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››LETTERS Yeah, but they keep leaving their SR Chamber dues on the night stand...

Here we go again. There’s always some “old biddies” complaining about men doing what they’ve always been doing: paying for sex. As long as men are paying, women are selling ... it’s the “oldest profession” in case they haven’t heard of it. These are “small businesses” in San Rafael aka “massage parlors” and they cater to consenting adults—doing what they want to do with their own body parts and harming no one.

Unless the “biddies” saw their husbands entering to do some “business” they should keep their noses out of other people’s underwear and concentrate on their own miserable sex life. I, for one, think the city of San Rafael should support these small businesses and have them join the San Rafael Chamber of Commerce.

both your eyes and ears, on what is happening these days, both at home and abroad, other than, we “just want some quiet”?

Jeez, talk about a couple of self-centered individuals!

I love to whistle; I’m a damn good whistler; and I’m proud to be someone whom you want “out of my life.”

You know what? In true response to your attitudes I am going to “call to arms” all my fellow (and lady) whistlers to ratchet up their whistling talents just to show you. And ... you’ll just never know when the band of us will come whistling down your street.

Ed Summerville, Greenbrae President ‘Whistlin’ Dixie’ chapter The Late Earle Hagen Fan Club

P.S: Jory and Avery, don’t count on any of us buying your book.

Marcia Blackman, San Rafael

They should have refined their ire to nose flautists...

This in response to Messrs. John and Monsen’s Open Letters comic, “To All Whistlers” [ in which the cartoonists penned a letter of complaint to folks who whistle in public, Aug. 30].

First off, get a life, fellas!

Haven’t you been paying attention, with

Marin going to the dogs!

There is an epidemic of arrogance in Marin. I am referring to the practice of certain entitled dog lovers who bring their non-service canines into Peet’s Coffee on a daily basis. (I have seen this at Peet’s in San Rafael, Greenbrae and Corte Madera!)

Once I even witnessed a dog take a poop at Macy’s, after which the owner made a dash for the door, leaving a mess for others to deal with.

Something should be done! These selfish, self-centered, self-involved types of people, who foist their non-service dogs on other people at various eating establishments and clothing boutiques, etc., should be thrown out along with their pooches. The staff at Peet’s, for their part, are very timid and apparently too intimidated to take action.

Shouldn’t there be some sort of vest (or article of clothing) for a service dog, service cat, service iguana, etc., that clearly indicates that the owner has a right to enter an eatery with aforementioned “pet”?

Or are we at the mercy of those who stretch the bounds of decency?

Barbara Sue Biddle-Saltonstall, San Rafael

Whose above-the-line deduction is it, anyway?

The opening theme to ‘The Andy Griffith Show’ was composed and whistled by Earle Hagen.

We all know that secrecy in government is nothing new. Governments have been brutally lying to citizens for hundreds of

years. It just didn’t start with Nixon.

With this is mind, I have an idea for a countermovement. Let’s call it Citizens’ Secrets, which can be based on the popular game show I’ve Got A Secret, a Mark Goodson-Bill Todman production on CBS hosted by Bill Cullen, Gary Moore and Steve Allen in the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s.

The secrets we citizens will keep from government will have to do with our respective incomes in any particular year.

The government will have to guess. If enough of us play the game, the government will be forced to think twice about starting new unnecessary resource wars around the globe, because it won’t have the dough to get going. Of course, that didn’t stop us in Iraq, but nobody was playing the game then. We were just so flushed with excitement about having Bush and Cheney in charge that we, like, totally forgot about the game.

I will start the game. I declare I made $472 in 2012, and will file my tax return based on that figure (note: in reality I made at least THREE times that much)

by Oct. 15 since I let the April 15 deadline go by like a runaway AMTRAK train trying to catch up to being four hours late.

OK, now you pick your number and go ahead and file.

That’s the game. Good luck, government.

Skip Corsini, San Rafael

LEFTOVERS GET NEW LIFE IN MARIN. Please put food scraps in your green cart.

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I enjoyed your story of 1970s’ KTIM DJs [“Do You Remember Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio?”

July 5] and the comments later ... but I can go back a little further!

Your article touched on the start of KTIM in the ’40s—I was on a program in 1949-50, when the station was located in the “Old House near downtown” which you cited. Actually, it was on D Street, near Mission Street. My mother and I lived a few blocks away, in the apartment building at 1012 Mission St. I remember the “TIM” standing for “This is Marin.”

Another tenant at the 1012 Mission was a Sergeant at the Hamilton Air Force Base who was in charge of the Air Force Reserve. He had an idea for a radio program, “Reserved for You,” to play popular songs and discuss the activities of the HAFB Reserve Corps and to interest new recruits.

He needed a female voice to chat with, and he asked my mother if I was interested. Was I ever!

He had the scripts written and all I had to do was read my part where I exhibited interest and told him how exciting everything sounded, and I invited young men to come to the base and meet us!

I remember Hugh Turner as manager and Pete Turner (no relation) was the technical expert. Everyone was very welcoming and nice to me. On my 18th birthday they mentioned it on the air, and then presented me with a cake and later gave me a recording of the program. That was not as easy as it is now! The records are huge and only play on one side.

This was a wonderful experience for a young person. I remember every minute with pleasure. Eventually the sergeant was

transferred and his program ended—along with my radio career.

Fifty years later I got back into media!

I have had a discussion show over Public Access Channel 26 since 1999, “The Public Advocate.”

Thank you for the memories your article brought back!

Shirley Graves, Novato

What’s your favorite album, Marin?

Yes, we know. Whenever a popular band tries to prove their street cred by issuing their latest on vinyl—Pearl Jam, Daft Punk, et al.—the press goes crazy with albumsare-making-a-comeback stories. Well, the Pacific Sun isn’t falling for it. The LP is dead—gone the way of the 8-track, the cassette and the paleophone. Which makes us love them all the more. So, Marin, we want to know what your favorite album is! Did The Essential Charlie Parker blow your mind? Were you married while The Graduate soundtrack blared in the background? Will Paula Abdul be Forever Your Girl? Send us 100 to 150 words on why your favorite album changed your life—feel free to name a runner-up at the very end—and we’ll run the best “reviews” in an upcoming issue.

Email to jwalsh@ pacificsun.com. In the subject line call it My Favorite Album.

Or send entries to Jason Walsh at the Pacific Sun, 835 Fourth St., Suite D, San Rafael, CA 94901.

Our ‘favorite albums’ issue is going to go over like a lead zeppelin!

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MMWD desal plan all dried up...

Court ruling no salt-on-the-wounds for desalination opponents...

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he recent state Supreme Court refusal to review a suit claiming the environmental impact report for a proposed desalination facility is inadequate marks the end of a legal road. But opponents of desalination in Marin still have placed a giant roadblock in front of any plan to meet a drought with desalinated water.

The court refused to reconsider a May 2013 decision by the First District Court of Appeal in a case the North Coast Rivers Alliance brought charging that the environmental report failed to adequately assess the extent of the environmental consequences of the desalination facility the district proposed building.

The saga of the desalination proposal goes back to 1989, when the district declared a water-shortage emergency. Longtime district residents knew something about water shortages. They lived through severe drought in the 1970s. Putting bricks in toilets became a way of life, a way to reduce water consumption before low-flow. Residents stopped washing their cars and watering their lawns. Short showers were de rigueur.

The water-reduction measures worked.

Still, a pipeline across the Richmond/San Rafael Bridge reminded district residents that Marin reservoirs were vulnerable to severe drought conditions. According to a district Urban Management Plan report, a periodically prepared document sent to the state, “The district’s programs for demand management through water conservation began in 1971, and a study in 1999 found that the per capita demand has been reduced by an estimated 25 percent during the period from 1970 to 1998.”

The main concern after the 1970s drought was that district customers would ramp up their usage after the rains came. That didn’t happen. But the district remained concerned that reservoirs in Marin couldn’t meet demand in the future should another severe drought hit the county, even with the district receiving about 25 percent of its supply from the Russian River. The mere suggestion of siphoning more water from that river met with shaking heads among environmental organizations.

If getting more water from the Russian River was out of the question, and conservation and efficiency measures had a finite cap, the question was: Where could the district look to a drought-proof source of water to meet future demand?

It wasn’t an academic question, stressed district officials. According to the district’s Water Supply Master Plan, water demand would exceed supply by 2025. Officials said even aggressive conservation measures would fail to bridge the supply-and-demand gap.

That led to a 2003 proposal to build a de6 PACIFIC SUN SEPTEMBER 27- OCTOBER 3, 2013

salination facility that could produce 5 million gallons a day. The proposal included plans that could double or triple the potential output. The plan called for building a facility that would draw water from San Rafael Bay near the Marin Rod and Gun Club. Using reverse osmosis, the facility would yield fresh water and extract solids and impurities from the bay water. Brine would be pumped back into the bay after mixing with water at the Central Marin Sanitation Agency facility outflow. The addition of brine to the water at the facility would return water close to the salinity of the bay, according to the environmental report.

It seemed an elegant solution. Except to people who have a visceral aversion to desalination and distrusted the science in the environmental report. That’s when Food and Water Watch, an offshoot of Public Citizen, came to Marin to go up against the district’s desalination proposal. (Ralph Nader founded Public Citizen in 1971.) Food and Water Watch is vehemently opposed to desalination.

A focus of the organization’s antipathy has been the move among corporate interests to privatize water resources. Desalination facilities are an ideal way to lock up water supply for profit.

But the district would own the desalination facility it proposed. Nevertheless, the taint of privatization remained in the air during the debate about whether the district should proceed with plans to build a facility. (It did, actually, build a successful pilot facility.)

Opponents of building a desalination facility also said it would be a gift to developers and would spark a population explosion, and they objected to the cost of building a working operation, a cost that could have topped hundreds of millions of dollars. District officials countered that the cost might be something district residents would have to accept to achieve a truly drought-proof supply.

And then there was that environmental report. The Rivers Alliance filed a suit that claimed the report failed to adequately address desalination consequences. The Rivers Alliance filed the suit in 2009 in Marin Superior Court, where Marin Superior Court Judge Lynn Duryee ruled it was flawed because it failed to deal with potential environmental problems.

The report did, however, address consequences—it just said they weren’t appreciable.

The district appealed. In its ruling that overturned Judge Duryee’s decision, the Court of Appeal stated, “The foremost principal under [the California Environmental Quality Act] is that the Legislature intended the act ‘to be interpreted in such manner as to afford the fullest possible protection to the environment 8> within the reasonable scope of statutory

››NEWSGRAMS SMART sees light ahead for Larkspur Whether the SMART train is“bound for glory”is open to debate—what isn’t as debatable anymore is if it’s bound for Larkspur.

The Federal Transit Administration on Tuesday accepted the Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit’s San Rafael-to-Larkspur segment into the“project development”phase of its Small Starts funding program, according to SMART officials.

That means the rail project has access to a $2.5 million grant to complete the federal environmental review process and finalize the design of the segment. The Small Starts program was set up specifically to fund transit projects—including extensions to rail, bus and ferry services. The actual construction phase of the San Rafael-to-Larkspur segment is estimated at $35 million; in order for SMART to receive construction grant funding it would be required to“match”it with local, regional or state funds.

When Sonoma and Marin voters passed Measure Q in 2008, the funds from a 20-year quarter cent sales tax were promised to go to a rail project spanning from Cloverdale to Larkspur. Soon after, though, the economy tanked and Measure Q revenues were far lower than expected. But SMART officials pressed ahead and broke the project into three segments, with“phase one”as an initial stretch from San Rafael to Santa Rosa—the recession-era funding woes gave critics further doubt as to whether the project would ever happen.

SMART board chair Judy Arnold says project officials are“determined to complete the entire project to both the north and to the south in the shortest time possible.”

“We’re set to work with our other regional partners to get this done,”said Arnold. —Jason Walsh Officials tickled pink over decline in breast cancer Marin may be turning the corner on its high levels of breast cancer—at least that’s the indication based on a new statewide study showing a drop in rates.

A county comparative study conducted by the California Cancer Registry (CCR) shows a drop in incidence and mortality rates over a five-year period from 2006-10.

Although there has been some progress with the reduced rates, Marin remains about 10 percent higher than the statewide average, and about 20 percent higher than the national average.

“Marin remains one of the highest counties within California and the nation for breast cancer, but with this recent drop in rates, the good news is that Marin is no longer exceptionally high compared to the rest of California and there are other counties with rates as high as Marin,”said Rochelle Ereman, director of the Marin Women’s Study (MWS), a breast cancer research program within the Marin County Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).“These new data leave us optimistic and we continue to be vigilant in hopes that this recent downward trend continues into the future.”

Mortality rates from breast cancer have been on a steady decline in Marin and across California. In the past decade, Marin has gone from one of the top counties in California for breast cancer mortality to one of the lowest.

“The good news is that fewer women in Marin and California are dying of breast cancer,”said Dr. Matt Willis, public health officer, Marin HHS.“Our overall understanding of the disease, our ability to detect cancer at earlier clinical stages and improvements in personalized therapy have all contributed to lower mortality rates.”

Marin County HHS has released a data summary: 2013 Marin Breast Cancer Trends and Risk Factors. For Marin health data, visit www.healthymarin.org. For more information about breast cancer in Marin visit the Marin County HHS website at www.marincounty.org/hhs. —Stephanie Powell 8>

The ‘fourth estate’ wall Feinstein wants to define ‘journalist’—bad news for teen bloggers...

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by Howard Rachelson

1. What recent Marin Catholic High School graduate was named starting quarterback for this year’s University of California football team, as a true freshman, and is one of the country’s leaders in passing?

2. Can you identify five recent products, programs or apps created by Apple whose names begin with “i”?

3. What is the scientific name for the study of plant life?

4. Henry Fonda won his only best actor award for this 1982 film.

5. The largest (and one of the oldest) ancient Roman buildings surviving intact today was built about 2,000 years ago as a temple to all the gods of ancient Rome, and in fact its Greek name means “all the gods.”

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5 6. The tallest insect nests in the world, located in Africa, can be up to 42 feet high.

(Hint: the insects that build these nests... you don’t want around your house.)

7. Sea life was suffocating after last weeks spill into Honolulu Harbor of hundreds of thousands of gallons of what?

8. Science fiction fans, even President Obama, recently paid tribute to the memory of what renowned author of Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles and Something Wicked This Way Comes, who died in June 2012, at the age of 91?

9. What major league baseball team this season became only the third team in the past 100 years to move from last place on July 1 to first place by the end of the season?

10. How many voyages did Christopher Columbus make from Europe to the New World: 1, 2, 3, 4?

BONUS QUESTION: What’s the three-letter name for the world’s largest ethnic group? With about 1.3 billion people world wide, they constitute about 90 percent of China and many other Asian countries.

Howard Rachelson invites you to these upcoming team trivia contests in San Rafael: Broken Drum on Wednesday, Oct. 1 at 7:30pm, and Terrapin Crossroads on Tues. October 8 at 6:30 pm. Have a great questions? Send it in to howard1@triviacafe.com and maybe we’ll use it! www.triviacafe.com.

▲ Not only are cigarettes disgusting, they are also the most littered item in San Rafael. The San Rafael Clean Coalition, determined to kick the literal butt out of cigarettes discarded on their downtown streets, installed a “cigarette eater meter” in May. The meter, a public art piece displayed in the City Plaza, is eight feet high with a receptacle for stinky butts. Since its installation, the remains of 100,000 cigarettes have been fed into the eater meter. Thanks to project sponsor Bellam Self Storage and Boxes and an anonymous donor, those 100,000 butts are now worth a $2,000 donation to the St. Vincent de Paul Society. The litter will be sent to a recycling company that specializes in making products from hard to recycle waste. Everyone wins.

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▼ It’s a good thing I own my little condo in Sausalito and the mortgage is almost paid off.

Today, I couldn’t afford to buy or even rent my own place in Marin. I would simply be priced out of the county. Affordable housing in Marin is a necessity for many reasons and we’re fed up with people lining up to whine about how they don’t want it in their neighborhood. Just because you have your piece of Marin doesn’t mean that others shouldn’t have the opportunity to live here. And, if those others are of a different ethnicity or social status, we say better yet. We’re offended by the Marinites working to prevent diversity and keep non-millionaires out. Grow up and learn how to share, or go buy yourself an island.

— Nikki Silverstein

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hat makes a journalist? More to “When I teach journalism classes, I like the point, in this era of blogs and to shock my students by telling them that social media and digital dissemijournalists aren’t professionals in the sense nation—does it even matter? that doctors, lawyers, accountants or even Sen. Dianne Feinstein thinks so. Recently, beauticians are,” Michael McGough wrote Feinstein led a push to amend a media shield law—which would protect reporters’ sources and unpublished information from government meddling—and to define “journalist.”

“I’ve had longstanding concerns that the [law] would grant special protections to people A modern day ‘reporter’ takes to the blogosphere in between classes. who aren’t really reporters at all,” Feinstein told the Senate Judiciary Committee in an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times follast week. The shield, Feinstein continued, lowing Feinstein’s comments. “You don’t shouldn’t cover a “17-year-old who drops need a license to work as a reporter or out of high school, buys a website for $5 editor in this country; in fact, if Congress and starts a blog.” Attorney-client privilege or a state decided to license journalists, the only applies to attorneys, she pointed out. Supreme Court would surely blow its First Reporter privilege should only apply to re- Amendment whistle.”

Ah, yes. The First Amendment. The one porters.

The problem, of course, is that it isn’t so that enshrines the press as the only Consimple. Not all journalists have journalism stitutionally protected profession, the sodegrees (and, these days especially, not evcalled Fourth Estate. But does that distinceryone with a journalism degree is a worktion mean government can’t say who is, and ing journalist). There are many examples of isn’t, a member of the press? (Interestingly, important stories that were broken or docu- Feinstein has never worked in the news memented by citizen journalists—people with dia, unlike her cohort Sen. Barbara Boxer, who was a Pacific Sun political reporter in the early ’70s; (neither Boxer nor Feinstein responded to a request for comment.)

In the end, Feinstein’s language was added to the shield law but toned down: the version that passed the Judiciary Committee defines “journalist” for the purposes of the bill, but not in any general sense. (There is still plenty for critics to deride, including a “national security” exemption, meaning the government can do an end-around simply by playing the terrorism card.)

Sen. Feinstein, going to bat for ‘real’ reporters.

Yet the larger question remains: what makes a journalist? As this profession cellphone cameras, Twitter accounts or, yes, shifts and adapts, should the reporters’ club become more exclusive or entirely open? blogs—who saw something newsworthy What will happen to standards and qualand reported it. ity—what’s left of them, anyway—if citizen And what about whistleblowers? If they and journalist become one and the same? choose to share information directly with Or, as McGough put it at the end of his the public—rather than via a news organiop-ed: “If everyone’s a journalist, nobody zation—do they become, in a sense, reportis.” Y ers themselves? How about Julian Assange Evaluate Jacob’s credentials at jacobsjottings@gmail.com. and WikiLeaks?

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Malaysian First Lady tours San Rafael autism school The first lady of Malaysia paid a visit to the Anova Center for Education in San Rafael on Sept. 23 to learn more about the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s philosophy on education for children and adults on the autism spectrum.

First Lady Rosmah Mansorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interest in special-needs education is no passing fancy. She recently initiated the Permata early childhood program in Malaysia, which has established more than 650 early childhood learning facilities across the country. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s currently spearheading a Permata project to develop a program for children with autism and related disabilities in Malaysia.

Rosmah Mansor was particularly interested in Anova Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s focus on, as stated on its website, teachingâ&#x20AC;&#x153;essential life skills for independence and creating the confidence required for success in school, home, and work.â&#x20AC;?School administrators welcomed the first lady and discussed Anovaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s education model in hopes of assisting Malaysia in the development of a similar program overseas.

U.S. Congressman Jared Huffman, of San Rafael, joined Rosmah Mansor for a tour of the Anova campus. The first lady is in the Bay Area to accompany her husband, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, as he serves as Chair of the third Global Science International Advisory Council Meeting in San Francisco.

On Oct. 28, Huffman will serve as the Honorary Chair at Anovaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upcoming ACE of Clubs Golf Tournament at the Marin Country Club, a fundraiser for physical fitness and other enrichment programs at Anovaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three nonprofit K-12 schools.

Anova CEO Andrew Bailey citedâ&#x20AC;&#x153;lack of accessâ&#x20AC;?as one of the major hurtles in helping autistic people who need it most. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That is one of the things that we as a society here in America need to fix ... that you have excellent educational strategies, but youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not able to deliver them to everyone,â&#x20AC;?said Bailey.â&#x20AC;&#x153;And that is the biggest problem, the difference between what is possible and what actually happens.â&#x20AC;?

For more information about Anova, the first lady of Malaysiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s visit or the ACE of Clubs Golf Tournament, call 707/527-7032 or visit www.anovaeducation.org. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;SP

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The Court of Appeal stated that its job focused on assessing the actions of the agency producing the environmental report, not the lower courtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do not review the correctness of the EIRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s environmental conclusions, but only its sufficiency as an informative document.â&#x20AC;? Opponents who believe those conclusions are wrong have no case, the court stated.

In refusing to review the case, the State Supreme Court let the Appeal Court decision stand. That means that when and if the district decides to proceed with plans to build a desalination facility, it can use the environmental report, which the district still will have to update if any key points have changed. But the district wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to correct a faulty environmental report. That would give the district a bit of a leg up on the road to building a facility.

Opponents may have lost the last round in court, but they still leave a lasting roadblock to prevent the district from freely moving ahead with a desalination plan. That roadblock effectively negates the whole idea of building a desalination facility to act as a safety in the event of a severe drought. A facility could have been built and run at sort of a substance level just to keep it operational until it was needed to produce supply in a drought.

But opponents killed that idea. Although the district has a validated environmental report, it still is constrained by a parallel course opponents took to stop desalination in Marin.

In November 2009, two desalination ballot measures appeared on the ballot. Opponents backed Measure T, which said that if the district wanted to proceed with a desalination facility it had to go to district voters for approval before it conducted any further planning, financing or construction. Forced into a political corner, the district placed a competing

measure on the ballot that was less restrictive.

Measure S said the district could plan without a vote but would need to go to district residents for approval before the district signed contracts, generated financing or started construction. Both measures received a majority vote. Measure S, the district-backed measure, received more votes and was enacted.

Although the opponentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; measure came in second and was superseded by the districtbacked measure, they had effectively overridden their elected officials on the district board. It could take three to four years to get a desalination facility built and running, according to Michael Ban, environment and engineering services manager at the district.

And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s after a vote. And then thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the tortuous permitting process.

The district says it has no immediate plans to proceed with desalination. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in part due to the generous amount of conservation district residents still are managing to post.

But district residents should understand that in the event of the next severe drought, desalinated water is not an option.

Ban says the district is keeping a close eye on production and consumption levels.

In 2008-09 fiscal year, the district produced 27,500 acre-feet of potable water. In fiscal year 2011-12 it produced 26,000 acre-feet.

Production reflects consumption levels, according to Ban. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We seem to have bottomed out in reduction levels,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will be watching it very closely to see if we stay at these lower levels.â&#x20AC;? Water districts are used to seeing demand spike after a drought or the imposition of temporary conservation measures. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s apparently not the case in the district. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My sense is that people have made a fundamental shift in the way they use water,â&#x20AC;? says Ban. Water use for irrigation, for instance has dropped to about 25 percent.

Of course, in the event of another real drought, one lasting two years or longer,

district residents would be forced to tighten their water-use belts far more than they have, and there won’t be a desalination plant to ride to the rescue. That’s fine, say desalination opponents. There’s plenty of room for increased conservation measures.

The court decision refusing to take up the environmental review case is “good for the district and good for the people of Marin,” says Jack Gibson, a water district board member. “We never envisioned that a successful outcome would mean ground breaking,” he adds. “But we live in a very precarious water environment. We have known that forever.

Our responsibility is to be prepared in the best way we can to handle the uncertainties of nature. In effect, that is what we have done.”

When the district matched the opponents on the ballot, measure for measure, district officials viewed building a desalination facility “as an insurance policy,” says Gibson. “I would prefer to make advances in recycling and reusing water.” Although there may be another legal challenge to desalination, Gibson adds, and the district may have to go to voters for approval to proceed with a plan to build, if a drought hits, “things could change fast” among district residents when it comes time to cast ballots. Drought, after all, is a great motivator.

Gibson, stepping out from under his official position on the board, says he thinks district residents eventually will be drinking desalinated water, just not from a Marin facility. Large water districts in the Bay Area have

been investigating the possibility of creating a regional desalination facility. Marin might receive desalinated water through a pipeline.

“I do see desalinated water in the future of Marin,” says Gibson, “if for no other reason than it’s better than taking water from the Russian River.”

Call it citizen democracy. Whatever name it goes by, it’s on a raucous ascendency in Marin. The desalination battle is proof. Indignant citizens also played a major role in prodding the Marin Healthcare District to kick Sutter Health out of Marin General Hospital.

A rising cohort of citizens feeling its power also is making a big impact on blocking or at least altering affordable-housing initiates. And don’t even mention Plan Bay Area. Indignant Marin citizens are in full-on revolt over the notion of the autocratic evil they perceive at regional planning agencies (even though their members are elected officials from across the Bay Area). It’s either the essence of democracy or the subversion of it.

The water district may be in for another election campaign: Opponents of using herbicides to control broom on water district watershed have prepared a ballot measure aimed at forcing the district to use only herbicides approved for use on organic crops.

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hirty six—the average age an athlete retires, the age many of us would like to be forever. It’s the atomic number for krypton and a cue to a florist to wrap up three dozen roses. If your marriage has survived for 36 years, you’re waaaay ahead of the national average, which is—are you kidding me?—eight. And for Mill Valley’s film festival, now celebrating its triple dozen, it’s akin to being Methuselah, Biblical Noah’s grandpappy, who survived 969 years.

Despite its whiskers, this homegrown, bigtop cirque du cinema—engineered season after season by Executive Director Mark Fishkin, Program Director Zoe Elton and an intrepid staff—keeps spitting out young ideas in a way that makes the word “unique” seem wholly inadequate.

Is there another festival in the world that offers a day hike to the ocean where you can hobnob on the trail with filmmakers and festival officials (Oct. 6, 10:30am)? Or plug into simultaneous live hookups with audiences in Egypt, Turkey and France? Or thrill kids at the children’s wing of the program with a 26-foot blow-up shark making a “live” appearance?

So if we have time to smell the flowers (and shouldn’t we, given the perpetually accelerating stress on our very cortex?), there is a smashing cinematic spread awaiting you at the 36th annual where, it should be noted, four of the last five Academy Award-winning best pictures (Slumdog Millionaire, The King’s Speech, The Artist and Argo) premiered. Not a bad scorecard for the cozy little hamlet that could.

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film composer and a deserving candidate Colorful tributes are slated for legendfor a tribute, provides a lush score. ary director Costa-Gavras, actor Geoffrey The actor and director Brian Percival will Rush, and actor-director Ben Stiller. Now be introduced at The Book Thief screening.

80, the Greek-born French Costa-Gavras So get your Rush tickets now. turned Hollywood’s head around in 1969 The other opening-night red-carpet about fact-based political thrillers with his rollout goes to Alexander Payne’s Nebraska incomparable Z, winner of the best foreign (Oct. 3, 6:45pm and 7pm), about an old film Academy Award. He’ll be here Friday, geezer who believes he has won $1 million Oct. 4, at 6:30pm, in conversation with and talks his accommodating son into a Peter Coyote, to talk about his career, show dusty road trip to gather up the gold. In a clips from his amazing work, including role that won him best actor honors at State of Siege, Missing and Music Cannes this year, Bruce Dern heads Box, and screen his latest work, a cast that includes Will Forte, Capital, in which multinaby Stacy Keach and George Clooney. tional corporations supplant Dern and Forte are expected at right-wing governments as mal the screening. (A sliver of trivia the ultimate evil.

KARMAN reminds us that the first film to A similar evening with ever play at the Rafael in 1999 was Rush is planned for the folPayne’s Election.) A gala follows lowing night at 9:15pm when both films at Corte Madera Town the Oscar-winning Australian Center. actor will respond to audience quesAt the other end of the festival dateline, tions following clips from a career that was closing night features the Stiller tribute (Oct. launched at the Mill Valley Film Festival in 1996 with Shine. Rush also stars with Emily 13, 5pm) at which he will be presented with the Mill Valley Film Festival Award, jaw with Watson in opening night film, The Book the audience, screen his remake of James Thief (Oct. 3, 7pm), in which a family Thurber’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, hides a Jewish boy who creates a powerful bond with their adopted 9-year-old daugh- and perhaps slip into the final festival bash for a few minutes at the Maplelawn Estate in ter through the magic of storytelling. And San Rafael. A second viewing, sans tribin Giuseppe (Cinema Paradiso) Tornatore’s ute, pops onto the screen at 5:15 the same first English-language film, The Best Offer evening.

(Oct. 4 at 6pm and Oct. 8 at 3pm), Rush is Now we love the outdoors as much as a crafty art auctioneer, with Donald Sutheranybody, but would you agree a bunch of land as his unprincipled partner. Ennio non-professional next-door neighbor/athMorricone, another octogenarian whom letes who line up to run 250k (155 miles) in we think of as the world’s greatest living

five days in scorching 100-degree heat in the Sahara Desert should see a psychiatrist first?

And that’s just the first grain of sand and insanity in six runs over the Four Deserts of the Ultrarunning Grand Slam, all within 12 months. After the Sahara, there are five more 250ks to conquer, each in five days, including Chile’s Atacama (where it hasn’t rained in 400 years), China’s Gobi (the windiest desert on Earth) and, maybe just for a change of pace, Antarctica. The festival program notes say Desert Runners (Oct. 6, 2:15pm and Oct. 12, 5:45pm) are “exploring the outside edge of endurance.” Our program notes say they are as cracked as the parched ground they’re running on. But Berkeley documentary director Jennifer Steinman explains it in a very different way: “While this is a movie about running, I think it’s really about so much more. It’s ultimately about human beings, how we deal with challenges, heartbreak and triumph, and the mindset necessary to complete ‘impossible’ goals. Out in the desert, all barriers are stripped away [yup, that’s what they tell us about Burning Man] and everyone is at their most honest, authentic, vulnerable. It is brutal and it is beautiful, all at the same time. I really hope people are touched by the journey these amazing people took, or are inspired by their process and tenacity.”

Steinman and her cinematographer Sevan Matossian demonstrated as much themselves by virtue of being out there and creating this remarkable film. “There were long seven-day stints without a shower and we worked from 5 or 6am until after midnight most days. We

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Steinman’s amateur desert-dashers aren’t the only ones who consider exercise a mantra. Sarah Prefers to Run too, but in normal temperatures and only on Oct. 6 at 5:15pm and Oct. 7 at 2:15pm. In Canadian director Chloe Robichaud’s first feature, an aimless young woman opts for her New Balance over sex, education, a social life or her future. We worry about her knees, though, in 35 years.

If marathons move your needle, we have a movie marathon that will have you on pins and needles. During World War II, what was it like for ordinary Germans who understood their complicity, yet did nothing in face of the horror that the Nazis were perpetrating? The 270-minute Generation War delves into the hearts and minds of five friends from Berlin to penetrate and aggravate the issue of moral compromises. Those with stamina can hang in there Oct. 6, 5pm, or see it in three parts, Oct. 7, 8 and 9, each at 12:30pm.

Along with the aforementioned opening night’s The Book Thief, The German Doctor and the short films Hans and Facing Fear explore the long reach of Nazi Germany and how it shredded the lives of so many. In an imaginative and thoughtful drama, a family in Argentina meets The German Doctor (Oct. 9, 5:30pm and Oct. 10, 2:30pm), on the surface a talented physician who can cure their ailing daughter, but in reality, Nazi war-criminal-in-hiding Josef Mengele, notorious for his bizarre and sadistic medical experiments on human subjects.

In Tiburon filmmaker Harris Cohen’s nine-minute doc Hans (Oct. 5, 5:45pm and Oct. 8, 9pm) “a 10-year-old and his family (are) forced to flee Austria in 1938 during the Nazi invasion and seek refuge in Shanghai, only to face another invasion by the Japanese.” Despite his travails, Cohen says Hans Roenan had a relentless upbeat disposition, loved long distance running (could we have interested him in the Sahara?) and enjoyed a period of his life as a talented photographer.

Meanwhile, Berkeley documentarian Jason Cohen’s gay protagonist in the startling Facing Fear(Oct. 6, 2pm and Oct. 9, 6:30pm) is at the wrong end of a sadistic hate crime by a neo-Nazi, only to encounter, by chance, the man who almost killed him—25 years after the incident that impacted both their lives.

Sweet blues: A Film About mike bloomfield One of the most famous hate crimes in recent history, the beating, torture and murder of Matthew Shepard, is recounted in Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine (Oct. 4, 6:30pm and Oct. 6, 8:30pm) through the sometimes sweet, often agonizing memories of his high school friend Michele Josue. “I always knew I wanted to do this film, but I had to wait until I was emotionally ready,” the Los Angeles filmmaker says. “I was a sophomore in my apartment in Boston in film school (in 1998) and my sister called and said, ‘Turn on the TV news.’ It was devastating! At some point, I would like this to be part of the education process for those who might not believe in equal rights and dignity for everyone. I think it’d be good for young people who are still figuring out their values.”

Blue is the Warmest Color and Dallas Buyers Club, both with big buzz in the movie pipeline, also ride in on gay themes.

Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, Blue purports to be an uninhibited, uncompromising, unabashed, unflinching probe into the relationship of two young women who encounter the complexities and fireworks that come affixed to a deepening liaison. In Buyers Club, based on a true story, Matthew McConaughey, as an antigay hedonist, takes on the med establishment after he tests positive for HIV. To get the proper treatment from underground sources he has no choice but to join forces with the last person on Earth he would pick, a transsexual woman (played by Jared Leto). Leto’s performance prompted the festival to honor him with an Oct. 10, 6:30pm Spotlight (much more than an introduction, much less than a two-hour bow).

Spotlights slated for actress Dakota Fanning and director Steve McQueen are also based on true stories, proving once and for all that there is no longer a category called fiction. (Well, maybe Toy Story.) Fanning has the title role of Effie Gray, a young woman involved in a sex scandal that rocked 19th-century England, undoubtedly tame by today’s measure but a real morsel for nosy Victorians. Co-star-screenwriter Emma Thompson had to beat a lawsuit filed by another writer, who based her work on the same facts, to allow release of the movie. Effie spins her web Oct. 12 at 6:30pm. Fanning, by the way, also appears in The Motel Life (Oct. 10, 6:30pm and Oct. 11, 9pm), about a couple of drifters, with Stephen Dorff, who does double duty in Zaytoun (Oct. 12,

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McQueen’s Spotlight shines on his 12 Years a Slave, the story of an African-American who was born free in Saratoga Springs, New York, kidnapped by whites who lured him with a job offer, and sold into slavery.

Chiwetel Ejiofor gives a stirring performance as Solomon Northrup, an accomplished violinist with a wife and two kids before his abduction. (In his first year of renewed freedom, in 1853, he published an account of this ordeal.) 12 Years screens Oct. 11 at 6:30pm with a cast that includes Michael Fassbender, Paul Giamatti, Alfre Woodard and Brad Pitt. We find a similar Civil War era story in The Retrieval (Oct. 6, 12:45pm and Oct. 8, 2:30pm), in which two freed slaves are forced by white bounty hunters to track down one of their own.

Oakland director Britta Sjogren, a film professor at San Francisco State, took a more modern view of racism in her contemporary western, Redemption Trail (Oct. 6, 12 noon and Oct. 8, 6pm), shot primarily at the Stubbs Vineyard in Marin, with Lisa Gay Hamilton as the daughter of a slain Black Panther and Lily Rabe as a privileged white.

“The story evolved from a tale of self-forgiveness into a meditation on surviving,” she says.

“Perhaps all of us have experienced some deep personal loss, a devastating political oppression, or committed some irrevocable, ruinous mistake.”

On the lighter side of black-and-white tensions is Zoran Lisinac’s funny Along the Roadside (Oct. 4, 6:15pm and Oct. 7, 9pm), in which destiny brings together a black San Francisco schemer-dreamer with a sharpedged personality and a naive, young, female Austrian tourist. Lisinac, who emigrated from Serbia to the U.S. to study film, says, “It’s about two young people from different parts of the world, their vastly different cultures, and their journey of self-discovery 12 Pacific Sun september 27 - OCtober 3, 2013

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during the drive to California’s largest music festival.”

As long as we’re in the middle of sizing up our rundown, we might as well center on the centerpiece, August: Osage County (Oct. 8 at 6:30pm), which congeals as part of a Spotlight on director John Wells. Based on Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Meryl Streep inhabits the role of matriarch to three daughters at an Oklahoma family reunion that holds no shortage of secrets, most of ’em involving men. Smart-ass comments fly across the dinner table, with no immunity, and it ain’t because mom made them eat spinach. If your kids are giving you trouble, take this one in and you’ll go home feeling blessed. Co-produced by George Clooney with a cast including Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Dermot Mulroney, Chris Cooper and Juliette Lewis.

Now we know you’re not going to like this, but after Tapped, a 2009 MVFF entry that told us to take a closer look at the water we’re drinking, and after the documentary Forks Over Knives caused those of us still eating animal products to bury our heads in lettuce, and after last year’s Elemental suggested we breathe something other than the 650 toxic chemicals released into the air every day, along comes San Francisco filmmaker Maggie Beidelman’s short informing us about The Trouble With Bread (Oct. 5, 3:15pm and Oct. 7, 3pm). “It’s not just a matter of being gluten-free,” she says. “There are a lot of cruddy gluten-free products out there.” In her quest to find a loaf that she can actually digest, her unsettling assessment comes down to this: “Let’s just say, bread as you know it is not what you think.”

OK, so what do we do?—eliminate meat, air, bread and water? Not that many festivals ago, local director Peter Sorcher suggested we Eat the Sun—well, we tried that and it gave us heartburn.

Maybe you just shrugged and said to yourself, “What can you do?”—There is something, but first, more wake-up, shake-up news from local voices such as Dana Nachman and Don Hardy (The Human Experiment), Kirby Walker and Jamie Redford (Toxic Hot Seat), and Berry Minot (The Illness and the Odyssey). In the two Santa Clara filmmakers’ Human Experiment (Oct. 6, 8:30pm and Oct. 10, 3:30pm), executive produced and narrated by Sean Penn (who will be at the Oct. 6 screening and has a role in the closing-night film), we are pummeled with the fact that

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life-threatening diseases are skyrocketing in children, in individuals with healthy lifestyles, and in under-40 women—from leukemia, brain cancer, asthma, ADHD to genital deformities in male babies. There are 80,000 chemicals on the market in everything from makeup, cleaners and homebuilding materials. More than three-fourths of them have been grandfathered into the system prior to EPA laws while the chemical industry pours millions into lobbying our politicians whose first priority is re-election.

Walker of San Francisco and Redford of Fairfax plunge into another poison pond, tearing into the claim that chemical flame retardants in all our upholstered furniture actually work and presenting evidence showing firefighters have come down with the same rare illness while levels of retardants have built up over the years in breast milk. “Studies show they do not significantly retard fires and are highly toxic,” Redford says. “Initially, our plan was to follow legislative reform with regard to toxins in upholstered furniture. On the second day of production, (Los Angeles assemblywoman and now State Senator Holly Mitchell) was supposed to author (a bill) and dropped it like a hot potato. . . Then a five-part series in the Chicago Tribune told a tale of gross deceit and fear-mongering by the chemical firms that make retardants.

There is a voice that said (to us) ‘Get out! Get out while you can!’ and then there is another voice that says, ‘Don’t be a wimp!’” You can grab a Toxic Hot Seat Oct. 5, 5pm, or Oct. 12, 2pm.

San Francisco director Minott went to Guam to delve into Lytico-bodig, a mysterious brain-killing, body-wasting disease that, she says, “combines the most horrific characteristics of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and ALS.” Follow the superstar scientists who have settled and studied there to try to find a clue as to why this afflicts the Chamorros, the natives of the island, with the goal of discovering the key to many neurodegenerative diseases.

“The early onset of one kind of dementia runs in my family,” Minott explains, “and I figure the best hope for finding a cure is to find the cause for what circumstances trigger a neurological disease in some people, but not others.” One so-called suspicious delicacy she avoided while in Guam: bat soup. Now how could she pass that up? The Illness and the Odyssey screens Oct. 5, 12:30pm and Oct. 7, 5:45pm.

Back for another takedown of polluters, the boys at the Mill Valley Film Group, John

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Antonelli, Tom Dusenbery and Will Parrinello check in with the paired program of Unfair Game: The Politics of Poaching about the clash over the rights of indigenous people with those protecting surrounding wildlife, and another segment of their Emmy-winning series The New Environmentalists: From Chicago to the Karoo (Oct. 6, 11:30am and Oct. 10, 2:15pm), again narrated by Robert Redford. For those of us who didn’t get seasick in last year’s Life of Pi, hop aboard Redford’s sailboat in All Is Lost (Oct. 12, 3:30pm, and Oct. 13, 8:15pm) and prepare yourself for a helluva shipwreck.

This may be the only time a festival has ever hosted individual features from father and son on the same program. “This is my father at his finest as an actor,” says Jamie Redford.

“I am totally proud of the risks he took to make it and proud to be in the same festival together.”

Now whether we’re talking about race relations, genocide, homophobia or the rape of the environment, this type of moviemaking falls into a category called Active Cinema (or as we prefer, Activist Cinema). “People like to think you can change the world with a film,” says Fishkin. “Well, you can’t do that, but you can change the thinking of one person at a time. People care about films with real content. They’re very much interested in what a film has to say.”

“The ultimate purpose for us, the curatorial hub of this event, is to have filmmakers connect with audiences and encourage audiences to engage,” adds Elton, “and to show them how to do that—taking the inspiration people see in film and broker the way to create change.”

In the festival planting pot this season we’ve got everything from Paul Potts to Pol Pot. You’ll have two chances to see One Chance (Oct. 5, 6:30pm and Oct. 9, 2:30pm), based on the true story of South Wales cellphone salesman Paul Potts (Tony Awardwinning actor James Cordon) competing at a British version of American Idol in his pursuit to become the next overnight mega-smash.

Moving from the glitz of TV stardom in England to the forced labor in rice fields and summary executions of the Pol Pot regime in Southeast Asia, The Missing Picture (Oct. 12, 4:45pm and Oct. 13, 5:30pm) employs artful dioramas and Khmer Rouge propaganda footage to draw an unsettling story of the atrocities suffered by the Cambodian people right down to director Rithy Panh’s family. It won best film in the Un Certain Regard sec-

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While the long reach of the Vietnam War gave rise to the horrors of Pol Pot, it practically wiped Laos off the map, thanks to more than two million tons of bombs the U.S. dropped on the country during 580,000 missions—equal to a planeload of bombs every eight minutes, 24-hours a day, every day for nine years. In first-time writer-director Kim Mordaunt’s The Rocket (Oct. 6 at 8:15pm, Oct. 13 at 11 am), a Laotian boy—blamed for everything that goes wrong—an undersized girl, and a disgraced ex-Laotian soldier team up to enter a rocket-launching contest to prove the kid is not cursed. Best debut film at the Berlin festival.

Mordaunt’s little hero is not the only one born under a maligned star. Congolese independence leader and the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the Congo,

Patrice Lumumba’s original surname (Elias Okit Asombo) means “heir of the cursed” and is derived from the Tetela word asombo (“cursed or bewitched people who will die quickly”—but you already knew that, didn’t you?). In a stirring African drama from 2000, the appropriately named Lumumba (Oct. 10, 8:30pm and Oct. 11, 3:15pm) tracks the rise of a charismatic beer salesman who helped his country win its independence from Belgium only to be deposed in a coup and shot before a firing squad at 35. Depending on whom you talk to, Belgium, Great Britain and/or the CIA may all have blood on their hands. The film is being resurrected now because, as Elton says, “it will soon become a classic.”

If a beer salesman can make it to the top, so can an electrician in Walesa, Man of Hope (Oct. 11, 8:45pm and Oct. 12, noon), director Andrzej Wajda’s biopic about Poland’s Solidarity leader of the ’80s, Lech Walesa, a trade-union organizer, human-rights activist and titanic thorn in the butt of the Soviet Union. Arrested several times and hounded by the Soviet machine, Walesa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, a recognition that probably kept him from a long prison term.

No stranger to rising out of the ashes of a prison cell is Nelson Mandela, who at the time of his release, had spent 27 years or about a third of his life behind bars in South Africa. In Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (Oct. 9, 6:30pm), we start with his career as a lawyer, his transition from battling apartheid

with nonviolence to militancy to imprisonment to reconciliation and election as president of an integrated South Africa—a fairy tale that actually happened.

Rest assured, men have no monopoly in overcoming life’s obstacles as Berkeley documentarian Pratibha Parmar’s Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth dramatically demonstrates.

The youngest of eight kids born to Georgia sharecroppers and squeezed into a shack called home, Walker overcame poverty, serious self-esteem issues, bullying and the loss of one eye (shot out by a brother) before becoming the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, for The Color Purple.

This year as always, there is never a shortage of shorts and short-shorts, hidden gems that sometimes leave an impression that lasts longer than the film itself. Berkeley’s Silvia Turchin shot her 9-minute visual poem F-Line (Oct. 8, 5:30pm and Oct. 10, 8:45pm) about San Francisco’s historic streetcars on film with a Bolex! In this digital age, that’s like driving to the Rafael on a mule. “I wanted the technology to echo the old streetcars,” she says, “to have the same texture and a weathered character.” San Francisco filmmaker Jason Headley, who is garnering a rep for making wacky, quirky shorts, including At the Bar (same program as F-Line), teaches us that any conversation we might have in a pub is not worth remembering. Oakland’s Simon Christen, a Pixar animator, creates jaw-dropping visuals in Adrift (Oct. 5, 5:45pm and Oct. 8, 9pm) in what he calls “My love letter

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to the fog of the Bay Area. I chased it (like a woman, we presume) for over two years to capture the magic interaction between the soft mist, the ridges of the coast and the iconic Golden Gate Bridge.”

If there were no such thing as sound, the festival would still find a way to tickle your eardrums. There is nothing anywhere to compare to John Goddard’s ongoing Hi De Ho Show, during which he shares extremely rare clips of bygone musical eras along with fascinating facts and, often hilarious, insights.

This turn he focuses on the British invasion of the ’60s and we know that means I love you yah yah yah. . . In another thread of originality, the ASCAP Cafe—now in its second year—brings us dozens of live bands Oct. 4, 5 and 6 from 1pm to 5pm at the Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave. in Mill Valley.

Concurrently, look for movies about Mill Valley drummer Barbara Borden (Oct. 4, 6:30pm and Oct. 11, 12:30pm), blues guitarist Mike Bloomfield (Oct. 5, 9:30pm and Oct. 11, 2:30pm), and Arhoolie Records’ Chris Strachwitz of El Cerrito in Maureen Gosling and Chris Simon’s This Aint No Mouse Music (Oct. 8, 6pm and Oct. 11, 3:30pm), followed by a live concert Oct. 8 at Sweetwater. And since Sweetwater this year is both a movie (Oct. 3, 8pm) and a destination, please don’t go to the screening expecting a drink, and don’t bring your six-guns to the cafe. The festival provides enough fireworks. Y

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When you clarify and label your preferred style category it helps you: Q Represent your unique style to others Q Discover the best stores and designers to shop Q Cut down on the assortment clutter at major department and big-box stores Q Buy pieces that coordinate with what you already own Q Curtail impulse buying Q Express your inner self, outwardly Now you have perused the style categories’ list and picked your style, let’s apply it to the shopping experience. One of the keys to expressing your inner style, outwardly, is to shop for it at the right place. This is why it is important to deduce what shops sell your kind of style. By way of example, let’s consider San Anselmo Avenue’s fashion boutiques. On the avenue you will find shops that unofficially represent all of the style categories. Given this (and using the pie chart above), if I prefer modern styling I would have better luck finding merchandise of this ilk at Collage than I would at Gioia. Hence, to cut down choice, clutter and confusion, Collage would be the store I shop first on San Anselmo Avenue.

Now consider categorizing the local street you like to shop. The best way to determine what style categories its boutiques sell is simply to window shop before you browse or buy. Shops’ window displays tend to showcase items that represent the style type(s) they stand for. These displays provide clues as to which stores to shop and which ones to skip. When you look at your local shopping street through the lens of your style category you prevent aimless shopping, limit impulse buying, clarify the best stores to shop, and ultimately, discover clothes that match yourself. <

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o you shop often but have a hard time finding what you are looking for?

Do you often buy pieces that your inner voice says aren’t you?

Does your look seem to be all over the map?

Do you often buy pieces that don’t coordinate with anything you already own?

If you answered “yes” to any of questions above, you likely haven’t taken the time to clarify and label the general type of style you like to wear. To end your shopping and dressing uncertainty you must learn to match your inner sense style with your outward fashion expression or, as I like to say, “match yourself.”

The best place to start the matching process is to learn a little more about fashion itself. Generally fashion can be divided into six style types. I call these types “style categories” and they are: Modern, Contemporary, Classic, Retro, Romantic and Cultural. Each of these categories has its own distinctive design esthetic and could be loosely described in the following ways: Modern From a futuristic military look to a modern-art influenced feel, a Modern likes to wear pieces that have drape, asymmetrically hemlines and abstract prints.

Contemporary From a snooty European aristocrat air to a look appropriate for work, the Contemporary lady likes fancy fabrics, status accessories and city-chic mix-andmatch pieces.

Classic From preppy collegiate to a ladieswho-lunch look, the Classic dresser knows how to dress-up her tailored blazer and basic polo—just add pearls.

Retro From a fabulous ’40s look to a funky ’70s vibe, a Retro typically favors one past decade’s duds to express her nostalgic self.

Romantic From a girlie-girl aura to a vixen impression, a Romantic looks for ruffle adornment, plunging necklines and tightfitting pieces that allure and beguile.

Cultural From Bohemian to Goth to Western wear, a Cultural wears clothes that indirectly derive from a particular culture and always speak eccentrically.

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›› Food&drink

Crust never sleeps Bruschetta—more than just tomatoes on toast!

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fell off the gluten-free wagon recently over a plate of bruschetta. The crusty bread was toasted to a turn, impregnated with garlic and topped with the season’s ripest, juiciest heirloom tomatoes in a rainbow of colors. One bite and I was hooked.

I’d been eating gluten-free for several years as a remedy to digestive issues. Fortunately, my bruschetta consumption caused no ill effects, which only spurred me on to experiment and create bigger and better versions of this rustic dish.

Bruschetta was created by those crafty Italians as a handy way to use up stale bread. Back in the day, nothing was ever wasted so stale bread became the mother of invention. They used it (and continue to do so) in meatballs, soup, panzanella—the delicious bread salad—ground into crumbs to coat fish and as a base for the flavors of the season in bruschetta.

The most popular type of bruschetta is made with tomatoes, basil, garlic and olive oil. But when I put my creative juices into using up a large loaf of Brick Maiden’s levain, I came up with all types of combina-

tions: avocado and bacon, figs with honey, tomatoes of all sorts and creamy cheeses all found their way onto sleds of toasted bread as I experimented my way through slice after slice.

The bread is a crucial element of topnotch bruschetta and Brick Maiden’s fits the bill—leavened with starter for a tangy sour flavor and baked in a wood oven so the crust is on the edge of being burned— and I mean that in a good way. Another outstanding bakery in the county is M.H. Bread and Butter in San Anselmo, where I went one day to get one of their artisan loaves. The thing was a monster, about the size of a cinder block, and smelled so amazing that I couldn’t help but tear pieces off the whole drive back home. And the bruschetta with these breads is phenomenal.

Della Fattoria’s semolina and country loaves are another great option making me realize how lucky we are to have so many wonderful bakers right here in the North Bay. The rest of the ingredients need to be of the highest quality to really shine in this dish. Choose extra virgin, cold pressed olive

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Bruschetta—pronounced ‘broo-sketta’—comes from the Central Italian word for ‘toast.’

oil, wonderful salt such as gray Maldon or the red salt from Hawaii in coarse crystals.

Use produce that is at its peak and herbs picked fresh from the fields. Creamy, rich cheeses add a delightful contrast to the acid of tomatoes or sweetness of figs and pears; select local ones from Marin and Sonoma producers such as Pt. Reyes Farmstead, Bellwether Farms, Tomales Farmstead Creamery and Nicasio Valley Cheese Company.

My garden this year is pumping out abundance like never before. I used the bounty as inspiration for toppings, trying several variations on the classic tomato/ basil combo, especially since I have a plethora of tomatoes this year. The fig tree is bent over with the weight of ripe green fruit, succulent and sweet. I’ve used them in smoothies, cakes, with salmon and pork on the grill and finally on bruschetta. Yum, what a delicious way to enjoy figs. The creamy avocados from the market have enlivened my bruschetta repertoire; from the simplest version of slices on garlic toast to one with bacon and tomatoes, the interplay of texture with salt and acid is a winner.

Finally, there is the pear tree that keeps on giving. A huge grocery bag of fruit is coming ripe in the garage and I’m working hard to use them all before they go bad. Hence, pear/brie/prosciutto bruschetta was born and became a huge hit for a weekend lunch recently.

Whether you have stale bread to use up or not, a plateful of bruschetta is always welcome. For appetizers, a simple lunch or even a light dinner, this tasty dish is a blank canvas where seasonal fruits and vegetables star. * * * * *

BRUSCHETTA 101

Toasting: Use either your gas grill or broiler turned to high.

Grill method: Preheat the grill to 400.

Place 1-inch-thick slices directly on the grate over the flame. Watch carefully, turning after three or four minutes when the bread is golden with just a little char on the edges. Repeat on the other side. This is my favorite method, more control then the broiler and you get to cook outside.

Broiler method: Place oven rack on highest position in oven, closest to broiler element. Place bread slices directly on oven rack and watch them like a hawk. I flamed four pieces by looking away for a split second so stand there, tongs in hand, so you can swiftly turn the bread before it burns.

Toast until golden with a few patches of char, turn and repeat.

Variations: Tomato and burrata: rub the toast with a peeled garlic clove, squeezing the juice as you go. Spread the burrata on the bread and top each slice with a small handful (about 5 or 6) of ripe red cherry tomatoes, halved.

Drizzle with basil oil (found in the olive oil aisle of the grocery) and a drop or two of best quality balsamic vinegar. Top with coarse sea salt and a few grinds of fresh pepper.

Bacon, avocado and tomato: rub the toast with a peeled garlic clove, squeezing the juice as you go. Layer 1 slice of cooked bacon that is cut crosswise on each slice of bread. Cover with thinly sliced, ripe avocado and top with Sun Gold orange cherry tomatoes, halved — about five. Drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle on coarse sea salt and fresh ground pepper.

Tomato and basil: rub toast with garlic as described above. Spread on a creamy cow’s-milk cheese, such as Nicasio Valley’s Foggy Morning. Lay basil leaves on top of the cheese and top with slices of juicy, ripe tomatoes, preferably in a variety of colors.

Drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle on coarse sea salt and fresh ground pepper.

Fig and ricotta: spread toast with fresh clabbered ricotta (Bellwether Farms has delicious varieties made with cow’s or sheep’s milk). Top with three or four ripe figs that have been cut into 1/4” thick crosswise slices. Dab local wildflower honey over the figs. Top with a few grains of coarse sea salt.

You could also add a layer of bacon to this version, under the ricotta.

Pear and brie: spread toast with a thin coat of soft, runny brie. Lay a very thin slice of prosciutto over the brie and top with arugula leaves. Cover with thin slices of pear (no need to peel), drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle on coarse sea salt. Y Get crusty with Brooke at brooke.d.jackson@gmail.com.

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Kind of ‘Blue’ Amy Wigton hails big, yellow taxi in ‘Mostly Joni Mitchell’

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’ve been mystified by today’s popular cover one of Joni’s songs and I could just see culture,” says singer, songwriter and a bright light come over the crowd,” Wigton multi-instrumentalist Amy Wigton says. “Their faces would light up and then when asked about her upcoming tribute to people would come up after the show to Canadian music-legend Joni Mitchell. “To me, share a memory or tell me what Joni’s music doing Joni’s music is about meant to them—they getting back to garden—to would recite favorite lyrics COMING sOON good songs that speak from or something meaningful.

Amy Wigton presents the heart. It comes from the Performing her songs, I “Mostly Joni” on Sunday, willingness to speak truthwould see people well up Sept. 29, from 6:30 -8:30pm, fully with integrity, craft and with tears. at the Fenix, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael. 415/813-5600. dignity, like Joni did when “So ‘Mostly Joni’ is re$10. Check out more of Amy she created these musical ally about connection. It’s Wigton’s music at www. masterpieces.” about connecting people amywigton.com.

Mitchell turns 70 on Nov. with Joni’s songs. I felt it 7. She no longer tours—in a would be meaningful to 2002 Rolling Stone interview, put her music back in the Mitchell described the music business as “a air in a live setting.” cesspool.”

Wigton—who performs on guitar, piano On Sept. 29, at the Fenix Supper Club in and dulcimer—will be joined by Robin HilSan Rafael, Wigton will present “Mostly Joni,” debrant on fretless bass. a celebration of Mitchell’s music and her Billing herself as an “indie-music mom,” Wigton works as a record producer and has influence on a generation. taught jazz studies at Hill Middle School in “Every now and again my band would

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A native of Oberlin, Ohio, the self-taught Wigton’s own connection with the folk star was ignited in 1974 when she first heard Mitchell’s Court and Spark album. “It had a profound effect on me and I devoured it word for word,” she says. “Joni’s confessional style of writing always resonated with me and I was inspired to write passionately about my

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But Wigton eventually set Mitchell’s music aside to pursue her own career as a singer and songwriter, though the connection remained.

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“When [Mitchell] ‘Wehall, don’t need no piece of paper from sang, the city ’ from no piece of paper from the city hall, ’ from ‘My Old Man,’ it was if she understood how ‘My Man, ’ it was if she how I feltOld about living with my understood boyfriend, when Imy feltmother about living with my boyfriend, when didn’t. ‘Little Green’ had an even my mother didn’t.to‘Little Green’I discovered had an even deeper meaning me, when deeper meaning to me, when I discovered that, like Joni, my mother had to move away that, likeher Joni, my mother to move away to hide pregnancy andhad to give up her to hide her pregnancy and to give up her first-born child.” first-born For thechild. most” part, Wigton plans to confine For the most part, Wigton confine her show to Mitchell’s folksierplans side,to though her show to Mitchell’s folksier side, though she may incorporate at least one of Mitchell’s she may incorporate later, jazzier songs. at least one of Mitchell’s later, jazzier songs.

“I perform songs from her Court and “I perform songs fromasher Court and other Spark and Blue albums, well as some Spark and Blue albums, as well as some other favorites that feature the work she did with favorites that feature the work she did with [jazz bassist] Jaco Pastorius,” she explains. [jazz bassist] Jaco Pastorius, she explains.

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and the Wardrobe Usually the magical world opens up when you come out of the closet. (2005) ABC Family. 7:30pm.

The Michael J Fox Show In his first foray back into sitcoms since he made public his Parkinson’s disease, Fox plays a TV newsman who goes back into the industry after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. When did the “Must-See TV” network become the “Must-Cringe” network? NBC. 8pm.

10,000 B.C. A mammoth hunter’s mate is abducted and he must follow her across a primeval landscape of warlords and savage beasts. It’s kind of like losing track of your girlfriend at Burning Man. (2008) TNT. 10:30pm.

by Rick Polito

The Blacklist This new crime drama centers on a master criminal who surrenders to authorities to help them track terrorists and various evildoers. In his old life, he was known as “the concierge of crime,” which means he could find a good spot to hide the body and also get you tickets to Cats! NBC. 10pm.

Ancient Aliens This is season six and they are just now getting around to the pyramids at Giza? All the aliens have to come through the pyramids. It’s like O’Hare, or Atlanta. History Channel.

10pm.

TUESDAY, OCT. 1 Marvel’s Agents SATURDAY, SEPT. 28 The Cheating of S.H.I.E.L.D. From the billion dollar Pact When she is framed for murder, a success of The Avengteenager enlists her ers comes this spinoff. mom to help clear her These agents don’t name. The teen years have super powers. To can strain the mothersave the world they daughter relationship, have to rely on their but this brings them wits, tight black leather closer, right in time for and a smaller special“Take Your Daughter effects budget. ABC. to Jail” day. (2013) Life8pm. time. 8pm.

Wolfblood A new Voodoo Sharks The series follows a teenager bull shark hunts the who discovers she is an Louisiana bayous. So almost-werewolf. She it’s not really a “voohas wolf-like abilities but doo shark” as much as she doesn’t turn into a it is “Cajun shark” but monster once a month , they can only call it at least not the kind that Cajun if it’s blackened grows fur and claws. The and spiced with cayDisney Channel. 8pm. enne pepper. Discov- Woof, woof... Wednesday, 11:30pm.

Barter Kings This is the ery Channel. 9pm. finale and the competitors are attempting Saturday Night Live Tina Fey is like that to trade up to an RV, which is a coincidence ex-girlfriend who leaves her CDs at your because if you hooked most of the target house so she has an excuse to keep comviewers’ homes up to trucks, they’d be RVs. ing back. NBC. 11:30pm.

A&E. 10pm.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 29 Genealogy RoadWEDNESDAY, OCT. 2 Ironside Anothshow It’s in Nashville this week. That er series from the ‘70s gets a reboot with makes it easy. There’s only one branch in Blair Underwood playing a detective most Tennessee family trees. KQED PBS. who solves crimes from a wheelchair.

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We’re waiting to see what they do with The Amazing Race This is like the 20th the chase scenes. NBC. 10pm. season or something. It stopped being The Arsenio Hall Show Don’t worry. “amazing” around 2005. CBS. 8pm.

Your TV isn’t broken. It’s not 1989. CW. The Real Housewives of New Jersey 11:30pm.

Tonight is the “finale.” This isn’t an actual competition reality show but if it were, THURSDAY, OCT. 3 Miley: the the winner would get to move out of Moment Remember when Miley Cyrus New Jersey. Bravo. 8pm. was the good girl and her alter ego was The Great Food Truck Race This one is the flashy one? Hannah Montana would still amazing because nobody’s got salhave to be the serial killer porn star monella yet. The Food Network. 9pm. leader of a Satanic cult to keep up at this point. MTV. 8pm.

MONDAY, SEPT. 30 We Are Men A The Originals A spinoff from The Vamnew sitcom about a young man jilted pire Diaries follows a pair of bloodsuckers at the altar who moves into a rental in New Orleans who are known to be complex and bonds with three older “the original vampires.” They have lived divorced men. So, yeah, it’s the standfor centuries, lurking in the darkness, ard “boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy preying on the weak and using their belches a lot and stops shaving” story.

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F R I D AY S eptember 2 7 — T H U R S D AY october 3 Movie summaries by M at t hew St af fo r d l Baggage Claim (1:36) Flight attendant Paula Patton racks up 30,000 miles in 30 days as she tries to find Mr. Right before her little sister gets married; Taye Diggs and Djimon Hounsou are among the candidates. l Battle of the Year (1:49) A hip hop mogul and a basketball coach assemble a team of top terpsichoreans to compete in the world’s greatest dance-off. l Blue Jasmine (1:38) Woody Allen dramedy considers the case of a tightly strung New York socialite restructuring her life in the wilds of Marin and S.F.; Cate Blanchett stars. l The Butler (2:06) Forest Whitaker stars as a White House butler with a backstage glimpse into the tumultuous 20th century; with Robin Williams as Ike, John Cusack as Nixon and Liev Schreiber as LBJ. l Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (1:35) Cartoon sequel finds inventor Flint Lockwood battling foodanimal hybrids like shrimpanzees and tacodiles. l C.O.G. (1:28) David Sedaris’ story about a cocky college grad grappling with his future, the world and its unusual array of people on an Oregon apple farm. l Def Leppard Viva Hysteria Concert (1:40) Direct from Vegas it’s the legendary rock band amping up their classic hits! l Don Jon (1:29) Swinger Joseph Gordon-Levitt strives for love and intimacy despite his overwhelming addiction to porn; Scarlett Johansson and Julianne Moore offer other options. l Elysium (1:49) Fritz Lang-ish glimpse into the future (present?) about a luxury space station whose xenophobic inhabitants rule over a polluted, overpopulated Earth; Jodie Foster and Matt Damon star. l Enough Said (1:33) Should single mom Julia LouisDreyfus relax and enjoy her new romance with single dad James Gandolfini or let his ex-wife Catherine Keener bring her down to earth? l The Family (1:51) Mob comedy stars Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer as rambunctious husband-andwife snitches trying (unsuccessfully) to settle into a quiet new life in rural France under the Witness Protection Program. l Generation Iron (1:46) Documentary follows today’s top bodybuilders on their path to the Olympics; Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno and Mickey Rourke offer insights. l Good Ol’ Freda (1:26) Affectionate biodoc of Freda Kelly, the shy Liverpudlian who was The Beatles’ devoted girl Friday from before Beatlemania till breakup and beyond. l In a World… (1:33) Lake Bell directs and stars in the tale of a voice coach storming the all-male world of blockbuster-movie-trailer voiceovers. l Inequality for All (1:25) Economics expert and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich takes on the dangerously widening gap between rich and poor with wit and insight.

l Insidious: Chapter 2 (1:45) Rose Byrne and Barbara Hershey are back and still bothered and bewildered by a bewitching, bloodthirsty spook. l Instructions Not Included (1:55) An Acapulco playboy finds himself raising a (surprise!) newborn daughter and making it as a Hollywood stuntman to boot. l Mill Valley Film Festival The 36th annual cinematic soiree features premieres, workshops, galas, in-person tributes and hundreds of movies from around the world. l Monsters University (1:42) Prequel tells the story of Sullivan’s and Wazowski’s college days and how they became BFFs; Billy Crystal and John Goodman vocalize. l National Theatre London: Othello (3:15) Direct from the Olivier Theatre it’s the Bard’s timeless tale of jealousy, racism and whispered evil; Adrian Lester stars as the proud, doomed Moor. l Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (1:46) The adventureprone schoolboy is back, heading this time to the Bermuda Triangle to battle zombies (natch) for the Golden Fleece. l Planes (1:32) Disney cartoon about a little airplane with a fear of heights who dreams of being a daredevil air racer. l Prisoners (2:33) Hugh Jackman goes vigilante after his daughter is kidnapped by mysterious villains; cop Jake Gyllenhaal lends quasi-support. l Rush (2:03) The rivalry between Formula One racing rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda is the jumping-off point for Ron Howard’s octane-powered thrill ride. l San Rafael Police K9 Association Fundraiser (2:00) Support the SRPD’s canine contingent at an evening of auction prizes, dazzling demos and a screening of the 1989 Tom Hanks cop/cur buddy comedy “Turner & Hooch.” l Symphony of the Soil (1:44) Deborah Koons Garcia’s documentary looks at the science and culture of our planet’s indispensable soil layer through interviews with farmers, scientists and activists. l Thanks for Sharing (1:52) Stuart Blumberg comedy about a troupe of dysfunctional recovering sex addicts stars Mark Ruffalo, Gwyneth Paltrow, Carol Kane and Pink. l Twenty Feet from Stardom (1:30) Pop music’s greatest backup singers are the subject of Morgan Neville’s toetapping documentary; Stevie Wonder, Mick Jagger and others pay tribute to their support systems. l Unstoppable (2:30) Actor/evangelical Christian Kirk Cameron grapples with the eternal question “Where is God in the midst of tragedy and suffering?” l Vertigo (2:08) Alfred Hitchcock’s moody, richly textured classic stars James Stewart as a retired San Francisco cop obsessed with mystery woman Kim Novak; phenomenal score by Bernard Herrmann. l The World’s End (1:49) Five middle-aged chums journey back to a fabled English pub to re-create their epic bender of two decades ago.

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Live music 09/27: 13 Strings Jazz. Alex Markels and James Moseley guitars. 6pm. No cover. Steakhouse at Deer Park, 367 Bolinas, Fairfax. 497-2462.

13stringsjazz.com.

09/27: Acorn Project 8pm. $10. Hopmonk, 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 892-6200. hopmonk.com.

09/27: Rusty Evans’ Ring of Fire Johnny Cash tribute, rockabilly, rock. 9:30pm. $8. Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 464-7420. perisbar.com.

09/27: Wall St. Dance Band R& B, hip-hop, funk, soul. 8pm. $15. Fenix, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael.

813-5600. fenixlive.com/music.

09/27: Friday Nights on Main: Dave Jenkins

09/29: Dustbowl Revival Old school bluegrass.

7:30pm. $17-20. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 383-9600.

142throckmortontheatre.org.

09/29: Local Songwriters Night with Jerry Hannan, Rahman, Darren Nelson, Danny Uzilevsky Songwriters in the round.

All ages. Kitchen open to 10pm. 6:30pm. ,The Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway, Fairfax. 485-1182. sleepingladyfairfax.com.

09/29: Jazz Vocalist Open Mic With house band featuring Judy Hall, piano; Andy Dudnick bass; Jim Castrone, drums. 4pm. $10. JB Piano, 540 Irwin St., San Rafael. 828-9997.

09/29: Jenny Kerr Foot stomping swamp rock, soul, honky tonk and old-time blues. 11:30am.

Free. Fenix, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael. 813-5600. fenixlive.com/music.

Celebrate the RCP Tiburon Mile Swim, which takes place on Sept. 29. Main St. is closed to traffic. Wine and dine al fresco. 6pm. No cover. Main St., Tiburon.

435-5633. tiburonchamber.org.

09/28-29: Angel Island Live Live music and food and drinks at the Cantina. 2-4:30pm. Free. Angel Island Cafe, Angel Island. 454-5495. angelisland.com.

09/28: Breaking Bread With members of Vinyl and Monophonics. 9:30pm. $10. Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 464-7420. perisbar.com.

09/28: Danny Click and The Hell Yeahs Texas blues. 9pm. $10. The Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway, Fairfax. 485-1182. sleepingladyfairfax.com.

09/28: Doc Kraft Dance Band Marin County’s 2nd Annual POW/MIA recognition day. 11am.

Free. Marin County Civic Center, Veterans Memorial Auditorium, 10 Ave. of the Flags, San Rafael.

601-7858. dockraft.com.

09/28: Jazz in Marin Audrey Moira Shimkas, vocals; Greg Sankovich, keyboard. 6:30pm. Free. Trident Restaurant, 558 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 847-8331. thetridentsausalito.com.

09/28: Lady D Sings Jazz, soul. Alex Markels, guitar; Jack Prendergast, bass. 6:30pm. No cover.

Rickey’s Restaurant, 250 Entrada, Novato . 497-2462. ladydandthetramps.com.

09/28: Makuru African-Cuban dance band.

Sustainable Fairfax benefit. All ages. 9pm. $20. The Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway, Fairfax. 485-1182. sleepingladyfairfax.com 09/28: Miles Schon Band Singer-songwriter/ guitarist. 8pm. $10-15. Fenix, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael.

813-5600. fenixlive.com/music.

09/28: Ned Endless and the Allniters New venue. 9:30pm. No cover. Tavern on Fourth, 711 Fourth St., San Rafael. 497-2448.

show of the season. 2-4pm. Free. Center court area in front of the Elephant Fountain. Town Center, 100 Corte Madera Town Ctr, Corte Madera. 924-2961 . shoptowncenter.com.

09/30: Open Mic with Austin DeLone 7:30pm.

All ages. No cover. Sweetwater Music Hall , 19 Corte Madera, Mil Valley. 388-3850. swmh.com.

09/30: Open Mic with Billy D 9:30pm. No cover.

Peri’s, 29 Broadway, Fairfax. 459-1091. perisbar.com 09/30: Open Mic with Derek Smith 9pm. No cover. 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway, Fairfax. 459-1091.

19broadway.com 09/30: Opens Mic with Simon Costa 9:30pm, sign up begins at 8pm. All ages. No cover. The Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway, Fairfax. 485-1182. sleepingladyfairfax.com.

10/01: Open Mic For 21 and older. 8:30pm. No cover. No Name Bar, 757 Bridgeway, Sausalito.

474-2221.

10/01: Open Mic at the Parkside 8pm. No cover. 43 Arenal Ave., Stinson Beach. 868-1277. parksidecafe.com.

Roger Glenn, Jeff Sanford and Harley White. Guest vocalists, Deborah Winters and Phillip Percy. 7:30pm. $25. 384-0256. unityinmarin.org/events/.

09/29: 17 Strings Compostions by Ellington, Monk, Horace Silver. Alex Markels and James Moseley guitars; Jack Prendergast, bass. 5:30pm. No cover.

Rickey’s Restaurant, 250 Entrada, Novato . 497-2462.

13stringsjazz.com.

09/29: Amy Wigton’s Mostly Joni Tribute to the songs of Joni Mitchell. Robin Hildebrant, bass.

6:30pm. $10. Fenix, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael.

813-5600. fenixlive.com/music.

Open mic night. 8pm. $10. Fenix, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael. 813-5600. fenixlive.com/music.

10/01: Swing Fever Jazz. 7pm. No cover, dinner encouraged. Panama Hotel & Restaurant, 4 Bayview St., San Rafael. 457-3993. panamahotel.com.

10/02: Scott Amendola and Wil Blades 8pm. $10. Sweetwater Music Hall , 19 Corte Madera, Mil Valley. 388-3850. swmh.com.

10/02: Open Mic with Dennis Haneda 8pm.

No cover. Hopmonk, 224 Vintage Way, Novato.

892-6200. hopmonk.com/novato.

10/02: Passion Habanera Traditional Cuban music. 7pm. No cover, dinner encouraged. Panama

09/28: Noah Griffin and friends celebrate the Music of Cole Porter Jazz. With Ross Gualco,

09/29: Moxie Music Songwriter’s Night with Brindl Local songwriters showcase 9:30pm. Free.

Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax.

464-7420. perisbar.com.

09/29: Pacific Mambo Orchestra Latin Salsa big band. Salsa dance class at 4pm. Live music at 5pm. With Steffen Kuehn, trumpet; Christian Tumalan, piano. 5pm. $10. Sausalito Seahorse Supper Club, 305 Harbor Dr., Sausalito. 331-2899. sausalitoseahorse.com.

09/29: Jesse Lee Kincaid Band: Town Center Corte Madera Summer Music Series Americana, acoustic rock, Irish. Final

10/01: Tuesday Singer Songwriter Series

Stark reminder Everything the Iron Man series gets right is gotten right in IRON MAN 3, a sequel with pitch-perfect attention to the Tony Stark universe and the rockets that make it go. Credit Robert Downey Jr. first, of course, an actor who has owned and dominated this Marvel character like no action hero who ever Robert Downey Jr. channels Hamlet’s ‘To be—or not to be’ soliloquy in wore a suit since Harrison the latest Iron Man installment.

Ford—could there even be another Iron Man at this point? There’s also a marked ginning-up of tone here thanks to Shane Black, a director new to the franchise but a veteran collaborator with Downey on the hilarious action spoof Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Black’s patented brand of dark and self-referential humor is just right for this story of a Bin Ladenish “Mandarin” who takes to the airwaves promising mayhem on our country’s leaders and fatcats. The Mandarin’s power stems from a new energy source, one with weird regenerative properties and a thermal fingerprint tied to the disappearance of several soldiers. His lead scientist also has a particular beef with Stark—legitimate, it turns out, as the guy was a real s.o.b. in the ’90s. Thus the stage is set for a major humbling of our hero, one made worse by Stark’s increasing wave of panic attacks. Gwyneth Paltrow, Guy Pearce, Don Cheadle and Ben Kingsley costar. Three cheers for a trilogy that actually deserves its phenomenal success. (Suggestion for a tie-in ride: The Hyperloop.)—Richard Gould Hotel & Restaurant, 4 Bayview St., San Rafael.

457-3993. panamahotel.com.

10/02: Pro Blues Jam: Jimmy Reed Night Celebrate the works of Jimmy Reed. Local talent and special guests will be invited to join in during the second set. 8 and 10pm. $10. Fenix, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael. 813-5600. fenixlive.com/music.

10/03: Burnsy’s Sugar Shack Local jam night, blues/soul/motown 9:30pm. No cover.

Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax.

464-7420. perisbar.com.

10/03: C-JAM with Connie Ducey Jazz. 7pm.

No cover, dinner encouraged. Panama Hotel & Restaurant, 4 Bayview St., San Rafael. 457-3993. panamahotel.com.

10/03: Lorin Rowan Trio 6-9pm. Free. Trident Restaurant, 558 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 847-8331. thetridentsausalito.com.

10/03: Spark & Whisper “Ghost Towns” CD release performance. 7:30pm. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley.

383-9600. 142throckmorton.com.

10/03-04: The Tickets Band Live Recording Session “Live Under the Big Red Bridge.” Original

10/01: Mark Pitta and Friends Standup.

8pm. $16-26. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 383-9600.

142throckmortontheatre.org.

Theater 09/27-29: ‘Rumors’ Staged reading of Neil Simon’s madcap farce set at a posh suburban dinner party. Directed by Kris Neely. Family friendly. 8pm Sept. 27-28; 2pm Sept 29. $10 at the door. Novato Theater Company, 5420 Nave Dr., Novato. 8834498. novatotheatercompany.org.

Through 09/29:‘All’s Well That Ends Well’ Presented by the Marin Shakespeare Company. $20-37.

Forest Meadows Amphitheatre, 890 Belle Ave., San Rafael. 499-4488. marinshakespeare.org.

Through 09/29:‘A Comedy of Errors’ Presented by the Marin Shakespeare Company. $20-37. Forest Meadows Amphitheatre, 890 Belle Ave., San ; Rafael.

499-4488. marinshakespeare.org.

Concerts

rock. 7pm Oct. 3; 8:30pm Oct 4. $5. Presidio Yacht Club, Travis Marina, Fort Baker, Sausalito. 332-6858.

09/28: Karma Moffett: The Tibetan Bell Experience Music designed to relax and heal

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through harmonic vibrations andfine art mandalas of light and landscapes he calls the pure land free form objects that allow the viewer to free one’s mind and rest well within the essence. Experience a ceremony dedicated to your most precious wishes.

7- 9pm $20-25. Yoga of Sausalito, 110 Caledonia St, Sausalito. 332-9642. yogaofsausalito.com.

09/28: Scott Capurro Standup. Caitlin Gill opens. 8pm. $20-35. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 383-9600.

142throckmortontheatre.org.

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10/02: Helene Zindarsian Soprano; Joseph Bloom, piano. Works by Strauss, others. Noon. Free. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 383-9600.

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09/29: San Francisco Chamber Players Guest Concert Series Featuring Jonathan Vino-

cour, viola; Dan Carlson, violin; Peter Wyrick, cello; June Choi Oh, piano. Audience invited to meet informally with performers over refreshments following performance. 3pm. $15-18, under 18 and college students with ID free. Angelico Hall, Dominican University of California, 50 Acacia Ave., San Rafael.

482-3579. dominican.edu/events.

Art 10/01: Mill Valley First Tuesday Art Walk Art exhibitions and treats all around downtown. 6pm.

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Through 09/29: Unframed Freedom With works by Bob Stang and Sunila Bajracharya. 11am.

Free. MINE gallery, 1820 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Fairfax. 755-4472. gallerymine.com.

Through 09/30: Cecily Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor Paintings. Hours are 2-9pm Tues.-Thurs.; 11am6pm Fri.; Noon-6pm Sat. Free. Community Media Center of Marin, 819 A St., San Rafael.

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Through 09/30:â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Finding Meaning in the Messâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Judith Selby Lang and Richard Lang, exhibi-

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Through 10/06: Fall National Juried Photography ExhibitionThe Marin

Museum of Contemporary Art presents its Fall National Photography Exhibition. Hours are Wed.-Sun. 11am-4pm. Admission is free. Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, 500 Palm Dr., Novato. 506-0137. marinmoca.org.

Kids Events 09/28: Author Annie Barrows Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a new detective on Pancake Court. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ivy & Bean Take the Case.â&#x20AC;? 4pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

09/28: HeadsUp Summerfest Carnival Popular, all ages event with games, jumpies, giant slide, laser pitch with the San Rafael Pacifics, petting zoo, face painting, dunk tank, cake walk, photo booth, street painting, live music. 11am-5pm. Free admission. San Rafael High School, 185 Mission, San Rafael. 717-7410. headsup.org.

09/28: The Little Carquinez Strait Boat Race at the Bay Model Activity for kids 5-8 who enjoy

racing homemade boats. It is amazing what wads of aluminum foil and a little imagination can produce.

Tin foil provided. Create your own ship design and sail your boat from Suisun Bay to the mouth of the Napa River right here at the Bay Model. Meet Ranger Linda and have some fun. 2:30pm. Free. Bay Model Visitor Center, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 332-3871. spn.usace.army.mil/Missions/Recreation/BayModelVisitorCenter.aspx.

10/04: Fall Family Fun Night by the Lake

Featuring a family movie, popcorn, bounce house for the kids and more. Picnic/barbecue area available.Movie begins 15 minutes after sunset. No animals (except service animals) please. Rain will cancel. 5:30pm. Park entrance $10. Stafford Lake Park, 3549 Novato Blvd., Novato. 893-9508. marincountyparks.org.

Film 09/27-10/02:â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Symphony of the Soilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; The latest film by Deborah Koons Garcia explores the complexity and mystery of soil. Filmed on four

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09/28: NT Live Presents:â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Othelloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Broadcast live on the cinema screen. By Shakespeare. 1pm. $30.

Lark Theater, 549 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur.

10/01: Under African Skies: Tiburon International Film Festival Documentary, USA.

Director: Joe Berlinger. The film follows musician Paul Simon as he reunites with his South African collaborators and revisits the controversy behind the Grammy-winning album Graceland. 6pm. Free.

Bay Model Visitor Center, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito.

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10/04: Film Night:â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Ratatouilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (2007) Rated G. 111 mins Bring blankets. Popcorn, snacks and refreshments will be available for purchase. Please do not bring chairs that may block the view for others.

7:30pm $10 per family or $3 per person. Strawberry Recreation District, 118 E. Strawberry Dr., Mill Valley. 383-6494. strawberry.marin.org.

Outdoors 09/27: Sunset SUP Downwinder, McInnis Park to McNears Beach Entry level stand up paddleboard downwinder and a leisurely social for the experienced paddler. The 5 mile route starts in a protected waterway, stays close to the shore of China Camp State Park and lands on the sandy beach at McNears Beach Park. Bring your own equipment, USCG approved life vests are required. 6pm. Free.

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10/01: Tamalpais Valley Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market

Local and regional farmers, bakers, food purveyors showcase their seasonal bounty of organic and specialty fruits, vegetables, nuts, flowers, breads. 3-7pm.

Free. 229 Shoreline Highway, Mill Valley. 388-6393. tcsd.us.

Readings 09/27: Alex Leviton: The Secret Life of a Travel Guidebook Author The travel writer/editor, consultant and Lonely Planet guidebook author will discuss his life as an author. 7:30pm. Free. Sausalito Public Library, 420 Litho St., Sausalito. 289-4121. ci.sausalito.ca.us.

09/27: Ellen Cutler Dr. Cutler discusses her newest book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Clearing the Way to Health and Wellness.â&#x20AC;?

7pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

09/28: Jim Ziolkowski â&#x20AC;&#x153;Walk in Their Shoes.â&#x20AC;?

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09/28: Kirk Schneider In â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Polarized Mind: Why Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Killing Us and What We Can Do About It,â&#x20AC;?

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09/28: Sasha Abramsky â&#x20AC;&#x153;The American Way of Poverty.â&#x20AC;? 1pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

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09/29: JoJo Capece “Bella Figura.” 1pm. Free.

Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera.

927-0960. bookpassage.com.

09/29: Joseph Zaccardi and Peg Alford Pursell Monthly poetry and prose reading series. This

month with Marin’s Poet Laureate, who will be reading selected poetry from his recent book “Gradations of Light” and State Fiction Award-winner, reading from a selection of her prose. 3pm. Free. Gallery Mine, Fairfax. gallerymine.com.

09/29: Norman Rush “Subtle Bodies.” 7pm. Free.

Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera.

927-0960. bookpassage.com.

09/30: Linda Spalding Winner of Canada’s Governor General’s Award, “The Purchase” is a novel set in a small Virginia community. 7pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

10/01: Nicholson Baker “Traveling Sprinkler.”

7pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

10/02: Gary Soto The California native is author of 11 poetry collections for adults and 35 children’s books. “What Poets Are Like.” 7pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

10/03: Jennifer DuBois “Cartwheel.” 7pm. Free.

Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera.

927-0960. bookpassage.com.

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09/27: Spirit of Marin The 20th Annual Spirit of Marin event honors Marin business leaders for their contributions to the local community. The 2013 celebratory luncheon will be held on Friday, September 27, at noon at the historic St. Vincent’s School for Boys in San Rafael. The audience will be joined by keynote speaker Michael Pritchard. A renowned comedian and advocate for non-violence among youth, Pritchard is originally from Marin and currently resides in San Rafael. Entertainment will be provided by Hope Briggs, a soprano who played the role of Mother Abbess in the 2013 Mountain Play, “The Sound of Music.” Luncheon reservations are required. $50-60. Noon. St. Vincent’s School for Boys, One St. Vincent’s Way, San Rafael. 819-7447. spiritofmarin.com

09/28: 100 Thousand Poets for Change

Thirteen poets and musicians gather at 19 Broadway to celebrate peace and sustainability as part of the worldwide “100 Thousand Poets for Change.” 2pm.

Free. 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway, Fairfax. 578-2276.

09/28: 18th Annual Stepping Out Gala and Fashion Show Evening of dining, fashion,

dancing, live and silent auctions. Event raises funds for To Celebrate Life Breast Cancer Foundation.

Beverages at the Lady Luck cocktail lounge, along with the silent auction. Dinner catered by McCalls.

Fashion show with breast cancer survivor models, escorted by prominent physicians from the medical community, poker and card games, dancing to The Richard Olsen Orchestra. 5:30pm. $225. Marin Center Exhibit Hall, 10 Ave. of the Flags, San Rafael.

455-5882. tocelebratelife.org.

09/28: San Rafael Library Book Sale With something for everyone. Privately donated books for kids, hardcover and softcover fiction, art, music, poetry, reference, cooking, history, travel and gardening plus DVDs and CDs. 10am. Free. San Rafael Public Library Meeting room, 1100 E St., San Rafael. 453-1443. srpubliclibrary.org.

09/28: Marinwood Classic Car Show and Barbecue Classic American and Import cars from

1930 to 1979 will be on display at the Marinwood Community Center Lawn. Presented by the Las Gallinas Lions Club. Live music, food, soft drinks. Family friendly. 11am. Free. Marinwood Community Center Lawn, 775 Miller Creek Road, San Rafael.

491-1678. lg-lions.com.

09/28: Sustainable Fairfax Benefit Dance to African tunes of Makuru. Bring friends and

celebrate Sustainable Fairfax’s successes this year, including its community events and workshops, the environmental film series, Take Back Day, Streets for People and work towards the town’s zero waste initiative. 7pm. $20. The Sleeping Lady, Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. sustainablefairfax.org.

09/28: Fourth Annual Lawn Party Annual benefit for Big Brothers/Big Sisters and Higher Ground, a project that helps wounded veterans. An outdoor gala featuring Marin’s local eateries and wines along with music from Lyin’ I Eagles tribute band. 6-10:30pm. $40-55. Saint Vincent’s, 1 St. Vincents Dr., San Rafael. 381-8793. thelawnparty.com.

09/28: The Redwoods 40 Year Volunteer Festival To acknowledge and celebrate the contri-

butions of volunteers throughout its history. The Redwoods is hosting a festival at the retirement center’s Mill Valley campus. Volunteers and their families, in addition to the general public, are invited for a free afternoon of food, fun, music and magic.

1:30pm. Free. The Redwoods, 40 Camino Alto, Mill Valley. 383-2741. theredwoods.org.

09/28: The Sri Yantra as a Meditation Tool with Swami Chaitanya After an Ivy League

education, Swami Chaitanya became an original S.F. hippie/ artist/ photographer on Haight St. 8pm.

Donation. Open Secret Bookstore, 923 C St., San Rafael. 457-4191. opensecretbookstore.com.

09/28: Woofstock 2013 Benefit concert for the Marin Humane Society with music by The Unauthorized Rolling Stones and The Sorentions. Pet friendly vendors, raffles, Doggie Dash contest, Firetrail pizza and Three Twins organize ice cream, wine and beer. Fee waived adoptathon all day. $10-20, under 5 free. 1:30-5pm. Marin Humane Society, 171 Bel Marin Keys Blvd., Novato. 506-6257. marinhumanesociety.org.

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09/29: Fairfax Community Buddhist Meeting Short sitting meditation followed by chant and discussion. Open to the public and appropriate for all levels of interest. Children welcome. 7pm. Free.

Fairfax Community Wellness Center, 751 Center Blvd., Fairfax. 453-1550.

09/30: Opera Guild Previews Verdi’s Falstaff S.F. Opera’s upcoming performances of Verdi’s comic opera will star renowned Welsh bass/baritone Bryn Terfel. Preview lecture with musical and video excerpts will feature the eminent Italian-born musicologist Alexandra Amati-Camperi. 8pm lecture, sponsored by the Marin Chapter of the San Francisco Opera Guild, will be preceded by complimentary refreshments at 7:30. $10-12. Villa Marin, 100 Thorndale Road, San Rafael. 457-1118. sfopera.com/ learn/adult-programs/preview-lectures.aspx.

09/30: Picking a College is All About FIT Navigate through the world of college choices and how to determine the right academic and social fit for each student. You will learn how to assess a student’s portfolio of grades, test scores, activities, community service, and goals. Leslie Goldgehn Ph.D.has been an Independent College Counselor for more than 15 years and has assisted many students and families through the college application process. 6:30pm. $15-25. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

10/02: TEDxMarin An independently organized TED event tailored for the interests and demographics of Marin County. This years theme “Past Presents Future / A History of the Next 20 Years,” is intended to explore ideas in time; laying out the radical ideas of today most likely to become a fundamental part of our near future, and how past generations’ innovative ideas (often) inspire solutions for our greatest challenges. Event includes a community reception with complimentary organic appetizers from Good Earth Natural Foods, wine from local wineries, an innovative company showcase, five to six live TEDTalks in the theater (plus some surprises), followed by a post talk dessert reception with the speakers in the lobby. 6pm. $2565. Kanbar Center for the Performing Arts, 200 North San Pedro, San Rafael. 785-8873. 2013tedxmarin.eventbrite.com. <

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Retired Professor seeks Personal Assistant for help with Paperwork and Errands $12 to $14 per hour. 4 to 7 Hours per week. Please call or email Professor Namoi Katz. NaoKatz@ sfsu.edu or 415-381-1758.

Clerical Personnel Needed in San Rafael Clerical Personnel needed to help reduce my work load. Computer skills needed and should be well organized and will be well paid. Interested person(s) Should please contact: taylormarc010@outlook.com for more info and wages.

Jazzie 2 year old spayed female Boxer/Pit Bull mix Jazzie is an energetic girl who loves life. She is highly food-motivated so will be easy to train. And, she's already crate trained. Jazzie LOVES to play tug and is easily amused by squeaky toys and balls. Keeping this girl exercised and entertained will be fun for you both! She needs work on her social skills with dogs so dog parks, please. Friendly and happy, Jazzie is sure to steal your heart with her sunny smile! Meet Jazzie at the Marin Humane Society or call the Adoption Department at 415.506.6225

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FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 132914 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as MOUNTAIN TREE STUDIOS, 54 ELIZABETH WAY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: RACHEL L SHULER, 54 ELIZABETH WAY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on AUGUST 22, 2013. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on AUGUST 27, 2013. (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 6, 13, 20, 27, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 132933 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as BUDDY'S DOG WALKING, 146 EDISON AVE, CORTE MADERA, CA 94925: NIYA DODD-WADDINGTON, 146 EDISON AVE, CORTE MADERA, CA 94925.

This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on AUGUST 28, 2013. (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 6, 13, 20, 27, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 132917 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as PACIFIC PEARLS, 1005 A ST. #202, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: FUJI MANHATTAN VOLL, 232 PICNIC AVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on AUGUST 27, 2013. (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 6, 13, 20, 27, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013132899 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as APPLEBERRY JAM & APPLEBERRY PICTURES, 451 CEDAR HILL DRIVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: DANIEL L

FRIEDMAN, 451 CEDAR HILL DRIVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on AUGUST 26, 2013. (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 6, 13, 20, 27, 2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013132942 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as MASTERFUL CATERING, 1241 ANDERSON DRIVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: ROBERT SIMONTACCHI, 1934 FALCON RIDGE DRIVE, PETALUMA, CA 94954.

This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on AUGUST 29, 2013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on AUGUST 29, 2013. (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 6, 13, 20, 27, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 132956 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as BITCOINTERS, 400 CANAL ST #329, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: SLAVA MIKERIN, 400 CANAL ST #329, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on AUGUST 30, 2013. (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 6, 13, 20, 27, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013132922 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as TEDDY & FRIENDS, 708 BRADLEY AVE, NOVATO, CA 94947: DIANE F MATCHECK, 708 BRADLEY AVE, NOVATO, CA 94947. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County

on AUGUST 27, 2013. (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 6, 13, 20, 27, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013132990 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as INTEGRATE AND AUTOMATE & SARIT NEUNDORF, 181 FLORIBEL AVE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: DEEP LIFE DESIGN, INC, 181 FLORIBEL AVE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960. This business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on SEPTEMBER 1, 2013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 5, 2013. (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 13, 20, 27; OCTOBER 4, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 132969 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as CLEM TOM MUSIC & CLEMENT THOMAS GREY, 141 SANTA ROSA AVENUE, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: THOMAS SKUNDA, 141 SANTA ROSA AVENUE, SAUSALITO, CA 94965. This business is being conducted

by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 4, 2013. (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 13, 20, 27; OCTOBER 4, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 132950 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as TUB TIM THAI RESTAURANT, 510 TAMALPAIS DRIVE, CORTE MADERA, CA 94925: SAYA SIDNEY SOUTHICHACK & MAI THI SOUTHICHACK, 3955 SELMI GROVE, RICHMOND, CA 94806. This business is being conducted by A MARRIED COUPLE. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on SEPTEMBER 29, 1998. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on AUGUST 29, 2013. (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 13, 20, 27; OCTOBER 4, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013133104

The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as LEGACY WEALTH MANAGEMENT, 16 SCHMIDT LANE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: DANIEL HENDERSON, INC, 16 SCHMIDT LANE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. This business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on SEPTEMBER 17, 2013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 17, 2013. (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 20, 27; OCTOBER 4, 13, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 133093 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as MARIN EUROPEAN MOTORS EUROPEAN CAR SERVICE, 17 PAUL DRIVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: PIANOS EXPORT CORPORATION, INC, 17 PAUL DRIVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. This business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on SEPTEMBER 16, 2013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 16, 2013.

(Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 20, 27; OCTOBER 4, 13, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013133052 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as HANDBAG THERAPY, 38 ALEXANDER AVE A, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: SHERIE PATON, 38 ALEXANDER AVE A, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901 and MARGARITE MORCH, 4212 MERCED CIRCLE, ANTIOCH, CA 94531. This business is being conducted by CO-PARTNERS. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on SEPTEMBER 11, 2013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 11, 2013.

(Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 20, 27; OCTOBER 4, 13, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013133044 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as SUSTAINBABLE LAND RESEARCH MARIN, 874 ESTANCIA WAY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: JOEL ADELMAN, 874 ESTANCIA WAY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. This business is being conducted

by A LIMITED PARTNERSHIP. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 10, 2013. (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 20, 27; OCTOBER 4, 13, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013132940 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as FAIRFAX MASSAGE & PILATES, 2410 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE BLVD, FAIRFAX, CA, 94930: SHANNON L O'LEARY, 356 OAK MANOR DR., FAIRFAX, CA 94930.

This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on AUGUST 29, 2013. (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 20, 27; OCTOBER 4, 13, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013133036 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as THE WARPED TABLE, INC., 99 GREGORY DRIVE, FAIRFAX, CA 94930: JULIE M. PEREZ, 99 GREGORY DRIVE, FAIRFAX, CA 94930. This business is being conducted

by A CORPORATION. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on AUGUST 26, 2013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 10, 2013. (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 20, 27; OCTOBER 4, 13, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 133133 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as NV OF MARIN DRIVING SCHOOL, 2130 REDWOOD HIGHWAY #G6, GREENBRAE, CA 94904: NATALIE IRENE VERHEYDEN, 2130 REDWOOD HIGHWAY #G6, GREENBRAE, CA 94904. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 23, 2013.

(Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 27; OCTOBER 4, 11, 18, 2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013133026 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as 01 FREEDOM CHIROPRACTIC, 712 D STREET SUITE B, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: LINDSTROM BRENDA, 1025 7TH STREET, NOVATO, CA 94945. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 9, 2013.

(Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 27; OCTOBER 4, 11, 18, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 133124 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as SC PRODUCTIONS, FESTIVAL INDEPENDENCIA SALVADORENA, CARNAVAL DE SAN MIGUEL, 175 BELVEDERE STREET #10, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: SERGIO CARRANZA, 175 BELVEDERE STREET #10, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted

by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 20, 2013. (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 27; OCTOBER 4, 11, 18, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013-133139 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as NILE TAXI, 1244 KAEHLER STREET, NOVATO, CA 94945: ALEMU ASRES FANTA, 1244 KAEHLER STREET, NOVATO, CA 94945. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 23, 2013. (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 27; OCTOBER 4, 11, 18, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 133136 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as TURNING POINT SPA, 219 E BLITHEDALE AVENUE #5, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: LAURENCE MARIE MCKEE, 55 RODEO AVENUE #36, SAUSALITO, CA 94965. This business is being conducted

by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 23, 2013. (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 27; OCTOBER 4, 11, 18, 2013)

OTHER NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No. CIV 1303491. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner AMY NYCOLE SIGALA filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: AMY NYCOLE SIGALA to AMY NYCOLE PETUYA. 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: OCTOBER 1, 2013 9:00 AM, Dept. E, Room E, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. 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: AUGUST 21 2013 /s/ PAUL M. HAAKENSON, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 6, 13, 20, 27, 2013) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No. CIV 1303670. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MEGHAN MARIE GRUDZIEN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows:

MEGHAN MARIE GRUDZIEN to MEGHAN MARIE HARLOW. 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: OCTOBER 24, 2013 8:30 AM Room B, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. 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: SEPTEMBER 5, 2013 /s/ ROY O. CHERNUS, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 13, 20, 27; OCTOBER 4, 2013) NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO ESTABLISH POLICIES FOR GOLDEN GATE TRANSIT AND GOLDEN GATE FERRY SERVICE AND FARE CHANGES UNDER TITLE VI OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 AS AMENDED NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District (District) will hold a Public Hearing on Thursday, July 11, 2013, at 9:30 a.m. in the Board Room, Administration Building, Golden Gate Bridge Toll Plaza, San Francisco, CA, to receive public comment on the establishment of policies for Golden Gate Transit and Golden Gate Ferry service and fare changes. As a result of recent guidance issued by the Federal Transit Administration regarding Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as it is applied to federal fund recipients, the District is proposing to adopt a: a) Major Service Change Policy; b) Disparate Impact Policy; and, c) Disproportionate Burden Policy.

Reports regarding this proposal may be obtained from Janet S. Tarantino, Secretary of the District, Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District, P.O. Box 9000, Presidio Station, San Francisco, CA, 94129-0601 or by electronic mail at districtsecretary@goldengate.org or by facsimile at (415) 923-2013 or by using TDD California Relay Service at (800) 735-2929.

The staff report about the subject of the hearing will be available for public review no later than 72 hours before the public hearing. Public comments will be received at the public hearing or may be presented in writing to the Secretary of the District at the above address. Comments may also be sent by electronic mail to publichearing@goldengate.org. Written comments should be received no later than July 11, 2013, by close of business at 4:30 p.m.

The public hearing location is accessible to everyone. To request special assistance due to a disability at this public hearing, please call the District Secretary’s Office at (415) 923-2223 three days before the hearing date. /s/ Janet S. Tarantino, Secretary of the District Dated: June 18, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No. CIV 1303784. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioners ERIKA CAROLINA CASTILLO and SERGIO ALEJANDRO PARRA MIZQUEZ filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: BRYAN ALEXANDER MIZQUEZ CASTILLO to BRYAN ALEXANDER PARRA CASTILLO. 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: NOVEMBER 12, 2013 9:00 AM, DEPARTMENT L, ROOM L, Superior Court of California, County of

Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. 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: SEPTEMBER 12, 2013 /s/ LYNN DURYEE, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 20, 27; OCTOBER 4, 13, 2013) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No. CIV 1303745. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioners MARIA ISABEL VARGAS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PAULA VANESSA PARRA VARGAS to PAULA VANESSA CASTILLO VARGAS and GERARDO ANGEL ROMERO VARGAS to GERARDO ANGEL CASTILLO VARGAS and ANTHONY JESUS ROMERO VARGAS to ANTHONY JESUS CASTILLO VARGAS. 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: NOVEMBER 12, 2013 9:00 AM, DEPARTMENT E, ROOM E, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. 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: SEPTEMBER 10, 2013 /s/ PAUL M. HAAKENSON, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 20, 27; OCTOBER 4, 13, 2013) NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER A PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH A PARKING FEE AT THE LARKSPUR FERRY TERMINAL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District will hold a Public Hearing, on Thursday, October 17, 2013, at 7:00 p.m., onboard a Golden Gate Ferry docked at the Larkspur Ferry Terminal, 101 East Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, Larkspur, CA, to receive public comment on a proposal to establish a parking fee at the Larkspur Ferry Terminal. It is being proposed that the parking fee be established between $2.00 and $5.00, on weekdays only, along with consideration of a monthly prepaid

pass, with the understanding that the fee will be put into effect no earlier than January 2014. Consideration will be given to possible dynamic pricing strategies, where the fee charged could vary with the availability of unused spaces. Reports regarding this proposal may be obtained from Janet S. Tarantino, Secretary of the District, Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District, P.O. Box 9000, Presidio Station, San Francisco, CA, 941290601or by electronic mail at districtsecretary@goldengate.org or by facsimile at (415) 923-2013 or by using TDD California Relay Service at (800) 735-2929. Public comments will be received at the public hearing or may be presented in writing to the Secretary of the District at the above address. Comments may also be sent by electronic mail at publichearing@goldengate.org. Written comments should be received no later than Friday, October 18, 2013, by close of business at 4:30 p.m.

The public hearing location is accessible to everyone. To request special assistance due to a disability at this public hearing, please call the District Secretary's Office at 415-923-2223 three days before the hearing date. /s/ Janet S. Tarantino, Secretary of the District Dated: September 24, 2013 9/27, 10/11/13 CNS-2537472# PACIFIC SUN

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by Amy Alkon

Q:

I’ve missed countless opportunities because I fail to speak up in the moment. A pretty girl smiles at me on the bus.

Ten minutes later, I will wish I’d stayed on the bus and struck up a conversation. The same thing happens with business opportunities. At the critical moment I need to act, I go into a fog of some kind, weighing my options. Much later, I’ll realize that gold was put in my lap, and I’ll endure a lot of shame from not being present enough to recognize that. I’m all man when I have a girlfriend (which I don’t now) and will do anything to make her feel secure. But because of my problem with seizing opportunity, I’m much lonelier than I need to be. I’m realizing that I’m an irretrievable mental defective. —Hopeless You’ve heard that 80 percent of success is just showing up? Well, the other 20 percent is not acting like you got glued to the toilet seat shortly afterward.

You diagnose yourself: “I’m an irretrievable mental defective.” Um, no—probably just a drama queen with risk aversion jets set a little high. Your freezing in the face of opportunity is probably due to an “approach-avoidance conflict,” a type of inaction-producing psychological stress that occurs when an opportunity has both positive and negative aspects that make it simultaneously appealing and off-putting. For example, with the girl on the bus, there’s a possible date versus a possible rejection. The closer (and more possible) the opportunity the larger the negative aspects loom. This leads to indecision and, in turn, inaction. When you have some distance (say, a few hours after you get off the pretty girl express bus), the positive aspects take center stage, and going for it seems the thing to do. Only then, this no longer takes a nervous “hello” across the bus aisle; you need one of those “missed connection” ads and $3,000 for a private detective.

You need to practice opportunity-spotting and preplan what you’ll do when it knocks so you won’t respond like a bratty preteen girl: “Go away! Nobody’s home. I hate you!”

Recognizing opportunity takes knowing your goals. Articulate them, and then identify five opportunities a day and seize at least two of them. This requires simply taking action despite your indecision. Assuming you aren’t weighing the opportunity to blow through a bunch of stop signs, what are the likely damages? Step back and do a little cost-benefit analysis. If, say, you’d talked to the girl on the bus, worst-case scenario, she might’ve glared back at you, giving you an ouchie in the ego for what, 10 minutes? Doing nothing leaves you with lasting regret, shame and self-loathing. Doing nothing repeatedly should help you get a headstart on becoming a bitter old man, thanks to all the years you’ve invested standing near the ladder of success yet never once having a woman in a bikini shinny down and hand you a mai tai.

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