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A Shocking Tale I’ve been voicing concerns about Darius Anderson and the Press Democrat for nearly a year and a half (“Juiced,” July 24, 2019). When Poynter published a glowing Cinderella story of the paper and its Pulitzer win, I was the lone voice of caution in the comments section, noting the uncomfortable ties to Anderson and utilities. Curiously, I can’t find the comment there anymore.

I have yet to see their editorial board take a position that didn’t favor the utilities (although they never presented it that way). They published an editorial, early on, chastising the county for choosing to sue, treating it as a rush to judgment and completely ignoring the fact that PG&E was hardly taking a wait and see attitude at the time.

IBEW representative. This meeting was described in an article published by the Press Democrat, also the only article to my knowledge that acknowledged the connection between the paper, Anderson, and PG&E. This was after Platinum Advisors had been lobbying on PG&Es behalf for several months.

Then they published an editorial in support of SB 901. This, presumably, after the editorial board meeting attended by Steven Malnight and an

What I never read was any editorial board meeting that invited fire victims.

We’ve just been the fodder for their human interest stories.

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By Tom Tomorrow

You want a snapshot summary of how little we’ve been able to feel like the local media supports victims here? On Oct. 25, 2017, this was a San Jose Mercury News headline: “PG&E violated safety rules, was late on thousands of Wine Country electricity inspections and work orders.”

Meanwhile, at the blinders-on Press Democrat we got this: “New nonprofit Rebuild North Bay launched to address wildfire recovery.”

Look it up if you don’t believe me.

When it comes to criticism of PG&E, the paper has appeared reluctant and tardy, like a petulant child forced to come in and eat dinner.

One more sad connection: Kamala Harris dragged her feet when it came to investigation of utilities. It was the feds that ultimately charged PG&E in the wake of San Bruno, not her. People were so incensed that they elected her senator and now she gets to run for president.

And you know who was present at her swearing in as Senator? Darius Anderson.

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This is a shocking tale of political and media influence and corporate corruption.

Congratulations to Will Carruthers and the Bohemian for their hard work in researching and publishing this important piece. Citizen media should share this report widely. I’ll do my part.

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Thank you for this in-depth reporting: PG&E is fighting (and spending) to protect themselves and their profits even through bankruptcy. The bill passed, but there will be a way to make these essential utilities public, not private.

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Closing the Gap Windsor’s Latino Service Providers aims to engage Latinx community on mental health issues BY GUADALUPE NAVARRO

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atino Service Providers (LSP) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1989 to provide access to information and opportunities for engaging our Latinx community. LSP’s mission is to be a bridge across generations for the Latinx community focusing on health and social issues. We do this by developing youth leaders, building awareness and connections to community services and advocating for equity across race and ethnicity. Our vision is that our Sonoma County Latinx community has equitable opportunities to lead healthy, resilient and connected lives. We implement our mission and vision in various ways to engage and seek to connect and collaborate with all community members of Sonoma County.

The growing Latinx population residing in the United States and the corresponding growth in Sonoma County brings great diversity and new opportunities to the county. Working collaboratively to close the achievement gap, reduce stigma around mental health and provide awareness of tools and resources to the Latinx population in Sonoma County helps identify and overcome current obstacles that contribute to the ever-growing disparities in educational and economic achievement, civic engagement and access to healthcare and mental health services.

LSP’s focus on mental health is an important part of the organization’s work because of the disparities that exist in access to mental health services for our Latinx population in Sonoma County. Though Latinxs experience the same prevalence of mental health conditions when compared to the rest of the population, we access services at a lower rate than the rest of the population. In response to this disparity, LSP developed an internship program open to 39 students in Sonoma County. The students, known as Youth Promotores (Youth Community Health Workers), engage their peers, family, friends and community in conversation, workshops and/or presentations on mental health. The goal of the project is to not only engage and educate the Latinx community on mental health issues, but to also help diversify our future health workforce of Sonoma County.

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TRIBE’S QUEST Graton Rancheria Chairman Greg Sarris met with Sonoma County Sheriff Mark Essick over a steak and asked him to address a crowd of some 2,000 Latinos Friday night.

Dances with ICE Sonoma Sheriff Mark Essick pledges to protect rights of the undocumented BY TOM GOGOLA

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he mariachi band stops playing and the lights come up as the last peals of trumpet shoot through the big ballroom. An emcee strides out onto the stage at the Graton Rancheria Casino and grabs a mic. It’s Friday night and almost 10pm—and people are partying.

The emcee tells the capacity crowd to hang on: There’s a really special guest about to take the stage. Reporters gather in a secure media area roped off from the crowd. Everyone waits in anticipation for the special guest.

Moments later, Graton Rancheria chairman Greg Sarris walks onstage and announces Sonoma County Sheriff Mark Essick is in the house—and that

he has a message for the crowd of about 2,000 gathered for the casino’s popular monthly Latin baile, or dance party.

As federal immigration raids mount around the country and tear families apart, Essick is on hand, at Sarris’ request, to soothe nerves and reassure the well-dressed crowd. Cowboy hats bob in the audience and women balance on stiletto heels as

Essick promises the audience the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office will protect their rights.

He reiterates his department’s guidelines for dealing with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, in light of recent roundups and intense public scrutiny of conditions at detention centers along the southern border.

He tells the audience the SCSO will not turn anyone over for traffic infractions, driving without a license or insurance, or for any minor misdemeanors, including petty theft or public intoxication.

Nor will his department assist ICE in conducting raids, nor will his officers ever ask anyone for their immigration status.

And, most important of all, Essick notes, no one who comes forward to report a crime to the agency he oversees will be turned over to ICE. In a county with a large undocumented population, these are important words.

The crowd cheers, Essick completes his remarks, and he and Sarris retire to the green room to join family, friends and the county officials in attendance.

Sarris describes it as a historic event for the sheriff’s office, which gave Essick the opportunity to address a large crowd of mostly Latinos, some of whom are undocumented, he says, but safe from ICE because Graton’s located on Native American soil and, as such, is sovereign territory.

Sarris says the event came together following a dinner he shared with Essick at the casino’s steakhouse a few months ago. He says he wanted to give Essick, who took his post as Sonoma’s top cop in January, the chance to “face the people and tell them himself” that his agency won’t target undocumented immigrants on behalf of ICE. Sarris grew up in Sonoma County, he says, and says lingering community bitterness over the 2013 shooting of Andy Lopez, as well as rising tensions over what’s going on in Donald Trump’s White House, motivated him to reach out to Essick.

“Latinos are afraid to go to

activist community grapple with an ICE phenomenon that’s created some internal friction over whether law enforcement agencies should interact with ICE at all. Sarris says that’s a foolish strategy, even as he describes himself as being “to the left of the left” on most issues.

For example, Marin County Sheriff Robert Doyle faces critics who say he shouldn’t hand any inmates over to ICE— even those who commit violent felonies. That viewpoint held sway with Supervisor Dennis Rodoni at a recent Marin County Supervisors meeting, who said he’d be more comfortable housing undocumented felons in local lockups than turning them over to ICE for deportation.

Sarris rejects that approach, saying “I have no sympathy for a high level felon,” especially one involved in crimes against children. He blasts the liberal mindset that can’t appreciate that protecting violent felons from ICE raids only serves to put the majority of law-abiding undocumented immigrants in danger. “Don’t conflate grabbing wanted felons with what’s happening down there,” Sarris says with an animated wave of his arms.

“We must come together on facts.”

Sarris says he’s committed to helping build a better relationship between law enforcement and the region’s Latino community, which, he recalls, lived in an apartheid-like divide between white and brown when he was growing up in one of the county’s poor neighborhoods. “We were frightened of them” he recalls, and a big driver of that fear was a lack of communication between the agency and the people they’re sworn to serve.

Sarris says he hopes his effort will be a model to communities in the Central Valley dealing with the same fear and tension that exist locally. He repeats that he’s taking a risk by standing side by side with Essick, but says he hopes the sheriff and his men will stick to these policies.

When he takes the stage, Essick’s wearing simple blue jeans, a tucked-in flannel shirt

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MAN WITH A MESSAGE “People are scared and frightened,” says Greg Sarris.

“This country is on the verge of a war between people of color and law enforcement, and the White House seems to be spurring it on.”

and work boots. “He has agreed to protect you from ICE,” the emcee tells the crowd. “I have the sheriff here to tell you this from his heart,” Sarris says.

He briskly details the policies in place at SCSO, and the men exit the stage to applause that’s not quite thunderous, but appreciative. Essick’s here tonight with Misti Harris, the SCSO’s community liaison, and a representative from Sonoma County who organizes Sonoma’s rapid-response network, a local effort to stem deportations and keep families from being separated because of immigration status. Immigration issues are hitting home: Sonoma County Supervisors have also agreed to look in to activists’ demands that the county divest from banks and corporations tied to ICE-contracted detention facilities. Those have lately been increasingly referred to as “concentration camps” in some corners of the media.

Asked to weigh in on the larger national framework responsible for driving the fear and tension locally, Essick passed on commenting on conditions at ICE border facilities at the southern border. “I’m not going to wade into the national debate about the border,” he says. He’s here tonight to provide a reassurance to local Latinos that “clearly spells out when we should interact with ICE,” based on state law and not national politics.

The party music kicks in again in the big Graton ballroom, and before long, the dance party is back in full swing. It’s a beautiful, celebratory scene.

Sarris, seated on a couch in the green room, looks up from his phone and says his security guys have spotted ICE lurking around the perimeter of the sprawling casino complex.

Happens all the time, Sarris says with a grin. But he’s not amused.

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work,” he says, before launching into a litany of concern and frustration over their treatment.

He says he’s working to “love and protect” a local population that’s lost faith in SCSO because of fallout from the Lopez shooting.

Over the course of the evening, Sarris reminds reporters on several occasions that he’s staking his reputation on Essick keeping his word. “I’m putting myself on the line by walking out there with the sheriff,” he says, an hour or so before walking on stage with Essick.

He says he’s appalled at Trump’s family-separation policy at the border and with conditions at the detention centers, and he’s made direct calls to Gov. Gavin Newsom about it.

“I also called after he took the National Guard off the border,” says Sarris, whose casino opened in 2013. “My love and feelings for the Latino community continue,” he says, when asked why he decided to step into this contentious political moment, “and I thought, I have this opportunity, in the shadow of the Andy Lopez event and in the wake of the White House policy [which is] scaring the shit out of immigrants.”

Inasmuch as the casino’s mission is to separate visitors from their cash, Sarris highlights that Graton Rancheria tribe’s mission includes social justice and environmental stewardship, and that his mission, by extension, is to do what he can to bridge a divide that grows by the day over immigration policy. “People are scared and frightened,” he says with characteristic passion—and a few deleted expletives at his request.

“This country is on the verge of a war between people of color and law enforcement, and the White House seems to be spurring it on.”

Enter Essick, a family man and the elected sheriff of Sonoma County, who told the Bohemian last year that he left the Republican Party several years ago because of Trump’s language about, and conduct toward, women.

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In an effort to decrease his sugar intake without giving up something he loved, Haymaker experimented with a basic ice cream recipe. He worked with a food scientist who helped him perfect the flavor and texture he wanted and eventually began selling his ice cream at local farmers markets in and around Napa, where he lives. Before long he had eight flavors, and in one short year his healthier indulgence (it’s low-glycemic certified) was in 200 stores in the Bay Area.

“I was most impressed by the creamy texture and I didn’t miss the sugar.”

HAVE YOUR ICE CREAM AND EAT IT, TOO After entering recovery for substance abuse,

ReTHINK founder George Haymaker craved sugar. Sugar-free ice cream was the result.

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Napa entrepreneur enters the crowded ice cream market without the sugar BY TANYA HENRY

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t’s difficult to find anyone who doesn’t like ice cream.

Between chefs introducing unlikely flavors such as olive oil and sea salt and black sesame seed, to the overflowing freezer shelves in our supermarkets, it’s clear we’re a

nation obsessed with the creamy, luscious dessert. But ice cream also contains a lot of sugar, and George Haymaker decided to create a healthier option.

Haymaker spent much of his career working in the hospitality industry. A food and beverage director for a large hotel chain and an operating partner for an upscale

burger concept The Counter, he also struggled with alcoholism and drug addiction—a common occupational hazard in his line of work.

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Stuff of Myth Fill your mead cup with craft brew at No Quarter

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hough you might think Russian River Brewing Company’s new brew palace in Windsor is surely the Valhalla of craft brewing, an upstart little brew pub in an unassuming shopping center spot has a solid claim as the best place in town to sit down and have a brew with Odin and friends.

9098 Brooks Rd S, Windsor CA

No Quarter Brewing, which I’d never heard of until last week, has a bit of a viking theme going on,

thanks to the brewer’s interest in Norse mythology. Decor includes an antler chandelier, antler tap handles—antlers everywhere, as a matter of fact—plus a lineup of Nordic coats of arms along the bar, and a detailed depiction of Asgard, the mythical home of Norse gods, filling a wall. The opposite wall is filled with neon beer signs, a tribute to craft brew forebears like Sierra Nevada, and record albums—the brewery’s name comes from a Led Zeppelin song, so there’s a bit of a Zep theme going on here, too.

But that’s as far as the heavy stuff goes. No Quarter is set up like a casual, neighborhood pub and serves beer, brats, kettle chips and more (from a soon-to-expand menu, I’m told), along with nonalcoholic black tea kombucha, eclectic wines from a little local brand, Rootdown Wine Cellars, and yes, of course mead, the drink of champions.

Ancient, Nordic champions.

The Brewdriver is a beer, mead and orange juice “cocktail” for breakfasting champions.

The setup is part corner bar—see the sign that says, “In dog beers I’ve only had one”—with some quality upgrades, such as the table seating, and, likely because the two partners who started the brewery after years of hobby homebrewing are in the concrete business, a bar that looks a cut above your average concrete countertop and evokes a sandy beach.

Pints are $7, a lineup of 2-ounce samplers can be had for the same price, and custom cans to go are available. Agreeing with the crowd, I’ll have to recommend the double IPA and hazy IPA, since they were all drunk up and sold out during my visit. Remaining was Loa of Thunder IPA, a traditional beer drinker’s IPA that skips the citrus, fruity hops and all that, and just provides a nice, bitter finish. There’s more banana, saison character than citrus showing in the Key to the Highway key lime saison.

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FINAL FRONTIER OF TRASH

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After fouling Earth, humans are now making a mess of space, says writer Jeff Dondero.

Trashed

Excerpts from ‘Throwaway Nation’ by the North Bay’s Jeff Dondero Jeff Dondero, 70, is a former Marin County resident and journalist who wrote for the “Pacific Sun,” the “Marin Independent Journal” and other papers in the 1970s.

He now lives in Rohnert Park.

“I probably worked for every suburban paper in Marin County,” he says in an interview with the ‘Bohemian.’ Along the way he became interested in green construction and sustainability issues. He published “The Energy Wise Home” and “The Energy Wise Workplace” in 2017. He takes on America’s trash problem in “Throwaway Nation: The Ugly Truth About American Garbage,” published this year by Rowman & Littlefield.

“We’re the first generation that’s literally burying ourselves in our own crap,” he says of his fellow baby boomers. An avid sailor, he says our trash is piling up

in the oceans, too. “You can’t go anywhere on the ocean without seeing our garbage.”

And human refuse doesn’t stop on Earth.

As he writes in “Throwaway Nation,” space itself is now cluttered with our trash. The moon alone has 400,000 pounds of trash on it, and space junk abounds in the outer atmosphere, putting what Dondero sees as the imminent space tourism industry on a collision course with interstellar trash.

He paints a grim picture, but holds out hope that the same technological savvy and push for profit that created these mountains of trash will convert our waste into new resources.

“We have to plan, but we’re trying to catch up from decades of abuse,” he says. “It’s everybody’s responsibility.” — Stett Holbrook ) 14

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WHAT A MESS “We’re the first generation that’s literally burying

ourselves in our own crap,” says Dondero.

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f we were guests, we would have been asked to leave. As proprietors, our property value would have plummeted.

As groundskeepers, we would have been fired. Just because we are the dominant species doesn’t mean we own the place and can be passive guests. We have the responsibility to leave it for those who come next. We have influenced conditions on this planet throughout its history— and objectively not for the better. It seems that it wasn’t enough to befoul just the planet; now we are also leaving our left-behinds in space and on other planets.

Space Junk Thank God man cannot fly and lay waste to the sky as well as the earth.

— Henry David Thoreau.

The good news is that no one has ever been injured or killed due to falling space junk. The bad news is that unless we clean up our extraterrestrial neighborhood, space travel, especially in orbit, is very likely going to be deadly. In space are thousands of collisions with space junk waiting to happen.

We are responsible for the mess of “orbital debris” we left by accident, neglect, or design, and dumped on the moon and Mars—our newest extraterrestrial “spacefills.”

Humans have a real nasty habit of discarding their stuff wherever they go. According to NASA, hundreds of millions of pieces of space debris are now floating through our region of the solar system.

Elon Musk is the newest name in contributing to the junkyard of space. He may be a way-cool space entrepreneur, but he’s debuting in space as a high-class litterer, contributing to the accumulation of space scrap in the next phase in Earth’s interplanetary journeys.

In 2018, SpaceX, Musk’s company, launched a cherry-red Tesla Roadster and its dummy “driver,” Star Man, on its Falcon Heavy rocket, blasting David Bowie’s

“Life on Mars” on its way to Mars orbit. We don’t mean to be a spoilspace-sport about this, but come on—the car isn’t exactly going to be “draggin’ the cosmos” and doing hot laps on the red planet.

The moon, our next-door neighbor, has felt the negligent hand of humans with our various detritus, including astronaut poop and barf bags. This, of course, has conservationists very concerned about the moon’s protection should further trips there be undertaken.

At present Tranquility Base is still tranquil, as there is not any wind or rain up there to damage or blow things around or, at the moment, any more tourists to leave things behind.

But it looks as if not much thought has been given to protection of our rocky satellite or laws enacted regarding its protection. As yet, only California and New Mexico have recognized the moon as an international historic sight, and for now, it isn’t recognized as a historic landmark or considered a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

In 2009, NASA and The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an arm of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies, convened a space junk wake-up call. The team took a hard look at the issues and challenges of de-cluttering space of human-made orbital rubble.

Maybe that’s why we haven’t had direct contact with any extraterrestrial beings—they just can’t stand our mess.

Fish to Farm to Table to Trash People don’t know whether to be astonished, ashamed or amused when it comes to the magnitude of food that Americans throw away.

No other country in the history of the world has had the ability to raise, produce, eat and toss out as much as we do.

Mothers still shake fingers at their children admonishing fussy

eaters, “Just think of all the children in the world that are starving and would love this food you’re wasting.”

Of course, most of us answered, “OK, send it to them.” Fact is, mom was right. And so were we, kind of, because we export more food than any other nation on Earth, more than $135 billion each year.

All levels of the food system are riddled with waste—farming, harvesting, transportation, packaging, wholesale and retail marketing, and finally our tables.

Food waste levels are 20 to 25 percent of manufacturing, 15 to 20 percent of retail sales and 55 to 65 percent from consumers.

The truth is there’s enough food to feed every single person in America if we can help farmers, manufacturers and retailers get the food to the people who need it. That’s why the Feeding America network and its partners work with farmers and food companies to rescue food and deliver it to families facing hunger. Things could be changing on the food waste front, with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the EPA setting the first-ever national food waste reduction goal, aimed at cutting national food waste in half by 2030.

Food facts and figures: • Less than 1 percent of pesticides applied to crops reach the pest, the rest poison the ecosystem.

Each year 25 million people are poisoned by pesticides in lessdeveloped countries, and over 20,000 die.

• One-third of the world’s fish catch and more than one-third of the world’s total grain output are fed to livestock—the most wasteful way to produce protein.

It takes 175 gallons of water to produce an eight-ounce soy burger, and a whopping 450 gallons of water to produce a quarter-pound beef burger.

[Grassfed beef, however, is far less water intensive].

• About 50 percent more food is wasted today per person than

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Trendy to Trash It’s high irony that the industries that produce haute couture; flawlessly colored and perfectly cosmetized faces and hair; and impeccably lighted, posed, and glossy high-fashion photos are also industries whose dirty secrets are hidden in clothes closets.

The fashion industry (including cosmetics) is the second-dirtiest business in the world, right after oil and petroleum products, with rampant production schedules and unconscionable recycle rates. A lot of power is needed to produce 150 billion-plus articles of clothing each year and most of the countries where those garments are produced use coal for their energy source. This helps to explain why the apparel industry is responsible for 10 percent of all carbon waste emissions globally.

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by Esquire magazine, the global apparel industry produced enough garments in 2010 to provide 20 new articles of clothing for every person on the planet.

Today, the fashion industry and the culture of throwaway clothing it has inspired have produced some startling statistics. The average American throws away more than 82 pounds of textiles per year. We’re buying more than 80 billion new

items of clothing each year in this country, much of which is not being reused, recycled or repurposed.

Thinking Inside and Outside the Box Who hasn’t experienced “wrapping rage” trying to dislodge some desired doodad from the bondage of a heatsealed plastic blister pack clamshell or other encasement? What’s worse is that over-packaging mania accounts for a third of the waste thrown away in the United States.

And, less than 14 percent of plastic packaging, which is the fastest-growing form of packaging, gets recycled.

Packaging adds twenty-nine million tons of non-biodegradable waste to landfills every year.

Americans use 100 billion plastic bags a year, which require 12 million barrels of oil to manufacture. Of all the plastic problems people face, the aggravating single-use plastic bag is the baddie. There was recently a kind of a test case for bagging the problem in California. The state has been in the lead for many ecological causes in the past. Proposition 67, a plastic bag law, was passed in 2016.

And the ban seems to be working.

In San Jose the storm drain systems are 89 percent cleaner, and streets and creeks have been reported as 60 percent cleaner.

In Los Angeles County, the ban resulted in a 94 percent reduction in single-use bag use. In Alameda County, officials reported finding 433 plastic bags, compared to 4,357 in 2010. Monterey County reported even better news, with volunteers discovering only 43 plastic bags while performing their clean-up efforts, compared to 2,494 in 2010.

So, either people are so cheap they’re using fewer bags because they have to buy them, or they’re getting the message about plastic pollution, or a little of both.

Then there’s the question of recyclability. Plastic juice pouches and drink boxes are generally not recyclable. The 1.4 billion Capri Sun pouches thrown away every year

laid end-to-end would reach nearly halfway to the moon. NRDC joined the Make It, Take It campaign (a coalition of organizations devoted to waste recycling and resource conservation) to ask companies like Kraft, which produces and distributes Capri Sun, to use recyclable, reusable or compostable packages for beverages. They have made comments about an effort to recycle, but when asked if they plan to improve their packages or efforts to improve the sustainability of their product, CapriSun declined to comment.

Eight in 10 Americans are now shopping online, accounting for about 10 percent of all retail sales, and just about all products arrive in cardboard boxes.

Every day at the Recology plant in San Francisco, approximately 625 tons of recyclables, including more than one hundred tons of cardboard, are collected, and the amount of plastic film has increased for eleven consecutive years. Plastic film recycling—a category that includes flexible product wraps, bags, and commercial stretch film made primarily from polyethylene (PE)— has increased nearly 84 percent since the first report was issued in 2005.

China, our best customer for garbage, is setting new limits on the contamination it will allow in mixed paper bales that American trash companies ship for recycling. And guess what—many of the items we order online are made in China and come in recycled cardboard boxes from paper material bought from the United States.

Opening Pandora’s Pharmacy There’s a persistent and pervasive, high-priced illness in America today.

It’s the overly expensive, overly prescribed and incredibly wasteful amount of American medicine made available to the public under and over the counter, in concert with doctors and America’s big pharma.

It’s hand in hand in glove with one of the worst effects of modern

medical technology—the belief that whatever ails us, taking a pill will kill it no matter the cost or waste.

The average American takes about 12 medications annually compared to seven 20 years ago.

Back then, spending on drugs totaled about 5 percent of the total US health care costs, now it’s more like 17 percent. Spending on prescription medications has increased by a knockout of $200 billion in two decades.

We take a total of 2.9 billion trips annually to purchase retail over-the-counter (OTC) products.

On average, U.S. households spend about $338 per year on OTC products. This amounts to tens of billions of dollars spent on vitamins, supplements, diet pills, cold cures, herbal remedies and other medicaments—providing incredible economic benefits to the companies that manufacture them.

Part of the growth of the almost half-trillion-dollar medical industry was brought about by waste—both in over-prescribing by the pharmaceutical and medical industry and in the discarding of medicine by consumers.

Lamentably, methods of drug waste disposal are causing a major health hazard. Consumers aren’t the only ones tossing their drugs down the drain or in the garbage.

The Associated Press estimates hospitals and long-term medical care institutions across the United States dump 250 million pounds of pharmacologically active drugs that can have severe effects on humans and wildlife directly into public sewer systems each year.

A study published in the BMJ concluded Medicare and private insurers, as well as patients, pay companies about $1.8 billion a year for medications that are thrown away—that’s 10 percent of drug companies’ projected 2016 revenue of $18 billion. Add another $1 billion to doctors and hospitals as price markups on those discarded medications. Those profits would not exist if companies sold vial sizes more in line with the needs of patients, researchers suggest.

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Food is so cheap and available to most families that they throw out up to 25 percent of their food and beverages. This can cost the average family between $1,365 and $2,275 annually.

A study by the University of Arizona found that 14 percent of the food trashed in America was not even unpackaged.

A 20 percent reduction in food waste would be enough to feed 25 million Americans. Five percent of Americans’ leftovers could feed four million people for one day.

It costs $750 million to dispose of food thrown away annually.

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Killer Set

Acclaimed blues-rock guitarist and singer-songwriter Tommy Castro really slays on stage, with exciting solos and inventive riffs. The South Bay Area native spent a lifetime perfecting his chops, and since he formed Tommy Castro & the Painkillers in 2012, his blazing hot blues has become a staple of Bay Area summers. This summer, Tommy Castro & the Painkillers returns to Windsor to rock the ‘Summer Nights on the Green’ concert series coinciding with the Windsor Farmers Market on Thursday, Aug 1, at Windsor Town Green, 701 McClelland Dr, Windsor. 6pm. Free. townofwindsor.com.

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The greatest artists in history have their works rejected or refused by galleries or exhibits, and the same goes for local artists. This week, over 30 artists embrace their most jilted works in the “Salon des Refusés Gallery Show.”

See art that was too outside-the-box for other exhibits from the likes of Tony Speirs and Dan Scannell, and revel in the rejected with unconventional art from painters such as Suzanne Edminster and Christie Marks during SOFA’s event on Friday, Aug 2, at Art Alley behind 312 South A St, Santa Rosa. 5pm.

Free. facebook.com/SOFASantaRosa.

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Now in it’s 12th year, the Petaluma Music Festival keeps on keeping music in local schools by raising funds for student programs while throwing one of the year’s biggest homegrown parties. The stacked lineup includes 17 bands, with headliners like veteran jam bands ALO and the Mother Hips, folk and bluegrass groups Hot Buttered Rum and David Nelson Band, and funky acts Royal Jelly Jive and the Soul Section. Other highlights include the guitar raffle, Lagunitas brews, specialty foods and kids activities. Enjoy the music on Saturday, Aug 3, at Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds 175 Fairgrounds Dr., Petaluma. 11:30am. $55. petalumamusicfestival.org.

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On the Fritz

After years of home brewing beers for their own enjoyment, Napa Valley wine pros Nile Zacherle and Whitney Fisher formed Mad Fritz Brewery and took their beer public. This summer, they celebrate beer in wine country with the inaugural Mad Firkin Beer Festival alongside 15 other small, family-owned breweries who will offer ales and lagers from bottles, kegs and firkins (5-to-10 gallon casks naturally carbonated and hand tapped). Small bites from Napa Valley restaurateurs and music by local talent round out the fest on Saturday, Aug 3, at Bale Grist Mill Historic Park, 3801 Hwy 29, Calistoga. 1pm. $95. madfirkinfest.com.

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BRAIN FOR BIRDS Tiffany Holbrook traded her teaching career for a farm life.

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he North Bay has long centered its identity around its agriculture and food. Latest on the menu?

Designer eggs, courtesy of Wise Acre Farm in Windsor.

“Designer eggs, that’s my thing,” says owner Tiffany Holbrook, “It’s food from a source where the animals are truly cared for.”

Holbrook, a vegetarian, is open about the age when hens are culled—two years for heritage breeds; 18 months for hybrid-

laying breeds. “I refer to myself as a vegetarian butcher. I do the slaughters on the farm myself.”

A vegetarian since she was a kid, Holbrook doesn’t like the thought of eating an animal. The slaughter of old hens, however, is an unavoidable aspect of poultry farming. As a responsible, humane farmer, she feels she must do it herself to honor the lives of the hens.

When it comes to the debate about whether eating vegan or omnivorously is best for the planet, however, Holbrook wishes people would focus more on where the food

is coming from and less on what it is. Environmental sustainability is a priority at Wise Acre. She practices regenerative agriculture and works with markets nearby.

What’s good for the animals is good for the earth. At Wise Acre, hens range freely and Holbrook moves the coops often to avoid overloading carbon, aka manure.

This also lets the chickens eat fresh grass and insects. Holbrook, who leases the farm, says the landlord told her the pastures are the healthiest they’ve been in the last century. “We need livestock

moving through fields to heal the planet,” says Holbrook.

Treating the hens as animals instead of machines is costly.

Letting the hens range outside, Holbrook says, makes them prone to predator attacks and parasites, and she accrues expenses conventional egg farms avoid by confining their chickens.

Holbrook is actively trying to lower the costs for her customers.

It costs $126 per day to feed her 1,600 laying hens and 250 chicks.

A dozen eggs range from $4.50 to $10, depending on size. To cut down on feed expenses, Holbrook started growing barley with hydroponics—half as expensive as the local, package-free grain the hens eat. She also hopes to start an insect farm, using manure to amend the nutritional deficiencies of barley for the hens.

As a former elementary school teacher, Holbrook is new to professional farming. She dove in a year or so ago after seeing Wise Acre was for sale. Holbrook’s proud to be part of a nationwide wave of women taking the reigns on farms, mentioning that since she’s taken over she’s learned to operate heavy machinery and weld. “I hold my head high.”

“What’s amazing about Windsor is how this farm is so heavily supported,” Holbrook says.

Residents come straight to the farm to buy eggs from Wise Acre’s signature egg vending machine.

Off the farm, Windsor’s BurtoNZ Bakery uses Wise Acre’s eggs exclusively. “It’s why they’re the best quiches in town.”

It’s clear that Holbrook knows the hens intimately. Star loves water and likes hoses. Then there’s Brittany, who decided to live with the goats for a few weeks “You have a doctor, you should have a farmer, too.”

You can purchase Wise Acre eggs at 631 Arata Lane in Windsor.

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he Ross Valley Players conclude their 89th season with a production of Crimes of the Heart, running in Ross through Aug. 11. Beth Henley’s tragicomedy won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for drama and was followed by a film adaptation starring Sissy Spacek that nabbed three Oscar nominations.

The Magrath sisters are gathered at their grandfather’s home in Hazelhurst, Miss. in support of sister Babe (Margaret Grace Hee) who’s out on bail after shooting her husband in the stomach. Lenny (Jensen Power) is taking care of Grandpa after sister Meg (Chandler Parrott-Thomas) took off to Southern California in pursuit of a singing career.

Things haven’t turned out so well for any of them. Lenny’s given up hope of ever finding love because of a shrunken ovary. Meg, who left a broken heart in town, is back after suffering a breakdown and spending the last year working for a pet food company. Babe will soon stand trial for the attempted murder of her ne’er-do-well husband. Current problems and

past grievances will test the bonds of sisterhood.

Full of the absurd and the grotesque for which the style of “Southern Gothic” is known, Henley’s play has six great character roles for actors, and director Patrick Nims filled those roles well. In addition to the three aforementioned sisters, there’s Chick Boyle (Caitlin StromMartin), a neighboring cousin with a perpetually upturned nose; Doc Porter (Michel Harris), the man Meg left behind; and Barnett Lloyd (Jeremy Judge), the wetbehind-the-ears defense attorney who’s taken Babe’s case for “personal” reasons.

Henley mines the dark material (suicide, infidelity, attempted murder, etc.) for a lot of humor, and none of it seems cheap. The ability of these women to carry on despite the harshness of their lives and to still have hope for better times to come is one of this show’s appeals. Audiences looking for a little support in their lives might learn a little something from the Magrath sisters.

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Bum’s Paradise

Tarantino waxes nostalgic in new film BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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ne feels less like reviewing Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood and more like writing Quentin Tarantino a letter that begins, “Thank you for retrieving my lost city.” The movie dreams of Los Angeles in 1969, in a heatwave winter and halfa-year later on the fateful weekend of Aug 8–9. It admires open freeways, brushy hills, blazing movie marquees and colossal advertising signs that flaunt every zoning law.

In one of several rhapsodic driving scenes, Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) crosses the San Fernando Valley at night. On his right appears something that looks like a hallucination: a giant, glowing, blue X. Old Angelenos will recognize this wonder as the delft-blue windmill sign for a Van de Kamp's coffee shop, its blades 20 feet long.

This movie is about the partnership of a pair of unequal men. Booth is the drinking buddy, chauffeur and stunt double

for skidding actor Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), who’s paunchy from booze and living off the residuals of his 8-year-old TV hit Bounty Law. But Booth’s own career is in eclipse, due to what seems like QT’s oblique reference to the #MeToo movement.

Dalton has a new neighbor: the velveteen-clad director Roman Polanksi and his new wife, the doomed starlet Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie).

Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood is a nostalgic, gentle film, unrecognizable as the work of the man who directed Hateful Eight— right up to the grindhouse ending when the Manson Family arrives, that bad August night.

One feels great empathy for the crumbling Dalton and sees the beauty in the friendship between the two men. This loving study of the bum’s paradise is suffused with a mellowness that transcends the smog-softened light, blue-gray at the magic hour. Life’s anxieties are either remote or kept at bay with pitchers of margaritas. Here, there is a serene easiness to everything.

‘Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood’ is playing in wide release.

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HAWAIIAN STYLE Pat Simmons

Jr. says ‘aloha’ to the North Bay with a solo show this weekend.

Land Lover

Maui singersongwriter Pat Simmons Jr. hits the mainland in Petaluma

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ost mainlanders know the meaning of aloha, but fewer have heard of Aloha ‘Āina. That’s a bit ironic, considering the concept of Aloha ‘Āina is arguably even more integral to the Hawaiian way of life.

While it literally translates as “love of the land,” its actual meaning is far more complex, encompassing not only one’s connection to the Earth, but also environmental consciousness and cultural understanding of all types.

Pat Simmons Jr performs on Sunday, Aug 4, at Aqus Café, 189 H St., Petaluma. 2pm. Free. 707.778.6060.

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It’s also the principle by which Pat Simmons Jr. lives his life. He’s primarily known for his music, which is to be expected when you’re the son of Doobie Brothers guitarist Patrick Simmons and your own musical career began when you were barely old enough to walk.

But the 28-year-old Simmons, who released his debut album This Mountain in 2017 and is currently working on a follow-up, sees his music mainly as a medium for his message.

“For me, my ultimate hope and goal with my music right now is to spread the word about what’s happening in Hawaii,” says Simmons.

“It’s so hard for me to be away right now, knowing that my ohana, my Hawaiian family, is standing up for their sacred mountain and trying to protect the place they call home.”

This Mountain was defined by strong hooks, Simmons’ environmental messages and a laidback, often rootsy, folk sound. For this follow-up album, which he hopes to release by the end of the year, he’s taken a somewhat different approach.

“I really enjoyed making This Mountain, but I left a lot of the decisions up to my dad,” Simmons says. “This time around, I’ve been choosing the material, just being more creative in my own way.

Being the sole producer for the first time.”

Another especially important Hawaiian word for Simmons is na-au—intuition, which is how he’s finding his way through his music career and his life.

“Part of my mission with the music is to really utilize my opportunity to talk about important things, because we’re in such a pivotal moment as a species, and people need to wake up to the realities that we face on the planet,” he says. “It’s not easy, because there’s so much of the industry side of the music, where you’ve gotta write a song and it’s got to be catchy, and it’s gotta sell.

There’s that whole pressure that I feel. But really, when I listen to my heart, when I tap deep into my na-au, I just keep following these messages that need to be heard.”

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Calendar Concerts SONOMA Michael McDonald & Chaka Khan

Two of the most distinctive voices of our time come together for an unforgettable double bill. Aug 4, 7pm. $25 and up. Green Music Center Weill Hall, 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

Petaluma Music Festival

Twelfth annual benefit for music programs in local schools features ALO, David Nelson Band, the Mother Hips and many others. Aug 3, 11:30am. $55. SonomaMarin Fairgrounds, 175 Fairgrounds Dr, Petaluma, petalumamusicfestival.org.

Summer Symphony Benefit Concert

Rebuild Wine Country teams up with the San Francisco Symphony for a concert aiding community reconstruction efforts. Aug 3, 6pm. $95.

Sonoma Country Day School, 4400 Day School Place, Santa Rosa, rebuildwinecountry.org.

NAPA Music in the Vineyards

Month-long, nationally acclaimed chamber music festival showcases classical musicians in Napa wineries and venues. Jul 31-Aug 25.

Napa Valley, various locations, Napa, musicinthevineyards.org.

Uke-a-Palooza

Celebrate Polynesian culture with food, drinks, clothing, music by the Maikai Gents and a family-friendly ukulele jam.

Aug 2, 6pm. Free admission.

Oxbow Public Market, 610 First St, Napa, 707.226.6529.

Clubs & Venues SONOMA Aqus Cafe

Aug 2, Maiah Wynne. Aug 3, Chime Travelers. Aug 4, 2pm, Pat Simmons Jr. 189 H St, Petaluma, 707.778.6060.

Arlene Francis Center Aug 3, Space Vacation with Incredulous and Falkönner.

99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.528.3009.

Barley & Hops Tavern

Aug 1, Stone People’s Medicine.

Aug 2, Ditch Wolves. Aug 3, Rob Thomas Band. Aug 4, 5pm, Timothy O’Neil. 3688 Bohemian Hwy, Occidental, 707.874.9037.

The Big Easy

Aug 1, Rivertown Skifflers.

Aug 2, Knox Harrington & the Video Artists. Aug 3, Rikkha and McCrae’s Battalion. Aug 4, Bronze Medal Hopeful with Gio Benedetti. Aug 7, Rockville Roadkill Big Band.

128 American Alley, Petaluma, 707.776.7163.

BR Cohn Winery

Aug 3, 12pm, Justin Brown. Aug 4, 12pm, Falcon Christopher.

15000 Sonoma Hwy, Glen Ellen, 707.938.4064.

Brewsters Beer Garden Aug 1, the Stony Point Ramblers. Aug 2, Firewheel.

Aug 3, Joe Valley Band. Aug 4, 1pm, Michelle Lambert.

229 Water St N, Petaluma, 707.981.8330.

Coyote Sonoma

Aug 2, Two Lions Band. 44F Mill St, Healdsburg, 707.385.9133.

Elephant in the Room Aug 2, Calvin Arsenia. Aug 3, Sunny & the Black Pack.

Aug 4, Steve Pile Trio. Aug 6, the Pine Hearts. 177-A Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, elephantintheroompub.com.

Geyserville Gun Club Bar & Lounge Aug 3, Blind Barbers. 21025 Geyserville Ave, Geyserville, 707.814.0036.

Green Music Center Schroeder Hall

Aug 1, 6pm, PianoSonoma: Vino & Vibrato. 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

Guerneville Plaza

Aug 1, 7pm, Carlos Reyes & the Electric Symphony. 16201 First St, Guerneville, rockintheriver.org.

Healdsburg Plaza

Aug 4, 1pm, Brotherly Mud. 217 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, 707.431.3301.

Hood Mansion Lawn

Aug 2, 5:30pm, Funky Fridays with Rock & Roll Rhythm

Revue. 389 Casa Manana Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.833.6288. funkyfridays.info.

HopMonk Sebastopol

Jul 31, Sinatra Magic with Ned Rifken and the Wednesday Night Big Band. Aug 1, Dead Horses. Aug 2, Trio Del Mundo.

Aug 3, Sean Hayes. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol, 707.829.7300.

Ives Park

Aug 7, 5pm, Peacetown with Onye & the Messengers and Batacha. Willow Street and Jewell Avenue, Sebastopol, peacetown.org.

Juilliard Park

Aug 4, 5pm, Michael Capella Band. 227 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa, srcity.org.

Lagunitas Tap Room

Jul 31, Nate Lopez. Aug 1, Shelby Ann. Aug 2, Charles Wheal Band. Aug 3, Key Lime Pie. Aug 4, Matt Reischling & the Black Box. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma, 707.778.8776.

Main Street Bistro

Aug 1, Fargo Brothers. Aug 2, Fog Holler. Aug 3, Yancie Taylor.

16280 Main St, Guerneville, 707.869.0501.

Murphy’s Irish Pub & Restaurant

Aug 2, 6pm, Steven Taylor. Aug 3, Tilted Halos. 464 First St E, Sonoma, 707.935.0660.

Mystic Theatre & Music Hall

Aug 3, Sammy J. Aug 6, Lost Dog Street Band with Matt Heckler. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.775.6048.

The Phoenix Theater Aug 2, Impuritan with Eye O and Scatter Swept. 201 Washington St, Petaluma, 707.762.3565.

Redwood Cafe

Aug 1, Kevin Russell & Some Dangerous Friends. Aug 2, Marin All-Stars. Aug 3, Ron Thompson. Aug 4, 4pm, Gypsy Kisses. Aug 5, Blues Defenders pro jam. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.795.7868.

Reel & Brand

Aug 2, Band of Friends. Aug 3, Luvplanet. Aug 4, 12pm, Three on a Match and Josh Yenne. 401 Grove St, Sonoma, 707.343.0044.

Rio Nido Roadhouse Aug 3, the Pulsators. 14540 Canyon 2 Rd, Rio Nido, 707.869.0821.

River Theater

Aug 3, It’s a Beautiful Day

with Lydia Pense & Cold Blood.

16135 Main St, Guerneville, 707.869.8022.

Aug 3, Gentlemen Soldiers and Stumbling for Miles. 6957 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol, 707.634.6390.

Starling Bar

Aug 2, Jamie Clark Band. Aug 4, 2:30pm, Atomic Cocktail. 19380 Hwy 12, Sonoma, 707.938.7442.

Taft Street Winery

Aug 4, 2pm, Kevin Russell & Some Dangerous Friends.

2030 Barlow Lane, Sebastopol, 707.823.2049.

Trione Winery

Aug 3, 4pm, Backtrax. 19550 Geyserville Ave, Geyserville, 707.814.8100.

Twin Oaks Roadhouse

Aug 2, Bloomfield Bluegrass Band. Aug 4, 4pm, Achilles Wheel. 5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove, 707.795.5118.

Whiskey Tip

Aug 2, Midnight Sun. 1910 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.843.5535.

Windsor Town Green Aug 1, 5pm, Tommy Castro & the Painkillers. 701 McClelland Dr, Windsor, townofwindsor.com.

NAPA Beringer Vineyards

Aug 3, 11am, David Ronconi.

2000 Main St, St Helena, 866.708.9463.

Blue Note Napa

Jarvis Conservatory

Aug 3, It’s a Grand Night for Singers. 1711 Main St, Napa, 707.255.5445.

Pioneer Park

Aug 1, 6:30pm, Kingsborough.

1308 Cedar St, Calistoga, 707.942.2838.

Priest Ranch Tasting Room Aug 1, 6pm, Full Chizel. 6490 Washington St, Yountville, 707.944.8200.

River Terrace Inn

Aug 2, 5:30pm, Mark Harold.

Aug 3, 5:30pm, Nate Lopez.

1600 Soscol Ave, Napa, 707.320.9000.

Roadhouse 29

Aug 2, Younger Brothers. 3020 St Helena Hwy N, St Helena, 707.302.3777.

The Saint

Aug 2, Monica da Silva. Aug 3, JourneyDay Rhorer. 1351 Main St, St Helena, 707.302.5130.

Veterans Memorial Park Amphitheater

Aug 2, 6:30pm, Napa City Nights with Stax City and Midnight Crush. 850 Main St, Napa, napacitynights.com.

Art Opening SONOMA Santa Rosa Arts Center

Jul 31, Brian Coutch & Company.

Aug 1, Barrio Manouche. Aug 2-3, Squirrel Nut Zippers. Aug 6, Trevor Lyon & the One Little Story Band. 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.880.2300.

Aug 1-Sep 27, “Crossing Borders,” artists depict personal stories of immigration and crossing personal borders.

Reception, Aug 2 at 5pm.

312 South A St, Santa Rosa. santarosaartscenter.org.

Buster’s Southern Barbecue

Scott Nichols Gallery

Aug 4, 3pm, Rob Watson and friends featuring Vernon Black.

1207 Foothill Blvd, Calistoga, 707.942.5605.

Ca’ Momi Osteria

Aug 2, La Noche Latina dance party. Aug 3, Nate Lopez. 1141 First St, Napa, 707.224.6664.

CIA at Copia

Aug 1-31, “New Beginnings: California,” featuring images of California by photographers such as Ansel Adams and Imogen Cunningham.

Reception, Aug 1 at 5:30pm.

450 First St East, Sonoma.

707.343.1928.

Sebastopol Center for the Arts

Aug 4, 5pm, the Marshall House. 1245 Spring St, St Helena, 707.967.8779.

Aug 2-Sep 9, “International Fiber Arts IX Exhibition,” see numerous uses of innovative and traditional fiber techniques. Reception, Aug 2 at 6pm. 282 S High St, Sebastopol.

Tues-Fri, 10 to 4; Sat-Sun, 1 to 4. 707.829.4797.

JaM Cellars

SOFA Arts District

Aug 3, 6pm, James Harman. 500 First St, Napa, 707.967.2530.

Goose & Gander

Aug 1, Smith & Tegio. 1460 First

Gallery Show,” over 30 local artists display their best, most rejected work in art alley.

Reception, Aug 2 at 5pm.

312 South A St, Santa Rosa.

707.484.4387.

Aug 2-11, “Salon des Refusés

NAPA Amuse Bouche Winery Aug 3-7, “George Rodrigue Exhibit,” see several rare, signed, original editions of the late artist’s works. Reception, Aug 3 at 3pm. 1130 Main St, Napa. 707.251.9300.

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Aug 3-Oct 20, “So Far,” featuring several artists who have shown at the gallery since the inaugural exhibition almost two years ago. Reception, Aug 3 at 5:30pm. 1407 Lincoln Ave, Calistoga. 707.341.3326.

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Comedy Comedy from the Ground Up

Nationally-touring comedian Murray Valeriano headlines a standup showcase preceded by open mic. Aug 7, 8pm. Free. 3 Disciples Brewing Taproom, 501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.978.2459.

The Crossword Show with Zach Sherwin

Standup star hosts a game show live on stage with comedy, trivia and quizzes.

Aug 2, 8pm. $20. 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa, crosswordshow.com.

Events Bodega Fire Big Event BBQ

Annual event boasts the county’s shortest parade, tritip and chicken lunch, activities for all ages and live music. Aug 4, 10am. Free admission; $10$15 lunch. McCaughey Hall, 17184 Bodega Hwy, Bodega, 707.876.9438.

Champagne Campaign Pool Party Lounge by the pool, enjoy Champagne and special menu items and groove to the sounds of a live DJ. Aug 4, 1pm. $50. Solage Calistoga, 755 Silverado Trail N, Calistoga, 707.266.7534.

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WEDNESDAY AUGUST 7, 6–8PM

Caryl Hart and historian Dennis McNally engage in a conversation reflecting on the Woodstock music festival five decades later. Aug 3, 2pm. $25.

Charles M Schulz Museum, 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa, 707.579.4452.

Flynn Creek Circus

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Cheer for our winning NORBAYS bands!

Awards, happy hour specials, photos and fun!

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Acrobats, aerialists and daredevils perform in the classic big-top tradition. Aug 1-4. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, flynncreekcircus.com.

Good Fire Alliance BBQ & Potluck

Get together and get information on how land owners can get burns on their land. RSVP requested. Aug 3, 12pm. Free. Spring Lake Park, 391 Violetti Dr, Santa Rosa, 707.565.2621.

Lazy Bear Weekend

Parties, dances and entertainment celebrates and benefits the LGBTQ community.

Through Aug 5. Downtown Guerneville, Main St, Guerneville, lazybearweek.org.

North Bay Zero Waste Symposium

Keynote speakers and moderated panel discussions cover zero waste policies, programs and infrastructure.

Jul 31. $20-$60. SOMO Village Event Center, 1100 Valley House Dr, Rohnert Park, zerowastenorthbay.org.

Pesticides in Paradise?

Guest speakers Mitchel Cohen and Robin Falk Esser, with local environmentalists, offer presentations on working against pesticides in Sonoma County.

Aug 5, 6:30pm. $12. Sebastopol Grange Hall, 6000 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol, dailyacts.org.

The Present & Future of Cannabis

Cannabis industry luminaries discuss current dynamics and offer insights into the future of the industry. Aug 7, 6:30pm. $10-$15. Museum of Sonoma County, 425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa, 707.579.1500.

SOFA Art Walk

Visit 19 artists in studios within the SOFA neighborhood of downtown Santa Rosa during this annual open house event.

Aug 3-4, 11am. Free. SOFA Arts District, 312 South A St, Santa Rosa, 707.484.4387.

Sonoma County Fair Annual fair’s assortment of

carnival rides, horse races, festive foods, free concerts, local agriculture, art and craft exhibits and family fun return to Santa Rosa. Aug 1-11. $7-$15.

Sonoma County Fairgrounds, 1350 Bennett Valley Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.545.4200.

V Foundation Answer for Cancer Symposium

Distinguished researchers from leading cancer centers for both humans and canines discuss the latest advances in Canine Comparative Oncology. Aug 3, 9:30am. Free. The Groezinger Estate, 6481 Washington St, Yountville, 707.963.0611.

Walk for Animals

Napa Humane’s fun-filled family event is a short stroll through downtown Napa that supports animals throughout Napa Valley. Aug 4. $35-$45.

Oxbow Commons, McKinstry St, Napa, 707.255.8118.

Field Trips Redwood Fitness Hike

Experience Jack London Park’s spectacular ancient redwoods and stunning scenery. Aug 3, 10am. Free; parking fees apply.

Jack London State Park, 2400 London Ranch Rd, Glen Ellen, 707.938.5216.

Solar Viewing & Public Star Party

View stars near and far with the observatory’s telescopes and experts on hand. Aug 3, 11am and 8pm. Robert Ferguson Observatory, Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, 2605 Adobe Canyon Rd, Kenwood, 707.833.6979.

Film The Big Lebowski

Alexander Valley Film Society hosts a screening of the Coen Brothers comedy. Aug 3, 8pm. $5-$10. Stuhlmuller Vineyards, 4951 West Soda Rock Ln, Healdsburg, 707.433.8980.

Cinema Under the Stars

Bring a blanket and sit in the garden for a screening of “Grease.” Aug 6, 8:30pm. Free.

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

CULT Film Series

Celebrate the best of 1984 all month, starting with a double feature of “Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter” and “A

Nightmare on Elm Street.” Aug 1, 7pm. $10. Roxy Stadium 14 Cinemas, 85 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.525.8909.

Grateful Dead Meet-up at the Movies Join Dead Heads in your community and around the world to celebrate the ninth annual concert film screening event. Aug 1, 7pm. Summerfield Cinemas, 551 Summerfield Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.528.4222.

Rialto Cinemas, 6868 McKinley St, Sebastopol, 707.525.4840.

Reading Cinemas, 555 Rohnert Park Expwy W, Rohnert Park, 707.586.5996.

Hot August Nights Movie Series

Family film “The Neverending Story” opens the series. Aug 2, 6pm. $8. Mystic Theatre & Music Hall, 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.775.6048.

SDFF Best of the Fest

Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival screens “Confluence,” about a folk band traversing the Colorado River. Aug 1, 7pm.

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

True Humans

Documentary is about the lives of residents of Sonoma Development Center. Aug 4, 1pm. $10. Sebastiani Theatre, 476 First St E, Sonoma, 707.996.9756.

Food & Drink Clif Family Experience Pop-Up Enjoy delicious food and Clif Family wines, available for purchase throughout the evening. Aug 7, 6pm. CIA at Copia, 500 First St, Napa, 707.967.2530.

Italics Winegrowers Anniversary Party

Party with live music, food and wine pairings and pictureperfect vineyard views. Aug 3, 5pm. $125. Italics Winegrowers, 70 Rapp Lane, Napa, 707.258.0106.

Jerry Day at Martorana Jerry Garcia is celebrated with records spinning all day and discounts. Aug 3, 11am.

Martorana Family Winery, 5956 West Dry Creek Rd, Healdsburg, 707.433.1909.

Lobster Lunch in Catherine’s Vineyard Annual lobster feast features

Mad Firkin Festival

Mad Fritz Beer hosts a gathering of local and not-solocal breweries with tastings, food and live music from Poor Man’s Whiskey. Aug 3, 1pm. $95. Bale Grist Mill Historic Park, 3801 Hwy 29, Calistoga, madfirkinfest.com.

NorCal Brew Fest

Tasting extravaganza features over 50 beers and ciders from across the country, happening in conjunction with the Sonoma County Fair. Aug 3, 1pm. $47.

Sonoma County Fairgrounds, 1350 Bennett Valley Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.545.4200.

Road Trip Pop-Up: Kansas City BBQ

Enjoy a family-style meal with brisket, chicken, sausages, beans and corn cake. Aug 4, 5:30pm. $45. Suite D, 21800 Schellville Rd, Sonoma, 707.933.3667.

Sonoma County VegFest

Annual celebration of compassionate, healthy and environmentally responsible living features food and drink, vendors, cooking demonstrations and entertainment. Aug 3, 10am. $5.

Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.546.3600.

V Foundation Wine Celebration

Indulge in handcrafted wines

by HALL and other Napa Valley producers, culinary delights, live music by Con Brio and more.

Aug 2, 6pm. V Marketplace, 6525 Washington St, Yountville. winecelebration.org.

The Village Lobster Feed

For Kids Kidswork Creative Workshop

Bring your kids to Friedman’s and have fun building solar ovens and learning about the sun and solar energy. Aug 3, 9am. Free. Friedman’s Home Improvement, 4055 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.584.7811.

Lectures Art Workshop With Catherine Daley

Kinetic sculptor gives a drop-in workshop for students to create a take-home mobile. Aug 3, 1pm. Free with admission.

Museum of Sonoma County, 425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa, 707.579.1500.

The Paradox of Preservation

Sonoma State University professor Laura ALice Watts offers a presentation on wilderness and working landscapes associated with Point Reyes National Seashore.

Pre-registration required. Aug 1, 6:30pm. Laguna de Santa Rosa Environmental Center, 900 Sanford Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.527.9277.

Readings Aqus Cafe

Aug 5, 6:15pm, Rivertown Poets A-Muse-ing Mondays, featuring authors Jeanne Powell and MJ Arcangelini and open mic. Free. 189 H St, Petaluma 707.778.6060.

Napa Bookmine

Aug 4, 3pm, Napa Valley Writers Open Mic. 964 Pearl St, Napa 707.733.3199.

Napa Main Library

Evening pairs acclaimed wines and brews with lobsters, prawns and more. Aug 3, 6pm. $165. Vista Collina Resort, 850 Bordeaux Way, Napa, 888.965.7090.

Aug 5, 7pm, “Be With” with Forrest Gander, in conversation with Napa Poet Laureate Jeremy Benson. 580 Coombs St, Napa 707.253.4070.

Vodka & Caviar Tasting

Aug 7, 7pm, “Jump on the Love Train” with Rae Lewis. 130 E Napa St, Sonoma 707.939.1779.

Enjoy tastings of Hanson Vodka paired with Regiis Ova Caviar, coowned by Thomas Keller. Aug 3-4, 11am. $20. Hanson of Sonoma Distillery, 22985 Burndale Rd, Sonoma, 707.343.1805.

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Aug 1, 7pm, “A Girl Goes Into the Forest” with Peg Alford Pursell.

Aug 7, 7pm, “Love and Death Among the Cheetahs” with Rhys Bowen. 775 Village Court, Santa Rosa 707.578.8938.

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Valley Players present the timely and provocative political satire. Aug 2-11. $20. Lincoln Theater, 100 California Dr, Yountville, 707.944.9900.

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SRJC’s Summer Rep presents the ABBA-fueled musical.

Through Aug 10. $25-$28.

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“We have a holistic vision and are setting standards for sustainable and ‘beyond organic’ quality,” says founder and CEO, Alicia Rose.

These days it’s tough to raise cash in the cannabis industry. Banks don’t make loans, and there are too many state and local hoops to jump through, even for the bravest of souls. Plus, in the rapidly growing legal marketplace it’s increasingly difficult for consumers to know what they’re smoking. Indeed, in the absence of federal standards— the Food and Drug Administration doesn’t wade into the marijuana industry, given federal cannabis prohibition—growers, distributors and merchants are flooding the

market with products nobody ought to consume in any way.

That’s where HerbaBuena comes in with a vision of what the industry should look like.

“There are two camps today in the cannabis world,” Rose says. “In one, folks believe in money. In the other, folks believe in the plant itself. They are two opposed philosophies.”

Starting in 2015, Rose ran BuenaHerba (which translates as “good herb”) almost singlehandedly. Two years ago Michael Straus joined the company to help with operations and public relations. She grew up on a farm and saw that organic farming could be sustainable and families could actually live off the land. He was born and reared on the Straus Family Farm in the thick of the Marin County organic food and dairy industry. She has a degree in ecosystem science and worked in the wine industry for a decade and a half. He owned and operated his own PR firm, Straus Communications, and served more than 100 clients.

While wine and milk don’t mix, Rose and Straus found ways to blend their backgrounds and work together to advance the cannabis cause.

“The industry needs a new standard for people who care about what they put in their bodies,” she says. He adds, ”We’re bringing the organic ethos, which has developed for years in the world of food, to the cannabis industry.”

HerbaBuena sells high quality, biodynamic, Demeter-certified cannabis grown outdoors and harvested after a full season in the sun. Concentrates are made without chemical additive.

Rose plans to open a brick-andmortar megastore in Santa Rosa.

She describes it as a “purpose-built, immersive retail destination” that won’t touch the kind of industrial, mass-produced items available all over California.

Meanwhile, online shoppers can buy from HerbaBuena’s curated selection of cannabis products that includes biodynamic joints and “Quiver”—an “intimate oil” that will heat up the coldest of bodies.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): "Dear Diary: Last night my Aries friend dragged me to the Karaoke Bowling Alley and Sushi Bar. I was deeply skeptical. The place sounded tacky. But after being there for twenty minutes, I had to admit that I was having a fantastic time. And it just got better and more fun as the night wore on. I'm sure I made a fool of myself when I did my bowling ball imitation, but I can live with that. At one point I was juggling a bowling pin, a rather large piece of sweet potato tempura, and my own shoe while singing Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir"—and I don't even know how to juggle. I have to admit that this sequence of events was typical of my adventures with Aries folks.

I suppose I should learn to trust that they will lead me to where I don't know I want to go."

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In his poem "Wild

Oats," poet W. S. Merwin provided a message that's in perfect alignment with your current astrological needs: "I needed my mistakes in their own order to get me here." He was not being ironic in saying that; he was not making a lame attempt to excuse his errors; he was not struggling to make himself feel better for the inconvenience caused by his wrong turns. No! He understood that the apparent flubs and miscues he had committed were essential in creating his successful life. I invite you to reinterpret your own past using his perspective.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Even if you're an ambidextrous, multi-gendered, neurologically diverse, Phoenician-Romanian Gemini with a fetish for pink duct tape and an affinity for ideas that no one has ever thought of, you will eventually find your sweet spot, your power niche, and your dream sanctuary. I promise. Same for the rest of you Geminis, too. It might take a while. But I beg you to have faith that you will eventually tune in to the homing beacon of the mother lode that's just right for you. P.S.: Important clues and signs should be arriving soon.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): What would a normal, boring astrologer tell you at a time like now?

Maybe something like this: "More of other people's money and resources can be at your disposal if you emanate sincerity and avoid being manipulative. If you want to negotiate vibrant compromises, pay extra attention to good timing and the right setting. Devote special care and sensitivity to all matters affecting your close alliances and productive partnerships."

As you know, Cancerian, I'm not a normal, boring astrologer, so I wouldn't typically say something like what I just said. But I felt it was my duty to do so because right now you need simple, basic, no-frills advice. I promise I'll resume with my cryptic, lyrical oracles next time.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Let's check in with our psychic journalist, LoveMancer, who's standing by with a live report from inside your imagination. What's happening, LoveMancer? "Well, Rob, the enchanting creature on whose thoughts I've been eavesdropping has slipped into an intriguing frontier. This place seems to be a hot zone where love and healing interact intensely. My guess is that being here will lead our hero to breakthrough surges of love that result in deep healing, or deep healing that leads to breakthrough surges of love—probably both."

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo figure skater

Scott Hamilton won an Olympic gold medal and four World Championships. He was a star who got inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame and made a lot of money after he turned professional.

"I calculated once how many times I fell during my skating career—41,600 times," he testified in his autobiography. "But here's the funny thing: I also got up 41,600 times. That's the muscle you have to build in your psyche—the one that reminds you to just get up."

In accordance with current astrological omens, Virgo, I'll be cheering you on as you strengthen that muscle in your psyche during the coming weeks.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): What's the story of your life? Psychologist James Hillman said that in order to thrive, you need to develop a clear vision of that story. How do you do that? Hillman advised you to ask yourself this question: "How can I assemble the pieces of my life into a coherent plot?" And why is this effort to decode your biography so important? Because your soul's health requires you to cultivate curiosity and

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excitement about the big picture of your destiny. If you hope to respond with intelligence to the questions and challenges that each new day brings, you must be steadily nourished with an expansive understanding of why you are here on earth. I bring these ideas to your attention, Libra, because the coming weeks will be an excellent time to illuminate and deepen and embellish your conception of your life story.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "Artists are

people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide," wrote psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott. I think that description fits many people born under the sign of the Scorpio, not just Scorpio artists. Knowing how important and necessary this dilemma can be for you, I would never glibly advise you to always favor candid, straightforward communication over protective, strategic hiding. But I recommend you do that in the coming weeks. Being candid and straightforward will serve you well.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Sagittarian poet Aracelis Girmay writes, "How ramshackle, how brilliant, how haphazardly & strangely rendered we are. Gloriously, fantastically mixed & monstered. We exist as phantom, monster, miracle, each a theme park all one's own." Of course that's always true about every one of us. But it will be extraordinarily true about you in the coming weeks. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you will be at the peak of your ability to express what's most idiosyncratic and essential about your unique array of talents and specialties.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Sometime soon I suspect you will arrive at a crossroads in your relationship with love and sex—as well as your fantasies about love and sex. In front of you: a hearty cosmic joke that would mutate your expectations and expand your savvy. Behind you: an alluring but perhaps confusing call toward an unknown future.

To your left: the prospect of a dreamy adventure that might be only half-imaginary. To your right: the possibility of living out a slightly bent fairy tale version of romantic catharsis. I'm not here to tell you what you should do, Capricorn. My task is simply to help you identify the options.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): How many handcuffs are there in the world? Millions. Yet there are far fewer different keys than that to open all those handcuffs. In fact, in many countries, there's a standard universal key that works to open most handcuffs. In this spirit, and in accordance with current astrological omens, I'm designating August as Free Yourself from Your Metaphorical Handcuffs Month. It's never as complicated or difficult as you might imagine to unlock your metaphorical handcuffs; and for the foreseeable future it will be even less complicated and difficult than usual for you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): People who sneak a gaze into your laboratory might be unnerved by what they see. You know and I know that your daring experiments are in service to the ultimate good, but that may not be obvious to those who understand you incompletely. So perhaps you should post a sign outside your lab that reads, "Please don't leap to premature conclusions! My in-progress projects may seem inexplicable to the uninitiated!" Or maybe you should just close all your curtains and lock the door until your future handiwork is more presentable. P.S. There may be allies who can provide useful feedback about your explorations. I call them the wounded healers.

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