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What’s so fanatical about devout anti-slaver John Brown, asks Louis A. DeCaro Jr.

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Well, I guess “fanatically religious” is better than the old hackneyed “fanatically violent” notion. What made John Brown “fanatically religious” (“On Trial,” Aug. 22)? Because he actually believed that applying the Golden Rule was a logical application of his religion? Because he was a traditional Protestant? So were many people in that generation. His counterpart, Stonewall Jackson, was no more devout a Protestant than John Brown, but no one calls him “fanatically religious.” I guess some folks feel that religion is not meant to be taken seriously by believers, and anyone who does is fanatical. John Brown just can’t get a break. Louis A. DeCaro Jr. Via PacificSun.com

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In response to the “Heroes & Zeroes” column on Aug. 1, which described a Sausalito store owner calling the police on an African-

American family: I would ask that the Sausalito community (including businesses, residents, elected officials and agencies) see this incident as an opportunity to have a serious conversation about racial justice. I live in Sausalito and own a business here. We can’t just say that this incident was an aberration. It happened. And, yes, it’s complicated. It’s also very straightforward. This incident can become the catalyst for meaningful change, if we view it that way. I encourage our community to embrace the discomfort of having difficult conversations about race so that we can collectively manifest a different outcome, one where we have heroes, not zeroes. Lisa Bennett Via PacificSun.com

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What married environmental artists, known for constructing extensive outdoor spaces, ran an 18-foot-tall white nylon fence for 21 miles across Marin and Sonoma counties in 1976?

In the 1860s, nearly half of the Russian government’s revenue came from the sale of what consumable product?

3. What recent U.S. president’s middle name was an early president’s last name? 4. What animals are more likely to be male west of the Mississippi River and

female east of the Mississippi?

5. Which two countries come closest to the Rock of Gibraltar? 6. What plant has the largest seed? 7. What unit in physics is named after the Italian physicist who developed

the electric battery in 1800?

Pop musician Cyndi Lauper wrote the 15-song score for what 2013 Broadway musical that won six Tony Awards?

What company in 1896 introduced this revolutionary new product: the first toothpaste sold in a tube?

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Every year in June, Queen Elizabeth attends what horseracing event near Windsor Castle that dates back to 1711? BONUS QUESTION: A nationally famous 70-year-old teacher-philosopher was put on trial in 399 B.C.E. and sentenced to death by Greek authorities.

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Heroes &Zeroes By Nikki Silverstein

The “Crookedest Railroad in the World” opened in 1896 and transported tourists from downtown Mill Valley to the Tamalpais Tavern on top of Mt. Tam for almost 35 years. The eight miles of track wound around 281 curves and offered stunning vistas of San Francisco. In 1920, a new steam locomotive, Heisler Engine No. 9, manufactured in Pennsylvania, joined the railroad. Business waned after the advent of roads for automobiles, and No. 9 was sold. It changed hands several times and ended up on display outside the Pacific Lumber Company in Humboldt County. The historic locomotive went to auction last year and a Marin group called Friends of No. 9 placed the winning bid of $56,240. The deadline to move the engine is looming, and the Friends need some Heroes to step up and make donations. Send funds earmarked for No. 9 to the Mill Valley Historical Society, 375 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941. Hallie and her leashed dog were on their morning walk on the Dan Abraham Trail in San Rafael, and she stopped for a chat with a woman. The trio took up about half of the trail. Unbeknownst to Hallie, the Tamalpa Runners, a Marin County running club, was holding its monthly race on the same pathway. When a male racer approached and asked her to get her dog off the trail, she began to pull her stubborn dog away from him. “Come on,” the runner said. “It’s not hard.” To prove his point, he kicked the pooch to the side. A man, who had enough room to sprint by a friendly dog, kicked her—hard. The culprit was a senior wearing a teal T-shirt and a white cap. Tamalpa Runners had a sign at a trailhead advising people of the race, but there was no notice where Hallie entered. Share the trails or buy your own piece of open space. Got a Hero or a Zero? Please send submissions to nikki_silverstein@yahoo.com. Toss roses, hurl stones with more Heroes and Zeros at ›› pacificsun.com

Upfront Jared Huffman and fellow representatives are urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Verizon.

Reps Throttle Verizon Huffman and 11 legislators direct ire at company’s treatment of firefighters By Stett Holbrook

ep. Jared Huffman and a host of other members of Congress have joined together to demand an investigation into whether Verizon “throttled” its unlimited data plan for Santa Clara County firefighters battling the Mendocino Complex fire. Huffman and 11 others legislators signed a letter to the Federal Trade Commission asking the agency to investigate whether

the communications company engaged in “unfair or deceptive” behavior pursuant to Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act. According to a court declaration filed by Santa Clara County, the fire department contracted with Verizon for an unlimited data plan but experienced heavy slow-downs when they had reached their cap—a cap that allegedly shouldn’t have been there. According to Huffman’s

office, these reduced speeds severely undermined firefighters’ ability to respond to the fire, the largest in state history. When the fire department contacted Verizon about the slow speeds, they were reportedly told they would have to switch to a new data plan at more than twice the cost. In an interview Tuesday following a panel discussion held 8» at the College of Marin

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entitled “Holding the President Accountable” at Ytended by some 500 people, Huffman said firefighters complained that reduced data speeds became “a critical problem and at critical moment.” Some of the members who signed the letter include Democratic representatives Nancy Pelosi, Anna Eshoo, a senior of member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and Mike Thompson. “It is unacceptable for the communications providers to deceive their customers, but when the consumer in question is a government entity tasked with fire and emergency services, we can’t afford to wait a moment longer,” the members wrote. “The FTC must investigate whether Verizon and other communications companies are being unfair or deceptive in the services they’re offering to public safety entities.” But don’t hold your breath for action by the FTC. The Federal Communications Commission repealed the Obama-era Open Internet Order, ending so-called net neutrality and the requirement that all telecommunications and cable companies treat all online and data traffic as equal. Critics say the FCC’s decision will give more power to internet service providers to set pricing and prioritize web and data traffic. “Unfortunately, with its repeal of the 2015 Open Internet Order, the FCC has abdicated its jurisdiction over broadband internet communications and walked away from protecting consumers, including public safety agencies,” wrote the legislators. “We, therefore, call on the FTC to protect consumers from unfair or deceptive practices stemming from this incident.” Huffman says efforts in the House and Senate to reinstitute net neutrality are already in the works, and his desire to see the FTC investigate may gain strength, he says, “depending on who holds the gavel.”

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Oh Stop It For a town that earned its legend for the persistent removal of highway signs directing you to it, Bolinas had a pretty funny sign situation going on recently. A couple of weeks ago, someone installed a stop sign at the corner of Wharf and Brighton streets downtown, and even painted a white stripe in the street to make it look really official. People dutifully stopped, or at least they slowed down with a quizzical moue at the sudden development. The local Nextdoor site had a couple of postings to the effect of, “What the heck is going on here?” Well, here’s what: The someone who planted the stop sign was neither the state nor the county. It was a totally outlaw sign that has confused the heck out of everyone. Where did it come from? Who is the clever wastrel who set out to slow everyone down? The sign made for some interesting and amusing symbolism on a recent Sunday afternoon, as a line of surf board-topped traffic stacked up at the outlaw stop sign and were greeted by a Marin County sheriff ’s deputy. As the weekend parking situation in town reached its typically critical mass of rage-inducement among locals in need of a stick of butter, the deputy broke out a can of black spray-paint and sprayed over the white stripe in the road. It may be the first time in the recorded history of law enforcement

that cops were encouraging people to blow a stop sign.

Beto in Bobo Speaking of signs of the times, Texas candidate for Senate and current U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke is quite popular in West Marin. So popular, in fact, that there’s a trio of handpainted signs in town denoting his race against Ted Cruz. At last glance, O’Rourke was running just one point behind the repellant Republican incumbent. Beto has refused to accept PAC money and is running a Berniestyle campaign with contributions from We the People only. Cruz has lately leaned on Sen. Mitch McConnell’s PAC to pad his campaign war-chest. Fellow representative Jared Huffman, who has had O’Rourke in his district before, is not surprised at Beto’s support in Bolinas. “I think Beto mania is real,” he says, pointing to his fresh, down-toearth approach and Cruz’s profound unlikability. O’Rourke made the internet rounds last week when he offered a very respectful and honest defense of pro sports players who chose to kneel for the national anthem. He’s scheduled to be live-on-the-phone in the region on Sept. 16 for a phonedriven fundraiser.—Tom Gogola

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Pulling back the veil with New Orleans’ Rebirth Brass Band By Tom Gogola

unday mornings around my sun-dappled rental cottage are always given over to soul music and the music of New Orleans—with a heavy emphasis on the thumping, bouncing, grooving music of the mighty Rebirth Brass Band. The experience is church-like and all about the gratitude and the joy, and the music reminds me that I

had some of the greatest fun I’ve ever had living in New Orleans, even as I struggled at times to find some purchase in a place that can be quite unforgiving in some ways. I was truly blessed when I lived in NOLA to have made a friend who introduced me to the second-line culture and hooked me up with numerous living and job connections, for which I am eternally grateful.

On Sunday mornings in my house, a typical spin through YouTube will be heavy on New Orleans brass bands—the Rebirth, the Hot 8, the Soul Rebels, the TBC Brass Band— but I usually start with the mellower stuff. Louis Armstrong is always first out the gate, and especially his “St. James Infirmary Blues.” Some mornings I’ll just let the YouTube play four or five versions

of the song, a staple in New Orleans jazz clubs, which has been covered by everyone from the White Stripes to Hugh Laurie. I prefer Louis’ version. As the Sunday morning winds on, and the caffeine takes hold, that’s when I’ll segue to the up-tempo brass-band music, which among other of its features, is perhaps the greatest music ever recorded to accompany a proper housecleaning.

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Come to my house on a Sunday morning, and that’s where you’ll find me: dancing along to the Rebirth Brass Band, washing the damn dishes, and getting the damn recycling out of the house. And, yes, there will be lots of sage burning, and perhaps even a pleasant conversation with Jesus. Praise the Lord and pass the tambourine! The Rebirth Brass Band, NOLA veterans since their inception in 1983, come to Mill Valley this week for an epic six-show stand at the Sweetwater, starting on Thursday night and going through Sunday afternoon. By Tuesday, the band will be back in New Orleans for their longstanding and world-famous regular show at the Maple Leaf bar.

The Maple Leaf gig qualifies as worldfamous not just because of the band’s 2012 Grammy, which they won for Best Regional Roots Music Album (it was the first year there was a Grammy category for regional music). The gig is also famous for President Obama having once said that when he left office he was glad he’d have the time to check out the Rebirth at the Maple Leaf. That’s what I’d call high praise. Phil Frazier, a founding member and the group’s tuba player, says in a phone interview from New Orleans that he’s ready to bring the joy to the North Bay as the band gears up for the California journey from a sticky, late-summer NOLA. The feeling is mutual for those who hunger for the NOLA cultural

bounty in the Bay Area—and there are lots of us out here. I like to joke with people that West Marin and New Orleans are similar in that there’s no place like either anywhere else in America. “Man, we just love it out there,” says Frazier, who this year earned a major New Orleans accolade when he was elected Governor of the 2018 Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club. “The audience is great, the people— we have a big fan base out there.” Indeed they do.

n Sunday afternoon I stopped in at a party that Vickisia Feinberg was hosting at her West Marin home. Feinberg is the curator at Gallery Route One in Point Reyes

Station, and she goes to New Orleans every year for the French Quarter Festival, a springtime shindig along the Mississippi that’s stacked with top-notch bands, tons of food vendors and all sorts of arts and crafts. Feinberg has created some amazing art books from her trips, and from checking them out it’s obvious that she’s gotten the full cultural baptism beyond the low-hanging tourist draws along Bourbon Street. Some of her art graces our pages this week, including a rendering of trumpeter Kermit Ruffins, who was a founding member of the Rebirth and Mardis Gras Indian Monk Boudreaux. The Nevilles are represented in Feinberg’s lovely art books, »12

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Rebirth «11 but so are other local luminaries who are otherwise pretty much unknown outside of their superstar NOLA status. There’s Dancing Man, a second-line legend who teaches a course in how to properly bomp to the second-line brass bands. Feinberg has dug deep into the culture, and her art reflects it. I checked out her art in her studio barn and then got to talking with KWMR DJ Gray Johnson about music and musicians, various encounters we’ve had with New Orleans players or other rockers in our travels. One thing a person new to New Orleans comes to quickly understand is that the music culture is a very transactional experience— this is a town filled with working musicians, with an emphasis on work. Gray and I talk about how many working musicians, whether they’re playing Django Reinhardt tunes in a coffeehouse or standing under an awning in San Rafael with a

ukulele, are never going to get rich or famous. They’ll be lucky if they can pay the bills. That sort of courage—to put your life on the line with your art, with all the risks entailed—is one of the purer forms of true courage, and it goes on all the time in New Orleans. As I rolled with the second-line flow in NOLA over several years, I learned that one can achieve a sense of total artistic emancipation— but that no one’s ever fully emancipated, thanks to capitalism. Freaking capitalism. The Rebirth Brass Band represent and reifiy that part of New Orleans that the nation at large holds near and dear to its heart when it reflects on the Big Easy: it’s party-time music that will get you on the dance floor pronto. But one really needs to spend time in the city to understand fully that there’s a kind of dialectical dance between the celebratory fronting and the backbeat of relentless, grinding poverty and racism that is just as much a part of the culture as the music.

In my experience, almost nothing comes easy in the Big Easy. It’s a tough and somewhat unforgiving town filled with exhibitionists and antic souls eager to write their own NOLA story—with a through line of personal weirdness, fully vindicated. It’s a town famous for the generous notion embodied in “lagniappe” or “a little something extra.” One quickly learns that there’s no lagniappe unless you first slap down some dollars. In New Orleans, everyone has a hustle. And then there’s the overhang of history and its rugged holdouts raging over the destruction of their beloved “heritage and traditions.” Witness last year’s massive public meltdown in New Orleans when old-guard civil rights leaders in town, and former Mayor Mitch Landrieu, succeeded in removing several statutes of heroes of the Confederacy—but not without vicious pushback. There’s a reason the O’Jays’ “Back Stabbers” is a popular cover among the brass

bands of New Orleans, given the shuck-and-jive, post-plantation hypocrisies and injustices that black culture has endured for generations: “They smile in your face / All the time they want to take your place.”

ast Sunday morning I was blasting the Rebirth’s classic “Let’s Go Get ’Em” and thinking about a long-forgotten snippet from an interview someone once did with the late Beat writer William S. Burroughs. As I recall the comment, Burroughs was talking about a car hubcap’s reflection—think about one of those dome-like hubcaps popular in decades past. He observed that when you look down into the hubcap as it reflects in the wet cobbled street, it’s a moment of eternity: You can see your own god in the reflection, your own rearview rendering as you briskly walk past the car and into the future. Whenever I put on the critic’s hat to think Deep Thoughts about the NOLA brass-band walking-parade

There’s a literal truth to the expression, sadly, when one reflects on the horrible Mother’s Day second-line shootings of 2013. But the figurative and poetic arc of the expression is one that any working stiff in the North Bay can relate to—anyone who’s been a paycheck away from abject poverty, living in the car and trying to sell a painting to make the rent. “It’s the real deal,” Feinberg says. “It’s the real people. And speaking of veils, there is nothing in between. You get right to who they are because of the music. They are very connected. To see how they live, where they live, and how dangerous it can be there with the flooding and everything else—the resilience is amazing, and it’s a totally different way of life.” New Orleans is the place to go if you want to experience the true cost of the dream deferred, as rendered by the American poet Langston Hughes in his poem “Harlem”:

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tradition (and, look, I bought a lot of hats in that chapeau-friendly town), it hits me that the music both honors the past, is steeped in the past, and also chases after the future. When it comes to the Rebirth, chasing the future has meant an embrace of hip-hop, reggae, funk and other contemporary music trends. In my humble little opinion, the greatness of the Rebirth is that the band looks into the hubcap as it charts a course to a future where dreams are no longer deferred for the African-American descendants of the great and ongoing sin, which dare not speak its name. After all, the Sunday second-line scene in New Orleans is literally music in forward motion—and there’s nothing like waiting on the parade on a spring day in New Orleans, watching with ear bent to the music as the parade makes its way to where you’re standing. You’ll see the colorful pendants denoting the social club that’s hosting the parade, then a vanguard of dancers—hey, there’s Dancing Man!—as men in pickup trucks hustle liquor drinks out a scratchy megaphone in a musical cadence that’s just as rhythmic as the band. The trombone will emit its blatty punctuation mark, and then there it is, at long last, the tuba—or tubas— bouncing above everyone’s head. Before you know it, you’re engulfed in a rolling, dancing parade of laughing, joyful celebration. Everyone’s welcome. The bottom line is that the New Orleans brass-band culture occupies a uniquely American piece of turf. It’s survivor’s music. It’s life or death music, whose nearest corollary in music is maybe punk rock—the music of defiance, of fighting back, of letting loose. It is music that’s literally close to the ground, that eats up the ground as it marches, and marches some more—as salvation from the poverty, the despair, the isolation, the bitterness, the fatalism and the betrayals that attend great American minority-majority cities like New Orleans. Indeed, in a place like New Orleans, “the veil is thin” in ways that you just don’t experience anywhere else. What that means is that on certain days, certain times of the year, certain places, the space—the veil—between our lowly corporeal lives and our version of the eternal is thin.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? Hughes’ theme is picked up by the Lil’ Rascals Brass Band in their 2001 second-line classic, “Roll with Me, Knock with Me.” The song is both an homage to other brass bands and the competition among them—and a gritty description of life in the neglected streets of New Orleans. First up in the homage is, naturally, the mighty Rebirth Brass Band. It’s a fun song and one of my Sunday morning staples—and has an uncanny rhythmic arc to the Hughes poem: Rebirth tried to get me! Rascals roll with me! Tenth Ward tried to get me! Sixth Ward roll with me! Who that shot D-Boy? Gotta get him, gotta get him! Wipe your weary eyes, mama don’t cry (Mama don’t cry!) Living in the Sixth [Ward], baby, do or die (Mama don’t cry!) Drugs and prostitution, people will die (Mama don’t cry!) They say they’re certain there’s no

The Rebirth Brass Band play Mill Valley for an epic residency at Sweetwater.

cure for AIDS, but that’s a lie (Mama don’t cry!) Ten years from now, where will I be? (Mama don’t cry!) Will I shine like a star, bright as the eyes can see? (Mama don’t cry!) Will I be kicking the breeze, hanging on St. Philip Street? (Mama don’t cry!) All I can ask the Sixth, is come on and roll with me! (Mama don’t cry!) I tried to find the William Burroughs hubcap interview online, or a quote from it, and in my search I ended up reading dozens of Burroughs quotes and passages before giving up—but not quite. I hovered for a long time over the following Burroughs quote, which really stood out as a kind of exemplar of what the heart and soul of the New Orleans brass band traditions are getting

at: overcoming struggle through whatever means necessary and finding some sort of personal salvation through art, while retaining some personal integrity along the way. Burroughs writes, “The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible.” Phil Frazier is on the line from New Orleans. “Oh, the struggles, yes,” he says as the Rebirth Brass Band band gears up for their trip to the North Bay. “The struggles . . . we all have them. You know, no matter what happens,” he says, “no matter what—we still have the music.” Y

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Pizza Life A selection at last year’s Mill Valley Film Festival, North Bay writer-director Matteo Troncone’s irresistible documentary ‘Arrangiarsi (Pizza . . . and the Art of Living)’ takes audiences on an immersive trip to Naples, Italy, which Troncone visited nine times over five years to learn about the art of pizza making. There, he also discovered the artistic tradition of arrangiarsi, meaning to make something from nothing. Foodies, history buffs, art appreciators and everyone else can enjoy the documentary, screening with pizza from Ca’ Momi and winetasting on Thursday, Aug. 30, at Sebastiani Theatre, 476 First St. E., Sonoma. 7pm. $20–$25. 707.996.9756.

Nicki Bluhm, leader of the Gramblers, plays off her new solo album, ‘To Rise You Gotta Fall,’ on Saturday, Sept. 1, at Gun Bun Winery in Sonoma. See Clubs & Venues, p21.

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Gypsy Jazz Jam Born in 1910, Belgian-French guitarist Django Reinhardt is one of the most influential players in Europe’s Gypsy jazz movement, and is still celebrated around the world more than 60 years after his death. This month, the 14th annual DjangoFest Mill Valley features several all-star musicians for a swinging weekend of concerts and workshops. Dutch violinist Tim Kliphuis and his trio open the festival, and other performers include French guitar duo Antoine Boyer & Samuelito, Gypsy jazz prodigy Henry Acker and many others. Thursday to Sunday, Aug. 30–Sept. 2, at Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. $35–$65; $199 weekend pass. 415.383.9600.

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Gastronomico Salvadoreno El Salvador, home of the world-famous pupusa, a thick handmade flour or corn tortilla stuffed with cheese and meat, is one of the most delectable destinations on the planet. Can’t make the trip? Don’t worry—this weekend’s fifth annual Salvadorian Food Festival boasts all the exotic dishes, drinks and other delights that are synonymous with Salvadorian culture. The festival also features live music all day, as well as Salvadorian clothing, crafts and other products on hand. Sunday, Sept. 2, at Lagoon Park, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. 10am. $25–$36; kids under 12 are free. 415.473.6800.

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In Japan, the term wabi-sabi refers to contemplation and acceptance of the idea of beauty within natural imperfections or impermanence that is influenced by Zen philosophies. In Marin, this idea is artistically explored in the annual ‘Wabi-Sabi Exhibit’ at O’Hanlon Center for the Arts. Now in its 15th year, the show features work from several artists that emphasizes the importance of opening our senses to the natural world around us. Juried by Asian art History professor Mary-Ann Milford-Lutzker, the show opens on Aug. 30 and holds a reception on Tuesday, Sept. 4, at 616 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 5:30pm. 415.388.4331. —Charlie Swanson

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John Courage marks 15 years of relentless rock and roll By Charlie Swanson

anta Rosa songwriter John Courage still remembers the Led Zeppelin cassette tapes his uncle gave him in 1992 that launched his love of guitar. “It was the riffs,” he says while miming the opening guitar part to Zep’s “Whole Lotta Love.” “It was infectious, and that was it. It was like I got handed down rock ’n’ roll.” After forming his first band and naming it after the John Courage beer he stocked at Oliver’s Market (before he was old enough to drink), Courage’s long-running musical project has morphed over the last 15 years from a four-piece band to a solo act, to its current incarnation, a trio with bassist Francesco Catania and drummer Jared Maddox. Courage’s musical landscape of classic rock grooves, bluesy breakdowns and effortless ebullience can be heard prominently on the band’s new single, “The Valley.” The song premieres this weekend when the John Courage Trio headline the Mystic Theatre in Petaluma on

Courage’s 35th birthday, Sept. 1. Also on the bill are the Coffis Brothers & the Mountain Men and Brothers Comatose frontman Ben Morrison. Courage has been reissuing his last three albums, Gems (2013), Don’t Fail Me Now (2012) and Lovers Without a Care (2010), on CD in preparation for the show. Courage also says the sound of his upcoming new record “The Valley” was crafted to maximize the talents of Catania and Maddox. “My rhythm section is insane,” he says. The frontman’s prodigious guitar chops provide the recording with an infectious rock hook—and a searing guitar solo. “My ultimate goal is if I can come up with a guitar part for a song that you would hear a kid playing in a guitar shop—some catchy little riff that ends up bugging every guitarstore employee.” John Courage rocks out on Saturday, Sept. 1, at the Mystic Theatre & Music Hall, 23 Petaluma Blvd. N., Petaluma. 8:30pm. $14. 707.775.6048.

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he fantasy sold in The Wife, based on Meg Wolitzer’s novel of the same name, is of winning the Nobel Prize for literature, and at first that’s fun. An old literary lion, Joe Castleman (Jonathan Pryce), and his wife, Joan (Glenn Close), are sleepless as they await the early morning phone call. Soon comes the comically Scandinavian-accented news, and both are jumping on the bed in happiness. Once in Stockholm, Joan starts displaying passive resistance to the ceremony, the hobbing and the nobbing, the bowing and drinking, and we’re sent into a nest of flashbacks about the way she choked her dreams and subsumed everything to the man she married—even bearing his terrible secret. Director Björn Runge’s scolding tone suits our age of the exposure of dickwielding artists in all fields. And it’s very good to have Glenn Close back. She’s poised as she simultaneously flirts with and fends off a literary parasite named Bone, played by Christian Slater.

Pryce is distinguished actor, but the Norman Mailer/Saul Bellow type is beyond his ken. Moreover, Harry Lloyd’s version of the author in 1950s flashbacks doesn’t match the old man he becomes. Pryce’s Castleman displays quirky habits when he’s out philandering, like personally autographing walnuts and reciting the last paragraph of James Joyce’s “The Dead.” But The Wife doesn’t seem informed about the literary life, as when tries to lure Joan into a Stockholm bar by saying that it was the kind of place where Strindberg would drink. Is Strindberg the name to drop when you’re trying to charm a literate married woman? What keeps the film from rising above an insufferable soap is the masochistic insistence that all men are crushers—and that it’s impossible for them to be otherwise. ‘The Wife’ opens Friday, Aug. 31, at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St., San Rafael. 415.454.5813.

• Across the Universe (PG-13)

By Matthew Stafford

Friday, August 31–Thursday, September 6 Across the Universe (2:13) Julie Taymor/ Fab Four musical phantasmagoria about star-crossed lovers caught up in the protests, self-discovery and violence of the 1960s; Evan Rachel Wood stars. Alpha (1:37) A young Ice Age–era hunter befriends and tames a lone wolf, kicking off several millennia of boy-and-his-dog stories. A.X.L. (1:38) A boy and his dog for the 21st century, as a lonesome kid bonds with a robot pooch created by the Pentagon to wage war. Bandstand (2:15) Catch the hit Broadway musical about a troupe of swingin’, dancin’ WWII vets making it big in the postwar U.S.A. Bernard and Huey (1:31) Jules Feiffer’s acerbic middle-aged, sexually obsessed cartoon characters come to cinematic life in the form of Jim Rash and David Koechner. BlacKkKlansman (2:15) Rollicking Spike Lee comedy tells the true story of a black Colorado cop who infiltrated the local chapter of the KKK; Topher Grace co-stars as David Duke. Blindspotting (1:35) Stylish and energetic human dramedy about two locals dealing with race, class and crime in a rapidly gentrifying Oakland. The Bookshop (1:53) Award-winning tale of a free-spirited widow who opens a bookstore in a coastal English village; Emily Mortimer stars The Cakemaker (1:45) Acclaimed drama about the complex relationship between an Israeli widow and the German baker still yearning for her dead husband. Crazy Rich Asians (2:00) A provincial New Yorker heads to Shanghai with her boyfriend only to discover that the guy’s one of China’s wealthiest and most eligible bachelors. Deconstructing The Beatles: 1963 (1:20) Filmed multimedia lecture by musicologist Scott Freiman focuses on the birth of Beatlemania and the year the Fab Four met George Martin and spawned four No. 1 hit singles. Eighth Grade (1:34) Coming-of-age comedy focuses on a supposedly unremarkable 13-year-old girl as she navigates the fraught final week of middle school. Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf (1:15) Documentary celebrates the surrealist landscape architect’s dazzling private and public gardens in Europe and the U.S. The Happytime Murders (1:31) Cheerfully foul-mouthed Roger Rabbit wannabe stars Melissa McCarthy as a private eye infiltrating L.A.’s sleazy puppet ghetto. Juliet, Naked (1:38) The Nick Hornby novel hits the big screen with Ethan Hawke as a reclusive rocker, Chris O’Dowd as his No. 1 fan and Rose Byrne as his longsuffering girlfriend. Kin (1:42) Sci-fi thriller follows an ex-con and his little brother as they go rogue with James Franco in pursuit. The Little Stranger (1:52) Domhnall Gleason plays a country doctor tending to the needs of a family in a crumbling manor haunted by something otherworldly. Madeline’s Madeline (1:30) Boldly

realized drama about a gifted teen’s total immersion in a cutting-edge physical theater troupe. The Meg (1:54) This time Jason Statham takes on a prehistoric 75-foot shark that’s holding a crew of oceanographers hostage! Memoir of War (2:07) Expressionist evocation of Marguerite Duras’ autobiographical novel about her resistance activities in Nazi-occupied Paris; Mélanie Thierry stars. The Mystery of Picasso/Antonio Gaudi Double Feature (3:00) Henri-Georges Clouzot’s inventive and newly restored 1956 portrait of Picasso at work is paired with Hiroshi Teshigahara’s poetic 1984 tribute to the visionary Catalan architect. National Theatre London: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (3:05) Direct from the West End, it’s Tennessee Williams’ torrid tale of secrets and lies in midcentury Mississippi; Sienna Miller stars as Maggie the Cat. National Theatre London: Julie (1:35) Polly Stenham’s Strindberg update about a game of one-upmanship that rapidly spirals into a fight for emotional survival. The Nun (1:36) Two Vatican agents take on an evil force inhabiting a cloistered abbey in ever-spooky Romania. Operation Finale (1:49) Historical thriller about the Israeli Secret Service plot to abduct Adolf Eichmann from Argentina to stand trial for Nazi war crimes; Ben Kingsley stars. Papillon (1:57) Remake of the Steve McQueen adventure flick about a real-life safecracker who undertook a daring escape from Devil’s Island; Charlie Hunnam stars. Peppermint (2:00) Death Wish redux as Jennifer Garner transforms herself into a lean, mean vigilante machine to avenge the murders of her husband and daughter. Pick of the Litter (1:21) Inspiring documentary follows a litter of puppies on their two-year odyssey to become guide dogs for the blind. Puzzle (1:43) Kelly Macdonald delivers a career-defining performance as a meek forty-something whose life is turned upside down by the beauty of jigsaw puzzles. Rudy (1:54) True tale of Rudy Ruttinger, an undersized, less-than-talented student athlete who dreamed of playing on Notre Dame’s football team; Sean Astin stars. Searching (1:41) Twenty-first century century thriller stars John Cho as a distraught dad who tries to track down his missing daughter through the cookiecrumb clues on her laptop. Sorry to Bother You (1:45) Boots Riley absurdist fantasy satire about an Oakland telemarketer striving his way through a netherworld of big-tech billionaires and anti-Zeitgeist revolutionaries. The Wife (1:40) An old married couple look back on their eventful life as they travel to Stockholm to pick up hubby’s Nobel Prize; Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce star. Ya Veremos (1:30) A young boy on the verge of losing his eyesight is granted his one wish: to see the world with his estranged parents along for the ride.

Lark: Wed 6:30 Alpha (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:25 Rowland: FriSun 10:40, 1:10, 3:40, 7:10, 9:50 A.X.L. (PG) Northgate: Fri-Sun 11:40, 2:20, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Bandstand (Not Rated) Lark: Sun 1 Rafael: Thu 7:15 (director Dan Mirvish in person) • Bernard and Huey (Not Rated) BlacKkKlansman (R) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:40, 7, 9:50; Sun-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 7 Regency: Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:50, 7, 10:05; Sun-Thu 12:40, 3:50, 7 Rowland: Fri-Sun 12:10, 3:30, 6:50, 10:10 Sequoia: Fri 3:50, 6:50, 9:50; Sat 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50; Sun-Mon 12:50, 3:50, 6:50; Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:50 Blindspotting (R) Regency: Fri-Sat 11:40, 4:50, 9:40; Sun 11:40; Mon-Tue 11:40, 4:50; Wed-Thu 4:50 Rafael: Fri-Mon 3:15, 5:45, 8:15; Tue-Wed 5:45, 8:15; Thu 4:45 • The Bookshop (PG) The Cakemaker (Not Rated) Rafael: Fri-Mon 8 Christopher Robin (PG) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:45, 3:30, 6:30, 9:15; Sun-Wed 12:45, 3:30, 6:30 Northgate: Fri-Sun 11:20, 1:55, 4:40, 7:20, 10 Crazy Rich Asians (PG-13) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:15, 1, 3:15, 4, 6:15, 7, 9:15, 9:50; Sun-Wed 12:15, 1, 3:15, 4, 6:15, 7 Northgate: Fri-Sun 10:30, 12, 1:30, 3, 4:30, 6, 7:30, 9, 10:30 Playhouse: Fri 3:45, 7, 9:35; Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:45, 7, 9:35; Mon 12:45, 3:45, 7; Tue-Wed 3:45, 7 Rowland: Fri-Sun 10:10, 1, 4, 7:30, 10:20 Sequoia: Fri 4:20, 7:25, 10:10; Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:25, 10:10; Sun-Mon 1:20, 4:20, 7:25; Tue-Wed 4:20, 7:25 Deconstructing The Beatles: 1963 (Not Rated) Rafael: Mon 1 Eighth Grade (R) Lark: Fri 2:45; Sun 8:40; Tue 10:15; Wed 1:40 Equalizer 2 (R) Northgate: Fri-Sun 9:50 • Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf (Not Rated) Lark: Fri 12:45; Sat 4:20; Mon 10:15; Tue 7:15 The Happytime Murders (R) Northgate: Fri-Sun 11:45, 2:10, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Rowland: FriSun 10:30, 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Sun 11:50, 2:25, 5, 7:35, 10:10 Incredibles 2 (PG) Northgate: Fri-Sun 1, 3:55, 6:55 Juliet, Naked (R) Regency: Fri-Sat 11:50, 2:20, 5, 7:40, 10:10; Sun-Thu 11:50, 2:20, 5, 7:40 • Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Sun 11:30, 4:55, 10:20 Northgate: Fri-Sun 11:15, 1:50, 4:25, 7:10, 9:40 Rowland: Fri• Kin (PG-13) Sun 10, 12:40, 3:50, 7:40, 10:30 Regency: Fri-Sat 11, 1:40, 4:20, 7, 9:50; Sun-Thu 11, 1:40, 4:20, 7 • The Little Stranger (R) Lark: Fri 5; Sun 10:40; Tue 2:45 • Madeline’s Madeline (Not Rated) Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Sun 1:20, 6:45 The Meg (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Sun 1:15, 7:05, 10:05; 3D showtimes at 10:30, 4:10 Rowland: Fri-Sun 10:50, 1:30, 4:10, 7, 9:40 Memoir of War (Not Rated) Rafael: Fri-Mon 2:45, 5:30; Tue 5:30; Thu 8:30 Mission: Impossible—Fallout (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:45, 7, 10:15 Playhouse: Fri 3:30, 6:45, 9:45; Sat-Sun 12:15, 3:30, 6:45, 9:45; Mon 12:15, 3:30, 6:45; Tue-Wed 3:30, 6:45 Rowland: Fri-Sun 12, 3:20, 6:40, 10 The Mystery of Picasso/Antonio Gaudi Double Feature (Not Rated) Lark: Mon 4:45; Thu 11:40 • National Theatre London: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Not Rated) Lark: Sat 1 • National Theatre London: Julie (Not Rated) Lark: Thu 6:30 Northgate: Thu 7:15, 9:45 Rowland: Thu 7, 9:50 • The Nun (R) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 1:15, 4:05, 6:55, 9:45; Sun-Wed 1:15, 4:05, • Operation Finale (PG-13) 6:55 Playhouse: Fri 4, 6:45, 9:30; Sat-Sun 1, 4, 6:45, 9:30; Mon 1, 4, 6:45; Tue-Wed 4, 6:45 Regency: Fri-Sat 10:50,

1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20; Sun-Thu 10:50, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30 Rowland: Fri-Sun 10:20, 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Papillon (R) Regency: Fri-Sun 12:50, 4, 7:10, 10:15; Mon-Thu 12:50, 4, 7:10 Northgate: Thu 7, 9:35 • Peppermint (R) Rafael: Wed 7:30 (filmmakers Don Hardy and Dana Nachman • Pick of the Litter (Not Rated) and human and canine stars in person) Puzzle (R) Lark: Sat 10:20; Sun 6:15; Mon 12:10; Tue 4:50 RBG (PG) Rafael: Fri-Mon 1:15 Regency: Sun 2, 7 • Rudy (PG) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 1:15, 3:50, 6:45, 9:30; Sun-Wed 1:15, 3:50, • Searching (PG-13) 6:45 Northgate: Fri-Sun 11:35, 2:15, 4:50, 7:25, 9:55 Slender Man (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Sun 2:30, 7:55 Sorry to Bother You (R) Lark: Fri 9:10; Mon 8:10; Thu 8:40 2001: A Space Odyssey (G) Lark: Sat 6; Wed 10:30; Thu 3 The Wife (Not Rated) Rafael: Fri-Mon 1:45, 4, 6:15, 8:30; Tue-Thu 6:15-8:30 Ya Veremos (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Sun 10:40, 12:55, 3:15, 5:30, 7:50, 10 Because there were too many movies playing this week to list, we have omitted some of the movie summaries and times for those that have been playing for multiple weeks. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Showtimes can change after we go to press. Please call theater to confirm. CinéArts Sequoia 25 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley, 388-1190 Century Cinema 41 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, 924-6506 Fairfax 9 Broadway, Fairfax, 453-5444 Lark 549 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur, 924-5111 Larkspur Landing 500 Larkspur Landing Cir., Larkspur, 461-4849 Northgate 7000 Northgate Dr., San Rafael, 491-1314 Playhouse 40 Main St., Tiburon, 435-1251 Rafael Film Center 1118 Fourth St., San Rafael, 454-1222 Regency 80 Smith Ranch Rd., Terra Linda, 479-6496 Rowland 44 Rowland Way, Novato, 898-3385

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Jared Wright (left) and William J. Brown get confused in ‘Comedy of Errors.’

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Whack-a-Bard Everywhere you look: Shakespeare! By Harry Duke

ike an Elizabethan game of whack-a-mole, as soon as one North Bay theater company knocks out an outdoor summer Shakespeare production, another one pops up. The Petaluma Shakespeare Company presents its Shakespeare by the River Festival with two shows— All’s Well That Ends Well and an original production, by Jacinta Gorringe, called Speechless Shakespeare—through Sept. 2. Marin’s Curtain Theatre presents Henry IV, Part One at the Old Mill Park in Mill Valley through Sept. 9, and Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse closes out its season with The Comedy of Errors, one of Shakespeare’s earliest and shortest plays. The Comedy of Errors tells the tale of two sets of twins—masters and servants—separated by shipwreck who, years later, come together in the city of Ephesus, thoroughly confusing wives, mistresses, merchants and each other. The basic plot isn’t very original—Shakespeare “borrowed” it from a couple of even earlier plays— but it is entertaining.

Director Jared Sakren has gathered a group of quality actors who all seem to be having fun with their roles. William Brown and Ariel Zuckerman are the masters who share the moniker Antipholus while Jared Wright and Sam Coughlin each play a servant named Dromeo. Colorful Victorian-era costumes by Pamela Johnson add to the jovial tone of the show. It’s a silly show done seriously (if occasionally a bit too intensely), but overall, it’s an amusing way to bring summer theater to a close. The Shakespeare by the River Festival runs Thursday–Sunday through Sept. 2 on the Foundry Wharf Green, 625 Second St., Petaluma. Shows and times vary. Free. petalumashakespeare.org. ‘Henry IV, Part One’ runs Saturday–Sunday through Sept. 9 at the Old Mill Amphitheatre, 375 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 2pm. Free. curtaintheatre.org. ‘The Comedy of Errors’ runs Friday–Sunday through Sept. 2 at the Cannery Ruins behind 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W. Sixth St., Santa Rosa. 7pm. $18–$36. 707.523.4185. 6thstreetplayhouse.com.

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Brian Leitner and Annette Yang’s Mediterranean menu draws on lesser known regions.

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Local Gem

Petaluma’s Pearl gets creative By Flora Tsapovsky

here’s so much more to Mediterranean food than is usually expressed stateside. The region offers everything from undiscovered Turkish delights to slowly trending Israeli dishes. Petaluma’s new restaurant Pearl is attempting to bring the lesser known stars of the cuisine to the table with a focus the on eastern Mediterranean—Turkey, Israel, Syria and beyond—with a sprinkle of Moroccan and French influences. Behind the menu are Brian Leitner and Annette Yang, who previously owned Nettie’s Crab Shack in San Francisco and, most recently, Le Vieux in Portland, Ore. The two began

experimenting with Mediterranean cuisine one country at a time; France one month, Morocco another. Leitner, a Chez Panisse alum, unites them all. The menu changes occasionally, according to seasonality and availability, and some ingredients stand out, not often seen on local menus around the Bay Area. Take the stuffed sardine ($10), for example. Expert home cooks across the Mediterranean have been stuffing the tiny fish for centuries, but rare is the Bay Area chef willing to take on the meticulous task. At Pearl, the single fish arrives topped with cherry tomatoes and cilantro, hiding a herbaceous tabbouleh salad inside. The fish has a bright sea flavor and delicate texture, highlighted by the

tabbouleh’s chunkiness. It’s a bold, fun appetizer that made me wish stuffed sardines would, one day, reach crudo-level popularity. The charred okra (another seldomseen ingredient) with preserved lemon ($10) is spot-on. Okra is a tricky little vegetable, and one extra minute in the heat can turn it to mush. Pearl’s is crunchy and fresh. The wood-roasted beets ($10) are the third appetizer we try. In this dish, too, the textures are remarkable, from the velvety-rich beet to the snappy beans and the light dressing. Even in a restaurant fielding a wild mix of influences and inspirations, some things are better left true to their origins. The shakshuka ($18),

an Israeli staple, is one such dish. This vibrant, tomato-heavy stew is meant to simmer on the stove or in the oven until its raw eggs and sauce become one. In Pearl’s version, served with a side of pita ($2) and containing the addition of chickpeas and griddled halloumi cheese, the eggs are perched on top. Playful as the interpretation might be, it undermines the shakshuka’s messy, hearty appeal and denies it the collision of flavors it’s famous for. The dessert to right this wrong is the dreamy Moroccan rice pudding ($8). With a bite to its texture, the pudding is made from Madagascar pink rice and topped with rhubarb compote and almond flakes. It’s delicate and fragrant, refreshing and comforting. I’ve never seen this rice before, on a menu or at a supermarket. Leitner’s clearly showcasing another star ingredient. Is the pudding Mediterranean? Moroccan? Local? When something tastes this good, who cares. Pearl, 500 First St., Petaluma. 707.559.5187.

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Cluster’s Pluck Local craft beer doesn’t get any fresher than right now By James Knight

t a time when craft brewers are chasing the latest trends in new, trademarked hop varieties to juice up their juicy IPAs, some in the North Bay are digging up a relic of a bygone day for their brews—literally, they are digging up the roots of decades-old hop plants that have gone feral near the banks of the Russian River. Cluster is an old American hop variety that was widely grown in California both before and after Prohibition, and all but vanished from Northern California in the 1950s. Today, Cluster has about as much cachet as Michelob Light. But the bad rap is undeserved, says Windsor hop grower Mike Giovannoni, who found a few hardy survivors growing alongside wild grapevines in the corner of a vineyard he farms. “Back then,” Giovannoni says of the glory days of bland American beer, “hops were used more for bittering than aroma and flavor, like they are today. Brewing styles have changed, but I feel that Cluster has a bad reputation based on old brewing styles and descriptions based on those old beers.” One cool thing about Cluster, according to Mike Stevenson, who grows Cluster sourced from the Mt. Shasta area at his Warm Spring Wind Hop Farm, is that it’s got great genetics: having survived untended for 60 to 100 years, it may now be this region’s most robust hop variety. “The flavors and aromas are speaking to the adaptability of the plant in those different areas,” says Stevenson, who likes the tropical fruit, piña colada, passion fruit aromatics that his Shasta hops exhibit. “Totally different from the California Cluster that Paul has in his yard from Russian River.” That’s brewer Paul Hawley, who’s releasing a trio of freshly brewed beers, including a farmhouse saisonstyle brew wet-hopped with Cluster, at Fogbelt Brewing’s third annual

Wet Hop Festival. Adding to the spiciness of the saison, says Hawley, “the heritage California Cluster shows aromas and flavors of honeydew melon, papaya and mango.” Hop season doesn’t get any fresher than at the Windsor Historical Society museum’s eighth annual Hop Harvest & Heritage Day, where president Steve Lehmann invites budding hop heads to pick their own from the 15 prickly plants he grows on the museum grounds from roots collected from three Russian River Valley ranches. Spectators, including folks who remember the hop harvests of days gone by, are welcome. “Some old timers come by to ridicule my hop-picking technique,” says Lehmann, “in the nicest way.” Fogbelt Brewing Company, 1305 Cleveland Ave., Santa Rosa. Wet Hop Festival, Sunday, Sept. 2, noon–8pm. 707.978.3400. Windsor Historical Society, 9225 Foxwood Drive, Windsor. Hop picking starts at noon, Saturday, Sept. 8. Lunch and beer, $15. 707.838.4563.

Concerts MARIN DjangoFest Mill Valley Fourteenth annual celebration of Gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt features concerts with Tim Kliphuis Trio, Antoine Boyer & Samuelito and others. Aug 30-Sep 2. $35-$65; $199 weekend pass. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600. Sweetwater Music Hall Aug 29, Gene Evaro Jr. Sep 3, Robert Ellis and Steven Denmark. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.3850. Rebirth Brass Band New Orleans musical institution holds a North Bay summer residency featuring six concerts, including a Sunday afternoon kids show. Aug 30-Sep 2. $32-$37; Sun, $22-$27. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.3850. The Sons of ChamplinMarin’s favorite sons of rock and roll play their annual Labor Day BBQ on the lawn. Sep 3, 4pm. $30$35. Rancho Nicasio, 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio. 415.662.2219.

SONOMA Dandu Inspired by jazz, hip-hop, funk and progressive rock, the Denver-based trio hits up the North Bay with support from Analog Us and others. Sep 1, 6pm. $5. Arlene Francis Center, 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa. 707.528.3009. Mykal Rose Grammy Award-winning reggae musician performs with local favorites IrieFuse. Aug 31, 9pm. $25-$45. The Reel Fish Shop & Grill, 401 Grove St, Sonoma. 707.343.0044. Smiley’s Schooner Saloon Aug 30, Henry Chadwick. Aug 31, PSDSP. Sep 1, Highway Poets. Sep 2, Caravan 222. Sep 3, Epicenter Sound System. 41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas. 415.868.1311. Sonoma County Metal & Hardcore Battle of the Bands North Bay heavy metal bands Scythe, Incredulous, 4199, Sepulchre and A Hero to Fall compete in the local promoter’s massive show. Sep 1, 8pm. $10. The Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington St, Petaluma. 707.762.3565.

NAPA Blues Masters Showcase Roots-reggae act Guidance Band switches it up and plays the music of BB King, Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughn and others. Sep 5, 7 and 8:45pm. $15-$35. Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa. 707.880.2300. Edgardo Cambón y LaTiDo Latin night at Silo’s features the conga drummer and singer long considered a pillar of Bay Area salsa and Latin jazz. Aug 30, 8pm. $13-$18. Silo’s, 530 Main St, Napa. 707.251.5833.

Clubs & Venues Belvedere Community Park Sep 2, 4pm, Neon Velvet. 450 San Rafael Ave, Belvedere, belvedereconcerts.org. Downtown Tiburon Aug 31, Friday Nights on Main with the Flaming O’s. Main St, Tiburon. 415.435.5633. Fenix Aug 30, Levi Lloyd and friends. Aug 31, the Boys of Summer. Sep 1, Will Russ Jr & the Force of Will Band. Sep 2, 6:30pm, Derek Kudrow & the SF Jazz Quartet. 919 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.813.5600. George’s Nightclub Sep 1, DJ Jorge. 842 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.226.0262. HopMonk Novato Aug 30, Cascade Canyon Band and Bon Tempe. Aug 31, Electric Funeral. Sep 2, 6pm, Tim Flannery & the Lunatic Fringe. Sep 5, Willy Porter and Maurice Tani. 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 415.892.6200. Iron Springs Pub & Brewery Aug 29, Dusty Green Bones Band. 765 Center Blvd, Fairfax. 415.485.1005. L’Appart Resto Aug 30, Amanda Addleman and Lee Dynes. 636 San Anselmo Ave, San Anselmo. 415.256.9884.

The Redwoods Sep 5, “Sing-Along for a Peaceful World” with Reed Fromer. 40 Camino Alto, Mill Valley. 415.383.2741. Sausalito Seahorse Aug 30, Charity Goodin Jazz Band. Aug 31, the 7th Sons. Sep 1, Rudy & the King. Sep 2, 4pm, Julio Bravo & Orquestra Salsabor. 305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito. 415.331.2899. Smiley’s Schooner Saloon Aug 30, Henry Chadwick. Aug 31, PSDSP. Sep 1, Highway Poets. Sep 2, Caravan 222. Sep 3, Epicenter Sound System. 41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas. 415.868.1311. Sweetwater Music Hall Aug 29, Gene Evaro Jr. Sep 3, Robert Ellis and Steven Denmark. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.3850. The Tavern on Fourth Aug 31, the Oakland Crush. Sep 1, ColdSol. 711 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.454.4044. Terrapin Crossroads Aug 29, OMEN. Aug 30, Ross James’ Cosmic Thursday. Aug 31, Top 40 Friday with Jeff Miller and friends. 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael. 415.524.2773. Trek Winery Aug 31, Todos Santos. 1026 Machin Ave, Novato. 415.899.9883.

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Marin Country Mart Aug 31, 6pm, Friday Night Jazz with Kurt Ribak Quartet. Sep 2, 12:30pm, Folkish Festival with Red Meat. 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur. 415.461.5700.

Marin Society of Artists Aug 30-Sep 29, “Coast to Coast,” open fine arts show features artists from around the nation, juried by Kay Carlson. Reception, Sept 14 at 5pm. 1515 Third St, San Rafael. Wed-Sun, Noon to 4pm. 415.464.9561.

19 Broadway Nightclub Aug 29, the Well Known Strangers. Aug 30, Lender with Red Eye Gypsy. Aug 31, the Weissmen. Sep 1, Achilles Wheel. Sep 2, Elvis Johnson’s Blues Jam. Sep 4, Blues Champions. Sep 5, Damon LeGall Band. 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 415.459.1091.

O’Hanlon Center for the Arts Aug 30-Sep 20, “Wabi-Sabi,” annual group exhibit features mixed-media works juried by Mary-Ann Milford-Lutzker. Reception, Sept 4 at 5:30pm. 616 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. Tues-Sat, 10 to 2; also by appointment. 415.388.4331.

Osteria Divino Aug 29, Ian McArdle Trio. Aug 30, Passion Habanera. Aug 31, Denise Perrier. 37 Caledonia St, Sausalito. 415.331.9355.

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Panama Hotel Restaurant Aug 29, Kathryn Kanaya. Aug 30, C-JAM with Connie Ducey. Sep 4, Swing Fever. Sep 5, EMK. 4 Bayview St, San Rafael. 415.457.3993. Papermill Creek Saloon Aug 30, OMEN. Aug 31, Fairfax Social Club. Sep 1, Just Friends. Sep 2, the Weissmen. Sep 4, Folk Yeah. 1 Castro, Forest Knolls. 415.488.9235. Peri’s Silver Dollar Aug 30, Casual Coalition. Aug 31, Ann Halen. Sep 1, Attila Viola & the Bakersfield Boys. Sep 2, Matt Bolton. 29 Broadway, Fairfax. 415.459.9910. Rancho Nicasio Aug 31, Patsy Cline tribute with Carolyn

Steele Lane Community Center Aug 29-Oct 11, “A View From the Underground,” Sonoma County street artist Vader66 and friends display their innovative underground art. Reception, Aug 29 at 4pm. 415 Steele Lane, Santa Rosa. Mon-Thurs, 8 to 7; Fri, 8 to 5. 707.543.3282.

NAPA Jessel Gallery Sep 1-29, “Open Studios Napa Valley Preview Exhibit,” view an original piece of art created by each participating artist in the upcoming open studios tour. Reception, Sept 7 at 5pm. 1019 Atlas Peak Rd, Napa. Daily, 10 to 5. 707.257.2350. Napa Valley Museum Aug 30-Oct 28, “California Dreamin’,” painters Melissa Chandon and Matt Rogers

and surf board artist Tim Bessell create works that embody the freedom and vitality of the golden state. Reception, Sept 1 at 5pm. 55 Presidents Circle, Yountville. Wed-Sun, 11 to 4. 707.944.0500.

Galleries Alemany Library Gallery Through Sep 15, “Remythologizing Filipino Archetypes,” group exhibit examines the culture of the Philippines. Reception, Aug 30 at 5pm. Dominican University, 50 Acacia Ave, San Rafael. 415.485.3251. Art Works Downtown Through Sep 8, “Through A Bird’s Eye,” collection of works by Molly Brown displays in the Underground gallery, with “Saving Second Base” showing artistically decorated bras in the Founders’ gallery and Bolinas School of Botanical Art students showing in the Donors’ gallery. 1337 Fourth St, San Rafael. Tues-Sat, 10 to 5. 415.451.8119. Book Passage Through Nov 30, “Tom Killion Residency,” acclaimed Marin artist returns to Book Passage’s gallery for a year-long exhibition of his original prints and handcrafted books. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. Daily, 9am to 9pm. 415.927.0960. Corte Madera Library Through Sep 13, “Birds & Farm Friends,” exhibit of pastel landscape works by local artist Donna Solin. 707 Meadowsweet Dr, Corte Madera. 707.924.6444. Gallery Route One Through Sep 30, “Box Show,” annual fundraising show features 150 boxes turned into works of art by professional and amatuer artists alike.. 11101 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station. Wed-Mon, 11 to 5. 415.663.1347. The Image Flow Through Sep 7, “Process Photography Exhibition,” juried exhibition features 37 artists working with a wide variety of historical and analog photographic printing processes.. 401 Miller Ave, Ste A, Mill Valley. 415.388.3569. Marin Community Foundation Through Sep 20, “Human...Nature: A Guy Colwell Retrospect,” exhibition spans the artist’s figurative social surrealism from the 1970s to current day.. 5 Hamilton Landing, Ste 200, Novato. Open Mon-Fri, 9 to 5. Marin Society of Artists Aug 30-Sep 29, “Coast to Coast,” open fine arts show features artists from around the nation, juried by Kay Carlson. Reception, Sept 14 at 5pm. 1515 Third St, San Rafael. Wed-Sun, Noon to 4pm. 415.464.9561. O’Hanlon Center for the Arts Aug 30-Sep 20, “Wabi-Sabi,” annual group exhibit features mixed-media works juried by Mary-Ann Milford-Lutzker. Reception, Sept 4 at 5:30pm. 616 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. Tues-Sat, 10 to 2; also by appointment. 415.388.4331. Robert Allen Fine Art Through Sep 28, “Donaldson, Findlay, Maxon,” group exhibit of oil and acrylic paintings on canvas features Amy Donaldson, Beatrice Findlay and John Maxon. 301 Caledonia St, Sausalito. Mon-Fri, 10 to 5. 415.331.2800.

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«21 Rock Hill Gallery Through Oct 10, “Homage to Andrew Wyeth,” Marin County Watercolor Society’s group show recognizes Wyeth’s skill, his use of local scenes and his choice of colors. 145 Rock Hill Dr, Tiburon. Throckmorton Theatre Through Aug 31, “Revelations,” sparked by current events, Marie Bergstedt’s latest works display in the Throckmorton main gallery, with Braeda Horan’s “The Beauty That Surrounds Us” showing in the crescendo gallery. 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600. Tiburon Town Hall Through Oct 25, “Moments in Time,” Marin Society of Artists members Joe Grenn and Judith Stern present a dual exhibition. Reception, Sept 16 at 6pm. Through Aug 30, “Celebrating Life,” featuring works by members of Marin Society of Artists. 1505 Tiburon Blvd, Tiburon. Toby’s Gallery Through Aug 31, “FAULTline,” some of California’s best and brightest artists will be on display. 11250 Hwy 1, Point Reyes Station.

Comedy Tuesday Night Live See standup stars Dave Burleigh, Mike Paramore, Patrick Keane and others. Sep 4, 8pm. $17-$27. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.

Dance Aqus Cafe Tuesdays, 6:30pm, Introduction to Flamenco. 189 H St, Petaluma 707.778.6060. Flamingo Lounge Sep 2, 7pm, Santa Rosa Salsa night. 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa 707.545.8530.

Events Artisan’s Day Over 50 artists and crafters offer demonstrations and show their works

during the annual gallery sale and celebration. Sep 1, 12pm. Free. Artisans’ Co-op, 17175 Bodega Hwy, Bodega. 707.876.9830. As You Are Brooks Palmer hosts a local talk show that focuses on the lives of the folks in the audience through interviews, music, humor and imagination. Sep 5, 7pm. Free. Sebastopol Library, 7140 Bodega Ave, Sebastopol. 707.823.7691. Community Media Center of Marin Orientation Get answers to all your media questions, including how you can produce content and get it on the air in Marin. Sep 4, 7pm. Free. Community Media Center of Marin, 819 A St, San Rafael. 415.721.0636. Cornhole Tournament Chandi Hospitality Group and Mountain Mike’s Pizza host the family-friendly competition, with food, cold drinks and live music on hand. Sat, Sep 1, 6pm. $20 per team. Mountain Mike’s Pizza, 4501 Montgomery Dr, Santa Rosa. 707.890.5033.

‘Intertwined’ Closing Reception Closing tea and artist salon is an informal gathering to talk about inspiration and impressions related to the fiber art show. Sep 3, 2pm. Free. Healdsburg Center for the Arts, 130 Plaza St, Healdsburg. 707.431.1970. Sausalito Art Festival Art, music, food and wine come together with artists from around the world showing their works and concert performances from George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Drive-by Truckers, Eric Burdon & the Animals and others Sep 1-3. $30 and up. Marinship Park, Marinship Way, Sausalito, sausalitoartfestival.org. Tomales Festival & Founders’ Day Parade Celebrate the spirit of “Old California” with live music, BBQ, a parade and more; benefitting local nonprofits. Sep 2, 12pm. Free. Downtown Tomales, Shoreline Hwy, Tomales. 707.879.8030.

Field Trips Beginner’s Birding Slow guided walk lets you observe all the birds in the area. Pre-registration required. Aug 29, 8am. donations welcome. Bohemia Ecological Preserve, 8759 Bohemian Hwy, Occidental. Healthy Parks, Healthy People Join Sugarloaf hike leaders and meet others committed to improving their health and well-being through exercise and spending time in nature. Sat, Sep 1, 10am. Free. Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, 2605 Adobe Canyon Rd, Kenwood. 707.833.5712. Labor Day Sunset Sail See iconic spots around the Bay as the sun sets over the water; brunch sail also available on Monday. Sep 1-3, 6pm. $69-$75. Schooner Freda B, Slip 907, Sausalito Yacht Harbor, Sausalito. 4153310444. Sunday Garden Tours Get a looks at OAEC’s gardens and learn about the center’s permaculture features, programs and onsite community. First Sun of every month, 1pm. through Oct 7. Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, 15290 Coleman Valley Rd, Occidental. 707.874.1557. SUP 101 Wohler Bridge Tour Stand Up Paddle tour travels along one of the most secluded areas of the scenic Russian River. Sun, Sep 2, 9am. $79. Wohler Bridge, Wohler and Westside roads, Forestville.

Sat, Sep 1, 6pm and Wed, Sep 5, 10:30am. Lark Theater, 549 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur. 415.924.5111. Arrangiarsi (Pizza & the Art of Living) Delightful film screens with Ca’ Momi pizza and wine tasting followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker. Aug 30, 7pm. $20-$25. Sebastiani Theatre, 476 First St E, Sonoma. 707.996.9756.

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Ciderfest at CIA Copia Enjoy seasonal libations, delicious food and live music in this second annual fall festival. Sep 2, 12pm. Free admission, registration recommended. CIA at Copia, 500 First St, Napa. 707.967.2530.

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Off the Grid Food Trucks Eat your way through the largest gathering of mobile food trucks in Marin, listen to live music and take in great views. Sun, 11am. Marin Country Mart, 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur. 415.461.5700.

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CaBacon Weekend-long fusion of Cabernet Day and International Bacon Day features Cabernet Sauvignon wines paired with bacon bites. Aug 30-Sep 2, 11am. $55. St. Supéry Estate Vineyards & Winery, 8440 St Helena Hwy, Rutherford. 707.963.4507.

Grape Stomp Competition Enjoy a delicious lunch overlooking the vineyards, then get your stomp on. Preregistration recommended. Sep 2, 12pm. $30-$45. Viszlay Vineyards, 851 Limerick Lane, Healdsburg. 7074811514.

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Food & Drink Bottle Barn End of Summer Pinot Noir Tasting Second annual tasting gathers over 40 Pinot Noir producers for a casual walkaround style tasting. Space is limited. Aug 30, 5pm. $49. Hyatt Regency Sonoma Wine Country, 170 Railroad St, Santa Rosa.

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CULT Film Series The late John Belushi stars in classic comedies “The Blues Brothers” and “Animal House” in this week’s double feature. Aug 30, 7pm. $10. Third Street Cinema Six, 620 Third St, Santa Rosa. 707.528.8770.

Rockin’ at the Lark See the iconic concert film “Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense.” Aug 30, 7:30pm. $10-$18. Lark Theater, 549 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur. 415.924.5111.

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Bernstein 100 Month-long salute to composer and educator Leonard Bernstein concludes with a screening of the classic musical “West Side Story.” Thurs, Aug 30, 7pm. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.454.1222.

Movies in the Park Bring the family, a picnic and blanket for an evening under the stars with a screening of “Paddington 2.” Aug 31, 7:30pm. Free. Howarth Park, 630 Summerfield Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.543.3425.

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Fishstock Annual benefit for Jenner Community Center features live music from North Bay favorites Dgiin and others, with BBQ salmon and oysters, beer and wine, an ice cream parlor and more. Sep 2, 11am. $5. Jenner Community Center, 10398 Hwy 1, Jenner. 707.865.1767.

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discusses “Sing, Unburied Sing” by Jesmyn Ward. Sep 5, 6:30pm. $20. Point Reyes Books, 11315 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station. 415.663.1542. Hidden Past of Santa Rosa Sonoma State Anthropology Professor Margaret Purser explores bits of local history taken from oral traditions, archaeological digs and records. Aug 30, 6:30pm. $10-$15. History Museum of Sonoma County, 425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa. 707.579.1500. Jumpstart Writing Workshop Bring a notebook and pen for a writing workshop. Mon, Sep 3, 6:30pm. $15. Petaluma Copperfield’s Books, 140 Kentucky St, Petaluma. 707.762.0563. Meditation at Whistlestop Learn how to lower stress levels, reduce anxiety and depression, and restore healthy sleep patterns. Thurs, 3:30pm. $5. Whistlestop, 930 Tamalpais Ave, San Rafael. 415.456.9062. Path to Publishing Panel Local literary figures Jim Shubin, Laurie King and Linda Watanabe McFerrin appear for a lively discussion hosted by Left Coast Writers. Sep 4, 7pm. Book Passage By-the-Bay, 100 Bay St, Sausalito. 415.339.1300. Senior Circle Share the challenges of aging in a safe and supportive environment in partnership with the Center for Attitudinal Healing. Wed, 10am. Free. Whistlestop, 930 Tamalpais Ave, San Rafael. 415.456.9062. Senior Stretch Class Presented by Sunlight Chair Yoga. Free for Silver Sneakers insurance and church members, drop-ins welcome. Wed, 11am. $8. First Presbyterian Church of San Rafael, 1510 Fifth St, San Rafael. 415.689.6428.

West Marin’s Just Friends lay down the easy-going folk grooves on Sept. 1 at the Papermill in Forest Knolls.

«23 Chardonnay, Syrah, Zinfandel and Sauvignon Blanc. Aug 31, 5pm. $200-$225. Sonoma-Cutrer, 4401 Slusser Rd, Windsor. 707.237.3489. Salvadorian Food Festival Fifth annual festival features highest concentration of Salvadorian restaurants in one location, with live music, arts and crafts and more. Sep 2, 10am. $25-$36; kids under 12 are free. Lagoon Park, Marin Civic Center, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. 415.473.6800. Taste of Sonoma Renowned winemakers and chefs from across Sonoma County celebrate the region with incredible wine and food pairings, seminars, chef demos and more. Sep 1, 12pm. $180. Green Music Center Weill Hall, 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, sonomawinecountryweekend.com. Wet Hop Festival Harvest-time hops showcase features a lineup of Fogbelt’s beers, BBQ, live music,

hop-picking demo and more. Sep 2, 12pm. Free admission. Fogbelt Brewing, 1305 Cleveland Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.978.3400.

For Kids Emily Butterfly at Toy Crazy Real-life fairy godmother and her puppet friends delight young audiences with sweet and humor filled stories and songs. Sep 4, 11am. Marin Country Mart, 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur. 415.461.5700.

Lectures Basket Weaving for Adults Beginning class gets you weaving in no time. Tues, Sep 4, 1:30pm. Guerneville Library, 14107 Armstrong Woods Rd, Guerneville. 707.869.9004. Contemporary Classics Pat Holt’s monthly book discussion group

Sonoma Community Center Artists Lecture Series Enjoy a potluck and presentation with Dia de los Muertos artist Ernesto Hernandez Olmos. Sep 1, 11am. Sonoma Community Center, 276 East Napa Street, Sonoma. 707.938.4626. Tai Chi Class David Mac Lam teaches classic Yang-style and Taoist-style meditation. Mon, 11am. $8$10. Whistlestop, 930 Tamalpais Ave, San Rafael. 415.456.9062.

Readings Aqus Cafe Sep 3, 6:15pm, Amuse-ing Monday with Rivertown Poets, featuring poets Kathleen Winter and Brian Martens, followed by open mic. 189 H St, Petaluma 707.778.6060. Book Passage By-the-Bay Aug 29, 6pm, “Tough Girls” with Carolyn Wood. Sep 5, 7pm, “A Documentary History of the United States” with Alexander Heffner. 100 Bay St, Sausalito 415.339.1300. Driver’s Market Aug 30, 7pm, Second Chances, poet Paul Geffner reads a selection of favorite poems,

his own and others. 200 Caledonia St, Sausalito 415.729.9582. Napa Bookmine Aug 29, 5pm, “Japan: The Cookbook” with Nancy Singleton Hachisu. 964 Pearl St, Napa 707.733.3199. Napa Main Library Aug 29, 7pm, “Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear” with Kim Brooks. Sep 5, 7pm, “A Rumbling of Women” with Anne Grenn Saldinger and Nancy Levenberg. 580 Coombs St, Napa 707.253.4070. Oxbow Commons Sep 1, 11am, “Down by the River” with Andrew Weiner and April Chu. McKinstry St, Napa 707.257.9529.

Theater All’s Well That Ends Well Bring blankets and picnics to enjoy Shakespeare by the PetalumaRiver, presented by Petaluma Shakespeare Company. Through Sep 2. petalumashakespeare.org. Foundry Wharf, 625 Second St, Petaluma, petalumashakespeare.org. Cabaret Cinnabar Theater opens their 2018-19 season with the infamous musical set in a pre-WWII Germany nighhtclub. Aug 31-Sep 23. $25-$40. Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. 707.763.8920. The Comedy of Errors Bring a picnic dinner and watch this comical Shakespeare play outdoors in the nearby Cannery ruins. Through Sep 2. $18$36. 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa. 707.523.4185. Henry IV, Part 1 Curtain Theatre celebrates its 19th summer with one of Shakespeare’s most enduringly popular plays, full of comedy, action and memorable characters. Through Sep 9, 2pm. Free. Old Mill Park, Throckmorton and Cascade, Mill Valley, curtaintheatre.org. Savage Wealth Two brothers seeking to sell their inherited lake-view Tahoe home run into several hilarious obstacles in this world premiere comedy. Aug 31-Sep 16. $15-$30. Main Stage West, 104 N Main St, Sebastopol. 707.823.0177. The Spy Who Killed Me Get a Clue Productions hosts an interactive and humorous murder-mystery dinner theater experience. Fri, Aug 31, 7pm. $68 (includes meal). Charlie’s Restaurant, Windsor Golf Club, 1320 19th Hole Dr, Windsor, getaclueproductions.com.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2018145046. The following individual(s) are doing business: RS HAULING AND RECYCLING METAL SERVICES, 22 FAIRFAX STREET # F, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: RULAMAN EMILIO SANTOS, 22 FAIRFAX STREET # F, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on JULY 25, 2018. (Publication Dates: August 8, 15, 22, 29 of 2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 144949. The following individual(s) are doing business: COSMOPROF, 770 W. FRANCISCO BLVD., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: BEAUTY SYSTEMS GROUP LLC, 3001 COLORADO BLVD., DENTON, TX 76210. This business is being conducted by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on JULY 10, 2018. (Publication Dates: August 8, 15, 22, 29 of 2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMEN—File No: 2018-144956. The following individual(s) are doing business: SAMDI BUILDING SERVICES AND CONSTRUCTION CLEANING, 140 CAPTAIN’S COVE DRIVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: MARIO A SAMPERIO, 140 CAPTAIN’S COVE DRIVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on JULY 10, 2018. (Publication Dates: August 8, 15, 22, 29 of 2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 145167. The following individual(s) are doing business: 1. BELTAINE RISING 2. BELTANY RISING 3. BEALTAINE RISING, 10 GOLF AVENUE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: SACRED PATHS TO LIGHT, LLC, 10 GOLF AVENUE, SAN RAFAEL CA 94903. This business is being conducted by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on AUGUST 13, 2018. (Publication Dates: August 15, 22, 29, September 5 of 2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 144944. The following individual(s) are doing business: CHE CHE Y CO., 24 EL PORTAL DR., GREENBRAE, CA 94904: CHE CHE Y CO. LLC, 24 EL PORTAL DR., GREENBRAE, CA 94904. This business is being conducted by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on JULY 9, 2018. (Publication Dates: August 15, 22, 29, September 5 of 2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 145133. The following individual(s) are doing business: COLBY COMMUNICATIONS, 115 MARTENS BLVD, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: ELIZABETH Y. DARBY, 115 MARTENS BLVD, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on AUGUST 7, 2018. (Publication Dates: August 15, 22, 29, September 5 of 2018)

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Trivia answers «5 1. Christo (Javacheff ), from

Bulgaria, and his wife, JeanneClaude, from Morocco. (Thanks to Kevin Brooks from San Rafael for the question.)

2. Vodka 3. William Jefferson Clinton 4. Cattle. Out West, steer are

raised for meat. Back East, milkproducing cows predominate.

5. Spain borders Gibraltar,

scientist Count Alessandro Volta (1745–1827)

8. Kinky Boots 9. Colgate’s (Ribbon Dental

Cream)

10.

Royal Ascot; in fact, she has owned some of the winning horses over the years. BONUS ANSWER: Socrates

a. b. Impiety to Athens, for

and Morocco is about 10 miles away, across the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea

corrupting the youth by teaching them to question tradition

Coconut palm tree—the coconut is the seed!

Sentenced to death, by drinking hemlock

7. Volt, after the Italian

d. Plato

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PublicNotices individual(s) are doing business: HYPNOTIK BAY AREA, 13 WORDSWORTH CT., MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: YOLANDA G LEMAITRE CORP., 13 WORDSWORTH CT., MILL VALLEY, CA 94941. This business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on JULY 17, 2018. (Publication Dates: August 15, 22, 29, September 5 of 2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 145142. The following individual(s) are doing business: MT. BURDELL MARKETING SOLUTIONS, 1192 SIMMONS LANE, NOVATO, CA 94945: JAIR BENTO DA SILVA, 1192 SIMMONS LANE, NOVATO, CA 94945, LORI CHITWOOD, 1192 SIMMONS LANE, NOVATO, CA 94945. This business is being conducted by A MARRIED COUPLE. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on AUGUST 8, 2018. (Publication Dates: August 15, 22, 29, September 5 of 2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 145084. The following individual(s) are doing business: MARIN PERIODONTICS/ NORTHBAY PERIODONTICS/ SAN FRANCISCO PERIODONTICS/BAY AREA RECONSTRUCTIVE PERIODONTICS, 450 SUTTER, #2018, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108: HAMED H. JAVADI, DDS. MS, INC, 450 SUTTER, #2018, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is being conducted by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on JULY 30, 2018. (Publication Dates: August 22, 29, September 5, 12 of 2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 144871. The following individual(s) are doing business: SALAZAR REGISTRATION SERVICES, 851 IRWIN STREET SUITE 200C, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: SALAZAR REGISTRATION SERVICES INC, 851 IRWIN STREET SUITE 200C, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant will begin transacting business

under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on JUNE 26, 2018. (Publication Dates: August 22, 29, September 5, 12 of 2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 145212. The following individual(s) are doing business: SKY UNLIMITED LLC, SKY UNLIMITED, JIXIBEE. COM, 107 BIRCH WAY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: SKY UNLIMITED LLC, 107 BIRCH WAY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. This business is being conducted by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on AUG 21, 2018. (Publication Dates: August 29, September 5, 12, 19 of 2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 145200. The following individual(s) are doing business: DG JANITORIAL SERVICES, 819 RINCON WAY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: DORIS GALLO, 819 RINCON WAY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on AUG 17, 2018. (Publication Dates: August 29, September 5, 12, 19 of 2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 145201. The following individual(s) are doing business: SEARS HOME & LIFE, 190 DONAHUE STREET, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: SEARS, ROEBUCK AND CO., 3333 BEVERLY RD, HOFFMAN ESTATES, IL 60179. This business is being conducted by CORPORATION. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on AUG 20, 2018. (Publication Dates: August 29, September 5, 12, 19 of 2018)

OTHER NOTICES STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT FROM USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME—File No: 304836. The following person(s) has/ have abandoned the use of a

fictitious business name(s). The information given below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the Marin County Clerk-Recorder’s Office on November 11 2013, Under File No: 133530. Fictitious Business name(s) HEADLINES SALON & SPA, 1547 4TH STREET, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: JOYCE SCHEER, 248 KNIGHT DRIVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901, CRAIG SCHEER, 248 KNIGHT DRIVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Marin County on July 19, 2018 (Publication Dates: August 8, 15, 22 and 29 of 2018)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 1802828 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS 1. Petitioner (name of each): Mischa Reuben Nachtigal, Christina Marie Vaughn has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Mischa Reuben Nachtigal to Proposed Name: Mischa Reuben Von Nachtigal, Present Name: Christina Marie Vaughn to Proposed Name: Christina Marie Von Nachtigal 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. if no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING a. Date: 10/5/2018, Time: 9:00am, Dept: A, Room: A. The address of the court is same as noted above; 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. 3.a. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the Pacific Sun, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin. DATED: AUG 10, 2018 Stephen P. Freccero Judge of the Superior Court James M Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By C Lucchesi, Deputy (August 15, 22, 29, September 5 of 2018)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 1802766

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS 1. Petitioner (name of each): Victoria E. Vatman has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Victoria E. Vatman to Proposed Name: Victoria Charles 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. if no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING a. Date: 10/5/2018, Time: 9:00am, Dept: B, Room: B. The address of the court is same as noted above; 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. 3.a. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing

on the petition in the Pacific Sun, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin. DATED: AUG 7, 2018 Roy O. Chernus Judge of the Superior Court James M Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By C Lucchesi, Deputy (August 15, 22, 29, September 5 of 2018)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 1802722 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS 1. Petitioner (name of each): Miguel Caamal has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Noah Eliu Lopez to Proposed Name: Noah Eliu Caamal, Present Name: Christina Marie Vaughn to Proposed Name: Christina Marie Von Nachtigal 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes

the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. if no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING a. Date: 9/27/2018, Time: 9:00am, Dept: E, Room: E. The address of the court is same as noted above; 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. 3.a. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the Pacific Sun, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin. DATED: AUG 02, 2018 Paul M. Haakenson Judge of the Superior Court James M Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By T Jones, Deputy (August 22, 29, September 5, 12 of 2018)

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I met somebody online, and we have a real connection, but he is agoraphobic and hasn’t really left his bedroom for 10 years. I have a job and a life, so it’s hard to keep up with his barrage of messages. However, it seems unfair to bail on dating him just because he has this condition. What causes agoraphobia? Is it treatable?—Wondering

It can be really romantic to spend the entire weekend in bed with a man—but only when you don’t have to spend every other day of the month there, too. The term “agoraphobia” starts with “agora,” the word for the ancient Greek version of a ginormous open-air shopping mall and outdoor auditorium. However, agoraphobia is not simply a fear of big open spaces. Agoraphobics also fear (and avoid) unfamiliar environments and situations that leave them feeling as though their safety is beyond their control—like being in a crowd of strangers with little room to move. (To an agoraphobic, a free pass to Coachella is like a coupon for a free hour of electric shocks at a CIA black site.) Additionally, the “my duvet is my continent!” lifestyle (in severe cases of agoraphobia) can develop out of a fear of having these dreaded situations trigger a panic attack. Evolutionary psychologist and psychiatrist Randolph Nesse explains that panic, a form of fear, appears to be an “adaptive” reaction—meaning that it evolved to protect us—driving us to flee from “life-threatening danger.” It does this by kicking off a “coordinated pattern” of changes in the body, emotions and behavior. In the body, panic causes your adrenaline to surge, ramping up your energy. Your lung capacity increases and your blood flow gets redirected—away from your brain and to your arms and legs, so you can kickbox somebody into submission or (if you got a D in ninja school) run for your life. Mentally, panic turns you “Aaah! Lemme outta here!”– centric. As Nesse explains it, “The mind becomes focused on finding escape routes. If none are obvious, anxiety rises quickly,” and there’s an “overwhelming” motivation to seek shelter in protective places and be near protective people (like “trusted relatives”). If you’re staring down a lion or an angry mob, this response will help you survive. And Nesse notes that “mild ‘normal’ agoraphobia seems” to be a reaction akin to “fear of leaving the home range in territorial animals, a situation fraught with danger in the wild.” However, extreme agoraphobia, says Nesse—like that experienced by your friend—seems to be an over-functioning of a survival mechanism, an excessive response leading to the avoidance of not just meaningful danger but the stuff of normal day-to-day life. But there is hope for agoraphobics. Clinical psychologist Michelle Craske reports that the mind and body can often be successfully retrained through a form of cognitive behavioral therapy. It’s called exposure therapy, and it involves a therapist gradually and repeatedly exposing a patient to something they’re irrationally afraid of (like spiders, social rejection or leaving their bedroom). These experiences can eventually lead patients to see that their fear is unfounded and, in time, to react more rationally, both consciously and in subconscious physical reactions. So, for example, going to the grocery store would eventually give rise to the bodily reactions of any other tedious to-do list item, as opposed to the adrenalized reactions that go with being chased down the cereal aisle by a guy with a bloody axe. The thing is, this is a long process—often rife with setbacks—and you aren’t this guy’s doctor. As for your notion that it’s unfair to nix a relationship with him because of his condition, you seem to be conflating sticking by a person you love—that “in sickness and in health” marriage vow thing—with doing it for a person you hope to love. You may also be falling prey to the “sunk cost fallacy.” This is a cognitive bias—an error in reasoning—that leads us to irrationally decide to continue an endeavor based on how much we’ve already invested in it. But that prior investment is gone. The rational way to assess whether to continue is to see what we’d get out of any future investment. In other words, you should only consider this guy a viable prospect for a boyfriend if you’re willing to sign on for the day-to-day reality—a relationship that takes place entirely in his bedroom, save for the occasional exotic vacation to the living room. Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon at 171 Pier Ave. #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or email adviceamy@aol.com. @amyalkon on Twitter. Weekly radio show, blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon.

Astrology

For the week of August 29

ARIES (March 21–April 19) In Alice’s

Adventures in Wonderland, our heroine encounters a talking caterpillar as he smokes a hookah on top of a tall mushroom. “Who are you?” he asks her. Alice is honest: “I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.” She says this with uneasiness. In the last few hours, she has twice been shrunken down to a tiny size and twice grown as big as a giant. All these transformations have unnerved her. In contrast to Alice, I’m hoping you’ll have a positive attitude about your upcoming shifts and mutations, Aries. From what I can tell, your journey through the Season of Metamorphosis should be mostly fun and educational.

TAURUS (April 20–May 20) Juan Villarino

has hitchhiked over 2,350 times in 90 countries. His free rides have carried him over 100,000 miles. He has kept detailed records, so he’s able to say with confidence that Iraq is the best place to catch a lift. Average wait time there is seven minutes. Jordan and Romania are good, too, with 9- and 12-minute waits, respectively. In telling you about his success, I don’t mean to suggest that now is a favorable time to hitchhike. But I do want you to know that the coming weeks will be prime time to solicit favors, garner gifts and make yourself available for metaphorical equivalents of free rides. You’re extra magnetic and attractive. How could anyone could resist providing you with the blessings you need and deserve?

GEMINI (May 21–June 20) One of the big stories of 2018 concerns your effort to escape from a starcrossed trick of fate—to fix a long-running tweak that has subtly undermined your lust for life. How successful will you be in this heroic quest? That will hinge in part on your faith in the new power you’ve been developing. Another factor that will determine the outcome is your ability to identify and gain access to a resource that is virtually magical even though it appears nondescript. I bring this to your attention, Gemini, because I suspect that a key plot twist in this story will soon unfold. CANCER (June 21–July 22) Potential new allies are seeking entrance to your domain. Existing allies aspire to be closer to you. I’m worried you may be a bit overwhelmed; that you might not exercise sufficient discrimination. I therefore urge you to ask yourself these questions about each candidate. 1. Does this person understand what it means to respect your boundaries? 2. What are his or her motivations for wanting contact with you? 3. Do you truly value and need the gifts each person has to give you? 4. Everyone in the world has a dark side. Can you intuit the nature of each person’s dark side? Is it tolerable? Is it interesting? LEO (July 23–August 22) While a young man,

the future Roman leader Julius Caesar was kidnapped by Sicilian pirates. They proposed a ransom of 620 kilograms of silver. Caesar was incensed at the small size of the ransom—he believed he was worth more—and demanded that his captors raise the sum to 1,550 kilograms. I’d love to see you unleash that kind of bravado in the coming weeks, Leo—preferably without getting yourself kidnapped. In my opinion, it’s crucial that you know how valuable you are, and make sure everyone else knows, as well.

VIRGO (August 23–September 22) Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran loved the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. “Without Bach, God would be a complete second-rate figure,” he testified, adding, “Bach’s music is the only argument proving the creation of the universe cannot be regarded as a complete failure.” I invite you to emulate Cioran’s passionate clarity, Virgo. From an astrological perspective, now is an excellent time to identify people and things that consistently invigorate your excitement about your destiny. Maybe you have just one shining exemplar, like Cioran, or maybe you have more. Home in on the phenomena that in your mind embody the glory of creation. LIBRA (September 23–October 22) I foresee the withering of a hope or the disappearance of a prop or the loss of leverage. This ending may

By Rob Brezsny

initially make you feel melancholy, but I bet it will ultimately prove beneficent—and maybe lead you to resources that were previously unavailable. Here are rituals you could perform that may help you catalyze the specific kind of relief and release you need: 1. Wander around a graveyard and sing songs you love. 2. Tie one end of a string around your ankle and the other end around an object that symbolizes an influence you want to banish from your life. Then cut the string and bury the object. 3. Say this 10 times: “The end makes the beginning possible.”

SCORPIO (October 23–November 21)

“If a man treats a life artistically, his brain is his heart,” wrote Oscar Wilde. I’ll translate that into a more complete version: “If a person of any gender treats life artistically, their brain is their heart.” This truth will be especially applicable for you in the coming weeks. You’ll be wise to treat your life artistically. You’ll thrive by using your heart as your brain. So I advise you to wield your intelligence with love. Understand that your most incisive insights will come when you’re feeling empathy and seeking intimacy. As you crystallize clear visions about the future, make sure they are generously suffused with ideas about how you and your people can enhance your joie de vivre.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22– December 21) “My tastes are simple,” testified Sagittarian politician Winston Churchill. “I am easily satisfied with the best.” I propose that we make that your motto for now. While it may not be a sound idea to demand only the finest of everything all the time, I think it will be wise for you to do so during the next three weeks. You will have a mandate to resist trifles and insist on excellence. Luckily, this should motivate you to raise your own standards and expect the very best from yourself. CAPRICORN (December 22– January 19) Russian playwright Anton Chekhov articulated a principle he felt was essential to telling a good story: If you say early in your tale that there’s a rifle hanging on the wall, that rifle must eventually be used. “If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there,” declared Chekhov. We might wish that real life unfolded with such clear dramatic purpose. To have our future so well-foreshadowed would make it easier to plan our actions. But that’s not often the case. Many elements pop up in our personal stories that ultimately serve no purpose. Except now, that is, for you Capricorns. I suspect that in the next six weeks, plot twists will be telegraphed in advance. AQUARIUS (January 20–February 18) Would it be fun to roast marshmallows on long sticks over scorching volcanic vents? I suppose. Would it be safe? No! Aside from the possibility that you could get burned, the sulfuric acid in the vapors would make the cooked marshmallows taste terrible and might cause them to explode. So I advise you to refrain from adventures like that. On the other hand, I will love it if you cultivate a playful spirit as you contemplate serious decisions. I’m in favor of you keeping a blithe attitude as you navigate your way through tricky maneuvers. I hope you’ll be jaunty in the midst of rumbling commotions. PISCES (February 19–March 20) People

will be thinking about you more than usual, and with greater intensity. Allies and acquaintances will be revising their opinions and understandings about you, mostly in favorable ways, although not always. Loved ones and not-so-loved ones will also be reworking their images of you, coming to altered conclusions about what you mean to them and what your purpose is. Given these developments, I suggest that you be proactive about expressing your best intentions and displaying your finest attributes.

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