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The Road Ahead St. Helena, California, has been classified by some as a dying town, conflicted about what steps must be taken to remain a viable community. How did a beautiful, world-class tourist destination end up in such a dilemma? We can look to five stages of decline as identified by Jim Collins in his book How the Mighty Fail for insight where identifies things like “hubris born of success,” the undisciplined pursuit of more” and “denial of risk and peril.” The perceived path to salvation is now in contention. We have a debate regarding the future of 5.6 acres of vineyards, in a prime location just a couple blocks from downtown, owned by the city. In the simplest terms, one group wants to sell the property for privatization and the other wants the property preserved for civic use only. Here is where it gets interesting. A Saint Helenian recently stated “it is nice the city gathers ideas from the citizens. However, infinite wisdom is not held in the mind of the masses. Leadership, with professional advice and the courage to make decisions is fundamental to a better future for Saint Helena.” I tend to agree with the statement with a caveat. Which professionals exactly will be the ones from whom we derive the advice and will the wisdom of the citizens of our town be factored into the process? We did, after all, get in this rabbit hole in part by following professional advise over the last several decades.

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he Luther Burbank Center (LBC) is one of the North Bay’s premier arts and events center. While the facility enjoys being recognized as the go-to regional venue for big name performances, it has struggled to promote the educational programs that are as much a part of its mission as a Trevor Noah appearance.

Enter Mark DeSaulnier, the LBC’s new director of marketing. His first goal since taking the reins is to ramp up the public’s knowledge of programs on offer at LBC. Can he elevate the venue’s more civic-minded profile? “I think one of the big misconceptions is the idea that all we do is put on shows,” says DeSaulnier. “We do these worldclass performances here, but we are really a nonprofit arts organization. Our larger goal is

to be an arts organization to the community, and those are the initiatives we are pushing now.” The center’s three-E’s denote its broader mandate: Enrich. Educate. Entertain. Its most recent financial statements from 2017-18 bear out an organization that’s provided education and outreach to some 40,000 children and provided discounted tickets to some 15,700 community members a year. DeSaulnier joins an

organization with a $12.7 million operating budget as of 2017-18 and with $10 million in operating expenses over that year, 77 percent of which goes to program services. Administration costs account for some 15 percent of its annual budget. It enjoys donor support from a wide range of Sonoma County persons and business—donations have flowed from PG&E, to the Redwood Credit Union, to Healdsburg Democratic Party power brokers Tony Crabb and Barbara Grasseschi. State Senator Mike McGuire’s a big fan, too, and helped broker a $100,000-plus donation from Redwood Credit Union and the Press Democrat after the 2017 wildfires that damaged the center. The LBC’s arts programs are mostly aimed at kids and the organization works to help parents scale the typical hurdles families might run up against when considering an arts program for a child. That’s mostly about money. “We look for ways to tear down any barriers that may come up, whether it be pricing—most of our programs are free of charge—or whether it be accessibility. We offer subsidized transportation,” says Ashleigh Worley, director of education and community engagement. “We want to be where we are needed.” The center emphasizes programs that cater to overlooked members of the community, creating an Alzheimer’s singing group and launching a Latinx advisory council in recent years. If Luther Burbank was himself an alleged eugenicist along with all of that great stuff he did with plants, the center named in his honor has taken a more multicultural-friendly view of the world, if not Sonoma County. DeSaulnier sees this outreach as critical to the future identity of the LBC. “The important question is ‘how can we continue to inspire inclusion? What does that look like? How does that affect our programming? How can we communicate that all are welcome.’ That is the key question to always be asking.”

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HIDDEN HANDS Deepfakes—convincing but fake videos—are becoming easy to make and harder to detect.

With the help of AI-assisted video manipulation software, hackers, pornographers and state intelligence services are creating ‘deepfakes’—blurring the line between reality and fantasy BY WALLACE BAINE

he future of misinformation is here. It reared its ugly head in May in the form of a doctored video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi—manipulated to show her slurring her words, as if she were drunk. The trick was simple; the footage of Pelosi, speaking at a conference on May 22, was merely slowed down 25 percent. In the world of video editing, it’s child’s play.

The video went viral shortly after Pelosi said that Donald Trump’s family should stage an intervention with the president “for the good of the country.” The faked video surfaced on Facebook, where it was viewed more than 2 million times within a few hours. It was also shared by Trump lawyer and apologist Rudy Guiliani with a caption (since deleted) that read: “omg, is she drunk or having a stroke?” followed by “She’s drunk!!!” The incident called to mind an

even cruder video dust-up in 2018 involving footage of CNN reporter Jim Acosta, manipulated to give the impression that he had behaved aggressively against a White House intern at a press conference. The deceptive clip was actually released by press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. The country’s most powerful people lending their authority to objectively bogus video as a political weapon is enraging enough. But compared to what’s coming over the

digital media horizon, the Acosta and Pelosi videos will soon look and feel as antique as a Buster Keaton short alongside Avengers: Endgame. Cue Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet.” Welcome to the Age of Deepfakes. The term “deepfakes” is a portmanteau, a reference to artificial intelligence-assisted machine learning, a.k.a. “deep learning.” It’s an emerging technology that can potentially put the kind of highly realistic video and audio manipulation once only accessible to Hollywood in the hands of state intelligence agencies, corporations, hackers, pornographers or any 14-year-old with a decent laptop and a taste for trolling. In its most obvious application, a deepfake can create an utterly convincing video of any celebrity, politician or even

any regular citizen doing or saying something that they never said or did. (For the record, the Pelosi video is not technically a deepfake; it is to deepfakes what a stick figure drawing would be to a high Renaissance painting). The buzz about deepfakes has penetrated nearly every realm of the broader culture—media, academia, tech, national security, entertainment—and it’s not difficult to understand why. In the constant push-pull struggle between truth and lies, already a confounding problem of the Internet Age, deepfakes represent that point in the superhero movie when the cackling bad guy reveals his doomsday weapon to the thunderstruck masses. “If 9/11 is a 10,” says former White House cybersecurity director Andrew Grotto, “and let’s say the

Why now?

Ultimately, the story of deepfakes is a story of technology reaching a particular threshold. At least since

the dawn of television, generations have grown up developing deeply sophisticated skill sets in interpreting audiovisual imagery. When you spend a lifetime looking at visual information on a screen, you get good at “reading” it, much like a lion “reads” the African savanna. Discerning the real from the phony isn’t merely a vestige of the video age. It was a challenge even when the dominant media platform wasn’t the screen but the printed word. Psychologist Stephen Greenspan, author of the book Annals of Gullibility, says that the tensions between credulity and skepticism have been baked into the American experience from the very beginning. “The first act of public education was in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, long before the country even existed,” said Greenspan whose new book Anatomy of Foolishness is due out in August. “The purpose of that act was to arm children against the blandishments and temptations of Satan. It was even called ‘The Old Deluder Act.’” The advent of still photography, movies, television and digital media each in turn added a scary new dimension to the brain’s struggle to tell true from false. At one point, video technology was able to create realistic imagery out of whole cloth, but it quickly ran into a problem known as the “uncanny valley effect,” in which the closer technology got to reality, the more dissonant small differences would appear to a sophisticated viewer. Deepfakes, as they now exist, are still dealing with that specific problem, but the fear is that they will soon transcend the uncanny valley and be able to produce fake videos that are indistinguishable from reality. “It would be a disaster,” Greenspan says of the specter of deepfakes, “especially if it’s used by unscrupulous political types. It’s definitely scary because it exploits our built-in tendencies toward gullibility.”

How they work

Deepfakes are the product of machine learning and artificial intelligence. The applications that create them work from dueling sets of algorithms known as generative adversarial networks, or GANS.

SAY WHAT? A crudely manipulated video of Nancy Pelosi that seemed to show

her slurring her words went viral in May, egged on in part by President Trump.

Working from a giant database of video and still images, this technology pits two algorithms— one known as the “generator” and the other the “discriminator”— against each other. Imagine two rival football coaches, or chess masters, developing increasingly complicated and sophisticated offensive and defensive schemes to answer each other. The GANS process works when the generator and discriminator learn from each other, creating a kind of technological “natural selection.” This evolutionary dynamic accelerates the means by which the algorithm can fool the human eye and ear. Naturally, the entertainment industry has been on the forefront of this technology, and the current obsession with deepfakes might have begun with the release in December 2016 of Rogue One, the Star Wars spin-off that featured a CGI-created image of the late Carrie Fisher as a young Princess Leia. A year later, an anonymous Reddit user posted some deepfakes celebrity porn videos with a tool he created called FakeApp. Shortly after

that, tech reporter Samantha Cole wrote a piece for Vice’s Motherboard blog on the phenomenon headlined “AI-assisted Fake Porn is Here and We’re all Fucked.” A couple of months later, comedian and filmmaker Jordan Peele created a video in which he put words in the mouth of former President Obama as a way to illustrate the incipient dangers of deepfakes. Reddit banned subreddits having to do with fake celebrity porn, and other platforms, including PornHub and Twitter, banned deepfakes as well. Since then, everyone from PBS to Samantha Bee has dutifully taken a turn in ringing the alarm bells to warn consumers (and, probably, to inspire mischief-makers). The deepfakes panic had begun.

Freak Out? Twenty years ago, the media universe—a Facebook-less, Twitterless, YouTube-less media universe, we should add—bought into a techinspired doomsday narrative known as “Y2K,” which posited that the world’s computer systems would seize up, or otherwise go ) 14

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Target Breach (a 2013 data breach at the retailer that affected 40 million credit card customers) is a 1, I would put this at about a 6 or 7.” Deepfake videos present a fundamentally false version of real life. It’s a deception powerful enough to pass the human mind’s Turing test—a lie on steroids. In many cases, it’s done for entertainment value and we’re all in on the joke. In Weird Al Yankovic’s face-swap masterpiece, “Perform This Way”—a parody of Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way”—nobody actually believes that Weird Al has the body of a female supermodel. No historian has to debunk the idea that Forrest Gump once met President John F. Kennedy. But the technology has now advanced to the point where it can potentially be weaponized to inflict lasting damage on individuals, groups, and even economic and political systems. For generations, video and audio have enjoyed almost absolute credibility. Those days are coming to an abrupt and disorienting end. Whether it’s putting scandalous words into the mouth of a politician or creating a phony emergency or crisis just to sow chaos, the day is fast approaching when deepfakes could be used for exploitation, extortion, malicious attack or even terrorism. Of course, creating fake videos that destroy another person’s reputation, whether it’s to exact revenge or ransom, is only the most individualized and small-scale nightmare of deepfakes. If you can destroy one person, why not whole groups or categories of people? Think of the effect of a convincing but completely fake video of an American soldier burning a Koran, or a cop choking an unarmed protester, or an undocumented immigrant killing an American citizen at the border. Real violence could follow fake violence. Think of a deepfake video that could cripple the financial markets, undermine the credibility of a free election, or impel an impetuous and ill-informed president to reach for the nuclear football.

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haywire in a number of unforeseen ways, the minute the clock turned over to Jan. 1, 2000. Y2K turned out to be a giant nothing-burger and now it’s merely a punchline for comically wrongheaded fears. In this case, Y2K is worth remembering as an illustration of what can happen when the media pile on to a tech-apocalypse narrative. The echoing effects can overestimate a perceived threat and even create a monsters-under-the-bed problem. In the case of deepfakes, the media freak-out might also draw attention away from a more nuanced approach to a coming problem. Andrew Grotto is a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institute and a research scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, also at Stanford. Before that, he served as the senior director for cybersecurity policy at the White House in the Obama and Trump administrations. Grotto’s interest in deepfakes is in how they will affect the electoral process and political messaging. Grotto has been to Capitol Hill and to Sacramento to talk to federal and state lawmakers about the threats posed by deepfakes. Most of the legislators he talked to had never heard of deepfakes and were alarmed at what it meant for their electoral prospects. “I told them, ‘Do you want to live and operate in a world where your opponents can literally put words in your mouth?’ And I argued that they as candidates and leaders of their parties ought to be thinking about whether there’s some common interest to develop some kind of norm of restraint.” Grotto couches his hope that deepfakes will not have a large influence on electoral politics in the language of the Cold War. “There’s almost a mutually-assureddestruction logic to this,” he says, applying a term used to explain why the U.S. and the Soviet Union didn’t start a nuclear war against each other. In other words, neither side will use such a powerful political weapon because they’ll be petrified it will then be used against them. One of the politicians that Grotto impressed in Sacramento

was Democrat Marc Berman, who represents California’s 24th District in the state assembly. Berman chairs the Assembly’s Elections and Redistricting Committee, and he’s authored a bill that would criminalize the creation or the distribution of any video or audio recording that is “likely to deceive any person who views the recording” or that is likely to “defame, slander or embarrass the subject of the recording.” The new law would create exceptions for satire, parody or anything that is clearly labeled as fake. The bill (AB 602) is set to leave the judiciary committee and reach the Assembly floor this month. “I tell you, people have brought up First Amendment concerns,” Berman says over the phone. “It’s been 11 years since I graduated law school, but I don’t recall freedom of speech meaning you are free to put your speech in my mouth.” The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which for almost three decades has fought government regulation in the name of internet civil liberties, is pushing back against any legislative efforts to deal with deepfakes. In a media statement, the EFF conceded that deepfakes could create mischief and chaos, but contended that existing laws pertaining to extortion, harassment and defamation are up to the task of protecting people from the worst effects. Berman, however, is having none of that argument: “Rather than being reactive, like during the 2016 [presidential] campaign when nefarious actors did a lot of bad things using social media that we didn’t anticipate—and only now are we reacting to it—let’s try to anticipate what they’re going to do and get ahead of it.”

Good & Evil Are there potentially positive uses for deepfake technology? In the United States of Entertainment, the horizons are boundless, not only for all future Weird Al videos and Star Wars sequels, but for entirely new genres of art yet to be born. Who could doubt that Hollywood’s CGI revolution will continue to evolve in dazzling new directions?

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Maybe there’s another Marlon Brando movie or Prince video in our collective future. The Electronic Frontier Foundation touts something called “consensual vanity or novelty pornography.” Deepfakes might allow people to change their physical appearances online as way of identity protection. There could be therapeutic benefits for survivors of sexual abuse or PTSD to have video conferencing therapy without showing their faces. Stanford’s Grotto envisions a kind of “benign deception” application that would allow a campaigning politician to essentially be in more than one place at a time, as well as benefits in get-out-the-vote campaigns. But here at the top of the roller coaster, the potential downsides look much more vivid and prominent than any speculative positive effect. Deepfakes could add a wrinkle of complication into a variety of legitimate pursuits. For example, in the realm of journalism, imagine how the need to verify some piece of video or audio could slow down or stymie a big investigation. Think of what deepfakes could do on the dating scene, in which online dating is already consumed with all levels of fakeness. Do video games, virtual reality apps and other online participatory worlds need to be any more beguiling? Put me in a virtual cocktail party with my favorite artists and celebrities, and I’ll be ready to hook up the catheter and the IV drip to stay in that world for as long as possible. If the Internet Age has taught us anything, it’s that trolls are inevitable, even indomitable. The last two decades have given us a dispiriting range of scourges, from Alex Jones to revenge porn. Trolling has even proven to be a winning strategy to win the White House. “Let’s keep walking down the malign path here,” said former White House cybersecurity chief Grotto from his Stanford office, speculating on how deep the wormhole could go. Grotto brings up the specter of what he calls “deepfake for text.” He says it’s

What now? In addressing the threat of deepfakes, most security experts and technologists agree that there is no vaccine. Watermarking technology could be inserted into the metadata of audio and video material. Even in the absence of legislation, app stores would probably require such watermarking be included on any deepfake app. But how long would it be before someone figured out a way to fake the watermark? There’s some speculation that celebrities and politicians might opt for 24/7 “lifelogging,” digital autosurveillance of their every move to give them an alibi against any fake video. Deepfakes are still in the crude stages of development. “It’s still hard to make it work,” Grotto says. “The tools aren’t to the point where someone can just sit down without a ton of experience and make something” convincing. He said the 2020 presidential election may be plagued by many things, but deepfakes probably won’t be one of them. After that, though? “By 2022, 2024, that’s when the tools get better. That’s when the barriers to entry really start to drop.” This moment, he says, isn’t a time to panic. It’s a time to develop policies and norms to contain the worst excesses of the technology, all while we’re still at the top of the roller coaster. Grotto says convincing politicians and their parties to resist the technology, developing legal and voluntary measures for platforms and developers, and labeling and enforcing rules will all have positive effects in slowing down the slide into deepfake hell. “I think we have a few years to get our heads around it and decide what kind of world we want to live in, and what the right set of policy interventions look like,” he says. “But talk to me in five years, and maybe my hair will be on fire.”

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Recognized as one of the best Independence Day celebrations in the country by Travel+Leisure Magazine and Yahoo News, the Sonoma Hometown Fourth of July continues a tradition that celebrates what makes the North Bay great. The day opens with a parade winding its way around the town’s historic plaza. Then, an old-fashioned festival features food, drink and game booths by, and benefiting, Sonoma nonprofit organizations. The festival wraps up in the evening and the fun moves to General Vallejo’s field for the spectacular fireworks show. See for yourself on Thursday, July 4, Sonoma Plaza, First St E, Sonoma. Parade begins at 10am. Free admission. 707.996.1090.

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For 2019, the Napa County Fair Association has rebranded as Celebrate! Napa Valley and adopted a new mission to enrich the community, preserve traditions and cultivate connections. All of that will be on display for Calistoga's annual Independence Day celebration, Star-Spangled Social, which brings out the whole town for old-fashioned fun. The day starts with the parade down through Calistoga, leading to the afternoon carnival and culminating in a fireworks display at dark. Celebrate with Napa Valley on Thursday, July 4, at Napa County Fairgrounds, 1435 N Oak St, Calistoga. Parade, 11am; Gates open at noon. $15-$25/ kids 5 and under are free. celebratenapavalley.org.

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Kicking off a summer program filled with eclectic concerts and performances, the prestigious Weill Hall at Sonoma State University hosts the purported biggest fireworks display in Sonoma County at the Green Music Center Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular. Before the big bang, the venue hosts a kids’ zone filled with carnival games and fun and an evening of dynamic performances from the Santa Rosa Symphony, conducted by Michael Berkowitz, and Transcendence Theatre Company, offering a slew of show tunes and patriotic classics. Bring the family on Thursday, July 4, at Green Music Center, 1801 E Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park. 4:30pm. $25 and up. 707.664.4246.

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There’s no bad place in Napa to see the fireworks display that caps off the annual Napa Lights the Valley, though the best spots to enjoy the show are from the First Street Bridge, Veterans Park, Riverfront Green Park and Oxbow Commons, where the event commences with live music and family activities. Performers include Napa native Johnny Smith, Fito Reinoso and country musician Buck Ford. Kids will enjoy arts and crafts and other games, and everyone will be wowed by the light show on Thursday, July 4, at Oxbow Commons, 1268 McKinstry St., Napa. 5pm. Free. 707.257.9529.

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CORNY FUN The Imaginists skewer current politics while adapting an ancient play for this year’s ‘Art is Medicine’ tour.

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The Imaginists’ pedal-powered theater returns to local parks BY CHARLIE SWANSON

f you happen to see a corncob-headed loudmouth in a red jacket gallivanting around your local parks this summer, you may have come across the Imaginists, Santa Rosa’s most out-there theater troupe, who are bringing their Art is Medicine Show to Santa Rosa parks through July for the 11th year in a row.

Originally inspired as a response to the 2008 market

crash, the Art is Medicine Show gives the community a new production each summer. “We’ve always been fans of the theater that took place during the Federal Projects of the Roosevelt Administration and the Federal Theatre Project,” says Imaginists co-founding artistic director Brent Lindsay. “It was keeping actors and technicians at work (during the Great Depression), but it also made theater available to communities, and not just cities, but small towns across the United States.” This Friday, July 5, the Imaginists

ride into Juilliard Park in Santa Rosa for the first show of the season. Other scheduled performances include July 12 at Bayer Farm, July 14 at Andy’s Unity Park and July 19 back at Juilliard Park. Lindsay notes that the community should double-check times on the Imaginists’ website. In addition to performing their shows for free, the Imaginists also make their shows bilingual, a component that Lindsay calls a no-brainer. “We want to make sure the invitation is felt across communities,” he says. As for the bicycles, which the

company exclusively uses to transport actors, costumes, props and staging, Lindsay points to theater traditions that go way back. “We’re fans of the circus coming to town and thought the bikes parading through the streets would attract attention. Also, obviously we were thinking of our environmental footprint,” he says. “But, it’s also something that’s not using anything but what the ancient Greeks would use.” Speaking of the Greeks, this year’s show is another new production, Peace: the Redacted Version, that is a loose adaptation of Greek playwright Aristophanes’ ancient comedy, Peace. ‘I would say it’s hardly an adaptation at all,” says Lindsay. “We’ve adapted Peace in the past. Aristophanes is a very political satirist, and pieces of the play leapt out at us for this. But, if you’re coming to see Aristophanes you’re going to be sorely disappointed, or maybe not, I don’t know.” Peace: the Redacted Version features a president who resembles maize; the personifications of Peace, Liberty and Democracy; and an overcrowded field of superheroes. “We live strictly in the fantasy realm here, we never mention Trump by name,” laughs Lindsay. Instead, it’s President Corn and Senator Cracker, two reoccurring characters who this time imprison Peace, Liberty and Democracy while the wannabe superhero candidates fight each other over the chance to rescue the prisoners. With 15 actors taking on over 20 characters in the show, this is the Imaginists biggest Art is Medicine Show yet. “It’s doubled in size,” says Lindsay. “We always have amazing new people, along with old veterans, at these shows.” The Imaginists perform on Friday, Jul 5, at Juilliard Park, 227 Santa Rosa Ave., Santa Rosa. 7pm. Free. For more dates and details, visit theimaginists.org.

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‘Young Frankenstein’ puts on the Ritz in Healdsburg.

Musical Monsters Raven Players emphasize the “young” in ‘Young Frankenstein’ BY HARRY DUKE

ilmmaker Mel Brooks struck gold with his musical adaptation of The Producers and hoped lightning would strike twice with the same approach to Young Frankenstein.

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It didn’t. Young Frankenstein ran for about 2,000 performances less than its predecessor and while The Producers rang up a total of 15 Tony nominations (winning a then-record 12), YF received a scant three nominations and took home none. Does that mean it’s a bad show? No, in many ways it’s a better show. It adheres closer to its original material and while The Producers is essentially a one-joke concept (albeit a great joke), Young

Frankenstein affectionately spoofs an entire genre and Broadway itself. The despised Victor von Frankenstein (Robert Bauer) has passed, and it’s up to his grandson Frederick Frankenstein— pronounced Fronk-en-steen— (Troy Thomas Evans) to return to Transylvania and claim his birthright. How long before Frederick and Igor—pronounced Eye-gore—(Bill Garcia) get back in the family business? If you like the film, you’ll like the show, but you’re going to have to get past some casting issues. Evans is a talented young performer who’s done good work, but he’s decades too young for the role of Frederick. Whether his constipated take on the role was his or director Katie Watts’ decision, it didn’t work. Garcia does fine as Igor, but it occurred to me as the show drew to a close that, for a number of reasons, he should have played Frederick, and Evans would be better suited for the role of Igor. The supporting cast is strong, with Tory Rotlisberger stealing scenes as Frau Blücher and Madison Scarbrough a hoot as Frederick’s vainglorious fiancé Elizabeth. Robert Bauer does double duty as Inspector Kemp and Grandpa Frankenstein, and Eric Yanez does well as the monster. Watts also choreographed the show, and she exhibits a much stronger hand with that task in several well-done production numbers including the classic tap dancing extravaganza “Puttin’ on the Ritz.” It’s a Mel Brooks piece, so the humor runs from the clever to the crass. A great deal of laughter comes from familiarity with the material, as evidenced by the audience’s raucous responses to some jokes despite the delivery being somewhat wobbly. You know what you’re gonna get with a show like Young Frankenstein, and while you do get a lot of it, this monster could have been stitched together better. Rating (out of 5): HHH 'Young Frankenstein' runs through July 14 at the Raven Performing Arts Theater, 115 North St., Healdsburg. Friday–Saturday, 8 pm; Sunday, 2 pm. $10–$35. 707.433.6335.

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The web-head fights a fish-bowl looking villain in sequel BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

t’s not yet July 4th and audiences can already experience Summer Movie Leakage. Spider-Man: Far From Home commences with Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) examining a trashed Mexican village. Was this the same town Rodan took apart in Godzilla, King of Monsters? In fact, it was a windstorm: “the cyclone had a face,” Fury rumbles. The giant wind beast returns and coalesces like a thunderhead, and out of the skies comes…a guy named Quentin Beck, aka Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal), a flying superman in a glass helmet, a denizen of a parallel Earth come to save our own. Meanwhile, Peter Parker (the eager and charming Tom Holland) longs to be a 16-yearold neighborhood hero he once was instead of an Avenger. It being summer, he’s slated for a school vacation in Europe’s most decorative capitals. Familiar teenage summer-vacation stuff ensues

among the canals and the castles, with Curb Your Enthusiasm’s J.B. Smoove and Martin Starr as the inept chaperones. Parker draws the attention of new mentors, goodcop (Jon Favreau’s Happy Hogan) and bad-cop (naturally, Samuel L.) and it’s off to Venice, Prague and London, where each city is besieged by an uninspiring kaiju that must be wrestled into submission by Spider-Man’s new fishbowl-headed pal from the multiverse. As MJ, the one-named Zendaya continues a good impression of miffed, off-kilter appeal, but the dialogue reiterates the best moments in Spider-Man: Homecoming. To his credit, director Jon Watts takes the odd route whenever possible. Sometimes it seems Watts has an altar somewhere with a DVD collection of Freaks and Geeks on it surrounded by candles and incense. Still, there’s relevance to burn in Spider-Man: Far From Home’s payoff in villainy that deals in distraction and deep fakery, with arsonists playing firemen, and smoke and mirrors. ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ is playing in wide release.

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fter more than a decade of collaboratively fronting string band ensemble Brothers Comatose, San Francisco singer-songwriter and Petaluma native Ben Morrison is striking out on his own with a forthcoming debut solo album and tour this summer. “I’ve been in the Brothers Comatose for over 11 years now,” says Morrison. “And last year there were some changes to the band.” With the departure of band members Gio Benedetti and Ryan Avellone, Morrison and his brother Alex put the band on hold while they recruited new musicians. At the same time, Morrison took a much-needed breather from

touring and playing over 100 dates a year with the band. “We took a little bit of downtime to figure out the next step,” says Morrison. That next step turned out to be a detour into rock ‘n’ roll, and Morrison’s new batch of songs finds him incorporating electric guitars and drums, something not seen on a Brothers Comatose stage. “I’ve always wanted to make a record with drums,” he says. “Sometimes, I write songs that don’t quite fit Brothers Comatose, so it was nice to have a different outlet for that.” Currently being pressed and due out at the end of summer, Morrison’s forthcoming debut solo record, Old Technology, features both older songs that he’s kept on back burners and new material written especially with this project in mind. “It was really cool approaching writing in a different way,” he says. “A different sound in mind, a different angle to work from.” Until the album comes out, curious listeners can find Morrison’s latest single and music video, “I Hope You’re Not Sorry,” on his website. “The song was inspired by a stalker I had, and no longer have,” says Morrison. “It’s a love song to lost stalker love, like realizing that your stalker no longer comes to your shows anymore and wondering what you did wrong.” Filmed by fellow San Francisco raconteur Sam Chase, the music video finds Morrison clutching a Fender guitar and singing to an empty chair in a smoky bar before donning a white jacket and fronting a full band. That full band will back up Morrison when he performs on July 4 in St Helena, returning to Long Meadow Ranch Winery & Farmstead. “It’s always been really cool,” he says of the venue. “It’s a laid back atmosphere, and there's delicious barbecue wafting through the air.” Ben Morrison performs on Thursday, Jul 4, at Long Meadow Ranch, 738 Main St, St Helena. Doors at 5pm; Show at 7pm. $35-$55; kids 12 and under. 707.963.4555. benmorrisonmusic.com.

Concerts SONOMA Fourth of July Elephant Music Festival

Rock ‘n’ roll act Veers, soul singer Calvin Arsenia and others play all day. Jul 4, 2pm. $20. Elephant in the Room, 177-A Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, elephantintheroompub.com.

Turkuaz

Brooklyn-based ensemble features male-female harmonies and interminable grooves. Jul 10, 8:30pm. $18$20. Mystic Theatre & Music Hall, 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.775.6048.

NAPA Taimane

Ukulele virtuoso and rising star performs. Jul 10, 8pm. $15-$35. Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.880.2300.

Y&T

Hard-rock pioneers are still taking stages by storm 45 years into their careers. Jul 6, 8pm. $35-$50. Uptown Theatre, 1350 Third St, Napa, 707.259.0123.

Clubs & Venues SONOMA Barley & Hops Tavern

Jul 4, Tumbleweed Soul. Jul 5, Burnside album-release show. Jul 6, Stone People’s Medicine. Jul 7, 5pm, Bottle Shock Duo. 3688 Bohemian Hwy, Occidental, 707.874.9037.

Brewsters Beer Garden

Jul 4, 1pm, Stick Shift. Jul 5, Train Wreck Junction. Jul 6, the Blues Bottle Band. Jul 7, 1pm, Third Rail Band. 229 Water St N, Petaluma, 707.981.8330.

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HopMonk Sebastopol Jul 7, 5pm, the Coffis Brothers & the Mountain Men. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol, 707.829.7300.

Hudson Street Wineries

Jul 5, 5pm, Bruce Oliver & Two Smooth Band. 428 Hudson St, Healdsburg, 707.433.2364.

Ives Park

Jul 4, 12pm, FulaMuse and the Old Blind Dogs. Willow Street and Jewell Avenue, Sebastopol, peacetown.org.

Lagunitas Tap Room

Jul 4, Attila Viola & the Bakersfield Boys. Jul 5, Honkytonk Stumbleweeds. Jul 6, Aly Rose Trio. Jul 7, Ragtag Sullivan. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma, 707.778.8776.

Main Street Bistro

Jul 4, Levi Lloyd. Jul 5, Fargo Brothers. Jul 6, Yancie Taylor. Jul 7, Fog Holler. 16280 Main St, Guerneville, 707.869.0501.

The Phoenix Theater

Jul 5, Moon Sick with BoscoMujo and TV Static. Jul 7, One Armed Joey and Hoity-Toity. 201 Washington St, Petaluma, 707.762.3565.

Redwood Cafe

Jul 5, the Musers and Five Letter Word. Jul 6, THUGZ and Solid Air. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.795.7868.

Sebastopol Community Center Annex Jul 7, Modern Hicks and Under the Radar. 425 Morris St, Sebastopol, 707.823.1511.

Taft Street Winery

Jul 7, 2pm, Tom Rigney & Flambeau. 2030 Barlow Lane, Sebastopol, 707.823.2049.

Whiskey Tip

Jul 4, Edgy Open Mic with Port Royal. Jul 5, ’80s dance party. Jul 6, hip-hop show. 1910 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.843.5535.

Elephant in the Room Jul 5, Blue Radio. Jul 6, John Courage Trio. Jul 7, Steve Pile Trio. Jul 9, Marshall House Project. 177-A Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, elephantintheroompub.com.

Hood Mansion Lawn

Jul 5, 5:30pm, Poyntlyss Sistars

NAPA Blue Note Napa

Jul 5-6, Nick Colionne. Jul 9, JourneyDay & Belle. 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.880.2300.

Goose & Gander

Jul 7, 5pm, Five Letter Word.

Long Meadow Ranch Winery

Jul 4, 5pm, Ben Morrison and Goodnight, Texas. 738 Main St, St Helena, 707.963.4555.

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Arts Guild of Sonoma

Jul 3-29, “A Midsummer’s Exhibition,” exhibit highlights artworks from featured Arts Guild member artists. Reception, Jul 6 at 5pm. 140 E Napa St, Sonoma. 707.996.3115.

East West Cafe

Jul 7-Aug 31, “Works by Richard Winston,” includes oil and acrylic paintings. Reception, Jul 7 at 4pm. 128 N Main St, Sebastopol. 707.829.2822.

Graton Gallery

Jul 3-Aug 4, “Blooming,” featuring paintings and multimedia art by Mylette Welch, Elia Murray, Amy Smith and others. Reception, Jul 6 at 2pm. 9048 Graton Rd, Graton. 707.829.8912.

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Jul 3-28, “Chilled Summer Whites,” artist Willow LaLandYielding presents a winethemed exhibit. Reception, Jul 6 at 5:30pm. 306 Center St, Healdsburg. Sun-Thurs, 11 to 6; Fri-Sat, 11 to 9. 707.431.4214.

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Families are invited out for a screening of the 2018 animated movie, "Ralph Breaks the Internet." Jul 9, 8:30pm. Free. Healdsburg Plaza, 217 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, 707.431.3301.

Transcendence Theatre Company joins the Santa Rosa Symphony in an evening performance, and a kids’ zone comes complete with carnival games and face painting. Jul 4, 4:30pm. $25 and up. Green Music Center Weill Hall, 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

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Friday opens with the Big Rocky Games, followed by a boat parade and fireworks. Saturday features the Monte Rio Fire Station’s BBQ. Jul 5-6, noon. Free admission. Rocky Beach, Monte Rio, monterio.org.

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The skies over Napa River burst with color, with live music, festival food, kids activities and carnival games. Jul 4, 5pm. Free. Oxbow Commons, McKinstry St, Napa, 707.257.9529.

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Sonoma’s famed, traditional parade is followed by an old-fashioned festival with live music, food, drink and game booths culminating in a fireworks show. Jul 4, 10am. Free admission. Sonoma Plaza, First St E, Sonoma, 707.996.1090.

Star-Spangled Social

Calistoga’s annual Independence Day celebration comes complete with a parade, carnival, and of course, fireworks. Jul 4, 11am. $15$20/kids 5 and under are free. Napa County Fairgrounds, 1435 N Oak St, Calistoga, celebratenapavalley.org.

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Field Trips Fourth of July Fireworks Hike

Climb the tallest mountain in Sonoma Valley to see several fireworks displays. Not recommended for kids under 12, space is limited. Jul 4, 6:45pm. $50/kids 12-17 are $10. Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, 2605 Adobe Canyon Rd, Kenwood, 707.833.5712.

Healdsburg Movies in the Plaza

Let's Talk About Death Final Passages' ongoing film series screens "Other People," starring Molly Shannon, followed by a lively and educational discussion. Jul 9, 6:30pm. $5-$15. Sebastopol Grange Hall, 6000 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol.

Food & Drink All-American Zin Day Multiple wineries celebrate Zinfandel wine with tastings and food pairings. Jul 6, 11am. $55-$60. Dry Creek Valley, various locations, Healdsburg, 888.433.6555.

Fourth of July on the Wine Train

View the Yountville fireworks from the comfort of the train and enjoy a gourmet three-course dinner. Jul 4, 5:30pm. Napa Valley Wine Train, 1275 McKinstry St, Napa, 800.427.4124.

Summer Celebration at Russian River Vineyards

Join the vineyards' winemaker and growers, toast the harvest to come and celebrate the season. Jul 6, 5pm and Jul 7, 3pm. $50. Russian River Vineyards, 5700 Hwy 116, Forestville, 707.887.3344.

For Kids Fourth of July Kids Parade & Duck Dash

Youngsters can walk or ride their bikes in a parade and enjoy food and games including the rubber duck race. Jul 4, 10:30am. Free admission. Healdsburg Plaza, 217 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, 707.431.3301.

Lectures Paris in Petaluma: The Hidden Heroines of France

Santa Rosa Symphony cultural historian Kayleen Asbo presents

a series about remarkable women in history. Mon, Jul 8, 10:30am. $30; full series is $100. Petaluma Historical Library & Museum, 20 Fourth St, Petaluma, kayleenasbo.com.

Pioneers of the Green Rush

Panel discussion revisits the history of cannabis. Jul 10, 6:30pm. $10-$15. Museum of Sonoma County, 425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa, 707.579.1500.

Readings Napa Main Library

Jul 6, 2pm, "Racial Ecologies" with LeiLani Nishime and Kim D Hester Williams. Free. 580 Coombs St, Napa 707.253.4070.

Santa Rosa Copperfield's Books

Jul 9, 7pm, Redwood Writers Hot Summer Nights. Free. 775 Village Court, Santa Rosa. redwoodwriters.org.

Sebastopol Copperfield's Books

Jul 6, 7pm, "Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals" with Aurora Levins Morales. Free. 138 N Main St, Sebastopol 707.823.2618.

Thumbprint Cellars

Jul 10, 6pm, "The Plus One" with Sarah Archer. Free. 102 Matheson St, Healdsburg 707.433.2393.

Theater The Art Is Medicine Show

The Imaginists’ annual bilingual, bicycle-powered summer tour rides again with "Peace: the Redacted Version," a modern adaptation of an ancient comedy. Fri, Jul 5, 7pm. Free. Juilliard Park, 227 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa, theimaginists.org.

Young Frankenstein

Mel Brooks' classic comedy spoof gets a musical makeover. Through Jul 14. $10-$35. Raven Theater, 115 North St, Healdsburg, 707.433.3145.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian voice actor Tom Kenny has played the roles of over 1,500 cartoon characters, including SpongeBob SquarePants, Spyro the Dragon, Jake Spidermonkey, Commander Peepers, and Doctor Octopus. I propose that we make him your role model in the coming weeks. It will be a favorable time for you to show your versatility; to demonstrate how multifaceted you can be; to express various sides of your soulful personality. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo author Donald Miller reminds us that fear can have two very different purposes. On the one hand, it may be "a guide to keep us safe," alerting us to situations that could be dangerous or abusive. On the other hand, fear may work as "a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life." After studying your astrological indicators for the coming weeks, Leo, I have come to the conclusion that fear may serve both of those functions for you. Your challenge will be to discern between them; to know which situations are genuinely risky and which situations are daunting but promising. Here's a hint that might help: trust your gut feelings more than your swirling fantasies. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Why do flocks of geese fly in a V-formation? Because to do so enhances the collective efficiency of their travel. Each bird generates a current that supports the bird behind it. Let's make this phenomenon one of your power metaphors for the coming weeks. What would be the equivalent strategy for you and your tribe or group as you seek to make your collaborative efforts more dynamic and productive? Unforeseen help will augment any actions you take in this regard. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue," mused Libra author Truman Capote. "That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet." That cynical formulation has more than a few grains of truth in it, I must admit. But I'm pleased to tell you that I suspect your experience in the coming

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weeks will be an exception to Capote's rule. I think you have the potential to embark on a virtual binge of rich discussion and intriguing interplay with people who stimulate and educate and entertain you. Rise to the challenge!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In accordance with

astrological rhythms, you are authorized to make the following declarations in the next two weeks: 1. "I refuse to participate further in this situation on the grounds that it might impinge on the expansiveness of my imagination." 2. "I abstain from dealing with your skepticism on the grounds that doing so might discourage the flights of my imagination." 3. "I reject these ideas, theories, and beliefs on the grounds that they might pinch, squash, or deflate my imagination." What I'm trying to tell you, Scorpio, is that it's crucial for you to emancipate your imagination and authorize it to play uninhibitedly in the frontiers of possibilities.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Dear

Sagittarius: I invite you to make a copy of the testimonial below and give it to anyone who is in a position to support your Noble Experiment. "To Whom It May Concern: I endorse this Soulful Sagittarius for the roles of monster-tamer, fun-locator, boredomtranscender, elation-inciter, and mountaintop visionary. This adroit explorer is endowed with charming zeal, disarming candor, and abundant generosity. If you need help in sparking your enthusiasm or galvanizing your drive to see the big picture, call on the expansive skills of this jaunty puzzle-solver."

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Life will conspire to bring you a surge of love in the coming weeks—if you can handle it. Can you? Will you be able to deal adeptly with rumbling love and icy hot love and mostly sweet but also a bit sour love? Do you possess the resourcefulness and curiosity necessary to have fun with funny spiritual love and running-throughthe-labyrinth love and unexpectedly catalytic love? Are you open-minded and open-hearted enough to make the most of brilliant shadowy love and unruly sensitive love and toughly graceful love? AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I don't endlessly champion the "no pain, no gain" theory of personal growth. My philosophy holds that we are at least as likely to learn valuable lessons from pleasurable and joyful experiences as we are from difficult and taxing struggles. Having said that, I also think it's true that our suffering may lead us to treasure if we know how to work with it. According to my assessment, the coming weeks will bring one such opening for you. To help you cultivate the proper spirit, keep in mind the teaching of Aquarian theologian and author Henri Nouwen. He said that life's gifts may be "hidden in the places that hurt most." PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Japanese word

"wabi-sabi" refers to an interesting or evocative imperfection in a work of art that makes it more beautiful than if it were merely perfect. "Duende" is a Spanish word referring to a work of art that gives its viewers the chills because it's so emotionally rich and unpredictably soulful. In the coming weeks, I think that you yourself will be a work of art with an abundance of these qualities. Your wabi-sabi will give you the power to free yourself from the oppressive pressures of seeking too much precision and purity. Your duende can give you the courage you need to go further than you've ever dared in your quest for the love you really want.

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