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’ve never been more proud to be an Enemy of the People than this week at the Bohemian and the Pacific Sun, our sister paper in Marin. The Pacific Sun turned 55 this year and the Bohemian turned 40, which means we’re five years away from over 100 years of continuously published news and arts in the North Bay.

That’s something. Papers come and go, and go again. On a personal note, it’s been an interesting ride. When I started in this business, in 1989, one of the most rewarding aspects of membership in the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (now Newsmedia), was that the papers in the organization would send their issues out to all the other papers via snail-mail. So when you’d come to work, alt-weeklies from around the country, Creative Loafing, The Stranger, The Chicago Reader, would be available to get ideas from, send résumés to, and flat-out just enjoy reading. We’re a quirky lot, those of us who’ve stayed in the alternative universe over the years—a place to indulge the obsessive whim, report the scam, riff on the accepted wisdom of the day. The sharednewspaper arrangement provided a sense of belonging to the imperfect muckrakers and misfits who populate this vital corner of the publishing world. It went out the window years ago as altweeklies looked for places to shave costs in an ever-shifting media landscape that, since the late ’80s, has been dancing with digital, and not always so successfully. And besides, nowadays you can just jump online and check out what the other papers are up to. This paper has a storied history and a long-standing bias to afflict the comforted and comfort the afflicted. The team here is doing its level best to hold up the traditions, and will continue to do so until they take Take advantage of yours, beforeThe theBohemian new year!started out this stubby pencil out of my cold, dead hands. as The Stump, became the Paper, morphed into the Independent, and finally became the Bohemian when purchased by our chain. We’re part of a group of papers that has survived all the recent, crushing moments in media—recessions and buyouts and Craigslist, and the digital dilemma that requires a daily engagement with the online beast that must be fed. These old archives we’ve been going through to produce this issue are a bracing reminder of the critical role and vitality of community534 larkfi shopping center, santa rosathe power of the based news-gathering andeld cultural reporting—and press, of newsprint, to make a difference in our chosen communities— 707.578.2020 while also letting readers know where to get some choice dim sum mon-sat sonomaeyeworks.com on the cheap. And on that note, I believe that it’s lunchtime again in America. Long live the alt-weekly!

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are in mortal terror that someone is going to stop them from chopping down trees. Chopping trees is their metier. It’s what they know how to do.

They are not stupid either. They know that the trees are going fast and that they will have nothing else to chop. And then what?

Bosco Up a Tree (October 4, 1990)

I know the feeling of a threat to one’s job. I lost a job once. It hurt. Doug understands the psyche. He sees the panic in the eyes of the woodsmen. He is trying to help them out with their problem

Panic. Cold sweat. Hungry, bare-assed kids! Anything but that! So if they can get our congressman’s vote in their endeavor, they are going to do it.

Do not badmouth Mr. Bosco. He’s doing what he can. As we all do. Mr. Bosco is a politician. He likes being a politician. It’s his bag. He wants to keep on being a congressman. In order to do so, he must go where the political clout wants him to go. Mr. Bosco is not dumb. I would call him a responsible representative. Now, the folks up in the northern section of his bailiwick

I always vote. Gives me the feeling that I have a part in what’s going on. It’s just a feeling. I have come to feel that the lumber folks are taking away the last of our forests.

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However, I think they are engaged in a shortsighted struggle. I do not like what I see. I cannot contribute to your support, Mr. Bosco. I can no longer vote for you.

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Cahill’s article about George Harrison: Contrary to Cahill’s interpretation of the material on Electronic Sound as “abstract tone poems,” these droppings were nothing more than random, unedited, oscillator noises, designed for no performance or other purpose than to show Harrison some of the capabilities of the instrument. Amazing how some have interpreted this as “art.” If it had been my choice, it would never have been released. [Editor’s note: Krause is credited as an assistant on Electronic Sound.]

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2018 Real Time Correction: Because of a combined reporting-editing error made by Tom Gogola, a line in “GrowSite Pains” (Dec. 4, 2018) inaccurately reported that Supervisor Lynda Hopkins said the Jackalope cannabis-farm applicants had approached Supervisor Shirlee Zane in the supervisors' lobby. The story also inaccurately reported that the applicants' proposal was for a CDB-only grow; the application also calls for low-THC plants to be grown on the proposed site. We regret the errors, and while we’re at it, totally regret that we did not reach out to the Friends of Graton for comment. Total bonehead move. Write to us at letters@bohemian.com.

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That’s something. Papers come and go, and go again. On a personal note, it’s been an interesting ride. When I started in this business, in 1989, one of the most rewarding aspects of membership in the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (now Newsmedia), was that the papers in the organization would send their issues out to all the other papers via snail-mail. So when you’d come to work, alt-weeklies from around the country, Creative Loafing, The Stranger, The Chicago Reader, would be available to get ideas from, send résumés to, and flat-out just enjoy reading. We’re a quirky lot, those of us who’ve stayed in the alternative universe over the years—a place to indulge the obsessive whim, report the scam, riff on the accepted wisdom of the day. The sharednewspaper arrangement provided a sense of belonging to the imperfect muckrakers and misfits who populate this vital corner of the publishing world. It went out the window years ago as altweeklies looked for places to shave costs in an ever-shifting media landscape that, since the late ’80s, has been dancing with digital, and not always so successfully. And besides, nowadays you can just jump online and check out what the other papers are up to. This paper has a storied history and a long-standing bias to afflict the comforted and comfort the afflicted. The team here is doing its level best to hold up the traditions, and will continue to do so until they take this stubby pencil out of my cold, dead hands. The Bohemian started out as The Stump, became the Paper, morphed into the Independent, and finally became the Bohemian when purchased by our chain. We’re part of a group of papers that has survived all the recent, crushing moments in media—recessions and buyouts and Craigslist, and the digital dilemma that requires a daily engagement with the online beast that must be fed. These old archives we’ve been going through to produce this issue are a bracing reminder of the critical role and vitality of communitybased news-gathering and cultural reporting—and the power of the press, of newsprint, to make a difference in our chosen communities— while also letting readers know where to get some choice dim sum on the cheap. And on that note, I believe that it’s lunchtime again in America. Long live the alt-weekly!

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reetings! The editorial brain trust has gone back through the Bohemian archives to help celebrate, commemorate and otherwise delineate 40 years of continuous publication of the paper. There are several Flashback sections peppered through the issue that offer reported highlights from ink-stained wretches of yore. Here’s some content from the wacky 1980s to kick off the Flashbacks, with many thanks to our hard-working colleagues Alex T. Randolph, Aiyana Moya, Candace Simmons and Geena Gauthier for diving through the dusty archives to unearth numerous giblets of journalism from years past. —Tom Gogola

have more friends than we know what to do with.” Compromise on timber issues is difficult when the logging industry insists that there are no problems associated with massive clearcuts and the decimation of old-growth redwoods, despite alarming reports from state water and wildlife agencies, and several court battles won by environmentalists. Compromise? You first have to get the logging industry to the table. That takes pressure, Doug, not crowdpleasing potshots that make you look like a gilded fob in a fat cat’s waistpocket.

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Editorial: Friends of Doug Bosco

A completely solar-powered, four-bedroom home, that will sell for $350,000 is being built in the Vinecrest Estates, a luxury home park in Windsor, by Solar Electric Engineering of Rohnert Park. Ground will be broken on February 1, according to Gary Starr, of Sebastopol, president of the company, who said that the aims of the project are both profit and education. “We want to show that a solarpowered home can be as spacious and luxurious as any home connected to the energy-grid with very little additional outlay that will be more than covered by energy savings,” said Starr. For an added sales incentive, this house will also come equipped with a solar-powered robot who can be programmed to serve drinks or tell teenagers to get off the phone and other useful chores, said Starr. —Jerry Weil

It seems that whenever you get Congressman Doug Bosco before a special interest group, he does a bang-up job of playing to the crowd. You remember last year when Bosco soke to the Petroleum Institute in Washington, D.C., his “we” versus “them” earned the oil lobby’s applause, and set the Congressman’s home district aides scurrying to limit the damage. Friday Bosco journeyed up to Ukiah, where he spoke to the Redwood Region Conservation Council, a timber industry group. According to published reports, Bosco took the opportunity to do a little environmentalist bashing before a beleaguered group that no doubt hung on to his every word. Many environmentalists seem to be making “a career” of battling myriad causes, said Bosco. Berating groups such as Friends of the Coast, Friends of the River [and] Friends of the Estero, Bosco declared that “we

County supervisors Tuesday once more declined to endorse Lesbian and Gay Pride Week, despite moving testimony from more than 35 speakers calling for a repudiation of prejudice. Organizers claimed the event nonetheless served to show gay people’s increasing determination to be recognized. About 150 people largely in favor of the resolution filled board chambers as supervisors moved on an agenda that included a proclamation declaring June “Make a Wish Month.” But hopes that June 18 through 24 might be dedicated to the contributions by the “invisible” minority were dashed, 4–1. Where gay men and lesbians take pride in a sub-culture born of ostracism and encompassing unique strengths, the board majority saw a divisive issue grounded in sexual choice. Supervisor Janet Nicholas said she was voting for a county and country where people are not discriminated against for any of the standard excuses, including sexual persuasion. “I believe this resolution moves

in the opposite direction,” she told the gathering. After a few weeks of hedging in the media, Fifth District Supervisor Ernie Carpenter reaffirmed his support of the measure. It was the second year the board had voted down a lesbian and gay pride resolution introduced for consideration by Carpenter. . . . —Ilka Jerabek

AUGUST 24, 1989 ACT UP: Who are they? What do they want? Ten activists arrested in county supervisors’ chambers last week during a dramatic civil disobedience action tell the story behind the death masks. They are ten of 60 members of the Sonoma County Chapter of ACT-UP, an activist group that advocates better care for people with AIDS. The ten entered county board chambers the morning of Tuesday, August 15 wearing black ACT-Up T-shirts, cowls and death’s masks, and throwing red confetti while chanting to the supervisors, “Blood on your hands.” The board members reconvened in another room and demonstrators were allowed to stay if they refrained from damaging anything or attempted to leave and re-enter the room. They were arrested about six hours later. Supervisor Ernie Carpenter used the occasion to make public an earlier decision to resign from the County Commission on AIDS. One protester defied sheriff’s orders when she allowed several of her companions who had left the room to return by an unguarded door. Upon her arrest, the others surrounded her and insisted that they be arrested as well. All ten are scheduled to appear for arraignment on the charges against them September 11. –Ilka Jerabek

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Fifteen-Year Spat The chronicles of the Bohemian’s Swirl wine column, volumes I through III BY JAMES KNIGHT

t all started with the desire to fill a hole with strong drink.

We call the part of the paper that isn’t paid advertising the “edit hole,” a fissure in space and time that must be filled with words and pictures by press time every week or else— well, there’s no or else. Like in show business, the show must go on. Back in 2004, when Gretchen Giles took the lead editing gig at the Bohemian, she had the enviable burden of soliciting enough copy to fill the hole that advertising was creating in the paper. It was a time

when, cue the strings, alternative press was humming along despite digital headwinds. Prior to Swirl, wine coverage lagged behind wine culture—at least as far as I could find before I tired of flipping through bound volumes in the archives—besides a good stint by Bob Johnson, and the “regularly irregular” Spo-Dee-O-Dee, focused on $10-and-under wines. But higher-ups objected. “It sounded like it was all plonk,” Giles recalls. “Then we changed it to Swirl ’n’ Spit—relying on the word ‘spit’ to give it that ‘alt’ spin.” It was a vinous

pairing to a food column that debuted at the same time. “It followed that same format,” says Giles, “less formal, more of a snapshot, more of a friend than a critic, having an experience and sharing that experience.” Heather Irwin opened the first Swirl ’n’ Spit in Feb. 25, 2004, with a visit to Quivira Vineyards, and the line: “Low-down: It’s hard to get all snobby about tasting wine when you've got oyster juice dripping down your chin.” “I needed a job really bad,” says Irwin. “Gretchen called me and she said, ‘Do you know anything

about wine?’ I kinda lied and said, ‘Suuure . . .’” The main thing was that it be irreverent, fun and approachable. “I think the fact that I didn’t know much about wine made it fun, because I was learning as I was doing it.” Irwin is now the dining editor for Sonoma Magazine and the Press Democrat. Then in 2006, sometimes contributor Daedalus Howell dropped in from Hollywood to pen Swirl for a hot minute. “I knew Wine Culture had arrived in Sonoma County, in capital letters, but I knew nothing about it,” says Howell. “My mission was to learn with the readers about the wine.” For his efforts, and tasting notes like, “Indeed, it was so delectable, I could not help but quietly resent it,” Howell walked away with an award from what was then called the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. Back in town from an overseas wine harvest for what I’d hoped was a brief layover in 2007, I was haplessly lured into the office with another writer’s check in hand that was misaddressed to me. Giles says it was just a coincidence: “Scuttlebutt came that you could actually write, as well.” Churning out Swirl ever since, I try to ask the big questions, such as: “Would a guy work this hard for an aluminum can of carbonated pisswater? Hell no. I want something icecold, crisp and clean, with the thirstquenching character of strawberry and rose petals.” I also want to assure would-be wine tasters that they need have no fear that their knowledge will be judged by local tasting room hosts like this: “Yummy raspberry? I don’t think so, honey. Try cassis and Chinese five-spice—or get back together with your friend, Carlo Rossi. He misses you.” Along the way, Swirl lost its “Spit,” those no-fee tastings have become $20 tastings, and despite a deluge of new wineries, a good number have folded up. We’ve added some brews. And local spirits, they are rising. In the new year, I’ll do what I can to get some compelling topics and, yes, yummy raspberry-flavored wines lined up.

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The Independent Local media veteran John Boland reflects on the alt-weekly world in the era of digital media BY TOM GOGOLA

hen John Boland and James Carroll purchased The Paper in 1989, it’s fair to say that the newspaper industry was a whole lot different than it is today. The web was still five years off and the idea of a “digital presence” for newspapers was limited to text-based terminal services like Prodigy and Compuserve. Boland, a Sebastopol resident and president and chief executive officer at KQED (he’s stepping down at the end of 2019), recalls that when he purchased The Paper, its office was in a dungeon-like space in Forestville. He and Carroll relocated to Freestone and converted a general store that was already there, into half–newspaper office, half general store. The Paper, the Stump and the Independent—the DNA of pubs that birthed the Bohemian in 2000—were very much West County papers, Boland says, but in 1992 a business decision was made to move the newspaper, by then called the Independent, to Mendocino Avenue in Santa Rosa, at which point it went to Sonoma County-wide distribution. At the time of the move, says Boland, the paper was being published twice a

editor. The paper’s editorial was then focused on Sebastopol, Bodega Bay and the Russian River communities, even as it served all of West County, notes Boland. In 1994, Boland and Carroll sold a majority interest in the newspaper to fellow Bay Area alternative publisher Metro. Boland stayed on as a board of director member of Metrosa, Inc., retaining a 12 percent ownership in the publication that continues to this day. In 2000, after publisher Rosemary Olson sought to expand circulation to nearby counties, the newspaper became the Bohemian. nyone in the newspaper business these days knows there’s a strangely liminal dynamic afoot: thanks to the advent of digital content, print advertising doesn’t carry the weight among local businesses that it once did. At the same time, it’s tough for newspapers to ramp up online revenue, given that most of the revenue from ad sales online goes to either Google or Facebook. Boland’s got a vision for the industry and sees a way out—or through—with the advent of journalism outlets that don’t rely on advertising. “The future,” he says, “may be nonprofit, with voluntary support from people in the community.” He notes that the daily Philadelphia Enquirer has entered the nonprofit breach, and New York magazine recently announced a partnership with a nonprofit in New York called the City. ProPublica is the big daddy among nonprofit news outlets and will partner with established outlets to pump out top-tier investigative reporting. “The digital transition has been really difficult for all print media,” Boland says, “and largely because we depended on advertising to support the journalism. And that model started breaking down many years ago because, as we all know, digital doesn’t give the revenue that ads give.” The transition, Boland notes, has been especially tough on regional dailies like the Mercury News and the San Francisco Chronicle—“the worst place to be

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is the regional level,” he says— who have seen their newsroom staffs plummet in recent years. For papers like the Washington Post and the New York Times, “they may have minimal advertising but have the whole nation to look to for subscribers, and can convert to a model where the people who use it, who consume it, are the people who support it. That could be subscriptions for a large national paper. But for regional, local papers, it’s harder.” He notes that the business model problem is the same as the problem with the public’s attitude about news: everyone believes it should be free. A key indicator for survivors of the industry’s shrinkage is the extent to which they foresaw the digital future. The Mercury News and Chronicle, Boland says, “did not react quickly enough to digital and to the changes in the business model, and revenue declined rapidly.” Then there’s the greed factor of the owners. “They just kept slashing expenses and staff.” Boland gives the local Press Democrat props for its understanding of the digital transition, noting that they’ve tried to spread editorial costs across many media outlets while offering more regional and countywide journalism than any other paper in the Bay Area. “There are more reporters at the PD than at the San Jose [Mercury],” he says. “Something is working there.” He also points to the thriving business model at KQED as another example of where the path forward for media must embrace digital interactivity and emphasize hard-hitting regional reporting that’s available free for everybody, “and asking people to voluntarily support us.” The radio station pumped millions of dollars into its budget to add a hundred people to its staff, “and really pump out much more regional journalism.” “It’s almost like the PD,” Boland says. “We had to go to high-networth individuals in the Bay Area and say, ‘We really need to

change and we really need your support.’ We raised $45 million.” (Almost like the PD, but not quite: the Press Democrat is owned by Sonoma lobbyist-developer Darius Anderson.) “You can never have enough editorial people,” Boland says. “That seems to be the first place that they cut. . . . People are really stretched in content jobs right now. And it’s not just that they have a lot to cover and there’s not enough of their colleagues,” but that the demands of digital require journalists to learn new skills and apply them across multiple platforms, “and everybody has to engage with the audience and deliver content to them.” Boland got his start in the industry as a cub reporter at the Daily Record in Morristown, N.J. He turns 70 next year and is coming to the end of his contract at KQED. He says he’s thinking of his next move. “I haven’t planned what I’m doing next, but one thing I’m thinking of is actually practicing journalism again.” His first job in Jersey was in 1968, a time of great upheaval in this country, which also saw the rise of the alternative press and New Journalism as practiced by the likes of Tom Wolfe. He sees some parallels between then and now, and says, “I definitely think it is a very dangerous time, and it’s appalling that the media is under attack for doing our job.” Still, he adds, “I’ve seen some positive effect, the level of civil engagement—I have not seen that [since 1968].” But perspective is needed, Boland cautions: “I know we are in an incredibly challenging time, [but] we haven’t had 2,500 bombings, we don’t have post offices being blown up. . . . Things are bad now, but we’ve had divisive times in the past.” He’s hopeful that, just as the roiling era of the late ’60s gave rise to a vibrant new crop of American media outlets, so might our times. But whatever’s next for journalism, Boland stresses, “we’ve all got to become more digital first.”

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That’s something. Papers come and go, and go again. On a personal note, it’s been an interesting ride. When I started in this business, in 1989, one of the most rewarding aspects of membership in the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (now Newsmedia), was that the papers in the organization would send their issues out to all the other papers via snail-mail. So when you’d come to work, alt-weeklies from around the country, Creative Loafing, The Stranger, The Chicago Reader, would be available to get ideas from, send résumés to, and flat-out just enjoy reading. We’re a quirky lot, those of us who’ve stayed in the alternative universe over the years—a place to indulge the obsessive whim, report the scam, riff on the accepted wisdom of the day. The sharednewspaper arrangement provided a sense of belonging to the imperfect muckrakers and misfits who populate this vital corner of the publishing world. It went out the window years ago as altweeklies looked for places to shave costs in an ever-shifting media landscape that, since the late ’80s, has been dancing with digital, and not always so successfully. And besides, nowadays you can just jump online and check out what the other papers are up to. This paper has a storied history and a long-standing bias to afflict the comforted and comfort the afflicted. The team here is doing its level best to hold up the traditions, and will continue to do so until they take this stubby pencil out of my cold, dead hands. The Bohemian started out as The Stump, became the Paper, morphed into the Independent, and finally became the Bohemian when purchased by our chain. We’re part of a group of papers that has survived all the recent, crushing moments in media—recessions and buyouts and Craigslist, and the digital dilemma that requires a daily engagement with the online beast that must be fed. These old archives we’ve been going through to produce this issue are a bracing reminder of the critical role and vitality of communitybased news-gathering and cultural reporting—and the power of the press, of newsprint, to make a difference in our chosen communities— while also letting readers know where to get some choice dim sum on the cheap. And on that note, I believe that it’s lunchtime again in America. Long live the alt-weekly! sonomalandtrust.org

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Sometimes Helen Libeu’s shoes don’t match. She has reportedly been seen wearing one green sock and one blue one, but Helen denies this. “I don’t wear socks,” says Helen. As for the unmatched shoes, “They kind of looked alike. They were both tan.” Let’s assume fashion is not what’s on Helen’s mind—at least not when she’s thinking about nailing a bureaucrat to the wall over, say, the illegal corporate logging practices of the North Coast timber industry. . . . —Frank Robinson

The Paper: How did you choose the topic of gays in the military for your next book [Conduct Unbecoming]. Randy Shilts: Most heterosexuals don’t understand that genuine bigotry against gay people really exists, and that it really hurts people. I wanted to show the mechanics of prejudice in American society, and the military struck me as the ideal part of America to write about. The Paper: Why does the military exclude gays? Shilts: They no longer say that there’s anything inherent in gay people that makes them incompatible for service. Their basic argument is that it would undermine discipline and morale. People would not take orders from a gay officer; it would undermine morale. . . . —Interview by John DeSalvio

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MAY 16, 1991 Citizen of the World Within 15 minutes of former CIA agent Philip Agee’s arrival at Los Robles Lodge, he was enthusiastically engaged in a conversation about olive oil and the vast, endless fields of olive trees in Spain, where he currently makes his home. There were other immediate clues—his sense of humor, his warm, firm handshake, and a clear, friendly manner of speaking—that here was a man fully engaged with life and the world around him. Agee’s 17 years of exile and the endless attempts by the U.S. government to silence his vocal dissent have not eclipsed what appears to be an unlikely optimism that warmed the soldout crowd of 300-plus in Santa Rosa on May 1. Which is not to say that his perspective on the underside of our government’s activities has changed. . . . —Michele Anna Jordan

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Wim Wenders’ 1987 film ‘Wings of Desire,’ about an angel who falls in love with a mortal, is a meditative and ethereal triumph. Its biggest fan may be Sonoma musician Sasha Papadin, frontman of rock and roll outfit Loverman, who just released their debut album, also titled Wings of Desire. The album was thematically inspired by the film and musically inspired by artists like Nick Cave (who makes a brief appearance in the film). Check out both when Loverman perform from the new record at a screening of the restored Wings of Desire on Friday, Dec. 21, at Sebastiani Theatre, 476 First St., Sonoma. 7pm. $15. 707.996.9756.

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If Paula Cole lived in Sonoma County, rather than singing about cowboys, her lyrical lament might well be: “Where have all the wine grapes gone?” Even though the 1998 harvest was the second largest on record in the Sonoma/ Marin region, according to a preliminary report issued by the California Department of Food and Agriculture, there is a critical shortage of quality wine grapes in the county. One consequence of the shortage is likely to hit consumers where it hurts the most: in their wallets. Some 132,715 tons of grapes were harvested in Sonoma County last fall. That’s about 5,000 more tons than the 1996 crush produced, but well under 1997’s record 187,725ton yield. And with most 1997 white wines now on the market and selling briskly, wineries, distributors and retailers are bracing for an extremely tight market once the more limited 1998 wines have evolved sufficiently to bottle and release. What has spawned the upsurge of interest in local wines? Rick Theis, until recently the executive director of the Sonoma County Grape Growers Association, says the region’s reputation has been slowly building over the last decade-and-a-half. “Fifteen years ago, people wouldn’t have thought about looking for a Sonoma County wine first,” Theis says. Besides consumer demand, another factor is fueling the county’s grape shortage: big business. “A few very large wineries are buying as much fruit as possible, leaving everyone else to fight for what they can get,” observes Rod Berglund, winemaker for Joseph Swan Vineyards. —Bob Johnson

“Writers are, in a way, very powerful indeed,” William Burroughs once noted. “They write the script for the reality film. Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages. Sometimes, as in the case of Kerouac, the effect produced by a writer is immediate, as if a generation were waiting for it to be written.” But despite of—or because of?—their enormous impact on the cultural life of the second half of the 20th century, the great American author William Seward Burroughs and his contemporaries Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg were despised and reviled by the literary establishment for most of their creative lives. Even now, the vast body of innovative literature created by this holy trinity of the Beat Generation is scorned by the academy and mainly denied its seminal influence on the course of creative writing since 1950, let alone its central role in the development of modern consciousness. . . . —John Sinclair

MAY 6, 1999 Anatomy Lesson: Eve Ensler’s ‘The Vagina Monologues’ puts women’s experiences in the spotlight Eve Ensler assures me that once you say the word vagina 20,000 times, the odd sticky stigma around it disappears. She, of course, should know, having virtually made her career talking about vaginas, how women feel about them, how the world abuses them, how the word itself scares people. “I think this is women’s time,” she says. “Women are going to come forward in the next 10 years

and really move into a place of power. That’s my hope and my fantasy. The world of women will change when the world of their bodies changes.” —Simone Stein

MAY 20, 1999 Slow Down The newest issue of Slow, the official journal of the worldwide Slow Food movement, which seeks to preserve biodiversity and nurture craft foods, presents a roundup of quality American food crops and products that belong on the metaphorical “Ark” of food and crop diversity. Thanks to the efforts of local Slow Foodie Barbara Bowman, several Sonoma food products would be first in line to board the boat. Among the growers and producers listed in this first-ever U.S. showcase are Devoto Gardens (the Gravenstein apple), Vella Cheese Company (dry Monterey jack cheese) and Tierra Vegetables (of chipotle chile fame). . . . —Marina Wolf

JUNE 17, 1999 Sonoma, Naturally! It’s hard to believe that little Amy, the baby whose birth in 1988 inspired the famed local allnatural frozen foods company, will be 12 in November. Proud parents Andy and Rachel Berliner started the namesake Amy’s Kitchen in Petaluma after their daughter was born, and out of necessity. They wanted healthy, tasty, and easy-to-fix alternatives to the frozen convenience foods and TV dinners packing the grocery freezers. Thus their line of vegetarian organic frozen foods was born. Favorites include vegetable pot pie, vegetable lasagna, and black bean enchiladas. In addition, the company has introduced a line of organic canned soups. . . . —Paula Harris

AUGUST 5, 1999 Smoke Screen: Will the easy access to online drugs open the door to a depraved new world? It came in a plain brown wrapper— two varieties of high-grade marijuana totalling a quarter ounce, delivered to a downtown San Francisco office building via regular mail. The pot had been ordered [from] an Amsterdam website, which is designed to look just like a Dutch coffee-shop menu. The site offers two types of weed and five types of hash, all pictured and listed on a pull-down order form with boxes to let buyers specify how many grams of each kind they want. After ordering, customers receive an e-mail with an address on it. They’re instructed to send cash. . . . —Michelle Goldberg

DECEMBER 30, 1999 Nostradementia: Predictions for the fabulous century to come 2005: Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Jewel. 2007: USA Today, New York Times and Los Angeles Times merger. The new daily journal calls itself Complete Lies, in order to pique the sense of irony of the sought-after “Generation Z.1” market—the most ironic generation in human history. The strategy backfires: As a title, Complete Lies could conceivably be true—and therefore unironic. Sales plummet. The new national paper fires all of its writers, rejiggers its image and re-debuts, calling itself Absolute Truth. Now satisfied with the irony, young readers make Absolute Truth “their” “paper” “of” “record.” 2021: Scientists gather at Antarctic Sands beach resort to debate existence of global warming. —Richard von Busack

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Vital Voice

Thoughts on nearly four decades spent covering the counterculture BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

n the occasion of the anniversaries of the Pacific Sun and its sister paper, the North Bay Bohemian, consider that both outlasted their model, New York’s Village Voice, which perished this August.

The New York paper, founded by Norman Mailer and others in 1955, made its fame dealing

with the matters that the other Manhattan dailies wouldn’t touch, such as drugs, feminism and anti-war activism. The paper waxed and waned with various countercultures, surviving through decades of beatnik, hippie, freak and yuppie readers, finally expiring in the era of Yelp, Tinder, and the artisanal pickle. Imitating both the Voice’s example (bravery, frankness and prioritizing local issues) and its flaws (insularity,

self-indulgence, self-satisfaction), dozens of smaller tabloids sprung to life in every funky town or college ghetto in the U.S.A. As New York grew whiter and richer, the Voice suffered from years of mismanagement. It changed hands and in 2005 became part of the New Times chain out of Phoenix. While the Phoenix New Times deserves honor for its heroic reporting on the brutality of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the chain itself

proposed an apolitical, one-sizefits-all model for the papers they engulfed and devoured. The Voice survives in name only as part of the Voice Media Group, the remains of a media group that once faced scrutiny by the Justice Department for the way it invaded markets. As for the Voice itself, it dwindled, eventually being placed into a sort of online-only hospice before the plug was pulled this summer. The VV was perhaps one more casualty of what critic A. S. Hamrah describes in his new book The Earth Dies Streaming as “Trumpancholia”—a global malady “afflicting most of the planet’s population, who have traded the things they used to enjoy for the constant monitoring of Trump’s reality-TV spectacle.” Today, there isn’t a newspaper around that’s not trying to do

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cattle; it’s watching turkeys. My back-of-the-book end of it, mostly, is trying to find what is good about popular films and popular about the good ones. Streaming is still something to cope with: most of the companies in charge are poor at differentiating what they have, cagey about what’s trending, indifferent about promoting it. For the film critics today, a lot of the previewing is done online, which ain’t optimum. I’d prefer crowding into a Tuesday-morning bargain matinee with other pennysavers. Every now and then, it’s a plunge into the dim interior of the Variety Club screening room on Market Street, where I’ve been previewing movies for 35 years or so—in the back row on the cushy seats where the Pacific Sun’s Stephanie von Buchau used to sit, cane by her side, until her death in 2006. She was wise, imperious and an expert on opera, and I’m rather glad I don’t know what she would have thought of me following up for her. I’ve had the pleasure of writing about irreplaceable local institutions such as the Smith Rafael Theater, and the Mill Valley Film Festival. For the Bohemian, where I’ve been writing somewhat longer, I enjoy finally having an excuse to visit the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, and covering something irreplaceably local, the Cotati Accordion Festival, which brings virtuosos from all over the globe, as well as amateurs who squeeze out “Lady of Spain.” This is my favorite place in the world. I’ve been lucky to work with talented editors, none of them J. Jonah Jameson–style barkers, whom I’ll list on this anniversary: Greg Cahill, Gretchen Giles, Tom Gogola, Stett Holbrook, Molly Oleson and Charlie Swanson. And all thanks to publisher Rosemary Olson, and CEO and executive editor Dan Pulcrano, who bought the Bohemian in 1995 and the Sun in 2015 and who keeps the roof on, as he likes to say. He has run newspapers for almost as long as I’ve been writing for them, and that’s one long time.

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The progressives who remain eager to project their worldviews onto Obama are at high risk for hazy credulity. Such projection is a common hazard of Obamania. Biographer David Mendell aptly describes Obama as “an exceptionally gifted politician who, throughout his life, has been able to make people of wildly divergent vantage points see in him exactly what they want to see.” But in the long run, an unduly lofty pedestal sets the stage for a fall from grace. The best way to avoid becoming disillusioned is to not have illusions in the first place. Barack Obama never promised progressives a rose garden. His campaign inspired tens of millions of Americans, raised the level of public discourse and ousted the right wing from the White House. And he has pledged to encourage civic engagement and respectful debate. The rest is up to us. —Norman Solomon

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JANUARY 28, 2009 The YouTube Democracy Anyone who doesn’t yet understand what an unstoppable cultural force YouTube has become should consider this latest bit of news: Even while it was pursuing a billion-dollar lawsuit against YouTube’s owner Google for copyright infringement, Viacom was secretly uploading promotional videos to the site. They may hate it, but they need it. The allegation was made by Google in papers filed in federal court, and when corporate executives suing a supposed copyright pirate recognize that they need that pirate to survive, it illustrates how far behind the

curve intellectual-property law has fallen in the digital culture of the 21st century. One man who was making this very argument years before most people even knew the subject existed is Mark Hosler, founder of the pioneering Bay Area–based group Negativland. Negativland’s history of making music by pushing the boundaries of sonic form opened up the very notion of what “music” was allowed to be in the formerly verse-chorusverse rock world, paving the way for artists like Danger Mouse, Girl Talk and an entire generation of mashup artists. . . . —Steve Palopoli

FEBRUARY 4, 2009 Sex in the Suburbs: Porn is alive and well (hung) in Rohnert Park Most people don’t know that a porn industry exists in Sonoma County, let alone thrives. Yet the discovery that Rohnert Park is the hub of our local porn industry makes a strange sort of sense. It’s always the faceless, homogenous suburbs, like the San Fernando Valley in Southern California, that generate the masturbatory materials for the rest of the world. Turk, a 24-year-old gay “twink,” says, “A lot of [porn] companies, they don’t even ask, they just pop it to you—Viagra, Cialis. It works, but you do get side effects.” . . . —Gabe Meline

FEBRUARY 18, 2009 Letters The gay porn story truly lacked balance. Viagra? You must be kidding. Missing from the story is the meth, blow and crack. It is a sad day in paradise when adult gay porn is a front-page story and drugs are not mentioned. —Diane Kane

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Independent record label’s annual showcase features acoustic guitarists Alex DiGrassi and Todd Boston with pianist and vocalist Barbara Higbie. Dec 21, 8pm. $25$65. Marin Center Veterans Memorial Auditorium, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. 415.473.6800.

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Veteran West Coast jazz band plays a special holiday show to light up your season. Dec 20, 7 and 9pm. $15-$35. Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa. 707.880.2300.

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Dec 19, Adam Miller Group. Dec 21, Akes. Dec 22, caroling with Elim Lutheran Church. Dec 23, 2pm, Alan Early. 189 H St, Petaluma. 707.778.6060.

Arlene Francis Center Dec 20, Midnight Sun with Sakoyana and Dj Rl Love. 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa. 707.528.3009.

Barley & Hops Tavern Dec 22, Full Moon Disco featuring the Crooked Beat with Ross Cobb. 3688 Bohemian Hwy, Occidental. 707.874.9037.

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Dec 26, Wednesday Night Big Band. 128 American Alley, Petaluma. 707.776.7163.

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Dec 20, 5pm, the Mello Fellows Duo. 21301 Heron Dr, Bodega Bay. 707.875.3513.

Cellars of Sonoma

Dec 21, Falcon Christopher. Dec 22, Craig Corona. Dec 23, 3pm, Emily Lois. 20 Matheson Ave, Healdsburg. 707.578.1826.

Crooked Goat Brewing Dec 22, 3pm, Michael Gabriel. Dec 23, 3pm, T-Luke. 120 Morris St, Ste 120, Sebastopol. 707.827.3893.

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Project. Dec 21, the Polydactyls. Dec 22, the Lee Vandeveer Band. Dec 23, 6pm, the John Gonzales Trio. 177-A Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg. elephantintheroompub.com.

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Dec 21, Rewind. Dec 22, Project 4 Band. 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa. 707.545.8530.

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Dec 22, Herbie Benham. 21025 Geyserville Ave, Geyserville. 707.814.0036.

HopMonk Sebastopol Dec 21, SOOHAN and Delphi. Dec 22, Frankie Boots with John Courage and Slow Motion Cowboys. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol. 707.829.7300.

HopMonk Sonoma Dec 21, Swingatto. Dec 22, Chime Travelers. 691 Broadway, Sonoma. 707.935.9100.

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Dec 20, DJ Cleanface and the Bloodstones. Dec 22, Bad Santa party featuring DJ Waffle. 146 Kentucky St, Petaluma. 707.772.5478.

Lagunitas Tap Room

Dec 19, Todos Santos. Dec 20, Brian Baudoin. Dec 21, Le Hot Club Swing. Dec 22, Firewheel. Dec 23, Roger Bolt and Borderline. Dec 26, Sonoma Sound Syndicate. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma. 707.778.8776.

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Dec 22, Electric Funeral. 490 Mendocino Ave #104, Santa Rosa. 707.890.5433.

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Dec 20, Susan Sutton. Dec 21, Don Olivet Jazz Trio. Dec 22, the Fargo Brothers. Dec 23, Collaboration Jazz Band. 16280 Main St, Guerneville. 707.869.0501.

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Dec 19, honky-tonk night. Dec 20, Country Line Dancing. Dec 21, the Good Bad and Quattlebaum. Dec 24, the Blues Defenders pro jam. 5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove. 707.795.5118. Dec 20, Open Turn-Tables. Dec 21, Acidtotem Invasion Ugly Sweater Party. Dec 22, Always Elvis Band Christmas Show. 1910 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.843.5535.

MARIN COUNTY Sweetwater Music Hall Dec 20, Christmas Jug Band and friends. Dec 21-22, Jerry Joseph & the Jackmormons with Steve Kimock and friends. Dec 23, Matt Jaffe holiday revue. Dec 26, Led Kaapana. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.3850.

The Phoenix Theater Dec 20, Fall Children with Scythe and Legal Disaster. Dec 22, Green Jello and Rude Intoxicant. 201 Washington St, Petaluma. 707.762.3565.

Ray’s Deli & Tavern Dec 21, 6pm, Lauralee Brown & Greg Punkar. 900 Western Ave, Petaluma. 707.762.9492.

Red Brick Dec 19, Benefit Concert for Camp Fire Victims. Dec 20, 6pm, Chuck Sher & the Red Brick All Stars. Dec 21, Steve Freund Blues Band. Dec 22, the New Copasetics. 101 Second St, Petaluma. 707.765.4567.

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Dec 20, Animal 56 with the Exit Plan and Tri Polar. Dec 21, Afrolicious. Dec 22, Two Lions Band. 401 Grove St, Sonoma. 707.343.0044.

Rio Nido Roadhouse Dec 20, Holidaze Psychedelic Santa Party with THUGZ. 14540 Canyon 2 Rd, Rio Nido. 707.869.0821.

The Star Dec 22, Horders with Antiphony and OVVN. 6957 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol. 707.634.6390.

Comedy Big Fat Year-End Kiss Off Comedy Show

Will Durst and company are back to wrap up the year with laughs. Dec 26, 8pm. $25. HopMonk Novato, 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 415.892.6200.

The Traveling Spectacular

The on-the-road variety how features magicians, live music and vaudevillian comedy. Dec 22, 7pm. $20. Sebastiani Theatre, 476 First St E, Sonoma. 707.996.9756.

Events Holidays in Yountville The town transforms into a winter wonderland

Feel the magic of the holidays with internationally renowned magician Chin-Chin and DJ Uni. Dec 19, 7pm. $20. Flamingo Lounge, 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa. 707.545.8530.

Santa Train

The Wine Train turns into an enchanting holiday experience with hot cocoa, freshly baked cookies, games and sing-alongs. Through Dec 26. $39 and up. Napa Valley Wine Train, 1275 McKinstry St, Napa. 800.427.4124.

Sebastiani Theatre Holiday Open House

Enjoy hot cider and cookies while taking in Sebastiani Theatre’s gorgeous decorations. Dec 22, 10am. Free admission. Sebastiani Theatre, 476 First St E, Sonoma. 707.996.9756.

Winter Solstice Meditative Walk

Candles, hot cider and reflective environment celebrates the shortest day of the year. Dec 21, 4pm. Free. Healdsburg Shed, 25 North St, Healdsburg. 707.431.7433.

Winter Treasures Solstice Shabbat

On the longest Shabbat night of the year, come together to chant, relax and enjoy the community. Dec 21, 7:30pm. Congregation Ner Shalom, 85 La Plaza, Cotati. 707.664.8622.

Field Trips Bird Walk

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Film A Christmas Story

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Deconstructing the Beatles

Explore the music written for the Beatles’ “Magical Mystery Tour” TV show and 1967 LP. Thurs, Dec 20, 7pm. $15. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.454.1222.

Miracle on 34th Street See the original holiday classic on the big screen. Thurs, Dec 20 and Sun, Dec 23. $10. Sebastiani Theatre, 476 First St E, Sonoma. 707.996.9756.

Wings of Desire

Wim Wenders’ romantic art film screens with a live musical performance from Loverman inspired by the film. Dec 21, 7pm. $15. Sebastiani Theatre, 476 First St E, Sonoma. 707.996.9756.

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Food & Drink Cabernet Season Food & Wine Pairing Indulge in critically acclaimed Cabernet Sauvignon wines paired with bites from Chef Alex Lovick in intimate setting. Space is limited, reservations recommended, Wed, 1:30pm. $165. Inglenook Winery, 1991 St Helena Hwy, Rutherford. 707.968.1161.

Cabernet Season Wine Tastings

Complimentary winetasting featuring select wineries and winemakers from the Napa Valley. Fri, 11am. through Mar 15. Free. Napa Valley Welcome Center, 600 Main St, Napa. 707.251.5895.

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Relax and let Chef Matt D’Ambrosi prepare your Christmas Day feast. Dec 25, 4pm. $89. Spoonbar, 219 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg. 707.433.7222.

Christmas Eve & Christmas Day Dinner at FARM Chef Aaron Meneghelli creates a series of elegantly plated dishes to enjoy with loved ones this holiday. Dec 24-25. $125. Carneros Resort & Spa, 4048 Sonoma Hwy, Napa, 888.400.9000.

Christmas Eve & Day at Acacia House

Chef Chris Cosentino is celebrating the holidays with special menus. Dec 24-25. Acacia House by Chris Cosentino, 1915 Main St, St Helena. 707.963.9004.

Holiday Wine Cocktails

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For Kids Family Funday at CIA at Copia

Kids four and up and their accompanying adult can learn how to make several special meals that are holiday favorites. Dec 23, 1:30pm. $15. CIA at Copia, 500 First St, Napa. 707.967.2530.

Holiday Gift-Making Workshop

Make a variety of unique, fun, and creative gifts to give for the holidays. Advance registration required. Dec 22, 10am. Charles M Schulz Museum, 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa. 707.579.4452.

Holiday Mary Poppins Etiquette Tea Special guest Mary Poppins offers tea and entertainment for all ages. Reservations are required. Dec 23, 12 and 4:30pm. $54. Tudor Rose English Tea Room, 733 Fourth St, Santa Rosa. 707.535.2045.

Once Upon a Gingerbread House

Kids of all ages can construct an edible gingerbread house to take home. Dec 22, 1pm.

Free. Santa Rosa Central Library, 211 E St, Santa Rosa. 707.545.0831.

Theater Annie

Broadway classic about everyone’s favorite orphan is a family favorite holiday musical. Through Dec 22. $22$35. 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa. 707.523.4185.

A Christmas Memory & a Child’s Christmas in Wales

Petaluma Readers Theatre’s holiday tradition brings Truman Capote’s early story and Dylan Thomas’ prose poem to life. Dec 21-22. $18. Petaluma Arts Center, 230 Lakeville St, Petaluma. petalumareaderstheatre.com.

Funny Girl

Don’t miss the entertaining holiday show. Dec 21-30. $15$35. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.

Love, Linda

The songs of Cole Porter are interwoven with storytelling by his wife, Linda Lee. Through Jan 13, 2019. Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. 707.763.8920.

Spin Off

Imaginists’ alternate universe finds the average American family navigating new episodes of wackiness, weekly. Through Jan 26, 2019. $5-$20. The Imaginists, 461 Sebastopol Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.528.7554.

The 12 Dates of Christmas

Hilarious one-woman play is a modern alternative to the standard Christmas tale. Through Jan 6, 2019. $23-$28. Studio Theatre, 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa. 707.523.4185.

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People have been trying to convert ordinary metals into gold since at least 300 A.D. At that time, an Egyptian alchemist named Zosimos of Panopolis unsuccessfully mixed sulfur and mercury in the hope of performing such magic. Fourteen centuries later, seminal scientist Isaac Newton also failed in his efforts to produce gold from cheap metal. But now let’s fast forward to 20th-century chemist Glenn T. Seaborg, a distinguished researcher who won a share of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1951. He and his team did an experiment with bismuth, an element that’s immediately adjacent to lead on the periodical table. By using a particle accelerator, they literally transmuted a small quantity of bismuth into gold. I propose that we make this your teaching story for 2019. May it inspire you to seek transformations that have never before been possible.

GEMINI (May 21–June 20) United States President Donald Trump wants to build a concrete and fenced wall between Mexico and America, hoping to slow down the flow of immigrants across the border. Meanwhile, 12 Northern African countries are collaborating to build a 4,750-mile-long wall of drought-resistant trees at the border of the Sahara, hoping to stop the desert from swallowing up farmland. During the coming year, I’ll be rooting for you to draw inspiration from the latter, not the former. Erecting new boundaries will be healthy for you—if it’s done out of love and for the sake of your health, not out of fear and divisiveness.

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CANCER (June 21–July 22) Cancerian poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau advised artists to notice the aspects of their work that critics didn’t like—and then cultivate those precise aspects. He regarded the disparaged or misconstrued elements as being key to an artist’s uniqueness and originality, even if they were as-yet immature. I’m expanding his suggestion and applying it to all of you Crabs during the next 10 months, even if you’re not strictly an artist. Watch carefully what your community seems to misunderstand about the new trends you’re pursuing, and work hard to ripen them. LEO (July 23–August 22) In 1891, a 29-year-old British mother named Constance Garnett decided she would study the Russian language and become a translator. She learned fast. During the next 40 years, she produced English translations of 71 Russian literary books, including works by Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev and Chekhov. Many had never before been rendered in English. I see 2019 as a Constance Garnett–type year for you, Leo. Any late-blooming potential you might possess could enter a period of rapid maturation. Awash in enthusiasm and ambition, you’ll have the power to launch a new phase of development that could animate and motivate you for a long time. VIRGO (August 23–September 22) I’ll be bold and predict that 2019 will be a nurturing chapter in your story; a time when you will feel loved and supported to a greater degree than usual; a phase when you will be more at home in your body and more at peace with your fate than you have in a long time. I have chosen an appropriate blessing to bestow upon you, written by the poet Claire Wahmanholm. Speak her words as if they were your own. “On Earth I am held, honeysuckled not just by honeysuckle but by everything—marigolds, bog after bog of small sundews, the cold smell of spruce.” LIBRA (September 23–October 22)

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careful what you put into that head, because you will never, ever get it out.” This advice is sometimes attributed to 16th-century politician and cardinal Thomas Wolsey. Now I’m offering it to you as one of your important themes in 2019. Here’s how you can best take it to heart. First, be extremely discerning about what ideas, theories and opinions you allow to flow into your imagination. Make sure they’re based on objective facts and make sure they’re good for you. Second, be aggressive about purging old ideas, theories and opinions from your head, especially if they’re outmoded, unfounded or toxic.

SCORPIO (October 23–November 21)

Memorize this quote by author Peter Newton and keep it close to your awareness during the coming months: “No remorse. No if-onlys. Just the alertness of being.” Here’s another useful maxim, this one from author Mignon McLaughlin: “Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.” Shall we make it a lucky three mottoes to live by in 2019? This one’s by author A. A. Milne: “You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 21)

Until 1920, most American women didn’t have the right to vote. For that matter, few had ever been candidates for public office. There were exceptions. In 1866, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the first to seek a seat in Congress. In 1875, Victoria Woodhull ran for president. Susanna Salter became the first woman mayor in 1887. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Sagittarius, 2019 will be a StantonWoodhull-Salter-type of year for you. You’re likely to be ahead of your time and primed to innovate. You’ll have the courage and resourcefulness necessary to try seemingly unlikely and unprecedented feats, and you’ll have a knack for ushering the future into the present.

CAPRICORN (December 22–January 19) Studies show that the best possible solution to the problem of homelessness is to provide cheap or free living spaces for the homeless. Not only is it the most effective way of helping the people involved, in the long run, it’s also the least expensive. Is there a comparable problem in your personal life? A chronic difficulty that you keep putting band-aids on but that never gets much better? I’m happy to inform you that 2019 will be a favorable time to dig down to find deeper, more fundamental solutions; to finally fix a troublesome issue rather than just addressing its symptoms. AQUARIUS (January 20–February 18) Many people in Iceland write poems, but only a few publish them. There’s even a term for those who put their creations away in a drawer rather than seeking an audience: skúffuskáld, literally translated as “drawerpoet.” Is there a comparable phenomenon in your life, Aquarius? Do you produce some good thing but never share it? Is there a part of you that you’re proud of but keep secret? Is there an aspect of your ongoing adventures that’s meaningful but mostly private? If so, 2019 will be the year you might want to change your mind about it. PISCES (February 19–March 20)

Scientists at Goldsmiths University in London did a study to determine the catchiest pop song ever recorded. After extensive research in which they evaluated an array of factors, they decided that Queen’s “We Are the Champions” is the song that more people love to sing than any other. This triumphant tune happens to be your theme song in 2019. I suggest you learn the lyrics and melody, and sing it once every day. It should help you build on the natural confidence-building influences that will be streaming into your life.

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