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This week, a letter-writer from the ‘Mentally Ill Left’ confronts Mr. or Mrs. Anonymous.

‘Grow a Pair’

As—apparently—a member of the Mentally Ill Left, I have a couple thoughts to share with Mr. or Ms. Anonymous [‘Mentally Ill Left,’ Letters, Aug. 23]. First, anyone in Marin who is afraid to sign his or her name to a letter to the editor to the Pacific Sun needs to grow a pair.

You claim that President Trump doesn’t have a racist bone in his body.

You then refer to President Obama as Hussein Obama, which sounds racist to me unless you’ve forgotten his first name. And if you’re a racist, you don’t have an unbiased read on whether Trump is, too. My take is that Trump, who was once a pro-choice Democrat, is happy to be seen as a racist if it serves his purposes.

You maintain that good old Obama just hangs out with the billionaires, but if you had served two terms as president (an unhappy thought), you might also want to kick back and play a few rounds of golf.

Finally, you write that Americans have had enough of a party that was founded by the KKK. What party would that be?

—Stanton Klose

‘No Place in Our Country’

Former slave Booker T. Washington, in his famous book Up From Slavery,

noted: “the Ku Klux [Klan] operated almost wholly at night. Their objects, in the main, were to crush out the political aspirations of the Negroes, but they did not confine themselves to this, because schoolhouses as well as churches were burned by them …

During this period not a few colored people lost their lives.”

The Ku Klux Klan was very active after the Civil War, but by 1901, Booker T. Washington was able to write, “There are few places in the South now where public sentiment would permit such organizations to exist.” (In 1871, the federal government came down hard on the Klan, and suppressed it.)

There was a resurgence in 1915 into the mid 1920s, when the Klan aimed its wrath at Catholics and Jews. There was a second resurgence of the Klan again with the end of the Jim Crow laws (which were about segregation by race) in 1965.

In 2017, the Ku Klux Klan has members in 22 states, and the Southern Poverty Law Center estimates that they number from 5,000 to 8,000 individuals. It is a growing problem.

I am heartened by the fact that 40,000 people turned out to protest the white supremacist rally in Boston on August 19. These “hate” groups have no place in our country. Since we have free speech, only the weight of vocal public opinion can prevent these groups from flourishing.

—Nadia Silvershine

By Howard Rachelson

1 The letters ‘USA’ can be spotted

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near the center of the name of what city in Marin County?

DID YOU KNOW? Violence Hurts Us All

2 True or false: When the family’s dairy cow ate a poisonous plant and his mother drank the milk, Abraham Lincoln’s mother died.

3 A solar eclipse can only occur

during what phase of the moon?

4 What is the most common bird shown on world flags and national coats of arms?

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5 What critically acclaimed dra-

matic TV series about an attorney is a prequel to Breaking Bad?

6 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

wrote his first composition at what age?

Assault • Child Abuse • Domestic Violence Hate Crime • Elder Abuse • Fraud Homicide • Robbery • Sexual Assault

7 What tropical trees most commonly grow in saltwater?

8 In the 1950s, Dino Crocetti and Joseph Levitch formed what popular comedy duo?

9 What nine-letter name for someone who protects honey makers is spelled with five ‘e’s?

10 The European mountain range known as the Alps passes through what two ‘S’ countries?

BONUS QUESTION: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, what is America’s mean annual wage, for all employees in all professions? (Rounded to a big round number.)

Howard Rachelson invites you to his next team trivia contest, Tuesday, September 12 at Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael. Contact Howard at howard1@triviacafe.com, and visit triviacafe.com.

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▼ NIMBYism on steroids: You were here first, but we’re here now and you’ve gotta go. So says a small contingent of Strawberry residents to the 70-year-old seaplane business on Richardson Bay. Their major complaint about Seaplane Adventures, located in Mill Valley, is the noise. The same noise that existed long before their homes were built and they moved in. The chutzpah of these people is outlandish, especially considering that their complaints have prompted Marin County to begin a review of Seaplane Adventures’ permit for possible revocation or modification. Never mind the fact that last year the county conducted a code enforcement study of the company, including a $10,000 sound study paid for by taxpayers, and Seaplane Adventures was found to be in complete compliance with their use permit.

We fully support owner Aaron Singer,

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a Marin citizen for more than 20 years and a good neighbor, too. “I am involved with my community and care about paying back for the privilege of living here,” says Singer, whose business has donated thousands of dollars in flights to local schools, environmental organizations and other local nonprofits. (Ironically, two of the schools benefitting from his generosity are located in Strawberry.) They also sponsor youth sport organizations, and Singer personally volunteers with Marin County’s Family Services. Tell the county that they’ve wasted enough money and manpower acquiescing to the self-entitled residents that are reneging on the tacit approval they gave to the seaplane when they purchased a home next to it. Let Seaplane Adventures soar without unwarranted interference.Y—Nikki Silverstein

Got a Hero or a Zero? Please send submissions to nikki_silverstein@yahoo.com.

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Marin County’s Victim Advocates work on a variety of cases including Elder Abuse. Many elderly adults are abused in their own homes, in relative homes, and even in facilities responsible for their care.

Elder abuse is difficult to detect. Often times the elder is unable to adequately communicate abuse. Warning signs of nursing home abuse include dehydration, malnutrition, bed sores, emotional distress, broken bones, scratches or cuts. Further signs can be exhibited in the change of the elder’s personality, behavior, or disposition. The most common form of abuse is financial exploitation, perpetrated by family members, caregivers and predatory outsiders.

If you are a Victim of Elder Abuse in Marin County or know someone who is, please contact your local police department or the Marin County Victim-Witness Program Unit.

Advocates also work in collaboration with professional staff at the Jeannette Prandi Children’s Center (JPCC). The JPCC, named after Marin County’s first female police sergeant, is a child-friendly environment where trained forensic interviewers talk to children who have been victimized. Advocates work with families and children to help set up these forensic interviews which are designed to minimize the trauma and difficulty associated with crimes against children. Advocates can also assist by providing a list of local treating therapists. In addition, victims can count on the comfort and support from the Victim-Witness Program’s court therapy dog, Aubrey.

Learn more about the Jeannette Prandi Children’s Center, JPCC at: www.prandicenter.org/overview.html.

To report suspected child abuse, please contact your local police department or the Marin County Victim-Witness Program Unit.

Call the Victim Witness Division at the

Marin County District Attorney’s Office 415.473.5080

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Gregory Andrew, fishery program manager with the Marin Municipal Water District (MMWD), explains a massive coho salmon restoration project that’s currently underway at Lagunitas Creek.

The Dance of Restoration Floodplain build-out along Lagunitas Creek to provide coho salmon with affordable housing By Tom Gogola

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he heavy equipment operators were in full rumbling flower on a recent morning in West Marin, spread out in the now-cleared underbrush and bush along Sir Francis Drake Boulevard where it intersects with Platform Bridge Road, scraping out the earth, digging giant troughs, piling up the dirt, planting trees—what the heck’s going on?

What’s going on is an ambitious effort to restore floodplain habitat along Lagunitas Creek, so that the coho salmon and steelhead might have a fighting chance at a true rebound from a recent and ofttold story that speaks of anemic and alarmingly low numbers of the coho especially, an endangered species under state and federal law.

The two-year, $1.1 million project now underway, a multi-agency endeavor that will be completed by fall of 2018, will eventually touch 10 separate pieces along the storied Lagunitas, which, as the local joke goes, belches forth hops-heavy beer along its banks even as it supports one of the hardiest populations of coho salmon in the state of California.

The project’s major imperative is to create new floodplains for the coho and steelhead alongside the currently not-so-roaring Lagunitas, now in its sultry summer flow and with many of its residents out in the ocean.

The driving idea behind the project is to enhance the winter carrying capacity of the Lagunitas so that when the coho return from their summer vacation at sea,

they’ve got plenty of floodplain opportunities for nooking up.

This is a big, sprawling project that loops in bureaucrats from the state and the county, and which is being undertaken this year largely on land owned by the National Park Service.

The log-jam for a greater restoration yield of the hammered coho fishery, says Gregory Andrew, fishery program manager with the Marin Municipal Water District (MMWD), is the lack of sufficient winter habitat for coho returning from sea.

Now workers are busy creating new floodplain channels that run alongside Lagunitas Creek proper, “to provide more physical habitat for the salmon,” says Andrew,“so they can grow as big and fat and happy as they can—it’s not just about the numbers, it’s about the size and health of the fish that come out of here.

The Lagunitas is something of a regional crown jewel for coho restoration efforts, hosting “one of the best coho populations in the state of California,” says Andrew as he lays out the raw numbers: Between 500 and 800 coho return to the Lagunitas each winter, which isn’t a great number, but is better than any creek in the state and even outclasses the mighty Russian River to the north. One critical piece of the Lagunitas is that when it spills out into Tomales Bay, there’s no sandbar blocking the salmon’s route to the ocean.

The Lagunitas is a 20-mile jewel of a creek with about 50 miles of tributary-creek action that spins off of it, says Andrew, and the health of the creek is enhanced through some built-in protections: The

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The watershed hosts a lot of species. We want to enhance the habitat, but don’t want to mess up what’s there already. It’s a challenge— there’s all sorts of critters.

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—Gregory Andrew to move on while workers brought in the backhoes and front-loaders to create a 1,000 foot floodplain channel along Platform Bridge Road, on what’s called Site 10, and in other work-zones to come.

The idea behind the project, says Andrew, is to mimic nature in re-animating the historic creekside floodplains “without causing anything that was unintended. It’s a highly sensitive spot,” he says. “The watershed hosts a lot of species. We want to enhance the habitat, but don’t want to mess up what’s there already. It’s a challenge—there’s all sorts of critters.”

Andrew says he hopes for a mildto-average winter this year so as not to undo the work that’s been undertaken. Massive deluges could conspire to wipe out or otherwise damage the new floodplain channels and also the numerous log-jam structures that have been strategically built to encourage water flow into the newly-created floodplain troughs.

Today in the dog days of August, the creek is lolling along at a very slow-moving 8-cubic-feet per second. That number, says Andrew will typically spike to around 2,000 feet per second in the winter.

But during the heaviest of the heavy weather from the rain-soaked winter of 2016-17, upwards of 8,000 to 10,000 cubic feet of liquid love coursed through Lagunitas Creek channel per second. That’s not especially amenable to coho salmon looking for shelter from the proverbial storms.

The idea of the floodplain channels, Andrew says, is to give the coho a refuge from the ripping currents of winter. As an added bonus, the nooky little floodplains also give the salmon a place to hide from predators, in this case a healthy population of voraciously

cute river otters who apparently don’t mind a fast-flowing creek.

A backhoe groans and dragonflies flit around Site 10 as Andrew explains the scope and arc of the project, which involves a score of workers on site and numerous agencies of the county, state and federal variety.

Here, workers have planted willow stumps along the now-dry floodplain channel, which will provide future shade. They’ve bermed-off the Lagunitas itself from the groundscraping enterprise which has brought the adjacent land to a grade at or below that of the creek itself.

When the rains come, the creek will find its own level and will naturally breach into the floodplain.

Andrew says to check with him in a few years for the answer to a question he couldn’t answer on this hot and dusty August afternoon: What sorts of beneficial unintended consequences might a project such as this engender? For now, he says as he points to the long and sandy trough that runs along the creek, dotted with yellow flags to indicate the way forward: “Coho and steelhead love this kind of habitat.”

It’s hard to find an enemy of coho restoration efforts underway throughout the state, but there’s an undercurrent inquiry I’ve picked up in reporting on the California salmon fisheries which says: Given the bleak numbers and return on investment, is it worth all this time and money to save a few fish? Is there an argument that says it’s high-time to throw in the towel and admit defeat?

Um, no.

Andrew insists on the urgent need and the popularity of such projects as he highlights that “people across the board want to see the coho and steelhead populations do well,” and that includes the cattle ranches that are all over this part of West Marin.

As we tour the sites, Andrew repeatedly cites the “public trust value” of preserving and enhancing the coho populations, now supplanted by a vigorous state program that’s seeing lots of coho spring forth from hatcheries and wind up in state creeks and rivers.

The MMWD has been counting fish for decades in the waterways that fall under its management rubric, says Andrew as we take a quick drive from Site 10 to Site 3, on the south side of Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and which runs along the sublime Cross Marin Trail. Here workers scramble with chainsaws to square up a water-shunt piling, and a small bucket-loader is filling in a temporary diversionary channel as the work on this site is completed.

Workers have created the big wooden shunt-the-water structure, and once they’re done with Site 3 they’ll move to Site 4, where this complex and fascinating dance of restoration will continue.

First they’ll have to remove any fish from that part of the creek, and relocate them while the work is undertaken. That process may include giving the coho and steelhead a little shock to their system, with the “zapper,” so state workers from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife can scoop them up without harming them. They will also use seine nets to corral the fish.

Does shocking the fish represent cruelty to coho? Well, would you rather be extinct or a little shocked?

Andrew goes to great lengths to assure a reporter that this is a normal and routine aspect of fishsurveying. We have a shared laugh: It’s not like they’re chucking hand grenades into the creek, that’s the “old school” way of counting fish.

Matt Erickson is an environmental scientist and watershed planner with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and he’s onsite today checking out the ongoing work at Site 3, where workers have created a little ox-bow-like diversionary flow while they install a massive woodworks to shunt water into the creek and hence, into the new floodplain downstream.

The dance of coho restoration is an intricate and interlocking enterprise where the utter fragility of the species (and its creek-to-ocean journey) is met with brute-force heavy equipment and chainsaws in order to provide some buffer to that fragility.

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MMWD owns the upper part of the Lagunitas Creek Watershed; the creek runs through Samuel P. Taylor State Park before hitting the federal National Park Service land in way-West Marin, where we are today, and where Andrew is giving a tour of the extensive and dusty work-zones.

The general recent history of the coho populations in the Lagunitas, and California generally, sees their number plummet in the 1980s; regulatory efforts helped push the numbers back up to some level of respectability around 2004-05; but by 2008, the coho numbers had plummeted again, and fishsurveyors found that an alarmingly low 100 coho had returned to winter-up in Lagunitas.

After the 2008 debacle, the MMWD, whose agency-hand in these efforts stems from its role as watershed manager for Marin County, worked with other agencies to embark on more limited restoration efforts in the creek, “and there is some evidence that the work we’ve done has made a difference. Now with this big project, we’re hoping that it will have a profound effect” on future winter stocks. He’d love to see that 500-800 number spike up to a rate-of-return more in the 2,500 fish-per-year range. Anecdotally and unscientifically, Andrew says historical numbers were probably more in the 5,000 fish-per-year return range.

In these parts, there’s no pressure from extractors or vineyards or overweaning real-estate development or pressure to log the land, and not much in the way of riparian pressures that can engender more of a “cohoversus pinot” dynamic in Sonoma and Napa county waterways.

The Marin project is broken into 10 distinct bits, and half of the work will be completed by October; the other half is on the docks for next summer and fall. The work needs to be undertaken when the rain isn’t falling (if the rain should happen to fall at all).

The biggest unplanned-for exigency in the project, says Andrew after a pause, was in protecting other endangered or protected species in and along Lagunitas Creek, even as workers set out to protect the coho.

He notes that there are bats, rare freshwater shrimp, spotted salamanders and owls, that all had to be herded or otherwise encouraged

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Gregory Andrew talks about plans for a $1.1 million project that has a goal of creating new floodplains for coho and steelhead alongside the currently not-so-roaring Lagunitas Creek.

Another dance is the interaction that goes on in any of these projects, between numerous agencies that have a stake in the restoration— including, for example the State Water Board, which has all sorts of regulations around the allowable “total maximum daily load” of sedimentation in the creek.

As we linger around Site 3, I ask Erickson and Andrew—respectively, the state and the county pointpersons on the job—“Who is the overall godhead here? Who’s in charge?”

They both laugh and immediately point their finger at the other. As we continue with the tour, Erickson digs in on the question and runs with the “dance of restoration” concept as he notes that here we are, on National Park Service land where a big project requiring many permits and construction contracts is underway.

As a practical matter, county project manager Andrew is the onthe-ground guy who coordinates and manages the privatelycontracted work crews.

Toward the end of a media tour he communicates with the job foreman and engineer under contract at Covello Construction Management Plus,

a heavy equipment operator with corporate headquarters in Walnut Creek and an office in Santa Rosa, about where machine operators can and can’t run their loaders over the next few days as the work shifts from Site 3 to Site 4.

Erickson has a broader charge to oversee the permitting processes and provide state oversight to the project, especially given the sensitive and endangered status of the coho.

His job, he says, is to protect and enhance the coho’s numbers, despite the difficulties and cost. “It’s not in our DNA to give up and quit” on the coho, says Erickson. Twenty years ago he was working for the state as an ocean-salmon fish regulator. Now he’s on the other end of the creek trying to save a crippled fishery from outright extinction.

The good news, says Andrew, is that with proper management and a steadfast commitment from civic leaders, “the coho population can rebound from very low numbers.”

Fishing is not permitted in the Lagunitas at any time. But, and ironically enough, the world-record steelhead trout was caught in the Lagunitas, when you could still fish it decades ago, Erickson says. That was a 26-pound fish. A big fish.Y

FOOD & DRINK

Bubble Fun Boba Nosh puts a healthy spin on bubble tea

By Tanya Henry

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any of us equate boba or bubble tea with a cloyingly sweet concoction of artificially flavored milky tea filled with large, hard tapioca balls and lots of sugar. But if partners Monica Pa and Liz Greenberg have their way, their newly opened Boba Nosh in the Novato Fair Shopping Center will dramatically change the way that we think about bubble tea.

Pa, a longtime Novato resident (originally from Taiwan) who raised her family here and teaches Mandarin to students of all ages, wanted to introduce a “better” version of the popular Taiwanese tea drink. She personally sourced traditional black and green teas from all over the country for her special offerings at Boba Nosh.

Greenberg, a chemical engineer by trade with formal pastry training, worked long and hard on perfecting recipes, which she proudly touts as egg-, nut-, soy- and gluten-free.

Together the two women have created an exciting and original concept that

may take a bit of educating—especially for the younger kids who have only ever known the hyper-sweetened version of bubble tea.

Here’s how it works—think of the experience as bubble tea deconstructed. Customers select their base beverage (black or green tea, or decaf coffee), add beads of tapioca if desired, and then select a juice concentrate; there’s even a fresh fruit option. Sweeteners and milk can be added, and simple syrup, blue agave and sugar are available—but customers are in charge of how much.

I sampled a peach and passionfruit version with tapioca. The flavors were bright and tasted of their true flavors. But it was the beads of tapioca—toothsome and just the right size—that completely won me over; I wanted more. I skipped the sweetener and enjoyed the tangy, refreshing bite that the cool beverage offered on a hot summer day.Y Boba Nosh, 942 Diablo Ave., Novato; 415/761-9469; bobanosh.com.

SPOTLIGHT ON TIBURON

Crafty Crew Tiburon Taps Beer Festival offers top brews and views

By Flora Tsapovsky

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n this day and age, there’s no shortage of beer festivals— local or all-out national, for the casual beer lover or for the hardcore expert. But the Tiburon Taps Beer Festival, coming up on Saturday, September 23, has a feature that many others can envy— breathtaking vistas of San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge and the bay.

Just like craft beer, the views never get old.

Thrown every fall by The Ranch, through the Tiburon-Belvedere Joint Recreation Committee, the festival is a one-day extravaganza that welcomes numerous breweries,

cideries, and even coffee roasters from the Bay Area and beyond, with its roster reaching as far as Europe; this year, there’s representation from the U.K., courtesy of Auchentoshan, a single malt whiskey brand.

“The festival began when I ran into my old friend and co-worker Cathleen Andreucci, the director of The Ranch, at a Starbucks,” recalls Jessica Hotchkiss, the youth recreation supervisor and the festival’s chair. “She said she wanted to throw a beer festival and would I be interested in doing that. I said yes, and the rest is history!”

Going into its fourth year, the festival brings together more

than 30 vendors, from the highly regarded Magnolia Brewing Company in San Francisco, to smaller, nevertheless intriguing ones with names like the Lost Coast Brewery in Eureka and Adobe Creek Brewing in Novato. All will be offering samples alongside complimentary food stalls and entertainment. For a venture that started as a chat at a Starbucks branch, the festival has definitely outgrown its humble beginning.

“I have years of event planning experience, but this event is by far the largest I’ve ever run” says Hotchkiss.

“Each year I learn more, and we can

Tiburon Taps Beer Festival, Sept. 23, 1-4pm, Shoreline Park, 311 Paradise Dr., Tiburon; 415/435.4355; tiburontaps.org.

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The upcoming Tiburon Taps Beer Festival, a benefit for The Ranch, will host some of the best craft brewers of California.

make the event a more enjoyable experience for the customer.”

Last year, she says, the festival was sold out, with more than 1,300 attendees. Hotchkiss is responsible for “begging every brewery in Northern California to attend our event,” and with the abundance of beer events in the area to keep makers busy, the mission isn’t as easy as it may seem. “It takes me around six months to fill our brewery and beverage roster,” she confesses.

This year, her efforts have yielded some interesting participants.

“We are very excited to introduce new local Marin County brewers, Indian Valley Brewing, Rugged Coast Brewing and Adobe Creek Brewing,” Hotchkiss says. “Another big addition is Ballast Point Brewing & Spirits out of San Diego. I truly appreciate all of the brewers that attend our event, as they are donating their time and beverages.”

The vendors are not the only ones donating—the festival is largely run by volunteers, and ticket sales help raise funds, Hotchkiss says, “so that we can offer scholarships for members of the community to participate in our programs.” The Ranch offers fitness, language, technology and art classes for adults, sports activities and classes for youth and a variety of speciality summer camps.

The festivities, all included in the $45 ticket ($20 for a designated driver), include a concert from cover band Neon Velvet, the food—which one can munch on endlessly, lawn games and the Best Brew contest (past winners include Baeltane Brewing Company in 2014 for The Frog that Ate the World Double IPA, Benoit-Casper Brewing Company in 2015 for Golden Pear Ale and Anderson Valley Brewing Company in 2016 for Summer Solstice Seasonal Ale).

And, front and center, there are the aforementioned stunning views.

“I’d have to say our location is the best in the bay,” Hotchkiss says.

“Shoreline Park is on the water, with views of the San Francisco skyline and the Golden Gate Bridge.”

Hotchkiss reminds all attendees that with the location comes another perk: “The Blue & Gold [Fleet] ferry terminal is located at the entry, and is an amazingly safe way to travel to the event.” It’s a detail that will come in handy after all of that sun-bathed craft beer cornucopia.Y

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Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s new album, ‘Lay It On Down,’ is easily the most “classic rock” sounding record of his career.

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elf-taught blues guitar prodigy and platinumselling artist Kenny Wayne Shepherd began playing music in earnest after seeing Stevie Ray Vaughan in 1984, at the age of seven. “It was a lifechanging experience,” Shepherd says. “That was the day the fire was lit inside of me.”

Already steeped in his father’s massive music collection, Shepherd made it his mission at that young age to play and positively affect people through music the way that Vaughan affected him. Over the last 25 years, he’s done exactly that with signature songs like “Blue on Black” and acclaimed blues albums under his name and with the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band.

Shepherd kicks his music into high gear with the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band’s latest album, Lay It On Down, noted for a fartherreaching rock and Americana sound than most of his previous work.

“All the different genres you hear throughout the record is all stuff I grew up listening to,” Shepherd says. “[Blues are] my first love, but all of these genres are closely related. It’s natural for that stuff to find its way into my music.”

Currently on a massive tour in support of Lay It On Down, Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band performs in the North Bay next month as part of the Russian River Jazz & Blues Festival.

“The mindset is bringing something positive to the people through music,” Shepherd says.

“Regardless of the political climate or whatever nonsense is going on in the world today, everybody has their own personal things that they’re dealing with, and music is universally something that helps people heal one way or another through difficult times.”Y Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band, Sunday, Sept. 10, Russian River Jazz & Blues Festival, Johnson’s Beach, Guerneville; $55-$110 single day; $90-$190 weekend pass; russianriverfestivals.com.

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There’s someone who recognizes Patti’s star qualities: Her pal and No. 1 fan Hareesh (Siddharth Dhananjay). If there’s such a thing as a ‘friend zone,’ such as unappealing guys complain about, there’s also a sidekick zone. Hareesh never really emerges from it.

The fairy tale has a rough background—suburban Jersey at its skeeviest. When the characters want anything from powerful marijuana to a credible recording studio, they need to drive to Newark for it.

Odd how things out in Jersey look cheaper when they try to get fancier.

We can admire Patti’s dreams. We finally see her serious chops when she does a battle rap outside of a gas station. She holds her own against a dickwielding rapper, a neighborhood muscle-kid (McCaul Lombardi).

This is a sweet movie, but it’ll gall viewers who believe that fighting the viciousness of the world with troubling art is a duty—it’s not just a stage you get over, as if you were a rebellious kid who finally learned to clean up and be nice.Y

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Diverting as it is, it’s shaped in the familiar Sundancian fashion— uplifting with a happy ending. Let’s put it plainly—as was once said of the homogenized tons o’ fun rap group the Fat Boys, at times, Patti Cake$ has the street authority of a “Don’t Walk” sign.

It’s about unlikely stardom, sought by the obese, 23-year-old Patti Dombrowski (Danielle Macdonald). She gets her multigenerational extended family together into the oddest group since the Bremen Town Musicians. She stays with grandma (the ever-ready Cathy Moriarty), a gravel-voiced wheelchair-rider, ready to join her late husband in the grave. Her semiestranged mom (the terrific Bridget Everett of Lady Dynamite) is, like almost every comedienne before her, tremendous when she plays a bitter dream-crusher. The big woman

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• New Movies This Week The Big Sick (R)

By Matthew Stafford

Fri. September 1 - Thu. September 7 • The Big Sick (2:00) True-life romantic dramedy about the fraught courtship between a Pakistani comic and a perky grad student; Holly Hunter and Ray Romano play the in-laws.

• Columbus (1:44) Minimalist mood piece eavesdrops on the developing relationship between an Ohio architecture student and a stranded Chinese tourist.

• Cyrano de Bergerac (2:21) Direct from the Great White Way it’s Kevin Kline as Rostand’s mightily schnozzed fencer-poet; Jennifer Garner co-stars as Roxane.

• Deconstructing the Beatles: The White Album (1:30) Musicologist Scott Freiman presents a multimedia discussion of the Fab Four’s genre-spanning double album and how it was created.

• Dunkirk (1:46) WW II epic about the evacuation of British troops from the Nazibesieged French city stars Kenneth Branagh and Tom Hardy; Christopher Nolan writes and directs.

• Falsettos (2:30) Direct from Lincoln Center it’s the acclaimed Broadway musical satire about gay pride and family dynamics among the American bourgeoisie.

• The Fencer (1:38) Finnish drama about a haunted WW II vet who confronts his demons as a fencing instructor in a Sovietheld Estonian village.

• The Glass Castle (2:07) Jeannette Walls’ memoir hits the big screen with Brie Larson as a willful young woman and Woody Harrelson as her eccentric yet loving father.

• The Hitman’s Bodyguard (1:51) Professional assassin Samuel L. Jackson and “protection agent” Ryan Reynolds battle hitmen and each other on a 24-hour European road trip; Salma Hayek and Gary Oldman co-star.

• An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (1:39) Documentary follows Nobel laureate Al Gore around the globe as he heralds an energy revolution that just might save the planet.

• Ingrid Goes West (1:37) Snarky socialmedia satire stars Elizabeth Olsen as a Facebook phenom and Aubrey Plaza as her ravenous stalker.

• In Search of Beethoven (2:18) Documentary examines the life and art of the 18th century composer through interviews, insights and performances by some of the world’s outstanding musicians.

• In Search of Chopin (1:50) Documentary examines the life and career of the great Polish composer highlighted by performances of his music on vintage instruments.

• IT (2:15) Stephen King horror story about an evil clown’s reign of terror; Bill Skarsgård is Pennywise.

• The Last Dalai Lama? (1:21) Insightful portrait of His Holiness focuses on his influential work in education, politics, science and spirituality.

• Leap! (1:29) Family-friendly cartoon about a young orphan who follows her dream to Paris’ Ballet School of the Opera; Elle Fanning vocalizes.

• Logan Lucky (1:59) Steven Soderbergh comedy about an improbable speedway heist by inept amateur criminals Daniel Craig, Channing Tatum, Seth MacFarlane and Katie Holmes.

• Lost in Paris (1:23) Whimsical French comedy about the unlikely friendship between a frantic Canadian librarian and an affable Parisian tramp; Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel write, direct and star.

• Marjorie Prime (1:37) Lois Smith stars as a dying woman who uses artificial intelligence to piece together a not necessarily honest version of her late husband.

• Maudie (1:57) True tale of Maud Lewis, a Canadian housekeeper who overcame crippling arthritis to become a beloved folk artist; Sally Hawkins stars.

• Menashe (1:21) Poignant tale of a hapless Hasidic grocery store clerk and his struggles to raise his young son alone.

• The Midwife (1:57) French drama about the unlikely friendship between a repressed midwife (Catherine Frot) and her father’s freewheeling mistress (Catherine Deneuve).

• National Theatre London: No Man’s Land (3:00) Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart star in Harold Pinter’s comic tale of two writers and their game of increasingly inebriated one-upmanship.

• Office Space (1:30) Prescient 1999 comedy about the soul-grinding life of hightech cubicle living; Jennifer Aniston stars.

• Patti Cake$ (1:48) Strip-mall underdog Danielle Macdonald grapples her way out of suburbia as an unlikely hip-hop superstar.

• Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (1:43) Documentary celebrates the powerful Native American harmonies and melodies that have influenced popular music for decades; Tony Bennett, Quincy Jones, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Iggy Pop share insights.

• Ryan’s Daughter (2:54) Period romance about the fraught relationship between Irish schoolteacher Robert Mitchum and willful colleen Sarah Miles; David Lean directs.

• The Trip to Spain (1:51) Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon head off on another repartee-rich gastronomical road trip, this one through the land of tapas, pintxos and paella.

• Walk with Me (1:28) Earnest documentary focuses on a community of mindful Zen Buddhist nuns and monks and their teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh.

• Wind River (1:51) FBI agent Elizabeth Olsen teams up with world-weary tracker Jeremy Renner to solve a mysterious murder on a local reservation.

Columbus (Not Rated) • Cyrano de Bergerac (Not Rated) Deconstructing The Beatles: The White Album (Not Rated) Dunkirk (PG-13)

Regency: Fri-Sat 11, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15; Sun-Tue 11, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30; Wed 4:40, 7:30; Thu 11, 1:50, 4:40 Sequoia: Fri 4:15, 7, 9:45; Sat 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:45; Sun-Mon 1:30, 4:15, 7; Tue-Wed 4:15, 7 Rafael: Sat-Mon 2:15; Tue-Thu 8:15 Lark: Thu 7:30

Rafael: Fri-Sat 4:30 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Tue-Wed 7:15, 9:45; Sat-Mon 1:30, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 Playhouse: Fri 4, 7, 9:45; Sat 1:15, 4, 7, 9:45; SunMon 1:15, 4, 7; Tue-Wed 4, 7 Falsettos (Not Rated) Lark: Mon 1 The Fencer (Not Rated) Rafael: Fri-Mon 3:30, 5:45, 8; Tue-Thu 5:45, 8 The Glass Castle (PG-13) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45; Sun-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:45 The Hitman’s Bodyguard (R) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 1, 4, 7:10, 9:55; Sun-Wed 1, 4, 7:10 Playhouse: Fri 3:45, 6:45, 9:35; Sat 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:35; Sun-Mon 12:45, 3:45, 6:45; Tue-Wed 3:45, 6:45 An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (PG) Lark: Mon 11; Tue 5:10; Thu 5:25 Ingrid Goes West (R) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 9:55; Sun-Wed 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30 Regency: Fri-Sat 11:25, 2, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45; Sun 11:25, 4:35, 7:10; Mon-Tue 11:25, 2, 4:35, 7:10; Wed 11:25, 4:30; Thu 11:25, 2, 4:35 In Search of Beethoven (Not Rated) Lark: Sun 1 Lark: Wed 6:30 • In Search of Chopin (Not Rated) Cinema: Thu 7:10, 10:15 Northgate: Thu 7:10, 10:15 • IT (R) Playhouse: Thu 7 The Last Dalai Lama? (Not Rated) Rafael: Sat-Mon 1:30 Leap! (PG) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:10, 2:30, 4:45, 7, 9:25; Sun-Wed 12:10, 2:30, 4:45, 7 Playhouse: Fri 3:30, 5:45, 8:15; Sat 1, 3:30, 5:45, 8:15; Sun-Mon 1, 3:30, 5:45; Tue-Wed 3:30, 5:45 Logan Lucky (PG-13) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:30, 6:50, 9:40; Sun-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:50 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Tue-Wed 6:30, 9:15; Sat-Mon 12:45, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 Lost in Paris (Not Rated) Lark: Sat 11; Sun 4; Mon 9; Tue 3:15, 7:10 Marjorie Prime (Not Rated) Lark: Fri 11, 5:10; Sat 4; Tue 9; Wed 11 Maudie (PG-13) Lark: Sat 8:45; Sun 6; Mon 6:30; Tue 11; Wed 3:40; Thu 1:15 Menashe (PG) Lark: Fri 1, 7:15; Sun 11; Tue 1:30; Wed 8:50; Thu 3 The Midwife (Not Rated) Lark: Fri 2:45, 9; Sat 6:15; Sun 8:30; Mon 4; Wed 1:15; Thu 11 National Theatre London: No Man’s Land (Not Rated) Lark: Sat 1 Regency: Sun 2; Wed 2, 7 • Office Space (R) Regency: Fri-Sat 11:35, 2:20, 5, 7:40, 10:20; Sun-Wed 11:35, • Patti Cake$ (R) 2:20, 5, 7:40; Thu 11:35, 2:20, 5 • Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (Not Rated) Rafael: Fri-Mon 3:45, 6:15, 8:30; Tue-Thu 6:15, 8:30 Rafael: Sun 4:30 • Ryan’s Daughter (R) The Trip to Spain (Not Rated) Rafael: Fri-Sat 6:45, 9; Sun 9; Mon 4:30, 6:45, 9; Tue-Thu 6 Walk with Me (Not Rated) Rafael: Sat-Mon 1:45 Wind River (R) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 1:10, 3:50, 6:55, 9:35; Sun-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 6:55 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Tue-Wed 6:45, 9:25; Sat-Mon 1:15, 4, 6:45, 9:25 Regency: Fri-Sat 11:15, 2:10, 4:50, 7:50, 10:25; SunWed 11:15, 2:10, 4:50, 7:50; Thu 11:15, 2:10, 4:50 Sequoia: Fri 4:35, 7:20, 9:55; Sat 2, 4:35, 7:20, 9:55; Sun-Mon 2, 4:35, 7:20; Tue-Wed 4:35, 7:20

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

CinéArts at Sequoia 25 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley, 388-4862 Cinema 41 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, 924-6505 Fairfax 9 Broadway, Fairfax, 453-5444 Lark 549 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur, 924-5111 Larkspur Landing 500 Larkspur Landing Cir., Larkspur, 461-4849 Northgate 7000 Northgate Dr., San Rafael, 800-326-3264 Playhouse 40 Main St., Tiburon, 435-1234 Rafael Film Center 1118 Fourth St., San Rafael, 454-1222 Regency 80 Smith Ranch Rd., Terra Linda, 479-5050 Rowland 44 Rowland Way, Novato, 800-326-3264

Concerts MARIN COUNTY

Clubs & Venues

Ramana Vieira Portugal folk ensemble showcases traditional music from European and American composers. Sep 3, 6:30pm. $10-$15. Fenix, 919 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.813.5600.

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Sammy Hagar & Friends Prolific rock star and longtime Marin figure plays an acoustic benefit concert for Kiddo Entertainment. Sep 4, 8pm. $100.

Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.3850.

Belvedere Community Park Sep 3, 3:45pm, Flaming O’s with Caroline Sky. 450 San Rafael Ave, Belvedere, belvedereconcerts.org.

Sons of Champlin Longtime Marin rock band spends Labor Day rocking out on the lawn with a bbq to boot. Sep 4, 3pm. Rancho Nicasio, 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio. 415.662.2219.

SONOMA COUNTY Akae Beka Roots-reggae band from Saint Croix, US Virgin Islands, is made of members of legendary outfit Midnite. Sep 1, 7:30pm. $25. Mystic Theatre, 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. 707.765.2121.

Golden State-Lone Star Revue Grammy-nominated harmonica master Mark Hummel teams with Texas guitarist Anson Funderburgh and drummer Wes Starr for a rockin’ revue. Sep 2, 8:30pm.

Redwood Cafe, 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati. 707.795.7868.

Sonoma County Cajun Zydeco & Delta Rhythm Festival Geno Delafose & the French Rockin’ Boogie Band headline day one’s zydeco lineup, and the Blasters headline day two’s rockabilly lineup with cajun food, art, beer and wine.

Sep 2-3, 11:30am. $25-$40. Ives Park, Willow Street and Jewell Avenue, Sebastopol. winecountrycajun.com.

NAPA COUNTY Montuno Swing Christian Tumalan of Pacific Mambo Orchestra leads this old-school salsa band.

Sep 2, 7:30 and 9:30pm. $15-$35. Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa. 707.603.1258.

Napa Live: Inside & Out Live music crawl includes musicians performing in stores, parks, plazas, patios and throughout Napa’s many venues. Sep 3, noon. downtown, Main street and Town Center, Napa. donapa.com.

The Belrose Thurs, open mic night. 1415 Fifth Ave, San Rafael, 415.454.6422.

Fenix Aug 30, the Fenix Band. Sep 2, Dyson Tate and Special Occasion. Sep 3, 11:30am, Sunday brunch with Rachel Efron. Sep 5, West Coast Songwriters Competition and open mic. Sep 6, pro blues jam. 919 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.813.5600.

George’s Nightclub Sat, DJ party. Sun, Banda Night. 842 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.226.0262.

HopMonk Novato Sep 1, Urban Outlaws. Sep 3, Tim Flannery & the Lunatic Fringe. Sold-out. 224 Vintage Way, Novato, 415.892.6200.

Insalata’s Aug 31, 5:30pm, Parker Grant. 120 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, San Anselmo, 415.457.7700.

Iron Springs Pub & Brewery Aug 30, Hopsauce. Sep 6, Jazzitude. 765 Center Blvd, Fairfax, 415.485.1005.

Marconi State Historic Park Sep 3, 2pm, Marconi Summer Music Series.

18500 Hwy 1, Marshall, marconiconference.org.

Marin Country Mart Sep 1, 6pm, Friday Night Jazz with Dave Getz Quartet. Sep 3, 12:30pm, Folkish Festival with Red Meat. 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur, 415.461.5700.

19 Broadway Club Aug 30, the Axidents. Aug 31, the Gladiators with Droop Lion. Sep 1, 5:30pm, Danny Montana and friends. Sep 1, 9pm, First Fridays Reggae Night with Broken Silence Sound System. Sep 2, 5:30pm, Michael Brown and friends. Sep 2, 9:30pm, TDK. Sep 3, 6pm, 19 Broadway Goodtime Band.

Sep 3, 9pm, Elvis Johnson’s blues jam. Sep 4, open mic. Sep 5, Blues Champions. Sep 6, the Damon LeGall Band. 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax, 415.459.1091.

No Name Bar Aug 30, Barnyard Hammer and friends. Aug 31, Well Known Strangers. Sep 1, Michael

Aragon Quartet. 757 Bridgeway, Sausalito, 415.332.1392.

Osteria Divino Aug 30, Gaea Schell Trio. Aug 31, Passion Habanera. 37 Caledonia St, Sausalito, 415.331.9355.

Panama Hotel Restaurant Aug 31, C-JAM with Connie Ducey. Sep 5, Swing Fever. Sep 6, Arthur Javier. 4 Bayview St, San Rafael, 415.457.3993.

Peri’s Silver Dollar Aug 30, Fitz & Pieces. Aug 31, Dr Mojo. Sep 1, Michael Skinner & the Final Touch. Sep 2, Go by Ocean. Sep 3, Attila Viola & the Bakersfield Boys. Sep 4, open mic. Sep 5, the Bad Hombres. Sep 6, the Weissmen. 29 Broadway, Fairfax, 415.459.9910.

Rancho Nicasio Aug 31, singer-songwriter showcase with Mark Nichol. 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio, 415.662.2219.

Rickey’s Restaurant & Bar Sep 1, SwingSet. Sep 2, Charles Wheal Blues.

250 Entrada Dr, Novato, 415.883.9477.

Sausalito Seahorse Wed, Milonga with Marcelo Puig and Seth Asarnow. Aug 31, Freddy Clarke. Sep 1, Lucky Drive Band. Sep 2, 12:30pm, bossa nova on the patio with Lau and friends. Sep 2, 4pm, Love Jet. Sep 3, 5pm, Julio Bravo & Salsabor.

Sep 5, Noel Jewkes and friends. 305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito, 415.331.2899.

Smiley’s Schooner Saloon Aug 31, Christy Hays. Sep 1, Marty O’Reilly.

Sep 2, Beso Negro. Sep 3, Highway Poets. 41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas, 415.868.1311.

Spitfire Lounge Last 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 Aug 30, Cash’d Out. Aug 31, Poor Man’s Whiskey. Sep 1, Steep Ravine. Sep 2, Anthony B and Sol Horizon. Sep 3, Jennifer Hartswick Band. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.3850.

Terrapin Crossroads Aug 30, the Casual Coalition. Sep 1, the Infamous Stringdusters with Phil Lesh. Sep 3, California Kind featuring Barry Sless. 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael, 415.524.2773.

Throckmorton Theatre Sep 3, 5:30pm, the Nathan Bickart Trio. Sep 6, noon, Jack Cimo and Robert Mcmanmon.

142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, 415.383.9600.

CALENDAR Trek Winery Sep 2, Rick Kelly. 1026 Machin Ave, Novato, 415.899.9883.

SONOMA Aqus Cafe Sep 1, Gary & Preston. Sep 2, Rusty Reds. Sep 3, 2pm, Riner Scivally. 189 H St, Petaluma, 707.778.6060.

The Big Easy Aug 30, Christy Hayes. Aug 31, Analog Us and Buck Thrifty. Sep 2, Cabbagehead with Hubble Trio and Oddjob Ensemble. 128 American Alley, Petaluma, 707.776.7163.

Brewsters Beer Garden Aug 31, Bluegrass & Bourbon with Kevin Russell & His So Called Friends. Sep 1, SoulShine Band. Sep 2, Mr Chuffey. Sep 3, Muncie. 229 Water St N, Petaluma, 707.981.8330.

Cooperage Brewing Co Sep 1, eNegative with Osito and MSG. 981 Airway Ct, Santa Rosa, 707.293.9787.

Flamingo Lounge Sep 1, Stereo Bounce. Sep 2, UB707. 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa, 707.545.8530.

Lagunitas Tap Room Aug 30, Jason Bodlovich Group. Aug 31, Galen Ash. Sep 1, Blues Bottle Band. Sep 2, Third Rail Band. Sep 3, New Copasetics. Sep 6, JimBo Trout. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma, 707.778.8776.

Local Barrel Sep 3, 5pm, Charley Paul. 490 Mendocino Ave #104, Santa Rosa, 707.890.5433.

Montgomery Village Shopping Center Sep 2, noon, Nathan Owens & Legends of Motown. Sep 3, noon, Rick Lenzi & Roustabout. 911 Village Court, Santa Rosa, 707.545.3844.

Mystic Theatre Aug 31, Talking Dreads. Sep 2, Martin Barre.

Sep 3, Amy Helm with Levi Parham. Sep 6, Ana Popovic with Dirty Cello and Mike Saliani Band. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.765.2121.

Phoenix Theater Sep 2, ManBearPig with HalphoriO and Over the Falls. 201 Washington St, Petaluma, 707.762.3565.

NAPA Blue Note Napa Aug 31, Barrio Manouche. Sep 1, Tony Saunders Band with Gail Jhonson and Sapphron Obois.

Sep 5, Amber Snider Band. 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.603.1258.

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Gallery Route One Through Sep 24, “Box Show 2017,” fantastical works of art that begin with a plain wooden box are on display in the 18th annual show.

11101 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station. Wed-Mon, 11 to 5. 415.663.1347.

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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.

Book Passage Sep 5-Oct 31, “Altered Book Sculptures,” Emily Marks’ contemporary art based on classic literature displays in the gallery. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. Daily, 9 to 9.

415.927.0960.

Marin Society of Artists Through Sep 9, “Down on the Corner & Monochrome,” a double dose of exhibits display. 1515 Third St, San Rafael. Wed-Sun, Noon to 4. 415.464.9561.

MarinMOCA Sep 2-Oct 8, “2017 Emerging Artists of Northern California,” exhibits diverse works from five talented artists. Reception, Sept 2 at 5pm. 500 Palm Dr, Novato. Wed-Fri, 11 to 4; Sat-Sun, 11 to 5. 415.506.0137.

Robert Allen Fine Art Through Sep 29, “Landscapes: Four Points of View,” group show features works on paper and canvas by Regina Case, Wendy Schwartz, Peter Loftus and Connie Smith Siegel. 301 Caledonia St, Sausalito. Mon-Fri, 10 to 5.

415.331.2800.

O’Hanlon Center for the Arts Aug 31-Sep 21, “études & impromptus,” member artists Tom and Cayen Robertson display a multitude of mixed media works.

Reception, Sep 5 at 6pm. 616 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. Tues-Sat, 10 to 2; also by appointment. 415.388.4331.

Seager Gray Gallery Sep 1-Oct 1, “Joan Baez: Mischief Makers,” the songwriter, performer and activist shows off her talents in painting with a debut solo show of stunning portraits. Reception, Sep 16 at 5:30pm (RSVP required).

108 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

415.384.8288.

Throckmorton Theatre Sep 5-30, “September Art Exhibit,” mixed media painter and printmaker Cathy Coe shows in the Theatre Gallery, while artists Ella Cleaveland and Mercer Jackson share the Crescendo Gallery. Reception, Sept 5 at 5pm. 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

415.383.9600.

SONOMA Arts Guild of Sonoma Aug 31-Oct 2, “Celebrate!,” national juried show marks the arts guild’s 40th anniversary.

Reception, Sept 2 at 5:30pm. 140 E Napa St, Sonoma. Wed-Thurs and Sun-Mon, 11 to 5; Fri-Sat, 11 to 8. 707.996.3115.

Atlas Coffee Company Sep 1, “Quan in Color,” artist Gary Paintin releases new zines, prints, paintings and drawings. Reception, Sept 1 at 6pm. 300 South A St, Santa Rosa. 707.526.1085.

City Hall Council Chambers Aug 30-Oct 19, “Jessica Jacobsen: Woven,” collection of drawings and paintings that are mindful, attentive and protective. Reception, Sept 8 at 5pm. 100 Santa Rosa Ave, Ste 10, Santa Rosa. 707.543.3010.

Glaser Center Sep 1-Nov 30, “Unraveling Threads: The Mexican Indigenous Textile Project,” photographic prints highlight Mexican indigenous people, their customs and textiles.

Reception, Sept 17 at 3pm. 547 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.568.5381.

Laguna de Santa Rosa Environmental Center Sep 5-Jan 4, “Form & Color: It’s Wild Out There,” wildlife photographs by Dave Strauss are on display in Heron Hall. Reception,

Rock Hill Gallery Through Oct 5, “Marvin Burke Exhibition,” the work of the renowned photographer features exquisite landscapes and hummingbirds. 145 Rock Hill Dr, Tiburon.

Grammy Award-winning singer and guitarist Sammy Hagar will rock Sweetwater Music Hall in a benefit concert on Sept. 4.

Sept 16 at 3pm. 900 Sanford Rd, Santa Rosa.

707.527.9277.

My Daughter the Framer Sep 1-Oct 22, “Art Trails Preview Show,” get an advanced look at works by participating artists of this year’s Sonoma County Art Trails event. Reception, Sept 1 at 5pm. 637 Fourth St, Santa Rosa. Daily, 10 to 5:30.

707.542.3599.

Russian River Art Gallery Aug 30-Sep 28, “Small Art Works,” members of the gallery co-op show their small pieces.

Reception, Sept 9 at 4pm. 16357 Main St, Guerneville. Daily, 10 to 6. 707.869.9099.

Upstairs Art Gallery Aug 30-Oct 1, Reason to Rejoice,” exhibit features award-winning pastel paintings by Debbie Harding. Reception, Sept 3 at 1:30pm.

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

NAPA Jessel Gallery Sep 1-30, “Open Studios Napa Valley Preview,” view an original piece of art created by each participating artist in the upcoming open studios tour. Reception, Sept 8 at 5pm.

1019 Atlas Peak Rd, Napa. Daily, 10 to 5.

707.257.2350.

Napa Valley Museum Sep 2-Nov 12, “Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program 1942-1964,” bilingual history exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution examines the experiences of Mexican-American manual workers and their families, with a companion exhibit developed by Napa Valley College. Sep 2-Oct 29, “The Migrant Series,” Colorado artist Don Coen’s stunning large-scale portraits of migrant workers makes its West Coast

premiere in the Main Gallery. 55 Presidents Circle, Yountville. Wed-Sun, 11 to 4.

707.944.0500.

CONTINUING THIS WEEK MARIN Art Works Downtown Through Sep 22, “Waking Dreams,” Angelique Benicio’s paintings, sculpture and video evoke the fantasies of Grimm’s fairy tales. 1337 Fourth St, San Rafael. Tues-Sat, 10 to 5. 415.451.8119.

Bay Model Visitor Center Through Sep 23, “Movement & Reflection,” Point Reyes Station artist Sue Gonzalez paints images of water inspired by Tomales Bay. 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 415.332.3871.

Belvedere-Tiburon Library Through Sep 22, “Fantasy & Reality,” oils and mixed media works by Anne-Marie de Rivera combine European influences and Latin American folklore. 1501 Tiburon Blvd, Tiburon. 415.789.2665.

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.

Falkirk Cultural Center Through Sep 29, “Fall 2017 Juried Exhibition,” see some of the best artwork from local artists in the beautiful Falkirk Mansion. 1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael.

415.485.3438.

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.

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

100 Thorndale Dr, San Rafael. 415.492.2408.

Comedy Comedy Night at Blue Note Standup stars Larry Brown, Milt Abel and Brian Thomas share the stage. Sep 6, 8pm. $10 and up. Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.603.1258.

Imparables Mexico’s most popular comedians, Adrian Uribe and Omar Chaparro, perform in the North Bay. Sep 1, 8pm. $51 and up. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.546.3600.

Laugh Your Bingo Off! Standup and bingo combine with comedian Steve Ausburne. Sep 2, 7pm. The Laugh Cellar, 5755 Mountain Hawk Way, Santa Rosa, $28.

Dance Alma del Tango Studio Tuesdays, Lindy Hop & East Coast Swing Dance. Wednesdays, Tango 1 & 2. 167 Tunstead Ave, San Anselmo. 415.459.8966.

Blue Note Napa Aug 30, 7pm, LGBTQ Dance Party, features DJ Rotten Robbie and benefits Napa Humane Society. 1030 Main St, Napa.

707.603.1258.

Monroe Dance Hall Sep 1, Motown & Disco Dance Party. 1400 W College Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.529.5450.

Events

15 Wed 8/30 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $17-$20 • All Ages Cash'd Out Tribute to Johnny Cash Fri 9/1 • Doors 8pm ⁄ $15-$17 • All Ages Steep Ravine + Pat Hull Sat 9/2 • Doors 8pm ⁄ $30-$34 • 21+ Jamaican Reggae Legend Anthony B + Sol Horizon Sun 9/3 • Doors 11am ⁄ FREE • All Ages Free Brunch Show with Window Trio Sun 9/3 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $12-$14 • All Ages

Metta Gathering Monthly session features a dharma talk and meditation. Sep 5, 7:30pm. Buddhist Temple of Marin, 390 Miller Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.1173.

National Heirloom Exposition The “world’s fair” of pure and local food movements features guest speakers, chef demos, exhibitors and plenty of organic goods. Sep 5-7. $15-$30. Sonoma County Fairgrounds, 1350 Bennett Valley Rd, Santa Rosa, theheirloomexpo.com.

Jennifer Hartswick Band

Mixed media/collage art by Jamie Pavlich-Walker

San Anselmo First Friday Several merchants stay open late and offer sales, with live music and drink specials.

Fri, Sep 1. Downtown San Anselmo, San Anselmo Avenue, San Anselmo.

Sausalito Art Festival Art, music, food and wine come together with artists from around the world showing their works and headlining performances from Pablo Cruise, Dave Haskell Trio, War, Rusty Strings Express, Foghat, Charged Particles and others. Sep 2-4, 10am. $30 and up. Marinship Park, Marinship Way, Sausalito, sausalitoartfestival.org.

SOFA First Friday Open Studios Stroll through the Santa Rosa arts district, view new works, meet the artists where they create and enjoy refreshments and music.

Sep 1, 5pm. SOFA Arts District, 312 South A St, Santa Rosa, 707.293.6051.

Tomales Founders Day Live music, BBQ, a parade and more benefit local nonprofits. Sep 3, noon. Free.

Downtown Tomales, Shoreline Hwy, Tomales.

Field Trips Alcatraz Island Tour Narrated tours by local experts cruises around Alcatraz Island and the Golden Gate Bridge. Sat, 2:30pm. Through Sep 30. Angel Island Tiburon Ferry, 21 Main St, Tiburon, 415.435.2131.

Sunset & Bay Cruises Pack a picnic dinner and bring the whole family for a summer evening on the waters of the bay. Fri-Sat, 6:30pm. Through Oct 28. Angel Island Tiburon Ferry, 21 Main St, Tiburon, 415.435.2131.

Wednesday Wellness Walks Join a healing walk through the redwoods.

Wed, 10am. Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve, 17000 Armstrong Woods Rd, Guerneville, stewardscr.org.

Yoga in the Vineyards Molly Vogel leads all-level yoga classes overlooking the beauty of west Sonoma County, followed by a winetasting flight and bites. Sat, Sep 2, 10am. $30. Emeritus Vineyards, 2500 Gravenstein Hwy N, Sebastopol, mollyvogelyoga.com.

Art by hundreds of artists, food, wine and live music make the Sausalito Art Festival, Sept. 2-4, a favorite destination.

(Trey Anastasio Band) + Magic In The Other Sun 9/10 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $100-$150 • All Ages

Music for the Kids

Benefit for Dec My Room featuring Jimmy Dillon

Sat 9/16 • Doors 8pm ⁄ $32-$37 • 21+ Black Uhuru + IrieFuse Sun 9/17 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $18-$20 • All Ages

Sinkane

Thu 9⁄21+Fri 9/22 • Doors 7-8pm ⁄ $27-$32 • 21+ Petty Theft Tom Petty Tribute Sun 9/24 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $20-$25 • All Ages Willie Watson + Bedouine Sun 9/25 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $10-$12 • All Ages

Y La Bamba

Tue 9/26 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $17-$19 • All Ages

Leyla McCalla

Film CULT Film Series Cult comedies “Office Space” and “Clerks” screen together. Aug 31, 7pm. $10. Roxy Stadium 14 Cinemas, 85 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.525.8909.

Menashe Film about a contemporary Hasidic community in Brooklyn screens as a benefit for the Jewish Film Festival of Sonoma County. Sep 2, 7pm. Rialto Cinemas, 6868 McKinley St, Sebastopol, 707.525.4840.

Movies in the Park Santa Rosa Recreation & Parks hosts outdoor screening of “Moana.” Sep 1, 7:30pm. Free.

Howarth Park, 630 Summerfield Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.543.3425.

Food & Drink Cheesemaker Gala Cowgirl Creamery, Bleating Heart, Bellwether Farms and Point Reyes Farmstead come together for a night of cheese, chocolates, wines and more. Sep 1, 6pm. $35. Barber Cellars Tasting Room, 112 Washington St, Petaluma, 707.981.7034.

Ciderfest Enjoy seasonal libations, delicious food and live music in this inaugural event. Sep 3, noon. The Culinary Institute of America at Copia, 500 First St, Napa, 707.967.2530.

First Fridays Wood-Fired Therapy Pizza Enjoy wines and wood-fired pizza, preceded by optional yoga in the vineyards classes, for an uplifting vibe to start the weekend. Fri, Sep 1, 5:30pm. Martin Ray

www.sweetwatermusichall.com 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley Café 388-1700 | Box Office 388-3850

Winery, 2191 Laguna Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.823.2404.

Sonoma County Fermentation Festival Cultured foodie event includes unlimited food and beverage tastings, demonstrations, seminars and more.

Sep 2, 11am. $25-$45. Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds, 175 Fairgrounds Dr, Petaluma, fermentfestival.com.

Taste of Sonoma Renowned winemakers and chefs from across Sonoma County celebrate the region with incredible wine and food pairings, seminars, chef demos and more.

Sep 2, noon. $180. Green Music Center, 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, sonomawinecountryweekend.com.

Wet Hop Festival Harvest-time hops showcase features a lineup of Fogbelt’s beers, street tacos, live music, hop-picking demo and more.

Sep 3, noon. Free admission. Fogbelt Brewing, 1305 Cleveland Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.978.3400.

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.

Lectures

Lunch & Dinner Sat & Sun Brunch

Outside Dining 7 Days a Week

Din n er & A Show A Special Hawaiian Dinner Show

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Sep 24 Staggerwing Americana/Roots Rock Sun

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Sep 10 “Uncle” Willie K

3D Modeling Demonstration of Undersea Coral Specimens Evening of 3D printing and environmental philosophy. Aug 31, 7pm. $5. Petaluma Arts Center, 230 Lakeville St, Petaluma, 707.762.5600.

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Aug 30. Friedman Event Center, 4676 Mayette Ave, Santa Rosa, 916.322.4742.

Events

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Theater The Elephant Man Curtain Call Theatre presents the dramatic story of a severely deformed man who lived in victorian-era England. Sep 1-23. Russian River Hall, 20347 Hwy 116, Monte Rio, 707.849.4873.

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EVERY WEDNESDAY OPEN MIC NIGHT WITH DENNIS HANEDA FRI 9/1 $1015 8PM DOORS / 9PM SHOW 21+

FairyWorlds!

A new adaptation of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Through Sep 2.

Shakespeare in the Cannery, 3 West Third St, Santa Rosa, shakespeareinthecannery.com.

URBAN OUTLAWS

AN EVENING WITH 2 SETS! FRI 9/8 $1015 8PM DOORS / 9PM SHOW 21+

A LICENSE TO CHILL

Henry IV Petaluma Shakespeare Company presents the kingly drama on the green. Through Sep 9. Free. Foundry Wharf Green, 1st & H Street, Petaluma, petalumashakespeare.org.

JIMMY BUFFETT TRIBUTE AN EVENING WITH 2 SETS! SAT 9/9 $15 7PM DOORS / 7:45PM SHOW 21+

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Keith Moon: The Real Me Stage show captures the turmoil and excitement of the wildest drummer in rock ‘n’ roll. Through Sep 10. $20-$35. Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave, Mill Valley, keithmoontherealme.com.

SUN 9/10 $1823 5PM DOORS / 6PM SHOW ALL AGES COOKOUT CONCERT SERIES FEATURING:

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THU 9/14 $10 7PM DOORS / 8PM SHOW ALL AGES

COUNTRY LINE DANCING WITH DJ JEFFREY GOODWIN EVERY 2ND & 4TH THURSDAY!

FRI 9/15 $1015 8PM DOORS / 9PM SHOW 21+

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Keeping The Living Music Alive Sep 9 Saturday • 8 pm • Freight & Salvage

The Raz Kennedy Show One Night Only! Pure Magic!

Sep 23 Saturday • 7:30 pm • Grace Cathedral

Simrit Kaur in San Francisco Fall 2017 West Coast Tour

Sep 29 Friday • 7:30 pm • Throckmorton Theater

Jeff Oster in Mill Valley All-Star Band Live and On Fire!

Oct 14 Saturday • 7:30 pm • Scottish Rite Center

Snatam Kaur in Oakland “Original Light” 2017 Tour

Oct 22 Sunday • 7 pm • Unity in Marin

Girish — Kirtan Concert

Music, Mantras & Sacred Chant Oct 29 Sunday • 7 pm • Showcase Theater

Jai Uttal – 1st time ever!

An Intimate Solo Evening with Jai Nov 11 Saturday • 8 pm • Showcase Theater

Jennifer Berezan

An Intimate Concert Evening with Julie Wolf, Jami Sieber, Geoff Pearlman Dec 10 Sunday • Showcase Theater

Donna De Lory

Sacred Chant & Devotional Pop Music All Ages • 415.924.4848 • lloydbarde.com

Learn about the plants and wildlife of Novato’s open space preserves in a talk at the Novato Library on Sept. 6.

The Conservation, Preservation & Restoration of Photographic Materials A presentation of how and why photographs are conserved by Gawain Weaver is held in conjunction with the current “Portraits of Petaluma Pioneers” exhibit. Sep 2, 2pm. Free. Petaluma Historical Library & Museum, 20 Fourth St, Petaluma, 707.778.4398.

Dr. Cesar Lozano Increase the harmony in your relationship with the expert lecturer. Sep 6, 8pm. $41-$81.

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

An Evening with Meg Elison Join award-winning sci-fi and dystopian author for a discussion of post-apocalypse literature and what it means to us today.

Sep 6, 7pm. Fairfax Library, 2097 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Fairfax, 415.453.8092.

Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous Twelve-step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, undereating or bulimia. Sat, 8am. All Saints Lutheran Church, 2 San Marin Dr, Novato, 781.932.6300.

Meet the Makers Taste your way through an exclusive guided tour of the eateries, craft brewers, artisans and wineries of the Barlow. Sat, 11:30am. $89. Barlow Event Center, 6770 McKinley St, Sebastopol, 855.669.6257.

Open Space Preserves of Novato Talk focuses on the animals, plants and gorgeous scenery of the region. Sep 6, 7pm.

Novato Library, 1720 Novato Blvd, Novato, 415.898.4623.

Southern Marin Toastmasters Improve your public-speaking skills at the weekly meet-up. Wed, 6:45pm. Mt

Tamalpais United Methodist Church, 410 Sycamore Ave, Mill Valley, eloquent. toastmastersclubs.org.

Spiritual Healing Weekly meeting covers various topics, with meditation and individual healing treatment. Fri, 7pm. Spiritist Society Towards the Light, 1 Simms St, San Rafael, 707.225.5762.

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 Aqus Cafe Sep 4, 6:15pm, Amuse-ing Monday with Rivertown Poets, Larry Robinson, Bill Vartnaw and Sandra Anfang read, followed by open mic. 189 H St, Petaluma.

707.778.6060.

Book Passage Sep 1, 2pm, “Glass Houses” with Louise Penny.

Sep 2, 4pm, “The (Not So) Little Book of Surprises” with Deirdre Hade and William Arntz. Sep 5, 7pm, “Speak and Speak Again” with various authors. Sep 6, 7pm, “My Absolute Darling” with Gabriel Tallent. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 415.927.0960.

Charles M Schulz Museum Sep 2, 2pm, Bookshelf Author Series with Jay Asher. 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa.

707.579.4452.

Luther Burbank Center for the Arts Sep 1, 7pm, “Glass Houses” with Louise Penny. Sold-out. 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.546.3600.

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Love’s Labour’s Lost Marin Shakespeare Company’s 28th annual summer festival offers a masterpiece of wordplay set at Oxford at the turn of the century. Sep 1-24. $10-$37. Forest Meadows Amphitheatre, 890 Belle Ave, Dominican University, San Rafael, marinshakespeare.org.

Man of La Mancha Epic musical about Miguel de Cervantes, the playwright of Don Quixote, mixes romance, humor and tragedy. Sep 1-24. $25-$45.

Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.763.8920.

The Miser The Curtain Theatre presents the classic satire that still resonates today. Through Sep 10, 2pm. Free. Old Mill Park, Throckmorton and Cascade, Mill Valley, curtaintheatre.org.

Sing Me a Murder See and sing in the newest dinner show from Get a Clue Productions, a fully functioning karaoke bar with deadly competition. Reservations required. Fri, Sep 1, 7pm. $68. Charlie’s Restaurant, Windsor Golf Club, 1320 19th Hole Dr, Windsor, getaclueproductions.com.

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown Sixth Street Playhouse opens the 2017-18 season and celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Broadway musical based on the “Peanuts” comic strip. Through Sep 17. $15$38. 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.523.4185.

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

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STATEMENT—File No: 2017142272. 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, and thereafter published on June 21, June 28, July 05, and July 12 2017 with an incorrect file number of 142329. (Publication Dates: August 9, August 16, August 23, August 30 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-142700. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: WEBSTER COACHING, 125 CLAYTON STREET, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: EDWIN H WEBSTER, MEGAN S WEBSTER, 125 CLAYTON STREET, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. The business is being conducted by A MARRIED COUPLE. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on July 28, 2017. (Publication Dates: August 9, August 16, August 23, August 30 of 2017)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-142574. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: BAY LOVES,

47 MOORE ROAD, NOVATO, CA 94949: JENNIFER L DYSON, 47 MOORE ROAD, NOVATO, CA 94949: 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 July 12, 2017. (Publication Dates: August 9, August 16, August 23, August 30 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-142782. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: RETAIL WEST, 767 BRIDGEWAY, SUITE 3C, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: SAUSALITO NO NAME PARTNERS, INC., 767 BRIDGEWAY, SUITE 3C, SAUSALITO, CA 94965. 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 August 9, 2017. (Publication Dates: August 16, August 23, August 30, September 6 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-142733. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: TIBURON CHARTERS, 21 MAIN STREET, TIBURON CA 94920: ANGEL ISLAND-TIBURON FERRY INC, 21 MAIN STREET, 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 August 2, 2017. (Publication

Dates: August 16, August 23, August 30, September 6 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017142780. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: ADBIKE, 400 CANAL ST. #129, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: MIGUEL ANGEL GARCIA HERNANDEZ, 400 CANAL ST. #129, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901.

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

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on August 9, 2017. (Publication Dates: August 16, August 23, August 30, September 6 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-142778. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: HANDY HANDSOME HUSBANDS.COM, 11 RICH STREET, GREENBRAE, CA 94904: ESTELA VIRGINIA FRASER, 11 RICH STREET, 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 August 9, 2017. (Publication Dates: August 16, August 23, August 30, September 6 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-142784. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: 1, MARIN BLACK TRANSPORTATION, 2, MARIN BLACK LIMO, 3, MARIN BLACK TAXI, 4,

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PublicNotices MARIN BLACK LIMOUSINE, 12 TERNERS DR #31, SAUSALITO, CA 94966: YUSUF HASAM MAMOON, 12 TERNERS DR #31, SAUSALITO, CA 94966. 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 August 9, 2017. (Publication Dates: August 23, August 30, September 6, September 13 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-142816. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: HLG CONSULTING, 1 MARINA COURT DRIVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: HEATHER A. MITCHELL, 1 MARINA COURT DRIVE, 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 August 15, 2017. (Publication Dates: August 23, August 30, September 6, September 13 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017142774. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: HYPNOTIK MEDIA GROUP, 13 WORDSWORTH COURT, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: YOLANDA G. LEMAITRE CORP, 13 WORDSWORTH COURT, 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 August 8, 2017. (Publication Dates: August 23, August 30, September 6, September 13 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017142849. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: BE WHITMAN, INC, 76 WILLOW AVENUE, FAIRFAX, CA 94930: BE WHITMAN, INC, 76 WILLOW AVENUE, FAIRFAX, CA 94930. 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 August 21, 2017. (Publication Dates: August 23, August 30, September 6, September 13 of 2017)

OTHER NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No: CIV 1702816. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner HOSSAIN PASHA POURIAN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: HOSSAIN PASHA POURIAN to PASHA POURIAN. 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: 09/11/2017 AT 09:00 AM, DEPT C, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, 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: Aug 02, 2017 (Publication Dates: August 16, August 23, August 30, September 6 of 2017) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No: CIV 1702924. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner LAURE MARIE KING filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: LAURE MARIE KING to LAURE KING PALOMINO. 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: 09/27/2017 AT 09:00 AM, DEPT E, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, 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: Aug 10, 2017 (Publication Dates: August 16, August 23, August 30, September 6 of 2017) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No: CIV 1702942. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner CATHERINE GRAY MACDONALD filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: CATHERINE GRAY MACDONALD to GRAY MACDONALD HUFFARD. 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: 09/26/2017 AT 09:00 AM, ROOM C, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, 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: Aug 11, 2017 (Publication Dates: August 16, August 23, August 30, September 6 of 2017) Notice Content SUMMONS - FAMILY LAW. CASE NUMBER: FL 1702113.

NOTICE TO RESPONDENT: MARIO FERMAN LOPEZ. You have been sued. PETITIONER’S NAME IS: CLAUDIA ELIZABETH LOPEZ. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner.

A letter, phone call or court appearance will not protect you.

If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. Get help finding a lawyer at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center ([ http://www.courts.ca.gov/ selfhelp ]www.courts.ca.gov/

selfhelp), at the California Legal Services website ([ http://www. lawhelpca.org/ ]www.lawhelpca. org), or by contacting your local county bar association. NOTICE-RESTRAINING ORDERS ARE ON PAGE 2: These restraining are effective against both spouses or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment is entered, or the court makes further orders. They are enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement officer who has received or seen a copy of them. FEE WAIVER: If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form.

The court may order you to pay back all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for you or the other party. The name and address of the court are: MARIN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORINA, 3501 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE, P.O. BOX 4988, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: CLAUDIA ELIZABETH LOPEZ, 1 MUROC LAKE DR. #115, NOVATO, CA 94949.Tel:415-760-2932. Clerk, by /s/ JAMES M.KIM, Court Executive Officer, Marin County Superior Court, By J.BERG, Deputy. Date: AUGUST 3, 2017.

STANDARD FAMILY LAW RESTRAINING ORDERS. Starting immediately, you and your spouse or domestic partner are restrained from: 1. removing the minor children of the parties from the state or applying for a new or replacement passport for those minor children without the prior written consent of the other party or an order of the court; 2. cashing, borrowing against, canceling, transferring, disposing of, or changing the beneficiaries of any insurance or other coverage, including life, health, automobile, and disability, held for the benefit of the parties and their minor children; 3. transferring, encumbering, hypothecating, concealing, or in any way disposing of any property, real or personal, whether community, quasi-community, or separate, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court, except in the usual course of business or for the necessities of life; and 4. creating a nonprobate transfer or modifying a nonprobate transfer in a manner that affects the disposition of property subject to the transfer, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court. Before revocation of a nonprobate transfer can take effect or a right of survivorship to property can be eliminated, notice of the change must be files and served on the other party. You must notify each other of any proposed extraordinary expenditures at least five business days prior to incurring these extraordinary expenditures and account to the court for all extraordinary expenditures made after these restraining orders are effective. However, you may use community property, quasi-community property, or your own

separate property to pay an attorney to help you or to pay court costs. NOTICE ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HEALTH INSURANCE: Do you or someone in your household need affordable health insurance? If so, you should apply for Covered California. Covered California can help reduce the cost you pay towards high quality affordable health care. For more information, visit [ http://www. coveredca.com/ ]www.coveredca. com. Or call Covered California at 1-800-300-1506. WARNING IMPORTANT INFORMATION. California law provides that, for purposes of division of property upon dissolution of a marriage or domestic partnership or upon legal separation, property acquired by the parties during marriage or domestic partnership in joint form is presumed to be community property.

If either party to this action should die before the jointly held community property is divided, the language in the deed that characterizes how title is held (i.e., joint tenancy, tenants in common, or community property) will be controlling, and not the community property presumption. You should consult your attorney if you want the community property presumption to be written into the recorded title to the property. (Publication Dates: August 16, August 23, August 30, September 6 of 2017) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ADONIYA A. DEKELAITA; Case No. PR-1702720 filed on AUGUST 15, 2017. To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of ADONIYA A. DEKELAITA. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed in the Superior Court of California, County of MARIN by SASHA M. DEKELAITA. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that SASHA M. DEKELAITA be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action). The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant

the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: SEPTEMBER 18, 2017 at 9:00 am. In Dept. J, Superior Court of California, Marin County, located at Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94913. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or A CONTINGENT CREDITOR OF THE DECEDENT, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under Section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California Statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER: LAW OFFICE OF NANCY D. RASCH, 165 SOUTH PARK, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. Telephone: 415-440-4947.

(Publication Dates: August 30, September 06, September 13, September 20 of 2017)

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Q: A:

My friend and I are debating why it is that men don’t want you when you want them yet they’re all gung-ho when you aren’t interested. She believes that we just want what we can’t have. Could it be that simple?—Pondering

In looking for love, a number of people confuse “the chase” with something closer to criminal stalking. In their defense, these ideas don’t come out of nowhere. For example, consider how creepy the Cupid dude with the little bow and arrow actually is. Basically, he’s the chubby baby version of the maniac hunting people down with a crossbow.

The reality is, nobody pines for what’s easy to get or, worse, what’s chasing madly after them. It’s about value. Being easy to get or seeming desperate suggests that one has what anthropologists call “low mate value.” Social psychologist Robert Cialdini explains this with “the scarcity principle,” which describes how the less available something is, the more valuable it seems and the more we want it. Being scarce doesn’t necessarily equate to being more valuable; however, because of how psychologically painful we find regret—feeling that we screwed up and thus missed out—scarcity kicks us into a motivational state, making us all hot for whatever’s in short supply.

This is the sales principle behind those chichi boutiques with just one item on a rack, as if they were a mini museum of the little black dress. There’s a good chance that they have 20 more in the back. But putting out 20 sends a different message—like one of those shops with a big yellow sign, “Everything in the store, $15, including the dog.”

Still, the scarcity principle sometimes gets falsely accused of causing a burgeoning relationship to tank when other factors are actually to blame. Consider whether you’re choosing wisely—going for someone who’s ready to be in a relationship.

Some people who think they’re ready may not be. Others will admit that they aren’t ready. Believe them—or at least tread cautiously—and recognize the propensity many women have for Svengali-ette-alism: “I’ll be the one to change him!” (Kleenex has succeeded as a brand in no small part thanks to these women.)

With someone who is a real possibility, you’ll have your best shot by coming off appropriately interested instead of stalkerishly so. If you tend to go from zero to texting a guy 36 times in a row while sitting in your car with binoculars trained on his house, figure out proactive ways to avoid that and other crazypants stuff you do. Sure, love is said to be “a journey,” but it shouldn’t be one that has something in common with being chased by feral hogs down a lonely country road.

Q:

My sweet boyfriend always leaves his nose hair and beard trimmings in the sink. He claims he forgets to wipe up afterward and asks, “Is it that big of a deal?” Am I being petty, or is this disrespectful when you share a space with somebody?—Annoyed

A:

Surely, your boyfriend eventually notices dropped bits of beard hair— about when the sink starts panting and pawing in response to, “Here, boy!”

However, chances are that he’s leaving you a furry sink not out of disrespect, but because he goes into a behavioral coma. This comes out of how our brain conserves energy by creating stored strings of behavior. The first time you ride a bike or eat with a spoon, you have to put conscious thought into each step. But with time and practice, the sequence becomes automatic and unconscious.

Research on habit change by psychologist Wendy Wood and her colleagues suggests that “disrupting” the usual physical sequence of a stored behavior can jolt a person out of autopilot, triggering their conscious mind to take over. You can disrupt your boyfriend’s beard-snipping routine simply by changing where the scissors get stored. Maybe put them in a kitchen cabinet for a while—and of course, clue him in and explain why.

Yes, this could actually work to get him to remember your “Yoo-hoo … sinkiepoo!” However, what ultimately matters is how you treat each other. If your sink continues to have a five o’clock shadow, maybe decide to just laugh about your sweet daydreamy slob instead of going all toxic-ragey “I’ll show him!” and throwing out the beard clippings yourself—by dragging the sink to the curb.Y Worship the goddess—or sacrifice her at the altar at adviceamy@aol.com.

Astrology

For the week of August 30

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems,” said businessman Lee Iacocca. You are currently wrestling with an example of this phenomenon, Aries. The camouflage is well-rendered. To expose the opportunity hidden beneath the apparent dilemma, you may have to be more strategic and less straightforward than you usually are—cagier and not as blunt. Can you manage that? I think so.

Once you crack the riddle, taking advantage of the opportunity should be interesting.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Close your eyes and imagine this: You and a beloved ally get lost in an enchanted forest, discover a mysterious treasure and find your way back to civilization just before dark. Now visualize this: You give a dear companion a photo of your face taken on every one of your birthdays, and the two of you spend hours talking about your evolution. Picture this: You and an exciting accomplice luxuriate in a sunlit sanctuary surrounded by gourmet snacks as you listen to ecstatic music and bestow compliments on each other. These are examples of the kinds of experiments I invite you to try in the coming weeks. Dream up some more!

Here’s a keynote to inspire you: Sacred fun.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): On its album Jefferson’s Tree of Liberty, Jefferson Starship plays a song I co-wrote, “In a Crisis.” On its album Deeper Space/Virgin Sky, the band covers another tune I co-wrote, “Dark Ages.” Have I received a share of the record sales? Not a penny. Am I upset? Not at all. I’m glad that the songs are being heard and enjoyed. I’m gratified that a world-famous, multiplatinum band chose to record them. I’m pleased that my musical creations are appreciated. Now here’s my question for you, Gemini: Has some good thing of yours been “borrowed?” Have you wielded a benevolent influence that hasn’t been fully acknowledged? I suggest that you consider adopting an approach like mine. It’s prime time to adjust your thinking about how your gifts and talents have been used, applied or translated.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Author Roger von Oech tells us that creativity often involves “the ability to take something out of one context and put it into another so that it takes on new meanings.”

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, this strategy could and should be your specialty in the coming weeks. “The first person to look at an oyster and think food had this ability,” von Oech says.

“So did the first person to look at sheep intestines and think guitar strings. And so did the first person to look at a perfume vaporizer and think gasoline carburetor.” Be on the lookout, Cancerian, for inventive substitutions and ingenious replacements.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): When famous socialite

Nan Kempner was young, her mother took her shopping at Yves Saint Laurent’s salon. Nan got fixated on a certain white satin suit, but her mean old mother refused to buy it for her. “You’ve already spent too much of your monthly allowance,” mom said. But the resourceful girl came up with a successful gambit. She broke into sobs, and continued to cry nonstop until the store’s clerks lowered the price to an amount that she could afford. You know me, Leo: I don’t usually recommend resorting to such extreme measures to get what you want. But now is one time when I am giving you a go-ahead to do just that.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the miraculous communication system that we know as the World Wide Web. When asked if he had any regrets about his pioneering work, he named just one. There was no need for him to have inserted the double slash— “//”—after the “http:” in web addresses. He’s sorry that internet users have had to type those irrelevant extra characters so many billions of times. Let this serve as a teaching story for you, Virgo. As you create innovations in the coming weeks, be mindful of how you shape the basic features. The details you include in the beginning may endure.

By Rob Brezsny

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The sadness that you feel might be the most fertile sadness that you have felt in a long time. At least potentially, it has tremendous motivating power. You could respond to it by mobilizing changes that would dramatically diminish the sadness you feel in the coming years, and also make it less likely that sadness-provoking events will come your way. So I invite you to express gratitude for your current sadness. That’s the crucial first step if you want to harness it to work wonders.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Don't hoot with the owls at night if you want to crow with the rooster in the morning,” advised Miss Georgia during the Miss Teen USA Competition. Although that’s usually good counsel, it may not apply to you in the coming weeks. Why? Because your capacity for revelry will be at an all-time high, as will your ability to be energized rather than drained by your revelry. It seems that you have a special temporary superpower that enables you both to have maximum fun and get a lot of work done.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): During this phase of your astrological cycle, it makes sense to express more leadership. If you’re already a pretty good guide or role model, you will have the power to boost your benevolent influence to an even higher level. For inspiration, listen to educator Peter Drucker: “Leadership is not magnetic personality. That can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not ‘making friends and influencing people.’ That is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, raising a person’s performance to a higher standard, building a personality beyond its normal limitations.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “One should always be a little improbable,” said Oscar Wilde. That’s advice I wouldn’t normally give a Capricorn. You thrive on being grounded and straightforward. But I’m making an exception now.

The astrological omens compel me. So what does it mean, exactly? How might you be “improbable?”

Here are suggestions to get you started: 1. Be on the lookout for inspiring ways to surprise yourself.

2. Elude any warped expectations that people have of you. 3. Be willing to change your mind.

Open yourself up to evidence that contradicts your theories and beliefs. 4. Use telepathy to contact Oscar Wilde in your dreams, and ask him to help you stir up some benevolent mischief or compassionate trouble.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A modern Israeli woman named Shoshana Hadad got into trouble because of an event that occurred long before she was born. In 580 B.C., one of her male ancestors married a divorced woman, which at that time was regarded as a sin. Religious authorities decreed that as punishment, none of his descendants could ever wed a member of the Cohen tribe. But Hadad did just that, which prompted rabbis to declare her union with Masoud Cohen illegal. I bring this tale to your attention as a way to illustrate the possibility that you, too, may soon have to deal with the consequences of past events. But now that I have forewarned you, I expect that you will act wisely, not rashly. You will pass a tricky test and resolve the old matter for good.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Want to live to be 100? Then be as boring as possible. That’s the conclusion of longevity researchers, as reported by the Weekly World News. To ensure a maximum life span, you should do nothing that excites you.

You should cultivate a neutral, blah personality, and never travel far from home. JUST KIDDING! I lied. The Weekly World News is in fact a famous purveyor of fake news. The truth, according to my analysis of the astrological omens, is that you should be less boring in the next seven weeks than you have ever been in your life. To do so will be superb for your health, your wealth and your future.Y Homework: Send news of your favorite mystery—an enigma that is both maddening and delightful. Testify at Freewillastrology.com.

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