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A Shakespeare lover sets out to see all of the Bard’s plays By David Templeton t is generally accepted that William Shakespeare—aka the Immortal Bard, aka the Upstart Crow, aka the Sweet Swan of Avon, aka the greatest playwright the world has ever known—wrote 37 plays during his lifetime, which ended exactly 400 years ago last April 23.

He possibly wrote more. Possibly a lot more. Possibly even a play called The Two Noble Kinsmen.

Though there’s still an argument about that one. As I shall reveal.

But all of that said, there are at least 37 Shakespeare plays, for certain.

They are commonly known as Shakespeare’s canon (the canon).

I was 21 years old when I set

myself the task of seeing every single play in the canon—even the bad ones. Even Cymbeline. Even Henry VIII. Even Timon of Athens, which I’d heard was basically “unstageable.”

I would do that one, too. Basically, if Shakespeare wrote it, I wanted to see it. And no, movie adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays did not count— though to this day I still mark Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 Romeo and Juliet, with Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, as a major turning point in my life, because, well … because Olivia Hussey.

I was nine years old at the time, watching the film at a drive-in theater in Glendora, part of a double feature with something

called Battle Beneath the Earth. I can’t even remember that one. But I do remember Romeo and Juliet.

And though I could only barely fathom the meaning of the words, “My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep,” I knew upon hearing them that they were somehow kind of sexy and appealing and beautiful, and that Olivia Hussey-as-Juliet was totally worth, you know, dying for.

But where was I? Oh, right.

The canon.

At the time, I’d only seen a handful of Shakespeare’s plays performed live. The first, for the record, was Richard III—or Dick 3, as I affectionately came to know it. That

production, notable for its spirited sword fights and unconvincing ghost effects, was performed by students from the theater department at University of California, Irvine, in Southern California. Three months after being dazzled by the language of Dick 3, I caught a production of Macbeth, starring a young Danny Glover, at the Actor’s Theatre Los Angeles. That production was set in a post-apocalyptic future, with Elsinore transformed into a bombedout shopping mall. It was awesome.

In quick succession, I saw professional productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet, and was hungry for more. By then, I

Shakespeare’s ‘bad plays?’”

“Actually, I’m fascinated by which plays we think of as Shakespeare’s ‘good plays’ at different times in history,” he replied, taking a seat on a bench on “the bricks,” the outdoor courtyard surrounded

by OSF’s three separate theaters.

“Right now, Hamlet is the one play that most modern scholars think of as Shakespeare’s best work. But it didn’t seem to have been thought of that way for at least its first 200 years or so. It was performed.

But it was never thought of as the supreme Shakespeare tragedy until right around 1800 or so, when writers and critics of the Romantic period started to value such things as individuality, and alienation, and ‘interior monologue,’ as great qualities in a work of art. Many of those things—Prince Hamlet’s extreme sense of self-involvement, the play’s over-emphasis on the interior life of one character, its strange mix of comedy and drama— those things had always made the play seem weird, and sort of sloppy and weak. But, those virtues suddenly being valued rather than scorned, Hamlet suddenly seemed brilliant.”

According to Pollack-Pelzner, many other of Shakespeare’s “good plays,” were also once seen as the flip-opposite of “good.”

“People used to hate King Lear,” he said. “They thought it was unperformable as written, and way too bleak. It wasn’t until after the horrors of WWII that people began to appreciate Shakespeare’s vision of a world torn apart by madness in the seats of power.”

Timon, ironically, was once a very popular play.

“For what it’s worth, it was Karl Marx’s favorite Shakespeare play,” Pollack-Pelzner said with a smile.

“He thought it was a brilliant articulation of the pernicious power of money, a condemnation of how the pursuit of money becomes a god to many people. I actually think this is a great time for Timon to reemerge, as the culture talks openly about economics and wasteful spending and the power of money to transform social relationships.”

Pollack-Pelzner adds that Timon’s star has been rising around the world ever since the global financial crisis of 2007-2008.

“Suddenly, Timon of Athens feels ripped from the headlines,” he remarked. “It now feels

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Last July, up in Ashland, Oregon—home of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF)— my impossible literary-nerdy dream came true as I crossed off one final play title from the long list.

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uncomfortably contemporary.”

So far, so good. A nice conversation with a guy who clearly loves Shakespeare as deeply as I do.

But then, things got weird. When I informed Pollack-Pelzner that I had just completed the canon myself, he smiled the gentle smile of a man who’s become accustomed to letting people down gently.

“Well, as a Shakespeare professor, I have to say, OK, you think you’ve completed the canon—but what are you calling the canon?”

“Um, you know, the 37 plays that Shakespeare wrote,” I replied, fully aware that some purists consider The Two Noble Kinsmen to be Shakespeare’s 38th play, but confident that I could safely leave it off the list. None other than Bill Rauch, artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, had assured me of it a year previously, when he announced that Timon of Athens would be one of the plays that would kick off OSF’s commitment to present all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays between 2015 and 2025.

I believe the way I put the question was, “I hope to see all of Shakespeare’s plays before I die, but I still have to see Timon and possibly The Two Noble Kinsmen. So, when I see Timon next year, do I have to keep going until someone does Noble Kinsmen, or can I go ahead and die?”

“See Timon of Athens, he said with a laugh. “Then you can die.

Shakespeare might have written a few paragraphs of Two Noble Kinsmen, but that hardly counts.

The official stance of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival is that Shakespeare wrote all or most of 37 plays—and Two Noble Kinsmen is not one of them.”

“Them’s fightin’ words,” said Pollack-Pelzner, when I shared

this anecdote. “We have really good evidence that Shakespeare collaborated on a lot of plays, not just at the beginning and ending of his career, as we’d once thought.

Some believe he contributed to, or wrote, several other plays not generally considered part of the canon.

“He might have been a hired gun on Sir Thomas More,” PollackPelzner added, in reference to a play commonly attributed to Anthony Munday and Henry Chettle. “And then there are the ‘lost plays, like Cardenio, which we know Shakespeare wrote, but no longer have a script for, or Love’s Labour’s Won, a possible sequel to Love’s Labour’s Lost, which is referred to in several sources, but we don’t have a script for either. Some suggest that was another title for the play that became Much Ado About Nothing.

“So,” my articulate bubble-burster continued, “the issue of completing is, for me, never quite a final process, because we can never be sure when we’ve reached the true boundary of the canon.”

Complicating the question, Pollack-Pelzner added, is the awareness that early on in his career—when no one knew or cared who William Shakespeare was—he may have allowed theater owners to slap a more popular playwright’s name on some early work.

Conversely, later in his life, when he owned his own theater and his name had become golden, he may have allowed his “brand” to be applied to plays he was producing, but had little creative input on.

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had fully recognized that among my other major life’s goals—becoming a screenwriter, winning an Oscar, meeting Olivia Hussey—I would somehow, someday, experience all 37 of the Bard’s plays. It was a goal I believed I might conceivably accomplish within nine or 10 years, possibly completing the canon by the neat-and-tidy age of 30.

It took 26 whole years longer than that. But last July, up in Ashland, Oregon—home of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF)—my impossible literary-nerdy dream came true as I crossed off one final play title from the long list. The show? Timon of Athens.

It was not, as advertised, “unstageable.” It was, in fact, quite grippingly directed by Amanda Dehnert. But it was very dark—the tragic tale of a generous Athenian who loses faith in humanity after giving away all of his money, and finding that none of his former beneficiaries will bankroll his recovery. In the OSF production, there was a whole lot of the great actor Anthony Heald (Silence of the Lambs, Boston Public) wandering the stage in his underwear, rolling about in large piles of garbage, then hanging himself. It was also awesome.

Best of all, as I stepped out of the theater into the warm Oregon sunshine, I carried with me the heady, giddy delight of having just completed a remarkably ambitious task, one that most theater fans never even attempt, and very few ever actually accomplish.

My giddiness, unfortunately, did not last long.

The next day, I met Daniel PollackPelzner, a literature instructor whose bona fides include his being the Ronni Lacroute Chair in Shakespeare Studies at Linfield College, and also Scholar in Residence at the Portland Shakespeare Project. He was in Ashland leading a group of school alumni, many of whom were in town for the very same reason I was.

“A lot of the folks I’ve brought with me are excited for Timon, because now they can cross it off their list,” explained Pollack-Pelzner.

“One or two of them will complete the canon with this afternoon’s performance. Though I have to say, as a Shakespeare scholar, there are a number of reasons why Timon of Athens is an exciting play to see, separate from its ‘bucket-list’ quality.”

“So,” I asked, “you’re not one of those who count Timon as one of

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or his possible plays—as we possibly can.”

Hmmmm. I guess I can’t die yet.

Or can I? For what it’s worth— professor Pollack-Pelzner’s excellent argument aside—there are still plenty who hold to the view, as I had not so long ago done myself, that there is too much speculation and uncertainty

about who wrote what, to be able to convincingly claim those other plays—the Shakespeare “Apocrypha,” if you will—as deserving of being called part of the canon.

“I’ve definitely completed the canon, and I’ve never seen any of those plays,” said Eddie Wallace, Associate Director of

Communications for OSF. Convinced that one can comfortably separate the canon from the Apocrypha, Wallace said that he completed his own Shakespeare canon in 2012, when he saw Henry V, one of the Bard’s most popular plays. “That’s an odd one to complete the canon with, I know,” he said, “since it’s produced so often— but somehow I always missed it.

I had seen the Kenneth Branagh movie version.”

“But the movies don’t count, of course,” I pointed out.

“So I’ve been told,” Wallace said with a nod. “And I really wanted to see a live presentation of all of them, anyway. It was a big moment, for me, I have to say. I’ve devoted my life— first as an actor and then later as a Shakespeare Festival administrator— to promoting the works of the Bard.

And it did feel really, really important to see all of them.”

It’s for that reason, he continued, that companies like OSF, and a handful of others around the globe, have committed themselves to presenting all of the canon—and not just the most popular ones. The 2017 season, for what it’s worth, includes a mix of both: Julius Caesar, and Henry IV, Part One (which opened in February), plus The Merry Wives of Windsor (opening in June) and Henry IV, Part Two (opening in July).

The two Henry IV plays, Wallace acknowledged, could possibly complete the canon for many who’ve never found a company willing to stage them. And since they are the plays where the character of Falstaff first appeared, there is a pleasant symmetry in getting to see Merry Wives too, since Shakespeare invented that story to give one of his most popular characters extra life.

“You can’t write off the lesser works of any playwright or novelist or filmmaker or musical group,” Wallace said. “What doesn’t speak to you at age 20 might speak to you very strongly in your 50s. When I think of the bands that I’ve been passionate about in my life—Jethro Tull and Led Zeppelin and Rush, to name a few— there’s no way that I would not want to find and listen to every album they ever made.

“So,” he added, “for anyone who expresses a love, or even just a like, for Shakespeare, and if you have a chance to see all of them, then why not?

Arguably the best playwright ever?

Why wouldn’t you want to?”

Well, as a lover of Shakespeare, myself, one who’s actually completed the entire canon—yep, I’ve decided

to just go with it—I can say that there is a special feeling that comes from claiming the “canon completion” badge.

But still, there is a quiet voice that has begun to question whether my Shakespeare-watching work is really done.

It belongs to Lesley Currier, Managing Director of Marin Shakespeare Company. She, it turns out, has seen all of the canon also.

Except, she says, for one.

“I’ve seen all of them,” Currier recently told me. “All of them but Two Noble Kinsmen. It just seems like it should be included.”

Currier, apparently agreeing with those who believe that any trace of Shakespeare’s DNA makes a play worth perusing, points out that as scholarly research deepens around the world, we are learning more about the Bard all the time.

“There are now, I think, seven plays that scholars believe Shakespeare had a hand in writing,” Currier said, “including The Spanish Tragedy. That gory, revenge-filled epic—which Marin Shakespeare staged a few years ago—is traditionally credited to Thomas Kyd, but bears a strong resemblance to Shakespeare’s bloody Titus Andronicus.”

Ultimately, offering a variation on Wallace’s point about one’s favorite bands, Currier thinks that if you like the work of William Shakespeare, it just makes sense to see it all—even if the Bard only changed a line or two.

And reading such works is not enough.

“It’s always best,” reminded Currier, “to see a live performance, by skilled actors who have studied the play and the characters, and can bring them to life with intelligence and passion.”

Speaking of passion, it’s possible that I may have just stumbled into a new one.

I’ve actually seen The Spanish Tragedy. If it was, indeed, partially written by Shakespeare, then perhaps I’ve actually already begun my next theatrical pursuit—seeing all of the Apocrypha on stage, in a theater. It’s not going to be easy.

It might be possible to find a production of The Two Noble Kinsmen, but what about the others? What about the lost plays?

It’s possible that they might actually turn up in some dusty archive. And when they do, some enterprising theater company will certainly stage them. And canon completers like me will be there to watch it.

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Spring Fling The best local food & drink events this season By Tanya Henry

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fter living in Marin for 15-plus years, I have never been more eager for spring to arrive! With glimpses of the new season popping up all around us—in gardens, on hillsides and at farmers’ markets, it’s high time that we shake off winter and welcome it in. Here are a few food-focused events that celebrate spring.

If you haven’t yet been on a Food & Farm Tour in West Marin with Elizabeth Ann Hill, now is the perfect time. The tours began on March 3 and continue every Monday throughout the month; an Oyster Lover’s Tour is offered from 1:30-5pm in Tomales Bay on Monday, March 13. The excursion includes a visit to Nick’s Cove, Hog Island Oyster Company, Tomales Bay Oyster Company and the Marshall Store. There will be plenty of luscious bivalves on the menu, of course. The cost is $195 per person. Learn more at foodandfarmtours.com/project/oysterlovers-tour.

If you’re looking for an excuse to go to Sausalito’s Cavallo Point, mark your calendar for the lodge’s third annual Lexus Culinary Classic. This

foodie-fest is a must-attend event for anyone who enjoys food and wine.

The full affair stretches over three days, March 24-26, and includes multi-course menus, wine tastings and cooking classes. Last year’s highlight was a dish prepared by the uber-talented visiting chef Cassidee Dabney from Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tennessee, who will be teaching a cooking class this year.

If you can only make one portion of the event, I highly recommend the Grand Tasting on Sunday from noon3pm. For ticket information, visit lexusculinaryclassic.com.

Cheese-lovers take note! The annual California Artisan Cheese Festival, now in its 11th year, will take place at Petaluma’s Sheraton Hotel from March 24-26. Cooking demonstrations, contests, tours and seminars all make up this illuminating three-day extravaganza. The grand finale Artisan Cheese Tasting and Marketplace on Sunday from noon-4pm is under a big-top tent (in the hotel’s parking lot), and plenty of cheese samples, beer, wine and cider will be on hand.

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Daniel Kaluuya stars in ‘Get Out,’ a horror-comedy from Jordan Peele that touches on issues of race.

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lavery is a horror story,” says San Francisco playwright Star Finch. “Slavery is something that, when you are AfricanAmerican, and also a parent, you have to tell your children about at some point. And that’s horrifying. That’s a very painful thing. It’s painful in general, telling your children about the horrors of the world. But when you are a parent of color, specifically African-American, you have to feed them these stories that you know could affect their sense of self, and self-esteem, or might paralyze them as they move out into the world.

How to do that is a question I’ve been struggling with for a while.”

It’s a bright Saturday morning between rainstorms, and I’ve reached Finch at her home in the city, a few days after catching the film Get Out,

the ingenious new horror-comedy from Jordan Peele (MadTV, Key & Peele). It’s the twisty tale of a black photographer, Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and his white girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams), who take a trip to visit her parents (Catherine Keener and Bradley Whitford) at their secluded estate in the woods. What begins as a hilariously uncomfortable primer in what micro-aggression is, and what it feels like, the story veers into A+ creep-show territory, placing Get Out solidly alongside such sociological thrillers as Night of the Living Dead, The Stepford Wives, The Mephisto Waltz and Rosemary’s Baby.

“It was an amazing experience, that movie,” agrees Finch. “When it was over, this audience of strangers, all these people who didn’t know each other, they were all sharing looks and

comments, like, ‘That was great!’ and ‘I can’t believe what I just saw!’ We were all laughing and smiling, but we were also pretty stunned by it. That movie taps into the highest and best potential for what storytelling has to offer.”

That, of course, is a subject Star Finch knows plenty about.

A multiple award-winner for her remarkable creativity and strong authorial voice, Finch writes in what she calls an “Afro-surreal style, addressing multiple issues and multiple layers at once.” That style was on bold, lyrical display in last summer’s hit show H.O.M.E. (Hookers on Mars, Eventually). The play, presented in San Francisco by Campo Santo, an awardwinning multi-cultural ensemble, was partly set in a futuristic Oakland and partly on Mars, with a plot touching on the collapse of America, teleportation, planets ruled by Google, technological domination, sex, race, gender, class and love.

In her new play, Bondage, presented

by San Rafael’s award-winning AlterTheater ensemble (March 22 through April 16), Finch brings her gorgeously detailed storytelling back down to Earth—and back in time— with a story set on a small island in Pre-Emancipation America.

“At its heart,” Finch explains, “Bondage is about two girls who, because of the isolation of where they live, and the circumstances of their childhood, were raised pretty much as sisters, more or less. But now that they are heading into puberty, one of them, Emily, is expected to step into her ‘mistress’ role, as a white woman, and the other character, Zuri, who is mixed-race, is feeling the heat to become more subservient, essentially to become Emily’s slave. As Zuri’s eyes are opened to the world she inhabits, she begins to question that reality. And that’s the journey these two girls go on together, as they negotiate all of this, discussing it within the structure of the adults around them, who behave the way they’ve been programmed to, within the context of the slavery system they all live in.

“It’s really a fable, in a lot of ways,” she continues. “It’s a way I can tell my own daughter, someday, about the realities of the past, through a character like Zuri, a young woman who is strong, and who can find a way to take control of her own life.”

Control, given and taken—in more ways than one—is a core concept in Get Out as Chris ultimately finds himself in a nightmare scenario in which all of the black people he encounters have lost their sense of individuality or free will. In a series of increasingly hilarious phone calls with his friend Rod (LilRel Howery), Chris is warned that he might have been abducted by a kinky sex cult. Where writer-director Peele finally takes

his smartly-crafted plot is surprising, clever, chilling, wildly over-the-top and, in the way of great horror films, often lots of fun.

“Number one, it’s just really great storytelling,” Finch says. “It hooks you, and draws you in, and I think that— having a great story—will always be successful across all kinds of borders.

“I went with my husband and my sister,” she continues. “We had to stand in this long line, and there was this huge sense of excitement and buzz, almost like we were at Great America or something, all of us waiting to get on a great big roller coaster together.

And even though none of us knew exactly what was in the movie or what the twists were going to be, everyone in the audience—and it was a pretty racially mixed audience—clearly knew, from the previews, that the movie was going to tackle issues of race.

“So I think there was a thrill of potential ‘truth telling’ with this movie,” she muses. “For all the emotional repression or head-in-thesand reactions that people have when it comes to certain issues, like sexism and race, there’s a kind of thrill we experience when we know someone like Richard Pryor or Dave Chappelle is going to ‘go there’ anyway.”

For the record, Get Out goes there.

“And everyone in the theater was right there with it,” Finch says, “yelling, talking to the screen, screaming, clapping, cheering. I would attribute that, not just to the storytelling, but to the timing of the movie, too. This film has come out at a very specific time, when our society—a good chunk of us, anyway—are feeling that we really are in a horror movie. Our current government was almost the unspoken third character in the film. That same uncertainty that people of color can feel going into an all-white space, or driving into the suburbs, we are having that same kind of feeling right now with our government. It’s a horror film kind of feeling. ‘What’s going to happen?’ ‘How far are they going to take this?’ ‘Who’s going to survive it?’”

Finch notes that, just as we can’t guess at Chris’s fate, going into the film, no one in America knows quite how the next several years are going to play out.

“There is a sense of fear and trepidation, but there’s a sense of hope, too,” she says, “hope that a big chunk of us—across race, across class, across gender, across everything—will sort of decide whether we are in this together or not, whether we can join forces to fight back and have the unlikely happy ending that so many people in the audience really want for Chris.

“Personally,” she continues, “I want that happy ending for the rest of us, too.”Y

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Loneliness Quotient Ross Valley Players’ ‘Bus Stop’ features a detailed examination

By Charles Brousse

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nless they’re written by someone named Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee or Neil Simon, there’s little interest among today’s producers in mid-20th century American plays—even those that in their time were quite popular.

That’s a shame, really, because some of the works by lesser-known writers, if left in their original form rather than being updated, afford a better glimpse into what that era was all about, more than their more famous cousins.

Case in point: William Inge’s Bus Stop, currently on view in a strong production directed by Christian Haines at the Ross Valley Players’ Barn Theatre.

Inge is a second-tier playwright who has been lost in the shadow of the just-named big four. He is generally remembered today for the film version of his 1955 comic drama that starred Marilyn Monroe in her heyday and for Picnic, a 1953 Pulitzer Prize-winning romance that later became a movie featuring William Holden and a very young, very beautiful Kim Novak. A Kansas native, during his brief period of national acclaim, Inge brought the lives and times of mid-Westerners onto the national stage, much as John Steinbeck and William Saroyan were doing for the far West, Carson McCullers for the South and Thornton Wilder for New England. Their characters are ordinary folk, whose stories resonate because they open a

window into the lives and fortunes of people off the beaten track who might otherwise be totally ignored.

The ’50s are often dismissed as a low point in America’s cultural history.

True, Dwight Eisenhower’s presence in the White House wasn’t exactly stimulating and Joe McCarthy’s communist witch hunt was a noxious influence, but a lot was going on under the surface that was barely noticed at the time. Like two titanic continental plates, the post WWII economic growth that raised the middle class to unprecedented dominance began to clash with a counterforce of disillusion and alienation.

In his prescient 1950 book, The Lonely Crowd, sociologist David Riesman claimed that underneath

NOW PLAYING: Bus Stop runs through March 26 at RVP’s Barn Theatre, Marin Art & Garden Center, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Ross; 415/456-9555; rossvalleyplayers.com.

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‘Bus Stop,’ directed by Christian Haines, offers audiences a look inside an era.

the affluence produced by market capitalism, many Americans feel isolated and adrift, opening a widening gap between themselves and the happy white picket fence family stereotypes then found in popular TV shows like Ozzie and Harriet, Leave It to Beaver and Father Knows Best. As if to prove Riesman’s thesis, in Bus Stop Inge takes us to Grace’s Diner, a smalltown cafe (nicely rendered by RVP’s scenic designer Bruce Lachovic) on the highway from Kansas City to Topeka, where a disparate group of characters gathers to wait out a fierce winter storm.

Grace Hoylard, the good-natured “grass widow” owner/hostess (Mary Ann Rodgers), her bubbly teenage assistant Elma (Ariana Mahallati) and Will Masters, the stoical, by-thebook local sheriff (Steve Price), are alone when the Topeka-bound bus rolls in and its passengers receive the discomforting news that the road has been closed by snow until further notice. One-by-one we get to know them.

Carl (Jeffrey Taylor), the married driver who has admired Grace from a distance for several years, contrives to get her to allow him into her bedroom for a “quickie.” Dr. Gerald Lyman (Ron Dritz), an alcoholspotted, poetry-quoting academic with a taste for young girls, attempts to lure gullible Elma into meeting him for a “tour of Topeka’s cultural attractions.” Then there is blousy, disheveled Cherie (Laura Peterson), who has left her job as an “entertainer” at Kansas City’s Blue Dragon nightclub and boarded the bus with no final destination in mind, but hoping to escape both the club and a boisterous young cowboy named Bo Decker (Andrew Morris), who wants her to marry him and come to live on his Montana ranch. Unfortunately, Bo, accompanied by Virgil, his sidekick (Aeron Macintyre, whose singing and natural performance are among the show’s highlights), has followed her and the sparks fly as he presses his awkward courtship.

That’s the setup. All of these people have a strong loneliness quotient; some are helped by being stranded in close quarters, some not. Bus Stop features the kind of detailed observation that is rare in theaters these days. For us, observing them from our 21st century vantage point is a couple of hours, including intermission, well spent.Y

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ake the Dead describes itself as “the world’s only Celtic all-star Grateful Dead jam band.”

“The Celtic aspect was just a happy accident,” says Paul Kotapish, cofounder of the band, which, along with Grateful Dead tunes, plays songs from the Summer of Love era fused with traditional Irish folk music.

Think classic Dead songs like “Box of Rain” and “Dark Star” played— complete with fiddle, mandolin and Irish bagpipes—as though you were hearing them while sitting in a pub in Ireland. The band takes the Sweetwater stage on Thursday, March 16—appropriately, St. Patrick’s Day eve.

Kotapish (mandolin, vocals) says that he had been playing bluegrass and old-time fiddle music for a while when he got hooked on Irish music at a folk festival in 1976. “I listened to those jigs and reels and just had to learn them,” he says.

Around 2000, Kotapish joined forces with Danny Carnahan (octave mandolin, fiddle, vocals), who shared the vision of making a recording

of Dead songs with a more gentle, acoustic approach. “In our minds, that made a lot of sense given the deep folk roots the Dead—especially Jerry— were steeped in,” Kotapish says.

The musicians soon brought in others who shared their love of both the Grateful Dead and traditional Irish music, and “it just kind of fell into place without a lot of thinking,” Kotapish says. “We knew we didn’t want to try to compete with or emulate the kind of open-ended jamming that made the Dead so unique, but we wanted the songs to take off and go somewhere else during the interludes.”

Kotapish says that Wake the Dead’s all-ages audiences are “a wonderful mashup of Deadheads, folkniks, pop music fans and Irishmusic enthusiasts,” but most in the crowd are probably old enough to remember when the band’s repertoire was brand new. “It’s material that seems timeless to us.”Y Wake the Dead, Thursday, March 16, Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley; 8pm; $20-$22; 415/3883850; sweetwatermusichall.com.

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Lone Wolverine Hugh Jackman takes ‘X-Men’ character for final spin By Richard von Busack

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t’s 2029 in the film Logan, and the last of the mutants—pale Caliban (Stephen Merchant), Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and the mercenary Logan, aka Wolverine (Hugh Jackman)—are holed up in an abandoned industrial facility in the Mexican desert. Trying to hide from the government and his past, Logan works as a limo driver, taking high school kids to their proms.

A smirking Blackwaterish thug called Donald (Boyd Holbrook) turns up around the same time that Logan is asked for help by a woman tending a special child, Laura (Dafne Keen), who seeks safety in an Eden for mutants.

This most meta of the X-Men movies suggests that a clue published in an old X-Men comic book determines the future of mutantkind. But the comics are there for Logan’s contempt, as if he were a Western gunslinger scorning a Ned Buntline dime novel.

The tangy script makes up for director James Mangold’s bent for overemphasis. We glimpse the Statue of Liberty on a sign for a low-

class flophouse called the Liberty Motel—we get it, remembering the X-Men’s battle 17 years ago atop the torch. Mangold (Walk the Line) tries to give Jackman’s Logan Johnny Cash– worthy demonstrations of integrity, even ratifying that moral heft with Cash’s “The Man Comes Around.” It usually works, but Mangold leans on the buzzer.

There are worse things than moral seriousness. Logan’s action comes hard and fast, with a savage car pursuit and various skirmishes in an Oklahoma farm and in the Rocky Mountains.

There’s magnificent action-movie confidence in the moment where Logan steps into the full force of one of Xavier’s psy-storms, which are strong enough to break windows blocks away. Logan pulls himself to the center of the telepathic hurricane, bracing himself with his claws at every step.

With dignity and grace, Jackman says sayonara to this signature role, and one wonders what will replace it in upcoming X-Men installments.Y

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Movies

• New Movies This Week

By Matthew Stafford

Fri. March 10 - Thu. March 16 • Almost Sunrise (1:50) Acclaimed documentary follows two near-suicidal Iraq War veterans as they embark on a reflective 2,700-mile walk across the USA. • Beauty and the Beast (2:03) Live-action remake of the 1991 Disney musical stars Emma Watson as the abducted beauty who finds herself falling for her beastly captor.

• Before I Fall (1:39) Groundhog Day without the laughs as perfect teen Zoey Deutsch finds herself reliving a day in the life over and over again and realizes things aren’t as perfect as they seem.

• The Brand New Testament (1:53) Acerbic and irreverent Belgian comedy about a god who’s grumpy, overworked and saddled with a rebellious daughter.

• Deconstructing The Beatles: Revolver (1:35) Musicologist Scott Freiman discusses the conception and creation of the Fab Four’s finest album.

• A Dog’s Purpose (2:00) A sweet-natured pooch learns the meaning of life with a little help from his human cohorts (Dennis Quaid and Peggy Lipton among them).

• The Eagle Huntress (1:27) Eye-filling documentary about a 13-year-old Mongolian girl and her quest to become her family’s first female eagle hunter in 12 generations.

• Everybody Loves Somebody (1:40) Romantic comedy stars Karla Souza as an L.A. doctor who cons a co-worker into posing as her boyfriend at her sister’s Mexican wedding.

• Exhibition On Screen: I, Claude Monet (1:30) Bio-documentary explores the great Impressionist painter’s life and work through his own words and location footage of Giverney, Paris, London and Venice.

• Fences (2:19) August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play stars Denzel Washington as a father struggling to raise his family in racially explosive 1950s Pittsburgh.

• The Founder (1:55) Michael Keaton stars as Ray Kroc, the ruthless entrepreneur who turned Mac and Dick MacDonald’s humble L.A. burger joint into a global phenomenon.

• Get Out (1:44) Savvy social commentary underscores Jordan Peele’s horror flick about an interracial relationship, white guilt and a scary old house.

• The Great Wall (1:44) Chinese superproduction stars Matt Damon as a medieval mercenary who finds himself defending the Great Wall against marauding monsters.

• Hidden Figures (2:07) True story of the three African-American women who were the brains behind John Glenn’s launch into orbit in the early ’60s.

• John Wick: Chapter 2 (2:02) Hitman extraordinaire Keanu Reeves is back in business, reveling in Rome’s dolce vita and taking down the world’s wickedest killers between espressos.

• Kedi (1:19) Rambling documentary tribute to the beloved free-ranging cats

who’ve roamed the streets of Istanbul for thousands of years.

• La La Land (2:08) Bold, brilliant Hollywood musical circles around the bittersweet romance between a struggling jazz musician and an aspiring actress; Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling star.

• Land of Mine (1:40) Powerful Danish drama about German POWs ordered to remove a million live landmines the Nazis left behind at the end of WWII. • Lion (2:09) One of the most profoundly touching movies of all time will have you and the entire theater in tears.

• Logan (2:15) The X-Men’s Wolverine returns as an on-the-skids expat cabbie in post-mutant Mexico; Hugh Jackman stars.

• The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata (2:55) Verdi’s timeless tragedy of a tubercular courtesan’s lost love, live from New York in glorious big-screen high definition.

• Mr. Gaga (1:42) Documentary focuses on Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin, whose groundbreaking explorations of movement and dance have entertained and outraged audiences around the world.

• Moonlight (1:50) Tender, bittersweet Best Picture Oscar-winner about a young gay black man’s struggle to define himself and embrace his sexuality.

• National Theatre London: Hedda Gabler (3:30) Ruth Wilson stars as Ibsen’s newly married, deeply dissatisfied bourgeois housewife; Tony winner Ivo van Hove directs.

• Neruda (1:47) Fanciful biopic finds the great Chilean poet on the run from a tireless flatfoot during the anti-communist hysteria of the 1940s.

• The Quiet Man (2:09) John Ford’s bit of Irish whimsy stars John Wayne as an American boxer seeking love and tranquility on the Emerald Isle; Maureen O’Hara co-stars.

• Rock Dog (1:20) Cartoon comedy about a Tibetan mastiff who forsakes his sheepguarding career for the glam life of a rock star; Luke Wilson and Eddie Izzard vocalize.

• The Shack (2:12) The father of a murdered girl endures a crisis of faith with a little help from Octavia Spencer, Radha Mitchell and Graham Greene.

• Sing (1:48) Animated musical about a koala impresario’s all-star singing competition features vocals from Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane and Scarlett Johansson.

• Things to Come (1:43) Isabelle Huppert stars as a philosophy professor whose crumbling personal life liberates her to explore the next chapter of her existence.

• A United Kingdom (1:51) True story about the international repercussions surrounding a 1947 interracial love affair between a London office worker and the king of Botswana; Davd Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike star.

Because there were too many movies playing this week to list, we have omitted some of the movie summaries and times for those that have been playing for multiple weeks. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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Almost Sunrise (Not Rated) Beauty and the Beast (PG)

Before I Fall (PG-13) The Brand New Testament (Not Rated) • Deconstructing The Beatles: Revolver (Not Rated) A Dog’s Purpose (PG) The Eagle Huntress (Not Rated) Everybody Loves Somebody (PG-13) Exhibition On Screen: I, Claude Monet (Not Rated) Fences (PG-13) The Founder (PG-13) Get Out (R) The Great Wall (PG-13) Hidden Figures (PG)

John Wick: Chapter 2 (R) Kedi (Not Rated) La La Land (PG-13)

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Land of Mine (R)

Lion (PG-13)

Logan (R)

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The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata (Not Rated)

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Mr. Gaga (Not Rated)

Moonlight (R)

National Theatre London: Hedda Gabler (Not Rated) Neruda (R)

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The Quiet Man (G) Rock Dog (PG) The Shack (PG-13) Sing (PG) Table 19 (PG-13)

Things to Come (PG-13) A United Kingdom (PG-13)

Lark: Sat 6:30 Cinema: Thu 10; 3D showtime at 7 Fairfax: Thu 7 Northgate: Thu 7:10, 7:55, 10:10; 3D showtime at 8:40 Playhouse: Thu 7 Rowland: Thu 7; 3D showtime at 10 Northgate: Fri-Wed 12:10, 2:40, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 Lark: Sun 10:30; Tue 11; Wed 4 Rafael: Wed 6:30 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:55, 2:30, 5:10, 7:35, 10:05 Rafael: Sun noon Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:40, 2:10, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 Lark: Sat 2; Tue 6:15 Lark: Sun 8:50; Mon 3:40; Thu 4:10 Regency: Fri 10:30, 1:10, 4, 7, 9:45; Sat 4, 7, 9:45; Sun-Tue 10:30, 1:10, 4, 7; Wed 10:30am; Thu 1:10, 4 Northgate: Fri-Wed 12:25, 2:55, 5:25, 8, 10:30 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11:30, 2:20, 5, 7:55, 10:30 Northgate: Fri-Wed 7:55, 10:25; 3D showtime at 5:15 Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12, 3:35, 6:40, 9:50; Sun-Wed 12, 3:35, 6:40 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 6:45, 9:50; Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:50 Northgate: Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:55, 7, 9:55 Rowland: Fri-Wed 12:40, 4, 7:10, 10:10 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:05, 1:55, 4:50, 7:45, 10:05 Rafael: Fri 4:15, 6:15, 8:15; Sat-Sun 2, 4:15, 6:15, 8:15; Mon-Thu 6:15, 8:15 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 6:30; Sat-Sun 12, 6:30 Playhouse: Fri 7, 9:50, sing-along at 4; Sat 1, 7, 9:50, sing-along at 4; Sun 1, 7, singalong at 4; Mon-Wed 7, sing-along at 4; Thu 7 Regency: Fri-Sat 1:15, 7:30, 9:40; Sun-Wed 1:15, 7:30; Thu 1:15 Rowland: Fri-Wed 7 Regency: Fri-Sat 10:45, 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 10:20; Sun-Wed 10:45, 1:40, 4:30, 7:10; Thu 10:45, 1:40, 4:30 Fairfax: Fri-Sat 1, 4:15, 7:05, 9:40; Sun-Wed 1, 4:15, 7:05 Lark: Fri 1:30, 6:30; Sat 9:15; Sun 4:10; Mon 11, 8:50; Tue 3:40; Wed 1:20 Regency: Fri-Sat 10:40, 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:05; Sun-Wed 10:40, 1:30, 4:20, 7:20; Thu 10:40, 1:30, 4:20 Sequoia: Fri 4:15, 7, 9:45; Sat 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:45; Sun 1:30, 4:15, 7; Mon-Thu 4:15, 7 (times may change on Saturday and Wednesday) Fairfax: Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:30, 6:40, 9:45 Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:40, 11:35, 12:50, 1:50, 2:50, 4, 5, 6:10, 7:10, 8:15, 9:20, 10:20 Playhouse: Fri 3:30, 6:45, 9:35; Sat 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:35; Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:45; Mon-Thu 3:30, 6:45 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11:20, 1:10, 2:40, 4:30, 6, 7:45, 9:15 Lark: Sat 9:55am; Wed 6:30 Regency: Sat 9:55am; Wed 6:30 Sequoia: Sat 9:55am; Wed 6:30 Rafael: Fri 4, 6:30, 8:45; Sat-Sun 1:45, 4, 6:30, 8:45; Mon-Tue, Thu 6:30, 8:45; Wed 8:45 Lark: Fri 11; Tue 1:20; Wed 9:30 Regency: Fri-Sat 11:05, 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10; Sun-Wed 11:05, 1:50, 4:40, 7:40; Thu 11:05, 1:50, 4:40 Sequoia: Fri 4:35, 7:20, 9:50; Sat 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 9:50; Sun 1:50, 4:35, 7:20; Mon-Thu 4:35, 7:20 (times may change on Saturday and Wednesday) Lark: Sun 1; Thu 1 Lark: Fri 9; Sat 4: Sun 6:40; Mon 6:30; Tue 8:30; Wed 11 Regency: Sun 2; Wed 2, 7 Northgate: Fri-Wed 12:30, 3, 5:05, 7:25, 9:45 Northgate: Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Rowland: Fri-Wed 1, 4:10, 7:20, 10:20 Northgate: Fri-Wed 12, 2:35 Regency: Fri 10:25, 12:45, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:25; Sat 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:25; Sun 10:25, 5:25, 7:45; Mon-Tue 10:25, 12:45, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45; Wed 10:25, 12:45, 3:05; Thu 10:25, 12:45, 3:05, 5:25 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11:05, 4:20, 10 Lark: Fri 4; Mon 1:30; Thu 10:40 Rafael: Fri 3:30, 6, 8:30; Sat-Sun 1, 3:30, 6, 8:30; Fri-Wed 6, 8:30

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

CinéArts at Marin 101 Caledonia St., Sausalito, 331-0255 CinéArts at Sequoia 25 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley, 388-4862 Cinema 41 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, 924-6505 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, 800-326-3264 Playhouse 40 Main St., Tiburon, 435-1234 Rafael Film Center 1118 Fourth St., San Rafael, 454-1222 Regency 80 Smith Ranch Rd., Terra Linda, 479-5050 Rowland 44 Rowland Way, Novato, 800-326-3264

Concerts

Wines and Campesino Cellars. Mar 11, 7:30pm. $15-$20. Napa Valley Opera House, 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.226.7372.

MARIN COUNTY

Clubs & Venues

Sara Daneshpour Mill Valley Chamber Music Society presents the internationally acclaimed pianist in a dazzling program. Mar 12, 5pm. $35/free for students. Mt Tamalpais United Methodist Church, 410 Sycamore Ave, Mill Valley, 415.381.4453.

Stymie & the Pimp Jones Love Orchestra Bay Area funk-soul institution welcomes San Francisco Whiskey-soaked Americana outfit Mad Mama & the Bona Fide Few for a party.

Mar 9, 8pm. Free. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.3850.

SONOMA COUNTY Best of Broadway Under the Stars Transcendence Theatre Company’s spectacular celebration features over 20 Broadway performers. Mar 11-12, 2 and 7:30pm. $39 and up. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.546.3600.

Black Mountain Canadian psychedelic rock band delivers classic riffs for a new generation. Mar 15, 6:30pm. $34. Gundlach Bundschu Winery, 2000 Denmark St, Sonoma, 707.938.5277.

Harrison Stafford & the Professor Crew Homecoming show for the jazz and reggae player who formed Groundation and studied at Sonoma State University. Mar 10, 8pm. $20-$25. Redwood Cafe, 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.795.7868.

Sonoma County Bluegrass & Folk Festival Seventeenth annual fest, hosted by Sonoma County Folk Society, features a reunion of Good Ole Persons, with Rita Hosking, Evie Ladin Band and others. Mar 11, 12pm. $30$40. Sebastopol Community Center, 390 Morris St, Sebastopol, socofoso.com.

NAPA COUNTY The Beach Boys Led by Mike Love, the band shares their good vibrations in two concerts of classic hits. Mar 11-12. $75-$115. Uptown Theatre, 1350 Third St, Napa, 707.259.0123.

Salsa Con Vino Lively celebration features music by Rumbaché, salsa dancing and lessons and wine from Ceja Vineyards, Llamas Family

MARIN Angelico Hall Mar 12, 2pm, “East Meets West at the 1889 Paris World’s Fair” with Mill Valley Philharmonic. Dominican University, 50 Acacia Ave, San Rafael, 415.457.4440.

Benissimo Ristorante & Bar Mar 9, the Manifesto Duo. 18 Tamalpais Dr, Corte Madera, 415.927.2316.

Dance Palace Mar 14, Common Voice Choir. 503 B St, Pt Reyes Station, 415.663.1075.

Don Antonio’s Mar 14, dinner music with pianist Ricardo Scales. 114 Main St, Tiburon, 415.435.0400.

Fenix Mar 8, pro blues jam. Mar 9, Boombox. Mar 10, King/James. Mar 12, 11:30am, Sunday brunch with Eric Wiley. Mar 12, 6:30pm, Liz Stires student showcase. Mar 15, the Bobby Young Project. 919 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.813.5600.

George’s Nightclub Mar 11, DJ Marroquien. 842 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.226.0262.

HopMonk Novato Mar 9, Country Line Dancing. Mar 10, the Killer Queens. 224 Vintage Way, Novato, 415.892.6200.

Iron Springs Pub & Brewery Mar 8, Myrtle Lane. Mar 15, B3B4. 765 Center Blvd, Fairfax, 415.485.1005.

19 Broadway Club Mar 9, Lender and the Wonderment Project.

Mar 11, “Love Won Another” with DJ Gavin Hardkiss and DJ adm. 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax, 415.459.1091.

No Name Bar Mar 8, Dharma Bums. Mar 9, Parts & Labor.

Mar 10, Michael Aragon Quartet. Mar 11, Home. Mar 12, 3pm, Flowtilla. Mar 12, 8:30pm, Doug Nichols and friends. Mar 13, Kimrea & the Dreamdogs. Mar 14, open mic. Mar 15, Fiver Brown and Jon Blach. 757 Bridgeway, Sausalito, 415.332.1392.

Old St Hilary’s Landmark Mar 12, 4pm, Quartet San Francisco. 201

Esperanza, Tiburon, 415.435.2567.

Osteria Divino Mar 8, Duo Violao Brasil. Mar 9, Passion Habanera. Mar 10, Barrio Manouche. Mar 11, Ian McArdle Trio. Mar 12, Gabrielle Cavassa.

Mar 14, Ken Cook. Mar 15, Jonathan Poretz.

37 Caledonia St, Sausalito, 415.331.9355.

CALENDAR Iron Henry. Mar 15, Laurence Juber.

142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, 415.383.9600.

Travis Marina Mar 10, Transistor Rodeo. Mar 11, Slim Jim. Mar 12, 3pm, the Lonestar Retrobates. 679 Sommerville Rd, Sausalito, 415.332.2319.

Panama Hotel Restaurant Mar 8, Brian Byrnes. Mar 9, Wanda Stafford.

Mar 14, Panama Jazz Trio. Mar 15, Arthur Javier. 4 Bayview St, San Rafael, 415.457.3993.

Trek Winery Mar 10, Chime Travelers. Mar 11, Ain’t Misbehavin’. 1026 Machin Ave, Novato, 415.899.9883.

Peri’s Silver Dollar Mar 8, the New Sneakers. Mar 9, Mark’s Jam Sammich. Mar 10, Extra Ordinary Astronauts. Mar 11, PSDSP. Mar 13, Billy D’s open mic. Mar 15, the Elvis Johnson Soul Revue. 29 Broadway, Fairfax, 415.459.9910.

Unity in Marin Mar 15, Steven Halpern Spring Equinox Sound Healing. 600 Palm Dr, Novato, 415.475.5000.

Rancho Nicasio Mar 10-11, Petty Theft. Mar 12, 5pm, Junk Parlor unplugged. 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio, 415.662.2219.

A’Roma Roasters Mar 11, Disclaimer. 95 Fifth St, Santa Rosa, 707.576.7765.

Rickey’s Mar 10, Lilan Kane and James Harman.

Mar 11, Lady D. 250 Entrada Dr, Novato, 415.883.9477.

Sausalito Seahorse Wed, Milonga with Marcelo Puig and Seth Asarnow. Mar 9, the Merlins. Mar 10, Joe Tate & the Hippie Voices. Mar 11, MSA Big Band.

Mar 12, 5pm, Orquesta Borinquen. Mar 14, Noel Jewkes and friends. 305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito, 415.331.2899.

Smiley’s Schooner Saloon Mar 9, Dharma Bums. Mar 10, Wild Iris.

Mar 11, Talley Up. Mar 12, Jim Bury Band. 41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas, 415.868.1311.

Spitfire Lounge Second Thursday of every month, DJ Romestallion. Second Friday of every month, DJ Beset. 848 B St, San Rafael, 415.454.5551.

Sweetwater Music Hall Mar 8, the Buck Johnson Band. Mar 10, Kasey Chambers and Danny Click. Mar 11, Mustache Harbor. Mar 12, MY AMP student showcase. Mar 13, Crossroads Music School concert. Mar 14, Grateful Bluegrass Boys. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.3850.

Taste of Rome Mar 10, the 7th Sons. 1000 Bridgeway, Sausalito, 415.332.7660.

Terrapin Crossroads Mar 12, an evening with Umphrey’s McGee. 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael, 415.524.2773.

Throckmorton Theatre Mar 11, the Yale Whiffenpoofs. Mar 12, 5pm, Briget Boyle with Nick Hours and

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120 Fifth St, Santa Rosa, 707.542.1455.

Arlene Francis Center Wed, Open Mic. Mar 10, 6:30pm, Una Noche de Flamenco with Mark Taylor and Azriel El Moreno. Mar 12, 7pm, the Coathangers with the Younger Lovers and Hose Rips. 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.528.3009.

Barley & Hops Tavern Mar 9, Dave Hamilton. Mar 10, Aidan Eljumaily. Mar 11, the Front. 3688 Bohemian Hwy, Occidental, 707.874.9037.

The Big Easy Mar 8, Wednesday Night Big Band. Mar 9, IrieFuse with Dollar Short. Mar 10, Soul Section. Mar 11, tribute to the Cars with Joyride and Domenic Bianco. Mar 14, the Mooves Collective. Mar 15, Big Kitty. 128 American Alley, Petaluma, 707.776.4631.

Church of the Incarnation Mar 12, 4pm, “The King of Instruments” with the North Bay Sinfonietta. 550 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.579.2604.

Cinnabar Theater Mar 12, Patrick Ball. 3333 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.763.8920.

Coffee Catz Tues, 12pm, Jerry Green’s Peaceful Piano Hour. 6761 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol, 707.829.6600.

Corkscrew Wine Bar Mar 10, Dawn & Tony. Mar 11, Elizabeth Boaz. 100 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.789.0505.

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HopMonk Sonoma Mar 10, David Thom & Vintage Grass.

Mar 11, Aaron Redner. Mar 12, Box Set. 691 Broadway, Sonoma, 707.935.9100.

Lagunitas Tap Room Mar 8, Rivertown Trio. Mar 9, Rick Shelley.

Mar 10, Jessica Malone. Mar 11, Jinx Jones.

Mar 12, Matt Bolton. Mar 15, Whitherward.

1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma, 707.778.8776.

Last Record Store Mar 11, 2pm, David Luning Band. 1899-A Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.525.1963.

Mystic Theatre Mar 8, Robert Cray. Mar 10, Tainted Love.

Mar 11, House of Floyd. Mar 12, Delhi 2 Dublin with DJ Dragonfly. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.765.2121.

Occidental Center for the Arts Mar 11, Dirty Cello. Mar 12, 5pm, the Yale Slavic Chorus. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental, 707.874.9392.

Phoenix Theater Mar 12, Adelitas Way with Letters From the Fire and the Black Moods. 201 Washington St, Petaluma, 707.762.3565.

Sonoma Speakeasy Mar 8, the Acrosonics. Mar 10, Redwood Prophets. Mar 11, the Rhythm Methodists.

Mar 12, 5pm, Dan Martin and Andrew Emer. Mar 12, 8:30pm, blues jam. Mar 15, the Acrosonics. 452 First St E, Ste G, Sonoma, 707.996.1364.

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Fly Like a Dragon KASEY CHAMBERS LANDS IN THE BAY AREA From the time she was playing in a family band at age 10, Australian singer/songwriter Kasey Chambers has been crafting and innovating a new era of country-rock and folk music to universal acclaim and international renown. A solo performer since she was 22 years old and now regarded as one of the continent’s premier songwriters, Chambers soars to new heights with her brand new album, Dragonfly.

Chambers’ 11th solo record in 18 years of recording, Dragonfly is an expansive double album filled with blues-tinged ballads and dusty roots-rock. Featuring special guests like Keith Urban and Ed Sheeran, the album debuted in Australia at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, the Australian equivalent of the Billboard charts.

Though the album is not slated for U.S. release until later this spring, Chambers is touching down in the Bay Area this week, kicking off an American tour with dates in Berkeley and Mill Valley on March 9 and 10, respectively. Longtime Marin songwriter and guitarist Danny Click opens both shows, joining Australia’s top folk export for two nights of wondrous country music.—Charlie Swanson Kasey Chambers, Thursday, March 9, Freight & Salvage (2020 Addison St., Berkeley; 8pm; $30-$35; 510/644.2020); Friday, March 10, Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley; 9pm; $35-$40; 415/388-3850.

Flamingo Lounge Mar 10, Midnight Sun Massive. Mar 11, Santa Rosa Salsa presents Orquesta Taino. 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa, 707.545.8530.

Green Music Center Mar 11, “Three Pieces After Bach” with Brad Mehldau. Mar 12, 3pm, Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin. 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

Hermann Sons Hall Mar 13, 7pm, Yale Women’s Slavic Chorus.

860 Western Ave, Petaluma, 415.663.9512.

HopMonk Sebastopol Mar 8, PhuturePrimitive and Nico Luminous. Mar 9, Mike Zito. Mar 10, Walter Trout. Mar 11, Dusty Green Bones Band with Cascade Crescendo. Mar 12, Cheryl Wheeler.

230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol, 707.829.7300.

Blue Note Napa Mar 8, 7 and 9:30pm, “Sacha Sings Sinatra” with Sacha Boutros. Mar 9-12, 7 and 9:30pm, Spyro Gyra. Mar 14-15, 7 and 9:30pm, Davina & the Vagabonds. 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.603.1258.

RaeSet Mar 8, Howell Mountain Boys. Mar 10, Friday Night Blues with Gretschkat. Mar 11, 6pm, Raeset’s farewell concert. 3150 B Jefferson St, Napa, 707.666.9028.

Silo’s Mar 8, Scott Pullman. Mar 9, Analog Jazz.

Mar 10, the Garcia Project. Mar 11, N2L. Mar 12, “Talent on the Move” with VOENA. Mar 15, David Kelleher. 530 Main St, Napa, 707.251.5833.

Uva Trattoria Mar 9, Duo Gadjo. Mar 10, Party of Three.

Mar 11, Jackie and friends. Mar 12, Tom Duarte. Mar 15, Trio Solea. 1040 Clinton St, Napa, 707.255.6646.

Art OPENING MARIN Art Works Downtown Mar 8-Apr 8, “Asleep in the Tanning Bed,” Nathan Lynch and Em Meine display abstract 2D and 3D works in 1337 gallery, visual art students tackle identity and ideals in the underground gallery and Jonathan Eden shows enchanted landscapes in the founders’ gallery. Reception, Mar 10 at 5pm.

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

415.451.8119.

Marin Society of Artists Mar 9-Apr 1, “Atmospheric Wonders,” juried members’ show interprets interactions between earth and sky. Reception, Mar 10 at 5pm. 1515 Third St, San Rafael. Wed-Sun, Noon to 4pm. 415.464.9561.

The Room Art Gallery Mar 10, “Art of our Modern Landscape,” Bay Area artist Joelle Provost’s solo exhibit envisions how 19th century painters would view the world’s current environmental issues. Reception, Mar 10 at 5pm. 86 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. Mon-Fri, 10 to 6; Sat, 10 to 4. 415.380.7940.

SONOMA Cooperage Brewing Co Mar 11, “NumbSkull Art Show,” the graphic pop-artist shows his new works, with reggae rockers Pacific Soundrise and Indie rockers Silas Fermoy. Reception, Mar 11 at 8pm. 981 Airway Ct, Santa Rosa. 707.293.9787.

Gallery One Mar 9-Apr 2, “Spring Invitational,” featured artists include Diana Bradley, Bernard Healey, Isis Hockenos, Donna McGinnis and Alan Plisskin. Reception, Mar 11 at 5pm. 209 Western Ave, Petaluma. 707.778.8277.

Graton Gallery Mar 8-Apr 16, “Spaces Retraced,” featuring works by Susan Ball, Tim Haworth and several guest artists. Reception, Mar 11 at 2pm. 9048 Graton Rd, Graton. Tues-Sat, 10:30 to 6; Sun, 10:30 to 4. 707.829.8912.

IceHouse Gallery Mar 11-Apr 22, “Body Language,” five artists offer diverse interpretations on the figure.

Reception, Mar 11 at 5pm. 405 East D St, Petaluma. 707.778.2238.

Riverfront Art Gallery Mar 9-Apr 2, “Showin’ on the River,” juried photography show. Reception, Mar 11 at 5pm. 132 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma.

Wed, Thurs and Sun, 11 to 6. Fri-Sat, 11 to 8.

707.775.4ART. Sebastopol Library Mar 8-28, “Dedicated,” four local artists use repurposed materials in numerous ways and methods that focus on community enrichment and beauty. Reception, Mar 8 at 6pm. 7140 Bodega Ave, Sebastopol. MonTues, 1 to 5 and 6 to 9pm; Wed-Sat, 1 to 5.

707.823.7691.

ONGOING ART MARIN Belvedere-Tiburon Library Through Mar 9, “Abstract, Figure & Landscape Paintings,” artist Mary Valente displays a wide range of new works in this solo show. 1501 Tiburon Blvd, Tiburon.

415.789.2665.

Desta Art & Tea Gallery Through Mar 16, “Unbridled Flow,” featuring works by longtime Marin artist Nicholas Coley. 417 San Anselmo Ave, San Anselmo.

Mon-Sat, 10 to 6. 415.524.8932.

Fairfax Library Gallery Through Mar 30, “For the Love of Art,”

Gallery Route One Through Apr 2, “Through Stone,” artist Afton Love’s large-scale drawings of rocky landscapes explores geographic time and our place within it. 11101 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station.

Wed-Mon, 11 to 5. 415.663.1347.

Marin Art & Garden Center Through Apr 16, “Between Nature & Technology,” multimedia artworks by New Orleans-based Courtney Egan and David Sullivan criss-cross the two realms. 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross. 415.455.5260.

Marin Center Through June 2, “Animalia Musicale: A Chorus of Critters,” Artist Leslie Lakes paints images of animals over musical score sheets.

A portion of the proceeds benefits Enriching Lives through Music (ELM). Redwood Foyer Gallery, Marin Civic Center, 10 Ave of the Flags, San Rafael. 415.473.6800.

MarinMOCA Through Apr 2, “This Is for You,” exhibit by established Bay Area artist Raymond Saunders includes over 50 selected works spanning the past two decades. 500 Palm Dr, Novato. Wed-Fri, 11 to 4; Sat-Sun, 11 to 5.

415.506.0137.

O’Hanlon Center for the Arts Through Mar 23, “Printmaking: Impressions,” juried show features a diverse selection of works. 616 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. Tues-Sat, 10 to 2; also by appointment. 415.388.4331.

Osher Marin JCC Through Mar 10, “Traces of Sepharad,” etchings by New York-based artist Marc Shanker are based on Judeo-Spanish proverbs and densely layered with meaning and cultural connections. 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael. 415.444.8000.

Robert Allen Fine Art Through Mar 31, “Works on Paper,” group exhibit features prints, drawings and mixed-media pieces from several artists. 301 Caledonia St, Sausalito. Mon-Fri, 10 to 5.

415.331.2800.

Throckmorton Theatre Through Apr 1, “The Sustainability of Beauty,” Marlene Sinicki’s art is centered on ideals of sustainability as a force to challenge the course of environmental crises. Reception, Mar 25 at 3pm.

142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

415.383.9600.

SONOMA Art Museum of Sonoma County Through Apr 30, “Outside Voice,” painter Marc Katano debuts his recent series of abstract works, done on massive canvas tarps.

425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa. Tues-Sun, 11 to 5.

707.579.1500.

The Art Wall at Shige Sushi Through Apr 30, “Contemporary Bay Area Photography,” features works by Bob Cornelis, Janis Crystal Lipzin, Michael Maggid, Colin Talcroft and others. 8235 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati. Hours vary.

707.795.9753.

Arts Guild of Sonoma Through Apr 3, “Guild Founders Exhibition,” a celebration of the guild’s 40th anniversary of art and community. 140 E Napa St, Sonoma. Wed-Thurs and Sun-Mon, 11 to 5; Fri-Sat, 11 to 8. 707.996.3115.

Paradise Ridge Winery Through Apr 30, “Geometric Reflections,” sculpture by 10 renowned artists celebrates 10 years of the Voigt Family Sculpture Foundation. 4545 Thomas Lake Harris Dr, Santa Rosa. Daily, 11 to 5. 707.528.9463.

The Back House Gallery at Heebe Jeebe Through Mar 13, “Pop-Up Show with Nuala Creed,” Irish-born and Petaluma-based figurative ceramics master displays pieces with socio-political themes. 46 Kentucky St, Petaluma. Mon-Sat: 10 to 6; Sun 10:30 to 5.

707.773.3222.

Petaluma Arts Center Through Mar 18, “Discovered: Emerging Visual Artists,” five Sonoma County artists are recognized through the fourth annual “Discovered” program, produced by Creative Sonoma and the Petaluma Arts Center.

230 Lakeville St, Petaluma. Tues-Sat, 11 to 5.

707.762.5600.

Calabi Gallery Through Mar 18, “We Shall Overcome,” showing art of defiance and resistance to power. 456 10th St, Santa Rosa. Tues-Sun, 11 to 5. 707.781.7070.

Charles M. Schulz Museum Through Sep 10, “It Was a Dark and Stormy Night,” explore the theme of writing in Peanuts through original cartoons and family-friendly activities. Through Jul 16, “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” on the 50th anniversary of the stage show, this retrospective exhibit features rare memorabilia from the production’s worldwide history. 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa. Mon-Fri, noon to 5; Sat-Sun, 10 to 5.

707.579.4452.

Chroma Gallery Through Mar 11, “Art of the Figure,” art celebrates the timeless tradition of drawing the human figure. 312 South A St, Santa Rosa. 707.293.6051.

City Hall Council Chambers Through Mar 9, “Hreint,” the Icelandic word for “pure” centers Santa Rosa photographer Collin Morrow’s new collection of photos from a summer tour of Iceland. 100 Santa Rosa Ave, Ste 10, Santa Rosa. 707.543.3010.

Daredevils & Queens Through Mar 12, “Cheryl Alterman Solo Show,” featuring rock ‘n’ roll photography and original oil paintings. 122 Fourth St, Santa Rosa. 707.575.5123.

East West Cafe Through Apr 2, “Rick Herbert Photography Exhibit,” showing 40-plus years of work in a relaxed setting. 128 N Main St, Sebastopol.

Mon-Sat, 8am to 9pm; Sun, 8am to 8pm.

707.829.2822.

Finley Community Center Through Mar 31, “National Arts Program Exhibition,” 14th annual show and competition features local artists of all ages.

2060 W College Ave, Santa Rosa. Mon-Fri, 8 to 6; Sat, 9 to 11am. 707.543.3737.

Healdsburg Center for the Arts Through Mar 12, “Young Artists Show,” annual exhibit features works by students from Sonoma County elementary schools.

130 Plaza St, Healdsburg. Daily, 11 to 6.

707.431.1970.

History Museum of Sonoma County Through Apr 2, “The Beat Goes On,” exhibit looks back on peace, love and rock ‘n’ roll in the North Bay. 425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa.

Tues-Sun, 11 to 4. 707.579.1500.

Occidental Center for the Arts Through Mar 12, “Onsite,” exhibition of plein air works featuring local artists Charles Beck, Dave Gordon and William Taylor. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental. 707.874.9392.

Sonoma Valley Museum of Art Through Apr 2, “Eye of the Beholder & Graphic Knowledge,” dual exhibits feature the sculpture and early prints of post-war artist Nathan Oliveira and the prints of Karl Kasten. 551 Broadway, Sonoma. Wed-Sun, 11 to 5. 707.939.SVMA. The Spinster Sisters Restaurant Through Apr 3, “Clark Swarthout Drawings,” Santa Rosa artist presents an exhibit of intricate and imaginative pen and ink drawings. 401 South A St, Santa Rosa.

707.528.7100.

University Art Gallery Through Mar 12, “Black, White, Color, Life,” recent works on paper from nationally recognized, New York-based artists Laurie Fendrich and Peter Plagens. Sonoma State University, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park. Tues-Fri, 11 to 4; Sat-Sun, noon to 4.

707.664.2295.

NAPA di Rosa Through May 28, “Based on a True Story,” exhibition illuminates the hidden stories and connections of Northern California art history spanning the last six decades. 5200 Sonoma Hwy, Napa. Wed-Sun, 10 to 6.

707.226.5991.

Markham Vineyards Through Mar 15, “Blues to Psychedelia,” husband and wife artists Harold and Peggy Francis exhibit two distinct series of paintings. 2812 St Helena Hwy N, St Helena.

707.963.5292.

Napa Valley Museum Through Apr 30, “Ebb & Flow,” artist Ryan Reynolds visualizes the concept of historical ecology, the interactions between man and nature over time. Reception, Mar 11 at 5pm.

Through Apr 30, “Embracing Imperfection: Contemporary Expressions of Wabi Sabi,” exhibition explores contemporary artists Adam Chapman, Jim Melchert and Leah Rosenberg through the lens of traditional Japanese aesthetic and philosophy of Wabi Sabi. 55 Presidents Circle, Yountville. WedSun, 11 to 4. 707.944.0500

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Jai Uttal Roots, Rock, Rama: CD Release Tina Malia, Ben Leinbach, Jose Neto, Sandy Cressman+

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Beyondananda. Mar 9, 7pm. $10. Lomitas School House, 2421 Lomitas Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.523.4336.

Mort Sahl Sahl takes the stage every week to deliver his legendary, take-no-prisoners wit.

Thurs, 7pm. $20. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, 415.383.9600.

Mishka Shubaly Canadian standup heard on your favorite comedy podcasts is live, with special guests and lots of laughs in store. Mar 10, 8pm.

Spancky’s Bar, 8201 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.664.0169.

Standup Comedy Night The best standup comics from the Bay Area and beyond come to Cotati. Mar 9, 8:30pm. $10. Redwood Cafe, 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.795.7868.

Trivia & Standup Night Trivia contest is followed by a headlining standup set from popular comedian Fred Reiss. Mar 8, 8pm. $3. 19 Broadway Club, 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax, 415.459.1091.

Events Cash & King International recording artist Steven Kent performs the hits and tells the stories of Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley as part of a benefit gala for Spreckels Theatre Company.

Mar 11, 8pm. $25-$45. Spreckels Performing Arts Center, 5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park, 707.588.3400.

Exquisite Orchids Napa Valley Orchid Society holds its 24th annual show and sale, featuring amazing displays of various orchids from around the world, grown locally. Through Mar 12, 10am.

Free admission. Napa Senior Center, 1500 Jefferson St, Napa, 707.738.4128.

Fukushima Remembrance On the sixth anniversary of the nuclear disaster in Japan, get up-to-date information and participate in meditation, origami and more. Mar 11, 10am. Free. Helen Putnam Plaza, 129 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma.

Marin County Civil Grand Jury Open House Learn more about independent citizens’ watchdog group that monitors local government, investigates problems and recommends solutions. Thurs, Mar 9, 7pm.

Free. San Rafael Community Center, 618 B St, San Rafael, 415.485.3333. Mar 15, 2pm.

Free. Novato Library, 1720 Novato Blvd, Novato, 415.898.4623.

Marin Summer Camp Fair Parents looking for summer activities for their children can get info from more than 100 programs. Mar 11, 10am. Free.

Dominican University, 50 Acacia Ave, San Rafael, 415.457.4440.

Network Entrepreneurial Women of Marin An evening where you can network with other entrepreneurial women and enjoy delicious dining. RSVP required. Mar 14, 6pm. Piatti’s Ristorante & Bar, 625 Redwood Hwy, Mill Valley, 415.380.2525.

Phoenix Pro Wrestling Local wrestling federation presents a familyfun night of action, featuring a first-ever cage match. Mar 10, 8pm. $2-$10. Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington St, Petaluma, 707.762.3565.

Sunset Hike & Dine Great views and complimentary wine make for a memorable evening hike before dinner.

Space is limited, RSVP required. Sat, Mar 11, 4pm. $20 plus dinner. Pelican Inn, 10 Pacific Way, Muir Beach, 415.331.0100.

RHAG Film about driven Bay Area artist Roy Henry Grover screens with filmmaker Regina O’Connell in attendance for a Q&A. Mar 10, 7pm. $5. O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, 616 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.4331.

Pints for Paws Live music, raffle prizes and tacos and beer raise funds for Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue. Mar 14, 5:30pm. $5-$15. Lagunitas Tap Room, 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma, 707.778.8776.

Wildflower Walk Walk into Spring with a nature walk that explores seasonal plants and more. Mar 12, 10am. $15. Jack London State Park, 2400 London Ranch Rd, Glen Ellen, 707.938.5216.

Waking Ned Devine The playful 1998 English comedy plays as part of the Vintage Film Series. Mar 13, 7pm. $10. Sebastiani Theatre, 476 First St E, Sonoma, 707.996.9756.

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The Anthropologist Tiburon Film Society hosts a screening of the documentary that examines climate change and its effects on indigenous cultures around the world. Mar 9, 6:30pm. Free. BelvedereTiburon Library, 1501 Tiburon Blvd, Tiburon, 415.789.2665.

Backyard Cheese Workshop Class introduces you to soft cheeses as you make creme fraiche and more. Mar 12, 5pm.

The Fairfax Backyard Farmer, 135 Bolinas Rd, Fairfax, 415.342.5092.

Ropes Course Leader Training Program Training provides opportunities to enhance outdoor leadership skills and give back through voluntary community service.

Mar 10-12. $125. Sonoma Developmental Center, 15000 Arnold Dr, Eldridge, challengesonoma.org.

Second Fridays Art Walk Anchored by Art Works Downtown galleries and artist studios, the art walk links venues throughout downtown San Rafael with receptions and entertainment. Second Fri of every month, 5pm. Art Works Downtown, 1337 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.451.8119.

Shamrock Social Roll Everyone’s invited for a bicycle ride in celebration of St Patrick’s Day, with costumes encouraged and prizes. Ride is followed by drinks and music at Brew. Mar 11, 2pm. Trek Bicycle Store, 512 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.546.8735.

United Patients Group Daylong workshop focuses on the medical application of cannabis and the science behind its efficacy. Mar 11. $99 and up. SSU Student Center, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 707.664.2382.

Wine Country Running Expo Fleet Feet Santa Rosa brings the running community together with top running vendors, professional athletes, local race directors, guest speakers and sports medicine clinics. Mar 11, 10am. Free admission. Finley Community Center, 2060 W College Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.543.3737.

Field Trips Arbor Day Tree Planting Party Family-friendly event is held rain-or-shine.

Mar 11, 9am. Free. Juilliard Park, 227 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa.

Birds of Prey at the Laguna Bird walk with expert Larry Broderick will look for and identify the local birds of prey.

Pre-registration required. Mar 11, 10am. $30. Laguna de Santa Rosa Environmental Center, 900 Sanford Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.527.9277.

Foraging with Chef Perry Shed’s culinary director Perry Hoffman leads a culinary adventure in Dry Creek Valley exploring the best of wild California ingredients. Mar 11, 10am. $125. Healdsburg Shed, 25 North St, Healdsburg, 707.431.7433.

St Patrick’s Day 5K Annual run is back for a day of running for all ages, costumes, prizes and festive fun.

Mar 12, 3pm. $20-$40. Finley Community Center, 2060 W College Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.543.3737.

Cinema & Psyche Watch and discuss six masterful movies with folklore and fairy-tale motifs. Thurs through Apr 13. $125. Santa Rosa Junior College, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. Mon, 2pm.

Through Apr 24. $165. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 240 Channing Way, San Rafael, cinemaandpsyche.com.

Disability Services & Legal Center Film Festival Eighth annual event shows award-winning films, “Getting Up: The Tempt One Story” and “Down Under Mystery Tour,” about overcoming disability through creativity and perseverance. Mar 9, 6pm. $10. Summerfield Cinemas, 551 Summerfield Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.528.4222.

Great Women Film Directors Tribute to female directors from the silent age to today includes film clips, recorded interviews and a lecture. Mar 12, 3pm. $20.

The White Barn, 2727 Sulphur Springs Ave, St Helena, 707.987.8225.

Israeli Film Festival Jewish Community Center of Sonoma County presents “On the Map,” an emotional sports documentary from Israel. Mar 14, 1 and 7:30pm. $10-$13. Rialto Cinemas, 6868 McKinley St, Sebastopol, 707.525.4840.

LunaFest Traveling film festival spotlights nine films by a diverse array of talented women filmmakers with thought-provoking themes.

Mar 9, 6pm. $50. Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater, 100 California Dr, Yountville, 707.944.9900.

Medium Cool Film depicts the working world of the 1960s with a mix of fictional storytelling and documentary technique. Followed by a discussion. Mar 15, 6:30pm. Diesel Bookstore, 2419 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur, 415.785.8177.

Petaluma Film Alliance Spring Cinema Series Featuring recent award-winning favorites and top Oscar contenders as well as classic and local films, with pre-screening lectures and post-film discussions. Wed through May 17. Carole L Ellis Auditorium, 680 Sonoma Mountain Pkwy, Petaluma, 415.392.5225.

Barrel Bus Ride, taste and learn about craft beverages courtesy of Sonoma Cider, Bear Republic Brewing Company, Alley 6 Distillery and North Bay Brewery Tours. After-party includes raffles prizes and music by Timothy O’Neil. Mar 9, 4pm. $20. Sonoma Cider, 44F Mill St, Healdsburg, barrelbus. brownpapertickets.com.

Barrel Tasting Weekends Several wineries welcome you to sample wines from the barrel, talk to winemakers and explore the beautiful Alexander, Dry Creek and Russian River Valleys. Mar 1012. Wine Road wineries, various locations, Healdsburg, wineroad.com.

Corned Beef & Cabbage Feed Penngrove Social Firemen present the fundraising feast to help maintain the Penngrove Park. Mar 11, 4pm. $15. Penngrove Community Clubhouse, 385 Woodward Ave, Penngrove.

Locavore Night Napa food writer and cheese expert Janet Fletcher invites the public to taste what the most talented local cheesemakers are up to. Mar 13, 5:30pm. $70. Silverado Cooking School, 1552 Silverado Trail, Napa, 707.927.3591.

March On Workshop features chef Chris Aken, of CIA Copia, creating a spring meal paired with 2014 Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon.

Mar 12, 12pm. $150. Hall Winery, 401 St Helena Hwy S, St Helena, 707.967.2620.

Sonoma County Restaurant Week Annual celebration of dining features many restaurants offering fantastic food at reasonable prices. Through Mar 12. Participating restaurants, various locations, Sonoma County, sonomacountyrestaurantweek.org.

St. Patrick’s Day Prix Fixe Dinner Featuring five savory courses prepared by executive chef Lorenzo and perfectly paired with wines from a local vintner.

Mar 14. Fenix, 919 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.813.5600.

Women of the Vine & Spirits Global Symposium Event focused on advancing women in the alcohol industry is sold-out but live-stream tickets are still available. Mar 13-15. $30-$55.

Meritage Resort, 875 Bordeaux Way, Napa.

Photographing Your Quilt Informative talk is hosted by Mt Tam Quilt Guild. Mar 14, 7pm. $5. Aldersgate Methodist Church, #1 Wellbrock Heights, San Rafael, 415.453.5393.

The Power of Writing Access sources of self-healing, and wisdom through writing prompts. Sat, 10:30am.

Through Apr 8. Sonoma West Medical Center, 501 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol, 707.799.3660.

Russian Art History 1917-2017 Illustrated lecture looks at art and ideologies.

Mar 10, 12pm. Civic Center Library, 3501 Civic Center Dr, San Rafael, 415.473.6058.

Sonoma County Birds of Prey Visual and informative presentation is about the resident and migrant birds of prey. Pre-registration required. Mar 9, 7pm. $10. Laguna de Santa Rosa Environmental Center, 900 Sanford Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.527.9277.

California’s eternally favorite surf-song band, The Beach Boys, performs on March 11 and 12 at the Uptown Theatre in Napa.

For Kids HipPOPS! Concert series For children in K-third grades. Mar 12, 11am and 1pm. Free. Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater, 100 California Dr, Yountville, 707.944.9900.

McQuadle: A Dragon’s Tale Action-packed adventure stars a young dragon searching for his purpose. Through Mar 11. $5. Kid Street School Theater, 709 Davis St, Santa Rosa, 707.483.5800.

Purim Palooza Fun family carnival features games, prizes, food and live music. Mar 12, 11:30am. Osher Marin JCC, 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael, 415.444.8000.

Second Saturday Cartoonist Meet, watch, and talk to HaiNaNu “nooligan” Saulque, an artist, comic creator and graphic designer based in Sacramento.

Mar 11, 1pm. Charles M. Schulz Museum, 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa., 707.579.4452.

Collage & Photography Hands-on workshop with Mary Daniel Hobson. Mar 11, 10am. The Image Flow, 401 Miller Ave, Ste A, Mill Valley, 415.388.3569.

The Commute Crew Trio of adventure cyclists use video and photography to highlight two backcountry mountain bike rides, each a week long. Mar 8, 7pm. Marin Museum of Bicycling, 1966 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Fairfax, 415.450.8000.

Conscious Dying & Conscious Grieving Learn to focus on internal transformation rather than external events. Mar 9, 7:30pm. $5. Many Rivers Books & Tea, 130 S Main St, Sebastopol, 707.829.8871.

Dignity for All Internationally recognized authority Robert Fuller talks about how to deal with bullying, racism, sexism and more. Mar 12, 2pm. $10$20. Vintage House, 264 First St E, Sonoma, praxispeace.org.

Lectures

Fact to Fantasy Redwood Writers host bestselling author Ellen Sussman for a presentation on using autobiographical material in fiction writing.

Mar 12, 2pm. $10. Flamingo Resort Hotel, 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa, 707.545.8530.

Chechnya & Russia: Historical & Cultural Influences Discussion on the place of Chechnya in Russian literature and culture. Mar 14, 7pm.

Fairfax Library, 2097 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Fairfax, 415.453.8092.

Gifts from Our Garden Inverness Garden Club welcomes writers and gardeners Julie Monson and Wendy Johnson for a conversation. Mar 8, 4pm.

Point Reyes Books, 11315 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station, 415.663.1542.

The Twin Tunnels & SF Waterways Hear what experts from the Bay Institute, the Tuolumne River Trust and the Golden Gate Salmon Association have to say about the upcoming Twin Tunnels project. Mar 8, 7pm. First Presbyterian Church of San Rafael, 1510 Fifth St, San Rafael, 415-456-6760.

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Mar 10 & Mar 11 Petty Theft 8:30 Sun Mar 12 Junk Parlor “Unplugged” Gypsy-crooner-punk!

5:00 / No Cover Fri Powerglide NRPS songs and 17 Mar more with former members of the New Riders of the Purple Sage and Special Guest Bobby Black 8:30 Sat

Click Mar 18 Danny & The Hell Yeahs! 8:30 t! so ld ou Gospel Dinner Show and Live Recording!

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Readings Book Passage Mar 8, 7pm, “Celine” with Peter Heller. Mar 9, 7pm, “Stars at Dawn” with Wendy Garling.

Mar 10, 7pm, “Lilac Girls” with Martha Hall Kelly. Mar 11, 1pm, “Tides” with Jonathan White. Mar 11, 4pm, “The Revolution Where You Live” with Sarah van Gelder. Mar 11, 7pm, “Living Wild” with Elaine Bond. Mar 12, 11am, “Open Midnight” with Brooke Williams. Mar 12, 1pm, “Younger” with Sarah Gottfried. Mar 12, 4pm, “The Lonely Planet Travel Anthology” with various authors.

Mar 12, 7pm, “The Wisdom of Not Knowing” with Estelle Frankel. Mar 13, 7pm, “Ill Will” with Dan Chaon. Mar 14, 7pm, “A Piece of the World” with Christina Baker Kline. Mar 15, 7pm, Molotov Editions Book Launch, San Francisco publisher presents three authors. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera.

415.927.0960.

Book Passage By-the-Bay Mar 8, 7pm, “Lost Worlds of the San Francisco Bay Area” with Sylvia Linsteadt.

Mar 12, 11am, “Honey Girl” with Jeanne Harvey. 100 Bay St, Sausalito. 415.339.1300.

Cloverdale Performing Arts Center Mar 9, 7pm, “American Dream Machine” with Matthew Specktor, a Books on Stage event. 209 N Cloverdale Blvd, Cloverdale.

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Concerts

Grow Your Book Sales Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (BAIPA) presents speaker Penny Sansevieria of Author Marketing Experts, Inc., who will talk about how to cultivate super fans to sell more books. Saturday, March 11. General meeting 9am, speaker 11am-12:15pm, afternoon workshop 1-3pm.

The Key Room, 1385 North Hamilton Parkway, Novato, baipa.org.

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Readings

Community Center, 276 E Napa St, Sonoma, 866.710.8942.

Kids Rule the 8 x 10 Lucky Penny’s fifth annual 10-minute play festival puts the focus on young actors.

Through Mar 12. Lucky Penny Community Arts Center, 1758 Industrial Way, Napa, 707.266.6305.

A Little Night Music Stephen Sondheim’s classic musical about new romances and second chances is entrancing entertainment. Through Mar 19. $15-$38. 6th Street Playhouse, 52 West Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.523.4185.

Murder at Joe’s Speakeasy Get a Clue Productions presents an interactive murder-mystery dinner theater show set in the Roaring Twenties. Sat, Mar 11, 7pm. $68. Charlie’s Restaurant, Windsor Golf Club, 1320 19th Hole Dr, Windsor, getaclueproductions.com.

Murder Mistaken Curtain Call Theatre presents the edgeof-your-seat smash hit. Through Mar 25. $15-$20. Russian River Hall, 20347 Hwy 116, Monte Rio, 707.849.4873.

Oliver!

The Award-winning musical classic is performed by Throckmorton’s Youth Production. Mar 10-19. $15-$35.

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

Marine conservationist, sailor and surfer Jonathan White will discuss his new book book, ‘Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean,’ on March 12 at Point Reyes Books in Point Reyes Station.

Authors. 1899 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa.

707.544.2491.

Healdsburg Copperfield’s Books Mar 14, 6pm, “The One-Eyed Man” with Ron Currie, followed by wine reception at Thumbprint Cellars. 104 Matheson St, Healdsburg. 707.433.9270.

Healdsburg Library Mar 10, 4pm, “Be Who You Are” with Todd Parr. 139 Piper St, Healdsburg. 707.433.3772.

Marin Center Showcase Theatre Mar 12, 7pm, Only Breath with Jami Sieber and Kim Rosen, a meeting of spoken-word poetry and music. $25 and up. 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. 415.499.6800.

Milk & Honey Mar 10, 7:30pm, “TreeGirl” with Julianne Skai Arbor. 123 N Main St, Sebastopol.

707.824.1155.

Napa Bookmine at Oxbow Mar 11, 12pm, “On Someone Else’s Nickel” with Tim Ryan. 610 First St, Shop 4, Napa.

707.726.6575.

Petaluma Copperfield’s Books Mar 8, 4pm, “Fairy Tale Reform School: Tricked” with Jen Calonita. Mar 11, 7pm, “Ill Will” with Dan Chaon. Mar 14, 7pm, “New York 2140” with Kim Stanley Robinson. 140 Kentucky St, Petaluma. 707.762.0563.

Point Reyes Books Mar 12, 5pm, “Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean” with Jonathan White.

415.663.1542. 11315 State Rd, Pt Reyes Station.

Readers’ Books Mar 9, 7pm, “Fenian’s Trace” with Sean Mahoney. 130 E Napa St, Sonoma.

707.939.1779.

San Rafael Copperfield’s Books Mar 11, 2pm, “A Crooked Smile” with Terri Tate. 850 Fourth St, San Rafael.

415.524.2800.

Santa Rosa Copperfield’s Books Mar 11, 7pm, “Younger” with Sarah Gottfried.

Mar 15, 7pm, “A Piece of the World” with Christina Baker Kline. 775 Village Court, Santa Rosa. 707.578.8938.

Sebastopol Center for the Arts Mar 14, 7pm, “On Softer Ground” with Sherrie Lovler, poetry reading and art talk coincides with Lovler’s current exhibit, “Caught in Time: Calligraphic Abstractions.” $10. 282 S High St, Sebastopol. 707.829.4797.

Swain Woods Salon Mar 9, 7pm, “No Walls Now” with Jonah Raskin. 7403 Palm Ave, Sebastopol.

University Art Gallery Mar 9, 3pm, Writers at Sonoma with Fae Myenne Ng. Free. Sonoma State University, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park.

707.664.2295.

Theater Art The Raven Players present a provocative play about friendships and painting inside a Healdsburg art gallery. Mar 9-18. $10-$25.

Paul Mahder Gallery, 222 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, 707.473.9150.

The Sitting Room Third Wednesday of every month, 2pm, Sitting Room book club. 2025 Curtis Dr, Penngrove. 707.778.3972.

Bus Stop Ross Valley Players present the compassionate comedy about eight lonely people stranded at a diner in the middle of a snowstorm. Through Mar 26. $15-$27. Barn Theatre, Marin Art and Garden Center, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross, 415.456.9555.

SoCo Coffee Mar 11, 4pm, “No Walls Now” and “The Vault Apocalyptia” with Jonah Raskin and Gary Brandt. Free. 1015 Fourth St, Santa Rosa. 707.433.1660.

Disney’s Beauty & the Beast Popular musical is performed by North Bay Rep’s local youth and adult actors. Mar 10-18. $15-$20. San Rafael Community Center, 618 B St, San Rafael, 415.485.3333.

Studio 333 Second Thursday of every month, 7pm, Why There Are Words. $10. 333 Caledonia St, Sausalito. 415.331.8272.

Emma!

Sonoma Arts Live presents the new pop musical as part of their “Women Who Dare” season. Mar 9-19. $16-$33. Sonoma

peerless Dark comedy twist on Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” is directed by New York-based theater veteran Margot Bordelon, who directed the play’s world premiere in 2015.

Mar 14-Apr 2. Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.5208.

Race David Mamet’s controversial new tale of sex, guilt and bold accusations is presented by Left Edge Theatre. Contains adult content.

Mar 10-26. $25-$40. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.546.3600.

The Servant of Two Masters New version of the classic Italian comedy pits madcap servant Truffaldino against masters, mistresses and 27 plates of meatballs. Mar 1019. $12-$18. Burbank Auditorium, SRJC, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.527.4307.

To Kill a Mockingbird Stage version of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prizewinning novel is as relevant today as it was 50 years ago. Through Mar 12. $10-$25. Napa Valley College Performing Arts Center, 2277 Napa Vallejo Hwy, Napa, 707.256.7500.

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

David Lear directs the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about a middle-aged couple engaged in a battle of wits. Through Mar 19. $15-$30.

Main Stage West, 104 N Main St, Sebastopol, 707.823.0177.

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown: The Musical The beloved characters from “Peanuts” come to life in this revised version of the classic musical about a day in the life of Charlie Brown. Through Mar 19. $15-$25. College of Marin Kentfield Campus, 835 College Ave, Kentfield, 415.457.8811.

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WOMEN’S GROUP: Group for spiritually-oriented women to explore, reflect & uncover blocks to experiencing more good in your life. Find new direction and support for life transitions. A place to process & grow. To explore challenges in relationship, dating, health, work, finances, friendships, parenting, caregiving, aging & more. Limited space. Also, starting week of 03/13 : ongoing, coed (emotional) INTIMACY GROUPS (partnered or single); 9-week coed SINGLES GROUP. Also INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY & COUPLES THERAPY. Central San Rafael. Possible financial assistance (health/flex savings accounts or insurance). Call (415) 453-8117 for more information. Renée Owen, LMFT#35255. https://therapists.psychologytoday.com/183422 RELATIONSHIP ISSUES, DIFFICULT TRANSITIONS, LOSS, TRAUMA, CHALLENGES, CHANGE, HEALING, GROWTH. Groups are often a preferred therapy option. Openings/waiting lists are available in each of the following safe, successful groups: 1) MOTHERLESS DAUGHTERS GROUP for women who have lost their mothers through death, illness, narcissism, separation, estrangement; 2) LOSS & GRIEF GROUP, death of a loved one or significant loss; 3) WOMEN OLDER & WISER (WOW! 55+); 4) FORMER MEMBERS OF HIGH DEMAND GROUPS OR CULTS, “spiritual,” “political,” “philosophical,”etc. Contact Colleen Russell, LMFT (MFC29249), Certified Group Facilitator, 25 years experience with individuals, couples, families, groups: 415-785-3513; crussellmft@earthlink.net; www. colleenrussellmft.com. Kentfield and West Marin Offices.

Equine Partners for Empowerment - March 12 - 1:00pm - 5:00pm - Are many of your days spent on auto-pilot, missing connections with others? Do your feelings match your actions so you are living an authentic, balanced life? Are you looking to take a more active, leadership role in your own life? Join us for this exciting and brand new workshop to discover your own innate ability to bring the social intelligence of the horse into your daily life. These empowering activities do not require horsemanship skills as all activities will be held from the ground. Group & individual exercises will provide for powerful growth & learning. For more information, contact Judy Weston-Thompson MFT 23268, CEIP-MH Equine Insight; equineinsight@aol.com, 415-457-3800

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PublicNotices FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-141520.

The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: HOUSE OF BAGELS, 640 4TH STREET, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: PAOLAY LENG, 175 VISTA DEL MAR, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901.

The 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 FEB 02, 2017. (Publication Dates: Feb 15, Feb 22, Mar 1, Mar 8 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017141539.The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: 1) SIDECAR 2) TEMPEST, 1560 4TH STREET, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: GESSIKA RYAN McCANN, 320 MESA VERDE WAY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903.

The 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 FEB 06, 2017. (Publication Dates: Feb 15, Feb 22, Mar 1, Mar 8 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017141558. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: 1) AKASHIC INDUSTRIES 2) AKASHIC BOOKS & RECORDS, 6 SCHOOL ST, STE 240, FAIRFAX, CA 94930: JASON WITHERSPOON, 132 TAMALPAIS RD, FAIRFAX, CA 94930. The 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 FEB 08, 2017. (Publication Dates: Feb 15, Feb 22, Mar 1, Mar 8 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-141588.

The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: CREATIVE CUSTOM PAINTING, 1323 LINCOLN AVE #1, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: 1) LEONCIO ESPINOZA ORDOÑEZ, 1323 LINCOLN AVE # 1, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901; 2) OLIVA ZARRO BAUTISTA, 1323 LINCOLN AVE # 1, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. The business is being conducted by MARRIED COUPLE. Registrant is renewing filing with changes and is transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on FEB 10, 2017. (Publication Dates: Feb 15, Feb 22, Mar 1, Mar 8 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-141564.

The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS, 316 MESA VERDE WAY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: LUIS LUCIANO, 316 MESA VERDE WAY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. The 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 FEB 09, 2017. (Publication Dates: Feb 22, Mar 1, Mar 8, Mar 15 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-141601.

The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: LUCAS VALLEY CLEANERS, 4460 REDWOOD HWY #17, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: LINDA CHEON, 2500 DEER VALLEY RD #127, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903.

The 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 FEB 14, 2017. (Publication Dates: Feb 22, Mar 1, Mar 8, Mar 15 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-141501.

The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: MARTY’S WINDOW CLEANING SERVICES, 90 NORTH AVE #1D, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: 1) HENRY MARTINEZ, 90 NORTH AVE #1D, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903 2) JULIA MARTINEZ, 90 NORTH AVE #1D, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903.

The business is being conducted by MARRIED COUPLE. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on FEB 01, 2017. (Publication Dates: Feb 22, Mar 1, Mar 8, Mar 15 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-141478.

The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: CHRIS THEOFEL INNOVATIONS, 1464 GRAND AVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: PANACHE KITCHEN INNOVATIONS, INC., 1464 GRAND AVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. The business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Jan 30, 2017. (Publication Dates: Feb 22, Mar 1, Mar 8, Mar 15 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-141629.

The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: TWENTY-FOUR SEVEN PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, 3 CLUB VIEW DR, NOVATO, CA 94949: SUE GILLIAM, 3 CLUB VIEW DR, NOVATO, CA 94949.

The business is being conducted

by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registration expired more than 40 days ago and is renewing under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on Feb 17, 2017. (Publication Dates: Feb 22, Mar 1, Mar 8, Mar 15 of 2017)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT FROM USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No: 304750.

The following person(s) has/have abandoned the use of a fictitious business name(s). The information given below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the Marin County Clerk-Recorder’s Office on April 10, 2014, Under File No: 2014134564. Fictitious Business

name(s) HOUSE OF BAGELS, 640 4TH STREET, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: HAY YOU, 175 VISTA DEL MAR, SAN RAFAEL,CA 94901.This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Marin County on Feb 10, 2017 (Publication Dates: Feb 22, Mar 1, Mar 8, Mar 15 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-141549.

The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: MARIN BUILDING SUPPLY, 170 PAUL DR, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: DOLLY WINGALE, 535 ATHERTON AVE, NOVATO, CA 94945.The business is being conducted

by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant is renewing filing with changes under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on FEB 07, 2017. (Publication Dates: Mar 1, Mar 8, Mar 15, Mar 22 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017141624. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: MARIN WEIGHT LOSS & WELLNESS, 400 PROFESSIONAL CENTER DR, NOVATO, CA 94947: WELLNESS WHEEL LLC, 16 MADRONE PARK CIRCLE, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941.

The business is being conducted by LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on FEB 16, 2017. (Publication Dates: Mar 1, Mar 8, Mar 15, Mar 22 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017141658. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: IDEAGEO, 310A BONITA ST, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: CRAIG A LANGBEIN, 310 A BONITA ST, SAUSALITO, CA 94965.

The 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 FEB 23, 2017. (Publication Dates: Mar 1, Mar 8, Mar 15, Mar 22 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-141660.

The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: MACH 5 PAINTING, 1048 7TH ST #1, NOVATO, CA 94945: 1) EFREN AVILA, 1048 7TH ST #1, NOVATO, CA 94945; 2) DANY ELIZARDO GONZALEZ PEREZ, 240 CANAL ST, APT B7, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. The business is being conducted by A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on FEB 23, 2017. (Publication Dates: Mar 1, Mar 8, Mar 15, Mar 22 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT——File No: 2017-141582. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: MCKURDY PREMIUM COFFEE, 277 WOODLAND AVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: ZAID AL KURDI, 277 WOODLAND AVE, SAN RAFAEL,

CA 94901. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on FEB 10, 2017. (Publication Dates: Mar 1, Mar 8, Mar 15, Mar 22 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-141485.

The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: BLUE WOMEN RED COUNTRY, 305 SAN ANSELMO AVENUE, SUITE 301, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: JACK SUSKI, 305 SAN ANSELMO AVENUE, SUITE 301, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960.

The 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 JAN 31, 2017. (Publication Dates: Mar 1, Mar 8, Mar 15, Mar 22 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017141693. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: FACILITATED RESOLUTION, 93 ROLLINGWOOD DR, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: CYNTHIA C POULOS, 93 ROLLINGWOOD DR, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901.The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on FEB 28, 2017. (Publication Dates: Mar 8, Mar 15, Mar 22, Mar 29 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-141636.

The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: KEY TEA, 921 C STREET, CA 94901: CHRISTIEN ELLAURI, 131 ARROYO RD, LAGUNITAS, CA 94938. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant is renewing filing with changes and is transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on FEB 21, 2017. (Publication Dates: Mar 8, Mar 15, Mar 22, Mar 29 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-141586.

The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: PAPER PUNK, 21 CORTE MADERA AVE #1, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: LO-RES LABS LLC, 21 CORTE MADERA AVE #1, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941. The business is being conducted by LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registration expired more than 40 days ago and is renewing business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on FEB 10, 2017. (Publication Dates: Mar 8, Mar 15, Mar 22, Mar 29 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-141583.

The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: 1) CHRISTINE YVETTE COLLECTIONS 2) CYC, 743 TAMARACK DR, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: CHRISTINE YVETTE BONACCOLTA, 743 TAMARACK DR, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. The 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 FEB 10, 2017. (Publication Dates: Mar 8, Mar 15, Mar 22, Mar 29 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017141672. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: 1) LINCOLN ENGINEERING 2) LINCOLN TECHNOLOGY COMMUNICATIONS, 402 JEWELL ST, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: JAMES P. HARRISON, 402 JEWELL ST, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901.

The 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 FEB 24, 2017. (Publication Dates: Mar 8, Mar 15, Mar 22, Mar 29 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-141554.

The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: ANTIGUAS CAFÉ RESTAURANT, 703 3RD ST, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: MARGARITO PEREZ, 27 WOODLAND AVE #4, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. The business is

being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on FEB 07, 2017. (Publication Dates: Mar 8, Mar 15, Mar 22, Mar 29 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-141711.

The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: SERENITY THROUGH HYPNOSIS, 100 PROFESSIONAL CENTER DR, STE #112, NOVATO, CA 94947: KELLY GERHARDT, 1587 SO. NOVATO BLVD, APT # 208, NOVATO, CA 94947. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant is renewing filing with changes and is transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on MARCH 02, 2017.

(Publication Dates: Mar 8, Mar 15, Mar 22, Mar 29 of 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-141716.

The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: LOCAL SPICERY, 80 MAIN STREET, SUITE F, TIBURON, CA 94920: SPICERY LLC, 17467 NORLENE WAY, GRASS VALLEY, CA 95949. The business is being conducted

by LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant is renewing filing with changes and is transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Mar 03, 2017.

(Publication Dates: Mar 8, Mar 15, Mar 22, Mar 29 of 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-141546.

The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: MARIN REPUBLIC CONSTRUCTION, 95 JACKSON DR, NOVATO, CA 94947: CESAR H COVARRUBIAS, 95 JACKSON DR, NOVATO, CA 94947. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on FEB 07, 2017. (Publication Dates: Mar 8, Mar 15, Mar 22, Mar 29 of 2017)

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By Amy Alkon

Q:

I’m a 27-year-old guy, and I’m not very funny. I know women like a guy with a sense of humor, so I was interested in these “Flirt Cards” with funny messages that I saw on Kickstarter. You write your number on the back and give the card to a woman you’d like to meet. Good idea or bad for breaking the ice?—Single Dude

A:

Using a pre-printed card to hit on the ladies makes a powerful statement: “I’m looking for a kind woman to nurse me back to masculinity.”

Asking a woman out isn’t just a way to get a date; it’s a form of display. Consider that women look for men to show courage. (The courage to unwrap a pack of cards doesn’t count.) And mutely handing a woman some other guy’s humor on a card is actually worse than using no humor at all.

Consider evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller’s “mating mind” hypothesis— the notion that “our minds evolved not just as survival machines, but as courtship machines.” Miller explains that the mind acts as a “fitness indicator”—a sort of advertising agency for a person’s genetic quality (among other things). Humor is a reliable (hard-to-fake) sign of genetic quality—reflecting high intelligence, creative problem-solving ability and a lack of mutations that would handicap brain function.

But it isn’t just any old humor that women find attractive. Any guy can memorize a joke. Accordingly, in a study of the pickup lines that men use on women, psychologists Christopher Bale and Rory Morrison “distinguish wit (spontaneous jokes that fit the context exactly, are genuinely funny and require intelligence) from mere humor (the pre-planned jokes and one-liners which … do not demonstrate intelligence).”

Anthropologist Gil Greengross, who studies humor and laughter from an evolutionary perspective, suggests that even a guy who’s lame at humor should at least take a run at being funny: “The risk of not even trying to make women laugh may result in losing a mating opportunity.” I disagree—though only in part. If you’re unfunny, trying to force the funny is like bragging, “Hey! I’m low in social intelligence!”

However, you shouldn’t let being unfunny stop you from hitting on a woman. What you can do is be spontaneously and courageously genuine. This isn’t to say that you should give up entirely on using pre-printed notes. Save them for special occasions— those when your message to a woman is something like, “Stay calm and put all the money in the bag.”

Q:

My girlfriend’s father is a famous actor, and I’m on my way up. I worry that if things go wrong in our relationship, he could put a big kibosh on my career. I guess because of this, I find myself putting up with more stuff than I might normally. I wonder whether our relationship will suffer because of my secret worries about her dad.—Marked Man

A:

There’s doing the right thing, and then there’s doing the right thing for the right reasons. Ideally, you refrain from shoplifting because it’s wrong to steal, not because they show videos of shoplifters on the news sometimes and your nose always looks so big on security camera footage.

It turns out that there are two fundamental motivations for all life-forms—from microbes to men. They are “approach” and “avoidance.” Research by social psychologist Shelly Gable suggests that romantic relationships are happier when they’re driven by approach rather than avoidance motives.

So, say your girlfriend asks that you put food-encrusted plates in the dishwasher instead of leaving them out for the archeologists to find. An approach motivation means doing as she asks because you’re striving for a positive outcome—like making her feel loved—instead of trying to avoid a negative one, like having your fate in showbiz patterned after that first guy in a horror movie who gets curious about the weird growling in the basement.

The research suggests that you can happy up your relationship by reframing why you do things—shifting to an “I just wanna make her happy” motivation.

To do that, set aside your career fears and just try to be fair—to both of you. The relationship may fizzle out. Even so, if you don’t do anything horrible to Daddy’s little girl, there’ll be no reason for him to see to it that you look back on a lifetime of iconic roles—like “White Guy With Umbrella” and “Bystander #5.”Y Worship the goddess—or sacrifice her at the altar at adviceamy@aol.com.

Astrology

For the week of March 8

ARIES (March 21-April 19): As soon as you

can, sneak away to a private place where you can be alone—preferably to a comfy sanctuary where you can indulge in eccentric behavior without being seen, heard or judged. When you get there, launch into an extended session of moaning and complaining. I mean do it out loud. Wail and whine and whisper about everything that’s making you sad, puzzled and crazy. For best results, leap into the air and wave your arms. Whirl around in erratic figure-eights while drooling and messing up your hair. Breathe extra deeply. And all the while, let your pungent emotions and poignant fantasies flow freely through your wild heart. Keep on going until you find the relief that lies on the other side.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “I’ve always

belonged to what isn’t where I am and to what I could never be,” wrote Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). That was his prerogative, of course. Or maybe it was a fervent desire of his, and it came true. I bring his perspective to your attention, Taurus, because I believe that your mandate is just the opposite, at least for the next few weeks: You must belong to what is where you are. You must belong to what you will always be.

By Rob Brezsny

and carry off a delicious poison that has been damaging you in ways you’ve become comfortable with. A bandit angel might sneak into your imagination and burglarize the debilitating beliefs and psychological crutches you cling to as if they were bars of gold. Are you interested in benefiting from this service? Ask and you shall receive.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Evolved Scorpios don’t fantasize about bad things happening to their competitors and adversaries. They don’t seethe with smoldering desires to torment anyone who fails to give them what they want. They may, however, experience urges to achieve TOTAL CUNNNG DAZZLING MERCILESS VICTORY over those who won’t acknowledge them as golden gods or golden goddesses. But even then, they don’t indulge in the deeply counterproductive emotion of hatred.

Instead, they sublimate their ferocity into a drive to keep honing their talents. After all, that game plan is the best way to accomplish something even better than mere revenge: Success in fulfilling their dreams.

Please keep these thoughts close to your heart in the coming weeks.

simple as it may seem. The bad times always harbor opportunities. The good times inevitably have a caveat. According to my astrological analysis, you’ll prove the latter truth in the coming weeks. On one hand, you will be closer than you’ve been in many moons to your ultimate sources of meaning and motivation. On the other hand, you sure as hell better take advantage of this good fortune. You can’t afford to be shy about claiming the rewards and accepting the responsibilities that come with the opportunities.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “The noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world,” wrote Martin Luther (1483-1546), a revolutionary who helped break the stranglehold of the Catholic Church on the European imagination.

I bring this up, Sagittarius, because you’re entering a phase when you need the kind of uprising that’s best incited by music. So I invite you to gather the tunes that have inspired you over the years, and also go hunting for a fresh batch. Then listen intently, curiously and creatively as you feed your intention to initiate constructive mutation. It’s time to overthrow anything about your status quo that is jaded, lazy, sterile or apathetic.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Seek intimacy

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Either

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Nothing is ever as

with experiences that are dewy and slippery and succulent. Make sure that you get more than your fair share of swirling feelings and flowing sensations, cascading streams and misty rain, arousing drinks and sumptuous sauces, warm baths and purifying saunas, skin moisturizers and lustrous massages, the milk of human kindness and the buttery release of deep sex—and maybe even a sensational do-ityourself baptism that frees you from at least some of your regrets. Don’t stay thirsty, my undulating friend. Quench your need to be very, very wet. Gush and spill. Be gushed and spilled on.

you learn to live with paradox and ambiguity or you’ll be 6 years old for the rest of your life,” says author Anne Lamott. How are you doing with that lesson, Capricorn? Still learning? If you would like to get even more advanced teachings about paradox and ambiguity—as well as conundrums, incongruity and anomalies—there will be plenty of chances in the coming weeks. Be glad! Remember the words of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr: “How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Would you like to live to the age of 99? If so, experiences and realizations that arrive in the coming weeks could be important in that project. A window to longevity will open, giving you a chance to gather clues about actions you can take and meditations you can do to remain vital for 10 decades. I hope you’re not too much of a serious, know-it-all adult to benefit from this opportunity.

If you’d like to be deeply receptive to the secrets of a long life, you must be able to see with innocent, curious eyes. Playfulness is not just a winsome quality in this quest; it’s an essential asset.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Lichen

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’re ripe. You’re delectable. Your intelligence is especially sexy. I think it’s time to unveil the premium version of your urge to merge. To prepare, let’s review a few flirtation strategies. The eyebrow flash is a good place to start.

A subtle, flicking lick of your lips is a fine follow-up.

Try tilting your neck to the side ever-so-coyly. If there are signs of reciprocation from the other party, smooth your hair or pat your clothes. Fondle nearby objects like a wine glass or your keys. And this is very important: Listen raptly to the person you’re wooing. P.S. If you already have a steady partner, use these techniques as part of a crafty plan to draw him or her into deeper levels of affection.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you normally wear adornments and accessories and fine disguises, I invite you not to do so for the next two weeks.

Instead, try out an unembellished, what-you-see-iswhat-you-get approach to your appearance. If, on the other hand, you don’t normally wear adornments and accessories and fine disguises, I encourage you to embrace such possibilities in a spirit of fun and enthusiasm. Now you may inquire: How can these contradictory suggestions both apply to the Pisces tribe? The answer: There’s a more sweeping mandate behind it all, namely: To tinker and experiment with the ways you present yourself … to play around with strategies for translating your inner depths into outer expression.Y

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Let’s talk about a

compassionate version of robbery. The thieves who practice this art don’t steal valuable things you love.

Rather, they pilfer stuff you don’t actually need but are reluctant to let go of. For example, the spirit of a beloved ancestor may sweep into your nightmare

is a hardy form of life that by some estimates covers six percent of the earth’s surface. It thrives in arctic tundra and rainforests, on tree bark and rock surfaces, on walls and toxic slag heaps, from sea level to alpine environments. The secret of its success is symbiosis. Fungi and algae band together (or sometimes fungi and bacteria) to create a blended entity; two very dissimilar organisms forge an intricate relationship that comprises a third organism. I propose that you regard lichen as your spirit ally in the coming weeks, Aquarius. You’re primed for some sterling symbioses.

Homework: For an hour, act as if you’re living the life you’ve always wanted to. Testify at Freewillastrology.com.

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