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Economics of the Death Penalty I’m a capital habeas attorney. I was very interested in your article (“Capital Intensive,” May 15, 2019) as I felt like I’d been hit by two trucks after the 2016 election (the other being Trump, of course). But we all really thought that Prop 62 would pass.

Now I am living and working under Proposition 66. Per Prop. 66, one of my cases was transferred back to the superior court (in Sacramento County)

and now I’m being paid to relitigate the same issues in the lower courts, and then work my way up again. In short, I will be paid twice for much of the same work, but with weird twists that will make it more expensive.

I’m also convinced that the opposition to eliminating the death penalty is really economically driven by the DAs. They don’t account for how much of their budget goes to capital cases from what I can see, but I am willing to bet they heavily rely on them to justify hefty budgets. So many of the death penalty cases come out a few counties, Riverside, Kern, San Bernardino,

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Sacramento, etc. that don’t have all that much money to spare but do have conservative populations.

I’ve been doing criminal defense work for 40 years in Sonoma County (I started here in the DA’s office). Much of all of it is economically driven—I just think we should be upfront about what it really costs both in dollar and human terms, to make more intelligent decisions. I see signs of progress, but a long way to go. I really hope you don’t stop with that article but continue to explore this area.

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Our Lumps I don’t know, Bohemian, I’m just not feeling you the way I used to. I’m not on the same page with your reviewers in the May 15-21 edition. The Netflix “Wine Country” romp that pleased your reviewer left me cold. Stopped watching when I didn’t find myself amused, let alone laughing. Not my people, not my humor. Pretty scenery, of course. And, I’m “At Odds” with Harry Duke about “This Random World.” I love Left Edge Theatre! I love their boldness in bringing different kinds of plays to us, the design of the small, tidy, attractive venue itself.

I can sit anywhere and have an intimate experience. As for the play? I did laugh, I did get caught up in the random misses and I thought the ending was just fine. It left me in a very contemplative mood on Mother’s Day. I recommend it highly.

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Whine Country I forced myself to watch 23 minutes of “Wine Country” (“Lost Weekend,” May 15, 2019) hoping it would get better. I bailed at that point. What a vacuous, boring, selfindulgent, inane movie. Don’t waste your time on it. Thank God I don’t have shallow friends like the ones depicted in this timewaster. And the script is beyond awful.

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Some movies are dogs, but his one is even worse, an ugly stinky mutt of a movie. Bad screen writing combine with characters that are shallow and stupid and you have it: a really really awful movie that does not warrant watching.

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It should be titled “Whine Country.”

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Art of Distraction Nero played the violin, Trump plays us BY E.G. SINGER

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o fiddle while Rome burns means to do something trivial and irresponsible in the midst of an emergency. Legend has it that while a fire destroyed the city of Rome, the emperor Nero played his violin, thus revealing his total lack of concern for his people and his empire.

Once again, President Trump has played his card of distraction to the American People, with his latest saber rattling. But rather than focusing on the Korean Peninsula this time, he has chosen the Mideast. And like the carnival barker, trying to entice the crowd to lay down their hard-earned money with his shell game, our “fearless leader” has once again seemingly bamboozled his own G.O.P and constituents into yet another scheme to avoid and distract from the important issues that face our country. With another possible overseas “adventure” in the offing, likely to entrap us for years, cost us precious lives and drain our coffers, Mr. Trump’s insidious presidential campaign strategy is becoming clearer.

History does not repeat, but it does rhyme.

No sitting president presiding during war time has been ousted from office, after a first term, save for Lyndon Johnson, who when realizing after seven years the true nature of our involvement in Southeast Asia, declined to seek re-election.

Do we even remember Vietnam and Iraq? And their ignominious ends and closing epitaphs? Peace with honor? Mission Accomplished! And don’t forget the ongoing war in Afghanistan.

Yes, no doubt, we are in the midst of an emergency— actually several emergencies. We have yet to address in an intelligent manner the issues pertaining to race and immigration problems, healthcare, infrastructure and the environment.

Yes, Nero played the violin while Rome burned, but while Washington D.C. burns, Mr. Trump is not playing a musical instrument, but cavalierly playing the American people.

E.G. Singer lives in Santa Rosa. We welcome your contribution. To have your topical essay of 350 words considered for publication, write openmic@bohemian.com.

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ESCAPE THE RASH Measles is on the rise, as 24 states now report new cases.

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Measles outbreak shines new light on low immunization rates in Sonoma County BY TOM GOGOLA

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s an outbreak of measles courses through California, Sonoma County Health Officer Dr. Celeste Philip issued a warning and recommendation that parents immunize their school-age children against the highly contagious disease. Some Sonoma County public schools field immunization rates that are among the lowest in the state.

“I . . . write this letter to emphasize to parents and guardians the seriousness of this current measles outbreak and the potential impact to unvaccinated or under vaccinated children,” says Philip in a note distributed to schools and parents yesterday.

As of the middle of May there have been 44 reported cases of measles in California and 750 nationwide this year, according to the Centers for Disease Control. That’s the highest number of cases, reports

Philip, “since measles was nearly eliminated in 2000.”

The Bohemian reported on the letter from Philip last week on Bohemian.com and responses on social media were characteristic of this highly emotional debate pitting pro against anti-vaccination. One pro-vaccination Sonoma County reader said it was time to roll the vaccination truck into Sonoma County and get everyone up to date on their shots. An anti-vaccination readers said it was time to check those suspect numbers coming

out of the CDC about the spike in measles this year.

In 2017, the state moved to rein in abuses over a “personal belief exemption” in the state vaccination law and Philip notes that since then, there’s been a 94 percent rate of compliance with state law that requires vaccination as a condition of attending public school. But there are strong pockets of antivaccination resistance, including in Sonoma County.

None of the measles cases this year originated in Sonoma County, “but we are vulnerable,” Philip writes, given that “in some (Sonoma) County schools less than half of students are up to date with the recommended vaccination schedule.”

Any measles outbreak in Sonoma County will be met with swift action in the schools, Philip warns. “If your child is unvaccinated or cannot provide laboratory confirmation of measles immunity and there is a case in their school, they will likely be excluded from attending school for 21 days after their last exposure to the contagious individual.

This exclusion helps protect the susceptible students and limits further spread of disease.”

Online data indicates that Sonoma County is one of the least-compliant counties in the state, if not the country, when it comes to parents getting their children vaccinated. The state requires that children entering kindergarten be immunized against 10 communicable diseases, including for measles, mumps and rubella.

Those three are covered under the so-called “MMR” vaccine, which Philip says “has a longestablished history of being safe and effective.”

That view is not generally shared by an anti-vaccination community with a strong presence in Sonoma County.

Here's how the immunization debate and changes in state law have played out in one Sonoma County school over the past few years: the Sebastopol Independent Charter elementary school had 45 students enrolled in 2017-18. That year, ) 12

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Measles ( 10 35.5 percent of students were up to date in vaccinations; up from 26.67 percent the year previous. Fifty eight percent of the exemptions in 2017-18 were for medical reasons, up from 25 percent the year before. Before the personal belief exemption was curtailed, 38 percent of students were exempted in 2016-17 because of personal beliefs against vaccination held by the parents.

Those numbers are at odds with recent polling around vaccinations.

A Pew Research study from 2015 found widespread acceptance of vaccinations, as 68 percent of adults said childhood vaccinations should be required.

Thirty percent said the choice ought to be the parents to make— and many of those respondents were young adults aged 18-29 who have no experience with, for example, the devastating effects of polio, which has largely been eradicated.

Philip’s warning comes as the California legislature is considering closing a loophole in the state’s childhood immunization law that came about after it curtailed the personal belief exemption in 2017.

That effort was undertaken in response to a less-severe measles outbreak that year.

In closing one loophole, the state opened another: Now California’s vaccination law permits medical exemptions for parents of children whose health might be impacted negatively by vaccinations. The exemptions are granted by a family health-care provider approved by the state to grant the exemption.

Critics say the loophole has been abused by parents who oppose vaccinating their kids, whether it’s for medical or personal reasons.

A state senate bill this year would close the loophole in a bill sponsored by pro-vaccination legislator Richard Pan, who is both a senator and a pediatrician.

He’s been making the media rounds this month promoting SB 276, which would put the final decision about medical

exemptions in the hand of the California Department of Public Health—and create a state registry of all children who have been granted medical exemptions.

As that bill works its way through committee, Sonoma County’s health official Philip is urging that “unvaccinated or under-vaccinated children should be vaccinated as soon as possible through their healthcare provider so they will have protection, will not further spread illness and will not need to be absent from school.”

She’s supporting Pan’s bill.

“If passed it would send a clear message about the importance of vaccinations to keep individuals

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and communities healthy,” says Philip via email, “and emphasize that vaccines are safe for the overwhelming majority of children and adults.”

One of the most persistent critiques of vaccinations—and the driver of much of the debate about their efficacy and health risk—is that they cause or can contribute to autism. The autismimmunization debate continues apace, and one of its highestprofile proponents is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., founder of the organization Children’s Health Defense (CHD).

Kennedy has compared a purported vaccine-driven rise in autism rates to the Holocaust, and noted in an interview that

ran on the CHD site that “life for these children is an endless agonizing progression of twilight and terror. The tormenting gut aches, excruciating sensory sensitivities, the serial head banging and screaming, the isolation and perpetual joylessness. The entire family is permanently devastated.”

State Sen. Pan, in turn, has been stressing his pro-vaxx viewpoint on behalf of public school children with severe health problems and/or autoimmune disorders—who can often only attend public school if everyone is also vaccinated, given the health risks they could face if one of their peers came down with the measles.

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y now it’s official: Sonoma Valley’s summer of 2019 cocktail is the “Sonoma Spritz.” How official? The hotpink refresher, a collaborative effort from Prohibition Spirits and Gloria Ferrer, is termed “official cocktail” in their press release, anyway. But I’m told that Sonoma Valley Visitors Bureau Executive Director Tim Zahner had a hand in it, so I track him down to verify.

“I am not a mixologist,” Zahner says, “even though I had facial hair before they did.”

Zahner doesn’t take credit, but he says he got really excited when Prohibition Spirits co-founders

Fred and Amy Groth said they wanted to create something for the Sonoma lifestyle similar to what they experienced during a trip to Italy—a low alcohol aperitif to mark the start of a relaxing evening. The official recipe calls for 2 ounces.

Prohibition Spirits’ SPRITZ Apero Americano ($35), a bright pink digestif made with a base of their grape brandy, and infused with orange, cherry and bittering herbs, and colored naturally with cochineal—an insect shell, so not vegan; 3 ounces Gloria Ferrer brut sparkling wine; 1 ounce club soda; orange slice for garnish.

Prohibition Spirits is not licensed to pour cocktails at their Cornerstone Sonoma tasting room, but Sonoma’s official cocktail can be ordered during “Spritz Week,” May 20–26, at the Swiss Hotel, Mary’s Pizza Shack, BV Whiskey Bar, Maya, Hopmonk, Palooza, Tips Roadside, The Girl & the Fig and more locations.

Pale by comparison: Made from Pinot Noir grapes, Kathleen Inman’s Endless Crush OGV Estate Rosé ($38) is a light, crunchy, strawberries-and-watermelon sipper in the Provençal camp, with accents of rosewater and just a touch of a vegetal edge that readies the palate for summer salad and goat cheese.

Road worthy: both excellent picnic wines, Clif Family’s 2018 Rte Blanc Napa Valley Sauvignon Blanc ($28) and 2016 Bici North Coast Red Blend ($42) inspire a more adventurous summer, with his-and-hers labels featuring cofounders Kit Crawford and Gary Erickson cycling up steep roads in Northern Italy. The Sauv Blanc is grapey and grassy, with notes of lemon verbena and juicy, tart melon, and the red is a supple Grenache-Syrah blend. Get inspired, pour half the bottle in a canteen, and enjoy the other half at the end of the journey.

Outlook juicy: hazy IPA may not go the way of yesteryear’s craze for cloudy hefeweizen this summer, but Bear Republic’s bright, grapefruity Thru the Haze IPA would be fine with a slice of Meyer lemon. Less citrusy, more floral, Sonoma Springs’ Juicy in the Sky hazy double IPA is maltier, at 9 percent alcohol, but deceptively restrained in the brewery’s crisp, Teutonic style.

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BottleRock Napa Valley The biggest concert festival to hit Napa has been long sold-out, so hopefully you already got your tickets to see headliners Imagine Dragons, Mumford & Sons and Neil freakin’ Young while you savor the best Napa Valley food and wine. May 24–26 at the Napa Valley Expo Center. 575 Third St.,

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Sonoma Arts Live The nonprofit theater company’s current season, themed “A Toast to the Classics,” offers two last productions that vary widely.

First, the one-woman-show The Belle of Amherst stars actress Jennifer King as Emily Dickinson, running through Jun 2. Then, the beloved musical My Fair Lady

plays on the Rotary Stage, Jul 1228. Andrews Hall at the Sonoma Community Center, 276 E. Napa St., Sonoma. sonomaartslive.org.

Live at Lagunitas Everyone's favorite Sonoma County brewery has lots of music on tap this summer in their Petaluma amphitheaterette. Round one of tickets for series openers the War & Treaty on May 27 are already sold out, as are tickets to Fidlar on Jun 4, but there’s still time to grab spots to upcoming appearances

by Antibalas on Jun 18, James McMurtry on Aug 8, Man Man and Creed Bratton on Sept 3 and more.

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before each show on the bands' websites, so set your calendars accordingly. 1280 N McDowell Blvd., Petaluma. For the full lineup, visit lagunitas.com/live.

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Ace of Cups Las Cafeteras Perla Batalla Amy Helm The Bills Eliza Gilkyson Terry Garthwaite / Joy of Cooking Redux Poor Man’s Whiskey The Lone Bellow Keith Greeninger Band Dayan Kai Crys Matthews & Heather Mae Old Blind Dogs Rainbow Girls Joe Craven & The Sometimers Alice DiMicele Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer Tracy Grammer Blue Summit The Two Tracks The Sam Chase & the Untraditional Whiskey Treaty Roadshow 3 Acre Holler Ashleigh Flynn & The Riveters Alisa Fineman & Kimball Hurd Five Letter Word David Jacobs-Strain & Bob Beach Dan Frechette & Laurel Thomsen & more!

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Hot Summer Guide ( 16 Mendocino Film Festival The 14th annual film fest features an acclaimed lineup of films, featuring 13 films fresh from Sundance, three films from SXSW, two California premieres and an array of award-winning independent and international films. Other highlights include spotlight programs that boast the best short films of the year, and live music performances accompanying several screenings. May 31-Jun 2 at several venues in Mendocino and Fort Bragg. For details, visit mendocinofilmfestival.org.

Healdsburg Jazz Festival Sound the trumpets and walk that bass right on up to Healdsburg for the 21st annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival. The cornucopia of all things jazz features acclaimed artists and acts like opening night performers Ralph Towner and Paul McCandless, the trio of Ravi Coltrane, Matt Garrison and Jack DeJohnette, Harold López-Nussa Quartet and others. Concerts take place May 31-Jun 9 at various locations in and around Healdsburg.

Prices vary. 707.433.4633. healdsburgjazzfestival.org.

Sonoma County Pride Weekend Several events abound in Santa Rosa and elsewhere for the annual Pride event, embracing a theme of “Year of Love 2019.” First, a kick-off dance party features DJs, pole dancers, go-go dancers and live art on Friday, May 31 at Casa Del Mar in Santa Rosa. Then, the 32nd annual LGBT Pride parade and celebration featuring live music and festive fun marking a heritage of love on Saturday, Jun 1, at Courthouse Square, Fourth Street and Mendocino Avenue in Santa Rosa. 11am. Other Pride events include the laidback, familyfriendly Pride in the Park and the Peace, Love & Wine tasting extravaganza on Sunday, Jun 2 at Juilliard Park in Santa Rosa and the Astro Motel respectively. sonomacountypride.org.

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NorCal The premiere destination for marijuana fans worldwide features A-list musical performers, hundreds of the best cannabis producers in the world and unforgettable experiences when it returns to the North Bay on Jun 1-2, at Sonoma County Fairgrounds, 1350 Bennett Valley Rd., Santa Rosa. Doors at noon. $50 and up. Cannabiscup.com Art at the Source More than a hundred artists in dozens of studios throughout western Sonoma County open their space to the public for this 25th annual self-guided and interactive art experience the first two weekends of June. Saturdays and Sundays, Jun 1–2 and Jun 8–9. Maps can be found at artatthesource.org or at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, the home of the event’s preview exhibit, 282 S High St, Sebastopol. Free. 707.829.4797.

Napa Valley LGBTQ Pride Events A series of offerings celebrating LGBTQ pride and benefiting local nonprofit LGBTQ Connection include the "Rock Around the Clock" sock-hop themed youth pride dance on Jun 1 at Napa Library, a free Pride breakfast and potluck for LGBT seniors on Jun 4 at Queen of the Valley Community Outreach in Napa and the splashy return of "Drag Queens Of The Valley" on Jun 8-9 at the JaM Cellars Ballroom at the Napa Valley Opera House. Additional events are still being added to the schedule so check the latest at NapaSonomaPride.org.

Twin Oaks Backyard BBQ Series The roadhouse spends its summer Sundays offering live music, fresh craft beer and topnotch food straight off the grill.

Season openers Sol Horizon set the mood with their energetic performance blending reggae, hip-hop and world music on Jun 2, and other artists appearing at the BBQ include the Real Sarahs on Jun 16, Whiskey Family Band on Jul 21, Achilles Wheel on Aug 4 and Train Wreck Junction on Aug 25. While show ticket prices vary, a meal and a beer is only $15 (tax included) all season

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Goose & Gander Music Series Napa Valley’s wine country public house is the perfect setting to see locals play on the lush patio while sipping cocktails. The summer series opens with a set by Marty O’Reilly on Jun 2 and continues each Sunday afternoon through September with performers like Sean Carscadden, the King Street Giants, Lonesome Locomotive and others. 5pm. Free admission.

1245 Spring St, St. Helena. goosegander.com.

Napa Valley Jazz Getaway Musician and producer Brian Culbertson’s eighth annual event features an incredible lineup of jazz and R&B artists including iconic stars like Sheila E, David Benoit, Eric Darius, Michael Lington and others. Wine receptions, dinner concerts and after-parties mix up the fun, June 5–8, at various locations throughout Napa Valley. jazzgetaway.com.

Napa City Nights Hailed as the event “where Napa makes music,” this family-friendly concert series offers a perfect view for local crowds to see and dance to their favorite North Bay bands and artists like Purple Haze, Road Eleven, the Soul

Section, Tommy Odetto, the Hots and many others. Every Friday, Jun 7–Aug 23. Veterans Memorial Park Amphitheater, Third and Main street, Napa. 6:30pm. Free admission. napacitynights.com.

Huichica Music Festival A refreshingly intimate and impressively curated take on the music festival format, Huichica (pronounced wah-CHEE-ka) features a music lineup that includes an eclectic array of artists like soul man Lee Fields and his band the Expressions, indie-pop darlings Real Estate, alt-rock veteran Dean Wareham playing Galaxie 500’s On Fire, and a live tribute to The Basement Tapes. Amazing views, delectable culinary options and plenty of beer and wine round out the weekend. June 7–8 at Gundlach Bundschu Winery. 2000 Denmark St., Sonoma. $46-$121. Kids 12 and under are free. 707.938.5277.

Funky Fridays The seventh annual weekly summer series brings popular North Bay bands like Levi Lloyd & Friends (Jun 7), the Big Fit (Jun 21), Dylan Black Project (Jul 12), Funky Dozen (Aug 30) and many others to the gorgeous lawn in front of the historic Hood Mansion while raising money for Sonoma Valley parks every Friday through Aug, Casa Manana Rd., Santa ) 21

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Ten days packed with family-friendly events, including a daily schedule of live music featuring local and Bay Area musicians, interactive art projects for children, jam sessions, festival musicians signing CDs, a communal art project commemorating the festival, and more. Some activities will be bilingual.

Music daily on the main stage from 3–5 pm plus more on the weekends. Programming focuses on jazz styles for all ages and cultures, and provides both locals and festival attendees a community-gathering place to learn about jazz on a deeper, richer level.

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Hot Summer Guide ( 20 of Inside Out. In Cloverdale, the drive-in lives on when the Cloverdale Citrus Fairgrounds opens the gates for car-friendly screenings of Ghostbusters on Jul 20 and American Graffiti on Sept 7. For info and tickets, visit avfilmsociety.org.

KRUSH Backyard Concerts The summer series continues to reflect the radio’s laidback, community-oriented vibe with a selection of North Bay stars of Americana and beyond paired with good food and good company. The concerts kick off on Jun 13 at 3565 Standish Ave., Santa Rosa. Doors at 5:30pm. Free admission. Get the full schedule at krsh.com.

Petaluma Drinks Partake in a weekend tasting experience with the beer, wine, spirits and cider producers like 101 North Brewing, Acre & Spade Cider and Adobe Road Winery who reside in and around the historic downtown Petaluma district. Jun 15-16, at several venues. Saturday, 11am to 6pm; Sunday, 11am to 4pm. $65 and up. Petalumadrinks.com.

Calistoga Concerts in the Park Bring your blankets, lawn chairs, picnic dinners and friends and family to enjoy these weekly concerts in a gorgeous natural setting. Each week’s show offers something different, from jazz pop outfit the Klipptones on Jun 20, Americana act National Park Radio on Jul 11 to old school rock ‘n’ roll band Kingsborough on Aug 1. Concerts in the park take place every Thursday, June 13–Aug 22, Pioneer Park, 1308 Cedar St., Calistoga. 6:30pm. Free admission. Visitcalistoga.com.

Country Summer The biggest country music event in the North Bay also features Western-themed attractions, country-inspired culinary delights and an array of libations. Headliners this year include Jake Owen, Tim McGraw, Big & Rich and many others.

June 14–16, at Sonoma County Fairgrounds, 1350 Bennett Valley Rd., Santa Rosa. $89 and up.

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Beerfest: The Good One All beerfests are good, but this one gets the title for its combination of good brews and a good cause.

Whether you prefer hoppy IPAs, sour beers and even ciders, you’ll find old favorites and new loves at this massive tasting event featuring nearly 50 pouring stops and awesome food vendors. The day also benefits local nonprofit Face to Face, whose mission is ending HIV in Sonoma County and supporting the health and wellbeing of people living with HIV/AIDS. June 8. 50 Mark West Springs Rd., Santa Rosa. 1pm. $50$60. beerfestthegoodone.com.

Peggy Sue's All-American Cruise Hundreds of classic, stock and custom All-American Cars roar into Santa Rosa for the annual cruise, and will be on display with live music, pin-up contest and awards at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds throughout the day. Then those classic cars roam downtown Santa Rosa in the evening to show off for families and car lovers. June 8. cruiseforpeggysue.com.

Railroad Square Music Festival This fifth annual celebration of local music and community in the heart of Santa Rosa features popular acts like Royal Jelly Jive, John Courage, Ismay, Stone Cold Mollie and many others on several stages, with a shop party of local vendors, food, beer and wine, art and fun for all. June 9 at Railroad Square, Fourth and Wilson Streets, Santa Rosa. Noon. Free admission. railroadsquaremusicfestival.com.

Alexander Valley Film Society Summer Outdoor Screening Series From classic comedies to beloved animated features, the folks at AV Film Society are offering a summer full of familyfriendly screenings under the stars, and sometimes in cars.

The Healdsburg Plaza will host showings like Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse on Jun 11, Ralph Breaks the Internet on Jul 9, and a Spanish-language screening

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by Transcendence Theatre Company, some of the top stars in Hollywood and on Broadway come to perform in the Sonoma County night air. This summer’s schedule starts with the series’ first foray into producing a fulllength musical with A Chorus Line Jun 14-30, the ever-popular Fantastical Family Night Jul 19 and 20, “Those Dancin’ Feet” Aug 9-25 and the Gala Celebration Sept 6–8. Jack London State Park. 2400 London Ranch Rd., Glen Ellen. Pre-show picnics at 5pm; concerts begin at 7:30pm.

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Cotati Music Festival After three decades of the Cotati Jazz Festival, the small and spirited town of Cotati’s chamber of commerce expands the musical offerings for this eclectic summer concert event. The Cotati Music Festival’s lineup includes local favorites like the Big Fit, Gator Nation, Hangman’s Daughter and Nate Lopez, with food, beer and wine on hand. June 15. Noon. Free admission. cotati.org.

Sonoma-Marin Fair This year's Sonoma-Marin Fair marks eight decades of family fun with headlining concerts, the world's ugliest dog contest, homebrew contest, wine tasting, carnival rides, fair food and more Jun 19– 23, at Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds, 175 Fairgrounds Dr., Petaluma.

Gates open at noon each day, $10$15 general admission. sonomamarinfair.org.

Luther Burbank Center for the Arts The performing arts center brings some of the biggest events and names in music and comedy to the stage this summer.

International standup star Jim Jefferies appears on Jun 21, Indigo Girls rock out on Jun 22, The Daily Show host Trevor Noah takes the stage on Jul 6, Chris Isaak croons on Sept 4 and many other events happen at the venue, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.546.3600.

Rodney Strong Concert Series The wine-tastic annual live music series in the sunny grasslands behind the Rodney Strong Vineyards always features

adult contemporary favorites and music legends. This year's lineup includes Alanis Morissette on Jun 22, Rick Springfield and Richard Marx on Jul 14, the Beach Boys on Sept 7 and Jay Leno on Sept 8.

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SOMO Concerts Rohnert Park’s grand outdoor venue, the SOMO Village Event Center, once again packs a powerhouse lineup of performers for their seasonal series. Heavy metalturned country rock frontman Aaron Lewis opens the summer on Jun 22, Mexican norteño music masters Los Tigres del Norte performs Jun 28, blues legends Buddy Guy and Charlie Musselwhite come together with Jimmie Vaughan on Aug 10 and country music star Billy Currington plays on Sept 19 among other shows. 1100 Valley House Dr, Rohnert Park.

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Uptown Theatre’s Summer Lineup Downtown Napa’s art deco concert venue welcomes an array of performers to its landmark stage. Alternative rockers Gin Blossoms play on Jun 27, Lyle Lovett & His Large Band spend two nights in town on Jul 10-11, veteran stand-up comedian Tom Papa laughs it up on Jul 13, Boz Scaggs performs on Aug 18 and David Crosby welcomes friends to the stage on Sept 6.

1350 Third St, Napa. 707.259.0123.

Kate Wolf Music Festival This festival always draws excellent musical acts to honor the work of the late singer-songwriter it’s named for, and this 24th annual year’s lineup is one of the best yet.

Confirmed performers include Los Lobos, Kris Kristofferson, Booker T, John Hiatt and many others, with artists like Rainbow Girls and Joe Craven & the Sometimers representing the North Bay. Camping is the best way to experience this festival. June 27–30 at Black Oak Ranch, Laytonville. $75 and up. katewolfmusicfestival.com.

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Green Music Center Summer at the Green 2019 Sonoma State University’s superb Weill Hall hosts a season of concert events that spill out on the lawn and span classical, jazz, country, Latin and spoken word. The season’s Fourth of July concert features Transcendence Theatre Company and the Santa Rosa Symphony, followed by fireworks. The annual Bluegrass & Craft Beer Festival returns on July 21 with David Grisman and Steep Canyon Rangers. Other performers include Trombone Shorty & Oceans Avenue on Jul 11, Michael McDonald and Chaka Khan on Aug 4 and Diana Krall on Sept 26; and free movie screenings happen all summer on the lawn at Weill Hall, 1801 East Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park. 866.955.6040.

Star-Spangled Social Napa Valley’s annual Fourth of July celebration includes a parade at noon through downtown Calistoga followed by a carnival full of food, games, music and a fireworks show on Jul 4 at the Napa County Fair. 1435 North Oak St., Calistoga. $15-$20. celebratenapavalley.org.

Live at Juilliard Twenty-sixth annual summer concert series returns to downtown Santa Rosa for weekly performances on the lawn at Juilliard Park. See local favorites like Dgiin, Black Sheep Brass Band, Miss Moonshine, Free Peoples and others and enjoy food from popular vendors and drinks that benefit ArtStart. Sundays, Jul 7-Aug 11, 227 Santa Rosa Ave., Santa Rosa. 5pm. Free admission. srcity.org/liveatjuilliard.

Festival Napa Valley Now in its 14th year, the event offers more than 60 elegant and entertaining events over 10 days, ranging from concerts and dance performances to vintner-led luncheons and free community events. With a focus on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing, this year’s fest includes highlights like opening night’s Opera Under the Stars at Meadowood, a screening of Star Wars live with an orchestra, the Arts for All Gala in St Helena with platinum-selling artist Seal, Taste of Napa featuring Wonder Bread 5 and much more July 12–21, at various venues in the Napa Valley. festivalnapavalley.org.

Flynn Creek Circus The boundary-pushing ensemble of performers flies, tumbles and juggles its way into the North Bay with a new show, “Out of Hat,” that promises the company’s biggest acrobatic stunts yet. Set on the high seas, this magical odyssey mixes classic circus hijinks and hilarious comedy when it runs in Calistoga July 11–14 and in Santa Rosa Aug 1-4.

Get details about locations and times at flynncreekcircus.com.

Mendocino Music Festival For two weeks every July, the town of Mendocino is taken over by a horde of classical, chamber and contemporary musicians. And this year is no different. Over two dozen concerts pack a lineup of blues, bluegrass, classical, Celtic opera and jazz between Jul 12–27. mendocinomusic.org.

Wine Country Comedy Fest Local grape-stomping and funny-bone smashing company Crushers of Comedy hosts its fourth annual summer standup extravaganza with a diverse lineup of comedians, a slew of craft beers, wine tasting, live music and more Jul 13–27 at several venues in Kenwood, St Helena and Santa Rosa. crushersofcomedy.com.

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The vendor booths offer unique and charming items for the home and garden, plus animal mobiles and fun fairy clothing for the wee ones. The event also includes the annual chalk art competition. Jul 14. Kentucky and Fourth Streets, Petaluma. 11am. petalumadowntown.com.

Northern Nights Music Festival Cook’s Valley Campground, set in a redwood forest on the Humboldt/ Mendocino County line, comes alive for the seventh annual dance and DJ-centric festival. Camp out for the weekend and immerse in a weekend of headlining music, specialty bars, hammock lounges, silent discos and community bonding. Jul 19–21. 83950 Road 442E, Piercy. northernnights.org.

Rivertown Revival The Friends of the Petaluma River present the tenth annual “Greatest Slough on Earth,” and this year’s outing features local artists and bands like Ben Morrison, Burnside, the Timothy O’Neil Band and others performing, interactive art installations, kid's activities, local food vendors and more. The eco-friendly event even boasts a Nautical Mass commute by

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Cochon 555’s Heritage Fire Napa Dozens of grills light their fire to roast and cook responsibly raised meats ranging from pig to rabbit and duck. More than 50 chefs and butchers offer up the succulent creations, paired with wine from several small wineries and artisan cheeses and other bites. The outdoor banquet commences on Jul 27 at Charles Krug Winery, 2800 Main St, St Helena. 5pm. $150 and up. cochon555.com.

Music in the Vineyards The chamber-music festival is now in its 25th season, and to mark this milestone, the season offers a catalog of highlights including works by Mendelssohn, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Brahms, and more. The fest also features the return of the Pacifica Quartet and the debut of the Tesla and Dover Quartets among other performers. Jul 31–Aug 25, at winery venues in the Napa Valley. $55 and up. musicinthevineyards.org. ) 28

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Reggae on the River Originally conceived as a fundraiser for the Mateel Community Center, the event has become known from Jamaica to Humboldt as the place to be for good vibes and great music. Aug 2-4 at French's Camp. 657 Hwy 101, Garberville. Camping is included in the price of your event ticket. reggaeontheriver.com.

Petaluma Music Festival The 12th annual festival benefiting music programs in Petaluma schools features another massive lineup of North Bay favorites like headliners ALO, David Nelson Band, the Mother Hips, Hot Buttered Rum and many others.

Aug 3 at the Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds, 175 Fairgrounds Dr, Petaluma. Noon. $55-$65 and up, students age 13-17 can get limited $20 tickets at the door, kids 12 and under are free with adult admission. petalumamusicfestival.org.

Gravenstein Apple Fair Billed as the "sweetest little fair in Sonoma County," the 46th annual event, presented by Sonoma County Farm Trails, celebrates the locally-found Gravenstein apples in all their delicious glory, with several food vendors, live music and local arts and crafts. Look for the artisan tasting lounge, the farm life arena, kid’s activities and games and contests throughout.

Aug 17-18 at Ragle Ranch Park, 500 Ragle Rd, Sebastopol. 10am to 6pm. $8-$15, kids 5 and under are free. gravensteinapplefair.com.

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Area accordion veteran Sheri Mignano Crawford is saluted as the honorary director and international stars takes the stage at this 29th annual squeezebox party, which boasts both international stars and local favorites. Aug 17–18 in La Plaza Park. Old Redwood Highway, Cotati. 9:30am–8pm. cotatifest.com.

Blues, Brews & BBQ Mixing together live music, microbrews and enough barbecue to fill a pickup truck, this summertime party is not to be missed. There's a rib-eating contest, kid's area and, of course, blues artists all along the streets. Aug 24 at First and Main streets, Napa. Noon– 6pm. Free admission, beer tasting tickets available for purchase. donapa.com.

Bodega Seafood Art & Wine Festival Dozens of culinary companies come together to offer delicious seafood specialties at the 25th annual event. Aside from the art and the eats, there are four stages of entertainment. The Main Stage features blues, jazz, swing, bluegrass and more from the likes of David Luning, the Musers, Dirty Cello and others, while jugglers, magicians and other non-musical acts join in on the fun as local art, food, wine and beer overflows Aug 24-25 at Watts Ranch, 16855 Bodega Hwy. Saturday, 10am–6pm; Sunday, 10am–5pm. $15-$20, kids under 12 are free. bodegaseafoodfestival.com.

Taste of Sonoma This signature event from the Sonoma County Vintners group makes the most of its home at Sonoma State University’s Green Music Center; gathering wineries from across the region to pour hundreds of wines that can be paired by bites from dozens of local chefs. The event also hosts seminars and demonstrations that cover a wide range of wine topics to tickle the intellect and stir the imagination.

You can also upgrade the experience with an optional Club Reserve package that gets you in early and intimate with local winemakers. Aug 31, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park. Noon to 4pm. $180-$255. tasteofsonoma.com.

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Magical Keys

World-renowned virtuoso pianist Jura Margulis is currently based in Vienna. Yet this week, he lands in the North Bay to perform a powerful and uplifting concert.

Margulis plays works by Tchaikovsky, Schumann and Mussorgsky on the legendary Henry F. Miller concert grand piano, built in Boston in 1899, restored by JB Piano Company in San Rafael and now housed in Petaluma. The concert, hosted by Sky Hill Cultural Alliance, happens on Friday, May 24, at the Petaluma Historical Library & Museum, 20 Fourth St., Petaluma. 7:30pm. $35-$50. 707.778.4398.

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While bottles are rocking in Napa Valley, Fogbelt Brewing Company breaks out the barrels for its third annual BarrelRock music and beer mini-fest. BarrelRock is highlighted by the release of several new barrel-aged beers, including a flight of sours and a booze-infused beer bar. Barbecue complements the brews while you dance the day away with a diverse music lineup featuring Down Dirty Shake, Osito and Washington Hill. Get a taste of the barrels on Saturday, May 25, at Fogbelt Brewing, 1305 Cleveland Ave., Santa Rosa. 2pm to 8pm. Free admission. 707.978.3400.

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An annual celebration for 12 years running, Oysterpalooza continues to celebrate the bivalve and the community. Food includes Tomales Bay oysters, both grilled and raw on the half-shell, oyster po’boys, smoked brisket tacos and more, and local microbrews and wines compliment the flavors. To top it off, the party also boasts performances from North Bay rock stars like Black Sheep Brass Band, Van Goat and Arann Harris. Oysterpalooza commences on Sunday, May 26, at Rocker Oysterfeller's, 14415 Highway One, Valley Ford. Noon. $25-$28; kids ages 6-12 are $10 and kids ages 5 and under are free. 707.876.1983.

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As part of their mission to bring inspiring conversations to town, the Sonoma Speaker Series welcomes actress Donna McKechnie to the stage this month.

Best-known for her portrayal of Cassie in the original Broadway cast of A Chorus Line (for which she received the Tony Award), McKechnie will be in conversation with Amy Miller, artistic director for Transcendence Theatre Company, who launch their Broadway Under the Stars season by performing A Chorus Line at Jack London State Park in June. Get in on the conversation on Wednesday, May 29, at Hanna Boys Center, 17000 Arnold Dr., Sonoma. 7pm. $35-$75. sonomaspeakerseries.com.

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SOULFUL “I was learning how to do this alchemy between blues and African rhythms,” Santana says, explaining how he came to piece together all of the distinct musical idioms that form his distinctive sound.

Summer of Love From Woodstock through ‘Supernatural’ to ‘Africa Speaks,’ Carlos Santana continues to make music with intention BY BILL KOPP

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s the lights dim in the packed house, a giant projection screen behind the stage displays clips from the 1970 documentary film Woodstock.

The split-screen slides are familiar to the older concertgoers; younger fans who discovered Santana during the “Smooth” era may be seeing them for the first time. The crowd stands and claps enthusiastically as images of what was billed as “three days of peace and music” flicker across the screen.

Carlos Santana and his band take the stage to thunderous applause.

As the assembled musicians start to play, live close-ups of band members

are seamlessly intercut with the Woodstock footage. As old and new are interwoven onscreen, the band leans into a spirited version of “Soul

Sacrifice,” one of the songs that started it all back in 1969.

Santana has arrived. But then, he never left.

Over the course of his 50-plus years of playing music, Santana has released more than two dozen studio albums; the band has a deep catalog from which to draw.

But—consummate musician and performer that Carlos Santana is—this evening begins on a warm and familiar note.

“Santana’s music is very spiritual and sensual,” the guitarist explains over the phone. He discovered the power his band had before he even landed a record deal, back when he and his crew brought their music to clubs and on campuses around the Bay Area. “The first thing we noticed is that the women move differently.”

It makes sense. While today’s pop freely blends global musical textures with traditional American forms— from rock to R&B to blues—it is worth remembering that Santana’s self-titled debut sounded nothing like its contemporaries.

From his earliest days as a bandleader, Santana has mixed guitar-led jamming with percussion rooted in Caribbean and African traditions. By combining high gain amplifiers and improvisational instrumentals with a repetitive Nigerian chant by Babatunde Olatunji and Latin flourishes, Santana’s 1969 lead single, “Jingo,” introduced a new kind of fusion, and, in doing so, influenced a generation of musicians.

DOORS OF PERCUSSION “I was learning how to do this alchemy between blues and African rhythms,” Santana says, explaining how he came to piece together all of the distinct musical idioms that form his distinctive sound. “We were learning from Willie Bobo, Jack McDuff and anyone who had congas and timbales. We put electric guitar with that, and something changed.”

His Mexican heritage—Santana was born in 1947 in Autlán, Mexico and spent much of his youth in Tijuana—has always informed his music. Other early influences, like Hungarian jazz guitarist Gábor Szabó, broadened his horizons.

From an early age, Santana’s interests included folk and,

Guitarist Pat Simmons says the Doobies have played with Santana a number of times over the years.

“We’re complementary musically and historically. It’s always been a good show,” he says.

“It’s always been great for us to play with other bands—Journey, Chicago, Eagles,” Simmons says.

The Sept. 20 concert with the Eagles at San Francisco’s AT&T Park in front of 40,000 fans was one of last year’s big shows.

“We’ve been around for a long time, and any time we get a chance to play in front of new fans, it’s good for us,” he says. “You make your fans one at a time.”

Both bands are still creating new material. “We just cut five tracks,” Simmons says of recent recordings with producer John Shanks, set for release next spring, most likely as an EP. “Everything winds up online anyway,” he says, a realization that the industry’s changed a lot in half a century. “For a band like ours, it’s more about just letting people know we’re still working. I’m not sure it makes any sense to make a full album.”

He also reveals that the Doobie Brothers will perform a special show of 1973’s The Captain and Me at The Masonic in San Francisco in September. It’s a follow-up to their performance of that album and its 1972 predecessor Toulouse Street at New York’s Beacon Theater, which is being released shortly as a live album.

Santana’s latest effort, Africa Speaks is out June 7. The album is full of the trademark Santana guitar style, but the rhythms are even more pronounced and upfront than on much of the band’s previous material.

“Everything that I ever learned came from Africa,” Santana says.

“Coltrane, Chuck Berry and Cream got it from Robert Johnson; Robert Johnson got it from Charlie Patton. Charlie Patton got it from Timbuktu in Africa. No matter how you slice it or you shuffle it, you’re still playing African music.

“When I say this, I say it in a very divine way: it’s all the same. It’s still African language,” he says. And the guitarist comes by his African emphasis honestly. “Santana is one of the few bands that goes global, to each of the four corners of the world,” he says. “And we’re not tourists. We’re part of the family.”

The first group to bear the guitarist’s name formed in 1966 as the Santana Blues Band. As he chronicles in rich detail in his memoir, The Universal Tone, Santana’s family had moved from Tijuana to San Francisco, but he stayed behind for a time.

Once settled in the Bay Area, he became fully immersed in its burgeoning culture.

In ’66, promoter Bill Graham started booking Santana’s band for local gigs. Graham, who started as a waiter in the Catskills and went on to invent the modern concert promotion industry, comes up whenever Santana is asked about his early days in the Bay Area music scene. “He was a supreme maitre’d,” Santana says. “Like my father and mother, he instilled in me how to present myself in a way that I wasn’t going to self-destruct.”

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Prior to the release of Africa Speaks, the most recent Santana album was 2013’s Santana IV. That album marked the long overdue (if temporary) reunion of nearly all members of Santana’s early 1970s lineup, the band responsible for hits including “Jingo,” “Evil Ways, “Black Magic Woman,” “Oye

Como Va,” “Everybody’s Everything” and “No One to Depend On.” Each of those first three Santana albums reached the Top 10 on the Billboard charts, and the singles would all become staples of progressive radio, then AOR playlists and finally classic rock radio.

That celebrated lineup is also the one that played the Woodstock Music & Art Fair on the afternoon of Saturday, Aug. 16, 1969. Sandwiched between a set by Country Joe McDonald and an impromptu performance by former Lovin’ Spoonful guitarist John Sebastian, Santana wowed the crowd at Max Yasgur’s farm with a 45-minute set that featured an incendiary reading of Olatunji’s “Jin-go-lo-ba” (today better known as “Jingo”) and an original, “Soul Sacrifice.” The band’s debut album wouldn’t hit record store shelves for another two weeks.

In his 2014 memoir Santana says that he was high on mescaline at Woodstock; he writes that his memory of the set is “a blur.” But the festival’s overall vibe stayed with him. “What I remember is energy,” he says of the watershed cultural moment that marks its 50th anniversary this year. “Woodstock really, really affected the rest of my life, my consciousness.”

CELEBRATION DAY Though Santana has scored numerous awards on his own and with his band—including 10 Grammys and three Latin Grammys—and sold more than 100 million records across the globe, his commercial popularity has traversed many long and dry valleys in between peaks.

Santana was in the midst of a particularly parched valley in the late 1990s; it looked as if his salad days were behind him; that perspective was underscored by his winning a kind of lifetime achievement award in 1998, induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. “Usually,” he says with a laugh, “when they give you that award, it’s over for you.”

Not long after the ceremony,

the guitarist was approached by industry mogul Clive Davis; the executive—then the head of Arista Records—suggested that Santana collaborate with a range of current hot artists. The result was the juggernaut album Supernatural, featuring “Smooth” (sung by Matchbox 20 vocalist Rob Thomas) at its center.

With Supernatural’s 20th anniversary coming in June of this year, it would seem that a victory lap in the form of a retrospective tour would be in order. Instead, the creatively restless Santana is observing the ’99 album within the context of a tour that presents his newest material as well. Both “Candomble Cumbele” and “Breaking Down the Door” from Africa Speaks show up often in the band’s current set.

PEACE, LOVE & MUSIC At press time, Santana was on the bill to perform at Woodstock 50, a half century to the day after the band’s original set there. The modern-day event’s future is in serious doubt, and it’s not at all clear if Woodstock 50 will even happen. True to form, Carlos Santana brings a mixture of mindfulness and intention to the question of whether a revival of the iconic festival is even a good idea.

“Woodstock—the real Woodstock—is the opposite of fear and greed,” Santana says.

And if that makes him sound like a hippie, he doesn’t mind.

“Not a fake hippie with fake mustaches, fake wigs and phony values,” he says. “Not that hippie; the real hippie.” To him, that includes figures who “care for the environment, who want equality, fairness, and justice. Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, the Black Panthers; those kind of hippies.”

For Carlos Santana, making music with intention is part of that mix, a vehicle to achieve those hippie goals. “It’s an art,” he says. “We do this so we can do that.”

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notably, blues guitarists B.B. King and John Lee Hooker.

But there was always something about African musical rhythms that moved him. In both their raw form and as filtered through Latin and Afro-Caribbean traditions, they would come to be a key part of the Santana sound. “Since the beginning of the Santana band, this has been a global consciousness music,” he says.

This year’s tour is branded “Global Consciousness” and will feature as its opening act another deeply rooted Northern California rock & roll institution, the Doobie Brothers. Begun in San Jose in 1970, group co-founder Tom Johnston lives in Marin County and the band was managed for many years out of Sonoma County.

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mong this summer’s cascade of moving images, there’s one fun coincidence: a reboot of Child’s Play opening the same late-June weekend as Pixar’s Toy Story IV. At least one distracted dad will goof at the ticket booth and end up wondering why Cowboy Woody turned into a knifewielding bad-bastard who talks like Mark Hamill. (The longtime voice of the Joker, Hamill is the larynx for Chucky the devil doll.) In the actual Pixar feature: the gang hits the road, and Woody (Tom Hanks) gets uncomfortable in that familiar cowboy-around-aschool-marm manner with Bo Peep (voiced by Annie Potts).

Disney, which just snapped up Hulu, is cashing in with a liveaction Aladdin (May 24), with the spectacle built in and the Tex Avery-ness removed. It’s followed by the live-action The Lion King (July 19), about which the most hopeful thing to be said is that Billy Eichler of Difficult People dubs the talking meerkat.

Both will coin big money. But given the box-office triumph of Bohemian Rhapsody, there are hopes the biopic Rocketman (May 31) will be a hit; it promises not to be as covert about Elton John’s sexuality as Bohemian Rhapsody was about Freddie Mercury’s nightlife.

Nostalgia is in the air, like tear gas. A couple of films note the 50th anniversary of 1969 and the radicals hatched by that dangerous year. Patty Hearst’s crimewave is reimagined in American Woman (June 14). And ol’ spiral eyes is back: Charlie Manson (Damon Herriman) and his gang are but one group of drifting Angelenos in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (July 26).

Speaking of comebacks, there is a certain organ-like majesty to the title Godzilla, King of Monsters (May 31), no matter how the CG Kaiju plays out. Considering current events, King Ghidorah, triple-headed reptile of the apocalypse, is quite overdue.

Also on May 31: Ma, some straightforward Blumhouse horror, directed by Tate Taylor (The Help).

Octavia Spencer is a maternal neighborhood lady, giving good old fashioned discipline to a bunch of naughty teens, using whatever weapons are at hand.

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Fellowship of the Wing Supergroup features John Kadlecik (Dark Star Orchestra), Jay Lane (RatDog, Primus) and others. May 25, 9pm and May 26, 8pm. $27-$32. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.3850.

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May 24, Inside Pocket. May 25, Mike Saliani Band. May 26, 1pm, Elwood. 20 Grey St, Petaluma, 707.775.6003.

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May 25, 12pm, Falcon Christopher. May 26, 12pm, People of Earth. 15000 Sonoma Hwy, Glen Ellen, 707.938.4064.

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Cloverdale Performing Arts Center May 25, Del Sol Band. 209 N Cloverdale Blvd, Cloverdale, 707.829.2214.

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May 24, Steven Kent. May 26, 3pm, Brad Wilson. 44F Mill St, Healdsburg, 707.385.9133.

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May 24, Flytrap. May 25, Joshua James Jackson and friends.

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May 23, jazz night with Michael Price & Co. May 24, North Bay All-Stars. May 25, DJ night. May 26, Steve Pile. May 27, Nate Lopez. 6780 Depot St, Suite 120, Sebastopol, 707.861.9603.

25, Nate Lopez. May 26, 1pm, Brian Belknap. 691 Broadway, Sonoma, 707.935.9100.

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May 24, 5pm, Nate Lopez.

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May 23, Matt Reischling & the Black Box. May 24, the Gravel Spreaders. May 25, the Grain.

May 26, the Theory. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma, 707.778.8776.

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May 24, John Rybak and friends. 490 Mendocino Ave #104, Santa Rosa, 707.890.5433.

Luther Burbank Center for the Arts May 24, Christian Nodal. May 28, Derek Hough. 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.546.3600.

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May 24, Levi Lloyd. May 25, Fargo Brothers. May 26, Elvis Outta Rehab Show. May 28-29, Jugsluggers. 16280 Main St, Guerneville, 707.869.0501.

Murphy’s Irish Pub & Restaurant

May 24, the Cork Pullers. May 25, Kerry Daly Band. 464 First St E, Sonoma, 707.935.0660.

Mystic Theatre & Music Hall

May 23, Spyro Gyra. May 24, Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives. May 25, Sons of Champlin with Small Hat. May 29, the Bright Light Social Hour.

23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.775.6048.

Occidental Center for the Arts May 24, Moonalice. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental, 707.874.9392.

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May 24, Sky Hill Cultural Alliance presents Jura Margulis.

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May 24, DJ Refugio Mata. May 25, Stax City. 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa, 707.545.8530.

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May 24, the Rivertown Trio. May 25, Barry Bisson and friends.

May 26, 2pm, Mike Spinrad. 189 H St, Petaluma, 707.778.6060.

May 23, Slaid Cleaves. May 24, Best of Open Mic. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol, 707.829.7300.

May 23, Danny Brooks and Lil Miss Debi with the Ralph Humphrey Band. May 24, Midnight Sun. May 25, 3pm, Gold Coast Jazz Band. May 26, Irish jam session. May 27, the Blues Defenders pro jam. May 28, Blue Doria. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.795.7868.

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May 25, “The Sound & Spirit of 20th Century Paris” with SonoMusette. 282 S High St, Sebastopol, 707.829.4797.

Laugh it up with local comedians James Rowan and Steve Ausburne. May 25, 8pm. $15. Coyote Sonoma, 44F Mill St, Healdsburg, 707.385.9133.

May 29, Dylan Black Project.

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Taft Street Winery

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May 26, 2pm, Bottle Shock.

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May 24, Bloomfield Bluegrass Boys. May 25, August Sun. 5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove, 707.795.5118.

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May 24, Superbad and DJ Rob Cervantes. May 25, Digital Unity with Jake Levant and friends. 1910 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.843.5535.

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May 26, 3pm, Rob Watson and friends featuring Vernon Black.

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May 24, DJ Bubly York and Roots Man Project. May 25, B Side Players. May 26, Banda La Viñera del Valle de Napa. 1141 First St, Napa, 707.224.6664.

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May 24, BottleRock after show with Gary Clark Jr. May 25, BottleRock after show with Big Boi and the Soul Rebels. May 26, BottleRock after show with Chevy Metal. 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.880.2300.

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May 24, Mark Harold. May 25, Craig Corona. 1600 Soscol Ave, Napa, 707.320.9000.

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May 26, 6pm, Bob Dylan celebration with THUGZ. 14540 Canyon 2 Rd, Rio Nido, 707.869.0821.

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Comedy The Laugh Cellar presents the French-born standup comedian with a sharp wit and European twang. May 25, 7pm. $20. Flamingo Lounge, 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa, 707.545.8530.

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May 24, BottleRock after show with Vintage Trouble. Archer Hotel, 1260 First St, Napa, 707.819.2490.

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Gallery-wide art sale, demonstrations and raffle revolve around the grape. May 25, 11am. Artisans’ Co-op, 17175 Bodega Hwy, Bodega, 707.876.9830.

Chalk Hill Spring Open Studio

Celebrate the art and creativity of several artists-in-residence with entertainment and refreshments. May 25, 1pm.

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Honor the day with special guests, refreshments and tours of veterans’ graves. May 27, 12pm. Free. Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery, 1600 Franklin Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.543.3279.

Petaluma Adobe Living History Day

Meet the vaqueros, traders and others who lived in old California and who come to life in the family-friendly event.

May 25, 10am. $2-$3; kids 5 and under are free. Petaluma Adobe State Historic Park, 3325 Adobe Rd, Petaluma, 707.762.4871.

Portrait Party

See yourself through the eyes of a variety of artists and make some new friends in a fun artsy gathering. May 23, 5pm. $10. Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S High St, Sebastopol, 707.829.4797.

Treasure Hunt

Family-friendly walking adventure offers bilingual fun and prizes for the first 10 families who discover the treasure. May 25, 1pm.

Free. Robert Louis Stevenson Museum, 1490 Library Lane, St Helena, 707.963.3757.

Western Hills’ 60th Anniversary Celebration

Weekend features speakers, tours and a selection of plants offered for sale to support the garden restoration effort.

May 25-26, 10am. $35.

Western Hills Garden, 16250 Coleman Valley Rd, Occidental, westernhillsgarden.com.

Weekend full of antiques and joie de vivre includes several vendors offering French fare, with music and more. May 25-26, 10am. $10; kids under 12 are free. Chateau Sonoma, 23588 Arnold Dr, Sonoma, 707.935.8553.

Field Trips

KWTF Spring Fundraiser

Guided activities help open your senses, hone your intuition and experience the forest as you never have before. May 29, 9am. $249. Osmosis Day Spa, 209 Bohemian Hwy, Freestone, 707.823.8231.

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May 24, 7pm. $10-$20. Arlene Francis Center, 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.528.3009.

Ladies in Leadership Evening offers music, raffle prizes, socializing, learning, collaborative discussion, networking and leadership development. May 23, 6pm.

Forest Bathing Spa Meditation Retreat

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Mini music fest unveils new barrel-aged beers, expanded beer garden and outdoor BBQ, with music from Down Dirty Shake and others. May 25, 2pm. Free admission. Fogbelt Brewing, 1305 Cleveland Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.978.3400.

Local Chocolate & Wine Pairing

Chef Robert Nieto pairs his chocolate creations with wines made locally in the region.

May 26, 4 and 6pm. $35; $60 per couple. Wilibees Wines & Spirits, 700 Third St, Santa Rosa, 707.978.3779.

Oysterpalooza

Celebrate the bivalve with local bands, BBQ oysters, smoked brisket tacos, cocktails, local beer and wine. May 26, 12pm. $15-$25. Rocker Oysterfeller’s, 14415 Hwy 1, Valley Ford, 707.876.1983.

Rock, Roll & Rosé

Memorial Day weekend of fun includes delicious food, rosé all day and activities. May 24-26.

CIA at Copia, 500 First St, Napa, 707.967.2530.

Seasonal Cocktails from the Garden

Garden-to-glass demonstration uses fresh ingredients to make tasty drinks. May 26, 4pm. CIA at Copia, 500 First St, Napa, 707.967.2530.

Sip & Eat Series

Enjoy food from Keith’s BBQ Beast food truck, share a bottle

of wine and enjoy the view of Dry Creek Valley. May 25, 11am.

Papapietro Perry Winery, 4791 Dry Creek Road, Healdsburg, 707.433.0422.

Sonoma County Supper Club

Chef Matthew Paille of Epicurean Escape Catering is going Mediterranean for this community feast. May 23, 7pm. $69-$89. Notre Vue Estate Winery & Vineyard, 11010 Estate Lane, Windsor, 707.433.4050.

For Kids Museum Mondays for Little Ones Children ages 1 to 5 and their caregivers can enjoy stories, arts and crafts activities and movement games. May 27, 10am. $5. Charles M Schulz Museum, 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa, 707.579.4452.

Tangled Paint Party

Canvas and all materials will be ready for your child to create a memorable experience painting with Rapunzel herself. May 26, 10am. $45-$80. Create It Pottery Studio, 632 Fourth St, Santa Rosa, 707.576.7102.

Lectures Build a Bat Box

Learn how to use a few power tools in a safe environment and make a beautiful habitat for local bats. May 23, 4:30pm. $50. Chimera Arts & Maker Space, 6791 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol, chimeraarts.org.

Peacefully Parent Your Teen

Workshop with Terri Moon gives parents tools to effectively connect to their teens. May 25, 1:30pm. $27. Songbird Community Healing Center, 8297 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, terrimoon.com.

Sonoma Speaker Series

Series partners with Transcendence Theatre Company to bring professional dancer, singer and actress Donna McKechnie to the stage.

May 29, 7pm. $35 and up. Hanna Boys Center, 17000 Arnold Dr, Sonoma, 707.996.6767.

The Write Spot

Bring a notebook and a pen to travel on a journey of exploration and deep writing through inspirational prompts. May 27, 6:30pm. $15.

Petaluma Copperfield’s Books,

140 Kentucky St, Petaluma, 707.762.0563.

Readings Petaluma Copperfield’s Books May 25, 3pm, “How to Write a Page-Turner” with Jordan Rosenfeld. 140 Kentucky St, Petaluma 707.762.0563.

Sally Tomatoes

May 23, 5:30pm, “Stop Trying So Hard” with Honorée Corder, presented by WomenTalkBiz. $27. 1100 Valley House Dr, Rohnert Park 707.665.0260.

Santa Rosa Copperfield’s Books

May 24, 7pm, “Joy From Fear” with Carla Marie Manly. 775 Village Court, Santa Rosa 707.578.8938.

Theater The Belle of Amherst

Jennifer King stars as poet Emily Dickinson in this onewoman-show, presented

by Sonoma Arts Live. May 23-Jun 2. $25-$40. Sonoma Community Center, 276 E Napa St, Sonoma, 707.938.4626.

Billy Nobody

Pegasus Theater Company presents the comedy written

by Sonoma County playwright Stanley Rutherford. May 24-Jun 16. $15-$18. Mt Jackson Masonic Hall, 14040 Church St, Guerneville, pegasustheater.com.

Faceless

The tightly-wound courtroom drama is injected with a healthy dose of wit. Through Jun 2. $18$28. Studio Theatre, 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.523.4185.

This Random World

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

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the coming weeks, I suspect you will have the wisdom to criticize yourself in constructive ways that will at least partially solve a long-standing problem. Hallelujah! I bet you will also understand what to do to eliminate a bad habit by installing a good new habit. Please capitalize on that special knowledge! There's one further capacity I suspect you'll have: the saucy ingenuity necessary to alleviate a festering fear. Be audacious!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): What standards

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If there were a Hall

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There'll be big payoffs if you do, including rich teachings on the art of happiness.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Many eighteenth-century pirates were committed to democracy and equality among their ranks. The camaraderie and fairness and mutual respect that prevailed on pirate ships were markedly different from the oppressive conditions faced by sailors who worked for the navies of sovereign nations. The latter were often pressed into service against their will and had to struggle to collect meager salaries. Tyrannical captains controlled all phases of their lives. I bring this to your attention, Leo, with the hope that it will inspire you to seek out alternative approaches to rigid and hierarchical systems. Gravitate toward generous organizations that offer you ample freedom and rich alliances. The time is right to ally yourself with emancipatory influences.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don't wait around for fate to decide which decisions you should make and what directions you should go. Formulate those decisions yourself, with your willpower fully engaged.

Never say, "If it's meant to be, it will happen." Rather, resolve to create the outcomes you strongly desire to happen. Do you understand how important this is? You shouldn't allow anyone else to frame your important questions and define the nature of your problems; you've got to do the framing and defining yourself. One more thing: don't fantasize about the arrival of the "perfect moment." The perfect moment is whenever you decree it is.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the coming weeks,

I hope you'll regularly give yourself to generous, expansive experiences. I hope you'll think big, funny thoughts and feel spacious, experimental emotions.

I hope you'll get luxurious glimpses of the promise your future holds, and I hope you'll visualize yourself

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embarking on adventures and projects you've been too timid or worried to consider before now. For best results, be eager to utter the word "MORE!" as you meditate on the French phrase "joie de vivre" and the English phrase "a delight in being alive."

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): According to

Popular Mechanics magazine, over three million sunken ships are lying on the bottoms of the world’s oceans. Some of them contain billions of dollars’ worth of precious metals and jewels. Others are crammed with artifacts that would be of great value to historians and archaeologists. And here’s a crazy fact: fewer than one percent of all those potential treasures have been investigated by divers.

I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because I hope it might inspire you to explore your inner world’s equivalent of lost or unknown riches. The astrological omens suggest that the coming weeks will be an excellent time to go searching for them.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "Some

days you need god's grace," writes poet Scherezade Siobhan. "On other days: the feral tongue of vintage whiskey and a mouth kissed by fire." I'm guessing, Sagittarius, that these days you might be inclined to prefer the feral tongue of vintage whiskey and a mouth kissed by fire. But according to my astrological analysis, those flashy phenomena would not motivate you to take the corrective and adaptive measures you actually need. The grace of god—or whatever passes for the grace of god in your world—is the influence that will best help you accomplish what's necessary.

Fortunately, I suspect you know how to call on and make full use of that grace.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn poet William Stafford articulated some advice that I think you need to hear right now. Please hold it close to your awareness for the next 21 days. "Saying things you do not have to say weakens your talk," he wrote.

"Hearing things you do not need to hear dulls your hearing." By practicing those protective measures, Capricorn, you will foster and safeguard your mental health. Now here's another gift from Stafford: "Things you know before you hear them—those are you, those are why you are in the world."

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "Love is an immoderate thing / And can never be content," declared poet W. B. Yeats. To provide you with an accurate horoscope, I'll have to argue with that idea a bit. From what I can determine, love will indeed be immoderate in your vicinity during the coming weeks.

On the other hand, it's likely to bring you a high degree of contentment—as long as you're willing to play along with its immoderateness. Here's another fun prediction: I suspect that love's immoderateness, even as it brings you satisfaction, will also inspire you to ask for more from love and expand your capacity for love.

And that could lead to even further immoderate and interesting experiments.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You will know you are in sweet alignment with cosmic forces if you have an impulse to try a rash adventure, but decide instead to work on fixing a misunderstanding with an ally. You can be sure you're acting in accordance with your true intuition if you feel an itch to break stuff, but instead channel your fierce energy into improving conditions at your job. You will be in tune with your soul's code if you start fantasizing about quitting what you've been working on so hard, but instead sit down and give yourself a pep talk to reinvigorate your devotion and commitment.

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Why the Red Poppy?

Following one of the bloodiest battles of World War I, the soil around the trenches & graves of Flanders Field was churned and aerated by the soldiers’ boots. This activated the dormant seeds of the red poppy, which sprouted abundantly, scarlet red, bringing forth new life from death. Once the war was over, the poppy was one of the only plants to grow on the otherwise barren battlefields.

The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) sell red “Buddy Poppies” each Memorial Day to support veterans in need and honor those who have died fighting for our freedom. The red poppy was adopted as their official memorial flower in 1922.

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