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Downward Mobility It’s obvious the culture of California is to eliminate low-income housing (“Trailer Park Blues,” Oct. 2). Mobile-home parks serve a viable solution to low-income housing, but no one wants to pass up making money for the rich developers.

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Smashing Failure “Rogers-Bennett doesn’t feel citizen groups without scientific permits should be tackling the restoration effort.” That’s because Rogers-Bennett failed in her efforts (“Urchin Matters,” Oct. 2). The Southern Californian groups have done this for years with no accidental spawning. So years of actual practice outweigh her theoretical lab theory. She is scared her work will be shown to be useless and her funding will dry up.

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By Tom Tomorrow

Oh, Henry! The 1964 movie Becket tells the story of two men: England’s King Henry II, a Norman, and his “loyal” compatriot, Thomas Becket, a Saxon—past sworn enemies. But now, Becket— appointed Lord Chancellor by the king—is his closest adviser in all matters. In an attempt to vanquish all political/ religious opposition and solidify power within his monarchy, King Donald, sorry, King Henry, appoints his friend, Becket, with little to no prior experience in these matters, as Archbishop of Canterbury. Sound familiar? Soon it becomes apparent there is a complexity beyond the ability of Rudy Giuliani, the Don’s consigliere, to handle. Republican capos take heed! The punishment of ex-communication (impeachment?) on the guilty party is Becket’s edict. Finally, in retaliation, King Henry asks his “loyal” barons, “can no one rid me of these meddlesome priests (aka ‘these treasonous savages of the impeachment inquiry committees’)?” Trump crossed many bridges in the last two and a half years in office, with little opposition from his own mob, despite flagrant disregard for existing statutes. This latest account now has him threatening “to make an offer that can’t be refused” to his “counterpart” in the Ukraine. Like King Henry, Trump tried to stack the deck, but failed to understand that political expediency and disregard for the rule of law will eventually fail and erode his support. It is simply too high a price to pay, both politically and morally for our nation. “History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes,” said Mark Twain (Watergate and Richard Nixon, 1974). Many questions regarding this latest inquiry require answers. But these important questions still remain: Will Congress find the courage, honor and integrity to decide which master it serves in this time of great peril to our democracy? Where are the Beckets willing to speak truth to this King?

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f someone forces you to participate in an unfair and unjust system under fear of financial or physical pain, that is called tyranny. This is exactly what is happening here in the Sonoma County cannabis industry. For many years the government has been calling me a criminal and trying to take away my freedom with illegal and vindictive prosecutions. They have broken many of the laws that they have lobbied to enact and have sworn to enforce. They’ve realized the futility and failure of their attempts at cannabis eradication in the country. Now they are trying a different approach through legislation. As our ag commissioner stated at a Ukiah gathering last year, “the government officials could not have come up with a better plan to force the small farmer out of the industry.” If you take away growers’ income from cannabis, they will need government assistance with housing, medical care and food. You can’t make a living in Sonoma County working at a $15 an hour job. Growing good cannabis requires an advanced skill-set—and we have that workforce already in place. There is a market for cannabis and it will be supplied by people in whatever county allows it. People will take great risks to survive and the government doesn’t seem to realize the consequences of their policies. Putting a lien on someone’s property is inviting litigation that is both expensive and counterproductive. Many have headed back to the hills where they can walk away unscathed. The head of the California Sheriff’s Association says it will take twenty years to figure out how to make Proposition 64 work. I say it’s already failing, and that it won’t work without significant cottage industry participation. The world knows about cannabis in the North Bay and we are letting government kill the golden goose of a healthy cannabis culture and industry. The big corporate players are not going to support our local communities beyond mandatory permit fees and taxes. All their profits will be going elsewhere. Car dealers, restaurants, shopping malls and all the businesses that make up the Sonoma County economy are already suffering because of the cruel and corrupt practices and policies around cannabis. Oaky Joe Munson lives in Forestville. We welcome your contribution. To have your topical essay of 350 words considered for publication, write openmic@bohemian.com.

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and the county planning agency have renewed calls for more dense developments in downtown cores near public transit. If Rohnert Park’s UGB is renewed, it will pressure the city into focusing on in-fill development —building on vacant or under-developed lots within city boundaries—rather than building outwards. Instead of fighting over one development at a time, the UGB lays down the rule all at once and, according to the measure’s supporters, there’s still plenty of developable land left within the UGB. “The UGB will not prevent the development of needed housing or new businesses, but it will keep new growth contained, surrounded by open space, hillsides and agricultural land,” an argument in favor of the measure signed by all five members of the Rohnert Park City Council states. “The UGB includes enough land to accommodate our carefully planned growth for at least 20 years.” Expect to see more UGBextension ballot measures or city council decisions in the coming years. The City of Sonoma’s UGB, passed by ballot measure in 2000, will expire on Dec. 31, 2020.

Four if by Fire VOTE! 2020’s on everyone’s mind but let’s not go there just yet.

Measure Up

Your handy guide to this year’s local measures and elections BY WILL CARRUTHERS

he big-ticket item in Sonoma County this election year is Measure B. Rohnert Park voters will consider a proposal to extend the life of the city’s Urban Growth Boundary until 2040.

Sonoma County adopted the boundary around the city, known as a UGB, for 20 years in July 2000. The UGBs have a special place in the history of Sonoma County’s environmental movement. In the late 1990s, multiple Sonoma County cities, including Santa Rosa, Healdsburg and

Rohnert Park created UBGs, which set a boundary to restrict urban sprawl development. They’ve pretty much worked out as planned. Under the Measure B proposal, the life of the boundary would be extended to July 2040. The renewal comes at a time when many Sonoma County cities

There are four measures to raise or extend funding mechanisms for fire districts around the county. If passed, several of the funding measures will allow several of the county’s allvolunteer fire departments to hire full-time firefighters. Backers argue this will increase the level of service in those communities.

Measure C – Occidental Community Services District This measure would raise an estimated $250,000 per year via parcel taxes on land within the Occidental Community Services District, the parent organization of the Occidental Fire Department, an all-volunteer district. The measures’ supporters argue

Measure D – Bodega Bay Fire Protection District Measure D would extend a special tax to fund the Bodega Bay Fire Protection District’s services for another four years. The tax, first approved in 2003, was renewed by ballot measure every four years thereafter.

Measure E – Gold Ridge Fire Protection District An effort to significantly boost funding for the all-volunteer district covering portions of the rural communities outside Sebastopol, Measure E would levy a parcel tax generating an estimated $1.2 million annually. “Our local fire department has reached a crossroads. Fire and emergency calls are increasing steadily, placing more demand on our limited services … Existing staffing levels are not meeting best coverage practices, and we are not retaining staff due to budget shortfalls,” the measure’s supporters state in an argument submitted to the county. On Sept. 9, the Gold Ridge Firefighters Association contributed $10,000 to a campaign committee supporting the measure, according to campaign finance documents filed with the county.

Measure F – Graton Fire Protection District With funding generated by Measure F, another proposed parcel tax, the all-volunteer Graton Fire Protection District could hire career firefighters for the first time in the district’s 70year life span. Faced with an increase in calls and

volunteer firefighters struggling to live due to the lack of affordable housing, the district’s current level of service “is not safe or sustainable,” according to an argument submitted to the county in favor of the measure. If passed, the parcel tax would generate an estimated $800,000 each year. The Graton Firefighters Association contributed $10,000 to campaign committee supporting the measure.

Forestville Water District Director Five water fanatics are running for three open seats on the district’s board of directors. Candidates Diane Hughes, chief business officer for the Forestville Unified School District, and Heather Aldridge, a forensic assistant, are outsiders. Matthew McDermott, Don Reha and Richard Benyo currently serve on the board.

Occidental Community Services District Director Four candidates are running for three open seats on the board of directors. Carol Schmitt, who works in clean energy marketing, is the only fresh face in the race. Candidates Ray Lunardi, Steven McNeal and Coy Brown are all incumbents.

Timber Cove County Water District Short Term Director Warren Doyle, an incumbent, faces off against Kris Kilgore, a retired water engineer, for a seat on Timber Cove’s water district’s board of directors.

‘F’ Scoop St. Helena, the idyllic Napa County town surrounded by vineyards and tourism-rich countryside, has a problem. The town of roughly six thousand is grappling, as many

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other North Bay cities are, with the task of housing a range of workers, retirees and tourists in a region of the world that is known for its ecological beauty and wine tourism. Although the problem isn’t new, it’s growing worse and, to many residents, Measure F, an expensive and contentious measure included on this summer’s special election, was an unfortunate set back to efforts to solve the housing problem. In June 2018, city staff issued a 33-page report outlining the scope of the housing problem and possible means of easing it. “The gap between housing supply and local workforce is so large now that there is no viable means for serving the entire need,” an introduction to the housing report states. Among the recommendations included in the report was enacting rent control on the 214-unit Vineyard Valley Mobile Home Park. The park, which is reserved for those above 55 years-old, is a valuable source of housing for seniors, according to the city. “Vineyard Valley provides both affordable senior housing but also opportunity for affordable homeownership and the stability that homeownership provides to a community. In order to ensure

preservation of this housing type in the community its preservation would need to be further incorporated into the city’s housing goals and a rent stabilization ordinance considered,” the city report states. Vineyard Valley, they report, is the only mobile home park in Napa County that does not have a rent stabilization ordinance. In November 2018, after several months of discussion, the city council narrowly approved a staffsuggested ordinance requiring Vineyard Valley units to either the annual cost of living increase or three percent of the base rent, whichever was lower. A representative of the park’s owners soon pushed back, gathering enough signatures to add the rent stabilization referendum on the June 2019 ballot. If the ballot measure — Measure F— failed to pass, the rent stabilization ordinance would not go into effect. The Western Manufactured Homes Association, an industry group for mobile home park owners, pumped cash into the Save Our St. Helena campaign opposing Measure F, hiring law firms and political consultants for help, according to political finance documents filed ) 10 with the state.

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Measure Up ( 9 Greg Reynolds, the managing member of the parks ownership group, filed a complaint in May with the state Fair Political Practices Commission, the state body that hears election-related arguments, alleging that the Yes campaign had violated election rules by failing to post proper disclaimers on its website, fliers and promotional videos. The complaint is currently under investigation by the FPPC’s investigations unit, according to Jay Wierenga, the commission’s communications manager. If the unit decides the complaint has merit, it will go to the FPPC for a final verdict. In an argument submitted to the city, the No campaign stated that Measure F would “force all residents of Vineyard Valley into a mandatory rent control that they don’t want and don’t need” and said that it would cost the city money to administer. For supporters, the measure was considered to be a crucial effort to maintain an affordable housing option for trailer park residents, especially in case the park is sold. “Our landlord corporation has not increased rents beyond [the current 3%] cap on any current tenants. But, they have taken sizeable increases in rents when houses are sold, 10% or more,” Michael Merriman, a member of Citizens for Secure Senior Housing, the group supporting Measure F, wrote in an email Last September, Reynolds told the Napa Valley Register that the park is “not for sale,” but Measure F supporters argued city action would provide them protection in case the park is sold. In the end, the no campaign won the race by 188 votes – 594 to 882. Campaign finance statements show that the No campaign spent $86,554 on the campaign, much of it going to law firms and political consultants. The mobile home park’s backers paid $97.92 per vote, while the Yes campaign spent $22.74 per vote, for a total of $13,232.70. The highdollar campaign left residents exhausted, but not defeated. Mayor Geoff Ellsworth,

who voted for the city council ordinance, says he was disappointed by F’s failure: “It was a chance for the community to come together.”. The owners of Vineyard Valley Mobile Home Park did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Although they aren’t always featured heavily in modern debates, mobile home parks have long been a source of affordable housing or home ownership. In California, mobile home tenants are often protected by forms of rent stabilization. But investment funds are increasingly viewing mobile home parks as lucrative real estate investments. For instance, Merriman says he joined the Measure F campaign in part because of news articles “illustrating the attractiveness of mobile home parks to predatory investors.” “I wanted protection from a future park sale and resultant substantial rent hikes,” Merriman says. In February, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project and two other affordable housing advocacy groups released a report outlining the rapid consolidation of mobile home park owners, as financial investment firms continue to buy up large numbers of parks across the country. “The top 50 manufactured housing community owners own around 680,000 home sites,” the report states. “With more than 150,000 home sites, private equity firms and institutional investors now control a substantial portion of manufactured home communities.” In some cases outlined in the report, a buyout can mean monumental rent hikes for mobile home renters. Judy Pavlick, a mobile-home tenant in Sunnyvale, told the authors of the report that, after the Carlyle Group bought her park, their rent was spiked by 7 to 8 percent, instead of the more modest 3 percent increases tenants were accustomed to. “The previous owners didn’t tell us that our community was for sale. It was just dropped on us like a bomb,” Pavlick says.

BREATHTAKING HenHouse Brewing’s Collin McDonnell lives his best life when he’s at beer festivals

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HenHouse Brewing hosts inaugural Freshtival beer fest BY CHARLIE SWANSON

he table on the patio of HenHouse Brewing Company’s Palace of Barrels tasting room in Petaluma already overflows with beer flights and fried chicken sandwiches when HenHouse co-founder Collin McDonnell comes out of the back with several additional cans—of the craft brewery’s signature IPA.

We’re here for a taste test, except that all three of the IPAs placed before us appear to be the exact same beer. Yet, appearances can be deceiving, and a closer look at the three cans reveals one small, but important, difference between them—the expiration date. Yes, HenHouse Brewing marks each of their cans with a best-by date, and it’s more than a suggestion. Best-by dates are a mantra for McDonnell and the staff at HenHouse—one that makes

freshness their top priority. That mantra is on full display this weekend when HenHouse Brewing hosts the first-ever “Freshtival” beer festival on Saturday, Oct. 12, at SOMO Village Event Center in Rohnert Park, in which more than 50 brewers pour over 100 lessthan-a-week-old beers, celebrating the flavorful power of fresh beer alongside live music, great food, a gallery of beer industry art, interactive freshness demos and more. But, back to the taste test.

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McDonnell first cracks open a five-day-old can of HenHouse IPA, then pops the tab on a threemonth-old can and finally opens a nine-month-old can. The differences in the flavor profiles are striking, with ripe notes of fruit and hops in the young can, and a stale, metallic flavor in the old can. “So much about what we do is shortening the chain between us and the beer drinker,” says McDonnell. To that effect, HenHouse employs a strict, 28day shelf-life policy for any beer it distributes to tap rooms or stores. “You can really tell that the beer tastes so much better in those first 28 days,” says McDonnell. “I think it’s super important for the consumer to drink 28-dayold beer. You can tell how much brighter and vibrant and more fun the hop flavor is in new beer.” McDonnell adds that the company’s 28-day shelf-life policy advocates for the consumer. “Life is actually better for the people drinking the beer if they get it in the first 28 days,” he says. “At 90 days it’s a muted and boring experience, and when we get to nine months old it’s sad and gross. The more it oxidizes (in the can), the beer’s hop flavors get grating and it’s super unpleasant. Even under the best treatment, nine-month-old beer is still not fun to drink.” HenHouse is not alone in this thinking; the entire craft beer industry has moved towards the fresh trend in recent years, meaning that the Freshtival comes at a perfect time for beer lovers. “It’s something that Bay Area Brewers Guild and us put our heads together and collaborated about,” says HenHouse account manager and Freshtival coorganizer Kristie Hubacker. “It’s a change in the industry, people are moving to packaged-on or drink-by dates, and you can see consumers checking that, you’ll see people in the aisles turning the cans, checking the dates—that is a growing trend.” Due to time constraints and travel logistics, the majority of breweries at the ) 12

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Freshtival will be Bay Area-based, with North Bay brewers like Barrel Brothers, Bear Republic, Cooperage Brewing, Crooked Goat, Iron Springs Brewing, Indian Valley Brewing, Russian River Brewing, Stone Brewing Napa and Third Street Aleworks getting in on the freshness. Other West Coast breweries are taking advantage of HenHouse’s distribution side of the business and utilizing the company’s cold transport system to get beers from as far away as Los Angeles and Washington State to the fest in less than a week. “We were not exclusive, any brewery from anywhere can come if they can bring beer that’s seven days or fresher,” says Hubacker. While there’s not exactly a competition for the freshest beer, HenHouse will use the event as

a means to further propel the craft beer scene into the era of freshness. For its part, HenHouse will release an “Art of Freshness” IPA at the event, which McDonnell says will be kegged that morning. They will also pour a “Mr. October” double-IPA and other signature releases packaged that week. “The Freshtival for us is about going out and making (freshness) a big deal in front of a lot of people,” says McDonnell. “Hopefully, it’s something we can do to not just make our beer better, but make beer better.” The ‘Freshtival’ beer festival takes place Saturday, Oct. 12, at SOMO Village, 1100 Valley House Dr., Rohnert Park. 1:30pm to 7pm. $20-$55. 21 and over. henhousebrewing.com/ thefreshtival.

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Capo Taste-o There’s something new cooking up at Capo Creek BY JAMES KNIGHT

t’s hard to imagine this corner of the world without Healdsburg.

But it was new to Mary Roy when, seeking a breather from an intense medical conference in San Francisco, she asked a hotel concierge where she could go to get off the beaten path, away from tourist-trammeled wine country. The answer was Healdsburg. Some years later, just after Mary and her husband, Bob Covert, fired their realtor after a pricey prospect fell through, their new realtor said, “Would you try looking in Healdsburg?”

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Hard as it is to imagine that a 50-acre parcel with a neglected oldvine Zinfandel vineyard, some rundown barns, and lots of potential, could still be found in 2014 in these parts, they found their dream property on Capo Creek. The little seasonal stream didn’t actually have a name, Mary explains while I sample a floral—but fleshy—2018 Grenache Blanc ($28), so they named it for the guitarist’s clamp, capo tasto. They’re big music fans, Mary explains, as the croon of the late Eva Cassidy wafts from the kitchen alongside savory scents. It’s not a random play from streaming music: they named the vineyard below the rustically landscaped tasting area Eva’s after one of Mary’s beloved recording artists, and named the new planting of Rhône varieties on the hill above the handsome barnstyle winery Eric’s, for his. While the vines grow, Capo Creek’s 2016 Grenache Noir ($52) is sourced from Carneros, but this cool and silky, mint-accented red is a standout rendition, sure to ease any worried mind. Bob and Mary’s dream-winery retirement project hit a few roadblocks along the way. It seems that wresting a building permit or two from the County is not the stuff of dreams. So, while Bob stays on in Chicago, where he’s a noted neonatologist, Mary runs the winery with the help of her sister, with whom she formerly founded a radiology service. “I don’t want to just be serving wine to people,” Mary says of her winery’s approach to hospitality. There is no tasting bar. She does like to cook, however, and serves up a tasty little pierogi to pair with the plush, estate-reserve Zinfandel ($52), which she farms with organic inputs, though not certified as such. “I’m a doctor, so I don’t do Roundup,” Mary says. It might be a good idea to upgrade from the one-hour tasting to the two-hour food pairing experience ahead of time. “People come here, and they never want to leave.”

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Charm City Healdsburg rounds out delights downtown BY CHARLIE SWANSON

oms love Healdsburg. And why not? The town centering Northern Sonoma County’s wine and tourism industry is as quaint as they come, with galleries, tasting rooms and all manner of gift shops lining a plaza so picturesque it feels like it could reside on Disneyland’s Main Street, U.S.A. It wouldn’t hurt the rest of us to see Healdsburg through mom’s eyes; to slow at the shop windows, stroll through the park and take time selecting samples at the ice

cream parlor. That’s just what this reporter did last weekend, and found all manner of art and fun for any age. Beginning at the Northwest

corner of the Healdsburg Plaza and moving clockwise, the first shop window to entice a closer look is the Ferrari-Carano’s Seasons of the Vineyard Wine Shop, located in the middle of Plaza Street. The boutique shop and wine bar features brightly colored seasonal home décor like the kitschy Gurgle Pot, a wine pitcher shaped like a fish, and ceramics—resembling Tuscon

tableware—by Virginia Casa. The boutique’s wine bar pours FerrariCarano and Lazy Creek Vineyards wines, with chocolate pairings available. The current showcase of art by British painter Sam Toft is a particular highlight, featuring a cartoonish character, Mr. Mustard, and his gaggle of pets embarking on various outings. The next stop is the Healdsburg Center for the Arts, located along

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the town’s narrowest sidewalk (what’s up with that?) a block east on Plaza Street. The nonprofit organization has promoted the arts through community education programs, events and exhibitions for over 25 years, and resided at its current location since 2002. The Sonoma Land Trust sponsors the current exhibit—a group show, “The Great Outdoors,” featuring over 20

artists displaying all manner of paintings, photographs and multimedia works depicting nature—in the center’s main gallery space. One artist is 15-year-old Santa Rosa resident Vijay Kareesan, whose artist statement, hanging next to two fine paintings, explains that he wants to sell paintings to help Sonoma and California fire victims, the Humane Society and St Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, among other causes. Kareesan may likely be a part of the Healdsburg Center for the Arts’ next exhibit as well, as the center’s “2019 Emerging Artists” show opens on Oct. 26. The exhibit is part of a larger Emerging Artist Sponsorship Program, in which, through the generous support of private donors, the HCA offers an opportunity for new emerging artists to regularly exhibit and sell their work at HCA as they learn

about the business of art and develop their resumes. The next shop on this plaza tour is Mr. Moon’s—a diverse gift, novelty, stationary and clothing store currently packed with masquerade masks and kids’ costumes as well as jewelry, bath and body works, and other accessories. The 26-year-old Healdsburg store on Center Street is actually the store’s second location, after Patty Timmsen opened the original Mr. Moon’s in Calistoga in 1982. Now, Patty runs the Healdsburg store with daughter Jessica, offering an ever-changing array of fun merchandise. A few doors down sits another family-owned and operated enterprise with a long history in Healdsburg—Levin & Company Bookstore. Founded by Adele Levin, her partner Jacquie Robb and her son Aaron Rosewater in 1991, the bookstore sells new

and used books, but also houses a selection of vintage vinyl, CDs, tapes, greeting cards and more. As an added bonus, the Upstairs Art Gallery shares space with Levin & Company, literally located on the mezzanine level at the back of the store. The gallery currently shows works by featured artist Susan Greer and Karen Miller. Greer’s “Conversations with Nature,” a collection of the North Bay native’s minimalist landscape paintings, reflects the calming quality of open spaces in Sonoma and Marin. Miller’s small works show, “Quiet Places: Sonoma County in Pastels,” also features contemplative and serene works. Both artists will attend their respective exhibit’s artist receptions, taking place on Saturday, Oct. 12, at 2pm with bites and local refreshments. South of the Plaza, art lovers must take in the Paul ) 16 Mahder Gallery on

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Healdsburg Avenue, which recently celebrated its five-year anniversary and which currently exhibits a “2019 Fall Salon” that features work from over 40 artists from around the world on display through November. Art comes in another form at the Hand Fan Museum, which displays hand fans of exquisite beauty from around the world and tells the story of femininity through the ages. Dads, of course, can and often do enjoy these same exhibits and offerings, and even if they don’t, there’s still Bear Republic Brewing Company. The Company’s original brewpub in downtown Healdsburg remains one of the region’s best casual spots for cold beer, burgers and other delicious fare. It even books brewery tours by appointment on Saturdays, and the relaxing outdoor beer garden is an oasis of chill vibes. Anyone can also enjoy the many meats and frozen custard of the Wurst Restaurant on Matheson Street, owned and operated by former touring musician and longtime Healdsburg resident Charles Bell, who revived his passion for cooking by opening the restaurant in 2011 after surviving late-stage throat cancer. Barbecue aficionados are sure to check out KINsmoke on Center Street, where longtime Sonoma County residents JC Adams and Brad Barmore combine their decades of restaurant work into an elevated barbecue experience. Finally, no trip to Healdsburg Plaza is complete without a stop into Noble Folk Ice Cream & Pie Bar, where the menu easily conquers even the most stubborn sweet tooth. Founded by Sonoma County natives Christian Sullberg and Ozzy Jimenez of Moustache Baked Goods, the parlor is dedicated to creating one-of-a-kind treats, but that’s just one aspect of the organization. Both Sullberg and Jimenez give back to the community through involvement in groups like nonprofit Positive Images, providing mental health support to LGBTQ+ youth, and the

Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative, which supports Latino entrepreneurs.

Other Healdsburg Highlights

The Raven Players

The resident theater company of the Raven Performing Arts Theater on North Street is a community theater that presents both family-friendly fare and challenging stage plays that reflect and celebrate the North Bay’s diverse community. Under artistic director Steven David Martin, the Raven Players just wrapped the classic dark comedy Arsenic & Old Lace, and they now change gears with the emotionally powerful drama, The Laramie Project, an examination of the horrifying hate-crime murder of Matthew Wayne Shepard in 1998 outside of Laramie, Wisconsin. While that crime rocked the world, the producers of the Laramie Project spent weeks in the town of Laramie gathering the very personal reflections of those closest to the crime, and The Laramie Project features 10 actors taking on over 30 roles of the locals, using their actual words. The Laramie Project runs Oct. 18–Nov. 3 at the Raven Theater. (Raventheater.org)

Alexander Valley Film Festival

Returning to Healdsburg, Geyserville and Cloverdale over four days, the fifth annual festival presented by the Alexander Valley Film Society once again screens feature-length, short and documentary films between Oct. 17 and Oct. 20. The AV Film Festival’s selection of films playing at the Raven Film Center on Center Street includes The Woman Who Loves Giraffes, a feature documentary about the world’s first “giraffologist,” Dr. Anne Innis Dagg; Parasite, the Cannes Palme d’Or-winning

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thriller from South Korean auteur Bong Joon Ho (Snowpiercer); Portrait of a Lady on Fire, a French romantic drama about an 18th-century female painter charged with painting a wedding portrait of a young woman; and Unsettled, a feature-length documentary that follows LGBTQ refugees and asylum seekers who fled their home countries due to persecution and who resettle in the U.S., which screens in a special, closing-night event. As always, the festival supports Alexander Valley Film Society’s ongoing, year-round educational and cultural programming that reaches over 5,000 North Bay residents and engages over 1,000 students. (avfilmsociety.org)

Art Trails in Healdsburg

For 35 years, Sonoma County Art Trails has invited the public to venture out on countywide, selfguided tours to visit artist studios and view their work. Beloved for providing direct access to art and those who make it, this year’s Art Trails, happening consecutive weekends on Oct. 12–13 and Oct. 19–20, features 140 artists opening their doors at locations

from Petaluma to Cloverdale, and Occidental to Boyes Hot Springs, including close to a dozen artists showing their art in Healdsburg. Stone sculptor T Barny creates works that beg for an explanation, with pieces that move with the graceful flow of a Mobius strip. Mixed-media painter MC Carolyn explores both cultural and natural history in works that combine stunning colors and intricate details. Large-scale abstract artist Sargam Griffin, born in Germany and now residing among the North Bay’s vineyards, celebrates local sights, light and consciousness with paintings composed of at least 40 layers of paint, varnish and resin. Jenny Lynn Hall also works in large abstract works, using plasters and oils to create works that bridge the gap between fine art and ornate decorative appeal. Sonoma County Art Trails also features Healdsburg artists Dana Hawley, Willow LaLandYeilding, Jamie L. Luoto, Nancy Morgan, Michael Rosen, Donna Schaffer and Robert Weiss. Studios are open 10am to 5pm, Oct. 12–13 and Oct. 19–20. Artist’s maps are available online. (sonomacountyarttrails.org)

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The Sonoma County Jewish Film Festival returns to the big screen this fall for its 24th year of culturally minded programming by bringing Jewish-themed films from around the world to the North Bay. The Jewish Community Center of Sonoma County presents the six-week fest; this year’s offerings include dramas, comedies, short films and an interactive screening of Fiddler on the Roof. The festival opens this week with a screening of the recent British biographical film, The Keeper, about the power of forgiveness and overcoming hate. Thursday, Oct. 10, at Rialto Cinemas, 6868 McKinley St., Sebastopol. 1pm, 7pm. $11–$14; $60–$78 season pass. Jccsoco.org.

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One of northern Sonoma County’s most prominent natural landmarks, Fitch Mountain, will soon become a park and open space preserve that includes 173 acres of natural splendor. Lend a hand to help the project in the process of developing a plan for public access for hiking and recreation at the upcoming Fitch Mountain Forever, a daylong fundraiser and festive party that includes family activities, barbecue, live music, hikes and other presentations and entertainment. The fundraiser commences on Sunday, Oct. 13, at Villa Chanticleer, 900 Chanticleer Way, Healdsburg. 11:30am. $25–$30, $40–$45 for a family of four; kids 12 and under are free. Fitchmountainfund.org.

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Native Heroes

In the late 1990s, comic book artists Jon Proudstar and Ryan Huna Smith created a team of never-before-seen superheroes—Tribal Force—composed entirely of Native American characters. Other Native American-focused comics made their way into the mainstream in the following years. Now, SRJC hosts an exhibit, “Beyond Stereotypes: Native Americans Rewrite the Comic Book Universe,” which features original work by local Kashia Pomo artist Eric Wilder and graphic novelist Arigon Starr. The exhibit opens with a reception on Tuesday, Oct. 15, at the Jesse Peter Multicultural Museum, 1501 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa. 3pm. Free. Museum.santarosa.edu.

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Inspired Art

At the age of 12, Bessma Khalaf left her home in her native Iraq and emigrated to California just as the Iraq/Iran war ended and the first Gulf War began. Now an interdisciplinary artist based in Oakland, Khalaf’s past inspires her present work, and her experimental landscape artworks—created through a process of melting, smashing or otherwise degrading her art materials—reflect a sense of rebuilding after enduring destruction. Khalaf speaks on her life and work as part of the Oxbow School Visiting Artist Lecture series on Tuesday, Oct. 15, at CIA at Copia, 500 First St., Napa. 7pm. Free. Oxbowshool.org.

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The Alien

SCARY MOVIE Ridley Scott’s original ‘Alien’ returns to the big screen this month.

Don’t Scream Revisiting ‘Alien’ at 40 BY THOMAS BRODERICK

might never have been born if it weren’t for one of my favorite films.

Let me explain. My parents worked together in San Francisco for a few years before dating in secret to avoid office gossip. They watched their

first film together as a couple in May, 1979, at a theater in Corte Madera. The lead actress, a nobody, had only one prior credit—as an extra in Annie Hall. The simple sets included bomber-plane parts left over from World War II, Christmas lights and cathode-ray television sets.

The even-simpler plot had been repeated a million times before: a spaceship crew, led by Sigourney Weaver, encounters a monster and fights for survival. But the monster my parents— and millions of other moviegoers— first met in 1979 never left our collective unconscious.

As Alien celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, I’ve thought a lot about both the movie and the creature that enthralled and terrified me as a kid. After three sequels, two prequels and two tieins with the Predator franchise, it’s hard for viewers to remember pre-1979 sci-fi aliens; the Alien changed the genre forever. Beginning with H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds, just about every alien depicted in literature, film and television possessed either an intelligence or motivation people understood. Possessed with “intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic,” Wells’ Martians “regarded earth with envious eyes.” In the following decades, these and other “bad” aliens were either highly intelligent menaces or zoo creatures on the loose. The Alien, however, was completely different—primal, dangerous and, as science officer Ash states near the film’s end, pure. It didn’t even need eyes to pick off the Nostromo’s crew one by one. The Alien possessed a Freudian nightmare of a lifecycle that combined rape, birth and a whole lotta phallic imagery—it wasn’t what hid in the shadows, it was the shadows. It wasn’t something to fear, it was fear. The Alien as we know and love it resulted from two problems screenwriter and USC grad Dan O’Bannon encountered while writing the screenplay’s first draft. Firstly, in similar films, the alien always entered the spacecraft through a ridiculous plot device such as someone forgetting to close a hatch. Secondly, O’Bannon received a diagnosis of Crohn’s Disease, a condition that led to his death in 2009. Feeling as if your guts are tearing apart from the inside out is one of Crohn’s main symptoms. ) 20

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So, O’Bannon wondered, what if the creature entered the ship inside someone and then burst its way out of them? “The thing emerges” are three words from the Alien script that describe the day the film’s cast entered the set—the spaceship Nostromo’s dining room—and found the cameras wrapped in plastic and the air heavy with the stench of animal blood and formaldehyde. Two puppeteers, two technicians manning plungers full of all that nasty fluid, and most of actor John Hurt’s body—only his arms and head were visible—hid beneath the dining room table. The rest of his “body” above the table consisted of dummy legs and a chest cavity filled to the brim with rotting cow parts and the “chestburster” puppet. The scene, from the chestburster’s bloody entrance to its now-famous scurry offset, lasts only 25 seconds. But those 25 seconds are a master class in how to make actors perform genuinely in spite of them knowing everything that is going to happen well in advance. Veronica Cartwright, no stranger to horror since her days as a child actor in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, let out a genuine scream of mixed horror and disgust. And from that iconic moment on, monster movies, sci-fi movies and horror movies were never the same. From Oct. 13-16, North Bay cinemas celebrate the 40th anniversary of Alien with special showings: Century Napa Valley (195 Gasser Drive, Napa), San Rafael Regency 6 (280 Smith Ranch Road, San Rafael) and The Clover (121 E. First Street, Cloverdale). Reserve your tickets online by visiting Fathom Events. If you’re one of the few people who never saw Alien, I envy you. And if you can’t wait until later this month to view it on the big screen, do yourself a favor and watch it in a pitch-black room late at night with the sound turned way up. It’s an old movie, you might tell yourself. CGI didn’t even exist back then. How could it be scary? I won’t lie to you about your chances of surviving the ordeal, but . . . you have my sympathies.

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LADY IN RED Carmen Mitchell

takes a star turn in 6th Street Playhouse’s ‘Gypsy.’

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Broadway star plays on 6th Street stage BY HARRY DUKE

n sports, the term “ringer” generally refers to the practice of using a clearly superior competitor to gain an unfair advantage. In theatrical terms, it describes the importation of outside talent in the hope of drawing a largerthan-normal audience. Both scenarios hope that the player/performer hits it out of the park. Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse cast a ringer—in the person of Kathy Fitzgerald—in Gypsy, running through Oct. 20. A successful character actress with featured roles in several Broadway hits (Wicked, The Producers), Ms. Fitzgerald takes on the challenging lead role of Momma

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Rose in what many consider the greatest American musical. Momma Rose stops at nothing to make her daughter “Baby” June (Gigi Bruce-Low) a star, keeping her perpetually young as they cross the country with a third-rate vaudeville act. When the grown up “Dainty” June (Melody Payne) tires of the child act and elopes with one of the young men from the troupe, Momma Rose turns her sight to frequently dismissed second daughter Louise (Cecilia Brenner, then Carmen Mitchell). With vaudeville dying, they appear at a low-rent theatre that turns out to be a burlesque house. With the main “attraction” unable to perform, Momma Rose sees the chance to make Louise a star, if only for a night. The shy and retiring Louise soon becomes Gypsy Rose Lee. The classic Jule Styne/Stephen Sondheim score complements the book by Arthur Laurents with such classics as “Let Me Entertain You,” “Together Wherever We Go,” “You Gotta Get a Gimmick” and “Everything’s Coming Up Roses.” Director Jared Sakren got a “two-fer” with the casting of Ms. Fitzgerald, who is joined onstage by her husband Roger Michelson in the role of Herbie, the harried agent hopelessly in love with Rose. Michelson’s performance is quite good and often the emotional heart of the show. Mitchell also shines as the coming-into-her-own Louise. Spotty production values keep the show visually flat until late in the second act, when bright costuming by Pamela Johnson and lighting by April George elevate the show. The same can be said for Ms. Fitzgerald’s performance. To return to sports parlance, she spent most of the show hitting singles and doubles and didn’t really get a great at-bat until the show’s conclusion with “Rose’s Turn.” It was a solid triple. Rating (out of 5):

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o 23andme on Todd Phillips’ Joker, and you might find most of the DNA stems from two Martin Scorsese films, Taxi Driver (1976) and King of Comedy (1983). But what if Joker was instead a movie about a man imploding instead of exploding, a man with laughing sickness, stuck in the worst city in the world? There’d be no “cathartic violence” to let wretched Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) pass for anything but a doomed antihero.

Budget cuts in Gotham City’s mental health program end Arthur’s prescriptions for seven different medicines. He nurses his shut-in mother Penny (Francis Conroy) and works at a rent-a-clown agency with other grim types—“Another day in Chuckleberg!” one says. He signspins, or prances in a cancer ward in front of bald kids. He collects gags in a notebook: “Why are poor people so confused? They don’t have any cents.” All bruised skin and bones, with unwashed splotches of greasepaint

on his jaw, Arthur’s garish, 1970sera wardrobe would look clownish on anyone. His fat lips, the bulbous nose, the black-ringed eyes all but say, “Laugh at this stupid bastard.” On the grounds of the Wayne Manor, Arthur’s performance skills interest little Bruce Wayne (Dante Pereira-Olson), who lures him close and uses his fingers to draw the stunned child’s mouth into a rictus smile. It’s all part of Arthur’s transformation into a slow-dancing death clown, culminating with the film’s most lyrical sequence, a soft-shoe down a littered, ominous staircase. Phoenix’s maniac is never boring, always revealing new layers of suffering. When he finally finds his way as the Joker, his voice is neither young nor old, but pedantic—like a put-upon 12-year-old. Among the last images is a tableau familiar from this saga: a little boy in a filthy alley, standing between the bodies of his two parents. As staged here, it leaves us with no hope, no premonition of dashing Bat-adventure. All that can come after this is just a feedback loop of senseless loss and suffering. ‘Joker’ is playing in wide release.

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ne of Healdsburg’s favorite watering holes and the busiest stage in town, the Elephant in the Room first opened its doors in early 2018. Now it boasts live music an average of four to five nights a week. That’s due to co-founder KC Mosso, a Healdsburg native, musician, booker and occasional bartender who’s hosted shows and booked bands to play in North Sonoma County since the 1990s. Under Mosso’s command, the Elephant in the Room, which also boasts an impressive selection of craft beer and food, became a focal point of local music, and the number of touring bands who stop into the room keeps steadily increasing.

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Elephant in the Room Oct 11, Mike Saliani Band. Oct 12, the Hawthorns. Oct 13, 6pm, Lost Ox. 177-A Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, elephantintheroompub.com.

Fern Bar Oct 11, Shapeshifters. Oct 12, DJ Bankshot. Oct 13, Hell and the High Water. Oct 16, Jason Bodlovich albumrelease show. 6780 Depot St, Suite 120, Sebastopol, 707.861.9603.

First Presbyterian Church Oct 11, North Bay Sinfonietta. 1550 Pacific Ave, Santa Rosa. music.santarosa.edu.

Green Music Center Weill Hall Oct 10, Sonoma State University Jazz Day. Oct 13, 3pm, The Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble. Oct 15, the United States Marine Band. 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

HopMonk Sebastopol Oct 10, Niki J Crawford. Oct 11, An-Ten-Nae with LowRIDERz. Oct 14, Xander. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol, 707.829.7300.

HopMonk Sonoma Oct 11, Timothy O’Neil. Oct 12, Matt Santry. Oct 13, 1pm, Smorgy. 691 Broadway, Sonoma, 707.935.9100.

Mystic Theatre & Music Hall Oct 10, Rising Appalachia with Raye Zaragoza. Oct 11, Dirtwire and Gabby La La. Oct 12, Son Volt with Peter Bruntnell. Oct 13, KRS-One and UnLearn the World. Oct 16, Gaelic Storm. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.775.6048.

Redwood Cafe Oct 10, the Western Swing Caravan. Oct 11, Burrows and Dilbeck album-release show. Oct 12, Hot Grubb albumrelease show. Oct 13, Irish jam session. Oct 14, the Blues Defenders pro jam. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.795.7868.

Sebastopol Center for the Arts Oct 12, Nina Gerber and Chris Webster. 282 S High St, Sebastopol, 707.829.4797.

Sebastopol United Methodist Church Oct 13, 3pm, a Harvest of Music. 500 N Main St, Sebastopol, 707.823.7971.

Spicy Vines Tasting Room Oct 12, Jeff Pierce Trio. 441 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, 707.927.1065.

Whiskey Tip Oct 12, “the Juke” with Kayatta, Above Average and Simone Mosely. 1910 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.843.5535.

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Oct 10, Brendan James. Oct 1112, Billy Cobham’s Crosswinds Project featuring Randy Brecker. Oct 16, fire relief fundraiser with the Terry Family Band. 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.880.2300.

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Oct 13, 3pm, Rob Watson and friends featuring Vernon Black. 1207 Foothill Blvd, Calistoga, 707.942.5605.

Oxbow RiverStage

Oct 13, 4pm, Sundays on the Green with Sean Hayes. Free. 1268 McKinstry St, Napa, oxbowriverstage.com.

Art Opening Graton Gallery

Oct 12-Nov 10, “Outside In & Sight Poems,” see two exhibits by Bruce K Hopkins and Chris Cheek, with guest artists. Reception, Oct 12 at 2pm. 9048 Graton Rd, Graton. 707.829.8912.

Jesse Peter Multicultural Museum

Oct 15-Dec 19, “Native American Comic Book Artists Exhibit,” features original artwork by Native American artists and comics from the past that portray Native American characters. Reception, Oct 15 at 3pm. SRJC, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.527.4479.

University Art Gallery

Oct 10-Dec 8, “Picturing Philanthropy,” features selections from the SSU Art Collection. Reception, Oct 10 at 4pm. Sonoma State University, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park. 707.664.2295.

Upstairs Art Gallery

Oct 12-27, “Conversations with Nature,” Susan Greer presents a collection of minimalist landscape paintings, with Karen Miller’s pastels in a small works showcase. Reception, Oct 12 at 2pm. 306 Center St, Healdsburg. 707.431.4214.

Comedy Lisa Pedace

Comedian has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and across the country. Oct 11, 6:30pm. $20-$28. Charles

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Events Blind Scream Haunted House

Annual Halloween tradition this year features a new witch house, a horror fun house and other thrills. Oct 11-31, 7pm. $15-$35. Formerly Sears Auto Center at Santa Rosa Plaza, 98 Santa Rosa Plaza, Santa Rosa, 707.837.1928.

Fitch Mountain Forever Fundraiser

Afternoon features barbecue lunch, live music, guided hike, children’s activities, auction and more. Oct 13, 11:30am. $25-$40; kids under 12 are free. Villa Chanticleer, 900 Chanticleer Way, Healdsburg, fitchmountainfund.org.

Shone Farm Fall Festival

Family friendly event celebrates the farm with children’s games and activities, displays, a tasty lunch and more. Oct 12, 10am. Free admission. Shone Farm, 7450 Steve Olson Ln, Forestville, 707.535.3707.

Sonoma County Art Trails

Enjoy the abundance of creative talent in Sonoma County by visiting professional artist studios. Maps and catalogs available online. Oct 12-13. Sonoma County. sonomacountyarttrails.org.

VikingFest

Family-friendly event features Viking reenactments, cultural demonstrations, Taste of Norway lunch, Scandinavian vendors, live music, homemade baked goods and more Oct 12, 10am. Free admission. Sons of Norway Hall, 617 W Ninth St, Santa Rosa, freyalodge.org.

Field Trips Autumn Writing Walk Sonoma State University’s Center for Environmental Inquiry leads an outing. Reservations required. Oct 13,

Weekend Along the Farm Trails

Sonoma County farmers open their gates and barn doors to offer a behind-the-scenes peek at life on the farm. Oct 1213, 10am. Free. Sonoma County farms, various locations, Sonoma, farmtrails.org.

Film Gay Chorus Deep South

Sonoma International Film Festival presents the new documentary, with Q&A and the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus in performance. Oct 13, 2pm. $25. Sebastiani Theatre, 476 First St E, Sonoma, 707.996.9756.

Sonoma County Jewish Film Festival

Popular fall fest opens its 24th season with award-winning film “The Keeper,” about forgiveness and unity. Oct 10, 1 and 7pm. Rialto Cinemas, 6868 McKinley St, Sebastopol, 707.525.4840.

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Documentary on classic Bay Area “Creature Features” late night series screens with special guests on hand. Oct 11, 8pm. Roxy Stadium 14 Cinemas, 85 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.525.8909.

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Female-focused roundtable conversation is centered around enrichment and empowerment. Oct 11, 1pm. $225. Hall Wines, 401 St Helena Hwy S, St Helena, 707.967.0700.

Oxbow School Visiting Artist Lecture

Iraq-born and Oakland-based artist Bessma Khalaf talks about her life and work. Oct 15, 7pm. CIA at Copia, 500 First St, Napa, 707.967.2530.

Readings Napa Copperfield’s Books

Oct 12, 5pm, “24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week” with Tiffany Shlain. 3740 Bel Aire Plaza, Napa 707.252.8002.

Occidental Center for the Arts

Oct 13, 3pm, “Helen’s Crusade” with Trula LaCalle. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental 707.874.9392.

Readers’ Books

Oct 10, 5:30pm, “The Lifelong Gardener” with Toni Gattone. Oct 16, 6:30pm, “We Rocked, We Rolled, We Opened” with Alain Piallat. 130 E Napa St, Sonoma 707.939.1779.

Theater Daniel Cainer’s Weird & Wonderful Jewish Midlife Crisis

British songwriter, broadcaster and musical storyteller brings his multimedia show to the North Bay. Oct 12, 7:30pm. $25-$35. Congregation Ner Shalom, 85 La Plaza, Cotati, 707.664.8622.

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

Musical dark comedy makes its North Bay premiere. Oct 11-27. $10-$34. Spreckels Performing Arts Center, 5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park, 707.588.3400.

Instructions for Underground Movements

The Imaginists present an art and performance installation with artists working in various mediums. Oct 11-12, 7:30pm. The Imaginists, 461 Sebastopol Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.528.7554.

Luna Gale

A social worker and two drugaddicted teenage parents cross paths in the heartbreaking and unforgettable tale. Oct 11-27. $20-$32. Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.763.8920.

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new, cannabisdevoted “institution of higher learning” is coming to Santa Rosa. “The Galley” will serve as a major center for the co-manufacture and distribution of cannabis in Northern California. “Our mission is to create a cannabis campus,” says Annie Holman, the Galley’s public face. “We have efficient equipment. We’ll be able to produce high-end cannabis products.” For years, North Coast Fisheries occupied the 8,300-square-foot space on Sebastopol Road. Now the icon for the Galley—a red-headed mermaid with a marijuana leaf—is the only thing fishy about the space. Nancy Birnbaum, the director of Women’s Cannabis Business Development (WCBD) and the publisher of Sensi magazine, says, “I love the idea of the Galley as a cannabis campus that will help educate the community and a place

where people will be able to learn about health and wellness.” “There’s already a big demand for space at our campus,” Holman says. “A lot of mom-and-pop operations were knocked out of the market because they couldn’t afford to pay for licenses, rent or buy a building, and purchase equipment. We’ll help them get back in business, survive and thrive.” Holman knows cannabis works. She suffered back pain and insomnia in the 1980s. “I was using too much Advil and sleeping medications,” she says. “I tried CBD and THC and it made a profound difference in my life. I started to sleep again.” Holman partners with two people at the Galley: Gina Pippin, the CEO, and another woman who wants to fly under the radar for the time being. The company secured authorization from Santa Rosa, and now Holman waits while the city issues an occupancy permit, which will secure a license from the California Department of Public Health. Holman expects Santa Rosa to become a major hub in the Northern California cannabis world. “At our event center, we’d like to host Sonoma County cannabis groups, organizations and businesses, as well as health and wellness seminars,” Holman says. “We want people to hang out and share their expertise. We want to learn.” The Galley will employ more than 20 people, most of them skilled bakers, chocolatiers and candymakers. Employees will receive health benefits and a living wage. “We have not done much advertising,” Holman says. “Word-ofmouth and our presence at cannabis events seems to be the way to go.” The Galley intends to start operations before the end of the year. Maybe you’ll want to go back to school and continue your education at Santa Rosa’s own cannabis campus. Jonah Raskin is the author of Marijuanaland and Dark Day, Dark Night and has story credit for the movie Homegrown.

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Cavafy's poem "Waiting for the Barbarians" imagines the imminent arrival of an unpredictable agent of chaos. "The barbarians are coming today," declares the narrator. Everyone in town is uneasy. People's routines are in disarray. Faces look worried. What's going to happen? But the poem has a surprise ending. "It is night, and the barbarians haven't come," reports the narrator. "Some people have arrived from the frontier and say that there aren't any more barbarians." I propose that we use this scene as a metaphor for your life right now, Taurus. It's quite possible that the perceived threat isn't really a threat. So here's my question, taken from near the end of the poem: "What are we going to do now without the barbarians?"

prefer the term "wonder tales" rather than "fairy tales." Indeed, many such stories are filled with marvelous events that feature magical transformations, talking animals, and mythical creatures like elves and dragons and unicorns. I bring this up, Gemini, because I want to encourage you to read some wonder tales. Hopefully, as you do, you'll be inspired to re-imagine your life as a wonder tale; you'll reframe the events of the "real world" around you as being elements in a richly entertaining wonder tale. Why do I recommend this? Because wonder tales are like waking dreams that reveal the wishes and curiosities and fascinations of your deep psyche. And I think you will benefit profoundly in the coming weeks from consciously tuning in to those wishes and curiosities and fascinations.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): I suspect that in the coming days you'll be able to see into everyone's souls more vividly than usual. You'll have a special talent for piercing through the outer trappings of their personalities so as to gaze at the essence beneath. It's as if your eyes will be blessed by an enhancement that enables you to discern what's often hidden. This upgrade in your perception may at times be unsettling. For some of the people you behold, the difference between how they present themselves and who they actually are will be dramatic. But for the most part, penetrating to the depths should be fun, enriching, even healing. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "This heart is rusty," writes poet Gabriel Gadfly. "It creaks, it clanks, it crashes and rattles and bangs." Why is his heart in such a state? Because he has been separated from a person he loves. And so he's out of practice in doing the little things, the caring gestures and tender words, that a lover does to keep the heart well-oiled. It's my observation that most of us go through rusty-heart phases like this even when we are living in close proximity to an intimate ally. We neglect to practice the art of bestowing affectionate attention and low-key adoration. We forget how important it is for our own welfare that we continually refresh and reinvigorate our heart intelligence. These are good meditations for you right now, Leo. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired," writes novelist Chuck Palahniuk. I agree! And that's a key meditation for you right now. Your assignment is to enhance and upgrade the inspiration you feel about the activities that are most important to you—the work and the play that give you the sense you're living a meaningful life. So how do you boost your excitement and motivation for those essential actions you do on a regular basis? Here's a good place to begin: visualize in exuberant detail all the reasons you started doing them in the first place.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I hope you are embarking on a vigorous new phase of selfredefinition. I trust you are excited about shedding old ways of thinking about yourself and eager to revise and re-imagine the plot of your life story. As you do, keep in mind this helpful counsel from physicist Richard Feynman: "You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing." SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You've probably

heard the saying, "Genius is 99 percent perspiration and one percent inspiration." It's often attributed to inventor Thomas Edison. Sixteenth-century artist Michelangelo expressed a similar idea. "If you knew how much labor went into it, you would not call it genius," he said about one of his masterpieces. I'm guessing that you Scorpios have been in a phase when these descriptions are highly apropos. The work you've been doing may look productive and interesting and heroic to the casual observer, and maybe only you know how arduous and exacting it has been. So now what do you do? I say it's time to enjoy the fruits of your efforts. Celebrate! Give yourself a thrilling gift.

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universe is under no obligation to make sense to you," declared astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. If that's even a little bit true, I bet you won't believe it in the coming weeks. According to my analysis, the universe will make a great deal of sense to you—at times even exquisite, beautiful, breathtaking sense. Life will be in a revelatory and articulate mood. The evocative clues coming your way about the nature of reality could tempt you to believe that there is indeed a coherent plan and meaning to your personal destiny.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 2005, Facebook was a start-up company barely on the map of the internet. Its president asked graffiti artist David Choe to paint murals on the walls of its headquarters. Choe asked for $60,000, but the president convinced him to be paid with Facebook stock instead. Years later, when Facebook went public, Choe became a multi-millionaire. I suspect that in the coming months you will be faced with choices that are less spectacular than that, Capricorn, but similar and important. My conclusion: Be willing to consider smart gambles when projects are germinating. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "Experiment is the sole source of truth," wrote philosopher and polymath Henri Poincaré. "It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty." He wasn't merely referring to the kinds of experiments that scientists conduct in laboratories. He was talking about the probes and explorations we can and should carry out in the course of our daily lives. I mention this, Aquarius, because the coming days will be prime time for you to do just that: ask provocative questions, initiate novel adventures, and incite fun learning experiences. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In my opinion, Piscean singer, poet, and actor Saul Williams produces high-quality art. So he has earned a right to critique mediocre art. In speaking about movies and TV shows that are hard to enjoy unless we dumb ourselves down, he says that "we have more guilty pleasure than actual f------ pleasure." Your assignment in the coming weeks, Pisces, is to cut back on your "guiity pleasures"—the entertainment, art, and socializing that brings meager returns—as you increase and upgrade your actual f------ pleasure. Go to REALASTROLOGY.COM to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. Audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1.877.873.4888.

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