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Hip-Hop Education If you as a school district or educator are denying a certain art form and subculture in our community, you’re also cutting arts and creative programs in the schools (“Small City, Big Dreams,” April 10). I never met a kid who didn’t appreciate learning, but I’ve met too many youth who didn’t get it in their schools. If you’re denying the existence of Latinos/Chicanos within hip-hop, you’re not understanding that it's not just Latinos in

hip-hop, it’s hip-hop that represents many multicultural people in various economic, educational and social struggles.

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developments of recent political history is the loyal adherence of religious conservatives to Donald Trump.

Trump won four-fifths of the votes of white evangelical Christians. This was a higher level of support than either Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush (an outspoken evangelical himself) ever received.

Trump’s background and beliefs could hardly be more incompatible with traditional Christian models of life and leadership.

Trump’s past political stances (he once supported the right to partial-birth abortion), his character (he has bragged about sexually assaulting women), and even his language (he introduced the words pussy and shithole into the presidential discourse) would more naturally lead evangelicals toward exorcism than alliance. This is a man who has cruelly publicized his infidelities and made disturbing sexual comments about the size of his penis on the debate stage. Yet religious conservatives who once squirmed at PG-13 public standards now yawn at such NC-17 maneuvers.

Evangelical used to denote people who claimed the high moral ground; now, in popular usage, the word is nearly synonymous with “hypocrite.”

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hortly after the election of Donald J. Trump, and for the first time in my life, I installed two bumper stickers on my car. They read “Facts Matter” and “Science is not a Liberal Conspiracy.” The current administration is appalling in numerous ways, but most disturbing is the blatant disregard of objective facts. Not only does this result in disastrous policies, it undermines the very notion of a democratic society. As Orwell wrote, once a government detaches words from reality (“2+2=5”), tyranny is inevitable.

One of the most significant casualties is the abandonment of policies to address severe anthropogenic climate change. The president refuses to accept the consensus—established over decades of extensive, collaborative and international research—of mainstream climate science. The right employs these tactics in their opposition to solid scientific evidence: deny that there is a consensus; assert that the scientific community is compromised by political bias and financial incentives; minimize the significance of the problem; exaggerate purported incidents of scientific misconduct; appeal to spiritual belief and promote the opinions of scientists who are either unqualified or on the fringe.

Human beings of all ideological persuasions are masters of selfdeception and researchers have discovered that we often select evidence to confirm our preexisting ideology (confirmation bias), cling to our beliefs when confronted by contrary evidence (cognitive dissonance) and the least informed greatly overestimate their knowledge of a subject (Dunning-Kruger effect). Because of these cognitive biases, codified practices of critical thinking are essential for discovering what is real, of which science is the most refined practitioner.

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Edible Complex Are cannabis-related hospitalizations on the rise? BY TOM GOGOLA

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e’re officially in the postlegalization era.

Five years after Colorado legalized recreational cannabis— and five years after New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd had her scary fetal-position

encounter with a Rocky Mountain state edible in a hotel room (she ate too much of a candy bar)—that state has raised an alarm over an emerging problem with ingesting edibles in unhealthy amounts, and winding up in the hospital with severe anxiety or other symptoms.

How is this problem playing out in California, which legalized

marijuana in 2017 and is now offering recreational cannabis consumers a range of edible products that range from chocolate bars to “ gummy bears” to THC-infused soda?

In some measure, it’s a bit early to tell, say health officials and other experts. The state has only just embarked on

legalization and the data is just starting to roll in to Sacramento officials charged with ensuring a safe rollout of California‘s ambitious legalization regime for recreational cannabis.

The Bohemian/Pacific Sun contacted some 50 healthcare providers in the North Bay, from Marin General Hospital to small-town health clinics. We contacted paramedics and county health officials. What came back indicates that, if anything, this is an emerging story with scant detail from the state about the frequency of emergency-services calls and hospital visits related to cannabis use.

The survey of local healthcare providers, county health officials and emergency service revealed they don’t track the information.

For example, Dean Fryer, a representative of Sutter Health in Sonoma County, said that the company does not monitor hospital admissions by cannabisrelated admissions, and couldn’t therefore say whether they’ve seen a spike in edibles-related health issues since 2017.

“We have no way of really quantifying or knowing if this is an issue [or] if there’s a rise in admissions,” Fryer says. “It's not tracked in that way.”

Edibles-related calls for service do not appear to be tracked at the ground level, either. A representative of REDCOM Dispatch, the centralized agency which directs calls to fire and emergency service responders within Sonoma County, said the organization does not track emergency calls related to cannabis use.

Veteran emergency service officials in West Marin say that they have not seen any uptick in edibles-related calls since legalization took hold in California. For them, alcoholrelated calls for service are predominant. Those officials amplify what others interviewed for this story have noted: Those who overdose on THC-infused edibles are often older persons who have not experimented with cannabis for some time—and are unaware that the cannabis

some testing labs to unexpectedly fail products based on different interpretations of the rules.”

The snafu caused great upset in an edibles industry worried that, among other things, the discrepancies could expose edibles-producers to lawsuits from consumers, reported MBD, claiming they were harmed because the THC limits printed on the packaging didn‘t reflect the exact THC contained in the product.

What this means is that localities are now sending their cannabis-health data to a state cannabis bureaucracy that itself may be in need of fine-tuning when it comes to allowable potencies in the products it is regulating. And, while the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development is in charge of collecting patient data reported by hospitals (including ER visits and visits for cannabis poisoning) it’s yet to undertake an analysis of the data, says spokesman Andrew Diluccia, “and would not be able to provide any information/ context as to why there might be rises or falls in cannabis poisonings. OSHPD does not have subject matter experts to address this issue. Also, the poisoning data does not contain how the cannabis entered the body (i.e., inhalation, ingestion), so there would be no data specific to edibles.”

While the county “supplies all kinds of data to the state,” it‘s also just getting up to speed on any edibles-related health impacts that may be afoot in the county,” says Roshish Lal, the spokesperson for the Sonoma County Department of Health.

He notes that when the county eventually sends its cannabis-related data to the state Department of Health, “I don‘t know whether it will be broken down specifically—there are so many products.”

The main barrier to tracking the problem is that California has not formally defined the symptoms of a cannabis overdose and has not created a system to record cases, says Matt Willis, ) 10 Marin County's Public

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they are ingesting has gotten far stronger since their youth. If anything, notes one high-ranking emergency services official in West Marin, young people are keenly aware that eating cannabis can be a far more potent experience than smoking it. And, say those officials, the handful of edibles-related calls they’ve gotten over the past couple of decades have not been for prepackaged edibles on the legal market, but rather for an overly potent homegrown brownie or other food infused with cannabis.

Those edibles don’t come with the same degree of product information as is required under California law, including information about the potency of the product. But the state has struggled to square up its own regulations concerning THC potency in edibles, with conflicting regulations coming from two key state agencies—the Bureau of Cannabis Control and the California Department of Public Health.

Meanwhile, the production and manufacturing of edibles is overseen by one of the three legs of the California cannabis regulatory regime, the Manufactured Cannabis Safety Branch (MCSB). But, says CDPH spokesman Matt Conens, the MCSB’s role is not to assess whether edible health-related problems are on the rise—but to make sure the products it approves are safe and properly manufactured and packaged.

In February, as California’s interim cannabis regulations became permanent—and as first reported by the Marijuana Business Daily—state regulators moved to update regulations in the edibles industry. Officials moved in when it was discovered that the CDPH and the Bureau of Cannabis Control had differing regulations concerning the amount of THC that an edible could contain. The agencies in charge of regulating California‘s legalization rollout, noted the MBD, “issued seemingly conflicting rules detailing THC limits, testing and packaging for infused products. That caused

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Symptoms of those who ate too much pot include severe anxiety, vomiting, an exacerbation of asthma and severe intoxication.

Health Officer. Although medical providers are likely able identify a cannabis-related incident when an individual comes into their care, they are currently unable to record it since the state has not defined the criteria.

The lack of state leadership has left county and city governments to attempt to track the problem on their own, he says. Many do not, but some are trying.

Six months ago, Marin Health and Human Services partnered with the county coroner to begin recording the level of THC during toxicology screenings in cases of accidental deaths.

“We are unlikely to have the same quality of data as Colorado does until we build a system to collect it,” says Willis, who adds that his department is also discussing ways of tracking cases in Marin County's three emergency rooms.

If there has been an increase in the number of overdoses, Willis expects that it is due to the potency of cannabis since legalization.

Legislators may be operating under outdated assumptions about the strength of the product; edibles are particularly dangerous because those experimenting with them

may take a second or third dose while waiting for the drug to take affect.

While cannabis products are unlikely to be fatal on their own in the same way opioids and other drugs can be, Willis says he is concerned that the rate of DUIs because of cannabis use could increase.

Cannabis-related health issues are showing up in the South Bay since legalization, says Dr. Greg Whitley, chief medical officer at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz.

The symptoms that users most often come in with, Whitley explains, include severe anxiety, vomiting, an exacerbation of asthma or emphysema, and severe intoxication.

He says the last symptom is the most common one they are seeing in Santa Cruz which, like Sonoma County, has an historically liberal embrace with marijuana.

“Those people can come in with symptoms of just basically feeling really, really stoned— off-balance, difficulty walking, dizziness,” he says, and often it‘s as a result of over-consumption of edibles. Sometimes people are lethargic,”adds Whitley, who’s worked at Dominican since 2001 and served as the emergency room‘s medical director until taking his new position April 1. “Sometimes people look like they’re having a stroke because they’ve had basically an overdose of THC.” Whitley also noted, anecdotally, that over the past couple of years, the number of people coming to the Dominican emergency room with acute cannabis-related symptoms has skewed older.

A decent-sized chunk of the patients, he reports, have included fathers and grandfathers who‘ve gotten into a family member’s pot brownies without realizing there might be any special ingredients.

And Whitley echoes the West Marin emergency services officials when he notes that lots of times, it‘s older people who are surprised at the enhanced potency of the cannabis they are ingesting.

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Visions of Moderation Ayahuasca, addiction—and why “Grandmother” is no big fan of marijuana BY BILL SMITH

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he good old days were good because you were young. As a rule, wherever you spent your 20s, the memories you made are precious and enduring.

I was lucky. I made mine in the Bay Area in the 1990s: affordable rents, barbecued oysters on Drake’s Bay, biking over the bridge to the Marin Headlands or over to Sausalito for the ferry ride back to The City. A super beeftongue burrito at La Cumbre cost less than $4 and Capp Street Project was on Capp Street. For a time, you could smoke in bars, restaurants and cafes. That was also the last time I took psychedelics—a magical day amidst the undulating redwoods of Muir Woods.

I thought I had left those days far behind me until a crisis loomed and I knew I needed to make some adjustments fast.

My son was going off to college, my cannabis-addicted mother was going off the deep end, and I really had to quit smoking cigarettes. I had just finished

Michael Pollan’s new book on the healing power of psychedelics, How to Change Your Mind.

I figured that a guided psychedelic experience could provide the quick jolt of therapy I needed, so I contacted a local shaman who worked with ayahuasca. The irony of

scrambling my brains with a hallucinogenic DMT concoction from the Amazon to unscramble my comparatively cushy American life is not lost on me.

But my insurance deductible puts regular therapy out of reach. lan Watts said this of the psychedelic experience: "If you get the message, hang up the phone.” I honestly don’t recall any message from my drug-induced 20s. I’m not sure if I even hung up or just hit “hold.” But I was about to pick up that phone again. Only now I wasn’t a carefree kid with most of his unexplored life ahead; I was a stressed-out 52-year-old single father with most of his unexamined life behind him.

Two weeks before my ayahuasca “sit,” I got instructions

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for how to prepare: “Rest, reflect on your intention, walk easily and eat whole foods—no red meat, alcohol, marijuana or other drugs.

Consider lowering or avoiding coffee, sugar and salt.” The hardest thing for was to cut back to one cup of coffee a day.

I wasn’t surprised that marijuana was on the prohibited list. I started smoking marijuana in high school, but I’d stopped in college. The reason it took me even that long was that I was too intoxicated to notice how dull-witted, unproductively introspective, isolated and boring it made me.

What’s surprising, in retrospect, is that I ever started smoking marijuana at all. I was raised by a “stoner,” which is to say, I raised myself. And, after a lifetime of smoking marijuana, my mother was the same emotionally stunted,

ell then. After two weeks of minor deprivation and self-reflection, I arrived at the gathering place: a basement rec room in the basement in a subdivision. Most of the 15 other “sitters” seemed to be in their late 30s or early 40s. All were white. As we waited for the shaman we chatted. It seemed like half the group was in tech, the other half was in art. Half had money, but little meaning, and the other half had meaning, but little money. Only three of us seemed to have a profound need for healing: a recovering heroin addict, a man with obvious mental illness, and a woman who just got diagnosed with a death sentence in the form of

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Huntington’s Disease. The rest of the group was like me: the walking wounded.

When the shaman and his wife arrived they introduced themselves by their actual names and then by their shamanic names. We were in their home.

They trusted us, we should trust them. He had taken ayahuasca more than 2,000 times. They explained what to expect with the “medicine,” how the visions were a gift from the plants’ spirit they called “Grandmother.”

The experience was visceral, physical and intellectual. It will connect you to your body in new ways. For the first 20 minutes after drinking the tea, there will be nothing.

Then the visions will begin, as if a switch was flipped. We were told, don’t fight it. Let Grandmother guide you and you will learn what you need to learn, though not necessarily what you thought you needed to learn.

A prayer was sung, sage and herbs were smudged, and the seekers, one by one, went before the shaman. Each sat or knelt and made some blessing while he stared into their eyes and measured out a portion of the ayahuasca, blew on it rapidly three times and then handed them the cup. When it was my turn I downed it without hesitation.

It was viscous, thick and pulpy and tasted like licorice. Not unpleasant. I then returned to my spot and waited and watched.

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So, as far as I’m concerned, there’s no message to be gotten from cannabis. There’s nothing on the other end of that line.

That the shaman and “Grandma Ayahuasca” frowned on it made sense to me. If you’re looking for clarity, insight and growth from one drug, you should first step out of the paralyzing fog from another.

How my son turned out the way he did is beyond me. I was going to miss him when he left for college, but I was unprepared for exactly how much until I returned home unexpectedly one night recently, and found the aftermath of a teen party.

Popcorn and tortilla chips were scattered on the sofa and floor; two half empty bottles of Coke and ginger ale with their caps off sat on the coffee table, along with a half-eaten pan of brownies. Uh-oh. I took a bite.

It was pure brownie.

Who is this kid? When I was 16 I was climbing out my bedroom window to take LSD and drink and smoke anything and everything I could get my hands on. And now my own son wasn’t even having interesting parties when Dad was away. As I chewed on the brownie, it hit me how integral my son is to my identity. I’m going to miss the boy when he goes off to school in a way I hadn’t missed anyone since my father died.

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The purging started with the artist to my right. He doubled over, convulsed, and spewed a mighty torrent. I was worried the little bucket would overflow, but as quickly as he started, he stopped.

I was surprised the sound didn’t gross me out. It didn’t even make me queasy. And there was no nausea-inducing smell. A benefit of the diet, no doubt. The vomiting then moved around the yurt like the fountains at the Bellagio. I stifled laughter, shut my eyes, and the visions began.

Geometric patterns shot across my eyelids until I was swimming in them. I felt a kindness welling up, some entity entering me.

Grandmother! The visions were intense, but my ego, the “I” in my narrative, never completely dissolved. This was fine with me. Grandmother was kind. Her lessons had such a gentle wisdom that I spent much of the night softly laughing.

First she “looked” at me and gave me a quizzical smile: “You are fundamentally a happy person!

Deep-down you are happy.”

“Really?” I thought.

And she smiled and shook her head in bemusement: “You seem to feel the need to pay for that happiness with being unhappy?

That’s so funny! You don’t pay for happiness with misery! You pay by enjoying it! By sharing it!”

Then she took a tour around my body, racing like a child through a new house who opens up every door to peek inside each room. She would occasionally stop and I would notice—heart and beat; lungs and breath; she opened every door and bounced on every bed and sofa. When she was bouncing around my abdomen, I noticed a pain in my shoulder from my arthritis. She then bounded up to the pain, and as she explored my shoulder, the pain quickly and gently melted away. Same with my tortured knee.

I recall wondering if DMT or the other chemicals in my body at the moment had anti-inflammatory properties. But even though I was

making a more clinical evaluation than your typical mystic on potent drugs, I still said, “Thank you” to Grandmother. Whatever I chose to call it, this was powerful medicine.

“I am blessed!” was the next lesson from Grandmother. This message was, again, delivered with seeming wide-eyed wonderment and boundless love. This wasn’t guilt over my white, male privilege.

It wasn’t nearly so rational or abstract as that. I actually felt these blessings: I had a comfortable home, a remarkable son, good friends, a creative and supportive community. My life was abundant with meaning. And again, gently, she pointed out the absurd calculus I made in paying for these blessings with guilt and self-loathing.

Deserving or not deserving was not a part of the equation. You pay for your blessings by honoring them, by sharing them, by tending to them. But what does honoring your blessings look like? Is it as simple as keeping the house tidier?

Unclogging the sink in a timely manner? Not chastising the boy when he spaces out and drops his wet towels on the floor eight inches from the laundry basket?

“That’s a start,” came her reply.

“I think I could manage that,” I thought.

The final two lessons were simple and quick. They, too, involved reframing a problem that allowed the possibility for, if not resolution, then at least management. I saw my mother as a sad, confused, angry old woman who reflexively drove away the one thing she craved: love. “Have some pity on this old lady. She is powerless,” came the voice.

“Yeah,” I agreed. And again, I felt it deeply. Seeing her in this light bypassed all my triggers and defenses and I was able for the first time ever to generate some sympathy for that woman.

Last came the smoking. “You can choose to have a cigarette, or to not have a cigarette. Just be sure it is you who is choosing.

Say, ‘I am choosing to smoke this cigarette now, or I am choosing not to have this cigarette now.’”

All of a sudden, I felt some

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t’s hard to say if or when I awoke, because it’s hard to say if I ever slept. It seemed to me that the visions traversed both realms and blurred the distinction between my sleeping and waking self. At last I felt Grandmother had taken her leave of me and I sat up and looked around the yurt. It took me a moment to be sure that it was dawn coming through the opening in the center and not the moonlight. There were only two other bodies left Everybody else had gone back to the heated rec room.It was cold. So I bundled up my blanket and pillow and headed toward some warmth. In the rec room, I found a spot on the floor and promptly fell asleep.

Later when I was driving home, Ihome I felt like I was returning

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from summer camp. We had all hugged each other goodbye with a warmth that was astonishing considering we spent less than two days together and I couldn’t tell you a single one of their names. During the ride back home I chose to not have three cigarettes. I chose to have one.

And I enjoyed the hell out of it.

Later that evening I found the boy reading in bed. He gave me a “Hey Dad,” without looking up from his book.

“You know, we are really fortunate.”

“Yeah.”

“We are, for lack of a better word, ‘blessed.’”

He cocked his head.

“We have a nice home, we have plenty to eat, we have an amazing community. And it’s not a question of whether we deserve these blessings or not, it’s our job to . . . honor them.”

“OK . . .

“Sometimes we feel like we have to pay for them by not acknowledging them or by not taking care of them properly, but that’s silly. We should tend to our blessings.”

Now his book was completely down, and he was looking at me as if there was some joke he wasn’t quite getting.

“We should, you know, tidy up more, do the dishes after dinner, put away our clothes.”

An audible sigh escaped from his lips.

“For a second, I thought you’d joined some Christian cult,” he said. We laughed, each honoring, in our way, the blessing of the other.

It’s been four weeks since my session with Grandmother. I still smoke, but I do it deliberately.

I “choose” to have eight to 10 cigarettes a day. I drink one cup of coffee in the morning and I keep the house a bit tidier than before.

I am grateful for a son who has not dulled himself with marijuana, and more forgiving toward a mother who has.

Bill Smith is a pseudonym. The author is a public educator and former Bay Area resident.

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agency in my relationship with tobacco. We actually practiced this a few times: “I choose not to smoke right now.” It seemed to work. A lot seemed to work with Grandmother holding your hand.

At some point Grandmother showed me a gate. It was of brown, twisted vines interwoven with hundreds of faces. Behind the gate was the real trial and transformation;, ego death and rebirth. I asked her if we were going through that gate. She smiled a compassionate smile and led me away: apparently not. Although I would have trusted the lesson that lay beyond it, I was relieved.

Throughout the evening the chanting and singing would come and go. It would pull us back, and refocus the visions, and remind us of our intentions, our “work.”

At one point I sat up and opened my eyes. Sprawled all about the yurt were bodies; some prone, a few sitting upright, some twisting and heaving, some completely still. It occurred to me that if someone walked in here they would think this no different from a nineteenth century opium den.

How would anybody know that this mass of shivering, twitching, writhing humanity was working on healing intentions and not just taking a holiday from the barely tolerable misery of modern life?

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Future of Film Is Female

Since 2000, all-women traveling film festival Lunafest has showcased short films made by talented women directors from all over the world, and after a several year hiatus, the festival returns this week to again celebrate industrychanging talents as well as to raise funds for Pathways Housing Programs for women and children. This year’s lineup includes several short live action and animated films that deal with a variety of issues and collectively aim to inspire when they screen together on Thursday, April 18, at Rialto Cinemas, 6868 McKinley St., Sebastopol. 6:30pm. $20-$35. 707.525.4840.

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Naturalist Art

From the time he roamed the beaches of Cape Cod growing up, to his days traveling up and down the West Coast, artist Seth Richardson has always been a collector of natural objects, picking up sticks and stones and transforming them into art. Now, at his home in Fulton, the sculptor and assemblage artist collects everything from grape vines and golden straw to construction site refuse to make gravity-defying wall art. Richardson displays his work in a show, “Chasing Rabbits,” as part of the monthly Fulton Crossing Open Studios event on Friday, April 19, 1200 River Rd., Fulton. 5pm. Free. 707.536.3305.

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Anyone who’s spent time among the majestic redwoods of west Sonoma County knows that the forest can be a place of solace. For writers and poets, it can also be a place of inspiration and guidance. This weekend, writers or aspiring writers are invited to experience the redwoods in the Forest for the Trees workshop. Author, educator and Indian Poetry collective co-founder Minal Hajratwala leads participants in sitting and meditating among the trees before they write in solitude and share with the community on Saturday, April 20, at Armstrong Redwoods Volunteer Center, 17000 Armstrong Woods Rd., Guerneville. 1pm. $20. 707.869.9177.

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Austin’s favorite garage rock band White Denim might be the most sincere punk band on the planet, pulling from prog, jazz, and more to create an equally thoughtful and dive bar-ready brand of danceable jams. Less than a year after the release of their critically acclaimed album Performance, the ever-prolific band released their eighth record, Side Effects, last month. As much as the record is a full-throttle thrill ride, the band really shines in their live shows, making them a must-see when they play on Tuesday, April 23, at Mystic Theatre & Music Hall, 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. 8:30pm. $16. 707.775.6048.

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ICE PICKS AND GUITAR LICKS When he’s not exploring the Antarctic, Henry Kaiser plays guitar; and sometimes, he does both simultaneously.

Henry the Great Free jazz titan Henry Kaiser in Mill Valley this week for Coltrane showdown BY JAMES KEEPNEWS

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or most mortals, a single major accomplishment can be satisfying enough for one lifetime. eing an Academy Award– nominated producer, say; or a director-composer and cinematographer for multiple television series; or a university professor for nearly two decades; or a research diver with one of the highest numbers of dives

under Antarctic sea ice; or creating your own record label still going strong in its fourth decade; or collaborating with an unprecedented array of artists across numerous genres from many different cultures—or, say, being one of the most outstanding guitarists of your generation— would be a laurel quite large enough to rest on.

Not so for Henry Kaiser, whose Promethean

achievements encompass all of these and much more.

But let’s focus for the moment on Henry Kaiser, guitarist. Picking up the guitar at the comparatively late age of 20 and emerging as a cutting-edge improviser in the late seventies, Kaiser has continued to record an incomparably broad variety of music very much in keeping with his wide-ranging interests and influences. In a discography now north of 300

releases, one thing that becomes abundantly clear is how much this man loves to play, with an instantly recognizable, invigorating tone and sky (or is that sea?) diver’s fearlessness, and one who equally esteems the process of collaboration with many different kinds of artists.

That love of playing will be on full display during the weekend of April 20 as Kaiser performs in tributes to two major inspirational figures for him. First, on the exalted stoner holiday itself, Kaiser will join longtime friends and collaborators Rova Saxophone Quartet among many others for “Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! A Tribute to Cecil Taylor” at CounterPulse in San Francisco. And the following day finds him once more joining drummer John Hanrahan’s ongoing project, performing the classic suite by the late saxophone titan John Coltrane, A Love Supreme, at Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley.

Reached at his home near the Santa Cruz mountains, Kaiser recalled the memorable first time he heard Coltrane.

“Some girl played A Love Supreme for me in her dorm room while we made out on her bed! So, it made a strong impression,” he says.

Hanrahan has been leading the Coltrane project for several years with the work’s original instrumentation and recently decided to take the work in an electric direction. One of the first people he contacted was Kaiser.

“I said, ‘Let’s get some more electric players with us—let’s open it up and not do it all reverent,’” says Hanrahan.

On April 21, Hanrahan and Kaiser will be joined at Sweetwater Music Hall by violinist Mads Tolling, keyboardist Scott Looney and bassist Murph Murphy. It’s one of several electric incarnations for this project, which ) 18

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“Watt’s a super Coltrane freak and he was kinda terrified to do it,” Kaiser says. “And the big surprise about A Love Supreme is that it’s something that’s open.

It’s a recipe and it makes different things every time. Like the Grateful Dead’s ‘Dark Star,’ it has a strong identity of its own that takes over and you don’t know what’s going to happen.”

That’s a telling reference both from Kaiser’s influences and his own discography, one that features several instances of him playing the Dead’s psychedelic anthem “Dark Star,” starting with a sidelong rendition on his 1988 album Those Who Know History Are Doomed To Repeat It, recorded for the Minutemen’s label SST Records. Kaiser has been effusive in his praise of the Dead over the years, extolling their pioneering blending of styles and their range of expression from the most familiar to the most avant of gardes, strikingly similar to Kaiser’s own musical journey.

His embrace of widely different musical approaches has resulted in a truly multicultural catalog, with Kaiser exploring music from Africa, India, Japan, Korea, Norway and elsewhere. Perhaps his most popular world music endeavor was his celebrated collaboration with fellow guitarist David Lindley and several musicians from Madagascar on the joyous two-volume A World Out Of Time.

“Lindley and I did not take any money for it,” Kaiser recalls. “All the money went to the Malagasy people.”

Alongside all this musical activity has been a parallel career as a research diver and educator.

“I taught scientific diving at UC Berkeley since the mid-80s,” says Kaiser. “When our program went away in 2001, I became a diver in the U.S. Antarctic program and I’ve had 13 deployments. And I

have the seventh-most dives in the program.”

This experience, in conjunction with his work in film and video, has served him well over the years, not least when he was nominated for an Academy Award as a producer while also serving as soundtrack artist and both land and underwater cinematographer for Encounters at the End of the World, one of several documentaries he has worked on for German director Werner Herzog.

Kaiser’s accomplishments seemingly know no bounds in yet another ideal metaphor for his music. One irony, sharper as we approach April 20, is that this selfdescribed “psychedelic” guitarist has famously never taken drugs.

When asked what “psychedelic” means for him in this context, Kaiser replies, “It means what Salvador Dalí said: I don’t need drugs, I am drugs!”

Kaiser expands on this thought in a follow-up email, writing, “I get the feeling that what my guitar has to say is psychedelic, rather than coming from psychedelics.

“When you were a preschool kid, did you–like me–lay in your dark bedroom at night and press on the lids of your eyes to generate phosphene patterns of internal light that danced in your head before going to sleep each night? Even though it may look like I'm smiling at the drummer or the audience, inside my mind, and without the addition of recreational chemicals, I'm drifting through glowing clouds of light; among coruscating fractal and geometric forms that shimmer in and out of existence.

Rivers of light, like oceanic streams of phosphorescent plankton inflamed by the wakes of playful sea lions, dance in multicolored time to the music before it happens; giving me my silent cues, like the clouds a glider pilot watches to catch updrafts.”

James Keepnews is a musician, writer and multimedia artist. Henry Kaiser and friends take a deep dive into Coltrane’s ‘A Love Supreme’ on Sunday, April 21, at Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley. 5pm. $20. 415. 388.3850.

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he venerable Ross Valley Players have a long history of presenting original works to their audiences. In 1984, they initiated the Ross Alternative Works (RAW) program, dedicated to staged readings and full productions of works by Bay Area playwrights. This season brings Scott & Zelda: The Beautiful Fools, running now through April 28.

Written by Sausalito resident Lance S. Bellville and directed

by Lynn Lohr, it’s a look at the tumultuous relationship of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda.

It’s not a strict bio piece per se, but a “stream of consciousness” play that takes place in the mind of Fitzgerald.

Set in the late 1930’s, we first meet Scott (Frankie Stornaiuolo) in the apartment of his mistress, Hollywood gossip columnist Sheila Graham (Marissa Ellison).

The play zips back and forth between the times and places—when he first meets Zelda (Emily Dwyer), their time together in Paris, his friendship with Ernest Hemingway (Izaak Heath), their Long Island residency with next-door neighbor Groucho Marx (Peter Warden), his

parenthood of daughter “Scottie” (Charlotte Curtin), and Zelda’s decline due to mental illness. It’s all sort of “book-ended” with comments and exposition from Fitzgerald’s literary agent Harold Ober (Warden again) and editor Max Perkins (Ron Talbot).

There’s little depth to the characters and the hopscotching around their lives amounts to a Classics Illustrated approach to their story. Performance-wise, Dwyer does well as Zelda, a fascinating individual who deserves to have her story told (better).

Stornaiuolo, who overcame script deficiencies with his character in the last RVP production, has no such luck here and is given little to do other than resemble Fitzgerald.

Among the supporting players, Warden’s agent and Heath’s Hemingway come off best.

To paraphrase Fitzgerald’s contemporary Gertrude Stein, when it comes to Scott & Zelda, there’s no there there.

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Mary has a part-time career as a midwife. Her father Daniel (Denis Menochet) wants her to marry an established widower. The unwanted marriage causes the girl such torment that the community decides she’s possessed, forcing her into a watery exorcism. Alone and despondent, Mary meets a wandering rabbi familiar to us all.

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At 44 years old, Joaquin Phoenix may be one of the oldest actors to play Jesus, and the choice for a sadder, aged Christ may be justifiable in a time and place where working people got old very early on in life. In real life, Phoenix was raised in a religious cult, and he has a deep understanding of both the grounded and the mysterious qualities of the role.

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Johann Johannsson’s looped strings and pianos mirror the melancholy. Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Peter is a lieutenant who never quite understands what Jesus is getting at.

Judas (Tahar Rahim, very good) is the zealot, certain that it’s the time to strike against the Roman occupiers.

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Phoenix’s sensitivity overwhelms the callouses one has against the Greatest Story Ever etc., and the bruises one accumulates in a lifetime of dealing with hateful Christians.

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MARIN “A Love Supreme” Acoustically Electric Guitarist and composer Henry Kaiser leads a supergroup of musicians in performing John Coltrane’s classic album. Apr 21, 5pm. $17-$20. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.3850.

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Michael McDonald Chart-topping veteran singer-songwriter performs from his first album of original material in 17 years, “Wide Open.” Apr 18, 8pm. $75-$115. Uptown Theatre, 1350 Third St, Napa, 707.259.0123.

Clubs & Venues SONOMA Aqus Cafe

Apr 19, Steve Wolf and Mason Holcomb. Apr 20, Kurt Huget and Chris Smith. Apr 21, 2pm, Gary Vogensen and the Ramble Band. 189 H St, Petaluma, 707.778.6060.

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Apr 19, Sakoyana with Mia & Laila. Apr 20, Mission Delirium and Black Sheep Brass Band. Apr 21, 1pm, Reiki Circle. 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.528.3009.

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Apr 18, Los Blue Notes with Anna Moreno. Apr 19, the DoppleGang. Apr 24, the Big Easy grand reopening party with Wednesday Night Big Band. 128 American Alley, Petaluma, 707.776.7163.

Brewsters Beer Garden Apr 18, Fog Holler. Apr 19, Small Hat. Apr 20, the Beer Scouts. Apr 21, 1pm, Tom Finch.

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Apr 18, jazz night with Michael Price & Co. Apr 19, Aly Rose Trio. Apr 20, DJ Rascue. Apr 21, House of Mary. Apr 22, Nate Lopez. 6780 Depot St, Suite 120, Sebastopol, 707.861.9603.

Flamingo Lounge

Apr 19, the Igniters. Apr 20, Ricky Ray Band. 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa, 707.545.8530.

Geyserville Gun Club Bar & Lounge Apr 20, Dustin Saylor. 21025 Geyserville Ave, Geyserville, 707.814.0036.

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Apr 19, Achilles Wheel. Apr 20, Trapeze Worldwide bass and burlesque. Apr 22, DJ Dinga.

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Apr 17, Arizona & the Volunteers. Apr 18, Gentlemen Soldiers. Apr 19, Ashleigh Flynn & the Riveters.

Apr 20, Balto. Apr 21, Jinx Jones. Apr 24, Ellisa Sun. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma, 707.778.8776.

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Apr 18, Willie Perez. Apr 19, Levi Lloyd. Apr 20, Fargo Brothers.

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Apr 19, Chris James. Apr 20, Scarlett Letters. 464 First St E, Sonoma, 707.935.0660.

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Apr 19, the Purple Ones. Apr 20, Midnight North and friends.

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Apr 20, California Redwood Chorale. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental, 707.874.9392.

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Apr 18, Irie Rockerz. Apr 19, FunkSway. Apr 20, the Pulsators. Apr 21, 5pm, Gold Coast Jazz Band. Apr 22, the Blues Defenders pro jam. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.795.7868.

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Apr 19, Joe Hershaft and 3 on a Match. 401 Grove St, Sonoma, 707.343.0044.

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Apr 20, 2pm, Matthew Montfort’s Ancient Future Guitar and Arabic Percussion Duet. 211 E St, Santa Rosa, 707.545.0831.

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Apr 18, Legends of Nicaragua benefit concert. 390 Morris St, Sebastopol, 707.823.1511.

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Apr 20, 4pm, Dan Martin and the Noma Rocksteady Band. 19380 Hwy 12, Sonoma, 707.938.7442.

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Apr 17, Cecil Ramirez. Apr 18, David Weiss Sextet. Apr 19, David Victor’s Supergroup. Apr 21, 11am, Easter Sunday Brunch with Mike Greensill. Apr 24, Napa School of Music Adult Garage Band 101.

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Apr 18, Open Turntables. Apr 19, Edgy Variety Show. Apr 20, Silent Disco. 1910 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.843.5535.

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Sweetwater Music Hall

Apr 19, Orgone. Apr 20, Soul Ska goes to Memphis 420 Party. Apr 23, Mike Love. Apr 24, Wayne “the Train” Hancock. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.3850.

Terrapin Crossroads

Apr 17, Victoria George Band.

Apr 18, Dusty Green Bones Band. Apr 19, Phil Lesh and friends. Apr 20, Los Gardeners.

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Apr 17, Vince Costanza. Apr 20, Austin Hicks. Apr 24, David Ronconi. 1450 First St, Napa, 707.687.1234.

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Apr 19, Illeagles and Fleetwood Mask. Apr 20, Wonder Bread 5. 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.880.2300.

River Terrace Inn

Apr 19, Kyle Turner. Apr 20, Mark Harold. 1600 Soscol Ave, Napa, 707.320.9000.

Art Opening SONOMA Fulton Crossing

Apr 19, “Chasing Rabbits,” Seth Richardson creates mixed-media paintings, sculptures and furniture using materials scavenged from fields and construction sites in Sonoma. Reception, Apr 19 at 5pm.

1200 River Rd, Fulton. Sat-Sun, noon to 5pm 707.536.3305.

Healdsburg Center for the Arts

Apr 20-Jun 2, “Reflectivity,” several artists reflect on and respond to the issue of climate change. Reception, Apr 20 5pm. 130 Plaza St, Healdsburg.

Daily, 11 to 6. 707.431.1970.

Comedy Coyote Sonoma Comedy Roundabout

Laugh it up with local comedians James Rowan and Steve Ausburne. Apr 20, 8pm. $15. Coyote Sonoma, 44F Mill St, Healdsburg, 707.385.9133.

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Prepare for Bike Month with safety inspections, planning, goodies and more. Apr 20, 10am.

Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition, 750 Mendocino Ave, Suite 6, Santa Rosa, 707.545.0153.

Cycle for Sight

Community cycling event benefits the Pathway Home program and Enchanted Hills Camp for the Blind, with post-ride festival. Apr 20. $35 and up. Justin-Siena High School, 4026 Maher St, Napa, 707.255.0950.

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Explore how to dye Easter eggs naturally in a hands-on event for all ages. Reservations recommended. Apr 20, 11am.

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Santa Rosa Gem Faire

Fine jewelry, precious and semiprecious gemstones, millions of beads, crystals, minerals and much more Apr 19-21. $7.

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See the new center and enjoy award-winning Shone Farm wines and a presentation. Apr 18, 4:30pm. Santa Rosa Junior College, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, 1.800.564.SRJC.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): French writer Simone de Beauvoir sent a letter to her lover, Aries author Nelson Algren. She wrote, "I like so much the way you are so greedy about life and yet so quiet, your eager greediness and your patience, and your way of not asking much of life and yet taking much because you are so human and alive that you find much in everything." I'd love to see you embody that state in the coming weeks, Aries. In my astrological opinion, you have a mandate to be both utterly relaxed and totally thrilled; both satisfied with what life brings you and skillfully avid to extract the most out of it; both at peace with what you already have and primed to grab for much more.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Beat Generation

of American poets arose in the late 1940s as a rebellion against materialistic mainstream culture and academic poetry. It embraced sexual liberation, Eastern spirituality, ecological awareness, political activism, and psychedelic drugs. One of its members, Jack Kerouac, tweaked and ennobled the word "beat" to serve as the code name for their movement. In its old colloquial usage, "beat" meant tired or exhausted. But Kerouac re-consecrated it to mean "upbeat" and "beatific," borrowing from the Italian word *beato*, translated as "beatific." I bring this to your attention, Taurus, because you're on the verge of a similar transition: from the old meaning of "beat" to the new.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Free Will Astrology Committee To Boldly Promote Cancerian's Success is glad to see that you're not politely waiting for opportunities to come to you. Rather, you're tracking them down and proactively wrangling them into a form that's workable for your needs. You seem to have realized that what you had assumed was your fair share isn't actually fair; that you want and deserve more.

Although you're not being mean and manipulative, neither are you being overly nice and amenable; you're pushing harder to do things your way. I approve! And I endorse your efforts to take it even further.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Many experts who have studied the art and science of running fast believe that it's best if a runner's legs are symmetrical and identical in their mechanics. But that theory is not supported by the success of champion sprinter Usain Bolt. Because he has suffered from scoliosis, his left leg is a half-inch longer than his right. With each stride, his left leg stays on the track longer than his right, and his right hits the track with more force. Some scientists speculate that this unevenness not only doesn't slow him down, but may in fact enhance his speed. In accordance with current astrological variables, I suspect you will be able to thrive on your asymmetry in the coming weeks, just as your fellow Leo Usain Bolt does.

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life? An influence that could be good for you, but that would be even better if you synergized it with a certain additional influence? And what would be the metaphorical equivalent of that additional influence?

Now is a good time to investigate these questions.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "I have the usual

capacity for wanting what may not even exist," wrote poet Galway Kinnell. How abut you, Scorpio? Do you, too, have an uncanny ability to long for hypothetical, invisible, mythical, and illusory things? If so, I will ask you to downplay that amazing power of yours for a while. It's crucial for your future development that you focus on yearning for actual experiences, real people, and substantive possibilities. Please understand: I'm not suggesting you're bad or wrong for having those seemingly impossible desires. I'm simply saying that for now you will thrive on being attracted to things that are genuinely available.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

"Sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in," wrote Sagittarian novelist Jane Austen. I'm guessing you've had that experience—maybe more than usual, of late.

But I suspect you'll soon be finding ways to express those embryonic feelings. Congrats in advance! You'll discover secrets you've been concealing from yourself.

You'll receive missing information whose absence has made it hard to understand the whole story. Your unconscious mind will reveal the rest of what it has thus far merely been hinting at.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): All over the world, rivers and lakes are drying up. Sources of water are shrinking. Droughts are becoming more common and prolonged. Why? Mostly because of climate change. The good news is that lots of people are responding to the crisis with alacrity. Among them is an engineer in India named Ramveer Tanwar.

Since 2014, he has organized efforts leading to the rejuvenation of twelve dead lakes and ponds. I propose we make him your role model for the coming weeks.

I hope he will inspire you to engage in idealistic pursuits that benefit other people. And I hope you'll be motivated to foster fluidity and flow and wetness everywhere you go. The astrological time is ripe for such activities.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A blogger named Caramelizee offered her definition of elegance: "being proud of both your feminine and masculine qualities; seeing life as a non-ending university and learning everything you can; caring for yourself with tender precision; respecting and taking advantage of silences; tuning in to your emotions without being oversensitive; owning your personal space and being generous enough to allow other people to own their personal space." This definition of elegance will be especially apropos and useful for you Aquarians in the coming weeks.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You Pisceans have

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo adventurer Jason Lewis traveled around the world using transportation powered solely by his own body. He walked, bicycled, skated, rowed, pedaled, and swam more than 46,000 miles. I propose that we make him your role model for the next four weeks. You're primed to accomplish gradual breakthroughs through the use of simple, persistent, incremental actions. Harnessing the power of your physical vitality will be an important factor in your success.

been summoning heroic levels of creative intensity.

You've been working extra hard and extra smart. But it seems that you haven't been fully recognized or appreciated for your efforts. I'm sorry about that.

Please don't let it discourage you from continuing to express great integrity and authenticity. Keep pushing for your noble cause and offering your best gifts. I'm proud of you! And although you may not yet have reaped all the benefits you will ultimately sow, three months from now I bet you'll be pleased you pushed so hard to be such a righteous servant of the greater good.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Curcumin is a chemical found in the plant turmeric. When ingested by humans, it may diminish inflammation, lower the risk of diabetes, support cardiovascular health, and treat digestive disorders. But there's a problem: the body is inefficient in absorbing and using curcumin—unless it's ingested along with piperine, a chemical in black pepper. Then it's far more available. What would be the metaphorical equivalent to curcumin in your

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