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This week, a letter-writer calls out the Trump administration for not discussing issues such as climate change and gun policy.

Gun Control

My sure-fire idea to ban semiautomatic guns: Congress sheds its yellow stripe of political cowardice and bans all semi-automatic rifles and offers a lifetime supply of Viagra to replace such manhood alternate turned in.

—Alfred Auger

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After four unusually strong hurricanes (Harvey, Irma, Jose and Maria) ripped through the super-heated Caribbean, causing catastrophic damage, White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked if the Trump administration would reconsider

its denial of global warming. “This is not the time to discuss climate change policy,” she answered.

After people in Las Vegas suffered the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, the White House spokes-puppet was asked if the Trump administration would reconsider its objection to reasonable gun control measures.

“This is not the time to discuss gun policy,” she answered.

Perhaps this is the time to discuss election reform. We’ve seen the damage caused by a president who took office despite his opponent winning a majority of the votes.

Now is the time to scrap the Electoral College and end tyranny by a minority.

—Bruce Joffe

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By Howard Rachelson

1 Of all Marin County residents who voted in the 2016 presidential election, what percentage cast their lot for Donald Trump: 15 percent, 25 percent or 35 percent?

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Trivia Café

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2 AM and PM (as in time) are abbreviations for what Latin phrases?

3 What recording diva had seven

consecutive No. 1 hits on the Billboard singles chart from 1985 until 1988?

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4 Obtaining a right enjoyed by women

in every other country, females in Saudi Arabia will soon be allowed to do what?

5 What popular Greek food delight is

made from layers of ground meat and eggplant, and topped with cheese sauce, then baked?

6 What metallic objects, worn on the

feet of certain animals, are said to bring good luck?

7 According to Greek mythology, the Trojan War began after Paris abducted what ultra-beautiful woman?

8 What 27-year-old cartoonist in 1950 introduced a comic strip known as Peanuts, and kept at it for 50 years?

9 What politician with a military-sounding name succeeded Margaret Thatcher as British Prime Minister in 1990?

10 What system of measurement begins with the digits 000000 and ends with the digits 235959?

BONUS QUESTION: Arrange these cities in order, northernmost first: Portland, Oregon; Paris, France; Pyongyang, North Korea.

▲ There’s a new hotline in Marin to help ice ICE. If you witness Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in our county, defend immigrants’ rights by calling the Marin Rapid Response Network at 415/991-4545 to report what you see.

It’s becoming more important than ever to monitor and document ICE operations as Attorney General Jeff Sessions focuses on sanctuary jurisdictions, like Marin, with heightened enforcement and threats on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status. The Marin Rapid Response Network, a collaboration of local organizations, runs the 24-hour phone line to help gather evidence used to help free someone from ICE custody.

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▼ Unfortunately, that 43-home development on the Martha Co. property in Tiburon, first proposed in 1976, just won’t die. The Marin County Board of Supervisors approved last week, by a vote of three to two, the environmental impact report and the master plan. “Beware, a precise development plan could include future group homes, child care centers, residential second units and affordable housing on one or all of the 43 lots,” said Scott Hochstrasser of Fairfax, president of International Planning Associates, speaking on behalf of Martha & Co. in an article in the Marin Independent Journal.

His caveat sounds better than dozens of McMansions.

—Nikki Silverstein

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By Tuesday, the death toll across the region had risen to 15, nine in Sonoma County, and more than 50,000 acres were burned in the Tubbs and Atlas fires in the Santa Rosa area and Napa County, respectively.

Hell Fire

Wind-whipped disaster ravages the North Bay By Stett Holbrook and Tom Gogola

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evastating. Apocalyptic.

Unprecedented.

Survivors of Monday’s North Bay firestorms used different words to describe the intensity of the wind-whipped, early-morning blazes that left much of the North Bay a smoking ruin, took at least 15 lives and left authorities looking for 150 missing people. By Tuesday, the multiple blazes in Sonoma, Napa and Mendocino counties were zero percent contained and more than 20,000 people had been forced to flee their homes after the worst natural disaster in Northern California history.

As of Tuesday afternoon the fire was threatening the Oakmont Village retirement community and some 5,000 people were still

in evacuation centers in Sonoma County—and nobody was being sent back home yet. PG&E reported that more than 100,000 people were still without power.

Sonoma County Sheriff Rob Giordano said his department is “working on damage assessments so we can put people back in their homes” during an afternoon press conference where he stressed safety and patience.

Santa Rosa police and the Sonoma County Sheriff ’s Office (SCSO) were on guard against looters and the city enacted a duskto-dawn curfew; the SCSO closed access to mandatory evacuation areas and Giordano reported that increased police presence had contributed to “very few calls and no looting.” Fourth Street

downtown was a shuttered ghost town as of Monday afternoon, except for the Chinese restaurant, which was serving through the smoky day. It started to come to life again Tuesday, but school was out, the courts were closed and the SMART train wasn’t coming to Santa Rosa. Twenty employees of the SCSO lost their homes to the fire, says Giordano. One employee of our sister newspaper, the Bohemian, lost hers.

“This is a huge event. This is an enormous fire,” Giordano told reporters. He added that he expected that there “may be a couple more” fatalities in the county.

The estimated number of homes, businesses or other buildings destroyed by the

multiple fires was at least 2,000. The Tubbs fire, says the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) spokeswoman Heather Williams, has claimed 571 buildings, 550 residential and 21 commercial.

“There are 16,000-plus structures that are [still] being threatened,” she says. That fire started along the Sonoma-Napa County border Sunday night in Calistoga. Its cause is under investigation, Williams says.

The damage is numbing in its scope and cruelly democratic in its reach: Rich and poor alike have lost everything to Tubbs.

Local institutions are no longer: Santa Rosa’s Hilton Sonoma Wine Country Hotel and historic Round Barn in Fountaingrove. Gone.

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back to check on several properties: A rental unit he owned on Dogwood Lane, his ex-wife’s house around the corner and his home on Vermillion Way. The rental house, the place where he raised his children, burned to the ground.

So did everything around it. The absence of familiar visual reference points—and the shock of the devastation—left him disoriented.

He trudged across Coffey Park, where it appeared that a car had exploded and landed upside down, to check on his home. He expected the worst but suddenly, like stepping from black-and-white into color, the destruction stopped. His home, just a few houses away from piles of ash and twisted metal, was untouched.

“Oh, my God,” he said, overcome with emotion. “Oh, my God. How was my house spared?”

On Monday morning, the scene was eerily calm, yet blazingly dangerous at the curving corner of Wild Lilac Lane and Selene Court, east of Fountaingrove and over a blazing ridge, near the Rincon Valley Christian School off Brush Creek Road. A reporter arrived, following the smoke, and no roadblocks had been established by law enforcement. From a cul-desac in this neighborhood of highpriced homes—many with Spanishtile roofs and many burned to the ground—one could watch fires popping up in an almost a 360-degree arc around the region.

Cal Fire trucks made a few passes through the area over the course of several hours, keeping a watchful eye on this little section of hell, and a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation fire crew was busily fireproofing another house that had escaped the wrath of Tubbs.

They scratched dirt around and broke out the chainsaws to save the house, which was totally surrounded by destruction and on the neighboring lot.

Adding to the horrors of Monday night was the fate of the 200 patients who had to be evacuated from Kaiser Permanente and Sutter hospitals. Shawna Marzett, a patient-care technician at the hospital, said that Kaiser was admitting ambulances bearing fire victims until early Monday morning until the fire bore down on them from the hillsides above, and then it was time to evacuate.

“Looking through those big glass

The estimated number of homes, businesses or other buildings destroyed by the multiple North Bay fires was at least 2,000.

windows you could feel the heat,” she said. “We had doctors and nurses watching their homes burn while they were helping.”

She and the staff went room to room, wheeling out patients with IVs and babies from the intensive care ward and then slapping “empty” signs on the rooms when everyone was safely out. In about two hours, the hospital was empty.

“Kaiser did an amazing job getting people out,” she said.

Patients from Kaiser and Sutter were bused to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital and neighboring facilities. A hospital spokeswoman reported that about 170 patients had come through with fire-related injuries by Tuesday, far lower than anticipated.

Most were treated for minor burns or smoke inhalation and released, though a dozen patients had more significant burns and four had to be transferred to burn centers.

On Monday night around rush hour, Highway 101 was choked with smoke and traffic, and dozens of lights blazing atop ambulances were headed north on the highway into the pop-up inferno zone.

The firestorm was prompted by very low humidity (11 percent) and very high wind gusts. The wind had died down Monday, but Tuesday forecasters warned that

offshore winds were picking up again and would blow 25 to 30 miles an hour from the northeast on Tuesday night.

Williams at Cal Fire says firefighters have “worked diligently at the southern end of the fires,” to build defenses to prepare for the windy prediction.

Vice President Mike Pence was in Sacramento on a previously scheduled trip and he gave a press conference on Tuesday focused on the fire and the federal response.

President Trump had just approved a disaster declaration, which means funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency are on the way. Pence spoke for many when he highlighted the work of first responders.

“Cal Fire is inspiring the nation, and we stand with them with great admiration and appreciation,” the vice president said as he assured the North Bay that “more assets are on the way.”

There are currently at least 600 fire personnel and 84 engines fighting the Tubbs fire, with assets drawn from the Cal Fire mutualaid ranks of San Diego to the Oregon border.Y Donate to help with rebuilding at rebuildsonomafund.org.

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The Luther Burbank Center for the Performing Arts. A charred ruin. Kaiser and Sutter hospitals evacuated before the approaching flames. Paradise Ridge Winery.

Reduced to ash. Downtown Glen Ellen, gutted.

Santa Rosa’s Coffey Lane neighborhood north of Piner Road, lit by embers that jumped Highway 101, was the site of utter devastation. Block after block of middle-class homes surrounding Coffey Park were reduced to smoldering ash. Long after firefighters and Sonoma County Sheriff ’s deputies worked through the early morning hours to save as many lives as possible, the workingclass neighborhood once adorned with Halloween decorations resembled a burned-out city under military siege.

The National Guard has been called in to assist SCSO, says Giordano. The Guard was activated after Gov. Jerry Brown’s state of emergency declaration yesterday; Giordano noted that they have search-and-rescue dogs and other assets. The county has fielded 240 missing persons reports, he said, and has “located 57 people safely.”

He encouraged families to contact the county Emergency Operations Center if they have a missing loved one and attributed much of the concern to the chaos of the moment, with panicked persons leaving their homes and heading to one of 25 evacuation centers— often without a cell phone or a cell charger. “A lot of it is just confusion,” he said. “I’m glad we can chip away at that number.”

All over the region, gas mains roared with perilous open flames and broken water pipes feebly spewed water onto scorched earth as the acrid smoke of incinerated beds, couches, cars, bicycles and lives drifted through the air.

Residents shuffled back to the now-unrecognizable Coffey Park neighborhood to survey their losses. They stood before chimneys that looked like gravestones in a smoldering cemetery, weeping and taking photos with cell phones.

Seaneen DeLong, 57, walked south on Coffey Lane away from the fire with her yowling cat Fritz in a travel carrier. “It was the best neighborhood in the world,” she says. “Now it’s a charred ruin. It looks like a nuclear wasteland.”

Scott Murray, 60, was heading in the other direction, slowly walking

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Todd Donaldson, of Fairfax’s Mana Bowls, brings his acai bowls to Corte Madera for the newly opened Ohana Acai Café.

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FOOD & DRINK

Island Bowls Ohana Acai Café combines tastes of Hawaii and Marin By Tanya Henry

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an Anselmo resident and Marin native Todd Donaldson brought his acai bowls to Fairfax five years ago when he opened Mana Bowls with a partner. This month, he ventures out on his own to open a second location— Ohana Acai Café in the Marketplace shopping center in Corte Madera.

It was during a trip to Santa Barbara with his wife that Donaldson had the idea to bring the South American berry concept to Marin. Not surprisingly, acai, with its abundant health claims, quickly became a favorite fruit among the health-conscious in the ’90s and was frequently referred to as a “superfood” throughout healthobsessed Southern California.

“I’m not going to pretend it’s a cure-all,” says Donaldson, who explains that it’s the high level of antioxidants in these berries that grow wild in the Amazon rainforests that make them so appealing.

Much like the bowls in Fairfax, Donaldson has given them whimsical names—this time with a Hawaiian theme. Ohana translates to “family” in English, and Donaldson’s Makai,

Hanalei and Islander bowls give a nod to the islands. Most bowls are sweet and include the acai berries—deep purple and mildly flavored, more fruit and granola. A savory option, Vitalize Bowl, includes acai, kale, spinach, chia seeds and nuts.

Despite the Hawaiian theme, Donaldson is trying to keep it local. He’s featuring Marin Kombucha on tap, and will also look to nearby producers like Taylor Maid. Paintings from a Bolinas-based artist adorn the walls, and the open space is light-filled and welcoming. It helps that Donaldson greets customers with a smile and offers samples of acai for the uninitiated. He has his hands full between opening a new café, working at the Fairfax location and maintaining his real estate appraisal business. An avid surfer, Donaldson even manages to get in the water when there’s a swell. Perhaps it’s all of the acai bowls that he consumes that give him so much energy. “Health is your wealth,” he says.Y Ohana Acai Café, the Marketplace shopping center, 47C Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera; ohanaacai.com.

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Thomas Jefferson (Mark Anderson Phillips) and Sally Hemings (Tara Pacheco) share a moment onstage during Marin Theatre Company’s production of ‘Thomas and Sally.’

THEATER

Urgent Need With ‘Thomas and Sally,’ MTC aims to set record straight about Thomas Jefferson By Charles Brousse

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s its opening play of the 2017-2018 season, Marin Theatre Company (MTC) is presenting the world premiere of Thomas Bradshaw’s Thomas and Sally, a semifictional biopic it commissioned about the relationship between the man who became America’s third president and a young slave girl he owned named Sally Hemings. Both in substance and in the way it’s framed, it’s a problematic choice.

Thomas Jefferson was the Renaissance man incarnate. In his public life, he was a leader in the United States House of Representatives, helping to pioneer the governmental system that had a major influence on the

constitutional convention. As Ambassador to France and Secretary of State under Washington, he brought crucial foreign assistance and progressive political ideas to the fledgling nation. The beautifully phrased Declaration of Independence was largely his work, and he collaborated with his friend Lafayette on the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man, many of whose tenets were incorporated into our Bill of Rights. As president, in 1803 he arranged the Louisiana Purchase from France, which vastly expanded the country’s boundaries, and launched the Lewis & Clark Expedition that opened the West to settlement. He founded the Democratic Party, a libertarian

leaning group whose emphasis on individualism and limited government later was co-opted by modern Republicans. He strongly advocated for the separation of church and state, championing complete freedom for everyone.

Jefferson’s achievements were equally impressive in the private sphere. He spoke six languages and had a keen interest in science, architecture, engineering, agriculture, philosophy, history and education. Judged simply on his record, he richly deserves to have his facial image on the cliffs of Mount Rushmore. But that’s not the Jefferson we meet in Thomas and Sally. This Jefferson had a slavery problem. Like almost all Southern plantation owners, he depended on

slave labor to supply the cotton used by northern textile manufacturers to keep their goods competitive with Europeans, whose factories were more technologically advanced.

And, like many of these plantation owners who considered slaves to be property rather than human beings, he used that power to establish an intimate relationship with Sally Hemings that began after the death of his wife and lasted 37 years.

I am not here to defend the South in general, or Jefferson in particular.

But the premise of Bradshaw’s play and the explanation in Artistic Director Jasson Minadakis’ program notes about why it was selected for development and production at MTC seems to be that there is an urgent need to set the record straight about Jefferson the man, rather than as a public figure.

The Hemings issue is wellknown to anyone familiar with our history. So is the fact that George Washington, the esteemed “Father of Our Country,” also owned slaves, as did many other notables. Rather than exploring the complex circumstances that led to this contradiction between what the Founding Fathers said and what many of them practiced, Bradshaw focuses on the question of whether it was even possible for Hemings and Jefferson to have a consensual relationship based on love—given that she was a teenager and slave when it began—or whether it was a case of outright exploitation.

Bradshaw, by his own admission, does not know the full story. What we have then is a Jefferson (energetically portrayed by Mark Anderson Phillips) figuratively and literally exposing himself in a contradiction between words and deeds that is so blatant at times that he becomes a clownish figure, eliciting titters from the audience. Bradshaw doesn’t help his case with the tired device of having the story told by a contemporary college girl (Ella Dershowitz) to her roommate (Rosie Hallett).

The remainder of the ensemble and Minadakis’ direction meet MTC’s high standards, but after more than two hours of fruitless speculation, we leave the theater wondering what has been accomplished.Y NOW PLAYING: Thomas and Sally runs through October 29 at Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave., Mill Valley; 415/388-5208; marintheatre.org.

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Pickin’ Pretty Jon Stickley Trio breaks bluegrass boundaries By Lily O’Brien

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s the memories of three days full of easy, breezy, bluegrassy music from the annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in San Francisco begin to fade, there comes a band to Mill Valley that could be aptly described as—hardly, strictly, bluegrass. “Electro-harmonic jazzgrass” is one of the names that Jon Stickley chooses to describe his all-acoustic, all-instrumental trio.

“One of the cool things about the band is that it’s so different,” Stickley says by phone while on tour.

Based in Asheville, North Carolina, the trio’s roots are in bluegrass, but classical, hip hop, gypsy jazz and indie rock are added to the sound. Performances are highly improvisational, with Stickley delivering lightning-fast, fingerpicking licks on the guitar, Lyndsay Pruett bowing and plucking the violin and Patrick Armitage providing driving beats on the drums.

Stickley grew up singing and playing music at the local church and then switched to rock ’n’ roll guitar. But when a banjo-playing

friend loaned him a record by the David Grisman Quartet, asking him to learn a few bluegrass licks on the mandolin to back him up, Stickley says, “That was the first time that I had ever heard anything like that, and it just changed my life. We went to our first bluegrass jam where I saw the way that people interacted and the community, and just the general good energy around what a bluegrass jam is.”

Stickley met Pruett and Armitage five years ago and discovered that their musical styles all meshed.

The band is currently on tour promoting their newest release, Maybe Believe, including a stop at the Throckmorton Theatre on Thursday, October 12. The trio attracts both young and old audiences, at large festivals and in small listening rooms. “We are just having a lot of fun putting on high-energy performances,” Stickley says.Y Jon Stickley Trio, Thursday, Oct. 12, Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley; $16-$20; throckmortontheatre.org.

The late Harry Dean Stanton, well-known as a great character actor, shines in the film ‘Lucky.’

FILM

‘Lucky’ Man Portrait of the end of life

By Richard von Busack

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arry Dean Stanton, who died in September, was something better than a movie star, a character actor with some 60 years of credits. Lucky isn’t the last of Stanton, but it’s likely the last best view we’ll get out of the actor, who, at the end looked like an outsider artist’s statue of Abe Lincoln carved out of cypress wood. Director John Carroll Lynch follows a week in the life of the 90ish Lucky—he got the name back in the Navy, since he had the cushy job of a ship’s cook. The old man has a place out in the desert not far from the saguaro cactuses, and he follows an undemanding schedule: Exercising in his skivvies, making some coffee from a machine that keeps blinking “12:00” in fiery red letters and tottering on downtown to get some cigs and some chat at the diner. At night he goes for a couple of rounds at a local bar.

There are barfly movies of the Charles Bukowski vein—this one’s more of the William Saroyan vein; lots of harmless backtalk, but nothing fisty.

Lucky wanders, yet the movie seems tight and full of purpose.

He exchanges war stories with a Marine (Tom Skerritt), goes off to a Mexican birthday party where he sings a song for the mariachis and sticks his head in a pet shop, where he mulls over that common pet-store expression, “Forever home.” He mentions his fear, his old guilt, but there’s no slowness in his stride as he walks right past a church. Lucky is about the importance of recognizing mortality, nodding at it and going on your way.

This movie is a thing of beauty.

It’s said that it was hard to tell how much of Lucky was Stanton or the other way around, but it’s a seamless performance, free of codgerisms. It’s the kind of lateperiod acting Clint Eastwood tries to do. It’s poetry, and it has a point: What’s the purpose of being a tortoise, or obtaining great old age? Is there a better one than simply being a living lesson to everyone to calm the hell down?Y

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The Jon Stickley Trio’s newest album, says Jon Stickley, “is by far the most original, personal, and highly evolved of all our recordings.”

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Movies

• New Movies This Week American Made (R)

By Matthew Stafford

Friday October 13 - Thursday October 19 • American Made (1:55) Rollicking period piece about a cocky airline pilot-turned-CIA agent who gets tangled up in the IranContra scandal; Tom Cruise stars.

• Apollo 13 (2:20) True tale of the star-crossed 1970 lunar mission and the astronauts and scientists who struggled towards a happy landing; Ron Howard directs Ed Harris and Tom Hanks.

• Blade Runner 2049 (1:57) Harrison Ford is back, resurfacing after 30 years’ AWOL to help midcentury L.A. from devolving into chaos; Ryan Gosling co-stars.

• Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives (2:03) Docu-biography of the legendary record executive features words and music from Aretha, Miles, the Boss, the Dead, Simon & Garfunkel, Patti Smith and other superstars.

• Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (3:17) Documentarian extraordinaire Frederick Wiseman pays tribute to the town’s 92 branches of proud, passionate bibliomania.

• Flatliners (1:48) Remake of the 1990 horror flick about five med students and their forbidden excursions to the other side; Kiefer Sutherland is back!

• The Foreigner (1:52) A somber Jackie Chan takes on killers, terrorists and Pierce Brosnan as he searches for his kidnapped daughter; Martin Campbell directs.

• Happy Death Day (1:36) Horror variation on Groundhog Day in which a college girl relives the day of her murder until she figures out whodunit.

• In Pursuit of Silence (1:21) Meditative, insightful documentary about the physical, mental and spiritual benefits of noiselessness in this very noisy age.

• The Journey Is the Destination (2:03) Ben Schnetzer stars as real-life journalistactivist Don Eldon, whose good work in Mozambique, South Africa and Somalia didn’t go unpunished.

• Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2:21) The elite British intelligence agency is back, teaming up with Statesman (its U.S. counterpart) to foil one fiendish plot or another; Elton John stars!

• The LEGO Ninjago Movie (1:30) A troupe of modern-day ninjas band together to take down an evil warlord; Jackie Chan lends voice and gravitas.

• Loving Vincent (1:35) Groundbreaking animated film employs Van Gogh’s artworks to explore the artist’s tormented life and death; Jerome Flynn enters the picture as Dr. Gachet.

• Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (1:42) Liam Neeson stars as the one and only Deep Throat, the top FBI official who cold-cocked the Nixon administration with a little help from Woodward and Bernstein.

• Marshall (1:36) Chadwick Boseman stars as future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, taking on a racially charged rape case early in his career.

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Apollo 13 (PG) The Battle of the Sexes (PG-13) Blade Runner 2049 (R)

• The Metropolitan Opera: Die Zauberflöte (3:29) Julie Taymor’s eye-filling English-language production of Mozart’s family-friendly fairy tale is presented in dazzling big-screen high definition; James Levine conducts.

• Mill Valley Film Festival The 40th annual cinematic soiree features seminars, workshops, galas, in-person tributes and hundreds of movies from around the world.

• The Mountain Between Us (1:52) Kate Winslet and Idris Elba star as the sole survivors of a mountain plane crash who bond on their perilous cross-country trek back to civilization.

• My Journey Through French Cinema (3:15) Auteur extraordinaire Bertrand Tavernier illuminates the history of Gallic mise-en-scene with insights, observations and lots of great film clips.

• My Little Pony: The Movie (1:39) The Mane 8 use the power of friendship to protect Ponyville from harm; Zoe Saldana, Taye Diggs, Liev Schreiber and Kristin Chenoweth provide the voices.

• The Pathological Optimist (1:33) Arresting documentary looks at the anti-vaccination movement, its leader, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, and the headlinegrabbing lawsuit that resulted.

• The Princess Bride (1:39) William Goldman’s hip fairy tale hits the big screen with swordplay, ogres and beautiful princess intact; Rob Reiner directs Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Billy Crystal and Peter Falk.

• Professor Marston & The Wonder Women (1:48) Saucy look at what inspired 1940s Harvard psychologist William Marston to create the feminist superhero: his researcher wife Elizabeth and Olive Byrne, their mutual lover.

• Score: A Film Music Documentary (1:34) Ear-opening documentary celebrates the art and craft of movie composition with insights from Quincy Jones, Danny Elfman, Randy Newman and a score of others.

• She Loves Me (2:13) Direct from Broadway it’s the Bock-Harnick musical version of Lubitsch’s The Shop Around the Corner about two passionate pen pals who don’t know they’re also mutually detested co-workers.

• Spettacolo (1:31) Documentary spotlights the Tuscan hill town of the title where for half a century the villagers have staged a summertime al fresco drama by, about and starring themselves.

• Take Every Wave (1:58) Documentary tribute to Laird Hamilton, the charismatic big-wave tow-in surfer who revolutionized the sport.

• Victoria & Abdul (1:52) Fanciful look at the unlikely friendship between an Indian clerk and Queen Victoria herself (Judi Dench, natch).

• Victoria Victoria (2:13) Gender-bending Blake Edwards romp stars Julie Andrews as a Paris waif who becomes a cabaret sensation by posing as a male female impersonator.

Because there were too many movies playing this week to list, we have omitted some of the movie summaries and times for those that have been playing for multiple weeks. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives (Not Rated) • Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (Not Rated) Flatliners (PG-13) • The Foreigner (R) Happy Death Day (PG-13)

Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:15, 1:55, 3:30, 4:50, 6:10, 7:35, 8:50, 10:20 Rowland: Fri-Tue 11, 2, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Lark: Tue 8; Wed 11; Thu 4:30 Regency: Fri-Sat 10:25, 1:15, 4:10, 7, 9:50; Sun-Thu 10:25, 1:15, 4:10, 7 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:05, 2:40, 4, 6:25, 7:30, 10; 3D showtimes at 1:10, 5, 8:35 Regency: Fri-Sat 11:10, 6:30, 10, 3D showtime at 2:45; Sun-Thu 11:10, 6:30, 3D showtime at 2:45 Rowland: Fri-Tue 11:30, 6:45, 10:30; 3D showtime at 3 Lark: Mon 4; Tue 11:10; Wed 1:50

Rafael: Mon-Thu 6:45 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:40, 2:20, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Northgate: Fri-Wed 1145, 2:25, 5:05, 745, 10:30 Northgate: Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:05, 530, 7:55, 10:20 Rowland: FriTue 11:15, 1:45, 4:30, 7, 9:45 Rafael: Mon-Tue 7:15 (filmmakers in attendance both days); • In Pursuit of Silence (Not Rated) Wed-Thu 6:30, 8:30 IT (R) Larkspur Landing: Mon-Wed 6:45, 9:45 Northgate: Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:55, 7:05, 10:10 • The Journey Is the Destination (Not Rated) Lark: Tue 5:30 (onscreen Q&A with director Brownen Hughes and star Maria Bello follows) Kingsman: The Golden Circle (R) Larkspur Landing: Mon-Wed 6:30, 9:40 Northgate: Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:45, 7, 10:15 Leap! (PG) Northgate: Fri-Wed 11, 1:15 The LEGO Ninjago Movie (PG) Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:35, 2:15, 7:25, 9:55; 3D showtime at 4:45 Regency: Fri 12, 2:25, 5:05, 7:40, 10:35; Sat 2:25, 5:05, 7:40, • Loving Vincent (PG-13) 10:35; Sun 11:30; Mon-Tue 12, 2:25, 5:05, 7:40; Wed 10:30am; Thu 5:05, 7:40 • Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (PG-13) Regency: Fri-Sat 11:35, 2:15, 4:50, 7:30, 10:20; Sun-Thu 11:35, 2:15, 4:50, 7:30 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:20, 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:35 • Marshall (PG-13) • The Metropolitan Opera: Die Zauberflöte (Not Rated) Lark: Sat 9:55am; Wed 6:30 Regency: Sat 9:55am; Wed 1, 6:30 Sequoia: Wed 1, 6:30 The 40th annual fest takes place October 5-15 at the Cinema, • Mill Valley Film Festival Lark, Larkspur Landing, Rafael and Sequoia; call 383-5256 or visit mvff.com for schedule The Mountain Between Us (PG-13) Larkspur Landing: Fri-Sun 1, 4, 6:45, 9:30; Mon-Wed 7:15, 9:55 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11, 1:45, 4:25, 7:10, 10:05 • My Journey Through French Cinema (Not Rated) Lark: Thu 12:50 My Little Pony: The Movie (PG) Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:30, 2, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Rowland: Fri-Tue 10:45, 1:30, 4, 6:30, 9:15 • The Pathological Optimist (Not Rated) Rafael: Mon-Thu 6 Fairfax: Sun 2, 7 Regency: Sun, Wed 2, 7 • The Princess Bride (PG) • Professor Marston & The Wonder Women (R) Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:10, 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10 • Score: A Film Music Documentary (Not Rated) Lark: Mon noon; Tue 1:40 Lark: Thu 7:30 • She Loves Me (Not Rated) Lark: Mon 2; Tue 3:35; Wed 4:20; Thu 10:55 • Spettacolo (Not Rated) Rafael: Mon-Thu 8 • Take Every Wave (Not Rated) Victoria & Abdul (PG-13) Larkspur Landing: Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:40; Mon-Wed 7, 9:35 Regency: Fri-Sat 10:45, 12:15, 1:40, 3:05, 4:30, 5:55, 7:15, 8:55, 10:10; Sun-Tue, Thu 10:45, 12:15, 1:40, 3:05, 4:30, 5:55, 7:15; Wed 10:45, 11:15, 1:40, 4:30, 7:15 Lark: Mon 7:30 (members-only screening with reception at 6:30) • Victor Victoria (PG)

Showtimes can change after we go to press. Please call theater to confirm.

CinéArts at Marin 101 Caledonia St., Sausalito, 331-0255 CinéArts at Sequoia 25 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley, 388-4862 Cinema 41 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, 924-6505 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, 800-326-3264 Playhouse 40 Main St., Tiburon, 435-1234 Rafael Film Center 1118 Fourth St., San Rafael, 454-1222 Regency 80 Smith Ranch Rd., Terra Linda, 479-5050 Rowland 44 Rowland Way, Novato, 800-326-3264

Concerts MARIN COUNTY Marin Music Festival Second annual showcase of Marin talent features Bautista, Buckaroo Bonet Band, the 7th Sons and Transistor Rodeo. Oct 14, 11am.

Free. Marin Rod & Gun Club, 2675 Francisco Blvd E, San Rafael. sresproductions.com.

Parachute Days Fall Concert West Marin creative collective behind last summer’s Parachute Days returns with music by Alex Bleeker and friends, the Haggards, Luke Temple and others. Oct 14, 3pm. $30-$35; kids $7. Love Field, 11191 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Pt Reyes Station. parachutedays.com.

Jackie Ryan Marin-based jazz vocalist, who has been compared to the greats of the genre, is accompanied by famed jazz pianist Larry Vuckovich. Oct 15, 4pm. $20. Mill Valley Community Church, 8 Olive St, Mill Valley.

415.388.5540.

SONOMA COUNTY Spiritualized English musician Jason Pierce’s longtime outfit blurs the lines between garage rock and experimental art-rock with a constantly evolving lineup and sound. Oct 16, 6pm. $45. Gundlach Bundschu Winery, 2000 Denmark St, Sonoma. 707.938.5277.

Wine Country Ragtime Festival Nationally known performers Larisa Migachyov, John Partridge, Nick Arteaga and others perform in the family-friendly event.

Oct 14, 11am. Free admission. Jack London State Park, 2400 London Ranch Rd, Glen Ellen. 707.938.5216.

Yandel Sonoma County radio station Latino 95.5 celebrates its anniversary with the chart-topping reggae artist’s Santa Rosa debut concert. Oct 13, 8pm. $71-$91. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.546.3600.

NAPA COUNTY Take Me to the River Memphis soul and R&B revue features William Bell, Bobby Rush and Charlie Musselwhite. Oct 13, 8pm. $40-$60. Uptown Theatre, 1350 Third St, Napa. 707.259.0123.

VOENA Benefit concert will help the choir get to

Carnegie Hall next year. Includes pre-show wine reception and post-show meet and greet. Oct 15, 2:30pm. $40-$60. JaM Cellars Ballroom at the Margrit Mondavi Theatre, 1030 Main St, Napa. 707.880.2300.

Clubs & Venues MARIN Angelico Hall Oct 15, 3pm, Chiara String Quartet.

Dominican University, 50 Acacia Ave, San Rafael. 415.457.4440.

The Belrose Thurs, open mic night. 1415 Fifth Ave, San Rafael. 415.454.6422.

Fairfax Library Oct 18, 7pm, songs of Scotland & Ireland with Margaret Miles. 2097 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Fairfax. 415.453.8092.

Fenix Oct 11, pro blues jam. Oct 12, Groovality. Oct 13, SONA. Oct 14, Wall Street. Oct 15, Daria Jazz. 919 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.813.5600.

HopMonk Novato Oct 12, Country Line Dancing. Oct 13, ADD/C and Hacksaw. Oct 14, Charley Peach.

Oct 15, 5pm, John Doe and Anna Tivel. Soldout. 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 415.892.6200.

Iron Springs Pub & Brewery Oct 11, Tom Finch Trio. Oct 18, Matt Herrero and friends. 765 Center Blvd, Fairfax.

415.485.1005.

Marin Country Mart Oct 13, 6pm, Friday Night Jazz with Missing Man Quartet. 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur. 415.461.5700.

19 Broadway Club Oct 11, Low Flying Birds. Oct 12, Loose with the Truth. Oct 13, 5:30pm, No Filler. Oct 13, 9:30pm, Lender with Sunhunter. Oct 14, 5:30pm, Agents of Change. Oct 15, 4pm, Dale Alstrom’s Jazz Society. Oct 15, 8pm, Miles Ahead Group. Oct 16, open mic. Oct 18, songwriters in the round with Danny Uzi. 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 415.459.1091.

No Name Bar Oct 11, Wabi Sabi and friends. Oct 12, Marshall Rhodes Band. Oct 13, Michael Aragon Quartet. Oct 14, Darryl Rowe Band.

Oct 15, Migrant Pickers and friends. Oct 16, Kimrea & the Dreamdogs. Oct 17, open mic.

Oct 18, Robert Elmond Stone and friends. 757 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 415.332.1392.

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Old St Hilary’s Landmark Oct 15, 4pm, Toney Rocks. 201 Esperanza, Tiburon. 415.435.1853.

Oct 15, Ramble on Rose with Midnight North and Phil Lesh. 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael. 415.524.2773.

Osteria Divino Oct 12, Passion Habanera. Oct 13, Nick Culp Trio. Oct 14, Walter Earl Trio. Oct 15, Jeff Denson’s Open Sky Trio. Oct 17, Ken Cook.

Oct 18, J Kevin Durkin. 37 Caledonia St, Sausalito. 415.331.9355.

Throckmorton Theatre Oct 11, noon concert with Florestan Trio.

Oct 12, Jon Stickley Trio. Oct 15, 5pm, Sunday Sessions Songwriter’s Circle. 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.

Panama Hotel Restaurant Oct 11, Rivertown Trio. Oct 12, San Geronimo. Oct 17, Wanda Stafford. Oct 18, Relatively Dead. 4 Bayview St, San Rafael.

415.457.3993.

Peri’s Silver Dollar Oct 11, the New Sneakers. Oct 12, Mark’s Jam Sammich. Oct 13, Attila Viola & the Bakersfield Boys. Oct 14, the Eleven. Oct 15, Grateful Sundays. Oct 16, Billy D’s open mic.

Oct 17, the Bad Hombres. Oct 18, the Elvis Johnson Soul Revue. 29 Broadway, Fairfax.

415.459.9910.

Rancho Nicasio Oct 13, the B Sharp Blues Band. Oct 14, Revolver. Oct 15, 4pm, Todos Santos. 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio. 415.662.2219.

San Rafael Copperfield’s Books Oct 13, 6pm, Charged Particles. 850 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.524.2800.

Sausalito Seahorse Wed, Milonga with Marcelo Puig and Seth Asarnow. Oct 12, Obstinate Ostinato. Oct 13, Chick Jagger. Oct 14, 12:30pm, Lau and friends.

Oct 14, 8pm, Wobbly World with Freddy Clarke. Oct 15, 5pm, Mazacote with Louie Romero. Oct 17, Noel Jewkes and friends. 305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito. 415.331.2899.

Smiley’s Schooner Saloon Oct 12, Vivian Cook. Oct 13, the Well Known Strangers. Oct 14, Matt Jaffe & the Distractions. 41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas.

415.868.1311.

Spitfire Lounge Second Thursday of every month, DJ Romestallion. Second Friday of every month, DJ Beset. 848 B St, San Rafael. 415.454.5551.

Sweetwater Music Hall Oct 11, B & the Hive. Oct 12, the Manzarek Rogers Band. Oct 13, the Family Stone with Phunne Stone. Oct 14, Joe Satriani. Oct 15, Huey Lewis & the News. Sold-out. Oct 16, San Francisco Airship celebrates Bob Weir’s 70th birthday. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.3850.

Terrapin Crossroads Oct 11, Victoria George Band. Oct 12, Elliott Peck and friends. Oct 13, Kate Gaffney Band.

Oct 14, Dan Lebowitz birthday celebration.

SONOMA Green Music Center Schroeder Hall Oct 11, 2pm, Instrumental Repertory Recital. 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park.

866.955.6040.

Green Music Center Weill Hall Oct 11, the Commanders from the USAF Band of the Golden West and SSU Jazz Orchestra. Oct 12, SSU Faculty Jazz Ensemble.

Oct 14, Symphonic Wind Ensemble & Concert Band. Oct 15, 3pm, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble. Oct 18, 2pm, Vocal Repertory Recital. 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park. 866.955.6040.

HopMonk Sebastopol Oct 13, Danny Click & the Hell Yeahs. Oct 14, Sol Horizon album release party. Oct 16, Monday Night Edutainment with Christafari. Oct 18, Songwriters in the Round.

230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol. 707.829.7300.

HopMonk Sonoma Oct 13, Matt Santry. Oct 14, 1pm, Ira Wolf.

Oct 14, 8pm, Matt Bradford. Oct 15, 1pm, Anthony Presti. 691 Broadway, Sonoma.

707.935.9100.

Lagunitas Tap Room Oct 11, Jason Bodlovich. Oct 12, Solid Air. Oct 13, Hot Grubb. Oct 14, Just Friends. Oct 15, Mendonesia. Oct 18, Royal Deuces. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma. 707.778.8776.

Mystic Theatre & Music Hall Oct 13, TAUK featuring Klozd Sirkut. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. 707.775.6048.

Occidental Center for the Arts Oct 14, Celtic concert with Lisa Lynne and Aryeh Frankfurter. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental. 707.874.9392.

NAPA Blue Note Napa Oct 11, Davell Crawford. Oct 12, Makana. Oct 13-14, the Rippingtons. Oct 17, the Incubators Trio. Oct 18, B & the Hive. 1030 Main St, Napa. 707.603.1258.

JaM Cellars Ballroom at the Margrit Mondavi Theatre Oct 11, the Led Zeppelin Experience.

1030 Main St, Napa. 707.880.2300.

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Clubs & Venues

Anselmo Ave, San Anselmo. Mon-Sat, 10 to 6. 415.524.8932.

Gallery Route One Through Nov 5, “Hungry Ghost,” group show tells stories of longing and resilience, with Linda MacDonald’s paintings of giant redwoods and Steven Hurwitz’s new photographs also on display. 11101 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station. Wed-Mon, 11 to 5. 415.663.1347.

The Image Flow Through Nov 22, “Alternative Process Photography Exhibition,” juried exhibition features 40 artists working with a wide variety of historical and analog photographic printing processes. 401 Miller Ave, Ste A, Mill Valley. 415.388.3569.

Marin Community Foundation Through Jan 12, “Hypercosmos des Songes (Supercosmos of Dreams),” the first major exhibition in the United States for Frenchborn and Marin-based artist Jean-Marc Brugeilles includes over 80 artworks. 5 Hamilton Landing, Ste 200, Novato. Open Mon-Fri, 9 to 5.

Marin Society of Artists Through Oct 14, “The Golden State,” features works from artists throughout California.

1515 Third St, San Rafael. Wed-Sun, Noon to 4. 415.464.9561.

Don your party hat and celebrate Bob Weir’s 70th birthday with the San Francisco Airship at Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley on Monday, Oct. 16.

Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater Oct 14, 5pm, Repin and the Russian Romantics. Oct 15, 4pm, USAF Band of the Golden West. Free. 100 California Dr, Yountville. 707.944.9900.

Silo’s Oct 11, 5pm, Mike Greensill with Lisa Lindsley. Oct 12, Robert Foley Band. Oct 13, Papa Joe & the New Deal. Oct 14, Neon Velvet. Oct 15, 2pm, Sundays on the plaza with French Oak. Oct 18, 5pm, Mike Greensill with Denise Perrier. 530 Main St, Napa. 707.251.5833.

Art OPENING MARIN Art Works Downtown Oct 11-Nov 10, “Migration,” group show exploring the theme of movement displays in 1337 Gallery. Reception, Oct 13 at 5pm.

1337 Fourth St, San Rafael. Tues-Sat, 10 to 5.

415.451.8119.

MarinMOCA Oct 14-Nov 19, “AbstrAction,” juried exhibit pushes the boundaries of abstract art.

Reception, Oct 14 at 5pm. 500 Palm Dr, Novato. Wed-Fri, 11 to 4; Sat-Sun, 11 to 5.

415.506.0137.

CONTINUING THIS WEEK MARIN Bay Model Visitor Center Through Nov 11, “Perspectives,” Andres Faulkner’s paintings are heavily influenced

by Northern California locales. Reception, Oct 14 at 1pm. 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito.

415.332.3871.

Book Passage Through Oct 31, “Altered Book Sculptures,” Emily Marks’ contemporary art based on classic literature displays in the gallery. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. Daily, 9 to 9.

415.927.0960.

Cavallo Point Lodge Through Oct 30, “Wonder & Awe,” renowned artist and award-winning filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg shows his 2D and 3D moving images, created as fine art for digital screens. 601 Murray Circle, Sausalito.

415.339.4700.

O’Hanlon Center for the Arts Through Oct 26, Essence of Water,” juried

by Kay Carlson and Stephen Ehret, the show features several artists diving into the watery subject. 616 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. Tues-Sat, 10 to 2; also by appointment.

415.388.4331.

Robert Allen Fine Art Through Nov 30, “Under, Over & Out,” new works on canvas by Victoria Ryan. 301 Caledonia St, Sausalito. Mon-Fri, 10 to 5.

415.331.2800.

The Studio Shop Through Oct 15, “Six Decades of Painting,” Roland Petersen shows works from his long and celebrated career in art. 244 Primrose Rd, Burlingame. Mon-Fri, 10 to 6; Sat, 10 to 5:30. 650.344.1378.

Tiburon Town Hall Through Oct 31, “Patricia Leeds: Parallel Thoughts,” Marin artist shows works that explore the creative process in encaustic on paper and digital painting. 1505 Tiburon Blvd, Tiburon.

Comedy Durst Case Scenario Will Durst performs a benefit for West Marin Standing Together, a community response to the 2016 presidential election.

Oct 14, 7pm. $15. Dance Palace, 503 B St, Pt Reyes Station. 415.663.1075.

First St E, Sonoma. sonomalaughfest.com.

The Trouble with Scott Capurro Standup star presents a provocative new show. Oct 13, 8pm. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

415.383.9600.

Dance Alma del Tango Studio Tuesdays, Lindy Hop & East Coast Swing Dance. Wednesdays, Tango 1 & 2. 167 Tunstead Ave, San Anselmo. 415.459.8966.

Hermann Sons Hall Mondays, 7pm. through Dec 11, International Folk Dance Class, dances from Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Turkey and more. $7/$65. 860 Western Ave, Petaluma.

707.762.9962.

Events Biketoberfest Brewfest & Bike Expo Annual bicycle festival and brewfest features 30 beers from 20 brewers and live music from the Pulsators, Panoramic Highway and Tony Magee. Oct 14, 11am. Free admission.

Fair-Anselm Plaza, 765 Center Boulevard, Fairfax. biketoberfestmarin.com.

Bon Air Invitational Car Show Daylong celebration features classic coupes and cars in pristine condition, with live music, family-friendly entertainment and sidewalk specials. Oct 14, 10am. Free. Bon Air Center, 302 Bon Air Center, Greenbrae. bonair.com.

Call of the Sea Fall Gala Environmental educators celebrate with live and silent auction, food prepared by local restaurants, live music by local favorite the Waterfront Pickers and more. Oct 14, 5pm. $125. Bay Model Visitor Center, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito. callofthesea.org.

Cassini: The True Lord of the Rings Planetarium show looks at the satellite sent to Saturn to explore the planet’s ring system. Through Oct 14. SRJC Planetarium, Lark Hall, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa.

707.527.4465.

Cotati Oktoberfest German food, fresh craft brews, traditional Oktoberfest music, polka dancing, and hilarious contests. Oct 14, noon. Free admission. La Plaza Park, Old Redwood Highway. Cotati, cotati.org.

Fort Ross Harvest Festival World-class wine and a luncheon mix with music and more, set on the spectacular Sonoma Coast. Oct 14, 10am. $20-$40.

Fort Ross State Historic Park, 19005 Hwy 1, Jenner. 707.847.3437.

Community Media Center of Marin Through Nov 30, “TRANSFRONTERIZA,” photographer John Pike offers a glimpse into the city of Tijuana as guided by members of the transgender community. Reception, Oct 13 at 7pm. 819 A St, San Rafael. 415.721.0636.

Jim Short Standup veteran is a former winner of the San Francisco International Comedy Competition. Oct 14, 8pm. $20. Trek Winery, 1026 Machin Ave, Novato. marincomedyshow.com.

Garrison Keillor Consummate storyteller and host of “A Prairie Home Companion” presents a new solo show, “Just Passing Through,” filled with humor and inspiration. Oct 13, 7:30pm. $40 and up. Green Music Center Weill Hall, 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park. 866.955.6040.

Desta Art & Tea Gallery Through Nov 13, “Predicament or Crossroads,” featuring works by Michael Kerbow, Stephen C Wagner and Robert Cantor that speaks to current affairs. 417 San

Sonoma Laughfest Third annual comedy festival expands to include shows at Luther Burbank Center in Santa Rosa and Raven Theater in Healdsburg. Oct 13-15. Sebastiani Theatre, 476

Marin Brewing Blood Drive Give a pint of blood, get some pizza and help the community. Oct 15, 10am. Marin Brewing Company, 1809 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur. 415.461.4677.

Second Friday Art & Fool’s Cabaret See hand-crafted art by Vlad Cardema, hear music by Mammal, and enjoy performances

by Bird Bath Theatre Company and others.

Oct 13, 5pm. Key Tea, 921 C St, San Rafael.

808.428.3233.

Second Fridays Art Walk Anchored by Art Works Downtown galleries and artist studios, the art walk links venues throughout downtown San Rafael with receptions and entertainment. Second Fri of every month, 5pm. Art Works Downtown, 1337 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.451.8119.

Sonoma County Art Trails Enjoy the abundance of creative talent in Sonoma County by visiting the professional studios of more than 170 artists. Maps and catalogs available at sonomacountyarttrails. org. Oct 14-15. Sonoma County, multiple locations. Sonoma.

St Paul’s Annual Book Sale Browse thousands of books at bargain prices, and support families in need. Oct 14-15. St Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1123 Court St, San Rafael.

Vikingfest Thirtieth annual celebration of Norwegian heritage includes Viking-era reenactments, modern art and pottery, traditional foods and more. Oct 14, 10am. Free admission. Sons of Norway Hall, 617 W Ninth St, Santa Rosa.

707.579.1080.

Wine Country Spoken Word Festival Inaugural event features both local and nationally renowned authors, poets, comedians and spoken word artists of all genres performing throughout downtown Petaluma. Oct 13-15. Hotel Petaluma, 106 Washington St, Petaluma, davepokornypresents.com.

Field Trips Autumn Birding at Poff Ranch See breathtaking coastal views and extensive wildlife habitat. Pre-registration required.

Oct 14, 10am. Wright Hill Ranch, Hwy 1, Jenner. landpaths.org.

Bee Pinning Party Community science volunteer event involves sorting through insects collected in traps,separating and pinning bees and sending the specimens to entomologists for study. RSVP required. Oct 14, 9am. Marin Water District Office, 220 Nellen Ave, Corte Madera. marinwater.org.

Headlands Nightlife Family-night hike lets you explore the lifestyle of nocturnal animals and have some fun around a campfire. Oct 14, 5:30pm. $15.

NatureBridge at Golden Gate, 1033 Fort Cronkhite, Sausalito. naturebridge.org/ golden-gate.

Pug Sundays A gathering of pugs, pug owners and pug lovers. Third Sun of every month, 9am. Mill Valley Dog Park, Bayfront Park, Mill Valley.

Sunset & Bay Cruises Pack a picnic dinner and bring the whole family for a summer evening on the waters of the bay. Fri-Sat, 6:30pm. Through Oct 28. Angel Island Tiburon Ferry, 21 Main St, Tiburon. 415.435.2131.

Film In Pursuit of Silence New film travels the globe to explore the impact of noise on our lives. Filmmakers Patrick Shen and Brandon Vedder appear on Monday, and the film’s sound team from Skywalker Ranch appears Tuesday for discussions. Oct 16-17, 7:15pm. 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. Sat, Oct 14, 5:30 and 7:45pm. $16/$120 full series. Marin Center Showcase Theatre, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. italianfilm.com.

Jewish Film Festival Twenty-second annual series presents Jewish themed films from around the world; screening next, the recent French drama “Fanny’s Journey.” Oct 17, 1 and 7:30pm. Rialto Cinemas, 6868 McKinley St, Sebastopol. 707.525.4840.

Mill Valley Film Festival Fortieth annual event brings award-winning films and Hollywood stars to various venues. Through Oct 15. Marin County, various locations, Marin. mvff.com.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show Cult film gets a proper late-night screening with audience participation. Oct 13, 11pm. $10. The Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington St, Petaluma. 707.762.3565.

Food & Drink Fresh Starts Chef Event Meet one of Northern California’s most esteemed Japanese chefs, Ken Tominaga, as he offers a menu featuring miso. Oct 12, 6:30pm. $60. The Key Room, 1385 N Hamilton Pkwy, Novato. 415.382.3363, ext 215.

Magical Mystery Tours Mysterious tours to magical wineries along the Wine Road includes food pairings and other goodies. Sat, Oct 14. $125. Alexander, Dry Creek and Russian River valleys, various locations, Healdsburg. wineroad.com.

Marin Alfresco Osher Marin JCC presents an evening of progressive culinary adventure benefiting scholarships at the JCC and featuring music

by Pride & Joy. Oct 14, 6:30pm. $100 and up.

Osher Marin JCC, 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael. 415.444.8000.

Oktoberfest at CIA Copia Inaugural fest features local brews, German fare, live music and more. Oct 14, noon. Free admission. The Culinary Institute of America at Copia, 500 First St, Napa. 707.967.2530.

The Speak Cheesy Fairfax Theatre Company presents a theatrical evening of cheese and wine pairing.

Oct 13, 7pm. $30. Fairfax Women’s Center, 46 Park Rd, Fairfax. 415.456.5652.

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For Kids “Her Right Foot” Author Dave Eggers and illustrator Shawn Harris present their new children’s book. Oct 14, 5pm. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Mader. 415.927.0960.

Marin Waldorf Children’s Faire Enjoy a puppet show, become a knight, search for treasure in the Hero’s Maze, participate in the cake walk and enjoy organic delights. Oct 15, 10am. Free. Marin Waldorf School, 755 Idylberry Rd. San Rafael.

Second Saturday Cartoonist Meet, watch and talk to designer and illustrator Michelle McNeil. Oct 14, 1pm. Free with admission. Charles M Schulz Museum, 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa, 707.579.4452.

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Lectures

Murphy’s Production & Famous 4 presents

Caregiver Support Group Groups for those caring for loved ones with a dementia-related illness are led by professional, credentialed facilitators. Sat, Oct 14, 10am. Sausalito City Hall, 420 Litho St, Sausalito. 415.289.4117.

Creating a ‘Bee Friendly’ Garden for Spring Learn how to prepare your winter garden for native and European bees when they visit in the spring. Oct 14, 9:30am. Free. Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael. 415.485.3438.

Essence of Water Sunday Salon Presenters share a poem, dance, work of art or song that relates to O’Hanlon’s current exhibit. Space is limited. Oct 15, 5pm. O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, 616 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.4331.

3rd Annual Costume Dance Party!

Featuring: CALIFORNIA KIND SUN 10/28 New Century Chamber Orchestra

TUE 11/14 Literary Café presents Matthew Weiner & Michael Krasny in conversation SAT 11/18 Sing the Beatles!

To live music from THE QUARRY PERSONS

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Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous Twelve-step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, undereating or bulimia. Sat, 8am. All Saints Lutheran Church, 2 San Marin Dr, Novato.

781.932.6300.

How We Got to Now Learn how the people and events that shaped today’s Novato in this presentation

by Novato History Museum manager Susan Magnone. Oct 15, 4pm. $5. St. Francis of Assisi, 967 Fifth St, Novato. 415.892.1609.

Improv & Creative Drama Playshops for Adults Play fun games, meet people, collaborate and gain confidence with coach Sandra Rae Davies in a four-week class. Oct 14. $99. Redwoods Presbyterian Church, 110 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur. 415.419.7093.

Peace for Turbulent Times Lama Sonam Rinpoche speaks on the importance of compassion and how to put it into practice. Oct 14, 6pm. Open Secret, 923 C St, San Rafael. 415.457.4191.

Race Matters Dialogue & Educational Series Several presenters speak on health care. Oct 13, 2pm. Free. Marin Health & Wellness Center, 3240 Kerner Blvd, San Rafael. unitedmarinrising.org. Several

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Oct 14 • Sat • 7:30pm •Scottish Rite Center

Snatam Kaur in Oakland Original Light 2017 Tour

Oct 22 • Sun • 7pm • Unity in Marin

Girish – Kirtan Concert

Music, Mantras & Sacred Chant Oct 29 • Sun • 7pm • Showcase Theater

Jai Uttal – 1st time ever!

An Intimate Solo Evening with Jai Nov 11 • Sat • 8pm • Showcase Theater

Jennifer Berezan

An Intimate Solo Evening with Julie Wolf, Jami Sieber, Geoff Pearlman Nov 18 • Sat • 8pm • Grace Cathedral

Kitaro “Kojiki & The Universe Live” Dec 10 • Sun • Showcase Theater

Donna De Lory

Sacred Chant & Devotional Pop Music Ben Leinbach, Tom Finch, Dave Allen

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Santa Rosa Mystic Fair Fifth annual event includes alternative healing and holistic vendors, arts and handmade crafts, performances and more. Oct 14-15. Free. Veterans Memorial Building, 1351 Maple Ave, Santa Rosa. santarosamysticfair.com.

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Baltazar. Oct 18, 4pm, “How to Be an Elephant” with Katherine Roy. 140 Kentucky St, Petaluma. 707.762.0563.

Petaluma Historical Library & Museum Oct 13, 6pm, Poetry of Remembrance, bilingual event is a celebration of El Dia de Los Muertos. 20 Fourth St, Petaluma.

707.778.4398.

Wed 10/11 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $15-$20 • All Ages B and the Hive w/Lender Benefit for Victims of North Bay Wild Fires Thu 10/12 • Doors 7:30pm ⁄ $35-$40 • All Ages

San Rafael Copperfield’s Books Oct 14, 2pm, “William Shakespeare’s the Force Doth Awaken” with Ian Doescher. 850 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.524.2800.

The Manzarek Rogers Band

Roy Rogers, Kevin Hayes, Steve Evans feat special guest: Jim

Fri 10/13 • Doors 8pm ⁄

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Santa Rosa Copperfield’s Books Oct 12, 7pm, “Writing as a Path to Awakening” with Albert Flynn DeSilver. 775 Village Court, Santa Rosa. 707.578.8938.

45-$50 • All Ages

THE FAMILY STONE

feat Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees and original founding members of Sly & The Family Stone, Jerry Martini and Greg Errico featuring Phunne Stone

Theater

Thu 10/19 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $35– $40 • All Ages

Tim Flannery & The Lunatic Fringe

Cabaret Ross Valley Players present the rollicking Broadway musical, directed by Mountain Play veteran James Dunn. Through Oct 22. $16-$32. Barn Theatre, Marin Art and Garden Center, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross. 415.456.9555.

Wed 10/25 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $25 - $40 • All Ages

Antibalas

Fri 10/27 & 10/28 • Doors 8pm ⁄ $42 - $47 • 21+

GATORATORS

feat Dave Malone (The Radiators), Camile Baudoin (The Radiators), Mitch Stein (CRYPTICAL), Reggie Scanlan (The Radiators) & Eric Bolivar (Anders Osborne) + Special Guests

Sun 10/29 • Doors 8pm ⁄ $30 - $35 • All Ages

Sly & Robbie & The Taxi Gang feat Bitty McLean

Tue 10/31 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $30-$35 • 21+ Dumpstaphunk with Jazz Mafia Horns 2nd Annual Dumpstaween Celebration www.sweetwatermusichall.com 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley Café 388-1700 | Box Office 388-3850

The annual Biketoberfest Brewfest & Bike Expo in Fairfax on Saturday, Oct. 14 features exhibitors, live music, organized rides and more than 30 different brews. presenters speak on jobs and economics.

Oct 18, 8:30am. Free. Marin Community Foundation, 5 Hamilton Landing, Ste 200, Novato. unitedmarinrising.org.

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Speed Learn Conversational Spanish Carol Costa and Joseph Cillo host a mix of beginning and intermediate Spanish lessons. Drop-ins welcome. Mon, 1pm.

Through Oct 23. San Rafael Library, 1100 E St, San Rafael. 415.485.3323.

Spiritual Healing Weekly meeting covers various topics, with meditation and individual healing treatment. Fri, 7pm. Spiritist Society Towards the Light, 1 Simms St, San Rafael. 707.225.5762.

Sunlight Chair Yoga Learn yoga at all ages and levels of health and mobility. Wed, 12:15pm. BodyVibe Studio, 999 Anderson Dr, Ste 170, San Rafael. 415.689.6428.

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UFO Lecture Series Learn about Planet Serpo, 39 light years from Earth, and the human/alien exchange program with host UFO Jim and researcher Len Kasten. Oct 16, 7pm. $5-$10. Sonoma Community Center, 276 E Napa St, Sonoma. 707.938.4626.

Vajrayana in Today’s World Author, translator and educator Ken McLeod speaks on how the Buddhist mystical tradition might evolve in the West. Oct 12, 7:30pm. $5. Many Rivers Books & Tea, 130 S Main St, Sebastopol.

707.829.8871.

Readings Aqus Cafe Oct 12, 7pm, Get Lit, with featured readers and an open mic. 189 H St, Petaluma.

707.778.6060.

Book Passage Oct 11, 7pm, “Americana” with Bhu Srinivasan. Oct 12, 7pm, “The Mothers” with Brit Bennett. Oct 14, 4pm, “The Mindful Vegan” with Lani Muelrath. Oct 14, 7pm, “When It’s Over” with Barbara Ridley. Oct 15, 1pm, “Draw the Line” with Kathryn Otoshi.

Oct 15, 4pm, “The Present Parent Handbook” with Timothy Dukes. Oct 16, 7pm, “Survivor Cafe” with Elizabeth Rosner. Oct 17, 7pm, “The Romance of Elsewhere” with Lynn Freed. Oct 18, 7pm, “Not Quite a Genius” with Nate Dern. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 415.927.0960.

Book Passage By-the-Bay Oct 11, 6pm, “A Taste of Paris” with David Downie, in conversation with Kimberley Lovato. 100 Bay St, Sausalito. 415.339.1300.

College of Marin Library Oct 13, 1pm, “Bob Marley & the Wailers: The Ultimate Illustrated History” with Richie Unterberger. 835 College Ave, Kentfield.

415.485.9475.

Novato Copperfield’s Books Oct 13, 7pm, “Well Nourished” with Andrea Lieberstein. 999 Grant Ave, Novato.

415.763.3052.

Petaluma Copperfield’s Books Oct 17, 4pm, “Timeless: Diego and the Rangers of the Vastlantic” with Armand

The Little Prince College of Marin drama department presents the heartwarming tale based on the book by Antoine de Saint Exupéry. Through Oct 15. $10-$20. College of Marin James Dunn Theatre, 835 College Ave, Kentfield.

415.485.9385.

Mary Shelley’s Body The famed author of “Frankenstein” explores her past and legacy in this one-woman play written by “Pacific Sun” contributor David Templeton, making its world premiere. Oct 13-29. $15-$30. Main Stage West, 104 N Main St, Sebastopol. 707.823.0177.

Monty Python’s Spamalot Spreckels Theatre Company Presents the musical parody of the King Arthur legend adapted from the film “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” Oct 13-29. $18-$30. Spreckels Performing Arts Center, 5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park. 707.588.3400.

Quartet Wickedly funny play is all about art, age and the human spirit. Oct 13-29. $15-$35.

Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. 707.763.8920.

StoryNights Performers, actors, comics and writers take to the mic for a night of personal stories told live. Oct 18, 7:30pm. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

415.383.9600.

Surprise Party New script by playwright Ron Nash is read

by Ross Valley Players’ alternative works committee. Oct 15, 7pm. $10 donation. Barn Theatre, Marin Art and Garden Center, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross. 415.456.9555.

Thomas & Sally Marin Theatre Company opens its season with the world premiere of award-winning playwright Thomas Bradshaw’s drama about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, the enslaved woman who mothered six of his children. Through Oct 22. Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave, Mill Valley.

415.388.5208.

Seminars&Workshops To include your seminar or workshop, call 415.485.6700.

SINGLE MEN WANTED. SINGLES GROUP STARTS TUESDAY, 10/17/17! Single & Dissatisfied? Tired of spending weekends and holidays alone? Join with other singles to explore what’s blocking you from fulfillment in your relationships.

Advance sign-up required; space limited. Also offering: ongoing coed (emotional) INTIMACY GROUPS (married/partnered or single), WOMEN’S GROUP and INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY & COUPLES THERAPY. Central San Rafael. Possible financial assistance (health/flex savings accounts or insurance). Call (415) 453-8117 for more info. Renée Owen, LMFT#35255. www.therapists. psychologytoday.com/183422

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Mind&Body HYPNOTHERAPY Thea Donnelly, M.A. Hypnosis, Counseling, All Issues. 25 yrs. experience.

415-459-0449.

Home Services CLEANING SERVICES All Marin House Cleaning Licensed, Bonded, Insured.

Will do Windows. O’felia 415-717-7157.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-142990. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: ARTI INDIAN ORGANIC NATURAL CAFÉ, 7282 SIR FRANCES DRAKE BLVD, LAGUNITAS, CA 94938: ARTI INDIAN CAFÉ INC, 7282 SIR FRANCES DRAKE BLVD, LAGUNITAS, CA 94938. The 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 ClerkRecorder of Marin County on Sept 13, 2017. (Publication Dates: Sept 20, Sept 27, Oct 04, Oct 11 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-142993. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: MK ULTRA PRODUCTIONS, 25 TAURUS DRIVE, NOVATO, CA 94947: STEPHEN DOLDEN, 25 TAURUS DRIVE, NOVATO, CA 94947. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registration expired more than 40 days ago and is renewing under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Sept 14, 2017. (Publication Dates:

Sept 20, Sept 27, Oct 04, Oct 11 of 2017)

27, Oct 04, Oct 11, Oct 18 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-143007. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: THE TRUST FACTORY, 14 TAMALPAIS AVENUE, LARKSPUR, CA 94939: AUTHENTIC COLLABORATION CONSULTING LLC, 14 TAMALPAIS AVENUE, LARKSPUR, CA 94939. The business is being conducted

by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Sept 18, 2017. (Publication Dates: Sept 27, Oct 04, Oct 11, Oct 18 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT— File No: 2017-142977. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: H FIT, 80 SAN RAFAEL AVE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: JOSEPH JANKO, 80 SAN RAFAEL AVE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on Sept 12, 2017. (Publication Dates: Sept 27, Oct 04, Oct 11, Oct 18 of 2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-143018. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: SPOTLESS CAR WASH, 20 BELLAM BLVD., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94947: MIMI HO, PUU HO, 114 MICHELLE CIR, NOVATO, CA 94947. The business is being conducted by a general partnership.

Registration expired more than 40 days ago and is renewing under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Sept 19, 2017.

(Publication Dates: Sept

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT— File No: 2017-143033. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: FULL STREAM GROUP, 329 BUTTERFIELD ROAD, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: DAWN PATROL INC., 329 BUTTERFIELD ROAD, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960. The 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 Sept 20, 2017.

(Publication Dates: Oct 04, Oct 11, Oct 18, Oct 25 of 2017)

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PublicNotices FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-142991. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: VOYAGE SOCKS, 4306 REDWOOD HWY., SUITE 200, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: DANIEL WEIZMAN, 5 LILAC AVE., KENTFIELD, CA 94904. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Sept 13, 2017.

(Publication Dates: Oct 04, Oct 11, Oct 18, Oct 25 of 2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2017-142959. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: 01) THE ARTISAN’S REP, 2) MARIN WOMEN AT WORK, 91 GLENSIDE WAY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: KAREN KILIAN, 649 1ST STREET WEST #18, SONOMA, CA 95476. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Sept 08, 2017. (Publication Dates: Oct 04, Oct 11, Oct 18, Oct 25 of 2017)

OTHER NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No: CIV 1703075.

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JAVIER FRANCISCO MARTELL, CATHERINE SHEILA LECONTE filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: JAVIER FRANCISCO MARTELL to JAVIER FRANCISCO MARTINEZ, SEBASTIAN GERARD MARTELL to SEBASTIAN GERARD MARTINEZ LECONTE, NICHOLAS JORGE MARTELL to NICHOLAS JORGE MARTINEZ LECONTE. 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: 10/13/2017 AT 09:00 AM, DEPT: E, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94913. 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 following newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin: PACIFIC SUN. Date of filing: Sept 08, 2017. (Publication Dates: Sept 20, Sept 27, Oct 04, Oct 11 of 2017) NOTICE OF PETITION TO Notice Content SUMMONS - FAMILY LAW CASE NUMBER: FL 1702973. NOTICE TO RESPONDENT: ANTONIO VELAZQUEZ. You have been sued. PETITIONER’S NAME: MARILYN ARAGON. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-220 or FL-270) 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 right to custody of your children. You may also be ordered to pay child 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/ selfhelp ]www.courts.ca.gov/ selfhelp), at the California Legal Services website http:// www.lawhelpca.org, or by contacting your local bar association.NOTICE—THE RESTRAINING ORDERS

ON PAGE 2 remains in effect against each parent until the petition is dismissed, a judgment is entered, or the court makes further orders.

This order is enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement officer who has received or seen a copy of it. 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: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORINA, COUNTY OF MARIN, 3501 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE, P.O. BOX 4988, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: MARILYN ARAGON, 1725 MARION AVENUE #M17, NOVATO, CA 94945.Tel:415-827-3217.

Clerk, by /s/ J.CHEN, Clerk, Marin County Superior Court, By JAMES M.KIM, Deputy. Date: Aug 10, 2017.

STANDARD RESTRAINING ORDERS. Starting immediately, you and every other party are restrained from removing from the state, or applying for a passport for, the minor child or children for whom this action seeks to establish a parent- child relationship or a custody order without the prior written consent of every other party or an order of the court. This restraining order takes effect against the petitioner when he or she files the petition and against the respondent when he or she is personally served with the summons and petition OR when he if she waives and accepts service. This restraining order remains in effect until the judgement is entered, the petition is dismissed, or the court makes other orders.

This order is enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement officer who has received or seen a copy of it. 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 www.coveredca.com. Or call Covered California at 1-800-300-1506.

(Publication Dates: Sept 20, Sept 27, Oct 04, Oct 11 of 2017) STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT FROM USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No: 304790. The following person(s) has/have abandoned the use of a fictitious business name(s). The information given below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the Marin County Clerk-Recorder’s Office on MARCH 16, 2016, Under File No: 2016-139431.

Fictitious Business name(s) MARIN 24/7 LIMOUSINE SERVICE, 8 MIWOK WAY, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: SALIM SURTI, 39 SAN CLEMENTE DRIVE #1094, CORTE MADERA, CA 94925, OGYEN THRINLAY, 8 MIWOK WAY, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941. This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Marin County on SEPT 26, 2017. (Publication Dates: Oct 04, Oct 11, Oct 18, Oct 25 of 2017) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No: CIV 1703494. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner ANDREW ELLOWAY AND JAMIE SALVO filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: MICHAEL BRANDON SALVO to MICHAEL BRANDON SALVO ELLOWAY. 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: 11/08/2017 AT 09:00 AM, DEPT: E, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94913.

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 following newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin: PACIFIC SUN. Date of filing: SEPT 21, 2017.

(Publication Dates: Oct 04, Oct 11, Oct 18, Oct 25 of 2017) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JOHN C. WALLACE; Case No. PR-1703633 filed on OCTOBER 02, 2017. To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of JOHN WALLACE, JOHN C. WALLACE. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed in the Superior Court of California, County of MARIN by ISABELLA WONG. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that ISABELLA WONG be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action). The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition

will be held in this court as follows: NOVEMBER 13, 2017 at 9:00 am. In Dept. J, Superior Court of California, Marin County, located at Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94913. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or A CONTINGENT CREDITOR OF THE DECEDENT, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under Section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California Statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER: ROBERT I. SIMON, 45 BELDEN PLACE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA~ 94104. Telephone: 415-434-3608. (Publication Dates: October 11, October 18, October 25 of 2017)

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Q:

An older male friend keeps paying for me—buying me meals and clothes.

Am I making a mistake in accepting? I’ve repeatedly made clear that I have no romantic interest in him. I’m a struggling artist, and he’s highly successful. We’re basically BFFs, talking and laughing every day. He occasionally jokes that I should be “giving up the sugar to the sugar daddy,” but I roll my eyes and say, “Hush!”

I think he’s teasing me, but could he be playing the long game?—Worried

A:

Welcome to the “never say never” school of hope. My Chinese Crested, Aida, is also enrolled—hoping with all her tiny purse-doggy might, that rare metal-eating termites will make the kitchen table leg collapse, causing her to be caught in a brief but intense hailstorm of bacon.

There are some asymmetries between men and women in the effort required to get some action out of the opposite sex. Some men will engineer elaborate plots to try to wear a woman’s “nuh-uh, never gonna happen” into a “maybe just this once.” A woman, on the other hand, doesn’t have to plot. Assuming that she’s reasonably attractive, she can probably just make extended eye contact with a man while eating a banana.

This difference reflects what evolutionary psychologist David Buss explains as men’s and women’s conflicting evolutionary goals. It’s in a man’s evolutionary interest to, as they say, shoot and scoot (possibly passing on his genes without putting out any further time, energy or resources). However, because women can end up all “baby on board,” they evolved to look for emotional commitment and the ability and willingness to “provide.”

Buss notes that these sex differences in evolved mating psychology show up in the different ways that men and women try to deceive each other. Scammy men tend to exaggerate their “resources” in hopes of suckering the ladies into the sack.

Scammy women, on the other hand, tend to feign “willingness to have sex in order to secure nonsexual resources.”

In your situation, however, nobody’s deceiving anybody. You’ve repeatedly made it clear that there will be no sexcapades. He’s got an amusing dining companion and a dear friend. When we care about people, we do nice things for them—offer them a bite of our sandwich or our disposable income.

Sure, he’s probably still clinging to wisps of hope. But in time, he should accept that if the day comes when you suddenly grab him in your arms, it’ll be because he’s got a small piece of chicken caught in his windpipe and he’ll die unless you give him the Heimlich maneuver.

Q:

I’m a 28-year-old guy, and I read your column on how men and women are clueless about who’s supposed to pay and when. I’ve had dates be insulted when I wouldn’t take their money and others insulted when I did. Is there an optimal strategy for the first few dates?—Lost

A:

Meet the flexible feminist. She can do an hour and a half straight on why we need to “smash the patriarchy,” but when the check comes, she reaches in her purse and pulls out a tube of lip gloss.

As I pointed out in that column you mention, sociologist Janet Lever and her colleagues find one striking commonality between men and women: Intense confusion about who should pay and when. For example, nearly 60 percent of women said they “always” offer to help pay, even on the first date. Meanwhile, 39 percent of women wish men would reject their offer to pay—but 40 percent say it bothers them when men don’t accept their money. Argh, huh?

Because female emotions evolved to push women to feel bad when they’re with a man who shows no signs of being a “provider,” I think it’s wise for a guy to pick up the tab on the first few dates. The researchers concur, explaining that “men who fail to pay risk being viewed as lacking economic resources or as being uninterested, unchivalrous or—worse yet—cheap.”

That said, your investment should be more symbolic than substantial, and you keep it that way by following my three-point advice for the first few dates: Make them cheap, short and local. This means, for example, getting to know a woman over happy-hour drinks—as opposed to the kind poured by a sommelier right after the team of loan officers helps you finalize your paperwork.Y Worship the goddess—or sacrifice her at the altar at adviceamy@aol.com.

Astrology

For the week of October 11

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In his book

The Logic of Failure, Dietrich Dorner discusses the visionaries who built the Aswan Dam in Egypt.

Their efforts brought an abundance of cheap electricity to millions of people. But the planners didn’t take into account some of the important effects of their innovation. For example, the Nile River below the dam no longer flooded its banks or fertilized the surrounding land every year. As a result, farmers had to resort to chemical fertilizers at great expense. Water pollution increased. Marine life suffered because of the river’s diminished nutrients. I hope this thought will motivate you to carefully think through the possible consequences of decisions you're contemplating. I guarantee that you can avoid the logic of failure and instead implement the logic of success. But to do so, you’ll have to temporarily resist the momentum that has been carrying you along. You’ll have to override the impatient longing for resolution.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Are you primed to seek out new colleagues and strengthen your existing alliances? Are you curious about what it would take to infuse your best partnerships with maximum emotional intelligence? From an astrological perspective, the next nine weeks will be a favorable time to do these things. You will have opportunities to deepen your engagement with collaborators who cultivate integrity and communicate effectively. It’s possible that you may feel shy about pursuing at least one of the potential new connections. But I urge you to press ahead anyway. Though you may be less ripe than they are, their influence will have a catalytic effect on you, sparking you to develop at an accelerated rate.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I was satisfied with haiku until I met you,” Dean Young tells a new lover in his poem Changing Genres. But Young goes on to say that he’s no longer content with that terse genre. “Now I want a Russian novel,” he proclaims, “a 50-page description of you sleeping, another 75 of what you think staring out a window.” He yearns for a storyline about “a fallen nest, speckled eggs somehow uncrushed, the sled outracing the wolves on the steppes, the huge glittering ball where all that matters is a kiss at the end of a dark hall.” I bring Young’s meditations to your attention, Gemini, because I suspect that you, too, are primed to move into a more expansive genre with a more sumptuous plot.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Statistical evidence suggests that Fridays falling on the 13th of the month are safer than other Fridays—the numbers of fires and traffic accidents are lower, for example. I find this interesting in light of your current situation.

According to my analysis, this October’s Friday the 13th marks a turning point in your ongoing efforts to cultivate stability and security. On this day, as well as the seven days before and seven days after, you should receive especially helpful clues about the future work you can do to feel even safer and more protected than you already do.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Too much propaganda

and not enough real information are circulating through your personal sphere. You’re tempted to traffic in stories that are rooted more in fear than insight. Gossip and hype and delusion are crowding out useful facts. No wonder it’s a challenge for you to sort out the truths from the half-truths! But I predict that you will thrive anyway. You’ll discover helpful clues lodged in the barrage of bunkum.

You’ll pluck pithy revelations from amidst the distracting ramblings. Somehow you will manage to be both extra-sensitive and super-discriminating.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A journalist named Jenkin Lloyd Jones coined the term “Afghanistanism,” which he defined as “concentrating on problems in distant parts of the world while ignoring controversial local issues.” I want to urge you Virgos to avoid engaging in a personal version of Afghanistanism. In other words, focus on issues that are close at hand, even if they seem sticky or prickly.

Don’t you dare let your attention get consumed

By Rob Brezsny

by the dreamy distractions of faraway places and times. For the foreseeable future, the best use of your energy is HERE and NOW.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “I am more interested in human beings than in writing,” said author Anaïs Nin, “more interested in lovemaking than in writing, more interested in living than in writing. More interested in becoming a work of art than in creating one.” I invite you to adopt that perspective as your own for the next twelve months, Libra. During this upcoming chapter of your story, you can generate long-lasting upgrades if you regard your life as a gorgeous masterpiece worthy of your highest craftsmanship.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio actress Tara Reid told the magazine Us Weekly about how her cosmetic surgeries had made her look worse than she had been in her natural state. “I’ll never be perfect again,” she mourned. I bring this up in the hope that it will inspire you. In my astrological opinion, you’re at a turning point when it’s crucial to appreciate and foster everything about yourself that’s natural and innate and soulfully authentic.

Don’t fall sway to artificial notions about how you could be more perfect than you already are.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I didn’t go to work today. I woke up late, lingered over a leisurely breakfast and enjoyed a long walk in the autumn woods. When I found a spot that filled me with a wild sense of peace, I asked my gut wisdom what I should advise you Sagittarians to attend to. And my gut wisdom told me that you should temporarily escape at least one of your duties for at least three days. (Escaping two duties for four days would be even better.) My gut wisdom also suggested that you get extra sleep, enjoy leisurely meals and go on long walks to spots that fill you with a wild sense of peace. There you should consult your gut wisdom about your top dilemmas.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A snail

climbed to the top of a big turtle’s shell as it was sleeping under a bush. When the turtle awoke and began to lumber away in search of food, the snail was at first alarmed, but eventually thrilled by how fast they were going and how far they were able to travel. “Wheeee!,” the snail thought to itself. I suspect, Capricorn, that this little tale is a useful metaphor for what you can look forward to in the coming weeks.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “If these years have taught me anything, it is this,” wrote novelist Junot Díaz. “You can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.” That’s your plucky wisdom for the coming weeks, Aquarius. You have arrived at a pivotal phase in your life cycle when you can’t achieve liberation by fleeing, avoiding or ignoring. To commune with the only kind of freedom that matters, you must head directly into the heart of the commotion. You’ve got to feel all the feelings stirred up by the truths that rile you up.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): J. Allan Hobson

is a scientist of sleep who does research at Harvard. He says that we dream all of the time, not just at night.

Our subconscious minds never stop churning out streams of images. During the waking hours, though, our conscious minds operate at such intensity that the lower-level flow mostly stays subliminal. At least that’s the normal state of affairs. But I suspect that your dream-generator is running so hot right now that its stories may leak into your waking awareness. This could be disconcerting. Without the tips I’m giving you here, you might worry you were going daft. Now that you know, I hope you’ll tap into the undercurrent to glean some useful intuitions. A word to the wise: The information that pops up won’t be logical or rational.

It will be lyrical and symbolic, like dreams.Y

Homework: How could you change yourself in order to get more of the love you want?

Testify by going to RealAstrology.com and clicking on “Email Rob.”

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FREE WILL

WARNING: I don’t want to offend anyone. So, if you’re really attached to your doctor, or your diagnosis or your treatment (even though you’re still sick and in pain), please don’t read this article. But if you’re astute enough to be into results rather than authority… this stuff is for you! Read on!

I know this sounds confusing. (Even many of my colleagues are confused about this!)

So, please, let me clear the air on this.

You’ve already gotten the answer to the question “what’s wrong with me?” These are diagnoses, which are only names. Are you any better because of all those diagnoses?

Will one more diagnosis make a difference?

Will attacking your diagnosis (this is called “treatment”) actually help you get better?

Has it yet?

Realize that chiropractic treatment is probably no better than medical treatment. Both are treatment. Real Chiropractic is about the pursuit of Health. Different intention.

Different result.

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Revolutionary? Decades ago, through stark personal experience, I came to realize that Medicine can be wrong, and it very often is.

Revolutionary… because I know that your body can heal itself, and that it will heal itself, and function better, when interference to the master system, your brain and the nervous system, is corrected. Revolutionary because I know that your body is not stupid, that you are not sick and in pain because you have a deficiency of drugs or an excess of organs. Makes sense, right?

Revolutionary, because people have come to me, since 1981, with conditions from annoying to debilitating… spinal arthritis, stenosis, “bone-on-bone” knees and hips, TMJ, foot problems, fibromyalgia, scoliosis, rotator cuff, sciatica, neck pain running into the arms, etc. And they’ve come to me with conditions that allegedly “need” lifetime medication, conditions for which you’ve

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