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Let me start by explaining the photo in this letter, I’m the guy in the middle, Dr. Taatjes.

You know when I meet people in town and they usually say, “Oh yeah, I know you, you’re Dr. Taatjes. You’ve been in Petaluma for years…” Well, that’s me.

Thirty four years ago something happened to me that changed my life forever. Let me tell you my story.

I was studying pre-Med in college, in hopes of becoming a medical doctor. Things were looking up, and life was good, until things took a turn for the worse.

I began to have terrible back and stomach problems. For a young guy, I felt pretty rotten. My back hurt so badly that I had a hard time even concentrating in class. I was miserable. The medical doctors tried different drugs, but they only made me feel like I was in a “cloud.” I was just not getting better.

A friend of mine convinced me to give a chiropractor a try. The adjustment didn’t hurt, it actually felt good. I got relief, and I soon was off all medication. It worked so well that I decided, then and there, to become a chiropractor myself.

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When pressed for the actual number of FTE jobs, the developer admitted the cited jobs would only be during construction and after that, they would only have 2 to 5 FTEs. While there is a need for more clean energy, it needs to be placed responsibly. The proposed 700 acres of solar would not reduce CO2 in the air as much as the same acres of crops.

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s mayor of St. Helena, my job is to safeguard the health, welfare and safety of our community. At a recent NPR forum in Napa I was stunned to hear the CEO of the Napa County Farm Bureau dismiss concerns that local agricultural activity can impact climate change as he claimed no science supported such concerns.

Wow. Is he really under the impression that climate change science stops at the Napa County line or Napa County practices have no relationship to the global issue?

What happened to “Think Globally, Act Locally”? Isn't that why we promote reusable water containers and ban single use plastic bags?

Isn't that why we explore alternative fuel vehicles? Is farming in Napa County somehow exempt from this logic?

Basic science and common sense demonstrate it is the cumulative impact of “local” activity in the global aggregate that propel us toward climate crises. What if everyone around the globe suggested the problem existed only outside their region?

Established science is clear that deforestation is a major contributor to climate change by disrupting carbon sequestration.

Deforestation also diminishes conversion of carbon dioxide into oxygen we need to breathe. Logic, common sense and science are basic that if deforestation in Indonesia and the Amazon contribute to global warming, so does deforestation in Napa County.

At this same meeting I raised concerns that agricultural activity in water source areas in the hills above our municipal reservoirs can impact water quality (and quantity) in those reservoirs. Again the Farm Bureau’s CEO dismissed the concerns as lacking science.

In this case the science is simple: It’s called gravity.

Water flows downhill and anything getting into water above our reservoirs such as pesticides and fertilizers can enter the reservoirs, drinking water and bodies of our community. Science of hydrology also exposes potential of public waters above reservoirs being diverted to private entities, creating large scale economic concerns.

I Invite the Farm Bureau to join me and the municipal governments of Napa County in our joint proclamation recognizing the need of urgent action related to climate concerns.

Geoff Ellsworth is the mayor of St. Helena. We welcome your contribution.

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Mountain lion heads to Macy’s in Santa Rosa— what’s it all mean? BY TOM GOGOLA

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anta Rosans woke up Monday morning a circling helicopter and news that a juvenile mountain lion was spotted camping out under at bush near Macy’s downtown at the Santa Rosa Plaza.

Headline machines cranked up around the North Bay to describe the peculiar phenomenon—

“Mauled at the Mall!” was one headline we were glad to not see—as the animal was quickly tranquilized by the California Department of Fish & Wildlife, who said the animal would be released back into the wild. A leading theory from state officials was that the animal had found its way to Santa Rosa by following the city’s namesake creek downtown, or via the Manzanita creek.

“We’ve had a lot of interest and a lot of the public connecting

with us about the mountain lion in the mall, says Dr. Quinton Martins, the Director and Principal Investigator with Living with Lions, which tracks the animals’ presence in the state. The sighting of large wild animals juxtaposed in urban environments is not a new story in the North Bay but it does have a new twist in recent years. Multiple online resources devoted to the life and times of apex predators, not to mention California

environmental organizations, have noted an uptick in the number of animals loping into urban areas in recent years— mostly due to their habitats being squeezed by development or, as the case may be, a year-round fire season that’s seen beasts of all size and dimension fleeing the flames for un-scorched earth.

“It’s funny that it takes a mountain lion to go shopping at Macy’s to get people really aware of the fact that we are living with lions,” says Martins, who says the cat was given an ear tag to track it, and that its DNA was collected for testing before it was released. He estimates the cat to be between eight and 10 months old and says his organization will now try to figure out where it came from and see if it’s related to any of the other 17 cats the Living With Lions is tracking.

A posting on the mountain lion– loving site knowyourneighbors. com was characteristic in describing the phenomenon that hit home this week: “As mountain lion habitat becomes more fragmented, dispersing young mountain lions often find their way into urban areas by accident. Urbanization and habitat fragmentation disrupts the natural dispersal landscape, and reduces the amount of available territory for dispersing young.”

That site, among others, shares some recommendations on how to deal with the arrival of mountain lions: keep the pets locked up, not to mention the goats and sheep, and other vulnerable animals, from dusk ’til dawn.

The mountain lion was spotted at around 9am, and by 10am life had returned to normal on the corner of 4th Street and Avenue B. It was an hour that will live on in the imaginations of Santa Rosans mesmerized by the bizarre spectacle. We anticipate that a limited-edition Mountain Lion Malt Ale to emerge from nearby Russian River Brewery any day now, to commemorate the occasion.

But there’s a larger “what’s it all mean” storyline here that’s of a more spiritual question in search of an answer. While rare in Santa Rosa, mountain lions do appear on occasion in West Marin

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In life as in redevelopment, that’s a message with some real poignancy. It’s especially wise counsel for a North Bay now under an intensive rebuilding regime after the 2017 wildfires wiped out five percent of the housing stock in Santa Rosa—a rebuild that’s met with increasing housing unaffordability for an underpaid North Bay workforce from Larkspur to Cloverdale, not to mention an anticipated population spike in coming years up and down the Highway 101 transit corridor to San Francisco.

Those “boundaries” alluded to by First Nations people are presumably inclusive of the locally legislated “urban growth boundaries” that have kept the North Bay from morphing into a gigantic sprawl with even less wild space to accommodate the occasional beast that wanders into town to check out the sale at Macy’s. Organizations including the Sonoma Land Trust have put a emphasis on maintaining, or developing, so-called “wildlife corridors,” around the region to mitigate against any local destruction of animals’ traditional rangelands at the hands of, for example, expanded vineyard footprints and the like.

Any time a big animal shows up downtown, it’s serious business—a potentially dangerous animal on the loose in a populated area. And, while mountain lion attacks on humans are rare, they do occur. After a mountain lion killed a bicyclist in Washington State, in 2018, the Mercury News reported that it was only the sixth fatal mountain-lion attack in the country over the preceding 25 years; three of the attacks occurred in California.

But if this episode is repeated Fish & Wildlife recommends that you fight back like it’s Black Friday and you’re beating off fellow shoppers to be first in line for the Christmas sales at Sears. “Research on mountain lion attacks suggests that many potential victims have fought back successfully with rocks, sticks, garden tools, even an ink pen or bare hands,” the state reports. “Try to stay on your feet. If knocked down, try to protect head and neck.”

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and especially in the Mt. Tam watershed—and when it happens, folks out in unicorn bush country tend to be both freaked out (hide the Pomeranian!) and spiritually awestruck at the sighting.

The Marin Municipal Water District reports on its website that the agency’s “watershed management staff occasionally receive reports of mountain lion sightings on Mt. Tamalpais Watershed lands. These sightings are not cause for alarm, but the district recommends that visitors to public lands follow the mountain lion precautions provided by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.”

Those precautions include never hiking or jogging alone, refraining from leaving pets or small children outdoors unattended, and to “acknowledge that you live in mountain lion country and make a commitment to educate yourself.”

For all the caution recommended, it’s also helpful to educate oneself about the mountain lion’s heavy symbolism for the spiritually inclined, especially since Fish & Wildlife says that “mountain lion attacks on humans are extremely rare,” and that the animal is likely more scared of the humans it encounters than vice versa.

As a spiritual matter, for example, the noble animal pops up in Jimi Hendrix’s “Voodoo Chile,” right after the moon turns fire red and Jimi’s gypsy mother drops dead upon seeing the dread spawn she’s just birthed.

Abandoned to his fate, like Moses, Jimi sings, “Well, mountain lions found me there waiting, and set me on an eagle’s back.”

Hendrix was part Cherokee, and First Nations folklore holds the mountain lion in very high totemic regard; the animal is conferred the status of “magical sun dancer,” and one of the bits of wisdom that pops up on sites devoted to animal symbolism is that if a mountain lion should appear in your cosmology, at your local mall or atop your local mountain, its message is that the human beings who engage with it must “find the balance between freedom and maintaining boundaries.”

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Healdsburg State Senator Mike McGuire is hosting a hearing this Friday, May 3, that’s devoted to the prospects for offshore wind energy in the region and how it may impact California fisheries.

Earlier this year we reported on a push to develop wind farms off the Humboldt coast that’s been generally supported by California coastal electeds ranging from U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman to McGuire himself (“Full Tilt,” Feb. 27). McGuire is Chair of the Joint Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture and says in a statement that he’s calling the meeting to take a close look “at any potential environmental impacts it could have on our state’s fisheries.”

The hearing is being presented as a question in search of answer that’s already been answered: “California’s Fisheries and Wildlife: Can they co-exist with Offshore Wind Energy Development?”

The answer appears to be, “They’re going to have to figure out a way to co-exist,” given McGuire’s support for offshore wind farms, which are increasingly being presented as a fait accompli, given the state’s robust push to go all-renewables by 2045— and by the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management initiating an offshore-leasing program in 2018.

Earlier this year, the American Jobs Project, a Democratic-leaning nonprofit think tank founded by former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm, issued a white paper in support of two wind farms under consideration—one at Morro Bay and the aforementioned Humboldt County coast—and said that a combination of federal leases and state interest could see the first offshore wind farm leases as early as next year.

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benefit to Sonoma and Marin counties, both of which have their own CCA’s, Sonoma Clean Energy and Marin Clean Energy. Those entities purchase renewable energy from solar and wind farms that are often many miles down the electric wire from the point of consumption. Huffman says offshore wind in Humboldt could be of service to those CCAs, given that “there’s way more energy potential than there is demand,” in Humboldt County.

McGuire notes in his statement that “the burgeoning Pacific offshore wind energy industry is going to be a critical component of our state’s energy supply,” as he highlights the need for input from fisheries experts in advance of any leases.

As we reported last month, offshore wind projects on the East Coast had a traditional base of opposition driven by the fishing industry’s concerns over the tethered windmills’ potential impact on their gear and on their traditional fishing grounds.

Those concerns gave way over time, and the nation’s first big offshore wind-farm went online off the coast of Rhode Island in 2016. As we reported in February from the department of irony, Fishermen are now using their boats to haul “ecotourists” to the site to check out the windmills, whose blade-span is more than the length of a football field and quite impressive to behold.

Friday’s meeting is taking place up in Eureka from 11am to 2pm and will be live-streamed via the state’s Joint Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture online portal.

Speakers are coming from a range of shareholders—including the BOEM, the California Coastal Commission, representatives from the windmillenergy industry, the National Resources Defense Council, and several organizations representing fishermen’s interests. They may be tilting at windmills.

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he most memorable food pairing experience I’ve had in recent memory did not involve some precious, chefprepared morsel of seared scallops or a $200 Cabernet.

In fact it two of Petaluma’s best-loved, if humble, signature products. Not butter and eggs, silly—craft brew and artisan cheese.

It was all quite accidental. The occasion was a 50-mile cycling challenge I put myself through just to complete a story in the

Bohemian (“Surfin' Curds,” May 11, 2019) about cheese. The plan was a brisk four-hour ride from the Petaluma SMART train station to Point Reyes Station and back, but by the time I reached the Petaluma Creamery store at 3:30, it was clear enough I wasn’t going to make the 3pm

train back to Santa Rosa. So I picked up a wedge of dry goat jack cheese and then stopped in at Dempsey’s Restaurant & Brewery, a brew pub from the old school that holds its own in these days of craft-brew mania, to wait for the 4:30. Dempsey’s old English–style Petaluma Strong Ale, slightly sweet with malt, was a sensation with the tangy, crumbly, and not too “goaty” jack (it’s also less dry than the typical dry jack). Nice of the bartender to provide a full place setting for my cheese eating scheme, as well, and I could’ve lingered there longer, as the river and footbridge traffic meandered by, were it not for that 4:30 train.

Well, Lagunitas Brewing Company could have read my mind, because the next time they sent out a sample of their season Waldos’ Special Ale, in April, it was accompanied by a food pairing of local products that included a pocket-size picnic pouch of handmade flatbread from Petaluma’s Rustic Bakery, blue cheese from Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company (which now has a Petaluma production facility) and marmalade created by San Francisco cannabis chef, Stephany Gocobachi.

Now hold on! The Waldos’ is not so much a triple IPA, at 11.7 percent alcohol by volume, as a grotesquely hopped barleywine.

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That’s the audacious plot of the new feature film, Pill Head, which dives into the deep end of cinema’s absurdity pool with arthouse flair. Conceived of, produced and filmed almost entirely in Petaluma, Pill Head is the latest creation from producer Karen Hess and writerdirector Daedalus Howell, who collaborate on outside-the-box

interactive art experiences in their ongoing endeavor, Culture Department.

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brain scrambled in ‘Pill Head.’

turned into a love letter to the filmmakers’ hometown.

Pill Head is set within Howell’s fictional take on Petaluma, “Lumaville,” a sleepy Northern California college town in the grips of a startup boom that was also the setting for his 2015 sci-fi novel Quantum Deadline.

In addition to the themes of identity and mental health, Pill Head also wrestles with notions of nostalgia and redemption.

“I was interested in the possibilities of one’s life, and how every possibility could be realized if we had enough time,” says Howell. “I really enjoyed the idea of somebody who had crossed one step too far, and how far back the journey back would be.”

In the case of Pill Head, it’s college student Theda, brilliantly played by actress and Petaluma native Emily Ahrens (now Emily Tugaw), who takes one dose too many and finds herself in a drug-induced wonderland of possibilities.

“When I read it, I really loved it,” says Hess. “It had a different

vibe to it and I wanted to make sure it happened.”

“Karen is great to work with because she’s super supportive,” says Howell. “She’s able to not just see a vision, but to complement and amplify a vision.”

Conceptually, Pill Head is a movie that plays out like a memory; nothing is exactly as it seems, but rather as it is remembered.

“There’s a theme of nostalgia, but it’s not pure nostalgia,” says Hess. “We’ve had people comment that the film reminds them of when they were young, but from different eras.”

“There’s something in the film that allows people to project a vision of their own youth to a degree,” says Howell.

For the Petaluma-born Hess and Howell, who have seen the city’s transformation from farm town to bustling hub, Pill Head is also a snapshot of the town as they see it today.

“This film is a time capsule,” says Howell.

17 After a two-week break in shooting, Hess redid the production schedule, and shooting ran through the end of 2017.

From there, Howell and Hess spent months at the editing deck. As Pill Head took shape, additional post-production editors helped with technical aspects like giving the soundtrack a Dolby 5.1 surround sound mix.

“I think the movie transcends the sum of its parts, and a lot of it has to do with the energy that everyone brought to it,” Howell says.

Prior to a video-on-demand release on May 16, Pill Head is getting a limited theatrical run in the North Bay, with screenings scheduled for May 9 in Santa Rosa, May 13 and 15 in Petaluma and May 13 in Sonoma and Fairfax.

“There’s so many ways to see Petaluma that really pop on the big screen,” says Howell. “I don’t think Petalumans have seen Petaluma this way.”

Indeed, Howell and Hess began to see Petaluma differently during the making of the film.

“I didn’t realize how much I love Petaluma until I saw the film in its final cut,” says Howell. “Petaluma is weird, and there’s no way around it. And the artists here will always remind you and reveal to you how weird it is and how weird you are.”

“As much hipster shellac that gets dripped over this place, there is something, it's in the water, there is something here that is vital and that cannot be obscured by whatever pour-over coffee trend may occur,” says Howell. “If we’re not keeping Petaluma weird, we’re at least keeping ourselves weird in Petaluma.”

‘Pill Head’ screens on Thursday, May 9, at Roxy Stadium 14, 85 Santa Rosa Ave., Santa Rosa. 7pm and 9pm; on Monday and Wednesday, May 13 and 15, at Boulevard 14 Cinemas, 200 C St., Petaluma. 7pm and 9pm both days; and on Wednesday, May 15, at Sonoma 9 Cinemas, 200 Siesta Way, Sonoma, and Fairfax Theatre, 9 Broadway, Fairfax. 7pm. For tickets and more info, visit culturedept.com/pillhead.

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Howell and Hess are also very aware of the history of filmmaking in Petaluma, and part of the impetus of Pill Head was to revisit Petaluma locations that were used in films like American Graffiti and Peggy Sue Got Married and, as Howell puts it, to reclaim them.

“Petaluma is like our own back lot,” says Howell. “We went to Paramount studios at one point scouting, really just hanging out in the lot, but they took us to their alley set, and it was a dead ringer for American Alley.”

The brick-lined American Alley is featured in the film, as are other downtown locations like the recently reopened music venue the Big Easy (see Music, pg 23), the Petaluma Masonic Hall and David Yearsley River Heritage Center, situated along the Petaluma River.

The film also features cameos by local characters like Eli Lucas, a longtime fixture known for roller-skating through Petaluma dressed in a Unitard, curly wig and aviator sunglasses and carrying a boombox blasting disco music.

“That’s a touchstone of Petaluma that George Lucas forgot to get,” says Howell with a laugh.

Stylistically, the black-andwhite feature takes its main inspiration from the French New Wave and films like Breathless and Cleo From 5 to 7 that employed handheld cameras and nontraditional staging to achieve a cinéma vérité aesthetic that’s akin to a documentary. Other inspirations came from the early work of cult film veterans Jim Jarmusch and David Lynch.

“That filmmaking production style seemed to suit our budget and timeline,” says Howell, who shot at 20 locations within Petaluma and Santa Rosa.

The filmmaking process was not without its challenges and the sheer amount of work almost overwhelmed the team, especially given that Pill Head started shooting in October 2017, when wildfires brought the North Bay to a standstill.

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Impress your friends, be a hit at parties and amaze children by learning how to juggle during the annual Petaluma Juggle-In. Have a blast tossing balls, while learning the art of the juggle and all the benefits that come with it. Not only does juggling look cool, it also helps improve hand-eye coordination, reduces stress, helps with combating degenerative brain diseases and more. Hosted by Aqus Café, the JuggleIn even lets you make your own juggling balls when the fun commences on Saturday, May 4, at Foundry Wharf Green, First and H streets, Petaluma. 11am. Free. 707.778.6060.

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Screen Gems

Now in its 11th year, Film Fest Petaluma continues to offer a oneday showcase of the best new animated and live action short films from around the world, screening in three blocks with special guest filmmakers on hand for discussions. Spanning several genres and styles, this captivating afternoon and evening of film shows local audiences cinematic works they would otherwise not be exposed to. Come to one screening block or stay the whole day on Saturday, May 4, at Mystic Theatre & Music Hall, 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. Noon. $10–$30. petalumafilmalliance.org.

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Star Wows

Every year on the 4th of May, fans from across the world observe “Star Wars Day,” though few do it like Santa Rosa-based variety troupe North Bay Cabaret, who present their fourth annual May the 4th Be With You, a raunchy and definitely adults-only Star Wars themed burlesque and variety show. See strip teasing storm troopers, lightsaber-wielding dancers, spoken word performers and local musicians and artists, while participating in a costume contest, “Jedi Training School” and more on Saturday, May 4, at the Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington St., Petaluma.

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QUEST FOR BREAKFAST New York Times columnist and author David Brooks reads from ‘The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life,’ at a special breakfast event on Thursday, May 2, at Copperfield’s Books in Petaluma.

See readings, pg 26.

Spring Voices

In addition to presenting top-tier theatrical productions, Cinnabar Theater lets the community get in on the fun with their chorus programs, including the Cinnabar Singers. The mixed-voice choir welcomes anyone 16 or older who shares the joy of singing in glorious harmony with like-minded folk, and after a season of rehearsing, the chorus shows off their stuff with the Cinnabar Singers Spring Concert.

To mark the season of rebirth and renewal, the singers will perform an eclectic array of music in romance languages on Sunday, May 5, at Elim Lutheran Church, 504 Baker St., Petaluma. 3pm. $15. 707.763.8920.

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BREAKING THROUGH Jane Anderson is one of five female playwrights being featured at Marin Theatre Company next season.

Change On Stage Marin Theatre Co. upends male dominance with new season, playwrights BY DAVID TEMPLETON

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n a world where male playwrights outnumber women, especially in Broadway and offBroadway theaters, the Marin Theatre Company’s upcoming season looks nothing short of revolutionary.

“American theater has taken some remarkably groundbreaking steps, and there are things we do faster and better than others,” says Jasson Minadakis, artistic director

of the Mill Valley theater company.

“But there are other areas in which American theater has shown up late to the table, if at all. And theater’s reluctant relationship—and almost nonexistent promotion of female playwrights—is one of those areas.”

MTC has long been a champion of playwrights who fall into categories often underrepresented on the American stage. So it shouldn't be shocking that when the awardwinning nonprofit recently announced its 2019–20 season,

the six shows named include five by established and emerging female playwrights. After all, of the seven playwrights included in the company’s current season— including this week’s debut of Nambi E. Kelley’s Jazz—four of those playwrights are women. Just don’t make too big a deal of it.

“For what it’s worth, [gender] is really not a conscious consideration in choosing our season,” says Minadakis. “We literally just went after the six best new plays could

find, the scripts that grabbed out interest and held it. Only after we looked at them all together did we realize that we had picked plays by five amazing American women and one Canadian man.”

The season begins Oct. 1 with Mary Katherine Nagle’s Sovereignty, an examination of the genocidal Trail of Tears, and its modern-day impact on one young Cherokee lawyer. The play had its world premiere earlier this year in Washington D.C. After that comes the ferocious historical drama Mother of the Maid (Nov. 19), in which the mother of Joan of Arc confronts the many contradictions of her doomed daughter’s astonishing life. It was penned by Nicasio playwrightscreenwriter Jane Anderson, who also wrote last year’s Oscarnominated The Wife.

On Jan. 14, in association with San Francisco’s Golden Thread Productions, it’ll be Noura, by Heather Raffo (Nine Parts of Desire), the intimately crafted story of an Iraqi family celebrating Christmas (and their new American citizenship), and what happens when an unexpected guest arrives for the holidays. Then, beginning on March 10, 2020, MTC presents the world premiere of Kate Cortesi’s Love, followed by Lynn Nottage’s mysterious Mlima’s Tale (opening next April 28), about the hunting and trafficking of endangered animals as told by the spirit of an African elephant. The final show of the season will be Botticelli in the Fire by Jordan Tannahill, opening June 23.

Minadakis points out that MTC’s upcoming season, with the exception of Cortesi’s Love, is almost entirely made up of the second and third productions of these plays. For a playwright, that’s almost as important, and perhaps even more so, than a world premiere. ) 20

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When it comes to new work, many companies recognize the potential box office bragging rights that come from debuting a new show. In the case of Nagle, a renowned playwright who has garnered tremendous praise for her work at some of America’s most prestigious companies, MTC’s production of Sovereignty will mark the first time a company has given any of her plays a second production.

“That’s crazy, isn’t it?” says Minadakis. “And it’s just another example of how hard it is for the voices of female playwrights to be heard in this country.”

That’s a fact that Kate Cortesi, the Boston-based author of Love, has been contending with for years, despite what some would call a high degree of success.

Originally from Washington D.C., Cortesi had a number of plays produced at festivals and college settings, and has amassed a lots of attention as a playwright— including winning the esteemed Princess Grace award for her 2014 play Great Kills. MTC’s 2020 production of Love takes on workplace sexual harassment in the #MeToo era, will be her first professional production.

“I’m thrilled that MTC will be doing my play,” says Cortesi. “And I have to say I feel pretty psyched to be on that list, alongside such amazing company.”

Cortesi agrees that it’s notable and rare that there are so many women playwrights this year.

“I’m thinking about Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s quip. When asked, ‘When there will be real equity on the Supreme Court?’, and she said, ‘When there are nine female Supreme Court justices.’

Truly, we are so conditioned to all-male landscapes, that’s the sort of background and wallpaper of our lives, and when you change any part of that wallpaper, it’s extremely noticeable. It’s impossible to ignore, because it stands out. I do hope for a time when the wallpaper of American theater being frequently made out of women, instead of all men, just looks like wallpaper.”

Cortesi adds that it’s hard to

ignore that much of the really groundbreaking work right now is being done by female playwrights.

“Women playwrights are kicking ass right now,” she says.

“They are producing remarkable work, and they are leading. I think that centering is long overdue.

It’s such a great time to go to the theater right now.”

Jane Anderson, who splits her time between Marin County and Los Angeles, shares Cortesi’s dream of a time when a season like MTC’s is just business as usual.

“Won’t be great when things like that don’t seem like some big leap forward, and just seem like another year at the theater?” she asks.

Anderson’s Mother of the Maid was originally developed at the Berkshire Playwrights Lab, and was revamped in advance of last year’s run at NYC’s Public Theater, with Glenn Close in the title role.

“I’m really not interested in bumping-off male playwrights,” Anderson says. “There are so many wonderful men in the theater—artists, and directors, and actors and designers—and I’ve been listening to a lot of scolding going on, men being scolded for dominating theater. But I tend to think the artists are the wrong people to be yelling at. I truly believe every artist is unique, regardless of what gender or color or orientation they are.”

Female playwrights are demanding basic equity and fairness. “I think the main request from us female playwrights, and playwrights of color and other playwrights who are in the minority, is that we get read and we get a fair shot,” she says.

“Breaking through the American stage is such a complicated concept. It’s hard for everybody. I suppose in some ways, it will be a great day when it’s equally hard for men to break through as it is for women, instead of it being so very much harder for women, as it has been for so very long.

“And I think maybe, little by little, we’re beginning to move in that direction,” says Anderson.

“Companies like Marin Theatre Company are part of the solution.

But we have a long way to go.”

Christi Calson is one of the titular siblings in Raven Players’ Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Family Dynamics Relatives rumble in two North Bay productions

BY HARRY DUKE

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iblings and significant others do battle in two comedies running now on North Bay stages.

Healdsburg’s Raven Players take you to rural Pennsylvania where Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike gather at the family homestead. Vanya (Steven David Martin) and Sonia (Diane Bailey) have held down the family fort and taken care of their infirm parents while sister Masha (Christi Calson) went off to be a big Hollywood star. Their psychic housekeeper Cassandra (Athena Gundlach) warns them of impending doom, and the next thing you know, Masha returns with Hollywood him-bo Spike (Bill Garcia) on her arm with some bad news.

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707.433.6335. ‘Born Yesterday' runs through May 12 at Andrews Hall, 276 E. Napa St., Sonoma. Thursday– Saturday, 7:30pm; Sunday, 2pm. $25–$40. 866.710.8942.

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What’s a theater company to do with the exit of an actor in a key role deep into the rehearsal process? Sonoma Arts Live and director Carl Jordan had to deal with just that situation with their production of Garson Kanin’s 1946 comedy Born Yesterday.

Kanin’s tale of multi-millionaire junk dealer Harry Brock (Ken Bacon) and his mistress Billie Dawn (Melissa Claire) is experiencing something of a renaissance. Seems that a story about a crude, rude, ignorant Washington power-broker who eventually gets his comeuppance has a certain appeal with audiences these days.

It’s a good-looking show, with nice period costume work by Janis Synder and a nicely appointed set

by Jason Jamerson.

Bacon came into the production late in the rehearsal process and it shows. Credit to him for doing as well as he did, but his tentativeness with lines really affected the show’s timing and limited rehearsal apparently led to little character development.

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ike many others at the end of a life of violence, the would-be demiurge Thanos (Josh Brolin) has retired to the country. His new planet looks like upcountry Maui. Dissolving half of all life was a tough job, but now he’s hung up his armor to rust, a scarecrow in his vegetable garden. Thanos is boiling himself a meal of outer-space taro root, when suddenly, through his roof bursts a living blast of light that was once known as Carol Danvers.

In the early scenes of Avengers: Endgame—indeed, throughout the entire movie—you get what was ordered: Thanos gets barbecued and body-slammed by several of Earth’s mightiest heroes. The ingenuity here is that this attack comes at the beginning of the film, not the end.

The problem of the so-called ‘Infinity Stones’ proves to be a difficult antirapture, whose first step is triggered by the paws of a storage-room rat.

This massive cycle is a feat of cinematic engineering for which there is no parallel. Completing it, the Russo Brothers use their three hours not just for the usual battle royales, last stands and self-sacrifice,

but also to capture the mood of a grieving Earth. As Ant-Man, the least respected member of the team, Paul Rudd does the great old Ebenezer Scrooge at the graveside scene, seeing his name on a cenotaph to “the Vanished” in Golden Gate Park. Survivors have moved on— Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) has also resettled in the country with wife Pepper (Gwyneth Paltrow) and child; Mark Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner, no longer bifurcated, but a scholarly Hulk with glasses, signs autographs for the kids who tug his sleeve.

In heading off Thanos at the pass, Stark gets to see his father one last time. Thor—who reacted to the extermination of half the universe by becoming a beerbellied seaside town slouch—visits his mother on Asgard once more.

Avengers: Endgame didn’t seem a moment too long, and there wasn’t an awkward performance among its cast. The film has as much faith in quietness as in the noise of milelong spaceships. For something that ends up nigh-Armageddon, there are a lot of scenes around lakes, scenes of fathers and daughters, quiet tearful farewells and the trilling of birds.

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Located in a former sensuality shop on American Alley near Driscoll and Tschann’s small-plate restaurant, Speakeasy, the Big Easy became a lively destination in the town’s cultural scene for visitors and locals alike, offering live jazz, folk, rock and other music four to five nights a week for little or no cover charge.

In addition to hosting local bands and musicians, the Big Easy is also a popular destination for North Bay charity events, fundraisers, weddings and other private events.

Last fall, the music at the Big Easy was silenced when city inspections lead to permitting problems.

“I’m chalking it up to bad luck, really,” says Driscoll. Following an initial inspection by the fire department in late October, which resulted in some minimal retrofitting requests, re-inspections suddenly incorporated over a dozen city officials in departments like building and planning, wastewater and health, triggering a closure of the venue.

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“I tried to fight [closing the venue], but wanted to play along because I thought it would be pretty quick,” says Driscoll. “But they kept coming at us with new lists.”

After several back-and-forth attempts to resolve permitting and construction issues, Driscoll made a plea to the Petaluma city council and the public to support their efforts to get back open.

Soon, Driscoll found an advocate in Petaluma Economic Development manager Ingrid Alverde; an online crowdfunding campaign raised nearly $10,000 for construction costs.

“It was a crazy learning experience,” says Driscoll. “But the good thing is that I think the community, having had this venue taken away, realized how much they missed us.”

The Big Easy came out the other side of the ordeal and reopened April 3. Currently, the club is hosting bands on Wednesday through Saturday, with local acts like the Incubators, Citizen Flannel and the Wednesday Night Big Band taking the stage this week.

“The community really wants this space,” says Driscoll. “It’s a good reminder for everyone that this town values art and entertainment.”

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Danny Click & The Hell Yeahs

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May 3, Solid Air. May 4, Castletown Band. 464 First St E, Sonoma, 707.935.0660.

Clubs & Venues

May 2, Black Sheep Brass Band with Barrio Manouche. May 3, Mickey Avalon & Dirt Nasty.

May 8, Ben Haggard and Noel Haggard. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.775.6048.

Concerts SONOMA Cinnabar Singers Spring Concert

Seasonal performance features an eclectic mix of music in romance languages. May 5, 3pm. $15. Elim Lutheran Church, 504 Baker St, Petaluma, 707.763.8920.

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Occidental Center for the Arts

May 3, WIllow & Hound. May 4, Tangled Up in Blue Band. May 5, 2pm, Alan Early. 189 H St, Petaluma, 707.778.6060.

May 3-5, Occidental Community Choir Spring Concert. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental, 707.874.9392.

The Big Easy

May 2, Bronze Medal Hopeful with Gio Benedetti. May 3, the Incubators. May 4, Citizen Flannel. May 8, Wednesday Night Big Band. 128 American Alley, Petaluma, 707.776.7163.

Redwood Cafe

Willie Nelson & Family Iconic country star and special guests perform. May 7, 8pm. $103 and up. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.546.3600.

MARIN Benefit for Jerry Knight's Historic River Theatre Mad Mama & the Bona Fide Few and others raise the roof to help repair the flood-damaged Sonoma County venue. May 2, 8pm. $20. 19 Broadway Nightclub, 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax, 415.459.1091.

San Francisco legends celebrate Woodstock's golden anniversary with Big Brother & the Holding Company. May 7, 7pm. $49 and up. Marin Center's Veterans Memorial Auditorium, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael, 415.473.6800.

Enjoy an evening of sacred music with Kitka Trio and Taneen Sufi Music Ensemble. May 3, 7:30pm. Mill Valley Community Center, 180 Camino Alto, Mill Valley, kitka.org.

NAPA It's a Grand Night for Singers

Bluewater Bistro

May 2, Randall Sequeria.

21301 Heron Dr, Bodega Bay, 707.875.3513.

Brewsters Beer Garden May 2, Lucky Drive Bluegrass Band. May 3, Z and the Benders.

May 4, the Grain. May 5, 1pm, Cinco de Mayo with the Left 2 Write Band. 229 Water St N, Petaluma, 707.981.8330.

Coyote Sonoma

May 3, Hey Jude. May 4, Long Story Short. 44F Mill St, Healdsburg, 707.385.9133.

Elephant in the Room

May 3, John Courage Trio.

May 4, Steve Pile Trio. May 5, Christian Foley Trio.

May 7, Logan Mason Band. 177-A Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, elephantintheroompub.com.

Geyserville Gun Club Bar & Lounge May 4, Flat Broke & Busted.

21025 Geyserville Ave, Geyserville, 707.814.0036.

HopMonk Sebastopol May 3, West of Malbay. May 6, Cocoa Tea & the Step by Step Band. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol, 707.829.7300.

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Idiosyncratic indie-rock darling plays off his forthcoming album, “Here Comes the Cowboy.” May 7, 6pm. $65. Gundlach Bundschu Winery, 2000 Denmark St, Sonoma, 707.938.5277.

Mac DeMarco

Music director Richard Evans accompanies singers from all over the Bay Area. May 4, 7pm. $20. Jarvis Conservatory, 1711 Main St, Napa, 707.255.5445.

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May 4,Transistor Rodeo. May 5, Trevor McSpadden Band. May 8, Hot Grubb. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma, 707.778.8776.

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May 3, Charles Henry Paul. May 4, Jaydub and Dino. May 5, Matt the Electrician. 691 Broadway, Sonoma, 707.935.9100.

May 2, Flowtilla. May 3, Mangobus.

May 2, Marin All-Stars. May 3, the Soul Section. May 4, Nick Gravenites. May 5, North of the Bay Artists Showcase. May 6, the Blues Defenders pro jam.

8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.795.7868.

The Reel Fish Shop & Grill

May 3, the Budrows. May 4, Pistoleros Famosos. 401 Grove St, Sonoma, 707.343.0044.

Stout Brothers Irish Pub

May 1, Blues Defenders.

527 Fourth St, Santa Rosa, 707.636.0240.

Twin Oaks Roadhouse May 2, Country Line Dancing.

May 3, Bloomfield Bluegrass Boys. May 4, Trevor McSpadden Band. 5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove, 707.795.5118.

MARIN Fenix

May 2, Sean Parnell & South County. May 3, Caravanserai.

May 4, Tazmanian Devils. May 5, Miracle Mule. 919 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.813.5600.

HopMonk Novato

May 2, Soulbillies with Happenstance and Matt Herrero.

May 3, Chris Peck and James M Harman. May 4, Diego's Umbrella. May 6, Benefit for the Sam Chase. 224 Vintage Way, Novato, 415.892.6200.

Sweetwater Music Hall

May 2-3, Super Diamond. May 5, Akio “Mr. Jimmy” Sakurai.

May 6, Colin Hay. Sold-out. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.3850.

NAPA Andaz Napa

May 1, Vincent Costanza. May 4, Zak Fennie. May 8, Austin Hicks.

1450 First St, Napa, 707.687.1234.

Blue Note Napa

May 1, Hunka Hunka Hula Revue.

May 2, Lei Day celebration with Kaleo. May 3-4, Kenny Lattimore & the Eric Reed Trio. May 8, Dee Lucas. 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.880.2300.

Buster's Southern Barbecue

May 5, 3pm, jazz and blues with Rob Watson and friends.

1207 Foothill Blvd, Calistoga, 707.942.5605.

Ca' Momi Osteria

May 3, La Noche Latina dance party. May 4, Radiokeys. 1141 First St, Napa, 707.224.6664.

Art Opening SONOMA Calabi Gallery

May 4-Jul 6, “Don Martin & Other Masters of California Post-War Art,” exhibit highlights how the times and locales influenced the movement. Reception, May 4 at 4pm. 456 10th St, Santa Rosa.

Tues-Sun, 11 to 5. 707.781.7070.

Museum of Sonoma County

May 5-Aug 11, “Kinetics: Art in Motion,” exhibit features moving works by contemporary California artists. Reception, May 4 at 4pm. 425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa. Tues-Sun, 11 to 5.

707.579.1500.

Santa Rosa Arts Center

May 3-24, “Student Art Show,” see an array of artwork from art students of Santa Rosa high schools as chosen by their teachers. Reception, May 3 at 5pm. 312 South A St, Santa Rosa. santarosaartscenter.org.

Comedy Bust Up Comedy Show Northern California comedians come together for a night of standup, improv and musical

comedy. May 4, 8pm. $15.

Whiskey Tip, 1910 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.843.5535.

May 4. $70 and up. Barlow Event Center, 6770 McKinley St, Sebastopol, ipa10k.com.

Dennis Gaxiola

May the Fourth Be With You

The Laugh Cellar presents the funny and clean comedian.

May 4, 7pm. $20-$28. Flamingo Lounge, 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa, 707.545.8530.

Dance Flamingo Lounge

Thursdays, Bachata dance lessons. Sundays, Salsa dancing and lessons. 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa 707.545.8530.

Spreckels Performing Arts Center

May 4, 8pm and May 5, 2pm, “Approaching 70: Fifty Years In a Life of Dance,” solo retrospective

by Virginia Matthews explores what an elder dancer can bring to performance. 5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park 707.588.3400.

SRHS Performing Arts Auditorium

May 3-4, 7pm and Sun, May 5, 2pm, “Out of the Box,” concert of new works is presented by Santa Rosa Junior College dance department. $10-$18. 1235 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. kad. santarosa.edu/dance.

Events Bodega Bay Fisherman’s Festival

Event kicks off salmon season with a weekend of winetasting, food, live music, wooden boatbuilding challenge and more.

May 4-5. $12-$25. Westside Park, Westshore Road, Bodega Bay, bbfishfest.org.

Checkerbloom Gala

Enjoy a garden party to benefit the restoration of the Kenwood Wetlands and the preservation of the endangered Kenwood Marsh Checkerbloom. May 4, 4pm. $125. Deerfield Ranch Winery, 10200 Sonoma Hwy, Kenwood, 707.833.2270.

Healdsburg Jazz Gala

Elegant night takes the theme of “All That Jazz” with cocktails, dinner, live music and more to benefit Healdsburg Jazz May 2, 6pm. $225 and up. Mayacama Golf Club, 1240 Mayacama Club Drive, Santa Rosa, healdsburgjazz.org.

IPA 10K & Beer Mile Invitational

Celebration includes scenic race and music-filled Brewfest.

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May 3, Boogie Nights with Steve Pile and friends. May 4, Pacific Range. May 5, Nicki Bluhm with Scott Law and Ross James. May 7, Colin Hay. 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael, 415.524.2773.

North Bay Cabaret presents an immersive R-rated “Star Wars” variety show experience. May 4, 7pm. $20-$30. The Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington St, Petaluma, 707.762.3565.

SoCo Arts Fest

Two-day festival features a juried art show and Cinco de Mayo celebrating local Latino culture with music, dance and beverages. May 4-5, 11am.

Free admission. Montgomery Village Shopping Center, 911 Village Court, Santa Rosa, 707.545.3844.

Spring Native Craft Fair

Annual event features several arts and crafts vendors. May 4, 11am. Free admission. California Indian Museum & Cultural Center, 5250 Aero Dr, Santa Rosa, 707.579.3004.

Field Trips Eco-Friendly Garden Tour

Heron Hall open house event includes activities and native plant sale. Registration required.

May 4, 10am. Free. Laguna de Santa Rosa Environmental Center, 900 Sanford Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.527.9277.

Pilates with Perry

Work it out in a peaceful outdoor setting with Perry, co-owner of Pilates Sonoma.

Wed, 10am. $20. Quarryhill Botanical Gardens, 12841 Hwy 12, Glen Ellen, 707.996.3166.

Solar Viewing & Public Star Party

View stars near and far with the observatory's telescopes and experts on hand. May 4, 11am and 8pm. Robert Ferguson Observatory, Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, 2605 Adobe Canyon Rd, Kenwood, 707.833.6979.

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Guide the redesign of organizational structures, work processes, and governance to develop holistically sound organizations.

Info Session Thursday, May 16 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.

Rachel Carson Hall 44D, SSU $5 parking pass required in SSU general lots

CULT Film Series

Two classic chillers, “Alien” and “The Amityville Horror,” screen to mark their 40th anniversaries. May 2, 7pm. $10.

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Film Fest Petaluma

Annual showcase of new animated and live action short films from around the world features filmmakers in conversation. May 4, 12pm. $10$30. Mystic Theatre & Music Hall, 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.775.6048.

Harvest Season

See the behind-the-scenes doc on the California wine industry, with special guests in attendance for discussion. May 7, 7pm. Cameo Cinema, 1340 Main St, St Helena, 707.963.9779.

Let's Talk About Death Final Passages screens the film “Mr. Church” starring Eddie Murphy and leads a discussion.

May 8, 6:30pm. $5-$15.

Sebastopol Grange Hall, 6000 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol.

Petaluma Cinema Series

Petaluma Film Alliance screens Charlie Chaplin's “Modern Times” with post-show discussion.

May 8, 6pm. $6. Carole L Ellis Auditorium, 680 Sonoma Mountain Pkwy, Petaluma, petalumafilmalliance.org.

White Right: Meeting the Enemy

Documentary on the rise of white supremacist hate in the US screens with discussion.

May 4, 7pm. Free. Congregation Shomrei Torah, 2600 Bennett Valley Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.578.5519.

For Kids Aqua Day in May

Kids can kick-off Summer with swimming, foam party, lawn games and BBQ hot dog lunch.

May 4, 12pm. Honeybee Pool, 1170 Golf Course Dr, Rohnert Park.

Kidswork Creative Workshop: Let's Bug Out!

Bring your kids to have fun building ‘bug houses’ and learning about beneficial bugs.

May 4, 9am. Free. Friedman’s Home Improvement, 4055 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.584.7811.

Lectures Eco-Friendly Garden Design Talk

Daily Acts and the City of Cotati host a presentation on how to design an ecologically supportive residential garden. May 1, 6pm.

Free. Cotati Room, 216 E School St, Cotati, 707.789.9664.

Jewelry Production Casting

Class is for people who want to cast their own jewelry designs.

May 4-5. $300 plus materials.

Chimera Arts & Maker Space, 6791 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol, chimeraarts.org.

Tequila Casa Dragones and world-renowned tequila maker Bertha González Nieves joins you in a luxurious train ride.

Sun, May 5, 5:30pm. $200. Napa Valley Wine Train, 1275 McKinstry St, Napa, 800.427.4124.

Theater Born Yesterday A tycoon gets more than he bargains for when he tries to buy some sophistication for his brash girlfriend in this hilarious production from Sonoma Arts Live. Through May 12. $28-$40. Sonoma Community Center, 276 E Napa St, Sonoma, 707.938.4626.

Rapture, Blister, Burn Two women covet each other's life in this unflinching comedy about gender politics and more.

Through May 12. $23-$33. Lucky Penny Community Arts Center, 1758 Industrial Way, Napa, 707.266.6305.

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May 3, 7pm, “Undaunted” with Jackie Speier. 775 Village Court, Santa Rosa 707.578.8938.

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Enjoy freshly shucked oysters from Hog Island Oyster Company and Landmark Vineyard new releases. May 4, 11am. $60.

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May 1, 7pm, “The Oasis This Time” with Rebecca Lawton. 130 E Napa St, Sonoma 707.939.1779.

Left Edge Theatre presents the equally funny and heartbreaking play about missed connections and coincidence. May 3-26. $25$40. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.546.3600.

May 6, 6:15pm, Rivertown Poets Amuse-ing Mondays, includes open mic reading. 189 H St, Petaluma 707.778.6060.

Sample local microbrews and enjoy music from the Beer Scouts, Third Rail and the Hots.

May 4, 2pm. Free admission.

Trek Winery, 1026 Machin Ave, Novato, 415.899.9883.

Readers' Books

May 7, 6pm, “Wunderland” with Jennifer Cody Epstein. 323 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa 707.200.4655.

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May 3, 4:30pm, “A Fire Story” with Brian Fies. 637 Fourth St, Santa Rosa 707.546.2424.

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May 2, 5:30pm, New Technology High School open mic poetry slam. May 4, 10:30am, “Another” with Christian Robinson. May 5, 3pm, Napa Valley Writers Open Mic. 964 Pearl St, Napa 707.733.3199.

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May 2, 8am, “The Second Mountain” with David Brooks, includes breakfast and book. $32. 140 Kentucky St, Petaluma 707.762.0563.

The timely story of moral courage is adapted from the novel by Harper Lee. Through May 19. $20-$30. 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.523.4185.

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Sibling rivalry and old resentments flare up and barbs fly fast and furious in the 2013 Tony-winner for best play. Through May 5. $10-$25.

Raven Theater, 115 North St, Healdsburg, 707.433.3145.

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Astrology For the week of May 1

ARIES (March 21-April 19): "How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies," wrote Henry David Thoreau. "How slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls!" Your first assignment in the coming days, Aries, is to devote yourself to quenching the hunger and thirst of your soul with the same relentless passion that you normally spend on giving your body the food and drink it craves. This could be challenging. You may be less knowledgeable about what your soul thrives on than what your body loves. So your second assignment is to do extensive research to determine what your soul needs to thrive.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I invite you to

explore the frontiers of what's possible for you to experience and accomplish. One exercise that might help: visualize specific future adventures that excite you. Examples? Picture yourself parasailing over the Mediterranean Sea near Barcelona, or working to help endangered sea turtles in Costa Rica, or giving a speech to a crowded auditorium on a subject you will someday be an expert in. The more specific your fantasies, the better. Your homework is to generate at least five of these visions.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): "We must choose between the pain of having to transcend oppressive circumstances, or the pain of perpetual unfulfillment within those oppressive circumstances," writes mental health strategist Paul John Moscatello. We must opt for "the pain of growth or the pain of decay," he continues. We must either "embrace the tribulations of realizing our potential, or consent to the slow suicide in complacency." That's a bit melodramatic, in my opinion. Most of us do both; we may be successful for a while in transcending oppressive circumstances, but then temporarily lapse back into the pain of unfulfillment. However, there are times when it makes sense to think melodramatically. And I believe now is one of those times for you. In the coming weeks, I hope you will set in motion plans to transcend at least 30 percent of your oppressive circumstances.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You Cancerians can benefit from always having a fertility symbol somewhere in your environment: an icon or image that reminds you to continually refresh your relationship with your own abundant creativity; an inspiring talisman or toy that keeps you alert to the key role your fecund imagination can and should play in nourishing your quest to live a meaningful life; a provocative work of art that spurs you to always ask for more help and guidance from the primal source code that drives you to reinvent yourself. So if you don't have such a fertility symbol, I invite you to get one. If you do, enhance it with a new accessory.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In my horoscopes, I often speak to you about your personal struggle for liberation and your efforts to express your soul's code with evermore ingenuity and completeness. It's less common that I address your sacred obligation to give back to life for all that life has given to you. I only infrequently discuss how you might engage in activities to help your community or work for the benefit of those less fortunate than you. But now is one of those times when I feel moved to speak of these matters. You are in a phase of your astrological cycle when it's crucial to perform specific work in behalf of a greater good.

Why crucial? Because your personal well-being in the immediate future depends in part on your efforts to intensify your practical compassion.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "We are whiplashed between an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves," writes educator Parker Palmer. That's the bad news, Virgo. The good news is that you are in prime position to escape from the whiplash. Cosmic forces are conspiring with your eternal soul to coalesce a well-balanced vision of your true value that's free of both vain misapprehensions and self-deprecating delusions. Congrats! You're empowered to understand yourself with a tender objectivity that could at least partially heal lingering wounds. See yourself truly!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The country of Poland awards medals to couples that have stayed married for 50 years. It also gives out medals to members of the armed forces who have served for at least thirty years. But the marriage medal is of higher rank, and

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is more prestigious. In that spirit, I'd love for you to get a shiny badge or prize to acknowledge your devoted commitment to a sacred task—whether that commitment is to an intimate alliance, a noble quest, or a promise to yourself. It's time to reward yourself for how hard you've worked and how much you've given.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio poet Sylvia

Plath wrote, "I admit I desire, / Occasionally, some backtalk / From the mute sky." You'll be wise to borrow the spirit of that mischievous declaration. Now is a good time to solicit input from the sky, as well as from your allies and friends and favorite animals, and from every other source that might provide you with interesting feedback. I invite you to regard the whole world as your mirror, your counselor, your informant.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In January

1493, the notorious pirate and kidnapper Christopher Columbus was sailing his ship near the land we now call the Dominican Republic. He spotted three creatures he assumed were mermaids. Later he wrote in his log that they were "not half as beautiful as they are painted [by artists]." We know now that the "mermaids" were actually manatees, aquatic mammals with flippers and paddle-shaped tails. They are in fact quite beautiful in their own way, and would only be judged as homely by a person comparing them to mythical enchantresses. I trust you won't make a similar mistake, Sagittarius. Evaluate everything and everyone on their own merits, without comparing them to something they're not.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): "I want what we all want," writes novelist Jonathan Lethem. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced." Even if you haven't passionately wanted that lately, Capricorn, I'm guessing you will soon. That's a good thing, because life will be conspiring with you to accomplish it. Your ability to express yourself in ways that are meaningful to you and interesting to other people will be at a peak.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Using algorithms to analyze 300 million facts, a British scientist concluded that April 11, 1954 was the most boring day in history. A Turkish man who would later become a noteworthy engineer was born that day, and Belgium staged a national election. But that's all. With this non-eventful day as your inspiration, I encourage you to have fun reminiscing about the most boring times in your own past. I think you need a prolonged respite from the stimulating frenzy of your daily rhythm.

It's time to rest and relax in the sweet luxury of nothingness and emptiness.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): *The Blue Room* is

a famous Picasso painting from 1901. Saturated with blue hues, it depicts a naked woman taking a bath.

More than a century after its creation, scientists used X-rays to discover that there was an earlier painting beneath *The Blue Room* and obscured by it. It shows a man leaning his head against his right hand. Piscean poet Jane Hirshfield says that there are some people who are "like a painting hidden beneath another painting." More of you Pisceans fit that description than any other sign of the zodiac. You may even be like a painting beneath a painting beneath a painting—to a depth of five or more paintings. Is that a problem?

Not necessarily. But it is important to be fully aware of the existence of all the layers. Now is a good time to have a check-in.

Go to REALASTROLOGY.COM to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. Audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1.877.873.4888.

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