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Clean Day No More Clean Day? In Guerneville? Where did it go?

Why are there no more volunteers for this wonderful service? Retired Vietnam veterans used to give time to this much needed service every Thursday

The mobile shower that was available on Mondays was run out of town due to a neighbor who did not like the smell of cigarette smoke next door.

frightening and horrible. Every second one is just trying to survive. Think about this: Where does one go if they need a restroom in Guerneville ? Some businesses will let you if you buy food.

The bathrooms by the main Sheriff substation are what the general public use. Bars tend to throw the homeless out. Avoid the Bull Pen.

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THIS MODERN WORLD

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Praise Trump President Trump's political opponents are doing this nation and the entire world a huge disservice by criticizing President Trump as being too friendly with Russia's President Putin.

The fate of the entire human race hangs by the most slender thread over the abyss of nuclear war. This possible nuclear holocaust is the greatest danger ever faced in our species' history of one million years. Preventing this unbearable tragedy from happening must become the highest priority of every responsible human being.

I urge all those who are justifiably angry with President Trump for so many of his reactionary policies to suspend their anger toward him in his dealings with President Putin. Improving the U.S.'s relationship with Russia and specifically with President Putin is of the greatest importance in preventing the outbreak of a nuclear war with Russia.

Therefore I totally and unconditionally support President Trump's efforts to create a friendlier relationship with President Putin. Saving humanity from a nuclear holocaust is our first duty as intelligent and responsible people.

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n an era when locally owned newspapers are an endangered species, the Bohemian remains part of a small, but mighty group of independent papers that include the Pacific Sun (San Rafael) Metro Silicon Valley (San Jose), Good Times (Santa Cruz), the Gilroy Dispatch and the Hollister Freelance—known collectively as the Metro Publishing Co. Earlier this month we learned Metro papers won 19 California Newspaper Publishers Association awards. Our group won six first place awards. Of particular note are the Gilroy Dispatch’s first place in general excellence, Good Times’ third place showing in general excellence, Metro’s third year in a row wins for investigative journalism and arts and entertainment coverage as well as awards for in-depth coverage and public service. The Pacific Sun, which is produced in the Bohemian’s Santa Rosa office, won a second place award for a profile on rocker Sammy Hagar and the Bohemian nabbed a fourth place award for Peter Byrne’s story on development plans for Chanate (“The Fate of Chanate,” July 24, 2018).

It’s not easy to put out a newspaper these days. When the internet gives (and takes) content for free and everyone with a cellphone is a blogger-photographer-expert, it can be hard to cut through the noise. And to be fair, it’s not all noise. There is some great new journalism out there. But the independently owned, community centric newspaper plays a vital role in our democracy and it won’t be replaced anytime soon.

The careful reader of the Bohemian may have noticed the disappearance and recent reappearance of my name on the masthead.

After a six-month foray into a new business venture, I’m back in a expanded role: group managing editor. I’ll be focused on editing the Bohemian and Pacific Sun, but also looking for opportunities to leverage the strength of our group of papers, papers that have a combined circulation second only to the San Francisco Chronicle.

I’ll also be looking for ways to innovate what we do. It’s a tall order, but I’m inspired by the work of my colleagues and the opportunity to serve our communities.

To that end, what subjects are most important to you? Please let me know at sholbrook@metronews.com.

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POT SHOPS Ting’s bill takes on cities and counties that supported Prop. 64, only to enact marijuana moratoriums

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Assembly bill would force municipalities to open retail pot shops BY TOM GOGOLA

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s Scott Weiner works with fellow state senator Mike McGuire to selectively preempt local zoning laws to ease the way for more housing construction, Assemblyman Phil Ting—another Bay Area Democrat—is trying to do something similar for the pot industry.

If Ting’s AB 1356 passes, it would force cities and counties to allow one cannabis retail permit for every four liquor licenses in the jurisdiction.

But that is only if more than half of the electorate in a jurisdiction voted for Proposition 64’s adultuse legalization in 2016.

For cities that already allow for recreational sales and are looking to grow the local pot economy, including Santa Rosa,

Ting’s bill may not make much of a difference. But jurisdictions whose elected officials have banned retail recreational cannabis dispensaries despite majority support from residents— including, for example, Healdsburg, or Marin County’s unincorporated areas—could be in for a ride. Some 75 percent of all cities and counties have banned retail pot business since the passage of Proposition 64,

according to state research highlighted by Ting. His bill aims to reverse the trend.

“Californians voted for Prop. 64 to replace the illicit market with a legal system that would grant Californians safe access to cannabis products, while also creating good jobs and significant tax revenue,” Ting said in announcing his bill earlier this year. “However, these goals can only be fully realized if enough licenses are granted to meet existing demand. This bill will ensure the legal market can succeed.”

The bill is supported by labor organizations and veteran’s groups that have called for expanded access to medical cannabis, and would also help working-class people and the disabled have greater access to legal cannabis products, says Shivawn Brady, a board member of the Sonoma County Grower’s Alliance who personally supports Ting’s bill. It passed the Senate Business and Professions committee April 29 and is headed to the Appropriations committee later this month.

“Despite voters approving Prop.

64, there are cannabis deserts across the state where veterans and patients have to drive long distances to a licensed shop,” said Aaron Augustis, founder of Veterans Cannabis Group, in response to Ting’s bill. “We served our country and want to work with our local cities, counties, and state governments to ensure our veterans have safe access across the state to medicinal cannabis. AB 1356 is crucial for veterans’ access.”

In the South Bay, the local proweed advocates at the Silicon Valley Cannabis Alliance have come out in support of AB 1356.

Locally, Brady says she supports Ting’s bill which will, she says, provide access to a legal medical product to locals who might have to travel out of town for their medicine.

Ting’s bill would require that cities and counties to issue cannabis licenses equal to 25 percent of the number of liquor store licenses in the jurisdiction—a reasonable ratio,

‘Californians voted for Prop. 64 to replace the illicit market with a legal system that would grant Californians safe access to cannabis products, while also creating good jobs and significant tax revenue.’

In Marin County, an overwhelming 96,000 residents supported Prop 64 while 43,200 voted it down. But, with the exception of San Rafael, Marin towns and cities from Novato to Fairfax have rolling moratoriums banning non-medical cannabis retail establishments. Nearly 140,000 Sonomans supported legalization, with 94,500 against.

Sonoma’s cannabis rollout has been stymied by residents’ pushback to commercial grows

and other cannabis businesses in their midst—and a complicated, expensive and time-consuming licensing protocol that has conspired to keep black market sales at about 60 percent of pot sales statewide, according to industry estimates.

On the licensing front, there are currently two cannabis business applications on the calendar at the Sonoma County Board of Zoning Adjustments: One is for a 225 acre grow in rural Guerneville that represents a major expansion of an existing cannabis-business footprint.

According to the growers’ website, the pot is grown for a CBD healing salve. That one’s been fully vetted by Building and Zoning Administration staff and recommending approval at the zoning board’s May 9 meeting.

The other is for a commercial cannabis growing and processing site in Santa Rosa in an industrial center near Todd Road and Highway 101.

As of this week, the BZA staff has yet to release their recommendation for this 11-acre indoor commercial application, which would be located, if approved, within 600 feet of a private school called New Beginnings. That school contracts with Sonoma County to assist traumatized youth and parents through educational, outreach and life-skills programs.

The school’s location is not at issue given that there’s no school setback required for indoor cultivation in industrial zones, says Sonoma County spokesperson Maggie Fleming. The county does evaluate neighborhood compatibility issues, she says in an email, and the applicant, KJM Data and Research, “has been doing outreach with the school since they started operations and the school has not submitted any concerns to date, after receiving three public notifications about the project: Early neighborhood notification, hearing waiver notice, and most recently hearing notice.”

The application is set to go before the zoning board on May 16.

A version of this story appeared on SanJoseinside.com.

General Issue By any account, it looked like a pretty busy day in early May at Xavier Becerra’s office. The state attorney general pushed out four press releases on May 2, mostly directed at holding Washington D.C. accountable—but also at police accountability in the state.

In one announcement, Becerra denounced President Donald Trump’s rollback of offshore drilling rules that came about after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

The AG further announced that California, leading a coalition of 20 states, had filed a reply brief to Trump’s challenge to their lawsuit, California et. al. v Trump, et al., over the president’s national emergency declaration at the southern border. The fourth release didn’t directly criticize Trump—though it could have, given the president’s embrace of ethnic profiling—as Becerra announced a new state DOJ video to help enhance public buy-in of an ambitious policeaccountability law.

In 2015, the state of California passed the Racial and Identity Profiling Act, a first-in-the-nation law which requires, by 2023, that all law enforcement agencies across the state collect detailed information and recordings of stops and searches, including data on the officers’ perception of the person being stopped, in order to combat “policing profiling” of suspects.

But earlier this year, the board that was created with the passage of RIPA released a report that found very little evidence of racial profiling in California in 2017.

The California Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board was created to “shepherd this data collection and provide public reports with the ultimate objective to eliminate racial and identity profiling and improve and understand diversity in law enforcement through training, education, and outreach.” In 2017, the board cast a wide net around the state to provisionally determine the extent of the racial-profiling problem in California. The results indicated that there was practically no racialprofiling problem in California.

Of the 453 agencies subject to RIPA reporting in 2017, 79 said they had no civilian complaints reported that year. The RIPA board and its followers were split on what the data meant: For some law enforcement representatives it meant that there wasn’t much of a racial profiling crisis in California.

For police-accountability advocates, it meant that the data-collection process under RIPA was either flawed or corrupted by the police “blue wall,” or both.

This spring, eight big police agencies sent a year’s worth of data to the state Department of Justice on April 1, to be analyzed for next year’s annual report.

As it reported a low number of civilian complaints in its 2017 study, the board addressed a possible absence of public buy-in in RIPA’s data-collection process as the culprit behind what to many policeaccountability activists were seen as surprisingly low numbers.

The board aimed in the annual report released in March to “enhance the transparency of the stop data collection process by providing the public with detailed information on how the data is collected and submitted and how the Department [of Justice] and law enforcement agencies ensure the integrity of this data.”

That information includes the date, time and duration of a stop, the reason for a stop, the officer’s perception of the race, ethnicity, age, gender, disability or language fluency of the person stopped.

The RIPA rollout is pegged to the size of law enforcement agencies.

Agencies with more than 1,000 peace officers had to file their first reports with the state Department of Justice by April 1 of this year.

Agencies with between 667 and 1,000 peace officers will submit their first reports by next April 1; those with between 334 and 667 peace officers (that includes the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office) will be RIPA-compliant by 2022; and agencies with fewer than 334 officers will issue their first reports in 2023. —Tom Gogola

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says Brady—or one license for every 10,000 residents.

Organizations including Urban Counties of California have cast a wary eye, saying it would “force local jurisdictions to approve licenses for medical and recreational cannabis retailers.”

The bill applies to jurisdictions that approved Prop 64. In Napa the vote was 37,000 for; 23,333 against. Napa has issued a handful of cannabis licenses since legalization.

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BY JAMES KNIGHT

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efore we get to the wine, first, a word about coffee mugs.

Lately, I’ve gotten a little funny about my morning coffee. I have a coffee mug for different days of the week. Maybe it’s a sign of incipient eccentricity, maybe it’s harmless, but in any case, it’s only taken over three days of the week thus far. It all started with Tuesday.

That’s the day the Carneros Wine Alliance holds their annual barrel tasting get-together each spring.

When you arrive, you get a wine glass; when you leave, you get a commemorative coffee mug.

So when it’s Tuesday, I think of Carneros.

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Shared between Sonoma and Napa Counties, the Los Carneros American Viticultural Area (AVA) was established way back in 1983.

The region’s key claim to quality is that it’s cool two ways—the rolling, windswept vineyards are influenced both by Petaluma Gap ocean breezes and San Pablo Bay. Typical of the Chardonnays I tasted at the event, the 2017 Carneros Chardonnay ($38) from non-member winery Frank Family Vineyards is barrel-fermented but has the bright, lemony acidity to handle it, coming across with floral notes of oak, caramel and quince jam on the tongue instead of fat, “buttery” character. Frank Family’s 2017 Carneros Pinot Noir ($38) has that dried black cherry and potpourri spice that I find many, if not all, Carneros Pinots display.

Among other treats offered at this intimate event, which is only open to member wineries and a few trade and media folks, is a sneak peak at the latest vintage—usually organized into a theme, like this year’s sampling of Pommard clone Pinot Noir from member vineyards—and sometimes a behind-the-scenes look at a winery locale.

This year’s event was held at the Donum Estate. Since I last visited in 2014—also an invite-only event— Donum has been a conundrum.

Was the converted dairy barn that housed its offices open for tasting?

Yes, sort of. Kind of. Inquire. Then the head appeared. “Sanna,” by artist Jaume Plensa, is a giant, white head that plays with one’s sense of depth and scale. And then a massive, shimmering heart, “Love Me,” by Richard Hudson, on a distant hilltop. What’s going on at Donum?

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Super Soy Me One week living on Amy’s Kitchen

BY JAMES KNIGHT

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ike any typical chump, I planned to start an ambitious new diet on New Year’s Day. Fine, the day after New Year’s Day.

The diet was strict, but had just one simple rule: Eat food, mostly frozen, as much as I want, on a $100 per week budget.

And here’s the kicker: Eat only food that’s made by Amy’s Kitchen, the privately held natural foods manufacturer based in Petaluma.

Yes, it was a bold plan.

Day 1: I load a frozen, gluten-free tofu scramble breakfast wrap in the microwave oven, starting the day’s calorie count at 300. At lunch it’s a chili mac bowl, 420 calories, and later a spinach pizza pocket sandwich, 280 calories. Dinner brings a longtime favorite to the table; veggie loaf with mashed potatoes, peas and carrots. But those 340 calories don’t feel like enough, so I round out the evening with a spinach pizza snack, and 380 additional calories.

Day 2: I’m a little hungover. Ugh, what happened?

The Perils of a Cruelty-Free Diet

I’m on this diet partly to see if man can live on Amy’s alone. While it’s a controlled experiment, it’s not an inhumane experiment, so I did not forswear the enjoyment of a few glasses of wine with dinner, before dinner, or after dinner. Besides, eliminating the beverage variable might have skewed the results, right? Instead, I opt for certified organic wine, in the spirit of Amy’s Kitchen, whose listed ingredients are nearly all prefaced with “organic,” save the sea salt and black pepper.

The problem: after unpacking five frozen meals from five cardboard cartons, I’d only packed in 1,720 calories on that first day. No doubt the wine hit a little harder because that’s well below the 2,000 daily calories that nutrition labels are based on, or the recommended 2,400 calorie diet of a moderately active male of my age, and weight.

Ah, that weight. The other reason for the diet was to lose a little of it. I demur from saying what that weight is, lest some readers then wish to knock me around a bit, but suffice it to say that I feel like the image of some kind of corpulent, late career Orson Welles. (More like Audrey Hepburn, remarked a more portly friend a few years back.

That smarts a bit, but then again—such style!) What’s that about body image self-acceptance? Stuff self-acceptance in a cheeseburger.

I demand to get back that flat belly that I haven’t seen since age 29, and I’ll try any diet in that service. The allure of Amy’s is the quick and easy calorie counting, printed right on the box, and de facto portion control. The convenience of simply reheating frozen food, too, leaves more time for that moderate activity.

Lesson learned, on to Day 2: Country bake breakfast, 420 calories; veggie sausage, 55 calories; brown rice and vegetables bowl, 260 calories;

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Amy’s, Can You Hear Me?

Day 3: I’ve had no luck trying to contact the public relations desk at Amy’s, so, fueled only by their breakfast scramble, 360 calories, and veggie sausage, 55 calories, I set out by bicycle for the company headquarters in Petaluma. Am I helping to offset the carbon

footprint of these packaged meals, or is their economy of scale inherently more efficient than my home stovetop? Will there someday be fewer veal crates, like the ones that I’m passing by on Stony Point Road, because of vegetarian options like Amy’s provides? These are things I think of on my ride.

Besides that biking in heavy traffic sucks veggie meatballs.

It wasn’t enough. On Lakeville Highway, a few blocks short, and fatigued, I have to turn back or else miss the last SMART train back to Santa Rosa until late afternoon.

Breakthrough at the Drive-Thru

I get a new idea on the train, remembering the Amy’s DriveThru restaurant in Rohnert Park.

It’s a long shot, but at the very least, after ordering a single veggie cheeseburger and fries (alas, I am not asked to “super-size” my order to the signature double patty “Amy” burger), I can ask for any kind of help at the register. I’m in luck— Dave Wolfgram, president of Amy's Drive-Thru Restaurants, is working on his laptop a few tables over. He seems genuinely concerned and promises to hook me up with HQ. Although this joint is as bustling as it was on my first visit over three years ago (“Understanding Amy’s,” Sept. 9, 2015), Amy’s has rolled out their takeover of the fast food nation at, well, an organic pace. An outpost in SFO (Amy’s “fly-thru”?) is scheduled for July, with a Corte Madera drive-thru opening in 2020.

How the Organic Tofu Sausage is Made

I’m in! I meet Paul Schiefer for a tour of Amy’s flagship production facility, which has been located on Santa Rosa’s Northpoint Parkway since the early days. Schiefer, who is a nephew to the Berliners, grew up with the business, and is now senior director of sustainability.

On the way to the dressing room where I’ll don a smock, hairnet and beard net, I’m already distracted by a novel sight: two vending machines in the break

room are stocked with Amy’s entrées. They’re sold to employees for just $1 to $1.50. But the Blue Sky organic cola in the adjacent vending machine, Schiefer admits, isn’t as popular with employees as Pepsi. No strict diets here: there’s a Frito-Lay option, too.

Workers are everywhere on the plant floor, monitoring computer screens, carting multi-level tray carts here and there. Look, there goes my old friend, the lentil loaf!

Over there, veggie sausage, destined for a country bake. In one room, which is as big as most winery cellars I see, pinto beans cascade in an industrial waterfall, while a worker tends to a steaming kettle perched high in the middle distance.

A smaller room houses one of the largest tofu-making facilities on the West Coast, according to Schiefer. Here are whole soybeans, soaked and removed of fiber, which goes to a dairy. Then, hot soy milk pours forth, and further down the line, blocks of fresh tofu, some 9,400 pounds per day, are cut and sent on to their rendezvous with organic oats, organic bulgar wheat and organic onions and more to, yes, make the tofu sausage.

On the kettle deck, an enchilada sauce has just been made—we see it later on down the line, where freshly frozen entreés clank off the conveyor belt. Tomato sauces are made from fresh tomatoes.

Vegetables such as broccoli may be fresh, or flash frozen, since there are only two harvests a year from their supplier. “We’d rather get it all fresh, in season, than go to the ends of the earth to bring it in,” says Schiefer.

In the burrito room, bean and cheese filling plops onto tortillas, made fresh in the room next door, in a way that my minder from the marketing department doesn’t wish me to photograph. But it’s all hand work after that. One employee tells me, still folding while turning away from the assembly line to explain, that she’s been honing her technique for 21 years, shaping the filling, and folding six or more ways in a flash of hand movements I can hardly follow.

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meatless Italian sausage, mushroom and olive pizza, 930 calories. Yes, I know the pizza is supposed to be three separate servings, but the day’s total is only 1,665 calories. Yet I feel stuffed. Might be because I’m not used to consuming so many carbohydrates (see the surprise tally at the end of the article), and that’s a criticism I’ve heard of products like Amy’s: organic or not, isn’t it too high in sodium, too stuffed with carbohydrates, like other processed snack foods? When I announced my dietary goal to someone at the company (who shan’t be named), in fact, the response was: “But what about vegetables?”

In an era when consumers are being advised to eat whole foods, and lower on the food chain, Amy’s occupies an interesting space in between the good reputation of organic foods and the bad rap on processed foods. Frozen foods have taken some heat since the “TV dinner” days of my childhood, when, notwithstanding mom’s cooking being the best, it was a special treat to have those tin foil tray dinners once a week. Meanwhile, Amy’s Kitchen, launched by Rachel and Andy Berliner in 1987 (the original conceit was that they couldn’t find any time-saving convenience foods that were of homemade quality, after the birth of their daughter, Amy, who is now a co-owner in the company), has puffed up from one pot pie sold in what used to be called “health food” stores in Northern California and Oregon, to 260 products sold in megastores the likes of Target, in 29 countries. Revenue in 2017 totaled $500 million.

Can they stay true to homecooked ideals at such a scale? I’ve got to get behind the kale curtain, and see how the organic tofu sausage is made.

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EXPERT HANDS Amy’s burritos are as local as it gets.

have the dissonant revelation that, at least for the North Bay, this is truly local. All this time, my frozen bean burrito (and another 160,000 of them per day) has been handrolled just across town. (Soups are made in Idaho, however; pizza in Medford, Ore.)

The Results

At the end of a week, I had to stop the experiment. Not necessarily because I felt “over stuffed” on just 1,940 calories, as I noted on Day 6, or “strangely tired” on Day 7.

My weight jumped up at first, but I ended up a few pounds lighter.

Still, I would have been willing to carry out a more rigorous onemonth experiment. But if I didn’t bust my waistline, I busted my budget: $140 for seven days.

I should note that the company does not endorse an all-Amy’s diet. Instead, they offer meal plans on their website incorporating fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts and smoothies, most with just one Amy’s product per day. That said, I felt that I might have had a real serving of veggies with their Asian-inspired entrées, like the dumplings in savory Hoisin sauce, and for a frozen food, they tasted fresh enough. And in the harvest casserole bowl, there’s

surely close to a half-cup of sweet potatoes, kale and Swiss chard— it’d be hard to excuse all that quinoa otherwise.

According to Schiefer, I’m correct in my assessment that while the frozen food business is stagnant in general, Amy’s is bucking the trend, and has been growing faster than the category for years. Still, some of the traditional tray-style dinner styles have been pulled off the line: RIP, Southern meal, chili and corn bread, and good ol’ veggie steak and gravy.

All told, I ate not more than 1,700 calories per day. The protein count averaged 67 grams daily — not bad — and carbohydrates actually averaged less than the Daily Value, at 200. But sodium indeed hit more than 3,200 milligrams per day, higher than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendation of less than 2,400, but a little under the average American’s intake. Amy’s does offer low sodium versions with less than half that of the typical entrée.

The next week I flipped a 180 and launched an ultra-lowcarb diet of meat, cheese and vegetables for the next month.

I felt pretty good on it. And I gained back five pounds.

Have Art, Will Travel SONOMA

Born in New Mexico, raised in West Virginia and often found traveling the globe, poet and ceramic artist Jared Peterson has spent the last six months in Sonoma as the artist-in-residence at Sonoma Community Center’s Gallery 212. With his residency coming to an end, Peterson displays his latest works in the exhibit, “New Bones,” which uses sculptures often depicting his favorite subject—dogs—to explore themes of heritage. “New Bones” opens with a reception and artist talk on Friday, May 10, at Sonoma Community Center, 276 E Napa St, Sonoma. 5:30pm. Free. 707.938.4626.

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Founded in 2014 and allied with the Santa Rosa Junior College, the North Bay Sinfonietta is comprised of 33 amateur, professional and student musicians from Sonoma County who present classical music in fresh, innovative performances.

This week, the ensemble presents “Mozart & Mendelssohn for Mothers,” with tenor soloist Mark Andrew Kratz joining conductor and founder Cynthia Weichel and the chamber orchestra. The first 50 mothers will receive a flower at the concert on Friday, May 10, at the Church of the Incarnation, 550 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa. 7:30pm. $10. music.santarosa.edu.

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Jean Fruth fell in love with photography in New York, though it wasn’t until she moved to Healdsburg that she took her passion to the big leagues as a photographer for Giants and A’s. Fruth is now a traveling photographer for the National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum in Cooperstown and for the online outlet La Vida Baseball, which shares the Latino experience in the sport. Fruth reads from her photography book on the subject, Grassroots Baseball: Where Legends Begin, on Wednesday, May 15, at Copperfield’s Books, 106 Matheson St., Healdsburg.6pm. Free.

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Arts Ideas WARM DAYS AHEAD The future David Wallace-Wells describes in his new book is not a pleasant one.

Difficult Reading Skipping the Queue for David Wallace-Wells’ ‘The Uninhabitable Earth’ BY THOMAS BRODERICK

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n the 1973 film Soylent Green, Detective Thorn (Charlton Heston) finds a copy of the Soylent Oceanographic Survey Report: 2015 to 2019 in the home of a murdered Soylent Corporation executive.

Thorn gives the book to his roommate, Sol (Edward G. Robinson), an intellectual old man who grew up in a time before the world went to hell from overpopulation and global

warming. Sol discovers in the Survey Report’s pages that the oceans are wrecked beyond repair and cannot produce the plankton the Soylent Corporation claims goes into its miracle food, Soylent Green. This stark revelation sends Sol to a euthanasia center where—spoiler alert—the Soylent Corporation turns his body into a bunch of little green crackers.

Well, it’s 2019 and the reallife Survey Report is spring’s most talked-about book. David Wallace-Wells published The

Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, a follow-up to his 2017 New York article of the same name. I knew I had to get my hands on a copy. However, when I logged onto my Sonoma County Library account, I discovered that the reservation queue was 99 people long. To skip the queue, I bought a digital copy for my second-hand Kindle. (Yes, I was trying to be ecologically friendly, but even Amazon was out of physical copies!)

After reading a few chapters,

I immediately understood why just about everyone in Sonoma County is trying to get their hands on The Uninhabitable Earth: we're living it. In the last two years, we've been burned, smoked, and most recently, drowned. Of the Camp Fire, the author comes to the same grim conclusion that there is something uniquely awful and foretelling about a town called Paradise burning to the ground.

As a Tubbs Fire survivor, I initially felt strange reading about events I experienced firsthand.

It was then I realized that Wells' book was providing what North Bay residents need: context. The chapters on ocean acidification, sea level rise and economic effects taught me much about how the North Bay's recent misery ties into climate change's greater story. To paraphrase Shakespeare, ours is one of the millions of small stages where the climate change drama is playing out. Wells is helping us step back and see the whole story.

As you might expect, The Uninhabitable Earth offers very little hope for the near future. For instance, Wells predicts that by 2050—the year I'll be the same age my mother is now—we will live in a world without coral reefs, a world where more than 10 million people die each year from air pollution alone. And that’s the absolute best-case scenario.

But Wells clings to optimism. He credits this feeling to becoming a father while writing his book. He mourns the fact that his little girl will come of age in “interesting times,” but even so, he believes that a good future is possible. Because there is still so much we can save.

The Sonoma County Library may not have an available copy of The Uninhabitable Earth for a long time, but considering the book’s message, I hope the queue never dips below 90. If you can’t wait, save a tree and buy a digital copy.

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SIMPLE DREAMS Martin Gilbertson captivates in Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice and Men,’ playing now in Cloverdale.

Natural Wonders

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he theatrical treatments of two great American novels come alive on North Bay stages with mixed results in productions running through May 19.

6th Street Playhouse is presenting Christopher Sergel’s adaptation (not Aaron Sorkin’s) of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.

Sergel had an agreement with Lee to produce a theatrical version of her novel suitable for school or community theatre productions and, though revised several times

by Sergel, those roots show.

Lee’s tale was adapted by Horton Foote for the 1962 film starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, and this Marty Pistone–directed

The Cloverdale Performing Arts Center is presenting John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men in a production directed by Beulah Vega—who had the advantage of working with a script written by Steinbeck himself.

Steinbeck’s Great Depression– era tale of George and Lenny (Rusty Thompson, William Gilbertson) and their dream of a place of their own still resonates today for those seeking the ever-more-unattainable “American Dream.”

Vega has taken a minimalist approach to the show’s staging, leaving it to her cast to grab your attention and hold it for two hours.

They do.

Gilbertson brings a fresh approach to Lenny, a character that can often dive into caricature, and there’s a strong ensemble doing excellent work here.

Heck, even the dog is good.

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production does battle with memories of the film.

Jeff Coté, while having the look we’ve come to expect for Atticus, lacks the gravitas necessary for the character and though technically the lead, cedes the spotlight to the play’s supporting characters. The young actors playing Scout, Jem and Dill (Cecilia Brenner, Mario Herrera, Liev Bruce-Low) do fine, and Val Sinckler is a tower of strength as Calpurnia. Jourdánn Olivier Verdé is a steadfast Tom Robinson, and Mike Pavone and Caitlin StromMartin succeed in making the Ewell family thoroughly detestable.

An interesting addition to this production is a gospel choir/ Greek chorus to “bookend” several scenes. It’s quite effective and the addition of music is welcome.

Lee’s story still packs a punch and, while uneven, this production does have its strong moments.

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Rhythm Rustler

Kevin Russell debuts new live album in Cotati BY CHARLIE SWANSON

M

y older brother was the only white kid in an all-Filipino gang in Vallejo,” says Kevin Russell, in one of the most unexpected openings to an interview about music ever.

Yet Russell explains that in addition to cruising the streets of the East Bay in the ‘60s, his brother and the gang would come over and play music in the Russell’s living room, rocking hits from Elvis and Johnny Cash in spirited jam sessions.

Attracted to his brother’s guitar at a young age, Russell had to wait his turn. “There was only room for one guitar player in the house,” he says. So he took up drums.

But by the time he left home, Russell finally got his hands on a guitar and started playing traditional bluegrass, folk, country, rock and roll and everything in between.

The rest is history. For over 30 years, Russell has played in groups like the soulful country band Modern Hicks, blues-rock outfit the Rhythm Rangers and Americana act Laughing Gravy, as well as fronting his own ensembles, the bluegrasscentric Kevin Russell & His So Called Friends and his current country and rockabilly band Kevin

Russell & Some Dangerous Friends, who play at Redwood Cafe in Cotati on May 9 in a release show for the group’s new live album.

Featuring 12 tracks recorded at the spur-of-the-moment last November while the band played a set at Lagunitas Tap Room in Petaluma, the live album features cuts from country hit makers as played by the six-piece band.

In addition to Russell’s guitars and laid-back vocals, the group features guitarist Sean Allen (the Jones Gang), singer Maria Nguyen (Twang Ditty), longtime Nashvillebased vocalist and bassist Markie Sanders, drummer and educator Rick Cutler and multi-instrumentalist Steve Della Maggiora.

Whether they’re swaying to Loretta Lynn’s “Blue Kentucky Girl,” harmonizing on Merle Haggard’s “Running Kind,” or shaking things up on Carl Perkins’ “Restless,” the band’s live shows always end up with audiences dancing along, and that energy is perfectly captured on the live album.

“I just want to surround myself with music as much as possible,” says Russell. “That’s what it’s all about.”

Kevin Russell & Some Dangerous Friends play on Thursday, May 9, at Redwood Cafe, 8240 Old Redwood Hwy., Cotati. 8pm. $10. 707.795.7868

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The Moondoggies

Josiah Johnson (founding member of The

Head & The Heart), Thunderstorm Artis Thu 5⁄16 • Doors 8pm ⁄ $27–32 • All Ages Akae Beka (formerly Midnite) IrieFuse Sun 5⁄19 • Doors 4pm ⁄ $17 • All Ages

Bloom Music Festival

feat

Pardon the Interruption, Marble Party, New Music Foundation and Book of Birds Mon 5⁄20 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $65 • All Ages

Music Heals International

6th Annual Spring Benefit Concert

w/ Melvin Seals, David Nelson & Friends feat Dan ‘Lebo’ Leowitz, Robin Sylvester, Paul Beaubrun & Special Guest T BA Wed 5⁄22 & Thu 5⁄23• Doors 7pm ⁄ $22–27 • All Ages John Craigie performs The Beatles "Abbey Road" Lonely with special guest T BA Sat 5⁄25 Doors 7 & Sun 5⁄26 Doors 8 ⁄ $27–32 • 21+

Fellowship of the Wing

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Concerts SONOMA The Church

Australian rock icons play a show to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their album, “Starfish.” May 12, 5pm. $40.

Gundlach Bundschu Winery, 2000 Denmark St, Sonoma, 707.938.5277.

Kronos Quartet

San Francisco string quartet performs compositions from Muslim majority countries. May 9, 7:30pm. $35 and up. Green Music Center Weill Hall, 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

William Tyler

Nashville-born indie songwriter plays with Vetiver frontman Andy Cabic opening. May 11, 8:30pm. $15. Mystic Theatre & Music Hall, 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.775.6048.

MARIN San Geronimo

Marin band performs Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” in its entirety. May 10, 9pm. $20-$25. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.3850.

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The Soundfest

Micro-music festival features three nights of local acts like PSDSP, the Crooked Stuff and others. May 10-12, 4pm. $20$40. 19 Broadway Nightclub, 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax, thesoundfest.com.

Tom Freund

Americana star plays with special guests Wally Ingram, Steve Adams and Dan 'Lebo' Lebowitz. May 10, 8:30pm.

Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael, 415.524.2773.

NAPA Art Garfunkel

Folk hero plays his solo hits, Simon & Garfunkel songs and other popular selections. May 12, 8pm. $60-$100. Uptown Theatre, 1350 Third St, Napa, 707.259.0123.

Davell Crawford with Charmaine Neville See two powerhouse New Orleans performers together in an intimate setting. May 9,

6:30 and 8:30pm. $15-$35.

Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.880.2300.

Clubs & Venues SONOMA The Big Easy

May 8, Wednesday Night Big Band. May 9, Big Daddy. May 10, Ed Early Band. May 11, Blonde Toledo. May 15, Rockville Roadkill Big Band. 128 American Alley, Petaluma, 707.776.7163.

Brewsters Beer Garden May 9, Fog Holler. May 10, Ricky Ray Band. May 11, B Sharp Blues Band. May 12, 1pm, Sonoma Sound Syndicate.

229 Water St N, Petaluma, 707.981.8330.

Church of the Incarnation

May 10, North Bay Sinfonietta.

550 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.579.2604.

Coyote Sonoma

May 10, the Hots. May 11, Frankie Bourne & the Wildcards. 44F Mill St, Healdsburg, 707.385.9133.

Crooked Goat Brewing May 11, 5pm, the Restless Sons. May 12, 3pm, Brandon Eardley. 120 Morris St, Ste 120, Sebastopol, 707.827.3893.

Elephant in the Room May 10, Mike Saliani Trio.

May 11, Fog Holler.

May 12, French Oak. 177-A Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, elephantintheroompub.com.

Fern Bar

May 9, jazz night with Michael Price & Co. May 10, Shapeshifters. May 11, DJ Timoteo Gigante. May 12, Clay Bell. May 13, Christian Foley Beining. 6780 Depot St, Suite 120, Sebastopol, 707.861.9603.

Flamingo Lounge

May 10, Rewind. May 11, Carlos Xavier & His Salsa Band.

2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa, 707.545.8530.

Glaser Center

May 12, 3pm, Occidental Community Choir Spring Concert. 547 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.568.5381.

HopMonk Sebastopol May 10, Coffis Brothers and

Mountain Men. May 11, LoCura.

May 12, 1pm, School of Rock.

May 13, King Ivier. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol, 707.829.7300.

HopMonk Sonoma

May 10, Matt Bolton. May 11, Ain’t Misbehavin’. May 12, 1pm, Clay Bell. 691 Broadway, Sonoma, 707.935.9100.

Lagunitas Tap Room

May 8, Hot Grubb. May 9, the Live Oaks. May 10, Luke Redfield. May 11, the Stomp Kings. May 12, Roger Bolt & Borderline. May 15, Kevin Russell & Some Dangerous Friends. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma, 707.778.8776.

Murphy’s Irish Pub & Restaurant

May 10, Jaydub and Dino. May 11, Jon Williams. 464 First St E, Sonoma, 707.935.0660.

Mystic Theatre & Music Hall

May 8, Ben Haggard and Noel Haggard. May 9, Robin Trower with Katy Guillen. May 10, Petty Theft. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.775.6048.

Occidental Center for the Arts

May 11, Occidental Community Choir Spring Concert. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental, 707.874.9392.

The Phoenix Theater

May 10, Skunk Funk with Singular and Legal Disaster.

201 Washington St, Petaluma, 707.762.3565.

Redwood Cafe

May 9, Kevin Russell & Some Dangerous Friends albumrelease show. May 10, the Bloodstones and Marshall House Project. May 11, George Hagerty. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.795.7868.

The Reel Fish Shop & Grill

May 9, Karen Shook. May 10, Backtrax. May 11, John Burdick Band. 401 Grove St, Sonoma, 707.343.0044.

Ruth McGowan's Brewpub

May 9, 6pm, Big Blue House.

131 E First St, Cloverdale, 707.894.9610.

Santa Rosa Arts Center

May 11, 3pm, Joyride and New Skye Band. 312 South A St, Santa Rosa, santarosaartscenter.org.

Sebastopol Community Center Annex

May 10, Finger-style guitar summit with Teja Gerken

and friends. 425 Morris St, Sebastopol, 707.823.1511.

Starling Bar

Stumptown Brewery

May 12, 1pm, Elvis Outta Rehab Mama's Day Show. 15045 River Rd, Guerneville, 707.869.0705.

Twin Oaks Roadhouse May 10, Bloomfield Bluegrass Boys. May 11, Sidemen. 5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove, 707.795.5118.

NAPA Blue Note Napa

May 10-11, Pete Escovedo Orchestra. May 12, 11am, Mother's Day Jazz Brunch with Mike Greensill and Kellie Fuller. May 14, Sean Carscadden Trio. May 15, Big Blu Soul Revue. 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.880.2300.

Buster's Southern Barbecue

May 12, 3pm, Rob Watson and friends featuring Vernon Black.

1207 Foothill Blvd, Calistoga, 707.942.5605.

Ca' Momi Osteria

May 10, Call Me James. May 11, the Amber Snider Band. 1141 First St, Napa, 707.224.6664.

Downtown Joe's Brewery & Restaurant May 10, Levi Lloyd & the 501 Band. May 11, Jinx Jones & the KingTones. 902 Main St, Napa, 707.258.2337.

Roadhouse 29

May 10, Aqua Velvets. 3020 St Helena Hwy N, St Helena, 707.302.3777.

Tank Garage Winery

May 10, 6pm, speakeasy session with Cactus & Oak. 1020 Foothill Blvd, Calistoga, 707.942.8265.

Art Opening SONOMA Gallery One

May 11-Jun 9, “Art at the Source Preview Exhibition,” community showcase of art shows in advance of the June open studios event. Reception, May 11 at 5pm. 209 Western Ave, Petaluma. 707.778.8277.

Riverfront Art Gallery May 8-Jul 7, “Late Spring Show,” photographers Dan

for the Arts, 282 S High St, Sebastopol, 707.829.4797.

Sonoma Community Center

Enjoy the beautiful springtime gardens and celebrate Mother's Day and planting season. May 12, 11am. $3; kids under 12 are free. Luther Burbank Home & Gardens, 204 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.524.5445.

May 10-26, “New Bones,” artist-in-residence Jared Peterson at Gallery 212 presents a new body of work.

Reception, May 10 at 5:30pm.

276 E Napa St, Sonoma.

707.938.4626.

NAPA Caldwell Snyder Gallery

May 11-Jun 5, “Ryan Jones Recent Paintings,” see the latest immersive, mysterious and luxurious works from the Bay Area artist. Reception, May 11 at 4pm. 1328 Main St, St Helena. 707.200.5050.

Mother's Day Plant Sale

Spring Artisan Market

Shop for one-of-a-kind handmade goods, find local art, enjoy live music and more. May 11-12, 11am. Petaluma Bank Hub, 199 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, thebankhub.com.

Swing Into Spring

Comedy

Outdoor party features Transcendence Theatre Company performing a sensational show with food trucks and wine on hand. May 11, 11am. $40-$75. Chateau St Jean, 8555 Sonoma Hwy, Kenwood, 707.833.4134.

Iliza Shlesinger

Transhumance Festival

Standup comedian, actor and podcast host appears as part of her “Elder Millennial” tour. May 10, 8pm. $35-$50.

Uptown Theatre, 1350 Third St, Napa, 707.259.0123.

Events Barlow Block Party

Several Sebastopol businesses reopen with a day of music, crafts, fun and fundraising.

May 11, 12pm. Free admission.

Barlow Event Center, 6770 McKinley St, Sebastopol, 707.824.5600.

di Rosa Days

Art campus comes alive through art experiences, music, food, drink and more, with optional afternoon panel discussion. May 11, 10am. $5-$30. di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, 5200 Sonoma Hwy, Napa, 707.226.5991.

IRONMAN Santa Rosa Top athletes compete in a massive triathlon that ends downtown. May 11.

Courthouse Square, Third Street and Mendocino Avenue, Santa Rosa, ironman.com.

Let the Love Flow

Supervisor Lynda Hopkins and the Santa Rosa, Sebastopol and Russian River chambers of commerce come together to raise funds for businesses affected by flooding. May 11, 12pm. Sebastopol Center

Available Now

Gathering honors grassland culture and local ranchers, farmers and shepherds, with exhibits, guest speakers, food and more. May 11. $25; kids under 12 are free. Steamer Landing Park, 6 Copeland Ave, Petaluma, sassyandgrassy.com.

"We Love Moms & Veterans" Tribute Show

Family-friendly Chinese cultural program includes music, dance and poetry to provide entertainment, nostalgia and fun. May 11, 2pm. $10-$20. Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater, 100 California Dr, Yountville, 707.944.9900.

Field Trips Astronomy Day

Enjoy solar viewing, late night star party, guided hikes and other hands-on activities.

May 11. Robert Ferguson Observatory, Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, 2605 Adobe Canyon Rd, Kenwood, rfo.org.

Mother's Day Open Garden

Moms and their families are invited to experience the beauty and fragrance of the rose garden in full bloom. May 12, 10am. $2 Donation. Russian River Rose Company, 1685 Magnolia Dr, Healdsburg, 707.575.6744. )

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May 11, Adam Traum's Wolf Run. 19380 Hwy 12, Sonoma, 707.938.7442.

Kabanuck and Grant Kreinberg are featured. Reception, May 11 at 5pm. 132 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. 707.775.4ART.

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Mother’s Day Springtime Walk

Enjoy a guided interpretive walk along the sunny Laguna Trail. Registration required. May 12, 12pm.

Free. Laguna de Santa Rosa Environmental Center, 900 Sanford Rd, Santa Rosa, landpaths.org.

Film Arrangiarsi (Pizza & the Art of Living)

Exclusive film screening includes reception, wine, dinner and more. May 14, 6pm.

Ca' Momi Osteria, 1141 First St, Napa, 707.224.6664.

Call of the Valley

New documentary depicts Sonoma Valley's evolution through interviews with historians and residents.

May 12, 4pm. $11. Sebastiani Theatre, 476 First St E, Sonoma, 707.996.9756.

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See a recently released version of Al Jazeera’s formerly banned documentary on Israel's political lobby in the US, with discussion. May 14, 7pm. Free.

Peace & Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.575.8902.

Wrestle

Hands-On Cheese Class

Make a wheel of Creme de Ricotta and Potato Whey Soup with chef Sheana Davis.

May 12, 1pm. $75. Sonoma Community Center, 276 E Napa St, Sonoma, 707.938.4626.

Lectures Drawdown

Community discussion looks at how to take action and meet the climate emergency we face now. May 9, 6pm. Arlene Francis Center, 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.528.3009.

Museum of Sonoma County Gallery Talks

Two talks in conjunction with the museum's exhibit "Pacific World" include discussion on Spanish treasure and then on reviving seafaring traditions.

May 11, 11:30am and 1pm. Free with admission. Museum of Sonoma County, 425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa, 707.579.1500.

Readings Healdsburg Copperfield’s Books

May 9, 6pm, “Wine Country Table” with Janet Fletcher. May 15, 6pm, “Grassroots Baseball: Where Legends Begin” with Jean Fruth. 106 Matheson St, Healdsburg 707.433.9270.

Indie Lens Pop-Up series presents the documentary on a high school wrestling team in Alabama. May 13, 1 and 7pm. Free. Rialto Cinemas, 6868 McKinley St, Sebastopol, 707.525.4840.

Luther Burbank Center for the Arts

Food & Drink

Napa Bookmine

Calistoga Food & Wine Grand Tasting

Petaluma Copperfield’s Books

Sixth annual outdoor event features live music and samplings from 40 Calistoga wineries paired with tastings from local restaurants.

May 11, 2pm. $125. Solage Calistoga, 755 Silverado Trail N, Calistoga, 707.266.7534.

Discover Donum: A Place for Wine & Art

Spend the afternoon tasting Estate grown Pinot Noir and Chardonnay while exploring a renowned sculpture collection. May 11, 11am. $45.

Donum Estate, 24520 Ramal Rd, Sonoma, 707.939.2290.

May 12, 8pm, An Evening with Neil Gaiman; acclaimed author tells stories, read stories and answers your questions. $45$59. 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa 707.546.3600.

May 11, 4pm, “Zelda, The Queen of Paris” with Paul Chutkow. 964 Pearl St, Napa 707.733.3199.

May 10, 7pm, “Zucked” with Roger McNamee. 140 Kentucky St, Petaluma 707.762.0563.

Santa Rosa Copperfield’s Books

May 14, 7pm, “Living in Flow” with Sky Nelson-Isaacs. 775 Village Court, Santa Rosa 707.578.8938.

Sebastopol Center for the Arts May 11, 2pm, Favorite Poem Community Reading.

282 S High St, Sebastopol 707.829.4797.

Sebastopol Copperfield’s Books

May 10, 7pm, “The Honey Bus” with Meredith May. 138 N Main St, Sebastopol 707.823.2618.

Theater Cinderella

Updated version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical classic includes new songs, new subplots and new characters. May 10-26. $18$36. Spreckels Performing Arts Center, 5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park, 707.588.3400.

Lungs

David Lear directs the funny and dramatic play about a couple thinking of having a child. May 9-26. $15-$30. Main Stage West, 104 N Main St, Sebastopol, 707.823.0177.

Murder In Vegas: Murder Mystery Dinner

Get your gowns and gloves ready as the Tudor Rose transports back to 1962 and the bright lights of Sin City.

May 11, 7pm. $75. Tudor Rose English Tea Room, 733 Fourth St, Santa Rosa, 707.535.2045.

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck’s classic tale of two drifters making their way through the Dust Bowl takes the stage. Through May 19. $12-$25. Cloverdale Performing Arts Center, 209 N Cloverdale Blvd, Cloverdale, 707.829.2214.

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.

To Kill a Mockingbird

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.

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Astrology For the week of May 8

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Time to shake things up! In the next three weeks, I invite you to try at least three of the following experiments. 1. See unusual sights in familiar situations. 2. Seek out new music that both calms you and excites you. 3. Get an inspiring statue or image of a favorite deity or hero. 4.

Ask for a message from the person you will be three years from now. 5. Use your hands and tongue in ways you don't usually use them. 6. Go in quest of a cathartic release that purges frustration and rouses holy passion. 7. Locate the sweet spot where deep feeling and deep thinking overlap.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): According to

science writer Sarah Zielinski in Smithsonian magazine, fireflies produce the most efficient light on planet Earth. Nearly 100 percent of the energy produced by the chemical reaction inside the insect's body is emitted as a brilliant glow. With that in mind, I propose that you regard the firefly as your spirit creature in the coming weeks. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you, too, will be a dynamic and proficient generator of luminosity. For best results, don't tone down your brilliance, even if it illuminates shadows people are trying to hide.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here's a message from author Susan J. Elliott: "This is not your week to run the Universe. Next week is not looking so good either." Now here's a message from me: Elliott's revelation is very good news! Since you won't have to worry about trying to manage and fine-tune the Universe, you can focus all your efforts on your own self-care. And the coming weeks will be a favorable time to do just that. You're due to dramatically upgrade your understanding of what you need to feel healthy and happy, and then take the appropriate measures to put your new insights into action.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The next three weeks will be an excellent time to serve as your own visionary prophet and dynamic fortune-teller. The predictions and conjectures you make about your future destiny will have an 85-percent likelihood of being accurate.

They will also be relatively free of fear and worries.

So I urge you to give your imagination permission to engage in fun fantasies about what's ahead for you.

Be daringly optimistic and exuberantly hopeful and brazenly self-celebratory.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo poet Stanley Kunitz told his students, "You must be very careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin." That's useful advice for anyone who spawns anything, not just poets. There's something unruly and unpredictable about every creative idea or fresh perspective that rises up in us. Do you remember when you first felt the urge to look for a new job or move to a new city or search for a new kind of relationship? Wildness was there at the inception.

And you needed to stay in touch with the wildness so as to follow through with practical action. That's what I encourage you to do now. Reconnect with the wild origins of the important changes you're nurturing.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I have no complaints about the measures you've taken recently to push past unnecessary limits and to break outworn taboos.

In fact, I celebrate them. Keep going! You'll be better off without those decaying constraints. Soon you'll begin using all the energy you have liberated and the spaciousness you have made available. But I do have one concern: I wonder if part of you is worried that you have been too bold and have gone too far. To that part of you I say: No! You haven't been too bold. You haven't gone too far.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "Dreamt of a past that frees its prisoners." So wrote Meena Alexander in her poem "Question Time." I'd love for you to have that experience in the coming weeks. I'd love for you be released from the karma of your history so that you no longer have to repeat old patterns or feel weighed down by what happened to you once upon a time. I'd love for you to no longer have to answer to decayed traditions and outmoded commitments and lost causes.

I'd love for you to escape the pull of memories that tend to drag you back toward things that can't be changed and don't matter any more.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "Desire is a

profoundly upsetting force," writes author Elspeth

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Probyn. "It may totally rearrange what we think we want. Desire skews plans and sets forth unthought-of possibilities." In my opinion, Probyn's statements are half-true. The other half of the truth is that desire can also be a profoundly healing and rejuvenating force, and for the same reasons: it rearranges what we think we want, alters plans and unleashes unthought-of possibilities. How does all this relate to you? From what I can tell, you are now on the cusp of desire's two overlapping powers. What happens next could be upsetting or healing, disorienting or rejuvenating. If you'd like to emphasize the healing and rejuvenating, I suggest you treat desire as a sacred gift and a blessing.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "So much

of what we learn about love is taught by people who never really loved us." My Sagittarian friend Ellen made that sad observation. Is it true for you? Ellen added the following thoughts: so much of what we learn about love is taught by people who were too narcissistic or wounded to be able to love very well; and by people who didn't have many listening skills and therefore didn't know enough about us to love us for who we really are; and by people who love themselves poorly and so of course find it hard to love anyone else. Is any of this applicable to what you have experienced, Sagittarius? If so, here's an antidote that I think you'll find effective during the next seven weeks: identify the people who have loved you well and the people who might love you well in the future—and then vow to learn all you can from them.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn fantasy novelist Laini Taylor creates imaginary worlds where heroines use magic and wiles to follow their bliss while wrangling with gods and rascals.

In describing her writing process, she says, "Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, and fascinating religions." She adds, "I have plundered tidbits of history and lore to build something new, using only the parts that light my mind on fire." I encourage you to adopt her strategies for your own use in the coming weeks. Be alert for gleaming goodies and tricky delicacies and alluring treats. Use them to create new experiences that thrill your imagination.

I believe the coming weeks will be an excellent time to use your magic and wiles to follow your bliss while wrangling with gods and rascals.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "I was always asking for the specific thing that wasn't mine," wrote poet Joanne Kyger. "I wanted a haven that wasn't my own." If there is any part of you that resonates with that defeatist perspective, Aquarius, now is an excellent time to begin outgrowing or transforming it. I guarantee you that you'll have the potency you need to retrain yourself: so that you will more and more ask for specific things that can potentially be yours; so that you will more and more want a haven that can be your own.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I'm not a fan of nagging. I don't like to be nagged and I scrupulously avoid nagging others. And yet now I will break my own rules so as to provide you with your most accurate and helpful horoscope. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you aren't likely to get what you truly need and deserve in the coming days unless you engage in some polite, diplomatic nagging. So see what you can do to employ nagging as a graceful, even charming art. For best results, infuse it with humor and playfulness.

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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