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Unionize!

The UFCW is one of the largest private sector Unions in the whole United States (“Look for the Union . . . Edible,” March 20). We are organizing in all states where cannabis is [legalized]. We must educate the cannabis owner and investors that workers do have

rights to organize and demand better working conditions, to respect workers rights to say or complain without the threat of being discharged or terminated for organizing. . . . This cannabis industry has been asked to do what other employer's have been doing in the state of California— respect workers rights to join a

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union of free choice. UFCW local 5 has contracts with dispensaries.

We had the first members in Oakland and Berkeley in 2012. We are now also looking for employers who wish to sign a labor peace agreement with UFCW Local 5.

Organizing is great!! But union members are not allowed to use it for pain due to degenerative injuries to our bodies. It’s ok to take prescription painkillers but not a natural non-life threatening plant!! Pain is no joke to us hard-working union members.

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Bird’s-Eye View With its rolling green landscape and scenic coastline, counties don't get much more beautiful than Sonoma from a birds-eye view (“Playing Chicken,” March 20).

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ast week the Sonoma County Supervisors added a calendar item to the March 19 agenda that aimed to deal with housing-related fallout from the recent floods in West County. Numerous residents were left homeless in the aftermath. The agenda item called for an emergency outlay of $150,000 to assist displaced flood victims and said the county would draw the money from its 2018–19 budget for shelter programs.

The move came at a time when the county is under fire for how it’s been spending homeless-health-related state grant money following the 2017 wildfires. The Press Democrat reported last week that the county had spent $4.1 million last year in Whole Person Care pilot program funds, but only $450,000 went to directly serve the homeless. An additional $3 million was spent on unspecified administrative costs, while the county housed 230 homeless persons, instead of the 1,500 promised for 2018.

The state Health and Human Services agency warned that if Sonoma didn’t get its act together, it risked losing the 5-year, $25 million grant. That’s the last thing anyone wants. The county’s Behavioral Health division budget barely survived a planned slashing of its budget last year, and the ranks of homeless in Sonoma County, at more than 3,000, put it in the unenviable category of one of the highest homeless populations in the country.

In defending its poor showing with the grant, county officials were quick to point to the 2017 wildfires as the culprit. And things were pretty chaotic there for a minute. The county pledged to take corrective action and told The Press Democrat that they were working diligently to meet the state’s demands.

More and more the county is relying on grants to deal with fiscal fallout from the fires—and to address a horrific local homeless problem that predated the fires and has only gotten worse since. Now it’s using the recent flooding as a pretext to divert funds from shelter programs. It’s starting to feel like late 2017 all over again.

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GROWING PAINS “We have had a huge influx of people from urban areas who don’t understand agriculture and don’t appreciate or respect that they are moving into areas zoned for agriculture.”

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Sonoma County commissioner pushes for emergency moratorium on hemp grows in the county

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onoma County farmers want to cultivate hemp— now legal under federal law—but that won’t happen any time soon, says county agriculture

commissioner Tony Linegar, a fierce advocate for farming and farmers, including those who are growing cannabis now or have yet to receive the necessary permits.

Hemp looks and smells

like cannabis. For some local detractors, it’s just as objectionable as cannabis and ought to be stopped before it takes root here.

“Solving the challenge of how hemp can fit into the agricultural landscape will be a balancing act

with many opposing interests,” Linegar says. “It’s a worthy cause if it creates opportunity for local farmers. Hopefully we can come out of the process with the opportunity intact.”

For the time being, Linegar is pushing the Sonoma County Supervisors to follow the lead of 13 counties around the state that have passed temporary moratoriums on commercial hemp cultivation. Mendocino blocked hemp cultivation in February; Marin adopted its own moratorium in March.

He’s suggesting to the Sonoma supervisors that they do the same at the April 2 meeting.

The passage of the 2018 Farm Bill opened new opportunities to grow a crop in the U.S. that humans have been growing for thousands of years. The history of hemp in America is already well-known: George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew it.

Thomas Paine, who helped jump start the American Revolution, saw hemp growing wild and concluded that it would ensure that Americans would always be free and never under a foreign domination.

As agriculture commissioner, Linegar’s job is to protect, preserve and expand farming and ranching in Sonoma County— where and when that’s possible.

Biodiversity has been one of his mantras over eight years on the job. “Hemp is an amazing plant botanically speaking,” Linegar say, as he extols its many virtues and uses, which includes “the possibility to create new kinds of plastics that would be biodegradable, as well as new building materials like hempcrete.”

Hemp was outlawed by the federal government in 1937—the same year that cannabis was prohibited. Ever since then, the sturdy hemp plant has been found guilty by association. The plant belongs to the cannabis family, but it’s not rich in THC and doesn’t produce intoxicating effects.

“I’ve taken a deep dive into the hemp world,” Linegar says.

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Schoolhouse Rocks Marin State Assemblyman Marc Levine’s got a pretty good idea going this week. He introduced AB 1648 on Tuesday in an effort to streamline the state-mandated environmental review for affordable housing that’s built on local school district surplus properties.

The idea, of course, is to bring teachers and parents closer to the schools they work at or send their kids to. The bill would give authority to school districts to provide housing preference for teachers, who often cannot afford to live where they work in pricey Marin. Levine’s bill takes aim at the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) by requiring approvals of affordable housing projects on school district-owned properties within seven months of the filing of a certified record of the CEQA proceedings with a court. That’s a long way of saying that his bill would limit or eliminate costly lawsuits from neighbors who may disapprove of the affordable housing plan.

In a statement, Levine notes that the same CEQA rule applies to the building of sports stadiums and called on lawmakers to expedite the process for affordable housing, too. Marin Superintendent of Schools Mary Jane Burke’s in favor of the local pols’ latest legislative push as she notes that having affordable-housing options for teachers and staff “will enable our schools to attract and retain a quality workforce,” she says. ”Our students deserve the very best educational opportunities and retaining qualified staff is paramount to making this happen.”

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Dodd notes in a statement that this is how they do it in Oregon, not to mention at the World Bank.

They’ve both used insurance policies to protect taxpayers from financial exposure after a disaster, though it’s unclear when Oregon has faced a big disaster of any kind, besides those freakish neoNazis of Portland. OK, that time Mt. St. Helena blew up, that was pretty bad.

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you can distinguish a field of hemp grown for CBD from a field of cannabis with THC, is to take samples of the female plants from both, bring them to a laboratory and have them tested.”

Commercial hemp under the Farm Bill can’t have more than .3 percent THC content.

For that reason, and despite his overall enthusiasm for the plant, Linegar wants the county to approve an emergency ordinance to enact a moratorium on growing hemp. He’d like to see hemp eventually join the list of crops that are grown and harvested here, in part because the plant would bring diversity to fields and farms. For agriculture to survive in Sonoma, it has to produce products that bring a solid financial return per acre planted.

On that score, hemp blows grapes out of the water. “In Colorado an acre of hemp produced for CBD brings in about $60,000 per acre,” Linegar says. “An acre here of the most highly sought-after grapes might bring in 5 to 6 tons an acre and sell for $5,000 a ton at the high end. You do the math.”

Some financially strapped

Sonoma County farmers are chomping at the bit to start growing hemp: “We have already had numerous inquiries at the Department of Agriculture from conventional farmers who want to grow hemp,” Linegar says.

Nobody’s getting the green light, at least not yet. Hemp presents a major conundrum for the county. “There are pros and cons on all sides,” he says.

Linegar identifies three reasons to put the moratorium on hemp: Sacramento has yet to issue final regulations about hemp cultivation (that’s expected to happen this year). There’s also a loophole in state law allowing for the cultivation of hemp for research purposes without registering with a county agricultural commissioner (or be tested for THC).

“That loophole could be exploited,” Linegar says. “It has been the impetus for most of the county moratoriums in effect in California.”

And third, male hemp plants have the potential to pollinate female cannabis plants. That pollination would produce seeds with diluted THC content, which could make

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smokable cannabis a less valuable cash crop. Hemp pollen can move as far as 30 miles, says Linegar. “In Oregon, the proximity of hemp to cannabis is already a problem. If we have both crops here, hemp farmers growing male plants would have to be at a safe distance from female cannabis plants. We don't want incompatible land use.”

But the biggest issue of all is squaring up the bulky legalization regime so pot growers in Sonoma can participate in the new recreational cannabis economy.

“First and foremost we owe considerations to people who have been diligently pursuing legal status by complying with the rigorous local and state regulations for licensing,” he says. “Having passed an ordinance that allows for cannabis cultivation in late 2016, I believe the county has an obligation to protect [the growers’] interests.”

Linegar would like Sonoma County to wait until Sacramento creates statewide rules and regulations for hemp. He’d like to see the county avoid some of the cannabis controversies that have divided communities following Proposition 64’s passage.

Linegar believes that any rush to regulate locally could find the county scrambling “down the same rabbit hole that it went down with cannabis. Some of the same people in Sonoma County and elsewhere, who have opposed cannabis, would also oppose hemp. For one thing, it would smell. For another, if mistaken for cannabis it could present similar concerns around public safety.”

He adds, ““I understand that cannabis is prohibited in areas zoned Rural Residential and Agriculture Residential. I can accept that, but [other] places that are zoned [for agriculture], have to be maintained and defended for farming and ranching. I draw the line there. The primary use for that land is agricultural, not residential.”

He says cannabis and hemp farmers ought to be able to grow on land that’s zoned by the county as Land Intensive Agriculture, Land Extensive Agriculture and Diverse Agriculture. “We have had a huge influx of people from urban areas who don’t understand agriculture and don’t appreciate or respect that they are moving into areas zoned for agriculture.

We can’t kowtow to them.”

Linegar returns to the subject of CBD, even as he wonders which products the Food and Drug Administration will ultimately approve. But the CBD horse has left the stable. “There are all kinds of CBD products out there already that consumers purchase and use.

Enforcing restraints has been non existent.” Hemp can be cultivated to be high in CBD. A robust embrace of the potential for hemp, he hopes, may well persuade anti-cannabis agonists to reconsider their opposition.

“Unfortunately, there’s guilt by association,” Linegar says. “The way cannabis has been overregulated has the ability to color the way hemp is regulated. That would not be in the best interests of our farmers.”

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TAKING THE CAKE The Round Barn wins for Most Sentimental in 2018.

Cake-Off

Annual contest brings in county’s best pastry chefs to fundraise for the LBC BY AIYANA MOYA

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aking shows have developed into a binge-watching phenomenon (looking at you Great British Baking Show), with mesmerizing scenes of desserts easy for viewers to get lost in.

They also inspire a longing for decadent desserts left thoroughly unfulfilled, despite your best efforts to fill the German chocolate cake-sized void with Trader Joe’s cookies.

This weekend is your chance

to star in your own episode of a bake-off, featuring 17 of Sonoma County’s best pastry chefs.

The Luther Burbank Center is gathering esteemed bakers from the likes of Criminal Baking Co. and Noshery, Costeaux French Bakery, Sift Dessert Bar and more to compete in the annual Art of Dessert event, a sweet night concocted of music, wine, dinner, auctions and, the cherry on top, dessert.

The Art of Dessert began 16 years ago and materialized from the need to fundraise for the center—and the desire to make it fun. Nearly every

Sonoma County resident is familiar with The Luther Burbank Center; the first concert I ever attended was the female singer and guitarist Ani DiFranco at the center. But it’s also much more than the big name concerts it hosts; originally organized in the late ’70s, the foremost intention of the center was to create a space for the community to engage with the arts. “The center is really a community resource,” says LBC CEO Richard Nowlin. “People often think of us as a big stage, but we also have these really rich, robust programs serving 40,000 children each year.”

These programs take the shape

of school performances to support school’s curriculum, free summer camps for working parents, free or subsidized tickets to performances for students and low-income families, and teacher trainings so teachers have the opportunity to learn techniques for teaching the arts. “We like to help teachers use the arts to really bring subject matter to life.

Kids learn in a lot of different ways,” says Nowlin. The center also makes a conscious effort to include culturally diverse programs, like the children’s Mariachi ensemble, who will be playing at the Art of Dessert event.

“There was a group of kids interested in Mariachi and wanted to learn even more, so we formed this Mariachi ensemble. Some of the most talented student musicians will be performing this year,” Nowlin says.

In addition to Mariachi music adding a spicy twist to the evening, a panel of celebrity chefs will judge the desserts and determine the winners.

The chefs will be eating at tables with the guests and offering insight into the desserts. One of the panel chefs is Healdsburg’s Dustin Valette of the restaurant Valette, who will be bringing his culinary expertise along with “a big ol’ gut and a love of food.”

Valette started cooking when he was 15, and followed his passion from Geyserville to New York to Hawaii to Europe and back again, incorporating what he’d learned from each place back in Sonoma County.

I will be judging the food based on which dish has the most passion . . . it is about showcasing craft, showing what drives that person. Because for me, the term ‘best’ is very hard. When I think about the ‘best food,’ it’s what gets me the most excited to take the next bite,” Valette says.

In past years contestants have shown great innovation, presenting desserts in all shapes and sizes. “We have seen cakes as shoes, guitars, purses, wine bottles—they get very creative,” says Nowlin. There will be different desserts featured at each table, so if you are perusing and spot a dessert that looks intriguing, you might have to engage in some good old-fashioned wrangling.

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At the first of two dinners, I tasted an irresistible first course of scallops and a main dish of sea bass that set the stage for the guest of honor’s barrel-fermented sauvignon blanc, aka liquid white diamonds.

Before the second dinner, a group of oenophiles sipped a vertical flight of pinot noirs in a transformed cattle auction site at the resort’s Hereford Pen. It was in this barn where Edwards led us through her history of winemaking from 2009 to 2014 and spoke of challenges like “grape sunburn” and the evolution of taste as wines age.

That was almost two years ago, when she shared her dream of being featured on the cover of Wine Spectator Magazine.

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I know this because when we departed Montana, we spent the better part of a two-hour layover in Seattle, where I listened to her story, beginning with why she is so fascinated with pinot noir.

“When I went to UC Davis in the ’70s, nobody talked about pinot in America,” she said. “Everybody was all about tasting Bordeaux. That’s all you tasted in this school . . . people like cabernet, merlot—Bordeaux because they’re big and hit you in the face. They’re not sophisticated like pinot noir or like Burgundy.”

She continued, “Imagine me at [age] 26, arriving at Mt. Eden, a tiny winery in the hills above San Jose. They had a 25-year-old pinot noir vineyard and happened to have this unknown clone of pinot I later took to the university (UC Davis) for cleanup. Now we had our own clone 37. Phenomenal.

It was pure luck I wound up there. I had pinot and an old vineyard already. And I had cabernet, merlot and chardonnay.

But I was so fascinated by the pinot. I love this wine; I fell in love.”

loved ones, including her husband Ken and her late son, Warren.

10 things you probably didn’t know about Merry Edwards

9. She uses watch glasses to cover Riedel glassware to contain the aromas during a tasting, and she does not believe in outdoor tasting rooms because the aromas go into the atmosphere.

1. She was born in Boston, Mass., in Newton Highlands. Her father attended school at MIT and during the war performed research (he was diabetic). By the time she turned five, the family moved to Michigan.

It wasn’t until Edwards was 13 that the family moved to California.

2. She believes each of her vineyards creates a personality from its location and soil. She says, “Depending on what rootstocks and clones I choose, that creates a unique profile, and in my mind it becomes part of my family.” She has an emotional connection to her vineyards, so much so that she named them after herself and her

3. Edwards’ primary fan base comprises sommeliers of the country, who she believes have totally different palates from wine reviewers. Of the sommeliers, she says, “They’re the ones who guide the restaurants, and where I formed my first partnership.”

4. Each year, Edwards opens 10 vintages. Whichever ones are performing well are what she’ll release to her club members. She can do this because she keeps 10 cases of every single-vineyard wine so she can put together a collection of six and release 126 packs.

5. She has never had the inclination to produce merlot, which she considers a difficult varietal.

6. She once wrote the introduction to one of Karen McNeil’s wine books.

7. If she weren’t a winemaker, she wanted to be a veterinarian.

8. She considers sauvignon blanc one of the two great white wines of the world. She says, “A lot of guys who don’t like white wine in general like my sauvignon blanc because it’s got body. You can feel it in your mouth.”

10. Edwards has never tried to emulate French wines and considers herself California-centric. “I am not really a fan of Burgundy,” she says.

“I’m totally California oriented. I’m a complete American. I don’t emulate the French. I don’t look to the French for guidance … I’m not about copying anybody. A lot of winemakers thought they had to follow the French, and if your wine didn’t taste like a Burgundy then you had no place, your wine wasn’t valid. That’s crazy.

We don’t have the same conditions as the French. You follow your own heart, your own terroir. Make the wine from your heart and don’t worry about what anyone else is doing.”

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hen 3 Disciples opened their Santa Rosa taproom in the midst of SF Beer Week and the Pliny release this February, after brewing for two years in quiet, rural seclusion in Sebastopol, they quickly learned that the holy trinity for craft brew fans is the I, the P, and the A. The “disciples” theme is a fun homage to the brewing traditions of Trappist monks, says head brewer James Claus, who founded the brewery with friends Matthew Penpraze and Luke Melo. Claus fell in love with the Belgian “abbey” beers at the source, while backpacking in 2005. “And I like that they’re not for everyone,” says

Claus, who joined the Sonoma Beerocrats homebrewing club and was a disciple of the late Byron Burch, founder of The Beverage People fermentation supply.

The style was developed by monks who for centuries lived nominally ascetic, monastic lives of prayer, contemplation and work—much of that work being brewing strong beer, and not a little contemplation probably following drinking said beer.

3 Disciples began their measured commercial rollout in 2016 with a sort of farm-to-kettle brewery on property with a small hop yard and a lemon tree that provides zest to the light, estery saison-style Sleight of Hand. The brewery won four top awards at the 2018 Battle of the Brews for their European-inspired Zet Magic and barrel-aged Lunar Halo, but when they finally opened the doors to their taproom, in the remodeled former Chrome Lotus nightclub, thirsty pilgrims promptly drained the place of their IPAs, which they scrambled to resupply.

The space behind the bar goes on for days, and Claus hopes to fill it throughout the week with live music, pub trivia and community events. Coming up: a fundraiser for flood-affected Crooked Goat.

The house style here is pronounced, with malty character at a minimum. Even the “American tripel” Solar Halo is deceptively light, with hints of white raisin; and the bright, citrusy IPA slate culminates in the Pulp Fission juicy DIPA, a wallop of Meyer lemon and Mandarin orange that’s accomplished with hops and brewing style. My growler choice: the floral, hop-forward Alpha Gypsy double IPA. There are no in-betweener ambers here, but directly to the dark stuff—Claus’ other obsession is stouts and porters.

Kona Mocha is brewed with Kona coffee and vanilla, but gets a hint of chocolate from Kiawe pods. Heavy on black patent malt, the roasty Lunar Halo is an amped-up imperial Irish stout, and surely rewards further study and contemplation.

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With the ‘Resisterhood’ Sonoma County’s immigrant house cleaners swept out of the closet BY JONAH RASKIN

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aria Colvin is a native of Mexico and an immigrant to the U.S. who has moved back and forth across the border between the two countries for years. Over that time she has lived and worked as a house cleaner, near the bottom of a social ladder where 40 million Americans are often caught in a never-ending cycle of poverty.

A slender woman, Colvin looks fragile but has deep reserves of strength. She’s still near the bottom of the wage-slave abyss but she’s not alone in her struggle.

She’s with the “Resisterhood,” a nationwide movement made up largely of Latinos who are fighting back against deportations and exploitation on the job—not to

mention all the other injustices that characterize the Latino immigrant experience in America these days.

Colvin says the key to her awakening into activism was unearthing her pain and suffering, telling her story to empathetic listeners and forgiving herself for not knowing what to do when she felt trapped.

workers in Sonoma County make between $17,000 and $25,000 a year.

“That’s nowhere near a living wage,” she says.

The Graton center is home to the Alianza Laboral de Mujeres Activas y Solidarias (ALMAS), a new organizing project for domestic workers. The organization is less a union than an alliance of politically active women.

“We do the work that makes all other work possible, and relaxation, too, so people can come home and not have to clean and wash,” says ALMAS leader Socorro Diaz. “I tell women they have rights, that they shouldn’t hide and don’t be afraid to work hard and live life the way you want it. If you need help I will show you how to be a professional house cleaner.”

It’s hard to imagine a house cleaner and domestic worker with more pride, self-confidence and inner beauty than Diaz, though those traits didn’t come easily. She acquired them through struggle and solidarity with other women.

Diaz, who is married with three children, has worked as a house cleaner and a nanny for 14 years.

She’s been sexually harassed, she says, and one boss tried to intimidate her into working overtime without pay. Employers could discriminate against her because she was an immigrant, a woman and also simply because she was a domestic worker. The Trump administration’s attacks on immigrants, she says, shocked her, inhibited her, and made her feel more afraid.

Finally, it was all too much.

She went to the GDLC, attended workshops, and educated herself about her basic rights as a woman, a worker and as a human being.

“I found out my rights to my lunch break, my meal and to be paid overtime if and when I worked more than eight hours,” she says. “Now I know my rights as an immigrant worker and I feel safer knowing I’m supported by the law.” She adds, “I want our work to be valued as an important pillar for the health, well-being and peace of all households and families in this country.” ) 20

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“I cleaned house for a family every day,“ she says though an interpreter, as we all sit in the sun in front of the Arlene Francis Center in Santa Rosa, where domestic workers often meet.

“I cooked, I cared for a baby, and sometimes I was not paid.

Finally, after talking with a cousin I realized that I was a victim of manipulation and the bad environment in the house where I lived and worked.”

She looks up from the paper that has her story, and adds, “I am speaking today, despite my shyness, despite my insecurity and my trauma because I have learned that there are thousands of women like me in California who don’t speak English, don’t know their rights and are afraid to sue the people who exploited them.”

According to Christy Lubin, director at the Graton Day Labor Center (GDLC), house cleaners are often overworked, underpaid and often at risk when using toxic chemicals to scrub tubs, sinks and toilets, and clean in places many don’t want to go. In Sonoma County they have rallied under the banner of “the Resisterhood,” and they’re backed by the Graton Day Labor Center (GDLC), which has helped improve the lot of house cleaners as well as field workers since it was founded more than 15 years ago.

Domestic workers in Sonoma County have emerged from behind closed doors over the past decade, more than ever before.

They are speaking in public about their own lives and the conditions under which they labor.

Legislation has helped. In 2013, State Assemblyman Tom Ammiano championed the California Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. Three years later, in 2016, the California Domestic Worker Coalition (CDWC) and members of ALMAS celebrated former Gov. Jerry Brown’s signing of a Bill of Rights, which gave permanent overtime protections to domestic workers—though not wage guarantees. Immigrant domestic workers earn close to minimum wage without basic labor protections that many take for granted. Lubin says domestic

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Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, which portrays the life of a domestic worker in Mexico (and won an Oscar for best director at the 2019 Academy Awards), has served to inspire house cleaners and nannies like Diaz who live and work in Sonoma County. “Roma tells our story,” she says. “We’re expected to move about the houses we clean without making a sound and without being seen.”

And if the house cleaner dares to speak up? Not long ago, Diaz explained to an employer that she was bringing her children from Mexico to the U.S. and couldn’t work the same number of hours she had been working as a nanny and house cleaner. She was told, “That’s unacceptable.” In her case

and in many others, there’s little if any room to negotiate with employers.

Domestic work in the U.S. is never-ending. There’s always another load of laundry to wash, dry and fold, a carpet to vacuum, a floor to sweep. The workday often runs to twelve hours, especially when domestic workers double as nannies. Children have to be put to bed and roused the next morning, then clothed, fed and sent off to school. Domestic workers are also employed as caregivers and personal assistants; sometimes they perform three jobs for the same family in the same house.

In Sonoma County, the ranks of immigrant house cleaners have

21 breaks, or overtime pay after eight hours of work.” Industry analysts estimate that nationwide, wage theft adds up to $105 billion in unpaid labor per year.

Sonoma County ALMAS leaders have launched a Fair Work/Clean Homes campaign, which aims to educate house cleaners about their rights. The campaign also supports the workers when they have been the victims of wage theft. Another goal is to educate employers and to identify the “bad actors” who are, in some cases, other domestic workers who hire women to work with them, pay below minimum wage and when they work more than eight hours a day, don’t pay overtime.

“We’re not a union,” Lubin says.

“But we’re like a union in that our goal is for house cleaners to set the wages and conditions for the work they do.”

Maria Colvin is older than most of the domestic workers in Sonoma County, but her age doesn’t prevent her from doing a hard day’s work. As a spokesperson for the CDWC, Colvin calls for basic rights “so that other women won’t have to face the exploitation and abuse I experienced as a housekeeper and nanny.

“I worked in hotels and restaurants in Mexico before I came to the United States,” she adds. “That experience helped me find a job here. When my husband died suddenly, I lost my home and didn’t have a way to support myself. I found a live-in job with a family. I spoke no English. I didn’t know I had rights. I thought that the people who hired me were doing me a favor by giving me this job. I worked five days a week from 8am until 8pm. I slept in the same room as the two little children I cared for. I was paid $120 a week. That’s $2 an hour.”

Diaz adds, “The difference between my life and the lives of the people I work for is unbelievable. I want enough; they have everything. They travel, eat in expensive restaurants, buy new cars and fancy shoes.”

Colvin nods and says, “We live in two different worlds.”

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grown sharply as demographics have changed. With older and more affluent folks and a soaring tourist industry, the demand for domestic workers has intensified.

“Jobs are especially hard with vacation rentals in private homes,” says a Latina woman who does a lot of cleaning of homes rented on Airbnb. “Guests are always going and coming, which means there’s a small window of opportunity to clean, and so everything is speeded up. I recently had to ready a place for 30 guests.”

While not all immigrant domestic workers are undocumented, many are. And many have homes, husbands and children of their own.

Some have left children behind with family members in their home countries, and send monthly remittances to cover their expenses.

In the local Resisterhood, the women age 20 to 50 and come from Guadalajara, Mexico City, Tijuana and other cities in Mexico and Central America.

Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of Nickel and Dimed, has written that many domestic workers in the U.S. toil under conditions “indistinguishable from slavery,” where “affluent employers live in intimate dependency on people who are poorer than themselves.”

Progressive-leaning lawmakers are taking note. U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Kamala Harris recently introduced a Federal Domestic Workers Bill of Rights that would embrace the rights that house cleaners already enjoy in California and in seven other states.

The legislation would create a retirement savings plan funded by employers. It would offer workers affordable health insurance and create training and development programs. It would also create a commission that would police the industry and make sure that employers complied with the rules.

All this is long overdue, says the GDLC’s Lubi. She says domestic workers in Sonoma County often work “without contracts, either written or oral, and without

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In Happy Hour!—the new interactive theater experience from contemporary dance group Monica Bill Barnes & Company—you are part of an office party that descends into chaos. As you enjoy libations and munchies, two company men (played by women) infiltrate the party, high-five too much, hit on the ladies too hard and eventually go too far in their quest to have a good time. It’s uproariously entertaining and it’s happening on Thursday, March 28, at the Loft at Weill Hall, Green Music Center, 1801 E. Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park.

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It’s nearly April in the North Bay, and in the Napa Valley that means it’s almost time for the annual Arts in April extravaganza, hosted by Arts Council Napa Valley. The event runs through the month and begins on March 29, when the Plein Air Paint Out competition commences in Calistoga. Local artists who prefer to paint outdoors are invited to sign up to create a new original plein air painting in 36 hours somewhere in the Valley. March 29–31. Entries will be shown at Calistoga Arts Center, 1435 N. Oak St., Calistoga. Entry Fee is $45. 707.942.2278.

British-American director and documentary cinematographer Sophie Dia Pegrum has traveled the world to make her socially conscious films. In the Himalayas, the filmmaker found particular inspiration in the young women of a remote western Nepalese village who challenged the traditional customs of their community in search of equality. The film ‘Daughters of the Curved Moon’ screens this week in Sonoma County, with Dia Pegrum in attendance to discuss the project and others like it on Friday, March 29, at Arlene Francis Center, 99 Sixth St., Santa Rosa. 6pm. Donations welcome.

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It’s famous for vineyards, wineries and a fertile abundance of charm, but under the rich soil of Napa Valley lies a past filled with nefarious characters and long-forgotten heroes. Good thing Naparaised librarian and author Alexandria Brown has a good memory, because she’s compiled one of the most interesting and entertaining accounts of the region in her book, ‘Hidden History of Napa Valley.’ Hear Brown talk about Napa’s first Chinatown, most famous brothel owner and other affairs when she reads from the book on Wednesday, April 3, at the Napa Main Library, 580 Coombs St., Napa. 7pm.

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TWO OF A KIND Jim Agius and Tom Gaffey look good on canvas and on camera when they host ‘Onstage with Jim & Tom.’

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‘Onstage with Jim & Tom’ marks five years of podcasting from the Phoenix Theater BY CHARLIE SWANSON

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n its hundred-plus-year history, the stage of Petaluma’s Phoenix Theater has seen it all, from opera to vaudeville, to movies and rock concerts.

The stage of the venue and de facto community center is also the home of the “Onstage with Jim & Tom” video podcast, in which Phoenix Theater manager Tom Gaffey and concert bookerturned-board member Jim Agius invite local bands onstage for performances and interviews.

Usually, these events are recorded without an audience— until now. This weekend, “Onstage with Jim & Tom” celebrates its fifth anniversary with a live episode featuring Gaffey and Agius sharing stories about the venue and Petaluma for the crowd on Saturday, March 30.

“The event is special in that it won’t really reflect what the episodes are like now,” says Agius.

“It’s going to be very similar to how the show started.”

Five years ago, “Onstage with Jim & Tom” was born out of

Gaffey’s immeasurable wealth of knowledge of the theater and Petaluma’s history, as well as his personal stories about running the Phoenix since the 1980s.

“If you know him, you’ve heard these stories a hundred times,” says Agius of Gaffey. “But if you haven’t, it’s a real treat. The event is basically a greatest hits of Tom’s stories.”

Since first booking shows at the Phoenix in 2006, Agius has bonded with Gaffey over shared values, and the two hosts’ rapport on the show shines through.

“It’s funny that Tom does the show at all; he hates listening to himself being recorded,” laughs Agius.

“I have no idea how the finished product ends up—I can’t listen to myself,” says Gaffey. “I’m in it for the experience itself. It’s basically another aspect of what we do at the Phoenix, bringing all this young talent on and letting them play.

That’s the really cool stuff for me.”

The podcast itself has evolved significantly, adding cameras to the originally audio-only format and including a wide swath of Bay Area bands and musicians in its interview and performance segments.

“It’s amazing how far we can get these bands to go in depth with their music and their material,” says Gaffey. “As far as posterity goes, it’ll be an incredible thing to have, a history of the Bay Area music scene.”

The upcoming live event, reportedly set to conclude with Gaffey leading a “Bohemian Rhapsody” sing-along, is also acting as a fundraiser for the Phoenix Theater, which is raising money for a sprinkler system that the city of Petaluma ordered to be installed. Having just completed construction on a new roof, and with century-old plumbing causing delays and increased costs, the theater’s needs for funds is at an all-time high.

“The Phoenix is extremely unique,” says Agius. “Having the space for people to not only express themselves, but also to congregate and meet like-minded individuals is incredibly important, and I think the world would be a better place if every town had a place like the Phoenix Theater.”

‘Onstage with Jim & Tom’ live anniversary spectacular takes place Saturday, March 30, at the Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington St., Petaluma. 8pm. $10. onstagepodcast.com.

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JUST DESSERTS Marie Antoinette (Lydia Revelos) wants to clear the air about that cake comment in ‘The Revolutionists.’

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hat’s so meta” is a phrase you hear bandied about a lot these days. It’s usually used to describe a reference by someone about themselves.

Metatheatre is a style of play that acknowledges it is a play within a play—actors are aware of the audience and may interact with them or acknowledge they’re actors and not the characters they play, or they’ll reference props, sets, location, etc.

Playwright Lauren Gundersen takes metatheatre to the extreme with The Revolutionists, her story of a French playwright’s attempt to write an “important” play about the French

‘The Revolutionists' runs through April 7 at the 6th Street Playhouse Studio Theatre, 52 W. Sixth St., Santa Rosa. Thursday–Saturday, 7:30pm; Saturday–Sunday, 2pm. $18–$28.

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The play opens with Olympe de Gouges (Tara Howley Hudson) headed for the guillotine until she realizes that’s no way to start a comedy. As de Gouges struggles with writer’s block, she’s visited

by Marianne Angelle (Serena Elize Flores)—the only fictional character in the play—a Caribbean revolutionary seeking independence for her island and an end to the slave trade. She needs de Gouges’s help writing pamphlets and declarations.

A bellowing at the door heralds the arrival of Charlotte Corday (Chandler Parrott-Thomas), soonto-be-assassin of Jean-Paul Marat.

She’s looking for a memorable last line to utter after the deed.

Marie Antoinette (Lydia Revelos) soon joins them and insists she did not say that thing she’s been accused of saying, and just needs better press.

Before meeting their fates, these four badasses challenge each other’s place in history and the role of the artist in the world. One remains to tell their stories.

Director Lennie Dean has an excellent cast at work here.

Hudson is solid as the insecure playwright struggling to find the right words for everything. Flores communicates as much with a look as she does with a page of dialogue.

Parrott-Thomas keeps her slightly unhinged character just this side of insane. Revelos takes the cake as Marie Antoinette, managing to be both touching and hilarious. It’s a breakout performance.

The Revolutionists has clever characters, great performances, and effective design work that are too-often overwhelmed by Gunderson’s need to wrap it all up in a meta-theatrical cloak, a device that diminishes some interesting points about women in history and the arts. The play would be better if she had used a metaphysical guillotine and cut a lot of it out.

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reak out your decoder rings; the flawed but intriguing Us’s political subtleness is hidden by its straightforward terror.

Among other things, Jordan Peele’s follow up to Get Out breaks a long drought. Santa Cruz, with its deep cold bay and hoodooed mountains, ought to be California’s Transylvania. But there hasn’t been a good movie made there since Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988).

Now the curse is lifted, even if much of Us is shot at a lake in the San Bernardino Mountains.

There’s a strange ride at the boardwalk that most visitors fail to notice. In 1986, young Adelaide slips away from her family and wanders into ”The Shaman’s Cave.”

Passing an old derelict holding up a cardboard sign with a particularly vicious Bible verse (”Jeremiah 11:11”), she enters. An electric owl calls her name. Amid the hall of mirrors, her identical double awaits.

Somehow she survived. In our present, she (Lupita Nyong’o) is a calm, pretty mom married to a living dad-joke, Gabe Wilson (Winston Duke, of Black Panther). Two kids: one a monkey-mask-loving naughty little boy Jason (Evan Alex), the

elder, a disdainful daughter Zora (Shahadi Wright Joseph). They are as tight as the quartet of stick figures on the back window of their SUV. The ”Shaman’s Cave” is still on the beach 30 years later, with a new paint job. It’s Arthurian now instead of Native American. The doorway beckons young Jason.

That night, as the Wilsons go to bed, the power goes off. Standing in the driveway are four figures in red jumpsuits, smiling maliciously, armed with long sharp scissors.

Jason’s monkeyish double is crouched on all fours. On his face is what the burn-ward doctors call a “TFO mask”—so you’ll know what to ask for next Halloween. At some cost, the family gives their captors the slip. But they’re not the only ones visited tonight.

Home invasion terror isn’t always elegant, but it’s always effective.

Peele is a genial shocker: Comic relief arrives in between the nevertoo-horrible mayhem.

The film’s suggestiveness is in the title, which could be misread ”U.S.”; what will be the fate of a society divided between influencers and the influenced? Deeper analysis of Us will be deserved.

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KING OF THE WEIRD Longtime Sonoma County resident and cult songwriter John Trubee takes the stage this weekend in Cotati.

Rock ’n’ Roll Excesses John Trubee emerges for rare local concert

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fter making shock waves in the underground music scenes of his home state of New Jersey and then Los Angeles, cult icon John Trubee moved to Sonoma County some 20 years ago.

Yet, the songwriter far too seldom performs in his backyard, preferring to keep his longtime band, John Trubee & the Ugly Janitors of America, a recording project.

That project got a major shot in the arm in 2015 with the release of two Ugly Janitors records. Now Trubee returns with two new 180gram, translucent virgin vinyl

LP releases for 2019, Salivary Excesses from the Kapok Embryo

by John Trubee & the Ugly Janitors of America, and Ever Have I Crawled ’Neath X-Ray Suns, by his revived high school band Gloop Nox & the Stik People.

What’s more, Trubee shares these tunes live onstage in a rare full band headlining appearance on Saturday, March 30, at Spancky’s in Cotati.

If you’ve not heard the name John Trubee, it may be because of his near-total rejection of selfpromotion. “Here’s the thing that I think about, everybody loves music and it’s such a joy to make,” he says. “But when I think about music it doesn’t make sense the importance we attach to it. For example, you’re interviewing me to place this information about me in the newspaper. Now, I consider people who do contracting and put up drywall important because they built the house I live in, whereas the music I make is just vibrations in the air. But you don’t usually write articles about guys who are hanging drywall. ” For the people (like this reporter) who do value Trubee’s spacey psychedelic music and left-of-center pop sensibility, he offers both his most relatable material and his most cosmic conceptions on Salivary Excesses.

One side of the record features four largely upbeat songs with titles like “Highway 99” and “Bright New Day” that reflect Trubee’s whimsical take on classic rock, while the other side consists of “Beyond Infinity’s Vortex,” one 18-minute track of electronic effects that Trubee calls “pure audio Hell,” with a laugh.

“It’s not going to be everyone’s cup of tea,” he adds. “But, I’m almost making the records for myself. I just want them out there.

I call it my quest of perverse defiance. I’m making records regardless of what the feedback is or the reaction is. I just enjoy doing it so much.”

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Calendar Concerts SONOMA April Foolery

Fifth annual benefit concert for SoCo Dance Beat features Levi Lloyd and friends and the Rhythm Rangers. Mar 31, 5pm. $12-$15. Redwood Cafe, 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.795.7868.

Arlo Guthrie

Folk icon performs the 50th anniversary tour of his breakout album, “Alice’s Restaurant,” with Sarah Lee Guthrie. Mar 28, 8pm. $39-$55.

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

John Trubee & the Ugly Janitors of America

Underground rock legend and longtime Sonoma County resident plays a rare local show with support from Set in Stone and Immortallica. Mar 30, 8pm. by donation. Spancky’s Bar, 8201 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.664.0169.

MARIN Dumpstaphunk

New Orleans funk group plays two nights, including a Sunday tribute to the Isley Brothers and Sly & the Family Stone. Mar 3031. $28-$34. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.3850.

Sean Hayes

Beloved San Francisco singer-songwriter returns to the Grate Room for another round of soulful folk-rock.

Mar 30, 8pm. $25. Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael, 415.524.2773.

Steve Gaddis Benefit

Jeremy D’Antonio, Daniel McLaughlin, Danny Montana and others perform to support well-known Marin County golf pro undergoing treatment for lymphoma. Mar 31, 5pm.

Papermill Creek Saloon, 1 Castro, Forest Knolls, 415.488.9235.

NAPA The Billie Holiday Project

Celebrate “Lady Day” with vocalist Stella Heath and

several Bay Area jazz musicians performing Holiday’s music. Apr 3, 6:30 and 8:30pm. $12 and up. Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.880.2300.

Clubs & Venues SONOMA 3 Disciples Brewing Taproom

Mar 30, Rhythm Drivers. 501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.978.2459.

Aqus Cafe

Mar 28, Kyle Craft. Mar 29, Katy Boyd. Mar 30, Matt Herrero. Mar 31, 2pm, Alan Early. 189 H St, Petaluma, 707.778.6060.

Congregation Ner Shalom’s New Cotati Cabaret

Mar 30, Raphael Trio. 85 La Plaza, Cotati, 707.664.8622.

Coyote Sonoma

Mar 29, Timothy O’Neil Band.

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Elephant in the Room

Mar 29, the Pine Hearts.

Mar 30, Sunny & the Black Pack. Mar 31, Awesome Hotcakes. 177-A Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, elephantintheroompub.com.

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Mar 31, 3pm, Delphi Trio.

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Mar 29, Sam Smetana. Mar 30, Aki Kumar and Jon Lawton Duo. 691 Broadway, Sonoma, 707.935.9100.

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Mar 30, 6:30pm, classic jazz with Kevin Fitzsimmons and friends. 25 Matheson St, Healdsburg, 707.431.2800.

Lagunitas Tap Room

Mar 28, Z & the Benders.

Mar 29, Them Coulee Boys.

Mar 30, Elima. Mar 31, Thrown Out Bones. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma, 707.778.8776.

Luther Burbank Center for the Arts

Mar 27, Dustbowl Revival.

Mar 29, 10am, A Trip Down Memory Lane sing-along. Mar 29, 8pm, Kip Moore. 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.546.3600.

Murphy’s Irish Pub & Restaurant Mar 29, Ragtag Sullivan.

Mar 30, Mark Larson Band.

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Mystic Theatre & Music Hall

Mar 29, Mustache Harbor.

Mar 30, Ryan Bingham with the Americans.

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Northwest Regional Library

Mar 30, 2pm, Ancient Future World Without Walls Trio with Matthew Montfort. 150 Coddingtown Center, Santa Rosa, 707.546.2265.

Red Brick

Mar 29, Dirty Red Barn. Mar 30, Funksway. Mar 31, 12pm, Joe Kelner Trio. 101 Second St, Petaluma, 707.765.4567.

Redwood Cafe

Mar 28, Soulshine Blues Band. Mar 29, Soul Fuse.

Mar 30, Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers. Apr 1, the Blues Defenders pro jam. Apr 2, Rock Overtime student performance. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.795.7868.

The Reel Fish Shop & Grill

Mar 29, Road Eleven. Mar 30, Long Story Short. 401 Grove St, Sonoma, 707.343.0044.

The Star

Mar 30, Living in the 90s with Lucky Ol’ Bones.

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Mar 30, Thrown-Out Bones.

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Mar 31, 2pm, Benefit Concert for Cascade Canyon School with Jai Uttal. 503 B St, Pt Reyes Station, 415.663.1075.

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Mar 27, Timothy O’Neil Band.

527 Fourth St, Santa Rosa, 707.636.0240.

Twin Oaks Roadhouse Mar 29, Bloomfield Bluegrass Band. Mar 30, Train Wreck Junction. 5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove, 707.795.5118.

Whiskey Tip Mar 28, Edgy Open Mic with Star Blue. Mar 29, Fog Holler.

Mar 30, Slacker.

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Mar 30, Illeagles. Mar 31, Troy Fernandez. 224 Vintage Way, Novato, 415.892.6200.

Sweetwater Music Hall Mar 27, Zenith Sunn featuring Eric Lindell and Anson Funderburgh. Mar 28, Grateful Bluegrass Boys and Painted Mandolin. Mar 29, Wonder Bread 5. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.3850.

Terrapin Crossroads Mar 27, FeatPrints. Mar 28, San Geronimo. Mar

29, “Talking Heads Top 40 Friday” with Stu Allen and friends. Mar 30, Money: a tribute to Pink Floyd. Mar 31, Grahame Lesh and friends.

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Space Eggs – The Visitation by Jim Spitzer, 1986

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Mar 27, Jetblacq. Mar 28, Scott Mulvahill. Mar 29-31, Anuhea. Apr 2, locals night with the Shotz. 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.880.2300.

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Mar 29, Analog Us. Mar 30, Noema. 1141 First St, Napa, 707.224.6664.

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Art Opening NAPA Calistoga Art Center

Mar 29-31, “Plein Air Paint Out,” public can participate in painting competition, exhibit and sale. Reception, Mar 31 at noon. 1435 North Oak St, Calistoga. 707.942.2278.

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Mar 31, 7:30pm. $10. Arlene Francis Center, 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.528.3009.

Will Durst

Veteran satirist presents Durst Case Scenario: And They’re Off! to mark two years of Trump. Mar 31, 4pm. $19-$24. Occidental Center for the Arts, 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental, 707.874.9392.

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Events Educational Orchid Exposition & Sale

Weekend full of fun, education and beautiful blooming orchids to admire, photograph and purchase.

Mar 30-31, 10am. $8.

Veterans Memorial Building, 1351 Maple Ave, Santa Rosa, sonomaorchids.com.

“Onstage with Jim & Tom” Live

Podcast featuring musical interviews and performances recorded at the Phoenix Theater celebrates a fiveyear anniversary with a live event that raises funds for the theater. Mar 30, 8pm.

$10. The Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington St, Petaluma, 707.762.3565.

Phoenix Pro Wrestling

Several rousing bouts of family-friendly action commences in the ring. Mar 29, 8pm. $2-$10. The Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington St, Petaluma, 707.762.3565.

Quilt Show

Eighth annual event features over 200 quilts on display, guest speakers, wine tasting, raffles and more. Mar 30, 9am. $5. Healdsburg Senior Living Community, 725 Grove St, Healdsburg, 707.433.4877.

Take Me Home Vintage & Collectibles Sale Browse items from around the world, on sale at affordable prices to benefit SRJC’s museum. Apr 3-6.

Jesse Peter Multicultural Museum, SRJC, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, museum.santarosa.edu.

Field Trips Plants of the Redwood Forest Learn how to identify plants growing in the shadows of the world’s tallest trees.

Mar 29, 10am. Armstrong Redwoods Visitor Center, 17000 Armstrong Woods Rd, Guerneville, 707-869-2958.

Spring Wildflower Walk

Guided walk shows you how to identify local plants and talks about their traditional uses. Mar 30, 10am. $10.

Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, 2605 Adobe Canyon Rd, Kenwood, 707.833.5712.

Wragg Ridge Hike

Guided hike of scenic ridge top via a mostly graded road includes mountain and lake views. Space is limited, preregistration required. Mar 31.

Land Trust of Napa County, 1700 Soscol Ave #20, Napa, 707.252.3270.

Midnight Cowboy

Oscar-winning drama starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman gets a 50th anniversary screening. Fri, Mar 29, 7pm and Sun, Mar 31, 4:30pm. Sonoma Film Institute, Warren Auditorium, SSU, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 707.664.2606.

Petaluma Cinema Series

Petaluma Film Alliance screens David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive” with post-show discussion. Apr 3, 6pm. $5-$6. Carole L Ellis Auditorium, 680 Sonoma Mountain Pkwy, Petaluma, petalumafilmalliance.org.

Sonoma International Film Festival

Screenings and special events take over the Sonoma Plaza with over 90 films presented in five days. Mar 27-31. Sebastiani Theatre, 476 First St E, Sonoma, sonomafilmfest.org.

Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival

Eleventh annual fest brings the best independent documentary films in the world, and their filmmakers, to Sonoma County. Mar 2831. $15 and up. Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S High St, Sebastopol, sebastopolfilmfestival.org.

Food & Drink The Art of Dessert

Pastry artists from North Bay bakeries, restaurants and catering companies participate annual confection competition that raises funds for the Luther Burbank Memorial Foundation. Mar 30, 5:30pm. $250. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.546.3600.

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Mar 30, 6pm. $175. CIA at Greystone, 2555 Main St, St Helena, 707.967.2320.

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Documentary about living in Nepal screens with filmmaker Q&A. Mar 29, 6pm. Arlene Francis Center, 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.528.3009.

Indulge in critically acclaimed Cabernet Sauvignon wines paired with bites from chef Alex Lovick in intimate setting. Space is limited;

Save the Birds

Enjoy wines and bites and raise money for Sonoma County Bird Rescue Center.

Mar 30, 12pm. Free admission.

Peterson Winery, 4791 Dry Creek Rd, Bldg 7, Healdsburg, 707.431.7568.

Us vs Them Cheese Tasting

Food writer Janet Fletcher leads a tasting of US chesses against their European counterparts, side-by-side.

Apr 2, 5:30pm. $80. Kitchen Collective, 1650 Soscol Ave, Napa, 707.690.9381.

For Kids Future Firefighters Day

Safety fair lets children meet firefighters, see a fire truck up close, learn about emergency situations and play. Mar 30, 10am. Free with admission.

Children’s Museum of Sonoma County, 1835 W Steele Lane, Santa Rosa, 707.546.4069.

Read to a Dog

For all ages. Sat, Mar 30, 1pm. Guerneville Library, 14107 Armstrong Woods Rd, Guerneville, 707.869.9004.

Lectures Crazy Love: The Romances of the Great Composers Historian and pianist Kayleen Asbo offers a series of lectures and recitals about some of the most passionate love affairs of the 19th century. Mon, 10:30am.

Petaluma Historical Library & Museum, 20 Fourth St, Petaluma, 707.778.4398.

Poetry Book Club

Napa County Poet Laureate Jeremy Benson leads a discussion of “Milk and Honey” by Rupi Kaur. Apr 2, 6:30pm. Napa Bookmine, 964 Pearl St, Napa, 707.733.3199.

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Mar 30, 12pm, “Martina’s Kitchen Mix” with Martina McBride, a “Cooks with Books” event, includes meal and book. $145. 2750 Las Amigas Rd, Napa 707.302.1160.

Center for Spiritual Living

Mar 29, 7pm, “The Jewel of Abundance” with Ellen Grace O’Brian. 2075 Occidental Rd, Santa Rosa 707.546.4543.

Happy Hour!

Mar 31, 3pm, Off the Page Readers Theater, featuring six short plays from Redwood Writers. $10-$15. 175 Page St, Cotati 707.695.6098.

Monica Bill Barnes & Co presents a theater experience that breaks all the rules. Mar 28, 6 and 8:30pm. $25 and up.

Green Music Center Weill Hall, 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

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Mar 31, 5:30pm, Reading Between the Vines, featuring writer and sommelier Adam McHugh. $10. 10295 Westside Rd, Healdsburg 707.433.5499.

Museum of Sonoma County

Mar 28, 7pm, “Junctures in Women’s Leadership: The Arts” with Judith K Brodsky and Ferris Olin. $10. 425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa 707.579.1500.

Napa Bookmine

Mar 31, 2pm, “Ellie May on April’s Fools’ Day” with Hillary Homzie. 964 Pearl St, Napa 707.733.3199.

Napa Main Library

Apr 3, 7pm, “Hidden History of Napa Valley” with Alexandria Brown. 580 Coombs St, Napa 707.253.4070.

Occidental Center for the Arts

Mar 29, 7pm, “Loving David” with Andrea Granahan. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental 707.874.9392.

Petaluma Copperfield’s Books Apr 2, 4pm, “How To Walk an Ant” with Cindy Derby.

140 Kentucky St, Petaluma 707.762.0563.

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Mar 28, 9am, “What Matters Most” with Chanel Reynolds, presented by WomenTalkBix, with breakfast optional. $27$40. 1100 Valley House Dr, Rohnert Park 707.665.0260.

Sebastopol Library

Mar 27, 6pm, Social Justice Book Club, this month’s selection is “The Distance Between Us” by Reyna Grande. 7140 Bodega Ave, Sebastopol 707.823.7691.

Theater Bingo: The Winning Musical

Best friends brave a storm to attend their favorite bingo party of the year. Through Apr 7. $30-$40. Lucky Penny

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Community Arts Center, 1758 Industrial Way, Napa, 707.266.6305.

Broadway performer Daniel Durston, Alicia Soper and their talented 5-piece band take a journey back to the golden age of entertainment. Mar 2831. $49. 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.523.4185.

A Perfect Ganesh The pilgrimage tradition is turned on its head when two middle-aged friends throw themselves into a rousing tour of India. Mar 29-Apr 14. $28$30. Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.763.8920.

The Revolutionists A playwright, an assassin, a spy and former queen Marie Antoinette star in Lauren Gunderson’s take on modern feminism. Through Apr 7. $23$28. 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.523.4185.

The Spy Who Killed Me Get a Clue Productions hosts an interactive and humorous murder-mystery dinner theater. Sat, Mar 30, 7pm. $68 (includes meal). Charlie’s Restaurant, Windsor Golf Club, 1320 19th Hole Dr, Windsor, getaclueproductions.com.

Treasure Island Napa Valley College Theater presents Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale in a lively stage adaptation. Mar 29-Apr 7. $10-$25. Napa Valley College Performing Arts Center, 2277 Napa Vallejo Hwy, Napa, 707.256.7000.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Kermit the Frog from Sesame Street is the world’s most famous puppet. He has recorded songs, starred in films and TV shows, and written an autobiography. His image has appeared on postage stamps and he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Kermit’s beginnings were humble, however. When his creator Jim Henson first assembled him, he consisted of Henson’s mom’s green coat and two halves of a white ping pong ball. I mention this, Aries, because the current astrological omens suggest that you, too, could make a puppet that will one day have great influence. APRIL FOOL! I half-lied. Here’s the whole truth: now isn’t a favorable time to start work on a magnificent puppet. But it is a perfect moment to launch the rough beginnings of a project that’s well-suited for your unique talents.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you ever spend time at the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, you’ll get a chance to become a member of the 300 Club. To be eligible, you wait till the temperature ouside drops to minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit. When it does, you spend 20 minutes in a sauna heated to 200 degrees.

Then you exit into the snow and ice wearing nothing but white rubber boots, and run a few hundred feet to a ceremonial pole and back. In so doing, you expose your naked body to a swing of 300 degrees.

According to my astrological analysis, now is an ideal time to pull off this feat. APRIL FOOL! I lied. I’m not really urging you to join the 300 Club. On the other hand, I do think it’s a favorable phase to go to extremes for an authentically good cause.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus

shows that if you arrange to get bitten by thousands of mosquitoes in a relatively short time, you make yourself immune. Forever after, mosquito bites won’t itch you. Now would be an excellent time for you to launch such a project. APRIL FOOL! I lied. I don’t really think you should do that. On the contrary. You should scrupulously avoid irritations and aggravations, especially little ones. Instead, immerse yourself in comfort and ease. Be as free from vexation as you have ever been!

businessman Chuck Feeney made a huge fortune as the entrepreneur who co-developed duty-free shopping. But at age 87, he lives frugally, having given away $8 billion to philanthropic causes. He doesn’t even own a house or car. In accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to follow his lead in the coming weeks. Be unreasonably generous and exorbitantly helpful. APRIL FOOL! I exaggerated a bit. While it’s true that now is an extra favorable time to bestow blessings on everyone, you shouldn’t go overboard. Make sure your giving is artful, not careless or compulsive.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Now is a perfect time to start learning the Inuktitut language spoken by the indigenous people of Eastern Canada. Here are some key phrases to get you underway. 1. UllusiuKattagit inosek: Celebrate your life! 2. Pitsialagigavit, piggogutivagit!: Because you’re doing amazing things, I’m proud of you! 3. Nalligijauvutit: You are loved! 4.

Kajusitsiatuinnagit: Keep it up! APRIL FOOL! I lied. Now isn’t really a better time than any other to learn the Inuktitut language. But it is an important time to talk to yourself using phrases like those I mentioned. You need to be extra kind and super positive toward yourself.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): When he was twenty years old, Greek military leader Alexander the Great began to conquer the world. By age 30, he ruled the vast territory between Greece and northwest India.

Never shy about extolling his own glory, he named 70 cities after himself. I offer his example as a model for you. Now is a favorable time to name clouds after yourself, as well as groves of trees, stretches of highway, buses, fire hydrants, parking spaces, and rocks. APRIL FOOL. I got a bit carried away. It’s true that now is a good time to assert your authority, extend your clout, and put your unique stamp on every situation. But I don’t recommend that you name entire cities after yourself.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Now is an excellent time to join an exotic religion. How about the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, which believes that true spiritual devotion requires an appreciation of satire? Or how about Discordianism, which worships the goddess of chaos and disorder? Then there’s the United Church of Bacon, whose members exult in the flavor of their favorite food. (Here’s a list of more: tinyurl.com/WeirdReligions.) APRIL FOOL! I wasn’t entirely truthful. It’s accurate to say that now is a great time to reinvigorate and transform your spiritual practice. But it’s better if you figure that out by yourself. There’s no need to get your ideas from a bizarre cult.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Studies show that people who love grilled cheese sandwiches engage in more sexual escapades than those who don’t gorge on grilled cheese sandwiches. So I advise you to eat a lot of grilled cheese sandwiches, because then you will have more sex than usual. And that’s important, because you are now in a phase when you will reap huge healing benefits from having as much sex as possible. APRIL FOOL! I lied when I implied that eating more grilled cheese sandwiches would motivate you to have more sex. But I wasn’t lying when I said that you should have more sex than usual. And I wasn’t lying when I said you will reap huge benefits from having as much sex as possible. (P.S. If you don’t have a partner, have sex with your fantasies or yourself.)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scientific research

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If allowed

to do what comes naturally, two rabbits and their immediate descendants will produce 1,300 new rabbits in twelve months’ time. In five years, their offspring would amount to 94 million. I suspect that you will approach this level of fertility in the next four weeks, at least in a metaphorical sense. APRIL FOOL! I stretched the truth a bit. There’s no way you will produce more than a hundred good new ideas and productions and gifts. At the most, you’ll generate a mere 50.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The weather is warm year-round and the crime rate is low on Pitcairn, a remote South Pacific island that is a 30-hour boat ride away from the nearest airport. The population has been dwindling in recent years, however, which is why the government offers foreigners free land if they choose to relocate. You might want to consider taking advantage of this opportunity. APRIL FOOL! I was exaggerating. It’s true that you could get major health benefits by taking a sabbatical from civilization. But there’s no need to be so drastic about it.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You don’t have to run faster than the bear that’s chasing you. You just have to run faster than the slowest person the bear is chasing. OK? So don’t worry! APRIL FOOL! What I just said wasn’t your real horoscope.

I hope you know me well enough to understand that I would NEVER advise you to save your own ass by betraying or sacrificing someone else. It’s also important to note that the bear I mentioned is entirely metaphorical in nature. So please ignore what I said earlier. However, I do want you to know that there are effective ways to elude the symbolic bear that are also honorable. To discover them, meditate on calming down the beastly bear-like qualities in yourself.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Now is a favorable

time to disguise yourself as a bland nerd with no vivid qualities, or a shy wallflower with no strong opinions, or a polite wimp who prefers to avoid adventure.

Please don’t even consider doing anything that’s too interesting or controversial. APRIL FOOL! I lied.

The truth is, I hope you’ll do the opposite of what I suggested. I think it’s time to express your deep authentic self with aggressive clarity. Be brave and candid and enterprising.

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