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Kaiser Could be a Model The pending strike by psychotherapists at Kaiser hospital has highlighted the ongoing challenges members have in accessing services. Most of the proposed solutions include staff recruitment, retention and compensation. While necessary, in the long run these strategies fall short. If the goal is to improve mental health

outcomes, then the solution requires a wider lens. Here are my suggestions: Every medical unit would have a designated mental health professional.

We need a 24/7 mental health urgent care system in person and online that is actively promoted as crisis intervention. Contract with a network of private providers and adequately compensate them to provide services for members with mild or moderate issues. Clinicians should be able to work part-time. Kaiser therapists

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should focus on specific populations such as those with severe mental health issues, those with complicated co-occurring physical and mental health or medication issues, and those who can’t find a therapist through the network. Treatment plans should indicate individualized services that are not based on what is available.

Each Kaiser member should be entitled to four hours a year assistance for problems such as transportation, childcare and employment problems that can impact on mental health.

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Kaiser members contract to receive all medically necessary and appropriate services, sometimes paying high premiums and out-of-pocket costs.

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I Have a Plan What's better than raising the minimum wage (“Minimum Rage,” June 12)? Reducing rents! Why? Because: Nobody says lower rents would force employers to cut staff. Nobody says lower rents would feed into higher prices for the poor. When you allow for income tax and withdrawal of welfare, a dollar saved is worth much more than a dollar earned. By definition, the benefit of lower rents isn't competed away in higher rents as a rise in wages would be. Landlords might even try claw back the “gross” increase in wages Lower rents mean lower barriers to job creation. Jobs can't exist unless (a) the employers can afford business accommodation, and (b) the employees can afford housing within reach of their jobs, on wages that employers can pay.

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Impose rent control? No! That makes it less attractive to supply

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Whose Right to Life?

The abortion debate must include the already-born BY MARCIA SINGER

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ights of women and fetuses are being hotly debated as legislators in Alabama and Missouri attempt to thwart abortions and overturn Roe vs Wade. What, if any, inalienable rights do women have to govern their own impregnated bodies? “Pro-lifers” ardent to save the unborn insist their Bible proves abortion is murder if a child’s life begins at conception, or at fetal heartbeat. But will they stand equally for the sanctity of life for pregnant women and girls, or children once they’re born? Will they recognize the varied, valid concerns underlying the difficult choice to terminate?

“Pro-choicers” cite multiple reasons to support women’s informed decisions in pursing life, liberty and wellbeing as they work to protect access to birth control and strengthen Roe’s constitutional viability. I question which and whose rights need protecting.

I insist on equal protections under the 14th amendment, including for gender and sexual orientation. I support sovereignty over our bodies, and safety from hardships inflicted by those opposed to separating their Church from our State. I argue for adequate healthcare in utero and beyond. Young girls with immature pelvises should not to be forced to risk carrying a pregnancy to term and all women should have the right to access safe and effective methods of birth control for sexually active persons, as well as viable sex education and mentoring for successful parenting and healthy, empowering intimate relationships.

I believe everyone’s life is sacred and that the complexities of “right to life” debates deserve full respect. Can we agree that females are not chattel or governmental property and that pregnancy is a life-altering event deserving whole-hearted compassion, support and protection?

Do we need a woman’s bill of rights?

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CLEAN FLEET State transportation planners envision a future where all forms of transportation—trucks,

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ork used to be simple for the California Department of Transportation: widen highways, fill potholes, build new freeways.

Alas, those quaint days are gone.

To get an idea of what planners must prepare for, state officials recently hosted a demonstration of a drone air taxi that will require devising a “highway above the ground,” said Reza Navai, a Caltrans transportation planner.

“If you think transportation on the ground is complex.…”

Such sci-fi-like transit is one

of many high-tech changes coming as California implements its planned electrification of transportation to radically reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.

The path to “zero,” as in zeroemission vehicles, extends well beyond flying taxis and the 5 million electric cars the state hopes will drive its roads by 2030.

Everything—everything—will be replaced with an electric analog: from boats, planes and trains to delivery vans to farm tractors and even forklifts. The to-do list stretches as long as California’s seemingly endless blacktop, with freight as a major challenge.

The state’s transportation gurus envision technology that pings driverless vehicles with an automated message when they stray from their lanes, “smart” roads that charge electric cars and trucks as they pass and an electrified Interstate 5, the West Coast’s main freight corridor.

California has already widened its painted lane stripes to six inches from four so self-driving vehicles can better “see” the road. Ultimately, the highways themselves will be redesigned and constructed with different materials.

California’s transportation agency, which updates its master plan every five years, is currently preparing a look at 2050. While officials cannot predict each new technological wrinkle, Navai said, “we must be able to consider all possibilities.”

To achieve a carbon-free transportation future, California will need to cover a lot more ground in a short time frame.

“If California’s trying to be a leader, we have to go as fast as possible,” said Lew Fulton, who studies sustainable transportation at UC Davis’ Institute of Transportation Studies. “Policies are critical to try to speed this up and try to push the envelope, and get all the manufacturers scared enough that they start producing what we need. Carrots and sticks. Carrots being pricing and incentives, sticks being regulatory.”

The state has spent more than $1 billion in the last five years to encourage research, subsidize the exchange of internal combustion vehicles for zero-emission options, formulate cleaner fuels and expand vital charging infrastructure.

It’s working with technology firms to clean up heavily polluting marine fuels belching from container ships

diesel generators to operate and instead plug into shore-side electric power. But even when stationary, big vessels have a massive appetite: A nine-cylinder ship engine—five-stories tall and weighing 1,500 tons—can produce enough power to run 30,000 homes for a year.

But trucking is the major freight challenge for California.

More than 97 percent of the state’s big rigs operate on diesel fuel, which is highly polluting and a significant contributor to detrimental health effects on those residing near transit corridors. Currently only a handful of electric or hybrid heavy-duty truck options exists, mostly prototypes.

“I see 100 percent electrification as being far off; there just aren’t any of those trucks on the road,” said Brandon Taylor, director of transportation for GSC Logistics, a freight company operating at the Port of Oakland.

Freight represents a transportation problem somewhat of our own making: We desire— and order online—more and more products, for delivery right now.

With each mouse click, delivery vans and trucks flood the state’s highways and neighborhood streets, dispatched to cover what supply-chain planners call “the last mile” of residential delivery.

About 20 percent of trips in the United States are, in fact, less than a mile. But it’s too late to shut off the merchandisedelivery tap, and freight accounts for about a third of the California Gross Domestic Product.

The influx of these trucks and vans runs counter to one of California’s bottom-line goals: to reduce not just the number of vehicles on roads but also, and more critically, the miles they travel. The midsized delivery vans taking the package handoff from heavyduty trucks are turning over odometers at a dizzying rate; in Southern California, an estimated 85 percent of truck traffic is dedicated to local deliveries and short hops.

The future is likely to include

on-demand trucking. Predictably, there’s an app for that, Uber Freight, which launched in California in 2017. It’s one of a handful of load-matching apps that connect shippers with smaller, more nimble trucks plying local routes. The system is intended to increase efficiency and decrease total miles driven.

Additionally, electric trucks can return to a home base at night to be recharged.

To achieve a carbon-free transportation future, California will need to cover a lot more ground in a short time frame.

Big rigs in California aren’tt subject to the smog inspections that have applied to cars since 1982, partly due to early pushback from trucking companies and insurmountable complexities involved in regulating out-of-state vehicles. But that could change: A bill advancing in the Legislature would create smog checks for big diesel trucks.

The state will need to retrofit highways to allow charging of electric freight trucks, which some experts say may still be a decade away. Planners are examining exactly what an electric-truck stop would require: Big trucks need big batteries and very large charging infrastructure.

Utility companies in California, Oregon and Washington are underwriting a study that will examine how to provide electric charging and hydrogen fueling along the entirety of Interstate 5, with bays for next-generation

semi-trucks running on batteries or hydrogen gas.

State regulators recognize that innovation doesn’t always align with government goals and deadlines and are planning for clean technology where feasible.

Like everything else, it’s not going to be cheap.

The cost of an electric semitractor trailer, $300,000 or more, is more than twice that of a traditional diesel truck. That can be a burden on mom and pop companies, 90 percent of whose fleets contain six or fewer trucks and who operate on relatively tight margins.

“It’s going to be tough,” even with state subsidies, said Chris Shimoda, lobbyist for the California Trucking Association.

Shimoda said his members don’t care what type of fuel the state requires. “Everybody knows this is the direction California is going,” he said. “It’s easy to say we have a goal of eliminating fossil fuels, but as I think everyone would admit, the details of how to get there are important.”

At the Port of Oakland, with freight-train horns blaring in the background, Taylor said by phone that it’s eerie to see—but not hear—his company’s electric big-rig pull into one of the loading bays. “It kind of sneaks up on you,” he said.

The company’s been testing the truck for more than a year, underwritten partly by a state grant, and expects delivery of two more in the fall. Taylor uses the truck to move containers around the port but has yet to put it on the road, echoing the “range anxiety” associated with electric cars. His truck’s battery runs out and needs recharging after 120 miles.

“I guess it can only get better with electrics,” he said. “I’m not sure how it’s all going to work, but it’s happening.”

CALmatters is a nonpartisan, nonprofit journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters.

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at California ports, and state funds are helping Central Valley farmers, who are on a waiting list to replace their aging farm equipment with fuel-efficient models and to receive rebates.

Such projects may get a boost from California’s Tesla-owner governor, Gavin Newsom, as budget negotiations wrap up this month. His proposed spending plan includes nearly $24 billion for all aspects of transportation, a 6 percent increase.

Few transportation modes have clean-engine options as advanced as those for passenger cars. Buses are the exception. The Chinese company BYD, manufacturing electric buses in Lancaster, is the largest in North America and has produced more than 300 buses, including nearly half of the Antelope Valley Transit Authority’s pool.

The city of Los Angeles has pledged to convert its bus fleet— second-largest in the country— to electric by 2030, though mechanical and performance problems plagued the rollout of its BYD vehicles. Many other transit districts have similar goals that include school buses.

The financial burden of those commitments is softened by state vouchers for up to $200,000 toward the purchase of each zeroemission bus.

The availability of some electric all-terrain recreational vehicles, farm machinery and specialty equipment such as cherry-pickers and front-end loaders has produced niche markets. Generally, though, the readily available transportation technology stops where the road ends: Electrification of trains, planes and ships is less advanced.

A state analysis found that ocean-going vessels still depend on heavily-polluting marine fuels and, aside from nuclear-powered engines for military use, zeroand near-zero technologies are not currently available. Among smaller vessels, San Francisco Bay’s famed Red and White fleet added a new hybrid-electric ferry this week.

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The first time I visited the distillery’s new digs in Rohnert Park, founder Adam Spiegel stood in a then-empty corner of the warehouse beneath a large overhead crane, and promised there’d be a bar and tasting room there the next time I stopped

in. A month later, there’s a bar in the corner alright, but the crane’s still suspended above it, a leftover from the previous tenant, a machine shop.

And it’s still a warehouse, not the expensively-styled artisanal whiskey lounge I’d pictured.

That’s the right style for Spiegel.

It’s bare-bones, it’s industrial, it’s authentic, says the whiskeymaker, who’s rebranded Sonoma Distilling Co. (formerly Sonoma County Distilling Co.) yet again, this time with a simple, somewhat retro label.

The company’s singular new-andshiny luxury piece is around the corner—a 3,000 gallon copper still.

Spiegel designed the one-of-akind gleaming behemoth himself; Forsyths in Scotland built it after await of a few years—the customer in line before him was Macallan.

The body of the still is based on those used by Highlands distiller Glenfarclas, while the top mimics the 250-gallon traditional alembic stills which now handle the secondary distillation, Spiegel explains on a tour of the facility. But with increased volume, he’s actually brought prices down.

So, how about that whiskey? Hang on. Tours, and the transparency of the operation to consumers, are important to Spiegel, who says he’ll be jumping in now and then to relieve his tasting room manager, and lead groups of up to 12 visitors himself. He’s sure to point out that the new fermenting tanks, constructed in Healdsburg, capture ambient yeast from the Rohnert Park air, and to note that leftover water is used by a local farmer.

Got it. Now, the whiskey? Sonoma Distilling’s signature spirit is the allrye Sonoma Rye Whiskey ($39.99), made with 20 percent malted rye. It’s a dry, minty rye with the structure for cocktails, but with a vanilla cream soda note to please the neat sipper.

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Santa Rosa votes to support a public banking bill as it invests in dirty energy and a scandal plagued Scandanvian bank

BY TOM GOGOLA

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or Shelly Browning, it’s been a long road from the Arab Spring to the Occupy Movement to Santa Rosa’s support of a public banking bill now under consideration in Sacramento. Browning’s a Santa Rosa small-business owner who’s been active on the public banking front for years and says her inspiration to get Santa Rosa to divest from Wall Street banks begins in Cairo’s Tahrir Square— and ends, perhaps, with an eventual “North Coast” public bank that would exist alongside Chase and other Wall Street banks.

She’s been meeting with city leaders to raise awareness of the public banking bill. Browning was moved, she says, by the smallbusinessman who was arrested in Tunisia for failing to have a permit in 2011, and whose suicide sparked protests in Egypt that then gave rise to the Occupy moment in the United States. The economic forces that gave rise to Tahrir Square are

the same that are driving the push for public banking: All roads lead to Wall Street, while Main Street gets crushed.

“Private banks’ mandate is to serve the shareholders,” says Browning, who runs a foreign language–translation service that does business with the state.

“Public banks’ mandate is to serve the public interest.”

Assembly Bill 857, authored by Assemblymen David Chiu and Miguel Santiago, sets out to create a regulatory framework to allow California to license public banks that would give cities the option to stop doing business with the likes of JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo, and invest taxpayer money into local communities instead of Wall Street banks.

Chase and Wells Fargo have significant investments in the so-called “extreme fossil fuel” industry, which includes coal mining (Chase) and fracking.

A public banking law would make good on the California Public Banking Alliance’s slogan of “Our Money. Our Values. Our Bank.”

That’s the idea, anyway. The getting there is a different story, and, upon

review of the city of Santa Rosa’s investment portfolio, it’s a story that’s as much about investment as it is about divestment, given Santa Rosa’s high-performing investments in foreign banks with big investments in extreme fossil fuels.

The public banking bill sailed through the state assembly with support from local assemblymen Jim Wood and Marc Levine, and now rests in two senate committees, awaiting a hearing and a vote. It’s a feel-good bill of sorts and a pretty safe bet given that it doesn’t require anyone to do anything. The bill merely opens the door to localities who’d like to pursue the option. It’s gotten endorsements from a handful of cities around the state, including Oakland and Santa Cruz, ) 12

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and from the California State Democratic party as a whole. The California Banking Association and the state’s community banks have come out in opposition, though Browning notes that a handful of community banks around the state have individually endorsed the bill.

None of the North Bay’s community banks, including Redwood Credit Union and Exchange Bank, have weighed in on the bill.

The bill is now parked in the Senate Government and Finance committee chaired by North Coast Sen. Mike McGuire. McGuire’s office did not respond to requests for comment.

If signed into law, the bill would allow municipalities to apply for a banking charter from the California Department of Business Oversight.

The bill encourages those entities to partner with credit unions to extend credit to communities and their residents, and, says Browning, provides the opportunity to build a socially and environmentally responsible banking system, “by enabling cities and counties in California to recapture public dollars and reinvest in their local communities.” Residents would rely on community banks for their personal banking needs, and the local public bank could, for example, offer residents stock options for local schools, instead of making investments in the booming domestic dirty energy economy.

Browning envisions a North Coast bank that could serve Sonoma, Mendocino and Humboldt counties.

Santa Rosa, as the largest city in the tri-county region, would be the key to make this dream a reality. As a practical matter—and based on the North Dakota public bank that’s held as a model—the well-versed Browning explains that there’s a scalability issue with public banks; you need a sufficient tax base to generate the revenue needed to support a commercial lending institution in the public domain.

North Dakota’s 100-year-old staterun public bank is a success in a state with a population of 750,000. The aggregate population of Sonoma, Mendocino and Humboldt counties is right around that same number. It’s a heady idea that’s taken hold of the public imagination around the state.

Imagine, says, Browning, being able to buy stock options in local schools from a municipal or regional bank— instead of endless rounds of higher taxes levied on residents to pay for school services.

But even as the Santa Rosa City Council voted to support the bill this week, the focus on divestment from the fossil fuel industry raises questions about the city’s investment strategy. Since the wildfires, the city has made big investments with banks that invest in fossil fuels—the same fuels that are linked to the rise of climate change-fanned fires. The city, however, says one has nothing to do with the other.

According to city documents, Santa Rosa has made more than a dozen investments in foreignowned banks that invest in the unclean end of the fossil fuel industry. And, it banks with the single largest financier of fossil fuel industries, JP Morgan Chase, according to a comprehensive study on fossil fuel investments by domestic and foreign banks.

According to its May 2019 investment report, 13 investments in banks such as UBS, Credit Suisse and the Bank of Montreal total $43 million from interest-bearing securities (certificates of deposit) that are earning between 2.6 and 3.9 in interest. Of the 13 investments, 11 were made after the 2017 wildfires that punched a $20 million hole in Santa Rosa’s $122 million operating budget. The post-fire investments range from between $3.25 million with USB and $4.2 million with the Royal Bank of Canada, both of which are detailed in a new study, Banking on Climate Change: Fossil Fuel Report Card 2019, for their poor showing in the extreme-fossil-fuels department. As of last month the investments had accrued nearly $480,000 in interest. Despite the timing of the investments—most took place through 2018—the city says they had nothing to do with fiscal fallout from the 2017 wildfires.

Banking on Climate Change is an annual analysis undertaken by the Rainforest Action Network that details domestic and foreign banks’ investments in various fossil fuel industries and grades

them on their climate change awareness as reflected in those investments. Most of the 13 foreign-owned banks that Santa Rosa has invested taxpayer money in received poor grades in the report because of their fossil fuel investments. Browning notes the

‘The activities of the top big banks in fossil fuels and many other activities gives us limited, to no options regarding large, socially responsible banking options. We are truly stuck between Scylla and Charybdis until a public banking option is available.’ benefits brought to bear by the nation’s only public bank, the Bank of North Dakota, which came into the public spotlight during the Standing Rock demonstrations that peaked at the end of 2016.

“There is an alternative,” says Browning, and time is running out to adopt it. “We’ve got 12 years to turn it all around,” she adds, a reference to the accepted wisdom of our time that says climate change impacts will really start to accrue in

about a decades’ time. “The time is now to turn it around.”

Banking on Climate Change reports that Chase is the nation’s leading financier of the nation’s booming domestic energy industry, with $64 billion in total investments.

Wells Fargo is not far behind at $61.4 billion. A review of the city’s investments reveals that they’ve gone into business with some of the least environmentally conscious foreign banks in the world after the 2017 wildfires. Except for one bank.

The Nordea File There’s one bank that Santa Rosa does business with that doesn’t appear anywhere in the extreme fossil fuels report, but that does appear in numerous investigative reports that tell a different sort of dirty-business story—raising another set of questions about the city’s investment strategy.

In December 2016, executives from Nordea visited Standing Rock and stood in solidarity with the Sioux and their blockade of the pipeline.

Before reporters, the company warned is fund managers to divest from any company associated with the pipeline. The climate-change divestment movement took note.

The environmentalist-journalists at Ecowatch reported that “Nordea had put companies behind DAPL on watch,” and in early 2018, Nordea made good on its word and banned its fund managers from investing in firms tied to the Dakota pipeline.

Stateside news reports on Nordea’s altruism made no mention of the banks’ connections to the Panama Papers, or to money laundering allegations associated with the bank.

For those reports, you’d have to turn to the Scandanvanian-based Yle News and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, whose detailed reports on Nordea read like they are straight out of a footnote to the Steele Dossier, with allusions to Russian oligarchs, money laundering and possible organized crime.

Just this month Yle News updated its previous reports on money laundering allegations with a report on a data dump that revealed “a secret network of shell companies that have funneled

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recognizes the challenges, adding that she’s “aware of trying to ensure we bank locally as much as possible, but many of our local banks and credit unions are not able to work with the large sums because they must have more cash on hand than they do. They are insufficiently capitalized.”

The city defends its investment in banks with ties to the extreme fossil fuel made in its name by Public Finance Management, and says the timing of the investments had nothing to do with the 2017 wildfires, Nordea’s posture around DAPL, or any other factor other than the fiscal health of the city. “The events and circumstances referenced in [your questions] caused no change in investment strategy,” says Mertens. “All the negotiable certificate of deposits in the portfolio meet the investment advisors credit criteria and the inclusion in the portfolio is consistent with the city’s investment objectives. These types of securities are widely held by public agencies with objectives similar to Santa Rosa.”

The investments underscore the difficulties inherent in divesting from the fossil-fuel industry as the public bank moment in California gains steam in Sacramento, San Jose, Oakland and at Santa Rosa City Hall. Combs notes that “the activities of the top big banks in fossil fuels and many other activities gives us limited, to no options regarding large, socially responsible banking options. We are truly stuck between Scylla and Charybdis until a public banking option is available.”

For public banking advocates like Alison Malisa, it’s time to bring those legendary sea monsters to heel. She’s a Sebastopol teacher with a background in economics who, like Browning, was moved by the domestic activism of Occupy that was itself inspired in part by the Arab Spring. There’s a triple bottom line at play, she says—people, profits and the planet. She repeats the public banking mantra—Our money, our values, our bank—and says that whether it’s the city or Chase bank, fossil fuel investments present a stark choice during stark times: “It’s either a vicious or virtuous cycle,” she says.

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billions of euros through the global banking system,” using shell accounts in Nordea banks. The bank has denied any wrongdoing.

Did Nordea’s pro-Sioux posture influence the city’s decision to invest $5.8 million with the bank that same month? Santa Rosa communications director Adriane Mertens says it did not.

The Nordea CD was scheduled to mature on Nov. 30 2018, and paid a 1.72 percent interest rate on the investment. According to city documents, at the time of the October 2017 wildfires, the Nordea investment was losing money.

The investment reports indicates that in February 2018, the city sold $3.25 million of its poorly performing Nordea security back to Nordea Bank of Finland, and then reinvested the $3.25 million in Nordea Bank AB NY, at a yield of 2.72 percent. That note is due to mature in February 2020.

The new investment left $2.25 million of the initial 2016 investment with Nordea Bank Finland at the original, 1.72 rate of accrual. By April 2018, both investments were earning a positive yield.

Investments in these negotiable CDs are managed by the city’s outside investment advisor, Public Finance Management (PFM), says Mertens. “The inclusion of these securities is consistent with the objective of managing a diversified portfolio,” she adds, and the city’s been investing in the negotiable CDs “since at least 2012.”

Santa Rosa city council member Julie Combs weighed in on the city’s investments as Santa Rosa was expected to pass a resolution in support of AB 857. “We have established a socially responsible investing policy several years ago under a different council,” she says.

“At the time I believed the policy was not clear enough and it has a loophole that is not made clear,” she adds, without identifying the loophole. The city council approved the new rules even after Combs tried to get an investment criteria added to the rules that would require the investments be “socially beneficial.” That effort failed.

Combs is supportive of the concept of a regional public bank and supports AB 857, but

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POT PROPAGANDA The Museum of Sonoma County’s “Grass Roots” exhibit includes archival material that promoted and condemned cannabis, like this poster held by show co-curator Eric Stanley.

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Cannabis Blossoms at the Museum of Sonoma County BY JONAH RASKIN

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eed evidence that cannabis is now fully in the mainstream? The Museum of Sonoma County has debuted a summer-long exhibit on the weed’s local and national history.

It will likely blow minds both in

and out of the cannabis industry with stunning photos and pithy quotes about hemp and cannabis from the likes of botanist Luther Burbank, novelist Jack London— who loved hashish—and the Emerald Cup entrepreneur genius Tim Blake.

The exhibition is supported by many of the usual North

Bay suspects: Mercy Wellness, CannaCraft, Fiddler’s Greens, Lagunitas Brewing Company, Rogoway Law Group and Sonoma Patient Group.

I can claim some credit for the exhibit that’s billed as “Grass Roots: From Prohibition to Prescription,” which traces how we as a culture got into the

pot mess and how we’re slowly digging our way out. Nearly 10 years ago, I suggested to the museum’s history committee that it was imperative to mount an exhibit devoted to marijuana.

“You planted the seed,” says Eric Stanley, the co-curator of “Grass Roots," a week before the show opened. “The idea has always been in the hopper. Now is a perfect time for it to become a reality. We’re post Prop-64, and, as a society, we're trying to figure out where we go from here.”

If 2019 is a perfect time for “Grass Roots,” Santa Rosa is a near perfect place for it. After all, for more than 50 years cannabis has been grown both indoors and outdoors, in and around Santa Rosa by farmers of all kinds and not just by first-, second- and third-generation hippies. The city has also provided, unintentionally, the locations of hundreds, if not thousands, of clandestine deals where cash and cannabis changed hands.

Conveniently located between the vast cannabis-growing regions to the west and the north, and the huge markets to the south, Santa Rosa has for decades been a truck stop on the cannabis highway. Much of that story has never been told in print or on film. Some of it might never be told. Dealers have disappeared.

Records are non-existent and the black market days of old have faded. Still, the Museum of Sonoma County has located a trove of long-hidden materials.

In fact, the “Grass Roots” exhibit breaks new ground, though the Oakland Museum of California hosted a cannabis show in 2016 and helped raise awareness with voters who approved of Prop 64 in November of that year. The museum brings the history, the politics and the culture of cannabis to visitors who’ve never entered ) 16

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a dispensary nor understood the lyrics to Little Feat’s 1978 hit, “Don’t Bogart That Joint.”

After all, it’s not everyday that marijuana memorabilia appears in a museum as a subject for serious attention.

Forestville’s Nathan Henry Silva installed much of the exhibit and says he enjoyed nearly every moment of it.

“I have a personal connection to the topic,” he says as he holds a power drill in his right hand. “My parents used marijuana and I use it, too, so it’s not totally new to me. But I’m learning a lot of the history as I work. I’m glad to see that marijuana users are being de-stigmatized and people are realizing that cannabis is less harmful to minds and bodies than alcohol.”

Stanley learned the hard way that mounting a cannabis exhibit was more challenging than many of the other exhibits he’s curated.

Over the last few months, he’s been a detective looking for clues and evidence to tell a vital story.

“A lot of the history of cannabis has been underground,” he says.

“People who have been involved haven’t documented their activities. Sometimes we can’t find the kind of solid, reliable information, like names and dates, that are necessary for a museum.”

Still, members of the community have come forward, offered their expertise and shared hundreds of posters, flyers and photos, some of which will be displayed. Vince Dugar, an amateur archivist from Petaluma, offered his cannabis collection of memorabilia. Joe Rogoway’s Santa Rosa law office made a cannabis timetable for the exhibit and Sarah Schrader from Americans for Safe Access handed over a box of her old photos.

“Sonoma had a medical cannabis ordinance in 1993, six years before the state,” Schrader says.

“I’m excited that the exhibit will highlight some of the pioneering role that our county has played.”

With help from Schrader and others, Stanley has uncovered a treasure of cannabis lore, legend and real products manufactured in Sonoma County, including a remedy for corns concocted by

a Sebastopol pharmacist more than 100 years ago. Stanley also unearthed an 1883 news story from The Press Democrat about a 12-foot hemp plant that grew in Santa Rosa, prompting locals to wonder why hemp wasn’t grown as a commercial crop.

“Grass Roots” is divided into five sections that cover almost everything related to cannabis including its origins, classification, medical use and commercialization.

Commercialization is what’s happening now. There’s also a section at the end of the exhibit that Stanley calls “a fun space” that has humorous cartoons, like those of the stoned hippie icons, the “Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers” who appeared in underground newspapers in the 1960s and ‘70s.

Co-curator Brian Applegarth is as excited about the exhibit as anyone else at the museum.

A cannabis tourism pioneer and historian, he says, “As we go forward into the multibillion dollar global hemp and marijuana industries, we need to remember the history and the pioneers and preserve the positive values of the past so they aren’t swept away.”

What are those values?

“Reverence for nature, appreciation for sustainability and mindfulness,” Applegarth says.

Forty-five years ago, when I first saw cannabis cultivated in direct sunlight in Sonoma County, I never imagined the day would come when it would be the star of a museum show. We’ve come a long way since helicopters raided gardens and sheriffs deputies’ arrested growers, took them to jail in handcuffs and stigmatized them as the enemies of society.

Maybe there’s hope for the future of cannabis, after all.

“Grass Roots: From Prohibition to Prescription.” June 16-Sept. 15, 2019.

Museum of Sonoma County; 425 Seventh St., Santa Rosa. Opening reception June 15 4-6pm. Jonah Raskin in conversation with Sonoma State University Professor Liz Thach, June 26, 6:30 pm. museumsc.org.

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Groundbreaking at its time for its innovations in dance and music and its frank addressing of social issues, Arthur Laurent’s version of Romeo and Juliet transplanted Shakespeare’s Verona to New York’s Upper West Side and transformed the feuding Montague and Capulet families into rival white and Puerto Rican street gangs. Leonard Bernstein composed the music, Stephen Sondheim’s lyrics made their Broadway debut and Jerome Robbins handled stage direction and choreography. West Side Story was then followed by a multi-awardwinning film adaptation.

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(and the possible criticism of “whitewashing”) along with a very difficult score make West Side Story an extremely challenging show to produce, and Jared Sakren surmounted these obstacles, in part, by casting numerous Latinx performers in this production.

Program bios indicate many of these performers are in, or graduated from, the Santa Rosa Junior College theater arts program, or participate in their high schools’ drama or dance programs. This results in a wide range of on-stage actor experience and, while it shows, it proves to have been a tradeoff worth making.

Jonah Robinson (as Tony) and Carmen Mitchell (as Maria) have significant training and experience behind them and it shows. Both exhibit fine voice, though I found Mitchell’s accent a bit forced at times, and Robinson was plagued with microphone issues at the performance I attended.

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‘The Dead Don’t Die’ does have Tom Waits in full hermit-mode.

The Walking Meh

Jim Jarmusch finds little to say in latest turn towards horror BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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ike the zombies it depicts, Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die is dead on its feet and ambles toward no clear destination. The existential nonchalance of Jarmusch’s many films (Down By Law, Only Lovers Left Alive, Patterson) harmonizes well with love stories of bemused, alienated characters. But it doesn’t quite work with horror-show material.

“Centerville, Population 738: A real nice place”, reads the welcome sign. Fans of Zappa’s 200 Motels— this one’s for you. When Chief Cliff Robertson (Bill Murray) and officer Ronnie (Adam Driver) investigate a chicken theft, the mild-mannered pair are easily run off by the accused thief, Hermit Bob (Tom Waits), who’s living in the bushes.

As they head back to the cop shop, the policemen worry about the unnatural amount of daylight and televised reports that polar fracking may knock the globe off its magnetic axis. “This isn’t going to end well,” says Ronnie.

Other signs and wonders mirror troubling disturbances in the small town, until Chief

Robertson stumbles into a hole in the cemetery and discovers the dead gophering their way out of their graves.

For unknown reasons, the ensuing zombie attacks make the two cops more laconic than they already are. Officer Mindy (Chloe Sevigny), the other member of the three-cop police force, is the only one who actually expresses emotions and she alone faces the hordes of walking dead with some degree of hysteria.

By the time the fourth wall is broken—a tacit admission that the film isn’t working—The Dead Don’t Die has regressed from puzzling, to just plain dull. Though zombies have served as a parody of hypnotized consumers for 40 years now—ever since the first Dawn of the Dead—Jarmusch can’t find new flavor in this long-standing cliche.

Jarmusch tries his usual method of directing warm, humane actors as they negotiate a zone of vagueness and disconnectedness. It doesn’t work here, even with celebrity zombies including Selena Gomez, Carol Kane and Iggy Pop. From foreshadowing to end-game turkey shoot, it’s an exhausting movie.

‘The Dead Don’t Die” is playing in limited release.

LAY INTO IT Petaluma songwriter

Saffell reemerges with music this month.

Sole Man Saffell goes it alone on new album

BY CHARLIE SWANSON

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wo years ago, Petaluma-based singer-songwriter and bandleader Saffell seemed to have it all.

On the surface, he had a great relationship to the band members in his piano-driven funk-rock ensemble. Gigs were coming, fanbases were growing, but Saffell found himself struggling personally and creatively.

“I got to the point where I’d been grinding so long like all musicians do,” he says. “I knew I wanted to keep doing it, but it was the way I was doing it. Something wasn’t working.”

Saffell performs on Saturday, Jun 22, at Twin Oaks Roadhouse, 5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove. 8pm. $8. saffellmusic.com.

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Music

So, he stopped to take stock and says he had to find a new balance in the joyful-versusjaded approach to making music.

For that, he stepped into the unknown, turning Saffell into a one-man show both live onstage and on his new LP, Lay It on the Line, which he debuts on Saturday, June 22, at Twin Oaks Roadhouse in Penngrove.

“There was a sound I had in my mind, of an album that I always wanted to make, but it required a lot more production, and I never had the money to do that,” says Saffell. Once the band dissolved, Saffell returned to the idea of that album just as he was gifted some recording gear and found a cheap grand piano. Suddenly, he had the tools he needed, and he spent the last two years diving deeply into the engineering side of recording, mastering live-looping and embracing the electronic effects that would become the basis for much of Lay It on the Line.

“I didn’t want to end up with a bedroom demo,” he says. “I wanted to have the time to learn, explore, investigate and reach those sounds.”

Keeping the music funky and fun, Lay It on the Line sounds like a full band effort in its made-fromscratch beats and blips, while also keeping the emotional core of Saffell’s songwriting intact.

“The trick is not to get lost in the tech,” he says. “I stayed rooted in the songwriting. I want the song to be able to live and breathe with just me, the piano and my voice.”

That said, the upcoming album-release show promises lots of techno-flair, with Saffell performing with synthesizers, organs and live-looping and with opener Sebastian St James and analog-visual artist Bill Wiatroski projecting real-time modulated images.

“One thing worth mentioning, live-looping is not meant to replace a band,” says Saffell.

“I think it’s its own craft, as a different kind of artistry.”

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Calendar Concerts SONOMA Aaron Lewis

Former heavy metal frontman and now outlaw-country music star performs with special guest Ben Danaher. Jun 22, 6pm. $46 and up. SOMO Village Event Center, 1100 Valley House Dr, Rohnert Park, somoconcerts.com.

Indigo Girls

Grammy-winning duo bring their signature sonic blend of folk and rock to Santa Rosa.

Jun 22, 8pm. $39-$55. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.546.3600.

NAPA Jody Watley

Grammy-winning artist celebrates her birthday with two intimate sets of jazz and soul. Jun 22, 6:30 and 8:30pm. $45 and up. Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.880.2300.

Flamenco | Picasso

Musical evening with flamenco guitarist Mark Taylor is presented in conjunction with “Picasso & the Masters of 20th Century Printmaking” exhibit.

Jun 21, 5pm. $30. Napa Valley Museum, 55 Presidents Circle, Yountville, 707.944.0500.

Clubs & Venues SONOMA A’Roma Roasters

Jun 21, Eric Butterfield. Jun 22, Collaboration Jazz Band.

95 Fifth St, Santa Rosa, 707.576.7765.

Aqus Cafe

Jun 21, Katy Boyd. Jun 22, Chime Travelers. Jun 23, 2pm, Morton Davis. 189 H St, Petaluma, 707.778.6060.

Hots with the Dictator Tots. Jun 23, Miss Leo & Her Bluegrass Boys. 128 American Alley, Petaluma, 707.776.7163.

Bluewater Bistro

Jun 20, Duarte. 21301 Heron Dr, Bodega Bay, 707.875.3513.

BR Cohn Winery

Jun 22, 12pm, Bruno Grossi. Jun 23, 12pm, Falcon Christopher.

15000 Sonoma Hwy, Glen Ellen, 707.938.4064.

Brewsters Beer Garden Jun 20, Fog Holler. Jun 21, Rivertown Skifflers. Jun 22, Sundress. Jun 23, 1pm, Matt Reischling & the Black Box. 229 Water St N, Petaluma, 707.981.8330.

Coyote Sonoma

Jun 22, Double Sandyrd.

44F Mill St, Healdsburg, 707.385.9133.

Crooked Goat Brewing Jun 22, 3pm, Craig Corona. Jun 23, 3pm, the Passengers. 120 Morris St, Ste 120, Sebastopol, 707.827.3893.

Elephant in the Room Jun 20, Kendra Amalie. Jun 21, Dusty Green Bones Band.

Jun 22, Zach’s Birthday Bash with DJ Kevin West.

Jun 23, Blue Luke. Jun 25, Awesome Hotcakes. 177-A Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, elephantintheroompub.com.

Fern Bar

Jun 20, jazz night with Michael Price & Co. Jun 21, Aly Rose Trio.

Jun 22, DJ Timoteo Gigante.

Jun 23, Pick Your Heart Out. Jun 24, Woodlander and friends.

Jun 25, Eric Long. Jun 26, Nate Lopez. 6780 Depot St, Suite 120, Sebastopol, 707.861.9603.

Flamingo Lounge

Jun 21, the Humdinger Band.

Jun 22, Konsept Party Band.

2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa, 707.545.8530.

Geyserville Gun Club Bar & Lounge Jun 22, Sean Carscadden.

21025 Geyserville Ave, Geyserville, 707.814.0036.

Hood Mansion Lawn

Jun 22, Crooked Beat. Jun 23, Jon Gonzales. 3688 Bohemian Hwy, Occidental, 707.874.9037.

Jun 21, 5:30pm, Funky Fridays with the Big Fit. 389 Casa Manana Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.833.6288. funkyfridays. info.

The Big Easy

HopMonk Sebastopol

Barley & Hops Tavern

Jun 20, Dirty Red Barn. Jun 21, Mike Saliani Band. Jun 22, the

Jun 21, Volte. Jun 22, open mic weekend edition. Jun

24, Shashamsni Sound. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol, 707.829.7300.

Washington St, Petaluma, 707.762.3565.

Jun 22, 6pm, RDL+. 500 First St, Napa, 707.967.2530.

Redwood Cafe

Jun 20, Buzzy Martin & Blue Doria. Jun 21, doRiaN Mode.

Jun 22, FunkSway. Jun 23, Irish jam session. Jun 24, the Blues Defenders pro jam. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.795.7868.

Clif Family Winery

HopMonk Sonoma

Jun 21, Nate Lopez. Jun 22, Charles Henry Paul. Jun 23, 1pm, Brian Belknap.

691 Broadway, Sonoma, 707.935.9100.

Hotel Healdsburg

Jun 22, Steve Rubardt Trio.

25 Matheson St, Healdsburg, 707.431.2800.

Hudson Street Wineries

Jun 21, 5pm, Fitch Mountaineers. 428 Hudson St, Healdsburg, 707.433.2364.

Isis Oasis Sanctuary

Jun 22, 6pm, Triskela Harp Trio with Bay Area Youth Harp Ensemble. 20889 Geyserville Ave, Geyserville, 707.857.4747.

Ives Park

Reel & Brand

Jun 21, Backtrax. Jun 22, the Sofa Kings. 401 Grove St, Sonoma, 707.343.0044.

Rodney Strong Vineyards

Jun 22, 6pm, Alanis Morissette.

11455 Old Redwood Hwy, Healdsburg, 707.431.1533.

Sebastopol Center for the Arts Jun 23, 2pm, Christian Foley-Beining. 282 S High St, Sebastopol, 707.829.4797.

Jun 26, 5pm, Peacetown concert series with Nick Gravenites Band and Ace of Cups. Willow Street and Jewell Avenue, Sebastopol, peacetown.org.

Starling Bar

Lagunitas Tap Room

Jun 23, 2pm, Soul Fuse. 2030 Barlow Lane, Sebastopol, 707.823.2049.

Jun 20, Elvis Johnson Soul Revue. Jun 21, Tommy Odetto.

Jun 22, Little Muddy. Jun 23, Smoky Knights. Jun 26, Robert Powell Band. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma, 707.778.8776.

Jun 22, 6pm, Summer Solstice concert with the Grove Valve Orchestra. 709 Main St, St Helena, 707.968.0625.

Goose & Gander

Jun 23, 5pm, Annette Summersett. 1245 Spring St, St Helena, 707.967.8779.

JaM Cellars

Jun 21, Chris Pierce. Jun 22, Sunny & the Black Pack. 1460 First St, Napa, 707.265.7577.

Jessup Cellars

Jun 22, Art House Sessions with Nina Storey. 6740 Washington St, Yountville, 707.944.5620.

Pioneer Park

Jun 20, 6:30pm, the Klipptones.

1308 Cedar St, Calistoga, 707.942.2838.

Jun 21, Kerry Kathleen Band.

Jun 23, 2:30pm, Le Hot Club Swing. 19380 Hwy 12, Sonoma, 707.938.7442.

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The Saint

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Tank Garage Winery

Jun 21, the Cincinnati Ambassadors. 3020 St Helena Hwy N, St Helena, 707.302.3777.

Jun 20, 6pm, Kevin Hauge.

Jun 21, Cactus & Oak. Jun 22, JourneyDay Rhorer. 1351 Main St, St Helena, 707.302.5130.

Jun 23, 4pm, Two Lions Band. 100 Marina Rd, Lot A, Geyserville, 707.494.4449.

Jun 22, 6pm, Ragtag Sullivan Duo. 1020 Foothill Blvd, Calistoga, 707.942.8265.

Jun 20, Susan Sutton. Jun 21, Fargo Brothers. Jun 22, Greg Hester Jazz Trio. Jun 23, Fog Holler. Jun 25, Eric Wiley. Jun 26, Willie Perez. 16280 Main St, Guerneville, 707.869.0501.

Twin Oaks Roadhouse

Veterans Memorial Park Napa

Montgomery Village Shopping Center

Whiskey Tip

Main Street Bistro

Jun 22, 12pm, Escape. Jun 23, 1pm, Stax City. 911 Village Court, Santa Rosa, 707.545.3844.

Murphy’s Irish Pub & Restaurant Jun 22, Sonoma Sound Syndicate. 464 First St E, Sonoma, 707.935.0660.

Mystic Theatre & Music Hall

Jun 20, Drake White. Jun 21, Bombino with Down Dirty Shake. Jun 22, Steelin’ Dan. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.775.6048.

Occidental Center for the Arts

Jun 23, 5pm, Claude Bourbon: Medieval & Spanish Blues.

3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental, 707.874.9392.

The Phoenix Theater Jun 22, Laceration with Depraver and Aseptic. 201

Jun 21, Train Wreck Junction.

Jun 22, Saffell album-release show. Jun 23, 3pm, Crying Time. 5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove, 707.795.5118.

Jun 21, Modern Monsters. Jun 22, reggae night with Common Knowledge. 1910 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.843.5535.

NAPA Blue Note Napa

Jun 20, Howell Mountain Boys.

Jun 21, Chris Standring. Jun 25, People of Earth. Jun 26, Guidance Band. 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.880.2300.

Buster’s Southern Barbecue

Jun 23, 3pm, Rob Watson and friends featuring Vernon Black.

1207 Foothill Blvd, Calistoga, 707.942.5605.

Ca’ Momi Osteria

Jun 21, La Noche Latina dance party. Jun 22, 3 on a Match. 1141 First St, Napa, 707.224.6664.

CIA at Copia

Jun 21, 6pm, Yacht Club of Paris.

Jun 21, 6:30pm, Napa City Nights with Crossman Connection and Buck Nickels & Loose Change. 850 Main St, Napa, napacitynights.com.

Veterans Memorial Park Yountvilel

Jun 23, 5pm, Johnny Smith.

6465 Washington St, Yountville.707.944.8851.

Art Opening SONOMA 180 Studios

Jun 20-Sep 6, “Meet the Makers Textile Exhibition,” features contemporary textile artworks created by Bud Snow, Christa Lynne, Livy Levings and Sable Rose Regalia. Reception, Jun 20 at 5pm. 150 Todd Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.843.4363.

Fulton Crossing

Jun 21, “June Art Show,” featured artist Teresa Saluzzo is inspired by the

Sonoma Coast and California Impressionists of the 20th century. Reception, Jun 21 at 5pm. 1200 River Rd, Fulton.

707.536.3305.

Sebastopol Center for the Arts

Jun 21-Jul 28, “Black & White & One Hint of Color,” juried exhibit presents art that is predominantly black-andwhite, but with a tiny element of another color. Reception, Jun 21 at 6pm. 282 S High St, Sebastopol. 707.829.4797.

Sebastopol Gallery

Jun 19-Jul 27, “Volery,” Diana Majumdar creates natural scenes in mixed media, with many of her works feature birds. Reception, Jun 22 at 4pm.

150 N Main St, Sebastopol.

707.829.7200.

Comedy Jim Jefferies

Fearless Australian comedian appears as part of “The Night Talker” tour. Jun 21, 8pm. $39 and up. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.546.3600.

The Natural Disasters: The Beginning Magic, live music and improv comedy comes together in a night of flood recovery fundraising. Jun 21, 7:30pm. $20. 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.523.4185.

Dance West County Martial Arts & Fitness Jun 20, 7pm, Danceypants, learn new and retro dance moves to fun music in a welcoming atmosphere. $15. 7231B Healdsburg Ave, Sebastopol. 707.321.3730.

Events Emergency Preparedness Fair

Learn what to do before disaster strikes with presentations and kids’ area.

Jun 23, 1pm. Free. Congregation Beth Ami, 4676 Mayette Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.360.3000.

Healdsburg Arts Festival

Healdsburg’s art event of the year features over 50 artists and crafters, vendors, wine, food, music, kid’s art zone and

Adorable pets are available for adoption, with free movie passes and other prizes available, as well as food, drinks and games. Jun 22, 11am. Airport Stadium 12, 409 Aviation Blvd, Santa Rosa, 707.571.1412.

Pueblo Day

Experience an interactive atmosphere of historic exhibits, demonstrations and crafts that represent the first forty years of Sonoma’s inception.

Jun 22, 10am. Free. Sonoma Barracks, 20 Spain St, Sonoma, 707.938.9547.

Russian River Rodeo

Enjoy a weekend of roping, riding and other traditional cowboy activities. Jun 22-23, 1pm. Bill Parmeter Field, 23450 Moscow Rd, Duncans Mills, russianriverrodeo.org.

Sonoma-Marin Fair

Join a guided tour of the Osmosis Kyoto-style Meditation Garden. Jun 25, 9:30am. $25. Osmosis Day Spa, 209 Bohemian Hwy, Freestone, 707.823.8231.

Nature Journaling at the Laguna

Create sketches and take notes of encounters with the fascinating biodiversity of the Laguna. Pre-registration required. Jun 22, 1pm. Free.

Laguna de Santa Rosa Environmental Center, 900 Sanford Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.527.9277.

Take a Hike

Get in on the first in a series of outings to better know the 30 miles of hiking trails at Jack London Park. Jun 22, 9am. Free; parking fees apply. Jack London State Park, 2400 London Ranch Rd, Glen Ellen, 707.938.5216.

Film

Fair marks “Eight Decades of Fun” with headlining concerts, the world’s ugliest dog contest, homebrew contest, wine tasting, carnival rides, fair food and more. Jun 19-23. $10-$15.

Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds, 175 Fairgrounds Dr, Petaluma, sonoma-marinfair.org.

CULT Film Series

Summer Solstice Celebration at the MoonAcre Spa

Film about ice loss at the Earth’s poles screens. Jun 21, 6:30pm.

Free. Sonoma Shambhala Meditation Center, 255 W Napa St, Sonoma, 415.412.8570.

Ring in the solstice with bubbles, nibbles, spa mini treatments and a few surprises. RSVP required. Jun 21, 7:30pm. $25. Calistoga Motor Lodge & Spa, 1880 Lincoln Ave, Calistoga, 707.942.0991.

Telling the Story

Pride event features special guest speakers and live music.

Jun 23, 3pm. Free; donations welcomed. Cloverdale Performing Arts Center, 209 N Cloverdale Blvd, Cloverdale, 707.829.2214.

Field Trips Family Day in Your State Park

Afternoon includes interactive family activities, nature stations, docent-led hikes and more. Jun 22, 12pm. Free.

Armstrong Woods State Reserve, Armstrong Woods Rd, Guerneville, stewardscr.org.

See a classic Mel Brooks’ double-feature screening of “Blazing Saddles” and “Young Frankenstein.” Jun 20, 7pm. $10. Roxy Stadium 14 Cinemas, 85 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.525.8909.

Frozen Worlds

Hesburgh

Film examines fifty years of American history seen through the eyes of priest and University of Notre Dame president Theodore Hesburgh.

Jun 25, 7:45pm. Cameo Cinema, 1340 Main St, St Helena, 707.963.9779.

Santa Rosa Film Sprint Screening & Awards

After a fast-paced filmmaking challenge, several short films are screened, and the jury’s selections announced. Jun 20, 7pm. Arlene Francis Center, 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa, srfilmsprint.com.

Food & Drink Chew the Fat on Sustainable Butchery Evening about sustainable

and ethical meat practices featuring artisan butchers, chefs and authors. Jun 23, 5pm. $35. CIA at Copia, 500 First St, Napa, 707.967.2530.

Experience Alexander Valley

Two-day wine festival shares the world-class wines, geographic diversity and winegrowing traditions in the region. Jun 22-23. $125$200. Alexander Valley, various locations, Healdsburg, alexandervalley.org.

The Great Rosé Infusion of Summer

Award-winning rosé wines and rosé-infused spirits, beers and ciders are paired with gourmet cuisine. Jun 22, 12pm. $45 and up. Soda Rock Winery, 8015 Highway 128, Healdsburg, 707.433.1660.

Sip the Gap

Sonoma Sip Society showcases 10 wineries from the Petaluma Wine Gap, with live music and local bites. Jun 22, 2pm. $30. Keller Street CoWork, 140 Keller St, Petaluma, sonomasipsociety.com.

Sip & Stitch

Join Shantelle “Ladybug” Brumfield of Yarn Movement for an afternoon of crocheting and winetasting paired with authentic Italian bites.

Jun 21, 3pm. $65. Ca’ Momi Osteria, 1141 First St, Napa, 707.224.6664.

Starlit Dinner Theater

Vaudevillian-style showcase features a jazz band performing alongside a threecourse prix fixe menu. Jun 26, 6pm. $65. Flamingo Lounge, 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa, 707.545.8530.

Winemaker Dinner Series

Monthly meal this time welcomes Katie Madigan of St. Francis Winery to pour. Jun 21, 6:30pm. $99. Bay View Restaurant at the Inn at the Tides, 800 Hwy 1, Bodega Bay, 707.875.2751.

For Kids Midsummer Musicamp

Napa Valley Music Associates host classes to help kids ages 4 to 12 develop singing and music fundamentals.

Registration required. Through Jun 28. $250-$400. Napa Valley College Performing Arts Center, 2277 Napa Vallejo Hwy, Napa, 707.322.8402.

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Missoula Children’s Theatre

Local kids perform “Robin Hood” as part of the theatre’s program. Jun 22, 2pm. $9-$13.

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

Museum Mondays for Little Ones

Stories, movement games, art and craft activities are for children ages one to five. Jun 24, 10am. $5. Charles M Schulz Museum, 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa, 707.579.4452.

Summer Arts Camp at SCA

Weeklong camp for ages 7 to 12 is an introduction to different printmaking techniques. Jun 24. Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S High St, Sebastopol, 707.829.4797.

Lectures Adult Summer Reading Distinguished Speaker Series The series welcomes awardwinning author Eliza Griswold.

Jun 22, 2pm. Free. Sebastopol Library, 7140 Bodega Ave, Sebastopol, 707.823.7691.

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Housing Our Community

Town Hall-style series concludes with an interactive workshop about housing needs. Jun 20, 6pm. Vintage House, 264 First St E, Sonoma, 707.996.0311.

Intro to Fusion 360

Learn the basics of 3D modeling using Computer Aided Machining and take home an awesome coat hook that designed. Jun 22, 10am. $85. Chimera Arts & Maker Space, 6791 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol, chimeraarts.org.

Kinetic Artists Panel Discussion

Enjoy a thought-bending talk with the artists in the museum’s exhibition, “Kinetics: Art in Motion.” Jun 20, 6:30pm. $10-$15. Museum of Sonoma County, 425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa, 707.579.1500.

Symbiotic Relationships: An Exploration of Our Connection with Nature

Workshop is a safe space for individuals to consider their biological and psychological

connection to the natural world. Jun 23, 9am. Armstrong Redwoods Visitor Center, 17000 Armstrong Woods Rd, Guerneville, 707.869.9177.

Writers Forum

Author and essayist Jacqueline Yau speaks on how to fully live a writing life while keeping your day job. Jun 20, 6:30pm.

Petaluma Copperfield’s Books, 140 Kentucky St, Petaluma, 707.762.0563.

Readings Calistoga Copperfield’s Books Jun 21, 6pm, “Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language” with Amanda Montell. 1330 Lincoln Ave, Calistoga 707.942.1616.

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Jun 22, 12pm, “Stone Edge Farm Kitchen Larder Cookbook” with chefs John McReynolds and Fiorella Butron. Free admission.

500 First St, Napa 707.967.2530.

Museum of Sonoma County

Jun 26, 6:30pm, “Dark Day, Dark Night” with Jonah Raskin.

425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa 707.579.1500.

Napa Bookmine

Jun 21, 5pm, “Eat Like You Give a Fork” with Mareya Ibrahim. 964 Pearl St, Napa 707.733.3199.

Santa Rosa Copperfield’s Books

Jun 21, 7pm, “The Sharp End of Life: A Mother’s Story” with Dierdre Wolownick. Jun 25, 7pm, “Indecent Advances” with James Polchin. 775 Village Court, Santa Rosa 707.578.8938.

Theater The 39 Steps

Classic Hitchcockian spy adventure is a fast-paced whodunit at SRJC’s Summer Rep. Jun 25-Jul 31. $25-$28.

Santa Rosa Junior College, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, summerrep.com.

The Barber of Seville

Laugh-out-loud romantic comedy has been entertaining audiences for more than 200 years. Through Jun 23. $37$40. Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.763.8920.

Broadway Under the Stars

Transcendence Theatre Company’s annual summer outdoor performance series takes on “A Chorus Line,” its first full-length production.

Through Jun 30. $49 and up.

Jack London State Park, 2400 London Ranch Rd, Glen Ellen, 707.938.5216.

Drumming with Anubis

Left Edge Theatre presents the new play by David Templeton about a drunken Egyptian lord who crashes a campfire party.

Through Jun 30. $25-$40.

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

Half Life: A Love Story

Musical written by Bob Duxbury and John Shillington and composed by Janis Wilson makes its world premiere.

Through Jun 30. $15-$30. Main Stage West, 104 N Main St, Sebastopol, 707.823.0177.

Macbeth: The Witches’ Cut

Curtain Call Theatre presents a new cut of Shakespeare’s tragedy. Through Jun 22. $15-$20. Russian River Hall, 20347 Hwy 116, Monte Rio, 707.524.8739.

Mama Mia!

SRJC’s Summer Rep presents the ABBA-fueled musical. Jun 21-Aug 10. $25-$28. Santa Rosa Junior College, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, summerrep.com.

Murder at Sea

Get a Clue Productions’ new mystery dinner theater show is a Caribbean cruise who-dunnit, with audience participation and island-themed attire encouraged. Fri, Jun 21, 7pm. $68. Charlie’s Restaurant, Windsor Golf Club, 1320 19th Hole Dr, Windsor, 707.837.0019.

West Side Story

The tale of “Romeo & Juliet” is set loose in epic fashion in this Broadway classic. Through Jul 7. $22-$35. 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.523.4185.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the next four weeks, you're not likely to win the biggest prize or tame the fiercest monster or wield the greatest power. However, you could very well earn a second- or third-best honor.

I won't be surprised if you claim a decent prize or outsmart a somewhat menacing dragon or gain an interesting new kind of clout. Oddly enough, this lessthan-supreme accomplishment may be exactly right for you. The lower levels of pressure and responsibility will keep you sane and healthy. The stress of your moderate success will be very manageable. So give thanks for this just-right blessing! astrologers believe solar eclipses are sour omens.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What are you doing with the fertility and creativity that have been sweeping through your life during the first six months of 2019? Are you witheringly idealistic, caught up in perfectionistic detail as you cautiously follow outmoded rules about how to make best use of that fertility and creativity? Or are you being expansively pragmatic, wielding your lively imagination to harness that fertility and creativity to generate transformations that will improve your life forever?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Mythologist Joseph Campbell said that heroes are those who give their lives to something bigger than themselves. That's never an easy assignment for anyone, but right now it's less difficult for you than ever before. As you prepare for the joyous ordeal, I urge you to shed the expectation that it will require you to make a burdensome sacrifice.

Instead, picture the process as involving the loss of a small pleasure that paves the way for a greater pleasure. Imagine you will finally be able to give a giant gift you've been bursting to express.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In 1903, the Wright Brothers put wings on a heavy machine and got the contraption to fly up off the ground for 59 seconds.

No one had ever done such a thing. Sixty-six years later, American astronauts succeeded at an equally momentous feat. They piloted a craft that departed from the Earth and landed on the surface of the moon.

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person did a back-flip while riding a motorcycle. If I had to compare your next potential breakthrough to one or the other marvelous invention, I'd say it'll be more metaphorically similar to a motorcycle flip than the moon-landing. It may not be crucial to the evolution of the human race, but it'll be impressive— and a testament to your hard work.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the year 37 AD,

Saul of Tarsus was traveling by foot from Jerusalem to Damascus, Syria. He was on a mission to find and arrest devotees of Jesus, then bring them back to Jerusalem to be punished. Saul's plans got waylaid, however—or so the story goes. A "light from heaven" knocked him down, turned him blind, and spoke to him in the voice of Jesus. Three days later, Saul's blindness was healed and he pledged himself to forevermore be one of those devotees of Jesus he had previously persecuted. I don't expect a transformation quite so spectacular for you in the coming weeks, Scorpio.

But I do suspect you will change your mind about an important issue, and consider making a fundamental edit of your belief system.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You could

be a disorienting or even disruptive influence to some people. You may also have healing and inspirational effects. And yes, both of those statements are true.

You should probably warn your allies that you might be almost unbearably interesting. Let them know you could change their minds and disprove their theories.

But also tell them that if they remain open to your rowdy grace and boisterous poise, you might provide them with curative stimulation they didn't even know they needed.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Some children are repelled by the taste of broccoli. Food researchers at the McDonald's restaurant chain decided to address the problem. In an effort to render this ultra-healthy vegetable more palatable, they concocted a version that tasted like bubble gum. Kids didn't like it, though. It confused them. But you have to give credit to the food researchers for thinking inventively. I encourage you to get equally creative, even a bit wacky or odd, in your efforts to solve a knotty dilemma. Allow your brainstorms to be playful and experimental.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Spank yourself for me, please. Ten sound swats ought to do it.

According to my astrological assessments, that will be sufficient to rein yourself in from the possibility of committing excesses and extravagance. By enacting this humorous yet serious ritual, you will set in motion corrective forces that tweak your unconscious mind in just the right way so as to prevent you from getting too much of a good thing; you will avoid asking for too much or venturing too far. Instead, you will be content with and grateful for the exact bounty you have gathered in recent weeks.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your inspiration

for the coming weeks is a poem by Piscean poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It begins like this: "The holiest of all holidays are those / Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; / The secret anniversaries of the heart, / When the full river of feeling overflows."

In accordance with astrological omens, Pisces, I invite you to create your own secret holiday of the heart, which you will celebrate at this time of year for the rest of your long life. Be imaginative and full of deep feelings as you dream up the marvelous reasons why you will observe this sacred anniversary.

Design special rituals you will perform to rouse your gratitude for the miracle of your destiny.

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