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Letters Trump,Trump,Trump
Contrary to what one previous reader predicted will happen (“Letters to the Editor, July 17, 2019), the chief racist, rapist, treasonous Trump will take a dump in the next election. The people in the United States by an overwhelming margin will elect a democratic president who can bring back honor, truth, and civility to the White House. They want a president who will instigate human treatment of migrants coming across the border, offer Medicare for all, a living wage and labor rights, free college for those who want it, renewable energy, clean water in Flint, hold Wall Street accountable and tell the truth. I predict on the day of the inauguration, the second the Democratic president is sworn in and Trump becomes an ordinary citizen, a team of FBI agents will descend on Trump, arrest his sorry ass, and carry him off in handcuffs in front of the millions watching on television and in front of millions of cheering citizens watching at the National Mall. Greg Turner Via PacificSun.com Instead of just venting our shock and anger at President Trump, we must remember President Trump's hateful comments are nothing original or unique. Even our nation's greatest president, Abraham Lincoln, was quoted at a meeting with white farmers as saying he didn't believe whites and blacks were equal. The human race is now dangerously divided into many conflicting groups of people: Men and women are barely able to talk together without strongly disagreeing on almost all important issues of life. Many Americans accuse Russia's president of being the most dangerous leader in the world.
And, we often accuse someone who is even sympathetic with Russia, China or North Korea of being a traitor. India and Pakistan are also ready for war at any moment. And, younger and older people rarely speak with each other (forget about becoming friends) unless they are part of the same family. The current division and turmoil in our nation must become a reminder that humankind cannot survive much longer without seeing that our divisions are not the essence of who we are. Deep down our differences are trivial. Rama Kumar Fairfax By spouting hate-filled rhetoric over the past week, President Trump is successfully obscuring some very disturbing activities that would upset the public if they knew about them. He is also creating a dangerous environment, especially for the four congresswomen who are the objects of his attack. Trump's Environmental Protection Agency, for example, should be renamed "The Environmental Destruction Agency." Trump's first administrator of the EPA, Scott Pruitt, resigned in disgrace. Andrew Wheeler was then appointed to be administrator of the EPA. Mr. Wheeler is currently also serving as vice president to "The Washington Coal Club," an organization that meets monthly at Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. to discuss coalrelated topics. This is just one example of how the loudmouth occupant of the White House is clearly controlling the narrative in order to ram through some very questionable, sometimes illegal, goals. Let's not lose focus amidst the smokescreen of tweets. Nadia Silvershine San Rafael
Dr. Itoco Garcia has experienced the benefits and downsides of being a person of color in Marin County public schools.
The Defiant Ones Marin educators fight to close the ‘achievement gap’ By Tom Gogola
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r. Itoco Garcia has experienced the best and the worst of Marin County first-hand when it comes to education and discrimination. Garcia, two months into his new post as superintendent of the Sausalito–Marin City School District, attended public school in Mill Valley and graduated from Mt. Tamalpais High School in the early 1990’s. He’s a “mountain kid” who grew up in the shadow of Mt. Tam, in Mill Valley before going on to get his doctorate.
“I owe a lot to the public education that I received in Marin,” says Garcia. “I got a private-school education in a public school setting.” He recalls his first semesters at U.C. Berkeley where he was routinely in classes with students from Exeter and other toptier prep schools. Yet Garcia felt like he had a leg up on those classmates, and credits his Marin education, which brought him from Homestead Elementary to Old Mill School in Mill Valley to Mt. Tam high. “That being said,” adds Garcia, “I had a lot of experiences here growing up
where I didn’t feel very included, or that were outright discriminatory— inside and outside of school, and sometimes with law enforcement.” That two-track experience, says Garcia, whose parents are Colombian and Scottish-English, “really inspired me when I made the decision to be an educator.” It’s an experience that continues to be a part of the Marin education landscape: The county’s the state leader when it comes to the achievement gap between white students and students of color. Garcia, 45, returns to Marin »6
By Nikki Silverstein
San Rafael granted more rights to renters last week with two new ordinances: mandatory mediation and cause for eviction. Mandatory mediation is triggered when a landlord increases rent by more than 5 percent during a 12-month period. Either the landlord or tenant may request the mediation, which is conducted by a neutral third party. While the mediation is mandatory, the proposed resolution from the process is not binding. Cause for eviction protects tenants by providing a clear process for evictions and lease terminations. Landlords can only evict renters for certain reasons, including failure to pay rent, breach of rental contract, tenant illegal activities, threat of violent crime and nuisance behavior. A shout-out to the Marin Organizing Committee for lobbying San Rafael to pass the new ordinances. The grassroots community activists at MOC recently assisted tenants in two complexes in the Canal district when landlords attempted hefty rent increases. In both cases, compromises were reached. We wish the mandatory mediation ordinance had more teeth and required binding mediation, but it’s a great beginning to help tenants in a pricey housing market. More info at cityofsanrafael.org/departments/ renters-landlords/. A concerned citizen phoned the Marin sheriff Sunday afternoon to report a Zero who was driving recklessly near Sir Francis Drake and Bon Air Road. He ran stop signs and weaved through traffic until a deputy in the area found the car and pulled it over. The driver had allegedly been drinking, which prompted the deputy to contact CHP to conduct a field sobriety test. Guess what? He failed miserably. In fact, he was reportedly driving when he was in excess of three times the legal limit. In broad daylight. Instead of calling Uber for a ride home, he managed to hitch a ride with a cop to the Marin County jail. 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
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hen Katy Foster and Erin Ashley set out to create a new charter school in San Rafael several years ago, they were intent on bridging student achievement gaps and addressing suspension rates in the county that routinely eclipse the state average. The women wanted to bring restorative practices to their school, and they envisioned a diverse high school that prioritized building social and emotional skills for students. They emphasized trauma-informed educational practices in their pedagogy—and they recognized that excluding kids from class, suspending them for being defiant, was feeding in to a sense of exclusion among minority students, many from minority communities already dealing with, for example, a constant sense of fear over being deported. “We came with an eye for a trauma-informed school and we know that excluding students is retraumatizing them,” says Foster. Community and district pushback stymied the proposed Ipso School. The women appealed to the county to see if there was another avenue to execute their mission. There was. They approached Marin Schools Superintendent Mary Jane Burke who told the women that she had just the school in mind for them to execute their program. Enter the Phoenix Academy, Marin’s first charter (it’s been around since 1995), which has historically been a place for students struggling with addiction.
Burke sought to bring their model into the Marin system she oversees. “I brought an idea for a charter schools program into Marin’s Community School [MCS] because I believed in the purpose and the vision of the program,” she says, “but the charter school petition needed to be denied. Now, we have a thriving program modeled after what would have been a charter school.” The school operates in tandem with MCS, the county’s community program that serves Marin students who’ve been referred there because of attendance problems or because they’d otherwise face expulsion. The end of defiance suspensions, says Foster, has put the onus on teachers and administrators to “try other options”— including so-called “restorative community” practices, where students are held to account for their behavior within the school and community, instead of being suspended. Foster says reform efforts implemented at Phoenix over the past two years are paying off. “We built upon the work that was happening before to implement new structures to increase the rigor,” she says, while also emphasizing restorative practices which have, she says, helped drive down suspensions by nearly two-thirds in the third quarter of 2018 compared to the previous year. California’s the nation’s leader when it comes to the number of charter schools and students—some 1,300 charters operate in the state at last count. One of the persistent critiques of the charter phenomenon is that the schools can create, enhance, or at least lend an impression among parents that there’s two-tier public school system where some students are stuck in the regular public school, while other, higher-performing students go to the charter. They’ve been criticized for a lack of public accountability and for embodying the “neoliberal” drive to leverage public-private partnerships wherever those opportunities exist. Burke has met the charter challenge head-on and oversees a district that sees the benefits of charters—but would just as soon they were enfolded into the main of Marin’s educational system. “Charter schools were designed to offer a parental choice for their child’s education,” Burke says. “I believe that each parent should have the right to determine the best environment for their child and family. That said, I do believe that we have amazing traditional public schools in Marin
County and encourage parents to consider our schools as a viable option.” She favors solutions such as the Phoenix model: “We also have many specialized programs within our existing schools that operate as a ‘school-within-a-school,’ which is my preference as opposed to creating another school.” Garcia’s taking over a Marin district where the rates of suspension have ticked downward over the past couple years—but are still higher than the state average. “Both schools have made significant progress in reducing suspensions,” he says, “and they’ve made significant gains in improving the school culture and climate.” Restorative practices are a key to
keeping kids in their classroom seats, Garcia adds, but “you need a system and a structure to improve the school’s climate and culture as well as the restorative practices.” And you need a state that’s willing to change its policies. “There were many schools in California that were being investigated” says Garcia of the end of the defiance suspensions, “and getting Office of Civil Rights complaints because there were disproportionate numbers of African American, Hispanic and special needs students being suspended. The disproportionate number of suspensions were often on this defiance charge.” Y
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A Greenbrae youth, Phillip Schoenwetter, 20, won along with his college roommate the first prize in a national contest for picking the time when the first man would set foot on the moon. He wasn't WEEK surprised. He and his roommate had submitted 80,640 entries, covering every 15-second time segment on the 28 days NASA said such a feat was likely. The most they could have missed the time was by 7.5 seconds; they missed by 5. Their prize is a two-week, all expenses paid trip to anywhere (on earth). They will probably go skiing in Switzerland and indeed started looking forward to the trip the minute they shipped off their entries. It cost them $66 to print and mail the duplicate entry blanks. —July 23, 1969
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The 101 Movies, Marin's last drive-in theater, which opened 17 years ago, has lost its lease and will close in the fall. Manager Neal Meyer says the owners of the property near the Northgate Industrial Park WEEK have plans for a residential development nearby and feel the drive-in is not compatible with homes. Though still big in southern California, drive-in movies across the country are becoming scarce due to rising land costs and stricter zoning. The county's other drive-in, Marin Movies in San Rafael, shut down in 1977 after 25 years of providing a refuge for teen-age romance and baby-sitter-free evenings for young marrieds. —Charles Brousse, July 20, 1979
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So a parent has to look at the odds that the DPT vaccine will kill his child or cause brain damage, and compare them to the odds that without the vaccine, pertussis will kill his child or cause brain damage. WEEK According to [chief of immunization for the State Department of Health Services Dr. Loring] Dales, your child will probably get away with skipping the vaccine — as long as no one else does. “Well, if everyone else is [having their child vaccinated], you can almost have your cake and eat it too," says Dales, estimating that more than 99 percent of California children receive the vaccine. "But if more than 10 or 15 percent stop [getting vaccinated]... well, pertussis is a highly infectious disease. It's just the high immunization levels that keep more kids from getting it." —Greg Cahill, July 21, 1989
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For me this month is special because of the Tour de France. The threeweek-long bike race has been marred by allegations that the top bike racers are using performance-enhancing drugs, but I still think it's WEEK the greatest sporting event in the world. One of the highlights during the first week in July occurred as I sat in a mission district bar and watched the TV coverage of American Lance Armstrong winning the prologue... Knowing Armstrong was coming back to the Tour after his life-threatening bout with testicular cancer made watching his victory all the more sweet. Suddenly I wanted to be out on my bike sprinting toward a finish line. —Deborah Crooks, July 21, 1999 Compiled by Alex T. Randolph
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After fouling earth, humans are now making a mess of space, says writer Jeff Dondero.
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Jeff Dondero, 70, is a former Marin County resident and journalist who wrote for the “Pacific Sun,” the “Marin Independent Journal” and other papers in the 1970s. He now lives in Rohnert Park. “I probably worked for every suburban paper in Marin County,” he says in an interview with the ‘Pacific Sun.’ Along the way he became interested in green construction and sustainability issues. He published “The Energy Wise Home” and “The Energy Wise Workplace” in 2017. He takes on America’s trash problem in
“Throwaway Nation: The Ugly Truth About American Garbage,” published this year by Rowman & Littlefield. “We’re the first generation that’s literally burying ourselves in our own crap,” he says of his fellow baby boomers. An avid sailor, he says our trash is piling up in the oceans, too. “You can’t go anywhere on the ocean without seeing our garbage.” And human refuse doesn’t stop on earth. As he writes in “Throwaway Nation,” space itself is now cluttered with our trash. The moon alone has 400,000
pounds of trash on it, and space junk abounds in the outer atmosphere, putting what Dondero sees as the imminent space tourism industry on a collision course with interstellar trash. He paints a grim picture, but holds out hope that the same technological savvy and push for profit that created these mountains of trash will convert our waste into new resources. “We have to plan, but we’re trying to catch up from decades of abuse,” he says. “It’s everybody’s responsibility.” —Stett Holbrook
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f we were guests, we would have been asked to leave. As proprietors, our property value would have plummeted. As groundskeepers, we would have been fired. Just because we are the dominant species doesn’t mean we own the place and can be passive guests. We have the responsibility to leave it for those who come next. We have influenced conditions on this planet throughout its history— and objectively not for the better. It seems that it wasn’t enough to befoul just the planet; now we are also leaving our left-behinds in space and on other planets.
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“We’re the first generation that’s literally burying ourselves in our own crap,” says Dondero.
and lay waste to the sky as well as the earth. — Henry David Thoreau. The good news is that no one has ever been injured or killed due to falling space junk. The bad news is that unless we clean up our extraterrestrial neighborhood, space travel, especially in orbit, is very likely going to be deadly. In space are thousands of collisions with space junk waiting to happen. We are responsible for the mess of “orbital debris” that we left by accident, neglect, or design, and dumped on the moon and Mars—our newest extraterrestrial “spacefills.” Humans have a real nasty habit of discarding their stuff wherever they go. According to NASA, hundreds of millions of pieces of space debris are now floating through our region of the solar system. Elon Musk is the newest name in contributing to the junkyard of space. He may be a way-cool space entrepreneur, but he’s debuting in space as a high-class litterer, contributing to the accumulation of space scrap in the next phase in Earth’s interplanetary journeys. In 2018, SpaceX, Musk’s company, launched a cherry-red Tesla
Roadster and its dummy “driver,” Star Man, on its Falcon Heavy rocket, blasting David Bowie’s “Life on Mars” on its way to Mars orbit. We don’t mean to be a spoil-spacesport about this, but come on—the car isn’t exactly going to be “draggin’ the cosmos” and doing hot laps on the red planet. The moon, our next-door neighbor, has felt the negligent hand of humans with our various detritus, including astronaut poop and barf bags. This, of course, has conservationists very concerned about the moon’s protection should further trips there be undertaken. At present Tranquility Base is still tranquil, as there is not any wind or rain up there to damage or blow things around or, at the moment, any more tourists to leave things behind. But it looks as if not much thought has been given to protection of our rocky satellite or laws enacted regarding its protection. As yet, only California and New Mexico have recognized the moon as an international historic sight, and for now, it isn’t recognized as a historic landmark or considered a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO). In 2009 NASA, and The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an arm of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies, convened a space junk wake-up call. The team took a hard look at the issues and challenges of de-cluttering space of human-made orbital rubble. But whatever the method, it’s time we started to clean up our act. Maybe that’s why we haven’t had direct contact with any extraterrestrial beings—they just can’t stand our mess.
Fish to Farm to Table to Trash People don’t know whether to be astonished, ashamed or amused when it comes to the magnitude of food that Americans throw away. No other country in the history of the world has the ability to raise, produce, eat and toss out as much as we do. Mothers still shake fingers at their children admonishing fussy eaters, “Just think of all the children in the
world that are starving and would love this food you’re wasting.” Of course, most of us answered, “OK, send it to them.” Fact is, mom was right. And so were we, kind of, because we export more food than any other nation on Earth, more than $135 billion each year. All levels of the food system are riddled with waste—farming, harvesting, transportation, packaging, wholesale and retail marketing, and finally our tables. Food waste levels are 20 to 25 percent of manufacturing, 15 to 20 percent of retail sales and 55 to 65 percent from consumers. The truth is there’s enough food to feed every single person in America if we can help farmers, manufacturers and retailers get the food to the people who need it. That’s why the Feeding America network and its partners work with farmers and food companies to rescue food and deliver it to families facing hunger. Things could be changing on the food waste front, with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the EPA setting the first-ever national food waste reduction goal, aimed at cutting national food waste in half by 2030.
Food facts and figures: • Less than 1 percent of pesticides applied to crops reach the pest, the rest poison the ecosystem. Each year 25 million people are poisoned by pesticides in lessdeveloped countries and over 20,000 die. • One-third of the world’s fish catch and more than onethird of the world’s total grain output are fed to livestock— the most wasteful way to produce protein. It takes 175 gallons of water to produce an eight-ounce soy burger, and a whopping 450 gallons of water to produce a quarterpound beef burger. [Grassfed beef, however, is far less water intensive]. • About 50 percent more food is wasted today per person than in the mid-1970s and more than two-thirds of the food we throw away is edible. • Food is so cheap and available to most families that they
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Trendy to Trash It’s high irony that the industries that produce haute couture; flawlessly colored and perfectly cosmetized faces and hair; and impeccably lighted, posed, and glossy high-fashion photos are also industries whose dirty secrets are hidden in clothes closets. The fashion industry (including cosmetics) is the second-dirtiest business in the world, right after oil and petroleum products, with rampant production schedules and unconscionable recycle rates. A lot of power is needed to produce 150 billion-plus articles of clothing each year and most of the countries where those garments are produced use coal for their energy source. This helps to explain why the apparel industry is responsible for 10 percent of all carbon waste emissions globally. According to a 2013 report cited by Esquire magazine, the global apparel industry produced enough garments in 2010 to provide 20 new articles of clothing for every person on the planet. The incredible 500 percent increase in worldwide clothes production since the 1990s is due largely to teenagers and trendy “fast fashion.” Today, the fashion industry and the culture of throwaway clothing it has inspired have produced some startling statistics. The average American throws away more than 82 pounds of textiles per year. We’re buying more than 80 billion new items of clothing each year in this country, much of which is not being reused, recycled or repurposed.
According to Dondero, about 50 percent more food is wasted today per person than in the mid-1970s and more than two-thirds of the food we throw away is edible.
Thinking Inside and Outside the Box Who hasn’t experienced “wrapping rage” trying to dislodge some desired doodad from the bondage of a heat-sealed plastic blister pack clamshell or other encasement? What’s worse is that over-packaging mania accounts for a third of the waste thrown away in the United States. And, less than 14 percent of plastic packaging, which is the fastest-growing form of packaging, gets recycled. Packaging adds twenty-nine million tons of nonbiodegradable waste to landfills every year. Americans use 100 billion plastic bags a year, which require 12 million barrels of oil to manufacture. Of all the plastic problems people face, the aggravating single-use plastic bag is the baddie. There was recently a kind of a test case for bagging the problem in California. The state has been in the lead for many ecological causes in the past. Proposition 67, a plastic bag law, was passed in 2016.
And the ban seems to be working. In San Jose the storm drain systems are 89 percent cleaner and streets and creeks have been reported as 60 percent cleaner. In Los Angeles County, the ban resulted in a 94 percent reduction in single-use bag use. In Alameda County, officials reported finding 433 plastic bags, compared to 4,357 in 2010. Monterey County reported even better news, with volunteers discovering only 43 plastic bags while performing their clean-up efforts, compared to 2,494 in 2010. So, either people are so cheap that they’re using fewer bags because they have to buy them, or they’re getting the message about plastic pollution, or a little of both. Then there’s the question of recyclability. Plastic juice pouches and drink boxes are generally not recyclable. The 1.4 billion Capri Sun pouches thrown away every year laid end-to-end would reach nearly halfway to the moon. NRDC joined the Make It, Take It campaign (a coalition of organizations devoted to waste recycling and resource conservation) to ask companies like Kraft, which produces and distributes Capri Sun, to use recyclable, reusable
or compostable packages for beverages. They have made comments about an effort to recycle, but when asked if they plan to improve their packages or efforts to improve the sustainability of their product, CapriSun declined to comment. Eight in 10 Americans are now shopping online, accounting for about 10 percent of all retail sales, and just about all products arrive in cardboard boxes. Every day at the Recology plant in San Francisco, approximately 625 tons of recyclables, including more than one hundred tons of cardboard, are collected, and the amount of plastic film has increased for eleven consecutive years. Plastic film recycling—a category that includes flexible product wraps, bags, and commercial stretch film made primarily from polyethylene (PE)—has increased nearly 84 percent since the first report was issued in 2005. China, our best customer for garbage, is setting new limits on the contamination it will allow in mixed paper bales that American trash companies ship for recycling. “They’ve started getting more rigorous, even tearing open bales at customs,” said Chaz Miller, policy director for the National Waste & Recycling Association. Because the income from exporting our garbage to China often subsidizes the cost of some neighborhood garbage collection programs, taking less of America’s used paper will cause our bills to collect, recycle, or dispose of it, to rise. And guess what—many of the items we order online are made in China and come in recycled cardboard boxes from paper material bought from the United States.
Opening Pandora’s Pharmacy There’s a persistent and pervasive, high-priced illness in America today. It’s the overly expensive, overly prescribed and incredibly wasteful amount of American medicine made available to the public under and over the counter, in concert with doctors and America’s big pharma. It’s hand in hand in glove with one of the worst effects of modern medical technology—the belief that whatever ails us, taking a pill will kill it no matter the cost or waste.
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throw out up to 25 percent of their food and beverages. This can cost the average family between $1,365 and $2,275 annually. A study by the University of Arizona found that 14 percent of the food trashed in America was not even unpackaged. A 20 percent reduction in food waste would be enough to feed 25 million Americans. Five percent of Americans’ leftovers could feed four million people for one day. Between 40 and 50 percent of wasted food uses up 25 percent of all fresh water in the United States. It costs $750 million to dispose of food thrown away annually.
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The California Department of Cannabis Control aims to persuade consumers to only buy from state-approved outlets with new campaign.
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The average American takes about 12 medications annually compared to seven 20 years ago. Back then, spending on drugs totaled about 5 percent of the total US health care costs, now it’s more like 17 percent. Spending on prescription medications has increased by a knockout of $200 billion in two decades. We take a total of 2.9 billion trips annually to purchase retail over-thecounter (OTC) products. On average, U.S. households spend about $338 per year on OTC products. This amounts to tens of billions of dollars spent on vitamins, supplements, diet pills, cold cures, herbal remedies and other medicaments—providing incredible economic benefits to the companies that manufacture them. Part of the growth of the almost half-trillion-dollar medical industry was brought about by waste—both in over-prescribing by the pharmaceutical and medical industry and in the discarding of medicine by consumers.
Lamentably, methods of drug waste disposal are causing a major health hazard. Consumers aren’t the only ones tossing their drugs down the drain or in the garbage. The Associated Press estimates hospitals and long-term medical care institutions across the United States dump 250 million pounds of pharmacologically active drugs that can have severe effects on humans and wildlife directly into public sewer systems each year. A study published in the BMJ concluded Medicare and private insurers, as well as patients, pay companies about $1.8 billion a year for medications that are thrown away—that’s 10 percent of drug companies’ projected 2016 revenue of $18 billion. Add another $1 billion to doctors and hospitals as price markups on those discarded medications. Those profits would not exist if companies sold vial sizes more in line with the needs of patients, researchers suggest, and the problem is not unique to cancer drugs. Y
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re you Weed Wise? The state of California hopes you already have the cannabis smarts. In case you don’t, there’s a new campaign called Get #WeedWise that comes with a $1.7 million budget for online ads and billboards that will read “Support the Legal Marketplace. The Difference is Clear.” and “Find legal retailers at CApotcheck.com.” Curiously, or perhaps not, the state is using the words “weed” and “pot” and not cannabis. There’s more cannabis in California now than ever before and many ways to buy it. Lori Ajax, who heads the Bureau of Cannabis Control, doesn’t like the black market and those not playing by the rules and paying taxes. To combat the illegal market, Sacramento has a three-pronged strategy. First, cut off the product at its source. In June, law enforcement agents raided hundreds of unlicensed marijuana grows in Riverside, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties where they confiscated tons of processed weed and hundreds of thousands of plants still in the ground. Second, the state announced it will increase the number of licenses for legal dispensaries, cut the associated red tape and streamline the process. Third, Ajax and her agency have launched a public education
campaign to persuade consumers to only buy from state-approved outlets. “We believe this campaign will directly impact consumer safety by clarifying that only cannabis purchased from licensed retailers has met the state’s safety regulations,” she said in a statement. Ajax added that the “education campaign was meant to send a clear message to unlicensed businesses that they need to get licensed or shut down.” For the last few years, cannabis education has come largely from the private sector. Until Prop 64 passed, the state couldn’t offer education; that could have been interpreted as encouragement to break the law. But it’s now a dire situation. If Sacramento doesn’t act, the underground economy will only grow bigger. Will Ms. Ajax’s strategy work? Maybe the stick is what’s needed. Expect more raids and more confiscation of crops. Meanwhile, “Weed Wise” seems less motivated by compassion and concern for the health of consumers and more driven by the desire for tax revenue and eagerness to control the cannabis juggernaut. Jonah Raskin is the author of “Dark Day Dark Night: A Marijuana Murder Mystery.”
SAUSALITO
Big Top Fun
Each summer, Flynn Creek Circus brings an internationally award-winning cast of performers to an intimate setting at several locations in the North Bay, and this year’s show is another spectacle of vintage theater. Go down the rabbit hole with a new production, “Out of Hat,” that finds a sinister magician trying to get their revolutionist bunnies under control with hilarious results. See magic, juggling, acrobatics and more when Flynn Creek Circus sets up the big top Thursday to Sunday, Jul 25-28, at Marinship Park, Sausalito. Times vary. $11-$50. f lynncreekcircus.com.
SAN RAFAEL
Bike party Now in its 20th year, the San Rafael Sunset Criterium is more than a bicycle race, it’s an all-day carnival of critical mass-like crowds of pedal-pushing partying. Downtown San Rafael turns into a racetrack for bikes, and professional riders and amateurs alike take to the streets to ride throughout the afternoon while fans cheer them on from the view of local restaurants and businesses. There’s also a massive beer garden and bike expo on hand and all the action commences on Saturday, Jul 27, Fourth Street, San Rafael. 1pm. Free. sanrafaelsunset.com.
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Head to It San Francisco artist Rodney Ewing delves into the topic of race in his works on paper, and Los Angeles artist Kori Newkirk transforms everyday materials into sculpted investigations into the human condition. See both artists in their current home at the Artist Reception & Sunday Supper at the Headlands Center for the Arts. See works-in-progress, meet the artists and mingle with fellow art lovers at the reception and head into the Mess Hall for a family style supper on Sunday, Jul 28, at HCA, 944 Fort Barry, Sausalito. Reception, 4pm; Free. Supper, 6:30pm; $40. Headlands.org.
MILL VALLEY
Rock Cult Last year, San Francisco legends Monks of Doom released their first new record of post-punk rock ‘n’ roll in 25 years with the adventurous, aggressive and audacious LP, “The Brönte Pin, ” returning to their signature alternativerock pulsing with dystopian paranoia and mind-melting psychedelic sounds. Originally emerging in the late ‘80s, Monks of Doom remains an enigmatic presence in the Bay Area music scene and is best seen live for the full, untamed experience on Sunday, Jul 28, at Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley. 7pm. $14-$16. 415.388.3850.
—Charlie Swanson
Rock and roll friends Stephanie Finch and Chuck Prophet share the stage for a cookout concert on Sunday, Jul 28, at HopMonk Tavern in Novato. See clubs & venues, pg 20.
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Cargo bikes come in all shapes and sizes in ‘Motherload.’
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Share the Load Fairfax filmmaker looks into the two-wheeled revolution of cargo bikes By Charlie Swanson
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or Liz Canning, bicycles were a way of life. The Fairfax-based film editor once used her bike for everything, even commuting to the city, but when she had twins in 2008, her bike was replaced by a minivan. “I suddenly couldn’t ride my bike, and I hadn’t ever been a driver,” says Canning.
Feeling trapped by her dependence on cars and fossil fuels, Canning looked into family bikes and discovered the cargo bike. First introduced in Denmark and now popular in Europe and elsewhere, cargo bikes are designed to transport heavy loads with either front or back units attached to the bike. Additionally, electric assist
bikes help riders carry the load up hills or long distances. “I discovered people all over not only using cargo bikes, but getting really excited about it,” Canning says. After ordering a cargo bike from a shop located in Portland, Ore., in 2011, her life changed. “Suddenly, getting around was actually fun,” she says. “I thought,
this is really accessible, this could go mainstream.” Canning took on the cargo bike as the subject of her debut documentary and crowdsourced the project to gather footage from those around the world who use cargo bikes in their life. After several years of compiling the film, Canning released Motherload this past April, and the film recently screened at the Smith Rafael Film Center. It’s also set to screen at several film festivals later this year, and anyone can host a screening by purchasing a community screening package. In the film, Canning introduces audiences to characters like Buffalo, N.Y.-based couple Brent Patterson and Stacy Bisker (pictured), who were struggling to pay off student loans and medical bills when they traded in their car for a cargo bike to save money. The couple were surprised by the joy they felt performing everyday tasks like grocery shopping, simply due to riding the bike. Another figure in the film is Portland-based, mother-of-six Emily Finch, who peddled a 500pound bike with six kids in tow and became a minor celebrity in town. That celebrity-status came with backlash, and the film looks into the way American stigmas continue to push back against bikes in favor of cars. Motherload also turns the clock back to look at the role bicycles historically played as tools for social revolution. Bikes have empowered the poor for over a hundred years and were used as tools to network and protest during movements— like women's suffrage—of the early 20th century. Today, bikes continue to offer a way to disconnect from the financial strain of automobiles and to empower a cultural shift away from pollution and its effects on climate change. “The main thing that inspired me to make this film and go about it the way that I did, is that once people give this lifestyle a try, they are overwhelmed by what it does for their life,” Canning says. “What they discover in their community, what they discover about their need to move their body, to feel the wind in their hair and the sun on their face—it’s really transformational.” ‘Motherload’ is playing in limited release. Host a screening by signing up at motherloadmovie.com.
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The Gentlemen Soldiers are an Irish-music mainstay in the North Bay.
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Sláinte! Gentlemen Soldiers march to an Irish beat By Charlie Swanson
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rawing from his Irish heritage and punk upbringing, Sonoma native and multiinstrumentalist Tony Gibson feels right at home when he’s fronting folk-rock revivalists the Gentlemen Soldiers on stages and at festivals throughout the Bay Area. “We’re a fun band, we really enjoy performing for people, but we also enjoy each other onstage,” says Gibson. The band’s been an Irish-music institution for nearly a decade, and now they’re sizing up a proper debut album—slated for release later this year—and making July feel like March when they perform in Novato on July 26 and in Petaluma on July 27.
Gibson, who moved back to the North Bay after working in the Southern California music business in the early 2000s, started the band in 2011 with high school friends and musicians Marcos Garcia (guitar and vocals) and JB Duff (drums and vocals) as a way to celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day at Murphy’s Irish Pub in Sonoma. “We decided we wanted to put a sort of Pogues-ish band together,” Gibson says. “We spent the first three years grinding through the Sonoma music venues. Eventually, we took a direction forward to playing throughout the Bay Area.” The group recruited bassist Emily Froberg a few years back and plays
a mix of traditional and modern Irish songs and other folk tunes with an upbeat rhythm and acoustic instrumentation accompanied by stirring harmonies. While this sound made them a mainstay on North Bay stages for eight years, they weren’t able to commit to a recording until now. “We’re all in different bands as well, and Marcos and I work day jobs and Emily and JB are full-time musicians,” Gibson says. ”It’s the kind of thing where a record gets put on the backburner, but as of last summer, we slowly and surely have been making a record. It’s been a long time coming.” Furthermore, Gibson is looking
ahead musically and plans to write more original material and fill out the band’s live sound. Having learned mandolin in addition to guitar, he’s now practicing Irish Bouzouki, which lies somewhere between the two instruments. “We’ve got a little bit of everything,” Gibson says, of the music. “It’s rowdy, but it’s playful. It’s a good time; and in times like these, it’s good to seek out good times.” Gentlemen Soldiers play on Friday, Jul 26, at Finnegan’s Marin (877 Grant Ave., Novato. 9pm. Free. 415.899.1516) and Saturday, Jul 27, at the Big Easy (128 American Alley, Petaluma. 8pm. 707.776.7163.
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Tracy Edwards (left) and her 1989 yacht race with an all-female crew is the subject of a new documentary.
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Bon Voyage ‘Maiden’ maps out historical yacht race By Richard von Busack
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aiden, a documentary about the first allfemale yacht crew to participate in the Whitbread Race in 1989-90, dwells upon the emotional state of the captain. The camera stays with the Maiden’s captain, Tracy Edwards, now 56. The tears come, as she tries to compose herself. She apologizes, tells the director she really promised herself she wouldn’t break down. This movie tries to make you cry. And, it often succeeds.
The race is a serious undertaking: 167 days long and 30,000 nautical miles, in 6 stages. It begins with a stretch from England to the coast of Uruguay. Then, the racing yachts round the Cape of Good Hope, skirt the icebergs off Antarctica’s coast— taking advantage of the speed granted by the gales of the “Roaring Forties”—and arrive in Freemantle, Western Australia. From there, they sail to New Zealand. Then around Cape Horn, then north to Ft. Lauderdale and back to England. The vastness of this trip is equal to
the vast condescension Edwards and her team faced. In her early days as a yachtsperson, Edwards found neither a position on a crew, nor support for her dream of sailing on her own. “Girls are for when you get into port,” one yachtsman assured her. The rank sexism even included the media covering the race. (The Guardian’s Bob Fisher referred to the Maiden, in print, as “a tin full of tarts.”) It’s as if the boating community was 30 years behind the times, even in 1989. Count the number of times you hear Edwards told to
“smile” by a photographer. See her referred to as “a slip of a girl” by her contemporaries. Witness the number of times someone talks to her like they want to pat her on her little head. One marvels at the legions of men out there who really want to grind a proud woman down. There’s a particularly affecting moment during the Maiden’s poor performance in the New Zealand-to-Florida leg (caused by a leak in the boat off the coast of Argentina—serious enough that the Maiden had an RAF rescue plane on standby from the Falklands). To deflect attention from their late arrival, the ladies decided to sail into harbor in Florida wearing skimpy bathing suits, a gesture Edwards has regretted for 30 years. Director Alex Holmes’ film is very clear on what Edwards was trying to prove and how hard she worked to prove it. Home movies and primitive video demonstrate the vastness and loneliness of the sea. The trip was an exercise in sleep deprivation, with four hours on watch, four hours off. And, as Edwards says repeatedly, “The ocean is always trying to kill you. It never takes a break.” The problem with Maiden is something handled more deftly in The Raft, a documentary about a transatlantic voyage with a mostly female crew which was conducted as a peculiar psychological experiment. In Maiden, we don’t get a sense of the friction onboard, nor the technical requirements of such a voyage, nor of the boat itself. The focus is on Edwards (a life coach these days). The loss of her father ended an idyllic British childhood. Her mother married again, to a vicious drunk. The young girl dropped out of school, ran away to Greece and drifted into the sailor’s life. We see what she was trying to overcome. What we don’t have are good anecdotes about what it takes to be a sea cook—we only get occasional references, such as a passing note about smelling land after weeks at sea, and diplomatically understated English intimations of the strife aboard the boat. We don’t even learn if a subsequent team of women ever tried the Whitbread race. Stirring as Maiden is, it lacks all the Melvilleian tidbits that make for a detailed picture of a sea voyage. ‘Maiden’ is playing in limited release.
By Matthew Stafford
Friday July 26-Thursday Aug 1 The Art of Self-Defense (1:44) Darkly subversive comedy about a nebbish who gets more than he bargained for when he takes self-defense classes at a weirdly masculine karate studio; Jesse Eisenberg stars. Booksmart (1:45) Coming-of-age comedy about two high school brainiacs who make up for lost time (not to mention drinking, drug use and strong sexual content) the night before graduation. Carmine Street Guitars (1:20) Affectionate tribute to Greenwich Village luthier Rick Kelly, who’s been crafting guitars out of ancient Adirondack pine reclaimed from equally ancient New York buildings since the 1970s. Crawl (1:207) Horror thriller about a father and daughter trapped in a Florida crawlspace as floodwaters rise and gators come a-chomping. The Farewell (1:38) Acclaimed comedydrama about an impromptu Chinese wedding staged so its far-flung family can gather around their dying grandmother one last time. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2:14) Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham are back, badder than ever and taking on cybergenetic superman Idris Elba; Helen Mirren costars. 42nd Street (2:35) Sparkling new stage production of the classic Warren-Dubin musical about a down-on-his-heels producer struggling to put on a show during the Great Depression. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Masterpieces (1:36) Documentary focuses on eight of Wright’s architectural treasures including Wingspread, Fallingwater, Auldbrass and Cedar Rock. Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies (2:00) Catch the Dead’s legendary 1991 Giants Stadium concert in extra-glorious 48-track surround sound as they bewitch the crowd with “Truckin’,” “China Doll” and other raves. Heavy Water (1:35) Documentary focuses on surfin’ sensation Nathan Fletcher and other members of the surfing community as they search for perfect waves. Kathy Griffin: A Hell of a Story (1:20) The controversial comic is captured in concert for the first time since that careerderailing picture of her and D. Trump. Kiki’s Delivery Service (1:43) Hayao Miyazaki anime about a 13-year-old witch’s misadventures in a charming seaside city; Kirsten Dunst, Debbie Reynolds and Phil Hartman vocalize. The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2:01) Wistful, poetic drama about a Fillmore native struggling to remain in his rapidly gentrifying home town. Late Night (1:42) TV talk show superstar Emma Thompson gets a dynamic dose of sisterhood when she hires Mindy Kaling as her first female staff writer.
LETO (2:06) Russian drama set in Leningrad’s underground rock music scene on the eve of Perestroika; Kirill Serebrennikov directs. The Lion King (1:58) “Live-action” CGI reimagination of Disney’s cartoon classic about an African lion cub’s journey of self-discovery; Donald Glover, Alfre Woodard and James Earl Jones vocalize. Maiden (1:33) Eye-opening documentary looks back at the 1989 Whitbread yacht race, the all-woman crew of the Maiden and their grueling 32,000-mile ’roundthe-world triumph. Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love (1:37) Documentary lingers on the Greek isle of Hydra circa 1960, where Marianne Ihlen, Leonard Cohen and other artists, writers and musicians created an idyllic expat bohemia. Midsommar (2:20) Two unwary Americans find themselves in a rural Scandinavian summer-fest where the spookiness is as unrelenting as the sunshine. The Muppet Movie (1:38) Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear and the rest of the gang head to Hollywood and hobnob with the likes of Bob Hope, James Coburn, Mel Brooks and Orson Welles! National Theatre London: The Lehman Trilogy (4:00) Live from the West End it’s Stefano Massini’s epic tale of the Lehman Brothers dynasty from 19th century New York to its 2007 collapse and the financial catastrophe that followed. National Theatre London: Small Island (3:20) Direct from the National Theatre stage it’s Andrea Levy’s dovetailing saga of colonial Jamaica during WWII. Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (2:41) Rambling ambling Quentin Tarantino Cannes fave about an aging TV action star and his stunt double in the New Hollywood of 1969; Leo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt star. Pavarotti (1:55) Ron Howard’s tribute to the opera superstar features insightful interviews, seldom-seen footage and dazzling performances newly restored in Dolby Atmos. Sea of Shadows (1:45) Thriller of a documentary follows a group of scientists, journalists and Mexican agents as they take on drugrunners and Chinese gangsters wreaking environmental havoc in the Sea of Cortez. Spider-Man: Far from Home (2:09) Spidey brings his arachnid act to Europe, weaving his web in search of Continental bad guys; Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson and Michael Keaton star. Stuber (1:45) Uber dork Kumail Nanjiani finds himself in the middle of an escalating laff-filled nightmare when his passenger turns out to be an undercover cop on a case.
Aladdin (PG) The Art of Self-Defense (R)
Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:45, 1:45, 4:45 Sequoia: Fri 4:15, 6:50, 10:40; Sat 1:15, 4:15, 6:50, 10:40; Sun 1:15, 4:15, 6:50; Mon-Wed 4:15, 6:50; Thu 4:15 Avengers: Endgame (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Wed 7:20 The Biggest Little Farm (NR) Rafael: Fri 12:15, 2:15, 4:15, 6:15; Sat 12:15, 2:15, 6:15; Sun 12, 4:45, 6:45; Mon-Tue 6:15; Wed 4:15, 6:15; Thu 4:15 Booksmart (R) Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:55, 1:40, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Rafael: Sat 4:15 (master luthier Tom Ribbecke in person) • Carmine Street Guitars (NR) Crawl (R) Northgate: Fri, Sat, Tue 10:10, 12:35, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10; Sun 10:10, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10; Mon, Wed 10:10, 12:35, 2:55, 10:10 Echo in the Canyon (NR) Rafael: Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 8:15; Sun 8:30 Regency: Fri-Sat 11:15, 12:30, 1:45, 3, 4:15, 5:30, 6:45, 8, 9:15; • The Farewell (PG) Sun-Wed 11:15, 12:30, 1:45, 3, 4:15, 5:30, 6:45, 8 • Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (PG-13) Fairfax: Thu 7, 9:55 Northgate: Thu 7, 10:15, 11 Rowland: Thu 7, 8:30, 10:05 Lark: Tue 6:30 • 42nd Street (PG) • Frank Lloyd Wright’s Masterpieces (NR) Rafael: Sun 2 (filmmaker Michael Miner in person) Rafael: Thu 7:30 • Grateful Dead Meet-Up (NR) Heavy Water (NR) Lark: Wed 6:30 Regency: Wed 7 • Kathy Griffin: A Hell of a Story (R) Northgate: Sun 12:55; Mon, Wed 7 • Kiki’s Delivery Service (G) The Last Black Man in San Francisco (R) Regency: Fri-Sat 10:45, 1:35, 4:35, 7:30, 10:25; Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:20 Late Night (R) Lark: Fri 1:30; Mon 8:40 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:50, 2:30, 5:15, 7:55, 10:30 LETO (NR) Lark: Fri 3:45; Sun 7:30; Mon 6:15; Wed 8:30 The Lion King (PG) Cinema: Fri-Wed 12:50, 7, 10:05; 3D showtime at 3:55 Fairfax: Fri-Wed 11:45, 12, 12:15, 12:30, 3:15, 3:30, 3:45, 6:50, 7, 9:30, 9:45 Northgate: Fri-Wed 9:30, 10:15, 11, 12:30, 1:15, 2, 3:30, 4:15, 5, 6:30, 7:15, 8, 9:30, 10:15; 3D showtimes at 11:45, 2:45, 5:45, 8:45 Playhouse: Fri-Sat 11:30, 12, 12:30, 2, 3, 4:30, 6:05, 7, 8:45, 9:35; Sun-Thu 11:30, 12, 2, 3, 4:30, 6:05, 7 Regency: Fri-Sun 10:30, 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:50; Sun-Wed 10:30, 1:20, 4:10, 7 Rowland: Fri-Sun 10:20, 11:55, 12:40, 1:20, 2, 2:45, 4:10, 4:50, 5:35, 7, 8:25, 9:50, 10:30, 3D showtimes at 9:05, 11:10, 7:40; Mon-Wed 10:20, 11:55, 1:20, 2, 2:45, 4:10, 4:50, 5:35, 7, 8:25, 9:50, 10:30, 3D showtimes at 9:05, 11:10, 7:40 Maiden (NR) Rafael: Fri-Sun 12:30, 2:30, 4:30, 6:30, 8:30; Mon-Tue 6:30, 8:30; Wed-Thu 4:30, 6:30, 8:30 Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love (R) Regency: Fri-Mon 11, 4:55; Tue 11; Wed 11, 4:20 Midsommar (R) Northgate: Fri-Wed 12:10, 3:35, 6:55, 10:15 The Muppet Movie (G) Regency: Tue 7 National Theatre London: The Lehman Trilogy (PG-13) Lark: Sat 1; Thu 6:30 • National Theatre London: Small Island (NR) Lark: Sun 1 Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (R) Fairfax: Fri-Wed 11:30, 2:30, 3, 6:15, 6:30, 9:45, 9:50 Larkspur Landing: Fri 6, 9:40; Sat-Sun 10:45, 2:20, 6, 9:40; Mon-Thu 6:15, 9:45 Northgate: Fri-Wed 9:50, 11:30, 1:30, 3:15, 5:10, 7, 8:55, 10:35 Playhouse: Fri-Sat 12, 3:15, 6:30, 9:40; Sun-Thu 12, 3:15, 6:30 Regency: Fri-Sat 12:15, 3:45, 7:15, 10:45; Sun-Wed 10, 12, 4, 7:30; Thu 12, 4, 7:30 Rowland: Fri-Sun 10:30, 2:20, 6:10, 7:10, 10; Mon-Wed 10:30, 2:20, 6:10, 10 Sequoia: Fri 3:45, 7:15, 9:20; Sat 12:45, 3:45, 7:15, 9:20; Sun 12:45, 3:45, 7:15; Mon-Wed 3:45, 7:15; Thu 3:45 Pavarotti (PG-13) Lark: Fri 6:20; Sat 10, 8; Sun 5; Mon-Tue 1:30; Wed-Thu 4 Rocketman (R) Lark: Fri 8:45; Sat 5:30; Sun 10; Mon-Tue 3:50; Wed-Thu 1:30 Rafael: Fri-Sun 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8; Mon-Tue 5:45, 8; Wed-Thu • Sea of Shadows (NR) 3:30, 5:45, 8 The Secret Life of Pets 2 (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Wed 10, 12:20, 2:40, 5:05 Spider-Man: Far from Home (PG-13) Fairfax: Fri-Wed 12:50, 4, 7:10, 9:55 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 7, 10; Sat-Sun 11:45, 3, 6:15, 9:30 Northgate: FriWed 9:40, 12:50, 4, 7:10, 10:20 Rowland: Fri-Wed 9:50, 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 10:10
Stuber (R)
Toy Story 4 (G) Yesterday (PG-13)
Northgate: Fri-Wed 7:50, 10:20 Rowland: Fri-Sun 9:40, 4, 10:45; Mon-Wed 10:10, 12:35, 3, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 6:45, 9:15; Sat-Sun 11:15, 1:45, 4:20, 7, 9:50 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:35, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 Rowland: Fri-Wed 9:10, 11:40, 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 9:45 Fairfax: Fri-Wed 6:45, 9:55 Larkspur Landing: Fri, MonWed 6:30, 9:30; Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:20, 6:30, 9:20 Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:35, 1:35, 4:35, 7:35, 10:35 Regency: Fri-Sat 2:05, 7:45, 10:35; Sun-Mon 2:05, 7:45; Tue 2:05; Wed 1:30 Rowland: Fri-Wed 10:40, 1:30, 4:20, 7:25, 10:20
We have omitted some of the movie summaries and times for those that have been playing for multiple weeks.
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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Katie Wickes
Claudia Shapiro (center) and the chorus have fun spelling in ‘Legally Blonde: The Musical.’
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Summer School ‘Legally Blonde’ keeps it light in Novato By Harry Duke
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he chances of Legally Blonde: The Musical showing up on anyone’s list of “great American musicals” are as likely as the chances of a UCLA sorority president with a bachelor’s in fashion merchandising really being admitted to Harvard Law School. Based on the 2001 novel by Amanda Brown and film starring Reese Witherspoon, it’s the theatrical equivalent of cotton candy—colorful and sweet, but a bit lightweight. The Marin Musical Theatre Company is running a production through July 28. Elle Woods (Claudia Shapiro) was dumped by her lawyer-to-be boyfriend Warner (Jeremy Kaplan) and does what any red-blooded American girl
would do—she decides to follow him to law school and win him back. She crams for the LSAT, brings a bunch of cheerleaders to her Harvard interview and wins admission after she explains love brought her there. Despite being treated like a laughingstock, Elle finds a friend in teaching assistant Emmett Forrest (Tyler Gable). With his help, she winds up on a legal team headed by stern Professor Callahan (Nelson Brown) as he defends exercise queen Brooke Wyndham (Alison Peltz) against a murder charge. Will Elle pull a Perry Mason and make a prosecution witness crack under cross-examination? More importantly, will she succeed in winning Warner back, or will she find her soul mate in
the sensitive Emmett? The answers are pretty (in pink) obvious. Director Jenny Boynton’s energetic cast of young folk and stage veterans carries the light load. Shapiro successfully blends her character’s cheerful optimism with her vulnerability, though one wonders what she ever saw in the shallow Warner. Gable is nicely understated as the one person at Harvard who sees Elle’s potential, and more. A subplot involving a lovelorn hairdresser (Dani Innocenti Beem), her ex (Victor Schutz), their dog Rufus (Molly Malone Wesley Dog) and a UPS driver (Schutz again) provides some of the show’s biggest laughs. Laughs also arrive via the Laurence O’Keefe-and-Nell Benjamin score
with “There! Right There!” which attempts to musically answer the question of a key witness’s orientation—is he gay or European? It was one of the few ensemble numbers with audible lyrics, as Jeff Paul and the orchestra regularly overpowered the vocals. Sound design is not this show’s strong suit. Like a trip to the county fair, Legally Blonde: The Musical provides a pleasant summer evening of fun and entertainment. Marin Musical Theatre Company’s ‘Legally Blonde: The Musical’ runs through July 28 at the Novato Theater Company Playhouse, 5420 Nave Drive, Ste. C, Novato. Friday & Saturday, 7:30 pm; Sunday, 2pm. $27–$50. 800.838.3006. marinmusicals.org.
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After entering recovery for substance abuse, ReTHINK founder George Haymaker craved sugar. Sugar-free ice cream was the result.
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Rethinking Ice Cream Napa entrepreneur enters the dessert fray without sugar By Tanya Henry
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t’s difficult to find anyone who doesn’t like ice cream. Between chefs introducing unlikely flavors such as olive oil and sea salt and black sesame seed, to the overflowing freezer shelves in our supermarkets, it’s clear we’re a nation obsessed with the creamy, luscious dessert. But ice cream also contains a lot of sugar, and George Haymaker decided to create a healthier option. Haymaker spent much of his career working in the hospitality industry. A food and beverage director for a large hotel chain and an operating partner for an upscale burger concept The Counter, he also struggled with alcoholism and drug
addiction—a common occupational hazard in his line of work. “When I went into recovery, after my battle with drug and alcohol abuse, my body screamed out for the sugar that was suddenly gone from the absence of alcohol,” explained Haymaker. In an effort to decrease his sugar intake without giving up something he loved, Haymaker experimented with a basic ice cream recipe. He worked with a food scientist who helped him perfect the flavor and texture he wanted and eventually began selling his ice cream at local farmers markets in and around Napa, where he lives. Before long he had eight flavors, and in one short
year his healthier indulgence (it’s low-glycemic certified) was in 200 stores in the Bay Area. I first tasted ReTHINK Ice Cream for a Healthy Lifestyle at a tradeshow, where I discovered and sampled the flavors Vanilla Supreme, Lemon Poppyseed and Turmeric Ginger. Along with well-balanced flavors—I was most impressed by the creamy texture—the mouthfeel was just right. And, I didn’t miss the sugar. The flavors were bright, and instead of the sometimes-cloying ice cream experience, this version allowed the flavors to shine without the heavy sweetness. Instead of sugar, agave syrup is used as a sweetener, and whey protein and green tea extracts
are also in the mix to improve the nutritional value of ReTHINK Ice Cream. It’s fitting that National Ice Cream Day is celebrated this month and is likely one of the reasons we, as a nation, consume almost 50 pints of the good stuff, per person, annually. It’s also the day ReTHINK was launched one year ago, and now the Napa-based ice cream maker is taking advantage of the anniversary to introduce its newest flavor Black Cherry Vanilla. In Marin County, ReTHINK is available at Whole Foods, Nugget Market, Mill Valley Market and other Marin County locations.
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COME TOGETHER NOW! Cheer for our winning NORBAYS bands! Awards, happy hour specials, photos and fun! Party at: BEAR REPUBLIC BREWING LAKESIDE 5000 Roberts Lake Road Rohnert Park
Mad Fritz aims to brew beer with terroir.
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ou may know the story about the fox and the grapes. In a nutshell: fox can’t get grapes, so fox disparages grapes as sour. Fewer know the one about the firkin and the mill. Mad Fritz Brewing Company’s eclectic label designs depict scenes from Aesop’s Fables, such as the
story about the fox and the grapes, as re-imagined in a series of 17th century prints. Bohemian readers liked them so much, they voted Mad Fritz “best beer label in Napa” in the 2019 Reader’s Poll. But there’s more to the story than a pretty picture. Brewer Nile Zacherle has been working toward the ideal of making a beer of true terroir, or as he calls it, “origin beer,” since he founded the brewery in St. Helena a half decade ago. That means the hops are, increasingly, locally sourced, and the barley, if it’s not from a small, Colorado or Pacific Northwest farm-and-malt house, may even be grown in Napa Valley. Does it make a difference? Of course it does. “I like to say, our beers are for the beer nerd,” Zacherle says, quickly adding, “You don’t have to be. But this is a deep dive into beer nerdom.” Zacherle recently opened a tiny tap room in St. Helena behind the Clif Family Velo Vino tasting room on Highway 29 south of town. It’s pretty spare, equipped mainly with beer and record albums. “We’re all about the beer and the vinyl,” says Zacherle. You like IPA, they’ve got IPA: Oast House IPA is made with Columbus hops. Everything here is cask-conditioned, like a home brew, meaning the secondary fermentation—which adds bubbles—happens in the bottle or the keg. There’s a big, fresh, citrusy aroma of Meyer lemon here. This August, Mad Fritz marks its fifth anniversary with a one-of-akind, catered beer fest, that a dozen or so other breweries and wineries will help celebrate. A quick look at the lineup reveals it’s smaller, yet deeper, than your average beer fest—check out Logsdon Farmhouse Ales, for one. The event benefits the Bale Grist Mill, where Zacherle grinds his blue corn. The Larks in the Corn pale ale has an aroma reminiscent of fresh-cooked tortilla, for sure, and although it’s barrel aged, like all Mad Fritz beers, it’s absolutely fox friendly—that is, it isn’t a “sour” at all. Mad Fritz tap room, 1282B Vidovich Ave., St. Helena. Open Thurs–Mon, 12:30–6pm. 707.968.5097. Mad Firkin Fest, Bale Grist Mill State Historic Park, 3369 St. Helena Hwy., St. Helena. August 3, 2019, 1–5pm. $95. madfirkinfest.com.
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Calendar Concerts Danny Click & the Hell Yeahs! Marin rocker plays under the stars as part of the 27th annual Summer Nights series. Jul 27, 6pm. $26-$38; kids are free. Osher Marin JCC, 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael, 415.444.8000. Los Padres Enjoy a family-friendly evening of entertainment with local West Marin musicians. Jul 27, 6pm. $10-$15; kids are free. Dance Palace, 503 B St, Pt Reyes Station, 415.663.1075. Monks of Doom San Francisco band from the late 1980s return to the stage to play off their new record. Jul 28, 7pm. $14-$16. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.3850.
Clubs & Venues Downtown Tiburon Jul 26, 6pm, Friday Nights on Main with Jonathan Poretz. Main St, Tiburon, 415.435.5633. Fenix Jul 25, Evan Thomas Blues Band. Jul 26, Vernon “Ice” Black. Jul 27, Top Shelf. Jul 28, 6:30pm, Pat Wilder Band. 919 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.813.5600. Finnegan’s Marin Jul 26, Gentlemen Soldiers. 877 Grant Ave, Novato, 415.899.1516. Gabrielson Park Jul 26, 6:30pm, the Dylan Black Project. Anchor St, Sausalito, 415.289.4152. George’s Nightclub Jul 28, 5pm, James Moseley Quartet. 842 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.226.0262. Hamilton Amphitheater Park Jul 27, 5pm, Hot Amphitheater Nights with Illeagles. 601 N Hamilton Pkwy, Novato, novato.org. HopMonk Novato Jul 26, Pop Rocks. Jul 27, Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven. Sold-out. Jul 28, 1pm, Cracker. Jul 28, 6pm, Chuck Prophet and Stephanie Finch. 224 Vintage Way, Novato, 415.892.6200. Iron Springs Pub & Brewery Jul 31, Barry Sless and friends. 765 Center Blvd, Fairfax, 415.485.1005. Marin Art & Garden Center Jul 25, 5pm, the Schrammtastics. 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross, 415.455.5260. Marin Country Mart Jul 26, 6pm, Friday Night Jazz with Five Play Jazz. Jul 28, 12:30pm, Folkish Festival with Foxes in the Henhouse. 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur, 415.461.5700. Menke Park Jul 28, 5pm, Victoria George & the High
Lonesome. Redwood and Corte Madera avenues, Corte Madera, 415.302.1160. 19 Broadway Nightclub Jul 25, the Ring. Jul 26, the Fixins. Jul 26, Tom Finch Trio. Jul 27, Robert M Powell & the Rolling Bobs. Jul 28, 5:30pm, Connie Ducey and friends. 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax, 415.459.1091. No Name Bar Jul 25, No Room for Zeus. Jul 26, Michael Aragon Quartet. Jul 27, Fuzzy Slippers. Jul 28, Robert Edmond Stone and friends. Jul 29, Kimrea & the Dreamdogs. Jul 31, Andrew Bosscher and friends. 757 Bridgeway, Sausalito, 415.332.1392. Oak Plaza at Northgate Jul 26, 6pm, Caravanserai. 5800 Northgate Mall, San Rafael, 415.479.5955. Osteria Divino Jul 25, Eric Markowitz Trio. Jul 26, Ian McArdle Trio. Jul 27, Ken Cook Trio. Jul 28, Parker Grant Trio. Jul 30, Classical Revolution with Elektra Schmidt. Jul 31, Kenya Moses. 37 Caledonia St, Sausalito, 415.331.9355. Panama Hotel Restaurant Jul 25, C-Jam with Connie Ducey. Jul 30, Donna D’Acuti. Jul 31, Audrey Moira Shimkas. 4 Bayview St, San Rafael, 415.457.3993. Peri’s Silver Dollar Jul 26, Highway Poets with Darren Nelson & the 421’s. Jul 27, Heath Haberlin and Lex Razon. Jul 28, Takilma. 29 Broadway, Fairfax, 415.459.9910. Rancho Nicasio Jul 26, Todos Santos. Jul 28, 4pm, the Subdudes. 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio, 415.662.2219. Sausalito Seahorse Jul 26, Jake Baker. Jul 27, Marinfidels. Jul 28, 4pm, Candela and DJ Jose Ruiz. 305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito, 415.331.2899. Sweetwater Music Hall Jul 25, Iriefuse with Clear Conscience. Jul 26, Denny Laine & the Moody Wings Band. Jul 31, Victoria George and the High Lonesome. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.3850. The Tavern on Fourth Jul 26, Keith Waters 4tet. Jul 27, the Gold Souls. 711 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.454.4044. Tennessee Valley Cabin Jul 26, Creekside Fridays with the ’85s. 60 Tennessee Valley Rd, Mill Valley, 415.388.6393. Terrapin Crossroads Jul 25, Darren Nelson & the 421’s. Jul 26, Top 40 Friday with Grooveable Feast. Jul 28, Alex Nelson and friends. Jul 29, Grateful Monday with Mark Karan. Jul 30, Davey & the Midnights. Jul 31, Los Gardeners. 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael, 415.524.2773. The Trident Jul 31, 5pm, Stuart Rabinowitsh. 558 Bridgeway, Sausalito, 415.331.3232. William Tell House Jul 26, 6pm, Rory McNamara & the Ring of Truth. 26955 Hwy 1, Tomales, 707.878.2403.
Art Opening Headlands Center for the Arts Jul 28, “Rodney Ewing and Kori Newkirk Exhibit,” see what HCA’s artists in residence have been up to. Reception, Jul 28 at 4pm. 944 Fort Barry, Sausalito. 415.331.2787. Marin Art & Garden Center Jul 26-Sep 14, “In Flight,” exhibit features Sonoma artists Peter Hassen and Dick Morisawa taking philosophical cues from the natural world. Reception, Jul 26 at 4pm. 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross. 415.455.5260.
Comedy Iron Springs Comedy Showcase See four hand-selected comedians while enjoying craft beers. Jul 27, 8pm. Free. Iron Springs Pub & Brewery, 765 Center Blvd, Fairfax, 415.485.1005.
take a hike to where Francis Drake landed. Pre-registration required. Jul 27, 10am. Free. Bear Valley Visitor Center, Bear Valley Rd, Olema, museumsc.org.
Food & Drink Farm-To-Table Experience at Slide Ranch Enjoy a delicious 5-course meal served by chef Gabriel Powers Jul 27, 4pm. $85. Slide Ranch, 2025 Shoreline Hwy, Muir Beach, 415.381.6155. Sunday Supper Seasonal supper is crafted and cooked by Headlands’ chefs and served family style in the historic, artist-renovated Mess Hall. Jul 28, 6:30pm. $40. Headlands Center for the Arts, 944 Fort Barry, Sausalito, 415.331.2787.
Lectures
Jason Love Standup comedian has been seen on HBO, Comedy Central, and “America’s Got Talent!” Jul 27, 8pm. $20-$25. Trek Winery, 1026 Machin Ave, Novato, 415.899.9883.
Harmonious Breathing Workshop Yantra yoga instructor Vicki Sidley teaches breath awareness through gentle movement and yoga postures. Jul 26, 1:30pm. San Rafael Library, 1100 E St, San Rafael, 415.485.3323.
Tuesday Night Live See standup comedians Will Durst, Stuart Thompson, Myles Weber and others. Jul 30, 8pm. $17-$27. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, 415.383.9600.
San Quentin From Then to Now Marin History Museum hosts a talk on the prison’s past and present. Jul 25, 7pm. San Rafael Elk’s Lodge, 1312 Mission Ave, San Rafael, 415.453.1108.
Events Crush MS Summer Celebration & Symposium Napa nonprofit raises funds to support finding a cure for multiple sclerosis during an afternoon featuring the region’s best wine, food, music and more on hand. Jul 27, 2pm. $60-$100. Reid Family Vineyards, 1020 Borrette Ln, Napa, 707.363.3639. Flynn Creek Circus Acrobats, aerialists and daredevils perform in the classic big-top tradition. Jul 25-28. Marinship Park, Marinship Way, Sausalito, flynncreekcircus.com. San Rafael Sunset Criterium Cheer on professional and amateur bicycle races in a fun party setting complete with beer garden and bike expo. Jul 27, 1pm. Free. Downtown San Rafael, Fourth St, San Rafael, downtownsanrafael.org.
Field Trips Owl Wars Look and listen for the owls that call Muir Woods home in a 5-mile dusk hike. Reservations required. Jul 27, 6pm. Free with admission. Muir Woods Visitor Center, 1 Muir Woods Rd, Mill Valley, 415.388.2596. Summer Celebration at Martin Griffin Preserve Enjoy the late-season flowers and warm days with guided hikes and activities and crafts throughout the day. Jul 27, 10am. Martin Griffin Preserve, 4900 Shoreline Hwy 1, Stinson Beach, 415.868.9244. Walking Tour of Drakes Bay Learn about the early European visitors and
Readings Book Passage Jul 25, 7pm, “Maggie Brown & Others” with Peter Orner. Jul 27, 7pm, “Talk to Me” with James Vlahos. Jul 28, 12pm, “Chimes of a Lost Cathedral” with Janet Fitch, literary luncheon includes meal and signed book. $55. Jul 30, 7pm, “The Incendiaries” with RO Kwon. Jul 31, 7pm, “Emperors of the Deep” with William McKeever. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera 415.927.0960. Marin Art & Garden Center Jul 31, 6pm, “The State of Water” with Obi Kaufmann. 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross 415.455.5260.
Theater Crimes of the Heart Ross Valley Players present the Pulitzer Prizewinning play about three sisters trying to escape the past and seize the future. Through Aug 11. $15-$27. Barn Theatre, Marin Art and Garden Center, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross, rossvalleyplayers.com.
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Mind&Body HYPNOTHERAPY Thea Donnelly, M.A. Hypnosis, Counseling, All Issues. 25 yrs. experience. 415-459-0449.
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PublicNotices BBWAX, 447 MILLER AVENUE, SUITE C-1, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: BEST BRAZILIAN WAX MARIN, INC., 447 MILLER AVENUE, SUITE C-1, 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 JUNE 14, 2019. (Publication Dates: JULY 10, 17, 24, 31 of 2019) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT— File No: 147119. The following individual(s) are doing business: FARMACARY FUNCTIONAL FOODS, 1241 ANDERSON DRIVE STE M, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: FARMACARY INC, 1241 ANDERSON DRIVE STE M, 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 27, 2019. (Publication Dates: JULY 10, 17, 24, 31 of 2019) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT— File No: 2019147137. The following individual(s) are doing business: THOUGHT APPAREL, 65 A MIRAFLORES AVE., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: GERMAN F. HERRERA, 65 A MIRAFLORES AVE., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901, DEBORAH B. RODRIGUEZ, 65 A MIRAFLORES AVENUE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP. 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 1, 2019. (Publication Dates: JULY 10, 17, 24, 31 of 2019) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT— File No: 2019147148. The following individual(s) are doing business: MUSHROOM HOUR, 888 4TH STREET, UNIT 4, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: DARREN D. RACUSEN, 314 BAYVIEW ST, 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 3, 2019. (Publication Dates: JULY 17, 24, 31, AUGUST 7 of 2019) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT— File No: 2019147171. The following individual(s) are doing business: 55 SHAVER BUILDING, 1028 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE BLVD., KENTFIELD, CA 94904: HALI A CRONER, 1028 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE BLVD., KENTFIELD, CA 94904. 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 9, 2019. (Publication Dates: JULY 17, 24, 31, AUGUST 7 of 2019) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT— File No: 2019147219. The following individual(s) are doing business: FITZSIMON STEPHEN PLUMBING/STEVE FITZSIMON PLUMBING, 266 MONTE VISTA
AVE., LARKSPUR, CA 94939: STEPHEN G FITZSIMON, 266 MONTE VISTA AVE., LARKSPUR, CA 94939. 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 16, 2019. (Publication Dates: JULY 24, 31, AUGUST 7, 14 of 2019) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT— File No: 147210. The following individual(s) are doing business: COCO VIA SKIN AND BODY STUDIO, 160 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE BLVD UPSTAIRS UNIT, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: BRITTANY EVANS, 117 HAWTHORN 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 JULY 15, 2019. (Publication Dates: JULY 24, 31, AUGUST 7, 14 of 2019) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT— File No: 2019147228. The following individual(s) are doing business: DANDE11ION, 35 WINSHIP AVENUE, ROSS, CA 94957: JI YOUNG DELONG, 32 VALLEY CIRCLE, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941, ALLSION N. SUTHERLAND, 35 WINSHIP AVENUE, ROSS, CA 94957. This business is being conducted by CO-PARTNERS. 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 18, 2019.
(Publication Dates: JULY 24, 31, AUGUST 7, 14 of 2019) OTHER NOTICES NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:Louisa Hendrika Jansen CASE NO.: PR 1901980 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Louisa Hendrika Jansen. A Petition for~Probate~has been filed by: Petra McDaniel, in the Superior Court of California, County of Marin. The Petition for~Probate~requests that: Petra McDaniel be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: 8/19/2019, Time: 9:00AM, Dept.: J, Address of court: 3501 Civic Center Drive, PO Box 4988, San Rafael, CA 94913-4988. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should
appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California~Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California~Probate~Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in~Probate~Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: David T. Chapman, Attorney at Law, Chapman Law Group, A.P.C., 950 Northgate Dr,. Ste 306, San Rafael, CA 94903, 415306-7272. FILED: July 5, 2019 James M. Kim, Court Executive Officer, MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By: K. Yarborough (Publication Dates: July 17, 24, 31 of 2019) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 1902592 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL
INTERESTED PERSONS 1. Petitioner (name of each): Novatila Wangili Hansbrough and John Herndon Hansbrough III, has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Rex Manuel Hansbrough to Proposed Name: Manuel Rex Hansbrough 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: 9/6/2019, 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: July 8, 2019 Stephen P. Freccero Judge of the Superior Court James M Kim, Court Executive Officer, MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By Q. Roar, Deputy (Publication Dates July 24, 31, August 7, 14 of 2019)
By Amy Alkon
Q:
I’m a 27-year-old guy. I’m short and honestly, I’m not that physically attractive. I’m nice, funny and on the fast track in my career. My friends say bluntly that the more money I make, the more women will be interested in me. I’m sure that’s true, but I’m interested in falling in love, not just finding a gold digger. Advice?—Ambitious
A:
It would be nice if there were an easy way to identify the gold diggers— like if they showed up for dates carrying a giant golden shovel instead of a handbag they got on sale at Marshalls. The thing is, a man’s earning power has an effect on kind, loving, generous women, too, to the point that Captain America hunko Chris Evans would likely see a major dive in his sex appeal if he were more, um, Captain Coat Hanger—earning just enough to sleep on a futon in his friend’s walk-in closet. Guys sneer that women are shallow and terrible for caring about how much money men have, while many men would be just fine with dating a starving artist—a seriously hot starving artist, that is. There’s some history—evolutionary history—that explains the looks-versusincome difference in the sexes’ mating priorities. Ancestral women could get stuck with some bigtime costs from having sex: possibly going around pregnant for 9 months (with all the fun of digging for edible roots in between hurling from morning sickness) and then having a kid to drag around and feed. Ancestral men, however, could choose to put way less into the reproducing thing—just dispensing with a teaspoonful of sperm and maybe a parting grunt or two. Men, in turn, evolved to prioritize hotness when seeking mates—features like youth and an hourglass figure that suggest a particular lady would be a healthy, fertile candidate for passing on their genes. And, while partner-seeking ladies of course appreciate a nice view, biologists Guanlin Wang and John Speakman write that women evolved to be more “sensitive to resources that can be invested (in) themselves and their offspring”—as in whether a particular dude could bring home the bison or whatever. Wang, Speakman and their colleagues explored the impact of “resources”—that is, a person’s economic status—on their physical appeal to the opposite sex. They showed research participants in China, the U.S., the U.K. and Lithuania a stack of cards with images of silhouetted bodies of the opposite sex with varying levels of attractiveness and had them rank the images from most attractive to least attractive. (The researchers converted the rankings to a scale of 1 to 9.) Next, the researchers randomly assigned salary numbers to the body pix. They brought participants back—at least a week later—and again had them rate the attractiveness of the figures, but this time given the salary paired with each bod. Upon tabulating their results, they found a major sex difference in how “responsive” the attractiveness ratings were to an increase in salary. If a man’s salary increases by a factor of 10—if his salary becomes 10 times greater—he goes up about 2 points (1.92 on average) on the 1-to-9 attractiveness scale. So, for example, a salary of $50,000 x 10—$500,000—gets a guy 2 points higher in hotness. Meanwhile, in bummerific news for female honchos, for a woman to achieve that two-point hottitude bump, her salary needs to be multiplied by 10,000. In other words, a woman making $50K needs to make $500 million to be hotter in a man’s eyes. (No problem...right, ladies? Just get yourself promoted from legal secretary to international drug lord.) The researchers note that because men are “largely insensitive to cues indicating resources” in women, women have to make themselves “physically more attractive” to improve their mating prospects. Men, however, “can offset poor physical attractiveness, or further enhance existing good looks, by demonstrating their large levels of resources.” This does draw the gold diggers, but again, a woman doesn’t have to be a gold digger to be attracted to a man with money. To protect yourself from those who only care about the money, look for “inner beauty,” or what everybody’s grandpa calls “character.” 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 July 24
ARIES (March 21-April 19): After analyzing
unusual animal behavior, magnetic fluctuations, outbreaks of mayhem on Twitter and the position of the moon, a psychic has foretold that a moderate earthquake will rumble through the St. Louis, Missouri area in the coming weeks. I don’t agree with her prophecy. But I have a prediction of my own. Using data about how cosmic forces are conspiring to amuse and titillate your rapture chakra, I predict a major lovequake for many Aries between now and August 20. I suggest you start preparing immediately. How? Brainstorm about adventures and breakthroughs that will boost exciting togetherness. Get yourself in the frame of mind to seek out collaborative catharses that evoke both sensory delights and spiritual insights.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Tell me what
you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are,” wrote Taurus philosopher José Ortega y Gasset. You could use that idea to achieve a finer grade of peace and grace in the coming weeks. The navelgazing phase of your yearly cycle has begun, which means you’ll be in closest alignment with cosmic rhythms if you get to know yourself much better. One of the best ways to do that is to analyze what you pay most attention to. Another excellent way is to expand and refine and tenderize your feelings for what you pay most attention to.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano wrote that in Havana, people refer to their friends as mi sangre, my blood, or mi tierra, my country. In Caracas, he reported, a friend might be called mi llave, my key, or mi pana, my bread. Since you are in the alliance-boosting phase of your cycle, Gemini, I trust that you will find good reasons to think of your comrades as your blood, your country, your key or your bread. It’s a favorable time for you to get closer, more personal and more intimate. The affectionate depths are calling to you. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your emotional intelligence is so strong right now that I bet you could alleviate the pain of a loved one even as you soothe a long-running ache of your own. You’re so spiritually alluring, I suspect you could arouse the sacred yearning of a guru, saint or bodhisattva. You’re so interesting, someone might write a poem or story about you. You’re so overflowing with a lust for life that you might lift people out of their ruts just by being in their presence. You’re so smart you could come up with at least a partial solution to a riddle whose solution has evaded you for a long time. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Queen of North
America and Europe called me on the phone. At least that’s how she identified herself. “I have a message for your Leo readers,” she told me. “Why Leo?” I asked. “Because I’m a Leo myself,” she replied, “and I know what my tribe needs to know right now.” I said, “OK. Give it to me.”“Tell Leos to always keep in mind the difference between healthy pride and debilitating hubris,” she said. “Tell them to be dazzlingly and daringly competent without becoming bossy and egomaniacal. They should disappear their arrogance but nourish their mandate to express leadership and serve as a role model. Be shiny and bright but not glaring and blinding. Be irresistible but not envy-inducing.”
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Congrats, Virgo! You
are beginning the denouement of your yearly cycle. Anything you do to resolve lingering conflicts and finish up old business will yield fertile rewards. Fate will conspire benevolently in your behalf as you bid final goodbyes to the influences you’ll be smart not to drag along with you into the new cycle that will begin in a few weeks. To inspire your holy work, I give you this poem by Virgo poet Charles Wright: “Knot by knot I untie myself from the past / And let it rise away from me like a balloon. / What a small thing it becomes. / What a bright tweak at the vanishing point, blue on blue.”
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I predict that
between now and the end of the year, a Libran genetic engineer will create a new species of animal
By Rob Brezsny
called a dat. A cross between a cat and a dog, it will have the grace, independence and vigilance of a Persian cat and the geniality, loyalty and ebullient strength of a golden retriever. Its stalking skills will synthesize the cat’s and dog’s different styles of hunting. I also predict that in the coming months, you will achieve greater harmony between the cat and dog aspects of your own nature, thereby acquiring some of the hybrid talents of the dat.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio poet
Marianne Moore (1887–1972) won the Pulitzer Prize and several other prestigious awards. She was a rare poet who became a celebrity. That’s one of the reasons why the Ford car company asked her to dream up interesting names for a new model they were manufacturing. Alas, Ford decided the 43 possibilities she presented were too poetic, and rejected all of them. But some of Moore’s names are apt descriptors for the roles you could and should play in the phase you’re beginning, so I’m offering them for your use. Here they are: 1. Anticipator. 2. The Impeccable. 3. Tonnere Alifère (French term for “winged thunder”). 4. Tir á l’arc (French term for “bull’s eye”). 5. Regina-Rex (Latin terms for “queen” and “king”).
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): It’s conceivable that in one of your past lives you were a pioneer who made the rough 2,170-mile migration via wagon train from Missouri to Oregon in the 1830s. Or maybe you were a sailor who accompanied the Viking Leif Eriksson in his travels to the New World five hundred years before Columbus. Is it possible you were part of the team assembled by Italian diplomat Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, who journeyed from Rome to Mongolia in the thirteenth century? Here’s why I’m entertaining these thoughts, Sagittarius: I suspect that a similar itch to ramble and explore and seek adventure may rise up in you during the coming weeks. I won’t be surprised if you consider making a foray to the edge of your known world. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): When
the dinosaurs died off 65 million years ago, the crocodiles didn’t. They were around for 135 million years before that era, and are still here now. Why? “They are extremely tough and robust,” says croc expert James Perran Ross. Their immune systems “are just incredible.” Maybe best of all, they “learn quickly and adapt to changes in their situation.” In accordance with the astrological omens, I’m naming the crocodile as your creature teacher for the coming weeks. I suspect you will be able to call on a comparable version of their will to thrive. (Read more about crocs: tinyurl.com/ToughAndRobust.)
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “My only hope is that one day I can love myself as much as I love you.” Poet Mariah Gordon-Dyke wrote that to a lover, and now I’m offering it to you as you begin your Season of Self-Love. You’ve passed through other Seasons of Self-Love in the past, but none of them has ever had such rich potential to deepen and ripen your self-love. I bet you’ll discover new secrets about how to love yourself with the same intensity you have loved your most treasured allies. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Poems can
bring comfort,” writes Piscean poet Jane Hirshfield. “They let us know . . . that we are not alone—but they also unseat us and make us more susceptible, larger, elastic. They foment revolutions of awareness and allow the complex, uncertain, actual world to enter.” According to my understanding of upcoming astrological omens, Pisces, life itself will soon be like the poems Hirshfield describes: unruly yet comforting; a source of solace but also a catalyst for transformation; bringing you healing and support but also asking you to rise up and reinvent yourself. Sounds like fun!
Go to realastrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. Audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1.877.873.4888.
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