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State gets ‘active’ on kids and bikes Safe Routes funding on cruise control thanks to Legislature

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dvocates of alternative transportation, bicycling and walking, achieved a major victory recently as they proved they’re a savvy political group more than capable of playing hardball in the halls of Sacramento.

They saved dedicated state funding for bicycling and walking programs, including Safe Routes to School, which got its start in Marin. After maneuvering and negotiating, they were instrumental in applying pressure that pushed California Gov. Jerry Brown to sign into law what’s called the Active Transportation Program.

Rather than a cut in funds for walking and biking, the legislation the governor signed will increase dedicated funding for walking and biking projects by 35 percent. Sort of.

The legislation assures that the Active Transportation Program will receive about $130 million in its first year. The good news for Safe Routes to School: The state, through the Active Transportation Program, will give Safe Routes a guarantee of $24 million. In addition, 25 percent of the total funds must benefit disadvantaged communities, a stipulation that alternative transportation advocates consider to be a victory within a victory.

But—and there always seems to be a but in the current world of transportation funding—the future of state and federal funding for alternative nonmotorized transportation is far from certain. That 35 percent increase that’s going into the Active Transportation Program isn’t actually new money. The program will take the place of most existing state and federal sources of funding for trails, biking and walking.

Putting funds from various programs into one omnibus program makes sense from an administrative standpoint. It costs less to administer one overarching program rather than several programs.

Getting that extra 35 percent comes from eliminating some provisions in previous programs. Some funds funneled from the state, for instance, went to environmental work on road projects.

Previously that money was considered part of the alternative transportation allotment. That kind of money now goes into the Active Transportation Program to directly fund biking and walking.

Money for ancillary work will have to come from other sources.

As part of the realignment of funding, the Active Transportation Program will combine several other programs, including the federal Transportation Alternatives, the Recreational Trails Program and Safe Routes to School, which promotes biking and walking for school-age children on the way to and from classes.

The key victory for Safe Routes is that the new alignment guarantees a minimum funding level, ensuring the survival of a program that virtually everyone considers to be a resounding success.

That’s the good news. The bad news is that overall guaranteed funding for Safe Routes actually was reduced. From 1999 to 2005, the state contributed $24 million a year to Safe Routes, says Deb Hubsmith, Marin resident and founding director of Safe Routes to School National Partnership. After the federal government passed its transportation bill in 2005, Safe Routes received funding from the feds as well as the state. The total amounted to about $46 million a year.

The Active Transportation Program the governor singed into law assures funding for Safe Routes for three years.

In addition to guaranteeing that $24 million a year for the first three years, the Active Transportation Program allows Safe Routes to compete for an additional $21 million in federal funds. Safe Routes will have to compete for those funds along with other alternative transportation programs.

The $130 million total Active Transportation funds will get split three ways: the state will keep 50 percent. Forty percent will go to the large metropolitan transportation agencies like the Metropolitan Transportation Agency in the Bay Area to be dispersed in a competitive process. Another 10 percent will go to smaller urban and rural transportation agencies. The total state pot amounts to about $65 million. The $24 million for Safe Routes comes from the state pot. But Safe Routes also can compete for additional funds at the regional level. Exactly how the process will work is still under construction. The state Transportation Commission is holding public meetings to collect input on the best way to set up the new system.

In addition to assuring funds for Safe Routes, at least for three years, the Active Transportation legislation also 8> funnels money to the Recreational

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Curtain down on MVFF36 The Mill Valley Film Festival’s reel spun to an end Oct. 13 with Ben Stiller’s in-person screening of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty at the Sequoia Theater where, outside, Throckmorton Boulevard was lined with eager fans and media awaiting the triple-threat actor-director-producer’s arrival.

Prior to the screening, festival director Mark Fishkin introduced Stiller and thanked festival sponsor Sonnen BMW for the 7-series he sported during the festival.

“I didn’t get one,” Stiller interjected—and the theater filled with laughter, setting the stage for the whimsical, escapist comedy to come.

The film, based on the well-known James Thurber short story, only completed postproduction about a week ago, Stiller told the audience.

Audiences can thank screenwriter Steve Conrad for wooing Stiller to the project with his words. Stiller had seen a script based on Mitty in 2005, but passed on the project. It was Conrad’s unique script that finally sold him on the film. Stiller reiterated that Thurber’s character—a mild-mannered man who daydreams of fantastical adventures while driving his wife on a weekly errand run—is relatable and timeless, traits Conrad brought to life in his script.

“It’s been a character that’s lived on because it’s such an iconic character,” Stiller said.

“He represents a part of all of us in terms of who you think we can be in the world or what we experience in our heads as opposed to what the reality of our lives are, what we strive to be.”

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’s only prior big screen treatment was a 1947 film featuring Danny Kaye in the title role, though that movie strayed vastly from the original story, which was first printed in The New Yorker in 1939.

The completion of the Stiller film left the actor-director with a “surreal” feeling when editor—and friend—Greg Hayden, e-mailed him a picture of a theater marquee spelling out the title of the film, which left him thinking, ‘Wow I guess we actually are finished.’

Stiller signed off with appreciation, “This has been a wonderful journey making this movie and to end it here and be a part of this festival is really great, and I hope you enjoy it.”—Stephanie Powell ‘12 Years a Slave’ takes audience award at MVFF 12 Years a Slave, director Steve McQueen’s well-reviewed movie about a free African-American man kidnapped back into slavery in the antebellum South, earned the audience “overall favorite” award from this year’s Mill Valley Film Festival.

The festival, which closed its 36th year Oct. 13, doesn’t have a juried awards program, but does solicit audience reaction to the many movies throughout its 11-day film-stravaganza.

The World War II-set The Book Thief, starring festival tribute recipient Geoffrey Rush, was named the favorite film produced in the United States, with Dallas Buyers Club, featuring Jared Leto as a transgender drug smuggler, coming in a close second.

Of the indie favorites, Civil War-set The Retrieval, about a boy sent north to capture a wanted man, took top audience honors; while the locally filmed modern-day western Redemption Trail was runner up.

The festival’s audience favorite in world cinema was Stephen Frears’ Philomena, starring Steve Coogan and Judi Dench; French comedy Cheba Louisa was named top indie in world cinema. Other awards went to documentary This Ain’t No Mouse Music! about 8 > October18- October 24, 2013 Pacific Sun 5

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ples having brunch learn the world is ending.

On the plus side, they don’t have to worry about running out of Bloody Marys. (2012) The Movie Channel. 7:30pm.

Shark tank tonight it’s a company proposing to rent out goats for weed and grass control. this idea has been around for a while but homeowners may want to check their local zoning codes. Many communities only allow goats if they are sacrificed to the hoary beast of the netherworld, or used in a school play.

ABC. 9pm.

Murder on the 13th Floor a jealous wife hires a pair of killers to murder the nanny who had an affair with the husband. that’s why it’s important to check references, for the killers that is. (2012) Lifetime. 10pm.

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19 Kids and counting the family gets ready for a flea market.

If they’re lucky they’ll be able to unload some items they don’t need. tune in next week for“17 Kids but Who’s Counting?”The Learning Channel. 9pm. chris angel: BeLiEve the magician attempts to catch a bullet with his teeth. this is one of those“Don’t try this at home, or really anywhere” moments. Spike. 10pm.

Oz, the great and Powerful a carnival magician must convince the residents of a magical city that he is a powerful wizard who can control the elements. But he does it all through trickery. John Boehner has been trying this for the past three weeks. (2013) Starz. 10:05pm.

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1. The first ferryboats began crossing the San Francisco Bay, between San Francisco and Oakland, in what year ending with “0’”?

2. What United Nations agency is abbreviated WHO? 3. In the 2008 listing of most powerful celebrities by Forbes Magazine, three of the top four on the list were African-Americans. Who were they? (Criteria: ranking of web, press and TV income).

4. Who was the oldest person ever elected president of the United States?

5. Identify these animals with nine-letter names:

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6. Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven were some of the musicians who at one time worked in what city on the Danube River, the center of the music scene during the classical music era?

7. From 1993-2002 comedian and commentator Bill Maher hosted what politically incorrect TV series on Comedy Central?

8. The most common noncontagious disease or medical ailment in the world, (almost everyone gets it) is what?

9a. What is the British name for what the Americans call the ‘elevator’?

9b. What company, founded in 1853, is the world’s largest maker of these vertical transport machines?

10. How many knife cuts are required to cut a 15-inch loaf of bread into slices that are all 3/4-inch wide?

BONUS QUEStION: In 2010, the United States men’s team defeated Turkey to win the championship in what international team sporting competition?

Howard Rachelson invites you to upcoming team trivia contests at the Broken Drum Wednesdays at 7:30pm. Have a great question? Send it in to howard1@triviacafe.com and maybe we’ll use it! www.triviacafe.com.

▲ We don’t often get to follow up on a Hero & Zero story and we’re delighted that a recent column helped make a Marinite’s day. Last month, we reported that San Francisco Giants fan Caley Guida injured her hand when she failed to catch a line drive that went into the stands off the bat of Hector Sanchez. Another fan went home with the ball, while Caley went home to Mill Valley with several stitches. Those well-read, kind-hearted Giants saw the article in the Pacific Sun and they sent wounded Caley a special fan package, which included an autographed photo of Hector Sanchez, a Barry Zito bobblehead and a reproduction of the 2012 World Series Ring. The San Francisco Giants are true champs, not to mention a class act.

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▼ Three inches may be crucial when measuring a certain part of the male anatomy, but when considering the size of a home, three inches is inconsequential—unless you’re standing before the Marin County Planning Commission.

Marinwood homeowner Phillip Cotton is remodeling his 1957 Eichler and wants his second-story addition to line up with the original home. However, Cotton’s home is set back 5 feet and 9 inches from the side property line, while zoning requires a six-foot setback. In a 4-2 vote, the Commission decided to stick with the letter of the law, although Cotton has the support of seven neighbors to continue his permitted remodel. Construction has stopped until the three-inch issue is resolved. C’mon commissioners, put yourself in Cotton’s shoes and be reasonable.— Nikki Silverstein

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Lockup: tulsa this is the actual jail. Incarceration in tulsa itself is entirely voluntary WEdnESday, Oct. 23 but citizens can be released A precautionary look at the societal World Series: game 1 on good behavior—good consequences of inadequate availthe teams had not been behavior meaning “moving ability of mental health services, named at press time but somewhere else.” MSNBC. Monday at 8. you can already start 6pm. choosing the MVP (Most Valuable Pharmatremors 4: the Legend Begins the giant ceutical). Fox. 4:30pm. killer sand worms attack the residents of an Wreck-it Ralph a video game character tires Old West town who show an alarming intolof being the losing bad guy and decides to erance for the native wildlife. (2004) American shrug off the role and become the hero. It’s Movie Classics. 6pm. quite common for guys to feel that they are Mythbusters tonight, it’s“Zombie Myths.” stuck in a role they can’t escape. that’s why It turns out Congress is not run by zombies. we have Rogaine, sports cars and blonde they just act that way. Discovery Channel. secretaries. (2012) Starz. 6:35pm. the tonight Show harrison Ford appears 8pm. amid rumors that he could appear in the Sunday, Oct. 20 30 Rock this is the pilot upcoming Star Wars sequels. he is also talkepisode. alec Baldwin’s head was 10 percent ing about a Blade Runner sequel. he’s now smaller back then. NBC. 8:30pm. old enough to be the father of both characQueer Eye Reunion: 10 years Later the ters, though he’s been guys who gave decoratold enough to be the ing and style advice to father of his love interstraight men are back on ests since the early‘90s. screen. We don’t know NBC. 11:35pm. what the plan is but we tHuRSday, Oct. 24 are guessing it involves Secret Societies of Holwindow treatments and lywood You’ve heard of talking 30-something Scientology but there’s guys out of wearing skinan even darker group ny jeans. Bravo. 9pm. behind the scenes.

He may be a huckster, but he wouldn’t hesitate they’re the ones who MOnday, Oct. 21 to raise the debt ceiling... Tuesday, 10:05pm. keep giving sitcoms to Halloween this film Matt LeBlanc. E! 8pm. launched the slasher genre with the tale of Restaurant divided this is a new show in a socially awkward man who never got the which a restaurateur comes in to help familymental health services he needed. (1978) run restaurants. Sibling rivalry is always more American Movie Classics. 8pm. exciting when it involves knives, fire and boilantiques Road Show they’re in Miami this ing oil. Food Network. 10pm. week, where antiques include pink flaminScrubbing in MtV’s newest reality series gos, Cuban cigar boxes and the ballots the follows nine traveling nurses who take up a local GOP hid during the 2000 recount. KQED short term assignment in Orange County, PBS. 9pm. part of the networks new“Fetish Specific” Half-ton Killer If your murderer weighs programming. tune in next week for“Stable Boys”and“Lingerie Librarians.”MTV. 10pm. Y 1,000 pounds, you weren’t trying very hard to get away. The Learning Channel. 10pm.

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< 5 State gets ‘active’ on kids and bikes Trails Program. Hiking and trail proponents are pleased to be included in a piece of legislation that gives them a home in the state budget process.

“This is an exciting opportunity because it raises active transportation visibility in California to a level not seen before with specific backing,” says Laura Cohen, western regional director of the Trails Conservancy. Cohen thinks the state’s new transportation secretary, Brian Kelly, is the right man for the job of ushering a new focus on active transportation in the state. Kelly is heading a newly configured California Transportation Agency. He was acting secretary at the California Business, Transportation and Housing Agency. Cohen has known Kelly for a long time and says he will be a strong advocate for walking and biking. “I’m excited he’s on board,” she says.

I think we will be successful in working with him to increase active transportation funding.”

That’s more than ephemeral optimism. In an early meeting with him after his appointment to the secretary’s slot, Kelly affirmed that he intends to use the newly coalesced Active Transportation Program to collect new funds for alternative transportation. At least that’s the goal.

But Cohen is under no illusions about the difficulty of prying state and federal funds for hiking and biking. “We feel good about the current level of support at the state level and the regional level and the community level,” says Cohen.

“It’s still a tough case to make in Congress. A lot of members think biking and walking are trivial and don’t really make a contribution to the transportation system. They need to be educated.”

That may be something of an understatement given the political climate in Washington. The current transportation bill, known as MAP-21, was a slugfest.

House conservatives wanted to eliminate funds for hiking and biking projects.

They failed, but MAP-21 runs only to September 2014, and non-motorized transportation advocates are concerned they will be going back into the transportation trenches as the conservatives show no signs of moderating.

That’s despite evidence that alternative transportation programs, including Safe Routes, clearly are successful. Marin is one of four communities across the country that participated in a nonmotorized transportation pilot program.

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and adults walking increases markedly.

According to a National Household Travel Study prepared for Active Living Research, Bikes Belong and Safe Routes, walking in California increased 10 percent between 2001 and 2009. At the same time, walking and bicycling injuries among children have declined.

The same study found that 62.4 percent of California children live less than two miles from their schools, a distance that lends itself to increased bike travel.

The rest of the country hasn’t posted the increases in biking and walking found in California.

Cohen says that although the new Active Transportation Program is a good start, “money needs to follow.” She adds that alternative transportation advocates have their eyes on a new pot of money.

Funds from the state’s cap and trade program could provide walking and biking projects with much needed additional revenue.

Hubsmith says more than 15 percent of trips in California now are of the hiking and biking variety and warrant a 15-percent infusion of funds from cap and trade auctions. Alternative transportation advocates, adds Hubsmith, “are going to hold Kelly’s feet to the fire” to provide encouragement for his professed support of using cap and trade money to fund transportation programs.

“We’re making plans now to go after cap and trade money,” she says. “Everyone was very disappointed with the decision to use the first round of cap and trade money to backfill the state budget, which they say will be repaid. Decisions will be coming on how to spend that money in the future, and we will make the case that active transportation really does reduce greenhouse gas emissions, particularly when combined with transit oriented development and public transit.”

If the alternative transportation advocates use the same savvy they displayed during the lead up to the governor signing the Active Transportation Program legislation is any indication, Hubsmith’s plan is no pipe dream.

During hearings in March, budget committees in the Assembly and the state Senate rejected the Brown administration transportation proposal and told the administration to return to the compromise room and talk to transportation advocates to look for a better outcome than the administration was proposing for alternative transportation.

The committees said the state should continue the dedicated funding proposition the state had followed for years.

The Legislature was backing the alternative transportation stakeholders, who thought they were on safe ground.

“I remember getting a phone call in

June,” Hubsmith says. During the call, she learned that “behind closed doors the administration convinced the budget committees to reverse their position and force a compromise on the Active Transportation Program by the end of the summer. Until June 11, we thought things were potentially going to stay the same. Then negotiations started in earnest.” Something had to get forged by Sept. 14, the last day of the year when bills could be born.

Safe Routes and other alternative transportation advocates knew fairly early in the game they would better the outcome for their position if they put their own bill on the table. That was AB 1194. Running their own bill gave the advocates a chance to walk the halls of Sacramento and dance the legislation dance, meet with legislators, pull the levers of power.

The advocates wanted to ensure that the bill would help disadvantaged areas and truly serve walking and biking. To ensure accountability, the advocates proposed oversight. That led to a stipulation that regular reports will track where alternative transportation funds go and the projects the money funds. The stipulation is insurance the transportation funds won’t become a slush fund.

SB 99 is the state Senate’s version of the bill and the one that after conference the governor signed.

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Details still are under construction.

Because the old versions of programs that encompassed alternative transportation programs are folded into the Active Transportation Program, advocates still don’t know if the projects already approved under the old programs will migrate intact to the new Alternative Transportation Program. It sounds like a dry issue, but it has consequences because the feds, for instance, stipulate a competitive process to jockey for funds. Will the realigned programs and moved money, even if it’s just taking it from pot A and putting it in pot B, mean that already approved projects will have to compete for funds under the new system? They might. That’s why the California Transportation Commission is taking public input before any decisions get made. That issue also will land on the tables at the regional agencies, including the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.

The savvy maneuvering alternative transportation advocates displayed during the budget process won’t end as the new system gets rolling. “From my perspective at the Safe Routes to School National Partnership,” says Hubsmith, “ if our share doesn’t total [at least close to] $46 million, which we received since 2005, then it’s likely we will run future state legislation.” Y Contact the writer at peter@pseidman.com

roots-music icon Chris Strachwitz; the animated The Wind Rises; children’s film-fest feature Contest; and the active-cinema favorite Al Helm: MLK in Palestine.

For more info, visit www.mvff.com.—Jason Walsh Kids activities cancelled—thanks Congress! As the government shutdown drags on, so does the hiatus on kids’ classes held at the Point Reyes National Seashore.

The Point Reyes National Seashore Association (PRNSA) has halted a portion of its youth programs during the park’s closure—which are conducted at the Clem Miller Environmental Education Center, located in the park near Limantour Beach.

The association is working on relocating field institute classes, according to a release from PRNSA executive director Samaria Jaffe.

“The shutdown is having a serious financial impact on PRNSA,” Jaffe wrote. “Each day, we are losing income from missed class fees and bookstore sales. This will have an effect on the support we can provide the park this year.”

So far, the seashore and other National Park Service (NPS) sites in California have remain closed for more than a fortnight.

A few states have donated to the NPS to keep big name parks open for select dates, including: Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota, the Statue of Liberty National Monument in New York, Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado and eight sites in Utah.—Mackenzie Mount Marin Project to support local charities The Marin Project, a music-themed fundraiser for the needy, has released its self-titled debut—a CD featuring local musicians performing a set list of jazz, classical and rock standards.

The project is the brainchild of Kentfield financial public relations guru John Liviakis, whose love of music, according to the Marin Project website, inspired him to launch the CD in support of local charities. One hundred percent of any profits from the project will go toward Homeward Bound and the Salvation Army.

The CD was recorded at Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir’s TRI Studios in Marin, and features compositions by Roger Eno, Mozart, former Marin resident Vince Guaraldi, Erik Satie and Booker T. Jones. Among the Bay Area-based performers on the disc are Marin musicians Ed Goldfarb on piano and Steven Bergman on clarinet. The CD can be purchased ($14.99) at www.themarinproject.org.

A live concert is slated for Saturday, Jan. 18 at the Marin Showcase Theatre in San Rafael. For more info, call 415/892-5252.—Jason Walsh

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the whole of liberal, independent, rural West Marin has become a roiling 24-hour buffet where the seashore is dogma and the oyster company is party.

There’s talk that the leases for the ranches on the PRNS could also be in the line of fire.

No one’s after the ranchers, insist park officials. But the gastric acid keeps rising.

“Rangers sometimes come for lunch,” the waitress reveals between passes—out to take the table’s order, in to count bills at the register, out again with a plate of hashbrowns and a wrap. “The ranchers,” she adds. “Are dwindling.”

But do the two ever eat together?

She won’t elaborate. When it comes to talking about the seashore, they’re all fighting words.

Times, they are a-changin’ In the early ’70s, when the Point Reyes National Seashore was young, the chief ranger

would drink coffee at an early iteration of the Pine Cone alongside the seashore’s ranchers.

Those halcyon days at John’s Truck Stop diner were probably just typical days, then, but the decades between John’s transition from Mike’s to Joe’s to the Pine Cone have seen communication, let alone camaraderie, between park staff and West Marinites wither.

Sitting on her front porch in Mill Valley, ardent park-ranching advocate Phyllis Faber, who co-founded the Marin Agricultural Land Trust, laments the state of communicative affairs over mugs of tea with raspberries at the bottom. Park staff exist separate from civilians, now. They don’t mingle in town, anymore, she says. Once, when she gets emotional—angry, pained—Faber swats her palm against her thigh as she makes a point, tea sidelined on an armrest.

“It used to be that they would come into Point Reyes and have a cup of coffee and eat a meal,” Faber said. “But no more.” mackensie mount

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he waitress at the Pine Cone Diner Lunny has argued that if the court upholds a won’t say much. It’s 10am on a recent deadline to end operations, it puts an imposTuesday in Point Reyes Station, the first sible burden on his family business—even if day of the government shutdown, and she has they eventually prevail in their lawsuit against a table of two outside, and one reporter at the the National Park System, which challenges counter inside asking for “just a tea, thanks,”— then-Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar’s and if ranchers or rangers from the Point decision not to renew the oyster company’s Reyes National Seashore eat there often. operating lease on National Park land.

A vegan health inspector with a bacon-ax to Lunny and his family purchased the former grind might have fared better.

Johnson’s Oyster Farm in 2005, when seven This town, along with all the other uninyears remained on the 1972 “special use” corporated West Marin communities running permit, which allowed the oyster operation to northwest along Point Reyes, have had enough stay on the National Park land for a maximum news media nosing around since Drakes Bay of 40 years. But the Lunnys, along with many Oyster Company was told at the end of last supporters in the area, had hoped to persuade November that its lease at the seashore would the Department of the Interior to continue the not be renewed. The oyster company has lease for another 10 years, an option cresued and its landlord—the National ated through an appropriations bill Park Service—has clammed up

by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a vocal (pending litigation, seashore rep supporter of Drakes Bay Oysters. by Melanie Gunn explained) and The Lunnys filed a petition macke nzie West Marinites seem to have split requesting that their case be MOUNT right down the middle on whom reheard in front of a full 11-judge they’re rooting for. panel of the 9th Circuit; as of PBS, The New York Times, the press time a decision on whether San Francisco Chronicle, and West to grant a new hearing had not been Marin’s own papers—the Point Reyes announced.

Light and the West Marin Citizen—have been all over the oyster company story. As have we Back and forth at the Pacific Sun. Locals, too. They’ve traded Back: the oyster company’s time is up—the barbs and waxed park-purpose philosophic seashore can finally revert to what has been in op-eds in the Light and the Citizen on intended for 40 years—a pristine wilderness.

Thursdays.

And forth: The park service has overstepped A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals its bounds—a small business like Drakes Bay decision on Sept. 3 didn’t bode well for the Oysters preserves local agriculture and the Inverness oyster farm. That’s when a threeestero it borders. judge panel upheld an earlier district court The old joke, local historian and poet John decision that would ostensibly force the farm Hart wrote, was that dinner invitations in to honor the lapse of its lease and shut down West Marin weren’t dependent on one’s relioperations. gion or politics—but, rather, on your opinion Drakes Bay Oyster Company owner Kevin about who truly settled Marin County. Now,

The Pine Cone Diner, where everybody knows your name. Or used to—there hasn’t been a lot of coffee talk lately between residents and rangers.

Hart writes about these long-lost coffees at John’s in An Island in Time, his 2012 book about the Point Reyes National Seashore. The University of California Press had commissioned the book to celebrate the PRNS’s 50th anniversary, but deemed a chapter on the Drakes Bay Oyster controversey too contentious to publish; Time was instead picked up

by Faber’s independent press. The book is not sold at the PRNS, but Point Reyes Books in Point Reyes Station carries it.

Almost any sentence about West Marin oysters can incite cries of partisan foul.

“I worked like the devil to avoid putting my finger on the scale,” Hart said, sitting with a rotation of cats on his lap on his back porch in San Rafael, 20 miles and a world away from the seashore. “It’s difficult when there are two good ideas in conflict, rather than a good one and a bad one.”

Unlike most other national park sites—Yosemite, for instance—Point Reyes draws an especially impassioned local debate. While the battle over the seashore has made mainstream news, it has hit hardest at home.

“Here, there is such a large and lively local community—all of them educated, all of them green, all of them opinionated,” Hart said. “I think the atmosphere in West Marin is hotter than I’ve ever experienced, but it’s been hot many times before.”

The ranches have incited debate since the PRNS was established in 1962—whether to include them, how to include them, what to do with them once they’re included. But, Hart says, there used to be an intermediary that kept the surrounding, precocious public involved with seashore management without setting everyone’s souls on fire.

The Citizens Advisory Commission (CAC) was shared by Point Reyes and the neighboring Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) from 1974 year until 2002, when Congress chose not to renew it. Fifteen unpaid members spanning the Bay Area, appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, met with park staff to learn about their plans, held public meetings with relevant park staff present, listened to the public’s feedback and advised the park service.

Over time, it held up to 14 meetings a year.

“I guess if I had a wish, it would really be to revive that Citizens Advisory Commission,” Hart said. “It was let to die kind of by mutual consent. I have heard when it ran out the last time, it was the George Bush administration, and the environmental side was afraid of whom he might appoint. But even so, I think some kind of buffer between this public and the park really would be a valuable thing.”

Amy Meyer—widely called “the mother of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area,” who served as vice-chair of the CAC for all of its almost three decades and never missed a meeting—said on a call from her San Francisco home overlooking the GGNRA that if the group were still around, it might have kept the oyster company proceedings more out in the open.

She wouldn’t say that the CAC could have prevented the “fire and fury” surrounding the controvery, or that it could have kept the debate from “shredding that community,” but

it might have eased the burn: “We did a lot of good things while we were in existence. We did keep the temperature down.”

Things could have been different, perhaps, according to historian Dewey Livingston, who worked as the PRNS’s sole park historian from 1988-98. “Now it’s too late in a way,” he said. “But had [CAC oversight] been the process back when this [oyster debate] started back in the mid 2000s, maybe it would have developed in a different way.”

Livingston explained during a call to his home in Inverness that a series of meetings held during the budding oyster controversy, called “community conversations,” had no authority. These conversations lacked the commission’s federal mandate, which informed its preparations and procedures, required park staff to attend and permitted public input.

The community conversations don’t run the same way.

“In most cases, there’s no public verbal comment allowed,” Livingston said. “You break up into little work groups and you fill out forms and you do this and that. People want to stand up and be heard, whether it’s effective or not.”

The CAC, though, kind of forced civility.

“The advisory commission, while their decisions didn’t have teeth, were powerful or respected people with a range of outlooks,” Livingston said. “And the park staff was there and participating. There was a much better chance for things to happen in a way that everybody knew what was going on as it was happening and more of a chance for community discussion about it.”

Reviving the commission, creating some kind of certified referee, is perhaps the only thing people agree on, no matter what their professed blend of views—like Meyer, prowilderness, pro-ranches, and Faber, pro-oyster company, pro-ranches. Meyer is even open to helping set something up.

As former longtime Point Reyes Light editor David Mitchell blogged about a “community conversation” he attended in 2009: “I suggested that since we now have the Obama administration, the time is ripe to resurrect the [Citizens Advisory] Commission. A number of other speakers ... agreed. And when a show of hands was taken later, almost everyone supported the idea, regardless of where they stood on the oyster-company issue.”

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It stops, Faber says, at the top.

“Oh I think there are a lot of people that would try and bring [the Citizens Advisory Commission] back if there were any hope for it,” she said. “Right now, there isn’t. Not at the moment, not with Jon Jarvis as head of the park, no.”

National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis wasn’t the park service’s head when the Citizens Advisory Commission was allowed to lapse, but Meyers said Jarvis felt that the Point Reyes National Seashore and the GGNRA were “mature” parks that no 12 > October 18 - October 24, 2013 Pacific Sun 11

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“The man responsible for killing “The man responsible for killing our our adadvisory visory board board is is now now the the head head of of the the National National Park Park Service,” Service,” Meyer Meyer said. said. “The “The reason reason he he did did so was not entirely of his own making. so was not entirely of his own making.

“It’s “It’s aa shame. shame. II mean, mean, Jon Jon Jarvis Jarvis is is an an excellent park service head, but the excellent park service head, but the advisory advisory commission commission was was very very expensive.” expensive.”

Paying for park Paying for park staff’s staff’s time time spent spent briefing briefing CAC members, providing all 15 CAC members, providing all 15 commissioncommissioners ers with with relevant relevant newspaper newspaper clippings clippings and and policy documents, hiring a court policy documents, hiring a court reporter reporter for for each each public public meeting—the meeting—the costs costs racked racked up. up.

Never Never mind mind the the greater greater political political climate climate during the government shutdown. during the government shutdown. When When the the country’s country’s short-term short-term finances finances are are up up in in the air and the National Park Service’s the air and the National Park Service’s 401 401 sites sites are are mostly mostly unstaffed unstaffed and and unopen unopen to to visitors—who’s planning decades visitors—who’s planning decades ahead ahead for for

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“Right “Right now, now, given given the the state state of of government, government, good lord, it’s all unhappy,” Meyer good lord, it’s all unhappy,” Meyer said. said. “You “You can’t get a federal advisory commission can’t get a federal advisory commission except except through through congessional congessional action action and and the the budget, budget, and and you’re you’re not not gonna gonna get get it it because because there’s there’s not not enough money to run the parks now.” enough money to run the parks now.”

Precisely, Precisely, Hart Hart says, says, why why concerns concerns about about seashore policy setting NPS-wide seashore policy setting NPS-wide precedent precedent aren’t aren’t as as important. important. There There won’t won’t be be more more Point Reyes, so “maybe a revived Point Reyes, so “maybe a revived Citizens Citizens AdAdvisory visory Commission Commission could could tackle tackle this this question question of of what what in in 50 50 or or 100 100 years years do do we we really really want.” want.”

Pressed for comment, the seashore’s Pressed for comment, the seashore’s chief chief of of interpretation interpretation and and resource resource education, education, John John Dell’Osso, Dell’Osso, wrote wrote by by email: email: “We “We look look forforward to a positive discussion and public ward to a positive discussion and public planplanning ning process process to to secure secure the the future future of of ranching ranching and resource protection in the national and resource protection in the national park. park.

We We believe believe it it has—and has—and will will continue continue to to be— be— compatible.” compatible.”

Last Last seen seen waving waving cars cars away away from from the the seashore’s Bear Valley entrance seashore’s Bear Valley entrance during during the the government government shutdown, shutdown, Dell’Osso Dell’Osso is is one one of of about about 20 20 of of the the seashore’s seashore’s 114 114 staff staff members members still still permitted permitted to to work. work.

“Hope we can “Hope we can have have aa more more in-depth in-depth disdiscussion when all this is over!” he cussion when all this is over!” he wrote wrote at at the the time. time. “Have “Have to to keep keep moving!” moving!”

But But in in this this environment, environment, from from WashingWashington to West Marin, conflict appears ton to West Marin, conflict appears to to be be convention.

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all is really here when October works its natural changes and the feeling of a whole new season surrounds us. At my house, the Japanese maples are beginning to color and even inside I have autumn around: pomegranates and quinces decorating the ledges of my fireplace, vases holding branches of dried Japanese lantern plants suspending orange globe-shapes, just like their namesake.

In the kitchen things have altered, too, with earlier darkness and chilly nights calling for heartier dishes, longer cooked, with aromas that whet the appetite. The transitions are welcome.

For seasonal inspiration, I went to people I know for their takes on favorites for this time of year, which foods most appeal to them when they shop and cook and dine. Not surprisingly, I heard a lot about soups and stews and comfort foods. From that little survey I chose replies to share here, with recipes that echo the moods.

Soups Eden Umble, a Marin native who now lives in Calistoga, was adamant about her choice: “Soup, because it’s warming and soothing in cooler weather—split pea with ham or tomato bisque with breadcrumbs, or especially butternut squash with mushrooms!” I love a soup, too.

When I chose a favorite recipe, I did so to honor its creator, Marcella Hazan, the beloved genius who was a one-woman force in introducing classic, pure Italian cooking to Americans. She died only weeks ago at the age of 89, and left behind a nation of home cooks, professional chefs and fellow writers who feel her absence deeply, especially those of us lucky enough to have known her personally.

Her minestrone is evidence of how she took an almost-symbolic food to teach us how to cook even the humblest dish with exacting care. Once we do it, we realize how it gives each vegetable its own proper role in the finished dish and can’t imagine doing it any other way. If you wish to make this a vegetarian soup, substitute a very good vegetable stock for her chicken broth. Think of Marcella as you taste this elemental Italian food. * * * * * Minestrone 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 medium onion, diced (about 1 cup) 2 medium carrots, diced (about 1 cup) 1 celery rib, diced (about three-fourths cup) 2 medium zucchini, diced 1 clove garlic, minced 3 medium potatoes (about 3/4 pound) unpeeled, diced 3 cups thinly sliced savoy cabbage 1 (15-1/2 ounce) can cannellini beans, rinsed and drained 2 (14-ounce can) lower-sodium chicken broth 3 cups water 1/2 tablespoons dried rosemary 1/2 teaspoon each salt and pepper Grated Parmesan (optional)

In a large pot, heat oil over medium heat.

Add onion; cook, stirring occasionally, 6 minutes or until softened. Add carrots and celery; cook, stirring occasionally, 3 minutes. Add zucchini and garlic; cook, stirring occasionally, 3 minutes. Add potatoes and cabbage and cook, mixing occasionally, 3 minutes. Add beans, tomatoes, broth, water, rosemary, salt and pepper. Cover, and bring to a simmer; adjust heat and simmer gently 1 to 2 hours.

Note: This is a thick, layered-flavor soup.

It needs nothing more than a bit of grated cheese to swirl into each serving, some hearty bread and a simple salad to make a fine meal.

Persimmons Annie Waterman and her husband, Robert Dickey, divide their time between southern California and San Anselmo, where they have a yard full of fruit trees he has planted. Annie says, “We are so grateful for our persimmons that get ripe and sweeter as the season progresses. We just stuff our faces right off the tree, until the holidays, when we get it together to make persimmon pudding.”

I am inordinately fond of the fruit since I only came to know the cultivated varieties as an adult. We had lots of wild persimmon trees where I grew up, but we didn’t use them much for cooking—mostly possums and birds fed on them.

Here, though, we get not only one but two varieties to appreciate: Hachiya (with the pointy ends), which must be fully ripened before it’s useful, and Fuyu, the flat and more accessible kind, since it may be eaten while still crisp. The flavor and texture of the Hachiya make it perfect for moist desserts like steamed puddings, spicy cakes and sweet quick breads.

Legendary James Beard, a native of the Northwest, loved cooking with persimmons and introduced them to many American kitchens. The recipe that follows is one of

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his, adapted by baking maven David Lebovitz, posted on his food blog from Paris, where he now lives (www.davidlebovitz. com). * * * * * Persimmon Bread Makes two 9-inch loaves 3-1/2 cups sifted flour 1-1/2 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons baking soda 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg 2 to 2-1/2 cups sugar, depending on taste 1 cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled to room temperature 4 large eggs at room temperature, lightly beaten 2/3 cup cognac, bourbon or whiskey 2 cups persimmon pulp puree (from about 4 squishy-soft Hachiya persimmons) 2 cups walnuts or pecans, toasted and chopped 2 cups raisins of diced dried fruits (apples, cranberries, dates)

Butter 2 loaf pans. Line bottoms with parchment, or dust with flour and tap out any excess.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Sift first 5 dry ingredients into a large mixing bowl. Make a well in center, then stir in the butter, eggs, liquor, persimmon puree, then the nuts and raisins.

Bake 1 hour, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

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olks in West Marin have been hard hit by the Great Shutdown and its closing of national parklands. They are feeling the pinch as the crowds usually drawn there at this beautiful time of year simply didn’t show up. Be a good, caring neighbor! Whether you spend a little or a lot, every penny will be appreciated. Have a meal in any of the restaurants from Muir Beach (Pelican Inn) to Marshall (Nick’s Cove) even a stop at snack bars and takeout places will help. Before or after you eat, shop at local venues like bookstores, specialty retailers (Cowgirl Creamery, bakeries, gift shops). Go to the Point Reyes Farmers Market—Marin’s only totally organic seasonal market—on Saturdays, 9am-1pm.

It will be open through Sunday, Nov. 2.

Support our farmers, producers, restaurants and businesses: They need your help.

PABULUM AT THE PATCH Speaking of West Marin, the Nicasio Farms Pumpkin Patch will be open until Halloween, but the big party happens Sunday, Oct. 20 (10am-4pm), when MALT Day is celebrated. Besides hunting for the perfect pumpkin, you can have a great organic lunch: Farmer’s Wife sandwiches and salads, flatbread pizza from Mike the Bejket, Stemple Creek burgers, Equator Coffee and Lagunitas Brewing Co. beers. Kids (and grown-ups) can learn to make mozzarella, bake flatbread, press apple juice and create some farm arts and crafts. Bring a cooler if you want to purchase Stemple Creek meats to take home. This event is free; 10 percent of the earnings from pumpkin sales will go to Marin Agricultural Land Trust. Information: www.malt.org.

A BONUS FOR BLOOD Marin Brewing Co. will happily feed you a free meal Saturday, Oct. 19, (noon-5pm) when you make a donation at the mobile lab from Blood Centers of the Pacific parked at Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur. Register in advance at www.bloodheroes.com (Code: BREW).

SWEET AS SUGAR While we don’t have much of a celebration for El Dia de los Muertos here, it is only a short drive to Petaluma where a two-week observance takes over the town. The Petaluma Arts Council is the force behind this annual recognition of Hispanic culture, from workshops (how to make those fanciful sugar skull candies) to poetry readings, dance and music performances, art exhibits and best of all, the procession through the streets on Saturday, Nov. 2. Most shop windows are decorated with colorful altars and candles

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There have been Jewish winemakers in Napa and Sonoma since 1878 when Freidrich (Fritz) Rosenbaum planted his first vines in St. Helena. Find out how far his followers have progressed in the art. Tickets are $45 per person in advance, $50 at the door. Proceeds benefit the congregation’s educational program and cultural events. www.shir-shalom.org .

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER Register now for a slightly belated Ocktoberfeststyle gathering, a perfect autumn event at Fresh Start Chef Events in Novato, Thusday, Nov. 7 (6:30-9pm). Celebrity butcher David Budsworth will teach a class in sausage-making where participants can learn to make crepinettes, a traditional French saucisson, and to see how to operate home sausage-making equipment. A communal dinner will include specialty sausages, handmade soft pretzels and German side dishes as well as beers from Baeltane Brewing of Novato. Cost is $55 per person, which includes the class, dinner, beer-tasting and take-home sausages. Register at www.hbofm.org or at 415/382-3363, x243. Y Whet Pat’s appetite at patfusco@sonic.net.

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The multi-Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and blues guitarist extraordinaire, a longtime Marin resident, dazzled an audience Oct. 9 at her first-ever show at the Marin Center.

Forget about those notoriously mellow Marin crowds—the sold-out audience responded throughout the 90-minute performance with wild applause, cheers and four standing ovations.

Looking slim and fit, Raitt, who turns 64 on Nov. 8, hit the stage with a blistering rendition of her 1989 pop hit “Real Man,” from her chart-topping, three-time Grammy-winning album Nick of Time.

Dressed in black slacks and a sequined orange-and-black blouse, her red hair streaked by her signature swath of grey across her temple, it didn’t take long for Raitt to stir the crowd.

She joked with band members, with whom she’s been traveling with for the past year in support of Slipstream, her Top 10-charting album and her first release in six years. She name-checked famous friends, including local blues singer Maria Muldaur, who was in the audience, her songwriting partner Bonnie Hayes and Jackson Browne, who Raitt said she had phoned that day to trade birthday wishes. She shared thoughts on politics, notably the government shut down and the anti-nuke sentiments she has promoted since the 1970s, friendship, romance and family (including her famous father, the late singer and stage actor John Raitt, and her recently departed mother, who introduced her to jazz and liberal politics). She mentioned playing last weekend at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in Golden Gate Park and said that the previous night she had attended a Mill Valley Film Festival screening of a new documentary about Arhoolie Records founder Chris Strachwitz as well as a Sweetwater music tribute to that roots-music godfather.

“I have fun when I take time off,” she quipped, “but too much laundry. I need a wife!”

Those intimate moments and her relaxed demeanor made the concert feel more like a homecoming than a performance, albeit one at which Raitt showed over and again that her command of the stage has made her one of pop music’s most unique entertainers.

For the most part, she got down to the

The Mill Valley resident made ‘Rolling Stone’ magazine’s list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time, as well as its list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists.

business of serving up down-and-dirty blues, deep funk grooves, intelligent pop and hard-driving rock. Her blues bonafides are unparalleled in pop music. She learned under the tutelage of blues legend Mississippi Fred McDowell, and honed her skills during stints with Howlin’ Wolf, Sippi Wallace, John Lee Hooker and Charles Brown, to name a few.

A few minutes later, she enraptured the crowd with her blues prowess, standing on the lip of the stage and slinging searing slide guitar riffs on her hit “Let’s Give Them Something to Talk About.”

“A loyal and steadfast piece of wood,” she said, of the natural finish Fender Stratocaster that’s been her signature guitar since 1969.

Later, she marveled that her ace band— which included Marin native Mike Finnigan on keyboards and vocals—had turned architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s modernistic auditorium into a rowdy roadhouse.

Raitt was no less mesmerizing as her smoky voice caressed the lilting melody of Richard and Linda Thompson’s elegant “Dimming of the Day,” explaining that she’d held off covering that song for 20 years in deference to Linda Thompson’s own powerful recording. At the conclusion, she stood silently for several moments, her head bowed, as the audience rose to its feet.

Indeed, one of the things that sets Raitt apart from most pop performers is her humility, a genuine respect for the power of songs that at times seems to amaze even her—she’s as much a fan as the rest of us and that camaraderie is especially endearing. After her show-stopping performance of John Prine’s tender folk ballad “Angel from Montgomery,” which she first recorded on 1974 Streetlights album, Raitt paused again, moved not only by the audience’s second standing ovation, but also by her own emotionally charged performance.

“I believe I’m gonna have to mop up on that one,” she said softly, wiping a tear from her eye. “It’s a hell of a tune.”

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For upcoming falafel dinners, I stop by Avi’s food truck for super fresh pita bread then to Sukhi’s booth to get some naan to go with curry. Next to Phoenix Pastificio for a loaf of their outstanding olive bread; always have to tear off a hunk to eat immediately, it smells so good. The pastries at Le Paradis are unsurpassed, so I usually get an apple turnover and chocolate croissant for brunch. A stop at Panorama is part of the weekly routine. The assortment of bread products at this booth is amazing and the line can attest to Panorama’s popularity. A loaf of the sliced sourdough goes toward sandwiches from Monday to Friday and one of their asiago onion focaccia is a nice accompaniment to some soup. Finally, I can’t ever resist some of Flourchylde’s gluten-free cookies. The jam shortbreads are delectable and a couple of their sandwich rounds make the perfect burger buns.

The staff of life is alive and kicking at the Civic Center farmers market with breads and desserts of every stripe all in one place.—Brooke Jackson

It’s not often that a restaurant reincarnation is successful, but Vin Antico in San Rafael has pulled it off. Closed abruptly last January, the “urban trattoria”— as it was known in its previous life, was heartily missed. This summer a new cast took over and the ensuing months have breathed a vital energy into its rebirth.

Walking into the inviting dining room, nothing in appearance has changed from the earlier iteration. The large pillar candle chandelier still hangs over the front window table, the same banquets of striped velvet line the brick walls and the open kitchen remains a focus of the room. However, the warmth of the place is palpable in the greetings from manager Naomi Finerman and her staff and the plates of delicious food sent out by chef Megan Smith. Mussels with baby octopus and Pernod were a star special recently, the broth flavorful enough to sop up with garlic toast. Kale salad with grilled peaches and Springhill Jersey cheddar was crisp, sweet and earthy, with almost all the elements on the plate from within 40 miles. The pork chop with mushroom bread pudding is not to be missed—especially the pudding, among the best I’ve tasted anywhere. "Where passion meets the plate" is their new motto, and it couldn’t be more fitting.—Brooke Jackson

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Julianne Nicholson, Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts are pushed to the brink following the suicide of their family patriarch (Sam Shepard) in ‘August: Osage County.’

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s we pointed out in our preview story a few weeks ago, the Mill Valley Film Festival has premiered four of the last five Academy Award-winning best pictures (Slumdog Millionaire, The King’s Speech, The Artist and Argo) so don’t be too surprised come March to find they did it again this year with August: Osage County.

In fact, we’re predicting director John Wells will be hauling home a truckload of Oscars—and, yeah, Meryl Streep will be picking up another statuette following her 18th Academy nomination.

The personable Wells may not yet be a household name but festival Executive Director Mark Fishkin informs us he’s garnered more than 250 Emmy nominations (for work on E.R., West Wing and HBO’s Mildred Pierce) and won 55 times.

Can you top that, Orson Welles?

“We actually shot in Osage County in Oklahoma where the temperature reached 118 degrees, and that was in September when it was ‘cooler,’” says Wells.

“We ending up purchasing the house and 50 acres that we used in the film. We priced it out and it was actually cheaper than building a set.” You can do that sort of thing if Streep and Julia Roberts head your cast. . .

Probably the biggest surprise at the festival this year came, unfortunately, when the planned Spotlight evening with headliner Dakota Fanning was cancelled at the 11th hour. (We didn’t realize she was part of the government shutdown.)

No official word as to why. However, our spies inform us the production company Sovereign Films pulled Fanning’s showcase Effie Gray, the story of an infamous love triangle in Victorian times, due to a

series of screenplay copyright infringement claims by other writers. Effie Gray scriptwriter-actress Emma Thompson had already beat back charges by Eve Pomerance, author of two scripts on the same subject, one of which had been produced as a play. Another copyright dispute, launched by playwright Gregory Murphy, also the author of a play and screenplay on the same topic, was decided in Thompson’s favor in March, but Murphy is appealing and, according to our sources, was able to initiate legal action to bar the screening of the film. . .

Jan Ole Gerster’s first film Oh Boy, subbing for Oh Effie, rolled out a story of a young man in Berlin who thinks a lot, has no answers, and is groping to figure up from down. “I gave the script to my best friend Tom Schilling and he read it and said, ‘Yeah, I’ll do this part.’ The thing is I only wanted his opinion. He wasn’t my first choice. To me he looked like a teenager and it was important to look older. Thank God it took a while to get financing and he took up smoking and drinking and aged very quickly.” . . .

Legendary Oscar-winning auteur Costa-Gavras, who excoriated the Greek right-wing in Z, the Pinochet coup in Chile in Missing, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (a group used as a front to teach “advanced counterinsurgency techniques” to foreign police) in State of Seige, says his personal politics are neither left nor right, despite the fact that he could not get into a Greek university because his father was a leftist. “I make movies to teach people. I believe there is good everywhere, right and left. It all depends on what they do.” His Capital cuts into the black hearts of the world’s 20>

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Short Takes Dept.: Two standing ovations for Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, opening in wide release today (Oct. 18). . . Casey Beck of Sonoma, who filmed her boyfriend’s struggle to make a go of it as an organic farmer in The Organic Life, says she was “lucky to have a great local crew willing to be paid in vegetables.” . . . Promising first-time director Zoran Lisinac, who grew up in Serbia, lived through five wars, and moved to Los Angeles to “learn the language and pursue the dream of filmmaking,” says, “making a movie is a nightmare I never want to wake up from.” He wrote his engaging Along the Roadside “behind the front desk of a hotel while working as a front desk agent” and cast his film through e-auditions, including that of his German co-star Angelina Häntsch. . .

Thirteen-year-old Sophie Nélisse, who landed the title role in opening night’s The Book Thief opposite Geoffrey Rush, claims she “didn’t really want the part because I was doing gymnastics. I had to film myself to audition and I was just messing around, not taking it very seriously. I was sure someone else would get cast.” Hear that, budding thespians? Don’t want it and it’ll come to you. . . At his tribute, Rush—along with a sold-out au-

dience—viewed 14 minutes of clips from his filmography, prompting this remark: “Watching that was like watching my life flash before me without having to die.”

Bay Area director Phil Kaufman introduced him on stage as “The Great Geoffrey Rush,” while Rush described himself as “kind of a working hack. I’ve always been able to fall back on theater and that gives me a sense of loopy self-confidence.”

His next role? Ra, the Sun God of Egypt. . . J.C. Chandor, who wrote and directed the riveting Margin Call a couple years ago, scribbled a 31-page script for All Is Lost, in which Robert Redford is shipwrecked in the Indian Ocean. “I’m sure I left a lot of investors with worried looks on their faces. It’s probably the hardest thing I’ve ever written,” he says, referring to the opening voiceover which comprises about 95 percent of the dialogue in the film. “The rest of it is me sitting there hitting Redford with a lot of fire hoses as he endures one depleting challenge after another.” Just wondering if the director considered putting a tiger on board. . .

This year’s Opening Night Gala on Oct. 3 may have been the niftiest ever with red carpet weaving its way through the Corte Madera Town Center, live music from James Henry & Hands on Fire, an art exhibit, an acrobat on stilts, fine wine, killer desserts, a barbecue and even a fast-food truck with donuts. . . If you missed it all, hang onto the comforting thought it’ll happen again in about 11 months and 14-some-odd days! ✹ Email malatfoxbat7@gmail.com

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Chiwetel Ejiofor and Steve McQueen join Festival Programmer Zoe Elton and Fest Director Mark Fishkin at the ‘12 Years a Slave’ screening.

MOVies

F R I D AY octo b er 1 8 — T H U R S D AY octo b er 2 4 Movie summaries by M at t hew St af fo r d l A.C.O.D. (1:27) Marginally well-adjusted Adult Child of Divorce Adam Scott rediscovers his inner demons when bitterly divorced parents Richard Jenkins and Catherine O’Hara reunite for a family wedding. l Captain Phillips (2:13) Paul Greengrass docudrama about the 2009 hijacking of a U.S. cargo ship and the relationship between its captain (Tom Hanks) and the leader of the Somali pirates (Barkhad Abdi). l Carrie (1:39) Remake of the Stephen KingBrian De Palma horror flick about a crazy mixed-up kid with marvelously destructive telekinetic powers. l

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

(1:35) Cartoon sequel finds inventor Flint Lockwood battling food-animal hybrids like shrimpanzees and tacodiles. l Dead Poets Society (2:08) Unconventional poetry teacher Robin Williams inspires his students and upsets his masters at an exclusive boys’ prep school; Peter Weir directs. l Don Jon (1:29) Swinger Joseph GordonLevitt strives for love and intimacy despite his overwhelming addiction to porn; Scarlett Johansson and Julianne Moore offer other options. l Enough Said (1:33) Should single mom Julia Louis-Dreyfus relax and enjoy her new romance with single dad James Gandolfini or let his ex-wife Catherine Keener bring her down to earth? l Escape Plan (1:56) Security expert Sly Stallone, wrongly imprisoned in the world’s best-fortified lockup, plans a daring, impossible exit strategy with none other than fellow con Arnold Schwarzenegger. l Escape from Tomorrow (1:30) Covertly filmed paranoid fantasy about a family man’s nightmarish day at Disney World complete with murderous Disney characters, French vixens, brainwashing security guards and a fatal cat epidemic. l The Fifth Estate (2:08) True-life thriller about WikiLeaks, national security and the information age stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange; Bill Condon directs. l Gravity (1:31) Venice Film Fest phenom about two astronauts who struggle to survive after they’re cast adrift in outer space; George Clooney and Sandra Bullock star. l Inequality for All (1:25) Economics expert and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich takes on the dangerously widening gap between rich and poor with wit and insight. l The Institute (1:32) Entertainingly oblique examination of the Jejune Institute, a Keseymeets-Orwell “urban playground” humanpotential movement that flourished under San Francisco’s radar in the early 21st century. l Instructions Not Included (1:55) An Acapulco playboy finds himself raising a (surprise!) newborn daughter and making it as a Hollywood stuntman to boot.

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy (1:28) Chris Cooper, Viola Davis,

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Zooey Deschanel, Betty White and other luminaries read some of the 800,000 condolence letters Jacqueline Kennedy received after her husband’s assassination. l Machete Kills (1:47) President Charlie Sheen recruits a fabled Mexican cop to stop two super-villains from conquering the world;

Robert Rodriguez directs Lady Gaga, Jessica Alba, Mel Gibson, Antonio Banderas, Cuba Gooding Jr. and many others. l The Matrix (2:16) A computer programmer discovers that the digital tech industry is even more evil and all-encompassing than we think; Laurence Fishburne stars. l Merrily We Roll Along (2:40) Direct from London’s West End it’s Stephen Sondheim’s critically acclaimed musical about friendship sundered by ambition and greed. l Muscle Shoals (1:51) Documentary look at the fabled Alabama recording studio and the musicians who made it great; Mick Jagger, Aretha Franklin, Gregg Allman and other legends bear witness. l

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. l National Theatre London: Hamlet Shakespeare’s spooky tragedy stars Rory Kinnear as the distraught Danish prince in a dynamic Nicholas Hytner production. l

National Theatre London: Macbeth

Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston are the Bard’s bewitched lord and lady in an acclaimed new production performed in a deconsecrated Manchester church. l Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (1:46) The adventure-prone schoolboy is back, heading this time to the Bermuda Triangle to battle zombies (natch) for the Golden Fleece. l Prisoners (2:33) Hugh Jackman goes vigilante after his daughter is kidnapped by mysterious villains; cop Jake Gyllenhaal lends quasi-support. l Pulling Strings (1:52) Mexican comedy about the unlikely romance between a globetrotting U.S. diplomat and a mariachi musician in need of a visa. l Romeo and Juliet (1:58) Hailee Steinfeld and Douglas Booth play the Bard’s starcrossed lovers in Julian Fellowes’ new teenfriendly adaptation; Paul Giamatti turns up as Friar Laurence. l

Rifftrax Live: Night of the Living Dead

(2:00) The popcorn-chomping wise guys of Mystery Science Theater 3000 take on the 1968 George Romero zombie classic. l Rush (2:03) The rivalry between Formula One racing rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda is the jumping-off point for Ron Howard’s octane-powered thrill ride. l The Snitch Cartel (1:47) True-life Colombian crime drama about Andres “Florecita” Lopez, a street kid who worked his way up the corporate ladder to prominence in the bloody Cartel Norte del Valle drug-trafficking syndicate. l When Comedy Went to School (1:13) Affectionate documentary about the great old Catskills resorts where Jewish-American comedy was born and nurtured; Sid Caesar, Jerry Lewis, Mort Sahl and Jackie Mason deliver the yocks. l Zaytoun (1:50) An Israeli fighter pilot and his 10-year-old Palestinian captor bond as they embark on a trek across soldier-infested no-man’s land.

k New Movies This Week

* A.C.O.D. (R)

Regency: Fri-Sat 12:20, 2:40, 5:10, 7:30, 9:55 Sun-Thu 12:20, 2:40, 5:10, 7:30 Captain Phillips (PG-13) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:45, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 Sun-Thu 12:45, 3:50, 6:45 Larkspur Landing: Fri 6:45, 9:45 Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Mon-Thu 6:30, 9:30 Marin: Fri-Sat 1, 4, 7, 10 Sun 1, 4, 7 Mon-Thu 4, 7 Playhouse: Fri 3:45, 6:40, 9:40 Sat 12:30, 3:45, 6:40, 9:40 Sun 12:30, 3:45, 6:40 MonThu 3:45, 6:40 Regency: Fri-Sat 11:20, 12:55, 2:30, 4:05, 5:40, 7:15, 8:50, 10:20 Sun-Thu 11:20, 12:55, 2:30, 4:05, 5:40, 7:15 Rowland: 12:45, 3:55, 7, 10:10 * Carrie (R) Larkspur Landing: Fri 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Mon-Thu 7:15, 9:40 Marin: Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 9:55 Sun 1:40, 4:40, 7:30 Mon-Thu 4:40, 7:30 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:15, 12:30, 1:45, 3, 4:15, 5:30, 6:45, 8, 9:15, 10:30 Rowland: 12:25, 2:55, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (PG) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:15, 2:40, 5, 7:20, 9:35 Sun-Thu 12:15, 2:40, 5, 7:20 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30; 3D showtimes at 12:45, 3:15, 5:50 Playhouse: Fri 5, 7:15, 9:30 Sat 12:15, 2:40, 5, 7:15, 9:30 Sun 12:15, 2:40, 5, 7:15 Mon-Thu 5, 7:15 Rowland: 11:35, 4:40, 7:10; 3D showtimes at 2, 9:35 * Dead Poets Society (PG) Lark: Wed 7:30 Don Jon (R) Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:50, 1:05, 3:20, 5:35, 7:50, 10:05 Enough Said (PG-13) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12, 2:20, 4:50, 7:15, 9:30 Sun-Thu 12, 2:20, 4:50, 7:15 Larkspur Landing: Fri 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Mon-Thu 7, 9:25 Marin: Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 9:40 Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:15 Mon-Thu 4:20, 7:15 Regency: Fri-Sat 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:45, 10:10 Sun-Thu 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:45 Wed 12:05, 2:35 Sequoia: Fri 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Sat 12:30, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Sun-Tue, Thu 5:15, 7:40 Wed 2 Escape from Tomorrow (NR) Rafael: 9:15 * Escape Plan (R) Northgate: Fri-Wed 11, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Rowland: 11:30, 2:15, 4:55, 7:45, 10:30 * The Fifth Estate (R) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:40, 6:30, 9:25 Sun-Thu 12:30, 3:40, 6:30 Regency: Fri-Sat 12:35, 3:50, 7, 10:05 Sun-Thu 12:35, 3:50, 7 Rowland: 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Sequoia: Fri 4, 7, 10 Sat 1, 4, 7, 10 Sun 1, 4, 7 Mon, Tue, Thu 4, 7 Wed 4:15, 7:15 Gravity (PG-13) Cinema: Fri-Wed 11:50; 3D showtimes at 2:15, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30 Fairfax: FriSat 12:10, 2:30, 4:45, 7, 9:20; 3D showtimes at 1, 3:15, 5:30, 8 Sun-Thu 12:10, 2:30, 4:45, 7; 3D showtimes at 1, 3:15, 5:30, 8 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:45, 4:50, 9:45; 3D showtimes at 10:55, 12:35, 1:25, 2:15, 3:05, 3:55, 5:40, 6:25, 7:15, 8:05, 8:55, 10:30 Playhouse: Fri 4:40, 7, 9:20 Sat 12, 2:20, 4:40, 7, 9:20 Sun 12, 2:20, 4:40, 7 Mon-Thu 4:40, 7 Rowland: 1:40, 6:20; 3D showtimes at 11:20, 12:30, 2:50, 4, 5:10, 7:30, 8:40, 9:50 Inequality for All (PG) Rafael: Fri 4:45, 7 Sat 2:30, 4:45, 7 Sun 2:30, 4:45 Tue-Wed 7 * The Institute (NR) Rafael: Sun 7 (filmmaker Spencer McCall in person) Instructions Not Included (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Wed 1:35, 7:20 * Letters to Jackie: Remembering Rafael: Thu 7 (filmmaker Bill Couturie in person) President Kennedy (NR) Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:40, 1, 2:20, 3:40, 5, 6:20, 7:40, 9, 10:15 Rowland: Machete Kills (R) 11:40, 2:20, 5, 7:40, 10:15 * The Matrix (R) Regency: Sun 2 Wed 2, 7 Sequoia: Sun 2 Wed 2, 7 * Merrily We Roll Along (R) Regency: Wed 7 Muscle Shoals (PG) Rafael: Fri 4:15, 6:45, 9:05 Sat-Sun 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:05 Mon-Thu 6:45, 9:05 * National Theatre London: The Audience (NR) Lark: Sun 11 * National Theatre London: Hamlet (NR) Lark: Tue 7:30 * National Theatre London: Macbeth (NR) Lark: Sat 1 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG) Northgate: Fri-Wed 1:55, 7:10; 3D showtimes at 11:10, 4:35, 9:40 Prisoners (R) Northgate: Fri-Wed 8:15 Pulling Strings (NR) Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:25, 2:05, 4:45, 7:25, 10 * Rifftrax Live: Night of the Living Dead (R) Regency: Thu 8 Romeo and Juliet (PG-13) Regency: Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:55, 7:05, 10 Sun-Thu 12:50, 3:55, 7:05 Rush (R) Larkspur Landing: Fri 7, 10 Sat-Sun 1, 4, 7, 10 Mon-Thu 6:45, 9:35 Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:45, 4:25, 10:10 The Snitch Cartel (R) Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:50, 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 When Comedy Went to School (NR) Lark: Fri 4, 6, 8 Sat 6, 8 Sun 3:30, 5:30, 7:30 Mon 5:30, 7:30 Tue-Thu 5:30 * Zaytoun (NR) Rafael: Fri 4, 7:30 (filmmaker Frederick A. Ritzenberg in person at 7:30 show) Sat-Sun 1:30, 4, 6:30, 8:50 Mon-Thu 6:30, 8:50

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 october 18 - october 24, 2013 Pacific Sun 21

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

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Live music 10/18: Chick Jagger Rolling Stones tribute.Featuring Christina Michelle Bailey. 8pm. $5. Presidio Yacht Club at Travis Marina, 679 Sommerville Road, Sausalito. 332-2319. chickjagger.com.

10/18: Dan Hicks and Bayside Jazz 8pm. $2022. Rancho Nicasio, 1 Old Rancheria Road, Nicasio.

662-2219. ranchonicasio.com

10/18: Fenton Coolfoot and the Right Time

9:30pm. The Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway, Fairfax.

485-1182. sleepingladyfairfax.com.

10/18: Generation Esmeralda 9pm.

George’s, 842 Fourth St., San Rafael. 226-0262 georgesnightclub.com 10/18: Howell Devine Jay Bonet opens. Blues rock. 9pm. 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway, Fairfax.

459-1091. 19broadway.com

10/18: Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons with The Heavy Guilt and Jeff Crosby and the Refugees 9pm. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte

Madera, Mil Valley. 388-3850. swmh.com.

10/18: The Phillip Percy Pack Jazz, R&B by the fire. 7pm. No cover. Rickey’s Restaurant, 250 Entrada Dr., Novato. 244-2665. rickeysrestaurant.com.

10/18: Pocket Change Rock and soul covers 9:30pm. $8. Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 464-7420. perisbar.com.

10/18: Shahyar Ghanbari and Farzad Arjmand Modern Persian pop and flamenco guitar. 7

and 10pm. $50-75 Fenix, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael.

813-5600. fenixlive.com/music.

10/18: Tracorum Rock. 9pm. $10. Hopmonk, 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 892-6200. hopmonk.com 10/19: Doc Kraft Dance Band Country, rock, Zydeco. 8:30pm. $5. Fort Baker Presidio Yach Club, Fort Baker, Sommerville Road, Sausalito. 601-7858. dockraft.com.

10/19: James McMurtry Solo acoutic show.

8:30pm. $20-30. Hopmonk, 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 892-6200. hopmonk.com/novato.

10/19: James Nash Americana guitar virtuoso. With Bobby Vega, Frank Martin, Lex Razon. 8pm. $23-38. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 383-9600.

142throckmortontheatre.org.

10/19: Jason Movrich and Friends Blues, soul, rock. With Tom Marottolo, keyboard, vocals; Paul Geoghan, upright bass, vocals. 11am. No cover. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley. sweetwatermusichall.com.

10/19: Mixed Tape with Sarah from Radio Alice Classic rock. 9pm. $10-15. 19 Broadway, 17

Broadway, Fairfax. 459-1091. 19broadway.com 10/19: Radiance Kirtan Band Sri Krsna Kirtan with Radhanath and Kilimba. Organic, vegan and gluten free dinner available 5-7pm from Radiance Cuisine. Special $20 kirtan and dinner combo.

7:30pm. $10-15 show only. Open Secret Bookstore, 923 C St., San Rafael. 457-4191. theholyuniverse.com.

10/19: Savannah Blue Americana, bluegrass.

9pm-1am. $8. Smiley’s, 41 Wharf Road, Bolinas.

868-1311. smileyssaloon.com 10/19: Swinging Doors Electric country. 8pm. $13-15. Studio 55 Marin, 1455-A East Francisco Blvd., San Rafael. 453-3161. studio55marin.com.

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10/19: The Mighty Groove 9pm. $10. Sausalito Seahorse, 305 Harbor Dr., Sausalito. 707-338-0815. themightygroove.com.

10/19: Tom Finch Group 9:30pm. The Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway, Fairfax. 485-1182. sleepingladyfairfax.com.

10/19: Tommy Odetto & Friends Rock and roll 9:30pm. $8. Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 464-7420. perisbar.com.

10/20: Cracker Jack Preacher Americana, rock.

9pm. No cover. 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway, Fairfax.

459-1091. 19broadway.com 10/20: Joan Getz Quartet Joan Getz Quartet Jazz, bossa nova, blues and ballads, both original and familiar 6pm. no cover, dinner encouraged. Panama Hotel & Restaurant, 4 Bayview St., San Rafael. 457-3993. panamahotel.com.

10/20: La Mandanga Flamanco jam 9:30pm. free.

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

464-7420. perisbar.com.

10/20:Tiny Televisions Americana 5pm. No cover.

Rancho Nicasio, 1 Old Rancheria Road, Nicasio.

662-2219. ranchonicasio.com 10/20: Two Voices-One Guitar Folk, rock.

2pm. No cover. Art by the Bay Weekend Gallery, 18856 Highway One, Marshall. 663-1006. artbythebayweekendgallery.com.

10/20: Wil Roberts R&B, adult contemporary pop.11:30am. No cover. Fenix, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael. 813-5600. fenixlive.com/music.

10/21: Local Mondays: The Lion Sons 5:30pm.

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

10/21: Phil Lesh and the Terrapin Family Band Americana, rock. 6pm. Free. Terrapin Cross-

roads, 100 Yacht Club Dr., San Rafael. 524-2773. terrapincrossroads.net.

10/22: Harley White Senior Smooth and classic jazz. 7pm. No cover, dinner encouraged. Panama Hotel and Restaurant, 4 Bayview St., San Rafael.

457-3993. panamahotel.com.

10/22: Todos Santos Band with Wendy Fitz

Jazzy roots. 7pm. No cover, dinner encouraged. Panama Hotel and Restaurant, 4 Bayview St., San Rafael.

457-3993. panamahotel.com.

10/22: Tuesday Singer Songwriter Series

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

10/23: Angeline Saris Gypsy Jazz Trio 9:30pm.

The Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway, Fairfax. 485-1182. sleepingladyfairfax.com.

10/23: Jay’s Happy Sunshine Burger Joint

With Elephant Listening Project. 8pm. $13. Sweetwater Music Hall , 19 Corte Madera, Mil Valley.

388-3850. swmh.com.

10/23: Matt Eakle Band 8pm. No cover. Iron Springs Pub, 765 Center Blvd., Fairfax. 485-1005. ironspringspub.com 10/23: Voodoo Switch, Munice Funk, rock.

9pm. No cover. 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway, Fairfax.

459-1091. 19broadway.com

10/24: George Porter, Jr. and Runnin’ Pardners with Mark Sexton Band 8pm. $20.

Sweetwater Music Hall , 19 Corte Madera, Mil Valley.

388-3850. swmh.com.

10/24: Heavyweight Dub Champion, Ganga Giri, Liberation Movement Hip-hop dubtronica.

9pm. $15. 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway Blvd., Fairfax.

261-1512. 19broadway.com.

Taking the ‘die’ out of diet...

At 42, Australian entrepreneur Joe Cross was 310 pounds and treating his weight-related ailments with a raft of prescription meds. Fed up one day, he chucked it all and decided to star in his own movie, FAT, SICK, AND NEARLY DEAD, chronicling his return to health in a cross-country U.S. road trip. Cross’ radical solution was a 60-day juice fast, using a Breville wired to the electrics of his car (sales of the juicer doubled after the film came out), and making fast food a simple matter of pulling over to a roadside fruit and veggie stand and flipping the onswitch. Along the way he asks the Yanks he meets in diners and truck stops about their food choices, letting them try his latest green concoction and always nudging them in the direction of health with his disarming Aussie friendliness. And shrink he does, radically, as his improving blood numbers allow him to shed the meds. A neat little coda to Joe’s story clocks in right at the halfway point, but back home in Sydney he gets a voicemail: A trucker he met on the road named Phil Staples, 429 pounds and slowly dying of the same autoimmune problems Joe had, calls desperate for Joe’s help. His story will put a lump in your throat. (And you’ll dust off that juicer.)—Richard Gould 10/24: Kelly Peterson Band 9:30pm. The Sleep-

ing Lady, 23 Broadway, Fairfax. 485-1182. sleepingladyfairfax.com.

10/24: Rusty String Express String band, Americana. 7pm. No cover, dinner encouraged. Panama Hotel & Restaurant, 4 Bayview St., San Rafael.

4154573993. panamahotel.com.

Comedy 10/18: Naked Truth: Masquerade Naked Truth:

real.stories.live., the Mill Valley Public Library’s true storytelling series, returns as part of the Litquake Literary Festival. Storytellers will include comedic monologuist Josh Kornbluth, stand-up comic Dhaya Lakshminarayanan, and writers Josh Cereghino and Kari Kiernan. Josh Healey, an award-winning writer, performer, and creative activist, will emcee.For adults and high school students only. Registration strongly recommended. 7pm. Free. Mill Valley Public Library, 375 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 389-4292, ext. 4740. millvalleylibrary.org.

10/22: Mark Pitta and Friends Standup. 8pm. $16-26. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 383-9600. 142throckmortontheatre.org.

10/24: Mort Sahl Comedic political and social commentary. 8pm. $23-35. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 383-9600.

142throckmortontheatre.org.

Theater 10/18: Dan Hoyle’s‘Each and Everything’One man show. 8pm. $20-35. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 383-9600.

142throckmortontheatre.org.

Through 11/03:‘I and You’World premiere by Lauren Gunderson. Sarah Rasmussen directs. 8pm Tues., Thurs., Fri.-Sat.; 7:30pm Wed.; 2 and 7pm Sun. $ 20-58. Marin Theatre CompanyMill Valley.

388-5208. marintheatre.org Through 11/10:‘Gypsy‘Arthur Laurents-Jule Styne-Stephen Sondheim musical about the quintessential stage mother and her daughter who becomes Gypsy Rose Lee. Directed by Blanca Florido. Andrew Klein, musical direction. Produced by the Novato Theater Company. 7:30pm Thurs.; 8pm Fri.-Sat.;

2pm Sun. $12-25. Novato Playhouse, 5420 Nave Dr., Novato. 883-4498. novatotheatercompany.org.

Concerts 10/20: Russian Chamber Orchestra Music

director Alexander Vereshagin conducts a program of works by Handel, Beethoven, Bach and Rachmaninov Alena Tsoi, violin; Marilyn Thompson, piano. 4pm. $20-25. Mt Tamalpais United Methodist Church, 410 Sycamore Ave., Mill Valley. 664-1760. russianchamberorch.org.

10/20: San Domenico Virtuoso Program Program Benefit Concert Music by Britten, Bloch,

Mendelssohn and Vivaldi. With the San Domenico Singers. 3pm. Donation. San Domenico School Music Conservatory, Bettye Poetz Ferguson Hall, 1500 Butterfield Road, San Anselmo. 258-1900. sandomenico.org.

10/23: Wednesday Noon Concert Series

Chamber works. Noon. Free. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley.

383-9600. 142throckmortontheatre.org.

Dance 10/19: Bellydance Flea Market Teachers and

dancers are emptying their costume closets. Costumes, jewelry, CDs, videos. 1pm. Free. Inner Rhythm Movement Arts, 518 D Tamalpais Dr., Corte Madera.

388-6683. innerrhythdance.com.

10/22: Starduster Orchestra Dance Mill Valley Recreation invites you to slip on your dancing shoes and dance the night away. 7pm. $5. Mill Valley Community Center, 180 Camino Alto, Mill Valley.

383-1370. millvalleycenter.org.

Art 10/19: Friends of the Mill Valley Library Book Sale This month’s book sale features romance books and books by Louis L’Amour. Books are restocked throughout the day. 9am. Free. Mill Valley Public Library, 375 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley.

389-4292 ext. 4732. millvalleylibrary.org.

Through 10/20: Madeline Nieto Hope, GRO’s Latino Photography Project and Andrew Romanoff “Make Believe.” Madeline Nieto Hope,

works from re-purposed, reclaimed and re-salvaged materials. “Residencia en la Tierra.” Group photo exhibition with Mario Garcia, Imelda Macias, Agustina Martinez, Maria Mercado, Maricela Mora, Rubén Rubledo, Martina Roque, and Juanita Romo, present work that reveals a deep resonance with the natural world. Andrew Romanoff in the Annex. Sunday Salon Artists Talk/Reception: 4-5pm Oct. 20. Gallery Route One, 11101 Highway One , Pt. Reyes Station.

663-1347. galleryrouteone.org

Through 10/26: The Spirit of Place Group Art Exhibit Sixteen Marin artists of the Golden Gate

Marin Artists will present their latest works.Reception noon-2pm Oct.20. Free. Rock Hill Gallery- Community Congregational Church, 145 Rock Hill Dr., Tiburon. 499-1655. goldengatemarinart.org.

Through11/04: St. Light: The Urban Impressionism of Lawrence Kushner Rabbi Lawrence

Kushner is best known as an author, NPR “All Things Considered” commentator and the Scholar-in-Residence at Congregation Emanu-El of S.F. This is his first solo exhibition of oil paintings. Free. Osher Marin JCC, 200 N. San Pedro Road, San Rafael. 444-8000. marinjcc.org/kushner.

Kids Events 10/19: Family Pasta Feed and Fun Night Spa-

ghetti Fun Night for all ages; pasta, games and swing dancing. 5pm. $5-10. Unitarian Universalist Church, 240 Channing Way, San Rafael. 479-4131 ext. 100. uumarin.org.

10/19-20: Goblin Jamboree Children and their families are invited to come in costume and explore the Museum, transformed into a haunted wonderland with games, live entertainment, witches’ school, train and pony rides, petting zoo, games and live entertainment. 10am-4pm. $13-15. Bay Area Discovery Museum, 557 McReynolds Road, Sausalito. baykidsmuseum.org.

10/19: Owl Box Workshop Join a ranger for a morning of owl box construction and to learn about what species in the area can benefit from them. Also learn about the dangers that are commonly faced by our nocturnal friends and what we can do to help. No animals (except service animals) please. 10am. Free.

Paradise Beach Park, 3450 Paradise Dr., Tiburon.

897-0618. marincountyparks.org.

10/20: Sunday Special: Scare up a Dark Drawing with Ane Carla Rovetta Hear artist,

naturalist, and storyteller Ane Carla Rovetta weave slightly spooky tales as she draws the creatures of the night. 11am. Free. Mill Valley Public Library, 375 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 389-4292 x4741. millvalleylibrary.org.

10/22: Common Core Town Hall Come learn more about the new school standards and about how they are affecting schools in Marin. Please RSVP. 6:30pm. Free. Redwood High School, 395 Doherty Dr. , Larkspur. 479-4920. asmdc.org.

10/23: How to Have Fun in the Delta Have you ever thought about all the things there are to do in the Delta? Come find out some fun and interesting adventures you and your family can have by exploring this hidden gem with Ranger Bill. 2pm. Bay Model Visitor Center, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 332-3871. spn.usace.army.mil/Missions/Recreation/BayModelVisitorCenter.aspx.

Film 10/18: Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary

Before he was convicted of murdering a policeman in 1981 and sentenced to die, Mumia Abu-Jamal was a gifted journalist and writer. Now after more than 30 years in prison and despite attempts to silence him.

Mumia is not only still alive but continuing to report, educate, provoke and inspire. 2pm. Free. Emeritus Meeting Room Bldg. 10, Indian Valley Colleges, 1800 Ignacio Blvd, Novato. 898-0131.

10/19: NT Live Presents:‘Macbeth’By William Shakespeare Directed by Kenneth Branagh and Rob Ashford. 1pm. $30. Lark Theater, 549 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur. 924-5111. larktheater.net.

10/21: Monday Night at the Movies Sidney Stratton(Alec Guinness) brilliant young research chemist and former Cambridge scholarship recipient, has been dismissed from jobs at several textile mills in the north of England because of his demands for expensive facilities and his obsession with inventing an everlasting fibre. 7:30pm. Free. Mill Valley Public Library, 375 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley.

389-4292 x4732. millvalleylibrary.org.

10/22: NT Live Presents: Hamlet By William Shakespeare 7:30pm. $24 . Lark Theater, 549 Magnolia Ave. Larksupr. larktheater.net.

10/25: Gold Fever Eye opening and inspiring documentary is about the arrival of Goldcorp Inc in a remote Guatemalan village. Winner of the Rigoberta Mench Grand Prix at the 2013 Montreal First Peoples Festival.Following the screening Carissa Brands will host a discussion of the film. Presented by the Task Force on the Americas. 7pm. $5-10. First United Methodist Church, 9 Ross Valley Dr. (at Fourth St), San Rafael. 898-0131. mitfamericas.org.

Outdoors 10/19: Gary Giacomini Start the morning with

a slow ascent from the valley floor to San Geronimo Ridge. Lunch in a shaded clearing among Redwoods and Douglas firs. This walk is for ages 15 and up.

We request that no animals (except service animals) please. High fire danger may cancel. David Herlocker will lead. 9am. Free. Gary Giacomini Open Space , Redwood Canyon Dr., San Geronimo. 893-9508. marincountyparks.org.

10/20: Hike the Headlands. Participate in the first annual family friendly fundraiser. Enjoy hands-on science activities along the trail, musical entertainment, refreshments, festivities and prizes. Individual participant registration for adults ($42) and families up to four ($82), children under four are free. 10am. $42-$82. NatureBridge Golden Gate, 1033 Fort Cronkhite, Sausalito. 331-1548. naturebridge.org/ hike-the-headlands.

10/21: Wildlife of Sausalito Join biologist and beekeeper Jennifer Robin Berry for tales of Sausalito’s natural history, told with wildlife videos and images, artifacts and maps. Learn to exploring nature in an urban environment and repairing watersheds, animal passageways. 7pm. Free. Sausalito City Hall Council Chambers, 420 Litho St., Sausalito. 289-4121.

10/24: Boatrides and Barbecue Boating, mingling, hot dogs and bluegrass with The Waterfront Pickers. Community event/awareness raiser from Cass Gidley Marina /Sausalito Community Boating Center. 4:30pm. Free, donations. Dunphy Park, Bridgeway Blvd , Sausalito. 510-682-1044. cassgidley.org/news-and-events/bb.

Readings 10/18: Dare to Paint: Book Event By Carol

Levow. 7pm. Free. Open Secret Bookstore, 923 C St., San Rafael. 457-4191. opensecretbookstore.com 10/18: Lauren Grodstein In a bravura performance, Grodstein dissects the permeable line between faithand doubt to create “The Explanation of Everything.” 7pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

10/18: Marion Nestle Nestle, whom Michael Pollan ranked as the #2 most powerful foodie in America (after Michelle Obama) in Forbes, has always used cartoons in her public presentations. In “Eat, Drink, Vote” she teams up with The Cartoonist Group syndicate to present more than 250 of her favorite cartoons on issues ranging from dietary advice to genetic engineering to childhood obesity. Noon. $21, includes book, coffee and tea. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

10/18: Vladimir Alexandrov “The Black Russian.” 6pm. Free. Book Passage, 1 Ferry Building, S.F. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

10/19: Andy Ross: Finding and Working with a Publishing Agent 10am-12:30pm. $50.

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10/19: Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru “League of Denial.” reveals how the NFL

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10/20: Lavinia Spalding Join Spalding, Abbie Kozolchyk, Kimberly Lovato and Jenna Scatena as they celebrate the release of “The Best Woman’s Travel Writing, Vol. 9.” 4pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

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10/18-20: 24th Annual National Bioneers Conference The National Bioneers Conference

is where innovators and global citizens converge to celebrate and share nature honoring solutions for restoring people and planet. Register to attend and be part of the original whole systems network that’s “Turning Vision Into Action.” This year’s speakers include actor and activist Danny Glover addressing issues of social justice and cultural awareness; biomimicry and ecosystems innovation expert, Janine Benyus; consumer consciousness proponent Annie Leonard; and other inspiring voices advocating for a sustainable world that works for all. See website for schedule details. Marin Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium, Exhibit Hall and Fairgrounds, 10 Ave. of the Flags, San Rafael. bioneers.org/conference.

10/18: Environmental Leader of Marin Awards Ceremony Those honored include

Jared Huffman, Rebekah Collins, Laurette Rogers, Good Earth, Walker Creek Ranch environmental education program. With keynote speaker Huey Johnson. 6:30-9:30pm. $49. Mill Valley Community Center, Camino Alto, Mill Valley. 785-3887. environmentalleaderofmarin.com.

10/18: Marianne Dolan: Sausalito’s Houseboat Wars Filmmaker and Galilee Harbor resident

Marianne Dolan will present stories of Sausalito’s citizen activists that she discovered while doing research for her documentary film,“Houseboat Wars.” 7:30pm. Free. Sausalito Public Library, 420 Litho St., Sausalito. 289-4121. ci.sausalito.ca.us/index. aspx?page=992.

10/18: Mollie Katzen: The Heart of the Plate: Vegetarian Recipes for a New Generation Katzen brought vegetarian cuisine into home kitchens with her award-winning “Moosewood Cookbook.” Her new cookbook,“The Heart of the Plate,” includes a repertoireof 250 flavorful, lighter recipes, plus signature drawings and photos. Noon. $115-185. Greens Restaurant, 2 Marina Blvd., S.F. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

10/18: The Redwoods’40 Years of Living Legends Fundraiser The Redwoods Board of

Directors hosts the celebration. Proceeds from the fundraiser will provide rental assistance to residents, help maintain their organic garden and offset the costs of their Rock the Ages chorus. Jan Wahl is mistress of ceremonies with music by the inimitable Jimmy Dillon. The Redwoods is a notfor-profit, multi-level senior residential community in Mill Valley. 6pm. $150. The Outdoor Art Club, One West Blithedale Ave., Mill Valley. 383-2741 x 295. theredwoods.org.

10/19: AAUW Marin: Title IX Review Attorney Elizabeth Kristen will review the successes and

remaining challenges of Title IX 40 years after the law’s adoption. She will also talk about how well Marin schools are complying with the law which goes way beyond discrimination in athletics. 10am.

Free. Corte Madera Town Center Community Room, 770 Tamalpais Dr., Suite 201, Corte Madera.

382-8178.

10/19: Calming the Mind, Opening to Insight: Bringing Mindfulness, Concentration and Insight Together As One Practice

Concentration and jhana are often taught as separate practices from mindfulness and Insight Meditation.

With Richard Shankman. 9:30am. $50-108, sliding scale. Spirit Rock Meditation Center, 5000 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Woodacre. 488-0164. spiritrock.org.

10/19: Marin Gray Panthers Meet journalist John Bowman who will talk about the present state of journalism in the U.S.A. John has more than 30 years experience in journalism and is currently editor of our local Whistlestop Express and a columnist for the Auburn Journal. 1:30pm. Free. The Redwoods Activities Room, 40 Camino Alto, Mill Valley. 453-1550.

10/19: Natural Floral Design Workshop focused on using seasonal plants or greens to transforming store-bought bouquets into your own creative arrangement. Each participant will go home with an arrangement. Instructor provides a 1.5 gallon Ball Canning jar and additional plants and greenery.

Participants, please bring a mixed flower bouquet, pair of pruners or scissors, additional flowers or plant material from your garden and a household bucket to transport your arrangement home. 10am. $60 +$11 materials fee. The Cabin, 60 Tennessee Valley Road, Mill Valley. 388-6393. tcsd.us.

10/19: The Buddha’s Path to Freedom: the 4th Foundation of Mindfulness - Mindfulness of Patterns of Experience With Donald

Rothberg. Please register in advance at spiritrock. org. 9:30am. $50 - $108 sliding scale, plus a donation to the teacher. Spirit Rock Meditation Center, 5000 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Woodacre. 488-0164. spiritrock.org.

10/21: Community Discussion: The Importance of Measure F and the Future of Marin General Hospital Join the Mill Valley Seniors for

Peace for a presentation and discussion with Jon Friedenberg from Marin General. 3:15pm. Free. The Redwoods, 40 Camino Alto, Mill Valley. 383-1600, ext. 300 or 534-8819, ext. 24.

10/22: Building Community: Housing History, Diversity, Perspectives Hear about the

history of development in Marin County and how it shaped our communities. Listen to long time residents of Marin City, the Canal and West Marin share their stories of how building and not building has made them diverse and unique communities 7pm. Free. Hannah Project Gallery, 170 Donohue St., Marin City. 456-6957.

10/22: Marin Orchid Society Fall Auction

Opportunity to start or enhance your orchid collection with beauties from this sale. 6pm. Free. San Rafael Corporate Center, 750 Lindaro St., Novato.

457-0836. marinorchidsociety.com.

10/22: Red States, Blue States and the Jewish State: An Insider’s Perspective from Jerusalem with Gil Hoffman A behind the scenes

look at the intrigue and humor in the Israeli political arena. Hoffman is the go to analyst on CNN and AlJazeera, having interviewed every major figure in the Israeli-Palestinian political spectrum. In association with Congregations Kol Shofar and Rodef Sholom, JCRC and Lehrhaus Judaica. 7pm. $12-15. Osher Marin JCC, 200 N. San Pedro Rd., San Rafael.

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10/23: Vital Ministry for a New Generation: An Evening with Carol Howard Merritt Mer-

ritt will host a forum to discuss the changing influence of the church in American culture and specifically on younger generations. Event is free to attend and refreshments will be served. 7pm. Free. Lower Alexander Hall, 40 Kensington Rd., San Anselmo.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 133133 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as NV OF MARIN DRIVING SCHOOL, 2130 REDWOOD HIGHWAY #G6, GREENBRAE, CA 94904: NATALIE IRENE VERHEYDEN, 2130 REDWOOD HIGHWAY #G6, GREENBRAE, CA 94904.

This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 23, 2013. (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 27; OCTOBER 4, 11, 18, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013133026 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as 01 FREEDOM CHIROPRACTIC, 712 D STREET SUITE B, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: LINDSTROM BRENDA, 1025 7TH STREET, NOVATO, CA 94945. This business is being conducted

by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 9, 2013. (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 27; OCTOBER 4, 11, 18, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 133124 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as SC PRODUCTIONS, FESTIVAL SALVADORENA, INDEPENDENCIA CARNAVAL DE SAN MIGUEL, 175 BELVEDERE STREET #10, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: SERGIO CARRANZA, 175 BELVEDERE STREET #10, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 20, 2013.

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

by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 23, 2013. (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 27; OCTOBER 4, 11, 18, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 132895 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as NEW GROWTH LANDSCAPING , 6 HILLSIDE DRIVE, FAIRFAX, CA 94930: JOSEPH R. MEISSNER, 6 HILLSIDE DRIVE, FAIRFAX, CA 94930 This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-

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Recorder of Marin County on AUGUST 23, 2013. (Publication Dates: OCTOBER 4, 11, 18, 25, 2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 133082 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as QUEST OF A DREAM, 2201 LUCAS VALLEY ROAD, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: MICHELE FIELD, 2201 LUCAS VALLEY ROAD, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903.

This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 13, 2013. (Publication Dates: OCTOBER 4, 11, 18, 25, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 133118 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as TEENS COOKING FOR CANCER PATIENTS, 7351 BODEGA AVENUE, SEBASTOPOL, CA 95472: THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT, 7351 BODEGA AVENUE, SEBASTOPOL, CA 95472. This business is being conducted

by A CORPORATION. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 19, 2013. (Publication Dates: OCTOBER 4, 11, 18, 25, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 133184 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as EL CHEVERE, 1518 FOURTH STREET, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: EUCEHIO MACEO, 2075 MURPHY DRIVE, SAN PABLO, CA 94806 and DARLENIS MACEO, 2075 MURPHY DRIVE, SAN PABLO, CA 94806. This business is being conducted by A MARRIED COUPLE. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 30, 2013. (Publication Dates: OCTOBER 11, 18, 25, NOVEMBER 1, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013133057 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as AMAZING GRACE MUSIC, 91 RED HILL AVENUE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: JOHN R PEDERSEN, 91 REDHILL AVENUE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960 AND JUDITH E KAUFMAN, 91 REDHILL AVENUE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960.

This business is being conducted by A MARRIED COUPLE. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on MAY 5, 1970. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 12, 2013.

(Publication Dates: OCTOBER 11, 18, 25, NOVEMBER 1, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 133237 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as BEST PRICED WATERHEATERS AND MORE, 125 LARKSPUR STREET SUITE #218, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: ARMANDO APARICIO PASTORA, 121 ARGULLO AVENUE, VALLEJO, CA 94591.

This business is being conducted by A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on OCTOBER 07, 2013.

(Publication Dates: OCTOBER 11, 18, 25, NOVEMBER 1, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013133200 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as THE CLEANING AUTHORITY, 55 GALLI DRIVE, UNIT A,

NOVATO, CA 94949: MAIKAZ CO., 868 GREENBERRY LANE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. This business is being conducted

by A CORPORATION. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on October 28, 2013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on October 1, 2013.

(Publication Dates: OCTOBER 18, 25, NOVEMBER 1, 8, 2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 133232 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as ALTERATIONS BY ARMANDO, 1000 5TH AVENUE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: ARMANDO RAMOS DIAZ, 95 ALTA VISTA, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not begun transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein because fictitious business name expired more than 40 days ago. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on October 7, 2013. (Publication Dates: OCTOBER 18, 25, NOVEMBER 1, 8, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 133282 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as MARIN LIMO AND CAR SERVICE, 47 MIWOK WAY, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: GULAM NAKHUDA, 47 MIWOK WAY, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941.

This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on October 14, 2013. (Publication Dates: OCTOBER 18, 25, NOVEMBER 1, 8, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 133181 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as #1 EL CARNAVAL DE SAN MIGUEL, AND #1 EL CARNAVAL DE SAN MIGUEL U.S.A, 175 BELVEDERE STREET #11, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: SERGIO CARRANZA, 1350 LINCOLN AVENUE #21, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on September 30, 2013. (Publication Dates: OCTOBER 18, 25, NOVEMBER 1, 8, 2013)

Other Notices NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO ESTABLISH POLICIES FOR GOLDEN GATE TRANSIT AND GOLDEN GATE FERRY SERVICE AND FARE CHANGES UNDER TITLE VI OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 AS AMENDED NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District (District) will hold a Public Hearing on Thursday, July 11, 2013, at 9:30 a.m. in the Board Room, Administration Building, Golden Gate Bridge Toll Plaza, San Francisco, CA, to receive public comment on the establishment of policies for Golden Gate Transit and Golden Gate Ferry service and fare changes.

As a result of recent guidance issued by the Federal Transit Administration regarding Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as it is applied to federal fund recipients, the District is proposing to adopt a: a) Major Service Change Policy; b) Disparate Impact Policy; and, c) Disproportionate Burden Policy.

Reports regarding this proposal may be obtained from Janet S. Tarantino, Secretary of the District, Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District, P.O. Box 9000, Presidio Station, San Francisco, CA, 94129-0601 or by

electronic mail at districtsecretary@ goldengate.org or by facsimile at (415) 923-2013 or by using TDD California Relay Service at (800) 735-2929. The staff report about the subject of the hearing will be available for public review no later than 72 hours before the public hearing. Public comments will be received at the public hearing or may be presented in writing to the Secretary of the District at the above address.

Comments may also be sent by electronic mail to publichearing@goldengate.org. Written comments should be received no later than July 11, 2013,

by close of business at 4:30 p.m. The public hearing location is accessible to everyone. To request special assistance due to a disability at this public hearing, please call the District Secretary’s Office at (415) 923-2223 three days before the hearing date. /s/ Janet S. Tarantino, Secretary of the District Dated: June 18, 2013 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No. 304510 The following person(s) has/have abandoned the use of a fictitious business name(s). The information given

below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the Marin County Clerk-Recorder's Office. Fictitious Business name(s): MCC PHARMACY, 3110 KERNER BLVD, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. Filed in Marin County on: July 02, 2012. Under File No: 129837. Registrant’s Name(s): CLINIC PHARMACIES LLC, 74 NEW MONTGOMERY #702, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Marin County on OCTOBER 08, 2013. (Pacific Sun: October 18, 25; November 1, 8, 2013)

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I’m dating a wonderful guy I’m totally in love with. He’s always looked up to his older brother, a very attractive guy who’s a real lady’s man. I’ve found myself behaving in some unsettling ways when we hang out with his brother, like fixing myself up beforehand like I’ve got a big date. I realized that I want his brother to want me. I get a very naughty feeling when he looks me up and down, and I love it. To be clear, I don’t want him in any real or threatening way, and I don’t want to jeopardize my relationship with my boyfriend. Perhaps I’m motivated by knowing that my boyfriend has never been envied by his brother, and now I get to make that happen. —Puzzled

A:

Like many good people, you’re inspired to do volunteer work to bolster the less fortunate, such as the boy who grew up deprived of being envied by his older brother. Interestingly, others who do charitable work, like Salvation Army Santas, somehow manage to accomplish it without first re-engineering their cleavage to graze their jawline.

In addition to your push-up humanitarianism and the ensuing uplift for your ego (and possibly your boyfriend’s, too), another explanation for your behavior is that you aren’t just yourself; you’re also what two researchers call your “subselves.” It’s long been believed that we each have one consistent “self,” with stable preferences, leading us to make consistent choices from situation to situation. That actually isn’t the case. Psychologists Douglas Kenrick and Vladas Griskevicius, authors of The Rational Animal: How Evolution Made Us Smarter Than We Think, find evidence for our having seven “subselves” driving our choices, each corresponding to a different evolutionary challenge our ancestors faced. These challenges include: 1. Evading physical harm. 2. Avoiding disease. 3. Making friends. 4. Gaining status. 5. Caring for family. 6. Attracting a mate.

7. Keeping that mate.

Although we like to think of ourselves as driven by rational thought, environmental triggers can prime a particular subself to grab the controls. For example, seeing a scary movie or a crime report primes our harm-evading subself to take charge, amping up our loss aversion. (Good time to sell us a Rottweiler and the world’s first suburban moat.)

And although you’re in a happy relationship, real or imagined potential mates on the horizon prime your mate attraction subself, which is the one leading you, whenever your boyfriend’s bro will be around, to dress for sliding into a booth at the diner like you’ll be sliding down a greased pole.

The complicated truth is, if your boyfriend notices his brother’s eyeballs bouncing after you like puppies, you may be priming his mate-retention subself by reminding him that you have other options. To keep him from suspecting you’re interested in other options, prime your own mate-retention subself. Look at cute pictures of the two of you and run through reasons you’re grateful for him and for your relationship. This, in turn, should help you refrain from saving your sexiest looks and moves for when you two are hanging out with his brother: “Just gonna twerk my way to the bakery case, bend over in this short skirt, lick the glass and see if the banana nut muffins speak to me.”

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I really like this guy from my college English class. We hang out a lot, eating together and playing pingpong and, when it was raining, we ducked into a building and talked till 2am. No matter how much I flirt with him, including touching him, he never makes a move or touches me, beyond once fist-bumping with me for what seemed like a long time. Should I make a move on him? —Confused

A:

A man’s body language can tell a woman a lot about his intentions. A series of fist bumps, for example, suggests he wants to have a burping contest. You’ve done your part—flirting to let this guy know you’re interested—which was his cue to do his part and ask you out. There are four possible reasons he hasn’t: 1. He’s gay. 2. He’s got a girlfriend. 3. He’s just not interested. 4. He’s a huge wimp. Even if you suspect he’s a wimp who’s crushing on you, do you really want to reward this behavior by manning up and doing the asking? If a man can’t endure a possible 10 seconds of rejection, is he the man you want with you when danger rears its head? (You’ll be facing it head-on; he’ll be hiding behind a bush.) Look elsewhere for a boyfriend, and look to this guy for what he’s capable of providing: friendship. In fact, it seems he’s fast becoming one of your best girlfriends—although probably not the one to go to when you need to borrow a tampon. Y © 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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