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››LETTERS Maybe they were on a pizza run...

Regarding Craig Whatley’s lament about being the same age as Rush Limbaugh [“It’s Not the Age, It’s the Tonnage,” Feb. 1]—not only am I just 10 weeks younger than Rush Limbaugh, I was born the next county south.

Rush: Jan. 12, 1951, Cape Girardeau, Missouri; me: March 18, 1951, Sikeston, Missouri. Last year, in the Spirit of 2012, I challenged Rush to a debate on his radio show: Two Local Drug Abusers: Street vs. Prescription. His people never got back to me.

Elliott Kolker, Stinson Beach

We’ll see you, and raise you a ‘Dan Hicks’...

In the interest of fostering a more varied and adventurous music scene in Marin County, could the music writers at the Pacific Sun please refrain from using the words “Bob Weir,” “Phil Lesh” or “Narada Michael Walden” for at least the next few months.

Thank you.

Erik Meade, Forest Knolls

Critics hide their heads in a Holstein!

Seems a lot of critics miss the point in Promised Land [“Promised, Not Delivered,” Jan. 4]. I like that it focused on how we find ourselves in the predicament of neighbor against neighbor, town differences. It’s not like a landowner just drops in on the local planning department and files a well-drilling permit. How many people even know what their mineral rights are, or who has them?

The legal complexity and twists and turns in 30 states of political deceit, personal disasters, health and environmental impacts to water, networks of landscape surface disturbances, sand mining, abuse to public social infrastructures, community character, air quality, lawsuits, gag orders by industry implicated judges, toxic spills, earthquakes, billion-dollar investments (on loan from AIG, Goldman-Sachs and other billion dollar lending institutions), etc., etc., etc.

And no one, no one gets that the “environmentalist” in the movie was a company decoy and is there to keep community perspective in check. How come no one mentions that!

Every critic talks about the cows. ...That was perfect psy-ops deployment.

Just another moviegoer, Tomas DiFiore, Marin

Marin Parks filching taxpayer money, open space anniversaries...

They who must not be named...

Marin Parks’ attempt to scuttle the independent review of Measure A expenditures was a trial balloon that the public caught and rejected. This is one more in a list of inefficiencies brought by our county’s “Managing For Results,” “Employer of Choice,” “Performance Management” and other paid-

consultant projects at huge public expense.

Rather than spending Measure A on optional projects as planned, it should be invested in our trust funds with the interest spent sustainably, as needed for essential projects. Not growth for growth’s sake.

Regular budgeting for parks and open space should be maintained in addition to Measure A, and should not be offset with Measure A funds or used for non-parks and open space programs. We were not broke going into the campaign. In a deep recession we funded natural resource protection and capital improvement projects, paid and benefited a 59-member top-heavy staff, and undertook website and department identity updates at considerable cost. We are spending $1 million for the recession-optional 680 Trail.

And, nowhere in our new Marin Parks Department identity upgrade is our world famous Marin County Open Space District mentioned—something we created in 1972 specifically for open space protection. And, what’s up with celebrating “Marin Parks” 40th anniversary with the Measure A campaign? It is rather our Open Space District’s 40th anniversary. Not the parks department, which is actually 60-some-years or older going to the 1930s. Whose idea was this?

Why wasn’t it workshopped with the public before such a major change was undertaken cavalierly by new management? Did we vote to have our open space preserves parkified or bike-ified, or hidden away beneath “Marin Parks”?

Our focus should be on creating green and sustainable county budgets, pensions, salaries, programs and expenditures. Not spending the public’s very generous treasure just because we have it and can do so.

Randall Knox, San Rafael

Beat it on down the line Regarding the recent letters about high ticket prices at Terrapin Crossroads shows [“Touch of Green,” Jan. 25; “Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion, Indeed!” Feb. 1]: Fastest way to get Terrapin Crossroads to lower their prices and improve the food quality is to stop patronizing them. My friend and I were big fans of the Seafood Peddler and would go twice a month for Happy Hour and then dinner. When they closed, we went to Terrapin Crosswords to see if they kept up the quality and freshness of the seafood—and we never went back. Overpriced, mediocre, nothing even resembling the experience of the quality of the Seafood Peddler. While we both live in San Rafael, we now make the trip to Sausalito to the new location of the Seafood Peddler, never to return to Terrapin Crossroads again.

Marcia Blackman, San Rafael

Hopefully, future President Ban Ki-moon will do something ‘bout this...

Well, the Pacific Sun—being in complete enthrallment to Agenda 21 and working hard to ensure our Constitution is replaced by the United Nations charter—is surely delighted 6 PACIFIC SUN FEBRUARY 15 - FEBRUARY 21, 2013

by the ruin of more lives and a family-owned business through the unconstitutional and treasonous implementation of the amoral U.N. plan for global communitarianism.

This issue, as all issues relating to the ubiquitous fascist agenda, should be a source of outrage and appropriately, fear. It is the most important and pivotal issue in the lives of everyone on the face of the earth. It is literally the fight for our lives.

Super Bowl Sunday vs. the loss of our Constitution, the freedom to make any choices at all concerning our own lives, the complete foreign control of our food, water, transportation, housing, education, economy, work and all other aspects of our lives. It’s not even a contest. Not in this country.

At some point it will be too late. Maybe it already is. Still, hardly a whisper. Who wants to stand out? Be ridiculed? Sadly, most would rather go along to get along than stand up and speak the truth. Much less act on it.

My heart is breaking for our beautiful increasingly poisoned planet, animals, and for what our children are to inherit because we were cowards.

Peggy Nicholson, San Anselmo

‘Ma’am, may I see your license, insurance and IQ test results?’

Ever notice when the Highway Patrol investigates an accident, they always try to determine if speeding or alcohol/drugs are involved. I’ll bet they could solve more accident causes if they investigated whether stupidity was involved. As a driver, I am amazed at how many dumb things the average driver does within 10 minutes. As a cyclist, all these dumb things could kill me. Drivers: You are driving a deadly weapon! The car is not your living room or desk! Driving deserves 100 percent of your attention!

Carlo V. Gardin, Fairfax

According to the California Vehicle Code, a citation for a DWI—or, driving while imbecilic—may be signed in either pen or crayon.

Next offended parties: pots, kettles In response to Charlie Murphy’s (town anonymous) critique [“We’ve Got Bigger Death Mongers to Fry,” Jan. 4] of my NRA jab [“If Gun Laws Were Rational, Only Rational Would Have Guns,” Dec. 21]: All I can say, Mr. No Town, is that you’re OK’ing gun ownership by people who are “right or wrong” is downright creepy, and not a little potentially terrifying at that. So I’m a “raving lunatic” too? Sounds a lot like the pot(shot) calling the kettle black.

Craig Whatley, San Rafael

››UPFRONT

Scenic road warriors Lucas Valley proposal—a tribute to a byway, or an attempt to thwart housing?

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hen the Marin County Board of Supervisors opted Feb. 5 not to pursue a proposal to designate Lucas Valley Road in northern San Rafael a “scenic highway,” both sides claimed there had been misunderstandings and misinformation about the project. But, where all the miscommunication was coming from was up for debate.

“The community was seeking this,” said Liz Dale, who lives in Lucas Valley Estates, the housing development farthest west on Lucas Valley Road.

The petition for the scenic highway designation was spearheaded by a group of Lucas Valley and Marinwood residents, Dale included, many of whom had also previously opposed filmmaker George Lucas’ plans to develop a production studio at Grady Ranch at the west end of Lucas Valley, near the Lucas Valley Estates. After Lucas abandoned his plans in mid-2012, many of the same residents were reportedly none too happy with the Star Wars filmmaker’s proposal to work with the Marin Community Foundation to build low-income housing at the location.

Because of that recent history, the scenic highway proposal was seen by many in the

community as an attempt to stop development along the corridor, specifically the development of the low-income housing.

In fact, at the Board of Supervisors’ public hearing on the issue a number of the residents who spoke in support of the designation cited its ability to protect the corridor and limit development. “I’m not going to speak as to the motives,” county supervisor, and Lucas Valley resident, Susan Adams told the Sun. But that was all just a very unfortunate misunderstanding, said Dale.

The community actually first put forward the idea of getting a scenic highway designation back in 2011 during a process where residents considered what they’d like to see in a plan for the region. The Lucas Valley Homeowners Association—a different housing development from the Lucas Valley Estates—was the first to endorse the proposal, followed by a number of other groups.

“It opens the door to tremendous benefits to the county,” said Dale. The argument is that the Caltrans scenic highway designation, a higher designation than county scenic highways, makes the area more appealing for Caltrans, state and federal grants.

There are also grants specifically available for designated scenic highways. Dale also 9> believes that the designation could

››NEWSGRAMS

by Jason Walsh

DUI drivers not thinking very clearly—even when sober! Psst...DUI drivers! Don’t drive after your license has been suspended—especially at the county courthouse where you’ve just appeared before a judge. Unfortunately, some people have to learn the hard way—including two targets of an undercover“court sting”conducted this week by the San Rafael Police Department.

It seems a couple of authority-bucking elbow benders left the Marin County Court, where they’d just had their licenses suspended, the morning of Feb. 12 and failed to detect that they were under the watchful gaze of some of San Rafael’s finest plainclothes gendarmes. According to San Rafael police officials,“Police officers staked out offenders who had been told by a judge not to drive or who had been told of their license suspension. ...While some offenders complied with the law and had alternate means of transportation, two individuals in court proceeded to get behind the wheel and drive away from the court house.”

They were stopped by waiting officers and escorted back into court, say department officials. The arrestees could face additional jail time, long driver’s license suspensions, as well as other financial hits including attorney fees, court costs, lost time at work, and the potential loss of job or job prospects, points out a press release from the SRPD. “When family, friends and co-workers find out,”it continues,“violators can also face tremendous personal embarrassment and humiliation.”

Don’t buy that stick o’ gum just yet, Ross Valley garbage customers... Keep an extra nickel and a pair of pennies handy Greenbrae-Kentfield residents, a 7 cents per month garbage hauling rate increase is on the table for Marin Sanitary Service customers.

At its Feb. 26 meeting, the Board of Supervisors will consider a 0.22 percent per month rate increase per 32-gallon can for residential and commercial customers in the unincorporated Ross Valley South, an area that comprises Kentfield, Greenbrae, Kent Woodlands and Del Mesa Heights, as well as about 750 Central Marin residences that lie a tad beyond those borders. According to the county public works officials, Marin Sanitary had initially requested a 5.41 percent increase in those areas, but following a county requested rate analysis, conducted by waste-management consulting firm Hilton, Farnkopf and Hobson, Marin Sanitary agreed to the 0.22 percent. According to county officials, the consultants found ways to reduce MSS operational costs in those neighborhoods, lowering the price tag for the potential rate increase.

Savings on waste collection and disposal could be had, according to the analysis, by consolidating the Ross Valley South neighborhoods into an informal“franchisors group”and having Marin Sanitary service them collectively in its Food to Energy program and by sharing net revenues from the processing of recyclable materials collected in the Ross Valley South area. Those shared revenues would go to a reserve fund for one-time costs to future diversion programs, according to county officials. Current reserves, which would be included in the shared fund, total $232,700.

Appeal filed over dubious carpool lane buddy Is the concept of corporate personhood a desecration of First Amendment rights toward free speech—or does San Rafael resident Jonathan Frieman drive with imaginary friends?

The debate continued last week, as carpool-lane violator Frieman filed a notice of appeal with the California Courts of Appeals on Feb. 6 in response to a judge’s ruling in January that found that the corporation filing documents in Frieman’s glove compartment did not constitute a second person in his vehicle—and therefore the San Rafael activist would have to pony up the $478 for getting caught last October cruising solo in the diamond lane.

Frieman says he purposefully used the carpool lane in the hopes of being cited so he 9

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Study on ill effects of banning plastic bags full of holes, say experts

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››TRiViA CAFÉ

by Howard Rachelson

1. With 281 turns in 8 total miles, the “Crookedest Railroad in the World” ran from 1896 until 1930, connecting what two locations in Marin County?

2. Bees cannot detect which one of these colors: red, yellow, blue or green?

3. Pictured, right: Name these recent 3a Grammy winners: identify performer and song or album title 3a. Song of the Year 3b. Record of the Year and Pop Performance, Duo or Group 3c. Album of the Year 4. What cruise line company can claim 3b the world’s largest (and longest and heaviest) cruise ship?

5. In the early 1920s, President Warren Harding was an avid poker player; in one game he gambled away the entire White House collection of what, which dated back to the presidency of Benjamin Harrison?

3c 6. What 1992 Quentin Tarantino crime movie contains the name of a water vessel in the title?

7. What important scientific word comes from the Greek, meaning “that which cannot be divided”?

8. One of the world’s most astute investors, what businessman and philanthropist is known as the Oracle of Omaha?

9. In which year ending with ‘09 did Henry VIII become king of England?

10. Identify four different five-letter words that begin with S and end with ING. BONUS QUESTION: At 180 square miles, it’s the sixth smallest country in Europe, and its capital city, located 1 km up in the Pyrenees, is the highest in Europe. What country is this?

Howard Rachelson invites you to bring a team or come join one at the following team trivia contests: Space and Science Trivia at the San Rafael Library, Thursday, Feb. 21, at 8pm; free.

Wednesdays at the Broken Drum in San Rafael, at 7:30pm.

Answers Cash prizes. Contact howard1@triviacafe.com with on page 27 great questions or comments.

PacificSun.com Poll Results What is the biggest issue facing Marin residents in 2013?

What to wear to Goeoge Lucas’s impending nuptials ...................................... 31.6% Post-Mayan apocalypse seeming somehow very familiar..................................10.5% Is that Robin Williams over there? Should I tell him how much I liked ‘Good Will Hunting?’

36.8% What to eat now that state foie gras ban in effect .....................................................5.3% Hope they pass that hospital bond soon...gardening wound starting to hemmorhage ................ 15.8% Check out our current poll and weigh in on the Lucas Valley debate at ››pacificsun.com

A rafter of wild turkeys gobbles along across from the road from the Grady Ranch property in Lucas Valley.

< 8 Newsgrams could raise the issue of corporate personhood in a court of law.

The concept of corporate personhood has been an ongoing controversy for years—but it hit the mainstream in 2010 following the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision, which held that restricting political expenditures by corporations was a violation of their First Amendment rights to free speech. Implicit in such a ruling, some argue, is that the Constitution grants protections to corporations as if they were people.

Frieman has vowed to appeal the case all the way to the Supreme Court“in an effort to expose the impracticality of corporate personhood.”

Frieman and his attorney, San Anselmo Town Councilman Ford Greene, plan to file their official appeal by Feb. 25, meaning their day in court should come sometime in the spring. At press time it was unclear whether Greene would appear in court with Frieman, or whether arguments for the defendant will be made by Greene’s law license.

Fairfax councilmember moving out of town—barely Fairfax resident Ryan O’Neil isn’t exactly moving away from town—but he’s definitely moving off the Town Council.

O’Neil, who’s served on the council since winning his first election in 2011, and his family have purchased a new house west of the downtown—and several yards beyond the city limits, rendering him ineligible to serve on the council. O’Neil, whose family operates O’Neil KG Bags, handed in his letter of resignation last week; the town has 60 days to find a replacement on the council. The remaining four councilmembers will have to decide whether to appoint a replacement or hold a special election—which could run a bill for the town upwards of $50,000. O’Neil’s term expires November 2015.

Planners divided over rezoning of Grady Ranch Despite protests from Marinwood and Lucas Valley residents, an 8-acre slice of George Lucas’Grady Ranch property is still among the 16 unincorporated areas that may be added to the county’s affordable housing element.

The Planning Commission voted 4-3 in a nonbinding vote to include all 16 parcels on a list of possible areas to be rezoned to accommodate lower income housing.

Due to state requirements, the county must plan to make space available for, potentially, 443 more affordable homes by 2014—a number in addition to the 330 units the county has had to plan for since 2007.

While additional affordable housing numbers are being called for throughout the state to meet future population growth, the Grady Ranch project has been a development lightning rod among lightning rods since last year when neighbors protested the Star Wars filmmaker’s plans to build a state-of-the-art film production facility on the property.

Lucas abruptly pulled the plug on the project last April when the Lucas Valley Estates Homeowners Association, which represents 174 homes southeast of the Grady Ranch site, threatened legal action over the project due to issues involving zoning regulations and possibly inadequate environmental mitigation measures. Lucas spokespeople followed days later by announcing a partnership with the Marin Community Foundation to explore developing low-income housing at the Grady Ranch property. Calls went out in December from MCF seeking development proposals at the Lucas Valley site.

Grady Ranch is among only a handful of the 16 sites that would be zoned for 30 units per acre developments.

Other potential sites for the 30 units per acre zoning include parcels at the Baptist Seminary in Strawberry, near Oak Hill School in Marin City and at the St. Vincent’s/Silveira Ranch property northeast of San Rafael. The planning commission will revisit the matter at its March 11 meeting.

VEarlier this week, the Marin County Office of Education hosted a mathletes competition for seventh- and eighth-grade students. It was the third of four rounds in the difficult contest.

Only three of the 200 competitors answered every question correctly: Christian Carson, Mount Tamalpais School; Sam Lesser, Marin Country Day School; and Gunnar Black, Marin Country Day. We added up the kudos you deserve for achieving perfect scores and multiplied it by the factor that you study for the challenge on your own time. The grand total = you are the rock stars of mathletes. Congratulations to Hall Middle School for taking top honors in the seventh-grade team tourney and to Marin Country Day for the winning spot among the eighth-grade teams.

W Marinites, you may now feel safe. Our county will soon be equipped with a $369,000 steelplated armored vehicle to help defend us from terrorists. Thanks to the Board of Supervisors’ approval of this little expenditure, we’re getting the spiffy BearCat G3 model, manufactured by a military supplier. Boasting armor protection, aggressive off-road performance, and dual AC and heating, the BearCat allows Marin’s special response team to combat terrorism in complete comfort. An excellent choice and we applaud Marin County Sheriff Robert Doyle for recommending the purchase. We’re relieved Muir Woods, the Sausalito Dog Park and the Cowgirl Creamery are protected from evildoers.

Certainly, there’s no better use of $369,000 in Marin.—Nikki Silverstein

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qualifications in early December.

“Mr. Lucas and I are committed,” said improve property values, bring in greater Dr. Thomas Peters, president of MCF, tax revenue for the county, and encourage which is overseeing the project in conjuncprojects like stream restoration. tion with Lucas, who owns the land.

There are currently no Caltrans desigAlthough the site is approved under plannated scenic highways in Marin. ning regulations for up to 300 units, the size What the group was proposing was that the county consider more use of the des- and scope hasn’t yet been decided. “We’re in the very early stages of that,” ignation as a whole and, secsaid Peters. ondly, that it consider Lucas You set the scene What is decided is that Valley Road as one possible Should Lucas Valley they want to create an encorridor for that designation.

Road be designated vironmentally sustainable “We wanted it to be a pilot a “scenic highway”? project that fits into the comprogram,” said Dale. The counWeigh in on our munity, is aesthetically pleasty could then revoke the desigonline poll at www. ing and fulfills a need in the nation if it chose. “It’s no risk.” pacificsun.com. region. And, it will certainly Adams, however, said preserve the scenic vistas and that many of those grants open space. are already available to the “[Lucas] has been one of the most county and there is not necessarily money incredible stewards of open space in West connected to the designation. In addition, Marin and along that road,” said Peters. a scenic highway designation, meeting Although the scenic highway designathe Caltrans requirements, could come tion turned into the latest controversy in with more cumbersome restrictions. For the area, the supervisors didn’t reject the example, she said, expanding the road plan outright or even thoroughly consider for bike improvements might have to go the benefits or downsides. Instead, they through more scrutiny or hit a roadblock. simply said that staff didn’t have time right “The proponents seem unwilling to acnow, with a full plate of priorities already knowledge there could be any downsides,” approved in the two-year workplan, such said Adams. as developing a coastal plan and completWhat a scenic highway designation ing watershed restoration. won’t do is limit development or regulate “There are immediate, more pressing low-income housing. It simply requires issues, ” said Supervisor Adams. “No comthat developments fit into the natural pelling case was made for any urgency.” landscape and suggests that projects not Proponents said they’d volunteer to impact the natural view. work on the proposal and that the cost of “The laws we have here are even tighter staff time would only be about $15,000, than scenic bylaws,” said Dale. but the supervisors opted to put the yellow It’s unclear who exactly perpetuated light on for now. “We can’t pile on one the idea that the scenic highway designamore project,” said Adams. tion would stop development, specifiThat doesn’t mean they can’t pile it on cally affordable housing development, in in the future, after current priorities are the valley, but the belief spread like fire taken care of. throughout the community.

“We really want to keep coming back,” Despite concerns, the affordable houssaid Dale. < ing plans for Grady Ranch are moving Enjoy the views with Kelly at kellydomara@gmail.com. forward. The Marin Community Foundation (MCF) is currently internally reviewing the responses it got to a request for

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orte Madera is playing its legal card proposed for a new committee to look at in an attempt to influence the design solutions that have been raised in the past of the Greenbrae/Twin Cities Corbut currently are not on the table—to look ridor Improvement Project on Highway 101. at everything that has been proposed to see The Town Council on Monday night apwhether any good ideas have been discarded. proved a resolution opposing the closure of “It’s appropriate to rethink the design for all Nellen Avenue—part of the current design the reasons people have raised. This is the for the project—which the Transportime to do that.” But, he adds, if the tation Authority of Marin (TAM) design is revisited, “it needs to solve says is aimed at improving the the problems that were identified by flow of freeway traffic through and agreed to by all parties relatPeter Corte Madera while making the ing to safety and congestion. That S E I D M A N might lead us back to some earlier stretch of freeway safer.

Just how much legal clout solutions that would have closed Corte Madera, or any town, has one or both of those interchanges.” over a Caltrans freeway design is Diane Furst, Corte Madera mayor, a somewhat cloudy picture, one that can has been in the forefront of a phalanx of conjure various legal interpretations. While critics. She has no problem elucidating objecthe town has no authority to control design tions to the project as currently proposed. To elements on the freeway, it may have enough start with, she says, the project comes with legal power to control entrances and exits to a $143-million price tag, which she says is it. Ask people whether Caltrans can simply too costly, “yet it does not increase capacity proceed with a plan even if a town objects to on the freeway. It does not address floodit, and the answer likely will be, “That’s a good ing issues. It does not adequately address question.” In other words, it’s open to legal traffic on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. It debate—and lawsuits. also means that an overcrossing would Supervisor Steve Kinsey has been looking be demolished, which would eliminate a at the various proposals for a revamped bicycle and pedestrian route that at the very freeway entrance and exit scheme in the least would have to be rebuilt.” area for about 12 years. Does he think Corte Andy Peri, advocacy director for the Madera can throw a legal wrench in the Marin County Bicycle Coalition, says that as works? “Ultimately it would require some of last week about 1,200 people had signed legal interpretation. I do believe that local a petition calling for retention or rebuildcommunities have control over ingress and ing of a bike and pedestrian overcrossing. egress points.” That means Corte Madera Although unhappy with the elimination of could prevent Caltrans and the Transportathe overcrossing, Peri and others note that tion Authority of Marin from closing Nellen. “there are great improvements” for bicyclists The Town Council plans to send a letter to and pedestrians on both sides of the freeCaltrans explaining the town’s problems way. The improvements include separated with the Greenbrae project. Corte Madera pathways. But the only way to get from one has expressed problems with it since 2003. side of the freeway to the other will be to use Those problems were referenced in a Wornum Drive. “They are going to improve 2009 Town Council resolution that stated, the pathways, but you’re going to have to cross “Whereas, based on a review of the proposed freeway off-ramps and on-ramps. Depending project as currently proposed, and the public on which side you are on, it could be as many opinion expressed at the various workshops a six lanes. Even asking people to cross the and presentations that have been held on the northbound off-ramp there is a lot to ask.” project since [a 2003 resolution], the Corte Furst notes that the current design calls for Madera Town Council finds that the concerns four signal-lighted intersections in one block expressed [in the 2003 resolution] have not of Wornum and three freeway on and off been adequately addressed by the context ramps. “And that will be a designated route” sensitive design approach used by TAM to for school kids. address those concerns.”

O O O O Town officials and residents who still opANYONE WHO HAS driven that section of pose the project, even as it has morphed and freeway and has had to enter and exit between its design elements have changed, continue Sir Francis Drake and Tamalpais Drive knows to express concern that TAM and Caltrans it’s a confusing mess of on- and off-ramps. may listen to their criticisms and suggesGoing north, motorists coming along the tions but do little to address them in design frontage road from The Village can almost get adjustments. on the freeway, but they have to break traffic Kinsey says that during the decade-plus of laws and cross a solid white line to move left investigation and discussion about the freeway project, he has noted that “both the coun- and enter freeway traffic. That can be dangerous because northbound freeway traffic is cils of Corte Madera and Larkspur have been exiting in that same stretch. The only other supportive of moving forward, but they also option is to continue to a stoplight, cross Sir put forward things they didn’t want to see.

For example, they didn’t want Madera Avenue Francis Drake Boulevard below the freeway and then continue up an on-ramp and merge closed, and they didn’t want Fifer Avenue with traffic north of Sir Francis Drake. In closed. Each of those decisions ultimately led addition, say traffic engineers, the layout of to the solution that’s being proposed today.” other northbound interchanges in the corKinsey says the give and take is “part of ridor makes little sense. the process.” And he supports the idea TAM 10 PACIFIC SUN FEBRUARY 15 - FEBRUARY 21, 2013

The Town Council wants to change lanes on the Greenbrae/Twin Cities Corridor project

Nellen void: Looking east down Fifer, as it is now (above) and (here) with the proposed flyover and closing of Nellen Avenue.

Southbound drivers entering the freeway from Sir Francis Drake and proceeding southbound must merge onto the freeway with southbound drivers who are exiting at Lucky Drive. It creates a chaotic situation because the distance between the entrance ramp from Sir Francis Drake and the exit to Lucky is not great. It’s called a “weave” in traffic terms, and it can be dangerous.

After Larkspur asked for an assessment of traffic interchanges, TAM hired a firm to produce a traffic study, which was presented to both Larkspur and Corte Madera. The cities passed a resolution saying they would like further study. But Corte Madera said it did not support the closing of Madera Boulevard.

That was when TAM knew problems might be on the horizon.

At that point, there was a proposal but no money to make it a reality. That changed

in March 2004, when Regional Measure 2 passed and made available $65 million for the freeway interchange project. (Furst says a more modest and less costly project could solve the problems.)

The proposal to alter the northbound interchanges has met with virtually no opposition. Not so for proposals to alter the southbound interchanges along the same stretch.

A trigger for the criticism comes from the aesthetics of a freeway flyover, which has been called a “Los Angeles freeway” type of design that’s out of scale and inappropriate for Corte Madera. Although many objections exist, the aesthetic consideration is in some ways the most visceral. “Everybody has been so critical of the raised structure on the southbound side,” says Kinsey. “Yet nobody has even said one word about the raised structure on the northbound side. I think if we are going to

changed and new councilmembers have come on board since 2009 (and 2003). In some instances, suggestions from critics are impractical because of Caltrans requirements and policies. The newly proposed committee could give TAM the opportunity to embark on a new education effort to explain civil engineering and traffic engineering realities.

“We took the best of several very bad options,” says Steinhauser. “The reason it’s been sitting there since 1954 and causing problems is that there is no easy solution. We found the best of the bad options.”

Furst agrees with at least part of that statement. “We are a community, a town, that Caltrans divided with a freeway in the 1950s.

We have been struggling with that ever since.”

Maintaining a bicycle and pedestrian route over the freeway is critical to creating ways for people to get around without cars. The Greenbrae corridor project, says Furst, is a throwback to the 20th-century car-centered

Northbound from the Redwood Highway onramp near the Village; the bottom image features a short wall where the often-ignored solid white line, top, currently separates drivers.

gestalt. “This project is all about vehicles.”

Furst notes that Corte Madera has come a long way from the days when it dragged its feet over creating more affordable housing. The town, she says, now is in the front of the pack on the housing front. “Transitoriented development is supposed to have two components. We have the housing.

Now give us the transportation we need to make this work.”

Steinhauser says TAM is ready and willing to explore options that may satisfy Furst and other critics—if a revamped project can meet Caltrans requirements. Any new investigation of options won’t produce just lip service, she stresses.

But there’s a time constraint, and that has Furst and other critics concerned. Steinhauser says TAM needs “to take some action by September.” Furst and other critics question whether TAM is sincere and whether that’s enough time to redesign the project. < Contact the writer at peter@pseidman.com.

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look at structure, we ought to be as thoughtful about the people who are living in the trailer courts [on the east side of the freeway] as we are about the people who are living in the neighborhoods” on the other side of Highway 101.

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CRITICS SAY THE project needs a full environmental report to assess its impact.

TAM has disagreed, but that assessment may change. Dianne Steinhauser, executive director at TAM, says that under the state’s environmental quality act the project does not need a full environmental review because it qualifies for a negative declaration of environmental impact, which means it will not substantively change the area. But critics obviously disagree. They say the aesthetics of the flyover and other elements mean the project could have significant effects on view corridors. They also want a full review of noise implications and possible effects on local streets and traffic.

“Under the requirements of the law,” says Steinhauser, “we have no significant impacts. Therefore Caltrans recommended a negative declaration for the initial study,

and TAM agreed. But in Marin, public discourse, public hearings and responses to comments are important. We asked Caltrans and they agreed to have public discourse and hearings and a detailed response to comments. So when you lay out a full environmental review process versus the process we’re doing, there’s no [substantive] difference.”

But Steinhauser says that although TAM maintains that a full EIR is unnecessary, that stance has led to a view “that we are trying to get away with something.” Even though TAM bridles at that accusation, the agency is “giving consideration, especially if there are any changes to the project, of coming back” and embarking on a new EIR process. “We are listening to the public. We are giving serious consideration to it. That seems to be what Marin prefers, and we know that now.”

Furst and other critics say that although TAM and Caltrans might listen to objections and suggestions, nothing much follows. That’s at the core of the frustration with the agencies.

Steinhauser says many of the issues currently part of the debate have been litigated one or more times during the long history of the project. She notes that councils have

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n a recent morning I picked up a spoon to stir my coffee and it came to me in a flash that I had been using this spoon for more than half a century. The “everyday” Dansk flatware purchased when I was getting married is now considered vintage and collectible. The spoon still feels just right in its simple design, its surface burnished, almost like pewter.

I began to look around the kitchen at other familiar objects, many from my earliest days of cooking, others added gradually. They’re indispensable companions, each of them just right for specific tasks.

Their real charm is that they evoke foods made with them or in them or served on them, dishes that range from essential daily meals to celebratory feasts.

I regularly use a rectangular CorningWare casserole—the one with the snowflake pattern on the sides—chosen by a fine home cook as a wedding gift for me.

(Mine is an unusual black-and-white version.) There’s no way to count the number of times it has been filled with servings of homemade lasagna or manicotti. It’s also perfect for fruit cobbler. Another wedding gift is a walnut rolling pin, tapered in the European style, easy on every sort of pastry or dough, smooth to the touch. I have used it for biscuits and tarts and pies and flatbreads, its comfortable fit always a delight.

My sister-in-law, who shares my love for proper cookware, lived in Chile for a number of years. She gave me clay pottery that she bought out in the countryside, treasured reddish-brown bowls for soup and one enormous baking dish that weighs a ton and barely fits in a conventional oven but is the most amazing vessel for cassoulet or cioppino or just a huge amount of old-fashion stew. Irreplaceable.

Nowadays a small three-pronged steel fork with a black handle is called a “granny fork.” My granny fork really belonged to my grandmother. Its tines are worn at their tips but it still works a charm for turning small items in a skillet or pricking a potato before baking. I also have her potato masher with a faded plastic handle, its base a perforated oval that unfailingly produces fine fluffy white results.

Wooden utensils stuck into pitchers and other holders reside in several spots on my counters. There are spoons older than I am and the rectangular square-cut spatula (part of a set given to me by my son many years ago) that I grab to turn a quesadilla or scrape down the edges of a pot when simmering a sauce, and a spurtle I bought in Scotland, a tapered stick with a carved thistle at the top, used for stirring porridge—”Always clockwise, in the direction

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of the sun,” the craftswoman told me. She would be amused, I’m sure, to know I use it for cooking up a pot of grits. Japanese bamboo tongs are there, too, little ones for lifting toast or turning bacon. An antique New England bean pot holds metal helpers like a dough scraper I brought from Umbria, several sizes of Chinese fine mesh skimmers/strainers, and an ice pick from the 1940s, its wooden handle sporting a Coca-Cola logo, something I found in a Georgia junk shop. I don’t chop blocks of ice these days, but it comes in super handy for larding a roast, piercing the surface of a cake for glazing and countless other tasks.

I have a food processor, of course, and other electric/electronic devices that I appreciate, but these kitchen companions of so many years do, I truly believe, add soul to everything I cook with them.

Glazy shade of winter: Keep Jack Frost at bay this season with orange pound cake.

The recipe that follows is from Eleonore Fusco Secaras, who brought the beautiful Chilean pottery into my life. She told me that this was called “poor beans” by the family’s cook, and she served it in those clay bowls. There’s nothing poor about its flavors! I recommend using heritage beans from Rancho Gordo for this warming dish.

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The CorningWare casserole was made for baking the next recipe—and if you have a spurtle, use it for stirring your grits.

This recipe is a way to dress up simple ingredients; it fits right into the current fondness for Southern cuisine.

Grits Gruyere Serves 8 to 10 1 quart milk 1/2 cup butter, cubed 1 cup coarsely ground grits (not instant) 1 teaspoon each salt and white pepper 1/3 cup butter, cubed 5 ounces grated Gruyere cheese 3/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 2-quart casserole.

Bring the milk to a boil and add 1/2 cup butter. Add grits in a steady stream, stirring. Stir constantly until the grits are thick but not dry. Remove the pan from the heat. Add salt and pepper to taste. Beat well, with an eggbeater, then add remaining butter and Gruyere. Pour into prepared casserole and bake for 30 minutes.

Remove from oven and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Continue baking for another 30 minutes. Allow to rest for a few minutes before serving.

1 cup dried white beans, soaked overnight 1 large onion, chopped, sautéed in a little oil with 12 or more thin slices pepperoni or other spicy dry sausage 1/2 cup tomato sauce 1/2 teaspoon Tabasco sauce or other hot sauce 1/2 cup fresh or frozen corn kernels 4 eggs

In a large heavy pot, place beans with cold water to cover, simmer until beans are barely tender (begin checking at one hour). Add the onion and pepperoni with pan juices, tomato sauce, Tabasco and corn. Simmer, partially covered, for about an hour to blend flavors and to thicken, adding more tomato sauce if necessary.

Season with salt to taste.

Serve very hot in individual bowls, each topped with a sunny-side-up egg.

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Bright oranges are all around us this month. Use them to flavor a simple but rich dessert. I would trust my ice pick to poke holes in the cake! Be sure to glaze the loaf while it’s still warm so that the syrup is easily absorbed.

Orange Pound Cake Serves 8 15 tablespoons softened unsalted butter 3 tablespoons milk 3 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1-1/2 cups sifted cake flour 3/4 cups sugar 3/4 teaspoon baking powder 1 tablespoon grated orange zest Glaze: 1/3 cup sugar 1/3 cup freshly squeezed orange juice

Preheat oven to 350. Grease a 6-cup loaf pan with 2 tablespoons of the butter; set aside. Put milk, eggs and vanilla in a bowl and beat until well combined; set aside.

Sift together flour, sugar and baking powder into bowl of standard mixer fitted with whisk. Add zest, beating on medium speed, then add remaining butter, 1 tablespoon at a time, incorporating well before adding more.

Slowly add milk mixture, beating constantly, just to mix batter together. Pour into pan and bake 55-65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. (Lightly cover cake with a piece of buttered foil if it begins to get too brown.) Allow cake to cool on rack 5 minutes, then unmold. Using a skewer, poke holes all over top of cake and glaze it while it is still warm.

Glaze: Combine sugar and juice in a small saucepan and bring to boil over high heat, stirring until sugar has dissolved.

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Three more â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;premieresâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; try their luck in the Bay Area

by Charles Brousse

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lthough I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the statistics to prove it, my educated guess is that the Bay Area is home to more â&#x20AC;&#x153;ďŹ rst everâ&#x20AC;? world, national and regional theater productions than any place outside New York City. For whatever reason, plays that have had limited or no previous exposure, plays that would be greeted with empty seats in more conservative parts of the country, often ďŹ nd an eager audience here. Some will You can leave your â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hat Onâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: Jackie (Gabriel Marin) gets delight, some will mystify, some will crash in personal with his AA sponsorâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;played by Carl Lumbly, of ďŹ&#x201A;ames. For both producers and ticket buyers, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Cagney & Lacyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fame. itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a crapshoot. lishâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s direction and set design are spot on.

A trio of recent openings points to the The Fourth Messenger (world premiere, astounding variety that is available. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a independent production at the Ashby Stage) brief rundown.

Home-grown new musicals seldom have The Motherf**ker with a Hat (West Coast what it takes to move on, but this one might. premiere, San Francisco Playhouse) If you With a lively book and lyrics by Tanya Shafhave a low tolerance for sexual expletives, particularly the basic f-word, you might want fer and a collection of stirring songs (and to avoid this one. But, if you do, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be additional lyrics) by Vienna Teng, Messenger missing out on one of the most vibrant lo- delves into the world of self-proclaimed cal theater productions in years. A native of gurus, whose virtuous charisma may, or may Manhattanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Upper West Side, playwright not, be justiďŹ ed by their private lives.

Ostensibly to chronicle a â&#x20AC;&#x153;bigâ&#x20AC;? story that Stephen Adly Guirgis, whose Jesus Hopped will help the newspaper and advance her the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Train was a major hit for SF Playhouse career, a young reporter named Raina (Anna a few seasons back, incorporates the manIshida) sets out to investigate the perners, morals and speech patterns of his Jewsonal history of a woman named Mama Sid ish, Puerto Rican and black neighbors into a (Annemaria Rajala), who is being hailed as colorful tapestry of quasi-ghetto life. â&#x20AC;&#x153;the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading spiritual teacher.â&#x20AC;? InsinGuirgis strikes me as something of a uating her way into the inner circle of Mama 21st-century Damon Runyon, minus the Sidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ashram, Raina begins to confront her sentimentality. His characters are lifted from with increasing intensity as she shifts from the projects and brownstones on Harlemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s objective reporting to an expose. One of southern border. Their eccentricities make the showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most powerful songs, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Knock, us laugh, but underneath you sense the soulKnock,â&#x20AC;? propels the story to its surprising destroying despair of a community mired in poverty, alcohol, drugs and violence. The play conclusion. Blessed with a talented 11-member cast and a live band, this production of revolves around a pair of anti-heroes. Jackie The Fourth Messenger is a solid entertain(Gabriel Marin), who is of Puerto Rican ment that only needs some modest adjustancestry, has just returned from two years in ments to reach its full potential. prison for drug dealing, determined to soOur Practical Heaven (world premiere, lidify his relationship with Veronica (Isabelle Aurora Theatre Company) Sadly, this one Ortega), his girl since high school. Ralph D. needs to be returned to the drawing board.

(Carl Lumbly), his AA sponsor and erstwhile Anthony Clarvoeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chekhov-esque saga of a buddy, is a black man locked in a crumbling three-generational family, six women in all, marriage to his fruswho gather on a crumtrated wife, Victoria bling seaside estate to (Margo Hall). The NOW PLAYING bird-watch and discuss story of this quartet, The Motherf***ker with a Hat runs natureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s evolving threats, replete with their lies through March 16 at the San Francisco never connects on a Playhouse, 450 Post St., S.F. Informaand deceits, is cheerpersonal level. The acting tion: 415/677-9596 or sfplayhouse.org. fully portrayed with is competent and direcThe Fourth Messenger runs through cascades of gutter tor Allen McKelvey keeps March 10 at the Ashby Stage, 1901 slang that form a kind Ashby Ave., Berkeley. Information: it moving, but Clarvoeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s of musical counterthefourthmessenger.com. script skates over too point. All four actors Our Practical Heaven runs through many topics, with too are superb, as is the March 3 at the Aurora Theatre, 2081 little impact. < performance of Rudy Addison St., Berkeley. Information: Contact Charles at 510/843-4822 or auroratheatre.org.

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›› MUSiC

Fingerpickin’ good...

For Marin flamenco fans, there’s no pleasure without Peña...

by G re g Cahill

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istening to the flamenco The stage show is a spectacle. guitarist Paco Peña play While Peña appears as a featured soloist, solo, you might believe a few he’s supported by an acclaimed troupe of guitarists were helping him out, hidden flamenco musicians, dancers and singers. backstage. He’s that good,” the New York It’s all castanets, slinky dancers, fiery Times opined in a Jan. 22 review. “And yet drama, flirtatious looks, hand claps and what’s most admirable about this modest lots of stomp. Of course, the percussive virtuoso, who can hold an audience spelldialogue that takes place onstage, so rich bound on his own, is how he surrounds in bravado, is the core of flamenco. himself with artists of similar caliber and The current tour features Daniela lets them shine.”

Tugues, Charo Espino and Angel Muñoz.

Spanish flamenco guitar master Peña, The singers are Cristina Pareja and José who has shared the stage with Jimi Hen- Angel Carmona, the percussionist is Julio drix and collaborated with classical guitar Cesar Alcocer and the guitarists are Rafael wiz John Williams, wrote the book on fla- Montilla and Paco Arriaga. menco, literally—his 2012 book, The DeHere’s how the Times described Tugues: finitive Guitar Handbook, is packed with [“She] was a queen of the flamenco lean, tips on everything from cool as a low-riding car fingerpicking to stagecraft, as she tilted back her COMING SOON and it’s just the most recent regal torso. Her hands Paco Peña: Flamenco Vivo in a long line of books that had a gnarled beauty, her will be held Saturday, Feb. 23, include several flamenco face a look of sweet pain.

8pm at the Marin Veterans’ Mestudy guides.

Through the flutters and morial Auditorium, 10 Avenue He’s on an extensive stutters in her pacing, of the Flags, San Rafael. $25North American tour that she told us about her life, $50. www.marincenter.org. brings him to the Marin her hopes and disapCenter Feb. 23. pointments.”

Flamenco comes from the gypsy dances of Andalusia, in southern Spain. Above, Peña (seated) and friends.

Now, that’s something worth clapping about.

Go forth and party: The much-anticipated multimillion dollar Fenix supper club in San Rafael opened its doors Jan. 23 and is featuring music several nights a week. Jazz and cabaret singer Paula West performs Thursday, Feb. 14. Tickets are $30 at the door (supper not included). Oakland soul-jazz singer Terrie Odabi lights up the room the following night. On Saturday, the versatile and soulful Alvon Johnson sings and strums...Bluegrass great Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands (fresh from their headlining gig at last week’s KWMR benefit, Sweethearts of the Radio), plus Belle Monroe and Her Brewglass Boys, and Keystone Station, bring their front-porch pickin’ to the Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley Friday, Feb. 15...Hawaiian slack-key guitar master Led Kaapana mellows down easy Saturday, Feb. 16 at the Point Reyes Dance Palace in Point Reyes Station...That same night, multiinstrumentalist David Lindley dips into his trick bag of acoustic-folk music during a solo performance at the Osher Marin Jewish Community Center in San Rafael...

Camper Van Beethoven, those lovable ’80s indie rockers, roll into Hopmonk Tavern in Novato on Sunday, Feb. 17...And at Phil Lesh’s Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael, the Mother Hips make a two-night stand Friday and Saturday, Feb. 22 and 23. < Flirt and stomp with Greg at gcahill51@gmail.com.

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››THAT TV GUY

FRIDAY, FEB. 15 Lara Croft Tomb Raider:

The Cradle of Life The sequel is much like the original but the pants are tighter.

(2003) Showtime. 6pm.

Mommie Dearest Faye Dunaway plays Joan Crawford in the film that launched a thousand drag queen careers. And ended hers. (1981) Sundance Channel. 8pm.

Fatal Attractions A visit with a man who keeps a hyena in his apartment. Check with your attorney before attempting a “Hey, there was nothing in the lease about hyenas!” defense. Animal Planet.

9pm.

Vincent and Jules goof around with some of their pals in ‘Pulp Fiction,’ Monday, 10:15pm.

by Rick Polito

four finalists and checks to see if he can find their names on the bathroom walls at the local high schools. ABC. 8pm.

Pulp Fiction An array of colorful characters embarks on a playful series of madcap adventures set against the backdrop of an idealized Los Angeles. (1994) HBO. 10:15pm.

TUESDAY, FEB. 19 Cult A blogger and a producer’s assistant on a crime drama discover a series of crimes based on the show’s storyline. We’d put the publicist on the suspect list. CW. 9pm.

Ultimate Soldier Challenge Members of the U.S Army Airborne take on Israeli commandos in a series of obstacles and combat simulations. We thought the “Ultimate Soldier Challenge” was finding a job and health insurance after discharge.

History Channel. 10pm.

The Crying Game A man falls for a woman who turns out to be a pre-op transsexual. Twenty-one years later it’s almost quaint. (1992) TMC. 11pm.

SATURDAY, FEB. 16 American Ninja Warrior These are the Southeast finals.

The most challenging stunt was unsticking themselves from the Naugahyde.

NBC. 8pm.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets In the second film, Harry investigates to find out what is turning his wizards’ school classmates into stone-like inanimate objects. At most schools, that would be the Xbox. (2002) ABC. 8pm.

Pastor Brown An exotic dancer honors her father’s dying wish by giving up her career to be pastor at a small-town Baptist church. We’re going to assume the Baptist prohibition on dance includes “the pole.”

(2009) Lifetime. 8pm.

Wes Craven presents Dracula 2000 The new Dracula is just like the old Dracula only now he drinks his blood with Red Bull and can pass as Goth. (2000) TMC. 9pm.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20 My Strange Addiction Visiting a man who is obsessed with his collection of inflatable animals, eating with them, sleeping with them and bathing them. Also: how to spot this kind of thing in an online dating profile. TLC. 7:30pm.

Weed Country Following the lives of growers in the medical marijuana indus-

SUNDAY, FEB. 17 Moonshiners The moonshiners attempt to retrieve a 60-year-old cache at the bottom of lake.

A combination of moonshine and bass fishing? It’s like some extended red state orgasm. Discovery Channel. 6pm.

Downton Abbey This is the season finale.

You can stop pretending to watch now.

KQED. 9pm.

Have your share of the ‘Crying Game,’ Tuesday at 11.

MONDAY, FEB. 18 Shipping Wars They call it “Shipping Wars” because “Hauling Big Stuff Around on Trucks” was a less catchy title. A&E. 7pm.

The Carrie Diaries Carrie cooks Thanksgiving dinner. Remember. This is pre-Sex and the City. There will be no turkey baster jokes. CW. 8pm.

The Bachelor This is the episode where the bachelor visits the hometowns of the

try. It’s like any other farm but the rooster sleeps in until noon. Discovery Channel.

10pm.

THURSDAY, FEB. 21 Underworld Vampires and werewolves are locked in a centuries-old conflict, battling an ancient blood feud to find out how tight Kate Beckinsale’s latex pants can get before she loses consciousness. (2003) Logo.

8:30pm.

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›› TALKiNG PiCTURES

A mind is a terrible thing to taste...

Brain eating is such sweet sorrow in ‘Romeo-Juliet’ zombie flick

by David Te mpleton

“I

know it’s kind of weird to say this,” says Josh Windmiller, standing in line at a bustling coffeeshop, “but when R was eating the brains of Julie’s boyfriend...I was thinking, ‘Wow! Those brains look kind of good!’”

Musician/actor/songwriter Windmiller, of the popular folk-punk-gypsy-pirategospel-klezmer-jazz-blues band the Crux, is describing a scene from the new hit zombie movie Warm Bodies, which we are about to discuss over cups of coffee.

But from the wide-eyed, slightly wary expression on our barista’s face, it’s clear she hasn’t figured out that the brains in question are something from a movie. Maybe she thinks he’s describing a particularly out-of-hand after-show party. Her eyes grow even wider when Windmiller adds, “I never knew how much brains look like oatmeal!”

does love those brains.

“I was kind of wishing that zombies used napkins,” I mention, recalling those cinematic first dates where one person has spinach stuck in his or her teeth and doesn’t know it. Bits of brain in your teeth, it seems, would be even worse than spinach.

“Yeah, pretty gross,” Windmiller laughs, “And then, in the very next scene, I was thinking, Wait! Those brains are all over his hands now, ’cause he was holding the brain in his hands. And now he’s touching stuff with brain juice still on his hands.

I just wanted the zombie to...you know, wash his hands!”

Windmiller’s career is almost as hard to sum up as Warm Bodies. Trained as an actor, his music displays a remarkably theatrical flair, with the Crux—a mini-multitude of multi-instrumentalist

Windmiller would like to see a greater emphasis on personal hygiene in zombie movies.

Based on the book by Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies is, believe it or not, a love story, a surprisingly charming, post-apocalyptic spin on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Years after a plague has pit the remaining human survivors against a horde of brain-eating undead—like the Montagues versus the Capulets, only worse— one somewhat unusual zombie (Nicholas Hoult), whose name is R (that’s all he can remember), falls hard for a beautiful human named Julie (Teresa Plamer), whom he ends up rescuing from his fellow flesheaters. In what may be the goriest meetcute moment in movie history, R sees Julie for the first time while slurping down handfuls of her freshly killed boyfriend’s cerebellum. Inexplicably, he finds longdead feelings begin to reanimate in his heart. Of course, being a zombie, he still 18 PACIFIC SUN FEBRUARY 15 – FEBRUARY 21, 2013

pan-musical pranksters—serving as a his co-conspirators, as he seeks to change everything people might expect from a roots-based ensemble. A few years ago, he formed the North Bay Hootenanny, an amorphous musical project that essentially works as Windmiller’s production company, producing various musical events and other shenanigans throughout the North Bay. Last fall, the Crux teamed up with the experimental Santa Rosa theater company the Imaginists to create an eerie musical adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamlin. Called The Ratcatcher, the genrebending show played to sold-out houses, and Windmiller is now hard at work raising money to record the music of The Ratcatcher as a CD. “Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy with a capital T,” Windmiller says, comparing

Before dining, zombies like to take a trip to the head.

the classic story either,” he says, of The the relative hopefulness of Warm Bodies’ Ratcatcher. “It’s more of a sequel, establishconclusion to Shakespeare’s epic buming that the mistakes made in the town of mer of an ending. “In Romeo and Juliet, Hamlin have been repeated over and over you are overcome by the innocence of the for generations, and nobody ever learns. characters, and how that leads to their destruction. They make huge mistakes, but It’s interesting how we keep revisiting, in our culture, all of the old stories, the old somehow it’s all beautiful. And then they legends. Every generation needs to put die. I kept picturing that kind of ending their own spin on these stories. for Julie and R—and then something dif“It’s easy to say that that’s a bad thing, ferent happened. that we’d rather remake something familiar “It is what it is,” he goes on. “With The than make something new. But that’s what Ratcatcher, we were faced with a similar we do. How many times has Orpheus been thing, adapting a story that is incredibly remade, or Faust, or Romeo and Juliet, or well-known. I like stories that show charThe Pied Piper. These stories speak to us, acters making big mistakes. That’s what and I think that in retelling them we get to I’ve always loved about Romeo and Juliet. listen to them in new ways.”

You really like these young lovers, and As a songwriter, Windmiller does the you want the best for them, but they keep same thing, revisiting old themes in new doing really stupid things. You sit there ways, interpreting familiar tunes as somewatching, thinking, Kids! Kids! What are thing new and you doing?” fresh.

In Warm Bod“I guess I’m ies, Windmiller interested in didn’t see that where the stocomplexly emoryteller ends, tional plot. R and the story and Julie fall in begins,” he love, her father says. “What’s wants R dead, the line beJulie wants the tween the art world to see that and the artist? zombies can be When you are brought back telling an old to life, little by story, you little, under the right circum- ‘Warm Bodies’ is a ‘stiff ’ departure from previous R&J screen treatments. realize that these stories stances. have a life of “It felt like we were seeing the whole thing through their own, beyond whatever you might be their eyes,” Windmiller observes. “But in trying to say. What ends up being new, I the original—and I think we do this in The guess, is the specific way that story ends Ratcatcher too—you get to see Romeo and up interacting with that storyteller.

“It’s a thrilling thing to watch,” WindJuliet through the eyes of the adults, too, you keep being forced to re-examine the miller says, “with or without zombies.” < way you feel about everyone.

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Here’s the deal: Select a winner in all 24 categories, and if you can correctly pick more than our on-staff movie experts— we’ll announce our predictions in the Feb. 22 issue—you’ll win tickets for two to a film at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center. But that’s not all!

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Movie summaries by Matthew Stafford

Quevenzhane Wallis in ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild,’ one of five Best Picture nominees screening Saturday at the Marin’s all-day Oscar Marathon.

Amour (2:05) Critically acclaimed French drama stars Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva as an elderly Parisian couple battling the realities of old age.

O Argo (2:00) Ben Affleck directs and stars in the true-life story of the Iran hostage crisis and an unbelievable covert operation to rescue six American prisoners.

O La Bayadere (3:00) Petipa’s terpsichorean extravaganza of love and loss in colorful India is brought to dazzling life by the Bolshoi Ballet.

O Beasts of the Southern Wild (1:33) Highly acclaimed film fest fave about life in a Louisiana bayou as seen through the eyes of a six-year-old girl.

O Beautiful Creatures Kami Garcia’s gothic horror romance comes to the big screen with Jeremy Irons as the mysterious overlord of Ravenwood Manor and Alice Englert as his cursed niece Lena.

O Django Unchained (2:45) Quentin Tarantino über-Western about a slaveturned-bounty hunter (Jamie Foxx), his still-enslaved wife (Kerry Washington) and the plantation owner (Leo DiCaprio) who stands in their way.

O Escape from Planet Earth (1:29) Cartoon comedy about a dashing extraterrestrial astronaut, his nerdy brother and their dangerous mission to violent, crazy faraway planet Earth.

O 56 Up (2:24) Michael Apted’s acclaimed ongoing documentary series, checking in on 14 disparate Britons every seven years, is back, this time examining Apted’s diverse subjects at the age of 56.

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MICHAEL APTED

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MOViES

A Good Day to Die Hard (1:38) Rogue cop John McClane teams up with his CIAagent son to halt a global nuclear showdown, Russian Mafia be damned; Bruce Willis stars, of course.

O Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (1:28) Scarred by the near-death gingerbreadhouse experience of their youth, the sibs grow up to be vengeance-seeking bounty hunters in form-fitting leather outfits.

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

(2:46) Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf, Balin, Smaug and others return to the big screen; major must-see for fans of J.R.R. Tolkien or facial hair.

O Identity Thief (1:51) Denver ad exec Jason Bateman’s savings and self spiral out of control when Miami grifter Melissa McCarthy taps into his virtual-plastic soul.

O The Impossible (1:43) A vacationing family learns the true meaning of courage and compassion when they’re caught up in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami; Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor star.

O Life of Pi (2:05) Ang Lee’s adaptation of the Yann Martel novel about an Indian teenager’s challenging odyssey: navigating across the Pacific in a life raft with a hyena, an orangutan and a Bengal tiger.

O Lincoln (2:29) High-pedigree look at the 16th president’s four tumultuous years in office features a screenplay by Tony Kushner and stars Daniel Day-Lewis under the direction of Steven Spielberg.

O The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto (3:35) Verdi’s tuneful tragedy gets a ring-a-ding-

ding update to Rat Pack-era Vegas in the Met’s compelling new production.

O Les Miserables (2:38) All-star adaptation of the Victor Hugo musical extravaganza stars Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean, Russell Crowe as Javert and Anne Hathaway as the lovely Fantine.

O Oscar Marathon Bone up for the 85th Academy Awards at an all-day marathon of best picture nominees: “Beasts of the Southern Wild” (noon), “Amour” (1:55), “Life of Pi” (4:15), “Les Miserables” (6:35) and “Lincoln” (9:30). $30 admission includes discounted snacks and drinks!

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Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts

Catch five cartoons from around the world up for this year’s Academy Awards.

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Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Shorts

The Academy’s picks for the year’s top five live-action short subjects screen at the Rafael this week.

O Parental Guidance (1:36) Comedy ensues when groovy 20th century couple Bette Midler and Billy Crystal find themselves babysitting their nerdy, entitled 21st century grandkids.

O Quartet (1:38) The cozy elegance of a retired musicians’ home is torn asunder when an ex-wife/diva arrives to open old wounds; Dustin Hoffman directs Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay and Michael Gambon.

O Safe Haven (1:55) Lasse Hallström drama about a woman with a haunted past who tries to make a new life for herself in

an idyllic North Carolina village.

O Side Effects (1:45) Steven Soderbergh thriller follows the unraveling life of a successful Manhattan couple after they partake of a new anti-anxiety wonder drug; Catherine Zeta-Jones and Jude Law star.

O Silver Linings Playbook (2:02) David O. Russell comedy about a down-and-outer’s attempts to rebuild his life after losing his wife and his job and moving in with his parents; Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro and Jennifer Lawrence star.

O Stand Up Guys (1:35) Alan Arkin, Christopher Walken and Al Pacino as very old buddies trying to recapture their glory days of sex, drugs and criminal malfeasance.

O Valley of Saints (1:22) Lyrical Indian film about a ferryboat pilot’s growing awareness of the dangers of water pollution under the tutelage of a young environmentalist.

O Warm Bodies (1:37) Zombie comedy about the unusual romance between an undead slacker and a totally alive knockout.

O West of Memphis (2:30) Hard-hitting documentary about the West Memphis Three, teenagers who spent eight years in prison for murder before new forensic evidence established their innocence.

O Zero Dark Thirty (2:37) Kathryn Bigelow’s brutal docudrama about an elite team of ops and agents and their decadelong hunt for Osama bin Laden. <

Musa Syeed’s lovely ‘Valley of Saints’ screens February 21 at the Rafael with introductory remarks from aquatic health expert Peter Gleick.

N New Movies This Week

Amour (PG-13) Argo (R) N La Bayadere (Not Rated)

Beasts of the Southern Wild (PG-13) Beautiful Creatures (PG-13)

Django Unchained (R) N Escape from Planet Earth (PG) N 56 Up (Not Rated)

A Good Day to Die Hard (R)

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (R) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (PG) Identity Thief (R)

The Impossible (PG-13) Life of Pi (PG) Lincoln (PG-13) N The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto

(Not Rated) Les Miserables (PG-13) N Oscar Marathon (PG-13)

Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Shorts Parental Guidance (PG) Quartet (PG-13) Safe Haven (PG-13)

Side Effects (R)

Silver Linings Playbook (R)

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

CinéArts at Marin 101 Caledonia St., Sausalito • 331-0255 CinéArts at Sequoia 25 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley • 388-4862 Cinema 41 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera • 924-6505 Fairfax 9 Broadway, Fairfax • 453-5444 Lark 549 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur • 924-5111 Larkspur Landing 500 Larkspur Landing Cir., Larkspur • 461-4849 Northgate 7000 Northgate Dr., San Rafael • 800-326-3264 Playhouse 40 Main St., Tiburon • 435-1234 Rafael Film Center 1118 Fourth St., San Rafael • 454-1222 Regency 80 Smith Ranch Rd., Terra Linda • 479-5050 Rowland 44 Rowland Way, Novato • 800-326-3264

Stand Up Guys (R) N Valley of Saints (Not Rated)

Warm Bodies (PG-13) N West of Memphis (R)

Zero Dark Thirty (R)

Rafael: Fri 6:15, 9 Sat, Mon 12:15, 3:15, 6:15, 9 Sun 12:15, 6:15, 9 Tue, Thu 8:45 Wed 6:15, 9 Larkspur Landing: Fri 7:15 Sat-Mon 1:45, 7:15 Tue-Thu 6:30 Northgate: 10:45, 1:35, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Rafael: Sun 1 Tues 6:30 Larkspur Landing: Fri 10:15 Sat-Mon 11:15, 4:30, 10:15 TueThu 9:20 Fairfax: Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:50, 6:40, 9:25 Mon-Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:40 Northgate: 11:30, 1, 2:30, 4, 5:30, 7, 8:30, 10 Rowland: 1, 4, 7, 10 Regency: Fri, Sun-Thu 12:30, 4:10, 7:55 Northgate: 11; 3D showtimes at 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:35 Rowland: 11:45; 3D showtimes at 2:20, 4:40, 7:10, 9:35 Rafael: Fri-Mon 3, 8 Tue-Thu 8 Cinema: 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:50 Thu 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15 Fairfax: Fri-Sun 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:45 Mon-Thu 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30 Northgate: 10:45, 12, 1:20, 2:35, 3:55, 5:10, 6:30, 7:45, 9:05, 10:20 Rowland: 12, 1:15, 2:30, 3:55, 5, 6:30, 7:30, 9, 10:10 Northgate: 12:50 Northgate: 6:50; 3D showtime at 12:15 Fairfax: Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:30, 7, 9:30 Mon-Thu 1:20, 4:30, 7 Larkspur Landing: Fri 7:30, 10:10 Sat-Mon 11:25, 2:10, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 Tue-Thu 7:15, 9:50 Northgate: 11:10, 12:35, 2, 3:25, 4:50, 6:15, 7:40, 9, 10:15 Rowland: 11:35, 2:10, 4:50, 7:35, 10:15 Northgate: 4:05, 10:30 Northgate: 10:50, 4:40, 10:30; 3D showtimes at 1:45, 7:35 Regency: Fri, Sun-Thu 12:10, 3:35, 7 Sequoia: Fri-Sat 4, 7:15, 10:30 Sun 12:45, 4, 7:15 Mon-Wed 4, 7:15 Thu 4 Marin: Sat 9:55am Regency: Sat 9:55am Sequoia: Sat 9:55am Northgate: 3:20, 6:55, 10:25 Marin: Sat only—Beasts of the Southern Wild (noon), Amour (1:55), Life of Pi (4:15), Les Miserables (6:35), Lincoln (9:30) (Not Rated) Rafael: 6 (Not Rated) Rafael: Sat, Mon 12:30 Northgate: 11:40, 2:20, 5, 7:30, 9:55 Rafael: Fri 4, 6:30, 8:45 Sat-Mon 1:30, 4, 6:30, 8:45 Tue, Thu 6:30 Wed 8 Fairfax: Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:40, 6:30, 9:10 Mon-Thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:30 Larkspur Landing: Fri 5, 7:45, 10:25 Sat-Mon 11:30, 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:25 Tue-Thu 6:45, 9:30 Marin: Fri 4:10, 7, 9:45 Sun 1:30, 4:10, 7, 9:45 Mon-Thu 4:30, 7:20 Regency: Fri, Sun 10:55, 1:40, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 Mon-Thu 10:55, 1:40, 4:25, 7:20 Rowland: 11:30, 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 Fairfax: Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:40, 7:10, 9:45 Mon-Thu 1:30, 4:40, 7:10 Larkspur Landing: Fri 5:15, 8, 10:30 Sat-Mon 12, 2:30, 5:15, 8, 10:30 Tue-Thu 7, 9:35 Marin: Fri 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 2, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Mon-Thu 5, 7:45 Playhouse: Fri 4:15, 7, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:15, 7, 9:40 Mon 1:15, 4:15, 7 TueThu 4:15, 7 Regency: Fri, Sun 11:05, 1:50, 4:35, 7:30, 10:15 Mon-Thu 11:05, 1:50, 4:35, 7:30 Rowland: 11:50, 2:25, 5:10, 7:50, 10:20 Fairfax: Fri-Sun 1:10, 4, 6:50, 9:35 Mon-Thu 1:10, 4, 6:50 Lark: Fri, Tue-Thu 5:15, 8 Sat-Mon 2:30, 5:15, 8 Marin: Fri 4:30, 7:15, 10 Sun 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10 Mon-Thu 4:45, 7:30 Northgate: 10:55, 1:50, 4:35, 7:25, 10:10 Playhouse: Fri 4, 6:50, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1, 4, 6:50, 9:30 Mon 1, 4, 6:50 Tue-Thu 4, 6:50 Rowland: 11:30, 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:30 Regency: Fri, Sun 12, 2:35, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Mon-Thu 12, 2:35, 5:10, 7:40 Rafael: Thu 7 (introduction by water-health expert Peter Gleick) Northgate: 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Regency: Fri, Sun-Thu 1:10, 4:30, 7:50 Northgate: 11:55, 3:30, 7:05, 10:30 Sequoia: Fri-Sat 3:40, 7, 10:25 Sun 12:15, 3:40, 7 Mon-Wed 3:40, 7 Thu 3:40

FEBRUARY 15 – FEBRUARY 21, 2013 PACIFIC SUN 21

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F R I D AY F E B R U A R Y 1 5 — F R I D AY F E B R U A R Y 2 2 Pacific Sun‘s Community Calendar

Highlights from our online community calendar— great things to do this week in Marin

Check out our Online Community Calendar for more listings, spanning more weeks, with more event information »pacificsun.com/sundial

Live music

02/16-17: Terrapin Family Band With Stu Allen M9pm Feb. 16; 12:30pm Feb. 17. Terrapin

02/15-16: David Nelson Band Originals and

Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr., San Rafael.

524-2773. www.terrapincrossroads.net.

Dead classics. 8pm. $30-40. Mill Valley Community Center, 180 Camino Alto, Mill Valley.

389-5072. www.murphyproductions.com.

02/15: Fenton Coolfoot and the Right Time Rock, blues. 9:30pm. The Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway, Fairfax. 485-1182. www.sleepingladyfairfax.com.

02/15: Grandpa Banana Band, Snap Jackson and the Knock on Wood Players Original Americana, acoustic rock. 8pm. $13-15.

Studio 55 Marin, 1455-A E. Francisco Blvd., San Rafael. 453-3161. www.studio55marin.com.

02/15: Hot Buttered Rum Original Americana. 7pm. $20-25. 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway, Fairfax. 459-1091. www.19broadway.com.

02/15: JL Stiles Ragtime, folk singer/songwriter. 8pm. Rancho Nicasio, Old Town Square, Nicasio. 662-2219. www.ranchonicasio.com.

02/15: Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands, Belle Monroe and her Brewglass Boys, Keystone Station Real deal, good business bluegrass triple bill. 8pm. $17. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley. www.sweetwatermusichall.com.

02/15: Pride and Joy R&B, soul. 9:30pm. $20.

George’s Nightclub, 842 4th St., San Rafael. 877568-2726. www.georgesnightclub.com.

02/15: Queen Ifrica Reggae. Tony Rebel opens.

10pm. $22.50. 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway, Fairfax. 459-1091. www.19broadway.com.

02/15: Sugarfoot Funk, soul. 9pm. $10. Sausalito Seahorse Supper Club, 305 Harbor Dr., Sausalito. 331-2899. www.sausalitioseahorse.com.

02/15: Terrie Odabi Soul vocalist. 8pm. $10.

Fenix, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael. 813-5600. www.fenixlive.com.

02/15: The Droptones Funk rock. 9:30pm.

Peri’s, 29 Broadway, Fairfax. 459-9910. www.perisbar.com.

02/16: Alvon Johnson Blues rock. 8pm. $10.

Fenix, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael. 813-5600. www.fenixlive.com.

02/16: Bill Evans, Evie Ladin Band with Keith Terry “Banjo in America.” Bluegrass.

8pm. Studio 55 Marin, 1455-A E. Francisco Blvd., San Rafael. 453-3161.

02/16: David Lindley American folk, blues and bluegrass with African and world music influences. 8pm. $25-35. Kanbar Center, Osher Marin JCC, 200 N. San Pedro Road , San Rafael.

389-5072. www.murphyproductions.com.

02/16: Grammy Winner Tony Lindsay Former Santana vocalist. GravyBoat and Joiful Music open. 8pm. $15-20. George’s Nightclub, 842 Fourth St., San Rafael. 877-568-2726. www.georgesnightclub.com.

02/16: Joan Getz Quartet Jazz vocalist. 8pm.

Free. Sausalito, 37 Caledonia, Sausalito. 505-3663. www.joangetzsings.com.

02/16: San Francisco Music Club Dance band with horns. With Lorin Rowan and Jimmy Dillon. 9pm. No cover. Sausalito Seahorse Supper Club, 305 Harbor Dr., Sausalito. 331-2899. www.sausalitoseahorse.com.

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02/17: Dale Polissar Trio with Bart Hopkins Mellow jazz. 6pm. No cover. Panama Hotel and Restaurant, 4 Bayview St., San Rafael.

457-3993. www.panamahotel.com.

02/17: Campbell/Markels Trio Jazz standards. Brian Campbell, tenor sax and clarinet; Alex Markels, guitar; Jack Prendergast, bass. 5:30pm.

No cover. Rickey’s, 250 Entrada, Novato.

497-2462. www.rickeysrestaurant.com.

02/17: Sunday Salsa with Mazacote Old school salsa. Louie Romero, percussion. 5pm. $10.

Sausalito Seahorse Supper Club, 305 Harbor Dr. Sausalito. 331-2899. www.sausalitoseahorse.com.

02/19: Swing Fever Jazz. With Howie Dudune, saxophone. 7pm. No cover. Panama Hotel and Restaurant, 4 Bayview St., San Rafael.

457-3993. www.panamahotel.com.

02/20: Compared to What Jazz funk.

7pm. No cover. Panama Hotel and Restaurant, 4 Bayview St., San Rafael. 457-3993. www.panamahotel.com.

02/20: Jill Cohn Vocalist. Dave Sampson, guitar. 7:30pm. Free. Cafe Divino, 37 Caledonia St., Sausalito. 331-9355. www.caffedivino.com.

02/20: Moksha with the March Fourth Marching Band Horns Sin city funk band.

8pm. $15. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera, Mill Valley. 388-3850. www.swmh.com.

02/21: Acacia Funk rock. 8:30pm. Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr., San Rafael.

524-2773. www.terrapincrossroads.net.

02/21: Audrey Moira Shimkas Jazz, pop/ rock. 6pm. Free. Trident Restaurant, 558 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 847-8331.

02/21: Deborah Winters and Friends Contemporary jazz. 7pm. No cover. Panama hotel and Restaurant, 4 Bayview St., San Rafael.

457-3993. www.panamahotel.com.

02/21: Dinner Theatre: The Golden Era of Hollywood With LynAnn King and Jef Labes.

6pm. $20 -25. Nourish Grill at Harbor Point, 475 E.Strawberry Dr., Mill Valley. 381-4400. www.nourishgrill.com.

02/21: Highway Poets Garage rock with folk instrumentation. 9pm. Free. Smiley’s Saloon, 41 Wharf Road, Bolinas. 868-1311. www.smileyssaloon.com.

02/21: Marianna August “Sequins at the SeaHorse.” 8pm. No cover. Sausalito Seahorse Supper Club, 305 Harbor Dr., Sausalito. 331-2899. www.sausalitoseahorse.com.

02/22: Afrofunk Experience Afro-beat, reggae, funk. 9pm. $10. Hopmonk Tavern Novato Session room, 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 650302-1138. www.hopmonk.com/novato.

02/22: Alphabet Soup featuring Jay Lane and Kenny Brooks S.F. native original live hip-hop/jazz. 9pm. $15. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera, , Mill Valley. 388-3850. www. swmh.com.

02/22: Counter Culture Dub-rock reggae.

9:30pm. $5. 4th St. Tavern, 711 Fourth St., San Rafael. 320-1420. www.counterculturemusic.com.

N’hood’Watch’ The manhunt that gripped Los Angeles just days ago stems from an alleged brutality incident that would sit right at home in David Ayer’s END OF WATCH. And as it happens, this superbly crafted cop drama gives us a window into the forces making carnage and madness of that city south of the 10. Brian Taylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) is an ex-Marine It gets a lot less jocular in the final 20 minutes. and rookie cop, smart enough to know there’s an unwritten LAPD code to be followed but still not completely sure of its rules. One thing that surely doesn’t fly is the videocam Brian pins to his uniform shirt to record pursuits and takedowns, though for some curious reason fellow officers and rival departments seem to tolerate him. What Brian and his partner, Mike Zavala (Michael Peña), capture is a city prey to a drug war that’s trending in some neighborhoods to Latin-on-black ethnic cleansing. And when a bit of heroics gives them the clout to go off-script and follow some nagging leads on their own, the pair stumbles onto a shocker that marks them for dead by the Sinaloa cartel. Ayers wrote the iconic Training Day and has logged time in the place he films, and he has a gift for recording the little details that make South L.A. both an armed camp and a place of beauty.—Richard Gould 02/22: The Farallons Acoustic folk rock trio.

9pm. $10. Smiley’s Saloon, 41 Wharf Road, Bolinas. 868-1311. www.smileyssaloon.com.

02/22-23: The Motherhips The Terrapin Family Band opens. 7:30pm. $20. Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr., San Rafael.

524-2773. www.terrapincrossroads.net.

02/22: Misdemeanor Band Funk, soul,rock. 9pm. $10. Sausalito Seahorse Supper Club, 305 Harbor Dr., Sausalito. 331-2899. www.sausalitoseahorse.com.

new works by Charles Brousse, Dyke Garrison, Hal Gelb, Lynne Kaufman, Cary Pepper, Martin Russell, Stanley Rutherford and Bernard Weiner.

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

Theater

02/17: Schubert’s Winterreise Paul Mur-

02/15: ‘Steel Magnolias’ 8pm Thurs.-Sat.; 3pm Sun. Through March 10. Presented by Novato Theater Company. Norman Hall, director. 8pm. $12-22. St. Vincent’s School for Boys, 1 St. Vincents Dr., San Rafael. 883-4498. www.novatotheatercompany.org.

02/15: ‘The Real Americans’ Written and performed by Dan Hoyle. 8pm. $25. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley.

383-9600. www.142throckmortontheatre.org.

02/15-17: ‘Pack of Lies’ Psychological thriller about espionage during the cold war. 7:30pm Thurs.; 8pm. Fri.-Sat.; 2pm Sun. $20-26. The Barn Theatre, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Ross. www.rossvalleyplayers.com.

02/15-17: ‘Waiting for Godot’ Samuel Beckett. With Mark Bedard, James Carpenter, Mark Anderson Phillips and Ben Johnson. $15-57.

Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave., Mill Valley. 322-6029. www.marintheatre.org.

02/15-22: The Harold Improv show based on audience suggestions. 8pm. $17-20. Bayfront Theater, B350 Fort Mason Center, S.F. 474-6776. www.improv.org.

02/16-17: What If?.. Ninth Annual Writers With Attitude Festival Staged readings of

Concerts ray, bass-baritone; Jeanette Tietze, piano. Works

by Schubert. Sung in German. 3pm. Free. San Domenico School, Hall of the Arts, 1500 Butterfield Road, San Anselmo. 924-1377.

02/22: Unity Through the Arts: Black History Month Celebration with James Henry and Guests Music and dance with steel pan music and African dance.

8pm. $20. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 383-9600. www.142throckmortontheatre.org.

Dance 02/15-02/16: Close Embrace: A Tango Love Story Dance performance and fundraiser.

Debbie Goodwin, director, choreography. With members of Alma del Tango. 8pm. $20-25. Drake Little Theater, 1327 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., San Anselmo. 459-8966. www.almadeltango.org.

02/17: Hawai’i in Sonoma Hawaiian culture, crafts, dancing and music. Talk story, ukulele workshops, hula, lei making, Hawaiian food. $35

Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Open Mic Night

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2/16 @ 8pm

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Fri 2/15 â&#x20AC;˘ Doors 7pm â&#x20AC;˘ $17adv/$dos

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Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands

DAVID LINDLEY

feat. Belle Monroe & her Brewglass Boys plus Keystone Station

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SAT 2/23 @ 8pm

THE HOUSE JACKS 'Til Dawn Music without instruments

SAT 3/2 @ 7:30pm

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Alphabet Soup

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Shana Morrison & Caledonia with Jimmy Leslie & the Flow Sun 2/24 â&#x20AC;˘ Doors 7pm â&#x20AC;˘ Standing GA $15/Reserved Seat $20

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JAMES HENRY UNITY THROUGH THE ARTS

FRI FEB 22 8PM

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AN EVENING WITH ADRIAN LEGG

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02/22: Pilobolus Five dances including four Bay Area premieres. 8pm. $20-75. Marin Veterans Memorial Auditorium, 10 Ave. of the Flags, San Rafael. 473-6800. www.marincenter.org.

Art 02/20: The Wonderful World of Plants Opening Reception Terese Bartholomew and Mary Ann Ho, botanical paintings. Through June 27. Opening reception 5-7pm Feb. 20. 5pm. Free.

Joseph R. Fink Science Center Gallery, Acacia Ave., San Rafael. 482-2453. www.dominican.edu.

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02/22: Film Series: Symphony of the Soil Deborah Koons Garcia documentary highlights the important role of healthy soil. Produced

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Donation. Fairfax Women’s Club, 46 Park Road, Fairfax. 454-9898.

02/22: Focus on Women: A Photographer’s Journey Homestead Valley Village presents Ginna Fleming’s photographs of indigenous people and cultures. Join friends and neighbors for tea and cookies and photographs.

3pm. Free. Homestead Valley Community Center, 315 Montford Ave, Mill Valley . 388-9315. www.ginnafleming.com.

nesses the birth of Marin City. 6pm. Free. MHM History Center, 1026 Court St., San Rafael.

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02/16: The Great Backyard Bird Count Help ornithologists and learn how to identify Marin County frequent flyers. Assist in counting birds during a hike around Rodeo Lagoon.

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02/17: Songbirds and Shorebirds of Bolinas Lagoon Join a bird walk along the Bob Stewart Trail in Bolinas Lagoon. View songbirds among the understory in a gentle, even ground walk along Pine Gulch Creek. Bring water, snacks and binoculars. Rain may cancel. 10am. Free.

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ViDEO Three sheets to the wind Flight has the most frightening plane crash in all movies, and if the film weren’t a career milestone for both director and star, it could still get a gold seal on its cover for this. Robert Zemeckis’s first live-action film in a decade takes him into supremely dark territory, with Denzel Washington playing a drug-soaked airline pilot at the height of his powers, fast living and cynicism. Enter disaster—then, a tortuous NTSB inquiry that’s begun That’s either turbulence, or his triple Smirnoff ’s kicking in. the minute he awakens in a hospital.

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Kids Events 02/16: Water, Water Everywhere! Naturalist led easy loop trail family walk at China Camp State Park. Learn about S.F. Bay and watersheds.

Meet at Turtleback trailhead 3pm. Free. China Camp State Park, 101 Peacock Gap Trail, San Rafael. 456-0766. www.friendsofchinacamp.org.

02/19: Golden Gate Playdate: Rainbow Rocks at Rodeo Beach Hands-on program featuring techniques to help engage your children’s sense of wonder and natural curiosity during outdoor adventures. For ages 3-5. Pre-registration required. Snack provided 9:30am. $15 per child, parent free with child. NatureBridge, Golden Gate, 1033 Ft. Cronkhite, Sausalito.

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02/19: Nature for Kids: Roy’s Redwoods Redwood forests comes to life in the wet season with ferns and mushrooms, banana slugs and other interesting animals hiding under logs and rocks. With naturalist David Herlocker. No animals (except service) please. Rain may cancel.

10am. Free. Roy’s Redwoods Open Space, Nicasio Valley Road, Nicasio. 893-9527. www.marincountyparks.org.

02/21: Nature for Kids: Cascade Canyon Learn about the steelhead that swims up this creek to lay eggs and then goes back out to sea.

No animals (except service) please. Rain may cancel. With David Herlocker. 10am. Free. Cascade Canyon Open Space, Cascade Dr., Fairfax.

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Film 02/16: Marin City Memories with Ray Menaster Nostalgic local videos from the ’60s’70s. 10am. Free. Marin City LIbrary, 164 Donahue St., Sausalito. 332-6159. www.marinlibrary.org.

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“Twenty Years Behind Bars” author/columnist Jeff Burkhart will give his take on cocktails, culture and class. 6pm. Free. Sweetwater Music hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. www.jeffburkhart.net.

02/19: Friends of Marin City Library Presents Author Jacqueline Sue The author discusses her latest work “A Dream Begun So Long Ago.”‚ 7pm. Marin City Library, 164 Donahue St., Marin City. 332-0374.

02/19: Patricia Schultz The author discusses “1000 Places to See Before You Die, 2nd Edition.”

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

02/20: John Wood Wood presents “Creating Room to Read: A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global Literacy.” 7pm. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 927-0960. www.bookpassage.com.

02/21: David Corbett The former private investigator and N.Y. Times notable author discusses “The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film and TV.” 7pm.

Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 927-0960. www.bookpassage.com.

02/21: Madeleine Albright Former Secretary of State and author Madeleine Albright discusses her memoir “Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 19371948.” 7pm. $25. Angelico Hall, Dominican University, 50 Acacia Ave, San Rafael. 9270960. www.bookpassage.com.

02/21: Poetry Reading Marin Poetry Center and R.O.A.R. present a native American poetry reading. With Natalie Diaz, Lucille Lang Day and Luke Warm Water. 7:30pm. $3-5 suggested donation. Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission, San Rafael. 889-5295.

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02/15: Latin Valentine’s Dinner Dance Bilingual event benefits Revivir la Cultural Pro-

gram. With Trio Compadres playing Ranchero and Bolero Music. 6:30pm. $5-35. San Geronimo Valley Community Center, 6350 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., San Geronimo. www.sgvcc.org.

02/15: West Marin Rising: Women and Men in Solidarity to Stop Violence Against Women and Girls Free, bilingual event in conjunction with One Billion Rising, the global protest against violence towards women and girls. Includes presentation and discussion, film, live music. Childcare provided. Bring snacks to share. 5pm. Free. Dance Palace Community Center, 503 B St., Point Reyes Station. www.dancepalace.org.

02/16: Friends of the Library Monthly Book Sale 9am. Free. Mill Valley Public Library, 375 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. www.millvalleylibrary.org.

02/16: Marin Gray Panthers Miguel Robles of Biosafety Alliance will talk about the corporate food regime and Genetically Modified Organism farming methods. 1:30pm. Free.

Redwoods Retirement Community Activities Room, 40 Camino Alto, Mill Valley. 453-1550. www.graypanthersmarin.

02/16: Nigella Lawson: Nigellissima at Left Bank Author and Food Network TV host presents a lunch menu paired with wines from Trione Winery. 12:30pm. $125. Left Bank Restaurant, 507 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur. 927-0960. www.bookpassage.com.

02/16: Unitarian Universalist Annual Crab Dinner All you can eat. Childcare by request. 6pm. $20-35; veg option: $10-15.

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Marin, 240 Channing Way, San Rafael. 479-4131. www.uumarin.org.

02/19: How the Tides Work for You Racers, cruisers, and recreational boaters will see and learn how the waters move on S.F. Bay. $15 cash only. 7pm. Bay Model Visitor Center, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 408-263-7877. www.spn.usace.army.mil/bmvc/.

02/20: Cycling the Camino Frances in Spain Bruce Akers and Kate Botas present a digital presentation. Get tips for planning cycling adventures. 7pm. Free. Corte Madera Town Center Community Room, 770 Tamalpais Dr. Ste. 201, Corte Madera. 927-1938. www.rei.com/cortemadera.

02/20: History of the Delta With Ranger Bill. 2pm. Free. Bay Model Visitor Center, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 332-3871. www.spn.usace.army.mil/bmvc.

02/20: Marin Scuba Club Monthly Meeting “Seabirds in our Sanctuaries.” With Karen Carlson, Seabird Protection Network. 7:30pm. $3-5. Saylor’s Restaurant, 2009 Bridgeway, Sausalito. www.marinscuba.org.

02/21: Art Uncorked: Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ Dinner, drinks and painting. $45.

Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave. , Mill Valley. 388-3850. www.swmh.com.

02/21: Boating Clean and Green Education and outreach program that promotes environmentally sound boating practices in California. 5:30pm. Free. Bay Model Visitor Center, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 332-3871. www.spn.usace.army.mil/bmvc/.

02/21: Grab Keys to the Kitchen with Aida Mollenkamp The chef and Food Network and The Cooking Channel personality demonstrates recipes from her new book. $55, includes dinner. 6:30pm. Homeward Bound of Marin, 1385 N. Hamilton Pkwy., Novato.

847-3331 ext. 243. www.hbofm.org

02/21: Marin General Hospital Proposed Lease Community Forums 7pm.

Free. Marin General Hospital, Conference Center, 250 Bon Air Road, Greenbrae. 925-7607. www.marinhealthcare.org/lease.

02/21: Rea Franjetic: The Balkans Learn about the historical background of this region.

6:30pm. $25. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 927-0960. www.bookpassage.com.

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ARIES (March 20 - April 19) Life has been strange, but you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Yes, my little spring lambs, it is “Ram in Wonderland” time. While your imagination is operating in high gear, your common sense has stumbled down a rabbit hole and is now trying to decide on which side of the mushroom to nibble. Thank goodness Monday is a holiday and you can sleep in. After all, when dreamtime is this fascinating, who wants to wake up and enter reality?

TAURUS (April 20 - May 19)The emotional moon in your sign over the weekend puts you in touch with your heartfelt desires. Focus on what you want and go for it before Sunday evening when you become more placid and less determined. Look for ways to make extra cash on Monday and Tuesday when the planets support your moneymaking ideas. Just try to stay within the realm of reality. If you’re tone deaf, don’t audition to be a lounge singer—unless you can lip-sync like Beyonce.

GEMINI (May 20 - June 20) You like believing you are the voice of logic, and consider “rational” at the top of your list of skills. Well, there’s a flaw in your analysis. When it comes to professional goals, you are the biggest castle-builder in the zodiac, striving to do what a realist would consider a pipe dream. On Monday, you begin a one-month phase of receiving creative input into your castle-building plans. Stop pretending you’re the mechanical engineer and admit you’re actually the designer.

CANCER (June 21 - July 21) The urge to experience new things continues. Expect your curiosity to grow regarding what’s going on outside of your safe cocoon. (NASA has discovered a number of inhabitable planets in other solar systems, Hillary is no longer secretary of state, and Europe’s weather tracking system is better than ours.) Meanwhile, this is a good time to cultivate new friends from distant lands or from other planets for that matter. Yet another reason to leave your cocoon...

LEO (July 22 - Aug. 22) While you claim to be the original true-blue romantic, there’s more to your actual relationship standards than meets the eye. Your perfect lover must exhibit equal parts of undying loyalty and give-me-my-space independence. You want a mate who adores and flatters you, but who has an idealistic aversion to compromise or telling lies. For the next month, you are quite definite about how much these differing desires mean to you. Hopefully, you can find someone who fits the bill.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 - Sept. 21) There’s a basic shift in your priorities this week. Relationships become more important—personal ones AND work-related ones. Speaking of work, you’re likely to be called on to negotiate a peaceful settlement in the event of a dispute between business associates. (A diplomat—now there’s a new career choice for you.) Meantime, you have entered into a phase of tranquility in regards to exercise. Either that or you’re just too lazy to work out.

LIBRA (Sept. 22 - Oct. 22) Whether working on a job project or your body, you’re impatient to get things in better shape. Nevertheless, recklessly rushing through either is not recommended. On a professional level, creativity and sensitivity are the qualities that spell success in your chart; for fitness, building strength wins out over attempting a triathlon untrained. Since you’re not likely to heed my advice on these things at the moment, then you’d better have a very patient boss and a really good masseuse.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21) Things continue to be strangely unconventional in your work life and radical solutions are sometimes the answer. Your romantic life can be seen as either exciting or distressing depending on how rambunctious Mars is handled. Financially, you’re in a position to receive an inheritance or access to someone else’s money. However, you need to be clear about what is yours and what is to be shared—so it might be a good week to finalize that prenup agreement.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 - Dec. 20) Get out the old photo albums as the transits trigger a sense of nostalgia in your chart. Friends and lovers from the past, and estranged family members occupy your thoughts during the next month. Why not mend a few bridges? Forgive old hurts and let bygones be bygones. After all, you haven’t been completely innocent in the breakup of all your relationships. Check out the tire tracks you left on a few of those hearts...

CAPRICORN (Dec. 21 - Jan. 18) Your creations are often in a useful form. Pottery rather than decorative sculpture; “how-to” books rather than poetry; or a blueprint rather than a painting. This weekend emphasizes your urge to be productively creative, which is why you may be hand-painting ceramic tile to resurface your kitchen counter. Meanwhile, from Monday, you are encouraged to do self-promotion via the media. Whether this means updating your Facebook page or doing an interview with Entrepreneur.com is up to you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 19 - Feb. 17) This weekend marks the last days of your zodiac celebration this year. Make the best of them. Although you have no good excuse for eating cake and ice cream after Sunday, you’re still in the mood for socializing. The flamboyant sun will leave elegant Venus alone to revamp your personality house. The results? Well, you may be inclined to use cloth napkins, discuss art and write polite thank-you notes for your birthday presents.

How charming of you.

PISCES (Feb. 18 - March 19) You are hot and spicy right now and your love life should heat up accordingly. Even if you have two left feet and are rhythmically challenged, go ahead and practice your Latin dance moves. On Monday, relax and accept your fate as the new zodiac star. Look at the upside: Your friends offer to drive you to fun places; your co-workers take you out to lunch; and your boss forgives your tardiness. Upside indeed. < Email Lynda Ray at cosmicclues@gmail.com or check out her website at http://lyndarayastrology.com/Lynda_Ray_Astrology/Starstream_Forecast.htm 26 PACIFIC SUN FEBRUARY 15 - FEBRUARY 21, 2013

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131144 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as PA'S MEXICAN – FILIPINO CUISINE, 916 B ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: LUCILA GUILLEN, 111 MARINA BLVD., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901; CARLOS SOLIS, 875 BISELL ST., RICHMOND, CA 94801. This business is being conducted

by CO-PARTNERS. 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 JANUARY 9, 2013. (Publication Dates: JANUARY 18, 25; FEBRUARY 1, 8, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131048 The following individual is doing business as FLOWER SPA, 716 A 4TH ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: JOSEPH GU, 2615 13TH AVE., OAKLAND, CA 94606. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on JANUARY 1, 2013. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on DECEMBER 28, 2012. (Publication Dates: JANUARY 18, 25; FEBRUARY 1, 8, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131131 The following individual is doing business as CITY BUILDERS, 1537 4TH ST. #174, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: MAX C WILLIAMS, 1537 4TH ST. #174, 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 N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on JANUARY 8, 2013. (Publication Dates: JANUARY 18, 25; FEBRUARY 1, 8, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131146 The following individual is doing business as SACRED SITE-SEEING TOURS AND TRAVEL, 5580 LA JOLLA BLVD. #396, LA JOLLA, CA 92037: SILVIA BARATTA, 5580 LA JOLLA BLVD. #396, LA JOLLA, CA 92037. 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 JANUARY 9, 2013. (Publication Dates: JANUARY 18, 25; FEBRUARY 1, 8, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131166 The following individuals are doing business as THE GREEN RESEARCH GROUP, 39 FORBES AVE., SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: MIKE GREEN, 39 FORBES AVE., SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960; JOAN GREEN, 39 FORBES AVE., SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960.

This business is being conducted by A HUSBAND & WIFE. 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 JANUARY 10, 2013. (Publication Dates: JANUARY 18, 25; FEBRUARY 1, 8,2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013131190 The following individual is doing business as FOURTH WAY, 46 MT. MUIR CT., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: JEFFREY BERLIN, 46 MT. MUIR CT., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903.

This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on DECEMBER 27, 2012. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on JANUARY 14, 2013. (Publication Dates: JANUARY 18, 25; FEBRUARY 1, 8, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131056 The following individual is doing business as BRANFORD VENTURES; YELLOW FERRY HARBOR, 10B YELLOW FERRY HARBOR, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: CHRISTOPHER TELLIS, 10B YELLOW FERRY HARBOR, 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 Clerk-Recorder of

Marin County on DECEMBER 28, 2012.

(Publication Dates: JANUARY 18, 25; FEBRUARY 1, 8, 2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131209 The following individual is doing business as SKG, 18 GLEN AVE., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: SUSAN G KLAUSNER, PO BOX 3204, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94912-3204. 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 JANUARY 15, 2013. (Publication Dates: JANUARY 18, 25; FEBRUARY 1, 8, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131147 The following individual is doing business as HEAVENLY SKIN & BODY CARE, 1368 LINCOLN AVE. SUITE 205, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: ROSAVEL JOZO DIAZ, 1114 LINCOLN AVE. APT B, 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 SEPTEMBER 3, 2012. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on JANUARY 9, 2013.

(Publication Dates: JANUARY 18, 25; FEBRUARY 1, 8, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131081 The following individuals are doing business as PATRA CORPORATION INSURANCE SERVICES, 27 COMMERCIAL BLVD. SUITE P, NOVATO, CA 94949: PATRA CORPORATION, 27 COMMERCIAL BLVD. SUITE P, NOVATO, CA 94949. This business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. 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 JANUARY 3, 2013. (Publication Dates: JANUARY 25; FEBRUARY 1, 8, 15, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013131224 The following individuals are doing business as THE RAFAEL, 234 N. SAN PEDRO RD., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: RAFAEL CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL, 234 N. SAN PEDRO RD., 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 JANUARY 14, 2013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on JANUARY 16, 2013. (Publication Dates: JANUARY 25; FEBRUARY 1, 8, 15, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131009 The following individuals are doing business as IRENE M. HUNT SCHOOL OF MARIN, 300 SUNNY HILLS DR., SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: SUNNY HILLS SERVICES, 300 SUNNY HILLS DR., SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960. This business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. 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 DECEMBER 20, 2012. (Publication Dates: JANUARY 25; FEBRUARY 1, 8, 15, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131187 The following individuals are doing business as BAY AREA BOWLS, 4330 REDWOOD HIGHWAY #200, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: BAY AREA BOWLS LP, 4330 REDWOOD HIGHWAY #200, 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 ClerkRecorder of Marin County on JANUARY 14, 2013. (Publication Dates: JANUARY 25; FEBRUARY 1, 8, 15, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131185 The following individuals are doing business as WESTERN ESPRESSO, COFFEE AND TEA; CLUB CAFFEINE, 4330 REDWOOD HIGHWAY #200, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: WESTERN ESPRESSO INC, 4330 REDWOOD HIGHWAY #200, SAN RAFAEL,

CA 94903. This business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. 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 JANUARY 14, 2013. (Publication Dates: JANUARY 25; FEBRUARY 1, 8, 15, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013131264 The following individuals are doing business as YOU MOVE ME, 3060 KERNER BLVD. STE F, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: TOMBOX LLC, 3060 KERNER BLVD. STE F, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on MARCH 4, 2013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on JANUARY 22, 2013. (Publication Dates: FEBRUARY 1, 8, 15, 22, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013131252 The following individual is doing business as ENERGY COST CONSULTANTS, 20 SANCHEZ RD. STE P, FOREST KNOLLS, CA 94933: GEORGE A PETERSON, 20 SANCHEZ RD. STE P, FOREST KNOLLS, CA 94933. This business is being conducted

by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on JUNE 23, 2006. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on JANUARY 18, 2013. (Publication Dates: FEBRUARY 1, 8, 15, 22, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013131271 The following individual is doing business as ROMAN’S PLUMBING, 1707 CAPELLA COURT, PETALUMA, CA 94954: ROMAN VINCENT AUDA SCANAGATTA, 1707 CAPELLA COURT, PETALUMA, CA 94954.

This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on SEPTEMBER 30, 2010. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on JANUARY 23, 2013. (Publication Dates: FEBRUARY 1, 8, 15, 22, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131314 The following individual is doing business as COLLINS & ASSOCIATES REPORTING, 11 BRASSIE CT., NOVATO, CA 94949: MARGARET COLLINS, 11 BRASSIE CT., NOVATO, CA 94949. 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 JANUARY 29, 2013.

(Publication Dates: FEBRUARY 1, 8, 15, 22, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013131318 The following individuals are doing business as OUT THERE WINE COMPANY; OUT THERE WINE CO.; OTWC; VINERGY; VINERGY BRANDS; WOOP WOOP WINES; 1682 NOVATO BLVD. SUITE 151, NOVATO, CA 94947: AWDIRECT INC., 1682 NOVATO BLVD. SUITE 151, NOVATO, CA 94947.

This business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on JANUARY 1, 2013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on JANUARY 29, 2013. (Publication Dates: FEBRUARY 8, 15, 22; MARCH 1, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013131319 The following individuals are doing business as BLUE POND SIGNS, 4460 REDWOOD HWY #9, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: GIGABYTE GRAPHICS INC., 4460 REDWOOD HWY #10, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. This business is being conducted

by A CORPORATION. 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 JANUARY 29, 2013. (Publication Dates: FEBRUARY 8, 15, 22; MARCH 1, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131337 The following individuals is doing business as STUDIO BLU, 2 MAGNOLIA AVE.

SUITE A, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: CORA LEE NELSON, 20 RIVER OAKS RD., 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 JANUARY 31, 2013.

(Publication Dates: FEBRUARY 8, 15, 22; MARCH 1, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131363 The following individuals are doing business as HERITAGE CLEANERS, 915 IRWIN ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: DOUG CHEON, 2500 DEER VALLEY RD. #127, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903; LINDA CHEON, 2500 DEER VALLEY RD. #127, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. This business is being conducted

by A HUSBAND & WIFE. 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 FEBRUARY 4, 2013. (Publication Dates: FEBRUARY 8, 15, 22; MARCH 1, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013131202 The following individuals are doing business as UAKEA PARTNERS, 106 ALDER AVE., SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: UAKEA HOLDINGS LLC, 106 ALDER AVE., SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960. This business is being conducted by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on DECEMBER 19, 2008. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on JANUARY 15, 2013. (Publication Dates: FEBRUARY 8, 15, 22; MARCH 1, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013131376 The following individual is doing business as THE WRITE IMAGE, 142 WILLOW AVE., CORTE MADERA, CA 94925: LYNN CAROL BREGER, 142 WILLOW AVE. APT 2, 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 Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on FEBRUARY 5, 2013.

(Publication Dates: FEBRUARY 8, 15, 22; MARCH 1, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131377 The following individuals are doing business as THE PIRATE CAVE, 1601 4TH ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: ITEN MANAGEMENT INC., 1601 4TH ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901.

This business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. 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 FEBRUARY 5, 2013. (Publication Dates: FEBRUARY 15, 22; MARCH 1, 8, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131391 The following individuals are doing business as MARIN COUNTY TRIATHLON AND

DUATHLON; MARIN COUNTY MARATHON, HALF MARATHON, 10K AND 5K; MARIN COUNTY SWIM, 4330 REDWOOD HIGHWAY #200, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: SUSTAINABLE SPORTS FOUNDATION, 4330 REDWOOD HIGHWAY #200, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. This business is being conducted by A FOUNDATION. 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 FEBRUARY 6, 2013. (Publication Dates: FEBRUARY 15, 22; MARCH 1, 8, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131126 The following individuals are doing business as WORLDWIDE CAPITAL GROUP, 11 ESCALON DR., MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: DEBBIE SULTAN, 11 ESCALON DR., MILL VALLEY, CA 94941; CRAIG SULTAN, 11 ESCALON DR., MILL VALLEY, CA 94941.

This business is being conducted by A HUSBAND & WIFE. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on JANUARY 7, 2013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on JANUARY 7, 2013. (Publication Dates: FEBRUARY 15, 22; MARCH 1, 8, 2013) STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No. 304437 The following personhas abandoned the use of a fictitious business name.

The information given below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the Marin County Clerk-Recorder's Office. Fictitious Business name: INNOVATIVE ECOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS, 49 CLARK ST. #B, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. Filed in Marin County on: JUNE 6, 2012. Under File No: 129636.

Registrant’s Name: FUHUI ZHANG, 49 CLARK ST. #B, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Marin County on FEBRUARY 1, 2013. (Publication Dates: FEBRUARY 8, 15, 22; MARCH 1, 2013)

ALL OTHER LEGALS NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: BARBARA KECK. Case No. PR-1300154. To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of BARBARA KECK. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: GAIL HARRISON in the Superior Court of California, County of MARIN. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that GAIL HARRISON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests the decedent's will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent admin-

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istration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: FEBRAUARY 11, 2013 at 8:30AM. in Dept: H, Room: H, of the Superior Court of California, Marin County, located at Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within four months from the date of first issuance of letters as provided in section 9100 of the California Probate Code. The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250.

A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: JOAN C RODMAN, 1629 FIFTH AVE., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. (415) 2590593. Publication Dates: JANUARY 18, 25; FEBRUARY 1, 8, 2013) MCE Rate Change Disclosure for Newspaper Public Notice: On February 7, 2013, the Marin Energy Authority (MEA) Board of Directors, which administers the Marin Clean Energy (MCE) program, reviewed proposed rate changes for MCE. MEA typically adjusts MCE rates on an annual basis to cover the costs of procuring 50% renewable energy for its customers. The proposed rates are scheduled for approval by the MEA Board of Directors at a public meeting on April 4, 2013. The final approved rates will be implemented on April 5, 2013.

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›› TRiViA CAFÉ ANSWERS From page 8 1. Mill Valley Depot and the top of Mt. Tamalpais 2. Cannot see red, which looks like black to them 3a. “We Are Young” by Fun. and Janelle Mon·e 3b. “Somebody That I Used to Know” by Gotye and Kimbra 3c. Babel by Mumford & Sons 4. Royal Caribbean 5. The entire set of White House china 6. Reservoir Dogs 7. Atom, from atomos meaning uncut 8. Warren Buffett 9. 1509 10. Sling, sting, suing, swing...others?

BONUS ANSWER: Andorra, whose capital city, Andorra la Vella, is located at 1,023 meters

››ADViCE GODDESS®

by Amy Alkon

Q:

What are your thoughts on gently dissuading a person from making a total fool of herself on Facebook?

A woman I know had her husband leave her for the woman he was cheating on her with. She’s been venting about this almost daily on Facebook, in sometimes blistering detail, and I’m truly embarrassed for her. She’s looking for a job, and a prospective employer could see these posts (as could potential future boyfriends). Shockingly, not one of her 443 Facebook friends has suggested she put a lid on it.—Concerned Acquaintance

A:

Social networking, at its worst, is like drunk-dialing not only your rotten ex but everyone in his ZIP code. It’s easy to forget this when you’re home alone in your ratty old robe, typing a message into the Facebook status window. But, the moment you hit “post,” it’s like you lured 500 people into a room with a clip of a monkey skiing and then got up on an ottoman and yelled out a hate-soaked rant about how your cheating husband should’ve pledged, “Till skanky piece of trash do us part.”

If you saw a blind man about to step off the curb into speeding traffic, you’d probably tap him on the shoulder and say, “You know, that seems like a bad idea.”

A similar approach seems in order for a friend in a blind rage wandering naked into Internet traffic. With Facebook’s confusing and ever-changing privacy settings and every computer user’s ability to take screenshots or copy and paste text, it’s best to assume that everything you post has the default visibility of “everyone on Earth.” (Ideally, this is best assumed proactively—before some fisherman in China messages you, “Tell us more! Post pictures!”)

Now, it’s possible that others have privately messaged her, noting that staying connected can sometimes be the quickest way to alienate yourself from future boyfriends and employers. It’s also possible many are frozen by what social psychologists call “the bystander effect”—how being in a crowd (or even just imagining being in one) seems to lessen the likelihood that people will help a person in need.

People will assume that someone else in the crowd will intervene or, if they haven’t, that there’s good reason they haven’t. (Maybe that’s what went on here—or maybe all these “friends” are just too entertained by the carnage to ask her to stop.)

Of course, people are also less likely to speak up when it might make somebody angry with them, which, in this case, could lead to their unfriending on Facebook and in reallifebook, too. If you’re willing to risk that, message her, sympathize about what she’s going through, and gently remind her that even if she isn’t vying to be secretary of state, those heading the “confirmation hearings” for her next job are sure to have access to the Internet. This isn’t to say employers won’t look at people who engage in social media overshare, but it’s best that their interest isn’t expressed with “Forget her resume. Check out this YouTube video of her shoveling horse poo on her husband’s car and lighting it on fire!”

Q:

I’m a 30-year-old woman who’s very uncomfortable in social situations. I feel far too vulnerable, and I get mired in worry. Am I eating funny? Saying something dumb? So I clam up and stand to the side so I won’t do or say anything embarrassing. Going to things with my best friend helps. But I want to be able to socialize and meet people, possibly a boyfriend, on my own. Any ideas that don’t involve taking some sort of stupid public speaking course?—Ms. Awkward

A:

You’re at a party. You reach in your purse for your lipstick, and a tampon flies out and lands in the hummus—upright, like a little plastic-wrapped gladiator spear. You can duck your embarrassment—or you can own it, laughing to those around you, “Oh, you hadn’t heard? Tampax just launched a new line of carrots.” It might help to keep in mind that people warm to other people, not over how perfect they are but over how human they are, as in, “To err is...” In other words, you’ll connect better if you stop trying to hide your fallibilities and instead volunteer them. Try something new at the next party: Tell people about three really embarrassing things you’ve done. When you do, something horrible will probably happen—that is, if you consider it horrible to have people like you for having the guts to be real. In fact, you’ll probably inspire them to reveal something, too— and not that while you were in the bathroom, everybody decided to play dodge ball, and nobody wants you on their team. < © Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. www.advicegoddess.com. Got a problem? Email AdviceAmy@aol.com or write to Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave. #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405.

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