A:

As I see it, lingering emotional distress like yours requires serious intervention—like sacrificing a goat on the coffee table.

Just kidding about the goats—but only because you’d have to hire crime scene cleaners afterward, which could get seriously pricey. Research by Harvard Business School’s Michael I. Norton, among others, actually finds that rituals—symbolic activities we do with some goal in mind—seem to help us feel better: less negative, less anxious and more in control. Amazingly, this is even true for ritual-doers who don’t believe in the rituals—who think they’re idiotic, embarrassing and pointless.

Annoyingly, researchers aren’t quite sure why rituals have this effect on us.

My guess is that we confuse the real with the symbolic. Research by cognitive neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga suggests our mind is a master spin doctor, creating stories about our behavior that make us look consistent, rational and smart. And no sooner does it come up with those stories than it turns right around and believes them. In short, our mind is under the impression that we’re not stupid—that if we do something, we must have a good reason.

In other words, your friend is on to something—and you might use this to get her onto another thing: a ladder in your living room. I suggest a painting ritual—painting over your old life (in stylin’ new hues, of course) to transform the house you shared with your ex into a colorful new home of your own.

Per the research on ritual, ceremony would be an essential part of this—including explicitly calling what you’re doing a “ritual” and saying a few words, the way you would at a funeral. Incorporate a ceremonial tearing-up of a photo of the two of you together, and have your friends chant, “Out, out, Steve! You are no longer welcome here!” Then have everybody accompany you to toss the pieces into the dumpster.

Q:

I read in Bon Appetit about this woman who takes all her dates to Olive Garden to see whether they judge her when she pockets all the leftover breadsticks. OK, whatever. But what I wanna see is whether somebody’s a good person. What kind of dates do you suggest for determining a potential boyfriend’s character and values?—Concerned Woman

A:

People often say you can discover a person’s true character from how they treat the waiter. And sure, rudeness to a waiter is a red flag, but it isn’t like we easily identify the sociopaths among us because they summon the server referee-style, by blowing a whistle.

It helps to consider the roots of good behavior—moral behavior, that is: why people are good to other people. Evolutionary cognitive scientists Dan Sperber and Nicolas Baumard explain that “People may behave morally because they intrinsically value doing so—a genuine moral reason—or in order to gain the approval of others.” But there’s a complication: We all care about our reputation and doing things that put us in the best light, which is to say both the worst people and the best people behave better when they know they’re being watched.

A person’s true character will come out over time. But there’s a way to speed up the dirtbag detection process: observe a person’s behavior under harsh conditions.

In other words, consider getting kidnapped and held hostage together by the Albanian mob—or, if that’s a little impractical for you, go camping or even just hike some challenging trail. When the chips are down (like if you get injured), that’s when you see: Is he there for you, or is he the type to leave you to die in the wilderness? “I’d totally make a tourniquet for you, but this is a $400 Burberry shirt. Good luck!”

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 8

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Time to shake

things up! In the next three weeks, I invite you to try at least three of the following experiments. 1.

See unusual sights in familiar situations. 2. Seek out new music that both calms you and excites you. 3.

Get an inspiring statue or image of a favorite deity or hero. 4. Ask for a message from the person you will be three years from now. 5. Use your hands and tongue in ways you don't usually use them. 6. Go in quest of a cathartic release that purges frustration and rouses holy passion. 7. Locate the sweet spot where deep feeling and deep thinking overlap.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): According

to science writer Sarah Zielinski in Smithsonian magazine, fireflies produce the most efficient light on planet Earth. Nearly 100 percent of the energy produced by the chemical reaction inside the insect's body is emitted as a brilliant glow. With that in mind, I propose that you regard the firefly as your spirit creature in the coming weeks. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you, too, will be a dynamic and proficient generator of luminosity. For best results, don't tone down your brilliance, even if it illuminates shadows people are trying to hide.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here's a message from author Susan J. Elliott: "This is not your week to run the Universe. Next week is not looking so good either." Now here's a message from me: Elliott's revelation is very good news!

Since you won't have to worry about trying to manage and fine-tune the Universe, you can focus all your efforts on your own self-care. And the coming weeks will be a favorable time to do just that. You're due to dramatically upgrade your understanding of what you need to feel healthy and happy, and then take the appropriate measures to put your new insights into action.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The next three

weeks will be an excellent time to serve as your own visionary prophet and dynamic fortune-teller. The predictions and conjectures you make about your future destiny will have an 85 percent likelihood of being accurate. They will also be relatively free of fear and worries. So I urge you to give your imagination permission to engage in fun fantasies about what's ahead for you. Be daringly optimistic and exuberantly hopeful and brazenly self-celebratory.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo poet Stanley Kunitz

told his students, "You must be very careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin." That's useful advice for anyone who spawns anything, not just poets. There's something unruly and unpredictable about every creative idea or fresh perspective that rises up in us. Do you remember when you first felt the urge to look for a new job or move to a new city or search for a new kind of relationship? Wildness was there at the inception. And you needed to stay in touch with the wildness so as to follow through with practical action. That's what I encourage you to do now. Reconnect with the wild origins of the important changes you're nurturing.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I have no complaints about the measures you've taken recently to push past unnecessary limits and to break outworn taboos. In fact, I celebrate them. Keep going! You'll be better off without those decaying constraints.

Soon you'll begin using all the energy you have liberated and the spaciousness you have made available. But I do have one concern: I wonder if part of you is worried that you have been too bold and have gone too far. To that part of you I say: No! You haven't been too bold. You haven't gone too far.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "Dreamt of a past that frees its prisoners." So wrote Meena Alexander in her poem "Question Time." I'd love for you to have that experience in the coming weeks. I'd love for you be released from the karma of your history so that you no longer have to repeat old patterns or feel weighed down by what happened to you once upon a time. I'd love for you to no longer have to answer to decayed traditions and outmoded commitments and lost

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causes. I'd love for you to escape the pull of memories that tend to drag you back toward things that can't be changed and don't matter any more.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "Desire is a

profoundly upsetting force," writes author Elspeth Probyn. "It may totally rearrange what we think we want. Desire skews plans and sets forth unthought-of possibilities." In my opinion, Probyn's statements are half-true. The other half of the truth is that desire can also be a profoundly healing and rejuvenating force, and for the same reasons: it rearranges what we think we want, alters plans and unleashes unthought-of possibilities. How does all this relate to you? From what I can tell, you are now on the cusp of desire's two overlapping powers. What happens next could be upsetting or healing, disorienting or rejuvenating. If you'd like to emphasize the healing and rejuvenating, I suggest you treat desire as a sacred gift and a blessing.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "So much of what we learn about love is taught by people who never really loved us." My Sagittarian friend Ellen made that sad observation. Is it true for you? Ellen added the following thoughts: so much of what we learn about love is taught by people who were too narcissistic or wounded to be able to love very well; and by people who didn't have many listening skills and therefore didn't know enough about us to love us for who we really are; and by people who love themselves poorly and so of course find it hard to love anyone else. Is any of this applicable to what you have experienced, Sagittarius? If so, here's an antidote that I think you'll find effective during the next seven weeks: identify the people who have loved you well and the people who might love you well in the future— and then vow to learn all you can from them.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn

fantasy novelist Laini Taylor creates imaginary worlds where heroines use magic and wiles to follow their bliss while wrangling with gods and rascals. In describing her writing process, she says, "Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, and fascinating religions." She adds, "I have plundered tidbits of history and lore to build something new, using only the parts that light my mind on fire."

I encourage you to adopt her strategies for your own use in the coming weeks. Be alert for gleaming goodies and tricky delicacies and alluring treats.

Use them to create new experiences that thrill your imagination. I believe the coming weeks will be an excellent time to use your magic and wiles to follow your bliss while wrangling with gods and rascals.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "I was always asking for the specific thing that wasn't mine," wrote poet Joanne Kyger. "I wanted a haven that wasn't my own." If there is any part of you that resonates with that defeatist perspective, Aquarius, now is an excellent time to begin outgrowing or transforming it. I guarantee you that you'll have the potency you need to retrain yourself: so that you will more and more ask for specific things that can potentially be yours; so that you will more and more want a haven that can be your own.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I'm not a

fan of nagging. I don't like to be nagged and I scrupulously avoid nagging others. And yet now I will break my own rules so as to provide you with your most accurate and helpful horoscope.

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you aren't likely to get what you truly need and deserve in the coming days unless you engage in some polite, diplomatic nagging. So see what you can do to employ nagging as a graceful, even charming art. For best results, infuse it with humor and playfulness.

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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