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But with the increasing pervasiveness of digital culture, our mentors remain mindful of the importance of old-fashioned reading and writing (to say nothing of ’rithmetic). Yes, we are living in an information glut. For every book a student reads or is exposed to, there are any number of YouTube videos, podcasts, blogs, vlogs and social media posts that they’re watching or participating in. But if we want to stave off the dawn of Idiocracy, we also need to keep putting things like “paragraphs” and “problem sets” in the hands of students—and, while we’re at it, ourselves.

Multiple intelligences implies multiple literacies—so any conversation on the value of literacy must of course include technological and scientific literacy; artistic and musical literacy; physical and athletic literacy; spiritual and mythological literacy; social and cultural literacy; and more. But in the midst of the everexpanding litany of literacies, may we please remember actual, oldschool, literacy literacy?

I’m often thanked when I tell people I’m a schoolteacher. And it’s great to see an increase in appreciation for education in our culture, including recent victories for striking teachers from Oakland and Denver to Oklahoma and West Virginia. It will be great to now see this reemerging respect for education reflected more in public policy—and, of course, in compensation for teachers. While it is axiomatic by now that teachers are at least nominally important members of society, we have some real work to do to truly live into this truth. As Malcolm X put it, and as sages have echoed throughout the ages, “education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

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FUR FIGHT There’s a small but thriving rabbit-farming industry in the North Bay

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Assemblywoman Laura Friedman (D, Glendale)

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The sentiment is largely shared by her colleagues, as AB 44 has sailed through two committee votes in Sacramento. But citing concerns about the impact on Northern California’s rabbit farmers, Assemblyman Marc Levine (D, San Rafael) has proposed an amendment that would exclude from the ban rabbits grown for their meat.

There’s a small but sturdy rabbit farming industry in the North Bay that mostly provides meat to regional restaurants.

Animal-rights advocates say Levine’s proposal would defeat the purpose of the proposed ban on the sale of fur in California— and offer the state’s rabbit industry a monopoly on legal fur production in the state. Friedman says she’s talking to the rabbit industry about a way to exempt

“animals that are clearly and demonstrably raised as food,” but so far, Levine’s amendment has not been attached to the bill.

“This is not a de facto ban on eating rabbits and I totally agree that if you’re killing the animal for food, that you should use every single bit of that animal,” Friedman told fellow lawmakers at a recent meeting of the body’s Water, Parks and Wildlife committee “The flipside is that we don’t want to encourage killing animals just for their fur because that’s wasteful and not sustainable. We are afraid the rabbit exemption would create more of a market to do just that,” Friedman said.

Levine proposed his amendment at a March 12 meeting of the Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee.

Levine spokesperson Terry Schanz notes via email that “Assemblymember Levine supports maintaining the highest ethical standards for the production of legal animal products in California.”

Schanz says that “AB 44 currently exempts most commercially produced fur and hide products including cowhides, lambskin, sheepskin, or the skin or hide of any lawfully taken game mammal.

Including the skin or hide of an animal that is raised for food production in AB 44’s exemption is consistent with ethical farming standards, reduces waste and maximizes limited resources.”

His office also notes that Levine has a 100 percent voting record with PawPAC for his work on animal-rights issues. PawPAC’s 2018 voter’s guide confirms this, but gives Levine an A- grade because he hasn’t written any animal-rights bills.

“I support the goal that you are trying to seek,” Levine told Friedman during the March 12 hearing. “You have a number of carve-outs about the use of the whole animal. There are a number of [rabbit] farms in Northern California that do use the pelts and I’d like you to incorporate amendments that allow for that use.”

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While beef is equally if not more popular than leather, rabbit meat is significantly less popular (and valuable) than rabbit-fur products, says Noah Smith, a volunteer with SaveABunny, a Mill Valley nonprofit that focuses on rabbit adoptions.

Marcy Schaaf, the executive director at SaveABunny, a rabbit advocacy group. says that if Levine’s amendment is included, the fur ban “has the potential to set rabbit advocacy back to the Dark Ages.”

San Francisco implemented a fur ban in 2018, joining Los Angeles and a couple other cities around the state that have banned fur. The local ordinance in San Francisco doesn’t have a carveout for rabbit fur, even if its highend restaurant customers have a taste for the meat. While rabbit meat is not generally popular with the general public, the rabbit fur industry has continued to grow across the nation. And as the politics around claims of animal cruelty associated with fur farming or trapping has intensified in recent years, clothing brands such as Versace and Gucci stopped using furs in clothing and accessories.

Meanwhile, rabbit fur sales increased by more than 50 percent in the U.S. between 1993 and 2015, according to a report on AB 44 compiled by assembly staff.

Locally, there doesn’t appear to be much of an appetite for rabbit meat on the supermarket shelf.

In September 2015, Whole Foods announced the end of the sale of rabbit meat in its Northern California stores, officially ending a short-lived experiment to test the market.

A company employee leaked sales figures to NBC Bay Area showing that Whole Foods was selling one to three rabbits in each store per day.

Still, a smaller and largely high-end market is still alive and kicking.

Mark Pasternak, owner of Devil’s Gulch Ranch, a diversified family farm in West Marin, says he primarily sells rabbit meat to restaurants. He also sold a trio of breeder rabbits to Split Grove Family Farms in Penngrove farms several years ago as they were building their rabbit business. Split Grove now sells rabbit meat to regional restaurants for $8 a pound.

Old World Rabbitry in Sebastopol is engaged in similar business.

Business is hopping, he says.

“I’m almost always sold out,” says Pasternak. He supports the intention of Friedman’s fur ban to discourage farming animals just for their fur, but says the ban would force him to throw away rabbit pelts or sell them out of state. He’d be affected, he says, but wouldn’t go “completely out of business,” because of AB44, he says.

Pasternak and his wife sell a variety of rabbit products online and at local farmers markets, including rabbit-foot keychains, rabbit fur and rabbit-based cat toys.

He dismisses the argument that Levine’s proposal would incentivize the production of rabbits for their fur within the state.

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It wouldn’t act as an incentive [to raise rabbits for their fur].”

The religious exemption in the bill applies to federally recognized Native American tribes and other religious uses of fur. But the bill also singles out key-chains containing fur, which are, in many cases, made from rabbits’ feet and are considered a lucky charm. According to Wikipedia, “the rabbit-foot charm in North American culture” stems from its use in West African hoodoo rituals.

Friedman’s still in discussion with industry representatives as her bill makes its way to the Appropriations Committee later in April.

“My biggest concern is that they’re going to exempt rabbits to get the bill passed,” says Schaaf. “It’s either a ban or it’s not. I’d rather have no ban than a compromise.”

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The problem was, it took awhile before I even found a copy of any of Faulkner that wasn’t half-destroyed by a student’s yellow marking pen. I hit all the local used bookstores in the French Quarter and thereabouts, and struck out on the Faulkner everywhere I went. I finally bit the bullet and purchased a Faulkner

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LIT UNPLUGGED Thanks to a boost in funding, Sonoma County libraries are experiencing a rebirth.

By Book or Nook

The Life, Death and Rebirth of the American Library BY JONAH RASKIN

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nly a few years ago, a visit to the main branch of the Santa Rosa public library on E Street downtown was a visit to no man‘s land. It wasn’t just the homeless who congregated outside, used the bathrooms and sometimes monopolized the newspapers. The homeless were the least of the problem.

The library was underfunded, resources were dwindling and a kind of malaise hung not only over the Sonoma County library system, but on public libraries from coast to coast. The onrushing digital future meant that print was dead, books were dead, libraries were a relic—and everyone loved their Kindle so

much that they didn’t notice that their local libraries’ hours had been slashed.

Well, not so fast. As libraries emerged from the wreckage of the 2008 Great Recession—and with the assistance, locally, of Measure Y—they adapted and reinvented themselves for the digital era.

Now the E. Street library feels

new, clean and sharp—and is a more vital community resource.

Along with its usual functions, for example, Coffey Park fire victims flocked to the library after the catastrophe to help them find records of deeds, maps and property lines that were buried under ash and soot.

A big part of the library budget—$30.5 million for the current fiscal year—comes from about $19 million in property taxes, which can vary from year to year; when Sonoma County prospers, its libraries prosper. Measure Y, approved by voters in 2016, pumps an additional $11 million a year into the library budget.

Amy Tan, the daughter of Chinese immigrants and the author of The Joy Luck Club, attended grammar school in Santa Rosa and recalls the impact the local library had on her.

“I borrowed books from the public library and read all the Little House on the Prairie novels

by Laura Ingalls Wilder,” Tan says. “I won a prize for an essay titled, ‘What the Library Means to Me.’ I said that it “Turned on a light in the little room in my mind.”

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in the library. “The public library is often the entrance to the big world beyond the family,” she says. “Reading books brings people together and instills a sense of empathy for others.”

The revived culture of the book is growing in Santa Rosa, Cloverdale, Petaluma, Cotati, Sebastopol, and beyond. Books live. “People are reading a lot,” says Sonoma County librarian Nancy Kleban. “They’re reading more than ever before.” Why? Because books like Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance provide the kind of in-depth information unavailable on radio, TV or the internet. Books present unorthodox viewpoints that tend to get buried under the sheer mass of data that saturates markets.

A book is a friend in a way that a computer rarely if ever is.

The Sonoma library system is 12 branches strong, and most of the libraries have a built-in specialty collection. For researchers, the main branch downtown is just a few paces from a county building that houses the History and Genealogy library.

For enologists, there’s the Wine Library on Piper Street in Healdsburg. For archivists and genealogists, there’s the Petaluma History Room at the Petaluma Fairgrounds. For readers at far-

flung Sea Ranch and Stewarts Point, a bookmobile delivers the latest bestsellers, along with the classics.

Jack London’s literary career began when he wandered into the Oakland Public library and met Ina Coolbrith, who sent him home with an armful of books. London never forgot the librarian who started him on a literary journey that led to the publication of 50 books, many written in Sonoma.

His books are in constant circulation at the Sonoma branch (rare editions of his work are kept under lock and key at the History and Genealogy library).

According to the county, 223,771 Sonoma County residents have library cards. An additional 23,000 public school students are enrolled in a new, innovative program that provides them with unlimited access to all the technologies that the 21st-century library has to offer.

The students don’t have a library card and use a school identification number that serves as a passport to the library. They don’t pay fines for late books.

Last year, Sonoma County library patrons checked out 2,000,000 individual items— CDs, books and DVDs—a stunning figure that’s on the ready fingertips of Ray Holley,

penny of her salary,” he says.

Hammond’s still finding her way, she says. “I’m trying to get a handle on everything. In Lexington I had a simple budget. Sonoma is a challenge, though I know that the library here has amazing programs, great collections, and a staff that wants to do more than it’s doing.” It’s a challenge, she says, because Sonoma County has nine cities and a population of about 500,000. Lexington is a single city with a population of about 322,000.

Thanks to Measure Y’s passage the Sonoma County library system’s in good shape to meet the challenges of literacy in the digital age. They’re buying lots of books and DVDs, upgrading computers and buying 500 wifi hot-spots at a cost of $400,000 to help residents without internet access. None of it would have happened without Measure Y, which allocates an eighth-of-acent from county sales taxes to fund libraries, and pumped $11.5 million into the library system last year.

As part of its mission to democratize information, the library is making it easier for people without access to the internet—because they live in remote geographical areas and can’t afford it—to get online.

A poster at the Roseland library reminds patrons, many of them Spanish speakers without home computers, that one-fourth of all households in America don’t have internet access. In Sonoma County, many of those households are clustered in southwest Santa Rosa and along the Russian River.

Kate Keaton, the Roseland branch manager, says that many kids assume they’ll have to pay to take a book home when they come to the library. They’re elated when they learn that they can leave with a picture book in English or Spanish.

Marlene Vera is a native of Peru who works at the Roseland branch. She helps the neighborhood kids learn the letters of the alphabet in English.

“There are no real libraries in Peru,” she says. “Not like here.”

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community relations manager for a library system that now offers digital services, e-books, e-audiobooks, streaming movies, language-learning programs, reference databases, magic shows, storytimes for children, trivia nights, live music for all ages, writing workshops for teens, and workshops for adults to help them maximize their Social Security benefits.

And plain ol’ books, too: Right now the most popular book with Sonoma County adults is Delia Owens’ bestselling debut novel, Where the Crawdads Sing. The library system has 116 copies of the book. As of late last week, 350 people were on the waiting list.

Holley has an office at the new library headquarters on State Farm Drive in Rohnert Park.

It’s a step up from the former headquarters housed in the basement of the central library.

The new headquarters is bigger, brighter and well-staffed. Some employees spend the day doing nothing but ordering books.

Holley attended Santa Rosa Middle School in the 1960s and says he still has his library card from when he checked out adventure stories from the main branch. “I was a bookworm.”

The library system also has a new director in Ann Hammond, former librarian for the city of Lexington, Ky. who brings with her library experience in Maryland and California, and at both private and public institutions. She’s making $183,000 a year at her new post; beginning library aides earn around $16 an hour, and branch managers make up to $58 an hour. Holley says the 11-member Sonoma County Library Commission is tuned in to the acutely high cost of living in the county “and are committed to a fair, equitable and sustainable contract” as the commission negotiates a new labor agreement for non-executive library employees on the lower rungs.

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Grassroots Art

The official kick-off event for Napa Valley’s monthlong Arts in April, Sarafornia: ENGAGE Calistoga transforms the town into the ultimate art experience with gallery showings, eclectic performances, fine wine and culinary arts. The cornerstone of the event is the ENGAGE Art Fair, offering an interactive showcase of local and Bay Area artists. There’s also the “Flower Bomb” art show, happening at Sofie Contemporary Arts in which art is paired with floral arrangements, a storytelling speakeasy and other events throughout town. Sarafornia engages the senses Thursday to Sunday, April 4-7, at several venues. Times and information is available at artsinapril.com.

SONOMA

Answer the Call

Long a home for Native Americans, missionaries, rancheros and American pioneers, Sonoma Valley gets a full retrospective in the new documentary, Call of the Valley, which depicts the region’s evolution through the stories of local historians like Gaye LeBaron and longtime residents, such as Jim Bundschu of Gundlach Bunschu Winery, who’ve seen it all in Sonoma. Through cultural clashes, political twists and more, the valley’s lure endures, and Call of the Valley also draws upon more than 600 images and videos to bring it all to life on Friday, April 5, at Sebastiani Theatre, 476 First St E, Sonoma. 6pm. $12. 707.996.2020.

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Rule of Threes

While Sebastopol continues to dry out from last month’s floods, many of the town’s activities have had to play it by ear as venues’ availability stay up in the air. Speaking of playing by ear, Swedish folk trio Väsen offer their three-part interplays of instrumental harmonies when they come to town this weekend.

After almost 30 years together, the three virtuoso string-masters are celebrating the release of their latest album, “Rule of 3,” which they perform from when they play on Saturday, April 6, now at the Sebastopol Community Church , 1000 Gravenstein Hwy N, Sebastopol. 8pm. $25-$30. Seb.org.

Mom Says the Darndest Things S A N TA R O S A

Every mother knows best, but Patty Marx's mother knows better. The New Yorker writer has a massive collection of her mother’s one-liners and witticisms, and she’s recently paired with New Yorker staff cartoonist Roz Chast to share them with the world in the new book, “Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It?” The book is sure to be a hit this Mother’s Day, and you can get your hands on it now when Marx and Chast appear on Sunday, April 7, at Charles M Schulz Museum, 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa. 3pm. $30. 707.579.4452.

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hether it’s cold and rainy, or bright and sunny, there’s nothing as satisfying as cracking open a new book and diving in, and not just at home. Here are a few Santa Rosa locales that best pair with a slew of new releases

by North Bay authors.

Splitting her time between Sonoma and San Francisco, novelist

Terry Gamble sets her works in the Midwest where her Irish ancestors settled in the early 1880s. Gamble’s latest novel, The Eulogist (William Morrow), continues the trend by telling the fictional story of an Irish family in pre-Civil War Cincinnati who experience the political and cultural shifts in America through the eyes of immigrants.

For this richly realized Irish family drama, grab a Guinness and sit at Stout Brothers Pub & Restaurant on Fourth Street near Courthouse Square. Whether

you feel like curling up in a dark corner or sitting in the sun at the small outdoor seating area, nothing compliments Irish eulogies like a wee dram.

Northern California author Kerry Lonsdale is acclaimed for her best-selling novels All the Breaking Waves and her Everything trilogy. Later this summer Lonsdale unveils Last Summer (Lake Union Publishing), a dramatic novel about trauma, memory and discovery. Following a woman suffering from memory

loss after a tragic car crash, Last Summer travels from the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the slopes of Alaska in an adventurous journey.

To recreate these mountainous settings, trek the trails to Hood Mountain in east Santa Rosa.

Straddling Kenwood in the Sonoma Valley, the park boasts panoramic views of the Bay Area that can be seen from the mountain’s peaks on a clear day.

Forestville native, journalist and author Michael Levitin has a knack for taking on contemporary issues in projects like “The Occupied Wall Street Journal,” and lately he has been turning heads with his debut novel, Disposable Man (Spuyten Duyvil Publishing), which takes a timely stance on issues like masculinity, feminism, generational conflicts and even anti-Semitism.

Set in Berlin, the novel tells the story of an American grandson of Holocaust survivors who comes to term with his past and himself.

It’s a heavy novel with a European vibe, so coffee needs to go with Disposable Man, and readers should head to A’Roma Roasters Coffee & Tea on Fifth Street in Santa Rosa’s Railroad Square to sit in front of the café’s old stone facade, watch the SMART trains pass by and sip a cappuccino.

Santa Rosa songwriter-author Abraham Entin has spent a life on the edge, and he recounts it all in his new memoir, Living on the Fringe (Steiner Books). Starting with Entin’s lifechanging decision to torch his draft card in 1966, the story is sometimes harrowing, often hilarious and always illuminating—and it’s the perfect book to have in hand when visiting Santa Rosa’s ‘South of A’ arts district, where you can browse exhibits at Santa Rosa Arts Center and other galleries, see fringe theater masters the Imaginists, get resources at the Peace & Justice Center and enjoy a great meal at the Spinster Sisters Restaurant.

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Deb (Jess Headington) and Mike (Sam Coughlin) are getting their backyard deck ready to host some friends. Deb’s a little status conscious, hence the decision to host a barbecue as opposed to a sit-down dinner. She’s not too thrilled with the beanbag chair in the living room or the movie posters tacked to the wall.

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Win’s girlfriend Glory (Katie Kelly) is a dancer who’s hoping for a successful audition with the Rockettes.

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Now, fans can hear it in a new light, as a bluegrass opry courtesy of the HillBenders, who perform on Sunday, April 7, at Sweetwater Music Hall.

Formed in Missouri 10 years back, the HillBenders wear a variety of influences, making them popular with all kinds of audiences. One of their biggest fans was SXSW cofounder Louis Jay Meyers, a former Folk Alliance director and longtime musician and producer who first conceived of transposing Tommy into a bluegrass sound almost two decades ago.

“About five years ago, our friend Louis Meyers hit us with this idea,” says HillBenders guitarist Jim Rea. “So I just ran through some of these tunes, and he was right. It was a great idea.”

Rea took on the project as musical director and charted the album into bluegrass form. In 2015, the HillBenders released an album, Tommy: A Bluegrass Opry, that featured their rendition of every track on the original double-album, and they turned the opry into a 75-minute live show that they’ve toured with around the world.

“It can be a head-scratcher,” says Rea of turning classic rock songs into bluegrass. “But you can fool with the rhythms to give it an uptempo bluegrass feel and almost all the songs seemed to fit into that.”

While the band’s instrumentation remains traditionally bluegrass, they achieve a percussive beat in their acoustic music. “We’ve got the Keith Moon of the dobro,” says Rea of band mate Chad "Gravy Boat" Graves, who slaps the resonating stringed instruments like a drum.

“We wanted to stay true to the original stuff,” says Rea. “The biggest compliment we get from the Who fans who see us is that we are honoring the music.”

The HillBenders present ‘The Who's TOMMY: A Bluegrass Opry’ on Sunday, April 7, at Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 7pm. $28-$32. 415.388.3850.

Shoreline Mafia Hip-hop ensemble leads a new wave of rap music. Apr 5, 8pm. $27.50. The Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington St, Petaluma, 707.762.3565.

Sonoma County Philharmonic Conductor Norma Gamboa leads the group in a program, “Free Spirit.” Apr 6, 7:30pm and Apr 7, 2pm. $15; students are free. Jackson Theater, 4400 Day School Place, Santa Rosa, 707.284.3200.

Vasen Swedish folk trio marks three decades together and tours with new album. Apr 6, 8pm. $25. Sebastopol Community Church, 1000 Gravenstein Hwy N, Sebastopol, seb.org.

MARIN Jeffrey Halford & the Healers Americana artist and his band perform songs from their forthcoming album “West Towards South.” Apr 6, 8pm. Free admission. Rancho Nicasio, 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio, 415.662.2219.

Meat Puppets Phoenix legends blend punk with country and psychedelic rock and welcome standup satirist Neil Hamburger to open. Apr 4, 7pm. $29.

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

R&B and pop group perform five intimate sets over three nights. Apr 4-6. $45 and up.

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Steven Curtis Chapman The most awarded artist in Christian music history performs a solo show. Apr 6, 8pm. $36 and up. Uptown Theatre, 1350 Third St, Napa, 707.259.0123.

Apr 3, The Billie Holiday Project.

Apr 9, Tommy Odetto. Apr 10, Sal’s Greenhouse. 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.880.2300.

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Elephant in the Room Apr 4, Crowbot. Apr 5, Odd Job Ensemble. Apr 6, Taarka.

Apr 7, Steve Pile Trio. 177-A Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, elephantintheroompub.com.

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Apr 4, Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour. Apr 5, the Tallis Scholars. 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

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Apr 5, Dash and Marshall House Project. Apr 6, La Gente.

Apr 10, “Over the Rainbow” with Joshua Bluegreen and friends. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol, 707.829.7300.

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Apr 5, the Rock and Roll Rhythm Revue. Apr 6, Howard Wales. Apr 7, 4pm, Gypsy Kisses.

Apr 7, 7pm, North of the Bay Artists Showcase. Apr 8, the Blues Defenders pro jam. Apr 9, French Oak. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.795.7868.

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Apr 5, the Musers albumrelease show. 390 Morris St, Sebastopol, 707.823.1511.

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Apr 3-29, “Small But Grand,” high school students are given small canvas for use with any media. Reception, Apr 4 at 5:30pm. 140 E Napa St, Sonoma. Wed-Thurs and SunMon, 11 to 5; Fri-Sat, 11 to 8.

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Apr 6-Jun 9, “On a River Winding Home,” exhibit of photographs from Scott Hess is inspired by his co-authored publication of the same name.

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Apr 4-7, “Flower Bomb,” exhibition pairs contemporary artwork from the gallery with artistic floral designs. Reception, Apr 4 at 4pm. 1407 Lincoln Ave, Calistoga. ) 707.341.3326.

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Twenty-fifth anniversary celebration of ArtQuest includes performances, exhibitions, activities and food trucks open to the public. Apr 6, 11am. Free. Santa Rosa High School, 1235 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.535.4842.

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Daylong celebration of peace, love and unity features local musicians, local art, community organizations and more on hand. Apr 6, 11am. $20. Arlene Francis Center, 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.528.3009.

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New documentary depicts Sonoma Valley’s evolution through interviews with historians and residents.

Apr 5, 6pm. $12. Sebastiani Theatre, 476 First St E, Sonoma, 707.996.9756.

The Sound of Music

Occidental Community Choir presents the classic musical with costume contest. Apr 4, 6:30pm. Rialto Cinemas, 6868 McKinley St, Sebastopol, 707.525.4840.

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Apr 5, 6:30pm, “A Fire Story” with Brian Fies. 130 E Napa St, Sonoma 707.939.1779.

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Romulus Linney’s souther epic finds a missionary in 1840s Appalachia running up against skeptical locals. Through Apr 14. $15-$30. Main Stage West, 104 N Main St, Sebastopol, 707.823.0177.

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Napa Valley Museum hosts a Scottish holiday tasting with whiskey expert James Forbes. Apr 6, 6pm. $75. CIA at Copia, 500 First St, Napa, 707.967.2530.

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Apr 7, 3pm, “Why Don’t You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It? A Mother’s Suggestions” with Roz Chast and Patricia Marx. 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa 707.579.4452.

See six scenes from shows and vote on which ones you want to see fully-produced.

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Celebration of Shakespeare’s plays features competition in which participants perform scenes interspersed with music. Apr 6, 8pm. $20.

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Apr 4, 7pm, “No Rooms of Their Own: Women Writers of Early California” with Ida Rae Egli. $10. 425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa 707.579.1500.

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are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them," wrote novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. "Life obliges them over and over to give birth to themselves." Here's what I'll add to that: As you mature, you do your best to give birth to ever-new selves that are in alignment with the idealistic visions you have of the person you want to become. Unfortunately, most of us aren't skilled at that task in adolescence and early adulthood, and so the selves we create may be inadequate or delusory or distorted. Fortunately, as we learn from our mistakes, we eventually learn to give birth to selves that are strong and righteous. The only problem is that the old false selves we generated along the way may persist as ghostly echoes in our psyche. And we have a sacred duty to banish those ghostly echoes. I tell you this, Taurus, because the coming months will be an excellent time to do that banishing. Ramp up your efforts NOW!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): "When spring came, there were no problems except where to be happiest," wrote Ernest Hemingway in his memoir. He quickly amended that statement, though, mourning, "The only thing that could spoil a day was people." Then he ventured even further, testifying, "People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself." I bring these thoughts to your attention so as to prepare you for some good news. In the next three weeks, I suspect you will far exceed your quota for encounters with people who are not "limiters of happiness"—who are as good as spring itself.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): It's time to prove that Cancerians have more to offer than nurturing, empathizing, softening the edges, feeling deeply, getting comfortable, and being creative. Not that there's anything wrong with those talents. On the contrary! They're beautiful and necessary. It's just that for now you need to avoid being pigeonholed as a gentle, sensitive soul. To gather the goodies that are potentially available to you, you'll have to be more forthright and aggressive than usual. Is it possible for you to wield a commanding presence?

Can you add a big dose of willfulness and a pinch of ferocity to your self-presentation? Yes and yes!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): General Motors manufactured a car called the Pontiac Aztek from 2001 to 2005. It wasn't commercially successful.

One critic said it looked like "an angry kitchen appliance," and many others agreed it was exceptionally unstylish. But later the Aztek had an odd revival because of the popularity of the TV show Breaking Bad. The show's protagonist, Walter White, owned one, and that motivated some of his fans to emulate his taste in cars. In accordance with astrological omens, Leo, I suspect that something of yours may also enjoy a second life sometime soon.

An offering that didn't get much appreciation the first time around may undergo a resurgence. Help it do so.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "Of all the female

sins, hunger is the least forgivable," laments feminist author Laurie Penny. She's referring to the hunger "for anything, for food, sex, power, education, even love." She continues: "If we have desires, we are expected to conceal them, to control them, to keep ourselves in check. We are supposed to be objects of desire, not desiring beings." I've quoted her because I suspect it's crucial for you to not suppress or hide your longings in the coming weeks. That's triply true if you're a woman, but also

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You have a potential to heal deeply if you get very clear about what you hunger for and then express it frankly.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Only one of Nana Mouskouris's vocal cords works, but over the course of an almost 60-year career, the Libran singer has sold over 30 million records in twelve different languages. Many critics speculate that her apparent disadvantage is key to her unique style. She's a coloratura mezzo, a rare category of chanteuse who sings ornate passages with exceptional agility and purity. In the coming weeks, I suspect that you will be like Mouskouris in your ability to capitalize on a seeming lack or deprivation.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your tribe is

symbolized by three animals: the scorpion, the eagle, and the mythological phoenix. Some astrologers say that the scorpion is the ruling creature of "unevolved" or immature Scorpios, whereas the eagle and phoenix are associated with those of your tribe who express the riper, more enlightened qualities of your sign. But I want to put in a plug for the scorpion as being worthy of all Scorpios. It is a hardy critter that rivals the cockroach in its ability to survive—and even thrive in—less than ideal conditions. For the next two weeks, I propose we make it your spirit creature.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Sagittarian novelist Gustave Flaubert declared that it's "our duty is to feel what is sublime and cherish what is beautiful." But that's a demanding task to pull off on an ongoing basis. Maybe the best we can hope for is to feel what's sublime and cherish what's beautiful for 30-35 days every year. Having said that, though, I'm happy to tell you that in 2019 you could get all the way up to 95-100 days of feeling what's sublime and cherishing what's beautiful. And as many as 15 to 17 of those days could come during the next 21.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Sommeliers are people trained to perceive the nuances of wine. By sampling a few sips, the best sommeliers can discern facts about the type of grapes that were used to make the wine and where on earth they were grown. I think that in the coming weeks you Capricorns should launch an effort to reach a comparable level of sensitivity and perceptivity about any subject you care about.

It's a favorable time to become even more masterful about your specialties; to dive deeper into the areas of knowledge that captivate your imagination.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Every language is a work-in-progress. New words constantly insinuate themselves into common usage, while others fade away. If you traveled back in time to 1719 while remaining in your current location, you'd have trouble communicating with people of that era. And today linguistic evolution is even more rapid than in previous ages. The Oxford English Dictionary adds more than a thousand new words annually. In recognition of the extra verbal skill and inventiveness you now posses, Aquarius, I invite you to coin a slew of your own fresh terms. To get you warmed up, try this utterance I coined: vorizzimo! It's an exclamation that means "thrillingly beautiful and true."

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): One of history's most audacious con men was George C. Parker, a Pisces. He made his living selling property that did not legally belong to him, like the Brooklyn Bridge, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Statue of Liberty. I suspect you could summon his level of salesmanship and persuasive skills in the coming weeks. But I hope you will use your nearly magical powers to make deals and perform feats that have maximum integrity. It's OK to be a teensy bit greedy, though.

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