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I totally disagree with Tony Good that the immigration laws in this country are fair and therefore justify the growing number of deportations of many of our upstanding citizens [‘Justified,’ Letters, May 24].

In my view Tony Good would be wise to remember that the country he feels so entitled to continue to live in originally belonged to the Native American people,

from whom Tony Good’s current location was taken by force and often murderous violence from its original inhabitants.

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While coitus interruptus is one way of birth control, it is not generalizable as an effective way of preventing presidential verbal/ behavior ‘ejaculations’ by unilateral ‘America First’ ‘pull-outs’ from globally shared environmental concerns/international agreements re: planetary/human viability/ sustainability.

In spite of the compelling rhetoric, it is disheartening that the president has chosen to make a politically/economically-motivated decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate accord and to not instead collectively negotiate ‘Earth control’ by reducing ‘emissions.’

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7 At Runnymede in June, 1215, English King John signed a bill of rights for the common person called what?

8 Roman numerals comprise how many Latin letters?

9 Baseball fans: What American League team and what National League team, at the current moment, have the best records?

10 Signed by Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany in 1957, the Treaty of Rome led to the establishment of what political entity?

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Upfront Last month, Governor Brown signed a budget bill rider that aimed to fully square up 2016’s Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act (MMSRA) with the Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA).

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New budget blazes new trails for state’s cannabis industry By Tom Gogola

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hen it comes to the roll-out of a unified cannabis policy in California, a sativa singularity if you will, the devil is definitely in the details—not to mention the tongue-twisting parade of cannabisbill acronyms that are hard to keep up with. Now that the state has merged its medical and adult-use recreational regimes into one law, what’s next? Is everyone happy yet?

In late June, Gov. Brown signed a budget bill rider co-authored by North Coast Sen. Mike McGuire,

D-Healdsburg, that aimed to fully square up 2016’s Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act (MMSRA) with the Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA)—while protecting North Coast growers from a rapacious Big Cannabis onslaught.

Enter MAUCRSA, the Medical and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act, and roughly pronounced “mao-curser.”

What happens now that the state has acted speedily and decisively to bring its pot laws under one roof ? The medical community, not to mention this newspaper, had declared that the state was “not

ready” for legalization last year— but ready or not, the state now has one law and a whole bunch of details to sort out.

For one thing, a 500-page draft Project Environmental Impact Review (PEIR), issued by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) in June, may be amended or revised to reflect changes in the new law that will impact the department, which has broad licensing and regulatory powers in the state’s cannabis economy.

As the cannabis legislation was getting hashed out in Sacramento

this spring, with a big push from McGuire’s rider bill, the CDFA issued its epic PEIR, which, as Rebecca Forée at the CDFA says, was written with the changing law in mind, even if it doesn’t explicitly address all the changes that emerged in the final product—including the creation of an “appellation” regime overseen by the CDFA. “We were aware of the trailer bill as we were preparing the draft PEIR,” says Forée, communications manager at CalCannabis Cultivation Licensing, a branch of the CDFA charged with overseeing the licensing of cannabis cultivators.

can have a medical and recreational license, for example—and offers a new designation for cultivators that would allow for small-scale “boutique” grows, provided the local and county governments approve (local control is very much highlighted in the McGuire rider).

The adult-use law, which California voters approved via Proposition 64 last election day—had placed the appellation process in the purview of the Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation, which operates under the aegis of the state Department of Consumer Affairs, and gave the industry and regulators until 2018 to create an appellation regime for California cannabis.

The MAUCRSA shifts this responsibility to the CDFA and stretches the timeline to 2020. But there’s no mention of the CDFA’s new role as appellation-designator in the draft PEIR. Forée says it will be in the final version.

The agency is also given authority over a new track-and-trace program that will keep the state eye on cannabis products, from seed to store.

The “appellation” issue is of course a big deal in the California wine industry. Indeed, the California State Fair, to be held July 14–30 this year in Sacramento, has a big wine competition—and the state fair is very serious about the rules when they pertain to where a grape is grown: “In order for a wine to qualify in any region, the label must designate the appellation of the grapes,” under federal regulations that established socalled American Viticultural Areas, and which are protected by boozeand-tobacco agents of the United States Department of the Treasury.

Will a future California State Fair have a cannabis contest with designated “American Cannabis Areas”?

That’s anyone’s guess, but with any federal descheduling of cannabis resting in the hands of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has demonstrated a certain unyielding contempt for cannabis, it’s up to the state of California to come up with the appellation regime for cannabis, in order to protect the local growers by regulating source-of-bud claims in marketing and licensing.Y For the full version of this story, visit pacificsun.com.

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“However, the exact text of the law was in flux at that time.

Therefore, we crafted the draft PEIR to accommodate a range of possible outcomes—from the existing bill [prior to passage of the trailer bill] to the passage of some form of the trailer bill.”

Forée says a final PEIR will be issued by year’s end and will incorporate new aspects of the law contained in the McGuire rider.

She says she doesn’t anticipate that the PEIR will be delayed or that the agency would need to reissue it.

The draft PEIR was prepared by the Oakland-based Horizon Water and Environment.

“We are in the process of carefully reviewing the trailer bill language to determine what portions of the draft PEIR may need to be revisited or amended in the final PEIR,” Forée says.

The draft PEIR is now in a statemandated 45-day comment period through the end of July.

One key provision in McGuire’s rider—which helped it gain the support of the California Growers Association, a statewide lobby—is the inclusion of a measure to create cannabis “appellations” to help protect growers in cannabis country.

In a statement about his rider released on June 12, McGuire highlights that 60 percent of all of the cannabis grown in the country comes from four California counties—which he happens to represent: Sonoma, Marin, Mendocino and Humboldt.

With that fact in mind, McGuire—and fellow North Coast Assemblyman Jim Wood—was adamant that North Coast growers needed to be protected in whatever reconciliation bill emerged from the medical-meets-recreational legislative process.

McGuire’s budget rider bill pushed for enhanced environmental regulations in the cannabis industry—he’s been a big antiillegal-grow zealot—and for the creation of “an organic-standards program for cannabis.”

A much-needed North Coast “one-stop shop for tax and license collections”so would-be cultivators don’t have to drive five hours to Sacramento to apply for a license is on the way, and the McGuire rider also recognizes agricultural co-ops, “ensuring that small family cultivators can thrive in the new regulatory system.”

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Nathan Hill’s acclaimed novel ‘The Nix’ includes a Trump-like protagonist, reminding us of this new era of fake news and alternative facts.

Fictional Facts

In an age of fake news and ‘alternative’ truth, novels like Nathan Hill’s ‘The Nix’ are striking a chord By Steve Kettmann

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t’s been building a while, the sense that the novel, far from being exiled indefinitely from the hurly-burly of relevance, was tacking back into the mix, recovered from the fashion consciousness of campus influence and other existential threats, ready to stand and be counted.

Now, as we peer through the lurid gloom of life in the Trump era, it’s clear that journalists and nonfiction writers, chained to the ascendancy of “facts” in an era when fewer and fewer of us really believe in them anymore, cannot compete with the power of a go-for-broke novelist with a light touch, an ear for comedy and human foible, and the sheer stamina

and grit to cobble together a great yarn over years of effort.

This is the era of writers like Nathan Hill, whose hit novel The Nix skewers millennial entitlement, boomer self-importance and everything in between, but above all retrieves the recent past and in so doing reanimates the present and the future. In other words, the book unlocks a gate through which many others can and should surge forth.

If nothing else, the giddy praise Hill has earned—“In my opinion he is the best new writer of fiction in America,” John Irving proclaimed— ought to inspire young writers to ponder his example, and it’s a good one to consider. The best part about

Hill is his insistence that his dazzling literary success owes mostly to his having decided on a philosophy of essentially saying “Fuck it!” He opted out of the all-too-common syndrome of worrying too much about what anyone else thinks of your writing. Instead, he went for it and spent 10 years writing a novel mostly for himself, the way one dives into gardening.

The acclaimed novel was one of last year’s most talked-about books, with many critics noting its “Trump-like” Republican presidential candidate Gov. Packer—a character Hill created years before Trump ran for office.

And its splashy debut came at a

time when fiction was showing signs of a new resurgence; in its overview of 2016 book trends, the Los Angeles Times declared, “Longform nonfiction is in peril.” The sudden rise of George Orwell's dystopian classic 1984 to bestseller lists was widely noted, but the Atlantic and the BBC looked deeper into the trend to discover that the Trump era seemed to be elevating sales of other fiction, as well.

Before that, Hill had been living in Queens, toiling away on short stories to land the usual prestige publication credits, when he decided to move to Florida and start fresh. Writers need other writers, but squeeze too many of them into your consciousness and

no anti-hero, and the main things we know about him are that even into adulthood he lives in constant mortified terror of slipping into a crying jag, which he breaks down into categories like storms; that he teaches, but kind of hates it; and that his mother abandoned him when he was young. Oh, and he’s a writer, or sort of a writer.

Samuel feels like the buddy you have at college without ever knowing why, since you don’t really like each other all that much, but his life opens up to us in a way that makes it impossible not to care. We’re particularly pulled in by his account of twins he knew in his youth: Violin-playing Bethany, who will define beauty for Samuel his whole life, and her brother Bishop, pulled prematurely into adulthood in a way that touches Samuel as well. As I wrote in my review of The Nix for the San Francisco Chronicle last year: “This is a novel about an understanding taking years to unfold.”

“She’d decided that about eighty percent of what you believe about yourself when you’re 20 turns out to be wrong,” a character observes.

“The problem is you don’t know what your small true part is until much later.”

Much as Northern California writer Emma Cline used her novel The Girls to breathe new life into our understanding of one aspect of the 1960s—the charismatic allure of a Charles Manson–type figure—Hill uses this story about a son in search of a vanished mother to papiermâché together a shockingly vivid reimagining of the famous clubbing of protesters by overzealous Chicago police that will always be associated with the 1968 Democratic Convention. Hill slows down time in a way that mesmerizes. He takes a reader used to thinking about shorter attention spans and quietly changes the subject. For the right book, page count doesn’t matter; quality does.

Hill has a secret, and it’s one worth emulating. He likes his characters. He loves his characters.

They are all flawed, they all have their sorrows, but even when they’re being hilariously over-thetop awful, he’s smiling to share with us their over-the-top awfulness.

There are important lessons here.

When one of the Trump sons, looking like a bad-hair outcast from a remake of the cheeseball TV show Dynasty, went on Fox News in early June to share the

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it’s like packing an elevator with too many overdressed men who have hit the man-perfume way too hard.

Getting away clearly did wonders for Hill’s talent.

“The stuff I was doing in New York really wasn’t that good,” Hill said in a recent phone conversation, just after he'd returned from a trip to France to promote the roughly 719th foreign edition of his novel.

“I was writing for all the wrong reasons. I’d moved to New York with a bunch of people from my MFA program [at UMass Amherst].

I was very careerist, thinking about editors and Paris Review parties and who was getting published where—thinking about everything but the actual writing. I was trying to be popular in New York. I wasn’t writing any particular truth.”

When Hill’s apartment was broken into, his computer was stolen—and along with it, years of writing vanished into thin air, gone as surely as the carbons of early short stories that Ernest Hemingway’s first wife famously lost. With Hill, as with Hemingway and most any other writer, this was surely a good thing. Not until Hill moved to Florida to be near the bassoonist who would become his wife did his work on the novel that became The Nix really open up in a new direction.

“Even more than getting all the stuff stolen, it was that early failure, kind of a global failure—going to New York City but not becoming the writer I thought I was going to become, or really finding any success at all—that led me in a different direction,” he says. “I started to write The Nix for really different reasons.

When that kicked in, the writing just opened up.

“I stopped sending stuff out to agents and editors and magazines,” he continues. “I stopped giving my work to writing friends who I went to school with.”

Years of feedback from writing classes and groups had been helpful, but for his writing to take off he had to hit the mute button on all that. “There comes a point where you have to do something that’s idiosyncratic, that’s just you,” he says. “You have to tune out all those voices, no matter how well-meaning and helpful they might be.”

Not everyone would feel comfortable building a 625-page novel around a main character, Samuel Andresen-Anderson, who is just sort of there. He’s no hero,

Author Nathan Hill spent 10 years writing his book ’The Nix’ without worrying what others would think about it.

opinion that, to him, Democrats are “not even people,’ the natural first reaction was to snicker at the sheltered cluelessness of this son of a son of privilege, this epic lack of understanding of anything other than his deranged father’s rants.

But actually, the quote was a rare case of a Trump speaking for many people, not just the tiny sliver of the country that supports this reckless presidency. Eric Trump’s words should make us all think. Too many people of too many viewpoints have been so riled, so addled with pent-up frustration and rage, they too have come to think of others as “not even people,” which is a trend probably as toxic to real democracy as the Supreme Court’s Citizen United decision equating political contributions to free speech.

It does no good to write off whole swaths of the country as rubes, simple and easy to sway, even if the Trump wave did pull along all sorts of people who ought to have known better. It does no good to assume we understand everything about them.

Far better to take the crisis afflicting the country and use it as a prod to try anew to understand people from all regions of the country, from all viewpoints, up to and including hate-mongers. The question is: How do we do this? We could use a Studs Terkel, interviewing everyone and panning for gold. But journalism can only make so much headway in this direction. Fiction holds far more potential.

This, I think, is the ultimate thrill of reading Nathan Hill: Having the sense of getting to know people we’d thought were walled off from us. His baton-swinging cop, for example, is a tour de force, human and sad, so much so that I for one almost felt like I was identifying with him even as he slammed protesters in the head with that baton—well, at least for a moment or two. The point is simply to turn back from the glibness of hate or bias to what we are born knowing, that what unites us is stronger and vaster than that which divides us.

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that some young novelist out there with flash and nerve is going to find a way to build a fictional tunnel from the present to 1969 California, when an actor in the Governor’s Mansion in Sacramento ordered the National Guard into Berkeley to crack down on protesters who wanted to turn a scruffy little vacant lot owned by the state into a People’s Park. James Rector of San Jose, an innocent bystander, was killed in the melee, and the silent majority rallied behind Reagan and his show of force. He rode the tough-guy-on-a-horse image all the way to the White House. But like Chicago in ’68, it’s all become a cartoon. Only a great novelist can really reclaim that kind of territory for us, as Hill has done in The Nix. The book was published in hardcover before last November’s election (it’s newly out in paperback), which seems oddly fitting. Post–Trump election, like post 9-11, the fiction writer feels a tidal wave of pressure to try to do something with the flotsam and jetsam of what used to be a culture.

It’s overwhelming, which is why if you follow writers’ social media feeds you read much in November and afterward about people who couldn't get out of bed for days or weeks on end. It was paralyzing.

Hill was in Southern California this spring to receive a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and in accepting the honor, joked that he was glad to get the award—while California “is still part of the country,” showing he was aware of the fledgling movement to get a secession measure on the California ballot.

“If that gets on the ballot, who knows what happens?” Hill told me on the phone.

The joke was also a kind of homage to fellow novelist Michelle Richmond. Back in 2009, when she was working on the project that would become the novel Golden State, Richmond was going for outlandish but not too outlandish when she sat down to write a scene about Californians going to the polls to vote on seceding from the United States.

Talking to Hill on the phone, I read aloud from what Richmond had told me about the novel: “‘In the book, it’s moved from fringe to reality because a new president wants to spend $12 billion of taxpayer money on a border wall with Mexico.’”

“My God!” Hill cut in goodnaturedly, loving it. “‘He wants a war with Iran, he wants to roll back environmental protections and he’s rolling back reproductive and gay rights,’” I continued, quoting Richmond. “‘When I was writing the book, I thought eventually there will be some sort of vote, but that's far in the future.’”

“That’s amazing,” Hill said. “The Trump-like character in my book, Gov. Packer, was written similarly a long time ago, eight years ago. I took this kind of baseline Tea Party Republican candidate who seemed to be getting popular, and pushed him to absurdity to see what happens.”

It takes years, generally, to create the world-within-a-world of a novel that comes alive enough for characters to talk on their own, leading the writer more than the other way around. As Hill put it to me: “That takes a long time to get to, to feel that the character is speaking to you, not that you’re turning the wrench.”

There is something transcendently important about that commitment of time and energy, that investment of caring and doing, and it's potentially an important antidote to the pop-off-in-four-seconds-flat culture in which we find ourselves, led of course by the Popper-Off-inChief. More even than the beauty, power and importance of his great novel, I’d point a new reader to the following words as an introduction to Hill and what he stands for: “I really want to take the time with my own political feeling and political thinking,” he told me on the phone. “I don’t want to make snap judgments. For example, as I write my next book, it’s really tempting to try to deal with the age of Trump, but I don’t think that would make a very good book. It’s too new. I don’t have enough distance from it yet. And frankly, I’m not incredibly confident about my own opinions.

“And I’m shocked at how many are extraordinarily confident in their opinions and extraordinarily sure they are right. I’d rather take my time. I don’t even take to Twitter very often, as you might have seen.

I don’t want to become a kind of opinion vending machine. I reserve the right to keep my opinions to myself and think about it for a very, very long time. I’m well aware that at any time I could be wrong.”Y

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ickling can happen any time there are ripe veggies for the picking. Now it’s cucumber season, which lasts basically all summer long. Beans are upon us, too. Soon come the pickled peppers, large batches in large jars, sometimes with carrots. Then maybe some beets.

Vinegar pickles are a versatile way to go that can accommodate anything you could want to eat pickled, from cauliflower to kohlrabi, not to mention the asparagus that’s already come and gone. I do all of my pickling in basically the same go-to brine recipe.

With small adjustments here or there, it works for pretty much anything.

Ari’s Pickle Principles

Use Kirby-style, aka pickling cucumbers—the kind with the little bumps/spikes on them. These can withstand higher temperatures, without getting soggy, than slicing cukes. They should be small, no more than five inches long and an inch or so wide, and fresh.

Pack the washed cucumbers into clean, sterile quart jars, leaving an inch of headspace at the top. The brine is half water and half vinegar, with the

vinegar part being half cider vinegar and half white wine vinegar. I like the cider vinegar for the flavor, but if you want the visual of a pristine white brine, use only white wine vinegar.

Heat the brine on medium, adding sugar a little at a time until it doesn’t quite taste sweet but takes the edge off the vinegar—about a tablespoon per quart. While the brine heats, add a tablespoon of mustard seeds to each jar, and a tablespoon of salt. When the brine reaches a boil, pour it into the jars so it covers the veggies and still leaves a half-inch of headspace; screw on the lids. Process in a water bath for 15 minutes (for cukes).

Living life on a pickle’s edge isn’t for everyone, and for liability reasons I need to stress that if you even consider not cooking your pickles you will immediately contract botulism and your house will burst into flames.

If you cook your cukes, they can still come out crispy enough if you use Kirbys that are young and fresh, and add a grape or horseradish leaf, for example. And if those aren’t crispy enough, keep a batch of fridge pickles going. Or maybe it’s time to venture into sour pickles, which aren’t cooked either. The lazy crispy pickle.Y

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The Utility Room, a boutique in Fairfax, features upcycled cashmere products, jewelry, home goods and even homemade fudge.

SPOTLIGHT ON FAIRFAX

Grounded Fairfax’s The Utility Room mixes vintage, handmade, upcycled and new By Flora Tsapovsky

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irst impressions are a tricky thing. Elizabeth Lavoie may look like an actress—but then again, she really did spend her 20s acting in Los Angeles. The one thing you’ll find harder to derive from Lavoie’s edgy and fashion-forward look is a passionate love for customizing cashmere sweaters— but that’s exactly what keeps her happy these days.

The woman behind The Utility Room, a new boutique in Fairfax, is full of surprises.

“After L.A., my 30s were a mix of having babies and getting a masters in creative writing,” Lavoie says. In August of last year, she opened The

Utility Room after her previous retail venture, the well-loved The Shop in Olema, became no longer hers. “My store is my sanctuary,” she adds. “I have three kids, I’m single and sometimes I need a break.”

The Utility Room, full of attractive objects and motivational slogans, can be an instant sanctuary for anyone who walks in; it is now the home of The Utility Room the brand, which Lavoie started four years ago while juggling other retail businesses.

“I started the label when I had the opportunity to have a space in The Garage, an artisan collective in Fairfax,” she says. “I had no idea that this would become my career.

At the time, I was a stay-at-home mom; sewing was the thing that I got to do when my other chores were done—it was dessert. Now sewing is my work, what I get to do all day long.”

The sewing machine located in the welcoming space is proof of that, and often you’ll find Lavoie creating something on the spot, upon a customer’s request. You’ll also find Lavoie’s upcycled cashmere products and other projects, such as jewelry, girls’ dresses, serapes and even homemade fudge, as well as a selection of curated home goods, design objects and accessories with a strong Californian appeal.

“I named the brand and the store The Utility Room because I’m a dedicated utilitarian,” Lavoie says.

“When I buy for the store, beyond my intuitive sense of what pleases my eye, I look towards beauty and usefulness. With clothing, that means comfort, but not at the price of style. My goal when I design and buy is to populate the shop with clothes that a woman will feel grounded in, feel herself in the best possible way. I incorporate vintage, handmade, upcycled and new products in what is hopefully a magical jumble.”

Lavoie’s own designs stem from a desire to “make use of discarded objects by giving them new life.” The best example, perhaps, is the array of cool-looking, fresh sweaters hanging in the shop. “I love cashmere but I’m a bargain shopper,” she explains.

“I’ve been sewing my whole life and it occurred to me that I could salvage cashmere from thrift stores and either refurbish the sweaters by washing, combing, mending and sometimes adding appliqués over holes or stains, or by cutting them up and sewing them together to make new garments. It’s a magic material; warm and breathable.”

These adjectives could describe Fairfax itself, its laid-back charm easily accommodating Lavoie’s latest endeavor.

“I’m really passionate about this town,” Lavoie says. “Often, I’ll find myself preaching its virtues to my out-of-town customers.”

Lavoie grew up in Mill Valley, and Fairfax reminds her of Mill Valley in the ’70s. “There is some economic diversity here, rare these days in Marin. There are still artists and characters. I can’t walk down the street without running into someone I know,” she muses. “It’s a small town with a deep and quirky soul, a hint of sophistication added by the proximity of San Francisco.”

Lavoie’s been back in the area since 2000, living intermittently in Fairfax and San Anselmo.

“Currently, my zip code is in San Anselmo, but my heart is in Fairfax,” she says. “I’m really proud to be a local, independent business owner in this town where every shop and restaurant I can think of is locally owned and run. My kids come and go, as do their friends and mine. It’s a rich life.”Y The Utility Room, 10 Bolinas Rd., Fairfax; theutilityroom.net.

THEATER

Puzzle Play

‘Splendour’ presents problems to solve By Charles Brousse

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ack in the day, there was Rubik’s Cube. At the height of the craze, somebody gave me one and stood watching and smirking while I struggled to put the pieces together. I failed, an outcome that was repeated many times during the next year or two until I finally gave up and put it in a bag of discarded items that was delivered to Goodwill.

At first, my reaction to the repeated failures was frustration.

With friends boasting of their increasing prowess, I wondered whether my IQ was so low that I was destined for failure in life.

Gradually, however, it dawned on me that they might have it wrong.

Why did it matter if I were able to reassemble the scrambled segments in five hours, five seconds or never?

All I would have was the identical six-sided plastic cube that I started with. “Yes,” they said knowingly, “but it’s what lies between, the journey, that counts.”

Truth is, I never did buy that explanation, but the same mixture of frustration, self-doubt and skepticism flooded back as I left Aurora’s Mainstage Theatre in Berkeley, after the opening night performance of Splendour, by the

British writer Abi Morgan. The play, which is having its Bay Area premiere, opens with Micheline, Morgan’s protagonist, alone in her upscale residence, miming rearranging shoes on imaginary closet shelves. She’s seemingly oblivious to the muffled sounds of streetfighting outside as she awaits the arrival of her dictator husband for an appointment with a foreign photojournalist. When the intermission-less drama ends about two hours later, she’s again alone, sitting in a window alcove, seemingly oblivious to the tumult that is now about to engulf her.

NOW PLAYING: Splendour runs through July 23 at the Aurora Theatre Company, 2081 Addison St., Berkeley; 510/843-4822; auroratheatre.org.

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‘Splendour,’ premiering at Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre Company, is an all-women project.

So what do we learn in those two hours that makes this particular journey worthwhile? Despite vague allusions by reviewers of past productions to “long buried secrets being revealed” and “insights into how violence affects the wives of strongmen around the world,” the information bin remains relatively empty.

Four women—the wife, her best friend, the photojournalist and the latter’s interpreter—gather in a small sitting room inside the presidential palace. Where this is taking place is never identified. (Some have suggested an Eastern European state like Ceausescu’s Romania, but that appears unlikely if the husband is named Julio.) The issues being fought over by the two sides are barely mentioned, let alone explored. There are abrupt time shifts. A constantly ringing telephone goes unanswered even though the caller might have vital information. Parts of scenes are repeated over and over, separated by battle noise and the sound of breaking glass as the interpreter drops a vase hidden under her coat.

The women chit-chat about their past lives, accompanied by interior monologues spoken to the audience about their real feelings toward each other and other personal subjects.

From this we glean that Genevieve, Micheline’s best friend for 35 years, has really despised her all that time, the interpreter is both unreliable and a kleptomaniac and the journalist herself is a victim of the myth that the profession demands that she stay on the job despite any danger. It’s a pretty meager harvest. Only in the final minutes is there a serious recognition of the perilous situation they are in and what to do about it.

My point is that, from a content perspective, Splendour is essentially a complex structural puzzle that, like the Rubik’s Cube, may not be worth trying to solve. On the positive side, Aurora must be complimented for casting four accomplished female actors—Lorri Holt as Micheline, Mia Tagano as Genevieve, Denmo Ibrahim as the photojournalist and Sam Jackson as the interpreter. The addition of director Barbara Damashek makes it (on the performance side) an allwomen project. Despite the script’s shortcomings, it’s one small but welcome step in addressing theater’s endemic gender disparity.Y

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This month, saxophonist Tod Dickow joins jazz trio Charged Particles for a concert tribute to Michael Brecker at Blue Note Napa on Wednesday, July 12.

Sofia Coppola’s ‘The Beguiled,’ a remake of the 1971 film starring Clint Eastwood, is a thriller that takes place at a girls’ boarding school during the Civil War.

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Electric Jazz

Bewitched

Charged Particles honors Michael Brecker

Sofia Coppola remakes ‘The Beguiled’

By Richard von Busack

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By Charlie Swanson ay Area jazz trio Charged Particles is not afraid to plug in and get loud when the occasion calls for it. Over its nearly 30-year history, the group has engaged in a variety of genre-blending projects marked by elaborate arrangements and fiery performances.

This month, San Francisco saxophonist Tod Dickow joins Charged Particles for a concert tribute to influential saxophonist and bandleader Michael Brecker (who passed away in 2007) at Blue Note Napa on Wednesday, July 12.

Founded by Stanford professor and drummer Jon Krosnick, Charged Particles also features keyboardist Murray Low and bassist Aaron Germain. Together, the group achieves a broad spectrum of jazz with an emphasis on jazzfusion’s heavy doses of synthesizers and amplified instruments.

“Around 1970, Miles Davis, Weather Report and others saw synthesizers and the electric bass as a

way to increase the volume, increase the energy and increase the breadth of sounds you had to offer audiences,” Krosnick explains. “All of a sudden it became very loud and very intense.”

These days, Krosnick notes that many jazz players have gone back to the acoustic styles popular before 1970, and his aim for Charged Particles is to embrace all of those historic periods and sensibilities into a blend.

“What we want to do is to make sure the audience is engaged and interested and surprised as often as possible,” Krosnick says.

According to Krosnick, Michael Brecker is “in the handful of the most important jazz musicians ever.” “He really set a standard for technical excellence, but his brilliant creative ideas and innovative compositions moved the music forward,” Krosnick says.Y Charged Particles, with Tod Dickow; Wednesday, July 12; Blue Note Napa; 1030 Main St., Napa; 7pm and 9:30pm; $10-$20; bluenotenapa.com.

n 1864, a wounded Union deserter becomes a fox in a henhouse. In both versions of The Beguiled (1971/2017) Corporal McBurney manipulates the Confederate ladies of a small finishing school. Is it Christian love or devilish lust that makes the half-dozen ladies conceal the enemy soldier from the patrolling Confederate troops? It’s unclear who the title refers to, unless everyone here is beguiled, and a self-beguiler.

In the thin, pretty-pretty Sofia Coppola redo, McBurney (Colin Farrell) tries to flirt the ladies into submission … for a time, the Irish accent, the melting glances and the outrageous compliments work. He’s always watching, seeing how his hostesses are taking his show of gentlemanly behavior.

The easiest pickings would seem to be Edwina (Kirsten Dunst, playing the Elizabeth Hartman old-maid part), but she’s someone who can match McBurney’s

almost periscopic side-eye: She’s not as weak as she looks.

Coppola’s Cannes-honored remake has a shorter running time than the Don Siegel/Clint Eastwood original, and yet that original seemed like a speedier pulp version of D.H. Lawrence, with Geraldine Page excelling as the head witch in charge. Jo Ann Harris, a torrid-eyed wanton, is replaced by a more inwardlyneurotic Elle Fanning. Nicole Kidman replaces Page.

If the first Beguiled was a hothouse, this is more of a boutique, uncommitted to horror, effective melodrama or social comedy. This Beguiled has no dirt under its fingernails. Watching this Virgin “Homicides” of Coppola, it’s unclear whether the movie is a protest against the old-time women’s world of caged seclusion, or a celebration of those good old days when a lady sat, looked elegant and waited for stuff to be brought to her.Y

Concerts MARIN COUNTY Capleton Jamaica’s acclaimed dancehall artist performs with support from local outfit Soul Ska. Jul 11, 9pm. $37-$42. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.3850.

Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe Phil Lesh joins the long-standing jazz and funk favorites for a high-energy set in an intimate setting. Jul 6, 8pm. $40. Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael.

415.524.2773.

Summer Nights Outdoor Music Festival Twenty-fifth annual series kicks off with a night of cocktails, picnic dinner, kids activities and live music from The Brothers Comatose. Jul 8, 7pm. $25 and up/ kids free. Osher Marin JCC, 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael. 415.444.8000.

SONOMA COUNTY Dirty Heads & Soja Two dynamic genre-bending reggae bands co-headline a massive concert that also features grooving groups the Green and RDGLDGRN. Jul 11, 6:30pm. $35 and up.

SOMO Village Event Center, 1100 Valley House Dr, Rohnert Park. somoconcerts.com.

GMC Bluegrass Festival Third annual fest features performances

by Del & Dawg Bluegrass Band, Mark O’Connor & the O’Connor Family Band and Sierra Hull, with a craft beer fest featuring 15 breweries. Jul 9, 2pm. $25 and up. Green Music Center, 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park. 866.955.6040.

Chris Isaak Veteran crooner performs in an outdoor setting, with award-winning wines and local food purveyors on hand. Jul 8, 6pm. $89$129. Rodney Strong Vineyards, 11455 Old Redwood Hwy, Healdsburg. 707.431.1533.

Sonoma Mountain Music Festival Grammy Award-winners Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands, American Nomad and Rainy Eyes headline a full day of folk and roots music to benefit Point Blue Conservation Science. Jul 8, 12pm. $65. Five Springs Farm, 4497 Old Adobe Rd, Petaluma. sonomamountainmusic.com.

NAPA COUNTY Charged Particles Bay Area tenor saxophonist Tod Dickow joins the renowned Bay Area jazz trio for two

sets paying tribute to innovative performer and bandleader Michael Brecker. Jul 12, 7 and 9:30pm. $10-$20. Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa. 707.603.1258.

Patti LaBelle Legendary vocalist dazzles with a concert of classic hits and stirring soul numbers. Jul 8, 5pm. $110-$240. Robert Mondavi Winery, 7801 St Helena Hwy, Oakville. 707.968.2203.

Clubs & Venues MARIN The Belrose Thurs, open mic night. 1415 Fifth Ave, San Rafael. 415.454.6422.

Don Antonio’s Thurs, 6pm, dinner music with pianist Ricardo Scales. 114 Main St, Tiburon.

415.435.0400.

Don Antonio’s Trattoria Tues, 6pm, star night jam with pianist Ricardo Scales. 455 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur.

415.924.3332.

Fenix Jul 7, Miles Schon Band. Jul 8, Pilar & Her Hot Boy Band. Jul 9, 11:30am, Sunday brunch with Light & Sound. Jul 9, 6:30pm, Bridget Marie sings Sade. Jul 11, West Coast Songwriters Competition and open mic. Jul 12, pro blues jam with the Dave Matthews Blues Band. 919 Fourth St, San Rafael.

415.813.5600.

Gabrielson Park Jul 7, 6:30pm, Pamela Rose & the Beasts of Blues. Anchor St, Sausalito. 415.289.4152.

George’s Nightclub Jul 8, DJ party. Jul 9, Banda Night. 842 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.226.0262.

HopMonk Novato Jul 6, Last Exit. Jul 7, Corduroy. Jul 8, Iriefuse with Pacific Soundrise. Jul 9, 6pm, Diego’s Umbrella and the Welcome Matt. 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 415.892.6200.

Iron Springs Pub & Brewery Jul 5, the North Shore Railroad. Jul 12, Howling Coyote Tour. 765 Center Blvd, Fairfax. 415.485.1005.

Marin Art & Garden Center Jul 6, 5pm, the Schrammtastics. 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross. 415.455.5260.

Marin Country Mart Jul 9, 12:30pm, Folkish Festival with One

Grass Two Grass. 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur. 415.461.5700.

Marinwood Community Park Jul 7, 6pm, Mitch Polzak and the Royal Deuces. 775 Miller Creek Rd, San Rafael.

415.479.0775.

Nick’s Cove Jul 11, 6pm, Danny Montana. 23240 Hwy 1, Marshall. 415.663.1033.

CALENDAR Spitfire Lounge First Thursday of every month, the North Bass DJ night. First Friday of every month, Truthlive. 848 B St, San Rafael. 415.454.5551.

Sweetwater Music Hall Jul 6, Stymie & the Pimp Jones Love Orchestra. Jul 7-8, Zepparella. Jul 9, Split Lip Rayfield with the Good Bad. Jul 10, open mic with Austin DeLone. Jul 12, Kanekoa. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.3850.

19 Broadway Club Jul 5, the Damon LeGall Band. Jul 6, Loose with the Truth. Jul 7, 5:30pm, Danny Montana and friends. Jul 7, 9pm, First Friday reggae with Broken Silence Sound System.

Jul 8, Death ‘n Taxes with Kamikaze Palm Trees. Jul 9, Buddy Owen Band. Jul 10, open mic. Jul 11, 6pm, Jeb Brady Band. Jul 11, 8:30pm, Guy and friends. Jul 12, PB & the Jam. 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 415.459.1091.

Tennessee Valley Cabin Jul 7, 6:30pm, Illumination. 60 Tennessee Valley Rd, Mill Valley.

Osteria Divino Jul 5, Jonathan Poretz. Jul 6, Passion Habanera. Jul 7, Nicholas Culp Trio. Jul 8, Marcos Sainz Trio. Jul 9, Belinda Blair.

Jul 11, Rob Reich. Jul 12, Pedro Rosales Con Quimba. 37 Caledonia St, Sausalito.

415.331.9355.

Trek Winery Jul 8, Chime Travelers. 1026 Machin Ave, Novato. 415.899.9883.

Panama Hotel Restaurant Jul 5, Lorin Rowan. Jul 6, Charlie Docherty.

Jul 11, Joan Getz Trio. Jul 12, Bob Gordon & the UFOs. 4 Bayview St, San Rafael.

415.457.3993.

Peri’s Silver Dollar Jul 5, the Weissmen. Jul 6, Marinfidels. Jul 7, Humidors. Jul 8, Afroholix. Jul 9, Sonic Steps.

Jul 10, open mic. Jul 11, Fresh Baked Blues. Jul 12, the New Sneakers. 29 Broadway, Fairfax.

415.459.9910.

Piccolo Pavilion at Menke Park Jul 9, 5pm, Big Harp George. Redwood and Corte Madera Avenues, Corte Madera.

415.302.1160.

Rancho Nicasio Jul 7, Gary Vogensen & the Ramble Band.

Jul 8, Lee Presson & the Nails. Jul 9, 4pm, Peter Rowan’s birthday bash with the Rowan Brothers. 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio.

415.662.2219.

Sausalito Seahorse Wed, Milonga with Marcelo Puig and Seth Asarnow. Jul 6, Judy Hall Trio. Jul 7, Key Lime Pie. Jul 8, the Flaming O’s. Jul 9, 5pm, Orquesta la Moderna Tradicion. Jul 11, Noel Jewkes and friends. 305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito. 415.331.2899.

Smiley’s Schooner Saloon Jul 7, the Casual Coalition. Jul 8, Urban Grass.

Jul 9, Vanessa Silbermn and Carissa Johnson.

41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas. 415.868.1311.

Throckmorton Theatre Jul 5, noon concert with Evelyne Luest, Angela Lee and Mariko Smiley. Jul 10, Summer Singing Workshop. Jul 12, noon concert with the Bradeitch-Grove Duo. 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.

SONOMA A’Roma Roasters Jul 8, VHS. 95 Fifth St, Santa Rosa.

707.576.7765.

Aqus Cafe Jul 6, Celtic music session. Jul 7, the Bee Rays. Jul 12, the Aqus Jazz Project. 189 H St, Petaluma. 707.778.6060.

Arlene Francis Center Wed, Open Mic. Jul 8, Healing Rooms with The Down House and Columns. 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa. 707.528.3009.

Bergamot Alley Jul 11, Dirty Bourbon River Show. 328-A Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg. 707.433.8720.

The Big Easy Jul 8, the Aces with Ralph Rodriguez. Jul 9, Jen Tal & the Huzband. 128 American Alley, Petaluma. 707.776.7163.

Brewsters Beer Garden Jul 6, Bluegrass & Bourbon with Rusty String Express. Jul 7, the String Rays. Jul 8, 3pm, Free Peoples. Jul 9, 3pm, Derek and Damir. 229 Water St N, Petaluma. 707.981.8330.

Brixx Pizzeria Jul 8, Howling Coyote Tour. 16 Kentucky St, Petaluma. 707.766.8162.

Cellars of Sonoma Jul 8, 5pm, Ricky Alan Ray. Jul 9, 2pm, Greg Yoder. 20 Matheson Ave, Healdsburg.

707.578.1826.

Cheryl Teach Music Jul 8, 6:30pm, Family sing-along and

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707.326.8797.

Coffee Catz Jul 7, 3:30pm, PR Jazz Duo. Jul 8, 2pm, bluegrass jam. Jul 10, 6pm, open mic. 6761 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol. 707.829.6600.

Concerts

Downtown Joe’s Brewery & Restaurant Jul 8, Jinx Jones & the KingTones. 902 Main St, Napa. 707.258.2337.

Goose & Gander Jul 9, 1pm, Ordinary Sons. 1245 Spring St, St Helena. 707.967.8779.

Crooked Goat Brewing Jul 9, 1pm, Howling Coyote Tour. 120 Morris St #120, Sebastopol. 707.827.3893.

JaM Cellars Ballroom at the Margrit Mondavi Theatre Jul 7, Schoolbox Project benefit with the Brothers Comatose, the Sam Chase and Highway Poets. 1030 Main St, Napa.

707.880.2300.

Flamingo Lounge Jul 7, Konsept Party Band. Jul 8, Orquesta Borinquen. 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa.

707.545.8530.

Napa Valley Roasting Company Fri, jammin’ and java with Jeff Johnson. 948 Main St, Napa. 707.224.2233.

Graffiti Jul 7, the Peter Welker Sextet. Jul 9, Tracy Rose and friends. 101 Second St, Petaluma.

707.765.4567.

Pacifico Restaurante Mexicano Fri, live mariachi music. 1237 Lincoln Ave, Calistoga. 707.942.4400.

Guerneville Community Church Jul 9, 2pm, Carl & Eddie. 14520 Armstrong Woods Rd, Guerneville.

Pioneer Park Jul 6, 6:30pm, Swing 7. 1308 Cedar St, Calistoga. 707.942.2838.

Guerneville Plaza Jul 6, 7pm, Rockin’ the River with the Highway Poets. 16201 First St, Guerneville. rockintheriver.org.

Hood Mansion Lawn Jul 7, 7pm, Funky Fridays with the BluesBurners. 389 Casa Manana Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.833.6288. funkyfridays.info.

HopMonk Sebastopol Jul 5, Science Buzz Cafe. Jul 7, Blue Summit and Sarah Song Bird. Jul 8, Kingsborough album release show with Coffis Brothers & the Mountain Men. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol. 707.829.7300.

HopMonk Sonoma Jul 7, 5pm, Gutter Swan. Jul 8, 1pm, Michael Bloch. Jul 8, 8pm, Frankie Bourne. Jul 9, 1pm, Jill Cohn. 691 Broadway, Sonoma.

707.935.9100.

Hotel Healdsburg Jul 8, Alan Hall Trio with Ben Stolorow and Peter Barshay. 25 Matheson St, Healdsburg.

707.431.2800.

Ives Park Jul 5, 5pm, Sol Horizon and Smiling Iguanas.

Jul 12, 5pm, Tempest and Greenhouse.

Willow Street and Jewell Avenue, Sebastopol. peacetown.org.

Jamison’s Roaring Donkey Wed, open mic night. Jul 8, Hot Start with Tomas D & the Sundown Gang. 146 Kentucky St, Petaluma. 707.772.5478.

Juilliard Park Jul 9, 5pm, Sol Horizon. 227 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa. srcity.org.

Lagunitas Amphitheaterette Jul 11, 4:20pm, Cherry Glazerr. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma. 707.778.8776.

Lagunitas Tap Room Jul 5, Live Again. Jul 6, Muncie. Jul 7, Jethro Jeremiah. Jul 8, Junk Parlor. Jul 9, the Grain. Jul 12, the Rhythm Drivers. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma. 707.778.8776.

Enjoy live music by The Brothers Comotose at the kick-off the 25th annual Summer Nights Outdoor Music Festival at the Osher Marin JCC in San Rafael on Saturday, July 8.

Frankye Kelly. Jul 9, Eric Wiley. Jul 11, Mac & Potter. Jul 12, Geoff White Jazz Duo. 16280 Main St, Guerneville. 707.869.0501.

Montgomery Village Shopping Center Jul 8, noon, Summer of Love. Jul 9, 1pm, Rosetown Soul. 911 Village Court, Santa Rosa.

707.545.3844.

Murphy’s Irish Pub Jul 7, Jay Dub & Dino. Jul 8, Blue & Lonesome. 464 First St E, Sonoma.

707.935.0660.

Muscardini Cellars Tasting Room Jul 8, 5:30pm, T Luke & the Tight Suits. 9380 Sonoma Hwy, Kenwood. 707.933.9305.

Occidental Center for the Arts Jul 8, Juanito Pascual solo flamenco guitar concert. Jul 9, 4pm, Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental.

707.874.9392.

Phoenix Theater Jul 8, Father Isaac & the Misplaced with Mad Elizabeth and Sleeptrain. 201 Washington St, Petaluma. 707.762.3565.

Pongo’s Kitchen & Tap Jul 6, 6:30pm, Emily Hamilton. 701 Sonoma Mountain Pkwy, Petaluma. 707.774.5226.

Ray’s Deli & Tavern Wed, 6pm, open mic session with Levi Lloyd and Donny Mederos. 900 Western Ave, Petaluma. 707.762.9492.

Lavish Hi-Fi First Thursday of every month, 5:30pm, Music for Enjoyment and Pleasure. 402 Moore Ln, Healdsburg. 707.433.9199.

Redwood Cafe Jul 5, Irish set dancing. Jul 6, Buzzy Martin.

Jul 7, Misner & Smith. Jul 8, Foxes in the Henhouse. Jul 9, 3pm, Celtic Fiddle Music.

Jul 9, 6pm, Irish jam session. Jul 10, Open Mic with DJ Loisaida. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati. 707.795.7868.

Main Street Bistro Jul 5, Willie Perez. Jul 6, Rhythm Drivers.

Jul 7, Wild Janie Roberts Jazz Band. Jul 8,

The Reel Fish Shop & Grill Jul 6, Taj Weekes and Adowa. Jul 7, Kevin Russell & His So Called Friends. Jul 8,

Rubber Soul. 401 Grove St, Sonoma.

707.343.0044.

Ruth McGowan’s Brewpub Jul 8, Blue Jazz Combo. 131 E First St, Cloverdale. 707.894.9610.

Sebastopol Center for the Arts Jul 8, Larry Vuckovich’s All Star Jazz Quartet.

282 S High St, Sebastopol. 707.829.4797.

Sonoma Cider Jul 6, 5:30pm, Dustin Saylor. Jul 7, the Restless Sons. 44F Mill St, Healdsburg. 707.723.7018.

Taft Street Winery Jul 9, 2pm, the Daniel Castro Band. 2030 Barlow Lane, Sebastopol. 707.823.2049.

Twin Oaks Roadhouse Jul 6, Country Line Dancing. Jul 7, the Humdinger Band. Jul 8, Johnny Tsunami & the Hurricanes. Jul 9, 5pm, Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers. Jul 10, the Blues Defenders pro jam. Jul 11, open mic. 5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove. 707.795.5118.

Viansa Winery Jul 8, 12pm, Solid Air. Jul 9, 12pm, Craig Corona. 25200 Arnold Dr, Sonoma.

707.935.4700.

Whiskey Tip Jul 8, 3pm, Soul of Santa Rosa with Tre Jones.

1910 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.843.5535.

NAPA Blue Note Napa Jul 7, Groovality. Jul 8, Chris Standring.

Jul 9, Kurt Ribak. Jul 11, locals night with the Dixie Giants. 1030 Main St, Napa.

707.603.1258.

Ca’ Momi Osteria Jul 7, Latin Nights with DJ Jose Miguel. Jul 8, Self Proclaimed Heroes. 1141 First St, Napa.

707.224.6664.

Silo’s Jul 5, Wesla Whitfield & Mike Greensill.

Jul 6, Syria T Berry acoustic. Jul 7, Skylight Motion Picture. Jul 8, Dakila. Jul 12, Wesla Whitfield & Mike Greensill. 530 Main St, Napa. 707.251.5833.

Susie’s Bar Wed, Open Mic Night with Randy Foisy. 1365 Lincoln St, Calistoga. 707.942.6710.

Veterans Memorial Park Jul 7, 6:30pm, New Era Beats Brigade with Ordinary Sons and Hour of Tower. 850 Main St, Napa. napacitynights.com.

Art OPENING MARIN MarinMOCA Jul 8-Aug 13, “Light,” artist member group show explores light in several mediums, while “Intertwined” exhibits of woven glass by Artists-In-Residence Demetra Theofanous and Dean Bensen. Reception, Jul 8 at 5pm. 500 Palm Dr, Novato. WedFri, 11 to 4; Sat-Sun, 11 to 5. 415.506.0137.

SONOMA Flying Goat Coffee Jul 5-Sep 16, “David Carlson Solo Show,” the artist exhibits large abstract paintings with floral themes. 324 Center St, Healdsburg.

707.433.9081.

Graton Gallery Jul 11-Aug 20, “Stormy Weather,” politically-charged paintings by Mylette Welch and sculptures by the late Richard Benbrook resist and protest against today’s toxic political climate. Reception, Jul 15 at 2pm. 9048 Graton Rd, Graton.

Tues-Sat, 10:30 to 6; Sun, 10:30 to 4.

707.829.8912.

Journey Center Jul 7-30, “Fountains of Blessings,” Maria Crane’s paintings embrace the healing power of water. Reception, Jul 7 at 5pm. 1601 Fourth St, Santa Rosa. Mon-Fri, 9 to 5; weekend hours by appointment. 707.578.2121.

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Town Books Through Aug 30, “Painting Explorations,” group show of acrylic and oil paintings by local artists. 411 San Anselmo Ave, San Anselmo. Tues-Sat, 10 to 4 415.526.3791.

Yo el Rey Roasting Jul 7-30, “Fauna,” watercolors, prints and mixed-media works from painter Claire Tiwald center on themes of nature and exploration. Reception, Jul 7 at 4pm. 1217 Washington St, Calistoga. 707.942.1180.

CONTINUING THIS WEEK MARIN Art Works Downtown Through Jul 8, “The Art of Abstraction,” juried group show displays in the 1337 gallery, with Paleoindian-era art showing in the Underground gallery and William Ericson’s “Seed Shadow” solo show in the Founders’ gallery. 1337 Fourth St, San Rafael. Tues-Sat, 10 to 5. 415.451.8119.

Bolinas Museum Through Aug 13, “Art We Wear,” exhibit shows decorated clothing of the counterculture expression from the 1960s to now. 48 Wharf Rd, Bolinas. Fri, 1 to 5; Sat-Sun, noon to 5; and by appointment.

415.868.0330.

Cavallo Point Lodge Through Oct 30, “Wonder & Awe,” renowned artist and award-winning filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg shows his 2D and 3D moving images, created as fine art for digital screens. 601 Murray Circle, Sausalito.

415.339.4700.

Corte Madera Library Through Jul 13, “Mountain Inspiration,” group show from the Artists of Mount Tamalpais, a group of experienced visual artists who work in a variety of media and methods. 707 Meadowsweet Dr, Corte Madera. 707.924.6444.

Gallery Route One Through Aug 6, “In the Mix,” Gallery Route One’s annual members’ exhibit features a dynamic array of art and media. Reception, Jul 1 at 3pm. 11101 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station.

Wed-Mon, 11 to 5. 415.663.1347.

Marin Community Foundation Through Sep 22, “Rising Stars,” exhibit includes seven artists who have been awarded an annual grant from the Pirkle Jones Fund. 5 Hamilton Landing, Ste 200, Novato. Open Mon-Fri, 9 to 5.

Marin Society of Artists Through Jul 18, “Images 2017,” juried photography exhibition features varied works by artists throughout the West Coast.

1515 Third St, San Rafael. Wed-Sun, Noon to 4. 415.464.9561.

Osher Marin JCC Through Aug 25, “This Is Bay Area Jewry,” photo essay exhibition shows the diverse local community through intimate portraits. 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael.

415.444.8000.

Villa Marin Through Aug 30, “Waterworks,” Marin County Watercolor Society’s group show interprets water through visuals and textures.

Reception, Jul 6 at 5pm. 100 Thorndale Dr, San Rafael. 415.492.2408.

SONOMA Art Museum of Sonoma County Through Aug 27, “Eye Fruit: The Art of Franklin Williams,” show of unconventional art from the introspective and innovative 20th century artist is curated by noted art historian Susan Landauer. 425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa. Tues-Sun, 11 to 5. 707.579.1500.

Calabi Gallery Through Aug 19, “Forty Years of Ray Jacobsen,” a retrospective of the Sonoma Valley artist. 456 10th St, Santa Rosa. TuesSun, 11 to 5. 707.781.7070.

Charles M Schulz Museum Through Nov 6, “A Friendship Like Ours,” rediscover enduring duos, from Peppermint Patty and Marcie to Snoopy and Woodstock, featured in “Peanuts” in this exhibition of original comic strips. Through Sep 10, “It Was a Dark and Stormy Night,” explores the theme of writing in “Peanuts” through original cartoons and familyfriendly activities. Through Jul 16, “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” on the 50th anniversary of the stage show, retrospective exhibit features rare memorabilia from the production’s worldwide history. 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa. Mon-Fri, noon to 5; SatSun, 10 to 5. 707.579.4452.

Chroma Gallery Through Jul 22, “Crossing Boundaries,” paintings, sculpture and photography

by Sonoma County and Bay Area artists creates discourse across walls both real and imagined. 312 South A St, Santa Rosa.

707.293.6051.

City Hall Council Chambers Through Aug 24, “Jim Davidson: Globe Trotter,” Sonoma County photographer shows images of everyday life from around the world. Reception, Jul 7 at 5pm. 100 Santa Rosa Ave, Ste 10, Santa Rosa. 707.543.3010.

Downtown Cloverdale Through May 3, “Cloverdale Sculpture Trail,” year-round exhibit of sculptures by local artists includes self-guided audio tours. Cloverdale Blvd, Cloverdale. All day.

101sculpturetrail.com.

Finley Community Center Through Jul 13, “An Exploration in Cloth,” several art quilts from Pointless Sisters display. 2060 W College Ave, Santa Rosa.

Mon-Fri, 8 to 6; Sat, 9-11am. 707.543.3737.

Gaia’s Garden Through Aug 1, “Susan Joice Solo Show,” the graphic artist displays new works. Reception,

Jul 2 at 1pm. 1899 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat; lunch and brunch, Sun. 707.544.2491.

Gallery One Through Sep 3, “Summer Small Works Invitational,” Donna DeLaBriandais, Lynn Davis, Joyce Kelly, Judy Klausenstock and Joanne Tepper exhibit. 209 Western Ave, Petaluma. 707.778.8277.

Graton Gallery Through Jul 9, “Line & Color,” featuring works by Bruce K Hopkins, RB Ward and others. 9048 Graton Rd, Graton. Tues-Sat, 10:30 to 6; Sun, 10:30 to 4. 707.829.8912.

Hammerfriar Gallery Through Aug 16, “Beneath the Sea Ice,” exhibit features paintings from Lily Simonson’s three-month trip to Antarctica.

132 Mill St, Ste 101, Healdsburg. Tues-Fri, 10 to 6. Sat, 10 to 5. 707.473.9600.

Healdsburg Center for the Arts Through Jul 16, “POP! The Power of Printmaking,” juried exhibition explores the ability of printmakers to express concerns about the world around them and share thoughts, ideas and visions. 130 Plaza St, Healdsburg. Daily, 11 to 6. 707.431.1970.

Healdsburg Museum Through Oct 1, “Destination Healdsburg,” see historical Healdsburg artifacts, stories and photos from before the era of the grape. 221 Matheson St, Healdsburg. Tues-Sun, 11 to 4.

707.431.3325.

History Museum of Sonoma County Through Jul 9, “Home & Abroad: Sonoma County & World War I,” marking the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into the Great War, the exhibition explores how the war touched so many lives locally and internationally. 425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa.

Tues-Sun, 11 to 4. 707.579.1500.

IceHouse Gallery Through Jul 30, “(Mostly) Petaluma Portraits,” artist Kathryn Keller shows her large-scale charcoal drawings. 405 East D St, Petaluma. 707.778.2238.

Joseph Jewell Wines Through Aug 31, “Asian Rhapsody,” photos and collages by Deborah and Gerald Huth are inspired by travels in Asia. 6542 Front St, Forestville. Thurs-Mon, 11 to 5. 707.975.4927.

Laguna de Santa Rosa Environmental Center Through Aug 29, “FAUNA,” paintings and mosaics by Stacey Schuett display in Heron Hall. 900 Sanford Rd, Santa Rosa.

707.527.9277.

Paul Mahder Gallery Through Jul 15, “And After,” new works by award-winning Sonoma County mixed-media artist Chris Beards displays in the north gallery. 222 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg. 707.473.9150.

Petaluma Arts Center Through Aug 5, “The Face of Petaluma,” photography exhibit shows portraits of the town’s citizens. 230 Lakeville St, Petaluma.

Tues-Sat, 11 to 5. 707.762.5600.

Petaluma Historical Library & Museum Through Sep 24, “Portraits of Petaluma Pioneers,” look back in time with visually rich portrait of Petaluma’s residents circa 1850-60.

20 Fourth St, Petaluma. Wed-Sat, 10

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Sonoma Community Center Jul 7-16, “Modulation,” glass and clay Artist in Residency Colby Charpentier shows off his latest works. Reception, Jul 7 at 5pm. 276 E Napa St, Sonoma. Daily, 7:30am to 11pm.

707.938.4626.

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Film

his legendary, take-no-prisoners wit.

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

415.383.9600.

Punchline Palooza Standup comedian Marcella Arguello headlines a nights of laughs. Jul 7, 8pm. $20.

Palooza Gastropub, 8910 Sonoma Hwy, Kenwood. 707.833.4000.

Standup Comedy Amateur Showcase A night of local laughs. Jul 7, 7:30pm. $10.

Trek Winery, 1026 Machin Ave, Novato.

415.899.9883.

Star Spangled Comedy Bombastic lineup of standups includes Ashton Tate, Adrienne Price, Uncle Charlie Adams, and Ash Fisher. Jul 7, 9pm. Bear Republic Brewing Company, 345 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg. 707.433.2337.

Tuesday Night Live See standup comedians Geech Guy, Keith Lowell Jensen, Steven Kravitz and others.

Jul 11, 8pm. $17-$27. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

415.383.9600.

On July 6 at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael, celebrate the 82nd birthday of His Holiness at a showing of the documentary ‘The Last Dalai Lama?’ which includes an appearance by the filmmaker and live Tibetan music. to 4; Sun, noon to 3; tours by appointment on Mon-Tues. 707.778.4398.

ReFrame Gallery Through Aug 13, “Hidden in Plain Sight,” photographer Sara Downing’s debut solo exhibit charts her unconventional path toward expression. 6790 McKinley St, Ste 180, Sebastopol. 707.861.3476.

Sculpturesite Gallery Through Aug 4, “Kinetic Sculpture in 4 Movements,” new sculptures by artists Jeff Kahn, Jeffery Laudenslager, Troy Pillow and John Tyler. 14301 Arnold Dr, Ste 8, Glen Ellen. Thurs-Mon, 10:30 to 5:30.

707.933.1300.

Sebastopol Center for the Arts Through Jul 23, “Blue,” juried show is dedicated to the shades and meanings of the color blue. 282 S High St, Sebastopol. TuesFri, 10 to 4; Sat-Sun, 1 to 4. 707.829.4797.

Sebastopol Gallery Through Jul 29, “Birds of a Feather,” wildlife photographer Jim Cyb is featured in a show that also celebrates Sebastopol Gallery’s 10th anniversary. Reception, Jul 15 at 4pm. 150 N Main St, Sebastopol. Open daily, 11 to 6.

707.829.7200.

Sonoma Valley Museum of Art Through Oct 1, “Albert Paley: Thresholds,” solo show of the modernist metal sculptor features large-scale sculptures, drawings and maquettes. In addition, Paley’s works will be part of a public art installation in downtown Sonoma. Reception, Jul 1 at 5pm.

551 Broadway, Sonoma. Wed-Sun, 11 to 5.

707.939.SVMA. The Spinster Sisters Restaurant Through Aug 7, “Andrea Kendall Solo Show,” painter and fiber artist builds layered compositions of atmospheric and organic forms. 401 South A St, Santa Rosa.

707.528.7100.

Steele Lane Community Center Through Aug 10, “North Bay Industries Activity Center Showcase,” see mixed-media works from adults living at the Rohnert Park Rehabilitation Center. Reception, Jun 28 at 4pm. 415 Steele Ln, Santa Rosa. MonThurs, 8 to 7; Fri, 8 to 5. 707.543.3282.

Upstairs Art Gallery Through Jul 30, “Pieces of Me,” Carolyn Wilson’s collage works capture her experience living and traveling in England.

306 Center St, Healdsburg. Sun-Thurs, 11 to 6; Fri-Sat, 11 to 9. 707.431.4214.

West County Museum Through Sep 3, “The Hippies,” memorabilia recreates the environment of rebellion against consumerism and conformity built in the forests of Graton and Occidental in the 1960s and ‘70s. 261 S Main St, Sebastopol.

Thurs-Sun, 1 to 4. 707.829.6711.

NAPA di Rosa Through Oct 15, “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.

Napa Valley Museum Through Jul 16, “iNSiGHT,” see the eye behind the lens in the photography exhibit

by MJ Schaer. Through Aug 11, “Sound Maze,” interactive installation created by composer and inventor Paul Dresher includes a dozen original musical instruments to experience.

55 Presidents Circle, Yountville. Wed-Sun, 11 to 4. 707.944.0500.

Comedy Mort Sahl Sahl takes the stage every week to deliver

Dance Hermann Sons Hall Mondays, 7pm through Aug 7, Summer Folk Dancing, folk dances from all over the world, including Serbia, Turkey and Greece. All ages and skills welcome. 860 Western Ave, Petaluma 707.762.9962.

JAS Dance Academy Mondays, 6:45pm through Jul 10, Bachata series. 3273 Airway Dr, Santa Rosa.

707.293.4292.

Knights of Columbus Hall Tuesdays, 6pm, Learn How to Swing Dance!, monthly series is for beginners looking to Lindy Hop. 167 Tunstead Ave, San Anselmo. jasmineworrelldance.com.

jewelry, housewares and more. Crepes and live music add to the ambiance. Sun, Jul 9, 9am. Free admission. Marin Civic Center, 3501 Civic Center Dr, San Rafael. goldengateshows.com.

Locals’ Day at the Barlow Jam-packed with discounts, two-for-onetastings, freebies and other offerings from nearly 30 makers and merchants. Thurs.

Barlow Event Center, 6770 McKinley St, Sebastopol. 707.824.5600.

Mt Tam Quilt Guild Birthday Mt. Tam Quilt Guild celebrates its 30th birthday with games, ice cream, cake and shared memories. Jul 11, 7pm. $5. Aldersgate Methodist Church, #1 Wellbrock Heights, San Rafael. 415.453.5393.

Petaluma Art & Garden Festival Sixteenth annual fest focal wine, beer and food, over 140 artisan craft and garden vendors and music by Soul Section, the Hots and J Kevin Durkin. Jul 9, 11am. Free.

Downtown Petaluma, Fourth and Kentucky Streets, Petaluma.

Santa Rosa First Friday Art Walk All downtown and South of A Street Santa Rosa art galleries and studios will be open with refreshments and music. Jul 7, 5pm.

SOFA Arts District, 312 South A St, Santa Rosa.

Short Summer Photography Workshop Four-part photo shooting sessions focus on summer light along the coast. Registration required. Jul 8. $400. The Image Flow, 401 Miller Ave, Ste A, Mill Valley. 415.388.3569.

Sonoma County Yoga Festival Inaugural event puts the spotlight on yoga with classes and demonstrations by local studios, food, music, art and more. Jul 8-9. $30-$90. SOMO Village Event Center, 1100 Valley House Dr, Rohnert Park. eventbrite. com.

Monroe Dance Hall Jul 7, 7pm, Waltzapalooza with DJ Steve Luther. Jul 8, 7pm, Circle ‘n’ Squares Hoedown. 1400 W College Ave, Santa Rosa.

707.529.5450.

Street Soccer USA Grand Opening Weekend New park hosts an open house that offers previews of its featured products including rentals, youth and adult leagues, child development courses and more. Jul 7-9.

Street Soccer USA, 88 Vivian St, San Rafael. streetsoccerusa.org.

Events

Field Trips

Cotati Kids Day Parade & Festival Enjoy live entertainment, games, food and craft vendors, activities and more. Jul 8, 10am.

Free. La Plaza Park, Old Redwood Highway, Cotati.

Art & Nature Hike An exclusive hike through di Rosa’s sculpture meadow to the top of Milliken Peak, the highest summit in the Carneros region.

Advance tickets required. Sat, Jul 8, 10am. $20. di Rosa, 5200 Sonoma Hwy, Napa.

707.226.5991.

Enmanji Barbecue & Bazaar Day of cultural activities features musical performances, bonsai and flower arrangement demonstrations, games for the kids, bingo and raffle for the adults and homemade food. Jul 9, 10am. Free admission.

Enmanji Buddhist Temple, 1200 Gravenstein Hwy S, Sebastopol. 707.823.2252.

Full Moon Hike Bring a flashlight and sense of wonder to explore the park after dark in a moderate level hike. Jul 8, 6pm. $10. Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, 2605 Adobe Canyon Rd, Kenwood. 707.833.5712.

Flynn Creek Circus Acrobats, aerialists and daredevils perform in the classic big-top tradition. Jul 7-9. $12-$27.

Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.546.3600.

Hiking for Fitness Series Nature hike on the Sonoma Ridge Trail with Naturalist John Lynch. Jul 8, 8:30am. $15 and up. Jack London State Park, 2400 London Ranch Rd, Glen Ellen. 707.938.5216.

The French Market Outdoor antique market features vintage, retro and antique furniture, decor, clothing,

Life’s Reproductions of Beauty See what’s in bloom and who’s pollinating right now in a docent-led hike. Pre-

registration required. Jul 7, 9am. Bohemia Ecological Preserve, 8759 Bohemian Hwy, Occidental. landpaths.org.

Cinema & Psyche Six-week film class covers neo-noir crime fiction masterworks through a psychological, mythological and philosophical lens.

Mon, 2pm through Jul 24. $125. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 240 Channing Way, San Rafael. 415.479.4131.

CULT Film Series Hit the road with the hilarious National Lampoon’s “Vacation” and “European Vacation” screening back-to-back. Jul 6, 7pm. $10. Roxy Stadium 14 Cinemas, 85 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.525.8909.

Deconstructing the Beatles Scott Freiman explores the creation and impact of the classic album “Rubber Soul” by the Beatles. Jul 7-9, 1pm. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael.

415.454.1222.

The Last Dalai Lama?

Documentary covering the current Dalai Lama’s cultural impact and personal thoughts gets a theatrical premiere on His Holiness’ 82nd birthday. Jul 6. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael.

415.454.1222.

Moshin Pictures on the Crushpad Guests are encouraged to dress up and join in on the fun for an outdoor screening of Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice.” Jul 8, 7:30pm. $10. Moshin Vineyards, 10295 Westside Rd, Healdsburg. 707.433.5499.

SDFF Best of the Fest Documentaries about Sebastopol urban folk artist Patrick Amiot and a Mayan journey to adolescence highlight a night of short docs.

Jul 6, 6:30pm. $13. Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S High St, Sebastopol. 707.829.4797.

Stars Under the Stars Outdoor Film Festival Bring a blanket and enjoy wine, food trucks, live music and a screening of “The Breakfast CLub.” Jul 6, 7pm. St. Francis Winery & Vineyards, 100 Pythian Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.538.9463.

Women’s March Documentary on January’s women’s march, produced by Sebastopol’s TrimTab Media, gets a hometown screening with filmmaker Q&A and panel discussion. Jul 7, 7:30pm. $12.

Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S High St, Sebastopol. 707.829.4797.

Food & Drink America the Bountiful Embark on a cross-country cheese course with Janet Fletcher. Jul 8, 1pm. $65.

Healdsburg Shed, 25 North St, Healdsburg.

707.431.7433.

Bastille Day Celebration at Left Bank It’s Bastille Day all week, with menu specials, traditional French garb, festive decorations and live music on the weekend. Jul 11-16. Left Bank Brasserie, 507 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur.

415.927.3331.

Cooking from the Farmer’s Market See what’s local, fresh and delicious this time

Date Night Class features recipes and techniques that you can use to cook with your sweetheart at home. Jul 7, 6:30pm. $170/couple. Cooking School at Cavallo Point, 601 Murray Circle, Sausalito.

Devoured New experimental picnic in the vineyard includes a blindfolded wine tasting and a meal prepared by an award-winning chef to to celebrate the art of connection.

Jul 8, 3:30pm. $147 and up. Kokomo Winery, 4791 Dry Creek Rd, Healdsburg.

707.433.0200.

Farm-to-Table Dinner Series Monthly open-air feast features wine experts and master gardener and farmer Tucker Taylor combining forces for fresh menus that highlight local harvests.

Sat, Jul 8, 4:30pm. $175. Kendall-Jackson Wine Center, 5007 Fulton Rd, Fulton.

707.576.3810.

First Fridays Wood-Fired Therapy Pizza Enjoy wines and woodfired pizza, preceded by optional yoga in the vineyards classes, for an uplifting vibe to start the weekend.

Fri, Jul 7, 5:30pm. Martin Ray Winery, 2191 Laguna Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.823.2404.

Fresh Oyster Saturday Relax with wine, oysters and Mayacama Mountain views. Jul 8, 2pm. Muscardini Cellars Tasting Room, 9380 Sonoma Hwy, Kenwood. 707.933.9305.

The Great Verdelho Exploration Taste six vintages of Verdelho wine from Forlorn Hope Wines with owner and winemaker Matthew Rorick. Jul 10, 6pm. $25. Outland, 920 Franklin St, Napa.

707.227.1277.

July Pie Bring your homemade pies to a community supper event. Jul 11, 6:30pm. $42. Healdsburg Shed, 25 North St, Healdsburg. 707.431.7433.

Pies: The Taste of Summer!

Learn the techniques to making classic pies for your next summer get-together. Jul 9, 10:30am. $85. Cooking School at Cavallo Point, 601 Murray Circle, Sausalito.

Trione Food + Wine Dinner Series Three-course dinner is paired with new and library wines. Jul 8, 6pm. $100. Trione Winery, 19550 Geyserville Ave, Geyserville.

707.814.8100.

Wine & Dine Wednesdays Weekly three-course offering showcases local wines and music by Michael Hantman.

Wed. $36. Spoonbar, 219 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg. 707.433.7222.

Wine Country BIG Q Nationally sanctioned BBQ competition featuring pit masters from throughout the West Coast also includes award-winning wines and family fun. Jul 8, 1pm. $20-$75.

Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds, 175 Fairgrounds Dr, Petaluma. winecountrybigq.com.

Wines & Sunsets in Paradise Enjoy fine wines and spectacular summer sunsets, with live music and gourmet food trucks. Wed, 5:30pm through Oct 25. $10-$15.

Paradise Ridge Winery, 4545 Thomas Lake Harris Dr, Santa Rosa. 707.528.9463.

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Jungle James See and touch live reptiles. Jul 5, 11am.

Guerneville Library, 14107 Armstrong Woods Rd, Guerneville. 707.869.9004.

Thu 7/6 • Doors 7pm ⁄ FREE • All Ages

Music Together Summer Sessions Music classes for the little ones runs weekly.

Wed-Thurs through Jul 19. Ellington Hall, 3535 Industrial Dr, Santa Rosa. 707.545.6150.

Stymie & the Pimp Jones Love Orchestra + Special Guests Fri 7/7 + Sat 7/8 • Doors 8pm ⁄ $22–$25 • 21+

Zepparella

the All-­Female Zeppelin Powerhouse Sun 7/9 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $15–$17 • All Ages

Napa’s Wild Neighbors Street painter Amy Gallaher Hall leads a demonstration of sidewalk painting using chalk pastels. Jul 8, 2pm. Free with admission.

Napa Valley Museum, 55 Presidents Circle, Yountville. 707.944.0500.

Split Lip Rayfield

with The Good Bad Tue 7/11 • Doors 8pm ⁄ $37–42 • All Ages Capleton with SOUL SKA Sat 7/12 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $14–16 • All Ages

Kanekoa

Sing-a-Story Opera Jul 12, 11am. Guerneville Library, 14107 Armstrong Woods Rd, Guerneville.

707.869.9004.

Ukelele Powered Hawaiian Reggae Folk Rock

Thu 7/13 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $22–$27 • All Ages

Hot Club of Cowtown

Summer Photography Camp for Kids Challenging and creative class is designed for kids ages 11-14. Jul 10-14. $350. The Image Flow, 401 Miller Ave, Ste A, Mill Valley.

415.388.3569.

Fri 7/14 • Doors 8pm ⁄ $30–$32 • 21+

Super Diamond

The Neil Diamond Tribute

Sat 7/15 • Doors 8pm ⁄ $17–$19 • All Ages

The Band of Heathens

with Mendonesia Sun 7/16 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $12–$15 • All Ages

Lectures

Tracorum

Creepy Crawlies & Insect Safari Founder and president of the Insect Sciences Museum of California Eddie Dunbar leads a bug-centric talk and showing. Jul 8, 11am.

Martin Griffin Preserve, 4900 Shoreline Hwy 1, Stinson Beach. 415.868.9244.

Dazzler With a Brush Susan Landauer’s talk on Petaluma-based artist Franklin Williams accompanies the museum’s current retrospective exhibit.

Jul 8, 1:30pm. Art Museum of Sonoma County, 425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa.

707.579.1500.

Degas, Impressionism & the Paris Millinery Trade This docent lecture from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco features key art works by Edgar Degas and others. Jul 11, noon. San Anselmo Library, 110 Tunstead Ave, San Anselmo. 415.258.4656.

Gourd Craft with Sarah Voorhies Learn to make ceremonial vessels, dippers, storage containers and even jewelry or bird houses. Jul 10-13. $125. Petaluma Arts Center, 230 Lakeville St, Petaluma. 707.762.5600.

The Journal as Source of Prose, Poetry & Performance Free-write using prompts and sensory details to capture a moment, then expand those passages to publication-worthy works in a three-session workshop. Jul 10-14. $72. College of Marin Kentfield Campus, 835 College Ave, Kentfield. marincommunityed.com.

Mah Jongg Introduction Learn about the history of the Chinese tiles game and how to play. Jul 10, 10:30am. Free.

Corte Madera Library. 707 Meadowsweet Dr, Corte Madera. 707.924.6444.

Peter H Raven Lecture Series Professor and author Jared Diamond presents a talk entitled “Plants, the Key to Civilization.” Jul 8, 5:30pm. $45. Quarryhill Botanical

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Peter Rowan’s Jul 9 Annual Birthday Bash with The Rowan Brothers Sun Sun

Jul 16 Ruthie Foster Family Band plus Volker Strifler Sun 23 Paul Thorn Band & friends Jul Sun Jul 30 Danny Click & The Hell Yeahs! and a RARE Angela Strehli

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Lipbone Redding

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Chicago SRJC’s Summer Rep Theatre Festival presents the jazzed-up, show-stopping musical sensation. Jul 5-18. $15-$25. Burbank Auditorium, SRJC, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. summerrep.com.

George M! Musical tells the life of George M Cohan, a giant of the American musical theater who wrote classic songs like “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” Through Jul 9. $15-$38. 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa.

707.523.4185.

Katie Ketchum Solo Show National Endowment recipient performs excerpts from three of her one-woman musicals about historical figures Mary Cassatt, Clara Schumann and Mary Magdalene. Fri, 7:30pm through Aug 11. $20.

Dream Portal Studio & Gallery, 500 N Main St, Sebastopol. 707.827.3288.

The Kut-Ups The 45th annual Razzle Dazzle Music Revue will offer a song-and-dance blast from the past that acts as the Kut-Ups’ final summer season. Jul 9-15. $20. Spreckels Performing Arts Center, 5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park. 707.588.3400.

Much Ado About Nothing Marin Shakespeare Company’s 28th annual summer festival series opens with Shakespeare’s all-ages appropriate romantic comedy. Through Jul 23. $10-$37.

Forest Meadows Amphitheatre, 890 Belle Ave, Dominican University, San Rafael. marinshakespeare.org.

Once Upon A Magic!

Fairfax Theatre Company presents an interactive adventure in a world of magic and sorcery. Through Jul 22. $10-$20.

Fairfax Pavilion, 142 Bolinas Rd, Fairfax. fairfaxtheatrecompany.com.

Get the inside scoop on the real life of bugs at the Creepy Crawlies & Insect Safari, a talk and show by the founder and president of the Insect Sciences Museum of California, on July 8 at the Martin Griffin Preserve in Stinson Beach.

Gardens, 12841 Hwy 12, Glen Ellen.

707.996.3166.

Second Saturday Cartoonist Meet, watch and talk to cartoonist and illustrator Peter Swehla, who has worked in the art department for several film and television productions. Jul 8, 1pm. Free with admission. Charles M Schulz Museum, 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa. 707.579.4452.

Stories of Restoration Daylong writing workshop with author Deena Metzger. Jul 8, 9:30am. $165. Point Reyes Presbyterian Church, 11445 Shoreline Hwy, Point Reyes Station. 415.663.1349.

The Summer of Love Experience An illustrated lecture by DeYoung Museum docent Jim Kohn. Jul 11, 7pm. Free. Corte Madera Library. 707 Meadowsweet Dr, Corte Madera. 707.924.6444.

Sunlight Chair Yoga Learn yoga at all ages and levels of health and mobility. Wed, 12:15pm. BodyVibe Studio, 999 Anderson Dr, Ste 170, San Rafael.

415.689.6428.

Readings Book Passage Jul 6, 5pm, “Al Franken, Giant of the Senate” with Al Franken. $31. Jul 6, 7pm, “I, Who Did Not Die” with Meredith May. Jul 7, 7pm, “The Best Women’s Travel Writing Volume 11” with various authors. Jul 8, 1pm, “A Head in Cambodia” with Nancy Tingley. Jul 8, 4pm, “Buddha’s Dream of Liberation” with James Coleman. Jul 9, 1pm, “All Our Waves Are Water” with Jaimal Yogis. Jul 9, 4pm, “One Good Mama Bone” with Bren McClain. Jul 9, 7pm, “Split Rock” with Holly Eger. Jul 10, 7pm, “Strange Contagion” with Lee Daniel Kravetz. Jul 11, 7pm, “Behave” with Robert Sapolsky. Jul 12, noon, “A House Among the Trees” with Julia Glass, a literary luncheon. $55. Jul 12, 7pm, “A Paris All Your Own” with Eleanor Brown. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 415.927.0960.

Book Passage By-the-Bay Jul 11, 6pm, “Tending the Fire” with Christopher Felver. Jul 12, 6pm, “Life On

The Dock” with Michael Konrad. 100 Bay St, Sausalito. 415.339.1300.

Point Reyes Presbyterian Church Jul 7, 7pm, “A Rain of Night Birds” with Deena Metzger. By donation. 11445 Shoreline Hwy, Point Reyes Station. 415.663.1349.

A Raisin in the Sun SRJC’s Summer Rep Theatre Festival takes on the inspiring, multi-generational American drama. Jul 5-18. $15-$25. Newman Auditorium, SRJC, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. summerrep.com.

Rhinoceros Birdbath Theatres presents the absurdist play by Eugene Ionesco about people turning into the titular animal as a metaphor for society, ideology, crowd mentality and resistance. Jul 7-22. $20-$24.

The Belrose, 1415 Fifth Ave, San Rafael. birdbaththeatres.com.

Santa Rosa Copperfield’s Books Jul 11, 7pm, Hot Summer Nights with Redwood Writers, featuring several local authors. 775 Village Court, Santa Rosa.

707.578.8938.

Sebastopol Copperfield’s Books Jul 7, 7pm, “All Our Waves Are Water” with Jaimal Yogis. 138 N Main St, Sebastopol.

707.823.2618.

Theater Anything Goes I get no kick from Champagne, but this classic Cole Porter musical set aboard a luxury liner thrills audiences of all ages.

Through Jul 9. $10-$30. Raven Theater, 115 North St, Healdsburg. 707.433.3145.

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JOBS Job Title: The Bilingual Montessori Early Childhood Teacher.

· Montessori Teacher Credential · 12 months experience teaching in a Montessori School or Program

Job Responsibilities and Duties: The Bilingual Montessori Early Childhood Teacher will teach early childhood students in the bilingual English/Spanish classroom using the Montessori Method of education.

Develop schemes of work and lesson plans in line with curriculum objectives.

Develop and foster the appropriate skills and social abilities to enable the optimum development of children, according to age, ability and aptitude. Challenge and inspire students to help them deepen their knowledge and understanding.

Organize the classroom and learning resources to create a positive learning environment. Maintain order in classroom and on playground. Collaborate with other teachers and administrators in the development, evolution and revision of education programs. Engage in research in the field to stay informed about change and innovation in the Montessori education.

Contact: Please mail resume to Educare Children’s Center LLC, Rossana Broll, 50 El Camino Drive, Corte Madera, CA 94925.

Education and Experience Requirements: · Bachelor degree in education, child development or a closely related field

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT— File No: 2017-142295.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-142321. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: SALON: CRAZY HAIR CUT, 86 BELVEDERE ST SUITE 86H, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: JOSE F. VENTURA SARAT, 456 SOUTH 11TH ST, RICHMOND, CA 94801. 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 June 5, 2017. (Publication Dates: June 14, June 21, June 28, July 5 of 2017)

RD #10, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: FROILAN HERNANDEZ, 90 LOIUSE ST APT E, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. 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 May 31, 2017.

(Publication Dates: June 14, June 21, June 28, July 5 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-142353. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: ANCHOR FINANCIAL STRATEGIES, 3030 BRIDGEWAY SUITE 240, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: JAMES HAUSHERR, 200 JOHNSON ST SLIP #1, SAUSALITO, CA 94965.

The business is being conducted 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 June 08, 2017. (Publication Dates: June 14, June 21, June 28, July 5 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-142328. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: TAKE

Trivia answers «5 1 Interstate 80 2 Saturn 3 Technology; Education; Design.

7 The Magna Carta 8 Seven: I, V, X, L, C, D, M 9 American League: Houston

4 Interest 5a. Brando b. De Niro c. Pacino 6 Pupil

10 The European Economic Community (EEC), later evolving into the European Union (EU)

Thanks for the question to Mona Philpott from San Anselmo.

Astros; National League: Los Angeles Dodgers (at time of writing)

BONUS ANSWER: The Yangtse River in China; about 430 million people (city of Chongqing shown, 8 million population)

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PublicNotices A HIKE, 17 MAIN DOCK, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: CAROLINE MCFADDEN, 17 MAIN DOCK, 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 ClerkRecorder of Marin County on June 6, 2017. (Publication Dates: June 21, June 28, July 5, July 12 of 2017)

94904: HOGAN KANIA, 103 GREENBRAE BOARDWALK, GREENBRAE, CA 94904.

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 June 13, 2017.

(Publication Dates: June 28, July 5, July 12, July 19 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-142329. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: KATS K9S, 11 ISSSAQUAH DOCK, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: KATHLEEN “KATS” FRANCES HUNTER, 11 ISSSAQUAH DOCK, 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 June 6, 2017.

(Publication Dates: June 21, June 28, July 5, July 12 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-142455. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: GOLD RUSH, 926B DIABLO AVENUE, NOVATO, CA 94947: RICK LEWIS, 831 4TH STREET, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. 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 June 23, 2017. (Publication Dates: June 28, July 5, July 12, July 19 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-142329. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: HEART AND MIND EQUINE, 17 LAUREL AVE, WOODACRE, CA 94973: ALANE FREUND, LICENSED MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPIST, INC., 17 LAUREL AVE, WOODACRE, CA 94973. 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 May 26, 2017.

(Publication Dates: June 21, June 28, July 5, July 12 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-142374. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: BLACK COD LIVES MATTER BODEGA BAY BLACK COD, 103 GREENBRAE BOARDWALK, GREENBRAE, CA

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-142452. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: FELIX LANDSCAPE, 205 ALBION COURT, NOVATO, CA 94947: EMILIO MURILLO, 205 ALBION COURT, 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 June 23, 2017.

(Publication Dates: June 28, July 5, July 12, July 19 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File

No: 2017-142404. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: 01 PACIFIC JACK, 600 GATE 5 ROAD, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: EDINGER DESIGN SERVICES INC, 1 LINDA VISTA, TIBURON, CA 94920. 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 June 15, 2017.

(Publication Dates: June 28, July 5, July 12, July 19 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File

No: 2017-142450. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: 01 CODE REDD, 02 STAND FOR TREES, 242 REDWOOD HWY, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: 01 CODE REDD, 242 REDWOOD HWY, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941. 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 June 23, 2017. (Publication Dates: June 28, July 5, July 12, July 19 of 2017)7)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File

No: 2017-142369. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: CIVIC KNIT, 40 ARROYO RD, FOREST KNOLLS, CA 94933: BREEZE KINSEY, 55 EAST CINTURA AVE., LAGUINITAS, CA 94938. 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 June 12, 2017. (Publication Dates: June 28, July 5, July 12, July 19 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File

No: 2017-142472. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: MOLIVER LANDSCAPE, 82 SIDNEY CT, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: BARUCH COHEN, 82 SIDNEY CT, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. 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 June 26, 2017.

(Publication Dates: July 5, July 12, July 19, July 26 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File

No: 2017-142456. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: PUSHPASKINCARE PERFECTION, 302 CALEDONIA ST #2, SAUASALITO, CA 94965: PUSHPA WATI RAM, 121 KENT AVE #13, KENTFIELD, CA 94904. 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 June 23, 2017. (Publication Dates: July 5, July 12, July 19, July 26 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-142447. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: WALTER AND RAY, 1261 ANDERSON DRIVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: WALTER AND RAY LLC, 101 MADRONE AVENUE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960. The business is being conducted

by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on June 22, 2017. (Publication Dates: July 5, July 12, July 19, July 26 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File

No: 2017-142423. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: VINH LE WATCH REPAIR, 9000 SEARS NORTHGATE MALL, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: VINH LE, 815 O’FARRELL STREET #505, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. The business is being conducted by A 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 June 20, 2017. (Publication Dates: July 5, July 12, July 19, July 26 of 2017)

OTHER NOTICES STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT FROM USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME—File

No: 304771. 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 Dec 06, 2016, Under File No: 201514143.

Fictitious Business name(s) JIM HAUSHERR DBA GOOSEHEAD INSURANCE, 3030 BRIDGEWAY, SUITE 240, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: JAMES HAUSHERR, 200 JOHNSON ST SLIP #1, SAUSALITO, CA 94965.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Marin County on June 08, 2017.

(Publication Dates: June 21, June 28, July 5, July 12 of 2017) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No: CIV 1702282.

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner ANA RUTH BARRERA filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: ANA RUTH BARRERA to ANA RUTH RIVERA BARRERA. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: 08/18/2017 AT 08:30 AM, DEPT B, ROOM: B, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive Room 113, San Rafael, CA 94913. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin: PACIFIC SUN. Date of filing: June 22,

2017. (Publication Dates: June 28, July 5, July 12, July 19 of 2017) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No: CIV 1702363.

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner DANIEL EVERARDO LANG filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: DANIEL EVERARDO LANG to DANIEL EVERARDO OROZCO. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: 08/11/2017 AT 09:00 AM, DEPT C, ROOM: C, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive Room 113, San Rafael, CA 94913. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin: PACIFIC SUN. Date of filing: June 28, 2017. (Publication Dates: July 5, July 12, July 19, July 26 of 2017)

Catch the Buzz!

By Amy Alkon

Q: A:

My girlfriend and I broke up recently, so I’m back in the dating pool.

Do you think online dating is a good way to meet people? If so, which are the best dating sites?—Diving In Asking, “Which dating site is best?” is like asking, “Is pro basketball a viable career?” That question can only be answered by asking other questions, such as, “Aren’t you a 47-year-old, 5’2” Ashkenazi Jewish woman with 20/80 vision and bad knees?”

To put this another way, context matters—which isn’t what they tell you in Datingsiteville. Save for specialty sites—like those for farmers, the disabled and people who relish a good flogging—the advertising for these venues tends to be context-free: “Hey, everybody in the entire galaxy, get your lasting love here!”

Annoyingly, though most of us have a sense of what context is, nobody’s done a very good job of defining it—either in the dictionary or in Researchville, where I found a herd of dueling definitions, all so unhelpfully worded that they seem to be in secret code. So here’s my definition: Context is a combo platter of the particular situation at hand, plus the details relevant to it that affect how you understand or experience the situation. In the context of online dating, the relevant details include age, sex, the quality of the competition and one’s desired situation, as in: Do you just want casual sex, or are you holding out for something a little more, uh, black tie?

There are sex differences in when people are at their most appealing, because men and women tend to be at their highest “mate value” at different ages. This comes out of how male sexuality evolved to be visually driven. Women, however, evolved to go for “providers”—men with high status and earning power. So, online dating tends to be more fruitful if you’re a hot 23-year-old female espresso jockey or a 43-year-old male VP of a successful startup, but it can have some challenges for the 43-year-old female startup star or the 23-year-old dude who’s the senior vice barista.

So the question is not whether dating sites work but whether the qualities you have and the situation you’re seeking add up to more than a few tumbleweeds blowing around in your inbox. Because online dating success is shaped more by personal context (and plain old luck) than by the particular site you’re on, you might experiment with two or three. If things go poorly, use online dating as a supplement to meeting women the retro way, like at cocktail parties, where you won’t be competing with the 362 more genetically blessed males within a 35-mile radius. This vastly increases your chances of dazzling the ladies with your personality—distracting them from how Mother Nature zoned out when she was handing out necks to your family.

Q:

This guy asked me out and suggested we meet up after his dentist appointment. He said he’d call around 2pm. Well, at 9:30pm, I got a “Hey” text from him and didn’t respond. A friend said I shouldn’t write him off so fast. Am I being too harsh?—Dependability Fan

A:

Individual bits of behavior are like cockroaches. You might see just one lonely roach twerking atop the toaster oven, but its presence suggests a whole colony of the buggers … gluing sequins to their exoskeletons and practicing their moonwalk behind the baseboard.

No, you can’t always judge someone by a single thing they do, but this guy’s one-word text—seven hours after he said he’d call—speaks volumes: “Holy moly, wouldya look at the time. It’s 9:30, and I could use some sex.”

How a person behaves is driven by their personality traits, which social psychologist Brent Roberts describes as habitual patterns of thoughts, feelings and behavior that are relatively consistent across time and situations. Granted, there are occasions when impulse gets the best of us, and we’ll say something like, “That wasn’t really me.” But, at least in some way, it really was, because even impulsivity is part of personality.

A person can resolve to act more conscientiously, but personality has a strong genetic basis, so they’re unlikely to be as motivated to be conscientious as someone whose genes make them feel icky when they aren’t. In other words, you were probably wise in nixing this guy, who couldn’t even be bothered to fake respect for your feelings by supplementing that “Hey” with “Carjacked!” “Carried off by a raptor!”Y Worship the goddess—or sacrifice her at the altar at adviceamy@aol.com.

Astrology

For the week of July 5

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Unless you

were raised by a pack of feral raccoons or a fundamentalist cult, now is a perfect time to dive into your second childhood. Is there a toy you wanted as a kid but never got? Buy it for yourself now! What were the delicious foods you craved back then? Eat them! Where were the special places you loved? Go there, or to spots that remind you of them. Who were the people you were excited to be with? Talk with them. Actions like these will get you geared up for a full-scale immersion in innocent eagerness. And that would be just the right medicine for your soul.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): What I wish for you, Taurus, is toasted ice cream, secrets in plain sight and a sacred twist of humorous purity. I would love for you to experience a powerful surrender, a calm climax and a sweeping vision of a small but pithy clue.

I very much hope that you will get to take a big trip to an intimate turning point that’s not too far away.

I pray that you will find or create a barrier that draws people together instead of keeping them apart.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In Dr. Seuss’s book, Horton Hatches the Egg, an elephant assumes the duty of sitting on a bird’s egg, committed to keeping it warm until hatching time. The nest is located high in a tree, which makes the undertaking even more incongruous. By the climax of the tale, Horton has had to persist in his loyal service through a number of challenges. But all ends well, and there’s an added bonus: The creature that’s born is miraculously part-bird, part-elephant. I see similarities between this story and your life right now, Gemini. The duty you’re carrying out doesn’t come naturally, and you’re not even sure that you’re doing it right. But if you keep at it till it’s completed, you’ll earn a surprising reward.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): It’s prime time for you to break through any inhibitions you might have about accessing and expressing your passion.

To help you in this righteous cause, I’ve assembled a batch of words that you should be ready to use with frequency and sweet abandon. Consider writing at least part of this list on your forearm with a felt-tip pen every morning so it’s always close at hand: Enamored, piqued, enchanted, stirred, roused, enthused, delighted, animated, elevated, thrilled, captivated, turned-on, enthralled, exuberant, fired up, awakened.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Matt Groening,

creator of the cartoon series The Simpsons, says that a great turning point in his early years came when his scoutmaster told him that he was the worst Boy Scout in history. While this might have demoralized other teenagers, it energized Groening. “Well, somebody’s got to be the worst,” he triumphantly told the scoutmaster. And then, “instead of the earth opening up and swallowing me, instead of the flames of hellfire licking at my knees—nothing happened. And I was free.”

I suspect that you may soon be blessed with a comparable liberation, Leo. Maybe you’ll be released from having to live up to an expectation that you shouldn’t even live up to. Or maybe you’ll be criticized in a way that will motivate your drive for excellence for years to come.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Nineteen of my readers who work in the advertising industry signed a petition requesting that I stop badmouthing their field. “Without advertising,” they testified, “life itself would be impossible.” In response, I agreed to attend their re-education seminar. There, under their tutelage, I came to acknowledge that everything we do can be construed as a kind of advertising. Each of us is engaged in a mostly unconscious campaign to promote our unique way of looking at and being in the world. Realizing the truth, I now feel no reservations about urging you Virgos to take advantage of the current astrological omens. They suggest that you can and should be aggressive and ingenious about marketing yourself, your ideas and your products.

By Rob Brezsny

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In 2003, the American Film Institute announced the creation of a new prize to honor acting talent. Dubbed the Charlton Heston Award, it was designed to be handed out periodically to luminaries who have distinguished themselves over the course of long careers. The first recipient of the award was, oddly enough, Charlton Heston himself, born under the sign of Libra. I hope you’re inspired by this story to wipe away any false modesty you might be suffering from. The astrological omens suggest that it’s a favorable moment to create a big new award named after you and bestow it upon yourself.

As part of the festivities, tell yourself about what makes you special, amazing and valuable.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Here’s your riddle: What unscratchable itch drives you halfcrazy? But you’re secretly glad it drives you half-crazy, because you know your half-craziness will eventually lead you to an experience or resource that will relieve the itch. Here’s your prophecy: Sometime soon, scratching the unscratchable itch will lead you to the experience or resource that will finally relieve the itch.

Here’s your homework: Prepare yourself emotionally to fully receive and welcome the new experience or resource. Make sure that you’re not so addicted to scratching the unscratchable itch that you fail to take advantage of the healing it’s bringing you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The best way to go forward is to go backward; the path to the bright future requires a shadowy regression.

Put another way, you should return to the roots of a triumph in order to find a hidden flaw that might eventually threaten to undo your success. Correct that flaw now and you’ll make it unnecessary for karmic repercussions to undermine you later. But please don’t get all solemn-faced and anxious about this assignment. Approach it with humorous selfcorrection and you’ll ensure that all goes well.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Are you familiar with the psychological concepts of anima and animus? You’re in the midst of being intoxicated by one of those creatures from inner space. Though you may not be fully conscious of it, you women are experiencing a mystical marriage with an imaginal character that personifies all that’s masculine in your psyche. You men are going through the analogous process with a female figure within you. I believe this is true no matter what your sexual orientation is. While this awesome psychological event may be fun, educational and even ecstatic, it could also be confusing to your relationships with real people.

Don’t expect them to act like or live up to the very real fantasy that you’re communing with.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): As a recovering save-the-world addict, I have felt compassionate skepticism towards my fellow junkies who are still in the throes of their obsession. But recently I’ve discovered that just as a small minority of alcoholics can safely take a drink now and then, so can a few save-the-world-aholics actually save the world a little bit at a time without getting strungout. With that as a disclaimer, Aquarius, I’m letting you know that the cosmos has authorized you to pursue your own brand of fanatical idealism in the coming weeks. To keep yourself honest, make fun of your zealotry every now and then.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The potential breakthrough I foresee for you is a rare species of joy. It’s a gritty, hard-earned pleasure that will spawn beautiful questions you’ll be glad to have awakened.

It’s a surprising departure from your usual approach to feeling good that will expand your understanding of what happiness means. Here’s one way to ensure that it will visit you in all of its glory: Situate yourself between the fabulous contradictions in your life and say, “Squeeze me, tease me, please me.”Y Homework: What was the pain that healed you most? What was the pleasure that hurt you the worst? Testify at FreeWillAstrology.com.

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