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››LETTERS ‘One of our nation’s best newspapers’

In regard to the Pacific Sun’s 50th anniversary edition [“A Place, and the ‘Sun’,” June 7], kudos to one of my mentors and editors, Steve McNamara.

You see, I was born with printer’s ink in my veins.

My favorite toy back in 1945 was my late father’s secretary Dorothy’s typewriter back in Chicago when I was only 5 years old.

His nephew, Steve Warshaw, my first cousin, was a reporter for the Chicago Sun and in San Francisco for the Examiner and the now defunct San Francisco News-Call Bulletin.

Steve Warshaw and his wife, Joan, resided in Sausalito and pointed me in the direction of Lytton Square in downtown Mill Valley and told me to “knock a door down” and see if I could join a new journalism task force they had heard about.

Back in 1975, it was the brainchild of Steve McNamara, Don Stanley and Alice Yarish, and they were joined by the likes of Joanne Williams, Eve Pell and Linda Xiques.

I was honored to have been selected as a member of the task force.

We did in-depth task force reports on every move, day in and day out, week in and week out of the Marin County District Attorney’s office under Bruce Bales, the newly formed Golden Gate Transit District, and the Board of Directors of the Marin County Community College District!

The idea of the Pacific Sun’s journalism task force was later copied by a prominent weekly newspaper in Canada.

Steve McNamara sent me to cover the Democratic National Convention in New York’s Madison Square Garden, the Montreal

Olympics, and the Republican National Convention in Kansas City during the summer of 1976.

My proudest memory happened as I was walking toward the Kemper Arena in Kansas City, when I was approached by Tom Wicker, longtime award-winning reporter, editor and columnist with The New York Times. My Pacific Sun press credentials were hanging from my neck and he reached out to shake my hand and said, “You are covering this conclave for one of our nation’s best newspapers.”

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‘Pacific Sun’ fan Tom Wicker was renowned for his coverage of the JFK assassination, and earning a spot on Richard Nixon’s ‘master list’ of political enemies.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but war with Iran will hurt everybody

Name-calling is too often the tactic used by those who have neither the facts nor a rational argument. Abe Jacob’s invective-filled letter [“A Culture ‘Incompatible’ With Western Tradition of Needing Its Oil,” May 24] attacking David Harris for “spewing anti-Semitic nonsense” [in the story “Drawing a New Line in the Sand,” May 10] was not only absurd, it

was reprehensible.

Had Jacob attended Harris’ talk in Mill Valley on May 3 he would have heard Harris refer to Israel only once, and that was to say the U.S. should not let Israel determine American foreign policy. It was a reasonable statement in view of the fact that before the 2012 U.S. presidential election Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly pressured the Obama administration to impose harsher sanctions on Iran and threaten military action if Iran did not comply. In speeches before Congress and on American television Netanyahu urged the Obama administration to set “clear red lines,” and said the U.S. had “no moral right” to restrain Israel if Iran exceeded those lines.

Harris in his talk wisely pointed out that a policy of ever-harsher sanctions on Iran was likely to boomerang by hardening the position of its leaders and uniting the Iranian people behind them. The same conclusion was reached last April by a panel of former high-ranking officials that included Lee Hamilton of Obama’s intelligence advisory board; Anne-Marie Slaughter, Obama’s first director of policy planning; and Richard Lugar, former Republican Senator from Indiana.

The experts concluded, as Harris did, that the only rational approach to dealing with Iran’s nuclear ambitions was through diplomacy and patient negotiations. Whatever one thinks of Iran’s government—which Harris condemned as “an intolerant theocracy,” a war with that country would cause immeasurable human suffering and intensify hatred of America throughout a large part of the world. It would delay, not end, Iran’s nuclear development, and Americans would become less, not more, secure.

As Harris has pointed out, we lived with a nuclear-armed Soviet Union for 50 years.

If necessary we can do the same with Iran.

Finally, many members of the audience that warmly applauded Harris were Jewish, including me. Unlike Jacob we know the difference between an anti-Semite and a person who speaks the truth.

Rachelle Marshall, Mill Valley

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As I’ve previously written [“He Who Trades a Lack of Cancer for Fire Safety Deserves Neither,” May 24], after first mixing poisonous glyphosate with a chemical “surfactant” to increase its toxic effectiveness, the Marin Municipal Water District plans to spray the mixture—in large quantities again and again—on the Marin watershed that’s the 6 PACIFIC SUN JUNE 14 - JUNE 20, 2013

source of most of our drinking water. Besides its other dangerous attributes, recent research indicates that glyphosate is itself an endocrine disruptor.

And what is MMWD’s own consulting firm’s “best case” for glyphosate safety? The majority of research showing glyphosate’s “safety” has been done by primary manufacturer Monsanto itself—not exactly an objective, unbiased participant. And the water district’s consultant admitted that “the toxicity of glyphosate when used in conjunction with different surfactants remains largely unexplored” and that no information is available on glyphosate’s various levels of toxicity— hardly a ringing safety endorsement.

Independent research has demonstrated that glyphosate can persist in heavy clay soils for many months after spraying. Any unexpected rain can wash it down toward our drinking water supply. Further, plants that are killed by glyphosate preserve its poison in their dead roots, stems and leaves—from which it can be reactivated as this plant matter decays.

There are also numerous dangers of other unintended consequences: According to the research of an emeritus professor of plant pathology, glyphosate kills a great many soil microbes—so the surviving ones create a highly unbalanced soil ecology, causing pathogens to thrive that affect both plants and animals; this can also make it impossible for native plants to thrive, even in the unlikely event that the repetitive spraying ultimately eliminates the broom—so, forget about increasing plant biodiversity! And ecologists have warned that glyphosate’s acknowledged toxicity to amphibians can lead to a proliferation of the mosquito larvae they normally eat, inadvertently increasing our exposure to mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus.

MMWD’s proposed maximum annual glyphosate use (on a total of 300 acres) amounts to 750 pounds—the equivalent of 1,500-3,000 gallons of the 2.5 percent dilution in which the common glyphosate product Roundup is typically sold. Does that sound like a trivial amount, with minimal risks of human and animal exposure? I think not.

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‘You scare me...’

Alleged killer Naso ‘freaking out’ potential jurors

by Ronnie Co he n

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ccused serial killer Joseph Naso has been interrogating potential Marin County jurors and stunning them with blunt, sometimes odd and often rambling questions for the past two weeks—as he tries to find 12 men and women to fairly judge whether he murdered four prostitutes.

Acting as his own attorney, the 79-yearold Reno photographer with no legal background frequently incited strong emotions when he directly questioned perspective jurors in Superior Court in San Rafael.

“I don’t like you,” one jury candidate told him twice this week.

Naso faces the death penalty if found guilty of at least two of four first-degree murder charges in the “Alphabet” murders. Each of the slain women—Roxene Roggasch and Carmen Colon in the 1970s and Pamela Parsons and Tracy Tafoya in the 1990s—had first and last names with matching initial letters.

Naso, who is being held without bail in the Marin County Jail, dressed in a blue suit and tie to meet potential jurors in court this week and last.

“Is there any one of you jurors that feel because of my looks I might be guilty?” he asked the first group. “I know I’m not Clark Gable. But what’s one man’s opinion?

So anyway, here I am. What you see is what you get.”

Naso admits liking to photograph women in nylons, garters and high heels but denies killing anyone.

He and two prosecuting attorneys are scheduled to pick 12 jurors and nine alternates to begin hearing the quadruple murder case on June 17. The trial could continue until mid-November.

Roggasch, an 18-year-old prostitute, was the first of the four victims to be slain.

Dressed only in inside-out pantyhose, her body was discovered off Sir Francis Drake Boulevard near White’s Hill, between Lagunitas and Fairfax, in 1977. An analysis performed after Naso’s 2010 arrest on other charges found DNA in semen taken from Roggasch’s pantyhose matched Naso’s, court documents say.

Nylon stockings were wrapped around Roggasch’s mouth and neck and stuffed into her mouth when her body was found in Marin County. DNA matching Naso’s exwife’s was found on one pair of stockings.

Naso raised two children with his exwife, Judy Naso, for a time in the wellheeled East Bay city of Piedmont. Judy Naso is expected to testify for the prosecution.

Prosecutors contend that Naso drugged the victims before raping or trying to rape them, then killed them and discarded their bodies in remote locations. They will argue Naso photographed some of the women after he knocked them out or killed them.

On Monday, Naso hunched over the defense table, a purple velour pillow cushioning his achy back against a courtroom chair.

He removed his reading glasses and looked 10 > across the room into the jury box at

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››NEWSGRAMS

by Jason Walsh

Gang ‘colors’ grounded at County Fair Bay Area street gangs be warned: the petting zoo and Wiggly Worm roller coaster are not for you.

In effort to prevent gang members from displaying their “colors” at this year’s Marin County Fair, the Board of Supervisors this week unanimously approved a dress code barring gang insignia at the July event.

In a report to the supes requesting the dress code, fair director Jim Farley said, “[fair officials] have reason to believe that a particular criminal street gang may be interested in attending the Marin County Fair” next month while displaying their gang street insignia.

“History, both here and elsewhere,” continued Farley, “shows that when a street gang ‘flies its colors,’ this often results in rival street gangs engaging in physical altercations.” Farley described the request for the ordinance as “urgent”—meaning such an ordinance would go into effect upon adoption by at least four of the five supervisors.

The ordinance won’t prevent gang members from attending the July 3 to 8 fair and enjoying the musical hijinks of Weird Al Yankovic or the lofty folk tunes of the Kingston Trio, but it would mean security officials, trained in spotting gang signs, can require attendees to remove or cover jackets, belt buckles or other apparel used for flying one’s colors.

Brandt to run for supe; Heller to step away from council San Rafael election news: Declaring herself a challenger for the District 1 supervisor seat up for grabs next year, San Rafael resident Carol Brandt filed papers this week to run in the June 2014 election. She’ll be trying to unseat incumbent Susan Adams, assuming the Marinwood resident seeks a fourth term; Adams is also facing a possible recall election which would take place just prior to that, if opponents can muster enough signatures to force it to a vote. Brandt and Adams squared off for the District 1 seat in 2002, with Adams squeaking past Brandt by fewer than 200 votes in the primary before Adams went on to unseat Paul Cohen in the general election.

Also this week, longtime San Rafael City Councilwoman Barbara Heller announced she would not seek re-election when her term is up in November. Heller made the announcement June 11 at a joint press conference with former planning commission member Maribeth Bushey-Lang, who was there to announce her candidacy for one of the two San Rafael City Council seats on the November ballot.

Heller was first elected to the council in 1993.

Night Stalker dies at Marin General Richard Ramirez—the Los Angeles-area serial killer known in the media as the “Night Stalker”—died of “natural causes” Friday, June 7, at 9:10am at Marin General Hospital, according to San Quentin prison officials. The death row inmate was 53 and reportedly suffering from liver failure.

Ramirez had been on San Quentin’s death row since 1989, after he was convicted of 13 counts of murder, five attempted murders, 14 sexual assaults and 11 burglaries which mostly took place over a two-year rampage in 1984 and 1985. Ramirez earned his “Night Stalker” sobriquet due to his modus operandi of sneaking into victims’ homes under the cloak of early morning darkness—and strangling, shooting or cutting the throat of his victims. Satanic pentagram symbols were left at some of the crime scenes.

He was captured in 1985 after a seven-car police chase; while fleeing his pursuers, Ramirez attempted a last-ditch car-jacking, but was wrestled down by several citizens who subdued him and beat him with a pipe.

While Ramirez’s death was reported as from “natural causes,” the Marin County Coroner division of the sheriff’s office is taking a closer look. According to the coroner’s office,

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1. Where in Marin?

1 Identify this Marin County location.

2. Is a light-year a measure of speed, time or distance?

3. What chemical element, discovered in 1789, did Marie Curie prove to be radioactive in 1896?

4.What’s the song title of the U.S. national anthem and who wrote it in 1814?

5. I’ll name the author, you identify their famous novels that begins with “W”: 5a. 1920, D.H. Lawrence 5b. 1865, Leo Tolstoy 5c. 1906, Jack London 5d. 1847, Emily Bronte 6. What character in the 1980 film The Empire Strikes Back said, “Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try.”

7. What river forms most of the border between Oregon and Washington?

8. Legend has it that during a soccer game at an English school in 1823, a player named William Webb Ellis picked up the ball and began to run with it, unexpectedly creating what new sport, named for the school where it happened?

9. In her acceptance speech, she said she learned how to sing listening to her mother’s Broadway album collection. What pop musician wrote the 15-song score for what musical play that won six Tony Awards this past weekend?

10. To swim one mile, you must cover how many single lengths of an Olympic-sized pool?

Racial bias in county pot busts? The numbers are pretty blunt...

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Marin is the second most racially The obvious question: to what end? imbalanced county in California.

“The aggressive policing of marijuana The first? San Francisco. is time-consuming, costly, racially biased That’s according to a new study conducted and doesn’t work,” said Ezekiel Edwards, by the American Civil one of the report’s Liberties Union, titled Cost authors. “These ar“The War on Marirests have a sigjuana in Black and Money spent enforcing marijuana nificant detrimental White.” Using Census possession $ impact on people’s data and figures from laws in 2010: lives, as well as on the FBI’s Uniform the communities in Crime Reporting Pro- Drug Arrests by Offense in 2010 which they live.” gram, the report found Marijuana is a that black Americans Schedule I narcotic, were 3.73 times more defined as having “no Marijuana likely than whites to currently accepted Marijuana All other possession be arrested for marimedical use and a possession offenses All other % drug juana possession. high potential for 6,310 drug7,365 offenses In Marin, accordabuse” (cocaine and % ing to the ACLU, that meth, by contrast figure jumps to 4.1, are Schedule II). while in San Francisco That means getting it’s 4.3. busted, even with Those numbers a small amount, may be skewed somecan have serious what by small samrepercussions. And ples. In response to those repercussions, the report, the San Francisco Police De- Edwards said, have been aimed “selectively partment issued a statement saying that, against black people and communities” in 2011, it made only 11 misdemeanor despite the fact that blacks and whites use marijuana arrests (ACLU relied on figures marijuana at similar rates. from 2010). The fact remains, however, that The ACLU’s solution—legalization— two of our state’s most progressive counties was recently rejected by California voters, have been called to task for racial insensi- who snuffed out Prop. 19 last November. tivity at best and racial profiling at worst.

Nationally the tide seems to be turning—a And we’re far from alone—the report narrow majority of Americans now say they paints a damning picture of the war on favor decriminalization, and other states, marijuana nationwide. Between 2001 and including Colorado and Washington, are 2010 more than 8 million Americans were experimenting with legalization. But as arrested for pot. Of those, 88 percent were long as federal prohibition remains in place, busted for simple possession. In 2010, one getting caught with pot will be a bad thing. person was arrested for marijuana every Especially if you’re black and, appar37 seconds, at a cost of some $3.6 billion. ently, if you live in Marin. < That same year, cash-strapped California Decriminalize Jacob at jacobsjottings@gmail.com. spent nearly $500 million enforcing mari-

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VWith its crowded sidewalks and constant traffic, downtown San Rafael has long been a perfect training ground for Guide Dogs for the Blind. Occasionally, the unexpected occurs, as it did on Monday. Training Supervisor Todd Jurek was working with Danielle Alvarado, a blindfolded Apprentice Instructor, and O’Neil, a beautiful yellow Labrador guide dog. The trio was on Fourth near E when a car jumped the curb behind them and continued to drive in reverse on the sidewalk. O’Neil turned around, saw the car headed towards them and alerted Todd, who propelled his charges around the corner to safety. Cameras on a nearby building captured their narrow escape on video. https:// www.dropbox.com/sh/co9xojovrmlgm0e/ J6fyx3-WIG Phew! Two paws up for canine Hero O’Neil and human Hero Todd Jurek.

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WWith throngs of beachgoers and Mountain Play audience members attempting to exit Highway 101 at Stinson Beach last weekend, a major traffic snarl developed. North and southbound exits backed up, making it impossible for drivers on the freeway to merge safely into the exit lanes. Self-entitled motorists simply stopped in the middle of 101 and waited to cut in front of another vehicle. We ought to throttle those drivers.

Where were the California Highway Patrol officers? We’re not certain, but we think they might have been stuck at Starbucks in Sausalito, because traffic on Bridgeway was at a standstill due to the freeway mess. Come on CHP, we need some traffic control on 101 during the busy weekend beach days before a serious accident occurs.

— Nikki Silverstein

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woman who told police that Naso drugged and raped her in Berkeley in 1961.

Florence Landau, an attractive massage Naso has not said whether he will take therapist with long blonde hair and bangs, the witness stand. and asked her how she felt about him.

“Would it bother you if the defendant Landau said she had read about him didn’t take the stand to testify?” Naso and the killings and was taken aback by asked potential jurors last week. the intensity of her feelings.

“Why would you not take the stand to “I do have very strong opinions about tell us what you want us to know?” Kimyou and the case. I have very strong opinberly Salarpi replied. ions, it turns out, that are even a surprise “That’s a good question,” Naso said. to me,” she told Naso.

“I don’t know if I would testify. I’m not “If you were to be found guilty, I believe at liberty to say if I would testify or not. the death penalty should be performed.

When a person testifies, they are subject to I am extremely triggered by the subject questioning from both parties. This could matter. The cells of my being are just present a problem.” freaking out.”

In 2010, under the terms of his proJudge Andrew Sweet excused Landau bation for a shoplifting conviction at a and other potential jurors who expressed South Lake Tahoe supermarket where he negative feelings about Naso, as well as had worked, officers went to Naso’s Reno those who said their categorical opposihouse. There, they discovered what they tion to the death penalty would make it called “a rape diary” and “a list of dump impossible for them to vote to sentence sites” and linked him to the slayings.

Naso to capital punishment.

John Kirk wrote on a juror questionnaire that he could not vote to sentence anyone to death. But he told the judge he was inclined to make an exception in Naso’s case.

When Sweet questioned the contradiction, Kirk replied, “I’ve never felt more confused in my life.”

“I’ve never felt more emotionally Naso and the ‘Gone With the Wind’ star differ in many ways, at least, that is, in ‘one charged,” he said. “I’m man’s opinion.’ so confused. I’ve alThe numbered, handwritten roster ways been against the death penalty, but the lists nine California locations and one in emotional side of me has kind of flipped.”

Florida where authorities believe Naso When it was his turn to examine Kirk, disposed of victims. An investigation is Naso personalized the question. “How do continuing into the fate of the other six you feel about me and these charges and women, including a “girl on Mt. Tam.” this case in general,” he asked.

Prosecutors also plan to try to connect “I don’t like you,” Kirk answered, staring Naso to the 1992 disappearance of Renee straight at the accused murderer.

“Thank you for your honesty,” Naso said. Shapiro, a Bob Dylan fan who went by the name of the musician’s former wife, “I don’t like you,” Kirk repeated.

Sara Dylan. Investigators found Shapiro’s “Is there any reason?” Naso asked. “Is it driver’s license and passport in Naso’s safemy looks?” deposit box and believe she was number “It’s a purely emotional reaction.”

The naked, decomposed body of Colon, eight on Naso’s list.

Journals found in Naso’s Reno home de22, was found in rural Contra Costa tail sexual assaults as far back as the 1950s.

County in 1978. The nude body of ParOne entry reads: “Buffalo girl . . . She was sons, 38, was found in rural Yuba County only 17. . . . Picked her up at work once. in 1993. The body of Tafoya, 31, was disAnd put it to her in the front seat. She told covered, also naked, along a highway next her mother. Mother told cops. Cop . . . to a cemetery in 1994. told me to get out of town. 1958.”

Investigators found a journal in Naso’s Naso has said his journal entries have house with an entry dated Aug. 6, 1994, been misconstrued. “I sometimes use the the day Tafoya went missing. “Met term ‘rape’ to mean I scored, I made out,” Tracy—put it to her,” it says. he said during a preliminary hearing.

The Marin County district attorney “When I use the word, ‘rape,’ it just means has agreed to prosecute all four murder I had a good time.” cases, though three of the victims have no In Naso’s house and safe-deposit box known connection to the county. investigators discovered guns, ammunition, In addition to Naso’s ex-wife, planned law-enforcement uniforms and badges, witnesses for the prosecution include handcuffs and more than $150,000 in cash. one of the slain prostitute’s pimps and a

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They also found erotically dressed mannequins and hundreds of risqué photographs of naked and scantily clad women.

Naso describes the photos as his “art.”

Many of the women in the pictures appear dead or unconscious.

On Monday, Naso turned his attention to potential juror Oonagh Kavanagh and asked, “How do you feel about the case?”

“The whole thing scares me, to be honest,” she replied. “You scare me.” < Email Ronnie at ronniecohen@comcast.net.

< 8 Newsgrams Ramirez died “while receiving medical treatment at Marin General.”

Coroner Division officials say they’ve “initiated an investigation, in collaboration with San Quentin State Prison, into the cause, manner, and circumstances of Ramirez’s death.”

Additionally, they say his death “appears to be related to a natural medical mechanism.”

The coroner’s office says no further comment will be made until the investigation is completed and the “cause and manner of Ramirez’s death is certified.”

Water District tapping into a watershed support group The Marin Municipal Water District has its juices flowing about creating a “friends” group to help support “vital but under-funded” Mt. Tam watershed protection programs.

According to a MMWD press release, the proposed “Tamalpais Lands Collaborative” would include the water district, along with other land management agencies around the mountain, including the Marin County Open Space District, California State Parks and the National Park Service. The collaborative would be used to address “natural resource management, visitor experience, volunteer opportunities and other inherently cross-jurisdictional needs in a more efficient and holistic way,” according to the MMWD. Water district officials say they’ve been “in conversation” with the Golden Gate National Park Conservancy—a “friends” support group for Golden Gate National Park, and could create the Tamalpais Lands Collaborative as a separate wing of the GGNPC. Water District officials are hosting a public workshop to discuss the proposal and get community feedback on Wednesday, June 19, from 6 to 8pm, at the Marin Art and Garden Center, located at 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd. in Ross.

Supes grant $250,000 to Planned Parenthood Planned Parenthood in San Rafael had a happy delivery this week—in the form of $250,000 from the County of Marin to go toward the reopening of its H Street location.

Planned Parenthood provides cancer exams, HIV testing, contraception, prenatal care and other women’s health services. Abortion services account for about 3 percent of the organization’s work.

The County grant, unanimously approved by the Board of Supervisors this week, is for $200,000, in addition to $50,000 from Supervisor Susan Adams’s discretionary “community service” fund. One vocal Planned Parenthood opponent at the supervisors’ hearing objected to the approval of the grant and compared abortion to the Nazis’“final solution.”

Up until 2011, the women’s health services at H Street operated as San Rafael Planned Parenthood, but when its Bay Area umbrella organization, Planned Parenthood Golden Gate, found itself in the middle of an administrative and financial fiasco, the national organization of Planned Parenthood Federation of America stripped it of its affiliate status. Without its affiliation to Planned Parenthood, the San Rafael clinic quickly went out of business.

Planned Parenthood Shasta Pacific, which has operated a clinic the past two years in Mill Valley, is the affiliate resurrecting the San Rafael location—set to open June 19—and the total cost for the move has been estimated at nearly $3.3 million.

Planned Parenthood has maintained a presence in Marin in one form or another since 1930, when it was known as the Marin Maternal Health Association.

Novato Theater Company setting a new stage The wandering Novato Theater Company has finally found a home—at least for its upcoming season. The new 99-seat spot is tucked alongside Highway 101 near the Hamilton neighborhood, at 5420 Nave Drive, in the building that most recently housed Playtime Safari.

NTC has been making a name for itself—under multiple names—since 1919. In 2004, the troupe changed its nom de plume from the Novato Community Players to the current Novato Theater Company. The Community Players performed for decades at the Novato Community House—but when the red-painted city administration buildings were shuttered for seismic retrofitting in 2005, the Novato Community Players found itself without a permanent stage. Redubbed the Novato TheaterCompany, the ensemble worked out of the NTC Playhouse on Ignacio Boulevard from 2006 to 2012.

“With a 94-year history behind us and a new theater space, we think of ourselves as the oldest start-up in Marin,” quips NTC Board President Sandi Rubay.

The company is readying to pull the curtain back on its 2013-14 season—even though renovations at its Nave Drive location are still underway. (You may not find a lobby, but the stage, seating, lights and sets are ready for action, according to NTC officials.) The first production of the season, The Lion in Winter, is directed by Kris Neely and runs from Aug. 30 through Sept. 22. October ushers in a production of Gypsy, a tale of the ultimate traveling stage mother. Gypsy runs Oct. 18 through Nov. 10 and is followed by Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, set to take the stage from Feb. 14 through March 9.

For more information about the Novato Theater Company’s new digs and upcoming 20132014 season, visit novatotheatercompany.org or call 415/883-4498.—Stephanie Powell

‘M any hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world.’

—Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

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hile the world isn’t as bitter a place as it was in 19th century London, the author’s demands for humanity and dignity for the “outcasts” on the street still reverberate today. In Marin, according to recent surveys, homelessness is on the decline—but to walk the streets of downtown San Rafael, any such decline seems on a slow pace at best. Typically empathetic Marinites are at a loss for solutions: San Rafael business owners worry it will affect the bottom line; city and county officials tread

lightly on where to spread their sympathies within a vocal electorate; and homeless advocates continue to champion a seemingly unsolvable cause.

The majority of homeless, meanwhile, remain model citizens—while a few incorrigibles among them give the housed and un-housed, alike, headaches.

In this edition, we take a look at some of the issues surrounding Marin’s homeless—from the City of San Rafael’s various initiatives to deal with the problem, to the County’s many nonprofit services and their clients, and finally to a hopeful story of one struggling street youth whose eyes, in the words of Dickens, may no longer have to open each morning upon a bitter world.

—Jason Walsh, editor

Fourth Street blues Downtown San Rafael’s homeless services are a beacon—but is the rest of Marin staying blissfully in the dark?

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t’s a conundrum facing San Rafael and But according to St. Vincent, the placemats other cities that are centers for services simply were an attempt to remind people that provide aid to homeless populain the dining hall that they should be good tions. Is it better to concentrate socialneighbors. The dining hall, which serves service providers in major urban centers, or about 300 people every day, is a place where is it better to disperse services throughout a anyone, homeless or not, can receive some geographic area? respite from lives often marked by severe It’s an issue that spans geography in Cali- financial challenges. Many diners are working fornia, where cities from San Diego to Sacra- poor who find the meals are a welcome way mento face the challenge of providing services to stretch a weekly budget. to those who find themselves homeless and at Others in the dining room, however, are the same time offering support to downtown what social-service providers call the chronibusinesses, the owners of which often comcally homeless. This group faces additional plain to city halls that homeless popuchallenges of drug and alcohol abuse lations are bad for the bottom line. as well as mental health issues. It is In Marin, San Rafael is the centhis group most often mentioned by ter for social and health services when complaints are tallied about p e te r that provide aid to the homethe homeless population in San S E I D M A N Rafael. But, say social service less, and the city has embarked on programs to aid the homeproviders, they also are part of less while attempting to placate the the community in the city and the business community. It’s a dance done county, and as such they deserve help to the tune of which came first, the services or and a measure of respect. the homeless population? A broader question The dining hall and other services provided surfaces: Does it matter? at places such as Buckelew Programs and Complaints from business interests in the Ritter Center and the county’s commudowntown San Rafael are not unknown. nity health clinic are parts of the San Rafael In March, the St. Vincent de Paul Society community, just as more upscale services and distributed placemats at its free dining room organizations cater to those more fortunate in San Rafael that included a map of “hot than the homeless population. The organizazones.” Those areas had been the focal points tions serving the homeless are an integral part of complaints about the behavior of some of the city and county services. homeless people. The placemats reminded St. Vincent has been in the county since diners that behaviors like Dumpster diving, 1946, says Christine Paquette, director of drinking in public and jacking electricity did development at the organization. The dining not good neighbors make. The placemats hall has been serving guests since 1981. The were a joint effort of St. Vincent and the city’s placemats weren’t an attempt to push homepolice department. less people out of town, she says, “They were The placemat gambit received some just an attempt to let people know where criticism, charges that it set up an unpleasant problems had been reported. It was our way relationship between the city and the homeof saying this is a way to avoid any sort of less, that it was in essence a between-the-lines conflict or being in the wrong place at the message that the homeless were not wanted. wrong time.” Paquette says the homeless in

San Rafael don’t have an easy life. “Their days are difficult, and they’re not looking for police interaction.”

The placemats and the idea of alerting people to the hot zones, stemmed from a charrette planning process last fall. The process gathers public officials, businesses—as many stakeholders as possible—and allows them to contribute ideas in a planning effort that includes everyone’s input.

One of those inputs, naturally, came from the city of San Rafael. Like it or not, the city has a large chunk of social services for the homeless within its boundaries. Because the social services are in the city, so are the homeless. San Rafael Mayor Gary Phillips says San Rafael is shouldering an unbalanced load in providing those services, which act as a magnet.

But Mary Kay Sweeney, executive director of Homeward Bound, says that may not be accurate. “There are homeless people everywhere,” she says. “They don’t come because of the services necessarily. It’s not like there’s this nationwide effort to say that we have great services in San Rafael, come on over. It doesn’t work that way.”

Phillips maintains it’s undeniable that San Rafael is assuming the most responsibility for dealing with homeless issues in Marin. And that’s an unfair burden because homelessness is a countywide issue. “I think San Rafael has stepped up to address the issue,” says Phillips.

“We would like to see the participation of all the cities to address the concern. It is incumbent on other cities to recognize the need and the role they can play.” Phillips says he’s not dictating what participation other cities should engage in, just that they should do more than their current level of engagement.

“If social services are needed, we should all carry the load to some degree.”

Whether concentrating services in one

small geographical area is better than dispersing them throughout the county is a debate that has no clear-cut answer. But Paquette says the undeniable truth is that San Rafael is the county seat and the largest city in Marin.

“When you’re homeless, it makes sense to be in a place where there are the most people, the most services, the most things to do.” And being in a city that has the most people, “is the easiest way to avoid calling attention to yourself. It makes sense if you have no place and you are roaming to be in the largest city in the county.”

Sweeney says that having social services concentrated in San Rafael means homeless people must gravitate to the services and thus to San Rafael because they may not have transportation options that allow them to move easily about the county. Homeless people may not have the financial capability to store all their goods and take public transportation, she notes. That tends to keep people in the large urban areas where the services are located.

But Sweeney, whose organization is the largest provider of services to the homeless in Marin and operates the Mill Street Center homeless shelter in San Rafael, says the county—and the cities—could create service centers spread throughout Marin where homeless people could take showers and do laundry. “People would no doubt use those services,” she says.

In the 1990s, says Sweeney, in the county’s plan to end homelessness, a suggestion surfaced that Marin should have multiple centers for homeless services. But because of costs that were determined to be prohibitive, the county and the cities “couldn’t pull it off.”

Phillips says that what’s happened is that San Rafael has done its part. Now, he says, other cities should join the effort.

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< 11 Fourth Street blues ity of the county’s homeless live in San Rafael.

In the 2011 one-day count of the homeless population, a count that takes place every two years, there were 1,220 homeless people.

Additionally, the count found 4,179 people “precariously housed,” a population that may need substantial social services. The number of homeless people in 2011 showed a decline from the 1,770 people counted in 2009. Programs, some of which were funded by federal stimulus dollars, accounted from some of the decline. Changing program mechanisms that include finding homes for people as a first priority before offering other services accounted for some of the decline.

The county now is tallying the numbers for the 2013 homeless count. Larry Meredith, director of Marin Health and Human services, says the results of the 2013 count will go public this month. Phillips says he understands that the number of homeless has declined again, at least in San Rafael, but he has his doubts. “I think the most recent count isn’t right” if it shows the population has decreased. “Something’s wrong” if that’s the case,

he says. “That’s not my observation.”

In the 2011 count, 45 percent of the “unsheltered or other homeless populations” were located in San Rafael. Novato accounted for 14 percent of the homeless population. Homeless people live in all areas of the county, but those two cities account for the majority of the population. Another area that often is overlooked is the anchor-out community in Sausalito, a city that accounted for 5 percent of the homeless in 2011. The county has embarked on programs to aid that population, according to Meredith.

Jason Satterfield is the county’s new policy analyst for homelessness. He’s been on the job about six months. He says the county has embraced the model in which services are dispersed. “As we develop programs, we are increasingly using a scattered-site approach, which means that when we focus on providing services such as rental assistance, we encourage providers to assist people in all parts of the county. Increasingly we are less focused on creating [centralized] facilities and more on creating a broader net of services across the county.”

That dispersal helps the homeless avoid the disruption of having to travel across the county for services. Meredith says it also “means that no single community is getting a disproportionate density.” When it comes to housing, a scattered-site approach “means that to some extent the homeless are invisible in the community, and we think that’s a way to help them integrate into the broader community.”

Paquette at St. Vincent says her organization’s experience dealing with the city of San Rafael is positive and has undergone “tremendous progress in understanding their priorities as well has them understanding ours.” Paquette says St. Vincent already has a dispersed meal distribution. The organization provides food in West Marin and in the Canal district in San Rafael. It also has a meal program in southern Marin. “We are everywhere; the need is everywhere.”

The Marin Organizing Committee has played a key role, along with St. Vincent and congregations in the county, in creating a winter rotating shelter program. The Organizing Committee now is developing plans

for a permanent shelter.

The county is working on a revision to the plan to end homelessness. Meredith says that when it’s ready, it will go to the Board of Supervisors for review. He says the plan also will go to “city councils from Sausalito to Novato, so everyone has a chance to see the complexities and tragedies that are embedded in this American problem.”

In his interactions with cities in the county Meredith has found a “general feeling” that they understand they can do more to help the effort to aid the homeless—and to help San Rafael. “But translating a general feeling to specific actions is where the challenge is.”

Meredith envisions something reminiscent of a community watch for the homeless in which cities and the county and their residents work with civic organizations like the Organizing Committee. “The theme we are promoting, the nature of a community, is that everyone wants to look out for the health and well being and safety of everyone.” It’s a theme, Meredith says, that’s “getting some traction.” < Contact the writer at peter@pseidman.com

Homeless on the ‘hot’ seat?

San Rafael treads carefully as rise in transient traffic rattles downtown residents

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s the number of homeless people in threatened people, and even made life difficult San Rafael has risen in recent years, the for other homeless who are just trying to get city is being forced to deal with both back on their feet. “Our clients are being vicresidents’ and business owners’ concerns and timized,” she says. with the larger issue of how to prevent home“The balance of the population downtown lessness in the first place. Those interests has very much changed,” adds San Rafael have not always been aligned.

Councilwoman Kate Colin, chair of “Even for the most compassionthe ad hoc subcommittee on homeby ate business owner, there’s a point lessness. “It doesn’t feel the way we ke ll y of impact,” says Carol Thompwant San Rafael to feel.” son, director of the San Rafael These problems have forced O'MARA Business Improvement District. city officials, homeless advocates, In downtown, Thompson says, a police officers, residents and busigrowing number of employees have ness owners to come together. A reported not feeling safe at night—there group has begun meeting on Thursday have been incidents with people defecating mornings to find a balance between homeon doorsteps, and there have been threats lessness prevention and other issues. Simple leveled against business owners. Managers of problems, like the fact that there is nowhere to Starbucks, at Fourth and A streets, claim lost go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, business of $2,000 per month in people who can create bigger problems. don’t come into the coffee shop either because Out of that group has come ideas and disof transients outside the doorway or filling up cussion. Some of the initiatives, though, like seats inside. Safeway, on B Street, reportedly a plan to encourage the homeless to stay away loses nearly $100,000 a year in alcohol theft from certain “hot zones” in downtown, have (certainly some of which, however, is from been poorly received or misunderstood. over-eager high school students).

Earlier this year, the San Rafael Police Residents in surrounding areas, including Department and St. Vincent’s released flyers Gerstle Park, have also reported to the police telling homeless residents to stay away from increases in the number of encampments in certain “hot zones”—at Fourth and B streets, open space, which ups the fire danger.

4th and A, and on Lincoln by the Hospice There has been, many say, a shift in down- thrift store. The flyers became national news town. Christine Paquette, development direc- when homeless advocates became outraged tor of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Marin, that the city was telling the homeless where which provides services to the homeless and to go. runs the much-used dining room on B Street, But, Paquette says, the idea was simply to says they’ve been getting reports of younger warn them of locations where there have been transients in the county “making life difficult incidents, particularly with that younger tranfor a lot of people,” she says. The newer, rough- sient crowd, so they could avoid those places. er crowd has camped out illegally on hills, “It wasn’t trying to restrict people’s move12 PACIFIC SUN JUNE 14 - JUNE 20, 2013

ments or tell them where they’re not welcome,” says Paquette.

Other recommendations and solutions have been organized into a report by the ad hoc subcommittee. On June 3, the San Rafael The home less ‘hot zo nes’ map City Council accepted was misin terpreted the report and prepared , says Paq uette. to move forward with the plans.

One of the first steps will be for the San Ra- the fael Police Department to hire a mental health barriers to outreach officer. That person will work with a housing and employment,” sworn, uniformed officer to develop relationsaid Chris Richardson, director of proships on the street and respond to crisis situa- gram operations. tions. The new position, which the city hopes The other steps San Rafael is taking are to fill in early summer, will serve as a type of smaller and less tangible. The way the police community point person, getting to know the are funded and patrols are organized was homeless population and what problems they changed so that there can be extra support are having. This will, hopefully, help bring in certain areas. The city is seeking addidown the amount of police intervention and tional funding from the county to deal with get people in crisis the resources they need, encampments in open space. The county also instead of pushing them through the criminal recently hired a new homeless policy analyst, justice system. who will be able to coordinate homelessness “It’ll stop this kind of revolving door,” prevention efforts. says Colin.

“Things have really stepped up lately,” In mid-July, San Rafael’s next big prosays Paquette. gram—funded by the City, the County, the In September, for Homeless Awareness Marin Community Foundation, Marin GenMonth, Colin hopes they’ll be able to higheral Hospital and Kaiser Permanente—will be- light what has been accomplished and what gin. The Downtown Streets Team, a nonprofit providers are doing. The plan is to have organization that has led similar efforts in Palo tours of St. Vincent’s, show a documentary Alto and Sunnyvale, will start a work program about homelessness and do community for homeless residents to gain job experience events. “We’ll really be focusing on reaching while doing work in the comm nity. out,” she says. < “Our goal is to empower homeless individ- Email Kelly at kellydomara@gmail.com. uals through the dignity of work and address

Dr. Bombay traverses the side streets near the St. Vincent dining room.

Nicholas and Shahin, at Ritter Center with a couple of loyal companions.

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Rickey Hammonds, left (and on the cover), joins others for assistance at Ritter Center.

Goofing around with visitors at the dining room.

John, in a stoic moment at St. Vincent de Paul

Clients wait patiently for health services at Ritter Center.

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Reflections in a homeless eye For some like ‘Josh,’ the only escape from life’s demons is out on the streets

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riving past the homeless men or wom- in bushes on the street and in abandoned en standing at parking lot entrances barns and farmhouses near the Sonomaor freeway exits, few passersby stop Marin border—he took extreme measures to offer change or even acknowledge their to escape an extreme situation. presence. Weathered faces, dingy backpacks From early childhood, up through his teenat their feet, a sign in their hands asking for age years, Josh says he was raised in what he assistance and offering blessings from God. has now come to realize is a religious cult.

These are the images we see when we think “There were a variety of different kinds of of homelessness. abuse that went on when I was a child,” he In our busy lives—rushing kids to school says. “[My parents] are not still involved with before going to work and then squeezing the cult directly, but my father, on his own, in a few errands before heading back home is also very abusive person to pretty much 10 hours later—we are often too consumed everyone in our family—not just myself.” with our own day-to-day existence to even Josh describes it as a bad situation that consider how these men and women ended “somehow was just normalized.” up here, standing on the street, no place to “Obviously, I was aware of certain things call home. but I was almost 25 by the time I actually Aside from the homeless visible from realized that a lot of the things that I had just behind our windshields, there are a large taken as facts of life or the way things are or number of unseen homeless in Marin. The how families work, were not OK,” he says.

January 2013 Homeless Count revealed that As a young teen, Josh and his family moved nearly 1,000 people are currently homeless in from the mid-western religious community Marin—and another 4,000 more are at im- to Portland, Oregon, and then to Sonoma mediate risk of becoming homeless (via a County, where he attended high school. loss of job, or some other major change in Graduating with high grades and a partial life circumstances). Among these statistics college scholarship, Josh left his family and are single adults, families with children and, earned a degree from a four-year university— surprisingly, a large number of youth. despite struggling with undiagnosed According to officials with the mental health issues which have since Ambassadors of Hope and Opbeen identified as anxiety, major by portunity, a youth organization depressive disorder and borderdani dedicated to the preventative line personality disorder, among side of homelessness, there are BURLISON others. an estimated 2,600 young people Despite his challenges, Josh ages 16-25 without families or relanded full-time employment imsources on any given day in Marin. mediately after college. Then things The Marin County Office of Education began to fall apart. has identified around 1,500 homeless youth “I moved back in with my parents and in the schools alone. quit the job I had at the time to go into an These are startling numbers for a county outpatient program,” says Josh. “I had a lot of so driven to provide the best for its children. success in that program and, through that, I And the homeless of Marin are more than learned a lot of things about my own psycholmere statistics. Each and every one of them ogy and explored a lot of things about my has a story to tell. own life and past.”

This is the story of Josh.

His parents were supportive of his mentalhealth treatment, says Josh, within the “conQQQQQ text that there is something wrong or broken about me.”

“I became homeless basically by choice “They supported my decision to do it in to get away from a very abusive and unthat context. But they didn’t acknowledge healthy family situation,” says the 25-yearthat there is anything in the family system old sitting across the table from me at a or in our previous history that would have downtown San Rafael cafe. Josh isn’t his anything to do with it,” he says. “So things got real name and he has agreed to be intervery bad at home.” viewed on the condition of anonymity. He Regardless of the “support” that his parents has bright eyes, a kind, gentle demeanor, offered, his father continued to physically clean hands and a contagiously youthabuse Josh and his mother. As he continued ful laugh. He’s also extremely bright and to work on his own mental health issues articulate—not exactly the stereotypical and began taking medication for his newly vision of homelessness. diagnosed disorders, the need to leave his “It all happened about a year ago,” he parents’ home grew stronger. In the final days says. “I stayed with two different friends of his outpatient treatment in Marin, Josh for about a week each for the first couple researched a way to remove himself from the of weeks.” abuse, and one morning packed his things From there, Josh was on his own, bathand left before sunrise. ing in public restrooms, sleeping in his car, 14 PACIFIC SUN JUNE 14 - JUNE 20, 2013

Homeless youth don’t always feel ‘comfortable’ in the crowded downtowns; abandoned buildings and open space are sometimes their preferred night space.

It was winter and Josh had to be creative about where he took shelter. He’d often sleep in abandoned buildings in the countryside—where he created showering devices out of two-liter bottles and read old novels he found among the building ruins. On the coldest and rainiest nights, Josh found shelter at Larkin Street Youth Services in San Francisco and the Mill Street shelter in San Rafael. He often ate free meals at the St. Vincent de Paul dining room.

“I was pretty much by myself all of the time,” says Josh. “The homeless youth generally don’t feel comfortable so you don’t really see any other young people. It took a bit of time but I eventually got up the nerve to get in touch with TAY and Buckelew.” After more than three months on the street, Josh was given a bed in a youth-based transitional housing program.

The Transition-Age Youth (TAY) program, a collaboration between Buckelew Programs, Family Service Agency of Marin, and Marin Community Mental Health Services, provides services to young men and women, ages 16-25, who are struggling with mental health challenges. TAY provides wrap-around services, including transitional housing, case management, crisis management, medication oversight, peer mentoring, education and employment support and provides workshops on independent living skills. The program has an age limit of 26 years old. Josh has a just a few short months remaining until he graduates from the program.

The ultimate goal in programs such as these: employment.

“Part of the [expectation] with living in transitional housing is that you’re looking for work or have work in order to live there,” says Josh. “And they help you with all kind of job searching and interview practice and everything.

“They also work with you on budgeting to stay within a certain amount of whatever your income is. So by the time it’s time to leave, you have enough money and ongoing income in order to find a regular place to live and be able to afford it.”

Another program that Josh credits for providing him with critical support during his homelessness is AHO, or Ambassadors of Hope and Opportunity (one of the Pacific Sun’s Heroes of Marin award honorees in 2011.)

“A couple of other clients in the TAY program knew about AHO and so they suggested that I go to one of the meetings. I found it to be really amazing, so I’ve been going every week since,” says Josh. “It seems like a lucky

coincidence that I happened to get hooked up with AHO but I am sure there are a number of young people homeless in Marin that have no idea that this exists and that it’s available to them every week.”

And though Josh receives services while seeking employment and permanent housing, things haven’t unfolded with ease. The process of applying for the various social services he receives—like food stamps, unemployment benefits, CMSP (County Medical Services Program)—can be overwhelming, especially while simultaneously addressing newly diagnosed mental health issues and seeking permanent housing.

“You have whatever are the initial traumas or difficulties or circumstances that brought you to being homeless in the first place— which generally while you are homeless are probably still unresolved in some way—and then you’re trying to apply for social services, get work, get housing, find creative places to bathe or get food,” says Josh. “Trying to do that on top of whatever anxiety you’re dealing with, it becomes a lot more complicated.”

While the challenge of overcoming childhood trauma and mental illness will surely be a lifelong process, something about Josh says that he is a success story in the making. With his family currently living away from Marin— and with full engagement in the services offered by both AHO and TAY—he is able to focus and be proactive in his recovery.

Still, many youth are not aware of the support available to them and the enormous positive impact that local programs like AHO and TAY can have on their road to self-sufficiency. Josh hopes that this will change and that homeless youth in Marin will reach out to receive the guidance he’s been fortunate to have found.

“It’s true of a lot of young people, but I had great difficulty seeing the future in terms of what my life might look like or what I might wish for my life in a longer-term sense,” says Josh. “But today, I’m actually feeling very hopeful.” < Email Dani at dburlison@pacificsun.com.

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‘Ugetsu’ rises at Fenix The ghost of Art Blakey comes to downtown San Rafael

by G re g Cahill

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he late film critic Roger Ebert recording has inspired a sextet of gifted lauded the landmark 1953 film young West Coast jazz lions, who are Ugetsu for its rich period detail and commemorating the 50th anniversary of blunt realism. “The film style is elegant Ugetsu by dutifully performing the album and mysterious,” he wrote, “and somehow in concert. we know before we are told that this is a On June 16, the Ugetsu Project ghost story.” will perform songs from that landmark Ugetsu is steeped in intrigue and release, along with other material associdirected by the great Kenji Mizoguchi. ated with hard-bop pioneer Blakey, at the Along with Akira KuroFenix in San Rafael. The sawa’s epic Rashomon, band features trumpeter COMING SOON the film helped introduce Mike Olmos, tenor saxoThe Ugetsu Project: A Japanese cinema to U.S. phonist Anton Schwartz, Tribute to Art Blakey audiences. trombonist John Gove, performs Sunday, June 16, A decade later, Ugetsu pianist Adam Shulman, 6:30pm, at the Fenix, 919 inspired, and gave its bassist Mike Bordelon and Fourth St., San Rafael. $15/ name to, a hard-bop drummer Greg Wysergeneral; $10/students. jazz masterwork by Art Pratte.

415/813-5600.

Blakey and the Jazz It’s easy to see why Messengers. The all-star Ugetsu, the album, would lineup was trumpeter fuel the obsessions of conFreddie Hubbard, saxophonist Wayne temporary jazz musicians.

Shorter, pianist Cedar Walton, trombonThe album, which introduced Shorter’s ist Curtis Fuller, bassist Reggie Workmemorable composition “One by One,” man, and Blakey on drums. was produced by longtime San Francisco Most recently, Blakey’s celebrated jazz writer and record producer Orrin

Keepnews, now 90. He produced key sessions with such jazz giants as Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans and Wes Montgomery, to name a few.

Blakey was one of the primary innovators of the bebop style of drumming.

Ugetsu became the first album on Keepnews’ influential Riverside label to be recorded at Birdland in New York City, America’s premiere jazz club.

Its lofty status is owed to the fact that the sessions captured one of the era’s hottest jazz groups. In his review of the 2011 reissue, PopMatters music critic Matthew Fiander notes that Ugetsu caught Shorter “on the verge of being one of the hardest working and most ubiquitous players in jazz ... about to record a string of his own great records in 1964, including Speak No Evil, as well as join up with Miles Davis’s second quintet.”

Blakey—whose Jazz Messengers served as a training ground for the likes of Wynton Marsalis, Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea, to name a few—would be proud of his latest acolytes.

Random Notes: The ninth annual Djangofest takes place Friday and Saturday, June 14-15, at 142 Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley. This homage to Gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club of France includes performances and workshops. The lineup features the John Jorgenson Quartet, Belgian Gypsy jazz violinist Tcha Limberger and Trio Dinicu.

Mill Valley blues diva Maria Muldaur will headline the third annual Shollenberger Shindig, a benefit for the Shollenberger Park in Petaluma. The riverside bird sanctuary is threatened by construction of a proposed asphalt plant on the opposite bank. The event will be held Saturday, June 15, 4-8pm, at Tara Firma Farms on the Marin-Sonoma border. Admission is $25 advance, $30 at the door, $100 VIP. Tap your inner redneck when the Sonoma-Marin Fair—home to the Ugliest Dog Contest—presents the Marshall Tucker Band (June 19), American Idol alum Kellie Pickler (June 20) and country star Kix Brooks of Brooks and Dunn fame (June 21). Petaluma Fairgrounds.

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he Mill Valley Wine & Gourmet Food Tasting is known throughout the Bay Area now for its top-drawer offeringsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;exclusive vintners, new and returning food purveyors, and samplings from local restaurants. Sunday, June 23, 1-4pm, will find Lytton Square crowded with a record number of providers and throngs of fans of the festival; tickets are still available but going fast. Among this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food newcomers selected by Mill Valley Market will be cheeses (Redwood Hills Farms, Spring Hill), biscotti (Belvedere Bake Shop), hummus and dolmas (Haigâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s), and sweets like Mamieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pies, Cremeux Ex Machina gelato, and CC Made caramels.

Participating hometown restaurants with signature dishes include Balboa CafĂŠ, Bungalow 44, El Paseo House of Chops, Mill Valley Beerworks, La Ginestra, Piazza Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Angelo, Shoreline Coffee Shop, Small Shed Flatbreads, Prabh Indian Kitchen and Tony Tutto Pizza. Seek out new winemakers (hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where to discover treasures) and familiar top labels from Napa, Sonoma, Alexander Valley, Mendocino and the Pacific Northwest. Cold hand-crafted beers and ciders will be poured, as well. Cost is $40 advance, $50 at the gate. Order online at www.millvalley.com. This is a fundraiser for the Chamber of Commerce and its economic development programs. Please note: Attendees must be 21; bicycles, strollers and dogs not allowed.

A REBIRTH AND AN EXPANSION San Rafael welcomes back Vin Antico (881 Fourth St.), shuttered last year but reborn under new ownership, new management and a new chef. Now designated as an urban trattoria and wine bar, it is downplaying the Italian influence rampant in the surrounding neighborhood and emphasizing simple, farm-fresh foods from local producers. (The wine list is moving toward California bottles, too.) Owner Mike Heffernan, a Marin native, chose Megan Smith as executive chef, someone whose experience at Fish in Sausalito and cooking on the Google campus prepares her for the restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s direction. Recent menus have had dishes such as pork chops served with bread pudding studded with candycap mushrooms, adding to sweet overtones of an apricot sauce, and grilled artichokes with aioli heightened by flavorful preserved lemon. Vin Antico is open for dinner nightly. 415/721-0600...And thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s another newcomer! Louise Clow just opened a Mill Valley branch of Weezyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Grass-Fed Shack (born in San Rafael), in the Hawkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tavern spot, 507 Miller. Gone is the macho hunterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lodge mood; now

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SUMMER FUN ON THE FOOD SCENE A gaggle of food trucks arrives every Saturday, 11am-3pm, when Marin Picnics bring lunch to the Civic Center. The theme is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where Fast Food Slows Down,â&#x20AC;? signaling the goal of the Agricultural Institute of Marin: to supply locally fresh, high-quality eats. Fun family activities and live music offer even more incentive to drop by the parking lot of the Veteransâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Memorial Auditorium...For those heading to Friday nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s outdoor town concerts in Sausalito, Poggio has created a to-go picnic. Through Aug. 23 you can pick up a personal-sized pizza, gem lettuce salad and lemon mousse dessert for $22. Solo pizzas are available for $13-$15, depending on toppings. (Friday nights only.) 415/3327771...Also in Sausalito, Osteria Divino at 37 Caledonia Street presents live music performances throughout the evening, Tuesday-Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from cool jazz to hot New Orleans sounds to Cuban beats.

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SOFT BUTTER? M.H. Bread and Butter is in soft opening stage at 101 San Anselmo Avenue, San Anselmo. Tartine veteran Nathan Yanko and chef/wife Devon serve artisan goods early morningafternoon (except Tuesday). Their website is not up yet; check Facebook for developing news as the formal debut of the bakery-cafĂŠ nears. 415/755-4575. < Contact Pat at patfusco@sonic.net.

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Urban Remedy 1904 Fourth Street, San Rafael. 415/786-8011. www.urbanremedy.com The juice craze has hit Marin in a big way, with fresh-pressed drinks available from grocery stores to restaurants.

Recently, Urban Remedy opened a shop at the west end of Fourth Street in San Rafael, providing a full line of cold-pressed Cold-pressed juiceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go to a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;cleansingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; without one! juices in a rainbow of colors to be used for different types of cleanses. I stopped by earlier this week to do some sampling.

I liked the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sootheâ&#x20AC;? green juice with cucumber, spinach, celery and a kick of ginger and the â&#x20AC;&#x153;After Party,â&#x20AC;? which is orange from beets and carrots. Meal replacement drinks, like the PBJ with almond butter, brown rice protein, raspberries and almond milk, may sound odd but are very tasty. The fresh hit of raspberries in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Warriorâ&#x20AC;? with chia seeds was thick and delicious.

All the juices are cold-pressed from organic fruits and vegetables and made each day. The main business of Urban Remedy is providing juices for their signature cleanses. Created by Neka Pasquale, an acupuncturist and Chinese medicine practitioner, the different cleanses provide benefits such as immune system boosting, anti-aging, weight loss, detox and improving digestion.

The juice craze is turning into big business with companies like Starbucks and Hains jumping on the bandwagon; New York and Los Angeles have a variety of juice bars and juice cleanse companies slogging it out for market share. Urban Remedyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s well-placed store could put Marin on the map as the trend for freshpressed juices continues to rage.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Brooke Jackson

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Perryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Deli & Inverness Park Grocery 12301 Sir Francis Drake Blvd. (at Vallejo Ave.), Inverness. 415/663-1491 Perryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Inverness Park grocery and deli can really cut www.perrysinvernessparkgrocery.com. the mustard...

Perryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Inverness Park Grocery Deli got extremely lucky when chef Ed Vigil of the momentarily shuttered (now reopened) Vin Antico in San Rafael accepted a job behind their deli case. Vigil throws his considerable talent at creating delicious sandwiches and salads with his own house-cured meats, locally grown organic produce and breads from Brick Maiden. Familiar favorites including tuna salad, roast beef and smoked turkey are on the menu, but ingredients are all top-notch. His West Marin Reuben includes pastrami, Point Reyes Farmstead Toma cheese and sauerkraut all piled high on a caraway batard.

Perryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Delicatessen #3 1916 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Fairfax. 415/456-3580 For more standard fare, stop by the other Perryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Delicatessen in Fairfax. At one time there were more than 10 Perryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the county, but today there are three left and all are independently owned. This bare-bones storefront is a no-frills, family-run operation with a list of creatively named sandwiches to choose fromâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or you can build your own. Pesto burgers, roasted chicken with avocado, Caesar salad sandwiches are all spelled out on a large black chalkboard at this local favorite. And the prices are reasonable. Service is efficient and mostly friendly, a good beverage selection and ice cream by the scoop or shake also make this a favorite for families.

Blue Barn 335 Corte Madera Town Center, Corte Madera. 415/927-1104. www.bluebarngourmet.com And then there is newcomer Blue Barn, with its decidedly South Marin vibe (itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the Corte Madera Town Center) that offers up sandwiches with names like Raginâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cajun and Kickinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Chicken. Everything is free range, and nothing is under $9. Grilled cheese sandwiches prepared with burrata or manchego cheese are popular. You get the picture. If you are a foodie, you will appreciate the inventive flavors and fresh ingredients at this stylish new addition to the mall. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Tanya Henry

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Readers come to the table Who pays the first-date check? Responses are, er... split

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hank you, dear readers, for your overwhelming agreement that a gentleman always pays the tab on a first date. To the few of you who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the good sense to take my side, I hope to sway you yet.

Before we get to that, I have some â&#x20AC;&#x2122;splaining to do. Folks wrote in wondering what happens with the tab on the second date and when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s OK to sleep together. Providing that the man paid in full for the first date, I do not oppose a woman picking up the bill, splitting it or allowing him to pay again. Furthermore, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care when you decide to shtup, because thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s none of my business. Etiquette, though, concerns me. Every man missing manners should take heed of the following advice from other brilliant people like me.

Peter from Novato: tandards of courtesy and polite behavior have changed over the course of my life. As a baby boomer, I was raised to always be the perfect gentleman. Open the car door for your date, hold the restaurant door, help her with her chair, assist her with her coat, and always pic up the chec . Always!

It was decades before one of my dates offered to pay the tab, and it was not on a first date.

Even today, when I date (infrequently), I ma e it clear that when I do the inviting, I do the paying. If my date offered to split the bill or to pay entirely, I would decline.

Peter, go on more dates. Trust me; women are waiting for a man like you.

David of San Rafael: As a certified old fart, I got a definite chuc le out of â&#x20AC;&#x153;You get what you pay for.â&#x20AC;? Ah, the generational differences are staggering. In my day, we were never off the hoo in popping for the tab, never questioned it and never did notâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I thin â&#x20AC;&#x201D;enjoy the obligation. I have no remembrance of as ing or being as ed to go dutch.

And this was not driven by â&#x20AC;&#x153;no pay; no playâ&#x20AC;? either. I recall it being just good old, predictably rote, male pride.

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a credit to your gender. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll bet youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re taken.

Rita of San Rafael: In the late sixties when womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lib was ta ing hold, I went out to dinner with my date, J. He was telling me how thrilled he was with the new womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s movement. He was so excited, that when the bill came he said gleefully as he tossed it at me, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll never have to pay a whole chec again.â&#x20AC;?

And he never did. or did he get married.

Though I did hear a rumor he just married for the first time at age 86. Probably because he

found a woman whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d pay the full chec .

Oh, Rita. Thank you for putting it all in perspective. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m still laughing.

In all fairness, I realize that there are other opinions about this issue. Here are a few more that I found compelling.

Martha of Fairfax: I had thought it long since settled that people going out together on a first date would split the tab. This means that neither party is injecting a power distribution ambiguity element into the encounter. In my experience, the chec splitting revolution was part of the cultural change in the U. . that too place between 1954 (Elvis) and 1974 (the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rights Movement and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act). As soon as the majority of women were wor ing 40-hour wee s, the search for equality, self-sufficiency and self-esteem, all factors of womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rights, ic ed in. Then paying for half of the date bill was an easy and honorable element. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t limited to the first date either.

Though Martha respectfully disagrees with me, I must admit her explanation made me feel somewhat sheepish calling myself a feminist while I demand that men pay for the whole enchilada. Fortunately, I got over it pretty quickly.

Dina of Sausalito: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m disappointed that in this day and age there are still some women giving the rest of us a bad name. Honestly, I thought the â&#x20AC;&#x153;man always paysâ&#x20AC;? thin ing went out of fashion right along with men being the sole breadwinners and women belonging in the itchen.

Why should the man have to pay on the date?

Did the woman not eat? Does she not wor the same as him, and expect equal treatment, equal pay, and equal rights in all other areas?

To expect the man to pay signals that the woman expects to be spoiled in the relationship and that he should stay far, far, away.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not high maintenance. Well, usually.

Anyway, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think chivalry is dead yet, which is why the man should pay on the first date. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to order lobster and caviar.

Joel: I prefer the stories about your family. Internet dating pretty much suc s.

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‘Now You See Me’ vanishes into post-film-conversation thin air...

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don’t tell short stories,” laughs Barbara Harrison. “All of my stories are long.”

This turns out to be only partially true.

Harrison, a retired teacher of English as a second language, does tell elaborate detail-rich stories, but she also has a knack for one-liners and off-the-cuff quips, all on display as we sit at a Novato Starbucks discussing the new magic-mysterychase-thriller-bank-heist-comedy-action movie Now You See Me, which we just saw. Featuring Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman, the movie is perhaps the shaggiest shaggy-dog story ever put on film, the labyrinthine escapades of four stage magicians who are recruited by a mysterious stranger to start robbing banks and insurance companies as part of their magic act.

Harrison is my guest this afternoon because ... wait. Tell me again why I’m seeing a movie about bank-robbing magicians with an ESL instructor who tells long, funny stories?

“Because I invited myself, and you didn’t say no,” Harrison says.

Oh yes. That’s it.

I made Harrison’s acquaintance in April, at the 20th anniversary event for this column. She approached me afterward and identified herself as one of Marin County’s most enthusiastic movie fans, volunteering to let me take her to a movie any time. When I bumped into her again last weekend at a play, Harrison re-invited me to invite her to the movies sometime.

And here we are, a journalist and an English teacher, trying to make sense out of one of the more convoluted, outrageous and improbable heist movies in recent memory.

“It was entertaining,” Harrison points out. “I liked the behind-the-scenes magic stuff, even though a lot of that wasn’t stage illusion so much as it was special-effects. I’ve never seen a Las Vegas magic show, though, so maybe that’s what they’re like.”

“It came awfully close to being just too much of everything,” I suggest. “One too many heists, one too many fist-fights, one too many car chases—and maybe two or three too many plot twists.”

“But it never felt like it was too long,” she says. “A lot of movies today are way too long. Tom has a theory that if movie editors were not allowed to make a film any longer than their own bladders could hold the largest-sized concessions drink,

than maybe movies would be shorter, and people would want to see them in a theater instead of at home on DVD.” The Tom of whom she speaks, he of the bladder-movie theory, is her husband, Tom Harrison of Tom Harrison Maps (www.tomharrisonmaps.com), a small San Rafael-based company which publishes full-color, shaded-relief topographic trail maps, the old-fashioned paper kind, along with a new line of smart-phone apps, covering most of the parks, forests and wilderness areas in the state of California.

Which is why Tom has not joined us this afternoon.

“Summer is a busy time for maps,” Harrison explains. “Hiking maps sell out faster when the weather is good, so we have to reprint them faster. If a movie isn’t super-compelling, then he’d rather not waste his time on it.

“I’m not the same at all,” she laughs.

“I’ll see pretty much anything!”

‘The World of Henry Orient’ got a big thumbs up from Harrison’s typically hard-to-please mom.

“Even ... horror movies?” I ask, knowing that gore is the line across which many movie-lovers will not cross, unless it’s gore served up with a large dose of humor.

“I do like horror movies, but only if they’re funny,” she says, illustrating my point. “I loved Shaun of the Dead, and I don’t normally like zombie movies. I’m a big fan of Tremors, which was scary but also funny. And it was smart.”

“What about Eight Legged Freaks,” I suggest, naming one of my own favorite scary-funny-smart movies.

“I never saw that one!” Harrison confesses. “What was that one about?”

“Giant spiders.”

“Oh maybe I did see that one. Maybe I did and it wasn’t that memorable.”

“Giant insects,” I reply, defending my genre, “are always memorable. I’m still waiting for Hollywood to make a movie about giant termites. Giant termites would be devastating. Most of the great giant bug movies we’ve seen have been

Magicians haven’t been this cool since Doug Henning was in his prime.

about spiders.”

Ironically, there is very little to say about Now You See Me that won’t spoil the plot twists, which come at the audience fast and furious, another movie, by the way—Fast and Furious 6—that Harrison couldn’t stay away from.

“I don’t know why I love movies so much,” she laughs, shaking her head.

“We didn’t see very many movies growing up, mainly because there were five kids in our family and we were poor.

So whenever we did see movies, it was at the drive-in. The first movie I ever saw as a child was at the drive-in. It was Peter Pan, the Disney movie, and afterwards I had Captain Hook nightmares—and flying dreams! I do remember the first movie my mother ever took us to see in a sit-down theater. I was in seventh grade. It was The World of Henry Orient, with Peter Sellers. I remember it was kind of weird and bizarre, and I liked it, and I was kind of surprised that my mother liked it, too, because my mother was ... she wasn’t the kind to approve of that sort of thing.”

Harrison sips her chai latté as we trade the names of the first movies we each saw at various formative times in our lives. The first film Harrison ever saw more than once was The Graduate, with Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft.

“I had just moved to Florida, and I was asked out by this guy who’d already seen it,” she recalls. “He said, ‘You will love it— because you’re from California!’ And I ended up loving it so much, the next time he asked me out I made him take me to see The Graduate again! Then, after Tom and I started dating, which was shortly after that, I made him take me to see The Graduate too. I actually saw it again recently. It was in the classic film series at the Regency in San Rafael, where they show great old movies on the big screen.

I’m seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark there

tomorrow! Anyway ... I saw The Graduate again, and it was just as good, though it’s a different experience now because it’s become this famous movie, and we all know the catch-phrases and all the scenes, and it’s such an icon that watching it now is not like watching it for the first time.”

“Or the second?” I suggest.

“Or the third!”

Another movie Harrison has seen multiple times in this year’s Oscar-winner, Argo, about the Iran hostage crisis of the late 1970s.

“I lived in Iran, as a kid, before the hostage crisis,” Harrison explains. “I went to school there, since my father worked in Iran at the time. I’ve talked to other people who went to school there, and Argo was a big deal for all of us. We’d go on Facebook and point out how obvious

A scene that reminds Harrison of many of her first dates... because she always wanted to see ‘The Graduate,’ of course.

it was that the movie was filmed in Istanbul and not Iran. The streets in Iran don’t look anything like they did in the movie.

“Hey!” Harrison says, smiling. “There’s the movie you should have taken me to see. Argo!

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‘The Kings of Summer, opening Friday at the Regency and the Sequoia.

After Earth (1:40) M. Night Shyamalan 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 Becoming Traviata (1:53) Tuneful backstage documentary follows diva extraordinaire Natalie Dessay and director Jean François Sivadier as they mount a production of Verdi’s opera at France’s Aix-en-Provence Festival.

O Before Midnight (1:48) Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke together again, this time grappling with this and that against the backdrop of the Greek isles.

O Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! (1:28) The good doctor’s classic story about a noble elephant who will do anything to save a teeny tiny town that only he can hear; vocals by Jim Carrey, Steve Carell and Carol Burnett.

O The East (1:56) An undercover intelligence agent infiltrates an anarchist collective and finds herself torn between her duty to her corporate masters and the idealism of her new comrades.

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 E.T. The Extraterrestrial (1:55) A friendly critter from outer space upends the lives of a group of suburban youngsters; Steven Spielberg directs Drew Barrymore and company.

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 Fill the Void (1:30) Insightful Israeli drama about the teenage daughter of an ultra-Orthodox Hasidic rabbi and her tenuous hopes for a traditional wedding.

O 42 (2:08) 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 Internship (1:59) Two fun-loving victims of the digital devolution meet the enemy head on when they intern their way O

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into smug, sterile Google HQ; Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson 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 Journey to Italy (1:26) Acclaimed and influential Roberto Rossellini drama about an English couple’s disintegrating marriage as encompassed on a trip to Naples; Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders star.

O The Kings of Summer (1:33) Sundance fave about three teens who cast off the bonds of familyhood by building a house in the woods and living off the land.

O Man of Steel (2:23) Yet another comic-book reboot follows young Kal-El as he grows into Superman and nerd newsman Clark Kent; costarring Amy Adams as Lois Lane!

O The Metropolitan Opera: Carmen (3:00) Bizet’s sexy saga of a saucy, spirited señorita is presented direct from New York in glorious big-screen high definition.

O Monsters University (1:42) Prequel tells the story of Sullivan’s and Wazowski’s college days and how they became BFFs; Billy Crystal and John Goodman vocalize.

O Much Ado About Nothing (1:49) Joss Whedon’s slapdash update of the Bard’s saucy comedy (original text and all) stars Amy Acker and Alexis Denisof as sparring lovers Beatrice and Benedick.

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

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National Theatre London: The Audience

(2:15) Peter Morgan’s new play imagines the weekly conversations Elizabeth II has had with every PM from Churchill to Cameron during the 60 years of her reign; Helen Mirren revisits her Oscar-winning role as the Queen.

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 The Purge (1:25) Futuristic thriller about a mysterious intruder who breaks into a gated community during a government-sanctioned day of population-thinning crime and terror.

O Rebels with a Cause (1:12) Inspiring documentary about the environmental activists who helped create the GGNRA and Point Reyes National Seashore half a century ago.

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 This Is the End (1:47) The friendship of six real-life pallies (Danny McBride, Jay Baruchel, Craig Robinson, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen and James Franco) is severely tested when they’re trapped together in the same house during a global apocalypse.

O World War Z (1:55) Globetrotting actioner finds Brad Pitt racing against time to halt a pandemic before it wipes out the human race. <

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After Earth (PG-13) NBecoming Traviata (Not Rated)

Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:50, 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 10 Rafael: Fri, Mon-Thu 4, 6:30, 9:15 Sat 1:30, 4, 6:30, 9:15 Sun 1:30, 4:15 (star Natalie Dessay in person), 7:15 Before Midnight (R) Fairfax: 12:50, 3:50, 6:45, 9:20 Regency: Fri-Sat, Mon-Tue 11, 1:55, 4:30, 7:45, 10:25 Sequoia: Fri-Sat 12, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:20 Sun 12, 5:05, 7:40 Mon, Thu 2:30, 5:05, 7:40 Wed 4:25 NDr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! (G) Rowland: Tue, Thu 10am The East (PG-13) Regency: Fri-Sat, Mon-Tue 10:55, 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 10:10 Epic (PG) Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:55, 4:20, 9:35; 3D showtimes at 1:30, 7 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11, 4:30, 9:45; 3D showtimes at 1:45, 7:10 Thu 11, 4:30; 3D showtime at 1:45 NE.T. The Extraterrestrial (PG) Regency: Sun 2 Wed 2, 7 Sequoia: Sun 2 Wed 2, 7 Fast & Furious 6 (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:45, 1:40, 4:35, 7:35, 10:30 Fill the Void (PG) Rafael: Fri-Tue, Thu 4:30, 6:45, 8:45 Wed 6:45 42 (PG-13) Lark: Fri-Sat 5 Sun-Thu 4:30 Rafael: Fri, Mon, Tue 4:45, 7, 9 Sat, Sun 2:30, 4:45, 7, 9 Wed, Thu 4:45, 9 Frances Ha (R) The Great Gatsby (PG-13) Lark: Fri-Sat 8, Sun-Thu 7:30 Northgate: Fri-Wed 4, 10:25; 3D showtimes at 12:40, 7:20 The Internship (PG-13) Fairfax: Fri-Wed 1, 4:10, 6:55, 9:45 Thu 1, 4:10 Larkspur Landing: Fri 7:30, 10:20 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Mon-Thu 6:45, 9:35 Marin: Fri-Sat 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10 Sun-Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 Playhouse: Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:25, 10:05 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:25 Thu 1:30, 4:30 Regency: Fri-Sat, Mon-Tue 11:10, 12:30 2, 3:30, 5, 6:30, 8:05, 9:30 Rowland: 10:20, 1:20, 4:20, 7:25, 10:20 Iron Man 3 (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Wed 4:10, 10:10; 3D showtimes at 1:05, 7:05 NJourney to Italy (Not Rated) Rafael: Thu 7 NThe Kings of Summer (R) Regency: Fri-Sat, Mon-Tue 10:45, 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:45 Sequoia: FriSat 11:55, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 Sun 11:55, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20 Mon, Wed, Thu 2:20, 4:50, 7:20 Man of Steel (PG-13) Cinema: Fri-Wed 3:40, 10:15; 3D showtimes at 12:25, 7 Fairfax: 12:15, 3:30, 6:50, 9:50; 3D showtimes at 1:15, 4:25, 7:30 Marin: Fri-Sat 3:50, 10:10; 3D showtimes at 12:50, 7 Sun-Thu 3:50; 3D showtimes at 12:50, 7 Northgate: 10:50, 2:05, 3:10, 5:20, 8:35, 9:40; 3D showtimes at 11:55, 1, 4:15, 6:25, 7:30, 10:35 Playhouse: Fri-Sat 12:45, 1:45, 3:45, 4:45, 6:45, 7:45, 9:50 Sun-Thu 12:45, 1:45, 3:45, 4:45, 6:45, 7:45 Rowland: 10:55, 2:15, 5:30, 8:45; 3D showtimes 12:30, 3:45, 7, 10:15 The Metropolitan Opera: Carmen (Not Rated) Regency: Wed 7 NMonsters University (G) Fairfax: Thu 8 Northgate: Thu 8; 3D showtime at 8:05 Playhouse: Thu 8 Rowland: Thu 8, 10:30, midnight; 3D showtimes at 8:01, 10:31, 12:01 NMuch Ado About Nothing (PG-13) Regency: Fri-Sat, Mon-Tue 11:05, 1:50, 4:35, 7:30, 10:15 Mud (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Wed 11, 1:55, 4:50, 7:50 National Theatre London: The Audience (Not Rated) Lark: Sat 1 Now You See Me (PG-13) Fairfax: Fri-Wed 1:15, 4, 6:50, 9:35 Thu 1:15, 4 Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:45, 12:10, 1:35, 3, 4:25, 5:50, 7:15, 8:40, 10:05 Rowland: 10:45, 1:35, 4:25, 7:20, 10:05 The Purge (R) Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:05, 1:15, 3:25, 5:40, 7:55, 10:15 Rowland: 10:35, 12:50, 3:05, 5:20, 7:35, 9:50 Rebels With a Cause (Not Rated) Rafael: Sat-Sun 2 (filmmakers Nancy Kelly and Kenji Yamamoto in person) Star Trek Into Darkness (PG-13) Larkspur Landing: Fri 7:15; 3D showtime at 10:15 Sat-Sun 1:15, 7:15; 3D showtimes at 4:15, 10:15 Mon-Thu 6:30; 3D showtime at 9:25 Northgate: Fri-Wed 4:05, 10:20; 3D showtimes at 12:55, 7:10 Rowland: Fri-Wed 10:15, 4:15, 10:15; 3D showtimes at 1:15, 7:15 Thu 4:15; 3D showtime at 1:15 This Is the End (R) Fairfax: 12:15, 2:40, 5, 7:20, 9:40 Larkspur Landing: Fri 5:15, 8, 10:35 Sat-Sun 11:45, 2:30, 5:15, 8, 10:35 Mon-Tue 7:15, 9:55 Marin: FriSat 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:05 Sun-Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 Northgate: FriWed 11:30, 12:50, 2:15, 3:35, 5, 6:20, 7:45, 9:05, 10:30 Rowland: Fri-Tue 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 NWorld War Z (PG-13) Fairfax: Thu 8

George Sanders and Ingrid Bergman try to work it out in Rossellini’s ‘Journey to Italy,’ playing at the Rafael Thursday.

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

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

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‘Queen’ for a day McDonagh hit just not ‘soul-killing’ enough in hands of MTC...

by Charles Brousse

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n her program notes for Marin Theanything to get out of the house, and her atre Company’s production of Martin crotchety old mother, Mag, who is dead McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of set on keeping her home as a live-in nurse/ Leenane, MTC dramaturg Margot Melcon companion. When Pato Dooley, a village acknowledges that the author (who was local who plans to emigrate to Boston, sugborn and grew up in England) should not gests that Maureen accompany him, the be taken literally when he depicts this little skirmishes between the two women escavillage on Killary fjord, and its inhabitants, late to life and death intensity. in exceptionally bleak terms.

With this story line and the precedents While the Leenane of the play is a drab, that have been set in previous productions, soul-killing place popuone might anticipate that lated by eccentrics who Jackson would fill the roles speak in an almost uninwith character actors capable NOW PLAYING telligible brogue and inof getting down and dirty The Beauty Queen of tentionally hurt each othwith the situational black Leenane runs through er as they dream hopeless humor and grisly details that June 16 at the Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller dreams of escape, the real are McDonagh’s trademark.

Ave., Mill Valley. InformaLeenane is a pleasant and Instead, he does just the option: 415/388-5208, or prosperous tourist town, posite. Tall, smartly dressed marintheatre.org. the “Gateway to Conneand attractive, Beth Wilmurt mara,” where lies some of actually could pass as Laneen’s the country’s most beaubeauty queen—a fact that setiful scenery. verely undercuts the satirical context of the How do you deal with the discrepancy? play’s title and drains away any perception Melcon recommends granting poetic of mental or physical infirmity. Joy Carlin, license. “Instead of imagining yourself in another extremely polished Bay Area acIreland,” she writes, “think of yourself in a tress, does her best to convey Mag’s rough little corner of Martin McDonagh’s mind.” edges and wild emotional swings, but crude Ironically, the same can be said of MTC’s behavior is simply not in her nature. Rod production, directed by Mark Jackson, Gnapp offers an appropriately straightforwhich is as different from what the script ward performance as Pato and Joseph Salacalls for and other versions I’ve seen as the zar appears briefly as his brother Ray. two Leenanes are from each other.

Does the cool, almost cerebral tone of Scenic designer Nina Ball’s set is the first Jackson’s staging do justice to the author’s hint that something unexpected is afoot. intent? For me, no, because I miss the Instead of the traditional dingy, claustrojangling nerves that usually accompany phobic Folan family kitchen—a symbol of McDonagh’s graphic excursions into the characters’ crabbed existence—Ball’s Grand Guignol territory. Others, however, performance space is an expansive black may find the directorial restraint to be platform, brightly lit by designer York a welcome departure from convention.

Kennedy. Sparsely furnished and elegant in That’s the risk—and potential joy—of takits simplicity, it seems to float in the midst ing poetic license. < of the surrounding blue cosmos.

Charles can be reached at cbrousse@juno.com But that’s only the beginning. Jackson’s cast and the tone they set also contain major surprises. A rich mix of comedy, satire, and the kind of unapologetic melodrama that one often gets from a disaffected young playwright just beginning his career, Beauty Queen revolves around the titanic struggle between Maureen Folan, a developmentally impaired 40ish spinster who is starved for sex Surely, this is violating the morals clause expressly indicated in the Leenane and will do practically pageant governing bylaws...

››THAT TV GUY

FRIDAY, JUNE 14 How We Invented the World Tonight’s episode is “How We Invented Guns.”Tune in next week for “How We Invented a Network That Was Supposed To Be About Science But Turned Into A Network About Cars and Blowing Things Up.” Discovery Channel. 8pm.

The Lost Boys Corey Feldman and Corey Haim battle new wave vampires in a movie noted by film histories of as one of only two “double Corey” films. (1987) VH1. 8pm.

Daylight Sylvester Stallone leads survivors out of a collapsed tunnel. This was back in Stallone’s Stop or My Mom Will Shoot period when he was mainly leading moviegoers out of theaters halfway through the movie.

(1996) The Movie Channel. 8pm.

by Rick Polito

around the time the coffee pot is empty.

CBS. 9:30pm.

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Family S.O.S. with Jo Frost A super-nanny steps in to help families in crisis. The first sign that your family needs help is when you sign up to be on a reality show about families in crises. The Learning Channel. 8pm.

History of the Eagles The story of the ‘70s super group is chronicled, highlighting such events as the recording of their first album, their first stadium tour, the invention of suede denim and the time Don Henley’s gold chain got caught on Glen Frey’s turquoiseSATURDAY, JUNE 15 studded snakeskin belt.

The Dark Knight Rises Showtime. 8pm.

In the sequel to The Dark World’s Biggest Gangs Knight Batman returns There is a gang in El from exile to face Bain, a Salvador with 140,000 madman who has taken members. That’s not a over Gotham. It gets serigang, that’s a corporation ous when Bain outlaws with an incredibly crappy Big Gulps and puts in bike The two Coreys, and some dude on the left “retirement plan.” Current. lanes. (2012) HBO. 5pm. less worthy of our scorn, Friday at 8.

8:30pm.

My Cat from Hell A cat Behind the Candelabra goes crazy at a cat show.

The story of pianist Liberace is told, recalling A room full of high-strung cats and higha simpler era when a man could wear high strung cat owners who put their cats in a heels and play a rhinestone grand piano cat show? What could go wrong? Animal and the right wing wouldn’t picket his conPlanet. 8pm. certs. (2013) HBO. 10pm.

100 Years of the Tour de France Three of which were won without performance WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19 Magic Mike An enhancing drugs. NBC Sports. 9pm. experienced male stripper takes a new perMermaids: the New Evidence Debating former under his wing, teaching him that the authenticity of photos that could depict the art of stripping is more than steroids a half-woman/half-fish, or a ball of kelp, and a Speedo. There’s also chest waxing. depending on how many tropical drinks (2011) HBO. 9:30pm. you’d enjoyed. Discovery Channel. 10pm.

Couples Therapy The couples tackle a SUNDAY, JUNE 16 American Restora- series of elaborate aerial obstacles known tion Tonight the team is restoring a motor- as a ropes course. Usually when you bring ropes in to help a relationcycle for Billy Joel. They ship in it involves a blindwere going to restore his fold, a ball gag and the music career too, but it books-on-tape version of was sent to the scrap pile Fifty Shades of Gray. VH1. in 1993. History Channel.

10pm.

6pm.

The Golden Compass A THURSDAY, JUNE 20 young girl is caught up Chopped Tonight’s treats in an adventure through include bacon popcorn. interconnected alternate Is it just us or has bacon universes where people jumped the shark? Bacon is have animal companions everywhere and it’s some“daemons” that are manihow hip. Bacon is now the festations of their alter skinny jeans of pork. Food egos. This is one of those Before the thrill was gone, Tuesday at 8. Network. 8pm. “be careful where you step Beyond Scared Straight on the sidewalk” alternate A 12-year-old girl is taken universes. (2007). SyFy 11pm. into a Florida prison to convince her to stop her delinquent behavior. You know what MONDAY, JUNE 17 Kingdom of Heaven they call a 12-year-old in Florida who needs It turns out the crusades were more fun Scared Straight? A prodigy. A&E. 10pm. that we thought, like spring break, but with swords. (2005) American Movie Channel. 5pm. Sex Kittens Go to College Don’t get excited. This is Turner Classic Movies. It’s not Spy Kids: 4 All the Time in the World The Cinemax. It was made in 1960 You might Spy Kids take on the Time Master, an evil see somebody’s navel—it’s that kind of villain who can make two hours of your life scandalous. (1960) Turner Classic Movies. disappear in a confusing mess of a movie.

(2011) The Movie Channel. 5:30pm.

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F R I D AY J U N E 1 4 — F R I D AY J U N E 2 1 Pacific Sun‘s Community Calendar

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

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

Live music 06/14-15: 10th Annual Djangofest Concerts and workshops celebrate the music and spirit of Django Reinhardt. With Tcha Limberger and the John Jorgenson Quintet and Trio Dinicu. 8pm. $35. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley.

383-9600. 142throckmortontheatre.org.

06/14: 77 El Deora With Pam Brandon.

8:30pm. $12-15. Rancho Nicasio, Nicasio.

662-2219. ranchonicasio.com

06/14: Buck Nickels and Loose Change Country rock. 9pm. $10. Sausalito Seahorse, 305 Harbor Dr., Sausalito. sausalitoseahorse.com.

06/14: Creekside Fridays Tribute Band Music Festival: The Unauthorized Rolling Stones Live, local music, kids area with face painting, jump house, food and drinks available on site. 6:30pm. No cover. The Cabin, 60 Tennessee Valley Road, Mill Valley.

388-6393. tcsd.us.

06/14: Friday Night Jazz at Marin Country Mart: Piro Patten Trio 6-9pm.

Free. 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur. marincountrymart.com

06/14: Jazz and Blues by the Bay: Stephanie Keys 6:30-8pm. Free. Gabrielson Park, Anchor and Bridgeway, Sausalito. 289-4152. ci.sausalito.ca.us

06/14-16: June Rambles with Phil Lesh, Stanley Jordan, Neal Casal, Jon Graboff, Cody Dickinson and Rob Barraco 7:30pm. $65. Terrapin Crossroad, 100 Yacht Club Dr., San Rafael. 524-2773. terrapincrossroads.net.

06/14: Manicato, Afrofunk Experience Latin. 9pm. $8-13. 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway, Fairfax. 459-1091. 19broadway.com 06/14: Moonalice Jam rock. 9pm. Hopmonk, 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 892-6200. hopmonk.com/novato.

06/14: Pride and Joy High-energy dance rock. 9pm. $22. Sweetwater Music Hall , 19 Corte Madera Ave. , Mill Valley. 388-3850. swmh.com.

06/14: Roger Glenn Ensemble Latin jazz.

Shows at 8 and 10pm. 8pm. $20. Fenix, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael. 813-5600. fenixlive.com/music.

06/14: The Phillip Percy Pack Jazz Standards with a contemporary groove. 7pm. No cover. Rickey’s Restaurant , 250 Entrada Dr., Novato. 244-2665.

06/14: Rebel Yell ’80s tribute. 9pm. $12.

George’s Nightclub, 842 Fourth St., San Rafael.

226-0262. georgesnightclub.com 06/14: The Soul Satellites 9:30pm. $8. Peri’s, 29 Broadway, Fairfax. 459-9910. perisbar.com.

06/14: Tom Finch Group 9:30pm. Sleeping Lady Cafe, 23 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 485-1182. sleepingladyfairfax.com.

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06/15: Black Market Blues Blues rock..

9pm. $10. Hopmonk, 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 892-6200. hopmonk.com/novato.

06/15: Chris Saunders Quartet Jazz. 9pm. No Name Bar, 757 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 332-1392.

06/15: Danny Click and the Hell Yeahs Americana, Texas blues. 8:30pm. $15-20. Rancho Nicasio, Nicasio. 662-2219. ranchonicasio.com 06/15: Makuru 9:30pm. Sleeping Lady Cafe, 23 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 485-1182. sleepingladyfairfax.com.

06/15-16: Music at the Marin Art Festival June 15 with Ukulele Friends Ohana, Wendy DeWitt, Stompy Jones, Moonalice; June 16 with Zucker Family Band, Mari Mack and Livin’ Like Kings, The Edge with Lorin Rowan, Lumanation. Music from 11:30am-6pm each day. $10,under 14 free. Marin Civic Center Fairgrounds and Lagoon area, 10 Ave of the Flags, San Rafael. 388-0151 . marinartfestival.com.

06/15: The Phillip Percy Pack Jazz standards. 7pm. No cover. San Rafael Joe’s, 931 Fourth St., San Rafael.

06/15: Revolver “Beatles for Sale” album covers. 8pm. $15. Fenix, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael. 813-5600. fenixlive.com/music.

06/15: Tommy Odetto and Friends 9:30pm. $8. Peri’s, 29 Broadway, Fairfax. 459-9910. perisbar.com.

06/15: Warrior King Reggae. 10pm. $15.

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

19broadway.com

06/16: Belvedere Concerts in the Park: David Martin’s House Party Rock. 4-6pm.

Belvedere Community Park, 450 San Rafael Ave., Belvedere. belvedereconcerts.org/

06/16: Corte Madera Summer Concert Series: Jimi Z 5pm. Free. Menke Park, Redwood and Corte Madera Ave., Corte Madera. 302-1160. cortemaderacommunityfoundation.org.

06/16: Elvin Bishop with Ruthie Foster Barbecue on the Lawn show. 3pm. doors, 4pm show. $25-28. Rancho Nicasio, Nicasio. 662-2219. ranchonicasio.com 06/16: Emma Lee With Dylan Squires.

Noon. Sand Dollar Restaurant, 3458 Shoreline Hwy., Stinson Beach. 868-1311. stinsonbeachrestaurant.com.

06/16: Jason Crosby and Friends with Dave Schools, Leslie Mendelson, Jay Lane, Jeff Chimenti 8pm. $42. Sweetwater Music Hall , 19 Corte Madera Ave. , Mill Valley.

388-3850. swmh.com.

06/16: La Mandanga 9:30pm. No cover. Peri’s, 29 Broadway, Fairfax. 459-9910. perisbar.com.

06/16: The Ugetsu Project Bay Area jazz musicians pay tribute to the Art Blakey album Ugetsu on its 50th anniversary. With Mike Olmos, trumpet; Anton Schwartz, tenor sax; John Gove, trombone; Adam Shulman, piano; Mike Bordelon, bass; Greg Wyser-Pratte,

Sexual healing Berkeley poet Mark O’Brien died in 1999 after a lifetime in an iron lung, the result of childhood polio, and THE SESSIONS is the story of his real-life encounter with sex therapist Cheryl CohenGreene in the late ‘80s. Despondent Helen Hunt, wearing what’s known in sex therapist circles as a ‘Freudian slip.’ after a marriage proposal to his caregiver goes south, Mark resolves to lose his virginity by referral from UCB’s Center for Disability and Sexuality—but, good Catholic that he is, he seeks to clear it first with Father Brendan (William H. Macy). Life as a neck-down paralytic means zero spontaneity: He’ll be booked for his encounters and wheeled by gurney to a safe house for a maximum six appointments. But Cheryl’s arrival in his life proves an earthquake—the familiar Boston accent, the thrill of nakedness and contact, all strangely wrapped up in the language of therapy. It’s little wonder that he breaks format and writes her a lyric. John Hawkes and Helen Hunt star in a film that, like O’Brien himself, finds beauty and belly-laughs in the grimmest of cosmic hands. Hunt’s performance was Oscar-nominated—she and Hawkes have gifts for showing the tenderness and vulnerability that lie just beneath the fun and frolic. Moon Bloodgood costars, riotously. (DVD extras include an interview with the real Cheryl Cohen-Greene.) —Richard Gould drums. 6:30pm. $10. Fenix, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael. 813-5600. fenixlive.com/music.

06/17: Emma Lee: Locals Night Dinner specials, drink specials and free live, local music. Emma Lee will be preforming for you, joined on stage by a variety of amazing players.

All original music, all night long. 5:30-7:15pm.

No cover. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley. 868-1311. swmh.com.

Iron Springs Pub, 765 Center St., Fairfax.

485-1005. ironspringspub.com.

06/19: Elvis Johnson Soul Revue 9:30pm.

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

06/19: Maka Roots Reggae. 9pm. No cover.

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

19broadway.com

06/17: Open Mic with Autin DeLone

8pm. No cover. All ages. Hopmonk, 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 892-6200. hopmonk.com.

06/19: Steep Ravine 8pm. No cover. Sweetwater Music Hall , 19 Corte Madera Ave. , Mill Valley. 388-3850. swmh.com.

7:30pm. Sweetwater Music Hall , 19 Corte Madera Ave. , Mill Valley. 388-3850. swmh.com.

06/17: Open Mic with D Smith 9:30pm.

No cover. 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway, Fairfax.

459-1091. 19broadway.com 06/17: Open Mic with Simon Costa 9pm.

Sleeping Lady Cafe, 23 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax.

485-1182. sleepingladyfairfax.com.

06/18: Jeb Brady Band 6pm. No cover 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway, Fairfax. 459-1091.

19broadway.com 06/18: Swing Fever “Songs from the Odd Couple, music of Rodgers and Hart.” 7pm. No cover, dinner encouraged. Panama Hotel and Restaurant, 4 Bayview St., San Rafael.

457-3993. panamahotel.com.

06/19: Dale Polissar Trio with Si Perkoff Clarinet jazz 7pm. No cover, dinner encouraged. Panama Hotel and Restaurant, 4 Bayview St., San Rafael. 457-3993. panamahotel.com.

06/19: Dedicated Maniacs 8pm. No cover.

06/19: Open Mic with Dennnis Haneda

06/20: Deborah Winters and Friends Jazz, soul. 7pm. No cover, dinner encouraged.

Panama Hotel and Restaurant, 4 Bayview St., San Rafael. 457-3993. panamahotel.com.

06/20: Fatoumata Diawara World music.

8pm. $15-20. Napa Valley Opera House, 1030 Main St., Napa. 707-226-7372. nvoh.org.

06/20: JD McPherson Americana. 10pm. $22. Sweetwater Music Hall , 19 Corte Madera Ave. , Mill Valley. 388-3850. swmh.com.

06/20: Jazz with Curtis Woodman Jazz trio. 8pm. No cover. Sausalito Seahorse Supper Club, 305 Harbor Dr., Sausalito. 331-2899. sausalitoseahorse.com.

06/20: Peach Street, IrieFuse 8pm. No cover. 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway, Fairfax.

459-1091. 19broadway.com

06/21: Beautiful Losers 8pm. $10. Sausalito Seahorse, 305 Harbor Dr., Sausalito. sausalitoseahorse.com.

06/21: David Luning 9:30pm. Sleeping Lady Cafe, 23 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 485-1182. sleepingladyfairfax.com.

06/21: Friday Night Jazz at Marin Country Mart: Ken Cook Quartet 6-9pm. Free.

2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur. marincountrymart.com

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06/21: Shed Sessions with Matt Jaffe, Alan Monasch,Shelby Lanterman, One of Many, Blood and Dust 7:30pm. All ages.

Hopmonk, 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 892-6200. hopmonk.com.

06/21: Swoop Unit 9:30pm. $8. Periâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 29 Broadway, Fairfax. 459-9910. perisbar.com.

06/21: 3 Leg Torso Modern chamber pop.

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

142throckmortontheatre.org.

06/21: Tony Lindsay Santana singer. 8pm. $20. Fenix, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael. 813-5600. fenixlive.com/music.

06/21: Vokab Kompany, Crush Effect 9pm. $10. 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway, Fairfax.

459-1091. 19broadway.com

Comedy 06/18: Mark Pitta and Friends Standup.

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

142throckmortontheatre.org.

Theater 06/16: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Sound of Musicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; The Mountain Play presents Tony Award-winning musical. Directed by Jay Manley. Music of Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse.

2pm. $20-40, under 3 free. Cushing Memorial Amphitheatre, 801 Panoramic Hwy., Mill Valley. 383-1100. mountainplay.org.

06/20-07/13: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Scapinoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Porchilight Theatre Company presents. By Frank Dunlop and Jim Dale. James Dunn directs. 7:30 p.m. Thurs.Sun., July 1. $15-30. Redwood Amphitheatre, Marin Art & Garden Center, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Ross. 251-1027. porchlight.net

06/20-30: Return to the Forbidden Planet Performed by The Curtain Theatre.

Based on Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Tempestâ&#x20AC;? and the 1950s sci-fi film â&#x20AC;&#x153;Forbidden Planet.â&#x20AC;? 8pm Thurs.-Sat.; 3pm Sun. $12-25. Caldwell Theatre, Tamalpais High School, 700 Miller Ave., Mill Valley. 290-1433. curtaintheatre.org.

Through 06/16: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;All My Sonsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 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.

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06/18: Candy Sushi Bar: Teen Summer Reading Event Teen Summer Reading program kickoff party. Make your own bento box of goodies. For grades 6-12. Please call to reserve a space. 1pm. Free. Corte Madera Library, 707 Meadowsweet Dr., Corte Madera.

924-6444. marinlibrary.org.

Marin Art Festival, back in the frame!

06/18: Nature for Kids at Cascade Canyon Head up one of the shaded canyons to

The 17th annual MARIN ART FESTIVAL is in full force this weekend—after nearly becoming “the festival that didn’t happen.” The San Rafael event found itself in a fiscal bind earlier this month when suppliers, in a change from earlier years, asked to be paid in advance for providing tents, portable bathrooms, etc. But thanks No child ever forgets his first encounter with a Marin Art Festival stilt walker. to generous donations from art-loving supporters of the festival—not to mention the artists themselves who wanted to see the event continue—the MAF can breathe a bit easier. Samplings from more than 200 artists will offer a glimpse at what’s going on across the nation on the painting, sculpture, jewelry and fine ceramic scenes. In addition to artistic delights, soothe your soul with a musical lineup chock-full of R&B and rock.

The Marin Art Festival takes place by the lagoon at the Marin Civic Center Fairgrounds in San Rafael on Saturday, June 15, and Sunday, June 16, 10am-6pm.

Tickets are $10 for adults; children 14 and under are free. For more information, visit marinartfestival.com or call 415/388-0151. —Stephanie Powell 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. Larry Shue, playwright. 8pm Fri.-Sat.; 3pm Sun. $12-25.

Novato Theater Company (NTC), 5420 Nave Dr. Suite. C, Novato. 883-4498. novatotheatercompany.org.

Dance 06/14: Hula in the Plaza With Hula Mai and Patrick Landeza, slack key guitar. Authentic hula, chant and Hawaiian music. 5:30-7pm.

Free. Grinstead Amphitheatre, Historic Sonoma Plaza, Sonoma. 707-321-6083. hulamai.org.

Art 06/14: Opening Reception: Art and Music Sam Andrew, paintings; Bob Minkin, music photographs; “Roots of Peace: Photography Music by Mindy Canter .” 6pm. Free.

Marin Fencing Academy, 827 Fourth St., San Rafael. 388-8059.

06/14: Splendid Objects: Artists Create for the 21st Century Fine art exhibition includes wood crafts, ceramics, glass, metal work and painting. 5:30pm. Free. Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission Ave., San Rafael.

485-3328. falkirkculturalcenter.org.

06/15-16: Marin Art Festival 2013 With 200 artists displaying their works, live music, stilt walkers, clowns, kids area, food and wine.

10am-6pm. $10, under 14 free. Marin Civic 24 PACIFIC SUN JUNE 14 - JUNE 20, 2013

Center Fairgrounds Lagoon Park, 10 Ave of the Flags, San Rafael . 388-0151. marinartfestival.com.

look for butterflies and other bugs.No animals (except service animals) please. David Herlocker will lead. 10am. Free. Cascade Canyon Open Space, Cascade Dr., Novato. 893-9508. marincountyparks.org.

06/20: George Sellner’s One Heart Music Free. 10:30am at Civic Center Branch Libary, 3501 Civic Center Dr., San Rafael. 2pm at South Novato Branch Library, 6 Hamilton Landing, Novato. marinlibrary.org.

06/20: It’s a Happy Land Puppets from Happy’s Greenhouse and Award winning author Land Wilson will teach kids about enjoying home grown veggies and taking care of the earth. 10am. Free. Creekside Room, Dominican University, 50 Acacia Ave., San Rafael. 458-3712.

06/21: Film Night in the Park: Hugo Popcorn, candy and sodas will be sold. Bring blankets, low chairs. No pets, please. 8pm. Free/ donation. Old Mill Park, Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 272-2756. filmnight.org.

Film 06/15: NT Live Presents: The Audience

By Peter Morgan. 1pm. $30. Lark Theater, 549 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur. larktheater.net 06/17: ‘Klunkerz’(2006). Documentary of the earliest days of mountain biking. Written, produced, and directed by California filmmaker Billy Savage. 7:30pm. Free. Mill Valley Public Library, 375 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. millvalleylibrary.org.

06/18: Marin Poetry Summer Traveling Show Hosted by Margaret Stawowy and fea-

Outdoors

turing Stephen Galiani, Louise Yahnian, Carol Griffin, Angelika Quirk, Catharine Clark-Sayles and Alyse R. Benjamin. 8pm. Free. San Rafael Library, 1100 E St. , San Rafael. 889-5295. marinpoetrycenter.org.

06/14: Terwilliger Trail Hike Enjoy views of the Stafford Lake watershed from the upper sections of the trail and discuss the flora and fauna that inhabit the various habitats along the way.

Layered clothing and bring water. 11am. Free.

Stafford Lake Park, 3549 Novato Blvd., Novato.

897-0618. marincountyparks.org.

06/16: Indian Valley Local birds will be busy caring for their newly fledged young and the pools along the intermittent creeks should be filled with interesting creatures. This walk is for adults. No animals (except service animals) please. David Herlocker will lead. 10am. Free.

Indian Valley Campus, 1800 Ignacio Blvd., Novato. 893-9508. marincountyparks.org.

Kids Events 06/14: Kenn Adam’s Adventure Theater Improv comedy for kids. 4pm. Free. Larkspur Library, 400 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur. 927-5005. larkspurlibrary.org.

06/15: Dave the Horn Guy Interactive music show. 3pm. Free. Novato Library, 1720 Novato Blvd., Novato. 473-2050. marinlibrary.org.

06/15: Divya Srinivasan “Octopus Alone.”

1pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 4159270960. bookpassage.com.

06/15: Ghirardelli Square KidsBash 11am-3pm. Ghirardelli Square, 900 North Point St ., S.F. 775-5500. ghirardellisq.com 06/15: Project Apron Create a culinary inspired apron. Participants will use an ironon process to create personalized aprons. Ages 5 and over. Pre-registration required. 1pm.

Free. Marin City Library, 164 Donahue St., Sausalito. 332-6157. marinlibrary.org.

06/16: Sunday Special: The Hipwaders Celebrate Father’s Day. 11am. Free. Old Mill Park Amphitheater, Mill Valley Public Library, 375 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley.

389-4292 ext. 4741. millvalleylibrary.org.

Readings 06/14: Dan Smith “Monkey Mind.” 7pm.

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

06/15: Author Signing with Joan Steinau Lester “Mama’s Child.” 7pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera.

06/15: Guy Kawasaki Includes a signed book, appetizers and donation to A Band of Wives. Former Apple chief evangelist and bestselling author discusses “APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur: How to Publish a Book.”

4pm. $45. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

06/15: Joan Lester “Mama’s Child.” 7pm.

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

06/15: Matt Coyle “Yesterday’s Echo.” 4pm.

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

06/17: Brian Fagan “The Attacking Ocean.”

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

06/18: Stephen Rodrick “The Magical Stranger.” 7pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

06/19: Colum McCann “TransAtlantic.”

7pm. $30, includes signed book. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

06/19: No Kidding: Women Writers On Bypassing Parenthood Comedy writer and editor Henriette Mantel tackles the divisive topic of remaining child-free by giving voice to an underrepresented but rapidly increasing group. Six of the writers will each read.

7:30pm. $15. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 383-9600.

142throckmortontheatre.org.

06/20: Mac Barnett New York Times bestselling children’s book author discusses his many acclaimed works, including “Extra Yarn,” “Chloe and the Lion,” “The Clock Without a Face.” Part of the Children’s Writers and Illustrators Conference. 7pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

Community Events (Misc.)

06/14: Marin Conservation League’s Business-Environment Breakfast MALT Executive Director Jamison Watts will speak about new mandatory agricultural use provisions in MALT’s easements. Q and A follows. 7:30am. $25-30.

Embassy Suites, 101 McInnis Parkway, San Rafael.

485-6257. marinconservationleague.org.

06/15: Second Annual Bocce Benefit for Marfan Syndrome Bocce Lessons followed by a friendly tournament, a light breakfast, full lunch with drinks, silent auction and prizes.

Proceeds will go towards research and raising awareness about Marfan Syndrome. 9am. $35.

Marin Bocce Federation, 550 B St., San Rafael.

457-9111. firstgiving.com.

06/15: Ninth Annual Neighborhood Garage Sale Over 17 families will be participating. 9am-2pm. Free. Morningside neighborhood in San Anselmo. 847-2576.

06/15: Caribbean Fundraiser and Auction for Call of the Sea With Caribbean food, drinks, live music, silent and live auctions. Held at Educational Tall Ship building site at Marina Plaza. Benefit for Call of the Sea Youth Scholarship Programs “Expanding Horizons of Bay Area Youth One Voyage at a Time”. 6pm. $65. Marina Plaza, Educational Tall Ship Tent, 2330 Marinship Way, Sausalito.

331-3214. callofthesea.org.

06/15: Creekside Restoration with Save The Bay Learn about the history of S.F. Bay and Creekside Marsh from Marin County Parks and Save The Bay staff. Volunteers of all ages and abilities are encouraged to attend. Pre-registration required. 9am. Free.

Hal Brown Park at Creekside, Bon Air Road, Greenbrae. 473-3778. savesfbay.org.

06/15: Marin Country Mart Father’s Day Event Old-fashioned barbecue, homemade pies, beers on tap and live music by Hand Me Down.Proceeds from beer sales will go to CropMobster.As always, the Farmers’ Market features kid’s activities, arts and crafts, face painting and story time from 9:30-10:30am.

9am. Free. 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur. marincountrymart.com.

06/15: Friends of the Library Book Sale 9am-3pm. Free. Mill Valley Public Library, 375

06/15: 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. Space is limited. 10am. Free. Kent Island in Bolinas Lagoon, Olema-Bolinas Road straight to Wharf Road, Bolinas. 473-3778. marincountyparks.org.

collaborate to find solutions for challenges your family is experiencing. 7pm. Free. Fenix Growth, 5710 Paradise Dr., Corte Madera. 5599273. thrivingfamilies.org.

06/19: Entrepreneursâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cafe: Starring Dana King RSVP required, space limited.

5:30pm. Free. Renaissance Marin, 1115 Third St., San Rafael. 755-1115. rencentermarin.org.

06/19: History of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Join Ranger Bill to learn about the

06/15: What Can the Farmer Teach the Doctor? Farmacology author and family

USACE. 2pm. Free. Bay Model Visitor Center, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 332-3871. spn.usace.army.mil.

physician Dr. Daphne Miller describes what innovative farming can teach about health and healing. In conversation with Marin sheep farmer and cheesemaker Marcia Barinaga.

7:30pm. $15. Tobyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Feed Barn, 11250 State Route One, Point Reyes Station. 663-1542. ptreyesbooks.com.

06/20: Can We Condone the Use of Drones in a Democracy? Executive Direc-

06/16: Fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day Pancake Breakfast Hike in and enjoy breakfast with a view. 9am1pm. $5-10. West Point Inn, Mt. Tamalpais, Mill Valley. 388-9955. westpointinn.com 06/16: Trekking the Model Ranger guided tour of the Bay Model. 1:30pm. Free. Bay Model Visitor Center, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 332-3871. spn.usace.army.mil.

06/17: Docent Lecture with Rita Dunlay: Impressionists on the Water Sponsored by the Friends of the Sausalito Library 7pm.

Free. Sausalito City Hall, Council Chambers, 420 Litho St., Sausalito. 289-4121. ci.sausalito. ca.us 06/18: Pet First Aid/CPR 6pm. $ 50. Elks Lodge, Mission Ave. C St., San Rafael. 884-2720. cpr-etc.com.

06/18: Thriving FamiliesWellness pros

tor Human Rights Center, University of California Berkeley School of Law Alexa Koenig will make a presentation sponsored by the Marin Chapter of the World Affairs Council.

7:30pm. $6-9. Dominican University, Creekside Room, Caleruega Dining Hall, 50 Acacia Ave., San Rafael. 293-4601. worldaffairs.org.

06/20: Summer Solstice Dance and Potluck Solstice ritual, dance and potluck. 7pm. $15.

Lagunitas Gym, 1 Lagunitas School Road, San Geronimo. 200-7559. sweatyourprayerssg.com.

06/21: Summer Solstice Celebration Celebrate the solstice with friends of Marin Community Clinics. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event will honor 2013 Community Health Champions: Dr. Georgianna Farren, Marin Community Clinicsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Chief Medical Officer, and Dr. Steven Schroeder, UCSF Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care and Director of the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center.

5:30pm. $100. Marin Art and Garden Center, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Ross. 526-8527. marinclinics.org.<

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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.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on MAY 24, 2013. (Publication Dates: MAY 31; JUNE 7, 14, 21, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013132246 The following individual is doing business as VERONICA ROSE JEWELRY, 74 DOMINGA AVE., FAIRFAX, CA 94930: VERONICA BRIGITTE ROSE, 74 DOMINGA AVE., FAIRFAX, CA 94930. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name listed herein on MAY 13, 2013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on MAY 29, 2013. (Publication Dates: JUNE 7, 14, 21, 28, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 132263 The following individual is doing business as MOTORSPORTS MARKET, 4310 REDWOOD HWY #400, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: ARTHUR ROBERT HEBERT, 195 HARVARD DR., LARKSPUR, CA 94939.

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 30, 2013. (Publication Dates: JUNE 7, 14, 21, 28, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 132313 The following individual is doing business as EL TAZUMAL RESTAURANT, 1444 4TH ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: IRMA NOEMY HUEZO, 1931 PABLO VISTA AVE., SAN PABLO, CA 94806. 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 24, 2013. (Publication Dates: JUNE 7, 14, 21, 28, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013132313 The following individuals are doing busi-

ness as ALLY-HAN PUBLISHING, 6 OAK ROAD, LARKSPUR, CA 94939: ALBERT C GOLDBERG, 6 OAK ROAD, LARKSPUR, CA 94939; LINDA GOLDBERG, 6 OAK ROAD, LARKSPUR, CA 94939. This business is being conducted by A HUSBAND & WIFE. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name listed herein on JULY 10, 2013. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on JUNE 5 2013. (Publication Dates: JUNE 14, 21, 28; JULY 5, 2013) STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No. 304468 The following person has abandoned the use of a fictitious business name.

The information given below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the Marin County Clerk-Recorder's Office. Fictitious Business name(s): FRANCIS NAILS, 1815 4TH ST. #4, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. Filed in Marin County on: JUNE 24, 2011. Under File No: 2011-126443. Registrant’s Name: XUAN TRANG T NGUYEN, 15 SONOMA ST. #B, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Marin County on MAY 7, 2013. (Publication Dates: MAY 17, 24, 31; JUNE 7, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013132234 The following individual is doing business as HANDPICKED ADVENTURES, 113 BONITA STREET, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: HEATHER ENGLAND, 113 BONITA STREET, SAUSALITO, CA 94965. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name listed herein on JUNE 1, 2013. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on MAY 29, 2013. (Publication Dates: JUNE 7, 14, 21, 28, 2013) STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No. 304475 The following person hasabandoned the use of a fictitious business name(s).

The information given below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the Marin County Clerk-Recorder's Office. Fictitious Business name(s): JADE SPA, 803 D ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. Filed in Marin County on: NOVEMBER 3, 2010. Under File No: 125355. Registrant’s Name: GUIDI WU, 673 MOSCOW ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. 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)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No. 304477 The following person has abandoned the use of a fictitious business name.

The information given below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the Marin County Clerk-Recorder’s Office. Fictitious Business name: EMERALD SPA, 744 A ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. Filed in Marin County on: OCTOBER 19, 2011. Under File No: 128018. Registrant’s Name: GRACE XIN, 15 LABREA WAY #13, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Marin County on JUNE 3, 2013. (Publication Dates: JUNE 7, 14, 21, 28, 2013)

OTHER NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No. CIV 1302247. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner SEUNG CHEOL LEE filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: SEUNG CHEOL LEE to JAMES SEUNG LEE. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: JULY 19, 2013 9:00 AM, Dept.

L, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin: PACIFIC SUN. Date: MAY 24, 2013 /s/ LYNN DURYEE, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (Publication Dates: MAY 31; JUNE 7, 14, 21, 2013) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No. CIV 1302330. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner ISUN EVAN RAM RAINBOW NOLLMAN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: ISUN EVAN RAM RAINBOW NOLLMAN to ISUN EVAN PRUITT. THE COURT ORDERS that all per-

sons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: JULY 19, 2013 8:30 AM, Room B, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin: PACIFIC SUN. Date: MAY 31, 2013 /s/ ROY CHERNUS, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (Publication Dates: JUNE 7, 14, 21, 28, 2013) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No. CIV 1302341. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JULIA MARIE JONES filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: JULIA MARIE JONES to WILL JOSEPH JONES. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: JULY 22, 2013 9:00 AM, Dept.

L, Room L, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin: PACIFIC SUN. Date: MAY 31, 2013 /s/ LYNN DURYEE, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (Publication Dates: JUNE 7, 14, 21, 28, 2013)

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Q:

I’ve always made people laugh with my self-deprecating humor, but I was complaining about not having much luck with the ladies recently, and my buddy told me that my humor is a problem. He said I come off as kind of a downer to women. Other guy friends told me not to listen to him; women love a man with a sense of humor. So, who’s right? —Overweight, Poor and Ugly

A:

Self-deprecating humor works best when a man seems to be kidding, not confessing: “Hey, ladies! Look who’s barely holding it together over here!”

So, the question is, exactly how much of a self do you have to deprecate? Evolutionary psychologist Dr. Gil Greengross sees self-deprecating humor as a social version of conspicuous consumption (outlandish spending implying that a person has so much money, he could use packets of dollar bills for firewood.) Poking fun at yourself can suggest that you have so much personal and emotional capital that you not only don’t need to sweat to impress a woman, you can laugh at what a loser you are. (This works especially well if you’re a loser like George Clooney.)

Greengross cautions that it’s risky to shine a spotlight on actual flaws, so if there’s a ring of truth to “Overweight, Poor and Ugly,” avoid opening with “Hey, babe, how bout I sell my plasma and take you to dinner?” But say what you lack in looks and money you make up in confidence. You could show off how cool you are with that uncomfortable moment of hitting on a woman with “Hi, I really wanted to talk to you. Can we talk about the weather while I’m thinking of something to say?” And instead of mocking who you are, you’re probably safer poking fun at something you’ve done, like, oops, splashing beer down the cleavage of the woman you’re hitting on: “They usually just slip my water dish into my cage so these sorts of things don’t happen.”

Still, although some humorous self-condemnation can be fun, a constant barrage of it may make a woman’s ears try to coerce her arms and legs into a suicide pact. Also, it’s easy to fall into the habit of using humor as a force field so you never have to open up and get real. This tends not to go unnoticed or go over with the ladies. So, sure, disarm a woman with humor, but after she’s disarmed, see that you actually talk to her, person-to-person, not comedian-to-person. Your goal should be finding out things about her that resonate with you and responding to them and seeing whether there’s a connection there. It’s connecting with a woman that will make her stick around—and for far longer than if you just try to hammer her with jokes until she loses consciousness.

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I’m a screenwriter with a job-job, so the early morning is the only time I have to write. When my girlfriend stays over, she’ll come in and start talking to me as I’m trying to work. I love her and don’t want her to feel ignored, but these interruptions really pull me out of my thoughts. —Scribe

A:

Writing and solitude tend to go together. Just think about it: Where was Thoreau’s girlfriend? Bottom of the pond?

Writing often looks dignified in movies, but in real life it’s a grubby business that tends to involve some sobbing into the keyboard and humiliating attempts to bribe God in exchange for a working plot twist. In between, however, there are moments of what’s called “flow,” a term by psychologist Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi describing the blissfully productive state where you get so single-mindedly immersed in some activity that time and everything else fall away. Interruptions, no matter how well-meaning, are the death of flow, and not exactly fantastic for lesser states of concentration, either.

Explain this to your girlfriend so she can understand that your need for solitude isn’t a form of rejection and that, when you’re writing, the sweetest and most supportive thing she can do is act like she’s not speaking to you (but without the door slammings and mumblings of “remorseless turd!” that usually come with).

Block out a few hours in the morning as “do not disturb” time (which she should feel free to ignore whenever she catches fire). And when you aren’t blackening pages, maybe make an effort to be extra-affectionate in addition to expressing appreciation for her support. This should help keep her from feeling bad and acting out, and you, in turn, from rebelling against any such rebellion and, say, revising your pet name for her from “Sugarbooger” to “Writer’s Block.” < © 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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