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M A R I N SY M P H ONY SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2 013 PRESENTS

Unforgettable clips and music from 13 classic Disney/ Pixar films.

From the Toy Story trilogy to The Incredibles and Up , Pixar has forever impacted filmmaking and given audiences of all ages some of the most beloved characters in cinematic history. Now, the Marin Symphony presents Pixar in Concert , with visually stunning movie clips and memorable scores from each of Pixar’s movies, including their latest Academy Award-winning film, Brave , performed live by the Symphony.

Don’t miss this first-ever in the North Bay, single concert experience on Sunday, June 9, 2013 at 3:00pm.

Maestro Alasdair Neale will lead the Symphony playing music along with clips from Brave, Up, Cars, Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc., Wall-e, Ratatouille, A Bug’s LIfe, and The Incredibles.

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››LETTERS When a stranger glycols...

I am in complete agreement on the no smoking on sidewalks, and in businesses, bars and nightclubs [“Where There’s Smoke There’s Ire,” May 10]. I go to San Francisco to dance, sometimes twice a week, as I like dancing a lot and it’s fun and have been doing it for many years. I recently stopped going as some places have started using smoke/fog machines again, at the whims of a few DJs. They serve no purpose, are lackluster and create more darkness. I have seen ladies’ purses taken, IDs stolen, drinks spilled on the floors, slippage and illegal vendors block the street selling hot dogs cooked on open-flame grills.

Some places do have a “smoking” area but when the fog machine is running in another part of the club, and overhead fans are on, it all mixes and at times we have smelled marijuana.

I don’t blame the club managers or staff, as it’s usually the particular club event and DJ promoter who rents for the night. Saying something—as some of us are asthmatic or have medical issues—often results with more fog and DJ music turned up excessively. Some people were even banned for wanting a “safe clean” place to dance. In recent news you have read about the horrible fire in a night club trapping and killing 237 in Brazil. An ongoing fog machine would just add fuel to an explosive situation if a fire did happen, bringing less visibility. You would think a business would want customers to enjoy dancing and socializing in a safe environment.

Several of us that dance have complained in writing to, our state senator, the SF entertainment committee, the Board of Supervisors and the police department. So far, it has resulted in nothing being done. They should

Oyster farms have been a part of Tomales Bay for generations. If they were the ecological scourge that the Coastal Commission tries to portray it would seem there would be some viable evidence [“Coastal Commission Countersues Drake’s Bay Oysters,” May 10’]. The fact that Tomales Bay, the National Seashore and environs have been both tourist and nature-lover havens for generations seems to contradict those ensconced in their bureaucratic ivory towers. The evidence, especially with the countersuit, indicates another example of the noxious invasive weed of big government seeking to destroy natural, local small business.

Williams begins her seventh paragraph, “As for Iran...” With these words, Williams tells us she believes that Iran presents the clinching challenge to a U.S. pacifist’s beliefs.

Never mind that Iran has not invaded any country since the U.S.-backed monarchy was overthrown in 1979, and was itself invaded

by Iraq with U.S.-backing. Contrast the U.S. and its nuclear-armed collaborators Britain and Israel (to name just two), and their near constant invasions and occupations of other countries and peoples. Now there’s a challenge to pacifism.

In Williams’s previous article on John Walker Lindh [“Johnny Got His Gun,” March 15], Williams excused the U.S. invasion and destruction of Afghanistan in part by falsifying the history of pre-9/11 U.S. aggression against that country.

With these two articles, Williams chains herself to the U.S. policy of global military aggression and terror, supported by a domestic disinformation and propaganda machine built on journalists like herself.

Harry Martin, Cloverdale

Roger Stoll, San Rafael

pass an ordinance covering all clubs, banning fog machines in an establishment where DJ music is being played. The use of one will bring a fine of $500.

Walter Schivo, Novato

Business destroyed by ‘noxious invasive weed’ of Wilderness Act...

Sorry seems to be the hardest word...

I just read Joanne Williams’s interview with David Harris [“Drawing a New Line in the Sand,” May 10]. Harris states, “We [United States] didn’t apologize when Iraq invaded Iran...” Thanks for setting me straight on this one, Dave. All this time I had been thinking Saddam Hussein had something to do with this, but I guess it is too late for him to apologize.

John H. Miller, Mill Valley

As for Joanne Williams...

In her piece on pacifist Richard Moore [“Anarchy in the M.A.R.I.N.”, May 3], Joanne

It’s got one of the longest spans in the world, baby...

The recently uncovered problem with the bolts on the new Bay Bridge are just another example of the age-old problem of men being unable to responsibly control their rods.

Kimberly Clark, Greenbrae

This is what we call a sure-fire strategy That’s it. I’ve had it. I’ve become a member of the NRA Never re-elect anyone...

Michael Venables, San Rafael

More stereotyping of professions by muckraking, commie journalists...

Usually I like Nikki Silverstein’s Single in the Suburbs columns, but not earlier this month [“The Men With the Midas Touch,” May 3]. How can you possibly defend women when you write that being over 55 and /or a librarian as an “affliction”? Iff you’re lucky you may somee eday reach that advanced age ge and find out that it’s the best time of your life. Manyy of us have done just that.

As for the librarian part, why would you stereotype any profession? Lastly, lots of people find love at any This ‘shush!’ is for age. If you were simply trying you, Nikki... to provoke, you succeeded.

Otherwise you should apologize to everyone you offended with your ageism. Add yourself to the Zeros.

B.R., San Rafael

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complex off Tamal Vista Boulevard in Corte Madera. Half a mile away, 85 new homes are being constructed on Doherty Drive in Larkspur. With so much new housing and retail in such close proximity, we can expect many more vehicles and traffic problems in our two small Marin towns.

Imagine the impact all these additional cars will have. Both Tamal Vista and Doherty, as well as the “larger” surface roads Tamalpais Boulevard and Magnolia Avenue, already experience stop-and-go traffic many times a day. And the problems with Highway 101’s Lucky, Tamalpais and Madera exits will be certainly be exacerbated.

What kind of plan have the Towns of Corte Madera and Larkspur created to deal with all this extra traffic? And if they don’t have a good plan, why aren’t our neighbors making a fuss about an issue which will clearly impact our quality of life?

Gale Litt, Corte Madera

And this is going to be on the final, folks...

In my history and English classes in high school we were asked to “change the world.” I looked around for an issue that bothered me, or something that I was grateful for which others didn’t have the luxury of having. One issue that really struck me was a lack of women’s health care in sub-Saharan Africa.

As a result of this, Help lower maternal mortal- the maternal mortality in Africa; visit crowdrise. com and enter ‘anna baldwin’ ity rate is 530,000 deaths annually. Not in the search directory. only does it affect the mothers, but without prior treatment the likelihood of the mother transmitting HIV or AIDS to her child is extremely high. With health care, this is reduced from a 45 percent chance to less than 2 percent of transmission.

We are so lucky here in California to not have to worry about this. I think it’s a subject that should be discussed more and that people should be aware of.

Anna Baldwin, sophomore, Tamalpais High School

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Last week’s jam-packed summer festivals issue [Festival Express,” May 24] left out one major jam—the Mount Tam Jam, offering peak performances June 22 from noon to 7pm. Fans of Galactic, Taj Mahal, Cake, Mike Farris and the Roseland Rhythm Revue, and Danny Click and the Hell Yeahs won’t be disappointed. Tickets are $50 general; $75 for shade and bay view; $100 shade near the stage; $25 under 12. $30 for after-party with Galactic at the Sweetwater. This state-parks fundraiser takes place at the Cushing Memorial Amphitheater atop Mount Tam. Check out www.Tamjam. inticketing.com.

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Solar opportunity beams into Novato But will school district stick it where the sun don’t shine?

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nonprofit organization devoted to combating climate change wants to help the Novato Unified School District, and other districts in Marin, take advantage of Proposition 39 funds and boost the county’s solar-generating profile.

The funds could help pay for energyefficiency programs in schools, including the installation of solar panels that would result in an infusion of cash into a school district’s coffers.

Although about two dozen schools throughout Marin, including Novato Charter School, already have installed solar panels that produce electricity, the other schools in the Novato system don’t have solar power.

The Novato district five years ago “was on the verge of getting solarized” through zero-interest federal bonds, says Ed Mainland of Sustainable Novato. “That failed at the last minute. It was a failure of nerves by this school board because this coincided just with the great Bush recession stock market bust.” The financing for the solar program looked like an ancillary casualty in Novato. “They lost their nerve,” says Mainland about members of the school board. “Nothing happened.”

Mainland, who serves on the board of Sustainable Novato, says the organization heard about a Berkeley-based group called KyotoUSA, which had embarked on a solar action plan called HELiOS Project. KyotoUSA was approaching school

districts and offering to create what’s termed a solar master plan. The group had created one of the plans for the Berkley and Oakland school districts as well as the West Contra Costa Unified School District. Using the KyotoUSA solar master plan, the Berkeley and Oakland districts took proposals to embark on energy-efficiency programs to voters, who approved construction funding that included installation of solar panels.

“We said to ourselves,” continues Mainland, “why wouldn’t this work in Novato because the school district was predisposed to do it when the [federal program] fell through? Now, with Prop. 39 money coming around, this is the perfect opportunity.”

Tom Kelly of KyotoUSA went over to the Novato school district with Mainland and briefed the CFO in December 2012.

The offer was the same as KyotoUSA is putting on the table for all school districts in the nine Bay Area counties: KyotoUSA will prepare a solar master plan that can stand alone or be incorporated into a district’s facilities master plan, which must be updated regularly. And the offer includes a tasty financial incentive: KyotoUSA will prepare the master plan free of any charge.

The document will then serve as a foundation for a school district to embark on a solar-panel installation plan.

But the Novato district let the offer lie.

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Hiptobe Square .............................................. 16.7% The Quiet, Pricey Enclave Where Successful Musicians With Very Little in Common Artistically Settled in Their Later Years Collection .......................................................20% La Tavola ......................................................26.7% It’s not exactly in the rock ‘n’ roll spirit to be pushed around by lawyers and history museums—have some guts an name it Marin Rocks, for crissakes.!....................6.7% The Did You Know Jerry Garcia Lived Here?

Museum ................................................................... 3.3% The very concept of rock ‘n’roll is at its core anti-establishment; any menagerie celebrating its mainstreaming is an affront not only to rock ‘n’roll, but to the courage, vision and social sacrifices of the musical pioneers who shaped one of music’s greatest styles. But since you asked, we kinda like “The Marin Music Center. “ .................... 26.7% Fire back about gun control in Marin—weigh in with our latest online poll at pacificsun.com 8 PACIFIC SUN MAY 31 - JUNE 6, 2013

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Not enough green for the blues festival...

If your Labor Day plans center on grooving at the annual Marin City Blues Jazz and Soul Party in the Park, you’re going to have to make new plans. Marin City’s biggest summer event is taking a year off to regroup, says festival director Felecia Gaston, because its popularity has momentarily outgrown its funding capacity.

First held 16 years ago along the grassy knoll at Drake’s Avenue, the Soul Party has grown from an event for about 100 music lovers to an attendance count of nearly 6,000. Fundraising has been tough, according to Gaston, whose Performing Stars of Marin organization sponsors the event, a fundraiser for local youth music programs. Yet, the jazz-blues festival itself has gotten bigger than ever expected; last year’s show cost $90,000 to produce, says Gaston. “The goal is to take the year off and secure financial commitments that will support Marin City Blues, Jazz and Soul Party in 2014,” according to a press release from event officials.

If the postponement of the event gave you the blues, there are ways you can help. Members of the community can pitch in by joining the “Friends of Marin City Blues, Jazz and Soul Party in the Park” or through direct donations, volunteer opportunities and business sponsorship.

For more info, contact Gaston at performingstars@sbcglobal.net or visit www.performingstars.org. —Stephanie Powell

Branson students fight the power A pair of Fairfax high school students led demonstrators in San Anselmo on May 25 as part of the “March Against Monsanto” protest that took place across the country. According to MAM officials, the movement is intended to call attention to Monsanto and other big biotech companies’ use of allegedly dangerous genetically modified products in food; organizers say protests were on six continents, in 36 countries and more than 250 cities, including San Anselmo.

Cory Broad and Jolon Timms, both 17-year-old juniors at the Branson School in Ross, urged shoppers to “vote with their dollars and boycott companies that use GMOs.” Broad says he and Timms organized the San Anselmo demonstration to “fight the increasing power of companies manufacturing genetically modified foods.”

“It’s our generation’s responsibility to keep poisons out of our food and environment,” Broad says.

Adds Jolon: “Companies like Monsanto are destroying our food and our water. It’s time to declare ideological war on their business practices.” —Jason Walsh For those retirees about to rock, we salute you!

Mick Jagger might perform till he’s 100 years old but he’s not the first. That would be Al Goldbaum (going on year 101), one of the ageless seniors from The Redwoods retirement community in Mill Valley who sings with the Rock the Ages chorus that will perform on Sunday, June 2, at the Marin County Home and Garden Expo. Be there at noon to hear songs from the ‘60s onward—the Who, Bob Dylan, Annie Lennox, Coldplay —and the Beatles and Stones.

Rock the Ages includes 33 men and women of a certain advanced aged plus soloists like Walter Askew, David Dow and Cynthia Scollon, who will be torching a Bonnie Raitt song. In addition to soloists others play the tambourine, harmonica, guitar and violin. Music director is Barry Blum with the assistance of Ann Lure and Amy Turner.

“Rock the Ages will leave a legacy of music, but the benefits go far beyond creative expression,” said Barbara Solomon, CEO of The Redwoods, a community of seniors. “Music gets the blood moving, improves memory and creates better awareness and concentration,” Blum added.

The 340 residents who call The Redwoods home have shed diverse walks of life to form a friendly, eclectic community. “The Redwoods, a not-for-profit, combines high-quality, 10 >

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1. Each California county prints voter registration forms based on local demographics. Voter registration forms in Marin County are printed in what four languages besides English?

2. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford, which lies along what river?

3. How many U.S. senators and representa4a tives does Washington, D.C. have?

4. Pictured, right: It’s great, it’s really great!

Identify these photos which have something to do with the word “great.”

4a. Name the 1974 movie and star 4b. Give the proper title for this 2013 movie 4c. Largest lake entirely within Canada 5. If you travel directly south from London, England, what’s the next country you’ll hit?

6. What is the primary grain in bourbon?

4b 7. Around 122 AD, a Roman emperor organized the construction of a 120-kilometer-long wall built of stone and mortar, to help protect one of the northernmost extremes of the Roman empire. Which emperor was it, and where was it built?

8. All about the octopus: 8a. It has how many arms?

8b. How many eyes?

8c. How many hearts?

9. Name the instrument played by each of 4c the following musicians: 9a. Yehudi Menuhin 9b. Miles Davis 9c. Yo Yo Ma 9d. Django Reinhardt 10. If five workers can fill five barrels of water in five minutes, then 20 workers could fill how many barrels in 20 minutes?

BONUS QUESTION: What part of the human body was named after the hero of Homer’s Iliad?

Howard Rachelson welcomes you to live team trivia contests on Wednesdays at 7:30pm at the Broken Drum in San Rafael. If you have an intriguing question, send it along (including the answer, and your name and hometown) to howard1@triviacafe.com.

VVinnie, a Jack Russell terrier, was dognapped last week from Green Point Nursery in Novato.

The next Vinnie sighting was at Home Depot in San Rafael. Roey Berman, a San Rafael resident, noticed the 12-year-old pooch tied up outside and sensed something was wrong. She tried to find his person. Having no luck, Roey brought him to Shay at Madera Pet Hospital. Vinnie was checked out, fed and walked. Vinnie’s mom reported her missing dog to the Marin Humane Society in the morning and Shay called MHS in the late afternoon. Though Vinnie had no tags and his microchip was unregistered, Jessica at MHS made the connection. It took a village to reunite Vinnie with Lisa, his grateful mom. Three woofs to Roey, Shay and Jessica.

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WIs there no limit to how low people will go for a few bucks?

Some imbecile(s) cut open the metal self-service pay stations at three state parks in Marin and stole the money inside. With budget cuts, rangers aren’t always available to take fees and the self-pay boxes were designed for the convenience of park visitors. Olompali Park, as well as Bootjack and Pantoll on Mt. Tam, were hit on the same night earlier this month. Bandit(s) made off with an indeterminate amount of money and destroyed the boxes. Ironically, the self-service pay stations rely on the honor system. We’re fortunate to have beautiful parks in Marin. Dishonorable zero(s), get a real job. Rangers and citizens are keeping a closer watch over our county’s jewels.

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y friend Jennifer endears herself like I ordered lobster. In that moment, I to everyone. With her infecknew he definitely would never see me tious laugh, sense of humor and naked. Moving on... effervescent personality, what’s not to like? She gets bonus points for To pay or not to pay? That should her chosen career as a first-grade never be a question when a man is teacher. Kids hug her and sob at taking a woman out for their first date. the end of the school year, beUnfortunately, some impolite guys don’t cause they’ll miss Miss D. during know the correct answer, so we’ll just the summer. If anyone (besettle this matter once and for all. sides me) deserves unadulAccording to me, the man should terated adulation, it’s Jen. always pay for the first date. I can’t Why does this woman, think of an exception. loved by all, have to go online Usually, I’ll make a gesture to find a date? I have no idea. to pay. “Oh, let me split that In her case, my description with you,” I say as I take out my of her great personality is wallet. Of course, I’m not being not code for unattractive. sincere. It’s a test. A gentleman Jennifer is physically beaualways declines the offer. tiful. In fact, her hair is so Jen and I took a poll to confirm thick and shiny that Clairol that we are right and Dutch Dave should be clamoring to put is a loser. Surprisingly, not everyin her in a shampoo comone agreed with us. mercial.

Rick, my on-again/off-again Last Friday night, I pulled boyfriend, confirmed that he’s a up to Jen’s Mill Valley house mensch. “It’s part of the gender to drop off her dog and she rules,” he said. “I expect to pay.” opened the door looking Theo, a friend of Jen’s, said absolutely fab. “I have a that the issue of paying for the date,” she announced. “I’m first date sets the tone for the nervous.” whole relationship. True that.

Dave, an attorney, found Jen If he demands that the woman on OK Cupid. Though they had shares the bill, it’s over before it spent three months e-mailing begins. Or, she thinks he’s cheap, doesn’t each other, they had never sporespect him and will dump him for the This is what Marin ken. Red flags all over the field. women think of when first real man that comes along.

1) OK Cupid is free and My friend Nick doesn’t want to inyou suggest ‘going Dutch,’ guys... you get what you pay for. sult a feminist. “She’ll want to split the 2) Are his fingers broken? tab, because she doesn’t want to owe He should have called long me anything. If she offers, I’ll accept.” ago.

He’s wrong. It’s a meaningless overture.

3) Married or unmannered? Either way, Besides, there aren’t any militant feminists it’s not looking good. around anymore.

I kept mum, gave her a quick hug, and Tom, my hiking buddy, said Sex and told her to relax and enjoy. My dog and I the City ruined everything. “Until that head home to our dark, lonely condo. show, men and women were equal. Now, Within hours, I received the following all these girly girls want to be treated like e-mail from Jen: princesses.” Tom, Tom, Tom. We were My date. We met at Bar Bocce in Saunever equal. Men still get paid far more salito. Great conversation with no effort. I than women doing the same job. For that really liked him. Then the dinner bill came reason alone, women should be put on a and he left it in the middle of the table. pedestal. If you understood, you might Later, he pushed it toward me and said, have a girlfriend.

“Ugh, math.”

Jennifer summed up the debate perfectThe tab was $45. Michael threw down ly. “I’m happy I can vote and I don’t live in $20 and leafed through his wallet. He added a country where they can cut my clitoris another $10 and looked at me. I couldn’t off. Still I want a guy to open my door and do the math; I was so stunned. I put a 20 pay for the first date.” on top of his money. “You need another five Amen, Sister Jen. < there and that should do it,” he said.

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< 8 Solar opportunity beams in Novato latest attempt to get their attention,” says Mainland, is a letter to the Novato school district superintendent. “We have not had any significant contact with [the CFO] since our meeting,” the letter states, “so we are following up with you to refresh our offer and to provide some news on the evolution of the guidelines surrounding Prop.

39.” Mainland says the offer to help Novato schools solarize “is a win-win.” KyotoUSA would set up an energy benchmark for the school district and create the master plan.

“They would get free advice on vendors,” adds Mainland, “and there’s absolutely no self interest” on the part of KyotoUSA or Project HELiOS. “This would be a good time for [the school district] to cash in on Prop. 39 if they can and not just stand by passively and let other school districts walk away with the money.”

In November 2012, California voters passed Prop. 39 by a 61-percent margin.

The proposition changes the way the state collects taxes from companies that do multistate business. According to the wording on the ballot, the proposition “requires multistate businesses to pay income taxes based on percentage of their sales in California. Dedicates revenues for five years to clean/efficient energy projects.

Fiscal Impact: Increased state revenues of $1 billion annually, with half of the revenues over the next five years spent on energy efficiency projects. Of the remaining revenues, a significant portion likely would be spent on schools.”

There’s a catch, as there so often is in California politics. Prop. 39 authorized collecting the tax; it didn’t specify how the revenue would be allocated. There are three concurrent proposals bouncing around Sacramento, one generated in the Assembly, one generated in the Senate and one generated in the governor’s office.

Which proposal eventually gets adopted will affect how much funding Novato— and other school districts in Marin—can qualify for, if they can qualify at all.

State Senator Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, introduced SB 39. He was the co-chair of the Prop. 39 campaign. In De Leon’s permutation of a disbursement plan, the state would distribute energyefficiency grants to “the most economically disadvantaged school communities in need of modernization,” according to a press release. De Leon notes that “our 10,569 public schools spend about $700 million per year on energy, which is as much as they spend on all books and supplies.” De Leon says that after five years, revenue from the tax will go into the state general fund for “a permanent investment” in the future of the state.

It’s not how much Prop. 39 money the state can spend on energy efficiency that’s causing tension; it’s the way the money will be disbursed. In opposition to the plan in SB 39 is an Assembly bill, AB 39.

The Assembly version would take revenue generated by the California Clean Energy 10 PACIFIC SUN MAY 31 - JUNE 6, 2013

Jobs Act (that’s the official name of the entity that Prop. 39 created) and require the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to administer grants, no-interest loans and other financial assistance “to an eligible institution, defined as a public school providing instruction in kindergarten or grades 1 to 12, inclusive, for the purpose of projects that create jobs in California by reducing energy demand and consumption at eligible institutions.”

Instead of using a state of economic disadvantage as one of the primary criteria, which is the standard in SB 39, the Assembly version would simply set the merits of a project, its energy savings and efficiency, as a top priority. If the Senate version prevails, Novato might not qualify for Prop. 39 funds, or at least be relegated to a spot farther back in line.

A third option has come out of the governor’s office. It’s an option the state legislative analyst has called into question.

The governor proposes to count Prop. 39 revenue as a credit the state can put toward the Proposition 98 minimum guaranteed funding for schools and community colleges. Voters approved Prop. 98 in 1988.

According to the legislative analyst, “The governor’s proposal to count all Proposition 39 revenues toward the Proposition 98 calculation is a significant departure from our longstanding view that revenues are to be excluded from the Proposition 98 calculation if the Legislature cannot use them for general purposes.”

The analyst also has serious problems regarding which institutions will be eligible to receive Prop. 39 revenue. By excluding projects other than schools and community colleges, at facilities such as hospitals and other public buildings, projects would be excluded that could “achieve greater energy benefits.”

The governor’s proposal as well as AB 39 have revenue from Prop. 39 disbursed to school districts based on an average daily attendance of pupils. “The proposed perstudent allocation method [in the governor’s proposal] also limits potential project benefits even among schools and community colleges. Further, the proposal does not coordinate Proposition 39 funding with the state’s existing energy efficiency programs,” states the legislative analyst.

Which disbursement proposal eventually makes it through the Sacramento gauntlet could have a major consequence for Novato schools—and for other schools in the county that might want to tap into Prop. 39 funds. But the uncertainty could provide an opportunity for Marin schools to get their solar master plans drawn up, ready for an outcome in the state capital.

Districts that have a master plan in place can get a leg up on the approval process if it turns out Marin schools have a fighting chance at Prop. 39 funds. (Marin school districts have shown they are welcoming of solar power. The Kentfield district was the first in the nation to go all solar in its

two schools.)

In addition to approaching the Novato Unified School District with an offer to create a solar master plan, the KyotoUSA HELiOS Project also has sent letters to the San Rafael School District and the Tamalpais School District.

A key part of the presentation to the Novato district includes what Kelly calls “a sampler.” Averaging energy use and costs for similar schools, HELiOS Project can estimate in a master plan the cost to install a solar project and the benefits it would reap. In the Novato district, Kelly and his organization looked at three schools: Pleasant Valley Elementary, San Jose Middle and Novato High. Putting a solar installation on roofs is one option.

Another is putting them in parking lots.

A third option combines installation in parking lots and on roofs.

The goal, according to Kelly, is to reach 75 percent of a school’s power needs through solar generation. “Schools generally close in summer,” says Kelly, “or at least certainly scale back their operations.” With a renewable solar system generating power and feeding it back into the grid during the summer months, when sunshine is abundant in Marin, schools can in essence bank their power “at rates that are the highest of the year.” That yields a lower financial output for energy in winter. “If you can install a renewable energy system that produces about 75 percent of what the school actually consumes, you will bring the electricity bill down to about zero,” says Kelly.

In Novato, Kelly and his organization estimate the net cost to install a rooftop solar system at Pleasant Valley would be $425,188. A rooftop system at San Jose Middle would cost $976,432. A rooftop system at Novato High would cost $3.48 million.

Offsetting at least part of the net cost would be the value of “avoided electric-

ity.” In the first year, according to the Novato sampler, San Jose Middle would avoid $61,110, Pleasant Valley Elementary would avoid $26,661 and Novato High would avoid $172,929.

Net installation costs and avoided electricity would differ with systems installed in parking lots or systems that use rooftops and parking lots. Determining the actual costs is part of the job that Kelly’s organization proposes to compile at no cost for Novato schools and any other school district that would like to see data.

The creation of a master solar plan would be the first step, says Kelly. The district also would need to hire a consultant and draw up a request for proposals. Fulfilling those responsibilities would put school districts in good position for Prop. 39 funds if and when Marin school districts get a fair shot at the revenue stream.

Kelly says that refining the Novato sampler data will require getting actual power consumption data from the Novato district. That would require the district to ask PG&E to release the data. Kelly says he has met no opposition from PG&E and doesn’t expect any.

Prop. 39 “is a great program,” says Jamie Tuckey, communications director at Marin Clean Energy. “We’re really happy that schools will have additional funding for energy efficiency programs.”

In a recent report the Climate Policy Initiative acknowledges a major impediment facing school districts wanting to get on the Prop. 39 train: “For many districts, the biggest barrier to achieving energy savings is a lack of technical assistance to help navigate the range of energy-saving projects and financing options available to them.”

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< 8 Newsgrams comprehensive housing with affordability and an engaging lifestyle,” Solomon said.

Or, as they say at The Redwoods “rockers aren’t just chairs.”

The Home and Garden Expo takes place June 1 and 2 at the Marin County Fairgrounds in San Rafael. For info on the expo, call (415) 507-1537; For more about Rock the Ages, call Jeannie Elrod, (415) 383-2471, ext. 267. —Joanne Williams

Court upholds MMWD desalination report A California Appeals Court on Wednesday gave a thumbs up to a contested desalination plant environmental impact report certified by the Marin Municipal Water District—clearing a key environmental hurdle if the district ever decides to resume its pursuit of a desalination plant off the San Rafael Bay. The Appeals Court effectively overturned a Marin Superior Court ruling which found that the environmental impact report—certified by the MMWD in 2009—failed to meet its requirements under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

Water District officials say they are pleased with the ruling, but stress that the district “has no current plans to pursue desalination.”

Following two near-drought years in the mid 2000s, MMWD officials launched efforts toward the possible construction of a plant off the San Rafael shore that would make saltwater potable for human consumption. The proposed desalination plant met with stiff opposition from some environmentalists, as well as budget watchdogs who felt its $100 million-plus price tag was too high. A group called the North Coast Rivers Alliance filed the initial challenge to the environmental impact report, which resulted in the Marin Superior Court’s ruling.

The brouhaha over desal settled somewhat in 2010 when county voters approved Measure S, which holds that the district cannot approve construction or financing of construction on a desalination plant without voter approval. —JW

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he only thing that stops a bad to by guy with a gun,” NRA vice pres- make ident Wayne LaPierre famously him jacob announced in the wake of the Sandy Hook think I was SHAFER massacre, “is a good guy with a gun.” Or, a threat,” Humapparently, a Marin County mom with a phrey recently told cool head on her shoulders. the Sun. When Tina Marie HumCalling on phrey, a 52-year-old Mill Valley a class she took in behavioral contractor and mother of three, therapy—and years working went to the upscale Bon Air with men on construction Shopping Center in Greenbrae sites—Humphrey began talklast month, the last thing she ing to Boyce. She introduced expected to encounter was an herself. She asked his name, armed fugitive trying to force and what was the matter. She his way into her vehicle. showed him pictures of her By the time he accosted kids. She gently touched his Humphrey, 30-year-old Jeffrey sweaty forehead. She spoke Humphrey disarmed her Griffin Boyce had already allegcarefully, and held his attencarjacker with kindness. edly hijacked a car in Sonoma tion. For half an hour the pair County and was a suspect in an stood in the parking lot in a Oregon murder. But all Humphrey knew tense, private standoff. at the time was that Boyce had a gun—and Eventually, a passerby called 9-1-1. she didn’t.

Amid the wail of sirens Humphrey saw “I didn’t want an opportunity to escape, and the police to startle apprehended Boyce without a single him, shot being fired. or Humphrey doesn’t think a gun would have gotten her out of trouble. “I couldn’t have taken it out fast enough,” she says. “And I wanted to defuse the situation, not escalate it.”

Humphrey’s ordeal, of course, came in the midst of the latest national gun debate.

A rash of mass shootings, from Arizona to Colorado to Connecticut, have reloaded the battle be-

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tween gun-control and gun-rights advocates. Progressive, peacenik Marin may seem removed from this divisive fracas, but our county’s relationship with firearms isn’t as simple as it seems.

Marin wasn’t always a placid suburb flanked by protected parkland. This used to be a wild place where hunting, and guns, were a part of daily life.

“I was talking to some old-timers and back in those days, if you were out in Bolinas you’d hear rifle shots,” says Fairfax Councilman Larry Bragman. “That has changed, but there’s still a lot of guns here.”

Exactly how many is difficult to quantify, but Marin County District Attorney Ed Berberian thinks gun ownership in Marin is in line with the national average. Recently, some of those guns were handed over by Marinites—voluntarily.

In January, with Sandy Hook still making headlines, Marin sponsored a “gun buyback” program, an opportunity for residents to hand in their firearms in exchange for cash.

The program was so successful it ran out of money and had to issue vouchers, though according to Berberian everyone who turned in a weapon has now been paid.

“Frankly, and this is a personal belief of mine, we have way too many firearms beyond what we would ever need,” says Berberian. “They’re just sitting around, not being kept or watched appropriately.”

And, in some cases, they’re being used to commit crimes. According to statistics

provided by the DA’s office, between 2009 and 2010 six people were charged with firearm-related felonies in Marin. Between 2010 and 2011 that number more than tripled. It’s too early to tell whether that represents a trend or an anomalous blip, but Beberian calls the uptick “concerning.”

“Obviously we don’t have gun violence on the same level as other parts of the Bay Area,” says Berberian. “But if there’s a perception it doesn’t happen here, that’s false.”

According to Mark Baradat, who opened the Bullseye shooting range in San Rafael 15 years ago and now runs Novato’s Marin County Arms, guns are ubiquitous in the county. “There’s a huge culture of gun folks in Marin,” he says. “They may not talk about it, but we have lots of people who shoot, and have friends who shoot.”

Baradat supports some gun control, and called the buyback program “a good way to get guns off the streets.”

“People don’t realize that California is probably one of the strictest gun-controlled states in America,” he says. “I agree with reasonable regulation, as do most responsible gun owners.”

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types of weapons sold here than you could imagine.”

“That was one in a million. She was very lucky it turned out that way,” Baradat told us, when reminded about Tina Marie Humphrey’s dramatic, unarmed escape in Greenbrae.

But Humphrey thinks it was more than that. She could tell Boyce wasn’t certain he wanted to hurt her, she says, and doesn’t even believe he wanted to steal her car. The key, she told us, was trusting her instinct and not over-reacting. “A lot of people second-guess

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A single day of the Marin County District Attorney’s gun buyback program yielded 877 weapons, left, all destined for the incinerator, right.

Washington seems less and less likely. themselves, and in a situation like this you Bragman, who helped pass a symbolic have to go with your gut.” measure in Fairfax circulated by New York Certainly words won’t always stop an Mayor Michael Bloomberg after Sandy Hook, armed aggressor. Then again, neither will aims his ire at a familiar target: the NRA. “The NRA has really become a mouthpiece guns. And, for gun-control advocates, the problem is that firearms shoot both ways. “I for the firearms industry and has exerted so think more guns in homes and cars just leads much control and public relations spin that to more deaths, or they fall into the wrong it dampened the enthusiasm of lawmakers hands,” says Humphrey. in Washington—but I don’t think public Both Humphrey and Bragman disagree opinion has changed at all,” says Bragman.

“There is still a strong majority of citizens that with the slogan, “If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.” would prefer to have reasonable and rational “If you pass an assault weapons ban, law gun control.” enforcement will still have those weapons,” Because guns and ammunition pass says Bragman. “What the NRA has done through interstate commerce, Bragman that is so insidious is to sow skepticism and points out, it’s ultimately up to the feds to distrust of government, including law encrack down. But, he adds, that doesn’t mean forcement. They have their free speech rights, local action is meaningless. of course, but this is an “Maybe it has to start on organized manipulation.” the local level,” said BragGuns on the rise?

All this can leave the man. “Local government is average citizen, in Marin Firearm Felony Charge more well-trusted, more in Referrals in Marin or anywhere else, feeling touch with the community.” a bit helpless. As partisans Which again begs the 2009 - 2010 bicker and mass shootings Requests for charges: 8 question: where does our keep happening, reasonCharges filed: 6 community stand on guns? able people, including many 2011 - 2012 Here’s an interesting bellgun-owners, are caught in Request for charges: 24 wether: as talk of an assault Charges filed: 20 the crosshairs. As ever, the weapons ban heated up earantidote to inertia is action.

Source: Marin County DA’s office lier this year, Baradat says “The main reaction we local sales on AR-style rifles got from people with the skyrocketed. “When the buyback program,” said Berpoliticians and powers that be say they want berian, “was, ‘I know I can’t solve the problem to take something away, people will buy it,” he says. “I’ve been through a couple of the assault by myself, but I want to do something.’” < weapons bans, and there were more of those The pen is mightier than the AK15 at jacobsjottings@gmail.com.

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Manzarek was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Doors in 1993.

When the music’s over Ray Manzarek breaks on through to the other side

by G re g Cahill

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ast week, the rock world mourned the death of Ray Manzarek, the freethinking keyboardist, composer and arranger of the Doors, who met Jim Morrison at UCLA film school and brought a literary and cinematic aesthetic to the band’s complex pop music.

Manzarek died May 20 at a German medical clinic of complications of bileduct cancer. “Long after the death of [Doors singer Jim] Morrison in 1971, the music of the Doors remained synonymous with the darker, more primal impulses unleashed by psychedelia,” The New York Times opined in Manzarek’s obituary. “In his 1998 autobiography, Light My Fire, Mr. Manzarek wrote: ‘We knew what the people wanted: the same thing the Doors wanted. Freedom.’”

He’s usually associated with Southern California and was best known for his role in co-founding one of the ’60s most influential and successful rock bands. But in the ’80s, Manzarek went on produce other bands, including several albums by the seminal L.A. punk band X. In an

interview last year with the Sun, X bassist, songwriter and cofounder John Doe, who now resides in Fairfax, recalled the impact of meeting Manzarek for the first time (when, at a Whiskey A-Go-Go show on L.A’s notorious Sunset Strip , Manzarek’s wife pointed out that X was covering the Doors’ “Soul Kitchen”).

“I was awestruck. My jaw dropped,” Doe recalled. “Jim Morrison and his poetry and the Doors music were something that as a teen I was completely infatuated with. I was drawn to their dark side. Having Ray validate our band was a huge confidence builder.

Most recently, Manzarek had performed and recorded with Marin blues guitarist Roy Rogers (the two toured earlier this year and collaborated on their soon-to-bereleased third album, Twisted Tales).

“Ray was a great friend and musical collaborator. It was my pleasure to know him,” Rogers said last week. “He was a really great guy and he lived in the moment at all times. We had some wonderful tours together, not only with the band, but as a duet. He was very literate and well read—

we had animated conversations on just about every subject.

“When I first started working with Ray, I was unaware that he was from the South Side of Chicago, so it was a revelation to me that he had serious roots in blues as well as early rock and roll. Making music with him was a wonderful experience and we became even better friends in the process.

“I shall miss him.”

Indeed Manzarek, who in recent years lived on a small ranch in Napa, where he tended his organic garden and a small orchard, had deep roots in Marin.

On June 10, 1967, with their debut album just released and fresh from honing their riveting stage act as the house band at the Whiskey, the Doors played their first major concert outside of L.A. The location: high atop Mt. Tam at the Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival (you can watch a soundless, grainy 8mm film of their performance on YouTube).

More recently, in 2006, the Mill Valley Film Festival presented “The Doors Going on Forty: An Evening with Ray Manzarek

and Ben Fong-Torres.” Bay Area writer Fong-Torres, author of the book The Doors by the Doors, emceed a conversation and discussion of film clips ranging from the band’s music videos to Manzarek’s 1964 and 1965 student films, starring his wife, Dorothy Fujikawa, and Jim Morrison before he co-founded the Doors.

Manzarek was joined onstage by Beat poet Michael McClure and Marin bassist Rob Wasserman, among others.

I interviewed Manzarek that fall for the festival’s souvenir program (the first of two interviews I conducted with him). For me, the opportunity had personal significance: the Doors’ first album provided the musical accompaniment the first time I opened the doors of perception on a tab of blue swirl.

For him, it was his one-millionth interview. Yet he was gracious, and eager to entertain questions he had heard before and few he hadn’t.

I found him to be smart, perceptive and able to shift quickly from talking about music to the meaning of life—everything you’d want from one of your rock idols.

Here’s how he summed up his time with the Doors—an observation that captures what many friends and colleagues regard as his positive, life-affirming approach to existence, and that serves as a suitable epitaph: “I always thought of the Doors as a joy-infused band, too. People categorize us as Dionysian and dark, but Dionysian is also full of revelry,” he said. “I mean, ‘Light My Fire’ is a great lovemaking song—it’s a fuck song that culminates at the end of the solos in a grand orgasm. And I’ve always thought of that as extremely happy.

“The thing that’s so great about being a musician is that the first person you please is yourself. You just tear your own heart out, you get yourself off. You have the orgasm.

You just get high on the results of your creativity. And that’s how it was for the Doors, really getting high on our own creation.

“It’s very much like God getting high on God’s own creation. As we create—music or art or a garden—we approach the creator and even become the creator.

“The joy of that is just overwhelming.” < Touch Greg at gcahill51@gmail.com.

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by Charles Brousse

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t 2,572 feet elevation, Mt. Tamalpais its ill-fated Anschluss with Nazi Germanyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; has something its taller regional a move bitterly opposed by the nationalistic cousins, Mr. Hamilton and Mt. DiaCaptain von Trapp. blo, canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t match. In a large bowl near the In keeping with its title, the script is summit lies Cushing Memorial Amphithestudded with memorable songs, from Maater, whose stone environs house the annual riaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s joyous musical declaration that â&#x20AC;&#x153;The (since 1913) rite of spring known simply as hills are aliveâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;Ś (beautifully rendered by the Mountain Play.

Heather Buck), to the stirring â&#x20AC;&#x153;Climb Evâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ry In the early days, these were mostly outMountainâ&#x20AC;? (a full-throated Hope Briggs as door celebrations of seasonal change, many the Mother Abbess), and a wistful â&#x20AC;&#x153;Edelwith a Native American theme. Then, when weissâ&#x20AC;? (Ryan Drummond as the Captain cultural tastes changed around 1980, they joins Maria and all the kids as the von Trapp became multi-performance, community family prepares to ďŹ&#x201A;ee their beloved Austria produced presentations of popular Broadfor Switzerland)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;to name only a few. way musicals. In either case, they were, Impressive as they are, these and the and remain, unique. When conditions are other talented performers who make up the rightâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;no fog, rain or oppressive heat; a fes- musicalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s large ensemble must share their tive crowd, happily consuming their picnic success with their backstage support. Debra food and drink; air so clear that it invites Chambliss leads and performs in a 15-piece jaw-dropping views across the bay to San orchestra that sounded better than any Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; s nothing quite like it. heard on the mountain, thanks in part to All of the above were present for the the excellent ampliďŹ cation system supplied opening performance of this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s show by Ultra Sound/Pro Media. Ken Rowlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and it seems likely that Tyrolean-themed set uses (barring some unforeseen revolving turntables for weather change) they will virtually seamless scene NOW PLAYING continue throughout a run changes. Dottie LesterThe Sound of Music that ends June 16. But the White makes the most of runs through June 16 in really exciting news is that her brief choreographic the Cushing Memorial The Sound of Music, choopportunities and Pat Amphitheatre, Mt. Tamalpais State Park. Informasen to be the ďŹ rst Mountain Polenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s costumes, as usual, tion: 415/383-1100 or visit Play of the modern era to are spot on. Also, in what MountainPlay.org be staged by anyone not has become traditional in named James Dunn, is one these productions, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s of the strongest in recent a surprise visual feature in memory. Guest director Jay Manley knew the second act. Watch for it. he had big shoes to ďŹ ll and he has done so For an effort that is primarily community handsomely with a musical that began in the theater reinforced by a sprinkling of profescramped conďŹ nes of a New York playhouse, sionals, when at its best (as it is this year) was expanded in a well-known feature ďŹ lm, Marinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mountain Play combines artistic and now seems ideally suited for this hilltop rewards with a full day of healthy outdoor amphitheater. activity with family, neighbors, friends and Drawing on Maria von Trappâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memoir, thousands of boisterous people youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Story of the Trapp Family Singers,â&#x20AC;? seen before and never will again. No wonder The Sound of Music was a collaboration the institution has endured for 100 years! < among some of Broadwayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brightest Charles can be reached at cbrousse@juno.com Golden Age luminaries: Richard Rodgers (music), Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics), and Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse (book). Set in the Austrian Alps, its plot is the simple story of Maria Rainer, a young novitiate at a Catholic convent whose exuberant spirit, especially a love of singing, compels her to leave the order and become governess for a widowed retired naval captain with seven bumptious children.

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une really is bustin’ out all over, with all sorts of ways to eat and drink and have some fun; it’s the beginning of a busy summer in Marin and nearby destinations. Two upcoming community events offer different but equally appealing atmospheres. The Novato Festival of Art, Wine and Music on Grant Avenue in Old Town (June 8-9) showcases more than 50 carefully selected The Novato Festival of Art, Wine and Music... not necessarily in that order. wines along with hand-crafted beers. Specialties from local restion guests will gather in the Cooking taurants and producers (grilled tri-tip, ar- School kitchen to watch the pair in action tichokes, pulled pork sandwiches) as well as they prepare the six-course meal. Dinas familiar carnival treats like corndogs ner with paired wines will be served in and curly fries will be sold while 200 arts private dining rooms. It will include speand crafts booths and live performances cialties like Marin oysters, Lone Mounon two stages add to the experience tain Ranch wagyu ribeye beef and locally throughout both days. Free. Hours are foraged fennel and wild mushrooms. Cost 10am-7pm Saturday, 10am-6pm Sunday. is $140 per person, exclusive of tax and Details: www.novatoartwinemusic.com… gratuities. Information and reservations: Out in Point Reyes Station on Saturday, www.cavallopoint.com/events.

June 8,the decades-old Western Weekend OUT IN SONOMA It’s Pride Month and celebration gives all of us a glimpse of Sonoma is ready! June 15-17 will bring life on Marin’s edge where ranches and celebrants from all over to Gay Wine farms are a way of life. The big draw is Weekend with wine tasting, extravagant the parade at noon (get there early for a dinners, a drag cabaret night, tours and all good viewing spot) with everything from manner of entertainment closing with the homecoming queens to lots of kids on Gay Wine Auction and Recovery Brunch, a horses, homemade floats and enthusiastic fundraiser for AIDS causes. Sponsor is Out crowds. Barbecued chicken with fixings in the Vineyard, an LBGT tour and events and samples from the pie cook-off keep company, who suggests registering right everyone well fed; attractions like raffles, away—some events and lodgings are al4-H exhibits and live music around town ready booked. www.outinthevineyard.com. keep them busy.

DAD’S DAY DOINGS June 16 is HOW PROS PARTY You don’t have to Father’s Day and it’s time to make up be a prospective bride to get something for that second-class feeling around the out of this weekend’s Wedding & Special holiday after last month’s Mother’s Day Events Expo at Piatti Ristorante in Mill excesses. Here are a couple of suggestions Valley (Sunday, June 2, noon-3pm). The that require planning ahead to spoil dad group of elite vendors—florists, specialty with equal attention. Get an early start bakeries, designers, et al—should inspire with a June 15 trip to True Grass Farms anyone planning important entertainin Valley Ford and avoid all those Sunday ment in the near future, like a significant crowds. An 11am tour of the working birthday or a landmark anniversary. ranch will be followed by a Bacon Brunch Enjoy drinks and appetizers from the (yes!) by chef Matthew Elias. That means restaurant, register for extravagant raffle bacon in every course including dessert, prizes, and learn how the pros party. The along with farm-fresh foods served in a expo is free, but an RSVP is encouraged. relaxed outdoor setting. Cost is $45-60.

Phone Kristin Lehmkuhl at 415/306-1514 RSVP at http://truegrassfarms.com… or email her: klehmkuhl@piatti.com.

Wine-loving papas would undoubtedly BIG CHEFS GO NORTH Two awardappreciate Chateau St. Jean’s Pinot & winning chefs will create a unique dining Pizza experience in Kenwood on June 16. experience Thursday, June 6, when CaIt’s enjoyed out on the grounds with live vallo Point Lodge (Fort Baker, Sausalito) acoustic rock music for an upbeat mood, brings together Justin Everett of Murray noon-4pm. Cost: $20 per person. Reserve Circle Restaurant and John Cox, chef of at www.chateaustjean.com. < Sierra Mar at Post Ranch in Big Sur. After Get festive with Pat at patfusco@sonic.net. a 6:30pm champagne and canapé recep-

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That’s the general feeling one got when it was announced last fall that Hopmonk Tavern was moving into the Novato digs recently, and very briefly, occupied by the Southern Pacific Smokehouse—which opened with fanfare at Vintage Oaks in early 2012 as north Marin’s premiere restaurant/music venue only to close 10 months later when it failed to gain a steady Hopmonk—putting the rock ‘n’ roll into retail shopping plazas. audience. Conjecture at the time was that SmokeJefferson Starship and Michelle Shocked house management was overly optimistic are booking. (Hopmonk was among the in its projected ticket sales. Others said first venues to drop Shocked following her the place came off too generic (word had anti-gay rant at Yoshi’s in March; in her it the restaurant was intended as a launch- place they booked a “comedy for equality” ing pad for a franchise). But whatever has- standup show, with proceeds benefiting tened such an inglorious smothering of the the Spectrum LGBT Center. Nice touch.)

Smokehouse, it was yet another reminder Still, is there enough cache to get North of a sad and seeming constant—Novato, a Marin audiences to turn off at the Rowtown of 50,000, hasn’t been able to sustain a land exit, veer right past Taco Bell, consizable live music venue since …ever. tinue down past IHOP, for a show? We’ll This could change with Hopmonk. First see. But for the first time in years, Novato’s and foremost, it’s got local cred in owner got a live music venue/restaurant/beer hall Dean Biersch, of Gordon Biersch Brewing that’s got us believing their glass is more Company. He’s got two other Hopmonk than half full.

Taverns—Sebastopol and Sonoma—so he Ninety nine bottles of what? That’d be knows a thing or two about opening livebeer. And our count had it at about 125 music pub venues. And, thus far, keeping draft and bottled options. We recommend them open. the Uerige Doppel Sticke, for the name There’s a lot to like about the Novato alone.

Hopmonk—two things in particular. First, What’s the specialty? Burgers and they passed our pub-food test. This isn’t sandwiches, natch. But we were also pleasfancy food, it’s definitely got the required antly surprised by the Tavern Samosas number of items fried in beer batter ac($10), cider-braised salmon ($23.50), and companied by a starchy side to qualify they toss up a loaded Greek salad ($12.50). as pub grub. But from what we tasted, Fixin’s in need of fixin’? For some reathe kitchen is a cut above other nearby son we expected more out of the hot beer purveyors of such hearty, if not always sausage and potatoes ($15)—a sausage batheart-friendly fare. They also do well ter, or spicy dips perhaps?—but in the end with seafood—typically the downfall of this was just bangers and mash. restaurants whose “beer menu” numbers Service? Dutiful. over 100. Then there’s the live music—the Only in Marin One of our food spies stage is in a spacious, separate room on reported a raucous March evening in the west side of the building. Attracting the Session Room, which found several consistent crowds to what’s now called the recently laid-off Lucasfilm Attack of the “session room” was one of the struggles Clones animators at their final “wrap of Southern Pacific. And, in all likeliparty” in various states of “[alcohol] fueled hood, it’ll be a challenge to consistently aggression” spilling out onto the sidewalk pack a Tuesday night show for Hopmonk, (much to the chagrin of a very apologetic as well. But some of the better-known Hopmonk staff). “Drunk animators!” our local bands—Steve Kimock, Moonalice, correspondent lamented.

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“Aside from the fact, of course,” he adds, “that Monsters, Inc. is just a really remarkably entertaining movie.”

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In addition to his work with the Marin Symphony, Rodgers is the founder and creative director of Montara Creative, a branding and integrated marketing agency working primarily with organizations and companies focused on the arts, music, real estate and hospitality markets. He also serves as board president of Youth in Arts, a Marin-based program that introduces young people to the worlds of visual and performing arts.

Monsters, Inc., Pixar’s fourth full-length feature film—exploring the phenomenon of monsters in the closet from the monsters’ point of view—was released in 2001, and is making a bit of a comeback. The 3-D version hit the theaters last December, winning a new generation of fans as Pixar prepares for this year’s release of the much-anticipated prequel, Monsters University. Marin audiences will have a chance to see the original on the big screen this Saturday, June 1, as part of California Film Institute’s new Movie Night’s at Town Center series.

And Monsters, Inc. will make an appearance again—along with professional frighteners Sully, Mike, and their gooey, furry, scaly friends—as part of the Marin Symphony’s high-profile afternoon event “The Music of Pixar.” Under the direction of Conductor

Alasdair Neale, the symphony will perform memorable themes culled from the soundtracks of all 13 Pixar movies. The score for the program was specifically designed to accompany projected clips from the films, all matched with the music to create a unique visual and musical experience that combines the classical art form with state-of-the art animation. “’The Music of Pixar,’” explains Rodgers, “was designed to be a symphony concert that takes the audience on a kind of amazing journey through the world of Pixar films.”

In addition to reintroducing the characters

Rodgers hopes to win over new classical music fans— especially those whose loyalty isn’t reliant on ‘monsters, fish and talking toys.’

from a baker’s dozen of beloved animated films, the event also serves as a showcase for the compositions of four different composers.

The Oscar-winning Randy Newman has written the scores for six Pixar films: all three Toy Story films, A Bug’s Life, Monsters, Inc. and the first Cars movie. His prolific cousin Thomas Newman (Revenge of the Nerds, American Beauty, Six Feet Under) contributed the scores for Finding Nemo and Wall-E. Michael Giacchino has done four—The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Up and Cars 2—while Patrick Doyle joined the group for the first time last year with the Academy Awardwinning Brave.

The Marin Symphony will perform classics from a Pixar canon that includes ‘There’s Fish in My Hair!’ from ‘Finding Nemo’ and ‘It’s Finn McMissile’ from ‘Cars 2.’

‘The Music of Pixar’ aims to show that mainstream audiences don’t have to be afraid of symphonic music.

“Of them all, I particularly love the music According to Rodgers, the Pixar event from Brave,” says Rodgers. “It’s a brilliant is just one in a calculated series of moviescore, in a totally different way from the other themed programs designed to entertain and Pixar movies. It’s the only Pixar movie with a educate, while possibly winning new fans for female character at the center, and the music the symphony. In September, the Marin Symsupports that character beautifully.” phony’s first Waterfront Pops Concert, held The reigning king of Pixar composers, of outdoors at the Marin Civic Center Lagoon, course, is Randy Newman. The upcoming will feature the music of John Williams. In Monsters University marks his seventh Pixar March of 2014, the symphony will present a effort—Newman’s music has set the bar for program titled “The Magical Music of Disanimated films. ney,” and in June of 2014, the symphony will “As a composer,” Rodger notes, “Newman accompany a screening of the film “Pirates is amazingly facile. The way his music can of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl,” support a story line is pretty remarkable, the playing the entire, pulse-pounding orchestral way he can change mood and change feeling so quickly from moment to moment. His mu- score along with the movie.

“Most audiences take the music for granted sic has these dramatic shifts that are incredibly beautiful to hear. in movies, TV shows, video games, commer“In Monsters, Inc., which is about the fears cials,” says Rodgers. “That’s a little perplexing, children have, the monsters lurking in the because classical music and classical instrucloset, the music is such a major piece of that mentation have been part of the fabric of film. Randy Newman’s music takes us, both movies and television from the beginning. children and adults, on this journey through “Music is a key part of the complete experifear, into excitement, and on to elation. He ence of media. But people often don’t make can take us from it’s-scary-now to it’s-OKthat connection. They don’t recognize how now with amazing ease.” important classical music Each Pixar composer, he orchestras are in the delivery says, has brought a different COMING SOON of mainstream media.” flavor to the art form. In FindMonsters, Inc. screens To survive and thrive as ing Nemo and Wall-E, ThomSaturday, June 1, at 8pm an orchestra, he is suggestas Newman created lush, offat Corte Madera Town ing, organizations like the the-wall, fluid and immersive Center. The outdoor event Marin Symphony will have soundscapes were like dipis free. “The Music of Pixar” to fi nd creative new ways to takes place Sunday, June 9, ping the audience’s senses 3pm, at Marin Civic Center, help people make that coninto a pool of music. And 10 Avenue of the Flags.

Michael Giacchino’s score for nection.

415/473-6800 the superhero adventure The “We’ve decided to lead by Incredibles was something example,” he says, “providing new again: a horn heavy an experience that is both homage to ’60s-era spy films, with a jazzy, self- musical and visual. For people who’ve only aware sense of humor built into every passage. experienced this kind of music at the movies, “As we’ve been working through the score it will be a huge thing to be hearing the music of the Pixar concert,” Rodgers notes, “digperformed live. What we’ve found, is that ging into the depths of it, we’re discovering when people come to these kinds of events, what a huge undertaking this is. There are 13 once they’ve had a chance to experience a live films referenced here! The score shifts gears orchestra for the first time, they will more so often between styles and tone, blending inclined to want to experience live orchestral from one kind of story style to another—the music again. demands on the orchestra and the players “Without,” he adds, laughing, “the are huge, not to mention the people who added benefit of monsters and fish and are triggering the various sound effects that talking toys.” < accompany the orchestral score. It’s all quite Score one with David at talkpix@earthlink.net. amazing.”

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ilmmaker Micha X. Peled has made a career out of documenting the dark side of Western consumerism—the factory workers and villagers on the losing end of Americans’ self-proclaimed right to shop till we drop.

Peled, a native of Israel and former Mill Valley resident, is returning to Marin in June to present his Globalization Trilogy— Store Wars, about a small town divided over the construction of a Wal-Mart; China Blue, which follows a Chinese girl embarking on a dismal “career” in a blue jean factory; and Bitter Seeds, about Monsanto’s devastation of an ancient culture (and one Indian girl whose dreams are bigger than Big Ag).

We asked him whether one filmmaker can really save the world.

How politically active were you when you lived in Mill Valley?

I came here in the early 1980s, after grad school in Boston. This was even then a very vibrant area. I settled in Mill Valley, and really plugged into the local community in 1984 when I was hired as the local director of the Nuclear Freeze. We ran a campaign that got Marin voted the first Nuclear Free Zone county in the nation— we also won a Pacific Sun Best Community Organization award. My first videos were made for the movement.

A lot of filmmakers focus on comedies or crime films or romcoms—how does one end up with a “globalization trilogy”?

I think globalization is the overarching

theme of this century, at least so far. It’s so complex you need 10 academic degrees to make sense of it. I certainly didn’t set out to explain all that. [In the film Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town, 2001] I took one aspect—consumerism—which touches directly on everybody’s life, and put a human face on this supply chain that allows us to shop till we drop. Instead of providing more expert opinions and information, I wanted to tell the stories of the people involved in the growing and making of the goods we buy.

The final film, Bitter Seeds, shows how Americans’ need for pristine lawns and corn syrup has led to Monsanto’s rape of Indian “seed culture.” That was in 2011, just as this issue was starting to become known in the U.S. Someone in a film festival said that I must go to India for the third trilogy film.

She said the farmers are in such despair that every 30 minutes one of them kills himself. I was sure she was exaggerating. After I crunched the numbers and researched the globalization angle, I had to go to India to look for myself.

You make a point of wrapping your big-picture topics around individuals.

China Blue, for instance, follows the young Sichuan village girl as she becomes practically a slave laborer in a Chinese blue jean factory.

The critical part is not the topic, but the story and character. You can find a dozen important issues every time you check the

Jasmine and Liping take a ‘break’ at the jean factory in ‘China Blue.’

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Dark Passage, the Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall film noir from 1947, opens as Bogart’s character, inmate Vincent Parry, escapes from the San Quentin state prison and heads south along the Corte Madera waterfront toward San Francisco. The first half hour of Dark Passage is seen through Parry’s eyes (he’ll eventually undergo plastic surgery to ensure he’s never recognized as escapee Parry, and from then is depicted in the film as Bogart). This shot, in which Parry peeks through the underbrush back at San Quentin, would have situated the character somewhere along Paradise Drive in Corte Madera. —Jason Walsh

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Perhaps the most unsettling thread of director Nancy Kelly’s REBELS WITH A CAUSE is how close Marin was to becoming our Millbrae with four trees.

That may be only a bit of a suburban stretch, as this homegrown documentary plays out like a compelling drama, pitting ranchers, the board of supervisors, and an Nancy Kelly’s film follows the 1960s fight to protect Point environmentally stunted Congress Reyes from the clutches of greedy developers. against the noble (and, at the time, novel) idea of creating a protected national seashore at Point Reyes.

Imagine land developers drooling as they put forth their plans to plant a string of luxury high-rise hotels along Inverness Ridge, touting spectacular westward views.

Or an eight-lane east-west highway, and a high-rise hotel with boat slips and heliport in the middle of Bolinas Lagoon. Or a 2,100-acre planned community on the Marin Headlands housing 30,000 people in garden apartments, townhouses and 50 towers, anchored by a mile-long shopping mall and space for light industry. (To be called Marincello, the county actually gave the go-ahead in November, 1965 to Pennsylvania developer Thomas Frouge and Gulf Oil, no weak-kneed adversaries, and bulldozers immediately tore into the earth.)

So how did all of it end up protected?

Kelly and her editor/co-producer Kenji Yamamoto cleverly weave archival footage, interviews, animation and narration by Frances McDormand into an educational and entertaining doc, one that draws us into a nervous sweat, with showdowns rising up over decades again and again in Whack-A-Mole fashion. You have to wonder if these COMING SOON developers stayed up late trying to create indelible Rebels With a Cause nightmares. opens Friday, June 7, at Yet every defense of the land began here at the the Rafael Film Center. grass-roots level where, fortunately, grass still grows 72 minutes. 415/454and we can dream peacefully. Without these rebels, 1222. it’s certain we’d wake up screaming. —Mal Karman

news. But I’m primarily a storyteller.

If I can find a dramatic story, from real life, about an important issue that hasn’t yet been covered much, than I’m interested. And if I find compelling characters that we’d want to watch what happens to them, I turn on the camera.

Peled’s production company Teddy Bear Films got its name in 1999 when the director embarked on his WalMart documentary. He chose the name so that if he were sued by the litigious big-box company, headlines would report: ‘Wal-Mart sues Teddy Bear.’

Is it hard to find the “protagonists” in your films?

They’re taking a bit of a risk in trusting you, aren’t they?

You need to be on the ground, keep your eyes peeled, and know what you’re look for. In China, once I was able to convince a factory owner to let me film without restrictions, I found out who were the new hires. I started filming with three of them, and quickly settled on the most promising one. But I also had my associate producer embedded in the factory for two weeks.

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There are many socio-political filmmakers, but very few of them find distribution—where do they go wrong?

[They need to] make films that will captivate a broad audience rather than preach to the choir.

So where did you get those nice jeans you’re wearing, hmm?

Whenever I can I try to buy fair trade.

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In India I was looking for a girl at mar- from big brands, companies that comply with labor laws. There riage age whose father is now a pioneer blue can’t afford her dowry. jeans company, American Many of the farmers who COMING SOON Denimatrix, that works had killed themselves Micha X. Peled’s Globaliwith the U.S.-based Plains were in such a situation. I zation Trilogy runs June Cotton Collective Assoc., went from one rural high 2 to 9 at the Rafael Film that enables you to scan the school to another and Center, with the director in item’s tag and see pics and talked to the senior class person. Visit www.cafilm. text about the farmers that girls. I asked them about org for showtimes. grew the cotton used in their future dreams. Many the garment. This is an exsaid they’d like to be a ample of direct consumer teacher or nurse, if their parents will allow. One day a girl said she demand. Still, the company is complaining wanted to be a journalist. My ears perked that many consumers prefer the discount up. I asked her why. She said she wanted to retail, and clearly they can’t compete on tell the world about farmers’ crisis. Manju- the price. < sha became the film’s protagonist, and we watch her interviewing her neighbors as Peled’s latest project is the West Coast Cup for Social Change, a street soccer event in San Francisco to benefit homeless youth. she tries to write her first article.

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season—a show that FRIDAY, MAY 31 Primetime: What gives you a dose of Would You Do? Hidden cameras test that “Hey, maybe I’m unwitting passersby on their reactions to not so bad after all” staged incidents, including cheating, stealconfidence. You could ing and racist behavior. You will be tested watch a show about on your reaction to pandering to the lowest elephant seals on Anicommon denominator. ABC. 9pm.

Krakatoa When this South Pacific volcano mal Planet if you need erupted in 1883, it obliterated an entire extra help. ABC. 8pm.

Beastly A teen is cursed island and the explosion to be ugly until he can was heard more than find true love. This hap2,000 miles away. This is pens to a lot of teens. a must-see documentary It’s actually part of the for anybody who got that marketing pitch for Great Deals on Krakatoa Clearasil. (2011) The Time Shares! e-mail that Movie Channel. 8pm. was going around. KQED. Brooklyn DA A new 9pm. crime series follows Treehouse Masters A criminal prosecutors new series follows a buildwho had kids and could er who constructs elabono longer afford the rate, multi-story treehousmore expensive crimes es. You can get electricity, in Manhattan. CBS. plumbing, stainless steel A great ‘flipping’ opportunity, as well!

10pm. appliances and, for a little Friday, 9pm. extra, a hand-carved “No WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5 Gurls Alllowed!” sign. AniSnakes on a Plane It’s mal Planet. 9pm. nice when you can fit the whole plot into the title. (2006) Spike. 7pm.

SATURDAY JUNE 1 Call of the Wildman Elbow Room Another series about home Marathon A whole night of watching a renovation follows a contractor who builds man who specializes in removing snapping additions to give families more space. In turtles and other “nuisance animals.” Whenreality, people don’t need more space. They ever we have a problem with our nuisance need less crap. HGTV. 8pm. animals we send them to spend the weekThere Will Be Blood The tail of a ruthless end with their grandmother. Animal Planet. turn-of-the-century oil tycoon highlights 7pm. the roots of greed and depravity in the oil Deadly Spa A mother and her daughter business. The updated version would likely vacation at a luxurious spa that might be be There Will Be Blood, But It Will Be In Iraq Or the front for a brain-washing cult. We’d join Some Other Country With Fewer White Peoa cult if it included a hot stone massage ple. (2007) Sundance. 8pm. and a complimentary sunset cocktail hour.

Top Shots All Stars They brought back (2013) Lifetime. 8pm. a show about people shooting guns. So SUNDAY, JUNE 2 Princesses: Long much for that “sea change” in the firearm Island A new reality show about young debate. History Channel. 10pm. women who still live with their parents and THURSDAY, JUNE 6 It Came from expect everything done for them. It’s like Beneath the Sea A giant octopus attacks the farm league for the Real Housewives San Francisco. These are ‘50s special effects of…series. Bravo. 9pm. so it’s really It Came from the Chew Toy Bin at Mega Python vs. Gatoroid Giant snakes Petco. (1956) Turner Classic Movies. 9:30pm. and giant alligators rampage in the EverProperty Wars People losing their homes glades. But nobody notices because eveto foreclosure is now a spectator sport. rybody moved away when the Florida real We’re maybe six months away from The estate market imploded. (2011) SyFy. 9pm.

Hunger Games as a reality series. Discovery MONDAY, JUNE 3 Robin Hood The stirChannel. 10:30pm < ring adventures of a crusader who stole from the rich to give to the poor. According Critique That TV Guy at letters@pacificsun.com. to Paul Ryan that’s everybody who makes less than $70,000 a year.

(2010) Spike. 4:30pm.

Hawaii Five-O A stalker targets a super model. We heard an announcement at the grocery store that they were recruiting “late night stalkers.” But we may have heard it wrong. CBS. 10pm.

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F R I D AY M AY 3 1 — T H U R S D AY J U N E 6 M ovie summaries by M at t hew St af for d

N New Movies This Week

Showtimes for the Northgate and Regency cinemas were unavailable as we went to press. Please visit Cinemark.com for schedule updates.

We regret the inconvenience.

After Earth (PG-13)

NBitter Seeds (Not Rated) NChina Blue (Not Rated) NElemental (Not Rated)

Epic (PG)

Fast & Furious 6 (PG-13) Frances Ha (R) The Great Gatsby (PG-13)

The Hangover Part III (R)

Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfus need a bigger boat in ‘Jaws,’ playing at the Regency and the Sequoia Sunday and Wednesday.

O After Earth (1:40) M. Night Shyamalan O The Iceman (1:1:45) Prize-winning biopic

directs Will and Jaden Smith as a father and son who find themselves stranded on a futuristic Earth made barren by a cataclysmic apocalypse.

O Bitter Seeds (1:28) Must-see documentary about Monsanto’s hybrid fabrics and their disastrous effect on the cotton farmers of central India.

O China Blue (1:27) Micha X. Peled’s riveting documentary looks at a Chinese teenager and her underpaid, overworked life in a sweatshop making blue jeans for you and me.

O The Croods (1:31) Dazzling animation highlights the story of a prehistoric family emerging from their cave to behold the wide world; Emma Stone and Nic Cage vocalize.

O Elemental (1:33) Documentary follows three grassroots ecologists on their inspiring struggle against pipelines, pollution and other global mega-issues.

O Epic (1:43) Animated tale of a teenage girl who teams up with a band of warriors to save the world from the forces of evil; Christoph Waltz and Beyoncé Knowles vocalize.

O Fast & Furious 6 (2:08) The expat road warriors reunite in London to take down a mob of mercenary motorists; Dwayne Johnson, Vin Diesel and Paul Walker star, of course.

O 42 Biopic of the great Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodger who broke baseball’s color line in 1947; Chadwick Boseman stars.

O Frances Ha (1:26) Truffaut-esque portrait of a wannabe dancer (Greta Gerwig) and her search for a real actual grownup sort of life; Noah Baumbach directs.

O The Great Gatsby (2:23) Baz Luhrmann takes on the great American novel with his signature razzle-dazzle; Leo DiCaprio is the shadowy Long Island millionaire, sure, but Carey Mulligan as Daisy?

O The Hangover Part III (1:40) Zach Galifianakis, Bradey Cooper, Heather Graham and the gang are back and making the most of a booze- and drug-fueled road trip to Tijuana.

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of Richard Kuklinski, devoted family man and highly successful contract killer; James Franco, Ray Liotta and Winona Ryder star.

O Iron Man 3 (2:10) Robert Downey, Jr. is back as the genius superhero inventor, pitted this time against a destructive nemesis with a personal axe to grind; Don Cheadle and Gwyneth Paltrow costar.

O Jaws (2:04) Spielberg’s best movie, about a great white shark seeking protein along the New England coast, is really about the terrific acting chemistry between mammals Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss.

O Kon-Tiki (1:58) Dazzling docudrama about Thor Heyerdahl’s legendary 4,300-mile, three-month transpacific journey from Peru to Polynesia aboard a primitive balsa raft.

O Midnight’s Children (2:20) Salman Rushdie’s sweeping historical novel hits the big screen with Satya Bhabha and Shahana Goswami as the prince and pauper living one another’s lives against the backdrop of Indian independence.

O Mud (2:10) Man-on-the-run Matthew McConaughey awaits girlfriend Reese Witherspoon on a remote Mississippi island as bounty hunters close in.

O Now You See Me (1:56) A band of elite magicians employ their talents to rob from the rich and give to the poor; Isla Fisher and Woody Harrelson star.

O Star Trek Into Darkness (2:12) Kirk, Spock and the gang take on a weapon of mass destruction that’s crippled Star Fleet and everything it stands for!

O Stories We Tell (1:48) Documentarian/ actress Sarah Polley trains her camera on her own family and gets a veritable Rashomon of conflicting stories about her late mother.

O What Maisie Knew (1:39) Henry James’ novel (revised and updated) hits the big screen with Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan as parents too self-involved to raise their child with any sort of empathy. <

Iron Man 3 (PG-13) NJaws (PG)

Midnight’s Children (Not Rated) NNow You See Me (PG-13)

Star Trek Into Darkness (PG-13)

Stories We Tell (PG-13)

Cinema: Fri-Sun 11:20, 1:45, 4:20, 7, 9:35 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:20, 7, 9:35 Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12, 2:20, 4:40, 7, 9:25 Sun-Thu 12, 2:20, 4:40, 7 Rowland: 10, 12:30, 3, 5:30, 7:55, 10:25 Rafael: Sun 7 (director Micha X. Peled in person with local ecologists Ignacio Chapela and Mark Squire) Rafael: 7 (director Micha X. Peled via Skype) Rafael: Fri 6:30 (director Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee in person) Sat 2, 6:30 (Vaughan-Lee in person at 6:30 show) Sun 2, 6:30 Mon, Wed, Thu 6:30 Tue 6:30 (Vaughan-Lee in person) Fairfax: 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Lark: Fri-Sat 3, 5:30, 8 Sun, Tue-Thu 2, 4:30, 7 Mon 4:30, 7 Marin: Fri 4:15, 9:45; 3D showtime at 7:15 Sat 4:15, 9:45; 3D showtimes at 1:15, 7:15 Sun 4:15; 3D showtimes at 1:15, 7:15 Mon-Thu 4:40; 3D showtime at 7:15 Rowland: 11, 4:30, 9:50; 3D showtimes at 1:45, 7:10 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Thu 7:15, 10:20 Sat-Sun 12:45, 4, 7:15, 10:20 Rowland: 10, 11:30, 1, 2:30, 4, 5:30, 7, 8:30, 10 Rafael: Fri, Mon-Thu 4:45, 6:45, 8:45 Sat-Sun 2:45, 4:45, 6:45, 8:45 Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:20, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Sun-Thu 12:20, 3:30, 6:30 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Thu 7; 3D showtime at 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:30, 7; 3D showtimes at 3:45, 10:15 Sequoia: Fri-Sat 3:55, 10:15; 3D showtimes at 12:45, 7:05 Sun 4:45; 3D showtime at 7:55 Mon-Tue, Thu 3:55; 3D showtime at 7:05 Wed 3D showtime at 2 Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:25, 9:45 Sun-Thu 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:25 Marin: Fri 4:30, 7:30, 9:55 Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 9:55 Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 Mon-Thu 4:50, 7:45 Playhouse: Fri 5, 7:30, 9:55 Sat 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:30, 9:55 Sun 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:30 Mon-Thu 5, 7:30 Rowland: 10:05, 12:35, 3, 5:25, 7:50, 10:30 Rowland: 10:10, 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Regency: Sun 2 Wed 2, 7 Sequoia: Sun 2 Wed 2, 7 Rafael: Fri 4, 7:30 Sat 1:15, 4, 7:30 Sun 1:15, 4 Mon, Tue, Thu 4, 7:30 Wed 4 Fairfax: Fri-Sat 1:15, 4, 6:50, 9:35 Sun-Thu 1:15, 4, 6:50 Northgate: 11, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Playhouse: Fri 4, 6:50, 9:40 Sat 1, 4, 6:50, 9:40 Sun 1, 4, 6:50 Mon-Thu 4, 6:50 Rowland: 10:45, 1:35, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Sun-Thu 12:30, 3:40, 6:40 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Thu 7:30; 3D showtime at 10:30 Sat-Sun 1:15, 7:30; 3D showtimes at 4:15, 10:30 Marin: Fri 4, 10; 3D showtime at 7 Sat 4, 10; 3D showtimes at 1, 7 Sun 4; 3D showtimes at 1, 7 Tue-Thu 4:30; 3D showtime at 7:30 Playhouse: Fri 4:20, 7:10, 10 Sat 12:50, 4:20, 7:10, 10 Sun 12:50, 4:20, 7:10 Mon-Thu 4:20, 7:10 Rowland: 10:15, 4:15, 10:15; 3D showtimes at 1:15, 7:15 Rafael: 4:15, 9

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06/01-02: Melvin Seals and JGB 9pm.

05/31: B Side Players Latin, reggae, rock.

9pm. $12-15. Hopmonk, 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 892-6200. hopmonk.com/novato.

06/01: The Monophonics, Swoop Unit

05/31: Big Cat Tolefree & the Hipnotics Part of the Jazz and Blues by the Bay Summer Music Series. 6:30-8pm. Free. Gabrielson Park, Anchor and Bridgeway, Sausalito. 289-4152. ci.sausalito.ca.us 05/31: The Cheeseballs 9pm. $10. George’s Nightclub, 842 Fourth St., San Rafael. 226-0262. georgesnightclub.com

$35. Hopmonk, 224 Vintage Way, Novato.

892-6200. hopmonk.com/novato.

9:30pm. $15. Peri’s, 29 Broadway, Fairfax.

459-9910. perisbar.com.

06/01: Vinyl Local funk, rock. 9pm. $22.

Sweetwater Music Hall , 19 Corte Madera Ave. , Mill Valley. 388.3850. swmh.com.

06/02: Brunch with Buck Nickels and Loose Change Country. 11am. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley.

707-364-2885. sweetwatermusichall.com.

05/31: Fenton Coolfoot and the Right Time 9:30pm. Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway,

06/02: Emma Lee with Eli CarltonPearson Park is accessible only by ferry, take

Fairfax. 485-1182. sleepingladyfairfax.com.

05/31: Honeydust 9:30pm. $8. Peri’s, 29 Broadway, Fairfax. 459-9910. perisbar.com.

05/31: Kingpin Rowe and Bayonics 9pm. $5-10. 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway, Fairfax.

459-1091. 19broadway.com

the 1pm departure. Original music. 2pm. No cover. Angel Island State Park. 868-1311.

05/31: Lucky Tubb and the Modern Day Troubadors 8:30pm. $10. Rancho Nicasio, Nicasio. 662-2219. ranchonicasio.com 05/31: Petty Theft Tom Petty tribute. 9pm. $22. Sweetwater Music Hall , 19 Corte Madera , Mill Valley. 388-3850. swmh.com.

05/31: Tim Hockenberry Trio 2012 America’s Got Talent semi-finalist. 8pm. $15. Fenix, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael. 813-5600. fenixlive.com/music.

05/31: Friday Nights on Main 2013: JT and the Pickups Line dancing lesson at 7:20pm; food available. Friday Nights take place on the last Fridays of May-Sept. 6pm.

Free. Main St., Downtown Tiburon. 435-5633. tiburonchamber.org.

06/01: Andre Thierry and Zydeco Magic 8:30pm. $12-15. Rancho Nicasio, Nicasio.

662-2219. ranchonicasio.com

06/01: Chuck Fenda, Messenjah Selah plus Angel Doolas Reggae. 9:30pm. $20.

19 Broadway, 17 Broadway, Fairfax. 459-1091.

19broadway.com

06/01: Heartstrings Bridge/ Hot Fun In The Summertime Motown, Memphis soul, Chicago blues. 8pm. $20. Studio 333, 333 Caledonia St., Sausalito. 235-3113.

06/01: Hot Fun in the Summertime with Heartstrings Bridge Motown, Memphis Soul, Chicago blues. 8pm. $20. Studio 333, 333 Caledonia St., Sausalito. 235-3113. brownpapertickets.com/event/368455.

06/01: The Bobs A capella masters skewer classic tunes. 8 and 10pm shows. $20. Fenix, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael. 813-5600. fenixlive. com/music.

06/01: The James Moseley Band Motown, blues, funk and reggae. 9pm. $10. Sausalito Seahorse Supper Club, 305 Harbor Dr., Sausalito. 331-2899. sausalitoseahorse.com.

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06/02: Led Kaapana and Mike Kaawa Slack key guitar, ukulele. 7pm. $20. Rancho Nicasio, Nicasio. 662-2219. ranchonicasio.com

06/02: Shine! Benefit Concert for Fairfax Community Church Eclectic music featuring singer/songwriters Molly McSwiggin and Samuel Case, accompanied by guitarist John Hoy. Celtic, blues, soul, ballads, country, jazz standards. 3pm. $15 suggested donation. Fairfax Community Church, 2398 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Fairfax. 755-3775. fairfaxcommunitychurch.net.

06/04: Amanda Addleman Band and Jam Session Jazz vocalist/pianist. 8:30pm.

No cover. The Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway, Fairfax.

06/04: John Varn & Tommy Odetto 8pm.

No cover. Peri’s, 29 Broadway, Fairfax. 459-9910. perisbar.com.

06/04: Kingsborrough 9pm. No cover 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway, Fairfax. 459-1091.

19broadway.com

06/04: Swing Fever: Memories of the Duke, music of Duke Ellington 7pm. No cover, dinner encouraged. Panama Hotel & Restaurant, 4 Bayview St., San Rafael. 457-3993. panamahotel.com.

06/05: Fenix Band Pro Blues Band Eric Clapton Tribute 7:30pm. $10. Fenix, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael. 813-5600. fenixlive.com/music.

06/05: Fenix Band Pro Blues Jam Buddy Guy Tribute 7:30pm. $10. Fenix, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael. 813-5600. fenixlive.com/music.

06/05: Joan Getz Quartet Jazz, bossa nova, blues and ballads. 7pm. No cover, dinner encouraged. Panama Hotel and Restaurant, 4 Bayview St., San Rafael. 457-3993. panamahotel.com.

06/05: Led Kaapana and Mike Kaawa 7:30pm. $18-21. Sweetwater Music Hall , 19 Corte Madera , Mill Valley. 388-3850. swmh.com.

06/05: The Overcommitments Rock covers. 8pm. $10. Sweetwater Music Hall , 19 Corte Madera Ave. , Mill Valley. 388-3850. swmh.com.

The forest for the screams...

A horror pic that left critics lukewarm when it hit theaters last April, the Joss Whedonproduced THE CABIN IN THE WOODS has enjoyed a steadily growing cult appeal ever since it reached home media shelves in the fall, and now it enjoys a staggering 92 The forces of evil have officially met their match. percent favorability rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Credit the film’s ingenious twist on an old formula, impossible to tell here without spoilers but familiar perhaps to those who’ve seen the trailer. Credit, too, a pair of colorless desk-jockeys named Gary (Richard Jenkins) and Steve (Bradley Whitford), middle-aged guys in matching white shirt and black tie, who have about as much business headlining a teen slasher movie as the Norton antivirus man. When our band of party-hardy college kids arrives to meet their fates at the hands of axewielding zombies and wolfmen, chain-toking Marty starts to notice a pattern emerging from all the mayhem. Just in time too, for this tale suddenly whiplashes itself into wtf, crushing expectations with as much zest as Wes Craven showcased inScreamfor an earlier generation of horror fans. Cabinis a fiercely smart satire of its own subgenre, one that hit gold in the ‘80s and then went headlong-corporate thanks to old white guys like, say, Gary and Steve. Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth and Sigourney Weaver costar.—Richard Gould 06/05: Zahira Soul, Luminaris, Rocker T 9pm. $20. 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway, Fairfax.

459-1091. 19broadway.com 06/06: C-Jam with Connie Ducey Eclectic song mix with a fresh jazzy punch 7pm. No cover, dinner encouraged. Panama Hotel & Restaurant, 4 Bayview St., San Rafael.

457-3993. panamahotel.com.

06/06: California Honeydrops Blues, Americana. 8pm. $15-18. Hopmonk, 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 892-6200. hopmonk.com 06/06: The Phillip Percy Pack Jazz.

6:30pm. No cover. Il Davide Restaurant , 901 A St. , San Rafel . 244-2665.

06/06: Jazz In Marin With Audrey Moira and Kelly Park. 6pm. No cover. The Trident, 558 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 847-8331. AudreyShimkas.com.

06/06: Physical Suicide Deterrent System Project 9pm. No cover. 19 Broadway, 19 Broadway Blvd., Fairfax. 868-1311.

19broadway.com.

06/06: Tanya Scarlett and Her A Team Silky-smooth rhythm and blues. 8pm. $10.

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

06/07: The 85s 9pm. $12. George’s Nightclub, 842 Fourth St., San Rafael. 226-0262. georgesnightclub.com 06/07: Bobby Jo Valentine Roots rock.

7:30pm. $15-20. Hopmonk, 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 892-6200. hopmonk.com/novato.

06/07: The Gravel Spreaders 9:30pm. $8.

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

06/07: Kevin Russell Rock blues. 8:30pm. $10-12. Rancho Nicasio, Nicasio. 662-2219. ranchonicasio.com 06/07: Ned Endless & the Allniters With the Growing Weeds 10pm. $5. Fourth St. Tavern, 711 Fourth St., San Rafael. 497-2448.

06/07: New Monsoon Angels and Diamonds open. 9pm. $10-15. 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway, Fairfax. 459-1091. 19broadway.com 06/07: Rex Allen Swing Express Part of the Jazz and Blues by the Bay Summer Music Series. 6:30-8pm. Free. Gabrielson Park, Anchor and Bridgeway, Sausalito. 289-4152. ci.sausalito.ca.us 06/07: Salvador Santana 8pm. $16. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley . 388.3850 . swmh.com.

06/07: Tim Hockenberry Trio Bay Area favorite showcases the voice that made him a 2012 America’s Got Talent semi-finalist. 8pm. $15. Fenix, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael.

813-5600. fenixlive.com/music.

Theater 05/31-6/01: Sweeney Todd: A Throckmorton Youth Performers Production Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s sus-

penseful masterpiece of murderous barberism and culinary crime. 7:30pm May 31; 2pm June 1. $18. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 383-9600.

142throckmortontheatre.org.

06/03: New Works Series: Seven Spots on the Sun MTC’s 2012 Sky Cooper New American Play Prize winner by Martin Zimmerman. Script in hand reading. Readings are followed by a discussion with the playwright, director and actors. 7pm. Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave., Mill Valley. 388-5208. marintheatre.org.

06/03-04: Auditions for ‘Lion in Winter’ Callbacks 6/05. Cold read from script, no accents desired. Headshot/resume. Non-AEA. No pay. Performances 8/29-9/22. 7-10pm.

Free. Novato Theater Company, 5420 Nave Dr., Novato. 883-4498. novatotheatercompany.org.

06/07: First Friday: Naked Truth - Learning Curve real.stories.live. Hosted by Josh Healey. With Andrea Carla Michaels, Joe Klocek and Caitlin Myer. Free wine reception at 6:30pm for registered guests. 7pm. Mill Valley Public Library, 375 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley.

389-4292 ext. 3. millvalleylibrary.org.

Through 06/16: ‘All My Sons’ By Arthur Miller. Directed by Caroline Altman. 8pm Fri.-Sat.; 7:30pm Thurs.; 2pm Sun. Ross Valley Players, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Ross.

456-9555. rossvalleyplayers.com.

SINCE 1984 LIVE MUSIC 365 nights a year!

FRI • MAY 31 • DOORS 11PM

Kingpin Rowe and Bayonics SAT JUNE 1 DOORS 9PM

Reggae bash w/Chuck Fenda, Messenjah Selah & Angel Doolas

Winners of a concerto competition perform.

Free. 8pm May 31; 4pm June 1 at Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church, 410 Sycamore Ave., Mill Valley. 2pm June 2 at Sausalito Portuguese Hall, 511 Caledonia St., Sausalito.

383-0930. millvalleyphilharmonic.org

06/01: St. Petersburg Men’s Russian Ensemble A cappella concert of Russian sacred hymns and folk songs. Reception follows concert. 4pm. Free, donations gratefully accepted. St Francis Episcopal Church, 967 Fifth St., Novato. 892-1609. stfrancisnovato.org.

06/06: Left Coast Chamber Ensemble “Cello Squared!” Works by Bach, Chopin, Kurt Rohde, Anton Arensky, Jimmy Lopez, Matt Schumaker. 8pm. $15-30. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera, Mill Valley. 388-3850. leftcoastensemble.org.

Dance

FRI JUNE 7 DOORS 8PM

Sat 6/1 • 8:30pm doors • 21+ • 1980's Cover Band

Zahira Soul Luminaries Rocker T

and directed by David Alonzo Jones. 8pm. $20.

Ft. Mason Center/Southside Theater, Marina and Laguna, S.F. 234-6549. vivacubainfo.org.

06/01-02: RoCo Dance: ‘Peter’ New, original dance production. Directed by Annie Rosenthal Parr. Original music by Beth Custer.

Molly DeVries, costume design. 7pm. $18-23.

“Only 10 miles north of Marin”

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SAT JUNE 8 DOORS 8PM

7TH Annual Fairfax Festival After-Party

Sat 6/8 • 7:30pm doors • 21+ • Pink Floyd Tribute Band

AN EVENING WITH

HOUSE OF FLOYD VAGABOND OPERA

COMING SOON: 6/14 Manicato • 6/15 Warrior King 6/22 Cathey Cotten• 7/3 The Whiskey Sisters

Sat&Sun 6/1&2 • $35 • 8pm/7pm doors • 21+ blues | folk | rock

An Evening with

Melvin Seals & JGB + Mark Karen

(Sat only) Thu 6/6 • $15adv/$18dos • 7pm doors • 21+ brass | americana | blues

California Honeydrops Fri 6/7 • $15adv/$20dos • 7pm doors • all ages indie | roots | rock

Bobby Jo Valentine + Kress Cole & Nick Lopez Sat 6/8 • $15 • 8:30pm doors • 21+ • general

Shotgun Wedding Quintet & Forrest Day

Marin School Of Arts Alumni

with Merrimack, Psychic Jiu Jitsu & False Priest

www.hopmonk.com tel: 415 892 6200 224 vintage way, Novato

JUNE 5 7:30PM

CELLO SQUARED!

THU

Musicians Joseph Bloom, Patricia Farrell, Natalie Parker, Elizabeth Prior present Mozart, Brahms, Bloch and Dvorak

MATT BUTLER, STEVE KIMOCK, TREVOR GARROD, SUNSHINE GARCIA BECKER, EDDIE ROBERTS,

PRISONER OF LOVE WRITTEN BY DYKE GARRISON

WED JUNE 12 7:30PM

DJANGOFEST 2013

FRI/SAT JUNE 14/15 8PM

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FRI JUNE 21 8PM

Fri 6/21 • 8pm doors • 21+ • Rock

THE EVERYONE ORCHESTRA JOHN KIMOCK AND MIKE SUGAR

Fri 6/28 • 8pm doors • 21+ •Folk/Bluegrass

ELEPHANT REVIVAL Fri 7/5 • 8pm doors • 21+ • Reggae MIDNITE PLUS DJ JACQUES (WBLK)

A staged reading of a new play

9th Annual Festival celebrating the music and spirit of Gypsy Jazz

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Fri 5/31 • $12adv/$15dos • 8pm doors • 21+ latin | cumbia | reggae

THU/FRI SAT MAY 30/31 JUNE 1 7:30PM 2PM

A Throckmorton Youth Performers Production

SUN JUNE 9 7:30PM

AN EVENING WITH WONDERBREAD

Every Wednesday @ 7:30pm W/ DENNIS HANEDA FROM THE SESSION ROOM STAGE...

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Fri 7/19 • 8:45pm doors • 21+ • Dance Hits/Party Band

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Left Coast Chamber Ensemble 20th Season JUNE 6

Cambo, Alex Spit, DJ Effective, Fenton Coolfoot & the Right Time

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TUESDAY NIGHT COMEDY MARK PITTA & FRIENDS

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AN EVENING WITH

New Monsoon, Angels & Diamonds

Sun 6/9 • $10 • 6pm doors • all ages • indie | folk | rock

05/31: Viva Cuba! Written, choreographed,

DON’T FORGET…WE SERVE FOOD, TOO!

McNear’s Dining House

Brunch, Lunch, Dinner • BBQ, Pasta, Steak, Apple Pie

Concerts 05/31-06/02: Mill Valley Philharmonic

BEST MUSIC VENUE 10 YEARS RUNNING

WED JUNE 5 DOORS 8PM

Through 06/16: The Beauty Queen of Leenane By Martin McDonagh. Directed by Mark Jackson. 8pm Fri.-Sat., Thurs.; 2pm Sun. Marin Theatre Company, Mill Valley.

388-5200. marintheatre.org.

Through 06/16: The Foreigner Presented by Novato Theater Company. By playwright Larry Shue. 8pm Fri.-Sat.; 3pm Sun. $12-25. Novato Theater Company (NTC), 5420 Nave Dr. Suite.

C, Novato. 883-4498. novatotheatercompany.org.

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Every Monday Open Mic-Derek Smith

Monday’s Open Mic Night Free!

DIN N E R & A SHOW

Fri

LUCKY TUBB and the May 31 MODERN DAY TROUBADOURS

Nephew of Country Icon Ernest Tubb 8:30 Sat ANDRE THIERRY & RDaebnchut!o Jun 1 Z YDECO MAGIC High Energy Dance Originals 8:30

Moksha

with All Star Horns feat. Jennifer Hartswick (Trey Anastasio Band), Skerik (Garage a Trois), and Peter Apfelbaum (Hieroglyphics Ensemble) Fri 5/31 •Doors 8pm • $22adv/$25dos

Petty Theft

Sun

LED KAAPANA MIKE KAAWA Jun 2 Slack Key Guitar &with Ukulele Master 7:00

Fri

KEVIN RUSSELL TRIO Jun 7 Contemporary & Classic Rockin’ Blues 8:30 Dance Grooves Jun 8 VOLKER STRIFLER BAND Original Blues and More 8:30 Fri MAURICE TANI’S 77 EL DEORA Jun 14 with PAM BRANDON Genre-Bending 8:30 Sat

Sat

Jun 15

Sun

DANNY CLICK & THE HELL YEAHS! Original Americana/Texas Blues 8:30

BBQs On The Lawn!

FATHER’S DAY BBQ WITH

Jun 16 ELVIN BISHOP & RUTHIE FOSTER Sun

Jun 30

with Austin DeLone 7:30pm Thu 5/30 • Doors 7pm • $14adv/$16dos

Free!

Saturday 6/1 Live Music Brunch with John Wilson @11am Sat 6/1 • Doors 8pm • $22adv/$25dos

Free!

Vinyl

Sunday 6/2 Free!

Free!

Live Music Sunday Brunch with Buck Nickels & Loose Change @11am Sun 6/2 • 6pm

Mill Valley Village presents a special free screening of “Vertical Frontier” Wed 6/5 • Doors 7pm • $10adv/$12dos

The Overcommitments Fri 6/7 • Doors 8pm • $16adv/$19dos

Salvador Santana

MARK HUMMEL’S BLUES

HARMONICA BLOWOUT

Gates Open at 3:00, Music at 4:00

Reservations Advised

415.662.2219

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www.sweetwatermusichall.com 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley Café 388-1700 | Box Office 388-3850 MAY 31 - JUNE 6, 2013 PACIFIC SUN 25

Marin Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium, 10 Ave. of the Flags, San Rafael. 473-6800. marincenter.org.

Art Through 05/31: Dave Getz: Paper Inlay Pieces, 1981 - 1987 The artist and former drummer with Big Brother and the Holding Company presents works from his ’80s period.

Free. Fairfax Library Gallery, 2097 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Fairfax.

Through 05/31: Gems and Masterpieces Exhibition Works by Jenny Belotserkovsky and Michal Tavrovsky. Free. Sanyok Gallery, 819 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 332-8400. sanyokgallery.com.

Through 06/01: ‘Serendipity’ Marin Society of Artists non-juried exhibition. Marin Society of Artists Gallery, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Marin Art and Garden Center, Ross.

454-9561. marinsocietyofartists.org.

06/01-30: James Noel Paintings. 4pm. Free.

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

Kids Events 05/31: McNears Beach and Pool Party Welcome to summer beach party. There will be food available, music, swimming. Free parking and pool use. 4pm. Free. McNears Beach Park Pool, 201 Cantera Way, San Rafael. 446-4424. marincountyparks.org.

06/01: Movie Nights at Town Center: ‘Monster’s Inc.’ Movies will be shown in the central courtyard near the Elephant Fountain. 8pm.

Free. Town Center, 100 Corte Madera Town Ctr, Corte Madera. 924-2961. shoptowncenter.com.

06/07: Magician Michael Stroud For ages 4 and older. 4-5pm. Free. Larkspur Library, 400 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur. 927-5005. larkspurlibrary.org.

Film 06/02: ‘Bitter Seeds’ Documentary focused on impoverished cotton farmers in central India, forced to abandon renewable seeds for Monsanto engineered hybrids. (US 2011) 88 min. plus discussion. 7pm. $10.75. Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael. 454-1222. cafilm.org/rfc.

06/04: Tiburon International Film Festival: ‘The Impossible River Journey ‘ Documentary, Norway. 6pm. Free. Bay Model Visitor Center, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 3323871. spn.usace.army.mil/Missions/Recreation/ BayModelVisitorCenter.aspx.

06/05: China Blue With filmmaker Micha Peled. (US 2005) 87 min. plus discussion.

7pm. $10.75. Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael. 454-1222. cafilm.org/rfc.

06/07: Mother/Daughter Movie Night Marin Women’s Political Action Committee hosts film. “Mean Girls.” Starring Lindsay Lohan. With Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.

Popcorn, candy, drinks available. 6pm. Free.

Screening Room, Community Media Center of Marin , 819 A St., San Rafael. 897-1224. mwpac.org.

Outdoors 06/01: Guided Hike- Ignacio Valley Open Space Preserve Join us for a guided 26 PACIFIC SUN MAY 31 - JUNE 6, 2013

hike through the Ignacio Valley Open Space Preserve in Novato. The hike will consist of 3 segments with an approximate duration of 2.5 hours. 10am. Free. Ignacio Valley Open Space Preserve, 613 Fairway Drive, Novato. meetup. com/Green-Boot-Walkers/events/117845482/.

06/01: Private Garden Tour: Garden Conservancy One day only access to three private properties in Kentfield. 10am. $5 per garden. Kentfield. 441-4300. gardenconservancy.org/opendays.

06/02: Loma Alta: The North Slope Bring lunch. This walk is for adults. No animals (except service animals) please. High fire danger may cancel. Call 893-9527. 9am. Free. Big Rock trailhead, 5.5 miles down Lucas Valley Road, San Rafael. 893-9508. marincountyparks.org.

06/07: Kent Island Restoration Team Learn to identify invasive species, get hands-on training, and be a part of the team working to protect and restore the unique ecosystem on Kent Island in Bolinas Lagoon. Meet at the public dock on Wharf Road in Bolinas. 10am.

Kent Island in Bolinas Lagoon, Wharf Road, Bolinas. 473-3778. marincountyparks.org.

06/07: The Outer Space from Open Space Rangers led short hike up Mount

It’ll be shades off when Vinyl brings the funk June 1 to Sweetwater.

Burdell Open Space Preserve for stargazing adventure. Local astronomer Larry Brodkin will be there to help participants get a deep view into the heavens with his telescope. Stargazers should wear warm clothes and bring binoculars or a telescope, flashlight, blankets, water, snacks and star charts. High fire danger may cancel. 8pm. Free. Mount Brudell Open Space, San Andreas Drive, Novato. 473-7191. marincountyparks.org.

06/06: Karen Joy Fowler Lunch with The

Readings

New York Times bestselling author of “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.” Noon. $55.

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

06/06: Marin Poetry Traveling Show Hosted by Angelika Quirk. With Barbara Swift Brauer, Ann robinson, Kate Peper, Claire Blotter, John Hart and Carolyn Ingram. 7pm.

Fairfax Library, 2097 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Fairfax. 889-5295. marinpoetry.org.

06/06: Porter Gale “How to Win Friends and Influence People: Your Network is Your Net Worth.” 7pm. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

05/31: Bee Ridgway “The River of No Return.” 7pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

06/01: Jan-Philipp Sendker “The Art of Hearing Heartbeats.” 1pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

06/01: John Geoghegan “Operation Storm: Japan’s Top Secret Submarines and Its Plan to Change the Course of World War II.” 7pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

06/01: Monica Wesolowska “Holding Silvan.” 4pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

06/02: George Estreich “The Shape of the Eye.” 1pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

06/02: Jean Shinoda Bolen “Moving Toward the Millionth Circle.” 4pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera.

927-0960. bookpassage.com.

06/03: George Packer “The Unwinding.”

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

06/04: Letty Cottin Pogrebin “How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who’s Sick.” 7pm. Free.

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

neider. In this series she gives both students and teachers of the arts an opportunity to shine. 2pm. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 383-9600.

142throckmortontheatre.org.

05/31: Surfworks Fundraiser Surfworks is a surf camp designed to foster stewardship of the ocean through surf and education. This event is to raise funds for the scholarlship program. With surf movies, food and a raffle. 8pm.

Donations. Proof Lab Surf Shop, 244 Shoreline Hwy., Mill Valley. surfworks2012.org.

05/31: Suz Lipman Speaks Sponsored by Homestead Village. The author talks about easy and creative ways to connect with your modern grandchildren. 3pm. Scout Hall, 177 East Blithedale, Mill Valley. 388-9315. slowfamilyonline.com.

06/04: Marin Poetry Traveling Show

06/01: Cooking Class: Spring Tapas

Hosted by Barbara Brooks. With C B Follett, Susan Terris, Michael Beebe, Andy Plumb, Sim Warkov and Laurel Teigenbaum. 7pm. Free.

Larkspur Library, 400 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur.

889-5295. marinpoetrycenter.org.

06/05: Scott Johnson “The Wolf and the Watchman: A Father, a Son and the CIA.” 7pm.

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

Hands-on cooking class with local, certified natural chef Suzanne Griffin of Cooking by the Bay. Cook together and then enjoy the meal.

5pm. $50, includes hands-on instruction, recipe pack and full meal. Cooking by the Bay, 81 Windstone Dr., San Rafael. 515-6498. cookingbythebay.com.

06/07: Caroline Paul & Wendy Mcnaughton “Lost Cat.” 7pm. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

Community Events (Misc.)

05/31: Arts in Education Series, Part 4: Moved by Words With curator Susan Sch-

06/01: National Trail Days:Green Gorillas Help to maintain the King Mountain

Loop Trail. Dress in layers, wear sturdy shoes, and bring water. 9am. King Mountain Loop Trail, Ridgecrest Road, Kentfield. 473-3778. marincountyparks.org.

06/01: Swim for Health Park entrance and pool admittance fees waived. There will be healthy snacks, activities and lifeguards on duty.

9:30am. McNears Beach Park, 201 Cantera Way, San Rafael. 446-4424. marincountyparks.org.

06/02: Appellation Marin Fundraising Event Ritter Center Celebrates Food and Wine with Appellation Marin. The event will feature local chefs Stephen Simmons and Miyoko Schinner. Also featured are local Marin County wineries who will be pouring tastings. 4pm. $125. Key Room, Homeward Bound, 1385 N. Hamilton Pkwy., Novato.

457-8182. rittercenter.org.

06/01-02: Marin Home & Garden Expo Exhibitors with smart home products and services, live music, kids activities and more.

10am. Free. Marin Center Fairgrounds and Exhibit Hall, 10 Ave. of the Flags, San Rafael .

507-1537 . marinhomegarden.com.

06/02: Wedding and Special Events Expo No entrance fee, but you must RSVP to be entered into raffle. Noon. Piatti Restaurant, 625 Redwood Hwy., Mill Valley. 306-1514. piatti.com/millvalley/expo.

06/04: Connecting the Green Dots: Moving to Zero Waste Panelist discussion featuring Bea Johnson, Patty Garbarino, Nicole Siminoff, Carrie Bachelder, Gregory Gilmore, Tony Reynolds. Moderated by former San Anselmo Mayor Barbara Thornton. 7pm. Free.

San Anselmo Town Hall, 525 San Anselmo Ave., San Anselmo.

06/04: PeaceNovato’s Gun Locks and Birthday Cake To celebrate its tenth birthday and announce its new focus on gun violence, PeaceNovato will hand out free gun locks and birthday cake at the Novato Farmers Market. 5-7pm. Free. Novato Farmers Market, Grant Ave Sherman, Novato. 883-8324.

06/06: Lecture: Butterflies of Marin County This lecture will focus on the life stories of our local species, where to find them, how to identify them, and what you can do to share your garden with them. 7:30pm. Free.

Marin Humane Society, 171 Bel Marin Keys, Novato. 415 893-9508. marincountyparks.org.<

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131810 The following individual is doing business as MARIN TACK AND FEED, 6912 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE BLVD., FOREST KNOLLS, CA 94933: JESSICA LASHBROOK, 277 TAMALPAIS RD., FAIRFAX, CA 94930.

This business is being conducted by A TRUST. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on APRIL 1, 2013. (Publication Dates: MAY 10, 17, 24, 31, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 132031 The following individuals are doing business as SF ENTERPRISE DEVELOPERS, 3 CHIMNEY LANE, LAGUNITAS, CA 94938: CHRISTIAN ATKINSON, 3 CHIMNEY LANE, LAGUNITAS, CA 94938; SUNIL SODOH, 266 COUNTRY CLUB DR., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132. This business is being conducted by CO-PARTNERS. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name listed herein.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on APRIL 29, 2013. (Publication Dates: MAY 10, 17, 24, 31, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 132054 The following individuals are doing business as SKINNY CARBS; IDEAL PROTEIN BAY AREA, 128 STANFORD #128, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: SPICE LLC, 310 HARBOR DR., SAUSALITO, CA 94965. This business is being conducted by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name listed herein.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on MAY 2, 2013. (Publication Dates: MAY 10, 17, 24, 31, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 132065 The following individuals are doing business as SAN CARLOS BOUTIQUE, 116 ALTO ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: AUDELINA I. VICENTE, 55 CANAL ST. APT. 7, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901; OSMAR A. LOPEZ, 155 CANAL ST. APT. 11, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted

by A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on MAY 3, 2013. (Publication Dates: MAY 10, 17, 24, 31, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 132028 The following individual is doing business as AT HOME ASSOCIATES; AHA, 120 HARBOR DR., NOVATO, CA 94945: TONI TANG, 120 HARBOR DR., NOVATO, CA 94945. This business is being conducted

by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name listed herein on MAY 1, 2003. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on APRIL 29, 2013. (Publication Dates: MAY 17, 24, 31; JUNE 7, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 132089 The following individual is doing business as FRANCIS NAILS, 1815 4TH ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: NGA THI DO, 1276 VIA NUBE, SAN LORENZO, CA 94580.

This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on MAY 7, 2013.

(Publication Dates: MAY 17, 24, 31; JUNE 7, 2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 132117 The following individual is doing business as WORM ANIMATION, 22 PARK ST. APT. 6, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: CEMRE OZKURT, 22 PARK ST. APT. 6, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name listed herein on MAY 9, 2003. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on MAY 9, 2013. (Publication Dates: MAY 17, 24, 31; JUNE 7, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 132016 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as ATLAS HEALTH, 85 BOLINAS RD. STE 2, FAIRFAX, CA 94930: JOSEPH P. SMITH CHIROPRACTIC PC, 85 BOLINAS RD. STE 2, FAIRFAX, CA 94930.

This business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name listed herein.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on APRIL 26, 2013. (Publication Dates: MAY 17, 24, 31; JUNE 7, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 132130 The following individual is doing business as IDESIGN ASSIST, 75 LOCHINVAR RD., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: PAULA ALEXIS PATTY, 75 LOCHINVAR RD., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name listed herein on MAY 10, 2013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on MAY 10, 2013. (Publication Dates: MAY 17, 24, 31; JUNE 7, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 132132 The following individual is doing business as SIDEKICKS, 637 SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: PAMELA FRASER, 14 ELM CT., SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on MAY 13, 2013.

(Publication Dates: MAY 17, 24, 31; JUNE 7, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 132129 The following individual is doing business as STUDIO V SKINCARE, 1560 FOURTH ST. SUITE A, SAN RAFAEL,CA 94901: VANESSA RUIZ, 623 SPRUCE ST., SANTA ROSA, CA 95407. This business is being conducted

by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name listed herein on OCTOBER 1, 2012. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on MAY 10, 2013. (Publication Dates: MAY 24, 31; JUNE 7, 14, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 132120 The following individuals are doing business as FRED'S PLACE COFFEE SHOP, 1917 BRIDGEWAY, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: FRED'S PLACE COFFEE SHOP INC., 2101 SUTTER ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115.

This business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name listed herein on APRIL 18, 2013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on MAY 9, 2013. (Publication Dates: MAY 24, 31; JUNE 7, 14, 2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131946 The following individual is doing business as NY&G, NYANDG, NYG, 1120 ADRIAN WAY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: BRIAN W JONES, 1120 ADRIAN WAY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business names listed herein.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on APRIL 18, 2013. (Publication Dates: MAY 24, 31; JUNE 7, 14, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 132175 The following individuals are doing business as PATRA INSURANCE SERVICES, 27 COMMERCIAL BLVD. STE P, NOVATO, CA 94949: PATRA CORPORATION, 27 COMMERCIAL BLVD. STE 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 listed herein.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on MAY 17, 2013. (Publication Dates: MAY 24, 31; JUNE 7, 14, 2013) 'ICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013132187 The following individual is doing business as BUDGET BLINDS OF MARIN, 11 DIGITAL DR. SUITE B, NOVATO, CA 94949: DAVID W KELLER, 169 11TH AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name listed herein on MAY 15, 2013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on MAY 21, 2013. (Publication Dates: MAY 31; JUNE 7, 14, 21, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 132204 The following individuals are doing business as IDEAL BAY AREA, 128 STANFORD WAY, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: SPICE LLC, 128 STANFORD WAY, SAUSALITO, CA 94965.

This business is being conducted by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on MAY 23, 2013. (Publication Dates: MAY 31; JUNE 7, 14, 21, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 132206 The following individual is doing business as JADE SPA, 803 D ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: JIANXIN CHEN, 154 10TH ST., OAKLAND, CA 94607. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on MAY 23, 2013.

(Publication Dates: MAY 31; JUNE 7, 14, 21, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 132200 The following individual is doing business as BELLAM BOUTIQUE, 151 BELLAM BLVD., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: CARMEN ARREAGA ORTIZ, 3438 KERNER BLVD., 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 listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on MAY 23, 2013. (Publication Dates: MAY 31; JUNE 7, 14, 21, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013132083 The following individual is doing business as TULANE CAPITAL, 253 TULANE DR., LARKSPUR, CA 94939: DARREN PACHECO,

253 TULANE DR., LARKSPUR, CA 94939.

This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name listed herein on MAY 6, 2013.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on MAY 6, 2013. (Publication Dates: MAY 31; JUNE 7, 14, 21, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 132212 The following individuals are doing business as OAK HILL SCHOOL, 300 SUNNY HILLS DR. #6, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: OAK HILL SCHOOL OF CA, 300 SUNNY HILLS DR. #6, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960.

This business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name listed herein on APRIL 2000.

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Q:

My girlfriend is constantly late, which is annoying, but what’s more annoying is that there’s always an excuse: She had to do one more thing at work; traffic was horrible; her dog wouldn’t pee so she had to walk him longer; she couldn’t get somebody off the phone. She always apologizes and is always late the next time. I don’t take her lateness as a sign she doesn’t care enough about me, but it doesn’t exactly feel great, either. —Waiting

A:

She has to be at your place in 10 minutes? Well, that should be just enough time to retranslate the Gutenberg Bible, reorganize her closets, and then get that ship into that very tiny bottle.

It’s hard for the punctual to understand how anyone can treat time like it’s stretchy. (It’s not as if an hour will ever go by more slowly because Time went out drinking with its friends Mass and Distance and woke up with a nasty hangover.)

But the chronically late aren’t necessarily the disrespectful, power-tripping jerks who those always sitting waiting for them in restaurants sometimes suspect them to be. Julie Morgenstern writes in Time Management from the Inside Out that if someone’s late by varying amounts of time—20 minutes here, 12 there—their lateness is probably “technical,” involving errors like underestimating how long things take, rather than psychological (as in, “I’ll show you who’s queen!”).

Morgenstern advises the chronically tardy to avoid the temptation to cram in “just one more thing” by viewing time as we do space—seeing an hour as a finite container, which can only fit so many activities. Over a week, she suggests jotting down how long tasks actually take, including hidden time costs (such as travel time, cleanup time, interruption time and dog bladder cooperativeness). And because life tends to have more snags than a bad girl’s tights, she advises building in “cushion time”—an extra 20 percent on top of the time you think a task will take.

Chronic inconsideration, even when it isn’t intentional, chips away at a relationship. (The way to your heart is not through your girlfriend’s last-minute to-do list.)

Explain that you understand that her chronic lateness isn’t an attack on you, but if there is “one more thing” she could squeeze in, perhaps it could be the thought of how you feel sitting all alone in a restaurant, keeping busy by searching for coded messages woven into the tablecloth.

Give her Morgenstern’s book, and tell her it would mean a lot to you if, for the next three weeks, she’d make a serious effort to show up when she says she will.

(Of course, three weeks is just a start, but that sounds less daunting than “Change your deeply ingrained habit right now!”) Praise any efforts and improvements you see, and don’t expect perfection. Just hope for a day when “the most unbelievable thing...!” is her on-time arrival—as opposed to another eight-car pileup on her suburban cul-de-sac, making her even later than she already was, thanks to her dog’s insisting on watching the rest of Days Of Our Lives.

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When I turned 50, my doctor prescribed me “male enhancement pills” (just so I could be more like the old me in bed). I recently started dating a woman I really like, and I’m wondering whether I’m wrong to let her think this is the real 53-year-old me. —Supplemented

A:

Getting to know each other doesn’t require your confessing “I take medication to increase the blood flow to my penis” and her coming back with “I use wax to remove my big black mustache.” Just be silently thankful that Mr. Happy stands up instead of fainting when the pressure’s on.

Because more and more people are getting old without getting grandpa-like, I suspect that the stigma surrounding Daddy’s Little Erection Helpers will eventually go the way of the embarrassment formerly associated with Internet dating. Quite frankly, taking a pill to manage your recalcitrant penis is rather like taking one to manage your allergies, except that nobody associates your nasal function with your manhood.

Once you’re in a relationship, it is appropriate to share news of any medications you’re taking. When you do, clear up a misconception many women have by explaining that the pill doesn’t change your libido; it just helps with the hydraulics.

The problem, if any, is in the side effects, such as “erections lasting more than four hours.” A woman does appreciate a man who can stand firm, but maybe not all the way to the emergency room and then some. < © 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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