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SMART Stalwart To balance the negativity in last week’s letters, I’d like to say I’ve been taking the SMART train three days a week for over a year from Cotati to San Rafael. I love it—from the views of green hills in the winter and spring to the air conditioning in the hot summer. Going through the marshlands offers great birdwatching, too (I once saw a bald eagle close up from the train). The staff is always super-friendly and helpful.

Parking is free and easy in Cotati. I’m not technologically inclined in the least, yet have no problems with the ticket kiosk. Lastly, I treat myself to a Henhouse IPA once a week from the train’s mini-bar. I have customers who take the train from Sonoma County to San Rafael just for the nice day trip. It’s so nice to read a book and look at the great views, instead of sitting in traffic.

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not present a conflict of interest? What should we expect when the business of justice goes to the highest bidder? Free market fundamentalists argue the benefits of “private” over “public” and speak of efficiency and competition, but there is no competition, no choice, for those detained who are the recipients of “services.” The family fleeing gang violence in Honduras and seeking asylum at the U.S. border has no more choice in their accommodations than do chickens in factory farms, but in the latter case, at least there is the potential for consumer pressure to improve living conditions. GEO Group and Corecivic both invest heavily in Trump. GEO donated $225,000 to a Trump super PAC. Corecivic kicked $250,000 to Trump’s inaugural committee. Lobbying interests from the private prison industry are on pace to reach $3 million this year. What are they paying for? Lucrative contracts, less oversight, less accountability, assurance their beds will be filled and new structures will be built. They pay for control, and for the freedom to cut costs and increase profits at will. Consider the Trump Administration’s recent attempts to circumvent the Flores Amendment. Flores asserts minimal standards for the treatment of detained children and their access to education, recreation and legal representation. Flores says that no unaccompanied child shall be held beyond 20 days. There have been 46 reported deaths in ICE Detention, most attributable to medical and psychiatric neglect. The harm to children and families is beyond measure. This kind of cruelty is almost beyond comprehension, except to say it is the logical result of unchecked greed. The free marketer says government only interferes, that regulations are impediments to progress. But this isn’t a free market, and Flores isn’t merely a regulation—it’s a protection. Against what? Ask Dostoevsky.

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Rants R.I.P. Peter Fonda BY E.G. SINGER

et your motor runnin’, head out on the highway … ” So growls John Kay, vocalist for the rock band Steppenwolf, in one of the opening songs from the movie Easy Rider, which Peter Fonda, who died last week, co-wrote. Although Fonda’s career spanned 50-plus years, he will perhaps be remembered—rightly so—for this piece of cinema which debuted in 1969, a seminal year for all things cultural in America. Easy Rider bore little resemblance to the light-hearted and laugh-filled buddy/road movies that preceded it. No, this road trip opened us up to America’s “heart of darkness” and, like a laser beam, focused national attention on the disintegration of culture that was occurring—and highlighting what was still to come. As the two “bad boy” main characters glide and roar across the badlands of this country in their two-wheeled chariots, they encounter various characters and fellow travelers. From the wastelands of Los Angeles, where a drug deal is struck; to the high deserts of New Mexico, where a generation seeks alternative ways of living; to New Orleans, Mardi Gras and acid-tripping; to the South, where bigotry and violence are on display; we watch our screen heroes attempt to make sense—while continually inhabiting altered states of consciousness—of the forces pressing in around them. Fonda was an actor and an auteur. This movie alone is sufficient to bring ongoing applause and accolades, for breaking new ground in personal filmmaking through a strong narrative and the use of improvisation beyond the script. Include a powerful soundtrack, yet another revolutionary device, and you have a film that is both a historical document of the times and still amazingly relevant today. It’s a small, independent film that tells an epic tale. E.G. Singer lives in Santa Rosa. We welcome your contribution. To have your topical essay of 350 words considered for publication, write openmic@bohemian.com.

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HOUSING HELP SRJC’s housing project is aimed at easing the rental strain on students.

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SRJC awaits financing as it plans ambitious student housing facility BY JESSICA ZIMMER

anta Rosa Junior College’s plans for its first new student housing project since the 1990s, a five-story, 378-bed complex on its Santa Rosa campus, aims to transform into an around-the-clock school. The as-yet unnamed $42

million complex is slated to open in fall 2022 and the college plans to hold community forums next month with students and community at large. That’s the word from Kate Jolley, interim vice president of finance and administrative services at SRJC. The school says it’s addressing housing insecurity for its students head-on. To date, the

school has not secured financing for the project, but claims they will complete it by 2022. SRJC expects to issue 40-year bonds for the project, says Jolley, but hasn’t done so yet—the debt structure for the student housing plan has yet to be finalized. An initial public offering for the taxexempt bonds is anticipated for November 2020, she says.

“In 2015, I noticed more students had a hard time finding housing,” says Dr. Frank Chong, president of SRJC. “ Rents were going up. I heard from students who said they could not afford to attend the JC because of housing costs.” Chong went to the school’s board of trustees in 2016 to pitch a housing plan that became even more urgent with the 2017 wildfires. Pedro Avila, vice president of student services, says many students withdrew from classes because of housing scarcity and rising rents exacerbated by the fires. A spring 2018 survey conducted by the Scion Group bears out Avila’s concerns: 30 percent of respondents had considered withdrawing from SRJC because of the cost of housing or housing insecurity. More than 100 students out of nearly 1,800 surveyed said they planned to leave the school for those reasons. More than half expressed interest in living in SRJC housing. The plans are ambitious and costly. The school plans to demolish the Foundation and Public Relations building, some temporary and portable buildings and the Button Building, which houses the school’s human resources department. The new housing footprint will also eat up some parking spaces. Demolition is scheduled for next spring at the corner of Elliot Avenue and Armory Drive off of Highway 101. The school says it will add parking spaces to accommodate those lost to the new housing facility. School officials say early on the student housing has the potential to generate $110,000 in revenue per year. Fifteen years after its construction, the facility is expected to generate approximately $1 million per year. “Annual revenue could grow from there, depending on the needs of the project and successful occupancy rates,” says Jolley. Revenue from the project will support the student housing itself and the SRJC district—the Santa Rosa campus, the Petaluma campus and Shone Farm.

TRUE TO DORM SRJC’s proposed housing facility is just a $43 million bond away from completion.

school. “But if the rent gets more expensive, it might be too much.” For Anna Kidd, also a SRJC student and student ambassador, a major looming issue is that the school will need to vet full-time students. “A number of students attend full-time for the first few weeks but then drop half their units,” she explains. “Often they’re working two to three jobs in order to afford rent, on top of school. They also can’t afford the full load unless they have the necessary support and income to attend full-time.” SRJC’s student housing workgroup selected the Scion Group in spring 2018 as a housing advisor for the project. Scion assisted SRJC with a student housing feasibility study and provided guidance in selecting a developer.

Scion also recommended SRJC use a public-private partnership financing model, which involves collaborating with a development firm to build and manage the student housing on SRJC District– owned land. Later, SRJC selected Servitas, a Dallas-based developer, through a request for proposal process. The student housing workgroup led that process. Avila says Servitas will manage the student housing operations and it will have minimal impact on SRJC’s resources. He adds that the junior college chose Servitas because they met SRJC’s three goals: affordability, sustainability and utilizing local labor at prevailing wages. Servitas is the public-private partner for student housing for another California junior college,

Orange Coast College (OCC) in Costa Mesa. “Their experience with that project will benefit SRJC’s student housing,” says Avila. For one, they’ll be using light-gauge steel instead of wood in the construction of the building. The proposal is a hit with David Guhin, Santa Rosa assistant city manager. He anticipates a smooth build-out. Most of the permitting will take place through the state, he says, and won’t have to go through the Sonoma County or Santa Rosa permitting wringer. “We are excited about this project as it aligns with our overall housing goals,” says Guhin, who pledged to assist with community engagement and interactions with city services.

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The school has come up with a plan for projected rents that they will use, in part, to pay off the private contractor that’s building the proposed facility. Jolley says rents will start at $843 per bed per month in a double room, up to $1,012 for a single room. A room in a four-bedroom apartment will rent for $1,209. The proposed rates include furnished rooms and utilities. While the proposed rents aren’t especially low for students on a budget—they’re far cheaper than those on the open market. The average one-bedroom rental in Santa Rosa comes in at around $1,950, according to online data at RENTcafe and other online realestate sources. SRJC will consider giving priority to veterans, low-income students and students coming out of foster care, and, says Avila, will find the funding to house them, too. “We are going to create an endowment under the SRJC Foundation. We will identify potential donors. The donated funds will be used to subsidize rent for low-income students.” The student-housing workgroup is scheduled to meet throughout this fall to establish criteria for living in this proposed student housing. The workgroup will also determine which students will have priority spots. Families are not part of the equation: Individuals who live in student housing must be SRJC students; units will not be available to families. Jolley says the SRJC is considering 10-month and 12-month leases and stresses housing insecurity as the driver: “We have a lot of students who are homeless or in a risky living situation,” she says. Students have already raised a few red flags. The rent is trending toward unaffordable for some. Others havehave concerns that local residents might scheme to take advantage of the rents that are low relative to the area’s whopping cost-of-living. “I get a lot of questions from potential students coming from far away who have trouble finding housing,” says Martha Torres, a student ambassador at the

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f you’re reading this in print, while it’s fresh on the newsstands, you’re probably not lounging around in some desert while electronic dance music beats down your tympanic membrane. So, what to do when the rest of your cohort is away, getting burned out at Black Rock? Go wine tasting. But not just anywhere. Attend the best wine tasting of the year. That’s how Sonoma County Vintners bills this Labor Day’s Taste of Sonoma weekend event— as the county’s biggest and best

tasting of the year. What about the Harvest Fair? Good question, but let’s just agree that’s generally a fair, and draw the line at petting zoo. Although Kendall-Jackson’s “White Wine Emoji Lounge,” new to that event this year, has a cute and fuzzy ring to it, it’s only about a tiny icon of a glass of wine. Tastes may be tiny in your wine glass, but there are more than 130 wineries pouring at Taste of Sonoma, so it’s the wine taster, not the glass, that fills up quickly. Also on hand are local restaurants, serving up a preview of their cuisine without having to traipse all over the county. The heart of the event is a big tent with walk-around wine tasting. But there’s a lot more going on. Sign up for a “Wine Talk” seminar to get a little education on the side. This year, Winegrowers of Dry Creek Valley return to explore the diversity of Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel, and maybe bust a few myths about the variety. “Zinfandel is the hardest grape to grow, and the hardest to make wine from,” Joe Healy, winemaker at Bella Vineyards, asserted at last year’s talk. Diane Wilson, winemaker at Wilson Winery, lent some insight into the hedonic considerations that lead to her style of Zinfandel: “I’m not trying to make highalcohol wines,” said Wilson. But when it comes time to harvest, “It’s just hard for me to pull the trigger.” It’s sort of like finally finding the season’s first ripe peach, she enthused—“And then you get one that’s really ripe, and the juice runs down your chin … ” Meanwhile, seminar-goers have their own flight of wine samples at the ready, so they can swirl, sip and connect the winemaker’s thoughts to a pleasant experience of their own. In contrast to the unpleasant heat that marked Taste’s first run at the Green in 2017, the outlook for this weekend calls for seasonably warm conditions. Plus, no desert dust storms. Taste of Sonoma, Saturday, Aug 31, 12–4pm. Tickets $180–$255. Green Music Center at Sonoma State University, 1801 East Cotati Avenue, Rohnert Park. 855.939.7666.

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alloons flapped like giant, inflatable grapes in the hot wind of Santa Rosa’s Fountaingrove area as a host of leaders heralded the completion of the first “Sonoma Wildfire Cottage” on a recent Friday afternoon. Against a backdrop of underconstruction cottages and a corporate parking lot, Sonoma County Supervisor James Gore

took the mic and announced that the project underway was a portent of things to come. The cottages, he declared, represented the first metaphoric sparks to kick off a wildfire of public-private housing build-outs in Sonoma County. Habitat For Humanity’s nineunit pilot program is housing, if only temporarily, families displaced by the 2017 wildfires. It’s a partnership with the Washington D.C.–based lobbying firm The Cypress Group.

The homes are located on a seemingly unusual plot of land on the Medtronic medical equipment campus and provide a visual symbol of the $1.2 million privatepublic partnership. The emphasis is on private contributions and public assertions that this is how Sonoma County is going to house a handful of wildfire victims shortterm, while also setting a path forward to address the county’s crippling 25,000-unit housing deficit that predated the fires.

Officials from all walks of government were on hand to celebrate the completion of “House #1,” a tidy, white two-bedroom, shotgun-style cottage whose components were built off-site and constructed on the lot. Handmade quilts were ceremoniously presented to the new occupants and reporters were able to tour the unit built to withstand fires. Can they also withstand local politics and zoning issues? ) 12 Gore was joined at the

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SHOTGUN WEDDING One house down, many thousands to go, as ambitious public-private housing plan takes root on Medtronic campus.

event by co-supervisor Shirlee Zane, Rep. Mike Thompson and Santa Rosa Mayor Tom Schwedlhelm. Everyone lauded the effort and declared it a huge moment in the history of Sonoma County’s housing crisis. Efren Carrillo, the former county supervisor and current executive with Burbank Housing, was also on hand. The cottage community is an ambitious, complicated project that has attracted private sponsors from around the region—everyone from the Piazza Hospitality Group to Safeway Inc. has contributed to the effort—and was sponsored by a group called Wine Country Rebuild that’s comprised of young winemakers. Senses Wines in Occidental founded Wine Country Rebuild after the 2017 wildfires. Thew group crowdfunded $1.2 million for wildfire cottages (Senses was co-founded by Christopher Strieter, Myles Lawrence-Briggs and the actor Max Thieriot). The project is being built by the national housing organization Habitat for Humanity, which has extensive experience in sweat-equity partnerships with would-be homeowners. This is a different kind of project for HFH—volunteers from Medtronic and regional construction firms provided much of the sweat equity here. But what of The Cypress Group? The organization’s website says when it comes to its strategic-advisory services “we view political risks as the probability that changing laws or regulations will create loss or change for a client.” And it looks as if the group did see some risk in engaging with Sonoma County’s rebuilding efforts. In his remarks to the crowd gathered in mid-August to check out the Wildfire Cottages, HFH’s outgoing Interim Executive Director John Kennedy noted the powerhouse lobbyist jumped on board the project with reluctance. It was an off-hand remark but one that’s worth exploring, as it may signal whether The Cypress Group is really up to the task of

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LESSONS LEARNED Can Cypress avoid the pitfalls that delayed its New Orleans Katrina Cottage experience?

coordinating Sonoma County and Santa Rosa’s multi-faceted rebuilding efforts. The Cypress Group is a strategic advisory and lobbying organization in D.C. that emerged from the wreckage of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 as an untested housing developer with deep connections in Louisiana Democratic politics and a stated desire to do something about their nearly-destroyed state and city of New Orleans. With Democratic Governor Kathleen Blanco in the statehouse, Cypress leveraged their influence in Baton Rouge and Washington to manage the Katrina Cottages program that took root after the storm. Cypress Partner Patrick Cave, a proponent of the New Urbanism school that highlights walkable communities and scaled-housing solutions, linked up with New Urbanist Marianne Cusato to locate some 450 “Katrina Cottages” under FEMA rebuilding programs after the storm. The Cypress Group created an organization called the Cypress Community Development Corporation (CCDC) and put Cusato in charge of it. They’ve heralded the Sonoma Wildfire Cottage program as not just the solution to Sonoma’s housing crisis, but possibly for the whole state. The CCDC stresses its

role as a not-for-profit division of the lobbying and advisory organization that “specializes in developing innovative housing solutions for disaster rebuilding and workforce housing.” Those issues have intersected in a negative, high-rent manner in Sonoma County, where workforce housing is scant and pricey and where a natural disaster burned thousands of homes and businesses. Habitat for Humanity contacted the organization after the 2017 wildfires, but the Cypress nonprofit was initially reluctant to take on the rebuilding effort in Sonoma County, says Kennedy. In his remarks to the crowd gathered at the Medtronic campus, he recounted Cypress leaders telling him, “We had some experiences with New Orleans that weren’t exactly good, but we’ll team up.” Kennedy didn’t elaborate to the crowd as to the source of The Cypress Group’s “hesitation” to join the Sonoma County-City of Santa Rosa rebuilding effort. In a follow-up interview he says their reluctance was twofold. First, he said, the firm was hesitant because the Sonoma Wildfire Cottage program is utilizing numerous contractors and developers to execute the vision of affordable (or at least, more affordable) homes for

local residents. That’s a recipe for an inefficient construction management plan that’s potentially fraught with political considerations, with local and regional contractors vying for a piece of the Habitat for Humanity plan. The Sonoma Wildfire Cottage project is already a year past Wine Country Rebuild’s schedule. The company’s website says that “construction on the cottages is expected to begin in the summer of 2018 and the anticipated date for occupancy late fall and early winter of 2018.” A year later, one cottage has been completed and occupied. And, Kennedy told this reporter that The Cypress Group doesn’t necessarily hold the same sway in Washington housing agencies under President Donald Trump as it did with previous administrations. Trump’s been bad for the state on numerous fronts, Kennedy says with a slight laugh, including housing. But Cusato, and Cypress Group promotional materials, insist the firm is well-positioned to deliver on its promise, despite a build-out of similar intent in New Orleans that was anything but smooth: “The Cypress Model for neighborhood building is distinctly applicable to housing families in the wake of a disaster—quickly, safely and cost-effectively—with a view of the long-term health and stability of the family in a stable and permanent community,” says the company website. As I reported in 2012 for the online investigative website The Lens, the Cypress Model in the Crescent City was anything but a quick and cost-effective build-out, and included a lastminute rush to remediate Katrina Cottages that had been heavily damaged after sitting out in the elements for years before being placed in their permanent locations around New Orleans. Back in 2012, The Cypress Group was under the gun to beat a FEMA deadline for delivery of around 15 highly nomadic Katrina

13 according to online records. Lobbying clients include Koch Industries and Grupo Salinas, among others. The latter is a California-based consortium that represents the interests of Advance America Cash Advance Centers, a business targeted by workforce activists for its highinterest, payday loans. Other Cypress clients include Wells Fargo, Prudential, Citi and Metlife. The Cypress Group has long been held as an example of the “revolving door” lobbying community in Washington. Its founder, J. Patrick Cave, was an Assistant Treasury Secretary before leaving government and founding The Cypress Group. The revolving door apparently keeps spinning, and it looks like, on paper at least, the organization took measures to get some traction with the Trump Administration: In April 2018, according to the Wall Street Journal, the company hired former Trump White House Deputy Chief of Staff Rick Dearborn as a partner.

nd now there’s a robust publicprivate partnership playing out in Santa Rosa. The mantra at last week’s Sonoma Wildfires wellattended opening on the Medtronic campus was that one house built is one less house that needs to be built to address the city and county’s growing homelessness and affordable housing problem.

The nine houses were designed and built by different firms and range from a one-bedroom house that looks like a Frank Lloyd Wright pool cabana to shotgun cottages that wouldn’t look out-ofplace in New Orleans. The Wrightish house and a handful of others others like it are pre-built homes that were placed on the Medtronic campus with a crane. Those homes, says Kennedy, would fetch $350,000 on the open market. The remainder are two-bedroom

shotgun-style homes that are largely pre-constructed and then assembled on site. Those, says Kennedy, are the ticket—or possible ticket—to solve an affordable housing crisis that’s so massive, he says, you’d need a China-like massmanufacture of cottages to ease the local strain. In Habitat for Humanity’s grand vision, that’s the local model moving forward, explains Kennedy. He’s excited about the possibility of California replicating the Habitat For Humanity model in Edmonton, Canada, where there’s a HFH house-building factory that pumps out housing components that come together, not quite Acme-style, but pretty quickly, on site. Those homes, he says, would list at $400,000 in the Sonoma County housing market. Habitat for Humanity has leased a 30,000 square-foot property in Rohnert Park, he says, in an effort to replicate its Edmonton massbuildout model. For now, the homes are being rented to wildfire survivors who were among the last victims unable to secure permanent housing after the 2017 inferno. The renters come from a familiar stream—they were selected by Catholic Charities from a pool of more than 40 families and individuals who are still sleeping on friends’ couches and elsewhere two years after the fires. Under its arrangement with Medtronic, the houses will be on this plot for two years. Kennedy says it could be up to five years, but that’s yet to be finalized. The final resting place for these homes remains an open question—subject to finding a plot of land, dealing with any zoning or other local issues that may arise, and finding a buyer through Habitat for Humanity. Adrienne Lauby is the president of the Board of Sonoma Applied Village Services, a local nonprofit that’s taken up the call for finding affordable housing solutions in a city and county that aren’t always amenable to grassroots notions about tiny houses, solar yurts and parking lots populated with

trailers and campers. She’s been fighting for funding and grants under the county’s Home Sonoma network and received word last week that her group will be getting a $450,000 grant from a $500 million state fund for housing programs (Sonoma County got $12.6 million of that grant). They’ve got the green light to explore tiny houses and parking-lot communities. The next step, says Lauby, is to try and find a place to develop those programs. Lauby is supportive of the Sonoma Wildfire Cottage plan and believes that every bit of housing helps. She cautions, however, that local leaders need to focus on the plight of the some 2,000 regional homeless persons who’ll likely be sleeping out in the elements again this winter. “There’s no doubt that it requires a community response,” she says, invoking the wildfires’ impact on an already-compromised Sonoma County housing dynamic. Small business, big business, government—she says they all need to come together but also notes there’s a disconnect in the county and Santa Rosa between homeless people. She cites “a disparity between the ‘good homeless’ who were hurt by the fire and the ‘bad homeless’ who were already homeless.” The latter’s plight was exposed for all the world to see following the wildfires, much as Hurricane Katrina served to highlight a city that had suffered decades of poverty and neglect. “The city, county and the state have all declared a homeless emergency, but none of them are doing anything,” Lauby says. Since the wildfires, Santa Rosa has turned back numerous grant proposals from local housing nonprofits such as Homeless Action, mostly on technical grounds and because of the rules of the grant (ie, proposals for grant monies were too small to be considered). The federal and state money now arriving in Sonoma County, through the state’s Homeless Emergency Aid Program, says Lauby, “tends to go into brick and mortar ) 14

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Cottages that had been moved all over the state before winding up in New Orleans and that accrued nearly $1 million in remediation costs along the way. So, quickly and cheaply? Not so much, at least in New Orleans. The Katrina Cottage program did play out much more smoothly in other parts of the state and in Mississippi. But in New Orleans, after a five-year odyssey that was promised as a quick and long-term solution to residents displaced by Katrina, the last of the Katrina Cottages were sited in the city’s Lower Ninth Ward in 2012. New Orleans housing officials had a difficult time trying to site the Katrina Cottages, owing to designated lot sizes that turned out to be too small to accommodate the houses, or weren’t zoned to accept the homes. Is this the source of The Cypress Group’s “hesitation” to jump on the Sonoma Wildfire Cottages, which are already a year behind the proposed schedule outlined by Wine Country Rebuild? Cusato says there was no hesitation at all—simply a concern about the ambitious, multi-contractor arc of Habitat’s plan. By the time those cottages were completed and residents moved into them, so much time had passed between the promise and the reality that they weren’t even calling them Katrina Cottages in New Orleans anymore. The promise of a quick and efficient post-disaster response that didn’t involve toxic FEMA trailers was never realized in New Orleans. And now the same company is expressing reservations about doing business in Sonoma County, based on its NOLA experience. The Sonoma Wildfire Cottages, says Kennedy and Cusato, have yet to be matched with a lot in Santa Rosa. The Cypress Group has positioned itself as a high-flying strategic advisory and lobbying organization with a robust client base that includes a few clients that might raise eyebrows among North Bay liberals. The company has billed out some $2 million in lobbying fees so far in 2019,

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Wildfire Cottages ( 13 housing” projects and isn’t pegged at smaller-scale solutions. So, while Sonoma Wildfire Cottages is pushing out $400,000 for potential workforce housing, Lauby says tiny-home solutions in the $5,000 range have been brushed aside as private-public partnerships such as this one have found favor with local officials. The city of Santa Rosa has been especially aggressive in keeping tiny homes, trailer-park parking lots and other small-scale homeless solutions out of the city. Lauby says everyone’s in the same boat when it comes to finding a place to for new housing—whether it’s a tiny home or one of the Wildfire Cottages. She cites the excruciatingly slow pace of local permitting as a factor even as she notes that the county is the biggest property owner in Sonoma County. “There are things like vet’s buildings, corners of parks, unused baseball parks,” she says, which could and should be considered for alternative housing solutions in her view. But her organization, she says, has been stymied by safety issues raised by first responders when they’ve submitted smallscale grant proposals, and by what she says is an over-reliance on working within established rules and guidelines. She says the safety issue is mis-construed: It’s not safe, she argues, to sleep outside or under a freeway overpass. And she notes that if the county and Santa Rosa can accommodate a village of corporate-friendly homes in an industrial zone, why can’t local electeds be more amenable to solutions to help the very poor and the chronically homeless, who were here before the fires and whose plight has only sharpened with the loss of 5 percent of the region’s housing stock? She also notes there’s competition afoot in the county for what Cypress is angling to accomplish—whether it’s apartment complexes made from repurposed shipping containers or a big push from the manufacturedhousing industry. “Cypress is in a crowded market,” she says.

In an interview, Cusato says that Cypress was never hesitant about teaming up with Habitat for Humanity. “We actually always wanted to do the project,” she says. “It’s our business model.” She said any reluctance on Cypress’ part was a function of Habitat’s adding the variable of multiple builders to the project and that the Cypress nonprofit “helped shape the program with them. We asked them, ‘are you sure you want to enter in to this with all these variables, all these different builders on site sort of bumping into one another?” She says Cypress came to realize the benefit of having multiple builders working on the cottages, since it would provide a point of comparison to determine which builders were up to the task of delivering on-time, high quality homes. Cusato also brushed aside concerns about Cypress’ political juice in Washington these days and stressed that their housing model is a bipartisan approach and that “this has nothing to do with one administration over another. This has to do with the fact that we have a broken system. It doesn’t matter who is in office.” The Cypress housing nonprofit’s next move in the Sonoma Wildfire Cottages project is the release of a lessons-learned report which, says Cusato, would be useful to any California municipality that wants to consider a Cypress-HFH publicprivate program. “There’s a whole lot of potential here to help other communities in California,” she says. There were lots of lessons learned from the Katrina and Rita experiences but one key takeaway is the persistence of localism in the face of proposed megaprojects. “What we’ve learned is that every place is unique, and every place is universal. Every place is 100 percent local, but patterns emerge that are all similar.” One of the Katrina Cottage community build-outs in coastal Louisiana was rejected by locals because the cottages looked like manufactured homes even though they weren’t. “The NIMBY’s came out and said we can’t do this here,” she recalls.

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The week’s events: a selective guide

SOUL POWER Former protégé of Prince and a member of his New Power Generation, vocalist Liv Warfield appears for two sets at the Blue Note Club in Napa on Friday, Aug. 30. See concerts, pg 19.

Crush CULTURE

SEBASTOPOL

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Give Me Moore

Need for Speed

Big Top Treat

Art of Nature

Born in Austin, Texas and now residing in Seattle, blues-rock singer-songwriter Ian Moore is a traveling troubadour with 30 years of touring and performing under his belt. If his name is not familiar, his music probably is. Television shows including American Idol use his songs, and he’s opened for the Rolling Stones, ZZ Top, Bob Dylan and other bands on national tour. This week, Moore brings his guitar to the North Bay for an intimate rock show on Friday, Aug 30, at HopMonk Tavern, 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol. 8pm. $13$15. 707.829.7300.

Calistoga Speedway’s half-mile oval has seen thousands of 100-mph, open wheel sprint car races. And if there's one man the speedway owes its legacy to, it's Louie Vermeil, who formed the Northern Auto Racing Club; now the Golden State Challenge Series. This weekend’s 12th annual Louie Vermeil Classic celebrates the man and showcases sprint-car drivers of yesterday and today. Friday features a Hall of Fame dinner, and the weekend boasts cars on the track, beer tastings and live music. Aug 30–Sept 1, 1435 N Oak St., Calistoga. Schedule and tickets at calistogaspeedway.org.

Boasting daredevils, acrobats and flying trapeze artists, the traveling Circus Vargas is back in the North Bay for its 50th anniversary extravaganza, an homage to the golden era of circus in America entitled The Greatest of Ease! The nonstop action takes audiences back to the days of three-ring wonders and astonishing acts. Families are invited to come early for interactive, pre-show celebrations, where kids can learn circus skills such as juggling, balancing and more. Circus Vargas pops the tent select dates from Friday, Aug 30, to Sunday, Sept 8, at Sonoma-Marin County Fairgrounds, 175 Fairgrounds Dr., Petaluma. Times and prices vary. Circusvargas.com.

For its latest exhibition, “Great Outdoors,” the Healdsburg Center for the Arts sent out a national call for artists to submit works that visually or thematically explore nature. That call brought in works of fabric, glass, photography, collage and printmaking; as well as watercolor, acrylic and oil paintings. While some artists took a realistic approach, others traveled impressionistic or imaginary paths in their subjects, which range from urban to rural, tropical to desert, and mountain to prairie. The show opens with a reception on Saturday, Aug 31, at HCA, 130 Plaza St., Healdsburg. 5pm. Free. 707.431.1970.

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—Charlie Swanson

Arts Ideas Photo courtesy Atelier Jørgensen

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MINDFUL DESIGNS Napa Valley homes, like this one on Mount Veeder, are being rebuilt to be more resilient.

Built to Last

Napa architect leads new conversation on construction BY CHARLIE SWANSON

ven before the devastating wildfires of October 2017 that destroyed thousands of homes and buildings in Napa and Sonoma County, architect Brandon Jørgensen had notions of what he now calls “Architecture of Resilience.” “The idea was kicking around in my head for a few years,” says Jørgensen. “The fires concretized the idea and I immediately took action.” Growing up in Napa Valley, the

architect has seen wildfires come and go, and he’s seen the destruction they leave in their wake. “Every fire, it gets worse and worse,” he says. “I thought to myself that policy makers aren’t necessarily going to take action that is the best for the environment, and who better to take action than people that are trained to design the environment, architects and engineers.” Two years ago, Jørgensen created "Architecture of Resilience," a group of architects working on thoughtful design as Napa rebuilds burned structures. On September 7, Jørgensen

and a panel of colleagues will discuss the topic in a public conversation at di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art in Napa. “It’s been an adventure to keep it going and keep it in the forefront of thoughts,” says Jørgensen of the group. “But, its something that’s active every day in terms of conversations with clients, contractors and my peers. Every time I feel it drifting, I try to bring it back into the fore.” From choosing fire-resistant building materials to developing fire-resistant landscape, Jørgensen’s concept is at its core a call to

sustainable and environmentally conscientious building. “It’s a re-framing or a repurposing of thoughts on the building process, which is exciting because a lot of people are coming around to it and understanding the importance of it,” he says. Through his design firm, Atelier Jørgensen, the architect is working on several North Bay projects that are utilizing fire-resilient ways of thinking. For example, one rebuild is using a wood frame, though that wood is the newly-developed Magnesium Oxide board, developed and manufactured by ExtremeGreen, that is half the thickness of traditional fire board, with double the resistance to combustion. “This is something we’ll get into in the conversation (on Sep 7),” he says. “What details I’m using, what details my peers are using.” For the upcoming conversation, Jørgensen is assembling a panel featuring his old professor of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, Stanley Saitowitz and nationally recognized designer Anne Fougeron. “When you get those two in a room together, they have opinions that both complement and contradict each other, which always leads to new ideas,” says Jørgensen. Also joining the conversation is California and Hawaii-based architect Craig Steely, who’s partnered with Jørgensen on past projects. Ultimately, Jørgensen wants to see architecture of resilience become common sense. “It would be nice when people come to wine country, they are constantly aware of their environment,” he says. “And they are aware of how to fit into it, and not just plop something down onto it.” ‘In Conversation: The Architecture of Resilience’ happens on Saturday, Sep 7, at di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, 5200 Sonoma Hwy, Napa. 3pm. $10. dirosaart.org.

Page Turner

6th St Playhouse opens season with bookish comedy BY HARRY DUKE

erhaps the most mislabeled entertainment genre is what we refer to as “reality TV.” The belief that anything can be real in the presence of cameras is misleading at best and downright deceitful at worst. That’s one of the themes at work in Karen Zacarias’ The Book Club Play, 6th Street Playhouse’s season opener running now on the newly christened Monroe Stage (formerly their Studio Theatre) through Sept. 15. Part satire, part farce and part character study, this odd show mostly works once you let go of any concept of reality being involved. The show’s title sums things up pretty neatly. A group of friends and co-workers have formed a

‘The Book Club Play' runs through September 15 on the Monroe Stage at the 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W. Sixth St., Santa Rosa. Thursday–Saturday, 7:30pm; Saturday–Sunday, 2pm. $18– $29. 707.523.4185.

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club is the unlikely subject for a new-ish ensemble play at 6th Street Playhouse.

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READING & DRINKING A book

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book club. The group dynamic changes with the introduction of two variables. First, the group leader arranges for their meetings to be filmed under the auspices of famed avant-garde Danish documentarian Lars Knudsen. On top of that, one of the members invites a neighbor to join them, completely skipping over their intense vetting process. The group may survive one alteration to their rigid world, but can it survive two? Zacarias’ characters are pretty stock. There’s Ana (Maureen O’Neill), the control-freak leader; Rob (Marc Assad), her milquetoast husband who never reads the books and mostly comes for the food; Will (John Browning), Rob’s fastidious college roommate and Ana’s ex-boyfriend; Jen (Heather Gibeson), Ana’s flailing-at-life friend; and Lily (Brittany Sims), Ana’s sassy co-worker and the group’s newest member. The only character to break out of stock mode is Alex (Eyan Dean), a professor of comparative literature whose life was upended by his lack of knowledge of sparkling vampires. Director Jessica Headington’s hands were full with the overabundance of themes in action here. At times it seems author Zacarias didn’t know what she wanted her play to be about (it’s undergone two revisions since its 2009 premiere), so she wrote about everything: friendship, marriage, self-identity, race, sexuality, infidelity, career fulfillment, group dynamics, role-playing, honesty and truth. The show’s most interesting moment occurs during a debate over whether pop culture can be considered culture at all. Why shouldn’t a terribly written pulp novel that’s sold millions of copies be considered in the same league as Moby Dick? Headington and her cast have fun with it and you will laugh, but I found this show about artificiality in life a bit too artificial. Rating (out of 5):

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BUZZWORTHY Macedonian woman Hatidze Miranova practices an

ancient method of honey gathering in new documentary.

Bee Natural

Old school apiary focus of new doc BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

irectors Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov spent three years filming the life of Hatidze Muratova. This lean, hard-working woman in her mid-50s practices an almost extinct craft: She’s a gatherer of wild honey in the vicinity of her deserted village.

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This is an obscure corner of the Balkans, where it already looks as if it’s after the end of the world. The country is so little known that its name change didn’t make it into most reviews of Honeyland; as of last February, Macedonia is now known as the Republic of North Macedonia. Haditze gathers honey and tends her disfigured, slowly dying mother. She hikes up the narrow ledges of the hills and picks open the rocks, smoking the bees out with a dung-fired smoker. Haditze’s skills are such that she’s able to do this unveiled and barehanded, calming the bees by murmuring to them. They crawl on her fingers as if they were pets.

Her life is interrupted when new neighbors move into the village. The Sam family, mom, dad Hussein Sam, their seven or eight kids and several chickens, live inside their trailer. In all innocence, Haditze teaches dad how to gather honey, trusting that there’s enough for everyone. Hussein mucks it up with overproduction, and by introducing aggressive, perhaps Africanized bees. Hussein’s kids are tough enough to deal with the half-wild cattle that kick them and knock them over. But they can’t deal with Hussein’s viciously stinging bees. Hatidze trusted the filmmakers. Perhaps she was unclear on the concept of what movies are, living as she does in a stonefloored house without electricity or plumbing. And Kotevska and Stefanov honored Hatidze. Though from what we see, there is an open question of what was dramatized and what naturally appeared in front of the lens. ‘Honeyland’ is now playing at the Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael.

Project rock the NorBay Music Awards party after winning for best blues band.

Bet on Black

The Dylan Black Project heat up at summer’s end BY CHARLIE SWANSON

he first thing to know about Santa Rosa band The Dylan Black Project is that there is no Dylan Black.

Rather, the band—guitarist and vocalist Terry Sanders, keyboardist Steve Seydler, drummer Greg Saunders and bassist Elmar Kurgpold—take their name from a pseudonym Jimi Hendrix earned in London in the ‘60s. “No one knew who he was at the time, and he was notoriously shy,” says Terry Sanders of Hendrix. “So, he would play and then grab his guitar and leave. And people

The Dylan Black Project performs Thursday, Aug 29, at Windsor Town Green (701 McClelland Dr., Windsor. 6pm. Free. townofwindsor.com) and Saturday, Aug 31, at Redwood Café (8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati. 8:30pm. $10. 707.795.7868).

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would say, ‘Did you see that guitarist? The black guy with hair like Dylan?’” Sanders, a San Francisco native who cut his teeth with hip-hop and R&B groups like Digital Underground, and Seydler (Petty Theft) go back 20 years, and they formed The Dylan Black Project with Saunders (Stax City) and Kurpold close to a decade ago. They’ve steadily gained a following for their tight rhythms, funky grooves and exceptional onstage musicianship. “Coming from that old R&B background, it's all about the continuity of the set,” Sanders says. “We have all this movement, within the music, that is polished. There’s no second-guessing onstage.” The group is a staple at summer concerts throughout the North Bay, performing on Thursday, Aug. 29, at the Windsor Town Green, and on Saturday, Aug. 31, at Redwood Café in Cotati. In the last few years, The Project also found themselves on bigger stages, opening for Boz Scaggs last year at Rodney Strong Winery and making fans as far away as Concord. This fall, The Dylan Black Project heads into the studio for the first time as a group to record their debut album. “We’re getting a lot of love, a lot of people who want to play our music,” Sanders says. In particular, Sanders looks forward to recording his 2017 song “Sonoma Shine,” which he wrote before the Tubbs Fire, but which resonated with the North Bay when a Facebook video of him performing it went viral in the aftermath of the tragedy. Until the album comes out, The Dylan Black Project will continue to play live, and Sanders will continue to embrace the fact that everyone, Scaggs included, calls him Dylan. “It’s like Jethro Tull or Steely Dan—none of those people exist,” he says. “I get a kick out of it.”

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Calendar Concerts SONOMA Chris Isaak

Veteran rockabilly crooner is back in the North Bay, with a meet-and-greet package available. Sep 4, 7:30pm. $59 and up. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.546.3600.

Nicki Bluhm

Singer-songwriter and bandleader plays a set backed by musicians Scott Law and Ross James, with support from Skyway Man. Aug 30, 8:30pm. $24-$28. Mystic Theatre & Music Hall, 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.775.6048.

NAPA Liv Warfield

Performer who was once a part of Prince’s New Power Generation and vocalist for 3rdEyeGirl comes to Napa for two sets of R&B and Soul. Aug 30, 7 and 9:30pm. $20-$60. Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.880.2300.

Clubs & Venues SONOMA A’Roma Roasters

Aug 30, Bob, Brandon & Jamie. Aug 31, Kyle Craft. 95 Fifth St, Santa Rosa, 707.576.7765.

Aqus Cafe

Aug 29, Duo Giuliani. Aug 30, Twin Soles. Aug 31, Eight Ways to Wednesday. Sep 1, Mike Spinrad. 189 H St, Petaluma, 707.778.6060.

Arlene Francis Center Aug 31, Scythe with R4ID and Dirty Rice. 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.528.3009.

Barley & Hops Tavern

128 American Alley, Petaluma, 707.776.7163.

Bluewater Bistro

Aug 29, 5pm, Kate Gaffney. 21301 Heron Dr, Bodega Bay, 707.875.3513.

BR Cohn Winery

Aug 31, 12pm, Rhyme & Reason. Sep 1, 12pm, People of Earth. 15000 Sonoma Hwy, Glen Ellen, 707.938.4064.

Brewsters Beer Garden Aug 29, Isaac & Riley. Aug 30, Timothy O’Neil Band. Aug 31, Big Daddy. Sep 1, 1pm, the Role Models. Sep 2, 1pm, Burnt. 229 Water St N, Petaluma, 707.981.8330.

Cloverdale Plaza

Aug 30, 6pm, Tommy Castro & the Painkillers. 122 N Cloverdale Blvd, Cloverdale, cloverdaleartsalliance.org.

Cornerstone Sonoma Sep 1, 12pm, Cornerstone Summer Music Series. 23570 Arnold Dr, Sonoma, 707.933.3010.

Coyote Sonoma

Aug 30, the Coolers. Aug 31, Ricky Ray Band. 44F Mill St, Healdsburg, 707.385.9133.

Elephant in the Room Aug 29, Burnt. Aug 30, Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash. Aug 31, Temptation. Sep 1, Steve Pile Trio. Sep 2, Dirty Red Barn. 177-A Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, elephantintheroompub.com.

Fern Bar

Aug 29, Michael Price & Co. Aug 30, Bronze Medal Hopefuls. Aug 31, Yuka Yu. 6780 Depot St, Suite 120, Sebastopol, 707.861.9603.

Flamingo Lounge

Aug 30, Purple Haze. Aug 31, UB707. 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa, 707.545.8530.

Geyserville Gun Club Bar & Lounge

Aug 31, Time & Materials. 21025 Geyserville Ave, Geyserville, 707.814.0036.

Aug 29, Hannah Jern-Miller. Aug 31, Free Peoples. 3688 Bohemian Hwy, Occidental, 707.874.9037.

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Aug 29, Orion’s Joy of Sextet. Aug 30, Sean Carney and Wendy DeWitt. Aug 31, Eric Lindell & the Natural Mystics.

Aug 29, 7pm, Un Amour Band. 16201 First St, Guerneville, rockintheriver.org. Aug 30, 5:30pm, Funky Dozen. 389 Casa Manana Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.833.6288. funkyfridays.info.

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Aug 30, Jamie Clark Band. Aug 31, King Street Giants. Sep 1, 4pm, Calioco. 401 Grove St, Sonoma, 707.343.0044.

Aug 30, Brandon Eardley. Aug 31, Charles Henry Paul. 691 Broadway, Sonoma, 707.935.9100.

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Aug 31, Petty Theft. Sep 1, Pride & Joy. 14540 Canyon 2 Rd, Rio Nido, 707.869.0821.

Aug 30, 5:30pm, Highway Poets. 428 Hudson St, Healdsburg, 707.433.2364.

Aug 31, 1pm, Jeremy Lipsin. 4401 Slusser Road, Windsor, 707-237-3497.

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Sep 4, 5pm, the Pulsators and the Dream Farmers. Willow Street and Jewell Avenue, Sebastopol, peacetown.org.

Lagunitas Tap Room

Aug 29, Z & the Benders. Aug 30, the Spyralites. Aug 31, Amber Snider. Sep 1, Matt Lax and Friends. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma, 707.778.8776.

Luther Burbank Center for the Arts Aug 30, 10am, A Trip Down Memory Lane sing-along. 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.546.3600.

Main Street Bistro

Aug 30, Jody Counter Band. Aug 31, Tilted Halos. 8201 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.664.0169.

St. Anne’s Crossing Winery

Aug 30, 6pm, Ricky Ray Band. 8450 Sonoma Hwy, Kenwood, 707.598.5200.

The Star

Aug 31, Front Room and Saint Noir. 6957 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol, 707.634.6390.

Starling Bar

Aug 30, Eki Shola & Lenkadu. 19380 Hwy 12, Sonoma, 707.938.7442.

Aug 29, Wiley’s Coyotes. Aug 30, Levi Lloyd. Aug 31, Fargo Brothers. Sep 1, Allways Elvis Outta Rehab Show. 16280 Main St, Guerneville, 707.869.0501.

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Aug 30, Bloomfield Bluegrass Band. Aug 31, Miracle Mule. Sep 1, 4pm, Kingsborough. 5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove, 707.795.5118.

Aug 31, 12pm, Nathan Owens and Detroit Legends. Sep 1, 12pm, Garrett Wilkin & the Parrotheads. 911 Village Court, Santa Rosa, 707.545.3844.

Murphy’s Irish Pub & Restaurant

Aug 30, Jesse Lee Kincaid. Aug 31, John Burdick. 464 First St E, Sonoma, 707.935.0660.

Mystic Theatre & Music Hall

Aug 31, Popa Chubby with HowellDevine. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.775.6048.

Paul Mahder Gallery

Aug 30, 6:30pm, “Wild Women of Song” with Pamela Rose. 222 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, 707.473.9150.

Redwood Cafe

Aug 29, Buck Nickels & Loose Change. Aug 30, Vickie Guillory & the Sugar Cats and Instrument of Peace. Aug 31, Dylan Black Project. Sep 1, 4pm, Gypsy Kisses. Sep 2, the Blues Defenders pro jam. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.795.7868.

Sep 1, 2pm, Twang Ditty. 2030 Barlow Lane, Sebastopol, 707.823.2049.

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Aug 29, Edgy Open Mic with Llano River Blue. Aug 30, Sakoyana. Aug 31, Slacker Rock. 1910 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.843.5535.

Windsor Town Green

Aug 29, 6pm, the Dylan Black Project. 701 McClelland Dr, Windsor, townofwindsor.com.

NAPA Andaz Napa

Aug 28, Michelle Lambert. Aug 31, Monica da Silva. 1450 First St, Napa, 707.687.1234.

Beringer Vineyards

Aug 31, 11am, Bray. 2000 Main St, St Helena, 866.708.9463.

Blue Note Napa

Aug 28, Zach Heckendorf. Aug 29, Victoria Wasserman sings Amy Winehouse. Aug 31-Sep 1, Paula Fuga and John Cruz. 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.880.2300.

Buster’s Southern Barbecue

Sep 1, 3pm, Rob Watson and Friends featuring Vernon Black. 1207 Foothill Blvd, Calistoga, 707.942.5605.

Ca’ Momi Osteria

Aug 30, La Noche Latina dance party with Sombra Grupera. 1141 First St, Napa, 707.224.6664.

CIA at Copia

Aug 30, 6pm, Jealous Zelig. Aug 31, 6pm, Adrian Areas Latin Jazz Ensemble. 500 First St, Napa, 707.967.2530.

Goose & Gander

Sep 1, 5pm, Free Peoples. 1245 Spring St, St Helena, 707.967.8779.

JaM Cellars

Aug 29, Jimbo Scott. Aug 30, Wiley’s Coyotes. Aug 31, the Highway Poets. 1460 First St, Napa, 707.265.7577.

River Terrace Inn

Aug 30, 6pm, Craig Corona. Aug 31, 5:30pm, Syria Berry. Sep 2, 5:30pm, Steve Taylor. 1600 Soscol Ave, Napa, 707.320.9000.

Roadhouse 29

Aug 30, Robert Foley Band. 3020 St Helena Hwy N, St Helena, 707.302.3777.

The Saint

Aug 30-31, Michele Korb. Sep 1, Monica da Silva. 1351 Main St, St Helena, 707.302.5130.

Art Opening Healdsburg Center for the Arts Aug 31-Oct 20, “The Great Outdoors,” several artists present visions and impressions of our world. Reception, Aug 31 at 5pm. 130 Plaza St, Healdsburg. Daily, 11am to 6pm. 707.431.1970.

Comedy Jay Mohr

Comedian, actor, podcast host, author and “Saturday Night Live” alumni takes the stage for two shows. Aug 31, 7:30 and 9:30pm. $25-$30. Sally Tomatoes, 1100 Valley House Dr, Rohnert Park, 707.665.0260.

Teo Gonzalez

Icon from the Mexican comedy genre performs a Spanishlanguage show. Sep 1, 7pm. $41-$86. Luther Burbank

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Dance Flamingo Lounge

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

Events Circus Vargas

Flying trapeze artists, clowns, jugglers, contortionists and more set sail in a new swashbuckling production, “The Greatest of Ease!” that is fun for all ages. Aug 30-Sep 8. $15 and up. Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds, 175 Fairgrounds Dr, Petaluma, circusvargas.com.

Fishstock

Annual benefit for Jenner Community Center features live music, salmon, oysters, beer, wine, auctions and more. Sep 1, 11am. $5; kids are free. Jenner Community Center, 10398 Hwy 1, Jenner, 707.865.2771.

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RISE TO ROCK Singer-songwriter Nicki Bluhm plays off her new album, “To Rise You Gotta Fall,” with friends Scott Law and Ross James on Fri., Aug 30, at Mystic Theatre in Petaluma. See concerts, pg 20. Friday Nights at the Museum

View the Charles Schulz Museum’s current exhibit, “Peace, Love, and Woodstock,” with live music by New Skye Band, wine and beer, and summer salads. Aug 30, 6pm. Charles M Schulz Museum, 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa, 707.579.4452.

Honoring the Living Earth

Spa and meditation retreat includes cedar-enzyme footbath, massage, organic lunch and a dharma talk. Limited space available. Sep 4, 10am. $249; $25 talk only. Osmosis Day Spa, 209 Bohemian Hwy, Freestone, 707.823.8231.

Louie Vermeil Classic

Calistoga Speedway hosts sprint cars and vintage racers competing on the tracks, with wine and beer tastings, live music and Friday Hall of Fame dinner. Aug 30-Sep 1. $10-$35 and up. Napa County Fairgrounds, 1435 N Oak St, Calistoga, calistogaspeedway.org.

Repair Party

Bring in your bikes, cell phones and laptops to be repaired,

your clothes and jewelry to be mended, and small appliances to be fixed. First come, first served. Aug 31, 2pm. Free. Northwest Regional Library, 150 Coddingtown Center, Santa Rosa, 707.546.2265.

Field Trips Family Hike

Docent-led hike is good for all ages. Sep 2, 10am. Free; parking fees apply. Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, 2605 Adobe Canyon Rd, Kenwood, 707.833.5712.

Post-Burn Hike

Adults-only hike explores the preserve and highlights the importance of fire ecology. Pre-registration required. Aug 31, 9am. Calabazas Creek Open Space Preserve, meet at 100 Calistoga Rd, Santa Rosa, landpaths.org.

Spring Lake Campfire

Final campfire program of the summer includes hands-on family activities. Aug 31. Free. Spring Lake Park, 5585 Newanga Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.539.8092.

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Walk Honoring Loss & Resilience

Immersive walk is for anyone who still feels they are suffering negative effects from the recent fires or floods. Aug 31, 10am. Free. Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, 2605 Adobe Canyon Rd, Kenwood, 707.833.5712.

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Cinema Under the Stars

Bring a blanket and sit in the garden for a screening of “What About Bob?” starring Bill Murray. Sep 3, 7:45pm. Free. CIA at Copia, 500 First St, Napa, 707.967.2530.

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Food & Drink Access Alexander Valley

Grand tasting is held poolside under the stars, with artisan wines and culinary wonders. Aug 30, 7pm. $85. Francis Ford Coppola Winery, 300 Via Archemides, Geyserville, 707.857.1400.

CaBacon

Weekend-long fusion of Cabernet Day and International Bacon Day features 90-minute tasting sessions with Cabernet Sauvignon wines paired with bacon bites. Aug 30-Sep 1. $55. St. Supery Estate Vineyards & Winery, 8440 St Helena Hwy, Rutherford, 707.963.4507.

Ciderfest

Enjoy seasonal ciders and other libations, delicious food and live music in this third annual event. Sep 1, 12pm. Free admission; $3 per cider tasting. CIA at Copia, 500 First St, Napa, 707.967.2530.

DoNapa Culinary Crawl

Walk, taste and sip your way through downtown Napa. Aug 29, 5pm. $40. Oenotri, 1425 First St, Napa, donapa.com.

Grape Stomp Competition

Enjoy a delicious lunch overlooking the vineyards, then get your stomp on. Preregistration recommended. Sep 1, 12pm. $30-$45. Viszlay Vineyards, 851 Limerick Lane, Healdsburg, 707.481.1514.

Hands Across the Valley

Taste the latest from noted chefs, restaurateurs and winemakers while participating in silent and live auctions, dancing and enjoying a special VIP dinner. Aug 31, 4pm. $75 and up. Charles Krug Winery, 2800 Main St, St Helena, handsacrossthevalley.com.

Harvest Tour & Lunch

Get a behind-the-scenes peek at a wine cellar during the height of the harvest season, and enjoy a family-style meal and tasting. Aug 31, 11:30am. $60. Comstock Wines, 1290 Dry Creek Rd, Healdsburg, 707.723.4229.

How to Make Olives Edible

Class and lunch are led by olive-expert Don Landis. Advance registration required. Sat, Aug 31, 10am. $95. The Olive Oasis, 7820 Apple Blossom Lane, Sebastopol, olivedon@hotmail.com.

Labor Day Lobster Feed

Enjoy a traditional, fork-free lobster feast complete with live music, great company and a beautiful Napa setting. Aug 30, 6pm. $160. Solage Calistoga, 755 Silverado Trail N, Calistoga, 707.266.7534.

Taste of Sonoma

Signature event showcases the region’s wines, vintners, winegrowers and chefs. Aug 31. Green Music Center Weill Hall, 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

Vodka & Oyster Tasting

Enjoy tastings of Hanson Vodka paired with Hog Island Oysters served with traditional garnishes. Aug 31-Sep 2. $24. Hanson of Sonoma Distillery, 22985 Burndale Rd, Sonoma, 707.343.1805.

Whiskey Wednesdays

Sample a different flight of whiskey every week. Wed. Goose & Gander, 1245 Spring St, St Helena, 707.967.8779.

Lectures Art History Afternoon

Michael Schwager introduces audiences to Minimalism, with a one-hour film from the series “This is Modern Art,” and discussion. Registration required. Aug 29, 4pm. $16. Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S High St, Sebastopol, 707.829.4797.

Drawdown

Community discussion looks at how to take action and meet the climate emergency we face now. Sep 3, 6pm. Arlene Francis Center, 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.528.3009.

Laser Cutting Basics Workshop

Class is open to everyone, no special skills needed. Fri, Aug 30, 6pm. Chimera Arts & Maker Space, 6791 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol, chimeraarts.org.

The Write Spot

Bring a notebook and a pen for a workshop where creative prompts inspire writing. Sep 3, 10am. $15. Petaluma Copperfield’s Books,

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Readings Aqus Cafe

Sep 2, 6:15pm, Rivertown Poets Amuse-ing Mondays, featuring Sonoma County Poet Laureate Maya Khosla and Camille Norton, with open mic. 189 H St, Petaluma 707.778.6060.

Laguna de Santa Rosa Environmental Center Aug 29, 6:30pm, “The State of Water” with Obi Kaufmann, includes a presentation and book signing. Pre-registration required. $14. 900 Sanford Rd, Santa Rosa 707.527.9277.

Santa Rosa Copperfield’s Books Aug 30, 7pm, “Three Nights at the Condor” with Benita Mattioli. 775 Village Court, Santa Rosa 707.578.8938.

Theater The Book Club Play

Endearing comedy is about five book-loving friends who become the subject of a documentary film. Through Sep 15. $18-$29. 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.523.4185.

Eureka Day

New comedy about a progressive charter school makes its North Bay premiere. Aug 30-Sep 22. $12-$36. Spreckels Performing Arts Center, 5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park, 707.588.3400.

Little Shop of Horrors

Beloved Broadway musical about a meek floral assistant and his killer plant is out of this world. Aug 30-Sep 22. $30$45. Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.763.8920.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The hardiest

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the yearly cycle of many Geminis, retreating into a state akin to hibernation makes sense during the end of August and the first three weeks of September. But since many of you are high-energy sophisticates, you often override your body’s signals. And then nature pushes back by compelling you to slow down. The result may be a rhythm that feels like constantly taking three steps forward and two steps backward. May I suggest a different approach this year? Would you consider surrendering, even slightly, to the invitation to relax and recharge?

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Here are examples of activities I recommend you try in the coming days. 1. Build a campfire on the beach with friends, and regale each other with stories of your most interesting successes. 2. Buy eccentric treasures at a flea market and ever thereafter refer to them as your holy icons. 3. Climb a hill and sit on the grass as you sing your favorite songs and watch the moon slowly rise over the eastern horizon. 4. Take naps when you’re “not supposed to.” 5. Sneak into an orchard at night and eat fruit plucked just moments before. 6. Tell a beloved person a fairy tale in which he or she is the hero.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you decide to travel to a particular place via hot air balloon, you must be prepared for the possibility that your route will be indirect. At different altitudes, the wind may be blowing in different directions: toward the east at a hundred feet high, but toward the southwest at two hundred feet. The trick for the pilot is to jockey up and down until finding a layer that’s headed toward the desired destination. I see your life right now as having a metaphorical resemblance to this riddle: You haven’t yet discovered the layer that will take you where you want to go, but I bet you will soon. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Considering how brightly

you’ve burned since the Flame Angels designated you as the Hottest Cool Person of the Month, I hesitate to urge you to simmer down. But I must. Before there’s a meltdown in your vicinity, please lower your thermostat. Not a lot. Just a little. If you do that, everyone will continue to see your gleaming charisma in the best possible light. But don’t you dare extinguish your blaze. Don’t apologize for your brilliant shimmer. The rest of us need your magical radiance.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): is a bestselling novel about an Englishman who transforms himself into a samurai warrior in 17th-century Japan. Written by James Clavell, it’s over 1,100 pages long. Clavell testified that the idea for the story sprang up in him when he read one line in his daughter’s schoolbook: “In 1600 an Englishman went to Japan and became a samurai.” I suspect it’s highly likely you, too, will soon encounter a seed like that, Virgo: A bare inspiration that will eventually bloom into a Big Thing. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran athlete Mickey Mantle is in Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame. He had a spectacular 18-year career, winning the Most Valuable Player Award three times, playing in 12 World Series and being selected to the All-Star team 16 times. So it’s astounding that (according to his biographer Jane Leavy) he played with a torn ligament in his knee for 17 years. She quoted an orthopedic surgeon who said that Mantle compensated for his injury with “neuromuscular genius.” I’m thinking that in the next few weeks you’re in a position to accomplish an equivalent of Mantle’s heroic adjustment. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Most people who

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belong to the Church of Satan neither believe in, nor worship, Satan. (They’re atheists, and don’t believe in the supernatural.) I think a comparable principle is true for many right-wing,fundamentalist Christians. Their actions and words are replete with bigotry, hardheartedness, materialism and selfishness: so, contrary to what the real Jesus Christ taught, in effect they don’t believe in, or worship, Jesus Christ. I mention this, Scorpio, in hopes of inspiring you to take inventory of whether your stated ideals are reflected in the practical details of how you live your life. That’s always an interesting and important task, of course, but it’s especially so for you right now. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to purge any hypocrisy from your system and get your actual behavior in close alignment with your deepest values.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): It’s

the right time for you to create a fresh mission statement and promotional campaign. For inspiration, read mine: “My column ‘Free Will Astrology’ offers you a wide selection of realities to choose from. With 4,212 years of dedication to customer service (over the course of my last 13 incarnations), I’m a reliable ally supporting your efforts to escape your oppressive conditioning and other people’s hells. My horoscopes come with an ironclad guarantee: If the advice you read is wrong, you’re under no obligation to believe it. And remember: A panel of 531 experts determined that ‘Free Will Astrology’ is an effective therapy for your chronic wounds and primordial pain. It’s also dramatic proof that there’s no good reason to be afraid of life.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Here are good questions for you to meditate on during the next four weeks. 1. How can you attract resources that will expand your mind and your world? 2. Are you bold enough to reach out to wise sources and provocative influences which could connect you with useful tricks and practical treasures? 3. What interesting lessons can you stir up as you explore mercurial edges, skirt changeable boundaries, journey to catalytic frontier, and make pilgrimages to holy hubbubs? 4. How best can you encourage lyrical emotion over polished sentimentality? Joyous idealism over astringent zealotry? Exuberant integrity over formulaic kindness? AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by,” wrote author Wallace Stegner, “and it’s persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.” That will be an excellent meditation for you during the coming weeks. I trust you are long past the time of fantasizing you can live without any rules. Your challenge now is to adjust some of the rules you have been living by—or even dare to align yourself with some new rules—and then completely commit yourself to being loyal to them and enjoying them. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Given the

astrological omens that will symbolize your personal story in the coming weeks and months, I think Piscean author Nikos Kazantzakis articulated the perfect prescription for you. I invite you to interpret his thoughts to fit your circumstances. “We’re going to start with small, easy things,” he wrote. “Then, little by little we shall try our hand at the big things. And after that, after we finish the big things, we shall undertake the impossible.” Here’s an additional prod from Kazantzakis: “Reach what you cannot.”

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