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Playing Chicken Multiple county agencies pass the buck on animal cruelty at local farms BY DOUG MOELLER

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ho is responsible for enforcing state anti–animal cruelty laws at our local farms? The answer is, apparently, no one.

Last September, 58 activists with Direct Action Everywhere were arrested for trying to provide aid to wounded, sick and starving chickens at a Petaluma farm. The activists claim they had provided evidence to several different agencies detailing animal cruelty at this and other farms, but no action had been taken. Under California Code 597e, they claimed they were entitled to provide that aid without fear of liability.

We’ll see how that plays out. But my question is: Why did it come to this? Why didn’t our local officials investigate and address allegations of animal cruelty after more than a year of being provided evidence? Over the past few weeks, animal rights activists including myself have talked to several different agencies and apparently no one is willing to take responsibility for enforcing the animal-cruelty laws on the books as they pertain to farm animals. California has passed some important laws about how farm animals are to be treated, but unless someone is willing to enforce them, what’s the point?

We’ve been in contact with multiple agencies recently over this question. Here’s what we’ve learned: Sonoma County District Attorney Jill Ravitch says that it’s the job of the county’s Animal Services division to investigate and recommend animal-cruelty charges be filed when appropriate. Sonoma County Animal Services says they don’t do this for farm animals. They are focused on pets and will intervene if the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office asks them to. They say the SCSO should be doing the investigations.

Sonoma County Sheriff Mark Essick says it’s

not his department’s responsibility either. He says allegations of animal cruelty at local farms fall under the jurisdiction of the California Department of Food and Agriculture. But that agency says they don’t investigate animal cruelty. They are responsible for food safety, with a mission to protect and promote agriculture, not enforce animal-cruelty laws. They say it’s the job of local law enforcement, the SCSO, to investigate allegations of animal cruelty.

None of these agencies would agree to meet together and figure out what the policy is for enforcing our animal-cruelty laws. They all just want to toss this hot potato as far away as possible.

It appears the SCSO is responsible for enforcing the state laws, but is not willing to accept this responsibility. It just doesn’t take animal-cruelty seriously when it comes to farm animals. But it’s not Essick’s job to pick and choose which laws he wants to enforce, despite being endorsed by the Sonoma County Farm Bureau in his 2018 campaign for sheriff (the Farm Bureau also endorsed Ravitch).

The animal-rights activists exposed horrific animal cruelty at local farms, and local officials are spending our tax dollars going after the whistleblowers who exposed these crimes, instead of the animal abusers.

I understand that agriculture is an important part of our economy, but that doesn’t mean the farms can operate outside the law. This problem is not going away by arresting the whistleblowers. We need more leadership and enforcement of the law in this county, and less passing of the buck.

Doug Moeller lives in Santa Rosa.

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I was curious what Sonoma County’s former planner Pete Parkinson was referring to when he opened his letter to the editor in the March 13 edition of the Bohemian with the “once again” reference: “I am once again disappointed with Will Carruthers’ lazy reporting on the fire-debris-removal scandal.”

Had he previously expressed his disappointment with Will Carruthers’ reporting in the Bohemian and I’d missed it?

I’m not real clear what Carruthers was reporting either, not yet, but I certainly wouldn’t conclude it was a result of laziness. It appears more like he presented Bohemian readers with an interesting collection of characters, relationships and perhaps a revolving door—enough intriguing information to require further examination to be sure, but not much of a story. Yet. I’m OK with taking Pete Parkinson’s word. Perhaps Chris Godley’s a swell guy.

Perhaps his buddy Darius Anderson is as well. Apparently we all agree, as he stated, that our “community deserves better reporting on these issues.”

But here’s the big problem that Pete is well aware of and ignores anyway: if he were really interested in airing all this out, as his letter suggests, he’d be addressing his letter to the Press Democrat. If that publication were doing its job, and adequately reporting in the public interest on the lobbying activities of one of its owners (Anderson) on behalf of AshBritt, PG&E and others, the Bohemian would not need to piece together all these little tidbits of intriguing information for us to gnaw on.

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No Janis, No Plane, No Dead I picked up the March 13 edition of the Bohemian while in Sonoma County visiting old friends, and I read Richard von Busack’s article “Double Down.” I lived in Cotati when the Inn of the Beginning opened in 1968, and later was on the staff of the Sonoma County Bugle, which featured an extensive calendar of music events happening at the Inn and other local venues.

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Look for the Union . . . Edible Organized labor on the march to unionize pot workers BY JONAH RASKIN

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an unions organize cannabis industry workers, some stoned, some sober, others undocumented and still others with college degrees?

It’s tricky.

The upsides: a unionized

cannabis industry could help improve wages and working conditions for men and women who labor in North Bay cannabis fields, warehouses and dispensaries. Unions could also assist the industry as a whole by rendering it more transparent, and by insisting on standards that

contribute to the health and safety of employers, employees and consumers.

The downsides: a wobbly workforce that’s still laboring underground in many cases and that doesn’t really need the union dues on top of the onerous tax burden that comes with

compliance. Not to mention that there’s not one or two, but three unions angling to ramp up their rolls with the North Bay cannabis labor pool.

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is one of the unions pushing to organize weed workers. Its drivers already transport legal weed throughout the state; now the union is pushing out into the fields and warehouses. At 1.3 million members strong, the IBT is one of the strongest unions in the country and now they’re in the thick of a campaign to organize a California cannabis industry that is moving haltingly from illegality to legality.

The Teamsters have already been engaged in the cannabis culture in this state for decades.

Along with the California Growers Association, plus law enforcement and elected officials all across the state, the Teamsters supported and lobbied for Proposition 215, which ushered in the state’s landmark medical marijuana regime in 1996.

The Teamsters also lobbied in favor of Proposition 64, which legalized adult use in 2016 and launched the system of regulation and taxation that’s now in place.

Once the legal cannabis industry had employees who delivered and distributed marijuana, it made perfect sense, from the Teamsters perspective, to organize them.

“Helping new industries evolve” is the current Teamster slogan. They’d like to see the cannabis industry evolve by embracing unionization—an effort already underway that’s helped one California pot business organize its workers.

The Teamsters recently helped organize workers at Continuum, a California marijuana distributor that has offices and warehouses in Oakland, Sacramento and Orange County. “We worked closely with the Teamsters,” says Tim Morland, the compliance and policy director at Continuum.

“Now all our employees—drivers and warehouse workers—are in the union and make $25 an hour.”

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t’s understandable that the union doesn’t want to tip its hand about its organizing plans and invite sabotage at the hands of “right to work” agitators. And it’s a touchy prospect going in: Some cannabis companies are still very much underground, or straddle a gray border that divides the legal and the illegal. They don’t want or need the publicity of a union shop.

A local Teamsters organizer who insisted on anonymity says of efforts to unionize the industry, “This is just the beginning. A lot of people haven’t followed rules and still don’t follow rules.

They’re not the easiest people to work with.”

The United Farm Workers (UFW) and the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), also aim to organize cannabis workers.

If you’re a cannabis worker, we want to talk with you,” says UFW national vice president Armando Elenes.

For its part, the UFCW asks that the Teamsters kindly step back. “The UFCW has a Cannabis Workers Rising Campaign,” UFCW spokesman Jeff Ferro says. “We would hope they

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[the Teamsters] respect our jurisdiction.”

The competing unions reflect the diversity and scope of a cannabis industry that stretches from fields and warehouses to trucks, kitchens and dispensaries.

Another Teamster spokesperson who requested anonymity says the union is aware of competition from the UFW and UFCW. One difference, she says, is that Teamsters don’t want to be organized-labor militants.

“We aim to be an advocate for the industry, not a thorn in its side.”

Organizers note that there’s still some lingering bitterness in California’s Central Valley between the United Farm Workers and the Teamsters, who tried to elbow out Cesar Chavez’s organization in the 1970s. But it was a different Teamsters in the ’70s—in bed with organized crime and with a corrupt ex-convict Jimmy Hoffa as its leader. The union has taken great pains to reform its image and organization since its mid-’70s lowpoint, when Hoffa disappeared and was presumed to be killed by the Mafia. He still hasn’t been found. t’s a different union today, even if it is headed by James Hoffa Jr. Kristin Heidelbach heads the Teamsters Cannabis Division.

A graduate of Sacramento State University, she commands an office in the state capitol, travels widely, speaks publicly and provides a recognizable name and face to an industry that has historically been reluctant to go public.

Heidelbach worked closely for more than a decade with her mentor, Barry Broad, a Teamsters lawyer from 1985 until his retirement last year. For much of his career, Broad focused exclusively on cannabis issues.

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workers when they’ve been arrested and detained by law enforcement. The Los Angeles police recently nabbed and held a cannabis delivery man named Richard Rodriguez, a member of Local 853, for 15 hours. The Teamsters found a lawyer who secured the trucker’s release; no charges were filed. “No one has ever offered me that kind of protection,” he told the Teamsters blog. “We need the Teamsters because they have those relationships.”

Closer to home, it's a challenge to obtain accurate information about where and what the Teamsters are actually doing on the ground in the North Bay on the cannabis front—in part because there’s competition between rival local labor organizations that nobody in the union-advocacy movement wants to talk about, at least on the record.

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“Government officials,” he adds, “had been uncomfortable dealing with people in the underground economy. Once the Teamsters unionized workers, it helped legitimize the industry.”

Broad says cannabis workers have suffered in the black market because they haven’t been paying into or accessing Social Security, unemployment insurance or workers’ compensation.

“There has been a dark side to the cannabis industry,” Broad says. “There’s been use of child labor, which is against the law, and there has been a lot of pot on the market with fungus that’s not fit for human consumption. We’ve helped to clean up the whole industry in more ways than one.”

Heidelbach carries on Broad’s legacy. Over the past three years, she has staked out the Emerald Triangle for organizing pot workers. The Emerald Triangle has for decades been the heart of the California cannabis industry— though it’s losing ground to Salinas, Monterey and Santa Barbara, where municipalities are eager for tax revenue from the emerging economy.

Broad notes that Humboldt growers, far removed from the regional motherlode of cannabis consumers in San Francisco and San Jose. It’s a long way to drive with a load of legal weed, he says, even for a veteran Teamsters driver.

Last fall, Heidelbach chaired a panel at the Emerald Cup (the annual cannabis county fair, job market and stoner festival) in Santa Rosa that was titled “Tips for Making Money in the Newly Regulated Market.”

“It’s all about survival,” Heidelbach told the audience.

That summed up the sentiments of the participants on the panel.

None were gleeful about the future of legal weed.

Heidelbach is presently focused on working conditions in the Emerald Triangle and beyond, and not just because Murder Mountain is up on Netflix,

highlighting the outlaw culture to the north. Yes, the pot workers are often pleasantly stoned, but many are also unhappy with the long hours, the repetitive work and the demand to turn out product quickly.

“A lot of trimmers and dispensary workers are treated unfairly,” Heidelbach says. “They need representation because they’re often afraid to speak up, lest they lose their jobs. At one place, I was told, ‘We’re good to our workers, but you can’t talk to them. They’re idiots.’”

Along with the condescending tone directed at workers, Heidelbach’s also gotten an indifferent, if not cold, shoulder from big commercial operators in the North Bay. One Sonoma County-based cannabis-industry spokesman who insisted on anonymity says the weed industry is now so squeezed by taxes and regulations it can’t survive further squeezing by the Teamsters.

The new taxes that are part of the Proposition 64 legalization regime have made it nearly impossible for individuals without big financial backing to enter the market.

Earlier this year, Clayton Taylor, a fledgling organizer for the Teamsters—he has an office in Santa Rosa—spoke to a roomful of largely union-indifferent members of the Sonoma Valley Cannabis Enthusiasts (SVCE), an industry group that wants Sonoma Valley weed to be as wellknown as Sonoma Valley wine.

Ken Brown, a former Sonoma mayor and a longtime local activist, helped bring Taylor to the SVCE meeting.

“The Teamsters have a right to organize,” Brown says. “[But] if people don’t want a union, that’s their business.”

For years, Brown’s wife, Jewel Mathieson, has been the heart and soul of the Sonoma Patient Group, the longest-running dispensary in Sonoma County. The Sonoma Patient Group is not represented by any union.

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“We sign what’s called a Labor Peace Agreement which sets the bedrock for the positive relation between employer and the Teamsters.”

That day, no SVCE growers signed up.

“We’re strapped,” one member says. “The union could make life more difficult for us.”

Immigrant trimmers in the cannabis industry are also pretty wary of the uptick in union agitation. Rosa (not her real name) is 25 and from Central America; Santiago (not his real name) is 29 and from South America. She has a passport and a visa; he has no legit papers.

What they make in four months here lasts a year back home. Three years ago, they earned $25 an hour as trimmers. By 2018, the wage had dropped to $15.

Working conditions are onerous—they put in shifts of up to 14 hours, and are under near constant surveillance—but Rosa and Santiago haven’t sought union representation and say they won’t strike or rock the

boat. When they don’t like one workplace, they move to another farm or warehouse where the weed bosses are kinder.

Santiago worries about Rosa and rightly so.

“She has trimmed on remote farms where growers hit on her,” he says. “There’s little, if any, protection.” t CannaCraft, a major cannabis-manufacturing facility in Santa Rosa, CEO Bill Silver expresses pride in the CannaCraft workforce and the company itself. “I was initially drawn to the company because it treats all our employees well.”

Silver, a former professor at Sonoma State University, is a bit more guarded when it comes to the question of a unionized Cannacraft. The company employs around 180 people.

“That’s a sensitive issue,” says Silver. “I don’t want to comment on anything that’s in progress.”

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DEBR IEFER The Tow Hold A struggling man in West Marin was recently arrested on minor charges and spent a few months serving local time at the Marin County lockup in San Rafael. Before his arrest, the man had been living in his car. When he got out of jail, he was homeless. His car had been tagged and towed by a company under contract with Marin County, to one of its impound lots—along with all his possessions and identification papers. In a word, this man was screwed.

This is a common enough hardluck story in the land of sky-high rents: sure, you can live in your car—but you’ve got to move it every three days—or else.

That’s sort of hard to do if you’re poor and in jail.

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Now, San Francisco state Assemblyman David Chiu has introduced a bill this week in Sacramento that aims to eliminate poverty-related towing. The bill was inspired by a recent report from the Western Center on Law & Poverty, Towed into Debt, which found that “hundreds of thousands of California drivers have their cars towed every year for nonemergency, non-safety related reasons.”

The three main culprits, according to the Western Center study, are unpaid tickets, expired registrations and parking for more than 72 hours on a public street. The study found that those who can’t afford to pay parking tickets and registration fees “often can’t afford to retrieve their vehicles once administrative fees, storage fees, and unpaid tickets are added together—fee totals often reach $1,500 or more.”

If you can’t pay the fee, the state sells your car. If the state sells your car, you can’t get to work. If you can’t get to work, you lose your job. And thus the cycle of poverty continues.

The Western Center study found

that every year, the state sells 200,000 government-towed vehicles.

Chiu’s bill, AB 516, would eliminate three types of poverty tows: those where a person has five or more unpaid parking tickets; tows where a registration is six or more months out of date; and tows where a car has been parked on a public street for 72 hours without being moved.

Chiu’s bill has been widely endorsed by anti-poverty and civil-liberties groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union of California.

Chiu expects some pushback from local transit agencies, which are, generally speaking, not in favor of being told what they can or can’t do by the state. But as the Western Study notes, localities are losing money on towing programs that disproportionately impact the lesser-of-means.

A locality will use the tow as leverage to collect a debt, but in many cases, the debt isn’t not paid and the car goes to auction, where it’s sold at a fraction of its value.

The Western Center study reports that “cities are losing money on tows, especially when the reason for the tow is someone’s inability to pay government fines and fees.

Towed vehicles can quickly rack up thousands of dollars in fees and fines which often can’t be paid off by their owner. The fees and fines don’t get collected, the car is sold, and everyone loses.

“For many middle- and low-income Californians, getting towed is more than an expensive inconvenience,” says Chiu, the San Francisco Assemblyman. “It can exacerbate an existing untenable financial situation. We should not be taking away a person’s livelihood or shelter simply to try to collect a minimal debt. This legislation will help stop a vicious cycle of penalizing poor people simply for being poor.”—Tom Gogola

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elcome. We’re once again celebrating the best of the North Bay, with our epic Readers Poll and extensive selection of Writers Picks. It never gets old, putting out these annual issues that celebrate the best of the best of Sonoma and Napa counties. In a world of impermanence, it’s good to know that there’s always another Best Of issue right around the corner—and that each year, new businesses and people always seem to refresh the proverbial aquifer of greatness.

From Best Doctor to Best Winetasting, we’ve got it covered, and then some, across our various categories. Our winners are a reflection of the community at large that chooses them—and represent the day-to-day goodness that makes living around here a Best Of experience in its own right.

This year, Sonoma tattoo artist Shotsie Gorman returns to the Best Of fore to illustrate our

cover—may you soar like a hawk through this amazing issue! Rory McNamara was our goto photographer this year and the Bohemian writers who contributed are Aiyana Moya, Alex T. Randolph, Charlie Swanson, David Templeton, Gary Brandt, James Knight, Jonah Raskin, Stett Holbrook, Thomas Broderick, Tom Gogola and the late Tokey McPuffups. Thanks to all who contributed.

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ts official title is “Fine Balance,” but most folks in Petaluma just call it ‘The Bathtubs on Stilts.’

The controversial public art installation has not even been installed yet, but sculptor Brian Goggin’s starkly steam-punkish (and, for the record, totally bought-and-paid-for) art project has proven to be one of the most divisive happenings Petaluma has witnessed since Highway 101 split the town into west side and east side.

The tubs—five old-fashioned, claw-foot bathtubs suspended on towering metal stilts—were paid for out of a mandated fund collected from private developers who build new stuff in town, and must either cough up 1 percent of their building costs or spend the same

amount commissioning their own artwork on their site. The installation is expected to be erected this fall on Water Street, overlooking the Petaluma River’s turning basin. While there are plenty who actually look forward to the installation (proudly sporting “The Tubs Will Rise” buttons), the howl of outrage from dissenters has become so vitriolic that discussion of the tubs has been banned on social media sights like the popular “I Love Petaluma!” Facebook page.

It’s not the first time Petalumans have seen an art display spark major controversy. Thirty-six years ago, in 1982, local artists Tim Read and the late Guy Scohy found themselves at the center of a massive maelstrom when they were invited to install a number of brightly colored metal sculptures outside

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the downtown history museum. The public outcry was immediate. Many called the sculptures ugly, too modern or too strange. Others (the project’s defenders) argued that ugliness was beside the point, that art is art and is intended to inflame public conversation. The city of Petaluma soon jumped in, citing the structures’ potential danger to the public (sharp edges, etc.) and ordered the sculptures to be removed. Disappointed in his fellow Petalumans’ lack of support for art and creativity, Scohy soon after left town. Read himself now lives in New Mexico.

Will Petaluma once again cave to art critics and pull the plug on the tubs? It’s a real soap opera. We’ll just have to wait and see.—D.T.

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BEST PLACE TO TEMPORARILY FEEL YOUNG AGAIN

Remember back before you had kids and all the cool shows you used to see? Yeah, I’ve pretty much forgotten, too. But it’s not too late! You can still hold on to those fleeting pleasures of youth. Here comes the Huichica Music Festival again June 7–8. Held at Gundlach Bundschu Winery in Sonoma, it’s the music festival for people who hate music festivals. For one, it’s not BottleRock. It’s much smaller and mellower. Multiple stages mean you can wander around and sample different bands all day long. And you can walk around with bottles of wine in your hand.

It’s encouraged! (Pro tip: try the GunBun Gewürztraminer). The food trucks are solid, too. Best of all is the music. It’s a diverse mix of indie rock, alt folk and random stuff thrown in. This year has got Real Estate, Chuck Prophet, Fruit Bats and Lee Fields & the Expressions. Yes, the festival has more than its share of hipsters, but all those skinny jeans means there’s more room for you. huichica.com.—S.H.

BEST PLACE TO HIDE OUT

Long gone are those thrilling days of yesteryear when Van Morrison would show up unannounced at the Inn of the Beginning in Cotati and perform for free for all the hippies, the weirdos, the ranchers and the SSU students.

Cotati is still a cool place to hear music.

Redwood Cafe in the heart of Cotati has some great local musicians, singers and songwriters. Years ago, when it was called the Last Great Hiding Place, I would hang out there, make pasta for 50 or 60 people on community night and watch old movies. That’s right, there was movie night at the Last Great Hiding Place. There are no movies at Redwood Cafe, but it’s still a great place to hide out with friends and strangers, listen to music, drink an IPA or a red wine and eat some food. Except for the illuminated stage and the light from the kitchen, it’s pretty dark inside the cafe, and there’s plenty of room to lean into the shadows and be a tad mysterious. I recently heard Laughing Gravy with Doug Jayne and

Allen Sudduth. They were mighty fine.

There’s folk and there’s jazz and there’s dancing, too. There’s a cover charge, but it won’t break your budget. Couples pack the place on Friday nights, but there are also lots of men and women and boys and girls all on their own, aiming to stay on their own, or to meet someone they can hide out with for a couple of hours. Redwood Cafe rocks. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy., Cotati. 707.795.7868. redwoodcafe.com.—J.R.

BEST BIG BEAUTIFUL WALL

Many people don’t remember that there was a time, decades ago, when a barrier 18 feet high and nearly 25 miles long divided this land. A great swath of Sonoma County property was separated from its southern neighbors. And it was all accomplished without an emergency declaration. By fiat of a visionary artist.

Actually, a pair of artists—Christo and his late wife, Jeanne-Claude—spent four years collaborating with ranchers, also hiring lawyers, and ultimately constructing a billowing, fragile-seeming white fabric fence—sorry, did I say wall? It’s obvious that I meant fence all along—that they called Running Fence.

The controversial spectacle lasted just two weeks in September 1976, by design, but in the end it mostly brought people together instead of dividing them. The park at Watson School Historic Park (14550 Bodega Hwy., Bodega Bay) is dedicated to Running Fence, while Sonoma County Historic Landmark 24 in Valley Ford marks a spot where it actually stood. Dive into the second-hand stacks at Copperfield’s Books in Petaluma to see if you can learn more from the book Christo: Running Fence.—J.K.

MOST NUTRITIOUS VISIT TO TINSELTOWN

I once lived in a town whose only cinema was a mall megaplex. Nothing but Hollywood blockbusters and big-budget romcoms. It was the equivalent of dining on nothing but oversalted, fast-food garbage that leave you feeling gassy regret after you’ve left. That’s why I appreciate

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BEST WAY TO EXPERIENCE THE PETALUMA RIVER WITHOUT GETTING WET (OR STUCK IN THE MUD)

If photographer Scott Hess knows one thing, it’s that the Petaluma River, and all of its associated flora and fauna, looks great in pictures. After years of photographing the winding tidal slough (officially dubbed a “river” by an act of congress in 1959), Hess had an idea to marry some of his best photos with brand-new text describing the river’s history. John Sheehy, Petaluma historian and storyteller, signed on to the project, with the hope of producing some sort of book. As it turns out, that was a very good idea. Funded by a 2018 IndieGogo campaign, Hess and Sheehy’s ‘On a River Winding Home’ was released last November, and was consistently a top placeholder on Copperfield’s bookstore’s bestsellers list (mostly hovering at No. 2, right under Michelle Obama’s Becoming) until only a week or so ago. The only reason it stopped selling, reportedly, is that Hess and Sheehy basically sold out their stock. Clearly, the $18,000 raised through the online crowd-funding campaign has more than paid off. riverwindinghome.com.—D.T.

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Sebastopol’s Rialto Cinemas, this year’s winner for Best Movie Theater, so much. The programming includes both big Hollywood films as well as little indie flicks that you’d never see playing at the mall. They feature Q&As with directors and screenings of Sebastopol’s Documentary Film Festival and the Jewish Film Festival.

They even have a cat video festival.

I love the building, too. It’s an old tomato-processing plant that seems to ramble on forever. Capping it off are the Rialto’s food offerings. There’s candy and popcorn (with real butter) if you like, but there’s also a menu of real food (and great beer and wine) that makes dinner and a movie an easy proposition.

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707.525.4840. rialtocinemas.com.—S.H.

BEST ‘SECRET’ PLACE TO THROW A PARTY

It’s a little-known fact that certain institutions around the county will sometimes make meeting rooms available to the public (especially nonprofits and citizens groups) for free.

Most public libraries, for example, will allow local clubs or charities to use certain rooms for meetings, rehearsals, public forums, etc. Some police departments will do the same thing.

(Just call them up and ask. Policies do change.) It’s rare, however, for a private business to do the same thing. So it’s kind of cool that Jamison’s Roaring Donkey bar in downtown Petaluma makes its medium-sized Red Room available (for no fee and with no deposit down) for group events and gatherings, from meetings and workshops to weddings, private parties and work parties, class reunions . . . Outside food is OK, though human beings younger than 21 are not. It’s got a projection screen and audio equipment. You must reserve the room in advance, of course, and there is a certain expectation that your guests might want to belly up to the bar for a drink before, during or after your meeting. However you might choose to use this little-known resource, the Red Room remains one of the best-kept secrets in Sonoma County. Or

I suppose it was until now . . .

146 Kentucky St., Petaluma.

707.772.5478. roaring-donkey.com.—D.T.

BEST PLACES TO CONTEMPLATE MURDER

If you’re a fan of murder mysteries, the best place to read them is at home, though preferably not in bed. You don’t want to get too cozy with murder and its detection—or maybe you do. Then bed is the most congenial place to dive head first into Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon, Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep and Dorothy Hughes’ In a Lonely Place, which will knock your socks off.

The Sonoma County Library has a ton of mysteries, including “Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allan Poe, who created the first literary detective, and Arthur Conan Doyle, who gave birth to Sherlock Holmes and his pal, Dr. Watson, who have appeared on movie and TV screens for decades. For new books, go to Barnes & Noble on Fourth Street in Santa Rosa. For used copies that are in good condition, go to Treehorn, also on Fourth. (Treehorn even has the feel of a bookstore in a murder mystery.) Their booksellers are helpful, especially Grant Hotaling, who sits behind the counter at Treehorn and shares his knowledge about literary murder mysteries. You probably don’t want to read just one. You might not be able to stop at one. As the poet W. H. Auden pointed out, reading detective fiction is “an addiction like tobacco or alcohol.” But healthier. If you read detective fiction at home, you can smoke whatever you want to smoke and consume any kind of alcohol, though not the Prohibition-era booze that Hammett’s Sam Spade drinks in The Maltese Falcon or what Philip Marlowe guzzles in The Big Sleep. One advantage of reading at home is that you can hook up to Netflix and watch murder mysteries on your TV screen until you’re blue in the face. You could start with Pickup on South Street with tough guy Richard Widmark and sultry siren Jean Peters, or Out of the Past with Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer, who burns up the screen and who might turn you into a murder mystery addict—or renew your addiction.—J.R.

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BEST ’80S METAL BAND OF THE 21ST CENTURY There was a razor’s edge of time in the 1980s when heavy metal and big hair ruled the airwaves, when bands like WASP, Dokken and Ratt dominated the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles with heavy riffs, pop hooks and glam-inspired outfits that lit the crowd’s blood on fire.

Then, in a flash, it was gone, annihilated by a nuclear warhead name Kurt Cobain, and the once thriving heavy metal scene was buried in a wasteland of flannel and bad beards. For years, heavy metal was mired in the no-fun-at-all sounds of Nu metal, rap-metal and all those other troubled genres that fought it out in a Mad Max thunderdome of banality.

But there was one band from the ’80s that never died, because they never really lived back then. Born out of the North Bay’s flourishing music scene of the last decade is a new champion of heavy metal, transported straight from the ’80s with all their hair and leather boots done up to the nines.

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They call themselves Falkönner, and they’re ready to take to the skies in Sonoma County, performing original ’80s-inspired, radio-friendly heavy metal.

This is no tribute band, kids; this is a time capsule of fist-pumping fuck-yeah heavy rock from the golden age, delivered with authentic ass-kicking riffs and blistering guitar solos from founding members Vincent Michael Michaels Vincent and Lorde Spyte, brothers in arms with axes.

The irreverent and crass Michaels Vincent and the guitar-obsessed Spyte emerged from the dust several years ago, still glowing from the fallout, and they’ve been traversing the wastelands to recruit the ultimate army of hell raisers, starting with lead vocalist CeCe Chaztayne, whose screaming eagle of a voice is helped by the bottle of booze that’s never far from the mic. They then picked up Feets, who despite his name has two perfectly capable arms with which he pounds on the drums when he’s not stoned out of his mind. Brandnew recruit Ash Fenixx on bass is the dark horse of the group, a mysterious presence with a penchant for fiery outbursts of intensity.

Falkönner have already invaded the North Bay with shows at local dives and soon they will debut their EP, Enter the Falcon, a bombastic collection of songs about sex, drugs—and whatever else they want. falkonner.bandcamp.com.—C.S.

We have many amazing artists participating again this year, so please mark your calendars for 2019!

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BEST WAY TO OUT-BADASS AQUAMAN

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oracious sea stars and warming sea temperatures conspired to decimate the North Coast’s red abalone population. The state’s Fish & Game Commission banned recreational harvesting of the mollusks in 2018, in hopes of giving the critters a chance to recover.

Late last year, Fish & Game extended the closure to 2021, because the population has not rebounded.

I know it’s hard on divers who love the sport and the dive shops that depended on the diving trade, but the gastropods need all the breaks they can get. The ban opens up other diving opportunities. In fact,

diving for abalone is too easy. They don’t move so quick and it’s easy to get your limit.

Want a challenge? Try spearfishing. Spearfishing hunting grounds occur where abalone live, in rocky crevices and reefs. But your prey—cabazon, ling cod and various rockfish—are wily and hide in holes or stay still in hopes you won’t notice them.

It’s definitely worth taking a class or two to learn technique and safety, but you don’t need to be a master breath-holder to take up the sport. The good folks at Santa Rosa’s Seals Watersport

have all the gear and expertise you need. It helps to be physically fit to dive, but the secret to spearfishing is to remain calm. Remaining calm slows your body’s consumption of oxygen, meaning you can stay under longer while you chill and enjoy the hunting expedition.

And here’s another benefit of spearfishing over ab diving: fish are much easier to clean than abalone. And let’s be honest, emerging from the water with a speargun and a fat fish is pretty badass. 2112 Armory Drive, Santa Rosa.

707.542.3100. sealswatersports.com. —S.H.

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JOE RODOTA TRAIL

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Voted Best Yoga Studio 13 Yrs in a row!

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BEST GYM NAPA

CALISTOGA FIT SONOMA

COACHES CORNER FITNESS CENTER

BEST HEALTH CLUB NAPA

SYNERGY HEALTH CLUB

Best Outdoor Adventure Tour, 2017, 2018, and 2019 Best Water Sports Company, 2018

SONOMA

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MASTER MARK WHITTAKER HEALING ARTS SONOMA

JANE GOLDEN

BEST YOGA STUDIO NAPA

NAPA HOT YOGA SONOMA

BIKRAM YOGA OF SANTA ROSA

BEST YOGA WINERY EXPERIENCE NAPA

YOGA & BUBBLES, JOSEPH CELLARS SONOMA

EMERITUS VINEYARDS

BEST MARTIAL ARTS SCHOOL NAPA

RED DRAGON KARATE SONOMA

SEGAL’S ATA MARTIAL ARTS

BEST PARK

SONOMA

ALSTON PARK

BEST PERSONAL TRAINER NAPA

DONAVAN ALMOND, CALISTOGA FIT SONOMA

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SONOMA

ST. HELENA AQUATIC COMPLEX

NAPA

IVES POOL Get paid to ride your bike!

NAPA

AMBER KENEALLY, VERTEX

NAPA

SONOMA

HOWARTH PARK

BEST HIKING TRAIL NAPA

OAT HILL MINE TRAIL SONOMA

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BEST LITTLE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS East of Santa Rosa (which is like east of Eden except not exactly Eden), there is something quite rare. It’s a bridge. It’s just a little footbridge. And while it may seem like we’ve got plenty of bridges,

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My friend Brett Foxwell is an incredibly talented machinist, animator and filmmaker whose number one quality might just be his unwavering patience.

His epic stop-motion animated short film, Fabricated, took 10 years of design and filming, where Foxwell created a

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Oreo cows. They’re a thing. Not just something your goofy friend shouts in the car, pointing to a Napa hillside— quoting the Napa Valley Register, in a news headline from 2008: “Oreo Cows wander on to Highway 29.” That particular herd of Belted Galloways, which are visually bewitching on account of being generally black on both ends with a creamy white center, has long been beloved by cow spotters on their way to Napa Valley winetasting.

But cow-mad hikers may be pleasantly surprised to find, upon rounding a bend on a trail in the new Jenner Headlands Preserve, they’re face to face with their favorite striped cow. And that’s not the first pleasant surprise at Jenner Headlands, which opened to the public in September 2018. The gates and facilities are handsomely constructed, there’s a telescope for whale watching from the bluff, and parking is free, thanks to a partnership between the Wildlands Conservancy and Sonoma Land Trust. They brought in a new rancher to manage the cows in 2014, says Wildlands regional director Brook Edwards. The breed was developed in Scotland to thrive in coastal environments, and is a bit smaller than more typical breeds in this region. The cows are rotated to different pastures when grazing targets are met. “That creates a mosaic of grassland habitat on the coast. There are birds and mammals and reptiles that need these grasslands to persist,” says Edwards. And of course, they’re a hit. “People tend to really like them out here.” 12001 Hwy. 1, Jenner.—J.K.

trippy, surreal world of Frankensteinlike machines. Another of his projects, WoodSwimmer, involved him taking discarded pieces of wood and shaving layers off one at a time to reveal the hidden patterns underneath. That project caught the eye of director Darren Aronofsky, who included it in last year’s National Geographic series One Strange Rock. Beyond his intricate model building and filmmaking, last year Foxwell shared with me his other obsession: digging for potatoes. It was at the Great Peter Pumpkin Patch, the annual October offering from Spring Hill Jersey Cheese and Petaluma Creamery that features hay rides, a corn pit, farm animals and a field of potatoes that visitors can visit and dig through to collect their spuds. I met Brett and his partner, Isabel, at the patch expecting to try some pumpkin ice cream and grab a future Jack-o’-lantern while hanging out on the farm, but Brett had other ideas. Like a shot, he took off to the potato field, a bag at the ready to collect his haul. But this was late in the day and late in the season, and wouldn’t you know it, there was not a potato to be found among the mounds of dirt. That didn’t stop Brett. With a concentration usually reserved for open-heart surgery, Foxwell grabbed his shovel and began to methodically, obsessively dig through the trenches, determined to farm those taters like his life depended on it. It felt like forever, but eventually Brett found two tiny little tots lounging in the field that he triumphantly raised into the air like rescued puppies. I didn’t have the heart to tell him that I spied boxes of potatoes off to the side, surely meant to refill the field for tomorrow’s crowds. It didn’t matter. Brett got his potatoes and the satisfaction of pulling them from the earth’s embrace himself. I can’t wait to go back next year, when Brett and Isabel will be joined by baby Foxwell to continue the tradition of potato plucking. springhillcheese.com.—C.S.

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BEST HORSEBACK RIDING NAPA

NAPA VALLEY TRAIL RIDES SONOMA

WOMBAT CHARTERS

BEST OUTDOOR ADVENTURE TOUR

NEW SEA ANGLER/ THE BOAT HOUSE

GETAWAY ADVENTURES, CALISTOGA SIP N’ CYCLE

SONOMA

BEST WATER SPORTS COMPANY

SONOMA

NAPA

BEST HOT AIR BALLOON COMPANY

SONOMA

NAPA VALLEY BALLOONS

NAPA

SONOMA CANOPY TOURS

NAPA

SONOMA

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maybe we don’t always have enough in the right places. The story goes like this: some 100 years ago and then some, the Southern Pacific Railroad tooted its way down the right-of-way that’s now called Channel Drive past Trione-Annadel State Park. Destination: Sonoma and points beyond. Later on, the tracks were abandoned. What an opportunity! But this was still a long time ago, before Rails-to-Trails, when the thing that people did with invaluable, alternative routes through the landscape was to slice and dice them until they didn’t connect nobody to nothing. A bridge of regret?

There’s more. Then we got the park, which is a public good, and it got new neighbors in the White Oak subdivision,

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which is gated. Bicycle enthusiasts used a pathway connecting the public park to public streets, to bypass a particularly hair-raising stretch of Highway 12.

Acrimony ensued, and public use lost the suit. But before the end of the road, there’s this little bridge, easy to miss.

A bridge of hope? Well, it certainly encourages courtesy from all users, as it’s so narrow that no two can pass.

Poor little bridge. But it’s all they’ve got.

Walkers from the Oakmont side must be sure-footed to climb the steep, dirt bank to the road. Cyclists on road wheels must exercise caution on the turn. Everyone can stop in the middle when they’ve got it all to themselves for a minute, and take in the calming sight of that water burbling gently under the bridge.—J.K.

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Jake Quihuis, DC

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They’re cool, they’re creative, they’re fast—and they’re zucchinis.

And they are out to squash the competition.

For over 30 years, the Sonoma farmers market has been host to the annual Zucchini Races, now held at Sebastiani Winery’s Arbor Park in August. In the wacky squash-season event, zucchinis are rigged with wheels, or placed in squash-themed conveyances of some sort, where they compete against each other in heats of four at a time. That’s how big the track is—just four lanes.

The races have been widely covered by press around the world, and have been praised for their garden-friendly creativity by such foodie favorites as Lisa Atwood, a Sonoma-based cookbook author who’s written about the races on her popular Sonoma Family Cook blogsite (and who took this picture!).

Originally devised by Sonoma’s Hilda Swartz, the event has proven so popular, other markets around the county (Windsor and Healdsburg among them) have recently introduced zucchini races to their own summer activities. sonomaplazamarket.org.—D.T.

Jane Golden’s

Tai Chi & Qigong

Serving Napa County for 21 years

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round the time I learned I’d be staying a night at the guest house at Gustafson Family Vineyards, Modest Mussorgsky’s rousing tone poem “Night on Bald Mountain” was in heavy rotation on Classical KDFC. So every time I thought about the upcoming stay, the strings went allegro feroce in my head, and then the horns cut in—I’d toured this pad before, and knew it was one dramatic domicile.

Soaring above Dry Creek Valley, with views for miles and miles, the guest house at Gustafson is an architecturally modern mashup of Quonset hut (think Rio Theater), Italian village bell tower and maybe Millennium Falcon—the glassed-in living room like a ship’s bridge jutting above the vineyard.

I had to get that song. Alas, my outdated MacBook

has lost touch with iTunes, and a new one costs about the same as an average night’s stay at the guest house, which is rented via VRBO (Vacation Rental

by Owner). Thanks to the team at Gustafson, who sponsored the Bohemian’s Best Of writer’s retreat here.

Well, I guess the day I picked didn’t work out for everybody else—but more Syrah for me. The perk of Mondays is that the tasting room is closed for much of the week, so house guests may wind up with a leftover or two. Besides, the refrigerator is stocked with crisp rosé. The house sits on a mountain of wine.

And what’s this—a complimentary bottle of fortified Zinfandel and Petite Sirah dessert wine? Winery founder Dan Gustafson insists on it.

I raise a toast to my colleagues from the deck

overlooking Alexander Valley and points beyond, where lights twinkle in the gloaming. No dramatic strings needed for this scene, as mists boil out of folds in the forest, and fog spears the valley below, an ice dragon’s breath in slow motion. The vines are so close, in summer I could just reach from one of the Adirondack chairs and grab a bunch of grapes.

Some visitors use this spot like any vacation base camp, I’m told, and regret at the end of their stay that they didn’t schedule fewer drives to Napa and just soak in the hot tub and enjoy the place. Others, often locals, bring their groceries for the gourmet kitchen and hole up for the weekend. We’re using it as a suitable introduction to this section of our readers poll. Don’t be too modest—enjoy the best of the North Bay’s food and drink. gfvineyard.com.—J.K..

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BEST FARMERS MARKET

BEST BARBECUE

NAPA FARMERS MARKET

BUSTER’S SOUTHERN BBQ

NAPA

SONOMA

SANTA ROSA ORIGINAL CERTIFIED FARMERS MARKET

BEST CSA NAPA

BOCA FARM SONOMA

LAGUNA FARMS

BEST FOOD PRODUCER NAPA

BIG RANCH FARMS SONOMA

AMY’S KITCHEN

BEST LOCALLY MADE FOOD PRODUCT

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KITCHEN DOOR SONOMA

SUPERBURGER

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AD HOC + ADDENDUM SONOMA

BIRD & THE BOTTLE

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CA’ MOMI SONOMA

SONOMA

BEST CHOCOLATIER

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OXBOW CHEESE & WINE MERCHANT

NAPA

ANETTE’S CHOCOLATES SONOMA

SONOMA CHOCOLATIERS

BEST ICE CREAM NAPA

SONOMA

THREE TWINS ICE CREAM, OXBOW PUBLIC MARKET

BEST BUTCHER SHOP

SONOMA

BROWNS VALLEY MEAT

BEST FROZEN YOGURT

FREESTONE ARTISAN CHEESE

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CLIF FAMILY ORGANIC HOT SAUCE

El Molino Central

NAPA

NAPA

SONOMA

SONOMA COUNTY MEAT CO.

BEST BAKERY NAPA

THE MODEL BAKERY SONOMA

VILLAGE BAKERY

NOBLE FOLK ICE CREAM & PIE BAR

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YO’BELLE SONOMA

HONEYMOON FROZEN YOGURT

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“Best Pet-Friendly Winery”

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ACRE COFFEE

Best Latin American Restaurant featured on Food Network and Check, Please! Bay Area

707-542-8868

400 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa www.elcoqui2eat.com

BEST LOCAL COFFEE ROASTER NAPA

OHM COFFEE ROASTERS SONOMA

ACRE COFFEE

BEST TEA SHOP/CAFE NAPA

Get to know us!

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Best Food Truck

DINNER, FULL BAR, CRAFT BEER, BLUES BRUNCH, TROLLEY CATERING

SWEETIE PIE’S SONOMA

THE TASTE OF TEA

BEST BREAKFAST

BRIX RESTAURANT & GARDENS SONOMA

THE SPINSTER SISTERS

BEST BUSINESS LUNCH NAPA

CELADON

live music seafood & food trucks wine & beer • craft booths kids zone • pet parade blsssing of the fleet wooden boat building competition

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BEST OUTDOOR DINING NAPA

GOOSE & GANDER SONOMA

BEAR REPUBLIC BREWING CO.

BEST DINING AFTER 10PM NAPA

COMPLINE SONOMA

BEST SPOT TO DINE SOLO

NAPA

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SONOMA

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BEST BRUNCH

Fishermanʻs Festival

CLIFF FAMILY BRUSCHETTERIA

NY PIE

DIERK’S MIDTOWN CAFÉ

46th Annual Bodega Bay

NAPA

NAPA

SOUTHSIDE CAFE, NAPA

8445 Sonoma Hwy Kenwood | 707.509.0078 tipsroadside.com

BEST FOOD TRUCK

NAPA

CARPE DIEM SONOMA

MONTI’S

BEST CATERER NAPA

SMOKE SONOMA

PREFERRED SONOMA CATERERS

PERCH + PLOW

BEST SERVER

BEST DINER

RYAN HARRIS, CONTIMO PROVISIONS

SONOMA

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MAC’S DELI & CAFE

BEST SANDWICH SHOP NAPA

CONTIMO PROVISIONS SONOMA

IKE’S LOVE & SANDWICHES

NAPA

SONOMA

LINNEA HILL, THE SPINSTER SISTERS

BEST CHEF NAPA

KEN FRANK, LA TOQUE SONOMA

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2019

Voted Best Italian restaurant of the North Bay —North Bay Bohemian

BEST DARN PET-FRIENDLY WINERY THAT’S A DOG WINERY FOR DOGS, CAPICHE?

You wanna know about the best pet-friendly winery in the whole of this Napa Valley wine country? I got one word for you. Frenchie. That’s it, it’s Frenchie’s winery. Sure, maybe there’s wineries been friendly toward your pet, or your therapy lemur, or whatever rat-sized excuse for a dog you snuck into the tasting room in your handbag. But if you got an issue with this one, you can take it up with the voters of the Bohemian newspaper readers poll, capiche?

LoCoco’s is everything an Italian restaurant should be— boisterous, busy, fun, with excellent authentic food of the best quality: fresh seafood, meats and pasta.

707.523.2227 Serving Lunch & Dinner

hiStoric r aiLroaD Square, 117 Fourth Street, Santa roSa r ated

OK, I’ll level with you. Frenchie ain’t no real winery. It’s just a kind of a place for dogs to hang out that’s next to a winery. One called Raymond. High-class joint. They got Cabernet Sauvignon and all that stuff. They got a cuvée (look at me with the fancy words) with legendary singer John Legend, for crissakes.

And chickens, go figure, it’s a mixed-up place. But like I said before, it’s a class act, and here’s the sweet part of the story: the owner, Gallic gent by the name Jean-Charles, gifted an adorable little French bulldog to his lovely wife, Gina, who also helps run a little family wine business, as a reminder of the loyalty of “a true French gentleman.”

Sweet, and here’s the sweeter part—you can bring your own pooch to the “winery,” a kind of classed-up shed, and set ’em up with some dog treats, for sale at the tasting room, and a nice dog bed in a wine barrel, and keep tabs on ’em via web camera—when it’s working. Everything’s not perfect all the time, OK? And there’s nothing but a jaded-looking cat squinting at me when I walk up to the place. But then here comes a whole mess of crazy happy dogs. Ol’ Frenchie don’t mess around. 849 Zinfandel Lane, Saint Helena. 707.963.3141. raymondvineyards.com.—J.K.

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Un lugar Mexicano diferente...Deliciosa selección de Chilaquiles, Tamales, Guisados y mas!

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707 657-7701

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BEST RESTAURANT

BEST INDIAN

ANGÈLE RESTAURANT & BAR

YAK & YETI

NAPA

SONOMA

BIRD & THE BOTTLE

BEST RESTAURANT WITH A VIEW NAPA

GATEHOUSE RESTAURANT AT GREYSTONE, CIA IN ST. HELENA SONOMA

RIVER’S END

BEST NEW RESTAURANT NAPA

GRAN ELECTRICA SONOMA

PERCH + PLOW

Dierk’s

Midtown & Parkside Cafés

BEST GLUTEN-FREE MENU OPTION NAPA

C CASA SONOMA

AMY’S DRIVE THRU

BEST CHINESE NAPA

WAH SING

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GOJI KITCHEN

BEST RAMEN NAPA

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RAMEN GAIJIN

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ANGÈLE RESTAURANT & BAR SONOMA

BISTRO 29

NAPA

SONOMA

BOLLYWOOD

BEST ITALIAN NAPA

CA’ MOMI SONOMA

LOCOCO’S CUCINA RUSTICA

BEST JAPANESE/SUSHI NAPA

MIMINASHI SONOMA

HANA JAPANESE RESTAURANT

BEST LATIN AMERICAN NAPA

C CASA SONOMA

EL COQUI

BEST MEDITERRANEAN NAPA

TARLA MEDITERRANEAN BAR + GRILL SONOMA

REAL DÖNER TURKISH CUISINE

BEST MEXICAN NAPA

GRAN ELECTRICA SONOMA

EL MOLINO CENTRAL

BEST SEAFOOD NAPA

MIMINASHI SONOMA

SANTA ROSA SEAFOOD

BEST THAI NAPA

CALISTOGA THAI KITCHEN

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“Exactly what Santa Rosa needed.”

-JAMES G.

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SEA THAI BISTRO

BEST VIETNAMESE NAPA

BUI BISTRO SONOMA

SIMPLY VIETNAM EXPRESS

BEST VEGETARIAN NAPA

CA’ MOMI SONOMA

AMY’S DRIVE THRU

BEST VEGAN MENU 707.52NYPIE | 707.526.9743 NEW-YORK-PIE.com 65 Brookwood Ave, Santa Rosa

NO DUI— DELIVERY UNTIL 3AM

NAPA

YAK & YETI SONOMA

Thank You!

North Bay

Handmade Noodles

HAPPY HOUR 3:30-5:30

DUKE’S SPIRITED COCKTAILS

SONOMA

LOCAL BARREL

BEST BREWPUB NAPA

RUSSIAN RIVER BREWING COMPANY

NAPA

TRADE BREWING SONOMA

BEST CRAFT CANNED BEER

LAURA SANFILIPPO, DUKE’S SPIRITED COCKTAILS

BEST HAPPY HOUR NAPA

STARK’S STEAK & SEAFOOD

BEST DIVE BAR SONOMA

440 CLUB

6948 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol 707.827.3609 | ramengaijin.com

NAPA PALISADES SALOON

SONOMA

SUSIE’S BAR

2350 Midway Drive, Santa Rosa 707.528.8333 seathaibistrobar.com

NAPA

HENHOUSE BREWING COMPANY

NAPA

SEA Thai Bistro

BEST CRAFT BEER SELECTION

NAPA

SONOMA

3 Yakitori & Izakaya

HENHOUSE BREWING COMPANY

BEST MICROBREW

SONOMA

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MAD FRITZ

SONOMA

Sonoma County

SEA Noodle Bar

NAPA

BEST BAR

JAMES, BLUE NOTE NAPA

Best Thai Restaurant

BEST BEER LABEL

TANNERY BEND BEERWORKS

BEST BARTENDER

Best Ramen

PERCH + PLOW

MUIR’S TEA ROOM

NAPA

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BEST COCKTAILS NAPA

THE MULE

NAPA

NAPA VALLEY BREWING COMPANY SONOMA

HENHOUSE BREWING COMPANY

BEST CRAFT BREW EVENT NAPA

BLUES, BREWS & BBQ SONOMA

LAGUNITAS BEER CIRCUS

BEST CIDER NAPA

FAR CIDER SONOMA

ACE CIDER

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8 PINOTS TO CHOOSE FROM! Balletto Vineyards OPEN DAILY 10 AM - 5 PM

PERCHANDPLOW.COM 90 OLD COURTHOUSE SQUARE, SANTA ROSA

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BEST MICRO DISTILLERY

BEST WINE LABEL

NAPA VALLEY DISTILLERY

SILENUS WINERY & ARTISAN VINTNERS

NAPA

SONOMA

SPIRIT WORKS DISTILLERY

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BEST WINE MADE FROM SUSTAINABLY GROWN GRAPES

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BEST PLACE TO COME IN FROM THE RAIN UNDER THE EYES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE

Cody Brown remembers Def Coffee, which once advertised itself with the slogan, “Friends don’t let friends go to Starbucks.” Def doesn’t exist any more, and we all know the Starbucks story. Brown (pictured) isn’t ready to take on a coffee chain, but he and his family, including his twin brother, operate Crooks Coffee on Mendocino in Santa Rosa, which has quickly become a destination for artists and writers, along with parents and their kids who want a cappuccino, a chai latte, a hot chocolate, a bagel with cream cheese or peanut butter, plus shelter from a stormy winter day.

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The crème brûlée latte is a house specialty. So is the London Fig, an Earl Grey tea with steamed milk that warms chilled bones. Edgar Allen Poe is the patron saint of the place. His portrait hangs on the wall opposite the front counter. The author of “The Raven” looks like he’s been up all night writing weird stuff.

Brown, who was raised in Santa Rosa and attended Santa Rosa Junior College, has big dreams for his convivial coffeehouse. One of them is a community art project. Another is a community garden. Yet another is barter night when money doesn’t change hands but goods do. “I want to bring Santa Rosa back to the way it was when I was a kid and there were neat places where you could hang out, talk and play games,” Brown says. “We’re aiming to do all that and more.” 404 Mendocino Ave., Ste. C, Santa Rosa. 707.791.3365. crookscoffee.com.—J.R.

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Husband-and-wife team Josh and Sarah Opatz wasted little time in decamping from big-city careers to open a small craft distillery in Healdsburg, and their house-mashed and distilled bourbon wastes even less time barreled down in American oak before it’s ready for prime time. But they’re pulling no fast one on Bohemian readers, who voted Young & Yonder Spirits’ “Stave Robber” high-rye bourbon ($45) Sonoma County’s Best Bourbon in this year’s readers poll.

High-rye means that the bourbon, which must be distilled from a mash (kind of like a soupy beer) of at least 51 percent corn, also retains the character of a good helping of rye grain—in this case, 35 percent, along with malted wheat and barley. Bourbon must also be stored in charred new barrels, but there’s no requirement for the length of time, nor size of barrels. Thus, Young & Yonder can kick their high-rye into high gear with small, 15-gallon barrels instead of the usual 55-gallon casks (although those are in the works), within a year or so. The result is toasty and roasty, like flame-grilled kettle corn, yet dry and spicy, not corn-heavy and sweet, on the back end. That’s the rye kicking in. Mix it up for a Manhattan, and melt those little-town blues away. 449 Allan Court, Healdsburg. youngandyonder.com.—J.K.

BEST PLACE TO EAT CHILI CRAB WITHOUT THE JET LAG

It would be an understatement to write that we in Northern California love our crab. However, in our admiration of the blessed Dungeness, we forget that the rest of the world can make a pretty mean crab dish. And wouldn’t you know it, the purported best crab in the world is only one flight away from SFO. But it's a 17-hour flight to Singapore. For the best taste of Singaporean crab without the jet lag, try the chili or pepper crab at Fantasy Restaurant in Petaluma. Only offered in the winter months, this spicy crab can give the version at Singapore’s famous Long Beach Seafood restaurant a run for its money. Although you don’t have to buy a plane ticket to dine at Fantasy, you still

need to save your pennies. One prepared crab goes for $55–$70, depending on availability. If crab isn’t your thing, Fantasy offers an extensive menu containing many Hong Kong and Singapore favorites. 1520 E. Washington St., Petaluma. 707.658.1866.—T.B.

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BEST SPOT TO DINE SOLO

Yes, that’s exactly like the Bohemian readers poll called it: Carpe Diem Wine Bar in downtown Napa, Best Place to Dine Solo. Believe me, I know what people ask about concerning the Bohemian’s Best Of picks, as I’ve been at this game since long before Carpe Diem took this space over from a Chinese restaurant that I used to visit every week when I had what was at the time for me a sweet little gig actually delivering this newspaper, and that, if it was a best of anything, might have been “Best Spot to Dine Solo on Christmas Where No One Will Notice You Crying into Your Wonton Soup.”

So this is what people want to know: is it a stuffed ballot, or what? I stopped

by Carpe Diem at happy hour last week to check it out. I don’t mind the tough assignments. First thing I ask the bartender is, “Do you have a Bohemian around here?” He doesn’t know what I’m talking about. Good sign. But he knows what he’s doing: thorough and efficient, welcoming without a trace of artificial glad-handing, he’s got it down. It’s early, and I’m solo at the bar. A couple comes in, then another. At least no one turns a spotlight on me à la Steve Martin in The Lonely Guy. But then a gorgeous dame—sorry, was I channeling the Bohemian’s film noir theme from Best Of 2015? What I meant was, a smart and professional-looking woman takes a seat to my right. We’re almost touching elbows, although there’s a chair between us—the tight bar seating is a constant conversation starter of the evening here.

We flash smiles, then tuck into cheese and charcuterie, fried risotto balls, rosé wine and brut. Turns out, she’s here sort of on business, too; business card follows, but as this has not been voted best networking spot, nor pickup spot, we just have a warm, brief conversation between two solo diners. It’s a success.

OK, Bohemian readers, this one’s your win as far as I’m concerned. As I get up to offer my place to an arriving couple, I

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BEST NAME FOR A LOCAL LEGEND

If John Steinbeck had needed a character that was part mountain man, part scientist and part craftsman—and the character happened to be a legendary vineyardist from, say, Sonoma County— he might very likely have named such a person “Duff Bevill.” Duff Bevill is a very Steinbeckian sort of name. And as it so happens, there’s a real person named Duff Bevill. A widely renowned and respected expert on vines and vineyards, Bevill—a big, sturdy, exuberantly bearded fellow—is the owner of Bevill Vineyard Management, with dozens of clients that range from very small, family-owned vineyards and wineries to the very, very large. Bevill, who originally dreamed of becoming a fruit and nut expert, came to Sonoma County’s Dry Creek Valley in the summer of 1973, and immediately changed course, eagerly seeking out and learning from the area’s many storied older farmers and winemakers. This self-directed education gave Bevill a strong sense of the region’s history, something he carefully honors and protects to this day. In fact, he decided to bring that history to life on one small acre of his own vineyard, planting Zinfandel budwood borrowed from five celebrated Dry Creek vineyards (Cuneo, Hambrecht, Beeson, Teldeschi and Guadagni), all dating back to the late 1800s. From those vines, the family-owned Passalacqua Winery, in Healdsburg, has been annually making a few fast-selling barrels of Bevill Estate Zinfandel, sold exclusively as “wine futures,” to wine drinkers with as high an appreciation of Sonoma County wine history as that of the great Duff Bevill himself. bevillvineyard.com.—D.T.

BEST PLACE TO SEARCH FOR LOST TIME The sign in the window says “Ouvert.”

That’s French for “Opened.” It’s a sunny Thursday afternoon, and Les Pascals bakery and pastry shop in Glen Ellen is open for business and getting ready for St. Patrick’s Day. Pascal and Pascale

Merle—the husband-and-wife team who own and operate Les Pascals—are thoroughly French, but they’re not so French that they can’t also be Irish at least once a year. He’s jovial; she, charming. They met 25 years ago at a large bakery in Dijon, fell in love and got married. Pascal does the baking, along with partner and boulanger Sean Perry.

Pascale works the front counter where mouthwatering breads and diabolically tempting pastries are on display six-days a week. On Wednesdays, Pascal and Pascale take a break from making and selling croissants, baguettes and petite madeleines that evoke the little cakes French novelist Marcel Proust swooned over in his classic In Search of Lost Time.

When asked about his job, Pascal says, “C’est un reve”—translation: “It’s a dream.” Though Les Pascals has only been open a year, it already has die-hard fans, some of whom love to hear Pascale speak English with a French accent. Oh là là. You don’t need a translation for that and you don’t need a translation for “baguette," either. 13758 Arnold Drive, Glen Ellen. 707.934.8378. lespascalspatisserie.com.—J.R.

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Another brewery? Yawn. But wait. Seismic Brewing Co. is different. What makes Santa Rosa–based brewery stand out is its light environmental footprint. It takes a lot of water to make beer, about eight gallons to produce one gallon of brew. Using state-of-the-art brewing tech, Seismic has got that ratio down to 2:1. The brewery employs a number of other ecological innovations like on-site wastewater treatment that converts 95 percent of wastewater into potable water used not for brewing but H2O–intensive cleaning applications. None of that would matter if the beer wasn’t any good. It is good. Seismic makes five beers (ales, IPAs and a pilsner), as well as a number of seasonal brews. I’m partial to the Namazu, an oat pale ale that weighs in at a lean 4.8 percent ABV. It’s a good gardening beer.

And it comes in a can with cool label art featuring a Japanese catfish riding the wave of a tsunami.

2932 Dutton Ave., Santa Rosa.

707.544.5996. seismicbrewingco.com.—S.H. ZD WINES // 8383 SILVERADO TRAIL , NAPA, CA // ZDWINES.COM // 800.487.7757

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BEST TRAIN SPOTTING

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es, there is a pot of gold at the end of that rainbow. And the good news is, there’s regularly scheduled train service in the North Bay that will take you there. You will need no ticket if you wish to ride this train, but it might help to wear green, and have a bit of imagination—and tons and tons of patience. No, this is not the SMART train. It’s a little model train that runs on a shelf on the wall in back of the counter at the Santa Rosa main post office.

March’s theme is St. Patrick’s Day, you see, and the train runs between a coterie of suspected leprechauns and its terminus at the pot of gold, pauses for a very suspenseful several seconds, then pulls out of the station for the return trip, eight feet down the line.

That’s pretty much all it does. But this is the post office, and it’s the best entertainment going, as clerks disappear into the cavernous back room and the line grows longer, besides a new video screen that shows

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off all the wonderful mailing options at the post office.

The rail baron behind this dear little narrow gauge is a retired postal carrier who comes back each month with a new train and new stops to mark seasonal or whimsical themes like Valentine’s Day, summer in the city and good old Peanuts. Now if only there were a bar car in there somewhere, it’d help pass the time in this post office line . . . 730 Second St., Santa Rosa.—J.K.

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BEST BABY GIFT STORE

SONOMA

NAPA

EPICENTER SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX

SONOMA

BEST CHILDREN’S EDUCATIONAL CENTER

LEMONDROPS CHILDREN’S BOUTIQUE & TOYS CUPCAKE

BEST TOY STORE NAPA

TOY B VILLE SONOMA

THE TOYWORKS

BEST CHILDREN’S CLOTHING STORE NAPA

LEMONDROPS CHILDREN’S BOUTIQUE & TOYS SONOMA

CUPCAKE

NAPA

SHARPSTEEN MUSEUM SONOMA

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF SONOMA COUNTY

BEST CHILDREN’S MUSEUM NAPA

NAPA VALLEY MUSEUM YOUNTVILLE SONOMA

CHILDEN’S MUSEUM OF SONOMA COUNTY

BEST CHILDREN’S CONSIGNMENT STORE

BEST PUBLIC SCHOOL

COMMUNITY PROJECTS THRIFT SHOP

ANALY HIGH SCHOOL

NAPA

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SWEET PEA CHILDREN’S BOUTIQUE

BEST BIRTHDAY PARTY PLACE NAPA

ROCKZILLA

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BEST ROOFLESS HOUSE OF WORSHIP

I’m not a churchgoer, but I’ve got a new favorite place of reverence: the Jenner Headlands Preserve. The newly opened property inspires a feeling of both belonging and insignificance. Rising from a small parking lot (come early if you want a spot) off Highway 1 just north of Jenner, the preserve’s signature sea-to-sky trail travels 7.5 miles through a succession of ecosystems—coastal

prairie, oak woodland, redwoods—to arrive a few hours later atop Pole Mountain, the highest point in western Sonoma County. If you’re not up for that trek, there are shorter routes. In any case, it doesn’t take long to ascend up the hillside and earn a magnificent vista of Pacific Ocean, the Russian River, Point Reyes to the south, Fort Ross and a succession of rugged vistas to the north.

It’s the mic-drop of views in Sonoma County. Get out of the house and get your family up there, and get right with the world.—S.H.

BEST SUMMER DAY CAMP NAPA

NAPA VALLEY SUMMER CAMPS SONOMA

6TH STREET PLAYHOUSE SCHOOL OF DRAMA

BEST CHILDREN’S INDOOR SPORTS CENTER NAPA

ROCKZILLA SONOMA

EPICENTER SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX

BEST DOG OBEDIENCE SCHOOL NAPA

TAILS IN THE VALLEY SONOMA

INCREDIBLE CANINE

BEST DOGGIE DAY CARE NAPA

RUFF DOG DAYCARE & HOTEL

SONOMA

WESTERN FARM CENTER

BEST KENNEL NAPA

RUFF DOG DAYCARE & HOTEL SONOMA

FOUR PAWS PET RANCH

BEST ANIMAL ADOPTION CENTER NAPA

WINE COUNTRY ANIMAL LOVERS SONOMA

HUMANE SOCIETY OF SONOMA COUNTY

BEST ANIMAL RESCUE GROUP NAPA

JAMESON ANIMAL RESCUE RANCH SONOMA

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FORGOTTEN FELINES OF SONOMA COUNTY

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ALSTON PARK

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FIDEAUX SONOMA

DEBBIE’S PET BOUTIQUE

BEST PET/FEED STORE NAPA

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BEST PLACE TO RELIVE YOUR NERDY YOUTH

We millennial nerds have many fond childhood memories: Magic: The Gathering, Tamagotchis, Animorphs (or Goosebumps, if that was your thing) books . . . And then there were video games. At Nostalgia Alley in Petaluma, owners Jason Moorhouse and Rebecca Anderson have set out to create a video-game store that caters to both adults recapturing their youth and Fortnite-obsessed kids, who

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should expand their gaming horizons. “In the few months we have been open, it is so great to see kids come in eager with their Christmas money and walk out with their first Gameboy or Nintendo 64,” Anderson says of the store’s first holiday season.

When customers aren’t buying or selling games, they can spend a quarter (or 10) playing one of seven refurbished arcade cabinets. And before leaving, don’t forget to give Jasper, “the world’s best one-eyed Papillon, and a great store mascot,” a scratch behind the ears. 36 Petaluma Blvd. N., Petaluma. 707.774.6485.—T.B.

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His name is Brian. But when he was alive, the conspicuously dead horse was known as Mr. Dancer.

The handsomely preserved equine skeleton is a resident—and arguably one of the most popular staff members—at Santa Rosa Junior College’s Shone Farm, a 365-acre outdoor learning laboratory, operated by the College’s ag department.

The working farm (located in the center of the Dry Creek Valley area between Windsor and Forestville) boasts a vineyard and winery, a forest with hiking trails and the Warren G. Dutton Agriculture Pavilion, containing a full horse arena, a large industrial kitchen and numerous classrooms. That’s where students interact with Brian.

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According to pavilion manager Chris Wills, Brian is a thoroughbred, foaled in 1989. Named Mr. Dancer, he was donated to the U.S. Parks Police Department in Washington, D.C. That was in 1993, when Mr. Dancer was just four years old.

Used for public appearances, he participated in many state functions, including presidential inaugurations (presumably those of George W. Bush and Barack Obama). Mr. Dancer died in 2014, from what Willis calls “complications of an injury from another horse.” A year later, his skeleton was brought to SRJC, courtesy of a New York business with the succinct and clear name of Equine Skeletons. At some point, he was renamed “Brian.”

He certainly looks like a Brian.

“Brian is used in livestock and equine classes regularly,” says Wills, “and provides a hands-on resource for the study of equine anatomy. Brian has also been known to dress up for Halloween and the Fourth of July, and he is a wonderful addition to the Shone Farm staff.” shonefarm.santarosa.edu.—D.T.

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ast August, when Petaluma’s Robert Coleman was diagnosed with Stage IV prostate cancer, he knew it was the beginning of a long battle. What he and his wife, Deborah Price, could not have guessed was that the struggles ahead would become the background to a love story so moving it would end up catching the attention of a national cancer organization and a Hollywood superstar.

Coleman’s cancer was just the beginning, it turns out.

The doctors later discovered a tumor on Coleman’s spine. Months of painful treatment and therapy followed. Looking back, Coleman says he’d never have made it through without his wife, holding him, studying everything she could about cancer, arguing with doctors, challenging him to keep up his spirits, even throwing a party where friends could tell him

how much he’d brought to their lives.

Earlier this year, the Prostate Cancer Foundation announced its second annual True Love contest, seeking true stories of cancer survivors describing those who cared for them during their illness and recovery. From hundreds of submitted stories, Coleman’s was selected by Kristen Bell, star of the TV show The Good Place and a board member of the foundation. As a way of honoring Price for her selfless commitment and lifesaving work on her husband’s behalf, Bell sent Price a “caregiver’s package” with items the actress selected personally.

In Coleman’s story, titled “Love Without Compromise” (which can be found at pcf.org/bio/robert-c), he writes, “I had never experienced such unyielding unconditional love. I couldn’t bear the thought of leaving her and our

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daughter behind. I resolved to get much tougher and stronger myself, to take complete responsibility for my experiences, to give it everything I had. I realized that love in a relationship isn’t a given in this world. You have to make it real every single day. While both of you are responsible for the relationship, it’s up to you to step it up on your own side. Even when your body is failing you.

Even when you have cancer.”

Coleman’s story, full of praise and love for his wife, concludes with this final, lump-in-the-throat realization: “Many years ago when I asked Deborah to marry me, if I knew then what I was going to eventually put her through, I might have thought twice about my proposal.

Somehow, though, I suspect if Deborah had known about my future circumstances so many years ago, her answer still would have been ‘Yes!’”—D.T.

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David Luning definitely has a way with a good, sad song lyric, as the world learned during his time on American Idol in 2014. Just give the Sonoma County singer-songwriter a tune about heartbreak and regret, and his soulwrenching voice will wrap around each word like ivy on the tombstone of your long lost love. Take “Another Piano Song,” in which he tries desperately to get through to a lover who’s disappearing into depression and distance. The ache in Luning’s voice, pitched high and fused with a palpable sense of love and devotion, is so deep it sinks into your subconscious and stays there.

Even on the relatively light-hearted “Whiskey Bottle,” a list of failed relationships so hilariously bad you can’t help but laugh, the underlying theme is heartbreak, heartbreak, heartbreak. “Women come, and then they go / Why they leave, I just don’t know / Well, another one just walked out the door / I got no gosh-darn-luck, baby, that’s for sure.” And it doesn’t even have to be a relationship for Luning to find a good grief-filled theme for a song. In “Northern California,” it’s his home town he’s aching for, with lyrics like, “Oh please return me to my garden / Down on my knees, I’m beggin’ / Please, take me home / Northern California, I miss you.”

The point is, if you’re feeling blue and want to hear some music that will remind you that, for all your pain, there are those who are feeling it even deeper (and in rhyme), David Luning’s got a song (or three or six or ten) that will certainly be just your cup of whiskey. davidluning.com.—D.T.

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t is truly right and just to go full Huell Howser on Cotati and its bigger sibling Rohnert Park, my own gateway to Sonomaphilia in 1976.

Visiting from L.A., I was taken around the place by an old girlfriend who was about to go to Sonoma State University. Out of the dust-dry south, I was dazzled

by the leafiniess, the fractaled branches of the oaks, the river (“Where’s the concrete?”) and the then-free winetastings.

At night, she took me to the New Albion brewery in Penngrove. Though it burned down years ago, the sign, a sacred relic of this very early California brewpub, hangs in a place of honor behind the bar at the Russian River Brewery. Since

my idea of what a brewery looked like was Busch Gardens, it was astonishing to see beer could be made in a space lacking five-story steel yeast tanks and monorails.

We met interesting locals, such as a female shade-tree mechanic who operated on the old girlfriend’s Volvo from inside a dugout that she used in lieu of a gas station’s pit. We watched SNL in the Belushi age, in a late-

night cafe on the Old Redwood Highway. My love for the area continued long after the girl in question kicked me to the curb, having correctly realized that the curb is the proper place for moist, spaniel-eyed young schmucks.

While now Cotati and Rohnert Park are more or less one big amoeba, in the old days, there was a bit of rivalry between the funky college village and rapidly built housing tract that filled up Waldo Rohnert’s farm. “Robot Park,” the counterculturites called it.

Cut to 1990, a red-letter year for Cotati, the first year of the Cotati Accordion Fest. I’ve been to about 20 of them, fueling up on Lagunitas in the lawn chair, hauling up Little Red, the 12-bass Communist East German-made Bandmaster I got from Sears in 1988. As long as I can, I’ll be joining the “Lady of Spain” ring underneath a wheeling flock of confused-looking wedding doves.

The minor-key waltzes on stage complement the slight melancholy of the event; the buckets of bubble-gum-scented amaryllises scattered around are a sign of time passing. They’re called “pink naked ladies,” but could just as easily be called “farewell to summer,” since the school sessions start up the day after the accordions are silenced.

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Sunsets. Beaches. Canoodling in convertibles atop soaring cliffs above the crashing surf. Yeah, this romantic vignette is as typical to the Sonoma Coast as it is statewide, yet there is nothing inevitable about California State Route 1. In the beginning, before any Eve or even Steve glimpsed the evening sunlight glinting off lapping waves (this is prehistory we’re talking about), there was no two-lane ledge etched into the bluffs above Bodega Bay and points north. Highway 1 was patched together partly from a discontinuous jumble of roads and given a public boost by Depression-era funding and public works projects, which also improved and made accessible Sonoma Coast State Park beaches. It’s a passion project, a work in progress, like any relationship in the long haul. Beaten by salty winds, hounded by the leading edge of atmospheric rivers, and bedeviled by landslides, Highway 1 is an ongoing indiscretion that’s patched up, made sound and ready for new recruits who drive, park and enjoy the fruits of the nexus of climate, time, labor and history, with nary a blip of a thought about all that. Maybe that’s what love’s all about.—J.K.

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Once upon a time, nice ladies didn’t go to bars. But sometime in the 1970s, the story goes, enterprising bar owners hit upon the idea of adding houseplants, cozy chairs and rays of light into former holes of watering to attract the other half of the population. And thus the fern bar—and lamentable drinks like the Harvey Wallbanger, the lemon drop and the mudslide—was born. The trend faded as the ’70s turned into the ’80s, but Sebastopol’s Fern Bar has rediscovered the concept. The decor—beautiful and not at all kitschy—is replete with ferns, but there’s much more to it. It takes the idea of a fern bar—homey, comfortable and plush—and gives it a modern update that isn’t retro but evolutionary. Of course it wouldn’t work if the drinks and

the well-matched food menu weren’t good (and on par with their prices). They are. It’s all good. 6780 Depot St., Ste. 120, Sebastopol. 707.861.9603. fernbar.com.—S.H.

BEST OTHER SWEATY WAY TO GET INTIMATE WITH YOUR PARTNER

My boyfriend and I wanted something new to do a few Fridays ago, and since I am one of those hated yoga enthusiasts, I coerced him into trying out a couple’s yoga class at Soul Yoga & Wellness.

Neither of us put much thought into what the class would entail, but we did know it would probably be better high, which contributed to us being a little late. But we figured if any place would be forgiving of people showing up late and high, it would be a yoga studio. After hurriedly laying down our mats, the teachers, Mark and Dana Falls, a married couple who are also couples’ therapists, told us this would be a very intimate class where we would also be encouraged to talk to each other. Our first move was leaning into each other back to back and standing up together. This sounded like a simple feat, one Mark and Dana executed easily. My boyfriend and I could barely lean into each other without one of us falling to the side. The couple next to us, in their late 50s, were also struggling: “Richard, you are leaning too much into me, you are crushing me Richard.”

Richard replied that he did not, in fact, think he was leaning into her at all. The rest of the class proceeded similarly, with a lot of fumbling and occasional exciting successes (few and far between for Richard and his wife). There is something really intimate about having your sweat drip onto your partner’s face that forces you to reach a new level of closeness, and repeatedly failing at something together is also surprisingly bonding and honestly very funny (or perhaps that was just the weed). At the end of the class, after releasing endorphins and feeling very relaxed, Mark and Dana encouraged us to all kiss our partner. Shyly, I leaned in for a kiss (I am not huge on PDA), and heard Richard comment loudly on the sound of our kissing: “Sounds like someone sludging through mud.”

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he wildfires of October 2017 ravaged the hillsides and woods at Flatbed Farm in Glen Ellen. They also burned down the big barn that served as a marketplace. Now, nearly a year and a half later, the farm stand at 13450 Highway 12 is back with flowers, eggs, fruits, vegetables, pastries and more.

Almost everywhere in the North Bay, farm stands have bitten the dust. It’s too much work to be in the fields planting and harvesting and also standing and selling.

Flatbed has a commitment to the community, and the community has a commitment to Flatbed. Locals shop

there and swap stories Saturdays from 10am to 2pm.

Tourists stop on the way to and from Sugarloaf Ridge State Park. They also take a slight detour to and from the town of Sonoma. Along with locals, tourists enjoy the scones and the muffins made by chef Amie Pfeifer, and stock up on Meyer lemons and blood oranges when they’re in season.

In spring and then all summer long, the fields at Flatbed crank out an amazing array of strawberries, tomatoes, radishes and microgreens that are cultivated in the greenhouse and which are great for

salads and sandwiches, or to devour by the mouthful; Hayley Cutri (pictured) helps out in the fields. At Flatbed, food is medicine and it tastes good, too.

Pfeifer, who lives during the week in San Francisco, brings her culinary magic from the city to the country.

“When I’m in my kitchen cooking, which I love to do, I think about the regulars who come to Flatbed and whom I hold in my heart,” she says. “They keep me going.” Pfeifer herself is a joy and worth a trip to the farm that’s risen from the ashes and reinvented itself. flatbedfarm.com.—J.R.

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She earned her medical degree from A. T. Still University, College of Osteopathic Medicine, and continued on to Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC, where she completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology, serving as Chief Resident in her final year.

Dr. Westgate is the Medical Director of Women and Infant Services and Adventist Health St. Helena, and the founder of the Adventist Health Early All-Around Detection (AHEAD) Team. Her scope of practice includes obstetrical care,

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If you are wearing your podcast selection thin and have been searching for some comedic medicine to improve your mental health under the suffocating onslaught of perpetually distressing news, the ‘Barrel Proof Comedy Podcast’ is your ticket. Barrel Proof Comedy seamlessly blends cultural commentary and conversation between two longtime friends who toss in the random whiskey fact, giving you plenty of chuckles along with booze trivia that’s sure to help you stand out from NPR-consuming nerds. Hosted by Casey Williams and Steve Ausburne, comedians and self-proclaimed whiskey connoisseurs, this is the podcast you’ve been hoping for while biding your time listening to The Daily or Fresh Air. A recent episode discussed Blackened whiskey, created by Metallica, which has its own handpicked playlist playing while it ages in the barrel. The theory is that the sound waves vibrate the whiskey and effect variations in the way it ages.

Throughout the episodes, you can enjoy humorous if random digressions such as this one: “I had my first prostate exam the other day. Have you had that yet?” “Have I had a prostate exam?

Yeah, I’ve been getting them every year since I was 16. You haven’t seen Dr. Craigslist? Dr. Pokey Tickle?” We could all use some healing laughter in our lives—maybe alongside a snort of hooch. barrelproofcomedy.com.—A.M.

BEST PLACE TO REMEMBER WHY YOU ENDURE THE HIGH RENT, TRAFFIC AND STRESS The North Bay is not without places to relax. You can see a play, have a nice meal, even take a day trip into S.F. But each of these activities involves our shared bane: money and traffic.

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But there is a place you can go, a place where the traffic to-and-from is fairly light. It doesn’t cost a dime, and being there, you suddenly remember why you’ll never want to leave the North Bay. Bodega Head, where Sonoma and Marin counties’ pastoral magnificence meets the Pacific Ocean. Standing 15 stories above the crashing waves, you can’t help but stop and admire the view, which, on a clear day, extends down Tomales Bay to the south and Jenner to the north.

Bring your walking shoes for a stroll around the head, or simply unfold the lawn chair and relax with a milliondollar view.—T.B.

BEST PLAN FOR A BLEAK AND DISEASED FUTURE My late Aunt Mary struggled a lot with health stuff in her last few years, and one of the things I learned as her screw-up nephew caregiver is that there are good and kind home healthcare providers, and there are not-so-kind home healthcare providers. The former are, of course, preferred—but home healthcare worker is a tough job that requires the health professional to have some real bedside armor going in. Especially since the bedside isn’t in a hospital but in the ailing person’s home—their sanctuary, their space. People don’t want to give up on that without a fight, generally. And they don’t really love it when you come in poking around for a vein. Aunt Mary was a lot of fun, but she was also a pain in the neck—yelling at the nurses, lashing out at the doctors. Well, she was in a lot of pain, and chronic pain will make a mean person out of anyone. It takes a special sort of empath to deal with a person in those sorts of long-term health straits, and I definitely have my limits in that department—oh, how we bring the pain to those we love the most—as do lots of people who are fretting over a sick parent or a struggling brother who’s a veteran minus a leg, or an elder entering the twilight of Alzheimer’s.

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ROBERT KLINGMAN, MD, ST. JOSEPH HEALTH, QUEEN OF THE VALLEY SONOMA

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As our region recovers from the 2017 fires, Healthcare Foundation, together with local and national partners, created the Wildfire Mental Health Collaborative. We want all local residents to have access to evidence-based strategies to recover and build resiliency post-wildfire, including: Drop-in counseling sessions • Individual and group counseling • Download the free app Sonoma Rises • Online wellness self-assessment MySonomaStrong.com • Restorative yoga and meditation sessions • Mental health professionals available to work with your group.

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Gentle and Effective Acupuncture & Manual Medicine

PAUL J. TIERNAN, DDS

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DARRELL QUIRICI, DDS SONOMA

ANDREW MCCORMICK, DDS

BEST ENDODONTIST

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BLAKE MCRAY, DDS, MSD SONOMA

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T. BRIAN BOZEMAN, DDS

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ST. HELENA STUDIO OF AESTHETIC DENSTISTRY

Dr. Joshua Margolis

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SEAN WILSON, DDS

LAC, DOMTP

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BEST ORTHODONTIST NAPA

MARY COOKE, COOKE ORTHODONTICS

Dr. Gan Dunnington is a board certified cardiothoracic surgeon, specializing in minimally invasive complex cardiac procedures such as the Hybrid Maze for treatment of atrial fibrillation, mitral valve repair and replacement, transcatheter aortic valve replacement as well as VATS lobectomy for the treatment of lung cancer.

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JOSEPH ELIASON, DDS, SMILE ORTHODONICS

BEST ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON NAPA

RYAN MOORE, MD SONOMA

BRIANT SMITH, MD, SUTTER HEALTH

Dr. Gan Dunnington

BEST CHIROPRACTOR

6 Woodland Road, Suite 304 St. Helena, CA 94574 707.963.7200

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JENNIFER DEIR, ND, NAPA NATURAL MEDICINE

Margery Smith

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PAT HALL, PT, SANTA ROSA ORTHOPAEDICS

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STEPHEN JOHN FRANZINO, MD, NAPA SPORTS MEDICINE & ORTHOPAEDICS

BEST SPA/ HOT TUB STORE

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TY P. AFFLECK, MD, SUTTER

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BEST PSYCHIATRIST NAPA

BARBARA REISMAN, MD SONOMA

ORREN PERLMAN, MD

BEST MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPIST NAPA

ELIZABETH ELLSWORTH, MFT SONOMA

KEVIN RUSSELL, MA, MFT

BEST LICENSED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER NAPA

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Care, this year’s readers pick for Best Home Care Service. Going in, I’m going to trust someone implicitly to look after me or my sick relative if that person is like Andrews, the former chair of the Sonoma County Commission on Human Rights. Head to Yelp, and the At Your Service testimonials are all of a positive and uplifting vein. These are good people. Kind people. I’m sending their brochure to my eldest nephew this week, with a note. “Dear Nephew: If I don’t end up going out as we’ve discussed, in the manner of Fredo Corleone, please hook me up with these folks when the time comes. Signed, your loving Uncle.”

1221 Farmers Lane, Santa Rosa.

707.573.1003. ayshomecare.net. —T.G.

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year, equivalent to about a garbage truck full of plastic going into the ocean every day. Additionally, sipping liquid through plastic straws can cause unintended health effects, most notably chemicals from polypropylene seeping from the plastic into the liquid. Equally noteworthy, regular sipping through straws can cause wrinkles known as “pucker lines”—and if we can’t appeal to your sense of vanity, than all hope truly is lost. As businesses across the country ban or switch to eco-friendly straws, Sonoma County also enters the fight against plastic-straw waste (and premature wrinkles). Sip It Sonoma, created by ZeroWaste Sonoma County, is a grassroots effort encouraging the businesses and citizens of Sonoma County to reduce straw usage. The campaign advocates for restaurants to give patrons a straw only on request or, even better, to transfer over to reusable/ eco friendly straws. Many businesses— Perch+Plow, Monti’s, Amy’s Drive Thru and Duke’s Sprited Cocktails, to name a few—have switched to compostable or reusable metal straws. If you’re still unconvinced, just check out the Youtube video of a turtle getting a straw pulled out of his nose—it will be your last straw.—A.M.

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BEST ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY

ELLEN L. BOWEN MSW, LCSW

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PATRICIA GRAY, PSYCHOLOGIST, PSYD, JD

SANTA ROSA ORTHOPAEDICS

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THE MEADOWS OF NAPA VALLEY

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BEST REHABILITATION CENTER

BEST WELLNESS RETREAT

LOUISE PACKARD, PHD

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At Progressive Urgent Care-Sebastopol, we offer high level urgent care with hospital quality resources. We have hired specialized staff and prepared the facility for outpatient services such as lab, imaging and radiology.

Our goal is lower cost for high quality care.

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BEST INSPIRATION FOR TAKING YOUR GARDENING TO NEW HEIGHTS OF INVENTION

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ost gardens are, logically enough, horizontal, or perhaps terraced but still basically earthbound, being that they are, of course, gardens. But thanks to Petaluma’s 15-year-old ordinance requiring developers to invest in public art when constructing new properties, there is a garden outside of the relatively new Friedman’s Home Improvement (winner, once again, of Best Home

Improvement Store) in Petaluma that is not earthbound at all. It’s vertical. Literally clinging to the wall on the exterior of the building within the Deer Creek Village shopping center, the garden stretches from the ground to the roof, and features dozens of flowers and succulents and other green, gold and growing things. It’s instantly magical to behold, and a bit befuddling. How do those plants do that, and how are they maintained, and is this

even really a garden or an actual art installation employing a kind of botanical paint to color the canvas? That, actually, is part of the point of a good garden, isn’t it? To exist in that special place that grows between art and agriculture, blurring both definitions by boldly and beautifully putting down roots in both worlds at once.

429 N. McDowell Blvd., Petaluma. 707.774.8400. friedmanshome.com.—D.T.

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BEST REAL ESTATE BROKER NAPA

ARTURO RAMIREZ, SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY SONOMA

SONOMA

KARMA DOG CONSTRUCTION

BEST GREEN BUILDER NAPA

DEVINE CONSTRUCTION

PATTY MARKEN, BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS

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BEST MOVING & STORAGE

BEST ROOFER

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BELFOR MOVING SONOMA

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BEST SELF-STORAGE NAPA

CALISTOGA SELF STORAGE SONOMA

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BEST ARCHITECT NAPA

MERVIN & MCNAIR ARCHITECTS SONOMA

LARS LANGBERG ARCHITECTS

BEST COMMERCIAL CONTRACTOR NAPA

WILLOUGHBY CONSTRUCTION SONOMA

PACATTE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY

BEST RESIDENTIAL CONTRACTOR NAPA

HANES CONSTRUCTION

EARTHTONE CONSTRUCTION

BEST ELECTRICIAN NAPA

MONTICELLO ELECTRIC SONOMA

SUMMIT ELECTRICAL SUPPLY

BEST PLUMBER

GREEN STOCK SOLAR SONOMA

SOLAR WORKS

BEST KITCHEN/BATH REMODELER NAPA

GOOD GUY BUILDERS SONOMA

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ABBEY CARPETS UNLIMITED SONOMA

ALL PRO FLOORS

BEST PAINTING CONTRACTOR NAPA

LARSON BROTHERS PAINTING SONOMA

COY BROWN PAINTING

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BEST HOME FURNISHINGS

ELITE PLUMBING SERVICES

BEST LOCKSMITH NAPA

TAPIA LOCKSMITH SONOMA

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ARBOR FENCE, INC.

BEST LANDSCAPER

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SHAW PLUMBING

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THE GARDEN GIRLS SONOMA

PERMACULTURE ARTISANS

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MID CITY NURSERY SONOMA

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BEST TREE SERVICE NAPA

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ANETTE BOSS, INTERIOR DESIGN

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COKAS DIKO HOME FURNISHINGS

BEST HOME IMPROVEMENT STORE NAPA

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THE PAINT WORKS SONOMA

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BEST CLEANING SERVICE NAPA

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BEST CARPET CLEANING NAPA

NATIONAL MULTI STEAM SONOMA

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BEST COMPANY TO ADMIT DEFEAT AND SURRENDER TO

Every spring I’d look at all the weeds and debris piles left over from the winter in my yard and decide: This is the year. I’m going to get my yard in shape, build a deck here and lay down a stone path there. But once the weeds were gone I’d lose focus, unsure how it was all going to work out. I’d trudge ahead until I was done—but I wasn’t done because my plans never materialized as intended and my yard generally looked kind of half-assed. And then winter would come and then spring and I’d start over.

What I learned is you really can’t just go to Home Depot, buy some plants and mulch and a few solar path lights, and think you’re going to have a coherently designed yard. At least I can’t. I finally hired the good folks at Elder Creek Landscapes. They listened to my woes and decoded what I’d been trying to do, then greatly improved on it and drew it up into a beautiful plan that I could never have done myself. It will take a while until I can install it all, but at least now I have a plan. 130 Petaluma Ave. #3A, Sebastopol. 707.827.7913. eldercreek.com.—S.H.

BEST $50 RENT REPRIEVE

Far be it from me to complain too often or too loudly that I am paying thousands of dollars more each year for the very same dwelling that I originally rented what seems like a blink of an eye ago. Lots of North Bay renters are in the same boat, or worse, and besides, as my landlord is sure to inform me upon each rent hike, “It’s below market.”

Nor am I the type to whom it would even occur to wonder, following the ballot box defeat of the city of Santa Rosa’s tepid rent-control ordinance in 2017, just what percentage of no votes belonged to citizens who, then comfortably ensconced in luxurious

accommodations beetling over the ridge above my squalid little hovel, found themselves scratching at the door of an extortionate rental market just a few months later. I can tell you I would only feel pity for such a churl.

But it was sweet reprieve to learn that the saints over at City Hall extended an anti–rent gouging measure, which they passed in the wake of the 2017 hell fires, into October 2019 (the state’s ban extends until May 31, 2019). That’s when this year’s rent hike met its match.

Rents cannot exceed 10 percent over the rent prior to October 2017—not just this year’s increase, but the total. So cheers to you, council folk. With my $50 savings, I’m serving Fancy Feast at my house. I mean for the cats, not myself.

Well, at least until October.—J.K.

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BEST PLACE TO FEEL AT HOME KICKED BACK IN A RECLINER THAT’S NOT IN YOUR HOME

Theaters have been trying to keep people coming in the door for decades, despite the total saturation of popculture entertainment. Now that 3D has, for the most part, crashed and burned, theaters in Dan Tocchini’s Santa Rosa Entertainment group have hit on a new plan: make the seating desirable in and of itself. The old folddown chairs with little drink holders on the side are now a thing of the past. In their place: cozy armchairs (which you reserve when you buy your ticket—you can also reserve a seat online) that look as though they were lifted right out of a living room catalogue. Ever dropped your popcorn or had no place to put a drink because your neighbor has already monopolized the holder? Not an issue anymore. Every seat at Santa Rosa’s Roxy and Airport stadiums and Petaluma’s Boulevard Stadium now has its own holder and tray, allowing you to eat and drink while watching in comfort. To complete the feels-likeyou’re-relaxing-at-home experience, all

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home improvement Live a good life. Be kind. Be generous, if not materially then in spirit. Should you fail at this pretty simple thing to do and (a) murder a bunch of people, join the Proud Boys or accept a post to Trump’s cabinet, and (b) if the Jains are right after all, then pray you don’t reincarnate as a tiny, fluttering thing in this place: California Carnivores in Sebastopol. There’s simply no safe place to land, if you’re a gnat.

I know: you’re feeling exhausted and thirsty after so much winging about and, in a prior life, demonically striving to privatize public education, but don’t rest on a butterwort; you’ll dissolve. Don’t dip your wee proboscis down the funnel of a pitcher plant; you’ll end trapped in a bowl of digestive nectar. It’s a true, if tiny, horror show—something the staff at Cali Carnivores mischievously play up, with botanical placards scripted in scary-movie font and a life-sized fiberglass Audrey, the carnivorous hottie from Little Shop of Horrors, sentried in the entryway.

It’s not all giggles and games, however; the folks at California Carnivores are passionate and devoted, and know their stuff. Founder Peter D’Amato wrote the bible on the subject, the sinisterly titled Savage Garden, now in its eighth printing, and owner-manager Damon Collingsworth (pictured) has assisted in the installation of carnivorous gardens for institutions around the country—he can help set one up for you!

True, a visit to Cali Carnivores can set you back upwards of $80 for a large Sarracenia, but these sturdy guys can live decades. That works out to a pretty decent deal. And who knows, yours could be the famished pitcher plant that outlives Kirstjen Nielsen and makes short work of her mosquito-bound soul some sunny future day. The arc of justice is long—but it’s hungry. 2833 Old Gravenstein Hwy., Sebastopol. 707.824.0433. californiacarnivores.com.—G.B.

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chairs recline, complete with footrest. If there’s a downside to this upgrade, it’s that these new, cushier, reclining chairs could make you fall asleep before the movie’s over—but that’s really on the film to keep that from happening. santarosacinemas.com.—A.T.R.

BEST PLACE TO LAUNCH A POLITICAL CAMPAIGN FOR CHARLES FOSTER KANE

The sound of power tools in an adjacent room interrupts the pop of corks and the glug of wine being poured at a tasting for the first anniversary of Petaluma Gap American Viticultural Area (AVA), and that’s OK. The folks at Hotel Petaluma have done such a fine job restoring this historic hostelry to former glory, it’s fine by me if they finish whatever details they’ve got to do by day or night. This is my first visit to the hotel’s Goldman Ballroom. The style was probably dated a few years after the hotel’s original opening in 1924, but it’s perfectly grand and puts me in the mind of an early 20th-century campaign rally—say, like in Citizen Kane, except on a very much smaller scale—and in fact has been used for election-night festivities.

Who’s that up there in the balcony, Jim Gettys clutching his top hat? No, it’s a

bottle of Petaluma Gap Pinot Noir, how delicious. 205 Kentucky St., Petaluma.

707.559.3393. hotelpetaluma.com.—J.K.

BEST SOURCE FOR VEGETABLES THAT NEVER, EVER STOP PRODUCING

Spend anytime in western Sonoma County, and you’ll see yellow signs for the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center’s fall plant sales. They are a West County staple. But you don’t have to wait until fall. The nursery opens April 6. The drive up to OAEC and walking around the lush greenhouse is a treat in itself. But it’s the flora, both exotic and domestic, that is the real attraction. The OAEC got into the plant-sale game early, but now there are competitors everywhere.

To distinguish itself, the OAEC has an impressive selection of heirloom tomatoes you’ve never heard of, as well as an array of Andean plants (try oca, a creamy, starchy potato-like plant that’s an important food source in the Andes) and perennial vegetables that keep giving year after year like tree collards (my favorite), sea beets and perpetual spinach. 15290 Coleman Valley Road, Occidental. 707.874.1557. oaec.org.—S.H.

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BEST BIODYNAMIC CANNABIS FOR ALL SEXES

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hat a difference a year makes! It has for Garden Society, a local cannabis manufacturing company owned and operated by Erin Gore and Karli Warner (pictured, left to right), who spent most of 2018 nailing down permits so they’d be legal. The weekend before Valentine’s Day, they gave away cannabis-free samples of their chocolates at Sol, where seniors scarfed them.

The cannabis-infused version gets me stoned, and, while it doesn’t kick in right away—usually the case with edibles—it keep me stoned for a long time, and makes me feel lusty.

While I’m waiting for an edible to kick in, I smoke one of the pre-rolled Garden Society “rosettes” that come in a nifty box that fits comfortably in a back pocket.

A rosette gets me high quickly, but not so high that I can’t function.

Garden Society cannabis is cultivated biodynamically in Mendocino County, where permits are easier to obtain than in Sonoma County. The chocolate in the edibles comes from Guittard, a company that deals with “fair trade” cocoa cultivators. Gore and Warner call their products “female-friendly.” They’re male-friendly,

too. The milk chocolates with sea salt, Gore says, will “ensure a good night’s sleep,” and, while that might be true for some, it isn’t always true for me. It can wire me.

If you want an introduction to Gore, Warner and Garden Society, check out their “Casually Baked” podcast. If Erin Gore’s brother-in-law, James—Sonoma County’s fourth district supervisor—hasn’t heard the podcast, he ought to. He also ought to smoke a Garden Society pre-rolled with me, then kick back and talk about the Warriors, the Republicans and the politics of pot. thegardensociety.com.—J.R.

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BEST PLACE TO GET HIGH, ACCORDING TO GRANDMA

The last time I went to the Grove of Old Trees, it was with my younger sister and grandparents. It was one of those Northern California days in January when the sun is out and the sky is clearer than it is in the summertime, when the air is still crisp and clean from the morning frost but has warmed from the sun. My grandmother had packed us lunch in a picnic basket, one covered in redand-white checkered cloth. It was in pristine condition; even though she got it in the ’70s, there was no indication it had ever been used before. My sister carried the picnic basket and I carried the matching checkered blanket as we walked into the darkness of the towering redwoods, so dense sunlight barely scraped in between their branches. As we walked, forest critters darted in front of us on a dirt path, and the deep sound of a great horned owl (so my grandfather told us) could be heard. Eventually, we got to a grass clearing. The day was beautiful, and the whole field was slathered in sunlight as we spread out our blanket. We unpacked what my grandmother had assembled: the neatly folded napkins, the bundled plates and utensils, four small mason jar glasses and our pasta salad. After we had been quietly eating for a few moments, my grandmother looked around and said, “This is a perfect place to smoke a joint.”

Grandmothers always know best.

17599 Fitzpatrick Lane, Occidental. www.sonomacounty.com/outdooractivities/grove-old-trees.—A.M.

BEST WAY TO RUB WEED ALL OVER YOUR BODY Napa County has been moving slowly on opening up wine country to commercial cannabis cultivation after the passing of Proposition 64. To date, only one medical dispensary, Harvest of Napa, exists in the county, and there are zero recreational dispensaries.

That doesn’t mean there’s no cannabis being cultivated in Napa Valley, of course, and groups like the Napa Valley

Cannabis Association are working to make above-board cannabis agriculture and a legitimate cannabis industry a reality in the region. For now, the best legal cannabis export coming from Napa is the topical balms of Napa Valley Cannabalm, whose boutique, handcrafted and doctor-formulated balms are ideal for chronic pain relief and anti-inflammation. The Cannabalms, which come in scents like Rosemary, Peppermint and Lavender, are made with all-organic ingredients like Cannabis Sativa seed oil, grape seed oil, olive oil, beeswax and essential oils, all grown in Napa Valley. When applied to trigger points on the body—the head, shoulders, knees and toes—the balms can relax muscles, reduce aches, increase circulation and soothe inflamed skin. Since the product is made with low amounts of cannabinoids and each two-ounce tin of Cannabalm contains less than 0.3 percent THC, there’s no psychoactive effects to worry about, and the balms can be traveled with, shipped to and used in all 50 states.

—napavalleycannabalm.com.—C.S.

BEST EXAMPLE OF THE CALIFORNIA PARADOX

The California Paradox occurs whenever the state sets out on some ambitious policy initiative that another ambitious policy initiative would render null and void, difficult to achieve or a flat-out joke. Case in point: When the state set out to legalize cannabis, it did so knowing that there’d be no legal weed without lots of effort put into making sure nonmedical pot products are childunfriendly, if not childproof. Given all the infused gummy bears and flavored vape whatnot on the consumer market, that’s a fair enough concern. But it also meant that cannabis products for the recreational masses would be enveloped in multiple layers of plastic packaging, a phenomenon which is demonstrably idiotic anytime a consumer unpacks a wildly overpackaged pre-rolled joint. It’s like they’ve got King Tut wrapped in the damn packaging and Steve Martin’s about to burst into song about it, but never at dusk. Enter the California Paradox: even as it has legalized weed, the state has also set an ambitious

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You think it’s easy, putting together a photo shoot with Marigold farms’ Pineapple Harlequin CBD-rich pre-roll? Well, it’s not, as we learned recently.

We invited the joint to the Bohemian offices with the news that it had won the award for Best CBD-Rich Pre-Roll That You Can Smoke at Dawn and Still Have a Productive Day at Work, and we arranged for the photographer to show up as well. This stuff takes planning, people. The photographer arrived at the scheduled hour, looking typically jaundiced and frantic, and set up his gear. We put out a spread of cold cuts and cheese, some grapes and wine, to stimulate an artful pose from the pre-roll and to get the photographer to relax.

It was his first photo shoot with a bona fide A-lister. We told the photographer that we were going for a tastefully nude approach to the shot, but maybe with some beefcake edge. The model release forms were all signed. The bosses were informed of our intentions. But . . . but . . . when it came time to take the shot, the joint was nowhere to be found. Poof, just like that, puff of smoke. All that remained was the packaging—the green and yellow Marigold box, and the plastic tube that held the pre-roll. We checked everywhere. Under the desk, in the fridge. Everywhere. Seriously, where the hell did that joint go? Uh-oh. Is the Bohemian getting a taste of Humboldt County pot shenanigans, in the manner of Murder Mountain? Jeez. Where’s the pot-fearing mayberries of the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office when you really need them? —T.M.P.

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agenda to convert to a 100 percent sustainable-energy model by 2045.

That means lots more solar and wind power and less reliance on the petrochemical industry and all of its oleaginous products. You see where this is all going. Petrochemicals are the building blocks of plastic. By the time

California gets to 2045, we’ll already be drowned under a sea of plastic pre-roll tubes, and the sea will itself lap the shores of a new Central Valley beachhead. So here’s to the quick emergence of a robust hemp-plastic industry. It’s the only way out of the Paradox.—T.M.P.

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ooking for someplace to go where you can feel good about leaving your home without having to give up the comforts of your living room? Are you a moderate to very social person simultaneously plagued with being a homebody? Introducing the red velvet couches at Brew Coffee & Beer House in Santa Rosa.

These are not your typical public couches. They somehow flaunt a new-couch level of cleanliness, and maintain the appeal of their timelessly fashionable

maroon velvet covers. Throw your limbs across their supportive, cocooning cushions, pull out your computer and pretend to do work but watch a show instead, because on these couches, you can let all pretense about doing work fall between the cushions.

How can these couches hold all the securities of being at home with nothing more than two soft maroon cushions? They come from a home, of course!

Brew’s co-owner, Jessica Borrayo (pictured, on right, with co-owner Alissa Cottle), brought them from her

mother’s house. “I had them for as long as I can remember,” she says, “I was nervous giving them to the public.” From the couches, you’re privy to Drag Bingo, you can sip on a Golden State Cider and draw during Drink and Draw nights, or you can look on anxiously from a safe distance during open mic night if your friend is not as funny as either of you had hoped. Whatever the occasion, the couches have your back—and your legs and butt too! 555 Healdsburg Ave., Santa Rosa. brewcoffeeandbeer.com.—A.M.

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BEST HONEY MONEY CAN’T BUY

So you want the best honey? Good luck.

The very best honey is hard to come by.

The honey market has been infiltrated by cheap imitations from China and Vietnam. If you want the best honey, keep your own bees. And if you want to learn how to do that, take a course in beekeeping from Serge Labesque, one of the world’s most knowledgeable beekeepers. No kidding. He lives right here in Sonoma County and he teaches at Santa Rosa Junior College.

His classes are for beginners and for those who know a thing or two and want to learn more. Not surprisingly, his lectures are well-attended. Labesque makes a complex subject relatively easy to understand. Honey from the bees he cares for is sold at the Red Barn at Oak Hill Farm in Glen Ellen, but it’s so good that it sells out fast. It’s best to call and ask if there’s any honey available, though a visit to Oak Hill Farm is always a thrill any time of the year. The vegetables and the fruits are organically grown, and the honey from the bees at Oak Hill Farm doesn’t have harmful herbicides or pesticides. You wouldn’t want to use olive oil that has been mixed with cheap vegetable oils, and you shouldn’t use second-rate honey.

Do yourself and the planet a favor: learn about bees and about honey. It’s a great way to connect to the world of nature.

Sign up for one of Serge Labesque’s SRJC classes.—J.R.

BEST SMALL-TOWN CRIME EXPOSÉ

Glen Ellen, Jan. 28: There was an ongoing dispute between neighbors regarding a fence line and an easement.

That’s a typical report from the Crime Watch column of the Kenwood Press, a tersely written weekly roundup of calls received by the Sonoma County sheriff’s substation serving Glen Ellen and Kenwood. In a way, this log of loud parties and barking dogs, nervous residents reporting suspicious phone calls, a car that’s been parked too long, or that man who sleeps in his truck, almost makes the reader feel that all’s generally well in country life, if loud laughers, lost dogs and stolen fruit are

all that makes the news. But read on, and it gets darker: that methamphetamine pipe someone found in his bed. Threats from internet scammers. Out-of-control PG&E tree trimmers. Keep reading Crime Watch, and the individual reports blur into a kind of epic poetry about the tragicomic underbelly of the Valley of the Moon: Two people were reported skateboarding in an empty pool. A deputy went out and encouraged all parties to be nice to each other. A resident reported a man on the property acting strangely. The caller said she heard one man say, “That’s my wife!” and the other man saying, “I would never disrespect you.” The couple couldn’t tell deputies the exact location of the naked man. The homeless man and his vehicle were still parked in the lot of the Kenwood Depot. Deputies tried to contact the man but there was no answer. She thought a cashier had overcharged her for various items.

Nothing further. A couple reported finding a jar of non-dairy creamer inside a wall of the house. A deputy went out and made contact with a male, who said he was upset over spilled milk. A loose horse was reported at 4:30am.

A deputy drove out but the vehicle had already left. The yeller had left the scene. No charges had been made with the card. No other shots were heard after that. “Get the fuck out!” Nothing further.—J.K.

BEST PLACE TO MAKE A FOOL OF YOURSELF ON APRIL 1, PART ONE

On April Fool’s Day, while some folks focus on playing jokes on their friends, others are happy just to be the joke themselves. At the Buckhorn Tavern in Petaluma, for the last 20 years, when April 1 rolls around, owner Wes McCoy has donned a loud suit, placed a ridiculous hat on his head and played the master of ceremonies for the storied institution’s annual St. Stupid’s Day party. He runs a light-hearted Let’s Make a Deal–style game, giving out silly prizes, while the rest of the bar staff run crazy-hat contests, a toilet paper roll-off and plenty of other games. Bad jokes are told, confetti and ping-pong balls are tossed, and general merriment

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ensues. “I heard about St. Stupid’s Day from listening to Alex Bennett on the radio years ago,” says McCoy. “There was always a parade in San Francisco, and it sounded like fun. (For the record, the San Francisco St. Stupid’s Day continues to be a popular annual event.)

So I started celebrating St. Stupid’s Day at the Buckhorn, and people really seemed to like it. We’ve been doing it ever since. Sometimes, you just have to stop being serious for a few hours and let yourself be stupid. Well, we’re here to help.” 615 Petaluma Blvd. S., Petaluma.

707.763.0365. buckhorntavern.com.—D.T.

BEST PLACE TO MAKE A FOOL OF YOURSELF ON APRIL 1, PART TWO In downtown Occidental, fans of foolishness and frivolity can celebrate April Fool’s Day with a wild and wacky annual parade and party. Festivities include outrageous outfits, the official crowning of “Queen and King of Fools,” something called “Lunapillar rides” and general over-the-top silliness. The parade takes place at 1pm, snaking down Bohemian Highway in the general direction of the Occidental Center for the Arts. Silly attire highly encouraged.—D.T.

BEST LAST STANDING CULTURAL INSTITUTION

I’m too middle-aged to get all rah-rah over how convenient everything’s getting. I didn’t feel tingles when I learned I could flip on the thermostat from an iPhone. I’m not moaning with relief knowing a refrigerator can tell me I’m low on English muffins. And you know, I still don’t care that I can stream a movie. The shift getting films onto a medium I could watch at home was innovation enough for me. Screw streaming. I want to spend precious time poring past rows of titles on spines till my retinas ache. And dammit, I can still do it, because Santa Rosa’s Joe Video thinks it’s worthwhile too. After the bloated chains like Blockbuster and Hollywood met their demise (not a great loss), and the mighty Video Droid succumbed to dwindling business

due to the 2017 fires (a great loss), Joe remains as one of only two surviving video stores in Sonoma County. In addition to its ripping selection (choice classics!), Joe does cool things, like sell any movie in stock and order any movie not in stock, for rent or sell. Plus, as Joe is an independent, where staff don’t have to wear ill-fitting uniforms and can let their freak flag, as they say, fly, you get to hear weird things. I was there one afternoon, lurking too near the counter so I could eavesdrop on the conversation the staff were having about movies, because when the staff at places like Joe Video hold a conversation, on anything, it’s always a nutty ride. Their voices dropped lower, so I knew something worth straining to overhear was on its way, and I managed to catch this joyous tidbit: “What if outtakes were actually interesting—like, all of the sudden there’s Chewbacca giving Han Solo a blowjob.” And I thought: God bless America! Long live the independents! 411 Stony Point Road, Santa Rosa. 707.544.2158. joevideoonline.com.—G.B.

BEST TOWN ‘CHARACTER’

Every town has at least one good character. In Healdsburg, his name is Mike Peterson, but he’s commonly known around the place as “Davey Crockett,” for obvious reasons. A longtime local resident (allowing for the 12 years he relocated to Ukiah before returning in 2016), Peterson was born and raised in Petaluma, and now strides about Healdsburg dressed just like Crockett (don’t even try and call him Daniel Boone), with coonskin hat, boots, buckskins (he’ll tell you he made them himself from “authentic animals”) and a replica powder-powered rifle. An outspoken critic of the city’s shift toward upscale restaurants and wineries, Peterson is as interested in classic rock music as he in looking like a re-enactor from a mountain-man convention. A self-described “blast-from-the-past DJ,” he even occasionally hires himself out to play tunes on actual vinyl, and often writes colorfully critical letters to the local newspaper. Oh yes, and he’ll happily pose for pictures at the local bar. He might even accept a drink as thanks.—D.T.

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In addition to its reputation as one of Petaluma’s oldest and most authentic dive bars—with dozens of mounted animal heads on the walls, along with the various weapons that brought them down—Andresen’s Tavern in Petaluma has been sporting a delightfully direct, pun-powered sidewalk sign that has proven to be a first-rate attention grabber. Given that Petaluma has recently announced that puns will be the theme of its upcoming Butter and Eggs Parade on Saturday, April 27 (with the whole celebration bearing the title “It’s Always Punny in Petaluma”), the verbal whimsy of Andresen’s sign is not just fun, it’s downright Shakes-beer-ean. 19 Western St., Petaluma. 707.762.6647.—D.T.

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LEADING EDGE SALON

BEST OPTICAL STORE NAPA

THE EYE WORKS OPTOMETRY SONOMA

SONOMA EYEWORKS

BEST SKIN CARE SPA NAPA

GREENHAUS DAY SPA SONOMA

BLISS ORGANIC DAY SPA

BEST EYE LASH EXTENSIONS AND/OR BROW ENHANCEMENTS NAPA

SKIN BY TIFFANY KAISER SONOMA

LASHEY LADY STUDIO

BEST NAIL SERVICES NAPA

GREENHAUS DAY SPA SONOMA

BLUE POLISH NAIL SPA

BEST BODY-ART PLACE NAPA

THE GOLDEN OWL TATTOO AND GALLERY SONOMA

VALKYRIE TATTOO

BEST PIERCING SPECIALIST SONOMA

BEST SPRAY TAN NAPA

CLUB TAN SONOMA

SUNKISSED BY SUNSATIONS

BEST WAXING STUDIO NAPA

SISTERS BOUTIQUE SONOMA

LASHEY LADY STUDIO

BEST MASSAGE SERVICES NAPA

ST. PIERRE MASSAGE AND SPA SONOMA

OSMOSIS DAY SPA SANCTUARY

BEST RESORT & SPA NAPA

INDIAN SPRINGS CALISTOGA SONOMA

MONTECITO SPA/FLAMINGO CONFERENCE RESORT & SPA HOTEL

BEST TRAVEL AGENCY NAPA

MG CONCIERGE, DESTINATIONS & TRAVEL SONOMA

SONOMA TRAVEL

BEST SENIOR LIVING FACILITY NAPA

THE MEADOWS OF NAPA VALLEY SONOMA

THE HOLE THING

SOLSTICE SENIOR LIVING AT SANTA ROSA

BEST DAY SPA

BEST CASINO

INDIAN SPRINGS CALISTOGA

NAPA VALLEY CASINO

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OSMOSIS DAY SPA SANCTUARY

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SONOMA

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Best Divorce Attorney Sonoma County

KARA M. OLHISER FAMILY LAW ATTORNEY AND MEDIATOR

CONNER, LAWRENCE, RODNEY, OLHISER & BARRETT, LLP Collaborative Practice Center 829 Sonoma Ave., Santa Rosa, CA 95404 707.523.0480 | kolhiser@clrob.com

We want to thank all who support us because we think you’re the best.

Many thanks to Bohemian readers who voted me Best trusts⁄estate planning lawyer!

I am very grateful.

Schedule a free ½ hour consultation. Offer extended to new estate planning clients. Please call Joanne to set up an appointment.

MaryClare Lawrence ~ Attorney, Estate planning, wills, trusts, probate Author of: Estate Planning Should Not be a Near-Death Experience Now available on Amazon.com

Valkyrie Tattoo in Penngrove

10002 Main St. Penngrove ~ 707-794-9390 HOURS: TUES ~ SAT 11 or noon ~ 7PM ~ Established in 2008

Best Body Art Place Sonoma

Silk Moon is a boutique that gives back to the community. We stand proud and connect with women through color and grace.

4 time Winner of the Bohemian Best of Awards.

CONNER, LAWRENCE, RODNEY, OLHISER & BARRETT, LLP Collaborative Practice Center 829 Sonoma Ave., Santa Rosa, CA 95404 707.523.0480 | mlawrence@clrob.com

Best Health Care Clinic

2 years consecutive winner

Best General Practice Physician Trina Bowen, MD

CLOTHING | JEWELRY SCARVES | ACCESSORIES | SHOES

195 N Main Street, Sebastopol | 707.824.4300 | silkmoon.org | Open Mon–Sun 10 to 6

Thank You Everyone!

www.wchealth.org

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BEST BUSINESS BANK NAPA

BANK OF MARIN SONOMA

EXCHANGE BANK

BEST CONSUMER BANK NAPA

BANK OF MARIN SONOMA

EXCHANGE BANK

BEST CREDIT UNION NAPA

REDWOOD CREDIT UNION SONOMA

REDWOOD CREDIT UNION

BEST ACCOUNTANT

COLAB

BEST RECYCLING CENTER NAPA

NAPA RECYCLING & WASTE SERVICES SONOMA

PACIFIC SANITATION

BEST JUDGE NAPA

HON. ELIA ORTIZ

BEST LAW FIRM

NAPA

NAPA WEALTH MANAGEMENT SONOMA

THE HART GROUP

707.542.9474 • Whistlestop-Antiques.com

SONOMA

SONOMA

BEST FINANCIAL ADVISOR

Open daily til 5:30pm, Sun 11–5pm 130 4th Street • Historic Railroad Square • Santa Rosa

WORKMIX COWORKING LOUNGE

SONOMA

TIM MAYCLIN, CPA

WHISTLESTOP ANTIQUES

NAPA

NAPA

WARREN W. WARNER JR., BLYTH WARNER & ASSOCIATES

Voted Wine Country’s BEST ANTIQUE STORE Year after year!

BEST CO-WORKING OFFICE SPACE

BEST INSURANCE AGENT NAPA

MARIANNE BROOKS, FARMERS INSURANCE SONOMA

ANDY ESQUIVEL, STATE FARM INSURANCE

BEST CHAMBER OF COMMERCE NAPA

HON. BRAD DEMEO

NAPA

COOMBS & DUNLAP SONOMA

SPAULDING MCCULLOUGH & TANSIL

BEST BANKRUPTCY ATTORNEY NAPA

ELLYN M. LAZAR, LAW OFFICES OF ELLYN M. LAZAR SONOMA

BRAIN BARTA, LAW OFFICES OF BRIAN BARTA

BEST BUSINESS ATTORNEY NAPA

CALISTOGA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

JASON LUROS, HUDSON & LUROS

SONOMA

SONOMA

SANTA ROSA METRO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

CHAD B. WYATT, WYATT LAW OFFICES

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Thank You Bohemians!

STORAGE MASTER Self Storage

Treasures & Pleasures of the Goddess

BUSINESS & PERSONAL STORAGE NEEDS FOR THE SONOMA COUNTY REGION

BEST SELF STORAGE

123 North Main St. Sebastopol, CA 95472 www.milk-and-honey.com

SONOMA COUNTY

Thank You for supporting our Sonoma County legacy!

BEST MEN’S CLOTHING STORE

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KEVIN J. MCCULLOUGH, SPAULDING MCCULLOUGH & TANSIL

SONOMA

BEST TRUSTS & ESTATES ATTORNEY

TREVOR G. JACKSON, LAW OFFICE OF TREVOR G. JACKSON JARIN BECK, BECK LAW

BEST CRIMINAL ATTORNEY

NAPA

NAPA

LAURA S. BROOKS, ATTORNEY AT LAW

SONOMA

MARYCLARE LAWRENCE, CONNER, LAWRENCE, RODNEY, OLHISER & BARRETT

MICHAEL H. KEELEY, LAW OFFICE OF MICHAEL H. KEELEY PATRICK MICHAEL CIOCCA

BEST DIVORCE ATTORNEY NAPA

LULU L. WONG, LAW OFFICES OF LULU L. WONG SONOMA

KARA M. OLHISER, CONNER, LAWRENCE, RODNEY, OLHISER & BARRETT

BEST INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ATTORNEY

SONOMA

BEST NONPROFIT NAPA

WINE COUNTRY ANIMAL LOVERS SONOMA

REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK

BEST PSYCHIC NAPA

LESLIE SILVER TAROT READINGS & CLASSES

NAPA

SONOMA

SONOMA

BEST CHURCH

DANIEL A. REIDY, REIDY LAW GROUP OMAR FIGUEROA, LAW OFFICES OF OMAR FIGUEROA

BEST LABOR & EMPLOYMENT ATTORNEY NAPA

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OWEN DALLMEYER, DICKENSON PEATMAN & FOGARTY SONOMA

JAN GABRIELSON TANSIL, SPAULDING MCCULLOUGH & TANSIL

BEST REAL ESTATE ATTORNEY NAPA

KELLY R. WALLACE, ATTORNEY AT LAW

CINDY CLIFTON, PSYCHIC MEDIUM

NAPA

NAPA METHODIST CHURCH SONOMA

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION, SANTA ROSA

BEST MINISTER NAPA

RABBI NILES ELLIOT GOLDSTEIN, CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM SONOMA

THE REV. CHRISTOPHER THOMAS BELL, UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION, SANTA ROSA

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The week’s events: a selective guide

Relapse & Revival

Nashville recording artist Robert Hunter has gained renown and critical acclaim for his brand of lyrical alt-country-rock music. Now he’s taking on a new medium with his novel, ‘Relapse: A Love Story.’ Originally inspired by his wife’s battle with cancer, Relapse is a wild ride that features shaman-led weddings, car heists, strange prophecies and lots of moonshine fueling the whole ordeal.

Currently touring with the book, Hunter signs, reads and plays music when he appears on Thursday, March 21, at Levin & Company, 306 Center St., Healdsburg.

7:30pm. Free. 707.433.1118.

SONOMA

Show Time

A new take on screening classic movies, Show & a Show is a curated pairing of movie and music that screens a classic Criterion Collection release preceded by a musical performance that complements the theme of the film. The first in the series was a brooding blast with local band Loverman paired with Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire, and the next installment of the series boasts Terence Malick’s masterpiece Days of Heaven on the big screen with dreamy Americana singer-songwriter Allie Crow Buckley, live onstage on Friday, March 22, at Sebastiani Theatre, 476 First St., E., Sonoma. 7pm. $20. 707.996.9756.

R O H N E R T PA R K

Community Voices

Formed by a diverse group of performers and educators, Fire Circle Theater makes it their mission to help people develop their own artistic voice and to experience the power of self-expression. Already teaming with schools and business to offer workshops and exercises, Fire Circle is hosting the inaugural ReVerberation festival to showcase original works of theater, art, music and more that features host Jamie DeWolf and an assortment of talented performers. Join the festivities on Saturday, March 23, at Spreckels Performing Arts Center, 5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park. 5pm. $10 and up. firecircletheater.org.

O C C I D E N TA L

Homegrown Hearts

Sonoma County singer-songwriters Dave Monterey and Tim Sheehan have a musical brotherhood that goes back decades in bands like Patriots of the Heartland in the ’70s, the Breakers in the ’80s and ’90s, and most recently in the String Rays. Now they’re teaming up with fellow singer-songwriter Emily Lois, bassist Daniel Magee and percussionist Dan Ransford for Heartwood Crossing, an Americana project that features dueling guitars, fiddles and three-part harmonies that promise a rocking good time when the group debuts on Saturday, March 23, at Occidental Center for the Arts, 3850 Doris Murphy Court, Occidental. 7pm. $15–$18. 707.874.9392.

—Charlie Swanson

MUSICAL HERITAGE Bob Marley’s son Stephen performs with his daughter Mystic opening on March 24 at, appropriately, the Mystic Theatre in Petaluma. See Concerts, p100.

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Lunch & Dinner 7 Days a Week

Din n er & A Show

THE POYNTLYSS SISTARS

Tommy Castro & The Painkillers

ONYE AND THE MESSENGERS

Mar 22 & Mar 23 Fri Night Only! Special Guest Ron Thompson

SATURDAY, MARCH 23 • 7PM • $5 SUNDAY, MARCH 24 • 12PM

PETER WELKER SEXTET FEATURING JEFF OSTER FRIDAY, MARCH 29 • 7PM • $5

Weekend

Sun

LoWatters

Mar 24 High Lonesome Twang to

Lowdown Roots 5:00 ⁄ No Cover

DIRTY RED BARN

SATURDAY, MARCH 30 • 7PM • $5

FUNKSWAY

SUNDAY, MARCH 31 • 12PM

JOE KELNER TRIO

Rockin’ Johnny Burgin Mar 29 Fri

Real Chicago Blues 8:00 ⁄ No Cover

Rancho Debut!

Stompy Jones featuring Mar 30

Dance Party!

Sugartown Mar 31

Rancho Debut!

Sat

FRIDAY, APRIL 5 • 7PM • $5

ANN HALEN

Annette Moreno 8:00

SATURDAY, APRIL 6 • 7PM • $5

Sun

HOT GRUBB

SUNDAY, APRIL 7 • 12PM

JEFF OSTER QUARTET FRIDAY, APRIL 12 • 7PM

THE SIDE MEN

SATURDAY, APRIL 13 • 7PM • $10

JAMI JAMISON

HAPPY HOUR: MON—FRI, 4PM—6PM BRUNCH: SAT, SUN 11AM—2PM

Mon—Thu: 11:30am—9pm, Fri—Sat: 11:30am—12am Food served til 11pm; Fri, Sat & Karaoke Wed til 10

707.559.5133 101 2ND ST #190, PETALUMA

FOR RESERVATIONS:

String Band, Originals, Heavy on Harmonies 5:00 ⁄ No Cover

Sweet City Blues Apr 13 Swing, Blues & Classic Rock 7:30 Sat

Zydeco Flames Apr 20 Always a Party! 8:00 Sat

Join us for our A nnuAl

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A pr 21, 10Am–4pm Reservations Advised Reservations Advised

415.662.2219

On the Town Square, Nicasio www.ranchonicasio.com

Calendar Concerts SONOMA Dustbowl Revival Americana octet performs a tribute to the Band with support from Western swing trio Hot Club of Cowtown.

Mar 27, 8pm. $29-$49. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.546.3600.

Music Around Town Musicians and faculty from the Santa Rosa Symphony and SRS youth ensembles perform pop-up mini-concerts at several venues. Mar 23, 2pm.

Free. Railroad Square, Fourth and Wilson streets, Santa Rosa, srsymphony.org.

Stephen Marley The second son of Bob Marley performs an acoustic set with an opening performance from his daughter Mystic Marley.

Mar 24, 7pm. $39 and up.

Mystic Theatre & Music Hall, 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.775.6048.

MARIN 3/22–3/28

Honorable

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Gloria Bell – CC & AD – R

11:00-1:30-4:30-7:30

Transit – Subtitled

10:45-1:00-4:00-7:00

BRINGING THE BEST FILMS IN THE WORLD TO SONOMA COUNTY

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Schedule for Fri, March 22 – Thu, March 28

The Wedding Guest – CC & AD – R 11:00-1:15-4:15-7:15, Thurs 3/28: 11:00-1:15

Apollo 11 – CC G 11:15-1:45-4:45-7:45 Saint Judy PG13 11:30am Never Look Away – Subtitled – AD R 2:00pm

Green Book – CC & AD The Aftermath – CC Thursday 3/28: 5:00pm

The Mustang Thursday 3/28: 7:30pm

PG13 6:45pm R

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Academy Award “Moore Gives Her BestNominee Performance 8 Great Beers on Tap + Wine by the Glass and Bottle Foreign Language Film!Stone In Years!”

– Box Office “RawBest and Riveting!”

– Rolling Demi MooreWITH DavidBASHIR Duchovny WALTZ A MIGHTY HEART Fri:(12:30) (12:15 1:10 2:40 3:40 (1:00) 3:00 5:00 7:00 9:15 RR THE JONESES 2:45 5:00 7:20 9:455:10) 6:102:40 7:454:50 8:30 10:00 (12:30) 7:10 9:20 2 Academy Award Noms Including BestRActor!

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– New Observer “A Sat: Glorious Throwback ToYork The3:40 More5:10) Stylized, THE1:10 WRESTLER 6:10 7:45 8:30 10:00 Painterly Work Of Decades Past!”

– LA (12:20) 5:10 7:30 9:45 R Times LA2:45 VIE EN ROSE Sun:(12:45) (12:15 1:10 2:40 3:40 5:10) 3:45 6:45 9:45 PG-13 THE SECRET OF KELLS 10 Academy Award Noms Including Best Picture!

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5 Academy Award Noms Including (12:00 2:15 4:25) 6:40 R Today “★★★ 1/2! An unexpected Gem!”9:00 – USA FROST/NIXON

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WOMAN AT WAR

(2:15)Mysterious, 7:20 R GREENBERG “Swoonly Romatic, Hilarious!”

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– LA PARIS, JE T’AIME (11:45) 4:45 9:50 R Times (1:15) 4:15 7:00 9:30 R THE presents GHOST Kevin Jorgenson the WRITER California of (1:15 3:15 5:15) 7:15 9:15 GPremiere CC DV (2:15) 7:15 PG-13

APOLLO 11

Closed Caption and Audio Description available

Us • Wonder Park Apollo 11 • Captain Marvel Dumbo Bistro Menu Items, Beer & Wine available in all 4 Auditoriums

SHOWTIMES: ravenfilmcenter.com 707.525.8909 • HEALDSBURG

PuRE: A BOuLDERING FLICK Michael Moore’s Thu, Feb 26th at 7:15 WONDER PARK THE MOST DANGEROuS

SICKO (12:30 2:30 4:30) 6:30 8:30 PG CC DV MOVIES IN MORNING MAN INTHE AMERICA Starts Fri, June 29th!

Fri, Sat, Mon DANIEL ELLSBERG ANDSun THE&PENTAGON PAPERS FREE SOLO

Advance Tickets On Sale Now at Box Office!

9:50 AM (12:10) 4:30 6:50 NR 6:50PG-13 Show Tue or Thu FROZEN RIVER (2:30 4:50) 7:10 (12:00) 2:30 5:00No 7:30 10:00 10:15 AM VICKY Their CRISTINA BARCELONA First Joint Venture In 25 Years!

10:20 AM CHANGELING Venessa RedgraveAND Meryl CHONG’S Streep Glenn CloseAM CHEECH 10:40 RACHEL GETTING MARRIED HEYSHORTS WATCH THIS 2009 LIVE ACTION (Fri/Mon Only)) 10:45 AM EVENING (12:00 2:20 4:35) 6:50 9:10 PG CC DVAM 10:45 Sat, Apr17th at 11pm & Tue, Apr 20th 8pm 2009 ANIMATED SHORTS Only) Starts Fri,(Sun June 29th!

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New Century Chamber Orchestra Daniel Hope leads a program, "Forbidden Music," with compositions written under oppressive regimes, featuring Venezuelan-American pianist Vanessa Perez. Mar 24, 3pm. $29 and up. Osher Marin JCC, 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael, 415.444.8000.

Sondheim Tonight Veteran cabaret vocalist Craig Jessup sings the songs of Stephen Sondheim accompanied by pianist Ken Muir, bassist Paul Eastburn and drummer Tommy Kesecker.

Mar 23, 8pm. $23-$33.

Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, 415.383.9600.

Tommy Castro & the Painkillers The "BB King Entertainer of the Year" and his band play two nights as part of their "Killing It Live" tour, with special guest Ron Thompson on Friday. Mar 22-23, 8:30pm. $25. Rancho Nicasio, 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio, 415.662.2219.

NAPA Matt Nathanson

San Francisco alternative songwriter tours with his latest album, "Sings His Sad Heart," and performs an acoustic show. Mar 22, 8pm. $34-$54.

Uptown Theatre, 1350 Third St, Napa, 707.259.0123.

Stroll Down Penny Lane

Live multimedia performance celebrates the music Paul McCartney with songs that span his career. Mar 23, 8pm. $35-$65. JaM Cellars Ballroom at the Margrit Mondavi Theatre, 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.880.2300.

Clubs & Venues SONOMA HopMonk Sebastopol Mar 22, Manzanita Falls.

Mar 23, Grateful Bluegrass Boys. Mar 25, DJ Smoky and Delwin G. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol, 707.829.7300.

HopMonk Sonoma Mar 22, Swingatto. Mar 23, Erica Sunshine Lee. 691 Broadway, Sonoma, 707.935.9100.

Lagunitas Tap Room

Mar 21, Todos Santos. Mar 22, Domenic Bianco & the SoulShake. Mar 23, Danny Montana & the Bar Association.

Mar 24, Third Rail Band. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma, 707.778.8776.

Murphy's Irish Pub & Restaurant Mar 22, John Burdick. Mar 25, Lynne O and King Daddy.

464 First St E, Sonoma, 707.935.0660.

Mystic Theatre & Music Hall

Mar 21, the Sam Chase & the Untraditional with the Soft White Sixties. Mar 22, Eli Young Band. Sold-out. Mar 23, Steve Poltz and Daniel Rodgriguez.

23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.775.6048.

The Phoenix Theater

Mar 22, Defecrator with Miasmic and Oneiric Eclipse.

201 Washington St, Petaluma, 707.762.3565.

Redwood Cafe

Mar 21, Faith Ako. Mar 22, Gary Nicholson. Mar 23, the Soul Section. Mar 24, Irish jam session. Mar 25, the Blues Defenders pro jam. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.795.7868.

Ruth McGowan's Brewpub

Mar 23, 6:30pm, Big Blue House. 131 E First St, Cloverdale, 707.894.9610.

Twin Oaks Roadhouse

Mar 21, Country Line Dancing.

Mar 22, Bloomfield Bluegrass Band. Mar 23, Crying Time. 5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove, 707.795.5118.

Whiskey Tip

Mar 23, Alien Hit Radio. 1910 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.843.5535.

MARIN 19 Broadway Nightclub

Mar 20, songwriters in the round with Danny Uzi. Mar 21, the Proxies. Mar 22, Martha Davis & the Motels. Mar 23, Soulbillies and DJ ADM. Mar 24, Rhythms & Rhymes.

17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax, 415.459.1091.

Sweetwater Music Hall

Mar 21, Kuinka and Caitlin Jemma. Mar 22-23, Zepparella.

Mar 24, 6:30pm, Liz Kennedy with Eamonn Flynn. Mar 27, Zenith Sunn feauring Eric Lindell and Anson Funderburgh. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.3850.

NAPA Andaz Napa

Mar 20, Zak Fennie. Mar 23, John Vicino. Mar 27, Vince Costanza. 1450 First St, Napa, 707.687.1234.

Blue Note Napa

Mar 20, Connie Han. Mar 21, Laura Dreyer & the Manhattan Rio Connection. Mar 22-23, Morgan James. Mar 24, 11am, Sunday Brunch with Mike Greensill. Mar 27, Jetblacq. 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.880.2300.

Art Openings SONOMA Graton Gallery

Mar 20-Apr 21, "Roshambo," juried show features works

Occidental Center for the Arts

Mar 22-Apr 7, "Wilder Bentley the Younger: A Retrospective," see a variety of his paintings, printmaking, poetry, stained glass, handmade books and more from the late renaissance man. Reception, Mar 23 at 3pm. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental. 707.874.9392.

NAPA Caldwell Snyder Gallery

Mar 23-Apr 23, "Standing Still," see the latest landscape paintings from Canadian artist Ross Penhall. Reception, Mar 23 at 4pm. 1328 Main St, St Helena. Open daily, 10 to 6.

707.200.5050.

Comedy Aiden Park

Touring comedian, actor and advice giver is originally from South Korea and now living in Los Angeles. Mar 23, 6pm. $20.

Flamingo Lounge, 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa, 707.545.8530.

The Bust Up Comedy Show

Featuring standup comedians Saul Trujillo, Josh Argyle and others. Mar 22, 8pm. $15.

Whiskey Tip, 1910 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.843.5535.

Roy Zimmerman: Rize Up

Funny songs about peace and justice satirizes the state of the world. Mar 21, 7pm. $20. dhyana Center, 186 N Main St, Sebastopol, 800.796.6863.

Events Consciously Creating Inner Peace & Wellness

Discover your natural inner resonance through sound, music, creativity and meditation. Mar 22, 7pm.

Songbird Community Healing Center, 8297 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.795.2398.

Hearts for Justice Gala Legal Aid of Sonoma County fundraiser is a glamorous evening featuring hosted bar, dinner, live and silent auction, music and dancing. Mar 23,

6pm. $135. Santa Rosa Golf & Country Club, 333 Country Club Dr, Santa Rosa, 707.542.1290.

Film

Parisian Rendezvous

CinemaBites

Enjoy French cuisine, winetasting, silent and live auctions, live entertainment

by Transcendence Theater Company and more. Mar 23, 6pm. $75. Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S High St, Sebastopol, 707.829.4797.

Portrait Party See yourself through the eyes of a variety of artists who take turns painting or sketching your portrait. Mar 21, 5pm. $10. Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S High St, Sebastopol, 707.829.4797.

ReVerberation Fire Circle Theater holds a festival featuring performance artists, improv and writing workshops and fine art displays.

Mar 23, 5pm. $10. Spreckels Performing Arts Center, 5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park, firecircletheater.org.

Spring Equinox Party Celebrate the return of spring with a spa party that will soothe and soak away the winter doldrums. Mar 20, 6pm. $25. Calistoga Motor Lodge & Spa, 1880 Lincoln Ave, Calistoga, 707.942.0991.

Women in Conversation Actress, comedia a social advocate for equity Tracee Ellis Ross speaks with two inspiring young local women. Mar 20, 6:30pm. $58. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.546.3600.

Field Trips Spring Equinox Celebration at Rancho Mark West Celebrate the season with activities for the children, potluck meal, guided hikes and a chance to lend a hand in the garden. Mar 24, 10am.

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What's in Bloom Walk Quarryhill executive director Bill McNamara leads a tour of the garden. Thurs, Mar 21, 10am. Free with admission.

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Documentary "Chef Flynn" screens with food from St Helena Montessori School culinary students and Napa Valley wines. Mar 25, 4:45pm. $45. Cameo Cinema, 1340 Main St, St Helena, 707.963.9779.

Hitchcock Film Festival

Seventh annual fest features two films from the master of suspense, "The Birds" and "Psycho" with beer, wine, food and raffle. Mar 23, 12pm. $6-$20.

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Community cinema series screens "The Providers," about healthcare providers in New Mexico struggling to combat the opioid epidemic. Mar 25, 1 and 7pm. Free. Rialto Cinemas, 6868 McKinley St, Sebastopol, 707.525.4840.

Israeli Film Festival

JCC Sonoma County presents two screenings of "The Amazing Journey," about Israeli TV chef Israel Aharoni and megastar Gidi Gov exploring the US. Mar 26, 1 and 7pm. $10-$14. Rialto Cinemas, 6868 McKinley St, Sebastopol, 707.525.4840.

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California Artisan Cheese Festival

Thirteenth annual event brings together cheesemakers, chefs, brewers, winemakers and turophiles for tasting, education and celebration. Mar 23-24. $25 and up. Sonoma County Fairgrounds, 1350 Bennett Valley Rd, Santa Rosa, artisancheesefestival.com.

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Shake off those winter blues with hot and delicious chilis from several Napa competitors.

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For Kids Clover Sonoma Family Fun Series Children’s book series "The Magic Tree House" is performed as a hip-hop musical, with pre-show arts and crafts projects. Mar 25, 6:30pm. $16-$21; ages 2 and under are $5. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.546.3600.

The longest-running magic show in the Bay Area features family-friendly sleight of hand and grand illusions. Mar 24, 2pm. $20-$25. Sebastiani Theatre, 476 First St E, Sonoma, 707.996.9756.

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Peanuts, Naturally

Kids can get in touch with their natural surroundings through hands-on activity and interactive science workshops hosted by Schulz Museum and Cameo Cinema. Mar 23, 1pm. Free. Masonic Building, 1331 Main St, St Helena, friendsofthecameo.org.

Scienceplosion

Mark Nizer performs an amazing array of juggling and comedy

that teaches and entertains all ages. Mar 27, 10:30am. $10; kids are free. Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater, 100 California Dr, Yountville, 707.944.9900.

Lectures Biology of the Laguna de Santa Rosa Gain deeper understanding and connection to our shared home environment. Preregistration required. Mar 26, 6pm. $14. Laguna de Santa Rosa Environmental Center, 900 Sanford Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.527.9277.

Crazy Love: The Romances of the Great Composers Historian and pianist Kayleen Asbo offers a series of lectures and recitals about some of the most passionate love affairs of the 19th century. Mon, 10:30am. Petaluma Historical Library & Museum, 20 Fourth St, Petaluma, 707.778.4398.

Let's Say Something

Join in an inspiring conversation with the artists from the exhibit, "See Something, Say Something," as they elaborate on their creative process and their profession. Mar 21, 6:30pm. $10-$15. Art Museum of Sonoma County, 425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa, 707.579.1500.

Readings Levin & Company

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Theater Encore

Justin-Siena Theatre marks its 50th anniversary with a celebration of musical theatre hits from across the decades. Through Mar 24. $25.

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Million Dollar Quartet

Hit Broadway musical tells the story of when Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley came together in a jam session in 1956. Through Mar 24. $38$48, $35 for ages under 30. 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.523.4185.

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Raven Players go on the road to premiere the raciallycharged drama written by local author Ron Nash. Through Mar 23. $15-$25. Hudson Street Wineries, 428 Hudson St, Healdsburg, 707.433.2364.

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Astrology For the week of March 20

ARIES (March 21–April 19) During the coming weeks, everything that needs to happen will indeed happen only if you surprise yourself on a regular basis.

So I hope you will place yourself in unpredictable situations where you won’t be able to rely on wellrehearsed responses. I trust that you will regard innocence and curiosity and spontaneity as your superpowers. Your willingness to change your mind won’t be a mark of weakness but rather a sign of strength.

TAURUS (April 20–May 20)

In the animated kids’ film Over the Hedge, 10 talking animals come upon a massive, towering hedge they’ve never seen.

The friendly group consists of a skunk, red squirrel, box turtle, two opossums and five porcupines. The hedge perplexes and mystifies them. It makes them nervous.

There’s nothing comparable to it in their previous experience. One of the porcupines says she would be less afraid of it if she just knew what it was called, whereupon the red squirrel suggests that from now on they refer to it as “Steve.” After that, they all feel better.

I recommend that you borrow their strategy in the coming weeks. If a Big Unknown arrives in your vicinity, dub it “Steve” or “Betty.”

GEMINI (May 21–June 20) I urge you to locate a metaphorical or very literal door that will give you access to a place that affords you more freedom and healing and support. Maybe you already know about the existence of this door—or maybe it’s not yet on your radar. Here’s advice from Clarissa Pinkola Éstes that might help. “If you have a deep scar, that is a door,” she writes. “If you have an old, old story, that is a door.

If you love the sky and the water so much that you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.”

CANCER (June 21–July 22) Musician Carole Kaye is the most famous bass guitarist you’ve never heard of. Over the course of five decades, she has plied her soulful talents on more than 10,000 recordings, including gems by Frank Zappa, Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra, Simon and Garfunkel, and the Beach Boys.

Twenty-seven-time Grammy winner Quincy Jones has testified that Kaye has written “some of the most beautiful themes I’ve ever heard in my life” and that she “could do anything and leave men in the dust.” I trust this horoscope will expand the number of people who appreciate her. I also hope you’ll be inspired to become more active in spreading the word about the gifts that you have to offer the world. It’s high time to make sure that people know more of the beautiful truth about you.

LEO (July 23–August 22) “When you want happiness, what are you wanting?” asks aphorist Olivia Dresher. The repeat of an event that made you feel good in the past? A sweet adventure you’ve thought about but never actually experienced? Here’s a third possibility. Maybe happiness is a state you could feel no matter what your circumstances are; maybe you could learn how to relax into life exactly as it is, and feel glad about your destiny wherever it takes you. In my opinion, Leo, that third approach to happiness will be especially natural for you to foster in the coming weeks.

VIRGO (August 23–September 22) There are old traditions in many cultures that pay special attention to the first brick or stone that is laid in the earth to initiate the construction of a future building. It’s called a cornerstone or foundation stone. All further work to create the new structure refers back to this original building block, and depends on it. I’m pleased to inform you that now is a favorable phase to put your own metaphorical cornerstone in place, Virgo. You’re ready to begin erecting a structure or system that will serve you for years to come. Be sure you select the right place for it, as well as the best building materials.

LIBRA (September 23–October 22) Born under the sign of Libra, Ivan Kharchenko (1918–1989) was a military officer and engineer for the Soviet army. His specialty was disarming explosive devices before they detonated. Over the course of his career, he defused an estimated 50,000 bombs and mines. Let’s make him your patron saint for the coming weeks. Why? Because I suspect you will be able to summon a metaphorical

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version of his power: an extraordinary capacity to keep volatile situations from blowing up. You’ll be a virtuoso at waging peace and preventing strife.

SCORPIO (October 23–November 21) There

was a time, less than a century ago, when pink was considered a masculine color and blue a feminine hue. In previous eras, many European men sported long hair, wore high heels, and favored clothes with floral patterns. Franklin D. Roosevelt, one of America’s most prominent 20th-century presidents, sometimes wore skirts and feather-bedecked hats as a child. With these facts as your keystone, and in accordance with astrological omens, I encourage you to experiment with your own gender expressions in the coming weeks. It’s prime time to have fun with the way you interpret what it means to be a man or woman—or any other gender you might consider yourself to be.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 21) According to estimates by population experts, about 109 billion humans have been born on planet Earth over the millennia. And yet I’m quite sure that not a single one of those other individuals has been anything like you. You are absolutely unique, an unmatched treasure, a one-of-a-kind creation with your own special blend of qualities. And in my prophetic view, you’re ready to fully acknowledge and celebrate these facts on a higher octave than ever before. It’s high time for you to own your deepest authenticity; to work with extra devotion to express your soul’s code; to unabashedly claim your idiosyncratic genius.

CAPRICORN (December 22–January 19) We don’t know as much about European history between the sixth and ninth centuries as we do about other eras. Compared to the times that preceded and followed it, cultural and literary energies were low.

Fewer records were kept. Governments were weaker and commerce was less vigorous. But historians don’t like to use the term “Dark Ages” to name that period because it brought many important developments and activities, such as improvements in farming techniques. So in some ways, “Lost Ages” might be a more apropos descriptor. Now let’s turn our attention to a metaphorically comparable phase of your own past, Capricorn, an era that’s a bit fuzzy in your memory, a phase about which your understanding is incomplete. I suspect that the coming weeks will be an excellent time to revisit that part of your life and see what new evidence and insights you can mine.

AQUARIUS (January 20–February 18) Why do some American libraries ban certain books, ensuring they’re unavailable to local readers? The reasons may be because they feature profanity or include references to sex, drug use, the occult, atheism and unusual political viewpoints. Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis is one of the most frequently censored books. Others are Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Beloved by Toni Morrison, and The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. In my astrological opinion, these are exactly the kinds of books you should especially seek out in the coming weeks. In fact, I suggest you commune with a variety of art and ideas and influences that are controversial, provocative and intriguing.

PISCES (February 19–March 20)

At the age of 97, Piscean cartoonist Al Jaffee is still creating new material for the satirical Mad magazine, where he has worked since 1964. There was one 63-year stretch when his comic stylings appeared in all but one of Mad’s monthly issues. I nominate him to be your role model during the next four weeks. It’s a favorable time for you to access and express a high degree of tenacity, stamina and consistency.

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