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This week, a letter-writer assures women that the actions of the men recently accused of sexual harassment do not represent the feelings and beliefs of many.

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Please, please, please, Tom Gogola and editors, do not continue calling Sir Francis Drake Blvd. “the Drake” [‘Drake News Alert,’ Dec. 6]. This continues and legitimizes the L.A.ization of our historic Northern California road names; my friends and I cringe as people refer to “the 101” and “the 580,” a lingo that apparently started in Los Angeles.

Let’s keep it there. (No bias here—I was born in Pasadena and almost love L.A.) What’s next, “the Fourth,” “the Magnolia,” “the Blithedale” and … ???

—Dewey Livingston

Message to Males

This letter is in response to the articles covering the sexual harassment allegations made against men in the media and government throughout the United States.

To all males living in this country I issue a collective statement: Enough already! Who are you to impose your sexual desires on someone because they did not give you their consent? Once again we are witnessing those in authority positions taking advantage of the situation. Resignation is the least you can do. Prosecution is the best we can do … and we will.

What did you expect to gain from making sexual advances on

a human being? If this isn’t an indication of the failure to grow up I don’t know what is. Those men who have permeated this transgression must seek counseling before they destroy more lives executing their perverted conquest.

Otherwise time spent in prison will allow them to dwell on their evil actions while trying to survive an environment which is the closest equivalent to hell on Earth.

Perhaps I had the advantage of growing up with four sisters in my family, which some say predispositions males to be kinder to females throughout all stages of their life. Frankly I remember times when I was embarrassed for making incidental contact with a female, followed by an immediate apology.

Ladies of America, please be assured that the actions of a few do not represent the feelings and beliefs of the many. You are our mothers, sisters, daughters, cousins, etc. that compose one equal half of the species we call the human race. For that matter do not despair, because the true, honest and gentle men of this country know better than to act inappropriately in your company. We will always cherish your beauty, charm and most importantly your intelligence. Now help us to drive this dreadful scourge from the planet once and for all. It is up to all of us. Let us begin.

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By Howard Rachelson

1 Early in their career, the Grateful Dead supplied the musical spirit for what ‘merry’ group of psychedelic travelers, led by what 29-year-old counterculture leader and author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest?

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2 List these animals according to number of permanent teeth, fewest first: Dogs, cats, humans.

3 Which one of the comedians, the Marx Brothers,

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played what large musical instrument? What’s his real name?

4 How many years are celebrated at a sesquicentennial event?

5 Andrew Jackson in 1767 was the first, and James Garfield in 1831 the last, U.S. president to be born where?

6 From 2000-2010, Billboard’s top four recording

artists (on the singles and album charts) were individual singers with one-word names. For example, No. 3 on the list was ‘Nelly.’ Who were the other three?

7 The primary religion of Sweden, Finland and Denmark is what branch of Christianity?

8 What two teams in the National Basketball Association have won the most games, overall, since 1946?

9 Where in the human body do you find the Islands of Langerhans?

10 Supply a two-word alliterative phrase for each description. For example:

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▼ What is up with crimes committed against the elderly in our lovely county? Last week, a 92-year-old woman, shopping at Safeway on Diablo Ave. in Novato, had her purse in the child’s seat of her cart when a depraved man swooped in, grabbed her bag and fled. (He was soon apprehended after the County of Marin Probation Department identified him from a photo.) You may remember that two weeks ago, we shared the sordid story of a mature gentleman who was convinced that he’d won a million dollars from a scammer, and a couple of months ago, we reported that a trio of women snatched a purse from yet another 92-year-old woman. It’s perverse to prey upon our seniors. Go find someone your own age to pick on.—Nikki Silverstein

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Upfront A proposed change in tax law has, and continues to be, supported by progressive organizations such as the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC).

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The GOP’s “California problem” in tax bill could be a huge problem for Marin By Tom Gogola

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ynthia Murray was admittedly in a bad mood around a month ago when the U.S. House of Representatives voted on a controversial tax “reform” bill that may deliver a uniquely regional measure of pain to Marin County.

Murray, who formerly served on the Marin County Board of Supervisors, is a Petaluma resident

and President and Chief Executive Officer of the North Bay Leadership Council. She addressed an audience in San Rafael during a Marin Communications Forum event in early December and laced into the Republican Party for its tax package, which is now in the reconciliation phase of negotiations as the Senate and House work to send a bill to President Donald J. Trump’s desk by Christmas.

There’s lots of tweaking going on and it’s unclear what will make the final cut of the tax bill, but the basic drift is that it’s a giant giveaway to American corporations which will see their tax rate plunge from 38 percent to as low as 20 percent. In the meantime, there are struggling families everywhere.

An oft-repeated Republican talking point on the tax bill is that tax cuts are generally wasted on poor people

because they spend all their money, as Utah Senator Chuck Grassley put it, “on booze, women or movies.”

Murray took umbrage with the characterization in her opening remarks. “How many people intend to do that?” Murray asked the crowd gathered in an Embassy Suites conference room. “Raise your hands.

Talk about out of touch,” she said, as she semi-apologized to the crowd for her entertainingly sour mood.

Nobody seemed to mind.

Murray rattled off some recent real estate listings in Marin—a $900,000 property, another listed for $42 million and another that listed at a reasonable $285,000.

“That must be someone’s garden shed,” Murray quipped.

There’s good reason for Murray’s miffed mindset and for any prospective homeowners in Marin County to be worried about the GOP tax bill that’s currently being rushed through Congress.

Some of the measures targeted at homeowners or potential buyers have been singled out by state and national realtors’ organizations that typically support Republicans, as being not a very wise homeownership-encouraging policy from their perspective.

The tax package sets out to double the standard exemption for most filers, while also eliminating tax breaks and deductions that encourage home ownership.

And the GOP plan would allow homeowners to write off the interest on their mortgage payment from the federal government for the first $500,000 in borrowed money.

Another proposal would negatively impact homeowners, who would no longer be able to write off the first $10,000 in property taxes paid to localities.

Under current tax law, the mortgage-loan interest can be written off on loans up to $1,000,000. (GOP Senate leaders said Tuesday afternoon that they were thinking about splitting the difference and setting the new write-off limit at $750,000.)

The so-called “California problem” is one of relativity: $500,000 doesn’t have the buying power in Marin as it has in Maine.

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by Alex S. Metzger, MD, Hematology and Medical Oncology

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ung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in both men and women in the United States.

While early detection is our best defense against most cancers, lung cancer detection can be difficult. By the time symptoms appear, the disease is usually in an advanced, non-curable stage.

Efforts to decrease deaths from lung cancer have centered mainly on prevention, most notably with public health warnings about the danger of cigarette smoking. At the same time, the medical community has been searching for an effective, low risk screening method, similar to mammography, as a way to detect lung cancer in its earliest stages, before symptoms begin to occur.

The breakthrough came in 2011 when results from a National Lung Screening Trial (NLST), a three year clinical trial involving more than 50,000 people, were published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The test used both annual low dose CT scans and chest X-rays to detect abnormal areas in the lungs that might be lung cancer. People in the study had to be current or former smokers in fairly good health.

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The results were positive. People getting the low dose scans over the three-year period had a 20% lower chance of dying from lung cancer than those in the study who had received annual chest rays. One death from lung cancer was prevented per 320 persons screened.

This landmark study clearly showed the effectiveness of annual screenings in a high risk population. Several professional groups and associations all advocated the careful use of annual screenings with low dose CT scans for patients at high risk for lung

cancer. Most insurance companies including Medicare followed these recommendations by covering the screenings for high risk patients.

The American Cancer Society (ACS) provided guidelines for the establishment of community-based lung cancer screening programs, modeled on the NLST study.

Criteria for potential patients includes: • 55 to 74 years old • In fairly good health, for example, able to have further tests or surgery if cancer is found • Have at least a 30 year, one packday smoking history, or a 15 year, two packs-a-day smoking history • Are either still smoking or have quit within the last 15 years ACS also recommended screening done only at facilities with low dose CT scanning equipment, a team experienced in this type of imaging and specialists available if further tests and follow up care are needed.

Marin County is an especially healthy community, with only 6% of adults who smoke, compared to 14% of adults in California. Lung cancer nonetheless was the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in Marin County between 2010 and 2012.

With overwhelming support from Marin County physicians who are involved in lung cancer diagnoses and treatments, Marin General Hospital is initiating a program offering lung cancer screenings as the standard of care for people considered to be at high risk for lung cancer.

patient’s medical condition and smoking history, will identify patients at risk for lung cancer and recommend screening. After discussing the pros and cons with the patient, and if the patient is willing, the physician will make a referral to the program. Patients who believe they are candidates for a screening can begin the conversation with their physicians and both then can make the decision about whether to proceed.

At the time of the procedure, the patient will have an ultra-low dose CT scan which will then be read by a radiologist.

Using special software, a score will be assigned to the scan to determine if the patient needs immediate further evaluation or possibly a shorter term follow up exam. A tumor board will look at and discuss each abnormal scan to see if any additional information can be gleaned in addition to the radiologist’s report.

If the scan is read as normal, the patient and the referring physician will get a letter stating as such and that a follow up scan may be scheduled in a year if appropriate.

While early detection is your best defense against lung cancer, as a physician who cares for lung cancer patients, I cannot help but add screenings are not a substitute for quitting smoking. To lower your lung cancer risk, talk to your doctor about ways to quit smoking. For more information about the lung cancer screening program, call 1-415-925-7010 ext. 50672.

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Maggie Wolfe, owner of Olema’s new Sea to See shop, sells work by artists from around the Bay Area.

Olema, Olema

I’m proud to be a post-post-hippie who drives through Olema pretty often

By Tom Gogola

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here’s a pennant on the back wall at the newly opened Sea to See retail space in unincorporated Olema with a one-word message: Hustle.

Yup. That’s just what shop owner and West Marin resident Maggie Wolfe plans to do to find success in this tiny town at the crossroads of Highway One and Sir Francis Drake Boulevard.

Wolfe had been open for all of five days when the Pacific Sun stopped in on a recent afternoon for a greeting and to check out the wares, which come from various makers, crafters and artisans from around the Bay Area. In that sense the idea here is similar to that which animated the previous business here, known only as The Shop: Showcase really cool stuff that’s made locally.

There’s stuff for kids and adults, and if my nieces and nephews hadn’t all gone and grown up while

I wasn’t looking, those soft-ballshooting slingshots would’ve been in everyone’s stocking this year.

Olema’s a funny little place that’s sort of neither here nor there and yet everywhere all at once. I recently went on a late-night adventure, fueled by curiosity and the local cannabis, which took me to Olema and back.

It was an online adventure, and an epic one. Embarkation point: YouTube. I was listening to some old Youngbloods tunes (and who doesn’t love the Youngbloods?), when the obscure track “Hippie From Olema” popped up in the playlist. A kind of corn-pone country classic issued from the computer speakers. It sounded familiar, for a reason.

What? What is this?!!?

Well I’m proud to be a hippie from Olema Where we’re friendly to the squares and all the straights

We still take in strangers if they’re ragged We can’t think of anyone to hate.

Despite its many charms and attractions, Olema’s “downtown” is a place to drive through when you’re going somewhere else, usually, and it goes by in a blur.

The town is roughly framed to the north by the Olema campground, and to the south by the Hindu Vedanta Society of Northern California retreat center, a gem of a place for seekers of spiritual guidance, marked only by a simple roadside sign.

Unfortunately, despite the Youngbloods’ lyric that says otherwise, they don’t necessarily take in strangers if they are ragged these days in Olema. San Francisco glampers with a pocketful of ayahuasca and a jones for the local oysters—no problem.

There are a few pricey inns and bed-and-breakfast options to choose between out here. The campground is on the upscale end of the spectrum, and one of the great draws of the place generally is its proximity to the Point Reyes National Seashore Bear Valley Visitor Center.

As a crossroads town, Olema is also an attractive option for anyone who is seeking to sell their soul to the devil in exchange for rock ’n’ roll infamy …

C’mon people, smile at your brother …

We all know that Youngbloods tune.

The big hit, written by Dino Valenti.

Another draw: For seekers of a ride to San Rafael or parts north, Olema jumps out as sort of a reliable spot for hitchhikers with a thumb out. It’s also where the Sir and Star restaurant is located, with its pleasantly nonpunitive price point for menu items that include the roasting of

We don’t throw our beer cans on the highway We don’t slight a man because he’s black We don’t spill our oil out in the ocean ’Cause we love birds and fish too much for that Things do happen, in Olema, population 74, and according to Wikipedia, the town takes its name from a Miwok word, Olema-loke, which means “little coyote.” There are coyotes here, and the delightful Olema Creek meanders about. And every so often a Marin County Sheriff’s deputy will perch his cruiser in a little nook at the intersection and nab speeders and blowers of the stop sign. People walk their horses down Highway One sometimes. Last year, a tree fell and I had to sleep in my car for a few hours since I couldn’t drive any further south than Olema. Good times.

I feel for Olema the way I’m always pulling for the underdog, the also-ran, the person who’s been kicked around in life. Don’t trash on Olema! And so I’ve been having this rolling anthromorphic moment of empathy for this sleepy village in competition with a bunch of funky downtowns and lots of walkability for tourists, shoppers and diners with a burning hole in their pockets and a holiday to-buy list: Stinson Beach, Bolinas, Point Reyes Station and even the diminutively vibrant Marshall are themselves destination spots—but who goes to Olema just for the heck of it?

Oh, let’s go to Olema just for the heck of it!

After all, it’s not like anyone ever wrote a song that you’ve actually heard

or can find on YouTube, about Stinson Beach or Bolinas or Point Reyes Station.

But there is a song about Olema, written and recorded in 1967 by the Youngbloods. The song feels familiar because it was written as a response to the Merle Haggard hit, “Okie From Muskogee,” the anti-hippie country classic wherein certain residents of Oklahoma don’t smoke marijuana, have orgies or grow their hair long. In response, the Youngbloods sang: We don’t watch commercials in Olema We don’t buy the plastic crap they sell We still wear our hair long like folks used to And we bathe often, therefore we don’t smell Wolfe, who does not appear to carry any plastic crap in her store (and who has long hair and a pleasant aroma about her), says she’ll be keeping hours at Sea to See, Wednesday through Sunday 11am to 7pm, and just in time for the holiday season with its mad rushes to consume or be consumed.

We’re in the thick of it now, the spending season, the season of high cheer and holiday hoo-ha and it’s a kind of make-or-break time for local artists and craftspeople who rely on stores such as Sea to See to feature their wares in a retail setting which would otherwise be out of the range of affordability.

The hustle is on and the local artisans are trying to make bank over the next couple of weeks so they too can have a happy holiday.

And ho-ho-ho, there are big craft fairs busting out all over between now and Christmas. A couple of weekends ago saw the Point Reyes event, and this weekend was Bolinas’ turn; the annual Bolinas Winter Faire at the Bolinas Community Center (where I am, full disclosure, an occasional parttime employee), featured all sorts of local makers and bakers deploying their home-grown goodies.

I asked a few vendors and strollersthrough over the weekend fair to share their thoughts about Olema and mostly folks just shrugged or told me that there used to be a DJ on KWMR who used the Youngbloods tune as his intro song. Nice town, was the general consensus. Not too much going on there, but good luck to anyone who wants to give it a go.

And I’m proud to be a hippie from Olema Where we’re friendly to the squares and all the straights We still take in strangers if they’re Haggard In Olema, California, planet earthY

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your neighbor’s quail and eating it.

If there’s a destination-location in Olema, it’s the Sir and Star.

The West Marin outpost of the nonprofit Marin Convention and Visitors Bureau is located in the same strip of old buildings that houses Sea to See, and Jude Vasconcellos behind the desk admits that hers is without question the coolest job in West Marin.

Vasconcellos, a Marshall resident and bronze-art sculptor, has worked here for years and the first thing visitors to the visitor’s center encounter are Mardi Gras-type lovebeads in the opening to the door.

Then there’s a big fake horse in the center, which is loaded down with all sorts of printed material for tourists.

The visitor’s center is a destination in itself—a vast space with free Wi-Fi and tons of room to get cozy and kick back and appreciate the Olema ethic as described by the Youngbloods:

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Last year, Marin Sun Farms merged with Mindful Meats, and the meat is now processed through Marin Sun Farms’ organic facility.

FOOD & DRINK

Dual Purpose Raising cows for organic dairy and beef

By Tanya Henry

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ith increased awareness around humanely raised livestock, it’s not surprising that pioneer David Evans of Marin Sun Farms is once again ahead of the curve in his industry.

Last year he merged with Claire Herminjard’s Mindful Meats to offer a certified organic, non-GMO verified line of pasture-raised beef that is made exclusively from dairy cows.

Though life has improved dramatically for cows that are raised by organic dairy producers, many, like factory cows, face the same fate—they are sold cheaply and mixed in with commodity meats.

With their “dual purpose animal agriculture” philosophy, Mindful Meats aims to change this practice.

Instead of sending off cows to largescale processors, the company sources cows at the end of their dairyproducing lives (mostly Holsteins and Jerseys) from select, organic Sonoma and Marin county dairies.

“I like to call it upcycling,” says Marin Sun Farms’ Marketing and

Livestock Supply Manager Alessa Palmer, who describes the meat as darker, more robust, rich and marbled. “It’s a different eating experience,” but one that restaurant chefs are embracing. A handful of San Francisco and Marin restaurants are buying the meat, and Spanish chef José Andrés is a supporter and fan.

As homesteading and sustainable living practices become more mainstream, this approach to butchery is resonating for many.

Before the days of industrialized meat production, when a dairy cow no longer produced milk, she was slaughtered and eaten. She remained on the same farm her entire life, and even at the end—she was not shipped off to parts unknown, but rather stayed in the same region where she was born and raised. If that is not the definition of humane, I’m not sure what is.Y Mindful Meats can be found at Good Earth Natural Foods stores in Fairfax and Mill Valley; marinsunfarms.com; mindfulmeats.com.

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Clear Motivations Margot Robbie and Allison Janney on their ‘I, Tonya’ characters

By David Templeton

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o Margot Robbie, Tonya Harding was a pit bull.

That’s not just a metaphor. It’s how the fastrising Australian actor (Suicide Squad, Goodbye, Christopher Robin) elected to play the real-life figure skater in the just-released movie I, Tonya.

The film, which is already appearing on many end-of-year top 10 lists, screened on December 2 at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, in a special event featuring Robbie onstage with co-star Allison Janney, the film’s director Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl) and the screenwriter, Steven Rogers (Hope Floats, Stepmom). In answer to a question posed during the postscreening conversation between the

guests and moderator Zoe Elton, Robbie revealed that she often uses an acting technique in which she identifies her characters as a particular animal.

Tonya Harding, Robbie admitted, was definitely a pit bull.

I, Tonya is an aggressively unconventional biopic. Interspersed with recreations of taped interviews with various characters who populate the story, the film offers clashing viewpoints, explanations, excuses and context.

Harding is the notorious athlete who fell from grace—and the pinnacle of world champion skating competitors—after being implicated, fairly or not, in the brutal kneecapping of rival skater

Nancy Kerrigan, in 1993. Harding’s ex-husband Jeff Gillooly (Sebastian Stan), eventually did jail time for the attack, along with his bizarre conspiracy-theorist buddy Shawn (Paul Walter Hauser). Harding was banned for life from professional skating, but has always claimed that she never knew about plans for the assault on Kerrigan, a view the film’s script mostly seems to agree with.

“That script was like nothing I’d ever read before,” Robbie said, when asked about her decision to take on the role of such a universally despised character. “It seemed to break every rule a screenplay is supposed to follow, and I loved that—and I didn’t even know, at first, that it was a true story! I’d

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‘I, Tonya’ is an unconventional biopic that follows figure skater Tonya Harding’s fall from grace.

never heard of Tonya Harding. And the story was so outrageous I just assumed it had to be fictional.”

In the film, Janney plays Harding’s mother LaVona, who easily ranks as one of the worst mothers in the history of motion pictures.

“I couldn’t play her like that, of course,” Janney said. “To LaVona, she was just doing what she had to do to keep her daughter tough. It was quite a process, though, playing someone who’s that willfully mean all the time. It was fun, because an actor always loves to dig into meaty roles, but it was hard.”

Back to Robbie and the pit bull, an animal, it seems, was the key to a remarkable performance.

“Doing the pit bull thing weirdly helped me find a sense of Tonya, to connect with where she was emotionally,” Robbie explained.

“When you are distilling a character down to her clearest motivations, adding a sense of who that person would be as an animal really does help you narrow things down. It’s a weird kind of acting technique, I know, but sometimes it really works, and it definitely worked with Tonya.”

Robbie picked a pit bull because the loved-and-hated dogs are strong, muscular and intimidating. That certainly describes the real-life Harding, one of the only female skaters to ever successfully land a triple axel during a professional competitive skating program. In the film, Robbie re-enacts Harding’s preOlympics training regimen, which involved running uphill while pulling heavy wooden logs. In the sequence, Harding’s coach (Julianne Nicholson), breaks the fourth wall, turning to the camera to say, “She actually did this.”

“I held myself like a pit bull, sort of slightly hunched and low to the ground, ready for a fight if anybody picks one,” Robbie said. “I even did that underbite thing that pit bulls do, with their mouths, just a little bit.”

The only time she dropped the pit bull “identity” while filming, she added, was in doing the figure skating scenes, for which she trained several months previous to shooting.

“For the skating scenes,” Robbie said, “I imagined Tonya as a stallion, running wild, finding a grace and freedom on the ice that she never felt anywhere else in her life.”

“That’s such a fantastic idea,” Janney said in response. “I can’t wait to try that myself.”Y

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‘A Christmas Story: The Musical,’ nominated for three Tony Awards in 2013, is onstage at the San Francisco Playhouse.

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Holiday Cheer ‘A Christmas Story’ lifts spirits By Charles Brousse

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n case you haven’t noticed, or have gone into hibernation to evade the fallout from the multiple disasters (political and otherwise) occurring in this country and abroad, we’re in the midst of what is now called the “holiday season.” Beginning a few days before Thanksgiving and terminating a week or so after New Year’s Day, its length and emphasis on food, drink and other material pleasures rivals, or surpasses, the great pagan festivals of ancient Greece and Rome.

Christmas, its centerpiece, once had at least some religious content in the U.S., given that we’re nominally a Christian nation and many of our pilgrim ancestors came here

precisely because they wanted to freely celebrate the birth of Christ.

That motivation is gone, probably forever. Our increasing secularization is clearly evident in the “holiday shows” mounted by local theaters.

Sometimes, moral issues replace the religious themes, as in staged versions of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, O. Henry’s The Gift of the Magi and the popular film It’s a Wonderful Life.

Sometimes they simply aim to lift our spirits by looking on the good side of things for a change—especially when it comes to family relations.

A Christmas Story: The Musical, currently running at the San Francisco Playhouse, is a great example of the latter. It has no

religious or overt moral content.

What it does have is an endearing all-American tale of a young boy’s dream of receiving a special Christmas gift, and the series of disappointments he encounters.

The plot is based on the 1983 movie, with elements that were derived from semi-autobiographical scripts written by radio personality Jean Shepherd. Twenty years later, it became a musical with a book by Joseph Robinette; music and lyrics are the work of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the team behind the recent hit movie La La Land. Playhouse co-founder Susi Damilano directs, ably assisted by music director Dave Dobrusky and

choreographer Kimberly Richards.

As in the radio broadcasts, the adult Jean Shepherd (played here by Christopher Reber) is the narrator. He recalls a Northern Indiana Christmas in 1940, an era immortalized by Norman Rockwell’s Saturday Evening Post covers extolling America’s idealized families. Like most 9-year-olds (myself included), his fictional son Ralphie (Jonah Broscow) dreads receiving “practical” gifts like clothing, when what he urgently wants is a genuine carbine action, 200-shot Red Ryder BB gun. To achieve this goal, he hounds his parents during the month leading up to the big day, but is rebuffed by his father (Ryan Drummond, known as the The Old Man) with the excuse that he might accidentally shoot his eye out, a warning repeated by his mother (Abby Haug), his teacher (Katrina Lauren McGraw) and even the Santa (Ken Brill) he visits at a neighborhood department store.

Ralphie’s campaign for the BB gun is not helped by a number of incidents in which, despite good intentions, he gets into trouble.

These include joining a group of schoolyard bullies when they use a “triple dare’ to persuade another boy to lick a metal pole in freezing weather, which (to their vast amusement) leaves the boy’s tongue attached. He also has the bad judgment to use a forbidden profanity, something his father does daily with carefree abandon.

Eventually, though, the big day arrives, presents are opened and just when all hope appears to be lost— voila!—The Old Man hands him a long rectangular package.

There is also a subplot involving delivery of a lamp in the form of a fishnet-stockinged, high-heeled female leg that The Old Man won in a mail-in contest and now insists on displaying in the living room window.

Like the main plot, it is really only part of a framework for the song and dance numbers that are the heart of the show. While most are wellexecuted, taken separately they are not particularly memorable. Taken together, however, they combine to make A Christmas Story: The Musical, enjoyable holiday entertainment.Y NOW PLAYING: A Christmas Story: The Musical runs through January 13 at the San Francisco Playhouse, 450 Post St. (2nd floor of the Kensington Park Hotel), San Francisco; 415/6779596; sfplayhouse.org.

By Amy Alkon

Q:

I’m a woman, and I recently made a new professional connection—a man who’s excited about my work. We’re planning on doing a big important project together. I’m worried that he’s interested in me romantically (based on a few things he’s said). I’m not interested in him in that way. What’s the right thing to say to get that across?—All Business

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Woody Allen’s new film ‘Wonder Wheel,’ starring Kate Winslet, takes place at Coney Island in the 1950s.

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Kate Winslet glows in unimpressive ‘Wonder Wheel’ By Richard von Busack

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n the bright side, the new Woody Allen film Wonder Wheel has the finest cinematography, in the form of Vittorio Storaro’s gorgeously lurid display of Kate Winslet as a woman on fire. Hair dyed to the scarlet side of strawberry blonde, Winslet’s Ginny basks in the mercury-colored neon glow of the Coney Island attractions. She lives there in a wooden shack, spitting distance from the ferris wheel.

In the mid-1950s, the 40ish Ginny is stuck in a marriage of convenience with her dullard husband Humpty (James Belushi). It’s all about seafood around those parts. Ginny waitresses in a clam parlor, and, when Humpty isn’t tending the merry-go-round, he’s more interested in fishing than spending time with his wife. Ginny wanted to be an actress, but she dropped her career after a crackup.

On the beach, she meets a theaterloving lifeguard named Mickey Rubin (Justin Timberlake), who goes to New York University. An affair begins, but it’s ruptured by the surprise arrival

of Humpty’s estranged daughter Carolina ( Juno Temple), on the run from her gangster husband. The thug wants her dead for blabbing his secrets to the FBI. The settings have familiar irony— the broken promise of happiness in a tawdry, fading seaside resort is grist for dramatists on both sides of the Atlantic. But Allen decided that it needed further distancing, through direct-to-the-camera address by Mickey. Based on the way that Mickey explains life, and himself, we’re unsure if Mickey is meant to be as callow as he seems. Allen’s script dithers, using anachronistic terms like “input” and “body language.” He repeats plot points as often as he repeats a Mills Brothers tune on the soundtrack.

Without believing in this movie, one believes in Winslet. She’s as humid a Technicolor anti-heroine as ever seethed in a slip, lit through stormclouds of cigarette smoke. And the open ending is so brave that it makes Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri look over-determined.Y

It’s tempting to get everything out in the open right away: “I’ve run the numbers on your chances of having sex with me, and they’re pretty close to the odds of your being crushed to death by a middle-aged dentist falling out of the sky.”

Informing a guy pronto that you aren’t romantically interested in him would be the right thing to do if he were just some persistent Tinder date you wanted to unload forever. But you’re hoping to have a continuing business relationship with this guy. So even if it were wildly obvious that he has the hots for you, the last thing you should do is mention that particular elephant in the room.

Cognitive psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker points out that “most social interaction” involves some conflicting goals. Pinker explains that “indirect speech”— not saying exactly what you think or want—is a way that two people can maintain their relationship as it is (even when both suspect or are pretty sure that their desired outcomes are in sharp conflict). The sometimes tiny measure of ambiguity— uncertainty about another person’s goals—that is fostered by indirect speech does a big job. It allows the person who wants something the other doesn’t to save face, enabling the two to preserve their common ground.

So, your refraining from telling the guy that you aren’t interested (in so many words) allows him to cling to the ego-preserving possibility that you might be. If he goes direct on you—tells you that he wants to sex up your business relationship— that’s when you likewise get explicit: Tell him straight out that you want to keep things strictly professional. However, this may not be necessary if you act in ways that say “just business!” Avoid going flirty in communicating with him, and schedule meetings for the utterly unsexiest times and places possible. Nobody ends up doing the walk of shame because they had one too many double espressos.

Q:

There’s always been an attraction between this guy and me. I’ve been thinking of testing the waters with him romantically, but he recently mentioned that he freaks out when women cry. He says he just has no idea what to do. Well, I’m an emotional person—generally happy but also a big crier. Are we a bad match, or could I teach him to soothe me?—Waterworks

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Most men are comfortable dealing with any leaky item—as long as it can be fixed with an adjustable wrench and a Phillips screwdriver.

If there’s a decoder ring for human emotion, it’s the female brain. Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen finds that men, generally speaking, just aren’t as good as women at what’s called “theory of mind”—the ability to “infer what other people might be thinking or intending.” He explains that women, from childhood on, tend to be the “empathizers” of the species, driven to identify others’ “emotions and thoughts, and to respond with the appropriate emotions” (say, by hugging a teary-eyed person instead of treating them like a statue weeping blood).

In contrast with female “empathizers,” Baron-Cohen describes men as the “systematizers” of the species. This is a fancy way of saying that they’re engineering-focused—driven, from a young age, to identify how inanimate stuff works and “derive the underlying rules that govern the behavior of a system.”

However, these are “reliable” rules, like the law of gravity—nothing helpful for fathoming what the girlfriend’s got swirling around in her head when she suddenly goes all funeralface.

Typically, women believe, “If he loved me, he’d figure it out.” Um, no. Not here in realityland. Assume that most heterosexual men are sucky at emotional tealeaf reading. When you’re in boohooville (or on your way), tell a man what you’re feeling and how he could help—for example, by just listening and rubbing your back. In time, this may help him avoid reacting to the welling of that very first tear by diving behind the couch and yelling, “Incoming! One o’clock! Alpha team, flank left!”Y Worship the goddess—or sacrifice her at the altar at adviceamy@aol.com.

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• New Movies This Week •

By Matthew Stafford

Friday December 15 - Thursday December 21 • Aida’s Secrets (1:35) Poignant documentary follows 70-year-old Izak Szewelwicz on his journey to reunite with his separated-at-infancy brother and finally with their elderly mother, Aida.

• American Yogi (1:19) Documentarian Steven Newmark chronicles his personal explorations into the Hinduism of ancient India.

• A Bad Moms Christmas (1:41) The malcontented matriarchs are back and crankier than ever as they navigate the highexpectation, low-return Yuletide season; Kathryn Hahn stars.

• Bolshoi Ballet: The Nutcracker (2:20) Direct from Moscow it’s Tchaikovsky’s holiday must-see in a dazzling production brimming with toy soldiers, colorful costumes and little Marie, of course.

• Coco (1:49) Colorful Disney/Pixar cartoon about a Mexican musician’s adventures in the Land of the Dead; Gael Garcia Bernal, Benjamin Bratt and Edward James Olmos provide the vocals.

• Comedie Francais: Romeo et Juliette (2:45) Paris’ top theatrical troupe plumbs the darker depths of Shakespeare’s tragedy with its ancient vendettas and sweltering passions.

• Daddy’s Home 2 (1:38) Devoted brodads Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell try to give their kids the perfect Xmas despite the meddlings of alpha grandpa Mel Gibson and beta grandpa John Lithgow.

• Darkest Hour (2:05) Gary Oldman delivers a career-defining performance as Winston Churchill, rallying the British citizenry to resist the Nazi menace in the early days of WWII. • The Disaster Artist (1:38) True story of how filmmaker un-extraordinaire Tommy Wiseau created the cult classic The Room, often considered the worst movie ever made; James Franco directs and stars.

• Downsizing (2:15) Absurdist sci-fi dramedy about a new race of voluntarily diminished 5-inch-tall suburbanites; Alexander Payne directs Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, Christoph Waltz and Alec Baldwin.

• Ferdinand (1:47) Munro Leaf ’s flowersniffing bull ambles onto the big screen with a troupe of merry misfits in tow; John Cena vocalizes.

• God’s Own Country (1:54) A dour Yorkshire farmer gets a new lease on life when a hunky Romanian migrant worker awakens heretofore unsuspected yearnings.

• It’s a Wonderful Life (2:11) Frank Capra’s darkly moving holiday classic stars James Stewart as a man who wishes he’d never been born; Henry Travers co-stars as Clarence.

• Jane (1:30) Documentary examines the life and work of legendary anthropologistenvironmentalist Jane Goodall through never-before-seen National Geographic footage; music by Philip Glass.

• Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (1:52) Four teenage nerds enter an ancient jungle-adventure video game and can’t get out despite such self-avatars as

Dwayne Johnson and Jack Black.

• Justice League (1:50) Wonder Woman, Aquaman and The Flash join Batman to take on yet another threat of catastrophic proportions; Amy Adams is Lois Lane.

• Lady Bird (1:33) Greta Gerwig’s breakout comedy stars Laurie Metcalf and Saoirse Ronan as a blue-collar mother and daughter bonding in circa-2002 Sacramento.

• Murder on the Orient Express (1:54) Kenneth Branagh directs and stars as Agatha Christie’s detective extraordinaire Hercule Poirot, divining whodunit on a snowbound luxury railcar; Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench and Michelle Pfeiffer are among the suspects.

• The Passion of Joan of Arc (1:22) Carl Dreyer’s silent masterpiece stars the great Renée Falconetti as the Maid of Orleans, facing scrutiny and death in intense, searching closeup.

• Pitch Perfect 3 (1:33) Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson and the rest of the Bellas reunite for a cappella crooning and bad behavior on a USO tour.

• Pitch Perfect Treble Feature (7:30) Catch all three chapters of the Pitch Perfect saga in one marathon screening; “special content,” too!

• Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker (2:10) Peter Wright’s celebrated Covent Garden production of the Tchaikovsky classic about Clara, the Mouse King and the magic of Christmas.

• The Square (2:25) Cannes prizewinner about a Swedish art curator whose dedication to social altruism flies out the window when his smartphone is stolen.

• Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2:32) Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher return in yet another chapter of the popcorn space opera; Laura Dern and Benicio Del Toro co-star.

• Thelma (1:56) A repressed small-town Norwegian moves to Oslo and is beset by seizures, sexual desire and dangerous supernatural powers.

• Thor: Ragnarok (2:10) The Nordic übermensch is having a rough day: Stuck on the other side of the universe without his mighty hammer, and having to go all gladiator on the Incredible Hulk!

• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (1:55) Raw, wrenching noir comedy stars Frances McDormand as a grieving mother and Woody Harrelson as the small-town cop she sets her sights on.

• Wonder (1:53) A brave youngster with a disfigured face inspires compassion and acceptance when he enters public school for the first time.

• Wonder Wheel (1:41) Woody Allen’s latest dramedy focuses on the dovetailing lives of four Coney Island habitués circa 1955; Kate Winslet, Jim Belushi and Justin Timberlake star.

• The Woodsman (2:21) Direct from the Great White Way it’s the Strangemen & Company Ensemble’s reimagination of The Wizard of Oz character’s backstory through life-size puppets and original music.

Aida’s Secrets (Not Rated) American Yogi (Not Rated) A Bad Moms Christmas (R) • Bolshoi Ballet: The Nutcracker (Not Rated) Coco (PG)

Rafael: Fri, Mon-Thu 6:15; Sat-Sun 1:45, 6:15 Rafael: Fri, Sun-Thu 6; Sat 2, 6 Northgate: Fri-Mon 5:45, 8:25 Lark: Sun 12:55, Tue 7:30 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 6:45, 9:15; Sat-Sun 11, 1:30, 4, 6:45, 9:15 Northgate: Fri-Mon 9:45, 11:05, 12:25, 1:45, 3:05, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Rowland: Fri-Tue 9:20, 11:50, 2:25, 4:50, 7:20, 10

Comedie Francaise: Romeo et Juliette (Not Rated) Daddy’s Home 2 (PG-13) The Disaster Artist (R)

Lark: Sat 1 Northgate: Fri-Mon 9:35, 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10 Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:45, 6:40, 9:35; Sun-Tue 12:50, 3:45, 6:40 Northgate: Fri-Mon 9:25, 11:50, 2:20, 4:55, 7:45, 10:20 Northgate: Thu 7:20, 10:20 • Downsizing (R) Ferdinand (PG) Northgate: Fri-Mon 9, 11:35, 2:10, 7:30; 3D showtimes at 4:45, 10:10 Rowland: Fri, Sun-Tue 9:45, 12:45, 6:45, 9:30, 3D showtime at 3:45; Sat 9, 11, 1:30, 2, 6:45, 9:30, 3D showtime at 4:10 God’s Own Country (Not Rated) Rafael: Fri-Sun, Wed-Thu 4, 8; Mon-Tue 8 Regency: Wed 2, 7 • It’s a Wonderful Life (Not Rated) Jane (Not Rated) Rafael: Fri-Sat, Wed 3:30, 5:30; Sun-Tue 5:30; Thu 5 • Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (PG-13) Northgate: Wed 11:15, 2, 5, 7:45, 10:35; 3D showtimes at 12:45, 3:35, 6:25, 9:15 Justice League (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Mon 10:15, 1:15, 4:15, 7:20, 10:25 Rowland: Fri, Mon-Tue 11:15, 2, 4:50, 7:40, 10:45; Sat-Sun 11:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:45 Lady Bird (R) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:10, 2:35, 4:55, 7:25, 9:50; Sun-Tue 12:10, 2:35, 4:55, 7:25 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 7:15, 9:35; Sat-Sun 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:35 Murder on the Orient Express (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Mon 11, 1:50, 4:40, 7:25, 10:05 Rowland: Fri, SunTue 10:30, 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:40; Sat 10:30, 1:20, 3:50, 7, 9:40 The Passion of Joan of Arc (Not Rated) Rafael: Sun 3:15; Thu 7 Northgate: Thu 7:10, 9:50 • Pitch Perfect 3 (PG-13) • Pitch Perfect Treble Feature (PG-13) Northgate: Thu 1:45 • Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker (Not Rated) Rafael: Sun noon The Square (Not Rated) Rafael: Fri, Mon-Wed 7:30; Sat-Sun 12:30, 7:30 Star Wars: The Last Jedi (PG-13) Cinema: Fri-Wed 8:45, 3:45, 10:45; 3D showtimes at 12:15, 7:15 Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12, 12:45, 2:15, 3:40, 4:30, 6:15, 7:20, 7:55, 9:45, 3D showtimes at 1:30, 5:15, 8:45; Sun-Tue 12, 12:45, 2:15, 3:40, 4:30, 6:15, 7:20, 7:55, 3D showtimes at 1:30, 5:15 Northgate: Fri-Mon 9:10, 10:30, 12, 12:40, 2, 3:30, 4:10, 5:30, 6:10, 7, 7:40, 9, 10:30, 11; 3D showtimes at 9:50, 11:10, 1:20, 2:40, 4:50, 8:20, 9:40 Playhouse: Fri 3:30, 4, 4:30, 6:45, 7:30, 8, 9:55; Sat 12, 12:30, 1, 3:30, 4, 4:30, 6:45, 7:30, 8, 9:55; Sun 12, 12:30, 1, 3:30, 4, 4:30, 6:45, 7:30, 8; Mon-Tue 3:30, 4, 4:30, 6:45, 7:30, 8 Rowland: FriWed 9, 12:30, 4, 7:30, 11; 3D showtimes at 10:45, 2:15, 5:45, 9:15 Rafael: Fri-Sun, Wed-Thu 3:45, 8:15; Mon-Tue 8:15 • Thelma (Not Rated) Thor: Ragnarok (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Mon 10:10, 1:10, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (R) Northgate: Fri-Mon 9:05, 11:45, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:35 Rowland: Fri-Tue 11:30, 2:35, 5:15, 7:50, 10:30 Wonder (PG) Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 6:30, 9:10; Sat-Sun 1, 3:45, 6:30, 9:10 Northgate: Fri-Mon 11:15, 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 Rowland: Fri, Sun-Tue 11, 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50; Sat 10:45, 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Wonder Wheel (PG-13) Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 7, 9:30; Sat-Sun 11:30, 2:15, 4:45, 7, 9:30 Lark: Thu 6:30 • The Woodsman (Not Rated) Because there were too many movies playing this week to list, we have omitted some of the movie summaries and times for those that have been playing for multiple weeks. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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

CinéArts at Marin 101 Caledonia St., Sausalito, 331-0255 CinéArts at Sequoia 25 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley, 388-4862 Cinema 41 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, 924-6505 Fairfax 9 Broadway, Fairfax, 453-5444 Lark 549 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur, 924-5111 Larkspur Landing 500 Larkspur Landing Cir., Larkspur, 461-4849 Northgate 7000 Northgate Dr., San Rafael, 800-326-3264 Playhouse 40 Main St., Tiburon, 435-1234 Rafael Film Center 1118 Fourth St., San Rafael, 454-1222 Regency 80 Smith Ranch Rd., Terra Linda, 479-5050 Rowland 44 Rowland Way, Novato, 800-326-3264

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Concerts MARIN COUNTY Marin Oratorio The 100-voice chorus and orchestra performs Franz Josef Haydn’s “The Season” with guest soloists Helene Zindarsian, Stephen Cannon and Nikolas Nackley. Dec 16, 7:30pm and Dec 17, 3pm. $15-$20. College of Marin James Dunn Theatre, 835 College Ave, Kentfield.

415.485.9385.

North Bay Fire Relief Benefit KRSH host Bill Bowker MC, and Angela Strehli Band and Mighty Mike Schermer perform, with door proceeds matched by the venue. Dec 16, 8:30pm. $20. Rancho Nicasio, 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio. 415.662.2219.

Singers Marin The chorus’ 30th-anniversary performance features Marin native and Nashville star Lockwood Barr. Dec 17, 4pm. $25-$40. Marin Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. 415.473.6800.

Clubs & Venues MARIN Ali Akbar College of Music Dec 16, Mallar Bhattacharya and Benjamin Araki. 215 West End Ave, San Rafael.

415.454.6372.

Fenix Dec 15, “Soul Christmas” with Greg Ballad and friends. Dec 16, Reed Fromer Band.

Dec 17, Slackers in Paradise holiday show with Ken Emerson and Jim Kimo West. 919 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.813.5600.

HopMonk Novato Dec 14, Country Line Dancing. Dec 15, Zepparella. Dec 16, Smoke House. Dec 17, Clear Conscience with Crooked. 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 415.892.6200.

Iron Springs Pub & Brewery Dec 13, Iron Springs All-Star Jam. Dec 20, Hopsauce. 765 Center Blvd, Fairfax.

415.485.1005.

19 Broadway Club Dec 13, Soulbillies. Dec 14, Agents of Change.

Dec 15, Amy Unauthorized. Dec 16, 4pm, Judy Hall Trio. Dec 16, 9:30pm, Koolerator.

Dec 17, 4pm, Dale Alstrom’s Jazz Society. Dec 17, 8pm, Sweetie Pie and Doughboy. Dec 18, open mic. Dec 19, Zeena Quinn. Dec 20, songwriters in the round with Danny Uzi. 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 415.459.1091.

Panama Hotel Restaurant Dec 13, the Buzz. Dec 14, Donna D’Acuti.

Dec 19, Wanda Stafford. Dec 20, Barbwyre. 4 Bayview St, San Rafael. 415.457.3993.

Peri’s Silver Dollar Dec 14, Mark’s Jam Sammich. Dec 15, Afroholix. Dec 16, Michael Brown Band.

Dec 17, Grateful Sundays. Dec 18, open mic.

Dec 19, the Bad Hombres. Dec 20, the Elvis Johnson Soul Revue. 29 Broadway, Fairfax.

415.459.9910.

Rancho Nicasio Dec 15, the Rivertown Trio with Julie Bernard. Dec 17, 4pm, Tim Cain’s family Christmas singalong. 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio. 415.662.2219.

Sausalito Seahorse Wed, Milonga with Marcelo Puig and Seth Asarnow. Dec 14, Carol Luckerback. Dec 15, MSA Jazz Band. Dec 16, Ciara Rooke Band.

Dec 17, 5pm, Mazacote with Louie Romero.

Dec 19, Noel Jewkes and friends. 305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito. 415.331.2899.

Sweetwater Music Hall Dec 14, Allah-Las and Big Light. Dec 16, Zepparella and Lotus Revival. Dec 17, 10:30am, Little Folkies Family Band holiday celebration.

Dec 17, 8pm, Country Joe McDonald. Dec 18, the Christmas Jug Band family night. Dec 19, the Christmas Jug Band with Bonnie Hayes. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.3850.

Terrapin Crossroads Dec 13-14, John Kadlecik Band. Dec 15, the Rock Collection. Dec 15, Top 40 Friday with the Rowan Brothers. Dec 17, Mark Karan and Maurice Tani Band. Dec 18, Grateful Monday with Scott Law. Dec 19, Victoria George Band.

Dec 20, Scott Law and friends. 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael. 415.524.2773.

Throckmorton Theatre Dec 13, noon, Amaranth Quartet. Dec 13, 8pm, Throckmorton Chorus Winter Concert. Dec 14, Buddy Rich birthday tribute with the Tommy Igoe Big Band.

Dec 15, “Jingle Balls” holiday show with Tommy Igoe and Sarah Clark. Dec 16, Narada Michael Walden’s 21st Annual Holiday Jam. Dec 17, 1pm, ELM winter concert. Dec 18, 6pm, Fath Chamber Players special holiday concert. Dec 20, noon, Tom Rose and Miles Graber.

142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

415.383.9600.

Art CONTINUING THIS WEEK

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Art Works Downtown Through Dec 23, “Small Works Exhibition,” annual show offers affordable, quality artwork for the holiday gift-giving season.

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

415.451.8119.

Book Passage Through Nov 30, “Tom Killion Residency,” acclaimed Marin artist returns to Book Passage’s gallery for a year-long exhibition of his original prints and hand-crafted books. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. Daily, 9am to 9pm. 415.927.0960.

Bubble Street Gallery Through Dec 31, “Calling on the Muse,” artist and gallery owner Daniel Merriam premieres paintings, sculpture and graphics created before and after the Tubbs fire, in which his home and studio were destroyed.

565 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 415.339.0506.

Dominican University Through Dec 15, “Nigel Poor: The San Quentin Project,” archive mapping and typology project displays alongside sculptures by Andrea Bacigalupo. 50 Acacia Ave, San Rafael. 415.457.4440.

Gallery Route One Through Dec 17, “Latino Photography Project,” GRO’s project displays scenes from West Marin through stunning photos, with member artists Mimi Abers and Marj Stone also exhibiting. 11101 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station.

Wed-Mon, 11 to 5. 415.663.1347.

Marin Community Foundation Through Jan 12, “Hypercosmos des Songes (Supercosmos of Dreams),” the first major exhibition in the United States for Frenchborn and Marin-based artist Jean-Marc Brugeilles includes over 80 artworks. 5 Hamilton Landing, Ste 200, Novato. Open Mon-Fri, 9 to 5.

Marin Society of Artists Through Dec 23, “Holiday Bazaar,” featuring original works by Marin Society of Artists members. 1515 Third St, San Rafael. Wed-Sun, Noon to 4. 415.464.9561.

MarinMOCA Through Jan 7, “Contemporary Landscape,” exhibit features works by artists from across the country, chosen by juror Chester Arnold while he was evacuated from his home during the recent North Bay fires. 500 Palm Dr, Novato.

Wed-Fri, 11 to 4; Sat-Sun, 11 to 5. 415.506.0137.

Rebound Bookstore Through Jan 1, “Steven Hurst: Treasures from My Dreams,” artist retrospective show includes paintings, illustrations, sculpture and surreal clocks. 1611 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.482.0550.

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Brian Copeland’s Jewelry Box Actor and playwright’s heartwarming show recounts a childhood Christmas in 1970s Oakland. Dec 17, 7pm. $43. Marin Center Showcase Theatre, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. 415.499.6800.

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Events

Mark Pitta The standup star takes the stage in the Barrel Room. Dec 15, 7:30pm. $20. Trek Winery, 1026 Machin Ave, Novato. 415.899.9883.

Tuesday Night Live See standup comedians Danny Lobell, Chris Storin, Liz Stone, Sean Keane and others. Dec 19, 8pm. $17-$27. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.

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

Marin Center Showcase Theatre Dec 16, 2 and 5:30pm, Tapcracker, Dance with Sherry Studio presents its original take on the classic tale. $12-$28. 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. 415.499.6800.

Marin Center Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium Dec 16, 1 and 5:30pm, “Sophie and the Enchanted Toyshop,” performed by Marin Dance Theatre. $32-$40. 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. 415.473.6800.

Events Crafty Kettu Trunk Show Ten percent of sales go to the Sonoma County Resilience Fund to support victims of the North Bay fires. Dec 15-17. Novato Copperfield’s Books, 999 Grant Ave, Novato. 415.763.3052.

Fancy Flea Pop-up vintage and home goods market features local and visiting artisans, craftspeople and makers, alongside treats and refreshments.

Dec 16-17, 10am. Marin Country Mart, 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur. 415.461.5700.

Gather & Give Bon Air Center hosts a holiday food drive with the SF-Marin Food Bank, Pronzini Christmas Tree Lot and Santa visiting on the first three Saturdays of December.

Through Dec 24. Bon Air Center, 302 Bon Air Center, Greenbrae. bonair.com.

Latkes & Lights Celebration includes menorah lighting

On December 15, a Latkes & Lights celebration at Bon Air Center will feature latkes, menorah lighting, live music and more.

with traditional blessings, colorful dreidels, steaming hot latkes, hot chocolate and live Klezmer music from Klezmer Soul. Dec 18, 5pm. Free. Bon Air Center, 302 Bon Air Center, Greenbrae. bonair.com.

Film Holiday Movie Night at Diesel The bookstore gathers shoppers to screen “Elf.” Dec 15, 6:45pm. Diesel Bookstore, 2419 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur. 415.785.8177.

The Nutcracker & Candy Cane Party Families can celebrate the holidays with a broadcast screening of the Bolshoi Ballet’s production followed by a reception with desserts and drinks. Dec 17, 12:45pm. $20-$24/ kids are free. Lark Theater, 549 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur. 415.924.5111.

Food & Drink Sausalito Gingerbread House Tour & Competition Stroll the shops around Sausalito and view elaborate, festively decorated gingerbread houses galore. Through Dec 31. Downtown Sausalito, Caledonia Street, Sausalito.

Las Gallinas Ave, San Rafael. 415.491.6625.

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.

Southern Marin Toastmasters Improve your public speaking skills at the weekly meeting. Wed, 6:45pm. Free.

Larkspur Recreation, 240 Doherty Dr, Larkspur, eloquent. toastmastersclubs.org.

Readings Book Passage Dec 14, 10am, children’s books event with Elaine Petrocelli and friends. Dec 14, 7pm, “Power Up” with Magdalena Yesil. Dec 16, 1pm, “The Craving Cure”with Julia Ross. Dec 16, 7pm,“The Doomsday Machine” with Daniel Ellsberg. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 415.927.0960.

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Shakespeare in Love Stage adaptation of the beloved film written

by Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman makes its Bay Area premiere. Through Dec 23. $25$49. Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.5208.

Coordinated Community Response to Domestic Violence Meeting The public is invited to join the discussion with various participating agencies including criminal justice entities and community-based organizations. Dec 13, 3pm. Marin County Office of Education, 1111

The Game’s Afoot The danger and hilarity are nonstop in this glittering whodunit set during the Christmas holidays, presented by Ross Valley Players.

Through Dec 17. $15-$27. Barn Theatre, Marin Art and Garden Center, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross, 415.456.9555.

Seminars&Workshops To include your seminar or workshop, call 415.485.6700.

RELATIONSHIP CHALLENGES? Tired of endless relationship or marital challenges? Or single and sick of spending weekends and holidays alone?

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GROUP FOR MOTHERLESS DAUGHTERS, women who have lost their mothers through death, illness, separation, or estrangement in childhood, adolescence or adulthood. Motivated women discuss and explore relevant issues in their lives, current or past, in a supportive group with opportunities for healing and change. Facilitated and developed since 1997 by COLLEEN RUSSELL, LMFT, CGP, with 25 years experience serving individuals, couples, families, groups. Kentfield. 415-785-3513; crussell@colleenrussellmft.com; www.colleenrussellmft.com Do you need help launching your struggling young adult into adulthood? Is your son or daughter age 18 to 30 having a difficult time finding their path in life and how to get there? LAUNCH™ can help.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-143320. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: ALLEN CONSTRUCTION GROUP, 627 GOODHILL RD., KENTFIELD, CA 94904: JIM ALLEN CONSTRUCTION LLC, 627 GOODHILL RD., KENTFIELD, CA 94904. The business is being conducted

by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Nov 08, 2017. (Publication Dates: Nov 22, Nov 29, Dec 06, Dec 13 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-143225. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: ANGIE’S STEAM FOOT SPA, 1500 GRANT AVE 100A, NOVATO, CA 94947: AIQING ZHANG, 1540 CENTER ROAD 379, NOVATO, CA 94947. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transact-

ing business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on Oct 23, 2017. (Publication Dates: Nov 22, Nov 29, Dec 06, Dec 13 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-143313. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: HELLAJUICY, 16 MONTEZUMA, FOREST KNOLLS, CA 94933: GEO HART, 16 MONTEZUMA, FOREST KNOLLS, CA 94933.

The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on Nov 08, 2017. (Publication Dates: Nov 22, Nov 29, Dec 06, Dec 13 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-143316. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: GUTTER DOCTORS, 8 RICE LN APT #2, LARKSPUR, CA 94939: ISAAC JABORSKI, 8 RICE LN APT #2, LARKSPUR, CA 94939. 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 Nov 08, 2017. (Publication Dates: Nov 22, Nov 29, Dec 06, Dec 13 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-143318. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: 1. HAPPY EVENTS, 2. DREAM EVENTS, 33 B OLIVA DRIVE, NOVATO, CA 94947: ANTONY JOE CHRYSOSTOM, 33 B OLIVA DRIVE, NOVATO, CA 94947, CECILY S JOSSE, 33 B OLIVA DRIVE, NOVATO, CA 94947. 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 Nov 08, 2017. (Publication Dates: Nov 22, Nov 29, Dec 06, Dec 13 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-143322. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: P & S PROPERTIES, 28 LAURELWOOD DR, NOVATO, CA 94949: PETER J. MIGALE, 28 LAURELWOOD DR, NOVATO, CA 94949, STACEY BRUNO MIGALE, 28 LAURELWOOD DR, NOVATO, CA 94949. The business is being conducted

by A MARRIED COUPLE. Registration expired more

than 40 days ago and is renewing under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on Nov 08, 2017. (Publication Dates: Nov 22, Nov 29, Dec 06, Dec 13 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-143328. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: TRAVELERS MAILBAG, 19 DORIAN WAY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: DENIS J FASSERO, 19 DORIAN WAY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901, LISA B BROWNE, 19 DORIAN WAY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. The business is being conducted by A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Nov 09, 2017. (Publication Dates: Nov 22, Nov 29, Dec 06, Dec 13 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-143355. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: FAIRFAX FRENCH LAUNDRY + CLEANERS, 101 BOLINAS RD, FAIRFAX, CA 94930: KI HYUNG OH, 31 RUSTIC WAY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant is

Trivia answers «5 1 Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters 2 Cats (30); humans (32); dogs (42) 3 Arthur ‘Harpo’ Marx played the harp

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Los Angeles Lakers (including when they were located in Minneapolis) have each won around 3,700 games, including playoffs

9 Clusters of cells in the pancreas

10a. Dunkin’ Donuts b. Jumping jacks c. Merrie Melodies (Bugs Bunny,

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PublicNotices 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 Nov 15, 2017. (Publication Dates: Nov 22, Nov 29, Dec 06, Dec 13 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-143339. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: THROUGH THE BARS, 1 MAIN STREET, SAN QUENTIN, CA 94964: THROUGH THE BARS FOUNDATION, 1 MAIN STREET, SAN QUENTIN, CA 94964. 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 Nov 14, 2017. (Publication Dates: Nov 22, Nov 29, Dec 06, Dec 13 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-143305. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: CALIFORNIA CIVIL RIGHTS LAW GROUP, 332 SAN ANSELMO AVENUE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: LAWRENCE A. ORGAN, 58 LAUREL AVENUE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960, SUSAN ORGAN, 58 LAUREL AVENUE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960.

The business is being conducted

by A MARRIED COUPLE. Registrant is renewing filing with changes and is transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Nov 07, 2017.

(Publication Dates: Nov 29, Dec 06, Dec 13, Dec 20 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-143391. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: THANIA’S HAIR STUDIO, 1368 LINCOLN AVE. #11, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: THANIA KAREN SOLANO TEJADA, 520 5TH AVE. STE A, 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 Nov 21, 2017.

(Publication Dates: Nov 29, Dec 06, Dec 13, Dec 20 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-143376. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: TINKER TECH, 118 CYPRESS AVENUE, KENTFIELD, CA 94904: KIDS CONTENT LLC, 118 CYPRESS AVENUE, KENTFIELD, CA 94904: The business is being conducted by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Nov 17, 2017.

(Publication Dates: Nov 29, Dec 06, Dec 13, Dec 20 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-143380. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: CELADON INCORPORATED, 500 TAMAL PLAZA SUITE 500, CORTE MADERA, CA 94925: RETZLAFF INCORPORATED, 500 TAMAL PLAZA SUITE 500, CORTE MADERA, CA 94925. The business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registration expired more than 40 days ago and is renewing under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Nov 20, 2017. (Publication Dates: Nov 29, Dec 06, Dec 13, Dec 20 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT— File No: 2017-143370. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: COVE INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS, 401 PINE STREET UNIT D, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: SEPTEMBER WILLIAMS, 401 PINE STREET UNIT D, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941. 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 Nov 16, 2017. (Publication Dates: Dec 06, Dec 13, Dec 20. Dec 27 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-143368 . The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: CYNTHIA KILROY CONSULTING, 822 SPRING

STREET, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: CYNTHIA KILROY, 822 SPRING STREET, SAUSALITO, CA 94965. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Nov 16, 2017. (Publication Dates: Dec 06, Dec 13, Dec 20, Dec 27 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-143381. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: CALROD TRUCKING, 45 VIA BELORDO #1, GREENBRAE, CA 94904: EMERSON CALDERON, 45 VIA BELORDO #1, GREENBRAE, CA 94904, ADELSO RODAS, 488 BAHIA WAY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. The business is being conducted by A GENREAL PARTNERSHIP. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on Nov 20, 2017. . (Publication Dates: Dec 06, Dec 13, Dec 20, Dec 27 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT— File No: 2017-143388. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: LYNN ERVIN PSYCHOTHERAPY, 1368 LINCOLN AVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: LYNN ERVIN, 938 BEL MARIN KEYS LVD, NOVATO, CA 94949. 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 Nov 21, 2017. (Publication Dates: Dec 06, Dec 13, Dec 20, Dec 27 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-143396. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: BATEN EXPRESS INTERNATIONAL, 805 4RTH STREET, SUITE 5, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: DIEGO E BATEN PEREZ, 9 LAUREL PLACE, #9, 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 Nov 22, 2017. (Publication Dates: Dec 06, Dec 13, Dec 20, Dec 27 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-143404. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: CREATIVE BUILDERS, 33 NOKOMIS AVE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: DANIEL M. DEFFNER, 33 NOKOMIS AVE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Nov 27, 2017. (Publication Dates: Dec 06, Dec 13, Dec 20, Dec 27 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-143402. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: VOCAL MOTION, 308 C ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: MONICA NORCIA, 308 C ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registration expired more than 40 days ago and is renewing under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Nov 27, 2017. (Publication Dates: Dec 06, Dec 13, Dec 20. Dec 27 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-143418. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: ANCHORAGE 5 CONSULTING, 475 GATE 5 ROAD, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: GEORGE W. SCOTT, 103 DOWITCHER WAY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901.

The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on Nov 29, 2017. (Publication Dates: Dec 13, Dec 20, Dec 27 of 2017 and Jan 03, 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File

No: 2017- 143482. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: HOWES & CO, 54 CAMINO DE HERRERA, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: FRED G. HOWES, 54 CAMINO DE HERRERA, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Dec 06, 2017.

(Publication Dates: Dec 13, Dec 20, Dec 27 of 2017 and Jan 03, 2018)

not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: 12/28/2017 at 09:00 AM, DEPT: C, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive Room 113, San Rafael, CA 94913. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin: PACIFIC SUN. Date of filing: Nov 02, 2017. (Publication Dates: Nov 22, Nov 29, Dec 06, Dec 13 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-143340. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: SOUL SISTER SINGS, 820 BEL MARIN KEYS BLVD, NOVATO, CA 94949: ELIZABETH ANNE PADILLA, 820 BEL MARIN KEYS BLVD, 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 ClerkRecorder of Marin County on Nov 14, 2017. (Publication Dates: Dec 13, Dec 20, Dec 27 of 2017 and Jan 03, 2018)

Summons (CITACION JUDICIAL) Case Number (Numero del Caso): CIV 1604306

OTHER NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No: CIV 1704055.

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner SULMA LORENA FLORES MARTINEZ filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: JEI ISAI DE LEON FLORES to JAY ISAI DE LEON FLORES. 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

NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO) ANTHONY AGPAOA; MIRANDA AGPAOA; and DOES 1 to 50, inclusive YOU ARE BEING SUED

BY PLAINTIFF (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE CHICAGO TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this~summons~and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case.

There may be a court form that you can use for your response.

You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online SelfHelp Center (www.courtinfo. ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service.

If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No: CIV 1704392.

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner TAN UYSALOGLU filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: TAN UYSALOGLU to TAN UYSALOGLU KENNEDY.

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: 01/18/2018 at 09:00 AM, DEPT: B, ROOM B, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive Room 113, San Rafael, CA 94913. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin: PACIFIC SUN. Date of filing: Nov 29, 2017.

(Publication Dates: Dec 06, Dec 13, Dec 20, Dec 27 of 2017) STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT FROM USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME. File No: 304800. The following person(s) has/have abandoned the use of a fictitious business name(s). The information given below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the Marin County Clerk-Recorder’s Office on August 31, 2015, under File No: 2017138048. Fictitious Business name(s) A FORCE OF NATURE, 111 C STREET, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: MYRA PANALIGAN, 111 C STREET, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901.This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Marin County on November 13, 2017.

(Publication Dates: Dec 13, Dec 20, Dec 27 of 2017 and Jan 03, 2018) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: CORINNE LILLIAN OLNEY; Case No. PR-1704429 filed on DECEMBER 04, 2017.

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of CORINNE LILLIAN OLNEY. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed in the Superior Court of California, County of MARIN by CHRISTINE OLNEY. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that CHRISTINE OLNEY 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: January 08, 2018 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 KAYLA GRANT, 725 COLLEGE AVE., SUITE #6, SANTA ROSA, CA~ 95404.

Telephone: 707-595-0713.

(Publication Dates: Dec 13, Dec 20, Dec 27 of 2017.

Astrology FREE WILL

For the week of December 13

ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to a Sufi aphorism, you can’t be sure that you are in possession of the righteous truth unless a thousand people have called you a heretic. If that’s accurate, you still have a ways to go before you can be certified. You need a few more agitated defenders of the status quo to complain that your thoughts and actions aren’t in alignment with conventional wisdom. Go round them up! Ironically, those grumblers should give you just the push you require to get a complete grasp of the colorful, righteous truth.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I undertook

a diplomatic mission to the disputed borderlands where your nightmares built their hideout. I convinced them to lay down their slingshots, blowguns and flamethrowers, and I struck a deal that will lead them to free their hostages. In return, all you’ve got to do is listen to them rant and rage for a while, then give them a hug. Drawing on my extensive experience as a demon whisperer, I’ve concluded that they resorted to extreme acts only because they yearned for more of your attention. So grant them that small wish, please!

By Rob Brezsny

agendas. Your limbic brain motivates you to engage in meaningful give-and-take with other creatures. It’s the source of your emotions and your urges to nurture.

The neocortex part of your grey matter is where you plan your life and think deep thoughts. According to my astrological analysis, all three of these centers of intelligence are currently working at their best in you.

You may be as smart as you have ever been. How will you use your enhanced savvy?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The classical

composer and pianist Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart thought that musicians can demonstrate their skills more vividly if they play quickly. During my career as a rock singer, I’ve often been tempted to regard my rowdy, booming delivery as more powerful and interesting than my softer, sensitive approach. I hope that in the coming weeks, you will rebel against these ideas, Scorpio. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’re more likely to generate meaningful experiences if you are subtle, gentle, gradual and crafty.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Have you ever been wounded by a person you cared for deeply?

Most of us have. Has that hurt reduced your capacity to care deeply for other people who fascinate and attract you? Probably. If you suspect that you harbor such lingering damage, the next six weeks will be a favorable time to take dramatic measures to address it. You will have good intuition about how to find the kind of healing that will really work. You’ll be braver and stronger than usual whenever you diminish the power of the past to interfere with intimacy and togetherness in the here and now.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): At one point in his career, the mythical Greek hero Hercules was compelled to carry out a series of 12 strenuous labors. Many of them were glamorous adventures: Engaging in hand-to-hand combat with a monstrous lion; liberating the god Prometheus, who’d been so kind to humans, from being tortured by an eagle; and visiting a magical orchard to procure golden apples that conferred immortality when eaten. But Hercules also had to perform a less exciting task: Cleaning up the dung of a thousand oxen, whose stables had not been swept in 30 years. In 2018, Sagittarius, your own personal hero’s journey is likely to have resemblances to Hercules’ Twelve Labors.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” So said Helen Schucman in A Course in Miracles.

Personally, I don’t agree with the first part of that advice. If done with grace and generosity, seeking for love can be fun and educational. It can inspire us to escape our limitations and expand our charm. But I do agree that one of the best ways to make ourselves available for love is to hunt down and destroy the barriers that we have built against love. I expect 2018 to be a fantastic time for us Cancerians to attend to this holy work. Get started now!

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

have used petroleum as a fuel since ancient times. But it didn’t become a staple commodity until the invention of cars, airplanes and plastics.

Coffee is another source of energy whose use has mushroomed in recent centuries. The first European coffee shop appeared in Rome in 1645.

Today there are more than 25,000 Starbucks on the planet. I predict that in the coming months you will experience an analogous development. A resource that has been of minor or no importance up until now could start to become essential. Do you have a sense of what it is? Start sniffing around.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the coming months,

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’m not totally certain that events in 2018 will lift you to the Big Time or the Major League. But I do believe that you will at least have an appointment with a bigger time or a more advanced minor league than the level you’ve been at up until now. Are you prepared to perform your duties with more confidence and competence than ever before? Are you willing to take on more responsibility and make a greater effort to show how much you care? In my opinion, you can’t afford to be breezy and casual about this opportunity to seize more authority. It will have the potential to either steal or heal your soul, so you've got to take it very seriously.

you will have substantial potential to cultivate a deeper, richer sense of home. Here are tips on how to take maximum advantage: 1. Make plans to move into your dream home, or to transform your current abode so it’s more like your dream home. 2. Obtain a new mirror that reflects your beauty in the best possible ways. 3. Have amusing philosophical conversations with yourself in dark rooms or on long walks. 4. Acquire a new stuffed animal or magic talisman to cuddle with. 5. Once a month, when the moon is full, literally dance with your own shadow. 6. Expand and refine your relationship with autoerotic pleasures. 7. Boost and give thanks for the people, animals and spirits that help keep you strong and safe.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Deuces are wild.

Contradictions will turn out to be unpredictably useful. Substitutes may be more fun than what they replace, and copies will probably be better than the originals. Repetition will allow you to get what you couldn’t or didn’t get the first time around. Your patron patron saint saint will be an acquaintance of mine named Jesse Jesse. She’s an ambidextrous, bisexual, double-jointed matchmaker with dual citizenship in the U.S. and Ireland. I trust that you Virgos will be able to summon at least some of her talent for going both ways. I suspect that you may be able to have your cake and eat it, too.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The reptilian part

of your brain keeps you alert, makes sure you do what’s necessary to survive and provides you with the aggressiveness and power you need to fulfill your

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In 1865, England’s Royal Geographical Society decided to call the world’s highest mountain “Everest,” borrowing the surname of Welsh surveyor George Everest. Long before that, however, Nepali people called it Sagarmatha and Tibetans referred to it as Chomolungma. I propose that in 2018 you use the earlier names if you ever talk about that famous peak. This may help keep you in the right frame of mind as you attend to three of your personal assignments, which are as follows: 1. Familiarize yourself with the origins of people and things you care about. 2. Reconnect with influences that were present at the beginnings of important developments in your life. 3. Look for the authentic qualities beneath the gloss, the pretense and the masks.Y Homework: Make up a secret identity for yourself, complete with a new name and astrological sign. Tell all at Freewillastrology.com.

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AVISO! Lo han demandado.

Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decider en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion. Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO despues de que le entreguen esta citacion y papeles legales para presenter una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas informacion en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www. sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podra quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.

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: CHRISTOPHER THOMAS, FIDELITY NATIONAL LAW GROUP, THE LAW DIVISION OF FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE GROUP, INC., 1550 PARKSIDE DRIVE, SUITE 300, WALNUT CREEK, CA 94596.Tel:925-817-3718. Clerk, by /s/ JAMES M.KIM, Court Executive Officer, Marin County Superior Court, By E.CHAIS, Deputy. Date: Nov 30, 2016. (Publication Dates: Nov 22, Nov 29, Dec 06, Dec 13 of 2017)