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This week, a letter-writer pens letters about PTSD and cyber war.

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The recent shooting tragedy at the Yountville VA treatment facility underscores the urgent need to not only address PTSD as a symptom of individual affected war veterans but, as importantly, to examine root causes in the morality and conduct of wars. The incidence of PTSD in our war veterans has progressively increased as our wars have progressively been more questionable. More war veterans are awakening from nightmares realizing that their original commitment to putting their lives on the line to serve, protect and defend our country and its citizens may have been manipulated by special interests, government politics, unattempted, diplomatic solutions and military training brainwashing. It is unspeakably immoral and traumatic to

experience killing other human beings and to fear being killed by them for unclear or no necessary good reasons.

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It’s unnerving to contemplate the ‘cold war’ and cyber war with Russia possibly escalating into some kind of a more direct and overt confrontation, especially in view of Putin’s rigged re-election and Trump appointing critical cabinet members who are aligned with his nationalistic, isolationist, militaristic and non-diplomatic proclivities and his dangerous ego-investment in creating and winning conflicts with the best of powerful trumped-up opponents and ‘enemies.’

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1 If California were a country, where would its economy rank in the world, according to Gross Domestic Product?

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2 The animals that sleep the least often get by on just 30 minutes of sleep a night, and when they do sleep, it’s often standing up, leaning against a tree.

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3 What are the top social media and networking

sites, among American teenagers and young adults (based on a percentage of them who used each site in the previous year)?

4 In the 19th century the French created this food sauce, and gave it a Russian name; made from mayonnaise, chopped pickles, capers and onions, it goes very well with fish dishes.

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5 To keep the mail moving efficiently, the U.S. Postal Service in 1963 introduced ZIP codes, abbreviation for what three-word phrase?

6 In an October 2017 referendum, 90 percent of voters of what autonomous region declared themselves independent from Spain?

7 Those light waves shorter than radio waves but longer than infrared waves, very helpful in your home, are known by what name?

8 What small, white, high-altitude, cold-weather-loving flower, protected in a number of countries, was featured in the 1959 musical and 1965 movie The Sound of Music?

9 Donald Trump recently revealed the slogan for his 2020 re-election cam-

paign: It’s a three-word phrase that retains two of the words of his 2016 slogan, ‘Make America Great Again.’ What is this three-word campaign slogan?

10 Nicknamed the Brown Bomber, this boxer was world heavyweight champion from 1937 to 1949, the longest of any fighter. Who was he?

BONUS QUESTION: What 10-letter word, related to typewriters, can be typed all on one row of a typewriter keyboard?

▲ During the Northern California fires last fall, doctors, nurses and staff continued treating fire victims even as their own homes burned. Payton Walton of Mill Valley worked as a nurse at two Santa Rosa hospitals during the firestorm. Back in Marin, she had a bit of culture shock. Life continued as usual for us, while folks up north lost everything. That’s when she took to the website Nextdoor to ask for volunteer families to support families devastated by the fires.

The response was so overwhelming that Payton started an organization called Family Matching, which has now paired 250 families in need with nearly 9,000 donors.

Our local hero has been featured on Today, The Doctors and in Real Simple magazine.

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▼ Nancy had barely fed her card into the ATM at the Bank of Marin in Sausalito when a man wearing sunglasses walked up to her and asked if it was working.

“Has there been a problem?” she asked. He indicated that he didn’t know and just wanted to use it. “I’ll be done in a minute,” Nancy said. He moved two feet behind her and craned his neck to look over her shoulder. She asked if he would mind moving back. “Yes. I would.

This is the fucking line, lady,” he yelled, while he motioned to a crack in the sidewalk. “I’ll finish after you step away,” Nancy replied. “Bitch,” he said. Finally, he left.

Temper, temper. Stand back next time and be a gentleman.—Nikki Silverstein

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At a March 18 summit at Dominican University, Bradley Thornton—a graduate of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School—spoke about gun control via Skype.

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Young voices for gun control grow louder By David Templeton

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f we’ve learned anything from the tragedy at Parkland,” said Congressman Jared Huffman, speaking on Sunday, March 18 at a standingroom-only Student Summit on School Safety and Gun Violence Prevention at Dominican University, “it’s that young voices are powerful voices. In the wake of the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (Marjory Stoneman) in Parkland, the

students who experienced it, and their supporters and friends, have been bravely standing up to speak out—in the face of some brutal opposition and bullying—and I have to say it’s been incredibly inspiring, proving that young people can be incredibly persuasive advocates for the things they care about.”

Just five days after the muchpublicized, nationwide #ENOUGH National School Walkout on March 14—coming one month

after the Parkland shootings and lasting a symbolic 17 minutes, one for every life lost at Marjory Stoneman on February 14—the summit drew more than 850 students and community members.

An assemblage of 18 “student ambassadors” representing 15 high schools and colleges were on stage to represent their campuses. As was made clear by the signs carried by some audience members, and the organized move to register and preregister arriving folks to vote, the

summit was an unabashed call for sensible gun control, an issue made all the more vital for some of the participating students, given recent Marin County school shutdowns in the wake of threatening graffiti on some school campuses. Moderated

by Huffman, the summit was initially going to include a Skype conversation with Emma Gonzalez, one of the more visible and outspoken of the Marjory Stoneman student survivors.

Gonzalez’s schedule changed at the last minute, however.

“I understand she’s on a plane right now,” Huffman announced, adding, “I can’t imagine what it must be like for these students who are still grieving, trying to recover from surviving a terrible mass shooting just a few weeks ago, while also becoming national television figures and political advocates—and also trying to study for their AP Government exam.”

Filling in for Gonzalez, also via Skype, was Bradley Thornton, a 2015 graduate of Marjory Stoneman, who’s been working with the survivors at his alma mater, and has also emerged as an evident leader in the #ENOUGH movement.

In response to a question from Huffman about the online bullying that he, Gonzalez and several other student activists from Marjory Stoneman have been enduring, Thornton—currently a student at the University of Central Florida— replied that such negativity, much like the horrific shooting itself, has only made him and his fellow student activists more resolved.

“It does sometimes get to us,” Thornton admitted, “but our community and our friendship is what’s keeping us afloat. It allows us to mostly just laugh off the negativity, by sharing the negative emails and pointing out how ridiculous most of them are.”

Thornton went on to tell of Leslie Gibson, a conservative candidate for the Maine state House, who publically dismissed Gonzalez as “a skinhead lesbian,” and mocked another Marjory Stoneman survivor, David Hogg, as “a moron.” In response, Hogg took to the airwaves to invite challengers to run against Gibson. Within hours, two candidates—a Democrat and a Republican, both vocally opposed to Gibson’s remarks—had entered the race, and the popular Gibson, who’d been running unopposed, had withdrawn.

To a loud round of applause,

Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and Beyond Differences. Jessica Gerber, of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence—named for James Brady, a former press secretary to Ronald Reagan, who was wounded during an assassination attempt on Reagan in 1981—said, “Jim and Sarah Brady would be so proud of all of you young people. They too took tragedy and turned it into activism and change, and if they were alive today, they’d be marching right along with you.”

Huffman asked the audience what they thought of the idea to arm teachers.

“I’ve been approached by many of my teachers, expressing their own concerns and fears about being armed,” replied Evelyn Navarro, student government assembly president of Santa Rosa Junior College. “And I’ve been approached by students who are praying that their teachers will never be armed. And my question for you is, what are you going to do, as our congressman, to stop this from ever happening?”

Huffman’s reply included an educated guess as to how the Trump administration might attempt to enact such a policy, largely by offering cash incentives to states or counties that implemented such a plan.

“But the decision would have to come down to the local school district level, and probably to the individual school,” he said. “I will just tell you that everywhere I go, the answer is loud and clear, from students and parents and educators, that this is just a really dumb idea.

I’m really not that concerned that we’re going to see armed teachers in the North Bay, or Mendocino and the North Coast. My bigger concern is that this is just an intentional distraction. That by throwing this out there, President Trump and the NRA are hoping we’ll get all distracted and excited about this crazy suggestion, and will waste this moment of momentum, and not take advantage of a few really sensible things we can easily do right now: Background checks, a ban on assault weapons, things like that.”

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Thornton, his face projected onto a screen above the stage, added, “People who are going to insult us, or say horribly inappropriate things to us, they now know that there will be consequences. You can disagree with us. That’s fine. But you need keep your conversation appropriate.”

Asked how much Thornton knew about gun laws in America and in Florida, the filmmaking and theater major said that he’s learned a great deal over the last four weeks. “The shooting has changed us all forever,” he said. “For one thing, those of us who are now organizing against gun violence, we’re all suddenly becoming experts on gun laws. It wasn’t our choice, but here we are.

The biggest thing I’ve learned, the biggest surprise, is how little the politicians seem to care about these issues. Our voices are being ignored by a lot of politicians, who are afraid of standing up for what’s right. We don’t think that’s OK. And we’re only going to get louder.”

Thornton included a plug for the upcoming March for Our Lives event in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, March 24, and invited everyone present to join him, Gonzalez, Hogg and other student advocates from Parkland.

“There are currently over 800 other marches being planned all over the world,” he said. “March for Our Lives is now on every single continent. So if you think the government should take real action on gun control, we invite you to find a march, and come walk with us.”

Asked by one of the student summit participants if he thought the #ENOUGH movement was going to gain momentum, or eventually fade away as other similar movements have often done, Thornton said that he has no intention of stopping until real change is made.

“After the march in Washington, we are forming a non-profit organization,” he announced, “with the goal of empowering and inspiring our fellow students all over the country, to create organic and educated ways to ensure that sensible gun control becomes the number one issue in the upcoming midterm elections.”

Following Thornton’s remarks, the focus was turned back to the student representatives onstage, and a small cluster of adults representing the Marin chapter of Moms Demand Action, the Brady

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Eighteen “student ambassadors” representing 15 high schools and colleges were on stage to represent their campuses in front of a crowd of more than 800 people at the March 18 Student Summit on School Safety and Gun Violence Prevention.

“I’m originally from Redding, California,” said Samantha Hunt, vice president of the Associated Students of Dominican University.

“So I come from a very different kind of background than here in Marin. Both of my parents are strong defenders of the Second Amendment, and we’ve been having a lot of conversations about what’s going on, and the capacities of all of these firearms.

And they do see the importance of common sense gun legislation, but that came after years and years of conversations where I ended up hearing myself saying, ‘We’re not trying to take away all of the guns, mom!’”

Asked by Huffman what ultimately caused her mother to shift her views, Hunt said that it had a lot to do with realizing that school shootings weren’t just happening to other people’s children.

“I’m her only child. I’m her baby,” Hunt said with a smile, “and I think my mom eventually understood that this was happening to children, children that parents just like her are sending every day into places they think, and trust and hope are safe.”

Alex Simard, of Marin Catholic High School, told of a long period when his family became ardent gun

enthusiasts. “When I graduated from elementary school, my grandfather thought the best thing for a fifth grade boy was to have his very own shotgun,” Simard said. “So that was my graduation gift. And after that, my dad and I experienced this two- or three-yearlong romance with guns. We talked about guns all the time. We had a white pickup truck and an NRA sticker. All of that. And then when Sandy Hook happened, we both woke up and realized, maybe we liked guns, but that didn’t mean we needed them. And what if someone stole some of our guns and did something terrible?”

Not long after, his family voluntarily gave up all of their guns.

Helen Rosen, of the Marin chapter of Moms Demand Action, said that the organization was founded five years ago by Shannon Watts, after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

“Shannon was a mom, and she was horrified that so little was being done in this country in response to school shootings,” Rosen said. “She had a huge response, immediately, but I have to tell you, since the Parkland shooting last month, the response has been overwhelming.

As of today, we have over 4.5 million supporters working for

Moms Demand Action around the country. We are not for taking away all guns, but we are for sensible legislation to curb this epidemic of violence. Seven teenagers a day are shot and killed by guns.

That’s a national health crisis, and something real must be done about that, and it must be done now.”

Adam Friedman, of Marin Academy, asked Huffman what could be said in response to those who genuinely fear that gun control will lead to the abolition of the Second Amendment, and the end of Americans’ right to own guns.

“It’s not going to be easy, but we have to find a way to debunk this paranoia that we want to take all of those guns away,” Huffman said. “California has a rigorous background check system. We have a number of sensible laws that exist, and guess what? People still are allowed to have guns. There are just some limits that prevent certain dangerous people from getting them. But if you can go to another state and get around our laws, then it doesn’t help. So what many of us are proposing is national implementation of the most sensible existing gun laws.”

Huffman asked if anyone knew the first words of the Second Amendment. The response from

several students was a simultaneous recitation of the phrase, “A wellregulated militia.” “‘Regulated,’” repeated Huffman.

“The Founding Fathers were in favor of some sensible regulation.

That’s all we want. Just what the Second Amendment already calls for.” He went on to describe what happens in Congress following every new school shooting. “There is a general statement that it would be inappropriate to discuss politics at such a time, someone from the state where the tragedy has occurred will make a short statement about thoughts and prayers, a moment of silence will be called for, the House solemnly bows its heads for about 20 seconds, the gavel will bang and we go back to business as usual.”

“We call B.S.!” shouted a voice from the audience, inspiring a huge round of applause from the student ambassadors.

“And that’s just what you are all doing, with this march that’s coming up, and with your advocacy,” Huffman responded.

“You’re saying not any more.

This has to stop. We’re not going to let this issue go away. That’s important. Your voices are important, and they need to be as loud as you can make them.”

Perhaps the most rousing moment came from Jake Cohen, of Tamalpais High School, who took the microphone to make a crowd-pleasing announcement.

“I’m a freshman,” he said, “and as soon as I turn 18 I am running for office. It might be the City Council, or it might be something else, but it’s something I’m going to do, because my community needs to be represented. My Jewish community, my queer community and my youth community [need] to be represented. We’re tired of false promises coming from adults who claim to be our allies. We’re young, but we’re not stupid. We understand the issues.

“So, putting it plainly,” Cohen added, “the youth community is just going to have to register to vote, learn everything we can and then take over to make the changes the adults have been too cowardly to make themselves.”Y A March for Our Lives event takes place on Saturday, March 24, 1pm, San Francisco Civic Center Plaza, 335 McAllister St., San Francisco; marchforourlives.com.

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Media companies built strategies around Facebook ‘likes,’ only to have the social network change the rules on them—and put them in financial peril.

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Facebook changes algorithm that media outlets relied on By Daniel Walters

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s with any toxic relationship, the possibility of a breakup sparks feelings of terror—and maybe a little bit of a relief. That’s the spot that Facebook has put the news business in. In January, the social media behemoth announced it would once again alter its News Feed algorithm to show users even more posts from their friends and family, and a lot fewer from media outlets.

The move isn’t all that surprising.

Ever since the 2016 election, the Menlo Park-based company has been under siege for creating a habitat where fake news stories flourished.

Their executives were dragged before Congress last year to testify about how they sold ads to Russians who wanted to influence the U.S. election, and so, in some ways, it’s simply easier to get out of the news business altogether.

But for the many news outlets that have come to rely on Facebook funneling readers to their sites,

the impact of a separation sounds catastrophic.

In an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg, San Francisco Chronicle Editor-in-Chief Audrey Cooper decried the social media company’s sudden change of course on January 12. “We struggled along, trying to anticipate the seemingly capricious changes in your newsfeed algorithm. We created new jobs in our newsrooms and tried to increase the number of people who signed up to follow our posts on Facebook. We were rewarded with increases in traffic to our websites, which we struggled to monetize.”

The strategy worked for a time, she says. “We were successful in getting people to ‘like’ our news, and you started to notice,” wrote Cooper. “Studies show more than half of Americans use Facebook to get news. That traffic matters because we monetize it—it pays the reporters who hold the powerful accountable.”

But just as newspapers learned

to master Facebook’s black box, so, too, did more nefarious operations, Cooper noted. Consumers, meanwhile, have grimaced as their favorite media outlets have stooped to sensational headlines to lure Facebook’s web traffic. They’ve become disillusioned by the flood of hoaxes and conspiracy theories that have run rampant on the site.

Now, sites that relied on Facebook’s algorithm have watched the floor drop out from under them when the algorithm changed—all while Facebook has gobbled up chunks of the print advertising revenue that had always sustained news operations.

It’s all landed media outlets in a hell of a quandary—it sure seems like Facebook is killing journalism. But can journalism survive without it?

It’s perhaps the perfect summation of the internet age: A website that started because a college kid wanted to rank which coeds were hotter became a global Goliath powerful enough

to influence the fate of the news industry itself.

When Facebook launched its News Feed in 2006, it ironically didn’t have anything to do with news. This was the site that still posted a little broken-heart icon when you changed your status from “In a Relationship” to “Single.”

The News Feed was intended to be a list of personalized updates from your friends. But in 2009, Facebook introduced its iconic “like” button. Soon, instead of showing posts in chronological order, the News Feed began showing you the popular posts first.

And that made all the difference.

Well-liked posts soared. Unpopular posts simply went unseen.

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With digital ad rates tied to web traffic, the incentives in the modern media landscape could be especially perverse: Write short, write a lot; pluck heartstrings or stoke fury.

Mathew Ingram, who covers digital media for Columbia Journalism Review, says such tactics might increase traffic for a while. But readers hate it. Sleazy tabloid shortcuts give you a sleazy tabloid reputation.“Short-term you can make a certain amount of money,” Ingram says.

“Long-term you’re basically setting fire to your brand.”

The News Feed, Zuckerberg announced in January, had skewed too far in the direction of social video posts from national media pages and too far away from personal posts from friends and family. They were getting back to their roots.

Even before the announcement, news sites had seen their articles get fewer and fewer hits from Facebook.

In subsequent announcements, Facebook gave nervous local news outlets some better news: They’d rank local community news outlets higher in the feed than national ones. They were also launching an experiment for a new section called “Today In,” focusing on local news and announcements, beta-testing the concept in certain cities. But in early tests, the site seemed to have trouble determining what’s local. The San Francisco Chronicle and other Bay Area news outlets say they’re taking a “wait-and-see” approach to the latest algorithm, analyzing how the impact shakes out before making changes. They’ve learned to not get excited.

There was a time Facebook was positively smug about its impact on the world. After all, it had seen its platform fan the flames of popular uprisings during the Arab Spring in countries like Tunisia, Iran and Egypt.

“By giving people the power to share, we are starting to see people make their voices heard on a different scale from what has historically been possible,” Zuckerberg bragged in a 2012 letter to investors under the header, “We hope to change how people relate to their governments and social institutions.”

And Facebook certainly has— though not the way it intended. A 2016 BuzzFeed investigation found that “fake news” stories on Facebook, hoaxes or hyper-partisan falsehoods, actually garnered more views than stories published in trusted outlets like the New York Times.

That, experts speculated, is another reason why Facebook, despite its massive profits, might be pulling back from its focus on news.

“As unprecedented numbers of people channel their political energy through this medium, it’s being used in unforeseen ways with societal repercussions that were never anticipated,” writes Samidh Chakrabarti, Facebook’s product manager for civic engagement, in a recent blog post.

By last May, a Harvard-Harris Poll found that almost two-thirds of voters believed that mainstream news outlets were full of fake news stories.

The danger of fake news, after all, isn’t just that we’re tricked by bogus claims. It’s that we’re pummeled by so many different contradictory stories, with so many different angles, that the task of trying to sort truth from fiction becomes exhausting.

Facebook has tried to address the fake news problem—hiring factcheckers to examine stories, slapping “disputed” tags on suspect claims, putting counterpoints in related article boxes—but with mixed results.

The latest headache for the company arrived last week when it was revealed that the Trump campaign had used Cambridge Analytica to mine personal data of some 50 million Facebook users.

Facebook’s new algorithm threatens to make the fake news problem even worse. To determine the quality of news sites, Facebook is rolling out a two-question survey about whether users recognized certain media outlets, and whether they found them trustworthy. The problem is that a lot of Facebook users, like Trump, consider the Washington Post and the New York Times to be “fake news.”

The other problem? There are a lot fewer trustworthy news sources out there. And Facebook bears some of the blame for that, too, the Chronicle’s Cooper says.

“I’ve built my career on exposing hypocrisy and wrongdoing and expecting more of those with power, which is why I have repeatedly said Facebook has aggressively abdicated its responsibility to its users and our democracy,” she says. “I expect a lot more from them, as we all should.”Y A version of this article first appeared in the Inlander. Jennifer Wadsworth contributed to this report.

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Fortunately, Back to Burgundy, opening at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center this week, steers clear of this age-old argument, and instead points its lens on a family drama that plays out in the lush vineyards of one of France’s most famous winemaking regions.

French filmmaker Cédric Klapisch’s latest movie unfolds on a familyowned vineyard. The oldest sibling, Jean (Po Marmaï) shows up after a 10year absence when he is notified that his father (Éric Caravaca) is ill and dying. His younger sister Juliette (Ana Giradot) has taken over winemaking duties since her father has been hospitalized, and the youngest sibling Jéremié (Francois Civil) lives nearby and has married into one of the region’s

well-known winemaking families.

While the main plot revolves around 30-something Jean and his conflicted feelings about returning home from Australia, the siblings are also thrust into making decisions about the future of the winery.

Just enough authentic exchanges between harvest workers, siblings and partners give it a fresh, modern tone. Refreshingly, the film captures the hard work entailed in running a winery—and doesn’t attempt to over-romanticize the process.

In all, the film offers what feels like an authentic glimpse into the lives of a Burgundian winemaking family. They come with all of the messy, complicated trappings of any family—this one just happens to have a breathtaking, world-class winegrowing region as its backdrop.Y ‘Back to Burgundy’ plays on Friday, March 23, with a wine tasting and panel discussion on Saturday, March 24; Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St., San Rafael; rafaelfilm.cafilm.org.

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‘After the Fire: Vol 1’, a heartfelt ode to the North Bay by local songwriter/producer Scott Mickelson, features 15 tracks, all recorded in the last few months.

MUSIC

The death of Stalin was a happy occasion for the human race, but terrifying for the dictator’s inner circle.

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After the Fire

Communist Plot

Mill Valley musician spearheads fire relief album By Charlie Swanson

By Richard von Busack

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hen songwriter, producer and longtime Bay Area figure Scott Mickelson was growing up, there was no such thing as DIY in the recording industry. “You either had a record deal, or you didn’t,” says Mickelson, who formed San Francisco alt-rock outfit Fat Opie more than 20 years ago. “I went through all those paces, and I’m at a place in my life where I can pay forward a lot of that experience.”

For the last seven years, Mickelson has been sharing his experience by working hands-on to produce albums with younger artists in his Mill Valley home recording studio. “I like to work with artists who are interested in pushing the boundaries of what they can do with their music,” he says.

Last October, Mickelson watched in horror as wildfires ravaged Sonoma, Napa and other North Bay counties for more than a week.

“I started hearing [fire] experiences from more and

more people,” Mickelson says.

Immediately, he turned his scheduled concerts into fire relief benefits. “My wife and I have been enjoying Napa and Sonoma since 1987; that was always our go-to place. It hit me hard, the thought that it won’t ever be the same in our lifetime.”

In a society of “yesterday’s news,” Mickelson wanted to find a longterm way of helping, so he called up songwriters like Sam Chase, Travis Hayes, Bobby Jo Valentine and David Luning to record a benefit compilation album that came to be known as After the Fire: Vol. 1. The album will become available at two record-release shows, on March 29 at HopMonk Tavern in Sebastopol and on March 30 at Café du Nord in San Francisco. All proceeds from the album sales and release shows go to fire relief efforts.

“I’m thrilled these artists gave me the opportunity to do this,” Mickelson says. “Unfortunately, it took a tragedy to get us together, but I’m glad we’re doing something useful.”Y

The relevance of ‘The Death of Stalin’

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he year 2018 has made us all connoisseurs of misrule.

Thus Armando Iannucci’s speedy farce The Death of Stalin has relevance. Still, at a recent San Francisco appearance, Iannucci stressed that he’d shot it in the summer of 2016, lest viewers suspected that it was some sort of allusion to the court of Trump.

(Putin didn’t like it—it was banned in Russia.) It finds comedy in the plight of shivering people, fearing the knock on the door in the middle of the night.

And it lampoons that infuriating boredom that comes from serving a man who always must be right.

One evening in 1953, the highest executives of the USSR are socializing with Stalin. As played

by Adrian McLoughlin, this enemy of mankind is smaller than you’d expect. He gathers his cohorts to watch an old cowboy movie in a language they don’t understand.

Later that night, Stalin is struck by a brain hemorrhage; he’s flat on the floor in a large puddle of piss, which will soon be diluted by the crocodile tears of Stalin’s staff. No one wants to be the first to call a

doctor, in case he wakes up. The dictator dies, and there is no clear designated successor. However, the portly bespectacled Beria (Simon Russell Beale), head of the NKVD secret police, aims to be Stalin II. The contenders are nervous weaklings. The darkest horse among them is the diplomat Molotov (Michael Palin). Molotov tries to stay on Beria’s good side even though the secret police chief arrested Molotov’s wife. No one realizes that Nikita Khrushchev, not a prepossessing man, will be the most skilled of the plotters. Like Stalin, Khrushchev was a killer—he admitted later that he had blood on his hands.

Like the ’60s British political comedies it resembles, Death of Stalin may be too clever and too mordant.

But it does have tang, with Tom Stoppard-like wordplay and some big and surprising laughs. What’s best about this razory comedy is that just from the tone, you can tell the difference between what’s true and what’s too good to be true, and there’s more of the former than the latter.Y

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Friday March 23 - Thursday March 29 • Back to Burgundy (1:53) A year in the life of a family vineyard as three siblings return to the soil, harvest their grapes, bottle their wine and bond.

• Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (1:29) Eye-opening documentary focuses on the dazzling movie star’s night job as a genius inventor; Mel Brooks and Robert Osborne pay tribute.

• Call Me by Your Name (2:12) Torrid tale of an expat American teenager’s love affair with his father’s intern one sweltering Italian summer.

• The Death of Stalin (1:47) Absurdist screwball satire stars Jeffrey Tambor, Michael Palin and Steve Buscemi as three top Soviet ministers jockeying for position as the feared dictator flirts with death.

• Exhibition Onscreen: Cezanne: Portraits of a Life (1:25) Experience the life and work of the great Impressionist painter on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Musée d’Orsay’s acclaimed exhibition.

• The Female Brain (1:40) Offbeat romantic comedy about a neuroscientist studying the biochemistry of love who becomes one of her own guinea pigs.

• Flower (1:33) Angrily provocative coming-of-age comedy about four rebellious teens taking chances in the San Fernando Valley.

• Game Night (1:40) Comedy thriller about a couples game night gone awry in a murder-and-espionage sort of way; Rachel McAdams stars.

• God’s Not Dead: A Light in Darkness (1:45) Faith-based drama about a congregation without a church and two estranged brothers seeking redemption.

• I Can Only Imagine (1:50) Behind-thescenes drama about MercyMe’s charttopping Christian ode to inspiration and forgiveness.

• In the Fade (1:45) Cannes-winning German thriller about a lone Hamburg widow and the neo-Nazi couple she targets; Diane Kruger stars.

• Isle of Dogs (1:41) Stop-motion Wes Anderson fantasy about a vast garbage dump and its canine habitués; Harvey Keitel, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Murray, Yoko Ono and Scarlett Johansson lend voice.

• Leaning Into the Wind (1:33) Environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy reunites with filmmaker Thomas (Rivers and Tides) Riedelsheimer on a cinematic exploration of cities, landscapes, the artist himself and other ephemera.

• The Leisure Seeker (1:52) Donald Sutherland and Helen Mirren take to the open road in their battered RV on a lifeembracing trip from Boston to Key West.

• Love, Simon (1:50) Coming-of-age dramedy about a gay teen on the verge of uncloseting himself and his crush on an online pen pal.

• Metric Live in Concert: Dreams So Real (2:00) Catch the Canadian rock band performing “Gold Girls Guns” and other hits in dazzling 4K high definition.

• Midnight Sun (1:31) A winsome teen with a life-threatening sensitivity to sunlight

embraces the night with a sweet-natured soulmate.

• National Theatre London: Julius Caesar (2:15) Direct from London’s Bridge Theatre it’s Shakespeare’s gripping political drama about a popular quasi-fascist and the charismatic charlatan who succeeds him.

• Oh Lucy! (1:36) A proper if rut-stuck Japanese lady explores her adventurous side when she takes a role-playing English class from dreamy Josh Hartnett.

• Pacific Rim: Uprising (1:51) A troupe of fighter pilots take on global baddies out to extinctify the human race.

• The Party (1:11) Dark ensemble comedy about an evening’s soiree’s descent into revelations, recriminations and sinister repartee.

• Phantom Thread (2:10) Exquisitely crafted Paul Thomas Anderson period drama about a 1950s London couturier and the women/woman who inspire him; Daniel Day-Lewis stars.

• Ponyo (1:41) Hayao Miyazaki’s acclaimed anime about a goldfish-turned-sorceress who accidentally sets the world off its axis; Lily Tomlin and Matt Damon lend voice.

• Ready Player One (2:18) Spielberg popcorn flick about a futuristic world where fantasy is the new reality … until it isn’t; Mark Rylance stars.

• Red Sparrow (2:20) Prima ballerina Jennifer Lawrence is recruited and trained by top-secret government goons and turned into a seductive, soulless secret agent.

• Royal Ballet: The Winter’s Tale (3:00) Shakespeare’s classic tale of love, jealousy, loss and redemption is brought to terpsichorean life through Joby Talbot’s music and Christopher Wheeldon’s choreography.

• 7 Days in Entebbe (1:47) True tale of the 1976 hijacking of a Tel Aviv-to-Paris Air France flight and the daring mission to rescue the hostages.

• Sherlock Gnomes (1:26) Cartoon about a brilliant detective dedicated to protecting London’s garden gnomes from harm features the voices of Michael Caine, Maggie Smith and Chiwetel Ejiofor.

• 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.

• Tomb Raider (1:58) Lara Croft is back in a prequel about her first archaeological exploits on a mythical Japanese island; Alicia Vikander stars.

• Unsane (1:38) Steven Soderbergh shocker about a delusional teen railroaded into an insane asylum; Claire Foy stars.

• The Vatican Museums (1:45) Explore the Vatican’s dazzling collection of paintings, sculptures and frescoes by the likes of Michelangelo, da Vinci, Van Gogh and Dali on a high-definition behind-thescenes tour.

• A Wrinkle in Time (1:49) Madeleine L’Engle’s children’s classic about three kids who travel through time and space in search of their physicist father.

Back to Burgundy (Not Rated)

Black Panther (PG-13) Call Me by Your Name (R) Coco (PG) • The Death of Stalin (R) Exhibition Onscreen: Cezanne: Portraits of a Life (Not Rated) A Fantastic Woman (R) • The Female Brain (Not Rated)

Rafael: Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed, Thu 5:45; Sat 6 (winetasting precedes the Saturday screening; panel discussion follows) Northgate: Fri-Tue 12:55, 4:05, 5:45, 7:15, 9, 10:25 Rowland: Fri-Tue 10:10, 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:20 Lark: Tue 1; Wed 10:40 Lark: Fri-Sat 4; Sun 10:30, 3:15; Mon 6 Rafael: Fri, Wed-Thu 3:45, 6:15, 8:45; Sat 1, 3:30, 5:45, 6:15, 8:45, 9; Sun 1:15, 3:45, 6:15, 8:45; Mon-Tue 6:15, 8:45

Lark: Sun 1 Lark: Fri 11; Sun 5:40; Mon 1; Tue 8:30; Wed 1:15 Rafael: Tue 7 (author and UCSF professor Louann Brizendine in person) Regency: Fri-Sat 11:20, 1:50, 4:10, 6:45, 9:10; Sun-Thu • Flower (R) 11:20, 1:50, 4:10, 6:45 • God’s Not Dead: A Light in Darkness (PG) Northgate: Thu 7, 9:40 I Can Only Imagine (PG) Northgate: Fri-Tue 11:20, 2, 4:45, 7:25, 10:10 In the Fade (R) Lark: Mon 8:30; Thu 10:30 Isle of Dogs (PG-13) Regency: Fri-Sat 10:30, 11:45, 1, 2:15, 3:30, 4:45, 6, 7:15, 8:30, 9:45; Sun-Thu 10:30, 11:45, 1, 2:15, 3:30, 4:45, 6, 7:15 Leaning Into the Wind (Not Rated) Rafael: Fri, Sun, Wed-Thu 3:30, 8:15; Sat 3:15; Mon 8:15 The Leisure Seeker (R) Regency: Fri-Sat Fri-Sat 11, 1:40, 4:20, 7, 9:40; Sun-Wed 11, 1:40, 4:20, 7; Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7 Love, Simon (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Tue 11:40, 2:35, 5:15, 7:50, 10:30 Rowland: Fri-Tue 11:30, 2:15, 5, 7:40, 10:30 Sequoia: Fri 4:35, 7:15, 9:45; Sat 1:35, 4:35, 7:15, 9:45; Sun 1:35, 4:35, 7:15; MonThu 4:35, 7:15 • Metric in Concert: Dreams So Real (Not Rated) Lark: Thu 7:30 Northgate: Fri-Tue 11:55, 2:15, 4:35, 7, 9:20 • Midnight Sun (PG-13) National Theatre London: Julius Caesar (Not Rated) Lark: Sat 1 Oh Lucy! (Not Rated) Rafael: Fri, Mon-Thu 8; Sat 1:15, 8; Sun noon, 8 Pacific Rim: Uprising (PG-13) Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 6:50, 3D showtime at 9:30; Sat-Sun 1, 6:50, 9:30, 3D showtime at 4 Northgate: Fri-Tue 11:25, 2:10, 4:55, 6:20, 7:45, 10:30; 3D showtimes at 12:40, 3:30, 9:10 Rowland: Fri-Tue 11, 1:45, 7:10; 3D showtimes at 4:25, 10 Paddington 2 (PG) Northgate: Fri-Tue 11:50, 2:25, 5 The Party (R) Lark: Fri 6:20; Sat 9; Mon 11:15; Tue 3:45; Wed 8:30; Thu 5:45 Peter Rabbit (PG) Northgate: Fri-Tue 11:45, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 Rowland: Fri-Tue 10:20, 12:45, 3:10, 5:30 Phantom Thread (R) Sequoia: Fri-Sat 4, 9:30; Sun-Thu 4 Fairfax: Sun 12:50; Mon, Wed 7 Regency: Mon, Wed 7 • Ponyo (G) Northgate: Wed 7:15, 10:25, 3D showtime at 8:50; Thu • Ready Player One (PG-13) 12:55, 2:30, 4:05, 7:15, 10:25, 3D showtimes at 11:20, 5:40, 8:50 Rowland: Wed 7, 3D showtime at 10:15; Thu 9:30, 3:50, 7 Red Sparrow (R) Regency: Fri-Sun, Tue 10:25, 4:35; Mon, Wed 10:25am; Thu 4:25 Rowland: Fri-Tue 2, 8 • Royal Ballet: The Winter’s Tale (Not Rated) Rafael: Sun noon 7 Days in Entebbe (PG-13) Regency: Fri-Sat 11:10, 2, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05; Sun-Thu 11:10, 2, 4:55, 7:30 The Shape of Water (R) Lark: Fri 1:20; Sat 6:30; Sun 7:50; Mon 3:15; Tue 10:30; Wed 3:30; Thu 12:40 Regency: Fri-Sun, Tue, Thu 1:30, 7:40; Mon, Wed 1:30 Rowland: Fri-Tue 11:10, 5:10 Northgate: Fri-Tue 11:05, 1:20, 5:50, 10:20; 3D showtimes at • Sherlock Gnomes (PG) 3:35, 8:05 Rowland: Fri-Tue 10, 2:30, 4:45, 7; 3D showtimes at 12:15, 9:15 Star Wars: The Last Jedi (PG-13) Lark: Fri 8; Tue 5:30 Tomb Raider (PG-13) Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 6:30, 9:20; Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 Northgate: Fri-Tue 11, 1:45, 3:15, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15; 3D showtimes at 6:10, 8:55 Rowland: Fri-Tue 10:30, 4:35, 7:30, 10:25; 3D showtime at 1:30 Northgate: Fri-Tue 12:15, 2:55, 5:20, 7:55, 10:20 • Unsane (R) Lark: Wed 6:15 • The Vatican Museums (Not Rated) A Wrinkle in Time (PG) Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 7:10, 9:45; Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Northgate: Fri-Tue 11:15, 12:30, 1:50, 3:10, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Rowland: Fri-Tue 10:45, 1:20, 4, 6:50, 9:30 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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THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A SELECTIVE GUIDE

NOVATO

Keep Laughing

In these tumultuous times, laughter is a welcome gift. After taking a class called “How to be a Stand-up Comedian,” Los Angeles-based comedian Wendy Liebman has been doing stand-up for more than 25 years. Her credits include spots on TV shows hosted by Johnny Carson, Jay Leno and Jimmy Fallon, as well as specials for HBO and Comedy Central. Catch her on Sunday, March 25 at Trek Winery, 1026 Machin Ave., Novato, 7:30pm. $20. 415.899.9883.

POINT REYES STATION

History Buff West Marin is one of Marin County’s treasures. But what was it like years ago? Dewey Livingston, a West Marin author and historian, will be presenting a slide show titled “Being a Kid in Old West Marin,” with findings that include photos, maps and tidbits about home life, school, chores and more on Sunday, March 25 at the Dance Palace, 503 B St., Point Reyes Station. 4pm. Free/by donation. 415.663.1075.

SAUSALITO

Calm Core The fast-paced modern-day world is full of stress. To maintain sanity and happiness, a little guidance goes a long way. Marin-based New York Times bestselling author, Buddhist teacher, psychologist and neuroscientist Dr. Rick Hanson will speak about his new book, Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength and Happiness, on Tuesday, March 27, at Book Passage By-the-Bay, 100 Bay St., Sausalito. 6pm. Free. bookpassage.com.

MILL VALLEY

Cosmik Country Marin County is no stranger to the green leaf—or to famous musicians, who often reinvent themselves. Chris Robinson (Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Black Crowes) has put together an all-star band, Green Leaf Rustlers, featuring “cosmik country music & deep Cali vibes!” Check them out March 27-29 at Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley. 8pm. $39.50-$44.50. 415.388.3850.

—Lily O’Brien

Chris Robinson

Sundial CALENDAR open mic. Mar 27, Eddie Neon blues jam.

Mar 28, the Well Known Strangers. 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 415.459.1091.

MARIN COUNTY

No Name Bar Mar 21, Deer Head Fridge. Mar 22, Jazzitude.

Mar 23, Michael Aragon Quartet. Mar 24, Chris Saunders Band. Mar 25, Timothy O & Co. Mar 26, Kimrea & the Dreamdogs.

Mar 27, open mic. Mar 28, Fly by Train. 757 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 415.332.1392.

The Contribution New supergroup is made up from members of Railroad Earth, ALO, New Monsoon and the Black Swan Singers. Mar 24, 9pm. $32$37. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.3850.

Ghost Light Musical collaboration between five musicians–Holly Bowling, Tom Hamilton, Steve Lyons, Raina Mullen and Scotty Zwang– performing as part of its inaugural tour. Mar 23-24, 8pm. $20. Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael. 415.524.2773.

Green Leaf Rustlers Chris Robinson’s all-star lineup of California country stars kicks up a three-night residency in Mill Valley. Mar 27-29, 8pm. $40-$45.

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

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

Fenix Mar 23, Johnny Vegas Band. Mar 24, Silver Moon Big Band. Mar 25, Katy Guillen & the Girls. 919 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.813.5600.

George’s Nightclub Mar 23, Noche Exoctica. Mar 24, DJ Party.

842 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.226.0262.

HopMonk Novato Wed, open mic. Mar 22, Country Line Dancing. 224 Vintage Way, Novato.

415.892.6200.

Iron Springs Pub & Brewery Mar 21, Fog Holler. 765 Center Blvd, Fairfax.

415.485.1005.

L’Appart Resto Mar 22, Amanda Addleman and Lee Dynes. 636 San Anselmo Ave, San Anselmo.

415.256.9884.

Marin Country Mart Mar 23, 5:30pm, Friday Night Jazz with Susan Sutton. Mar 25, 12:30pm, Folkish Festival with Stereo Archive. 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur. 415.461.5700.

19 Broadway Club Mar 21, songwriters in the round with Danny Uzi. Mar 22, Elvis Johnson’s Soul Revue. Mar 23, 5:30pm, the Weissmen.

Mar 23, 9pm, Points North with Phantom Power and Damon LeGall Band. Mar 24, 3pm, Jai Josef Trio. Mar 24, 9:30pm, the Humidors and Sucker Mcs. Mar 25, 5:30pm, Connie Ducey and friends. Mar 25, 9:30pm, hip-hop shop with Harrison Lee. Mar 26,

Old St Hilary’s Landmark Mar 25, 4pm, Duo Violão Brasil. 201 Esperanza, Tiburon. 415.435.1853.

Osteria Divino Mar 21, Brian Moran Trio. Mar 22, Ian McArdle Trio. Mar 23, Barrio Manouche.

Mar 24, Marcos Sainz Trio. Mar 25, Jeff Denson’s Open Sky Trio. Mar 27, Greg Jacobs Duo. Mar 28, Jonathan Poretz. 37 Caledonia St, Sausalito. 415.331.9355.

Panama Hotel Restaurant Mar 21, Vardo. Mar 22, C-JAM with Connie Ducey. Mar 27, Joan Getz Trio. Mar 28, Lorin Rowan. 4 Bayview St, San Rafael.

415.457.3993.

Papermill Creek Saloon Mar 21, OMEN. Mar 22, Phil Wood and Danny Dickson. Mar 23, Launch Party.

Mar 24, Michael Saliani Band. Mar 25, the Weissmen. 1 Castro, Forest Knolls.

415.488.9235.

Peri’s Silver Dollar Mar 22, Mark’s Jam Sammich. Mar 23, El Cajon. Mar 24, El Radio Fantastique. Mar 25, Chrissy Lynne and friends. Mar 26, open mic.

29 Broadway, Fairfax. 415.459.9910.

Rancho Nicasio Mar 23, Beer Scouts. Mar 24, Shana Morrison. Mar 25, 5pm, Wendy DeWitt’s piano party with Lady Bianca. 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio. 415.662.2219.

Rickey’s Restaurant & Bar Mar 21, Tracy Rose Trio. Mar 27, Chime Travelers. Mar 28, Kimrea & the Dreamdogs.

250 Entrada Dr, Novato. 415.883.9477.

Sausalito Seahorse Wed, Milonga with Marcelo Puig and Seth Asarnow. Mar 22, KiANA and friends. Mar 23, Reed Fromer Band. Mar 24, Julio Bravo & Salsabor. Mar 25, 4pm, Candela with Edgardo Cambon. 305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito. 415.331.2899.

Smiley’s Schooner Saloon Mar 22, Joe Kaplow. Mar 23, See Night.

Mar 24, This Old Earthquake. 41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas. 415.868.1311.

Sweetwater Music Hall Mar 22, Della Mae and the Good Bad. Mar 23, Mason Jennings and Sarah Summer.

Mar 26, 5:30pm, Crossroads Music School concert. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley.

415.388.3850.

Terrapin Crossroads Mar 22, Free Peoples. Mar 23, Top 40 Friday dance party with Talley Up. Mar 24, surf rock night with Sandy’s. Mar 25, 12:30pm, Chris Haugen and friends. Mar 25, 7pm, Yonder Mountain String Band. Mar 26,

Grateful Mondays with Stu Allen. Mar 27, Colonel & the Mermaids. Mar 28, Danny Click & the Hell Yeahs. 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael. 415.524.2773.

Throckmorton Theatre Mar 21, noon, the Liberty Street Trio. Mar 21, 7:30pm, Mill Valley Middle School Chamber Music concert. Mar 28, noon, BradetichGrove Duo. 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.

Tomales Town Hall Mar 24, 6pm, Assateague with Appreciation Society and Sugar Candy Mountain. 27150 Shoreline Hwy, Tomales. 707.878.2006.

Trek Winery Mar 23, Todos Santos. 1026 Machin Ave, Novato. 415.899.9883.

Keeping The Living Music Alive Mar 25 • Sun • 7pm • Unity in Marin, Novato

Adey Bell “Silver Wheel CD Release Free Concert” FREE CONCERT

w/“Shadow Shaman” singersongwriter & unreal pianist + the debut of her awesome “Venus Exalted Ensemble” Apr 1 • Sun • 7pm • Unity in Marin, Novato Grammy Award WInner Peter Kater feat Peia

“She” CD Release Concert Exraordinaire

Apr 8 • Sun • 7pm • Showcase Theater at Marin Center

R. Carlos Nakai Quintet “Live in Concert” Global-Ethnic Grooves with Native American flutes Apr 13 • Fri • 7pm • Key Tea, 921 C St, San Rafael

Shantala & Mikey Pauker “Shalom Tour” Apr 14 • Sat • 8pm • Showcase Theater at Marin Center

Nina Wise and Vinny Ferraro “Wild Wisdom: SOUL-O”

Art OPENING

Fresh Take on Universal Truths: improv and Dharma Humor May 12 • Sat • 7:30pm • Marin Center Auditorium

Deva Premal/ Miten w/Manose “Soul of Mantra Tour—Live” in Marin

MARIN Desta Art & Tea Gallery Mar 23-May 4, “Varying Degrees,” a new exhibition featuring works by Paul D Gibson, shifts perspectives of ordinary objects through light, shadow and settings. Reception, Mar 23 at 6pm. 417 San Anselmo Ave, San Anselmo.

Mon-Sat, 10 to 6. 415.524.8932.

May 17 • Thu • 8pm • Unity in Marin, Novato FLOW Tour Stop in Marin: with Will Ackerman,

Fiona Joy, Lawrence Blatt, and Jeff Oster

May 25 • Fri • 8pm • Unity in Marin, Novato

Ma Muse “Prayers for Peace” CD Release Concert All Ages • 415.924.4848 • lloydbarde.com

Comedy Wendy Liebman Standup veteran was a regular on “The Late Show with David Letterman” and appeared on “The Tonight Show” with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno. Mar 25, 7:30pm. $20.

Trek Winery, 1026 Machin Ave, Novato, marincomedyshow.com.

EVERY WEDNESDAY OPEN MIC NIGHT WITH DENNIS HANEDA THU 3/22 $10 6PM DOORS / 6PM LESSON ALL AGES

COUNTRY LINE DANCING

Events

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

Spring Open House Experience what’s new at the Headlands Center and engage with artists while viewing performances and works in progress. Mar 25, noon. Free. Headlands Center for the Arts, 944 Fort Barry, Sausalito. 415.331.2787.

Veterans Resource Center Veteran volunteer Mark Seely will be available to meet with veterans and their families to discuss various topics. Mar 28, 2pm. Civic Center Library, 3501 Civic Center Dr, San Rafael. 415.473.6058.

SUN 3/25 FREE 6PM DOORS ALL AGES

WONDERFEST EVERY 4TH SUNDAY

TUE 3/27 FREE 7PM DOORS / 7PM SHOW ALL AGES

TUESDAY TRIVIA EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT!

THU 3/29 $10 6:45PM DOORS / 7PM SHOW ALL AGES

3 BAND THURSDAY

FUNKSCHWAY, THE PATRICK FORD BAND, MSA JAZZ COMBO FRI 3/30 $25 8PM DOORS / 9PM SHOW 21+

WONDER BREAD 5 AN EVENING WITH 2 SETS !

Film

SAT 3/31 $10 8PM DOORS / 9PM SHOW 21+

Back to Burgundy Set in a family vineyard, the new drama screens with a wine reception and postscreening panel featuring local winery owners. Mar 24, 6pm. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael.

415.454.1222.

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16 Thu 3⁄22 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $20–$24 • All Ages Grammy Nominated Americana Band Della Mae + The Good Bad Fri 3⁄23 • Doors 8pm ⁄ $35–$40 • 21+ Mason Jennings + Sarah Summer Sat 3⁄24 • Doors 8pm ⁄ $32–$37 • All Ages

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feat Tim Carbone (Railroad Earth), Jeff Miller (New Monsoon), Steve Adams (ALO, Nicki Bluhm), Phil Ferlino (New Monsoon), Sheryl Renee & Ezra Lipp (Phil Lesh, Cake) + Nat Keefe and Bryan Horne (of Hot Buttered Rum)

Tue 3⁄27–Thu 3⁄29 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $3950–$4450 • 21+

Green Leaf Rustlers

feat Chris Robinson Fri 3⁄30–Sat 3⁄31 • Doors 8pm ⁄ $27–$32• 21+

Petty Theft ~ Tom Petty Tribute Sun 4⁄1 • Doors 5pm ⁄ $12–$15 • All Ages

Edge of the West April Fools Ball Thu 4⁄5 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $12–$14 • All Ages

Five Alarm Funk

Fri 4⁄6 • Doors 8pm ⁄ $22–$27 • All Ages

House Of Floyd

The Music of Pink Floyd Sun 4⁄8 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $14–$17• All Ages

Jerry Joseph (solo)

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Lunch & Dinner Sat & Sun Brunch

Fireside Dining 7 Days a Week

Din ner & A Show Fri

Mar 23

Beer Scouts

Rock N Roll Party 8:00 / No Cover Shana Morrison 8:30 24 Mar Sat

DeWitt with Guest Mar 25 Wendy Lady Bianca 5:00 / No Cover Sun Fri

Mar 30 Sat

Lowatters 8:00 / No Cover

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Apr 6

Buck Nickels and Loose Change

8:00 / No Cover

Prophet and the Apr 7 Chuck Mission Express 8:30 Sat Apr 14 Danny Click and the Hell Yeahs! 8:30 Sat

Marin’s Favorite Son!

Bill Champlin’s WunderGround CD Release Party

Renowned author Louann Brizendine presents and discusses the unconventional movie adaptation of her bestselling science book. Mar 27, 7pm. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael.

415.454.1222.

Generation Zapped EMF Safety Network hosts a screening of the new documentary about the health risks of wireless technology with a discussion. Mar 21, 7pm. Free. First Presbyterian Church of San Rafael, 1510 Fifth St, San Rafael, emfsafetynetwork.org.

Marin 1915: A Cinematic Journey View a rare 1915 film created by Marin’s Board of Education for the San Francisco 1915 World’s Fair. Mar 26, 10:30am. Free.

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

Food & Drink Oyster Fête 2018 Special menus highlight oysters in all their glory. Mar 26-31. Left Bank Brasserie, 507 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur. 415.927.3331.

For Kids Spring Eggstravaganza Enjoy an Easter breakfast and egg hunt. Mar 24, 8:30am. $4-$6. Mill Valley Community Center, 180 Camino Alto, Mill Valley.

415.383.1370.

Lectures Being a Kid in Old West Marin Marin historian Dewey Livingston presents a slide show featuring historical photographs and recollections of the Point Reyes and Tomales Bay area. Mar 25, 4pm.

Dance Palace, 503 B St, Pt Reyes Station.

415.663.1075.

Dharma Study & Discussion Rev Ron Kobata leads a discussion class on a variety of Buddhist topics. Mar 25, 11:30am.

Free. Buddhist Temple of Marin, 390 Miller Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.1173.

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.

From Hippie to Chassid Video presentation and lecture looks at Reuven Green’s story of perseverance and integrity. Mar 27, 7pm. Chabad Jewish Center of Novato, 7430 Redwood Blvd, Suite D, Novato. 415.878.6770.

Fungal Conservation Mycological Society of Marin County hosts a discussion on including fungi in conservation and management plans. Mar 21, 7pm. Mill Valley Library, 375 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.389.4292.

415.662.2219

Growing Strawberries & Blueberries Learn from a master gardener. Mar 22, 7pm. Free. Sausalito Library, 420 Litho St, Sausalito. 415.289.4121.

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Preparing for Difficult Conversations

Saturday, Apr 21, 8:30 Reservations Advised

On the Town Square, Nicasio

Film

Join author Louann Brizendine at a presentation of the film ‘The Female Brain’, adapted from her bestselling science book of the same name, on March 27 at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael.

Professional mediator Marissa Wertheimer leads participants through a workshop designed to help us have compassion and understanding in conversations. Mar 28, 6:30pm. San Rafael Library, 1100 E St, San Rafael. 415.485.3323.

Self-Publishing Essentials Workshop guides you through the steps to self-publish. Mar 24, 2pm. Open Secret, 923 C St, San Rafael. 415.457.4191.

Socially Conscious Investing Learn to align your faith and values with your portfolio investments from certified financial planner Kathleen Nemetz. Sat, Mar 24, 10am. Donations welcome. VenturePad, 1020 B St, San Rafael.

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.

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.

Readings Book Passage Mar 21, 7pm, “This Messy Magnificent Life” with Geneen Roth. Mar 22, 7pm, “Happiness” with Aminatta Forna. Mar 24, 11am, “The Wonder Down Under” with Dr Nina Brochmann and Ellen Stokken Dahl.

Mar 24, 4pm, “Through the Bookstore Window” with Bill Petrocelli. Mar 24, 7pm, “Dreaming of France” with Kerry Campbell.

Mar 25, 1pm, “Vegetarian Viet Nam” with Cameron Stauch. Mar 25, 4pm, “Greater Gotham” with Mike Wallace. Mar 26, 7pm, “In Praise of Difficult Women” with Karen

Karbo. Mar 27, 7pm, “The Tuscan Child” with Rhys Bowen. Mar 28, 7pm, “To Die But Once” with Jacqueline Winspear. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 415.927.0960.

Book Passage By-the-Bay Mar 27, 6pm, “Resilient” with Dr Rick Hanson. 100 Bay St, Sausalito. 415.339.1300.

Novato Copperfield’s Books Mar 24, 7pm, “Know Me Here: An Anthology of Poetry by Women” with Katherine Hastings. 999 Grant Ave, Novato.

415.763.3052.

Osher Marin JCC Mar 27, 7pm, “The Middle Place” with Kelly Corrigan. 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael.

415.444.8000.

Theater Dead Man’s Cell Phone Ross Valley Players present a new comedy about how we memorialize the dead and our need to connect in a technologically obsessed world. Through Mar 25. $15-$27.

Barn Theatre, Marin Art and Garden Center, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross, rossvalleyplayers.com.

In the Heights Throckmorton Youth Performers present Lin Manuel Miranda’s debut musical about New York City’s Washington Heights neighborhood. Through Mar 25. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

415.383.9600.

The Wolves Powerful play that uses a girls soccer team as a portrait of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness makes its West Coast premiere.

Through Apr 8. $10-$37. Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave, Mill Valley.

415.388.5208.

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

SINGLE MEN WANTED. Single & Dissatisfied? Tired of spending weekends and holidays alone? Join withother single women to explore what’s blocking you from fulfillment in your relationships and learn how to manifest your dreams. Nine-week Single’s Group starts March 27.

Also, coed INTIMACY GROUPS and WOMEN’S GROUP, starting the week of March 12th and INDIVIDUAL and COUPLES sessions. Space limited. Advance sign-up required. Central San Rafael Victorian. For more information, call Renee Owen, LMFT #35255 at 415/453-8117.

GROUP FOR FORMER MEMBERS OF HIGH DEMAND GROUPS OR “CULTS”, “spiritual,” “religious,” “philosophical,” “Eastern,” “Coaching/Improvement,” etc. Safety and trust in discussing experiences and coercive influence in groups and families with leaders who claim special status and who use unethical, manipulative methods to recruit and indoctrinate with increasing demands on personal lives.

Facilitated and developed by Colleen Russell, LMFT, CGP, since 2003.

GROUP FOR MOTHERLESS DAUGHTERS, women who have lost their mothers through death, illness, separation, or estrangement in childhood, adolescence or adulthood. A safe place to grieve and to explore many influences of mother loss in relationships, parenting, individual goals, trust, etc. Facilitated and developed by Colleen Russell, LMFT, GCP, since 1997. Kentfield. Individual, Couple, Family & Group Therapy. 415-785-3513; crussell@colleenrussellmft.com, http://www.colleenrussellmft.com.

Community Spanish Language Learning Center In Downtown San Rafael www.spanishindowntown sanrafael.com

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

415-459-0449.

Home Services CLEANING SERVICES All Marin House Cleaning Licensed, Bonded, Insured.

Will do Windows. O’felia 415-717-7157.

FURNITURE DOCTOR Ph/Fax: 415-383-2697

Real Estate HOMES/CONDOS FOR SALE AFFORDABLE MARIN? I can show you 60 homes under $600,000. Call Cindy @ 415-902-2729.

Christine Champion, Broker.

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CA 94941: DEIDRE SOMMERS, 875 OCEAN AVE., (AKA AJAYA SOMMERS), 875 OCEAN AVE., RICHMOND, CA 94801. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on FEB 13, 2018. (Publication Dates: Feb 28, March 7, 14, 21 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2018-143740. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: ABEL C. MALDONADO CONTRUCTION, 1565 CENTER ROAD, NOVATO, CA 94947: MALDONADO CONTRUCTION GROUP, INC., NOVATO, CA 94947. 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 ClerkRecorder of Marin County on JAN 16, 2018. (Publication Dates: Feb 28, March 7, 14, 21 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2018-143947 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: NEW GROWTH PROFESSIONAL PLANT SERVICE, 25 PARK RD, FAIRFAX, CA 94930: MELANIE ANN PERATIS, 25 PARK RD, FAIRFAX, CA 94930. 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 FEB 12, 2018. (Publication Dates: Feb 28, March 7, 14, 21 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2018-143986.The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: COUCH GENES, 240 TAMAL VISTA BLVD, #290, CORTE MADERA, CA 94925: JODI L. KLUGMAN-RABB, 240 TAMAL VISTA BLVD, #290, CORTE MADERA, CA 94925: CHRISTINA B. FITZGIBBONS, 240 TAMAL VISTA BLVD, #290, CORTE MADERA, CA 94925.

The business is being conducted

by CO-PARTNERS. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on FEB 16, 2018. (Publication Dates: Feb 28, March 7, 14, 21 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2018-143795. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: PINNACLES DIVE CENTER, 875 GRANT AVE, NOVATO, CA 94945: OLGA Y VAKHRAMEEVA, 6581 JOYCE COURT, ROHNERT PARK, CA 94928. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of

Marin County on JAN 23, 2018.

(Publication Dates: Feb 28, March 7, 14, 21 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2018144013. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: AT FIRST GLANTZ BEAUTY, 1608-A SIR FRANCIS DRAKE BLVD., SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: JESSICA GLANTZ, 1608F SIR FRANCIS DRAKE BLVD., 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 FEB 21, 2018. (Publication Dates: March 21, 28, April 04, 11 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2018144045. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: DREAMLIFE DESIGN, 406 HILLDALE WAY, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: JENNIFER MESSINA, 406 HILLDALE WAY, 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 ClerkRecorder of Marin County on FEB 23, 2018. (Publication Dates: March 21, 28, April 4, 11 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2018144049. The following indi-

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2018-144040. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: CHRISTOPHER, 90 MAIN STREET, TIBURON, CA 94920: CHRISTOPHERS LLC, 90 MAIN STREET, TIBURON, CA 94920.

The business is being conducted by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant is renewing filing with changes and is transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on FEB 23, 2018. (Publication Dates: Feb 28, March 7, 14, 21 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2018-143959. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: CORE EMBODIMENT PRACTICES, 655 REDWOOD HWY, SUITE 160, MILL VALLEY,

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PublicNotices vidual(s) is (are) doing business: PARAGON & CO, 245 PLAYA DEL REY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: TULLMANN, ERWIN, 245 PLAYA DEL REY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant is RENEWING FILING WITH NO CHANGES THAT EXPIRED MORE THAN 40 DAYS AGO, 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 FEB 23, 2018.

(Publication Dates: March 7, 14, 21, 28 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2018144047. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: CALGANG, 194 NORTHGATE ONE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: Vichuda Stine, 312 GREENBRIAR CIRCLE, Petaluma, CA 94954.

The business is being conducted

by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant is 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 FEB 23, 2018.

(Publication Dates: March 7, 14, 21, 28 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2018-143797. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: CARDENAS/CARDENAS MARKET/CARDENAS MARKETS/CARDENAS RESTAURANT, 330 BELLAM BLVD., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: MI PUEBLO NEWCO, LLC., 2501 E. GUASTI ROAD, ONTARIO, CA 91761 The business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Jan 23, 2018.

(Publication Dates: March 14, 21, 28, April 04 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2018-144043. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: HELLO LANGUAGE ACADEMY, 10 COMMERCIAL BLVD., 106, NOVATO, CA 94949: KELSEY L. BEYER, 1281 VALLEY OAK CT., #F, NOVATO, CA 94947: MARLON D. LOPEZ THERAN, 1281 VALLEY OAK CT., #F, NOVATO, CA 94947. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant is 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 FEB 23, 2018.

(Publication Dates: March 14, 21, 28, April 04 of 2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2018-144044. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: THEBE BALANCE, 3 SADDLEBROOK CT., NOVATO, CA 94947: KELSEY L. BEYER, 3 SADDLEBROOK CT., NOVATO CA 94947. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant is filing with changes and is transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on FEB 23, 2018. (Publication Dates: March 14, 21, 28, April 04 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2018144097. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: DM BUILDERS, 2996 TEAGARDEN ST., SAN LEANDRO, CA 94577: DAVID A. MURRAY, 2170 LAS GALLINAS AVE., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. 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 MARCH 02, 2018. (Publication Dates: March 14, 21, 28, April 04 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2018-144143. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: TAMALPAIS CHARTERS, 21 MAIN STREET, TIBURON, CA 94920: ANGEL ISLANDTIBURON 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 MARCH 08, 2018. (Publication Dates: March 21, 28, April 04, 11 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2018144196. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: S.C. PRODUCTION, 10 SAN PABLO AVE, #3562, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: SERGIO FERRUFINO C., 10 SAN PABLO AVE., #3562, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on MARCH 14, 2018. (Publication Dates: March 21, 28, April 04, 11 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2018-144137. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business:

PANDA ROOM, 770 TAMALPAIS DR., #127, CORTE MADERA, CA 94925: MICHELLE L. STUART, #1 HICKORY RD., FAIRFAX, CA 94930. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on MARCH 07, 2018.

(Publication Dates: March 21, 28, April 04, 11 of 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2018-144197. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: BLAKE ATM, 10 CATALINA BLVD., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: BLAKE MAYOCK, 10 CATALINA BLVD., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: JANE CANNING, 10 CATALINA BLVD., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901.

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 MARCH 14, 2018. (Publication Dates: March 21, 28, April 04, 11 of 2018)

OTHER NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No: CIV 1800616. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner Natasha Brahim on behalf of minor child, Taliyan Marie Brahim-Rhodes filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: TALIYAH MARIE BRAHIM-RHODES TO TALIYAH MARIE BRAHIM. 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: 04/30/2018 AT 09:00 AM, DEPT E, ROOM 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: FEB 21, 2018.

(Publication Dates: MAR 07, 14, 21, 28 of 2018) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No: CIV 1800650. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner NOREEN ANNE BURROWS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: NOREEN ANNE BURROWS TO NOREEN ANNE CORR. 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: 04/20/2018 AT 09:00 AM, DEPT B, ROOM B. 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: FEB 23, 2018.

(Publication Dates: MAR 07, 14, 21, 28 of 2018) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No: CIV 1800666. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner Josephine A. Jones filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: JOSEPHINE A. JONES TO ANGIE JONES. 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: 04/16/2018 AT 09:00 AM, DEPT B. 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: FEB 26, 2018.

(Publication Dates: MAR 14, 21, 28, APRIL 04 of 2018) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OR TRUST OF DECEDENT Roland William Hinners.

CASE NO. PES-14-297695. To all heirs, beneficiaries creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of decedent: Roland William Hinners. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Billy R. Hinners, Co-executor, in the Superior Court of California, County of: SAN FRANCISCO. The Petition for Probate requests that: Billy R. Hinners, Co-executor, of SAN FRANCISCO County be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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 action 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: NOV 15, 2017 at 9 a.m. in Dept. 204, located at 400 MCALISTER STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102.

Date of filing: NOV 13, 2017.

(Publication Dates: MAR 14, 21, 28, APRIL 04 of 2018) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: PAUL LUCHETA; Case No. PR-1800711 filed on MAR 01, 2018. To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of PAUL LUCHETA. A PETITION FOR

PROBATE has been filed in the Superior Court of California, County of MARIN by SHARON LUCHETA. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that SHARON LUCHETA be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. 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: APRIL 09, 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, 94901. 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: MICHAEL C. FERGUSON, 1816 FIFTH STREET, BERKELEY, CA 94710. 510.548.9005. Publication Dates: MARCH 21, 28, APRIL 04 of 2018)

By Amy Alkon

Q:

For three months, things were going really well with this man I was dating. He’d introduced me to his daughter. We’d even planned a trip together. And then he just disappeared. I eventually texted him to find out what happened, but he simply texted back, “Really busy, all good.” This isn’t the first time this has happened to me or my girlfriends. Why do men do this?

Why don’t they tell you what’s really going on?—Upset

A:

When a guy just cuts you off like a bad tree limb, it’s tempting to come up with ego-cushioning explanations: He’s in a coma! He’s trapped in a wooded gully in his crashed car! He’s being interrogated at a CIA black site!

However, the best explanation for this man’s disappearance is probably textbook stuff—psych textbook, that is, and specifically a couple of personality traits. One of these is “conscientiousness.” The bad side of the spectrum is being “low in conscientiousness”—psychologists’ term for a person who is careless, irresponsible, impulsive, lacking in self-control and habitually ducking obligations.

The other trait is the unfortunately named “psychopathy.” Though it calls to mind shower-stabbing hobbyists, it doesn’t necessarily lead to murderous rampages.

Still, it isn’t exactly the personality trait of angelic hospice nurses, as it’s marked by exploitativeness, aggression, poor impulse control, self-centeredness and a lack of empathy. Low conscientiousness and psychopathy partner up into an inability or unwillingness to admit to being wrong. Apologizing takes emotional and character strength—the conscientiousness and empathy that leave the wrongdoer feeling queasy until they come clean and express remorse to the person they hurt.

It isn’t just men who do the disappearo thing; it’s anyone low on conscientiousness. The problem is, when love appears to be on the horizon, we want to believe more than we want to see. It’s helpful to take an almost pessimistic approach to any new relationship: Assume that a man has flaws, figure out what they are and decide whether any are deal breakers. This takes observing his behavior over time (at least a year) in a variety of situations—especially crisis situations. You want to know that when the chips are down, a man’ll have your back—and not just to use you as a human shield so the SWAT team snipers won’t pick him off.

Q:

Every photo my boyfriend takes of me is horrific (one eye kind of shut, bad angle of my face, etc.). My female friends take decent pictures of me, so it’s not like it’s impossible. I know my boyfriend loves me and thinks I’m beautiful. Could he be trying to keep other men from being attracted to me?—Occasional Bride Of Frankenstein

A:

You’d think you wouldn’t have to give a man who loves you a detailed list of instructions for photographing you—down to “immediately erase any shots in which I look like I’m having a seizure or bear a strong resemblance to a surprised goat.”

In fact, you are far from alone in complaining that the man you love takes terrible pictures of you—or in worrying that it means something. Research by cognitive neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga suggests that we get so itchy over mental chaos—being in a state of uncertainty about someone or something— that we’re quick to sweep aside inconsistencies and ignore missing information in service of creating a coherent narrative. And then (conveniently!) we turn right around and go with the story we’ve created—in this case, the suspicion that your boyfriend is plotting to make you look uggo in photographs.

The reality is, if you aren’t a professional model being shot by a professional photographer, it sometimes takes dozens of shots to have even one you don’t want to delete in horror. (Shoot my long face from above, as my boyfriend sometimes forgets and does, and I look like a movie star—the horse that played Seabiscuit.)

Because men evolved to prioritize physical attractiveness in women and women coevolved to expect this, women are extremely sensitive to being photographed in ways that don’t show them off at their sparkliest. That’s probably why, if you glance at various 20-something women’s Instagram pages, you’ll see that many strike the very same pose in photo after photo. Sure, some men are as acutely sensitive about engineering their perfect pose—mostly those whose work attire is a sequined evening dress, a ginormous feather boa and chandelier earrings the size of New Jersey.Y Worship the goddess—or sacrifice her at the altar at adviceamy@aol.com.

Astrology

For the week of March 22

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The “School of

Hard Knocks” is an old-fashioned idiom referring to the unofficial and accidental course of study available via life’s tough experiences. The wisdom one gains through this alternate approach to education may be equal or even superior to the knowledge that comes from a formal university or training program. I mention this, Aries, because in accordance with astrological omens, I want to confer upon you a diploma for your new advanced degree from the School of Hard Knocks. (P.S. When Ph.D. students get their degrees from Finland’s University of Helsinki, they are given top hats and swords as well as diplomas. I suggest that you reward yourself with exotic props, too.)

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Europeans used

to think that all swans were white. It was a reasonable certainty given the fact that all swans in Europe were that color. But in 1697, Dutch explorer Willem de Vlamingh and his sailors made a pioneering foray to the southwestern coast of the land we now call Australia. As they sailed up a river the indigenous tribe called Derbarl Yerrigan, they spied black swans.

They were shocked. The anomalous creatures invalidated an assumption based on centuries of observations. Today, a “black swan” is a metaphor referring to an unexpected event that contravenes prevailing theories about the way the world works. I suspect that you’ll soon experience such an incongruity yourself. It might be a good thing!

Especially if you welcome it instead of resisting it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Crayola is one of the world’s foremost crayon manufacturers. The geniuses in charge of naming its crayon colors are playful and imaginative. Among the company’s standard offerings, for example, are Pink Sherbet, Carnation Pink, Tickle Me Pink, Piggy Pink, Pink Flamingo and Shocking Pink. Oddly, however, there is no color that’s simply called Pink. I find that a bit disturbing. As much as I love extravagant creativity and poetic whimsy, I think it’s also important to cherish and nurture the basics. In accordance with the astrological omens, that’s my advice for you in the coming weeks. Experiment with fanciful fun, but not at the expense of the fundamentals.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): According to Vice magazine, Russian scientist Anatoli Brouchkov is pleased with the experiment he tried. He injected himself with 3.5-million-year-old bacteria that his colleagues had dug out of the permafrost in Siberia. The infusion of this ancient life form, he says, enhanced his energy and strengthened his immune system. I can’t vouch for the veracity of his claim, but I do know this: It’s an apt metaphor for possibilities you could take advantage of in the near future: Drawing on an old resource to boost your power, for example, or calling on a well-preserved part of the past to supercharge the present.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Booze has played a

crucial role in the development of civilization, says biomolecular archaeologist Patrick McGovern. The process of creating this mind-altering staple was independently discovered by many different cultures, usually before they invented writing. The buzz it provides has “fired our creativity and fostered the development of language, the arts and religion.” On the downside, excessive consumption of alcohol has led to millions of bad decisions and has wrecked countless lives. Everything I just said is a preface to my main message, Leo: The coming weeks will be a favorable time to transform your habitual perspective, but only if you do so safely and constructively. Whether you choose to try intoxicants, wild adventures, exhilarating travel or edgy experiments, know your limits.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The astrological omens suggest that the coming weeks will be favorable for making agreements, pondering mergers and strengthening bonds. You’ll be wise to deepen at least one of your commitments. You’ll stir up interesting challenges if you consider the possibility of entering into more disciplined and dynamic unions with worthy partners. Do you

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trust your own perceptions and insights to guide you toward ever-healthier alliances? Do what you must to muster that trust.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you want people to know who you really are and savor you for your unique beauty, you must be honest with those people. You must also develop enough skill to express your core truths with accuracy. There’s a similar principle at work if you want to know who you really are and savor yourself for your unique beauty: You must be honest with yourself. You must also develop enough skill to express your core truths with accuracy. The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to practice these high arts.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your journey

in the coming weeks may be as weird as an R-rated telenovela, but with more class. Outlandish, unpredictable and even surreal events could occur, but in such a way as to uplift and educate your soul.

Labyrinthine plot twists will be medicinal as well as entertaining. As the drama gets curiouser and curiouser, my dear Scorpio, I expect that you will learn how to capitalize on the odd opportunities it brings. In the end, you will be grateful for this ennobling respite from mundane reality!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence,” wrote philosopher Erich Fromm. I would add a corollary for your rigorous use during the last nine months of 2018: “Love is the only effective and practical way to graduate from your ragged, long-running dilemmas and start gathering a new crop of fresh, rousing challenges.” By the way, Fromm said that love is more than a warm and fuzzy feeling in our hearts.

It’s a creative force that fuels our willpower and unlocks hidden resources.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): My goal

here is to convince you to embark on an orgy of selfcare—to be as sweet, tender and nurturing to yourself as you dare to be. If that influences you to go too far in providing yourself with luxurious necessities, I’m OK with it. And if your solicitous efforts to focus on your own health and well-being make you appear a bit self-indulgent or narcissistic, I think it’s an acceptable price to pay. Here are more key themes for you in the coming weeks: Basking in the glow of self-love; exulting in the perks of your sanctuary; honoring the vulnerabilities that make you interesting.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): One day, Beatles’ guitarist George Harrison decided to compose his next song’s lyrics “based on the first thing I saw upon opening any book.” He viewed this as a divinatory experiment, as a quest to incorporate the flow of coincidence into his creative process. The words he found in the first book were “gently weeps.”

They became the seed for his tune “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” Rolling Stone magazine ultimately named it one of the “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” and the 10th best Beatles song. In accordance with the astrological omens, I recommend that you try some divinatory experiments of your own in the coming weeks. Use life’s fun little synchronicities to generate playful clues and unexpected guidance.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Millions of you Pisceans live in a fairy tale world. But I suspect that very few of you will be able to read this horoscope and remain completely ensconced in your fairy tale world. That’s because I have embedded subliminal codes in these words that will at least temporarily transform even the dreamiest among you into passionate pragmatists in service to your feistiest ideals. If you’ve read this far, you are already feeling more disciplined and organized. Soon you’ll be coming up with new schemes about how to actually materialize a favorite fairy tale in the form of real-life experiences.Y Homework: Imagine a bedtime story you'd like to hear and the person you'd like to hear it from. Testify at Freewillastrology.com.

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