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Primary Care Physicians: Valuable to Good Health Regardless of Your Age

f you are looking for a physician who over your lifetime will be essential to your health, look no farther than a primary care physician (PCP). Primary care physicians are our first line of defense against illness and injury. They can treat the majority of your medical issues, coordinate necessary exams and screenings, help manage chronic diseases like high blood pressure or Type 2 diabetes and suggest healthy lifestyle changes to prevent disease in the future. They also identify and refer patients to the network of resources within the community including specialists, subspecialists or community programs should further diagnosis or treatment be needed,

diseases and disorders that are common during childhood and adolescence. These include both physical and mental conditions— from asthma and allergies to ADHD and other behavioral health disorders.

You can choose either a family medicine or internist for yourself, a pediatrician for your children, or a geriatrician for an elderly parent.

Geriatric Medicine

Internal Medicine Internal medicine doctors focus on adults and are specially trained in the prevention and treatment of adult diseases. An internal medicine physician is considered a generalist in adolescent medicine, allergy and immunology, cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology, infectious disease, nephrology, oncology, pulmonology, rheumatology, and sports medicine. Family Medicine Family medicine physicians see patients of all ages, from newborn to elderly, so your whole family can receive care from one expert! Family medicine physicians receive three years of specialty training in inpatient and outpatient medicine – this includes procedural and pediatric training with an emphasis on behavioral science and patient communication. Pediatric Care Infants, children, and adolescents go through a number of physical and mental changes from birth to the age of 18. Pediatricians are PCPs trained to handle the unique needs of patients during this time of rapid growth. They focus on

Geriatricians are physicians specially trained to work with patients ages 65 and older. Medical needs often increase during senior years, and geriatricians are highly familiar with the common challenges patients face during this period. A skilled geriatrician can help patients address some of the typical health concerns that people deal with as they get older, such as arthritis, cardiovascular disease, joint replacement surgery, hearing loss, and dementia.

That’s the good news. Unfortunately, just as cost savings efforts such as managed care are growing and reports show that adding even a handful of primary care physicians per 100,000 people results in lower mortality*, the number of primary care physicians is shrinking. Data from the Association of American Medical Colleges estimates a shortage of up to 43,000 primary care doctors by 2030. California is expected to face a statewide shortfall of primary care providers in the next 15 years, according to a recent report from Healthforce Center at UCSF. The Bay Area and Northern California already have a shortfall, but less than in other areas such as the Central Valley and the southern border. Rural areas and economically disadvantaged areas will be facing an especially critical shortage.

If you are one of the more than forty percent of adults age 18 to 64 in this country who have chosen a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) for health insurance coverage or are one of 40% of seniors in California who are enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan, the role of your primary care physician is especially important. They have the important job of being your “team captain,” or personal coordinator of your healthcare, making sure you get the right treatment in the right place at the right time.

With open enrollment beginning in November, now would be a good time to establish yourself with a primary care physician. The MarinHealth Medical Network (formerly Prima Medical Foundation and Marin Healthcare District Health Centers) offers primary care practices in convenient locations across the North Bay, including Sonoma, Novato, San Rafael, Larkspur, Mill Valley, Greenbrae, and Sausalito. All are connected with other MarinHealth specialists to easily collaborate on your care.

HMOs and Medicare Advantage plans have shown to be a cost savings healthcare coverage option for patients, employers and insurance providers while at the same time achieving better health outcomes.

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The article by Chris Rooney (“Divisive Data,” Sep. 11) suggested that Russia, through “RT America,” was trying to sow division in the U.S. by casting doubts about the safety of 5G technology. Besides getting several paragraphs in the text, you chose to add a subtitle that featured “reports of health risks associated with 5G linked to Russians.” It may just be my aging memory, but in my five years or so of following RT on a more-than-daily basis I cannot recall ever reading a negative article about 5G. In fact, since the U.S. has been trying to ban sales of Huawei’s 5G technology internationally, and given Russia’s general support of all things Chinese, RT tends to have articles slanted in favor of 5G. I use the RT android app on my cell phone and look at it several times a day, finding it a refreshing antidote to the spin of sites such as The Guardian, NPR and Democracy Now. As far as their coverage of the U.S. goes, they seem to favor Republicans more than

Democrats, I think not because of a plan to sow dissent but because they tend to favor what they think of as “traditional Western values.” I sometimes find that annoying, but, since my news otherwise comes from Democracy Now and other KPFA programs, as well as NPR and Bill Maher, I like to hear the “other side” also, and I very much enjoy their great coverage of international news, which gets short shrift in most American news. Fred Wolters Guerneville I was amused by the Chris Rooney article on 5G. He correctly cites that the 10,000-plus studies, including the gold-standard, $30 million, tax-dollar-funded NTP study done recently, apparently aren’t good enough in the eyes of the FDA, FCC or many courts, though it’s curious that the richest cities like Hillsborough, Belvedere, Los Altos, etc., seem to be able to sidestep Uncle Sham’s plans for more and more wireless coverage. Apparently, we’re in a race with the Chinese.. . . Tom Thedoor Via Bohemian.com

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Tax forms are daunting and many people miss out on earned credits and deductions because they can't afford professional tax preparation. The Marin AARP Tax-Aide program comes to the rescue by providing free income tax services for seniors and low-tomoderate income taxpayers. Want to make a difference in your community and be a part of the rewarding program that assisted more than 2,000 Marin residents this past tax season? Volunteer. Tax preparation training for 2020 starts soon and you don’t need any experience. To learn more email marintaxaide@gmail.com or go to aarpfoundation.org/taxaide to sign up to volunteer. Big weekend in Mill Valley crime: An Uber passenger assaulted his driver, a teen was stabbed over a cellphone and a man passed out in his car with a gun. Sunday morning brought the police out in full force to deal with an armed man who stayed holed up in his car for hours. First, the Uber passenger punched his driver in the face, causing moderate injuries. The police showed up shortly thereafter. Minutes later, officers responded to a call from a 15-year-old boy. He’d been stabbed and his cellphone stolen. Both victims described a similar perpetrator. Police identified a suspect and made contact with his family. The next morning, John Santiago Rosales, 18, of Mill Valley, turned himself in and was arrested for battery with injury, robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. The crime trifecta concluded when the driver of a dark Mercedes hit a parked car and parked near an Arco station overnight. At dawn, an officer found the driver passed out with a gun on the passenger seat. Officers from four agencies stood by while the driver remained unresponsive. A drone was deployed. Three hours later, the driver exited his vehicle. Garrett McGraff, 35, of Santa Rosa, was arrested for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, possession of suspected heroin and possession of suspected ecstasy. Got a Hero or a Zero? Please send submissions to nikki_silverstein@yahoo.com. Toss roses, hurl stones with more Heroes and Zeros at ›› pacificsun.com

Upfront The plant that would save the world.

Hemp It Up North Bay Hemp Growsite Shines Light on Plant’s Potential for Regional Economy By Jonah Raskin

ore marijuana is grown in California than anywhere else in the U.S., but 10 states, including Colorado, Kentucky and Oregon, leave California in the dust when it comes to the cultivation of hemp. Still, if Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC) has a say in the matter, California will emerge as a leading producer, especially since the federal government legalized hemp in the 2018 Farm Bill. Will the rest of the North Bay follow suit? That remains to be seen. This summer the SRJC Agriculture Department announced the launch

of a hemp program at Shone Farm on the outskirts of Forestville, where farmers still grow marijuana illegally in the woods. The SRJC program is the only one in the North Bay and the state of California as a whole. When Sonoma County placed a moratorium on hemp last year, supervisors gave SRJC an exemption. Starting in 2020, students at the college will be able to major in hemp, though nearly an acre is already in the ground and growing quickly, outdoors in direct sunlight and in rich composted soil. The plants are mostly from female clones, though some are from seeds.

Students are already tending the crop and learning about it. Local media have emphasized the cash value of the Shone Farm hemp, but Benjamin Goldstein, the Dean of Agriculture, says the real value is the information it will yield, not any cash in hand. “The real payoff is student interest,” he says. On a hot September morning, Goldstein led a tour of the experimental crop, which grows between tall rows of corn. The corn serves as a windbreak and a visual shield against thieves. A sign in the field reads, “SRJC Industrial Hemp Research Project: Not for human consumption. No THC. No street value.” Goldstein

hemp project. Last July, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) issued guidelines for municipalities interested in pursuing industrial hemp and noted that municipalities around the state, including Sonoma, Napa and Marin, all have local laws of their own regulating industrial hemp production. Neither Marin nor Napa have embarked on industrial hemp projects of their own. Scott Wise, supervising inspector with the Marin County Department of Agriculture, says that no hemp is cultivated in Marin and that no one has registered to grow it. While there’s still a moratorium in Marin on marijuana, there’s no moratorium on hemp cultivation. Wise adds that, “The department does receive calls and there is interest in hemp, but for now it’s a great unknown.” Farmers in Marin, where milk is the top agricultural crop, have not rushed to plant hemp, a wise move given that it’s a riskier crop to turn a profit on than, say, corn or wheat. According to a recent bulletin from the Pew Charitable Trusts, many American farmers who were hoping to make bank by growing hemp have “no idea who will buy their crop or even who will prepare it for sale.” Hemp production has increased dramatically in the U.S.—an estimated $1.8 billion in sales for 2019—but the plant mostly belongs in a field of dreams. For the time being at least, Marin farmers would best stay with the old standbys of milk, eggs and cattle.

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Dodd on Fire

As fire-safety inspections continue around the region—Marin firefighters were out in force this week inspecting West Marin households for signs of “indefensible space”—North Bay State Sen. Bill Dodd has punched out a trio of wildfire safety bills that are expected to get the signature from Gov. Gavin Newsom. “The height of fire season is approaching,” says Dodd, “which underscores the need for immediate action. We can’t sit back and watch our state burn.” Indeed we can’t. Dodd’s three bills passed the legislature last week. His SB 190 is pegged at vegetation buffer zones and is particularly keyed in on “defensible space,” a newish »8

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reminds those who don’t remember or who have never learned, that hemp and marijuana belong to the same genus and species: cannabis sativa. The hemp plant—which scientists and horticulturists designate as “cannabis sativa (L)”—and the marijuana plant look, feel and smell the same. The only difference is the THC. To be considered hemp, the plant must contain less than 0.3 percent THC. Only a lab test can tell the difference between the two. “We want to show that hemp can help diversify crops on a farm or dairy,” Goldstein says. “As Luther Burbank pointed out—we can grow everything and anything here, from citrus and apples to potatoes, olives and now hemp.” Sonoma Agricultural Commissioner Tony Linegar is also pro- hemp and eager for it, and marijuana, to be grown legally. Still, Linegar sees potential problems. “Some farmers might use hemp as a cover to grow marijuana illegally,” he says. “Others, who are against marijuana, might weaponize male hemp plants so that they go to seed and pollinate female marijuana flowers and decrease their market value.” Forestville grower Joey Munson, better known as “Oaky Joe” takes a characteristically arch view of the nearby hemp farm. “I think the government is illegal,” he says. A medical marijuana provider for more than 20 years—with a history of compassionate care for HIV/AIDS patients—Munson takes a critical view of all rules, regulations, taxes, government inspectors and anything that smacks of officialdom. But a little bit of law enforcement will go a long way towards destigmatizing whatever stigma remains around hemp, says Linegar—he wants strict enforcement to prevent fraud and says he’s prepared to stay in office beyond the end of December, when he’s slated to retire, to see the Shone Farm through to harvest. “I think of the hemp project as my swan song,” he says. “I want to see it through.” For Goldstein, who became SRJC’s dean of agriculture in 2017, this year’s hemp crop marks the beginning of a beautiful relationship. “Our program has helped to bring hemp farmers out of the woods,” he says. “We have the potential to recruit research partners from all over California.” At the Oct. 12 annual Fall Festival in Forestville, Goldstein and others will talk to the public about the

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buzz-phrase that basically means, keep your property free and clear of debris and stuff that can burn. Dodd notes that homes that maintain 100 feet of defensible space are eight times more likely to survive a fire “than homes without a properly maintained buffer.” SB 109’s goal is to enhance awareness and compliance with vegetation removal. Dodd’s SB 209 seeks to create a Wildfire Forecast and Threat Intelligence Integration Center to serve as the state’s “central hub for wildfire forecasting,” with capabilities that include weather forecasting and threat assessment abilities. Finally, SB 247 obliquely targets PG&E over the energy provider’s inadequate vegetation-removal policies. That bill would create a Wildfire Safety Division to conduct audits of vegetationclearing around utility lines, and end the longstanding practice of selfauditing undertaken by utilities and their contractors.

Is Jared Huffman The Antichrist?

Possibly. But he’s definitely not running for President of the United States in 2020. The popular North Bay congressman was the recent subject of a feature in the Epoch Times that called Huffman out for his non-belief in God—Huffman’s an avowed secular humanist and self-described ‘agnostic’—and in doing so, ventured that he was one of the numerous Dems to throw his hat in to the 2020 ring. Huffman took to Facebook to brush back the errant reporting (since corrected online) and to take

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a shot at the Trump-supporting Epoch Times for pandering in endtimes prognostication and for being supported by a cult. The “cult” indicated by Huffman is the Fulang Gong sect in China, a persecuted minority of anti-Communists, whose adherents often participate in Qi Gong healing practices and movement. Numerous reports have claimed that the sect also experiences its share of forced organ removal at the hands of the Chinese government. The Qi Gong practice is popular in Marin County, and one of its teachers is a woman named Vivienne Verdon Roe, who says she was cured of Lyme Disease through Qi Gong practice after being bitten by a tick in 2018. Before she was a Qi Gong teacher, Verdon Roe was a documentary filmmaker who won an academy award in 1986 for a film called Women for America, for the World. Her short documentary took on the spectre of nuclear war, speaking of end-times fixations. Now she can be found doing peaceful things, with peaceful people, and represented by a peaceful man who happens to not believe in God. Huffman, who founded the Congressional Freethought Caucus, has been in the news a few times recently over his agnosticism. Following his Epoch Times moment, he was subsequently interviewed by the Freethought Matters publication and was asked who his favorite historical “freethinkers” were. According to a social media post from the congressman, he rattled off a few names: Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Paine—and, praise the Lord!—Jesus Christ himself. Y

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Malcolm Gladwell talks with a stranger

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Gladwell writes on the inscrutability of controversial subjects in latest book, ‘Talking to Strangers.’ He’s at the Dominican this week.

alcolm Gladwell is a complete stranger to me. Sure, I’ve read a few of his past books—The Tipping Point, Outliers, Blink and his latest, Talking to Strangers—and listened to most of the four seasons of his podcast Revisionist History. We recently talked over the phone and had a very enlightening conversation about his work. Most of the gatekeepers in the modern media world would now consider me eminently qualified to write a profile of Malcolm Gladwell. Gladwell himself, however, would not. Because the truth is, I don’t really know him at all. I can tell you what point he argued in which episode of his podcast. I can definitely remember when I most

emphatically agreed or disagreed with his conclusions. I can also do an impression of his voice that makes my co-workers crack up. None of that equips me to profile Gladwell as a person; all I’m really qualified to do is profile his ideas. Unfortunately, journalists often feel that’s not enough. They want to believe they understand something deeper about their subjects, which can lead to overreach. “I’ve always had a baseline skepticism about journalistic profiles,” Gladwell tells me. “I always feel they’re overly ambitious. The idea that you can sit down with a stranger and come to a reckoning of who they are, and what motivates them, in a short period of time is just nonsense. It’s just not true.” Gladwell isn’t singling out

journalists here. The conceptual through-line of his new Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About People We Don’t Know is that we’re all downright terrible at reading people we don’t know—gleaning their true feelings, motives or intentions. “Journalists are not immune from the mistakes that all of us make, and maybe we ought to be a lot more cautious,” Gladwell says. “I think the best journalists do that. The best work, the most successful profiles, are modest in their aspirations. They aim to focus on a very specific part of the person being profiled, as opposed to a global assessment.” Misreading and Writing Throughout his new book, Gladwell lays out example after example of instances where the misreading of strangers resulted

in historically catastrophic consequences. The chapter on Jerry Sandusky and the sex-abuse scandal at Penn State includes a couple of examples of profiles that the writers would probably like to take back, including one from the Philadelphia Inquirer that lays it on thick about a pre-disgraced Sandusky’s “ennobling” qualities. But even here, Gladwell’s point is not to shame the writers. On the contrary, the Sandusky section of the book attempts to build a complex case for why the people around Sandusky didn’t understand what was going on at the time. He argues that the fallout from the case led to misinformed scapegoating, including of Joe Paterno. “I think Joe Paterno was treated abominably. It was completely »10

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The Penn State case is far from the only controversial topic Gladwell takes on in Talking With Strangers. In a chapter called “Transparency Case Study: The Fraternity Party,” he uses the 2015 case in which Stanford University student Brock Turner was convicted of three counts of felony sexual assault to examine the problem of alcohol abuse on college campuses. This would be a dicey proposition by any measure: Turner’s assault of Chanel Miller (who was known at the time as “Emily Doe”; she revealed her real name earlier this month) made national headlines when Santa Clara County judge Aaron Persky ignored prosecutors’ recommendation of a six-year sentence and gave Turner six months in county jail (he ended up serving three) plus three years probation. Perksy’s assertion that Turner’s lack of a criminal record and his

Gladwell’s book is partly inspired by his podcast, ‘Revisionist History,’ and features character-driven case studies.

upstanding character warranted a reduced sentence led to the judge’s 2018 recall. The case led to changes in California state law about the definition of rape and the mandatory minimum-sentencing for sexual assault of an unconscious or intoxicated person. “The People vs. Brock Turner is a case about alcohol,” Gladwell writes. He then proceeds to walk a very fine line in defining what his argument is about (a salient point about a lack of education for young people concerning the dangers of blackout drinking) and what it is not (a denial of the seriousness of Turner’s crime). Gladwell knows that with both the Sandusky and Turner cases, he’s venturing into territory that’s difficult to write—but also difficult to read. “I have, after 30 years, an enormous amount of faith in my readers. I know who my readers are, and I know my readers read things carefully. Those chapters both require careful reading,” he says. “I am not blaming the victim in the Brock Turner case. I am making an argument about how we prevent these kinds of things in the future. That’s a subtle point, but I think people who listen to my podcast or read my books are totally fine with subtle points.” Indeed, fans of Revisionist History will be familiar with other times Gladwell took on topics other writers might consider taboo; for instance, the Brown v. Board of

11 of the podcast, and that Revisionist History has had a “profound impact” on the way he writes books. “The podcast has been the dominant thing in my life now for four years,” Gladwell says, “and it’s the thing I’m most excited about. It’s been a way to kind of—not reinvent, that’s too strong a word, but learn a whole new skill, and think about storytelling in a whole new way. It absolutely influenced Talking to Strangers.” The most definitive sign of that influence is the fact that instead of the traditional audiobook, in which he reads the text, he actually created— well, basically a podcast. It includes the audio from his interviews for the book, as well as archival tape that he discusses in the book, and music. And he’s more excited about it than the print version. “It’s like a six-hour episode of Revisionist History,” he says. “This is an emotional book, and I feel like in some ways the audio book is better than the print book, because you get more. You hear Sandra Bland at the beginning talking about ‘my beautiful kings and queens,’ and she stays with you. And at the end, the whole thing, about the cop and the deposition, [State Trooper Brian] Encinia explaining himself, I have that tape. So you hear him, and it becomes really, really visceral and real. “And then you’re hearing this Janelle Monae song; she wrote a song about all the police shootings where she names all the victims. So it’s a whole overwhelming experience when you listen to it. I really encourage people to experience the book that way.” ‘Blink’ Again Gladwell cites a number of examples in his new book about how misplaced confidence in our ability to read other people resulted in disastrous consequences. He discusses Neville Chamberlain’s famous failure to judge Adolf Hitler’s intentions, leading him to foolishly return from Munich waving a piece of paper Hitler had signed, and promising “peace in our time.” He examines how the CIA went for years believing they had faithful spies throughout Cuba, only to discover that every single one of them was a double agent working for Fidel Castro. He explains how truly astonishing the con job Bernie Madoff pulled on his victims really was—all because he managed »12

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Education episode “Miss Buchanan’s Period Of Adjustment” (possibly the best episode he’s produced), in which he attempted to lay out the problems black teachers faced in the wake of the landmark desegregation ruling, without undermining the importance of the decision itself. Gladwell says he’s not so much drawn to controversial topics as he feels he should be taking them on at this point in his career. “I would say that I feel I have an obligation to write about those kinds of things because I can. I’m now in a position—having been a journalist for a long time, and having established a reputation for myself and having a readership—to have the freedom to write about those things. I can take the blow,” he says. “Sure, people will get upset, but it’s fine. I mean, I can handle that. A 25-year-old journalist starting out would be taking a real risk for their career if they were to approach some of these topics. I think when you’re an established journalist, you have an obligation to go where others can’t or don’t want to.” ‘History’ Lessons The material Gladwell takes on in Talking to Strangers is not the only parallel to his podcast: The whole book is laid out like an episode of Revisionist History, or perhaps a whole season packed into one book. It starts out with one character—Sandra Bland, an African-American woman from Chicago who was the victim of a bizarre and frankly terrifying traffic stop by a white cop in Houston in 2015—and then threads through other stories before returning to Bland’s story and a fierce indictment of the policing system responsible for it. This is a classic setup for a Revisionist History episode—the aforementioned Brown v. Board of Education episode employed the same structure. And Talking to Strangers is so thoroughly character-driven that it, too, seems the result of a lesson Gladwell learned doing the podcast. Though Revisionist History is perhaps most famous for episodes like 2016’s “Blame Game,” which smashed popular misconceptions about the “unintended acceleration” recalls of Toyota vehicles in 2009, 2010 and 2011, I’ve always found the best episodes to be the ones solidly built around characters first, and Gladwell’s trademark data-analysis second. The author says it’s no accident his latest book is so reminiscent

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Malcolm Gladwell «11 to create a false aura of sincerity and good intentions. On the flipside, in one of the best chapters for explaining our inability to read the people around us, Gladwell deconstructs how Amanda Knox was convicted of murder not because she was guilty, but because she unintentionally acted guilty. If all of this talk about perception and the length of time it takes to accurately parse information sounds a lot like Gladwell’s 2005 book Blink, that’s because it is. In fact, Talking to Strangers came out of Gladwell’s belief that Blink, a book about snap judgement, had been widely misunderstood and misinterpreted in the media. “Blink was a fascinating and frustrating experience for me,” he says. “Because Blink was really a cautionary tale about our first impressions. It was a story that began with all the ways they work, and then the latter half of the book was about all the ways that we’re misled by our intuition. That didn’t quite come across. “So this book first of all zeroes in on a particular kind of first impression, which is the relationship with a stranger. But I really wanted to squarely address what can go wrong, and the consequences of that—just as David and Goliath grew out of Outliers, this book grows out of Blink. With a lot

Gladwell on Beer Talking To Strangers isn’t a drinking book but Malcolm Gladwell’s had some interactions with beer and beer-makers in his illustrious run as New Yorker staff-writer and guy with the bottle-cap glasses that might just be beer-bottle caps. When Gladwell was promoting his 2013 book David and Goliath, he contacted the Sussex, England–based brewer Dark Star and asked them to come up with a couple of beers pegged to his book, as part of the marketing and promotion of his work. The surprised and tickled brewmaster at Dark Star, writing on the British Guild of Beer Writers website, recalls the encounter with Gladwell. Dark Star director James Cuthbertson was a fan of Gladwell’s books, having read Blink and The Tipping Point (The Tippling Point?) and thought the conceit behind David and Goliath sounded pretty cool—its

of my books, I write it once, then I sit with it, then I come back and tackle the issue again.” Ultimately, Talking to Strangers looks at the problem of how we misunderstand strangers from both a macro and micro perspective. It suggests the need for reform in our institutions— policing, the justice system and military-intelligence interrogation policies (the section on the biological reasons for the ineffectiveness of torture is a stunner)—and argues that action is needed to bring the systems of society in line with how our brains really work. But on another, individual level, it also suggests that the “default to truth” principle most of us use in everyday dealings with each other isn’t such a bad thing—even if it can be wrong. The alternative, he suggests, can be much worse. “Let’s make sure that our institutions and practices conform to who we are,” says Gladwell. “But let’s accept ourselves for who we are, and stop pretending otherwise. We should stop beating ourselves up over our fundamental tendency to trust each other, and instead intelligently adapt to it.” Malcolm Gladwell appears on Sunday, Sep 22, at Angelico Hall, Dominican University of California, 20 Olive Ave., San Rafael. 1pm. $40. 415.927.0960.

subtitle brags of a a book about “underdogs, misfits and the art of battling giants.” “I’m not sure what made [Gladwell] get in touch with us, though ‘misfits’ wouldn’t be a bad shout,” writes Cuthbertson. “I just didn’t know we were famous for being so.” Gladwell, he writes, wanted the English craft brewer to come up with two beers—a David and a Goliath. The idea was that while the beers would look pretty much the same (one’s an Imperial Stout; the other’s an IPA), David would come with a special surprise—ie, a whopping 10.5 percent ABV content, compared to Goliath’s 5.7 percent ABV. The results were Gladwellpleasing, though as Cuthbertson recounts, the author was taken aback and surprised by the ferocity of David’s surprise, which hit him in the head like a stone slung from a slingshot. “Quite ironic, really.” Y

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THE WEEK’S 13 EVENTS: A SELECTIVE GUIDE

MILL VALLEY

Aye Chihuahua Named after a beloved Australian Shepherd, the Milo Foundation is a nonprofit, no-kill sanctuary providing an alternative for homeless pets throughout California. The foundation is celebrating 25 years, and 35,000 animal lives saved, with an anniversary celebration that features specially made cocktails, food, auctions and other fun like live music, games and a visiting catwalk of kittens and parade of puppies that are available for adoption. Milo Foundation’s anniversary party takes place on Thursday, Sept. 19, at Mill Valley Community Center, 180 Camino Alto, Mill Valley. 6pm. $150. Milofoundation.org.

NOVATO

Face in the Crowd Since 1922, the Scuola Mosaicisti (Mosaic School) del Friuli in Italy has taught the traditional practices behind constructing mosaic art. This week, the school makes its first U.S. appearance at MarinMOCA’s “50 Faces” exhibit. The showcase’s artworks use a variety of media including bone, shells, metal and fiber to capture expressive characters in mosaic portraits of famous subjects ranging from Robin Williams to Frida Kahlo. The exhibit opens with a reception on Saturday, Sept. 21, at MarinMOCA, 500 Palm Dr., Novato. 5pm. $8–$10. 415.506.0137.

SAN RAFAEL

All Bands on Deck Hosted in San Rafael’s Gerstle Park neighborhood, the San Rafael PorchFest features a family-friendly block party of live music being performed on dozens of porches, lawns, parks and other intimate spaces. The diverse local lineup of bands and artists includes Americana string band LoWatters, crossover cello-rock stars Dirty Cello, singer-songwriters Danny Click, Mark Karan and Matt Jaffe, blues band Walt the Dog, acid-jazz group Jamm Sammich and many others. The community-wide concert happens Sunday, Sept. 22, at and around Gerstle Park, San Rafael. Noon to 5pm. Free. sanrafaelporchfest.com.

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Folk singer-songwriter and former Old Crow Medicine Show band member Willie Watson plays Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley on Sunday, Sept. 22. See clubs & venues. Pg 23.

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Under music director and conductor Daniel Canosa, ECHO Chamber Orchestra has garnered accolades for its artistry and community-minded programming. This week, the orchestra opens its season with a concert, “There & Back Again,” featuring four contrasting classical works that are inspired by different cities around the world. A complimentary wine reception and art exhibition take place after the performance on Sunday, Sept. 22, at First Presbyterian Church, 72 Kensington Rd., San Anselmo. 7:30pm. $15–$35. echorchestra.com.

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You don’t have to be a beer geek to enjoy the ‘Massive Potions’ webcomic, but it helps.

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Craft Cartoons Local beer guru satirizes scene with webcomic By Charlie Swanson

en Weaver knows a thing or two about craft beer in the North Bay, as well he should; he wrote the book on it in 2012. Weaver’s The Northern California Craft Beer Guide featured his exhaustive reporting paired with his wife-and-photographer Anneliese Schmidt’s images. Since writing the definitive who’s who of the region’s breweries and crafters putting beer on the map in wine country, Weaver keeps up with the craft beer scene in a new way, producing a webcomic, Massive Potions, each week for over a year, in which Weaver’s fictional post-apocalyptic brewery features a cartoon cat and other denizens who satirize craft beer clichés and poke fun at industry trends, like this summer’s hard seltzer craze. “I got into beer more as a consumer at least a dozen years

ago,” says Weaver, who earned a master’s degree in physics at Cornell University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Maryland. “I had gotten involved in RateBeer.com back in DC, and that gave me the lay of the land. I got involved in the craft beer scene for fun, then I was writing on the side and it all came together.” Weaver moved out to the North Bay with his wife, who had family in Marin, and the couple settled in Petaluma. In hindsight, Weaver says his Northern California Craft Beer Guide came about randomly after years of beer blogging and a timely conversation with publisher Chris Gruener of Petaluma-based Cameron + Company. “That was a great opportunity for my wife and I both to settle into the scene,” says Weaver. “As someone new to Northern

California, it was a great way to explore and become immersed in what was going on out here.” In the intervening years, the craft beer scene in Sonoma, Napa and Marin County continued to expand. There is increasing competition to have the greatest and latest available on tap and to go, and longrunning craft brewery staples like Marin Brewing Company, Moylan’s and Iron Springs, along with Pint Size taproom and HopMonk Tavern, are now in company and in competition with new breweries, taprooms and locations such as Stateroom, Beer Craft, Adobe Creek Brewing, Indian Valley Brewing, Pond Farm Brewing, Tam Commons, Inverness Park Taproom, MV Beerworks and others. “The thought of re-doing the Beer Guide at this point feels overwhelming,” says Weaver.

“There’s breweries everywhere, it’s a much more matured and developed scene; and this was a relatively mature and developed scene seven years ago. It’s gotten even more so.” Weaver also says that the continued development of the local scene means that breweries are becoming more localized and specialized to their neighborhoods. “They’re serving their local geographic area, their footprint is modest and they are working on close relationships that are much more sustainable long-term,” he says. “The growth is stable, but there’s more competition and people are having to settle for smaller niches than they originally expected.” While another Beer Guide isn’t in the works, Weaver has been plenty busy keeping his eye on the scene and offering his takes via Massive Potions.

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Author, blogger and cartoonist Ken Weaver is the mad scientist behind webcomic ‘Massive Potions.’

“I’d been kicking this concept around for a while,” says Weaver of the webcomic. “I had been trying to find my feet going down the path of writing fiction.” The concept of and characters in Massive Potions went through several literary forms, from novel to graphic novel to four-panel webcomic once Weaver started drawing the characters on his digital device. “It felt like the right gear for what I was doing,” he says. “Adding the graphic component, a light switch flicked on, it made sense. I could get a feel for this world.” The two focal figures of Massive Potions, the big-haired Zo and the glasses-wearing cat Whalefeather, are the heart of the brewing operation. They hang out with characters like the brewery’s easy-

going and only customer Pete, the bartending cow Dennis and other interlopers like the recently arrived White Claw, who expels the virtues of hard seltzer upon the IPA enthusiasts to little avail. Though there are blueprints for a book coming in the next year, the best way to read Massive Potions is to find the series online. “It’s fun making fun of these things, but the nice thing about the comic is that it’s not just one voice,” he says. “Having these characters gives me the opportunity to have different opinions, different angles and concepts; it’s more fun to explore how different people are thinking about this stuff.” massivepotions.com.

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Stella Heath and company stay true to French inspirations on new album.

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Nouveau Name French Oak becomes Bandjango Collectif By Charlie Swanson

orth Bay native and vocalist Stella Heath specializes in evoking bygone eras of music, both in her role as the titular singer of the Billie Holiday Project and as the bandleader for long-running Gypsyjazz group French Oak, who are about to formally change their name to Bandjango Collectif upon the release of their new album by the same name. French Oak got its start in 2014, when Heath moved back to her hometown of Petaluma after living and working in New York for a decade. “I contacted (guitarist) Gabriel Pirard to start a jazz band,” says Heath. “I actually had the idea

to name the band Bandjango in the beginning, but we wanted to target wineries and venues like that so we thought of French Oak. But, now we’ve grown out of that and want to go back to the original that I liked.” After releasing a debut album in 2016 as a trio, French Oak also grew in size, and now includes Heath, Pirard and James Inciardi on tenor, baritone and soprano saxophone; Skyler Stover on standup bass; and Jamie Foster on drums and percussion. After recording their sophomore album—Bandjango Collectif—over the course of the last year, the group decided the album’s release this fall would be the best time to transition

to the new band name. This month, the group plays their final shows as French Oak on Sept. 20 at Redwood Café in Cotati and on Sept. 27 at Red Poppy Art House in San Francisco, before Bandjango Collectif makes its official debut on Oct. 2 at Blue Note Jazz Club in Napa. While the name is changing, the music remains the same, French chanteuse–inspired sound. “I’ve loved Edith Piaf ever since I was a kid,” Heath says. “I also loved Louis Armstrong, and as I started to discover jazz I was introduced to this whole genre of Gypsy-jazz made famous by Django Reinhardt.” While Reinhardt’s French-jazz guitar

inspired the band’s sound, Heath notes they’ve added more languages and musical styles to incorporate Spanish and American jazz as well. There are also a slew of international pop tunes mixed into the group’s repertoire, offering both classic and contemporary styles of music in their live shows. “I want everybody to be welcome at our shows,” says Heath. “It’s a very comfortable vibe and a celebratory atmosphere.” French Oak (soon to be re-named Bandjango Collectif ) plays Friday, Sept. 20, at Redwood Cafe, 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati. 8pm. $10. 707.795.7868.

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Friday September 20-Thursday September 26 Abominable (1:37) Family-friendly cartoon about a group of Shanghai youngsters overcoming all odds to return a wayward yeti to the Himalayas. Ad Astra (2:04) Pensive sci-fi flick stars Brad Pitt as an astronaut searching the solar system for his missing father. After the Wedding (1:52) Remake of the acclaimed Danish drama stars Michelle Williams as the head of a Calcutta orphanage and Julianne Moore as her mysterious benefactor. Agnés Varda in California (1:00) Catch two short documentaries by the late, great New Wave filmmaker: 1968’s Black Panthers, featuring interviews with Huey Newton and Eldridge Cleaver, and Uncle Yanco, her 1967 portrait of an émigre Sausalito bohemian. Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (1:27) Eye-opening documentary beholds humankind’s overarching reengineering of our planet, from mines and machines to seawalls and quarries. Becoming Nobody (1:21) Documentary tribute to counterculture wit/therapist/ spirit guide Ram Dass features illuminating clips and insightful interviews with the man himself. Beyond the Fear of Singing (1:30) Documentary celebrates the primal power of breaking out in song as practiced by “amateurs” around the world. The Biggest Little Farm (1:31) Documentary follows an LA couple as they reinvent their lives by creating a 200-acre utopia of orchards, animals and over 200 crops. Blinded by the Light (1:54) A down-andout Pakistani teen gets a new lease on life when he discovers the inspirational working-class poetry of Bruce Springsteen. Brittany Runs a Marathon (1:43) Jillian Bell stars as a dissolute, out-of-shape Manhattan twentysomething determined to run the New York City marathon. Concerto: A Beethoven Journey (1:33) Documentary focuses on acclaimed pianist Leif Ove Andsnes as he explores Ludwig’s life and work and takes on his five piano concertos. Downton Abbey (1:30) The veddy British cult TV series hits the big screen with the household in a dither over an upcoming visit by King George and Queen Mary their bloomin’ selves! 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. Fiddlin’ (1:36) Foot-stompin’ documentary visits the world’s oldest fiddlers’ convention deep in the Appalachian Mountains; luthier extraordinaire Wayne Henderson stars. Friends 25th (1:45) Celebrate the TV show’s quarter-century anniversary with an evening of classic episodes and raucous bloopers on the big, big screen. The Goldfinch (2:29) Movie version of Donna Tartt’s bestselling novel stars Ansel Elgort as a teen grappling with his mother’s

death with the help of a treasured painting. Honeyland (1:25) Award-winning documentary focuses on the last of the Macedonian wild beekeepers. Hustlers (1:50) True tale of a troupe of strippers who took on Wall Street sleazoids; Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu star. It: Chapter Two (2:49) Pennywise the clown is back and badder than ever, terrorizing the town of Derry despite the best efforts of…Bill Hader? Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (1:35) Documentary focuses on the überpopular songstress. Luce (1:49) Sundance fave about an African-American honors student whose disquieting essay on political violence raises all sorts of sociopolitical issues. Manhattan Short Film Festival (1:30) Enjoy a program of unique short subjects and vote for your favorite. Finalists will be eligible for next year’s Oscars! Miles Davis: The Birth of the Cool (1:55) Documentary tribute to the restless, groundbreaking jazz icon features home movies and cogent insights from Herbie Hancock, Carlos Santana and many others. Monos (1:42) Epic, vivid Colombian drama about a ragtag group of teenage commandos and their American hostage; Alejandro Landes directs. National Theatre London: One Man, Two Guvnors (3:30) Rollicking comedy about an out-of-work musician employed by both an East End killer and the killer’s victim, who’s really the victim’s sister and the killer’s girlfriend in drag. Neil Young Trunk Show (1:22) The legendary rocker performs “Cinnamon Girl,” “Mexico” and other hits with an allstar lineup; Jonathan Demme directs. Official Secrets (1:52) True tale of a British intelligence agent who leaked politically incendiary information on the eve of the Iraq invasion; Keira Knightley stars. The Peanut Butter Falcon (1:36) Heartwarming tale of a fugitive from justice and a runaway with Down syndrome who elude the law on a ramble through Georgia’s delta country. Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins (1:31) Boisterous documentary focuses on the firebrand of a Texas journalist whose razor-sharp wit was feared by the rich and powerful and cherished by everyone else. Rambo: Last Blood (1:29) John Rambo is back and more pissed off than ever, exacting vengeance with his customary panache. Ray & Liz (1:47) Harrowing drama about a deeply dysfunctional English family existing on booze, guilt and manipulation; Richard Billingham writes and directs. The Shawshank Redemption (2:22) Stephen King prison drama stars Tim Robbins as an (innocent?) banker/murderer who survives life behind bars with a little help from fellow lifer Morgan Freeman. Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice (1:35) Immersive documentary celebrates the life and work of the great Renaissance painter with stops at the Doge’s Palace, St. Mark’s Square and other evocative landmarks.

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Northgate: Thu 6, 8:40 Rowland: Thu 6, 8:30 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 7, 9:55; Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:50, 7, 9:55 Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:15, 11:20, 1:15, 2:35, 4:15, 5:40, 7:15, 8:50, 10:10 Rowland: 10:35, 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 daily Lark: Fri 4; Sat 10; Mon 12:15; Tue 8:30; Thu 3:45 • After the Wedding (PG-13) Rafael: Sun 4:15 • Agnés Varda in California (NR) • Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (NR) Rafael: Wed 7:30 Becoming Nobody (NR) Rafael: Fri-Sat 4:15; Sun 4 Rafael: Sun 6:30 (filmmaker Michael Stillwater in person) • Beyond the Fear of Singing (NR) Lark: Fri 2; Sat 5:15; Sun 10; Mon 2:30 • The Biggest Little Farm (PG) Blinded by the Light (PG-13) Lark: Fri 6:30; Sat 9:15; Mon 10; Tue 3:45 Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:20, 1:10, 4:05, 7:20, 10:20 Brittany Runs a Marathon (R) Regency: Fri-Sat 12:10, 2:50, 5:25, 8, 10:35; Sun 10:30, 1:15, 8; Mon 12:10, 2:50, 5:25, 8; Tue-Wed 10:30, 1:15, 3:50; Thu 2:50, 5:25, 8 Concerto: A Beethoven Journey (NR) Lark: Sun 1 David Crosby: Remember My Name (NR) Lark: Fri 10; Sun 7:50; Tue 1:45; Wed 5:25 Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:55, 1:40, 4:20, 6:55, 9:35 Downton Abbey (PG) Cinema: Fri-Wed 10, 1, 4, 7, 10 Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12, 3, 6:30, 9:30; Sun-Thu 12, 3, 6:30 Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:15, 11:35, 1:20, 2:45, 4:25, 5:55, 7:30, 9:05, 10:35 Playhouse: Fri 3:30, 6:45, 9:35; Sat 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:35; Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:45; MonThu 3:30, 6:45 Regency: Fri-Sat 10, 1, 4, 7, 10: Sun-Thu 10, 1, 4, 7 Rowland: Fri-Sun 10:15, 11:45, 1:10, 2, 4:05, 7, 7:50, 9:55; Mon-Thu 10:15, 1:10, 4:05, 7, 9:55 Sequoia: Fri-Sat 2:10, 4:15, 7, 9:50; Sun 2:10, 4:15, 7; Mon-Thu 4:30, 7:15 Echo in the Canyon (NR) Lark: Fri 8:50; Sun 6; Mon 4:30; Tue noon; Wed 3:35; Thu 1:15 The Farewell (PG) Regency: Fri-Sat 11:20, 4:30, 9:45; Sun-Thu 11:20, 4:30 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 12:40, 3:55, 7:05, 10:15; Mon 12:40, 3:55, 10:15 Fiddlin’ (NR) Lark: Fri noon; Sat 7:15; Sun 4; Tue 10; Wed 1:40 Northgate: Mon 7 Rowland: Mon 7 • Friends 25 (PG) The Goldfinch (R) Regency: Fri-Sat 12, 3:25, 6:45, 10:05; Sun-Thu 12, 3:25, 6:45 Good Boys (R) Rowland: Fri-Sun 2:50, 5:20, 8, 10:20; Mon-Wed 12:25, 2:50, 5:20, 8, 10:20 Honeyland (NR) Rafael: Fri, Mon, Tue, Thu 6; Sat 2:15, 6, 8; Sun 2; Wed 5:30 Hustlers (R) Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 6:45, 10:10; Sat-Sun 10:45, 1:20, 4, 6:45, 10:10 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:15, 1:55, 4:35, 7:25, 10:05 Rowland: Fri-Sun 11:40, 2:20, 5, 7:55, 10:35; Mon-Wed 11:40, 2:20, 5, 7:50, 10:30 It: Chapter Two (R) Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 6:30, 9:20; Sat-Sun 11, 2:45, 6:30, 9:20 Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:25, 2:10, 6, 9:40 Rowland: Fri-Wed 10:40, 2:30, 6:10, 9:50 Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (NR) Rafael: Fri 4, 6:15, 8:30; Sat-Sun 1:45, 4, 6:15, 8:30; MonThu 6:15, 8:30 The Lion King (PG) Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:35, 1:45, 4:35, 7:35, 10:35 Rowland: Fri-Fri-Sun 10:25, 1:20, 4:15, 7:10; Mon 10:25, 1:20, 4:10, 10; Tue-Wed 10:25, 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 10 Luce (NR) Lark: Mon 8:40 Lark: Thu 10 • Manhattan Short Film Festival (NR) • Miles Davis: The Birth of the Cool (NR) Rafael: Fri-Sat 5:45, 8:15; Sun-Tue, Thu 7:45; Wed 7:45

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Regency: Fri-Sat 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15; Sun-Thu 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45 National Theatre London: Fleabag (PG-13) Lark: Sat 3:15; Tue 6:30 Lark: Thu 6:30 • National Theatre London: One Man, Two Guvnors (PG-13) Lark: Wed 7:30 • Neil Young Trunk Show (NR) Regency: Fri-Sat 11:15, 2, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15; Sun-Thu 11:15, Official Secrets (R) 2, 4:45, 7:30 Regency: 1:50, 7:15 daily Sequoia: Fri-Sat 1:50, 5, 7:30, The Peanut Butter Falcon (PG-13) 9:55; Sun 1:50, 5, 7:30 Rafael: Fri-Sat 3:45; Sun-Thu 5:45 • Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins (NR) Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 7:15, 9:35; Sat-Sun 11:45, Rambo: Last Blood (R) 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:35 Northgate: Fri-Wed 12:25, 2:55, 5:25, 8, 10:30 Rowland: 12:15, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 daily Lark: Mon 6:30; Wed 11:30 • Ray & Liz (NR) Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:45, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Regency: Sun 4; Tue-Wed 7 • The Shawshank Redemption (R) Lark: Sat 1 Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice (NR) Northgate: Fri-Wed 1:35, 7:40 (in Spanish with English Tod@s Caen (NR) subtitles) 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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Maria Mikheyenko as Miss Casewell and Steve Price as Major Metcalf get caught in ‘The Mousetrap.’

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Classic ‘Trap’ Ross Valley Players open season with Agatha Christie mystery By Harry Duke

hen something becomes popular enough to be successfully parodied, what made the original source material so popular tends to be forgotten. Case in point—the British murder mystery as exemplified by the works of Agatha Christie. Christie wrote 66 detective novels (many featuring the characters of Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot), 14 short-story collections and about a dozen plays. In 1952, Christie’s The Mousetrap opened on London’s West End, where it has run continuously for a record-holding 67 years. Marin’s Ross Valley Players open their 90th season with a production that runs through Oct. 13. Recent newlyweds Giles and

Mollie Ralston (the stiff upper-lipped Evan Held and Heather Buck) are the proprietors of Monkswell Manor, a guesthouse about to receive its initial guests. Christopher Wren (the giddy Andre Amarotico), a rambunctious young man to whom Niles takes an immediate dislike, arrives first—in a snowstorm. He’s followed by: Mrs. Boyle, a staid woman who makes Downton Abbey’s Dowager Countess look like a laughriot (a marvelously chilly Tori Truss); retired military-man Major Metcalf (Steve Price); and the mannish Miss Casewell (Maria Mikheyenko). An unexpected guest arrives in the form of Mr. Paravicini (a ridiculouslyaccented Robert Molossi), a European whose car has, of course, become inoperative.

A phone call informs the guesthouse occupants that a police detective will soon arrive, which seems to upset just about everyone until they realize no one could possibly get through the blizzard outside. Faster than you can say “Johnny Mosely,” Detective Sergeant Trotter (Steven Samp) arrives on skis to notify them a murderer is on the loose and may be heading for Monkswell Manor, that is unless the murderer is already there! Who is the murderer’s target? What’s the connection between the snowbound residents and a heinous crime from years past? Is everyone really who they say they are? Why is the phone—and eventually another person—dead? Yes, clichés abound, but you must

remember Christie’s the one who invented these clichés. Director Adrian Elfenbaum’s cast plays it straight and that works almost to the end, but for a curiously blocked climax that really needs to be worked on. I’ll honor the tradition of secrecy and the spirit of fun with which this play is produced and reveal nothing more. Well, how about this—the butler didn’t do it. ‘The Mousetrap’ runs Thursday–Sunday through Oct. 13 at the Barn Theatre in the Marin Art and Garden Center, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Ross. Thursday, 7:30pm; Friday & Saturday, 8:00pm; Sunday, 2pm. $14–$29. 415.883.4498. rossvalleyplayers.com.

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like Bud. I like it the same way I like the Rolling Stones, or baseball, or Goodfellas, or a burger with fries— solid, mass-appeal products that make me feel connected to the rest of humanity, or at least America. In this era of increasingly fragmented, hyperniche-driven subcultures (several of which I happily partake in), it’s nice to have something that makes me feel like I’m going wide instead of narrow. Also: Most stores and bars carry it, it’s reasonably priced, it goes down easy, and the 5.0 percent ABV gives just the right buzz. So yeah, I like Bud. I’m drinking one right now, in fact. Unapologetically? Guilty as charged.

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Best Bottles of Bud in Marin County

Don’t be a draught dodger—embrace that guilty pleasure!

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Old Reliable The everyday pleasures of bland ol’ American Bud By Paul Lukas

’ve never understood the concept of a “guilty pleasure.” It’s a way of expressing one’s tastes while simultaneously apologizing for them. Taste is inherently subjective, so why let other people make you feel bad about yours? If your idea of fine art is a black-light poster, I say embrace it! If you have a thing for celebrity gossip, own it! If your favorite song is “Don’t Stop Believing,” don’t apologize for it. Play it louder. So let me assure you that there’s no guilty pleasure involved when I say I like Budweiser. No hipster irony, either—Bud is not some sort of fermented, beechwood-aged proxy for a vintage Gulf gas station jacket, at least not for me (and I should know, because I happen to own a vintage Gulf gas station jacket). When I say I like Bud, it’s because I like Bud, sincerely and enthusiastically.

Yes, I know Budweiser is essentially a factory product. Yes, I know Bud’s corporate parent, InBev, is an evil leviathan. And yes, I know Bud is the default choice of lunkheads everywhere. Is Bud as good as my favorite beer, Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout? No, of course not—but that’s a treat for special occasions. Bud is my everyday beer, and I vastly prefer it over most microbrews and craft beers. Why? For starters, I tend to dislike bitter flavors. This means most hoppy beers, which comprise a disproportionate share of the craft market, are off-limits for me. Obviously, Bud doesn’t present this problem, as its hops quotient is notoriously mild. Moreover, there are certain products—and beer is one of them— that I prefer to feel like I’m buying from adults, from grown-ups. When I see craft beers with cringe-inducing, pun-driven

names any self-respecting person would be embarrassed to say out loud, like Hoptical Illusion and Baby Got Bock, and with label designs that lean heavily on cartoons and other pop-cultural totems, it all feels like kids playing dress-up. Save that stuff for the candy aisle. Say what you want about Bud, its brand presentation has generally stayed pretty classic, timeless and nongenerational. And that’s as it should be, because beer should be for everyone. So many of the craft beers feel like they’re trying to weed out the squares and/or the olds. Imagine your father shopping for beer and seeing a six-pack of Hoptimus Prime or Citra Ass Down—would he get the joke? Even if he did, he might reasonably conclude that this product was intended for someone else. Beer should aim to unite, not to divide, which is another reason I

Back in 2013, two North Bay residents, including a lawyer, decided to sue Budweiser on the grounds that the beer was a foreign-brewed and watereddown bunch of flavorless swill. Well, so what? Michelob was also in the suit, which went nowhere. The King of Beers prevailed, and is available throughout Marin County. Here’s a few joints around the county whose very demeanor speaks of old fashioned American beer, served ice cold, without a beard, and with some big clomping horses at the ready on Christmas Day. Red and whites forever! The Old Western Saloon, Pt. Reyes Station: One of the oldest bars in California is also a cash-only enterprise that offers a sturdy lineup of local honky-tonkers, shit-kickers and Bud-swillers (including and especially The Haggards). Dugout Bar at the Log Cabin, American Legion Hall, San Anselmo: The godhead bar for all things All-American, including Budweiser, the Dugout is flat-out one of the great and semi-hidden downhome charms of Marin County. Sidle up to the saloon and get yours, this place is the magic Old Man Bar for Young People, Too. Smiley’s Saloon, Bolinas: The renovations are ongoing at another of the oldest bars in California—yes, the William Tell in Tomales, we love you too, you old codger—but there’s nothing like a crisp bottle of Bud to drown out the hard-at-work crews, not to mention bar stalwart and local wood-carver to the stars Matt L’s rather loud and characteristic Foghorn Leghorn laugh, which, on an otherwise still afternoon, can be heard all the way to Oakland. Y

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Fenn’s Way Beercraft is crafty indeed By James Knight

orgive me for thinking there wasn’t much “there, there” in Novato’s craft beer scene, especially compared to its northern neighbors in Sonoma County, until I heard about some recent nanobrewery and taproom openings. Venturing south of the border, I figure Beercraft is a good place to start an exploration of Marin County’s craft beer scene. It’s the southern outpost of a bottle shop and taproom that first opened in Rohnert Park in 2014 and is run by brothers JT Fenn and Matt Fenn. It’s already a bit more popular than its sibling, I’m told. “I’ve never been in here when it’s only three people,” a regular remarks about this early afternoon’s light crowd. The taproom feels more neighborhood deli than bar, with its simple setup of cold case, counter and bright seating area with windows looking out on Redwood Avenue. Non-beer drinkers are welcome, and will find cider on tap, plus French natural wine in a bottle. There’s always that person who says, “I only drink Coors,” says today’s bartender, Paul Hass; so Beercraft usually has a pilsnerstyle beer on tap to satisfy their palate. Alas, Novato’s small brewing startups can’t fill out the 14-keg tap list on a regular basis. The one local selection today is Adobe Creek Brewing’s single hop Terp Sauce: Vic Secret, a crushed

pink grapefruit of a hazy IPA, rind and all, maybe a little earthy orchard dust— I’m not saying I don’t love it! Sample 5-ounce pours are $4, and 12-ounce or full pints $7–$8. Beercraft’s niche is in nabbing the newest releases—often one-shot brews—from California for the tap list, and from across the nation, in cans. Fenn told me previously how he might have only minutes, in today’s overheated craft beer market, to mull over carrying a distributor’s limited release. I like a maltier style of IPA, but could spend an hour surveying the refrigerated IPA cans, which offer more artwork than info on the label. So I put the bartender’s expertise to work. Hass directs me to Surly Brewing Company’s Furious IPA, out of Minneapolis. Never heard of ’em, but the red-hued IPA, at only 6.7 percent alcohol by volume (ABV), is just what I ordered. Among some more esoteric whisky-barrel aged stouts and quads, I spot an old favorite, Dragon’s Milk, from Michigan’s New Holland Brewing, now available in six-packs. But I pick up just one bottle—at 11 percent ABV, it’ll get me there. Beercraft, 7388 Redwood Blvd., Novato. Open Mon–Thurs 1–8pm; Fri– Sat 1–9pm; Sun 1–5pm. 415.895.5402.

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Concerts

Chanticleer San Francisco male chorus presents an exotic program, “Trade Winds.” Sep 22, 5pm. $20$62. Osher Marin JCC, 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael, 415.444.8000. San Rafael Porchfest Afternoon fest features six blocks of musical performances on front porches. Sep 22, 12pm. Free. Gerstle Park, San Rafael Ave, San Rafael, sanrafaelporchfest.com. Sweetwater’s Late Summer Jam Join Jackie Greene, Blitzen Trapper, Kelly Finnigan and Kendra McKinley in an evening jam. Sep 21, 6pm. $60 and up. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.3850.

Field Trips

Peri’s Silver Dollar Sep 19, Lee Vandeveer Band. Sep 20, Hurricane Gulch and Darren Nelson. Sep 21, the Happys and Tommy Odetto. 29 Broadway, Fairfax, 415.459.9910.

California Coastal Cleanup Day Share in the celebrations of our state’s shores and lend a hand to keep them pristine. Sep 21, 9am. Free. Bay Model Visitor Center, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito, 415.332.3871. Sep 21, 10am. Drakes Beach, Pt Reyes National Seashore, Pt Reyes Station, 415.464.5147.

Rancho Nicasio Sep 20, Loralee Christensen and Paul Olguin. Sep 22, 4pm, BBQ on the Lawn with Illeagles. 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio, 415.662.2219. Sausalito Seahorse Sep 19, flamenco show. Sep 20, Reed Fromer Band. Sep 21, Bob Dehlinger & the Alpha Rhythm Kings. Sep 22, 4pm, Edgardo Cambon and Candela. 305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito, 415.331.2899. Sweetwater Music Hall Sep 19-20, Eric Krasno Trio. Sep 22, Willie Watson with the Sweet Lillies. Sep 23, Cory Jamison. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.3850.

Clubs & Venues

The Tavern on Fourth Sep 20, Oakadelic. Sep 21, Johnny & the “B” Goodes. 711 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.454.4044.

First Presbyterian Church of San Anselmo Sep 22, ECHO Chamber Orchestra. 72 Kensington Rd, San Anselmo, echorchestra.com.

Terrapin Crossroads Sep 19, Darren Nelson & the 421’s. Sep 20, Ghosts of Electricity. Sep 21, David Nelson Band. Sep 22, 4:30pm, Kindness Rocks Project. Sep 22, 7:30pm, Lee Vandeveer Band. Sep 23, Grateful Monday featuring Grahame Lesh. Sep 24, Pacific Range. Sep 25, Ismay. 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael, 415.524.2773.

George’s Nightclub Sep 20, Shana Morrison. 842 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.226.0262. HopMonk Novato Sep 19, Tim Bluhm Band and the Coffis Brothers. Sep 20, Notorious. 224 Vintage Way, Novato, 415.892.6200. Iron Springs Pub & Brewery Sep 25, Koolerator with Barry Sless. 765 Center Blvd, Fairfax, 415.485.1005. Iron Springs Public House Sep 19, Reed Mathis and Aaron Redner Duo. 901 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.457.6258. Marin Country Mart Sep 20, 6pm, Tom Bekany & Missing Man Quartet. Sep 22, 12:30pm, Hobo Paradise. 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur, 415.461.5700. 19 Broadway Nightclub Sep 19, Sugartown. Sep 20, Sol Horizon. Sep 22, 5:30pm, Connie Ducey and friends. Sep 24, Eddie Neon Blues Jam. Sep 25, Blues Champions. 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax, 415.459.1091. No Name Bar Sep 19, Mikki and Cole Tate. Sep 20, Michael Aragon Quartet. Sep 21, Blue Monday Blues Band. Sep 22, Chris James and friends. Sep 23, Kimrea & the Dreamdogs. 757 Bridgeway, Sausalito, 415.332.1392. Osteria Divino Sep 19, Yacht Club of Paris. Sep 20, Ian McArdle Trio. Sep 21, David Jeffrey’s Jazz Fourtet. Sep 22, Javier Santiago. 37 Caledonia St, Sausalito, 415.331.9355. Panama Hotel Restaurant Sep 19, Deborah Winters. Sep 24, Marianna August. Sep 25, Kurt Huget. 4 Bayview St, San Rafael, 415.457.3993. Papermill Creek Saloon Sep 19, Migrant Pickers. Sep 20, Howie’s

Art Opening MarinMOCA Sep 21-Nov 10, “50 Faces,” contemporary mosaic artwork from the Scuola Mosaicisti del Friuli in Italy makes its first US appearance. Reception, Sep 21 at 5pm. 500 Palm Dr, Novato. 415.506.0137.

Events Marin Comics Fest Discover new comics and meet authors and artists at libraries and other venues throughout Marin all month. Through Sep 25. Free unless otherwise noted. San Rafael Library, 1100 E St, San Rafael, marincomicsfest.org. Marin Sustainable Enterprise Conference Daylong conference promotes sustainable business practices in the North Bay. Sep 25, 8am. $145; students are $29. Marin Art & Garden Center, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross, greenmarin.biz. Milo Foundation Anniversary Celebration Nonprofit animal rescue and adoption center celebrates 25 years of work with cocktails, food, auctions and more. Sep 19, 6pm. $150. Mill Valley Community Center, 180 Camino Alto, Mill Valley, milofoundation.org. Thrive Alive Interactive program improves brain health and increases longevity with music, movement and relaxation. Wed, Sep 25, 1pm. $15-$30. St Columba’s Episcopal Church, 12835 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Inverness, 415.669.1039.

Hike the Headlands Day boasts live music, food, beer and cider, art, vendors and beautiful hikes that accommodate all levels and backgrounds. Sep 22, 10am. $15-$25 and up. NatureBridge at Golden Gate, 1033 Fort Cronkhite, Sausalito, naturebridge.org.

Film Beyond the Fear of Singing Director Michael Stillwater and special guests are on hand to screen the film about celebrating music. Sep 22, 6:30pm. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.454.1222. Italian Film Festival The fest offers great films, both comedy and drama, from Italy. Times vary. Sep 21-22. $16/$120 full series. Marin Center Showcase Theatre, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael, italianfilm.com. Throckmorton Mountainfilm Festival Adventure-packed films are shown along with special guest speakers, parties and conversations. Sep 20-22. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, 415.383.9600.

Food & Drink Cooks with Books Bestselling author Erin Gleeson presents her illustrated Mediterranean cookbook and prepares a meal. Sep 22, 12:30pm. $115; $185 per couple. Left Bank Brasserie, 507 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur, 415.927.3331. Off the Grid Food Trucks Eat your way through the largest gathering of mobile food trucks in Marin, listen to live music and take in great views. Sun, 11am. Marin Country Mart, 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur, 415.461.5700.

Lectures Ecology & Conservation of Pacific Albatrosses Presentation includes differing perspectives from scientist Breck Tyler and artist Caren Loebel-Fried. Sep 24, 7pm. $10. Bay Model Visitor Center, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito, 415.332.3871. Is There Life After Death? Featured speaker shares their near-death experience and knowledge. Sep 20, 7:30pm. $20-$25. Unity in Marin, 600 Palm Dr, Novato, 415.383.0605. Isabella Tree & William Bryant Logan The two writers working at the intersection of the natural and human world engage in conversation about trees and every day ecology. Sep 24, 7pm. Free. Point Reyes Books, 11315 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station, 415.663.1542.

Love on Every Breath Daylong meditation workshop aims to transform suffering into love. Sep 21, 10am. $75-$150. Sukhasiddhi Foundation, 771 Center Blvd, Fairfax, 415.462.0127. Native Americans in Corte Madera Author Betty Goerke offers a history presentation. Sep 19, 7pm. Free. Corte Madera Library, 707 Meadowsweet Dr, Corte Madera, 415.924.3515. Natural Dye Workshop Experience the fun and creativity of playing with dyes made from nature. Sep 21, 9am. $85. Fairfax Backyard Farmer, 135 Bolinas Rd, Fairfax, 415.342.5092. Understanding Alzheimer’s & Dementia Learn about the current research and treatment. Registration requested. Sep 19, 12pm. Free. Civic Center Library, 3501 Civic Center Dr, San Rafael, 800.272.3900. Wheel of the Seasons Naturalist and educator Sharon Barnett leads a journey through the seasons to highlight local natural phenomena. Reservations required. Sep 21, 6:30pm. China Camp State Park, 100 China Camp Village Rd, San Rafael, 415.456.0766.

Readings Angelico Hall Sep 20, 7pm,“The Nickel Boys” with Colson Whitehead. Sep 22, 1pm,“Talking to Strangers” with Malcolm Gladwell. Dominican University, 50 Acacia Ave, San Rafael 415.457.4440. Book Passage Sep 19, 7pm, “Kindness for All Creatures” with Sarah C Beasley. Sep 21, 1pm, “Quichotte” with Salman Rushdie. Sep 21, 7pm, “The Naked Truth” with Leslie Morgan. Sep 22, 11am, “How to Be a Family” with Dan Kois. Sep 22, 1pm, “Inconspicuous Consumption” with Tatiana Schlossberg. Sep 23, 7pm, “Out of Darkness, Shining Light” with Petina Gappah. Sep 24, 7pm, “Crossfire Hurricane” with Josh Campbell. Sep 25, 7pm, “Those Who Wander” with Vivian Ho. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera 415.927.0960.

Theater The Humans A family copes with aging, illness and a changing economy in this Tony Awardwinning play. Through Sep 29. $15-$27. Novato Theater Company, 5240 Nave Dr, Novato, 415.883.4498. The Mousetrap Ross Valley Players present the classic mystery written by Agatha Christie. Through Oct 13. $17-$29. Barn Theatre, Marin Art and Garden Center, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross, 415.456.9555.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT— File No: 2019147468. The following individual(s) are doing business: HOT YOGA REPUBLIC, 4050 REDWOOD HIGHWAY, SUITE G, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: HOT YOGA REPUBLIC LLC., 109 GREGORY REPUBLIC LLC, FAIRFAX, CA 94903. This business is being conducted by LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on AUGUST 21, 2019. (Publication Dates: AUGUST 28, SEPTEMBER 4, 11, 18 of 2019) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT— File No: 2019147379. The following individual(s) are doing business: MARIN BEAUTY ACADEMY, 854 FOURTH ST, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: MARIN BEAUTY ACADEMY LLC., 854 FOURTH ST, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant will

begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on AUGUST 6, 2019. (Publication Dates: AUGUST 28, SEPTEMBER 4, 11, 18 of 2019) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT— File No: 2019147469. The following individual(s) are doing business: PRINCESS SATURDAY, 374 ELM AVE, LARKSPUR, CA 94939: PACHECO 1800 LLC, 374 ELM AVE, LARKSPUR, CA 94939. This business is being conducted by LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on AUGUST 21, 2019. (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 4, 11, 18, 25 of 2019) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 147482. The following individual(s) are doing business: CHRONOS ACADEMY, GOLDEN GATE LEARNING CENTER, 921 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE BLVD, SAN

ANSELMO, CA 94960: CELESTE EZELL, WILLIAM DANIEL EZELL 147 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE BLVD #6, KENTFIELD, CA 94939. This business is being conducted by A MARRIED COUPLE. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on AUGUST 23, 2019. (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 4, 11, 18, 25 of 2019) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT - File No: 147524. The following individual(s) are doing business: THE MEADOWS ASSOCIATES L.P., 555 SUMMIT AVENUE, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: 514 LARK COURT LLC, 514 SUMMIT AVENUE, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941. This business is being conducted by LIMITED 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 AUGUST 29, 2019. (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 11, 18, 25, OCTOBER 2 of 2019)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT — File No: 2019-147498. The following individual(s) are doing business: LIQUID STOCK, 840 APOLLO STREET, EL SEGUNDO, CA 90245: LIQUID CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC., 840 APOLLO STREET, EL SEGUNDO, CA 90245. This business is being conducted by LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on AUGUST 27, 2019. (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 18, 25, OCTOBER 2, 9 of 2019) OTHER NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 1903247 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS 1. Petitioner (name of each): Vanessa Mary Seidler, has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Vanessa Mary Seidler to Proposed Name: Vanessa Ester Mary Seidler 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this

matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the~name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. if no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING a. Date: 10/21/2019, Time: 9:00am, Dept: E, Room: E. The address of the court is same as noted above; 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. 3.a. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the Pacific Sun, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin. DATED: August 26, 2019 Andrew E Sweet Judge of the Superior Court James M Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By E. Anderson, Deputy (SEPTEMBER 4, 11, 18, 25 of 2019) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 11903225 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS 1. Petitioner (name of each): Iuliia Popova, has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Iuliia Popova to Proposed Name: Yulia Popova 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the~name

changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. if no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING a. Date: 10/18/2019, 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: August 23, 2019 Andrew E Sweet Judge of the Superior Court James M Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By E. Anderson, Deputy (SEPTEMBER 4, 11, 18, 25 of 2019) SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) Number: (Numero del Caso): CIV 1900513 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): JOHN OOSTERBAAN, an Individual; CLOSETS MINI STORAGE, an unknown entity; SPACE MINI-STORAGE, LLC, a California limited liability company; and DOES 1-20 YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): Hadar Hartshorn NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are servedon you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response

must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia. org), the California Court Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la information a continuacion. The name and address of the court is (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): Superior Court of California, County of Marin. 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff ’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is (El nombre, la dirección y el número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): Martin Zurada Venardi Zurada LLP, 1418 Lakeside Drive. Oakland, CA 94612.

510-832-4295. DATE (Fecha): FEB 6 2019. JAMES M. KIM, Clerk By C. LUCCHESI, Deputy. SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF MARIN HADAR HARTSHORN, Plaintiff, vs. JOHN OOSTERBAAN, Defendant. Case No.: CIV1900513. STATEMENT OF DAMAGES. To Defendant JOHN OOSTERBAAN: Plaintiff, HADAR HARTSHORN seeks damages in this action as follows: GENERAL DAMAGES. Emotional distress: $250,000.00. SPECIAL DAMAGES Property damage: $100,000.00. PUNITIVE damages: Plaintiff reserves the right to seek punitive damages in the amount of $350,000.00 when pursuing a judgment in the suit filed against you. Dated: 08/15/19 By: _____/s/ ________________________ __ Martin Zurada. Attorney for Plaintiff. SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF MARIN HADAR HARTSHORN, Plaintiff, vs. JOHN OOSTERBAAN, Defendant. Case No.: CIV1900513 STATEMENT OF DAMAGES To Defendant CLOSETS MINI STORAGE: Plaintiff, HADAR HARTSHORN seeks damages in this action as follows: GENERAL DAMAGES Emotional distress: $250,000.00. SPECIAL DAMAGES. Property damage: $100,000.00 PUNITIVE damages: Plaintiff reserves the right to seek punitive damages in the amount of $350,000.00 when pursuing a judgment in the suit filed against you. Dated: 08/15/19 By: _____/s/_____ _____________________ Martin Zurada Attorney for Plaintiff. (Publication Dates: September 4, 11, 25, October 2 of 2019) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JAY LOREN KAHN CASE NO.: PR 1903129 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise

be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Jay Loren Kahn. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Randall S. Kahn, in the Superior Court of California, County of Marin. The Petition for Letters of Administration requests that: Randall S. Kahn, be appointed as executor of 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. Decedent died on 12-292018, a resident of Marin County, CA. Bond not to be required for the reasons stated in item 3e. 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: 9/30/2019, 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

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT - File No: 2019147501. The following individual(s) are doing business: LEHMAN THERAPY, 1717 FIFTH AVE STE E, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: LEHMAN THERAPY: INDIVIDUAL, PARTNER, AND FAMILY COUNSELING, INC, 1717 FIFTH AVE STE E, 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 AUGUST 27, 2019. (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 11, 18, 25, OCTOBER 2 of 2019)

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PublicNotices 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. Petitioner: Randall S. Kahn, 166 Woodward Ave., Sausalito CA 94965 415-2794444. FILED: August 16, 2019, James M. Kim, Court Executive Officer, MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By: K. Yarborough. Deputy. (Publication Dates: September 4, 11, 18 of 2019) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 1903290 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS 1. Petitioner (name of each): Richard Wolford, Kaelan Wolford, has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Kieran Makoa Blue Wolford to Proposed Name: Richard Makoa Blue Wolford 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court

days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. if no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING a. Date: 10/24/2019, Time: 9:00am, Dept: B, Room: B. The address of the court is same as noted above; 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. 3.a. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the Pacific Sun, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin. DATED: August 29, 2019 Andrew E Sweet Judge of the Superior Court James M Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By E. Anderson, Deputy (SEPTEMBER 11, 18, 25, OCTOBER 2 of 2019) Notice Content SUMMONS - FAMILY LAW CASE NUMBER: FL 1901651 NOTICE TO RESPONDENT: SANTIAGO MARTINEZ RODRIGUEZ You have been sued. PETITIONERíS NAME IS: DEYANNIRA OCHO GARCIA You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter, phone call or court appearance will not protect you. If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. Get help finding a lawyer at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center ([ http:// www.courts.ca.gov/self-

help ]www.courts.ca.gov/ selfhelp), at the California Legal Services website ([ http://www.lawhelpca.org/ ]www.lawhelpca.org), or by contacting your local county bar association. NOTICE--RESTRAINING ORDERS ARE ON PAGE 2: These restraining are effective against both spouses or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment is entered, or the court makes further orders. They are enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement officer who has received or seen a copy of them. FEE WAIVER: If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. The court may order you to pay back all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for you or the other party. The name and address of the court are: MARIN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORINA, 3501 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE, P.O. BOX 4988, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. The name, address, and telephone number of the petitionerís attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: DEYANNIRA OCHO GARCIA, 101 WOODLAND AVENUE, #1, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901.Tel:415-760-2575. Clerk, by /s/ JAMES M.KIM, Court Executive Officer, Marin County Superior Court, By K. Yarborough, Deputy. Date: April 29, 2019. STANDARD FAMILY LAW RESTRAINING ORDERS, Starting immediately, you and your spouse or domestic partner are restrained from: 1. removing the minor children of the parties from the state or applying for a new or replacement passport for those minor children without the prior written consent of the other party or an order of the court; 2. cashing, borrowing against, canceling, transferring, disposing of, or changing the beneficiaries of any insurance or other coverage, including life, health, automobile, and disability, held for the benefit of the parties and their minor children; 3. transferring,

encumbering, hypothecating, concealing, or in any way disposing of any property, real or personal, whether community, quasi-community, or separate, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court, except in the usual course of business or for the necessities of life; and 4. creating a nonprobate transfer or modifying a nonprobate transfer in a manner that affects the disposition of property subject to the transfer, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court. Before revocation of a nonprobate transfer can take effect or a right of survivorship to property can be eliminated, notice of the change must be files and served on the other party. You must notify each other of any proposed extraordinary expenditures at least five business days prior to incurring these extraordinary expendi-

tures and account to the court for all extraordinary expenditures made after these restraining orders are effective. However, you may use community property, quasi-community property, or your own separate property to pay an attorney to help you or to pay court costs. NOTICE ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HEALTH INSURANCE: Do you or someone in your household need affordable health insurance? If so, you should apply for Covered California. Covered California can help reduce the cost you pay towards high quality affordable health care. For more information, visit [ http://www.coveredca. com/ ]www.coveredca.com. Or call Covered California at 1-800-300-1506. WARNING IMPORTANT INFORMATION California law provides that, for purposes of division of property upon dissolution of a

marriage or domestic partnership or upon legal separation, property acquired by the parties during marriage or domestic partnership in joint form is presumed to be community property. If either party to this action should die before the jointly held community property is divided, the language in the deed that characterizes how title is held (i.e., joint tenancy, tenants in common, or community property) will be controlling, and not the community property presumption. You should consult your attorney if you want the community property presumption to be written into the recorded title to the property. (Publication Dates: September 11, 18, 25, October 2 of 2019)

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By Amy Alkon

My friend thinks I’d do better in dating if I went on sites that match people according to “similarities.” Most of the couples I know aren’t that similar. Could those sites be wrong? How much does similarity matter for being a good match with somebody and the chances of a relationship working out long term?—Single Woman

Some points of difference are simply a bridge too far—like if one partner enjoys hunting dinner and the other weeps every time an egg is fried. However, there are three areas in which partner harmony seems essential to happy coupledom. If couples have clashing religious beliefs, political orientations or values, “it’s found to cause tremendous problems in a marriage,” explained psychologist David Buss at a recent evolutionary psychology conference. Beyond the big three—shared religion, political orientation, and values—the notion that you and your partner need to “match” to be happy together isn’t supported by science. In fact, science finds otherwise. The notion that partners should match like a pair of nightstands has powerful intuitive appeal, leading many people—including psychologists—to buy into the notion we’ll be happiest if we find somebody just like us. Dating sites take advantage of this widely believed myth, hawking features like the “billion points of similarity” compatibility test. Dating sites advertising themselves with a meaningless test might not seem like a big deal. But it reinforces the myth that partner similarity equals romantic happiness, and this belief has a downside, according to research by psychologist Michael I. Norton and his colleagues. Consider when we first meet a person, we get excited about our apparent similarities: “You like sticking up banks! I like sticking up banks!” At this point, and in the early days of a relationship, we’re prone to identify similarities where none exist, spinning ambiguities—vague or missing details about a person—into support for their being just like us. But Norton explains that as partners get to know each other, dissimilarities begin to surface. And this leads partners who were initially stoked about how alike they seemed to be to become less satisfied with each other and the relationship. Interestingly, dissimilarity between partners gets an undeserved bad rap. Discovering this took more sophisticated methodology than used in previous research. Psychologist Manon van Scheppingen and her colleagues instead explored interactions between romantic partners’ personality traits over an eightyear period. Their findings suggest partners don’t have to match perfectly on traits; and sometimes having differences is ideal. Take conscientiousness, a personality trait reflecting self-control and a sense of responsibility to others. According to the research, if one partner was low in conscientiousness, their relationship worked better and they were happier when they were with somebody higher in conscientiousness. Likewise, relationships worked better when partners had varying levels of extraversion. The upshot is that happy coupledom depends on an interplay of factors. This in turn suggests that what makes for happy relationships is largely “process”—how two people communicate, foster each other’s growth, solve problems and manage the intractable ones. Beyond this and the three vital areas where partners need to be in tune— religion, politics and values—what’s important is for partners to not be sharply different in ways that will make them unhappy together. To avoid that, you need to dig into yourself and figure out what your deal breakers are. For example, if you’re an urban girl like me, no amount of love would change your belief that there’s only one reason to spend a month in a cabin in the wilderness without indoor plumbing, and it’s because you’ve been kidnapped and are tied to a chair. 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 September 18

ARIES (March 21-April 19): We’re in the

equinoctial season. During this pregnant pause, the sun seems to hover directly over the equator; the lengths of night and day are equal. For all of us, but especially for you, it’s a favorable phase to conjure and cultivate more sweet symmetry, calming balance and healing harmony. In that spirit, I encourage you to temporarily suspend any rough, tough approaches you might have in regard to those themes. Resist the temptation to slam two opposites together simply to see what happens. Avoid engaging in the pseudo-fun of purging by day and bingeing by night. And don’t you dare get swept up in hating what you love or loving what you hate.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “I tell you what

freedom is to me: no fear.” So said singer and activist Nina Simone. But it’s doubtful there ever came a time when she reached the perfect embodiment of that idyllic state. How can any of us empty out our anxiety so completely as to be utterly emancipated? It’s not possible. That’s the bad news, Taurus. The good news is that in the coming weeks you will have the potential to be as unafraid as you have ever been. For best results, try to ensure that love is your primary motivation in everything you do and say and think.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Some things don’t change much. The beautiful marine animal species known as the pearly nautilus, which lives in the South Pacific, is mostly the same as it was 150 million years ago. Then there’s Fuggerei, a walled enclave within the German city of Augsburg. The rent is cheap, about one U.S. dollar per year, and that fee hasn’t increased in almost 500 years. While I am in awe of these bastions of stability, and wish we had more such symbolic anchors, I advise you to head in a different direction. During the coming weeks, you’ll be wise to be a maestro of mutability, a connoisseur of transformation, an adept of novelty. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Granny Smith apples are widely available. But before 1868, the tart, crispy, juicy fruit never existed on planet Earth. Around that time, an Australian mother of eight named Maria Ann Smith threw the cores of French crab apples out her window while she was cooking. The seeds were fertilized by the pollen from a different, unknown variety of apple, and a new type was born: Granny Smith. I foresee the possibility of a metaphorically comparable event in your future: a lucky accident that enables you to weave together two interesting threads into a fascinating third thread. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Every masterpiece is just

dirt and ash put together in some perfect way,” writes storyteller Chuck Palahniuk, who has completed several novelistic masterpieces. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you Leos have assembled much of the dirt and ash necessary to create your next masterpiece, and are now ready to move on to the next phase. And what is that phase? Identifying the help and support you’ll need for the rest of the process.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 1959, scandal erupted among Americans who loved to eat peanut butter. Studies revealed that manufacturers had added so much hydrogenated vegetable oil and glycerin to their product that only 75 percent of it could truly be called peanut butter. So began a long legal process to restore high standards. Finally, there was a new law specifying that no company could sell a product called “peanut butter” unless it contained at least 90 percent peanuts. I hope this fight for purity inspires you to conduct a metaphorically comparable campaign. It’s time to ensure that all the important resources and influences in your life are at peak intensity and efficiency. Say NO to dilution and adulteration. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In 1936, the City of Cleveland, Ohio staged the Great Lakes Exposition, a 135-acre fair with thrill rides, art galleries, gardens and sideshows. One of its fun features was The Golden Book of Cleveland, a 2.5-ton, 6,000-page text the size of a mattress. After the expo closed down, the “biggest book in the world” went missing. If it still exists today,

By Rob Brezsny

no one knows where it is. I’m going to speculate that there’s a metaphorical version of The Golden Book of Cleveland in your life. You, too, have lost track of a major Something that would seem hard to misplace. Here’s the good news: If you intensify your search now, I bet you’ll find it before the end of 2019.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 1990, the

New Zealand government appointed educator, magician, and comedian Ian Brackenbury Channell to be the official Wizard of New Zealand. His jobs include protecting the government, blessing new enterprises, casting out evil spirits, upsetting fanatics and cheering people up. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to find your personal equivalents of an inspirational force like that. There’s really no need to scrimp. According to my reading of the cosmic energies, you have license to be extravagant in getting what you need to thrive.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Do silly things,” advised playwright Anton Chekhov. “Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.” I think that’s a perspective worth adopting now and then. Most of us go through phases when we take things too seriously and too personally and too literally. Bouts of fun absurdity can be healing agents for that affliction. But now is NOT one of those times for you, in my opinion. Just the reverse is true, in fact. I encourage you to cultivate majestic moods and seek out awe-inspiring experiences and induce sublime perspectives. Your serious and noble quest for a meaningful life can be especially rewarding in the coming weeks. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Before

comedian Jack Benny died in 1974, he arranged to have a florist deliver a single red rose to his wife every day for the rest of her life. She lived another nine years, and received more than 3,000 of these gifts. Even though you’ll be around on this earth for a long time, I think the coming weeks would be an excellent time to establish a comparable custom: a commitment to providing regular blessings to a person or persons for whom you care deeply. This bold decision would be in alignment with astrological omens, which suggest that you can generate substantial benefits for yourself by being creative with your generosity.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Actress and author Ruby Dee formulated an unusual prayer. “God,” she wrote, “make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.” As you might imagine, she was a brave activist who risked her reputation and career working for the Civil Rights Movement and other idealistic causes. I think her exceptional request to a Higher Power makes good sense for you right now. You’re in a phase when you can generate practical blessings by doing the very things that intimidate you or make you nervous. And maybe the best way to motivate and mobilize yourself is by getting at least a bit flustered or unsettled. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Syndicated cartoon strip Calvin and Hobbes appeared for 10 years in 2,400 newspapers in 50 countries. It wielded a sizable cultural influence. For example, in 1992, six-year-old Calvin decided “The Big Bang” was a boring term for how the universe began, and instead proposed we call it the “Horrendous Space Kablooie.” A number of real scientists subsequently adopted Calvin’s innovation, and it has been invoked playfully but seriously in university courses and textbooks. In that spirit, I encourage you to give fun new names to anything and everything you feel like spicing up. You now have substantial power to reshape and revamp the components of your world. It’s Identify-Shifting Time.

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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