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Rhapsodies Minimal Wages Right now, the minimum wage is a joke (“For a Few Dollar More,” July 12). Hats off to Marin County, S.F. and the other communities that are doing the right thing! Unbelievable that homecare workers are still getting shut out. Thank you for an intelligent, informative article on what’s going on locally.

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What an asinine article. You obviously have no understanding of economics. You get paid for what you are worth, not what you want. Your worth is based on your skills and education. That being said, the piece de resistance: “Confederate state of Alabama.” You do realize that there hasn’t been a Confederate state in 150 years? Unless, of course, you are granting the right of secession to Alabama. If so, please confer the same right to the other 12 states of the former Confederacy.

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Unfortunately, we are not paid what we’re worth; we’re paid the smallest amount people can get away with. Every 17 cents Sonoma pays IHSS homecare workers is matched by 33 cents from the state and 50 cents by the feds. That’s an extra 83 cents that comes into the county that doesn’t cost a dime. And that money is not going to be socked away in anyone’s 401(k). It is going to pay for goods, services and housing. Now that’s good economics!

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Clean Power Bohemian, do your research before you praise Sonoma Clean Power and believe their numbers (“Charging Ahead,” Aug. 12). Mr. Sypher’s Sonoma Clean Power isn’t as green as they say they are, very sad to say. And they are ﬁghting tooth and nail against a transparency law that would expose them: AB 1110. I work in the energy industry, but you don’t need to be an insider to see the truth. Read this PD editorial shaming SCP for lack of transparency on AB 1110: pressdemocrat. com/opinion/4280264-181/pd-editorialmaking-energy-sources. Marin Clean Energy and LEAN Energy both dropped their resistance, as their alliance with Shell’s sneaky accounting was ﬁnally going public. They’re preparing for the inevitable forced transparency, going greener than they currently are, as they want to retain customers. The bottom line is that businesses and homes with low-carbon goals who thought Sonoma Clean Power was going to do all the work for them may be, unfortunately, mistaken.

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Crazy Constitutionalists Is this ofﬁcer of the law (“Cops on Film,” Aug. 12), who was required to swear an oath to uphold the Constitution, insinuating that it is a bad thing for an American citizen to support the Constitution, or that such a person would be a “crazy guy”?

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“The people are the rightful masters of both Congresses and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”—Abraham Lincoln

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Drive-Throughs Be Gone Architectural dinosaur has no place anymore BY THOMAS BONFIGLI

y mother, whom I had taken shopping, requested that I pull into the new Amy’s Restaurant in Rohnert Park to pick up a menu.

Upon pulling into the parking lot, I was horrified at the number of automobiles forming a seemingly unending line in the drivethrough. Sorry, folks, but the drive-through, that architectural dinosaur of “modern convenience,” and one of the last vestiges of the 1970s that is still with us, has no place in a progressive, forwarding-thinking establishment that’s trying to change our diets for the better. Being the tenaciously inquisitive individual that I am, I got out of my car and walked the length of the snaking line of cars (which, incidentally, temporarily blocked my ingress into the parking lot) to see just how many of these cars were sitting in this line with their engines idling. All but one had their engines purring away! I then walked back to my car, found a parking place and entered the restaurant, where I was greeted by the wonderful smells of healthful food and the cheerful voice of an employee asking if she could help me. I requested a menu and walked back to my car. The food smelled great and the prices certainly seem to be reasonable, and while I did not order any food this time, perhaps I will next time. I’m all for making organic food available to as many patrons as possible. And I have nothing against the wonderful folks who founded the Amy’s chain, or the wonderful people who are employed by them. However, does the company really want to be identified by the same unofficial advertising logo that so ingloriously typifies their cross-county, cholesterol-producing competitor, In-N-Out Burger? As I left the parking lot to head back to my hometown of Sebastopol—where new drive-throughs have been banned by the Sebastopol City Council—I couldn’t help but lament the fact that that the drive-through bugaboo is still with us, even after all these years. Thomas Bonfigli lives in Santa Rosa. Open Mic is a weekly feature in the ‘Bohemian.’ We welcome your contribution. To have your topical essay of 350 words considered for publication, write openmic@bohemian.com.

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AW SHUCKS The crowds at this West Marin oyster outpost have Marin County officials concerned.

Highway to Shell Tomales Bay Oyster Company pushes new parking plan to alleviate weekend traffic on Highway 1 BY TOM GOGOLA

nyone who’s ever driven up scenic Highway 1 through Marshall on a weekend knows this: the parking scene at the Tomales Bay Oyster Company is chaotic.

Cars are everywhere along the road, some swinging U-turns as they try to park, people toting coolers in the road—and just a few young, for-hire parking assistants

on hand to try and manage an increasingly unmanageable scene. Nobody denies that it’s an accident waiting to happen, least of all Tod Friend, the majority owner of the popular bayside picnicking destination, where the oysters ﬂow freely (but not for free) and visitors are mightily encouraged to carpool, given a traffic picture that often ﬁnds dozens of cars lined up along the highway. “People are always trying to do U-ies, the speed limit is

55—it is a little bit snarly,” says Friend. “It really hasn’t played out that there’s these terrible consequences, but someone can get hit, and we know that.” Friend stresses that there’s been a “total of three collisions” associated with the snarly parking scene. The retail and commercial oyster-harvesting operation is going through changes it hopes will help it expand business, even as it works to make the highway safer for all who would drive it.

“They have troubles at land and at sea,” says Marin County Supervisor Steve Kinsey, who also sits on the California Coastal Commission. At the land-bound county level, Kinsey says that the business’ use permit “does not permit anywhere near the level of activity that they undertake on that site.” The coastal commission and lawyers for the oyster company are meanwhile in litigation over TBOC’s coastal development permits and whether it should be able to reclaim portions of bayside oyster grounds it once owned. The gist of their argument, says Friend, is that TBOC predated the emergence of the California Coastal Commission and may not be “subject to a permit with the CC.” G’luck with that. The troubles at TBOC began in 2012, says Friend, when the facility hosted a theater event. “It came to pass that there was a complaint ﬁled against us for having a little theater conducted here on a summer evening,” he says. The Marin County use permit for TBOC dates back to 1987, says Friend, and stipulates a few conditions that the operation has outgrown as its popularity has increased. The permit allowed for the retail operation to run Friday through Sunday; the operation could hire a maximum of eight employees, and only one full-time resident was allowed on the property. Yet by 2012, Friend says, “we were operating seven days a week, and we were not supposed to be doing that. We have more employees. So the county wanted to start from scratch, they wanted to take it from the top. We said, ‘Fine, we’d like to do that.’” Friend says TBOC has tried numerous times to sort out the traffic problem. First, the company tried to take over an underused nearby parking lot owned by the state. The state said no-go. For a while, they parked cars on a parcel owned by the federal government. The feds put the kibosh on that parking lot. Friend then rented out the West Marin School parking lot, in Point Reyes Station, between ) 10 Memorial Day and Labor

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10 Oysters ( 8 Day, and provided a shuttle. “None of that worked,” says Friend. Finally, the company purchased a 26-acre lot across the highway from the main oyster shack and hopes to use it for parking—but that’s by no means guaranteed. “We sought out some idea from the county that they’d give some permission, give us the thumbs-up—so we bought it, and it’s the centerpiece of our proposal with the county.” Problem is, the 26 acres are zoned as an “agricultural protection parcel.” Kinsey says the county recently sent Friend a letter that indicated TBOC “is not going to build large parking lots in the ag zones.” The Marin County Planning Commission will take up the parking plan Sept. 17. “The 26 acres pretty much speaks to the parking issue,” says a hopeful Friend. Kinsey notes that he’s a big fan of the West Marin oyster economy and wants to help sort out TBOC’s intersection of growing pains: “We want to support oysters, oyster growing and oyster entertainment.” And why shouldn’t he: oysters represent a huge draw for the county. Friend says that the recent closing of Drakes Bay Oyster Company has naturally meant a spillover crowd to his business— that’s 50,000 Drakes Bay visitors a year whose options for al fresco oysters, he says, are now Tomales Bay Oyster Company or Hog Island (and, we’d add, the Marshall Store). Friend notes that the biggest groups to visit TBOC are AsianAmerican weekenders, and he’s worked mightily to manage the traffic they bring with them. “Half of our customers are Asian-Americans from the East Bay,” says Friend. “Nobody in the world loves shellﬁsh like the Asian and the Latino populations. The people who are the least avid about the oysters are the Caucasians, but they come out for the picnicking.” The oyster company enacted a reservation system, says Friend, “to try and control the traffic and the parking.” But that didn’t work, even though Friend says

reservations came with “a long discussion from us about how you had to come by a bus or a van.” Instead, the reservation system only encouraged more cars to the site. “It didn’t help with the number of cars,” says Friend. “It went the other way. So we’ve gone away from reservations. Now it’s firstcome, first serve. But we tell the big parties: you have to come by bus.” The parking snafu, says Friend, sees up to a hundred cars parked along the road on the weekend. “That has been the subject of some complaint and concern in Marshall,” says Friend. Kinsey says he’s surprised at the absence of California State Highway Patrol officers at TBOC to direct traffic or write tickets. “It shocks me that CHP hasn’t been more formidable,” says Kinsey. He adds that it’s not like the officers aren’t writing tickets already. “I hear from single-family homeowners in Marshall who get nailed by CHP for backing into the roadway from their homes.” Friend says that the CHP does come to the facility, but only on “a couple of occasions” to write tickets. CHP public information officer Andrew Barclay says part of the law enforcement problem is TBOC’s location at the far-northwestern edge of Marin County. Unless there’s a call for service or a specific complaint, Marin-based state police don’t make it out there too often. That’s especially so on the weekends when, says Barclay, there’s only one or two CHP officers on patrol in all of West Marin—and an increasing number of collisions to contend with. Still, says Barclay, “we are aware of the parking problem up in that area. It’s on our radar . . . but we don’t have the resources to station one officer at the TBOC.” In any event, the CHP officers who do head to TBOC are more likely to enjoy the scene than write tickets, says Friend. “We’ve got CHP guys who come without their uniforms, and come for a picnic,” says Friend. No problem there, says Barclay, so long as everyone understands that those officers are off-duty. “What officers do in their spare time, that’s their business.”

DEBR IEFER Sonic Truth The National Security Agency’s ability to spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic passing through the United States has relied on its extraordinary, decades-long partnership with a single company: the telecom giant AT&T . . . So read an opening sentence in the New York Times of Aug. 15, in a story about widespread spying on international communications sourced largely from documents absconded from the NSA by Edward Snowden. The article also described how smaller telecommunications companies that use AT&T networks could get caught in the NSA dragnet—even ones with strong privacy policies like Santa Rosa–based Sonic. In April, Sonic partnered with AT&T to expand services into suburban zones. “The recent partnership with AT&T allows us to reach areas where our network doesn’t reach,” says Sonic cofounder Dane Jasper. Only customers in these expanded areas—such as Bennett Valley—were exposed to potential NSA spying via the AT&T-NSA partnership. To expand its service, Sonic utilized AT&T’s so-called fiber-to-the-node technology (FTTN) and its “digital subscriber line access multiplexer” (DSLAM) devices to kick off its Fusion FTTN service. The company operates its own DSLAM for nonsuburban subscribers, and Jasper says the device is in Sonic’s central office in Santa Rosa. The device sources the company’s DSL signal and phone dial tones, Jasper explains. But when it comes to privacy for Sonic’s suburban customers, they are subject to AT&T’s policies and whatever access is granted to government agencies like the NSA. Even before the AT&T revelations, Sonic worked to protect customers’ privacy, says Jasper. The company

offers a “virtual privacy network” option which provides privacy through encrypted data “tunnels.” The company already encourages customers to use the VPN where there’s public WiFi (airports, cafes); the encouragement is now extended to suburban subscribers. “Customers who do not want to be subject to the AT&T policies and practices can utilize the VPN feature,” says Jasper. Jasper wasn’t surprised about AT&T’s coziness with the NSA. He says the telecom company has “long been an essential part of national security, and the revelations from the Snowden documents shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone.” From the Times:

The newly disclosed documents show that AT&T has provided access to peering trafﬁc from other companies’ networks. . . . AT&T’s ‘corporate relationships provide unique accesses to other telecoms and I.S.P.s,’ or Internet service providers, one 2013 N.S.A. document states. Jasper says he doesn’t know whether AT&T provided “peering access” to suburban Sonic subscribers’ emails or calls. But it’s possible. “It’s a wholesale product that we purchase from them as an ISP,” says Jasper, “and so a statement like [the above quote] would be applicable to that product.” When it comes to international calls, Jasper says privacy does not exist. “When it goes international, I never had any assumption that there was any level of security for those sorts of calls.” “Our goal is to protect our legal customers,” he adds. “We believe that if a customer commits a crime, we will meet our responsibilities, with a court order. But if you’re not a criminal, I don’t believe that anybody should be snooping on you.”—Tom Gogola

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Dining SALTY, SWEET, SOUR, BITTER AND DELICIOUS The BLT succeeds because of its harmonious combination of ﬂavors

and textures. But that’s a lot of mayo on this one.

Bacon Meets Tomato The BLT in theory and practice

f it wasn’t for the tomato, the BLT sandwich would be a four-season delight. But the tomatoes must be fresh, which limits when the sandwich is available.

The BLT doesn’t just depend on the tomato. It serves as a stage on which to display it and as a way to enjoy one of the best parts of summer. The ideal tomato is one that requires you to wear a bib when you eat the sandwich. But in addition to its refreshing juices,

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the tomato brings a cocktail of ﬂavors that interact with the BLT’s other ingredients, including the mayo and bread, which are so essential that they can go without mention in the sandwich’s name. After all, if it is a sandwich, then there is bread and there is mayo. I believe onions fall into this category as well. But nobody wants to say BLOMBT. According to current theory on taste perception, the human body is wired to detect at least ﬁve basic tastes: salty, sweet, sour, umami and bitter. Impressively, a BLT contains all of these.

Most of these tastes are easy to detect, but the amount of bitter, which happens to be the only basic taste to which people often object, is low. Slight bitter notes come from the lettuce, onion and the mustard powder that’s in most mayo formulations, and at these low levels they add an earthy base to the BLT without making the sandwich itself taste bitter. Tomatoes contribute sweet and sour, as well as a surprising amount of umami, to the equation. Umami is measured by the amount of free glutamate, the levels of which are high in a ripe tomato.

Tomatoes also interact spectacularly with the BLT’s other ingredients, including salt and fat, which bacon contributes. Fat, while not officially recognized as a basic taste, might be on the verge of becoming one. Whether or not it’s an official basic taste, there’s no question that fat makes things taste better. Mayonnaise is mostly fat, but like the BLT, it contains every basic taste: sweet (most recipes have some added sweetener), sour (from the lemon or vinegar), bitter (from the mustard powder) umami (from egg yolk) and salt. Mayo also provides an important layer of lubricant that helps all of these layers merge together in your mouth. And like the bacon, onion and lettuce, mayonnaise mixes harmoniously with the tomato. Bread contributes sweet, salt and umami tastes to the overall ﬂavor of the sandwich, but its most important attribute is to function as a skin that holds the other ingredients together long enough for you to eat them. Tomatoes, along with the mayo, undermine the bread’s job by soaking through the bread and destroying its structural integrity. This is why the bread is usually toasted. BLT lovers—and lovers of all sandwiches, really—would beneﬁt from an elegant trick that I learned from a farmer friend. Toast one side of each slice of bread and position the two sides facing inward, where they can withstand the onslaught of tomato and mayo. The untoasted sides face the outside, where they’re soft as white gloves on the inside of your mouth. To toast just one side of each slice, you can either squeeze two slices into the same toaster slot, or arrange them side-by-side under the broiler. It’s hard to mess up a BLT. Just don’t burn the bacon or toast. Add avocado if you wish. Use whatever bread you want, and be very picky about the tomatoes. And most important, don’t use Miracle Whip.

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favorites, along with regional house specialties. Lunch and dinner, Wed-Mon; dinner only, Sat-Sun. 305 N Main St, Sebastopol. 707.823.4458.

Bistro 29 Bistro. $$-$$$. Get an honestly prepared plate of excellence, reasonably priced, at this veritable palace of crepes. Dinner, Tues-Sat. 620 Fifth St, Santa Rosa. 707.546.2929.

Pongo’s Kitchen & Tap Thai. $$. Family-owned

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Sante California cuisine.

American. $$-$$$. There’s real sophistication lurking in these upscale American comfort staples like flat-iron steak and fries, macaroni-ham casserole and stellar braised lamb shank. Lunch and dinner, Tues-Fri; dinner only, Sat; Sun, brunch and dinner. 1226 Fourth St, Santa Rosa. 707.569.8222.

$$$. In this world-class spa setting sample Sonoma County-inspired dishes or an elegant traditional brunch. Dinner daily; brunch, Sun. 18140 Sonoma Hwy, Boyes Hot Springs. 707.939.2415.

Dempsey’s Alehouse Gourmet pub fare. $-$$. Popular brewpub and bistro, award-winning handcrafted beers, outdoor dining in summer and pork chops to die for. Lunch and dinner daily. 50 E Washington St, Petaluma. 707.765.9694.

Haku Sushi. $-$$. Cleverly named rolls like “Jedi Mind Trick” and “Roll me a Fatty” are as flavorful as they are fun. Lunch and dinner daily. 518 Seventh St, Santa Rosa. 707.541.6359.

Khoom Lanna Thai. $$. Outstanding Thai dishes and seasonal specialties with an authentic cooking style. Fresh ingredients, serene dining room, convenient Railroad Square location. Lunch and dinner daily. 107 Fourth St, Santa Rosa. 707.545.8424.

Kirin Chinese. $$. Specializing in Mandarin, Szechuan and Peking styles. Kirin’s pot stickers are the best in Sonoma County. Lunch and dinner, Tues-Sat; dinner, Sun. 2700 Yulupa Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.525.1957. Martha’s Old Mexico Mexican. $. Freshly prepared

and operated with superfresh ingredients and a full kids’ menu. Lunch and dinner daily. 701 Sonoma Mt Pkwy, Petaluma. 707.765.9800.

Simply Vietnam Vietnamese. $. Friendly Vietnamese for all ethnic tastes. Savory, satisfying and filling. Pho can be hit or miss, depending on the meat quality. Lunch and dinner daily. 966 N Dutton Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.566.8910.

Underwood Bar & Bistro European bistro. $$. The Underwood’s classy bistro menu and impressive bar belie its rural setting. Lunch and dinner, Tues-Sat; dinner, Sun. 9113 Graton Rd, Graton. 707.823.7023.

West Side Bar & Grill Sports Bar. $$. Home of the almost-famous bacon cheeseburger. Seventeen beers on tap (wine list available). Fourteen flat screen televisions to watch all of the hottest sports events. Two great pool tables. Lunch and dinner daily. 3082 Marlow Rd # B8, Santa Rosa. 707.573.9453.

MARIN CO U N T Y Bay Thai Thai. $. Fresh Thai food with curries that combine the regions classic sweet and tart elements. Some of the best fried bananas to be

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found. Lunch and dinner, MonSat; dinner, Sun. (Cash only.) 809 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.458.8845.

Buckeye Roadhouse American. $$-$$$. A Marin County institution. Delightful food, friendly and seamless service, and a convivial atmosphere. Try one of the many exotic cocktails. Lunch and dinner daily; brunch, SatSun. 15 Shoreline Hwy, Mill Valley. 415.331.2600.

Fish Seafood. $$-$$$. Incredibly fresh seafood in incredibly relaxed setting overlooking bay. Lunch and dinner daily. (Cash only.) 350 Harbor Dr, Sausalito. 415.331.FISH.

Fradelizio’s Italian. $$. Locally sourced northern Italian dishes with a Californiacuisine touch. The house red is a custom blend from owner Paul Fradelizio. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch, Sat-Sun. 35 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 415.459.1618.

M&G’s Burgers & Beverages American. $. The ultimate in American cuisine. Crispy fries, good burgers and friendly locals chowing down. Lunch and dinner daily. 2017 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Fairfax. 415.454.0655.

Marin Brewing Co Pub food. $-$$. Excellent soups, salads, pub grub and awardwinning pork-beer sausage. Lunch and dinner daily. 1809 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur. 415.461.4677. Mountain Home Inn American. $$-$$$$. Great summer sandwiches with a view atop Mt Tamalpais. Breakfast, Sat-Sun; lunch and dinner, Wed-Sun. 810 Panoramic Dr, Mill Valley. 415.381.9000.

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Pizza Azzurro Italian. $.

Run by a former Tra Vigne and Lark Creek Inn alum, the pizza is simple and thin, and ranks as some of the best in the North Bay. Lunch and dinner daily. 1260 Main St (at Clinton), Napa. 707.255.5552.

Red Rock Cafe & Backdoor BBQ American. $-$$. Cafe specializing in barbecue and classic diner fare. Messy, delicious. Lunch and dinner daily. 1010 Lincoln Ave, Napa. 707.252.9250.

Redd California cuisine. $$$$$. Rich dishes balanced by

subtle flavors and careful yet casual presentation. Brunch at Redd is exceptional. Lunch, Mon-Sat; dinner daily; brunch, Sun. 6480 Washington St, Yountville. 707.944.2222.

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SONOMA COUNTY Balletto Vineyards Some of the best values from the Russian River Valley, in Chard and Pinots both Gris and noir. Being out of the touring loop, it’s generally a low-key place that picks up a bit on weekends. 5700 Occidental Road, Santa Rosa. Open daily, 10am–4pm. 707.568.2455.

Dutcher Crossing Winery Barnlike room offers fireplace to warm the mitts on winter days; owner Debra Mathy leads monthly bike rides in better weather. Try the Maple Vineyard Zinfandel; ask the well-informed staff about the Penny Farthing bicycle. 8533 Dry Creek Road, Healdsburg. Open daily 11am– 5pm. Tasting fee $5–$10. 866.431.2711.

J Vineyards & Winery Save the sit-down, threecourse food and wine pairing in the Bubble Room for a special occasion, like, “Hey, it’s Sunday.” Weekend program offers deceptively wee courses that change every six weeks to feature seasonal produce. Diverse and intense flavors, matched with sparkling wine, Pinot and Chardonnay, sure to amuse anyone’s bouche. New: Legacy Lounge and Terrace Tasting.11447 Old Redwood Hwy., Healdsburg. Open daily 11am–5pm, regular tasting $20. Bubble Room, Friday– Sunday, 11am–3pm, $75. 888.594.6326.

Kunde Estate Winery (WC) Kunde is one of 12 wineries in Sonoma County to be distinguished with Second Level Green Business Certification. It also has beautiful wine caves carved into 5-million-year-old volcanic rock. 9825 Sonoma Hwy., Kenwood. Tasting room open daily, 10:30am–4:30pm. 707.833.5501.

Loxton Cellars At Loxton, the shingle of Aussie Chris Loxton, who forewent a career in physics to save space-time

in a bottle, Syrah and Shiraz are king. 11466 Dunbar Road, Glen Ellen. By appointment. 707.935.7221.

Meeker Vineyard You might expect Meeker to be more slicked-out, what with its big-time Hollywood origins (co-owner Charlie Meeker is a former movie executive). But that’s clearly not the case. 21035 Geyserville Ave., Geyserville. Open Monday– Saturday, 10:30am–6pm; Sunday, noon–5pm. 707.431.2148.

Paradise Ridge Winery A gorgeous, provocative sculpture garden with annually changing exhibits set amid a pygmy forest. Stay for sunset Wednesday evenings April–October. 4545 Thomas Lake Harris Drive, Santa Rosa. Open daily, 11am–5:30pm. 707.528.9463. Paradise also offers its food-friendly wines at an accessible little shack in the heart of Sonoma Valley. Try structured clarets from the estate’s high-elevation Rockpile vineyards; do some time with “the Convict” Zinfandel. Open daily, 10am– 5pm. 8860 Sonoma Hwy., Kenwood. 707.282.9020.

MARIN COUNTY Bacchus & Venus A trendy place for beginners and tourists. Great place to learn the basics. 769 Bridgeway, Sausalito. Open daily, noon– 7pm. 415.331.2001. Heidrun Meadery This is not your fæder’s mead: flower varietal, regional, méthode champenoise sparkling mead on a farm made for the bees. 11925 Hwy. 1, Point Reyes Station. By appointment only, Monday– Friday. 415.663.9122.

Point Reyes Vineyards The tasting room features many varietals but the main reason to go is for the sparkling wines. Open Saturday–Sunday, 11am–5pm.

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Domaine Carneros Inspired by Taittinger’s Château de la Marquetterie of Champagne, this house of premium sparkling wine is a hard-to-miss landmark on the Carneros Highway. Enjoy a private Balcony Package for special occasions or taste sparkling and still wines paired with artisan cheese and caviar with the masses. Luxury bubbly Le Rêve offers a bouquet of hoary yeast and crème brûlée that just slips away like a dream. 1240 Duhig Road (at Highway 12/121), Napa. Wine flights $15; also available by the glass or bottle. Open 10am–5:45pm. 800.716.2788.

Frank Family Vineyards A media mogul imagineered a Napa Valley winery that’s surprisingly no-frills, friendly and free of charge, from the flute of bubbly welcome to the last sip of award-winning Cab. Emphasis is on the historic Larkmead winery, the wine and, natch, the guest at this popular tasting room set in the winery’s remodeled craftsman farmhouse. Frank Family Vineyards, 1091 Larkmead Lane, Calistoga. Tasting daily, 10am–4pm, $10; reserve, $25. 707.942.0753.

Inglenook Vineyard What’s new at Inglenook? Very little. The iconic stone building, robed in green vines, appears exactly as it did in 1890. But that’s news, and all thanks to owner Francis Ford Coppola. Still living up to Gustave Niebaum’s dream of fine wine to rival France, the oncebeloved Inglenook is putting out the goods once again. 1991 St. Helena Hwy., Rutherford. Daily, 10am–5pm. Reservations for tour and tasting ($50) recommended; none required for bistro and exhibits. 707.968.1161.

nce upon a time there was a little fox, and he was so thirsty. But no matter how he tried to grab a nice cold bottle of Chardonnay from the refrigerated wine aisle, he just couldn’t reach it. “Oh, who needs it, anyway,” he said scornfully as he slinked away. “It’s probably just that same old, oaky, buttery ‘Cali’ Chardonnay.”

With an attitude like that, little fox, you could miss out on some decent 2013 Chardonnays: some oaky and buttery, some not. Just please don’t call it “Cali.” Frank Family 2013 Carneros Chardonnay ($35) Mix the lemon with the melted butter and slather it on the artichoke, freeze this and make ice cream out of it, and you’ve almost captured this wine’s cool aroma. Add county-fair caramel apple— artisanal caramel apple, as we’re in Napa—and a soft cotton-candy palate, and you’re getting close to this vegetal, woody, but likable wine that might take well to roast chicken with capers. Jordan 2013 Russian River Valley Chardonnay ($30) Unlike Jordan’s 2012, which evoked oak like a page out of a scratch-andsniff book, the 2013 is just a little nutty on the nose, with liquid golden raisin and searing Eureka lemon fighting for the palate. Extreme citrus wins the round, and the lingering aftertaste settles into a characteristic that polite people call “leesy.” (Lees are the spent yeast and muck that settle to the bottom of the barrel after fermentation—winemakers often stir them up.) Interesting turn, and a palate-awakener for rich meals. Educated Guess 2013 Carneros Chardonnay ($17) Here, it’s a cool, oak-flavored ice cream aroma that starts the show—Ben & Jerry’s Quirky Quercus? Also, a vanilla scoop astride an apple tart, with tangy papaya and melon on the finish. Warming up, the toasty, caramelized wood notes bring certain lighter expressions of Islay single malt to mind. Educated Guess got it right on this one. Buena Vista 2013 Carneros Chardonnay ($20) To be “golden” is a good thing in contemporary lingo, and that’s what this Chard is: an alchemy of oak, baked apple fruit and glazed almond cookie notes. It just tastes “golden.” Napa Cellars 2013 Napa Valley Chardonnay ($22) A nice balance between pink grapefruit, hints of caramel and toast, dried herbs and leesy notes. Even with Chardonnay, it’s possible to be middle-of-the-road without being boring. Menage à Trois 2013 California Chardonnay ($12) In a world where movie theater popcorn meets butterscotch candy, and cloying peanut brittle flavors mix with nutty wood notes, one sweet, smooth and simple wine is Exhibit A in “California Chardonnay.”

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IT’S GOT LEGS

Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain’s oral history of punk has spawned many imitators.

Two decades after Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain’s seminal book on punk rock appeared, its impact still resonates BY STEVE PALOPOLI

n much the same way that punk was a musical revolution, the deﬁnitive book about punk was a literary one. With its modernization of the oral history tradition—telling its 424-page story entirely in a string of quotes that form a solid, winding narrative— Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk revolutionized both the book industry and the way we think about storytelling when it was published in 1996.

Despite its gritty, grimy subject matter (or, more accurately, because of it), Please Kill Me was sublimely elegant in the way it matched form to content. Finally, here was a book about punk that reflected the actual spirit of the movement by representing its subjects’ words as directly as possible, with a minimum of filters or interference from the authors. It took nonfiction back to its primal urges. Perhaps the book’s mix of iconoclasm and literary ambition makes sense considering it was co-authored by two writers with very different backgrounds, but a surprising like-mindedness. One, Legs McNeil, is the man some credit with giving punk music its name in the first place, when he founded Punk magazine in 1975. He started it with cartoonist John Holmstrom and publisher Ged Dunn, and together they provided a fledgling New York scene led by the Ramones, Patti Smith and Richard Hell (and eventually also British bands like

the Sex Pistols) with a unifying concept. His co-author, Gillian McCain, was the program coordinator of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church—famed for its connections to Smith, Jim Carroll, William Burroughs and other punk poets beginning in the 1970s—from 1991 to 1995, roughly the same time that they worked on Please Kill Me. After hundreds of interviews with everyone from icons like the late Lou Reed and Iggy Pop to lesser-known scene stealers like former “company freak” record exec Danny Fields and ﬁlmmaker Bob Gruen, the result was the bestselling book ever about punk music, which has been published in 15 languages around the world. Now, as Grove Atlantic prepares the 20th-anniversary edition of Please Kill Me, the book sits side by side with the dozens of imitators it has spawned, everything from similarly focused music books like We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk; Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music; and Louder Than Hell: The Deﬁnitive Oral History of Metal to general-pop-culture megahits like Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live by Tom Shales and Andrew James Miller, and their follow-up Those Guys Have

All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN (about which a fictionalized major film adaptation was recently announced). The oral-history craze has reached such a fever pitch— and, perhaps, level of absurdity— that the July issue of Vanity Fair features the “definitive oral history” of the movie Clueless. So why isn’t Legs McNeil proud of blazing a trail for this new wave of 21st-century oral histories? “They sucked,” says McNeil by phone from L.A., where he and McCain are working on a new oral history book about the ’60s rock scene there. “I wish someone would do a good oral history. At least as good as Please Kill Me, you know?” McCain, on the same phone call, is more diplomatic. “When I look at just the punk books that have come out as oral histories, not even oral history music books, I think there’s a hundred, literally. It’s just unbelievable,” she says. “So Legs may not be proud that we were the trailblazers, but I am.”

‘Please Kill Me’ revolutionized the book industry and modern storytelling.

First Person Singular McNeil’s stance may sound like punk posturing, but actually the pair adhered to some strict rules while doing Please Kill Me that later imitators have often ignored, usually to their detriment. “We refuse to cheat,” says McCain,

“where we’d have a piece of prose in between two people talking. ‘And then so and so went to blah blah blah.’ To me, that’s cheating.” McNeil says the demanding structure of oral histories is what makes them so easy to screw up. With no exposition to support them, the quotes have to weave a tight narrative. “They’re really difficult,” he says. “Oral histories are like rock and roll itself—very, very fascistic and anal. Seriously. Once you break the formula, no matter what you’ve done up till that point, the whole thing falls apart. It’s not like you can make a mistake. You know, like in memoirs there are shitty chapters where the guy goes off on his cat or his mother or something, and you go with that because it’s going to get good again. But in an oral history you can’t have that, because it’ll collapse.” Please Kill Me established a blueprint for understanding the punk movement that has been followed by almost every book since, with the Velvet Underground as the ﬁrst real protopunk band, and Lou Reed as the godfather of punk. While the Velvets were already widely accepted as punk progenitors by the ’90s (with no small amount of credit going to the 1990 cover album Heaven & Hell: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground, which kicked off the tribute-record craze), the actual story of how punk evolved from band to band through New York and Detroit had never really been told. But the book’s framing device— beginning with the Velvet ) 18 Underground starting

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out in Andy Warhol’s Factory scene, and ending with the band’s reunion in 1992—was something that developed over time. Finding such a framework was key, since the origins of punk could be said to stretch all the way back to the beginning of rock itself; just look at how the Sex Pistols worshipped Eddie Cochran, or how the Cramps covered the Johnny Burnette Trio and the Count Five. “It wasn’t easy, because we started interviewing people from [’60s garage band] ? and the Mysterians,” says McCain. “So we weren’t sure we weren’t going to go that avenue, but it ended up we didn’t. There’s so many garage bands. And the people around the Velvet Underground were in the narrative later, so they were part of this intertwining— with Iggy, and Lou on the cover of Punk magazine. But with the garage bands, there was no interconnectedness.” “What we did in Please Kill Me was we showed the linkage from the Velvet Underground to the Stooges,” says McNeil. “Nico moves in with Iggy, John Cale produces Iggy’s ﬁrst album. We kind of mapped it all out, and every punk book has taken that formula. And no one has ever said, ‘Hey, thanks for connecting the dots!’” “I think a lot of people give us credit,” counters McCain. “Often in the acknowledgements, they’ll say, ‘We want to thank Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain for turning us on to this format.’” “Well,” grumbles McNeil, “maybe they should have bought us dinner.”

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The dynamic between McCain and McNeil is a fascinating one. One of McCain’s earliest memories of meeting McNeil speaks volumes about their dynamic. “We had a mutual friend, and she said, ‘I’m going over to Legs’ to watch a movie.’ And we became friends. He lived on St. Mark’s and First [Avenue], and I was working at the Poetry Project at Second

Avenue and 10th, so he’d drop by the office,” she recalls. “He’d come to readings and really drive me nuts, because during a poetry reading he’d be standing at the back, and whenever he’d move the least little bit, his leather jacket would creak. It just drove me insane. That’s how we met.” “It was a doomed relationship,” says McNeil drily. “She does a great imitation of me coming to the Poetry Project. I’d go, ‘Let’s go out for a cigarette,’ and then I’d split. I was always embarrassing her.” Disagreements over who and what would make it into the book could be contentious, but McCain says McNeil was able to make tough editing decisions that she couldn’t bear. “Legs really forced me to edit,” she says. “At ﬁrst I was like, ‘No, I want to put in Ed Sanders learning semiotics at grad school at NYU.’ And he was like, ‘No.’ ‘But it’s so good!’ ‘No.’” “Gillian and I argue a lot,” says McNeil. “If Gillian really sticks to her guns, then I have to scratch my head and go, ‘Whoa, wait a minute . . .” I’m pretty forceful, and I have a pretty strong personality. But Gillian seems to be able to cut through the bullshit.” For all of their differences, he’s surprised at how much they think alike, which comes out especially when they do interviews together. “We always look at each other knowingly,” says McNeil. Also, we never use notes, which is really weird. The person stops talking, and we both come in at the same time with the same question. That happens about 85 percent of the time.” “That’s true,” says McCain. “I think that’s something that makes people comfortable, that we don’t bring in notes. We just have conversations with them. Sometimes I have a few notes on a Post-it that I put in my pocket, and when I go to the bathroom, I look at it.” “I always lose my scrap of paper,” McNeil says. “But since I’ve written it down, I know what it is.” McCain credits McNeil with eliciting many of the stories that made Please Kill Me both shock and amuse. The book is full of them: Nico giving Iggy Pop his

history of punk rock and ﬁgure prominently in ‘Please Kill Me.’

first STD. Billy Murcia of the New York Dolls choking to death in a flat in London while partygoers around him flee. Dee Dee Ramone writing “Chinese Rocks” out of spite toward Richard Hell, but then giving Hell a co-writing credit for it because he wrote two lines. Malcolm McLaren on the differences between New York punk and the Sex Pistols. “I learned so much from Legs,” says McCain. “He gets on the phone with Malcolm McLaren and goes, ‘First off, I don’t want to talk about the Sex Pistols.’ And Malcolm McLaren is so fucking relieved! He asks him questions about the New York Dolls, which he was probably rarely asked about before Please Kill Me. And then gradually the Sex Pistols come up, but he’s more engaged, because he didn’t think he had to talk about it.” “You disarm people,” admits McNeil. “You’ve got to be immediately intimate with them. Because you’re going to ask them everything. You’re going to have to ask them who they’re sleeping with, what drugs they were taking, what they were thinking, what their emotional state was at the time.” Still, McNeil says he has yet to interview someone who was reluctant to talk. “I think for a lot of people it’s almost like therapy. They’re really into telling their story,” he says. “It’s kind of fascinating.”

Too Tough to Sell McNeil’s experimentation with the unﬁltered style of Please Kill Me can be traced, to some extent, back to his time with Punk magazine. “Kind of with the Q&A interviews, which were hysterically funny,” he says. “Holmstrom would do things like in the ﬁrst Lou Reed interview, Lou was talking about his favorite cartoonists, and John drew him in the different styles, like Wally Wood. It was very cool. We did things like when I interviewed Richard Hell at Max’s and I passed out—and Richard kept talking. Stuff like that. That was fun, you know?” Both McNeil and McCain were inspired by Edie: American Girl, the 1982 oral history of Edie Sedgwick by Jean Stein and George Plimpton. Though a bestseller and critically acclaimed for the groundbreaking expositionfree style that anticipated Please Kill Me, it failed to have the same cultural impact. McNeil, however, saw its potential. “He started doing a book with Dee Dee [Ramone],” says McCain. “Dee Dee asked him to write his autobiography with him. Legs had the idea, because he loved Edie, to do it as an oral history. So he was getting Danny [Fields]’s interviews transcribed, and all these people, and I said to him, ‘This story is so much bigger than Dee Dee. He’s a seminal character, but it’s just such a huge ) 20

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story.’ Then Dee Dee got kind of hard to get along with, and when they parted ways, Legs was like, ‘Do you want to do this with me?’ So that’s how it started.” Considering that Please Kill Me would go on to have a huge impact on the book industry, it’s ironic that publishers showed no interest in the project at ﬁrst. Despite 1991 being “the year punk broke,” as one documentary title put it, with the success of Nirvana’s Nevermind and poppunk bands like Green Day and the Offspring storming the radio in 1994, a book about punk was still a tough sell back then. And it certainly didn’t help that it was an oral history, a literary genre associated with Studs Terkel books about old-timey things like the Great Depression and World War II. “We knew we wouldn’t be able to sell it on just a proposal and a chapter, because people wouldn’t get it. Not only the subject matter, but also the oral-history format. So we had written the whole book before we tried to sell it,” says McCain. The exhausting interview schedule had some out-there moments, like the interview with former Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton, which McNeil counts among his favorites. “We did like 10 hours in one sitting. Drinking milk and vodka or some weird thing,” says

McNeil. “I was just listening to him, and he’s talking to his cats through the whole thing. ‘Leave her alone, Patches!’” The great white whale for the two of them was Iggy Pop. “We purposefully wanted to leave him for last, because we wanted to be able to ask really informed questions,” says McCain. Iggy ended up being McCain’s favorite interview that she did with McNeil. “I think we ask questions in a certain way that maybe makes people think about things in a different way, or reminds them of certain things. That was our goal, to get stories other people hadn’t. But when you ask a question [to Iggy Pop] like, ‘OK, you’re at the Yost Field House. You’ve stolen some IDs.’ This is how Legs framed it. ‘You’re 14 years old, and you see Jim Morrison come onstage. How do you feel?’ I don’t think many people have framed questions like that. That’s why we wanted to do him at the very end, so we totally knew what we were talking about.” McNeil went on to co-write another oral history book, 2005’s The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry. But for that one, he worked with Jennifer Osborne and Peter Pavia. He and McCain didn’t work together again until they co-edited Dear Nobody: The Real Life Diary of Mary Rose, a collection of a teenager’s journal entries that came out last year. They then began work on ’69, the Please Kill Me–like oral history of L.A. rock they hope to ﬁnish in two years. McNeil attributes the long gap between their collaborations to the ragged ending of their work on Please Kill Me. “We were just exhausted,” he says. “And Gillian hated me. Understandably. I think she had a nervous breakdown after. I think working with me sent her over the edge.” But she did come around. “Well, yeah,” says McNeil, “but after 20 years.” She forgot the hard parts, he says. And now, on the new book? McNeil laughs. “I reminded her.”

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Summer Shows The Green Music Center’s summer performance series is in full swing this week, offering three great concerts over four days. First up is the wild-andcrazy banjo plucker Steve Martin performing with the Steep Canyon Rangers at Weill Hall on Aug. 20.

The next day, Aug. 21, country bad boy and actor Dwight Yoakam delivers tunes off his latest record, Second Hand Heart. Online tickets come with a hard copy of the album. Two days later, Grammywining vocalist Colbie Caillat returns to the North Bay for a fun and endearing performance on Aug. 23; multiplatinum selling artist Christina Perri opens the show. Green Music Center, 1801 E. Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park. 866.955.6040.

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Monstrous Premiere San Francisco artist and filmmaker Michael Meehan premieres ‘Hey Monster, Hands Off My City!’ this week. His latest film, based on his oneman play, is a bizarre monster/detective comedy, filmed entirely in the City and featuring several San Francisco actors and comedians. Revolving around a monster befriended by a wellmeaning Boy Scout and the two detectives hot on the monster’s trail of mauled bodies, the film is also a stinging social statement that rails against corporate greed—and meter maids. The film premieres Aug. 20, at Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 7pm. $15. 415.383.9600.

AMERICAN SOUL Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires bring the funk to Lagunitas Brewing Company in Petaluma on Tuesday, Aug. 25. See Clubs & Venues, p27.

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Homecoming Kings Longtime Sonoma County indie outfit the Velvet Teen released their latest album, All Is Illusory, last month, and guess what? It’s great. The band’s first fulllength record in nearly a decade has them at their best, packed with high-energy rock and roll, heartfelt piano ballads and euphoric pop tracks. For the past two months, the trio has been on the road, touring the country in support of the new LP, and this weekend they finally come home and perform with other local favorites Trebuchet and OVVN on Aug. 22 at the Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington St., Petaluma. 8pm. $10. 707.762.3565.

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Arts Ideas THERE WOLF Niwa, a wolf from Washington’s Wolf Haven International, served as a stand-in for OR7 in the documentary.

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n 2011, an intrepid two-and-a-half-year-old male gray wolf loped across the Oregon border into California’s Siskiyou County, making him the ﬁrst known wolf to step foot on the state’s soil in 87 years. Biologists believe more wolves will follow.

Because he was wearing a radio collar that identiﬁed him

as wolf OR7, wildlife officials could track his movements. He had traveled more than 700 miles from northeastern Oregon to California, where he spent nearly 15 months moving through seven different counties, presumably searching for a mate. He crossed back into Oregon, and last year biologists conﬁrmed he had found his mate in what was thought to be a wolﬂess place, siring three pups in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, a 1.6 million–acre wilderness that straddles the

California-Oregon border. Last month, Oregon wildlife officials reported evidence of a second litter of pups. OR7’s family is now known as the Rogue Pack. It’s the ﬁrst pack in western Oregon and the 10th pack in the state since wolves from Idaho started crossing the Snake River into Oregon in the 1990s. OR7, later named “Journey” in a naming contest that, among other things, aimed to make him too famous to kill, became a celebrity because of his beat-the-odds trek

in search of a mate. It’s a great story, and now it’s a movie, OR7: The Journey. The documentary screens Aug. 26 and 27 at Summerfield Cinemas. The first screening has sold out. “This is a special wolf,” says director Clemens Schenk. “I decided it was going to be a great topic for a documentary.” Schenk says he did not anticipate the audience response. The film has sold out everywhere it’s been shown, and it leaves many viewers in tears. Organizers had to move to larger theater in Santa Rosa to accommodate demand. “[This wolf] must have really touched people,” Schenk says. There is no video of OR7. The documentary features a stand-in wolf from Wolf Haven International, a wolf sanctuary in Washington. Gray wolves once roamed California from the Oregon border to San Diego County. But hunters, trappers, ranchers and ignorance put an end to that. The last known wolf in California died in 1924 in the jaws of an iron trap near Litchfield in eastern Lassen County’s high desert. The wolf was reportedly old and weighed only 53 pounds. Adult wolves typically weight from 70 to 150 pounds. The animal was also missing part of one of its rear legs, probably from the same kind of trap that killed him. Part of the excitement of OR7’s story is that he traveled near the spot where that wolf died more than nine decades ago. As moving as OR7’s story is, the bigger story is that more wolves could be moving into California. “There’s enormous drama in all of this,” says Amaroq Weiss, a wolf specialist for the Center for Biological Diversity. The Petaluma resident is featured in the film, and has been working to protect

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wolves and other animals for years. Weiss and other wolf advocates foresaw the repatriation of wolves into California because of their growing numbers in Oregon and Washington. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is something many of us had anticipated for a long time,â&#x20AC;? she says. Because OR7 spent so much time in California and left scent markers, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s believed other wolves from the Rogue Pack or elsewhere may migrate to California to create packs of their own. Just last month, a remote camera captured a photo of what state wildlife officials believe is another gray wolf in southeastern Siskiyou County. This one isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wearing a radio collar, so its movements canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be tracked. Because of suitable habitat and prey, wolves could do well in California, Weiss says. Most important to the wolvesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; reemergence in the state, she says, is public sympathy to their plight and an appreciation of the key role they play in a well-balanced ecosystem. The area of California, Washington and Oregon, she says, is â&#x20AC;&#x153;the best place for wolves in this country in the long run.â&#x20AC;? To pave the way for future wolves, the Center for Biological Diversity and its allies ďŹ lled a petition in 2012 to protect the animals under Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Endangered Species Act. Two years laterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;on the same day officials conďŹ rmed that OR7 and his mate had given birth to pups in southern Oregonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;California granted protection to gray wolves. The stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Department of Fish and Wildlife is currently developing a wolf-management plan that they will release for public comment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wolves will live anywhere humans let them,â&#x20AC;? says Weiss. Will Californians let them live here?

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aking over Crispin Glover’s most famous role didn’t ruin my career,” laughs Petaluma actor Jeffrey Weissman, “but it didn’t help.” Weissman (Spreckels’ Young Frankenstein) is a tremendously skilled performer, known for his inspired supporting roles, but he’s the leading man in one of the more fascinating footnotes in modern film trivia. Back in the ’80s, while working in Los Angeles, Weissman appeared in several major films, including Clint Eastwood’s Pale Rider and a notable turn as a terrified airline passenger in Twilight Zone: The Movie. Then came Back to the Future II, and III. For reasons still being

debated in Hollywood, Crispin Glover, who played George McFly in the original, was not eager to do the sequels. Enter Jeffrey Weissman, a master mimic, who was hired to take over the role, brilliantly recreating the George McFly character. “I was so happy to be working with these great talents, especially Michael J. Fox,” recalls Weissman, “and yet I also felt like this was maybe not going to be taken so well by Crispin.” The resulting brouhaha— lawsuits and claims of identity theft—have since passed into Hollywood legend, while Weissman, who still works regularly in independent films, found it increasingly difficult to build on his earlier successes. Ironically, his masterful performance in the movies was so good, only trivia-watchers and die-hard fans even know it was Weissman who played the part. “A lot of people think Crispin Glover was in those movies,” sighs Weissman. “I suppose that’s something I should be proud of.” As a result, Weissman has built a sometimes fanatical following, though it’s mostly overseas. “When I do fan conventions in London,” he says, “they love me. They know the whole story! They can’t wait to get my autograph.” But the most valuable thing Weissman took from his Back to the Future experience, he says, is his friendship with Michael J. Fox. “We got to know each other pretty well,” he says. “We still keep in touch. His illness has made it hard for him, but he’s still doing amazing work as an actor. He’s amazing.” Fox’s Parkinson’s diagnosis inspired Weissman to start campaigning for a cure, an effort that comes to a climax this November with the first ever BTTF Cruise to End Parkinson’s (bttfcruise.com), featuring several cast members from the movies, an Enchantment Under the Seas dance and a live conversation via Skype with Fox. “It’s going to be a very fun time,” he says, “and for science fiction fans, it just got better. I just learned there’ll be a Star Trek event happening on the same cruise!”

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the roster. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 11 hours of polka in a tent with a wooden dance ďŹ&#x201A;oor where the music is sweet and Slovenian, as well as a Saturdaynight performance by immortal push-polka demons Polkacide (of which Ms. Martin was once a member). Slavic and Latin Americans lead the pack of maestros, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also yodeling cowpoke Sourdough Slim and a reunion of the multi-accordion ensemble Those Darn Accordions. (One never hears of an Everest mishap without thinking of TDAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alpine tune â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Another Dumbass on the Mountain.â&#x20AC;?) The headliners of the next 25 years will be performing in a student showcase nearby at the social hall of the Church of the Oaks. The fest has survived changing times, and even a spot of trouble: the recent conviction of one of the festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s longtime producer Scott Paul Goree on drug charges. (Goree used the Breaking Bad defense, claiming that medical bills drove him to crime.) But this destination festival has popularized the accordion in all its manifold formâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from portable 10-button Cajuns to backbreaking three-and-a-half-octave behemoths. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The accordion is re-emerging from the forgotten,â&#x20AC;? says Maria Protopopov of the band A2TV (two accordions, one tuba, one violin), who will be featured at the fest. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And now, thanks to Roland, they have electronics.â&#x20AC;? Accordions were once scarce, but today they ďŹ&#x201A;ood the market, even inexpensively made Chinese numbers from eBay (including a Cotati brand, which I happen to own). I realized the jokes were over as of this January, when some blue-dyed pixie named Joey Cook played accordion on American Idol. J-Lo gave Ms. Cook one of her richest smiles, instead of screaming, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Get that agony-box off my stage, pronto!â&#x20AC;? as she would have once upon a time. The Cotati Accordion Festival goes down Aug. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;23 at La Plaza Park, Old Redwood Highway and West Sierra Avenue in Cotati. www.cotatifest.com.

Concerts SONOMA COUNTY Cotati Accordion Festival Annual multi-cultural and multi-generational fest features a polka-palooza on Sunday and artists like LA chanteuse Jessica Fichot and SF folk zydeco band the Mad Maggies. Aug 22-23. $19-$29. La Plaza Park, Old Redwood Highway, Cotati. 707.664.0444.

Napa Valley Cowboy Music & Poetry Gathering Through poetry, music and stories, these cowboys express the beauty and challenges of a life deeply connected to the earth and it’s bounty. Aug 22, 7pm. $20. Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater, 100 California Dr, Yountville. 707.944.9900.

Clubs & Venues

The Mother Hips The long-time San Francisco rocker plays two sets in one night; one acoustic and one electric. Aug 22, 9pm. $20. HopMonk Sebastopol, 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol. 707.829.7300.

The Velvet Teen North Bay indie stars wrap up their national tour, in support of new album “All is Illusory,” with a hometown show featuring Trebuchet and OVVN. Aug 22, 8pm. $10. Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington St, Petaluma. 707.762.3565.

MARIN COUNTY Muriel Anderson The musician is one of the world’s foremost finger-style guitarists and harp-guitarists and the first woman to win the National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship. Aug 23, 2pm. $16-$20. Studio 55 Marin, 1455 E Francisco Blvd, San Rafael. 415.453.3161.

SONOMA COUNTY Annex Wine Bar Aug 20, Glenn Carter. Aug 21, DaveEdJohn Quartet. Aug 22, the Paquette Sisters. 865 W Napa St, Sonoma. 707.938.7779.

Annie O’s Music Hall Aug 21, Fog (Jerry Garcia tribute). Aug 22, Lef Deppard with Godz of Rock. 120 Fifth St, Santa Rosa. 707.484.1331.

Aqus Cafe Aug 21, Duo Valle Luna. Aug 22, Hillwilliams. Aug 23, 2pm, Ice Cool Jazz. Aug 26, bluegrass open jam. 189 H St, Petaluma. 707.778.6060.

Arlene Francis Center Aug 22, NAYC squeaky clean rock show99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa. 707.528.3009.

Barley & Hops Tavern Aug 20, the Sticky Notes. Aug 21, Jen Tucker. Aug 22, Mark McDonald. 3688 Bohemian Hwy, Occidental. 707.874.9037.

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Popular San Francisco indie folk band fronted by Andy Cabic plays cuts from their new album, “Complete Strangers,” in the Grate Room. Aug 21, 8pm. $20. Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael. 415.524.2773.

Aug 22, Soul Scratch. Aug 25, Grand Finale. 328-A Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg. 707.433.8720.

NAPA COUNTY Music in the Vineyards Month-long, nationally acclaimed chamber music festival showcases the finest classical musicians in the picturesque settings of Napa’s wineries and venues. Through Aug 23. $60 and up. Napa Valley, various locations, Napa.

The Big Easy Aug 19, Bruce Gordon and Nicky Otis. Aug 20, Kelner and Company. Aug 21, P Butta Funk. Aug 22, Painted Horses with Foxtails Brigade. Aug 23, Left Coast Syncopators. Aug 25, the American Alley Cats. Aug 26, Tracy Rose and friends. 128 American Alley, Petaluma. 707.776.4631.

BR Cohn Winery Aug 23, 1pm, Madison Hudson Band. 15000 Sonoma Hwy, Glen Ellen. 707.938.4064.

Aug 20, John Pita. Aug 21, Falcon Christopher. Aug 22, Ricky Alan Ray. 133 Fourth St, Santa Rosa. 707.578.1826.

Chateau St Jean Aug 22, 12pm, Cole Tate Band. Aug 23, 12pm, Sony Holland. 8555 Sonoma Hwy, Kenwood. 707.833.4134.

D’Argenzio Winery Aug 20, Buck Nickels and Loose Change. 1301 Cleveland Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.280.4658.

Epicurean Connection Aug 19, Kalei Solo Piano Bar. Aug 20, the Star Bandits. Aug 21, Rule 5 Jazz Trio. Aug 22, Radar. Aug 23, 1pm, Karen Slavin. Aug 26, Nate Dittle. 122 West Napa St, Sonoma. 707.935.7960.

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French Garden Aug 21, New Skye Band. Aug 22, Un Deux Trois. 8050 Bodega Ave, Sebastopol. 707.824.2030.

Green Music Center Aug 20, Steve Martin and Steep Canyon Rangers. Aug 21, Dwight Yoakam. Aug 23, 5pm, Colbie Caillat and Christina Perri. 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

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HopMonk Sebastopol Aug 21, Be the Menagerie Dust or Bust Party. Aug 24, Monday Night Edutainment. Aug 26, Brainstorm EDM event. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol. 707.829.7300.

HopMonk Sonoma Aug 21, 5pm, Dallas Caroline. Aug 21, 8pm, Tom Rhodes. Aug 22, 1pm, Craig Corona. Aug 22, 8pm, Billy Manzik. Aug 23, 1pm, Jeff Campbell. 691 Broadway, Sonoma. 707.935.9100.

Ives Park Aug 19, 5pm, David Luning and the Bootleg Honeys. Aug 26, 5pm, Peacetown Legends. Willow Street and Jewell Avenue, Sebastopol.

Jamison’s Roaring Donkey Aug 23, Lynn Drury. 146 Kentucky St, Petaluma. 707.772.5478.

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Aug 19, Falcon Christopher Band. Aug 26, Marshall House Project. Fri, Sat, DJ Rule 62. 527 Fourth St, Santa Rosa. 707.636.0240.

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Lagunitas Tap Room Aug 19, Whiskey Shivers. Aug 20, Jen Tucker Band. Aug 21, Mad Maggies. Aug 22, Bear Lincoln. Aug 23, Big Blu Soul Revue. Aug 26, the Royal Deuces. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma. 707.778.8776.

Main Street Bistro Aug 19, Pocket Canyon Ramblers. Aug 20, Susan Sutton. Aug 21, Blue Jazz Trio. Aug 22, Frankye Kelly. Aug 23, Sang Matiz Band. Aug 26, Greg Hester. 16280 Main St, Guerneville. 707.869.0501.

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Aug 19, Gypsy Kisses. Aug 21, Cotati Accordion Festival Student Stage Fundraiser. Aug 22, 11am, David Bennett Cohen. Aug 22, 8:30pm, the Bruthas. Aug 23, 11am, Keith Lovett. Aug 23, 6pm, Irish jam session. Aug 26, Cougar and the Cubs. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati. 707.795.7868.

Rio Nido Roadhouse Aug 22, Surf Fest. 14540 Canyon 2 Rd, Rio Nido. 707.869.0821.

Rossiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1906 Aug 21, 4pm, the Cork Pullers. Aug 21, 9pm, Beatbox with DJ Isak. Aug 22, Backtrax. Thurs, RT and the Slownoma Rythm Review. 401 Grove St, El Verano. 707.343.0044.

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Santa Rosa Central Library Aug 22, 11:30am, Ancient

Aug 21, Tommy Thomsen and Wendy DeWitt. 2605 Adobe Canyon Rd, Kenwood. 707.833.5712.

Twin Oaks Tavern Aug 19, Dallis Craft Band. Aug 20, Leviâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Workshop with Levi Lloyd. Aug 21, Delta Brew. Aug 22, 5pm, the String Rays. Aug 22, 8pm, Court â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;n Disaster. Aug 23, 5pm, Blues and BBQ with Stax City. Aug 26, the Honey Dippers. Mon, Blues Defenders Pro Jam. 5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove. 707.795.5118.

Whiskey Tip Aug 21, North Bay Cabaret. Aug 22, Trim. 1910 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.843.5535.

Wells Fargo Center for the Arts Aug 22, American Idol Live. 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.546.3600.

Zodiacs Aug 19, BernieFest with Bobby Jo Valentine. Aug 21, Loose Cannon String Band with One Grass, Two Grass. Aug 22, Big Brother & the Holding Company with Pamela Parker & the Kings. Aug 26, Scott Pemberton Trio. 256 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. 707.773.7751.

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19 Broadway Club Aug 19, Fiver Brown. Aug 20, Cha Ching. Aug 21-22, The Mother Truckers. Aug 25, Brian Fischer and friends. Aug 26, Danesh and DeLeon. 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 415.459.1091.

No Name Bar Aug 19, Rick Hardin and friends. Aug 20, Michael LaMacchia Band. Aug 21, Michael Aragon Quartet. Aug 22, Chris Saunders Band. Aug 23, 3pm, Flowtilla. Aug 23, 8:30pm, Jon Blach and friends. Aug 24, Kimrea and the Dreamdogs. Aug 26, Cascade Canyon Band. 757 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 415.332.1392.

Osteria Divino Aug 19, Deborah Winters. Aug 20, Robert Overbury Trio. Aug 21, Eric Markowitz Trio. Aug 22, David Jeffreyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jazz Fourtet. Aug 23, Nicholas Culp Trio. Aug 25, Lilan Kane. Aug 26, Jonathan Poretz. 37 Caledonia St, Sausalito. 415.331.9355.

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First Presbyterian Church of San Rafael Aug 22, 4pm, Summer Gospel Music Workshop. 1510 Fifth St, San Rafael.

Georgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nightclub Aug 21, Sol Horizon. 842 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.226.0262.

Iron Springs Pub & Brewery Aug 19, Rusty Evans & Ring of Fire. Aug 26, Belle Monroe &

Aug 19, the Elvis Johnson Soul Revue. Aug 20, Burnsyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sugar Shack. Aug 21, Windshield Cowboys. Aug 22, Lumanation. Aug 23, Tom Finch Trio. Aug 25, Fresh Baked Blues. Aug 26, Twangfest. Mon, Billy Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s open mic. 29 Broadway, Fairfax. 415.459.9910.

Rancho Nicasio Aug 21, Highway Poets. Aug 22-23, Asleep at the Wheel. 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio. 415.662.2219.

Sausalito Seahorse Aug 20, Brian Wallace. Aug 21, Barrio Manouche. Aug 22, James Moseley Band. Aug 23, Candela with Edgardo Cambon.

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Town Center Corte Madera Aug 23, 2pm, Pickled Beats. 100 Corte Madera Town Center, Corte Madera. 415.924.2961.

NAPA COUNTY Beringer Vineyards Aug 22, Steel Jam. Aug 23, Sweet Burgandy. 2000 Main St, St Helena, 866.708.9463.

City Winery Napa Aug 19, Richie Furay with Empty Pockets. Aug 20, Gregory Alan Isakov with Chris Pureka. sold-out. Aug 21, the Sun Kings. Aug 22, Eric Hutchinson with Tess Henley. sold-out. 1030 Main St, Napa. 707.260.1600.

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Aug 21, the Pousette-Dart Band. Aug 22, Monophonics with Gene Washington and the Ironsides. Aug 23, Matt Jaffe & the Distractions. Aug 25, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rock B4 Black Rockâ&#x20AC;? with DJ Richard Habib. Aug 26, the Beatles Project. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.1100.

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Galleries RECEPTIONS Aug 21 Napa Valley Museum, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Reilluminate,â&#x20AC;? Allison Watkinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; visual art explores our perceptions of materiality through photography and textile based works. Reception, Aug 21 at 5pm. 55 Presidents Circle, Yountville. 707.944.0500.

Aug 22 Healdsburg Center for the Arts, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pairings,â&#x20AC;? exhibit displays collaborative works by two or more artists. 5pm. 130 Plaza St, Healdsburg. 707.431.1970.

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Through Sep 20, â&#x20AC;&#x153;SLANG Aesthetics: The Art of Robert Williams,â&#x20AC;? brings together a collection of paintings, drawings and sculpture from the godfather of surreal pop art. 505 B St, Santa Rosa. 707.579.1500.

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Through Aug 30, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mi Valle (My Valley), a California Journeyâ&#x20AC;? features photographs by former â&#x20AC;&#x153;Modesto Beeâ&#x20AC;? staff photographer, Adrian Mendoza. 312 South A St #7, Santa Rosa. Thurs-Sun, noon to 5 PM, and by appointment. 707.695.1011.

Chroma Gallery Through Sep 13, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Like Nothing Seen Before,â&#x20AC;? group show displays collage and assemblage works. 312 South A St, Santa Rosa. 707.293.6051.

Mahoney Library Gallery

Through Sep 3, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mariko Irie,â&#x20AC;? a solo exhibit of watercolor and oil paintings from the artist, Mariko Irie. 2060 W College Ave, Santa Rosa. Mon-Fri, 8 to 7; Sat, 9 to 11am 707.543.3737.

Gaiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Garden Through Sep 15, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paintings by Suzy Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donaldâ&#x20AC;? 1899 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. Lunch and dinner, MonSat; lunch and brunch, Sun. 707.544.2491. Through Sep 2, â&#x20AC;&#x153;California Colors,â&#x20AC;? with featured artists Laura Culver, Judy Klausenstock, Alan Plisskin and Terry Sauve. Through Sep 15, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Abstractions,â&#x20AC;? works by Mandy Bankson, Else Gonella, Marilyn Jennings and others display. 209 Western Ave, Petaluma. 707.778.8277.

Through Aug 31, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gil Kofman: Surfers,â&#x20AC;? famed photographer displays. 400 First St E, Sonoma. Open for lunch, noon to 3pm, and dinner, 5pm to 9pm. Bar open noon to midnight. 707.938.7110.

Look Up Gallery

Finley Community Center

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Through Aug 30, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jackie Lee,â&#x20AC;? featured artist creates stunning and detailed blackand-white drawings. 140 E Napa St, Sonoma. Wed-Thurs and Sun-Mon, 11 to 5; Fri-Sat, 11 to 8. 707.996.3115.

Through Aug 30, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Want the Wide American Earth: An Asian Pacific American Storyâ&#x20AC;? traveling Smithsonian exhibit comes to Santa Rosa. Through Aug 30, â&#x20AC;&#x153;LIFE, Labor, and Purpose,â&#x20AC;? the renowned photography of of Hansel Mieth and Otto Hagel displays. 425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa. Tues-Sun, 11am to 4pm. 707.579.1500. Through Aug 22, â&#x20AC;&#x153;BEARS/ OSOS,â&#x20AC;? works by Blake Little and Juan Antonio Siverio explores the power of masculinity and depicts moments of bear life in new and compelling ways. 16290 Main Street, Guerneville. daily, 11am to 9pm 415.640.8882.

Through Aug 30, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Words & Images: Poets & Artists,â&#x20AC;? SoCo Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Art Group presents works by Batja Cates, Barbara Goodman and others with poetry readings every Friday night. 3840 Finley Ave, Bldg 33, Santa Rosa. Fri-Sun.

Arts Guild of Sonoma

History Museum of Sonoma County

Through Aug 30, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Photography & Jewelry Group Show,â&#x20AC;? renowned photographer Bo Svenson and master jewelers Joanne Quirino and Dianne Collins display. 7327 Occidental Rd, Sebastopol. Various 707.824.5632.

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Galletta Gallery Through Sep 13, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chairs,â&#x20AC;? an artistic presentation of a household object. 282 South High St, Sebastopol. Tues-Fri, 10am to 4pm; Sat-Sun, 1pm to 4pm 707.829.4797.

Graton Gallery Through Sep 20, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Souvenirs,â&#x20AC;? solo show from artist Mylette Welch is presented alongside the galleryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s juried cigar box show. 9048 Graton Rd, Graton. Tues-Sun, 10:30 to 6. 707.829.8912.

Through Sep 20, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Amazonia: The History of Nature,â&#x20AC;? collaborative works from Bob and Lynada Nugent takes inspriation from the Amazon Basin of Brazil and Peru. SRJC, 680 Sonoma Mountain Pkwy, Petaluma. Mon-Thurs, 8 to 9; Fri, 9 to 1; Sat, 10 to 3. 707.778.3974.

Occidental Center for the Arts Through Aug 23, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Holes,â&#x20AC;? group exhibit by members of the Pointless Sisters, an art quilt group. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental. 707.874.9392.

Paradise Ridge Winery Through Apr 30, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Conversations in Sculpture,â&#x20AC;? 11 artists provide an artistic statement that introduces a conversational topic. 4545 Thomas Lake Harris Dr, Santa Rosa. Daily, 11am-5pm 707.528.9463.

The Passdoor Through Aug 30, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blurred Lines,â&#x20AC;? Timothy Teruo Watters exhibits his expressive realist oil paintings and watercolors. 6780 McKinley St, Sebastopol. 707.634.0015.

Prince Gallery Through Sep 7, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Forming Figments,â&#x20AC;? solos show from emerging local artist Justin Ringlein is a testament to imagination. 122 American Alley, Petaluma. 707.889.0371.

Riverfront Art Gallery Through Sep 6, “Showin’ on the River,” eclectic exhibit features works from over 40 artists in all media. 132 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. Wed, Thurs and Sun, 11 to 6. Fri-Sat, 11 to 8. 707.775.4ART.

Sculpturesite Gallery Through Aug 23, “Vernissage,” inaugural show in the galleries new location debuts new work from Arizona artist Judith Stewart, Southern California’s Jon Krawczyk and others. 14301 Arnold Dr, Ste 8, Glen Ellen. Daily, 10 to 5. 707.933.1300.

Sebastopol Library Through Aug 29, “Picture a Story,” calling children of all ages to enjoy a roomful of books and illustrations by talented local authors and artists. 7140 Bodega Ave, Sebastopol. Mon-Tues, 1 to 5 and 6 to 9; Wed-Sat, 1 to 5. 707.823.7691.

Sonoma Valley Museum of Art Through Aug 23, “The Intimate Diebenkorn,” presents works from artist Richard Diebenkorn’s career, from abstractions to landscapes. 551 Broadway, Sonoma. Wed-Sun, 11am to 5pm. 707.939.SVMA.

Stones Throw

It,” new works by artist Tony Mininno push the boundaries of oils with a vibrant and expressive style. 306 Center St, Healdsburg. Sun-Thurs, 10 to 6; Fri-Sat, 10 to 9. 707.431.4214.

for rent. Works may be rented during the show, or later directly from the artist. 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross. MonThurs, 11am to 4pm; Sat-Sun, noon to 4pm. 415.454.9561.

Wells Fargo Center for the Arts

Robert Allen Fine Art

Through Aug 30, “Root 101,” new outdoor Sculpture Garden and Art Walk opens with a show featuring redwood sculptures by highly acclaimed local artist Bruce Johnson. 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. Daily, noon-6pm 707.546.3600.

MARIN COUNTY Bolinas Museum Aug 22-Sep 12, “Getting Here From There,” Elia Haworth and Dewey Livingston curate a show tracing the fascination history of traveling to Bolinas from the days of the Coast Miwok to today. 48 Wharf Rd, Bolinas. Fri, 1 to 5; Sat-Sun, noon to 5; and by appointment. 415.868.0330.

Falkirk Cultural Center Through Sep 30, “The Creative Spirit,” 2D and 3D works by the eighteen members of the Golden Gate Marin Artists group. 1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael. 415.485.3438.

Gallery Route One Through Sep 12, “Box Show,” annual exhibit offers several artists re-defining the box. 11101 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station. Wed-Mon, 11 to 5. 415.663.1347.

Through Sep 15, “Art of the Mystical Divine,” artist Suzanne de Veuve displays striking paintings of worldly images and influence. 15 Charles Street, Cotati. Tues-Sat, 11am to 5:30pm. Sun, Noon to 5pm. 707.242.6669.

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Through Sep 1, “Embers & Dahlias,” two new series of abstract photographs by Bill Dodge. 316 Western Ave, Petaluma. 707.765.0199.

The Tibetan Gallery & Studio Aug 20-30, Monks of Drepung Loseling Monastery spend a week at the gallery, offering Medicine Buddha sand mandalas, dharma teachings and yoga class by MC Yogi. All donations benefit the monks. 6770 McKinley #130 (in the Barlow), Sebastopol. Wed-Sun, noon to 7pm and by appointment 707.509.3777.

Upstairs Art Gallery Through Aug 30, “As I See

Through Sep 11, “Doug Ethridge & Ann Pallesen,” the photographer shows his recent work from Cuba and the artist displays her California landscapes. 401 Miller Ave, Ste. A, Mill Valley. 415.388.3569.

Through Sep 23, “Life in Full Bloom,” a celebration of flowers in watercolor. 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. 415.499.6800.

Marin Community Foundation Through Sep 25, “Black Artists on Art,” legacy exhibition features over 40 African American fine artists, spanning three generations. 5 Hamilton Landing, Ste 200, Novato. Open Mon-Fri, 9 to 5.

Marin Society of Artists Gallery Through Aug 30, “Fall Rental Show,” popular exhibit features original artworks which are

Through Sep 30, “Abstract Works on Canvas & Paper,” group exhibitin featuring Suzie Buchholz, Jeffrey Long and others. 301 Caledonia St, Sausalito. 415.331.2800.

San Geronimo Valley Community Center Through Aug 27, “Photographers Group Show,” local works include landscapes, still life, nature and abstract images. 6350 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, San Geronimo. 415.488.8888.

Seager Gray Gallery Through Aug 30, “Embodiment,” presents the figure in various forms exploring our special relationship to the human in art. 108 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

Stinson Beach Gallery Through Sep 1, “Speaking in Dreams,” featuring the works of Cheryl Maeder and Julie B Montgomery. 3445 Shoreline Hwy, Stinson Beach. Fri-Sun, Noon to 5pm And by appointment 415.729.4489.

NAPA COUNTY di Rosa Through Sep 27, “Body Talk,” performance, sculpture, video and multimedia installations by six emerging artists explores being human in a technological age. 5200 Sonoma Hwy, Napa. Wed-Sun, 10am to 6pm. 707.226.5991.

Napa Valley Museum Through Aug 30, “do it” Traveling exhibit is a conceptual and interactive experience built upon enacting artists’ written and drawn instructions. 55 Presidents Circle, Yountville. Tues-Sun, 10am to 4pm. 707.944.0500.

Comedy Evening of Improvisation Directed by alumni of Second City in Chicago, this is improv comedy at its best: hilarious, heartbreaking and everything in between. Contains adult themes. Aug 22, 7:30pm. Occidental Center for the Arts, 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental. 707.874.9392.

STRAIGHT OUTTA TIME Thirty years after the release of ‘Back to the Future,’

the trilogy gets a marathon showing with special guests and a real DeLorean on Sunday, Aug. 23, at the Smith Rafael Film Center. See Film, p32.

Dance Sol Flamenco With singer Azriel “El Moreno” and Flamenco guitarist Mark Taylor. Aug 21, 8pm. $20. Arlene Francis Center, 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa 707.528.3009.

Events ‘ACE Is a Magical Place’ Celebration The Center welcomes ACE Sonoma School during a family-fun filled afternoon of magicians magic lessons, live music by Blue Rock Country Club, BBQ and local cuisine and more. Aug 22, 1pm. Free. Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.546.3600.

The Barlow Street Fair The Barlow takes over McKinley Street every Thursday this summer with local food, beer and wine, as well as live music and family-friendly activities. Thurs, 5pm. through Sep 24. Barlow Event Center, 6770 McKinley Ave, Sebastopol.

Esoteric Kabbalah Soul Revealing & Healing Feel what’s possible through the esoteric energy practice of Kabbalah and learn the deeper connection between the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge, and embrace how your body and soul connect. Thurs, 7pm. through Sep 10. $20 per class. Sebastopol, address provided with RSVP, Sebastopol. 415.532.4883.

Kinetic Carnivale Santa Rosa’s old Handcar Regatta gets new life up in Willits with dance, art, costumes and a Grand Ball with several local bands like the Crux and El Radio Fantastique on hand. Aug 22-23. $10 and up. Mendocino County Museum, 400 E Commercial St, Willits. 707-459-2736.

Linked Local Marin Mixer Networking event is an invaluable resource for entrepreneurs and employees seeking expert, affordable advice, support and training to navigate today’s workplace. Aug 19, 5pm. Free. Renaissance Center, 1115 Third St, San Rafael. 415.348.6300.

Pacific Islander Festival Features guest of honor Jesse Sapolu, San Francisco 49er and Four Time Super Bowl Champion; with music by Faith Ako & iMusic and others, authentic Polynesian cuisine and cultural activities. Aug 22, 11am. Free. City Center Plaza, 500 City Center Dr, Rohnert Park.

Pet Loss & Grief Support Group

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

Santa Rosa Marathon Festive half and full marathon through downtown Santa Rosa is perfect for walkers, beginners and competitive runners. Or cheer the runners on and enjoy the party in the park following. www. thesantarosamarathon.com Aug 23, 6am. Julliard Park, 227 Santa Rosa Plaza, Santa Rosa. 707) 543-3770.

Vintage Trailer Hitch-Up Music by the Howell Mountain Boys and Gus’ Cajun Band, wine tasting by Tank Garage Winery, vintage trailer showcase and outdoor activities for the whole family. Aug 22, 10am. $25-$35. Bothe-Napa Valley State Park, 3801 St Helena Hwy, Calistoga. 707.255.1836.

Field Trips Community Nursery Volunteering

Share stories and photos of your lost loved ones and feel the kindness of the Marin pet-owning community. Aug 20, 7pm. PESCM, 901 Francisco Blvd E, San Rafael. 415.456.7372.

Take a stroll and help germinate seeds while learning what it takes to care for native plants. RSVP to Preston Brown at preston@tirn.net. Fri, Aug 21, 10am. Turtle Island Restoration Network HQ, 9255 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Olema.

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Glen Ellen Green Tour

This time around, PPW teams up with Gold Rush Pro Wrestling for a collaborative supershow fit for the whole family. Aug 21, 8pm. $2-

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Through Sep 15, “Three New Artists,” Henry White, Christine DeMao and Sarah Maxon vary from paintings to photography. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati. 707.795.7868.

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tour of all three properties with food and wine tastings included. Reservations required two weeks in advance. Ongoing. $59. Jack London State Park, 2400 London Ranch Rd, Glen Ellen. 707.938.5216.

MPA Watch Survey Training Get some field training to become a volunteer for Marin Marine Protected Areas. Info at marinmpawatch.org. Aug 20, 10am. Free. Limantour Beach, Pt Reyes National Seashore, Point Reyes Station.

Trekking the Model Join a Ranger guided tour of the Bay Model, a 1.5-acre hydraulic model of San Francisco Bay and Delta. Wed, Aug 26, 1:30pm. Bay Model Visitor Center, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 415.332.3871.

Hey Monster, Hands Off My City!

Downtown Napa Farmers Market

Premiere screening of the new film adapted from Michael Meehan’s one-man play. A monster/detective comedy with social commentary on corporate greed, civic malfeasance and the evil of meter maids heavily features San Francisco. Aug 20, 7pm. $15. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.

Tues-Sat, 8am. through Oct 31. Oxbow parking lot, 500 First St, Napa. 707.501.3087.

OR7: The Journey Sonoma Land Trust, Sonoma County Conservation Action and Pepperwood Preserve present a screening of the doc about Oregon’s famous wandering gray wolf who even made his way into California. With Q&A to follow. Aug 26, 7pm. $10. Summerfield Cinemas, 551 Summerfield Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.528.4222.

To Catch a Thief

Film Back to the Future Marathon The epic time-traveling trilogy gets the big screen treatment, thirty years after the original’s release. Aug 23, 1pm. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.454.1222.

Best of Enemies Documentary examines the dawn of pundit television as we know it today. Aug 22, 7pm. $10. Jarvis Conservatory, 1711 Main St, Napa. 707.255.5445.

Blazing Saddles Mel Brooks’ classic western spoof screens. Aug 24, 7pm. Sebastiani Theatre, 476 First St E, Sonoma. 707.996.9756.

CULT Film Series Two fantastical Don Coscarelli films, “Bubba Hotep” and “Phantasm,” screen in a double bill. Aug 20, 7pm. $10. Roxy Stadium 14, 85 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa.

Film & Fork The recent drama “Mr Holmes” is paired with dinner at Cindy’s Backstreet Kitchen. Aug 19, 5:30pm. $50. Cameo Cinema, 1340 Main St, St Helena. 707.963.3946.

Hitchcock classic plays as part of Tuesday Night Flicks, hosted by Richard Miami. Aug 25, 7pm. $7. City Winery Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa. 707.260.1600.

Food & Drink Moylan’s Anniversary Party The Brewery celebrates 20 years of great beers and introduces their newest brew, the Little Lifter. Aug 25. Moylan’s Brewery, 15 Rowland Way, Novato. 415.898.HOPS.

Apple Galette Workshop Learn how to craft the perfect galette with pastry chef Lorrette Patzwald, includes lunch. Aug 19, 12pm. $60. SHED, 25 North St, Healdsburg. 707.431.7433.

Bodega Bay Community Certified Farmers Market Sun, 10am. through Oct 25. Bodega Bay Community Center, 2255 California 1, Bodega Bay. 707.875.9609.

Food Chains

Corte Madera Farmers Market

Documentary set in the tomato fields of Florida finds an intrepid group of farm workers battling the $4 trillion global supermarket industry. Aug 26, 8pm. Free. SHED, 25 North St, Healdsburg. 707.431.7433.

Year-round. Wed-noon. Town Center, Tamalpais Drive, Corte Madera. 415.382.7846. Wednoon. Town Center Corte Madera, 100 Corte Madera Town Center, Corte Madera. 415.382.7846.

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Downtown Novato Community Farmers Market Tues, 4pm. through Sep 29. Downtown Novato, Grant Ave, Novato. 415.999.5635.

Downtown San Rafael Farmers Market Thurs, 5:30pm. through Oct 1. Downtown San Rafael, Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.492.8007.

Essential Wine Analysis Learn wine laboratory analysis choices and techniques led by Toua Doherty from Signature Wine Labs. Aug 19, 6pm. Free. The Beverage People, 1845 Piner Rd, Ste D, Santa Rosa. 707.544.2520.

SPANISH FIRE Sol Flamenco stage a passionate show featuring guitarist Mark Taylor and singer Azriel ‘El Moreno’ on Friday, Aug. 21, at the Arlene Francis Center. See Dance, p31.

Fairfax Community Farmers Market Wed, 4pm. through Sep 30. Peri Park, 124 Bolinas Rd, Fairfax. 415.999.5635.

3611 Bohemian Hwy, Occidental. 707.874.8478.

Healdsburg Certified Farmers Market

Pt Reyes Farmers Market

Sat, 9am and Wed, 3:30pm. through Oct 7. Healdsburg Farmers Market, North & Vine St, Healdsburg. 707.431.1956.

Sat, 9am. through Nov 21. Toby’s Feed Barn, 11250 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station. 415.456.0147.

Indian Valley Farm Stand Organic farm and garden produce stand where you bring your own bag. Wed, 10am. College of Marin, Indian Valley Campus, 1800 Ignacio Blvd, Novato. 415.454.4554.

Kenwood Community Certified Farmers Market Sun-noon through Sep 13. Kenwood Plaza Park, 200 Warm Springs Rd, Kenwood. 415.999.5635.

Locals Night Special menu items, musical performances and activities. Tues, 5pm. Free. Oxbow Public Market, 610 First St, Napa.

Marin Country Mart Sat, 9am. Marin Country Mart, 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur. 415.461.5715.

Marinwood Farmers Market Sat, 9am. Marinwood Plaza, Marinwood Avenue and Miller Creek Road, San Rafael. 415.999.5635.

Occidental Bohemian Certified Farmers Market Fri, 4pm. through Oct 30. Occidental Farmer’s Market,

Ready Set Growl Beer Festival staged in conjunction with the Santa Rosa Marathon not only runner’s to enjoy, but anyone who loves the best craft beers around. Aug 23, 11am. $20-$45. Julliard Park, 227 Santa Rosa Plaza, Santa Rosa. 707) 5433770.

Redwood Empire Farmers Market Sat, 8:30am and Wed, 8:30am. Veterans Memorial Building, 1351 Maple Ave, Santa Rosa.

Rohnert Park Certified Farmers Market Fri, 5pm. through Aug 28. City Center Plaza, 500 City Center Dr, Rohnert Park. 707.581.8282.

Roseland Lions Certified Farmers Market Sat-Sun, 10am. through Nov 1. Roseland Plaza, 665 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa. 415.215.5599.

Russian River Certified Farmers Market Thurs, 3pm. through Sep 24. Sonoma Nesting Company, 16151 Main St, Guerneville. 707.953.1104.

Santa Rosa Original Certified Farmers Market Sat, 9am and Wed, 9am. Wells

Fargo Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.522.8629.

Aug 19. Downtown Santa Rosa, Fourth and B streets, Santa Rosa.

Santa Rosa West End Certified Farmers Market

Windsor Certified Farmers Market

Sun, 9am. through Dec 13. West End Farmers Market, 817 Donahue St, Santa Rosa. 707.477.8422.

Sebastopol Certified Farmers Market Sun, 10am. Sebastopol Plaza, Weeks Way, Sebastopol. 707.522.9305.

Sonoma Valley Certified Farmers Market Fri, 9am. Arnold Field parking lot, 241 First St W, Sonoma. 707.538.7023.

Sunday San Rafael Farmers Market Sun, 8am. Marin Farmers Market, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael. 415.472.6100.

Thursday San Rafael Farmers Market Thurs, 8am. Marin Center, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. 415.472.6100.

Valley of the Moon Certified Farmers Market Tues, 5:30pm. through Oct 27. Sonoma Plaza, First St E, Sonoma. 707.694.3611.

Wednesday Night Market Vendors, wine garden, live music and family activities happen every week through the summer. Wed, 5pm. through

Sun, 10am and Thurs, 5pm. through Aug 27. Windsor Town Green, Market Street and McClelland Drive, Windsor. 707.838.5947.

Lectures Discover the California Condor Expert tracker Richard Neidhardt shares his condor knowledge and inspiring personal experiences protecting this endangered national icon. Aug 26, 7pm. REI Corte Madera, 213 Corte Madera Town Center, Corte Madera. 415.927.1938.

Drawing Summer’s Fruits Colored pencil workshop is led by botanical illustrator Nina Antze. Registration required. Aug 22, 10am. $85. Laguna de Santa Rosa Environmental Center, 900 Sanford Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.527.9277.

Emotions & Money: What Makes You Tick Interactive workshop with Jeff Stoffer explores our personal relationships with money. Aug 21, 7:30pm. Songbird Community Healing Center, 8297 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati. 707.795.2398.

The Three Poisons: Buddhist Conflict Resolution

Waste & Water Strategies for Building Business Value Learn to boost profitability, enhance your reputation and minimize risk by making zero waste and water conservation practices an integral part of your daily operations. Aug 26, 6pm. Marin Recycling Center, 535 Jacoby St, San Rafael. 415.458.5530.

The Whales of Guerrero Research Project Researcher Katherina Audley talks about her work with Humpback whales in Mexico, with Mexican agencies and universities, to educate coastal residents about the value of their richly diverse ecosystem. Aug 25, 7pm. Saylor’s Restaurant, 2009 Bridgeway, Sausalito.

Writers Forum Daniel Ari talks of using sensory awareness in your writing. Aug 20, 6:30pm. $15. Petaluma Community Center, 320 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma.

Readings Book Passage Aug 19, 7pm, Marin Shakespeare Company discussion of “Don Quixote.”. Aug 21, 7pm, “We Never Asked for Wings” with Vanessa Diffenbaugh. Aug 22, 1pm, “Living, Loving & Unlearning” with Cynthia Brennen. Aug 22, 4pm, “I Am With You” with Nancy Novack and Rachel Remen. Aug 23, 4pm, “The Blind Writer” with Sameer Pandya. Aug 23, 7pm, “Poisonous Medicine” with Dikran Chamlian. Aug 24, 7pm, “The Family Guide to Aging parent” with Carolyn Rosenblatt. Aug 25, 7pm, “Mrs. Bennet Has Her Say” with Jane Juska. Aug 26, 7pm, “The Nature of the Beast” with Louise Penny. $32. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera 415.927.0960.

Coffee Catz Aug 23, 2:30pm, Sonoma County Poetry Society. 6761 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol 707.829.6600.

Mary Poppins

Aug 22, 1pm, “Sonoma Coast” with Simone Wilson. 5901 Redwood Dr, Rohnert Park.

The famous nanny lands in Rohnert Park once again for an encore presentation of the main stage production directed by Gene Abravaya. Aug 21-30. $16-$26. Spreckels Performing Arts Center, 5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park. 707.588.3400.

Dance Palace Aug 22, 6pm, “Blue Mind” with Wallace J Nichols, reception and book talk benefits Turtle Island Restoration Network. $10. 503 B St, Pt Reyes Station 415.663.1075.

Jack London State Park Aug 21, 2pm, Jack London Book Discussion Group, the group examines London’s “Burning Daylight.” $10. 2400 London Ranch Rd, Glen Ellen 707.938.5216.

Napa Bookmine Aug 23, 3pm, Poetry Shakedown, a chance to share poems commemorating last year’s Napa earthquake. Wednesdays, 11am, Read Aloud for the Young’uns. 964 Pearl St, Napa 707.733.3199.

Petaluma Copperfield’s Books Aug 25, 7pm, “Pathfinder Tales: Liar’s Island” with Tim Pratt. 140 Kentucky St, Petaluma 707.762.0563.

San Rafael Copperfield’s Books Aug 22, 2pm, “Eye on the Wild: Sea Otter “ with Suzi Eszterhas. Aug 22, 7pm, “That Thing You Do with Your Mouth” with David Shields. 850 Fourth St, San Rafael 415.524.2800.

San Rafael Corporate Center Aug 20, 5pm, “Singing with the Sirens” with Ellyn Bell and Stacy Ault Bell, includes wine reception. 750 Lindaro St, San Rafael.

Theater Don Quixote Marin Shakespeare Company presents a new adaption of the classic story that features award-winning actor Ron Campbell in his first appearance with MSC. Through Aug 30. $10-$35. Forest Meadows Amphitheatre, 890 Belle Ave, Dominican University, San Rafael. 415.499.4488.

The Iron Heel Multi media theatrical presentation based on the novel by Jack London includes puppets, dance and live music. Aug 23, 12pm. Free / $10 per car parking. Jack London State Park, 2400 London Ranch Rd, Glen Ellen. 707.938.5216.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Pegasus Theater presents the Shakespeare fantasy in the newly reopened Riverkeeper Park Amphitheater. www. pegasustheater.com. Through Aug 30. Riverkeeper Park, 16153 Main St, Guerneville.

Nonsense & Verse Local author Dan Goodman offers his one man show; a funfilled farce that explores the Vaudevillian romps of the past, combined with the angst of the modern man. Aug 20, 7pm. Free. Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater, 100 California Dr, Yountville. 707.944.9900.

Proof The dramatic play about a woman coming to terms with her brilliant, but troubled, father is presented by Sonoma Arts Live. Aug 20-Sep 6. $12$26. Andrews Hall, Sonoma Community Center, 276 E Napa St, Sonoma. 707.974.1932.

Rhythm of Life Transcendence Theatre’s “Broadway Under the Stars” summer series continues a show that combines electrifying dance, intricate harmonies and lively musical medleys. Through Aug 23. $29 and up. Jack London State Park, 2400 London Ranch Rd, Glen Ellen, 877.424.1414.

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TAURUS (April 20–May 20)

In accordance with the current astrological omens, I recommend the following activities: Sing a love song at least once a day. Seek a message from an ancestor in a reverie or dream. Revisit your three favorite childhood memories. Give a gift or blessing to the wildest part of you. Swim naked in a river, stream or lake. Change something about your home to make it more sacred and mysterious. Obtain a symbolic object or work of art that stimulates your courage to be true to yourself. Find relaxation and renewal in the deep darkness. Ruminate in unbridled detail about how you will someday fulﬁll a daring fantasy.

to that model of dealing with dilemmas, and I hope you will consider it, too—especially in light of the fact that from now until July 2016 you will have more power than ever before to outgrow two of your biggest problems. I don’t guarantee that you will transcend them completely, but I’m conﬁdent you can render them at least 60 percent less pressing, less imposing and less restricting. And 80 percent is quite possible.

SCORPIO (October 23–November 21)

Hundreds of years ago, Hawaiians celebrated an annual holiday called Makahiki. It began in early November and lasted four months. No one worked very much for the duration. There were nonstop feasts and games and religious ceremonies. Community-building was a featured theme, and one taboo was strictly enforced: no war or bloodshed. I encourage you Scorpios to enjoy a similar break from your daily fuss. Now is an especially propitious time to ban conﬂict, contempt, revenge and sabotage as you cultivate solidarity in the groups that are important for your future. You may not be able to make your own personal Makahiki last for four months, but could you at least manage three weeks?

GEMINI (May 21–June 20) The ancient Greek epic poem the Iliad is one of the foundational works of Western literature. Written in the eighth century BCE, it tells the story of the 10-year-long Trojan War. The cause of the conflict was the kidnap of Helen of Troy, reputed to be the world’s most beautiful woman. And yet nowhere in the Iliad is there a description of Helen’s beauty. We hear no details about why she deserves to be at the center of the legendary saga. Don’t be like the Iliad in the coming weeks, Gemini. Know everything you can about the goal at the center of your life. Be very clear and specific and precise about what you’re fighting for and working towards.

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CANCER (June 21–July 22) The comedian puppets known as the Muppets have made eight movies. In The Great Muppet Caper, the Muppets Kermit and Fozzie play brothers, even though one is a green frog and the other a brown bear. At one point in the story, we see a photo of their father, who has the coloring and eyes of Kermit, but a bear-like face. I bring up their unexpected relationship, Cancerian, because I suspect that a similar anomaly might be coming your way: a bond with a seemingly improbable ally. To prepare, stretch your ideas about what inﬂuences you might want to connect with.

CAPRICORN (December 22–January 19) “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.” Virtually all of us have been guilty of embodying that well-worn adage. And according to my analysis of the astrological omens, quite a few of you Capricorns are currently embroiled in this behavior pattern. But I am happy to report that the coming weeks will be a favorable time to quit your insanity cold turkey. In fact, the actions you take to escape this bad habit could empower you to be done with it forever. Are you ready to make a heroic effort? Here’s a good way to begin: Undo your perverse attraction to the stressful provocation that has such a seductive hold on your imagination.

LEO (July 23–August 22) English author Barbara Cartland published her ﬁrst novel at age 21. By the time she died 77 years later, she had written more than 700 other books. Some sources say she sold 750 million copies, while others put the estimate at 2 billion. In 1983 alone, she churned out 23 novels. I foresee a Barbara Cartland-type period for you in the coming months, Leo. Between now and your birthday in 2016, I expect you to be as fruitful in your own ﬁeld as you have ever been. And here’s the weird thing: One of the secrets of your productivity will be an enhanced ability to chill out. “Relaxed intensity” will be your calming battle cry. VIRGO (August 23–September 22)

“On or about December 1910, human character changed,” wrote English author Virginia Woolf in 1924. What prompted her to draw that conclusion? The rapidly increasing availability of electricity, cars and indoor plumbing? The rise of the women’s suffrage movement? Labor unrest and the death of the king? The growing prominence of experimental art by Cezanne, Gauguin, Matisse and Picasso? The answer might be all of the above, plus the beginning of a breakdown in the British class system. Inspired by the current astrological omens, I’ll borrow her brash spirit and make a new prediction: during the last 19 weeks of 2015, the destiny of the Virgo tribe will undergo a fundamental shift. Ten years from now, I bet you will look back at this time and say, “That was when everything got realigned, redeemed, and renewed.”

LIBRA (September 23–October 22) “The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble,” said psychologist Carl Jung. “They can never be solved, but only outgrown.” I subscribe

Located in Ann Arbor, Mich., the Museum of Failed Products is a warehouse full of consumer goods that companies created but no one wanted to buy. It includes caffeinated beer, yogurt shampoo, fortune cookies for dogs and breath mints that resemble vials of crack cocaine. The most frequent visitors to the museum are executives seeking to educate themselves about what errors to avoid in their own companies’ future product development. I encourage you to be inspired by this place, Sagittarius. Take an inventory of the wrong turns you’ve made in the past. Use what you learn to create a revised master plan.

AQUARIUS (January 20–February 18) “Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it,” confessed the late, great author David Foster Wallace. Does that describe your experience, too? If so, events in the coming months will help you break the pattern. More than at any other time in the last 10 years, you will have the power to liberate yourself through surrender. You will understand how to release yourself from overwrought attachment through love and grace rather than through stress and force. PISCES (February 19–March 20)

“Most people love in order to lose themselves,” wrote Hermann Hesse in his novel Demian. But there are a few, he implied, who actually ﬁnd themselves through love. In the coming months, Pisces, you are more likely to be one of those rare ones. In fact, I don’t think it will even be possible for you to use love as a crutch. You won’t allow it to sap your power or make you forget who you are. That’s good news, right? Here’s the caveat: You must be ready and willing to discover much more about the true nature of your deepest desires—some of which may be hidden from you right now.

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