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I was 18 years old, living in New York City and working for a corporation when I heard the word of his death. Someone came down the hall and said, “The president has been killed.” Some of us thought: ‘The president of our company?’ When we realized she was talking about the president of the United States we collectively went into a state of shock.

I somehow got myself over to the United Nations and sat outside. As I stared up every light in the Security Council and the General Assembly, as well as every light in the building, was on!

So many thoughts went through my mind.

First, why did this happen? Who would do such a thing? I felt such a hollow feeling inside and I just wanted to be alone staring up at the UN, knowing the world was in a state of disarray. I will never forget how I felt that day 50 years ago! We would come through this, but for the moment I reflected on who JFK was, and what he might have accomplished had he lived.

Michael C. Vogel, Mill Valley

‘Kennedy dead... story to follow’

I remember that day very well—Nov. 22, 1963.

I was working at KFRC Radio in San

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Francisco. By coincidence, I just happened to walk into the station’s news room to check the teletype machine (that’s what they called it) for any news stories. The teletype bell started ringing nonstop and I took a look at it and Kennedy’s death was the headline with “story to follow.”

Stunned, I waited by the teletype machine as news of the event trickled onto the paper roll. And then, I ripped off the news sheet and headed for the radio studio to report to the on-the-air disc jockey to break the news to our radio audience.

The rest of the day—and many days following—the shock of the event was a longlasting experience.

Incidentally, the only other similar situation/coincidence was when World War II ended, I just happened to be with a friend from school at the Telenews Theatre (the all-news movie theater) on Market Street and saw the headlines on their teletype machines.

Jerry Friedman, former entertainment critic now retired from KGO Radio (when it was ABC)

‘Happily ever-aftering...in Camelot’

I was in a teachers’ meeting in Washington, D.C., when the principal announced that Kennedy was shot. We quickly ended the meeting and went home. My overwhelming thought was, “Poor Jackie and the kids.” On the day of the funeral, I walked down the hill from my apartment and found a spot on Connecticut Avenue where I could see the funeral procession. Jackie walked from the White House to St. Matthew’s Cathedral—that was her desire, much to the consternation of the Secret Service. Walking along with her were [French] President

Charles de Gaulle, [Ethiopian] Emperor Haile Selassie and, of course, many other notables. Some days later, I read an article in the Washington Post in which she talked about how her husband liked to listen to the song “Camelot” on his record player before going to bed. “Camelot” became shorthand for the Kennedy presidency.

Esther Riley, Fairfax

Farewell, Camelot.

‘Truth has never been told’

As we mark the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, the only thing that we know for sure—is that the truth has never been told.

Brian Donohue, Mill Valley

‘Class wars and media exaggeration’

I was reluctant to share my “Where Were You?” story, because it’s politically incorrect.

But in today’s polarized climate, it’s more important than ever to see the human face behind dissenting views. As a progressive Democrat, I’m committed to the expression of diverse views, yet so far I’m only hearing the voices of Kennedy fans. In 1963, only half the country supported the president, so here’s a perspective from the other half.

Nov. 22, 1963, Birmingham, Alabama: I’m 16, optimistic, idealistic, eager to make the world more just and free for all. My parents are educated, patriotic, compassionate individuals, leaders in the community and in our Methodist Church. They do diligent research for each election and usually vote Republican.

They view Kennedy with distrust, seeing him as an elitist from a wealthy family who can’t relate to ordinary Americans, and dangerously naive about foreign policy. They have a wide spectrum of friends, but none of them seem excited about Kennedy; the few who voted for him did so mostly out of loyalty to the Democratic Party. I’m surprised Kennedy won, because I see so little support for him, and I often see him ridiculed and hated.

I’m dating a 20-year-old, an exciting older man who impresses me with his political knowledge and activism, compassion, courage, and sense of responsibility. When I discover he’s a member of the John Birch Society I’m surprised, because they are a bit too extreme for my taste. But I admire their commitment, and their views are similar to those of my parents and their friends. Tonight we’re looking forward to a political fundraiser that features a hilarious skit, a parody of the

Kennedy family. For all the same reasons the press loves JFK and Jackie, this Camelot family makes a juicy target for satire.

My French class is interrupted when someone enters to tell us the president has been shot. We’re all in shock, hoping maybe it’s a false report, but then an official announcement of his death is made throughout the school and it starts to seem real. But this can’t happen! Assassination is something like slavery that was abolished, and happens only in history books.

Later I’m shocked to hear that a few students cheered at the announcement. The local radio announces, “Shades Valley students cheered the assassination”—and I’m introduced to class wars and media exaggeration.

For the first time, I’m aware of my school’s reputation in the Birmingham area—the privileged white kids from the suburb. I feel defensive and insulted, because I know most of the students were horrified by the cheering.

My boyfriend calls to say the skit has been cancelled. We’re very upset by the shooting.

Then we get around to admitting we’re disappointed that the skit wasn’t presented last week when we could have enjoyed it.

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It was Friday evening—TGIF—I was an Italian employee at the sports bar of the American embassy in Bonn, Germany. My supervisor from Yugoslavia, Mr. Leo Krainer, informs me that maybe we had to shut down the sport bar—word was that the U.S. president had been shot, but nobody could confirm the news, not the European news nor the American Embassy. Mr. Krainer, born in the Soviet bloc, was fluent in Russian. He got the news from Moscow radio station—where they were celebrating, as President J.F.K. stopped the Russian ship short from Cuba [during the Cuban Missile Crisis]. Back to me: I’m told to shut the bar. I was perplexed, didn’t know what to say to the patrons at the bar—I’d had the privilege to serve the president at the American Embassy club for a formal dinner with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. I still have the autographed menu of that evening.

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n a case more than a little reminiscent of the classic “better late than never” gambit, Novato City Council members adopted a housing element last week.

The adoption came as a critical deadline loomed on the calendar, a deadline that would have had catastrophic consequences for the city and its residents, consequences that would have affected the city’s planning process and its psychic stability.

Crafting a housing element that meets new state requirements as well as mandates in the new Plan Bay Area has triggered debates that sometimes have been marked what in polite company can only be called “robust.” In more impolite company, the debates can be characterized as touching on down and dirty ad hominem attacks against “the other.” During the debates over housing in general, and affordable housing in particular, classism and more than an uncomfortable touch of racism was added into the cocktail.

At its best, however, the debate over housing in Novato, and in the rest of county, highlighted and still highlights various visions of what Marin residents would like to see as the county enters the meaty part of the 21st century. Plan Bay Area put an extra serving of controversy on the plate.

The housing element, which is part of the city’s general plan, that council members approved in Novato calls for including five sites for affordable housing: a property at 1878 Grant Ave.; a day-care site at Grant Avenue and Novato Boulevard; Landing Court, a recreational vehicle storage site off of Redwood Boulevard; a property at Redwood Boulevard

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and San Marin Drive; a vacant property at 7506 Redwood Blvd. next to Trader Joe’s; and 1905 Novato Blvd., a senior-care facility.

Those five sites were included from an original list of possible sites for housing, a list that ran to 100 entries. In what was a public relations stumble, the city’s planning department in 2009 triggered a tsunami of opposition when it released the large number of possibilities. Almost immediately neighbors in the areas of the possibilities drew up opposition research to get ready for the inevitable intellectual—and sometimes visceral—wrestling matches at public meetings that would determine how the city approached its state mandate to provide housing.

“In 2009 we had so many people showing up for meetings—people were standing outside and looking through the windows,” says Mayor Pat Eklund, who adds she wasn’t mayor at the time. “The windows were open so people could hear. We didn’t even have a large enough space.” The number of people who showed up for the housing meetings was indicative of the controversy surrounding the question of whether Novato should comply with housing mandates from the state and from Plan Bay Area and from the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. “City staff made a fundamental mistake when they announced the 100 sites throughout the city,” says Eklund. “That set the whole community ablaze.” The firestorm of vociferous protest delayed the city’s “ability to have more time” to reason out how it would meet what are called housing-need allocation 8 >

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Naso sentenced to death Marin Superior Court Judge Andrew Sweet didn’t parse words on Friday when sentencing convicted serial killer Joseph Naso to death, describing the so-called “alphabet killer” as “evil and disturbed,” his actions “abhorrent and repugnant” and saying his presence on earth has made the world “a worse place.”

Naso, 80, who acted as his own attorney, was convicted in August in the killings of Roxene Roggasch, 18, whose body was found in Fairfax in 1977; Carmen Colon, 22, whose body was found in Port Costa in 1978; and Pamela Parsons, 38, and Tracy Tafoya, 31, whose bodies were discovered in Yuba County in 1993 and 1994.

The killings have been called the “alphabet murders” because each of the women had first and last names beginning with matching initial letters.

Final ‘phase 1’ SMART contract granted to Oakland firm The Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit is chuffing $68.7 million to an Oakland construction company to launch work on the several important elements of “phase 1” of the Cloverdale to Larkspur commuter train system.

Much of the work will take place in Marin beginning next year—including design and construction of track from Civic Center Drive to the downtown station site in San Rafael; strengthening the Puerto Suello Tunnel in San Rafael; adaptation of the “vehicular traffic control system” in downtown San Rafael; and completion of the bike and pedestrian pathways that have received environmental clearance.

SMART officials chose Shimmick Construction Company from a pool of five finalists for the contract. According to SMART officials, Shimmick is an employee-owned firm in Oakland whose previous work includes projects for BART, the Golden Gate Bridge Seismic Retrofit Project, Muni and CalTrans.

SMART board chair Judy Arnold says she’s particularly pleased the contract went to a Bay Area company that will provide local jobs.

“Progress has been rapid since we started construction in the summer of 2012,” says Arnold, who’s also Marin’s District 5 supervisor. “This contract will deliver most of the remaining infrastructure for starting service in 2016.”

Phase 1, SMART officials insist, is only the beginning.

When Sonoma and Marin voters passed Measure Q in 2008, the funds from a 20-year quarter-cent sales tax were promised to go to a rail project spanning from Cloverdale to Larkspur. Soon after, though, the economy tanked and Measure Q revenues were far lower than expected. But SMART officials pressed ahead and broke the project into three segments, with “Phase 1” as an initial stretch from San Rafael to Santa Rosa.

So far the Phase 1 progress has included track reconstruction from Santa Rosa to Petaluma, finalizing permits for track construction into Marin, building of the trains (assembly taking place in Illinois), and designing and installing signals and other rail-communication systems.

Work is slated to begin early in 2014.

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1. What important street in San Francisco is named for the city’s first mayor, who later became governor of Kansas territory and of Pennsylvania?

2. What’s the difference between a jackass and a donkey?

3. What theater in Harlem is named for the Greek god of prophecy, music and poetry?

4. What 20-year-old weightlifter known as “The Austrian Oak” won the 1967 Mr. Universe title?

5. Western Europe’s tallest mountain, Mont Blanc, lies on the border of what two countries?

6. This four-letter word can mean its own opposite: either the most recent or the least recent.

7. Name these pictured European architectural wonders.

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7b

7c

8. How well do you know Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile?

8a. How old was Cleopatra when she became queen of Egypt?

8b. Her ethnic heritage was from what country?

9. Which Asian nation gained its independence from the United States in 1946?

10. Identify these two best-selling authors with initials PB: 10a. In 1931 she published The Good Earth 10b. In 1974 he published Jaws BONUS qUEStiON: The earliest Bibles were written in what three languages?

Want more trivia? Howard invites you to upcoming free team trivia contests, at the Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael on Tuesday, Dec. 10, and at the Sweetwater in Mill Valley on Tuesday, Dec. 17, both 6:30 pm. Have a great question? Send it in and if we use it, we’ll give you credit! www.triviacafe.com.

▲ Where’s a cop when you need one? At least one family won’t be asking that question anytime soon. Officer Mark Wilkinson of the San Rafael Police Department was on patrol in the Canal area when a man approached and requested help for his 1-year-old nephew. The child, who was in his mother’s arms, wasn’t breathing. The officer saw that the baby was blue in the face, but he located a faint pulse. After he called for the fire department to respond to his location, Officer Wilkinson gave rescue breaths to the baby, who slowly started to breathe on his own and then cried. Thanks to the quick action of our Hero, Officer Mark Wilkinson, the child made a full recovery at Marin General Hospital.

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▼ Parking spaces are often hard to come by at Walgreens on Third Street in San Rafael.

Most folks wait patiently for a spot. Others do not. Steve Sisgold of San Rafael watched as an elderly woman prepared to pull into a just-vacated space in front of her car. Suddenly, a passenger from another vehicle that was further back in line jumped out and ran to the empty spot. He planted himself in it, crossed his arms and shooed away the woman with a flick of his hand. Mr. Sisgold received the same mistreatment when he drove by. The nerve. We award this shmuck our double Zero award.

One for stealing the parking space and another for doing it with a smirk on his face.— Nikki Silverstein

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< 6 Exceptionalism to the rule numbers, the number of homes needed to accommodate growth.

After years of debate, despite lingering criticism of the process and, in Eklund’s case, objections to some of the sites that ended up on the final housing-site list, Eklund and her fellow council members voted to adopt the housing element. The main reason for approval was simple: If the city failed to approve a housing element by the end of the year that included the number of new homes the state mandated, the city could get slapped with a responsibility to adopt a housing element with at least double the number of homes the state currently requires the city to accommodate.

The housing element Novato approved covers the years 2007 to 2014. The state must review and approve housing elements for 2007-14 by Jan. 31, 2014. That process at the state takes about a month. If Novato had failed to get an adopted housing element to the state in time for approval by the state deadline, the housing-need numbers for 2007 to 2014 would roll over and be added to the next round of housing-need numbers that will cover 2014 to 2022. That would, according to Bob Brown, community development director in Novato, “easily more than double” the number of new homes the city would have to include in its housing element. (Brown wasn’t working at the city when staff released that list of 100 sites.)

By meeting the state deadline, the city will have drastically reduced the number

of homes it will need to account for in the 2014-22 housing-need cycle. That’s because of a process that belies critics’ accusations that the state and ABAG are unresponsive to local pleas to adjust downward initial housing numbers that came from the state and ABAG. “We did really well this time,” says Eklund, who serves as a Marin representative on ABAG. “We could have done better, but Marin came out pretty good on the housing numbers.”

After initial numbers came out, cities across the Bay Area protested that the number of projected jobs was too large, as was the number of new homes needed. The protests in Marin were some of the loudest and most strident. But after another round or two of assessment at ABAG, the housing-need numbers ended up at levels far lower than the initial numbers that triggered the consternation. The state and ABAG were listening.

Eklund says she will continue working to convince the state and ABAG that changes are needed in how the housing-need numbers get set. At its core, she notes, the issue is one that needs adjustment in the Legislature. It’s the state in the driver’s seat, especially now that SB 375, the state sustainable communities legislation, is in place. That legislation ties housing and transportation in an attempt to produce true regional planning based on population and transportation patterns. The goal is aimed at reducing the number of vehicle miles driven and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. If a city or a county meets housing-need

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numbers, it gets transportation funding that funnels through the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. In Novato’s case that amounts to about $900,000 tied to the housing element council members approved.

Eklund says losing the transportation money would have hurt Novato if the council had missed the state deadline, but it was the prospect of having the housing need number roll over to the next cycle that was the real driving force behind the council’s unanimous approval of the housing element. The state is wielding some pretty powerful carrots and sticks these days.

One set of those incentives—and disincentives—involves housing densities, the number of homes on a property a city or a county will zone for possible future development.

In previous housing-need cycles, a city or a county just had to designate zoning in its housing element for potential new homes, affordable and market rate, to meet housingneed numbers. The homes didn’t have to be built; only the zoning had to be designated.

Density wasn’t an issue. But a recent change in the process set density as a critical designation for meeting housing-need numbers.

That’s a part of the sustainable-communities strategy and Plan Bay Area to guide—some say “force”—future housing into areas situated along transportation corridors. The concentration theory reduces sprawl. Resident critics who already live near those transportation corridors complain that increasing density, along Highway 101 for example, is intolerable.

But creating what’s called transit-oriented development with increased densities has gained favor among progressive planners. It also has attracted severe criticism from conspiracy theorists, who claim it’s an attempt to control suburban populations.

Considering the enormity of climatechange consequences, as well as the effort needed to break out of a vehicle-driven, suburban single-family-home paradigm and break through to a different planning future, transit-oriented development makes sense, say proponents.

The density issue is the main trigger that detonates the housing debate. “Novato is not against affordable housing,” says Eklund. “It’s against high-density housing.” When the initial housing-need numbers got thrown on the table back in 2009, the state was requiring Novato to build affordable housing by designating sites that could accommodate 30 units per acre. The theory rests on the idea that by zoning for a certain density, in Novato’s case 30 units per acre, it automatically provides an opportunity for affordable units on a site. “In Novato we were supposed to have a 30-unit per acre default [minimum] density per acre threshold,” says Brown. That’s what triggered the raucous response, requiring densities rather than simple numbers of affordable units. By the time the housing need dust had settled, Novato’s density requirement had been dropped to between 20 and 23 units per acre.

In the current scheme, adds Brown, “We have to meet the density threshold and then the state will assume” that affordable units will

be included. The requirement to zone for density is quite different than zoning for a certain number of units. That’s true in Novato, other communities in Marin and the rest of the Bay Area and the state.

Novato has an inclusionary ordinance that mandates 20 percent affordable units. Other Marin cities and the county also have inclusionary affordable housing policies. Supervisor Susan Adams is the county representative on ABAG. Like Eklund, she has worked to persuade the state and the regional agencies to look at Marin in an adjusted light regarding how many homes will be needed here.

The process of setting the number of new homes a city or a county must offer is complicated. But boiled down, it’s a simple proposition: Starting at the top, the California Department of Housing and Community Development mandates that regional councils of government assign housing requirements to local counties and cities. ABAG is the local government council in the Bay Area. It has jurisdiction over the nine Bay Area counties and all the cities within those counties. ABAG assigns each an anticipated regional housingneed allocation. Sometimes known as a “fairshare housing allocation,” the numbers derive in large part from state housing policy.

How the state and ABAG reach their conclusions and set projected housing numbers involves a variety of modeling tools that include census data and financial information as well as employment projections and statistics. The projections include estimated numbers of jobs, households and income for every city and county in the Bay Area. Based on those projections, ABAG begins allocating how many new housing units will be needed in which communities.

The process causes anti-regional planning forces to rant against “outsiders” deciding where a county like Marin and a city like Novato should build housing and for what income levels. An often-heard accusation is that the state and ABAG put unrealistic housing responsibilities on Marin and its cities. The critics say Marin has kept a large percentage of land in agriculture and open space and shouldn’t be required to increase housing densities along the Highway 101 corridor to meet housing numbers. An often-heard charge is that the state and ABAG are unresponsive and unwilling to listen to what can be described as “Marin exceptionalism.”

Adams, in referring to Eklund, says, “Pat and I and a number of other smaller suburban and more rural-oriented areas were able to build support” to reduce the numbers. “As a result, one third of all [projected] growth is designated for the three biggest cities in the Bay Area; San Jose, San Francisco and Oakland. Two thirds of growth happens in 15 cities and towns—none of them in Marin.

We have maybe 1 percent of the growth in the nine Bay Area Counties.”

Contrary to the critics who sometimes yelled so loud they couldn’t hear the conversation, when Marin talked, the state and the regional agencies listened. Y Contact the writer at peter@pseidman.com

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SPIN THE BLACK CIRCLES! The greatest albums of all time —at least according to ‘Pacific Sun’ readers...

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hether it’s on vinyl, CD or digital download—there’s nothing like an “album” to attach an artist to a particular place and time in their musical careers, and their fans’ lives. We asked readers to name their favorite album and tell us why it tops their list. As always with Marinites, the responses were often surprising, typically eclectic and invariably interesting.

A case of ‘Blue’

Joni Mitchell’s Blue didn’t change my life as much as save it. The year was 1971.

Nixon was in the White House. The war in Vietnam dragged on. Four Kent State students protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia were gunned down by the National Guard. The Beatles broke up. Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin overdosed on drugs. I was 15, overweight, reeling from my dad’s death in a car crash, mortified when my mom hooked up with a married alcoholic. During a long, bleak New Hampshire winter, I, too, wished I had a river I could skate away on. Vulnerable, naked and raw, Blue gave me hope that I, too, would survive. And I did. I have not, however, escaped decades of ridicule for my love of selfdescribed “capricious and free” Gino Vanelli’s Storm at Sunup.—Jill Lessard, Forest Knolls

‘Love’ in the age of Bacharach

My favorite album, in terms of the album

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that changed my young life, is Love (1966) the first album by the group Love.

I was about 15 years old and already a Rolling Stones and Beatles fan when a friend invited me to go to Hollywood to see the band at Bido Lito’s, a tiny grungy club on Cosmo Alley, just off Hollywood Boulevard. The band had no recording contract at that point, but a loyal group of regulars at the club. They played every week.

Of course, at 15, I was way underage for the club, but it was such an outlier that I could easily get in. In the parlance of the day, Love blew my mind. The small size of the venue meant you were up close and the full energy of the music enveloped you. The band was so tight, Arthur Lee such a charismatic and unique vocalist and songwriter, Johnny Echols on lead guitar, Bryan MacLean on rhythm guitar, vocals and looking beautiful. Everyone was so excited to be a part of the experience, we were aware of being at the start of the success of Love. It was the most exciting thing that had happened to me up to that point.

The power of music, live, exciting rock and roll that entered and exploded that weird post-adolescent state of waiting for something to change your life.

The songs I heard over the year or so I was a regular were the songs that made up the first album Love. “Little Red Book” which turned the Bacharach version into a rock masterpiece along with my favorite, pre-punk/ rockin’

version of “Hey Joe.” Along with ballads like “She Comes in Colors” and “Signed D.C.” The music was inspiring and the band was fine-tuned.

In those days you waited for the single to be released, then the album. It was not instant like today, and there was added pleasure in the anticipation. Some of the regulars at Bido Lito’s got to know the band and we felt a part of their progress, and I knew it was a great album and later found out that many musicians have been inspired by Love.

Music, of all kinds, continues to inspire me.

Runners-up: Broken English by Marianne Faithfull, Young Americans and Let’s Dance

by David Bowie, Facing Future by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole. —Louise Wright, Stinson Beach

Local heroes

Let’s consider solely what I think is the best Marin album. I have two candidates who spend considerable time in Marin.

Ed Goldfarb and his band The Sad Truth have an album called All I Want is to Make You Happy, and I have heard few if any albums better recorded and produced. The songs are arrestingly well-written and the performers are virtuosi on their instruments, at the quality level of Steely Dan and beyond.

Scott Mickelson and his band Fat Opie are changing Americana with their album Victoryville, which I see as a musical oeuvre much like Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology is in poetry, an exploration of the reality of suburban America recast almost as mythology and archetype. This academic description belies the fact that this is cutting-edge music, with Scott on electric banjo and guitar and a band full of passionate, all-out players all con-

tributing to realizing Scott’s musical vision.

This is an important album.

“Local” is a clearly a virtue when music comes from a region as musically fertile as Marin! —Alan Monasch, Novato

You can always get what you want

The Rolling Stones’ Let It Bleed (1969) is just so memorable for me as I partied to it so much. (Yes, I am that old!) As opposed to so many people’s favorites, such as an album

by Pink Floyd, which puts you in the zone, Let It Bleed gets you up and jumping for joy! It is both bluesy and blowzy at the same time. Sly, unkempt, raucous good fun. —Nine Meister, Sausalito

‘Let fury have the hour’

When I was 12 and first starting to listen to bands, an older kid on my street taped me a copy of London Calling (1980) by the Clash, a record that would later be named the best album of the 1980s by Rolling Stone. But this was one of the first tapes I’d ever owned, so much of the musical sophistication of it— early white-boy ska and reggae, rockabilly, New Orleans jazz, arguably the birth of postpunk—was largely lost on me; I just dug all the songs. And the subject matter, too, was pretty impenetrable to young ears more used to the likes of “Rio” and “Girls Just Want to

Have Fun” than lyrics borne from the breath of workingclass English history and experience.

Songs about the Spanish Civil War... the failures of capitalism... the empty promises of mass consumerism... I didn’t know what the Guardia Civil was—but damn it if I wasn’t going to find out! My one complaint is that I probably discovered London Calling too early in my music-listening life. It blossomed my thirst for music, but if you were a sixthgrade boy, circa 1984, you were going to run in to a lot of crappy bands—that sounded a helluva lot crappier in comparison to the Clash. Not knowing that, I poured my allowance into all kinds of slop, expecting it to be as mind-blowing as “Spanish Bombs” and “Rudie Can’t Fail.” So I’d peel off the plastic wrap on Out of the Cellar by Ratt, Metal Health by Quiet Riot, Van Halen II and Night Ranger’s Midnight Madness, and think, “Is this really as sh-tty as I think it is?”... “Why are there only two decent songs on each tape?”... and, god help me, “Maybe if I listen to it more, the songs will start to catch on.”

Countless wasted hours on the Walkman later and I was still bewildered as to why I blew $8.99 on Shout at the Devil.

Runners-up: A few not-so-obvious albums by great bands: Forever Changes by Love; Fables of the Reconstruction by REM; The Who Sell Out by the Who; Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea by PJ Harvey; The Boatman’s Call by Nick Cave and Dear Catastrophe Waitress by Belle and Sebastian.

—Jason Walsh, editor, ‘Pacific Sun’

Queen of the slipstream

I’m a 53-year-old Mill Valley mom and interior designer/ stager. I love Astral Weeks but my all-time favorite is The Best of Van Morrison(1990) because it is so timeless, beautiful, sensual and he has a wonderful range in his voice.

Does it get much better than “Brown Eyed Girl” ( yes....I am one!!!), “Moondance,” “Have I Told You Lately?” “Wild Nights” or “Into the Mystic”? You have to feel good listening to these songs!

Marvin Gaye’s What’s Goin’ On is a close second!

—Tracy Ferm, Mill Valley

‘Smooth’ reply

Well, if you grew up in Marin in the late ‘60s this is going to be a tough pick. As Marin was hosting the following local characters,

Dead, Sons, Santana, Boz, Steve Miller, Tower of Power, Pablo Cruise, Quicksilver, Airplane—should I go on? Then a little bit later just about everyone else showed up, Journey, The News, Metallica, you name it, Rock World USA was Marin County. So who is it going to be? Best of all time?

If I had to gut it out and award value points for music, originality, staying power and being a good Samaritan and conscience awareness guru of Marin, I have to stick with Carlos Santana, still going strong even though he is now hanging out in Vegas. Carlos told me once, when I asked him was it true he was doing a stage gig in Vegas. His reply was: “I swore to the almighty I would never, ever play the Vegas scene. Then I thought for a minute, in the music biz, never say never.” —Rob Bloom, Novato

Up’ for the down stroke

I thought to myself when reading your request for my favorite album, “Wow, I can mention not only a fave LP but one made by a Marin band !

The album Loosen Up Naturally (1969) by the Sons of Champlin was definitely a game changer for me during my high school days at Redwood and Tam high schools. Being a professional musician myself for the last 30plus years I was enthralled by what the Sons were doing back then ( late ‘60s early ‘70s ) and even had the thrill to take some drum lessons from their drummer Bill Bowen, and later was in a band with the brother of Sons’ bassist Al Strong....

At that time the Sons represented so much of what we thinking and feeling as the youngest of the Summer of Love pack going to every and any show they played , even a lunch concert at Tam High! Throwing loose joints out to the audience at Speedway Meadows and preaching the Bay Area gospel theme song “Get High” to all us aspiring paradigm breaking bad young’uns into the new world of promise, hope and legalized pot. —Michael Barsimanto, Novato

The ‘Kid’ is alright

Kid A (2000) was one of those albums that just changed the infrastructure of the industry. An example of a complete departure from pop sensibilities for true dedication to sound art by a band that had released one of the more iconic rock albums of the ‘90s in Ok Computer. Aside from my personal attachment to the music, it’s impressive that Radiohead was daring enough to release something that had no proven commercial success after making a living on grandiose, guitar pop-rock. If you’re not familiar with the album, Kid A is essentially an ambient,

electronic conceptual, with very minimal guitar work, and even fewer “hooks.” Instead, as all great art demands, it rewards repeated listens due to the subtle complexities, but for me, the most important aspect is the lyrical content and the beauty of Thom Yorke’s voice. Kid A taught me that success is achieved through change and experimentation. —Nick Nassab, Marin

No one can choose just one!

You can’t just ask for one album, so I will list a few: Jefferson Airplane Takes Off; The Paul Butterfield Blues Band; Steve Miller Band, Children of the Future; Grateful Dead self-titled debut; Sons of Champlin; Electric Flag, A Long Time Comin’; all the Rolling Stones albums; all the Beatles albums; Albert King, Born Under a Bad Sign; B.B. King, any album; Chuck Berry, Berry on Top; James Cotton ...

This could go on for days so I will stop now—I love my album collection (about 1,000-plus ) and I love the sound of them as well— more so than a CD—it’s a deeper sound on an album. —Andy Simpson, Novato

Only you know and I know

Wow, what a tough question. Being of a “certain age” (born 1947) I always feel lucky to have lived in an age of the greatest music ever—Beatles, Rolling Stones, Leon Russell, Joe Cocker, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Motown, Grateful Dead. That being said I would have to say Dave Mason’s Alone Together (1970, the “paisley album”). Every album has one cut that you tolerate till you can get to the next one. Not so with this album, every cut is great—one that you want to hear loud, and one that still sounds great today. Love the Pacific Sun, been reading since 1968. Rock on.

—N. Pimentel, Petaluma

Across the universe

Favorite album is ... Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967). The tracks propelled my music world into a new universe; the enclosed paper fun pieces were revolutionary, and my friends and I were never again tempted to peel back an album cover to look for hidden LSD, burn the peeled paper in a pipe or listen for supposed clues to a secret concert on the Isle of Wight. BTW: I have kept my fave album, its (unpeeled) cover and pristine paper fun pieces in an artist-rendered slip case since the week the album debuted. Now THAT’S a cherished album! —Sara Zander, Petaluma

‘Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?’

I was a Berkeley teenager in the summer of 1967. Social, generational and political movements were spreading throughout the Bay Area and beyond. Black Panthers, anti-Vietnam War groups; and social action movements of many types were distributing petitions, leaflets and info about the war. A proto-Occupy people’s takeover of UC property had named it People’s Park. Young people were dressing and grooming radically different; partly as a protest against the war and partly against convention in general. And, as if in-step with these changes, a new type of rock music was being broadcast on the airwaves; it was music with a message. Then one day I was stopped in my tracks by the music on the radio, it had the wildest sounding guitar chords, distorted beyond belief, with amazing runs and fuzz tone effects. It was “Purple Haze” by the Jimi Hendrix Experience [from Are You Experienced? (1967)].

I then realized that guitar music had also just been revolutionized. —David DJ Chavez, Larkspur

‘Got a baby’s brain and an old man’s heart’...

The album that had the most impact on my life came out in February 1971. I was 18 years old and trying desperately to figure out who I was and where I fit in. I was confused, shy and constantly trying to get acceptance from my peers. Then I bought Alice Cooper’s Love it to Death album and it changed my life. The band seemed to be describing my life and how I was feeling about myself, especially in the lyrics of “I’m Eighteen” and “Caught in a Dream.” The more I listened to that album, the more I could feel a change. I seemed to be more creative, confident and outgoing. I started to discover who I was and that I didn’t have to fit into a certain mold in order to be accepted and happy. I am still a big Alice Cooper fan at age 61, and have had the opportunity to meet up with him on a number of occasions. This past Halloween, I was at his concert in Montgomery Alabama and after the show asked him what album had the biggest impact on his life. He said that the British Invasion in the ‘60s was his biggest influence and when he heard Meet the Beatles (1964) for the first time, he realized that something amazing was about to happen in music scene. —Jim Anderson, ‘Pacific Sun’ designer

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Say you want a revolution

My favorite album would, of course, be the first one I recorded in 1978—the Satie album (Piano Solos of Erik Satie) for Windham Hill.

It’s just like my favorite classical improvisation—fresh, new, exciting.

As far as all the other great artists’ recordings, it’s hard to choose between rock ‘n’ roll, classical and jazz! However, there was nothing like the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), cranked up loud, coursing through the dorms at night at the classic Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. In 1967, I was only 16, at a great classical arts school, but alive in the middle of the cultural revolution—wide-eyed and open to the possibilities of the world’s future changes. —Bill Quist, Mill Valley

A ‘natural’ selection

Loosen Up Naturally by the Sons of Champlin—the quintessential Marin band.

Their 1969 debut release (a two-disc set!) features musicianship beyond any of their Bay Area contemporaries (ask anyone from those other bands!), irresistible grooves, sophisticated songwriting and arrangements, and lyrics echoing concepts found in Taoist, Hindu and Buddhist scriptures. Leader Bill Champlin’s gritty vocals, stellar organ AND guitar playing, saxophonist/vocalist Tim Cain’s jazz-flavored horn charts, and Geoff Palmer’s uncanny prowess on organ, vibraphone, saxophones (and pretty much any other instrument placed in front of him) as well as the Wes Montgomery-meetsHendrix-on-Saturn guitaristics of Terry Haggerty made this an immediate source of study for all aspiring young musicians in the Bay Area. Bandmembers’ names and photos weren’t included—no egos, just incredible MUSIC. Jazz, soul, psychedelia—the Sons showed me what to aspire to in my own musical career. And it STILL knocks me out 44 years later!

Runner Up: Miles Davis—Bitches Brew — Parabar Martin Weber, keyboardist/vocalist with the Tazmanian Devils

Their ‘aim’ is true...

How many albums can you happily listen to from start to finish without skipping any tracks?

I could only think of one—Aim and Ignite

by Fun.

The album is simply brilliant: phenomenal vocals, both lead and back-up; exceptional musicianship; genuine lyrical depth; catchy, singalong songs; and fantastic arrangements.

This is definitely the album that I would want to have if I were stranded on a deserted island! —Timothy Dow, Novato

‘Pepper’ strikes a chord

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is my favorite, not only because of the past (boy, that is cool), but also of the future. The way they dub in all the different sounds. I think the last piano chord on “A Day in the Life” holds the record for the longest musical instrument sound ever. The lyrics and the music are fun. —Ben Kinney Jr., San Anselmo

Destiny turned on the radio

I have three LP records that changed my life, in a major factual way. The three have this common aspect: I heard them on KTIM and took the next turn to the nearest record store, and then went off to listen to them over and over (and over and over...) again. That’s pretty darn high praise from me, and more remarkable since FM radio has pretty much disappeared as a music medium in the 21st corporate century.

Van Morrison, Moondance (1970). I heard the title song, turned my VW van and immediately drove to Mill Valley Music, bought the record, and continued on my way to the Long Island on the Old River in the Delta to spend the weekend on my houseboat with my delicious lover and several hits of Windowpane acid. I don’t remember every detail but it was one of the best weekends of my life.

SSSOOO sexy!

Whew.

Maria Muldaur— “Midnight at the Oasis,” [from Maria Muldaur, 1973] the song that made her career and made a very nice experience for me and my friends. I had just gotten a new stereo, and this was the perfect demonstration of its capabilities. I heard her in an interview much later on say that the song was a favor to her friend whose friend wrote it, and it was added to the album as an afterthought, when they thought they had finished the album, but she checked it out as a favor to her friend.

Oh dear, I forgot the other one ... Oh yes!

Dr. John, In the Right Place (1973), featuring the song, “Right Place Wrong Time.” The title says it all. You’d think I was making it up if I told you how it chanwged my life. —Lou Judson, Novato

Mother’s little helper

My mother was a beatnik alcoholic jazz lover who had music on the “hi-fi” pretty much 18 hours a day as I was growing up in

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the ‘50s and ‘60s in the City and later in Larkspur, and was the only mom in my ‘hood who knew Miles Davis from Bette Davis. She wore out several times Davis’s Miles Ahead (1957), a fantastic collaboration, among several, with Gil Evans as arranger.

The album, produced in the format of a “suite,” kicked off with “Springsville,” which was also the first tune ever played on the old KJAZ when the station embarked upon a stellar but short life in the late ‘50s. Listening today to pieces such as the title song, the album’s fifth selection, brings to mind with bitter sweetness how the oddly talented woman who bore me should really have been an artist and lived in North Beach with Jack and the crew, smoking weed and sipping brandy late into the night. — Skip Corsini, San Rafael

The root of all ‘Evil Ways’

The album that blew my mind and expanded my musical horizons was the first Santana album. I was in college back in the late ’60s and was totally immersed in Motown and R&B, rather than rock. When Santana (1969) came on in a record store I was browsing in, I had never heard anything like that. The fusion of fiery Latin rhythms, soaring lead guitar, and soulful vocals grabbed my attention from the first notes. I took home a copy and listened to it over and over, absorbing its influence into my musical DNA. As a budding young guitarist myself at the time, the style and passion of Carlos Santana played a major role in my development as a musician. I’m still a huge fan to this day and also appreciate the spiritual awareness he brings to his music. My “runner-up” album would be Hendrix’s Are You Experienced? — Michael Diamond, San Rafael

‘What can a poor boy do, ‘cept to sing for a rock-roll band?’

Since this is Marin, I’ll go with classic rock. The Rolling Stones are my fave rock band, and Beggars Banquet (1968) is my fave of theirs. Each side begins with their two baddest-ass songs, “Sympathy for the Devil” and “Street Fighting Man,” aggressive precursors to punk rock. The rest is lesser known yet superb songs, not overplayed hits. Heavily tinged with country and a bit of the blues.

The bad boys of rock of rock ’n’ roll!

My other choice is the Allman Brothers Band—At the Fillmore East (1971). I bought it when I was a teenager not too long after it came out, and played it until I wore it out. It is the best southern rock record ever and arguably the best live rock record ever, a double disc of hard hitting yet intricate bluesy rock improvisations. From Gregg Allman’s soulful vocals to the best guitar playing ever (OK, other than Jimi), Duane Allman revolutionized the slide guitar. —Barry Lazarus, Red Devil Records, San Rafael

An ode to my favorite album

Once my reckonin’s all said and done, fav’rite album I ever heard spun has great affinity for its title and me.

It’s Bob Dylan’s Highway Sixty-One...

On “The Blues Highway” ma showed me, son, first in Sikeston, Mo, March, Fifty-One. Ten years older Bro-Yid from up North later did what no one ever before had done.

Bob, on “Big Muddy’s Great River Road,” Has revisited childhoods’ abode, in St. Lou, Hibbing, Minn.

Like Mark Twain and Huck Finn We skedaddled from home when fullgrowed.

I’ze a teenager when I first heard Dylan’s music folk fans found absurd.

Like “With God on Our Side,” Bob’s new work satisfied, but with electric, poetic word.

“Like a Rolling Stone” issued the call.

From first note message challenged us all.

Greatest song of my time both for rhythm and rhyme.

Love the title tract, all songs stand tall.

(Runner-up albums: Who’s Next by The Who; Volunteers by Jefferson Airplane; Lief and Liege by Fairport Convention.) —Elliott Kolker, Stinson Beach

‘Have you ever loved a woman?’

Funny that you pictured the Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (1970) cover in your calls for favorite-album submissions— when THAT is my all-time fave rave. Eric Clapton wailing his heart out for Patti Body (wife of George Harrison) in a last-ditch attempt to win her love, only to be spurned and turn to heroin to ease the lovelorn pain.

Forty-plus years later this record still burns with intensity as Bobby Whitlock and Clapton blend their voices with so much feeling.

And, behind that, Duane Allman plays slide guitar with soul and fire. Count ‘em—that’s two of the greatest guitarists who ever lived on the same album. Blues and rock combine for an all-time classic, and I never tire of its timelessness. Clapton eventually did win Patti over, only to divorce later. This album showed his desperation in the grooves. EVERY SONG throbs with passion. It didn’t change my life; it just added the cilantro my spiceless life needed. —Clark Peterson, San Rafael Y Got another favorite? Email letters@pacificsun.com.

Have Fun” than lyrics borne from the breath of workingclass English history and experience.

Songs about the Spanish Civil War... the failures of capitalism... the empty promises of mass consumerism... I didn’t know what the Guardia Civil was—but damn it if I wasn’t going to find out! My one complaint is that I probably discovered London Calling too early in my music-listening life. It blossomed my thirst for music, but if you were a sixthgrade boy, circa 1984, you were going to run in to a lot of crappy bands—that sounded a helluva lot crappier in comparison to the Clash. Not knowing that, I poured my allowance into all kinds of slop, expecting it to be as mind-blowing as “Spanish Bombs” and “Rudie Can’t Fail.” So I’d peel off the plastic wrap on Out of the Cellar by Ratt, Metal Health by Quiet Riot, Van Halen II and Night Ranger’s Midnight Madness, and think, “Is this really as sh-tty as I think it is?”... “Why are there only two decent songs on each tape?”... and, god help me, “Maybe if I listen to it more, the songs will start to catch on.”

Countless wasted hours on the Walkman later and I was still bewildered as to why I blew $8.99 on Shout at the Devil.

Runners-up: A few not-so-obvious albums by great bands: Forever Changes by Love; Fables of the Reconstruction by REM; The Who Sell Out by the Who; Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea by PJ Harvey; The Boatman’s Call by Nick Cave and Dear Catastrophe Waitress by Belle and Sebastian.

—Jason Walsh, editor, ‘Pacific Sun’

Queen of the slipstream

I’m a 53-year-old Mill Valley mom and interior designer/ stager. I love Astral Weeks but my all-time favorite is The Best of Van Morrison(1990) because it is so timeless, beautiful, sensual and he has a wonderful range in his voice.

Does it get much better than “Brown Eyed Girl” ( yes....I am one!!!), “Moondance,” “Have I Told You Lately?” “Wild Nights” or “Into the Mystic”? You have to feel good listening to these songs!

Marvin Gaye’s What’s Goin’ On is a close second!

—Tracy Ferm, Mill Valley

‘Smooth’ reply

Well, if you grew up in Marin in the late ‘60s this is going to be a tough pick. As Marin was hosting the following local characters,

Dead, Sons, Santana, Boz, Steve Miller, Tower of Power, Pablo Cruise, Quicksilver, Airplane—should I go on? Then a little bit later just about everyone else showed up, Journey, The News, Metallica, you name it, Rock World USA was Marin County. So who is it going to be? Best of all time?

If I had to gut it out and award value points for music, originality, staying power and being a good Samaritan and conscience awareness guru of Marin, I have to stick with Carlos Santana, still going strong even though he is now hanging out in Vegas. Carlos told me once, when I asked him was it true he was doing a stage gig in Vegas. His reply was: “I swore to the almighty I would never, ever play the Vegas scene. Then I thought for a minute, in the music biz, never say never.” —Rob Bloom, Novato

Up’ for the down stroke

I thought to myself when reading your request for my favorite album, “Wow, I can mention not only a fave LP but one made by a Marin band !

The album Loosen Up Naturally (1969) by the Sons of Champlin was definitely a game changer for me during my high school days at Redwood and Tam high schools. Being a professional musician myself for the last 30plus years I was enthralled by what the Sons were doing back then ( late ‘60s early ‘70s ) and even had the thrill to take some drum lessons from their drummer Bill Bowen, and later was in a band with the brother of Sons’ bassist Al Strong....

At that time the Sons represented so much of what we thinking and feeling as the youngest of the Summer of Love pack going to every and any show they played , even a lunch concert at Tam High! Throwing loose joints out to the audience at Speedway Meadows and preaching the Bay Area gospel theme song “Get High” to all us aspiring paradigm breaking bad young’uns into the new world of promise, hope and legalized pot. —Michael Barsimanto, Novato

The ‘Kid’ is alright

Kid A (2000) was one of those albums that just changed the infrastructure of the industry. An example of a complete departure from pop sensibilities for true dedication to sound art by a band that had released one of the more iconic rock albums of the ‘90s in Ok Computer. Aside from my personal attachment to the music, it’s impressive that Radiohead was daring enough to release something that had no proven commercial success after making a living on grandiose, guitar pop-rock. If you’re not familiar with the album, Kid A is essentially an ambient,

electronic conceptual, with very minimal guitar work, and even fewer “hooks.” Instead, as all great art demands, it rewards repeated listens due to the subtle complexities, but for me, the most important aspect is the lyrical content and the beauty of Thom Yorke’s voice. Kid A taught me that success is achieved through change and experimentation. —Nick Nassab, Marin

No one can choose just one!

You can’t just ask for one album, so I will list a few: Jefferson Airplane Takes Off; The Paul Butterfield Blues Band; Steve Miller Band, Children of the Future; Grateful Dead self-titled debut; Sons of Champlin; Electric Flag, A Long Time Comin’; all the Rolling Stones albums; all the Beatles albums; Albert King, Born Under a Bad Sign; B.B. King, any album; Chuck Berry, Berry on Top; James Cotton ...

This could go on for days so I will stop now—I love my album collection (about 1,000-plus ) and I love the sound of them as well— more so than a CD—it’s a deeper sound on an album. —Andy Simpson, Novato

Only you know and I know

Wow, what a tough question. Being of a “certain age” (born 1947) I always feel lucky to have lived in an age of the greatest music ever—Beatles, Rolling Stones, Leon Russell, Joe Cocker, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Motown, Grateful Dead. That being said I would have to say Dave Mason’s Alone Together (1970, the “paisley album”). Every album has one cut that you tolerate till you can get to the next one. Not so with this album, every cut is great—one that you want to hear loud, and one that still sounds great today. Love the Pacific Sun, been reading since 1968. Rock on.

—N. Pimentel, Petaluma

Across the universe

Favorite album is ... Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967). The tracks propelled my music world into a new universe; the enclosed paper fun pieces were revolutionary, and my friends and I were never again tempted to peel back an album cover to look for hidden LSD, burn the peeled paper in a pipe or listen for supposed clues to a secret concert on the Isle of Wight. BTW: I have kept my fave album, its (unpeeled) cover and pristine paper fun pieces in an artist-rendered slip case since the week the album debuted. Now THAT’S a cherished album! —Sara Zander, Petaluma

‘Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?’

I was a Berkeley teenager in the summer of 1967. Social, generational and political movements were spreading throughout the Bay Area and beyond. Black Panthers, anti-Vietnam War groups; and social action movements of many types were distributing petitions, leaflets and info about the war. A proto-Occupy people’s takeover of UC property had named it People’s Park. Young people were dressing and grooming radically different; partly as a protest against the war and partly against convention in general. And, as if in-step with these changes, a new type of rock music was being broadcast on the airwaves; it was music with a message. Then one day I was stopped in my tracks by the music on the radio, it had the wildest sounding guitar chords, distorted beyond belief, with amazing runs and fuzz tone effects. It was “Purple Haze” by the Jimi Hendrix Experience [from Are You Experienced? (1967)].

I then realized that guitar music had also just been revolutionized. —David DJ Chavez, Larkspur

‘Got a baby’s brain and an old man’s heart’...

The album that had the most impact on my life came out in February 1971. I was 18 years old and trying desperately to figure out who I was and where I fit in. I was confused, shy and constantly trying to get acceptance from my peers. Then I bought Alice Cooper’s Love it to Death album and it changed my life. The band seemed to be describing my life and how I was feeling about myself, especially in the lyrics of “I’m Eighteen” and “Caught in a Dream.” The more I listened to that album, the more I could feel a change. I seemed to be more creative, confident and outgoing. I started to discover who I was and that I didn’t have to fit into a certain mold in order to be accepted and happy. I am still a big Alice Cooper fan at age 61, and have had the opportunity to meet up with him on a number of occasions. This past Halloween, I was at his concert in Montgomery Alabama and after the show asked him what album had the biggest impact on his life. He said that the British Invasion in the ‘60s was his biggest influence and when he heard Meet the Beatles (1964) for the first time, he realized that something amazing was about to happen in music scene. —Jim Anderson, ‘Pacific Sun’ designer

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My favorite album would, of course, be the first one I recorded in 1978—the Satie album (Piano Solos of Erik Satie) for Windham Hill.

It’s just like my favorite classical improvisation—fresh, new, exciting.

As far as all the other great artists’ recordings, it’s hard to choose between rock ‘n’ roll, classical and jazz! However, there was nothing like the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), cranked up loud, coursing through the dorms at night at the classic Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. In 1967, I was only 16, at a great classical arts school, but alive in the middle of the cultural revolution—wide-eyed and open to the possibilities of the world’s future changes. —Bill Quist, Mill Valley

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Their 1969 debut release (a two-disc set!) features musicianship beyond any of their Bay Area contemporaries (ask anyone from those other bands!), irresistible grooves, sophisticated songwriting and arrangements, and lyrics echoing concepts found in Taoist, Hindu and Buddhist scriptures. Leader Bill Champlin’s gritty vocals, stellar organ AND guitar playing, saxophonist/vocalist Tim Cain’s jazz-flavored horn charts, and Geoff Palmer’s uncanny prowess on organ, vibraphone, saxophones (and pretty much any other instrument placed in front of him) as well as the Wes Montgomery-meetsHendrix-on-Saturn guitaristics of Terry Haggerty made this an immediate source of study for all aspiring young musicians in the Bay Area. Bandmembers’ names and photos weren’t included—no egos, just incredible MUSIC. Jazz, soul, psychedelia—the Sons showed me what to aspire to in my own musical career. And it STILL knocks me out 44 years later!

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The album is simply brilliant: phenomenal vocals, both lead and back-up; exceptional musicianship; genuine lyrical depth; catchy, singalong songs; and fantastic arrangements.

This is definitely the album that I would want to have if I were stranded on a deserted island! —Timothy Dow, Novato

‘Pepper’ strikes a chord

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is my favorite, not only because of the past (boy, that is cool), but also of the future. The way they dub in all the different sounds. I think the last piano chord on “A Day in the Life” holds the record for the longest musical instrument sound ever. The lyrics and the music are fun. —Ben Kinney Jr., San Anselmo

Destiny turned on the radio

I have three LP records that changed my life, in a major factual way. The three have this common aspect: I heard them on KTIM and took the next turn to the nearest record store, and then went off to listen to them over and over (and over and over...) again. That’s pretty darn high praise from me, and more remarkable since FM radio has pretty much disappeared as a music medium in the 21st corporate century.

Van Morrison, Moondance (1970). I heard the title song, turned my VW van and immediately drove to Mill Valley Music, bought the record, and continued on my way to the Long Island on the Old River in the Delta to spend the weekend on my houseboat with my delicious lover and several hits of Windowpane acid. I don’t remember every detail but it was one of the best weekends of my life.

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Maria Muldaur— “Midnight at the Oasis,” [from Maria Muldaur, 1973] the song that made her career and made a very nice experience for me and my friends. I had just gotten a new stereo, and this was the perfect demonstration of its capabilities. I heard her in an interview much later on say that the song was a favor to her friend whose friend wrote it, and it was added to the album as an afterthought, when they thought they had finished the album, but she checked it out as a favor to her friend.

Oh dear, I forgot the other one ... Oh yes!

Dr. John, In the Right Place (1973), featuring the song, “Right Place Wrong Time.” The title says it all. You’d think I was making it up if I told you how it chanwged my life. —Lou Judson, Novato

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the ‘50s and ‘60s in the City and later in Larkspur, and was the only mom in my ‘hood who knew Miles Davis from Bette Davis. She wore out several times Davis’s Miles Ahead (1957), a fantastic collaboration, among several, with Gil Evans as arranger.

The album, produced in the format of a “suite,” kicked off with “Springsville,” which was also the first tune ever played on the old KJAZ when the station embarked upon a stellar but short life in the late ‘50s. Listening today to pieces such as the title song, the album’s fifth selection, brings to mind with bitter sweetness how the oddly talented woman who bore me should really have been an artist and lived in North Beach with Jack and the crew, smoking weed and sipping brandy late into the night. — Skip Corsini, San Rafael

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The album that blew my mind and expanded my musical horizons was the first Santana album. I was in college back in the late ’60s and was totally immersed in Motown and R&B, rather than rock. When Santana (1969) came on in a record store I was browsing in, I had never heard anything like that. The fusion of fiery Latin rhythms, soaring lead guitar, and soulful vocals grabbed my attention from the first notes. I took home a copy and listened to it over and over, absorbing its influence into my musical DNA. As a budding young guitarist myself at the time, the style and passion of Carlos Santana played a major role in my development as a musician. I’m still a huge fan to this day and also appreciate the spiritual awareness he brings to his music. My “runner-up” album would be Hendrix’s Are You Experienced? — Michael Diamond, San Rafael

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Since this is Marin, I’ll go with classic rock. The Rolling Stones are my fave rock band, and Beggars Banquet (1968) is my fave of theirs. Each side begins with their two baddest-ass songs, “Sympathy for the Devil” and “Street Fighting Man,” aggressive precursors to punk rock. The rest is lesser known yet superb songs, not overplayed hits. Heavily tinged with country and a bit of the blues.

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My other choice is the Allman Brothers Band—At the Fillmore East (1971). I bought it when I was a teenager not too long after it came out, and played it until I wore it out. It is the best southern rock record ever and arguably the best live rock record ever, a double disc of hard hitting yet intricate bluesy rock improvisations. From Gregg Allman’s soulful vocals to the best guitar playing ever (OK, other than Jimi), Duane Allman revolutionized the slide guitar. —Barry Lazarus, Red Devil Records, San Rafael

An ode to my favorite album

Once my reckonin’s all said and done, fav’rite album I ever heard spun has great affinity for its title and me.

It’s Bob Dylan’s Highway Sixty-One...

On “The Blues Highway” ma showed me, son, first in Sikeston, Mo, March, Fifty-One. Ten years older Bro-Yid from up North later did what no one ever before had done.

Bob, on “Big Muddy’s Great River Road,” Has revisited childhoods’ abode, in St. Lou, Hibbing, Minn.

Like Mark Twain and Huck Finn We skedaddled from home when fullgrowed.

I’ze a teenager when I first heard Dylan’s music folk fans found absurd.

Like “With God on Our Side,” Bob’s new work satisfied, but with electric, poetic word.

“Like a Rolling Stone” issued the call.

From first note message challenged us all.

Greatest song of my time both for rhythm and rhyme.

Love the title tract, all songs stand tall.

(Runner-up albums: Who’s Next by The Who; Volunteers by Jefferson Airplane; Lief and Liege by Fairport Convention.) —Elliott Kolker, Stinson Beach

‘Have you ever loved a woman?’

Funny that you pictured the Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (1970) cover in your calls for favorite-album submissions— when THAT is my all-time fave rave. Eric Clapton wailing his heart out for Patti Body (wife of George Harrison) in a last-ditch attempt to win her love, only to be spurned and turn to heroin to ease the lovelorn pain.

Forty-plus years later this record still burns with intensity as Bobby Whitlock and Clapton blend their voices with so much feeling.

And, behind that, Duane Allman plays slide guitar with soul and fire. Count ‘em—that’s two of the greatest guitarists who ever lived on the same album. Blues and rock combine for an all-time classic, and I never tire of its timelessness. Clapton eventually did win Patti over, only to divorce later. This album showed his desperation in the grooves. EVERY SONG throbs with passion. It didn’t change my life; it just added the cilantro my spiceless life needed. —Clark Peterson, San Rafael Y Got another favorite? Email letters@pacificsun.com.

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Arts and Culture: Ann Brebner

It’s hard to know where to begin with Ann Brebner—a woman who’s stirred the pots of the local theater and film communities for nearly 50 years. Her Brebner Agencies San Francisco Casting—where she found acting talent for films such as Bullit, Harold and Maude, American Graffiti and Take the Money and Run, among others— helped usher in a golden age of Bay Area film production in the 1960s and ‘70s that hasn’t been seen since. And she was only getting started. In the 1990s, she was instrumental in the drive to revitalize the Rafael Theater—a dream finally realized in 1999 with the opening of the Rafael Film Center, considered by many today to be one of the premier cinema houses in the nation.

But perhaps more than anything, Ann’s work in the Marin theater community is what warrants her grandest ovations. From founding the Marin

Shakespeare Festival, with husband John, back in 1961, to her most recent collaborations with the acclaimed AlterTheater, Ann has lived and breathed the local stage for five decades. The only thing that remains to be seen is—what will she do for an encore?

Community Spirit: Bill Hamm

On a weekend getaway to the city in the early ‘90s, Bill Hamm and his wife, Nina, were strolling down a street early one morning in San Francisco when Bill noticed a young homeless man rubbing his hands together to stay warm. Almost without thought, Bill turned around and offered his gloves to the chilly street youth. Cold hands were warmed that day—and so was Bill’s heart. “What surprised me most was how good it felt to help another human being,” Bill would later say. And for the past 20 years Bill has lead the community efforts of Warm Wishes, a “hands-on” nonprofit that provides 5,000 “StreetPacks” to the homeless—wintertime “goodie” bags filled with warm caps, gloves, scarves, socks, rain ponchos and a holiday card made by local schoolchildren.

More than 250 volunteers gather to assemble the packs and distribute them to more than 40 local agencies and on the streets throughout Marin and the Bay Area. As Mary O’Mara wrote in her nomination, “Bill has worked tirelessly sourcing the items and raising the funds for this event year after year—for 20 years.”

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Ann Brebner Art & Culture

by Ste p hanie Powe ll

“I

don’t want to see that you can cry on cue—I just want to know that you can look like a person checking into a fucking hotel.” Ann Brebner laughs as she describes the gravest mistake nascent actors commit during auditions.

To label Brebner an instrumental force in Marin’s film and theater scene is to undermine the breadth of her work. Soft-spoken with a warm New Zealand accent and a backing of innumerable accomplishments, it’s hard to avoid hanging onto each word Brebner delivers.

On a Monday afternoon in early November Brebner agrees to meet for tea and, after selecting a noncaffeinated option, we sit in front of the fire and she asks, “So what are we talking about today?”

Fair enough. Perhaps we are talking about Ann’s first entirely original play Dead Girl— she dropped the “The” from its title that very morning—or maybe her provincial and illustrious work at San Francisco’s Brebner Agency as a casting agent, where she commanded the local movie scene in the early ’60s and ’70s. Or we could have gathered to talk about her influential role in the acquisition and reopening, in 1999, of the historic art-deco era Rafael Theater— now known as the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center—where the popular Mill Valley Film Festival takes place. Maybe the topic of discussion is her 1961 contribution to the local theater scene with the establishment of the Marin Shakespeare Festival (planting the seeds of the Marin Shakespeare Company). But, really, the reason I’m sipping warm tea with the modest Ann on a chilly fall afternoon is to discuss all of the aforementioned milestones and more, that led to her recently being named the recipient of the Pacific Sun’s Heroes of Marin Art and Culture Award. Clearly, she’s an overqualified recipient.

So how is it that a native New Zealander—who studied theater at the prestigious Old Vic in London—settles in Marin? We have her spontaneity to thank for that— and maybe her intuition, which she credits when deciding how to select the next step in any situation. And, of course, love.

Ann fell in love at the Old Vic with one of her professors, John Brebner, who had just spent a year studying at Stanford and had fallen in love with Sausalito during his time in the states. In 1952 they moved to Marin. “I knew no one in the country at all except for

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one man to whom I’d been married for a week!” Brebner recalls.

Risk-taking is something that’s worked for her and Marin’s art and culture has certainly swelled thanks to her decision to call Marin home.

With a stream of credits behind her, don’t expect Brebner to slow down anytime soon.

To the concerned folks who question her pace of work and ask when she’ll find the time to retire she replies, “Huh? Why?” Yes, there is still more Brebner hopes to tackle. She is Ann of all trades: The playwright, director, casting agent, theater saver, screenwriter, abnormal psychologist at the curving staircase currently writing her second entirely original play—which, of the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center. like Dead Girl, stems from a “There are a hell of a lot of good films interesting thing about 90 is—somebody dream she had. The fourout there that are not being shown,” she asked me what it felt like—and I didn’t generational play’s current working title is answer, I said, ‘I have no idea what it feels Shoes (that’s subject to change, she stresses). says, pointing out that one of the hardest things for a burgeoning filmmaker is to find like,’” Brebner explains. “But when I wrote As for roles, Brebner’s tried them all. From a venue for their work. “And we wanted to to George [Lucas] saying thank you I said, screenwriting, directing and acting (she create a place where emerging filmmakers ‘it feels sort of like kindergarten—you have was the lead in an adaptation of The Curicould get their work shown under ideal no idea what the fuck is going to happen— ous Savage) to casting George Lucas’ first conditions. And that’s part of the program. none...’” two films, discovering Danny Glover and Brebner laughs and adds, “I mean you earning a degree in abnormal psychology— It has now taken on its own life, and it is ours.” may die tomorrow, [or] you may be writing there are few creative hats which Brebner Brebner celebrated her 90th birthday five more plays—and what encourages this hasn’t donned. So what does she like best? this August at Skywalker Ranch. With more is a secret of all creative work, which is being “I think I like directing best,” Brebner than 180 guests in attendance, Brebner present in the moment because it may be all muses. “Well, for one thing I know how to described the occasion as an event that we have. do it!”

“It’s sort of intriguing—it’s very freeing.

Brebner enjoys the ability to create “a cir- was “one of a kind, one I will never, ever forget every detail of.” As she stares into the I don’t feel bound by anything much at all. cumstance and feeling” for each individual distance hugging her mug for warmth, her And I’m lucky I continue to do what I want audience. “Performances are repeated, but reflections are nearly tangible. to do.” Y they are each slightly different because of “It’s been a really interesting life. And the the audience,” Brebner explains. “Their pressure points are different and their hearts have been assaulted by different things.”

And she’s responsible for bringing a whole lot more of those feelings to Marin H Brebner is a senior peer counselor H Brebner is getting ready to start diaudiences through the medium of film in the HOPE Program.

Each week recting Riverbride, which came out with the CFI’s purchase of the Rafael 14> she visits clients who have fallen of the AlterTheater’s writers’ lab. It Theater, now an independent film through the cracks or with no famwill open at the end of January. mecca for the avid movie buff. ily left.

“It is very much the image that Mark H The Brebner Agency cast hits like [Fishkin] and I had,” Brebner says. “[The H The first film she cast was George Bullit, Harold and Maude, THX-1138 Rafael Film Center] is very much fulfillSeaton’s The Pleasure of His Comand American Grafitti. ing that, and one of the best things for me pany starring Fred Astaire, Debbie H Brebner helped sway the City of San is to sit there and hear people say, ‘This is Reynolds and Tab Hunter.

Rafael to sell the Rafael Theater to our theater or this is my theater.’ And the H Brebner received her acceptance the California Film Institute for $1. other big thing about letter for the Old Vic in London and it is: It is easier to fund to medical school on the same day. a film than it is to get it She chose the Old Vic, disappointshown in a theater,” Ann ing her father. explains.

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Bill Hamm

Community Spirit

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B

ill Hamm makes it easy to be nice.

Just meet him outside of a church for one December Saturday a year, then spend about 90 minutes stuffing backpacks with hats, gloves, scarves, socks, ponchos and holiday cards made by schoolchildren.

Once 5,000 of these “StreetPacks” for homeless people are assembled, 200-plus volunteers divide and conquer the Bay Area for one day only, armed with charitable feel-good bombs. Volunteers give about 1,000 packs to whomever looks like he or she needs it. Vans deliver the rest to more than 40 agencies that service the homeless.

This year, 933 people are homeless in Marin, according to a biennial count from Marin’s Department of Health & Human Services, and 7,350 are homeless in San Francisco, per a biennial count from San Francisco’s Human Services Agency.

“Almost everybody who does the project, when they go out in the field, they cry the first time they do it,” Hamm says in the San Rafael office of his day job, a court and deposition video-service.

This happiness peddling is Hamm’s bigpicture gig, his vehicle for leaving “Earth a better place”: Warm Wishes, a 20-year-old nonprofit that sprung out of a spur-of-themoment kindness outside of Tiffany’s & Company in San Francisco.

Hamm and his wife, Nina Barbalacci, had seen a guy huddled outside of the luxury jeweler’s Union Square storefront on an 8am stroll near their hotel, their mini-vacation in the city.

The guy was rubbing his hands in the November cold. Hamm and Barbalacci kept walking.

Barbalacci was telling Hamm something—maybe it was about The Phantom of the Opera performance they’d seen the night before, or about their room at the St. Francis with a view of Union Square’s giant Christmas tree and ice-skating rink—but that guy was crowding everything else out in his head.

The guy’s fingers were cold; Hamm’s weren’t, he was wearing gloves. Within half a block, Hamm had turned back.

“When I looked down at him and offered him my gloves,” Hamm says. “I just remember his eye contact with me, and he kept saying, ‘Really? Really? Are you sure?

You really want to give me your gloves?’”

Hamm had been caught in what he

called “a midlife crisis” for a couple of years, riddled with questions since his first wife, Helaine Katz-Hamm, died in a car accident. “What’s it all about? What am I supposed to be doing here?”

Questions were there when he woke up and when he was driving and when he lay down at night. Hamm wasn’t totally conscious of filling an existential void as he approached that guy in front of Tiffany’s. He just wanted to feel good, do something.

Hamm and the guy chatted for a minute before Bill Hamm and his ‘StreetPacks’ have been staving off Jack Frost for two decades.

Hamm caught up with his wife, the guy calling “God bless you” after gathered on distribution day. They held a After Hamm got that $15 enclosed in him. moment of silence for her. a “rickety” handwritten Christmas card “I kept thinking, ‘Well, that was pretty Despite the swarm of do-gooders each each year, he called and said thanks. For a darn easy,’” Hamm says. “‘I could do more December, Warm Wishes endures the retiree, $15 can be a lot. of that.’” classic nonprofit-struggle to raise funds Six years ago, she left Warm Wishes About two weeks later, Hamm bought throughout the year. Help comes from more than $240,000 in her will, Hamm almost all the ski gloves for sale at a Target MarinLink, an organization that fundsays. in Novato. He returned to San Francisco, raises with events like bocce ball tournaStill, funding 5,000 packs and Marinand the first person on the street he apments and that recruits schools and other Link’s work can run $65,000 a year, proached with the haul said, “You must be nonprofits to craft cards and sew scarves Hamm says. He keeps the funds invested the glove man.” for the StreetPacks. Help also came from and hunts for deals for the packs—mayHamm laughs, retelling it, his office a little old lady. be 46 cents each on scarves, 55 cents on floor covered in overflowing bags of “[She] used to send me $15 a year, hats. He splurged on the socks this year: scarves—2,250 plaids, 2,250 solids and and she would always send me a letter,” 80 cents a pair for wicking socks to keep 500 with rainbow stripes for kids. Hamm Hamm says. “And in the letter, it would people’s feet warm. and Barbalacci, who came up with the talk about how she grew up in Chicago Hamm knows it will all come together name “Warm Wishes,” expanded and and she liked my story because she never somehow. For that one December Saturstreamlined the project over the years, had any mittens—that’s what she called day, people always show up to help. Y largely because people who heard about it them, ‘mittens.’” wanted in.

“The second year, I had people already wanting to come do it with me,” Hamm says. “A lot of them were my friends from Drake High School in San Anselmo and my family friends ... I had 25 or 30 people H To help Warm Wishes out, meet H Bill has a sheet of 16 $2 bills framed who all wanted to do it.” at 9am sharp on Dec. 7 at Unity In in his office.

They’ve tried different combinations of Marin, 600 Palm Drive, Novato. PutH Bill keeps the tags on the gear in stuff over the years: ski gloves or fingerless ting all the packs together takes two the StreetPacks, so recipients know gloves, sometimes distributing the goods hours, tops, and Bill asks volunteers they’re getting new stuff. He also in fanny packs. This year, it’s backpacks. to distribute packs the same day, Hamm tries on each item before he buys tries to keep everything uniform, so so people don’t get hit up twice. it in bulk—Las Vegas trade shows have the recipients know they’re all getting Students can get community service best deals—“because if I’m not gonna like the same quality. hours for their time. For information it, I’m not gonna buy it for somebody.”

H Many StreetPack recipients have visit warmwishes.org.

And so Warm Wishes grows. By 2007, told Bill that the hand-drawn holithe first Warm Wishes H Bill’s drives a Mercedes S500 with the day cards from elementary schoolafter Barbalacci died license plate “WRM WSHS”. He keeps children are their favorite part of the of breast cancer, more a few StreetPacks in the car, in case pack. than 300 people were he sees somebody who needs one.

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This is a chance to check out the venue with its inventive color photographs by Matthew Carden, co-owner with his wife, Jennifer, of the gallery that supports artists who explore food through their art.

906 Grant Ave., 415/408-3929. sCenIC nICK’s Tuesday (Dec. 3, 4:30pm) would be a fine time to drive out to Nick’s Cove for a launch party Land ho! A voyage to Super Fresh Food Art Gallery in Novato will be the icing on the cake this season for food-art lovers. honoring a book celebrating the West Marin environment. Tomales Bay is the latest addition doUBle dUTY You don’t need to be to Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America reminded of how much support the San series. Author Anthony Raymond KilgalFrancisco-Marin Food Bank needs at lin (whose wife’s ancestor was prominent Christmas, but in this lean year it’s crusettler Alexander Stitt Marshall) will sign cial. There’s a way to help by dining at top books and read from his work. Free aprestaurants (or giving someone else a treat). petizers and specially priced drinks will be Anthony Myint and his crew from Mission served, and around 6pm live music from Street Food developed www.sharetable.org, Todos Santos will begin. Because it’s also partnering with the food bank. Buy a $50 locals’ night at Nick’s, a $25 prix fixe dinner certificate to be used at one of 25 Bay-Area is a reason to stick around. Reservations destinations, and $5 from each sale is donatare required for the party (email dena@ ed to the food bank, enough to provide 15 nickscove.com), and they’re recommended meals. Check out the choices and purchase for dinner, as well. certificates at www.sffoodbank.org ... And nATIonAl HIsToRIC lIgHT-BRIgHT here’s another way: the outrageous Kung A show of holiday cheer comes from the Pao Kosher Comedy event staged each year peak of Angel Island each December, tall in Chinatown with either a cocktail show white lights brightening the skies. And or dinner show, complete with Chinese for eight years now the Angel Island food and shtick. This is the 21st year for the Conservancy has held its “countdown alternative party (Dec. 24-26) where, they benefit” when the lights first shine, raising say, “The comedy is kosher; the food is not.” much-needed funds for development and Seated at 10-person family tables, those in a programs on the cash-strapped landmark. holiday mood can enjoy a seven-course meal ($64 per person) or cocktails with dim sum This year Angel Lights will be Dec. 5 (69pm) at Ondine, the special-occasion space ($44). Part of the proceeds goes to the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank for its Healthy perched above the Trident on Sausalito’s Children Pantries program. Details and tickwaterfront—perfectly situated for viewing ets: www.trilogyticketing.com/kosher. Y the display. The evening includes fine food and drinks, an auction, live jazz and a perEmail Pat at patfusco@sonic.net.

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Their first Marin gig of the season is Dec. 20 and 21 at the Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley. A variant of the jug band, known as the Left Coast Syncopators, will perform a New Year’s Eve dance party at the Station House Cafe in Pt. Reyes Station. For those seeking high-brow entertainment, on Dec. 7 and 8 the Marin Symphony will present Holiday Choral Concerts by Candlelight, the first of two holiday-themed programs. The Choral Concerts will be held at the Church of Saint Raphael, at Fifth and A streets in downtown San Rafael.

On Dec. 17, the Marin Symphony will present its first Holiday Pops Concert, featuring more than a dozen works, including “Waltz of the Flowers,” from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker, “White Christmas” by Irving Berlin, “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch,” from How the Grinch Stole Christmas and other holiday classics. The pops concert will be held at the Marin Center. Y

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Spawned in the Kentucky bourbon-fueled sessions of the now-defunct Monday Night Wild Turkey Jug Band, the somewhat more sober Christmas Jug Band was born 35 years ago on a Mill Valley street corner, eventually moving in out of the chill for gigs at the Old Mill Tavern. For 20 years, the Christmas Jug band was a holiday fixture at the original Sweetwater. The quirky carolers deliver a genre-jumping musical melange of acoustic skiffle and folk-swing that gift wraps sly let’s-pull-on-Santa’s-beard jocularity with a just splash of sentimentality, vaudevillian stage antics and roots-music authenticity.

What’s not to like about “Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin’” from the Mistletoe Jam album?

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he first time I go shopping with new client, as a stylist, I like to shut up and let her talk.

This way I can get a good understanding of her style philosophy (or lack there of) and her fashion misconceptions. It’s those fashion misconceptions or, as I like to call them, fashion misnomers, she divulges during her monologue, that I find particularly intriguing. They have a major impact on what she thinks she’s “supposed” to wear on a given day or in a given season. Although most of the fashion misnomers pervasive in popular culture produce a no-harm-no-foul wardrobe effect, like not wearing white after Labor Day, other misnomers support bad shopping and dressing decisions and thus have a hand in ultimately building a flawed wardrobe for the individual. So let me set the fashion record straight on a few fashion misnomers I have heard from my clients lately.

Misnomer No. 1: “I like skinny jeans. They make me look skinny.” Au contraire, mon ami. Skinny jeans flatter only a small percentage of the population, such as those who have “boy-ish” bodies; few womanly curves. For the rest of us the skinny jean’s low-rise and uber tapered leg cut magnify or exaggerate the “shapeliness” of our thighs, hips, waistline, and rump. If you are on the curvy side and want to wear close-fitting jean, consider the skinny’s slightly looser cut cousin, the slim jean.

Misnomer No. 2: “Cap-sleeved tops are super flattering.”

Unfortunately, cap sleeve tops are not the Promised Land for women with heavier arms. Given the option many of my middle-aged clients would choose a cap sleeved T-shirt over a sleeveless tank of the same material for arm coverage reasons. However, the cap sleeve is bound to make their arms look heavier because the sleeve ends at the fullest part of their upper arms–thus highlighting the arms’ girth. For a more flattering sleeve length, choose tops with a slim fit, half or threequarter sleeve.

Misnomer No. 3: “I buy smallersized pants to look and feel smaller.”

Wearing a smaller size pant may give you bragging rights (I guess?) but its waistband will exacerbate your muffin top and make you feel like a stuffed sausage. On the contrary and as in a bit of visual trickery, wearing a pant that is one size up from your real size will make you appear to have lost weight and feel smaller (and more comfortable).

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Misnomer No. 4: “ I am very stylish.

I wear all the trends.” Anyone can be trendy with the right amount of cash, but this expenditure that does not necessarily make you stylish. Wearing too many trends at once creates a haphazard look while simply wearing trends for trend sake makes you a fashion victim.

The starting point of a stylish look is beyond the acknowledgment and donning of trends. A stylish person understands how to use the current trends to her unique personal style advantage.

Misnomer No. 5: “Leggings are my ‘everywhere and everything’ pants.”

Yes, it is true. Leggings are versatile but they also have their time, place and usage requirements. For instance, leggings should never be worn to a job interview or night at the San Francisco Opera.

Leggings also look horrible with short-bodied tops (despite what Young Hollywood exhibits) or when their material is so sheer it’s a bit pornographic.

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lap is met with angry, violent rebellion; Lenny Kravitz costars. l Last Vegas (1:45) When dedicated bachelor Michael Douglas finally gets hitched, pals Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline whisk him to Vegas for one last wingding…but whither the Rat Pack days of yore? l Nebraska (1:54) Alexander Payne dramedy follows a cantankerous old coot and his estranged son on a Midwestern road trip to claim a million-dollar grand prize; Bruce Dern and Will Forte star. l Philomena (1:37) Stephen Frears docudrama about an unwed mother’s attempts to track down her long-lost son; Judi Dench stars. l Richard II (3:00) Direct from StratfordUpon-Avon it’s the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of the Bard’s incisive look at the vain, bloodthirsty monarch.

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Live music 11/29: The 85s 80s dance party with with Matt Jaffe and the Distractions. 8pm. $17-22. Sweetwater Music Hall , 19 Corte Madera, Mill Valley. 388-3850. swmh.com.

11/29: The Cheesballs 70s-90s hits. 9pm. $10.

George’s Night Club, 842 4th Street, San Rafael.

497-8690. acenterforinnerpeace.org.

11/29: Fenton Coolfoot and the Right Time Hiphop/reggae. 9:30pm. The Sleeping

Lady, 23 Broadway Blvd., Fairfax. 464-7420. sleepingladyfairfax.com.

11/29: Friday Night Jazz: Dave Getz Ensemble 6pm. No cover. Marin Country Mart, 2257

Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur. 346-7300. marincountrymart.com.

11/29: Jerry Hannan Band Annual leftovers party. 8:30pm. $12-15. Rancho Nicasio, 1 Old Rancheria Road, Nicasio. 662-2219. ranchonicasio.com 11/29: The Reefer Twins 6:30pm. No cover. The Trident, 558 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 331-3232. thetridentsausalito.com.

11/29: Soul Mechanix Soul, jazz 9:30pm. $8.

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

464-7420. perisbar.com.

11/29: Tom Finch Band, Lumanation Drake HS class of 2003 reunion in the Tiki lounge. 9pm. $10-15. 19 Broadway Night Club, 17 Broadway, Fairfax. 250-9756. 19Broadway.com.

11/29: Yeah Sure Whatever Canadian pop.

8:30pm. $10. Hopmonk, 224 Vintage Way, Novato.

892-6200. hopmonk.com/novato.

11/30: Bud E Luv Annual holiday party. 8:30pm. $15. Rancho Nicasio, 1 Old Rancheria Road, Nicasio.

662-2219. ranchonicasio.com

11/30: Benefit for the Hummingbird Cafe

Benefit at two clubs for The Hummingbird Cafe legal defense fund. With Jon Korty and friends, Danny Uzi, Rusty Evans, Burnsys Sugar Shack, Fenton Coolfoot, Honeydust, Mark Karan, Danny Montana, Tom Finch band, others. 5pm-closing at both clubs. $5 suggested donation. 19 Broadway Night Club and Sleeping Lady Cafe, Broadway, Fairfax. 250-9756.

19Broadway.com.

11/30: Carlos Reyes Paraguayan harp and violin.

With Tony Lindsey, other special guests. 8pm. $2845. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 383-9600. 142throckmortontheatre.org.

11/30: Eli and Javi’s Gypsy Jazz Gypsy jazz and flamenco 9:30pm. Free. The Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 464-7420. sleepingladyfairfax.com.

11/30: Greg Scott Melodic soul and electric funk. 8pm. $10. Fenix, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael.

813-5600. fenixlive.com/music.

11/30: New Riders of the Purple Sage Country rock. Moonalice opens. 8:30pm. $25. McNear’s Mystic Theatre, 21 Petaluma Blvd. North, Petaluma.

707/765-2121. mystictheatre.com.

11/30: Paul Barrere and Fred Tackett of Little Feat Matt Jaffe opens. 9pm. $22-27. All ages show.

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

11/30: Rusty Evans’ Ring of Fire Johnny Cash tribute, rockabilly, rock. 9:30pm. $8. Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd., Fairfax. 464-7420. perisbar.com.

12/01: Ann Brewer Jazz, blues, r&b standards.

6pm. No cover, dinner encouraged. Panama Hotel and Restaurant, 4 Bayview St., San Rafel. 457-3993. panamahotel.com.

12/01: Live Music Brunch with Carl Tilchen10am. No cover. Sweetwater Music Hall , 19 Corte Madera, Mill Valley. 388-3850. swmh.com.

12/01: Matt Bolton Singer/multi-instrumentalist from Kauai. 4pm. Aloha and mahalo there’s no cover.

Rancho Nicasio, 1 Old Rancheria Road, Nicasio.

662-2219. ranchonicasio.com 12/01: Moonalice 2pm. No cover. Sweetwater Music Hall , 19 Corte Madera, Mill Valley. 388-3850. swmh.com.

12/01: Peri’s Blues Jam Blues rock. 9:30pm. Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 464-7420. perisbar.com.

12/01: Terrapin Family Band 12:30pm. No cover. Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr., San Rafael. 524-2773. terrapincrossroads.net.

12/02: Open Mic with Austin DeLone 7:30pm.

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

12/02: Open Mic with Billy D 9:30pm. No cover.

Peri’s, 29 Broadway, Fairfax. 459-1091. perisbar.com 12/02: Open Mic with Derek Smith 9pm. No cover. 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway, Fairfax. 459-1091.

19broadway.com 12/02: Opens Mic with Simon Costa 9:30pm, sign up begins at 8pm. All ages. No cover. The Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway, Fairfax. 485-1182. sleepingladyfairfax.com.

12/03: John Varn and Tommy Odetto Blues rock. 9pm. No cover. Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 464-7420. perisbar.com.

12/03: Swing Fever “Fools Rush in: Songs of Rube Bloom.” 7pm. No cover, dinner encouraged.

Panama Hotel and Restuarant, 4 bayview St., san rafael. 457-3993. panamahotel.com.

12/04: Buck Nickels and Loose Change

Original Americana. 8pm. No cover. Iron Springs Pub, 765 Center Blvd., Fairfax. 485-1005. ironspringspub.com

12/04: Crystal Bowersox with Seth Glier

Bossa Zuzu opens. 8pm. $20-82. Sweetwater Music Hall , 19 Corte Madera, Mill Valley. 388-3850. swmh.com.

12/04: Joan Getz Quartet Jazz, bossa nova, blues and ballads. 7pm. No cover, dinner encouraged.

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

12/04: Kugelplex Klezmer Chanukah celebration.

8pm. No cover. 19 Broadway Night Club, 17 Broadway, Fairfax. 250-9756. 19broadway.com.

12/04: Open Mic with Dennis Haneda 8pm.

No cover. Hopmonk, 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 8926200. hopmonk.com/novato.

12/04-08: Phil Lesh and Friends With Warren Haynes, Jimmy Herring, John Molo, Jeff Chimenti and Neal Casal. These shows are currently sold out,

Getting away from it all Julian Polsler’s German-language Oscar contender THE WALL (Die Wand) sets a mood of the uncanny from its opening frames, so that when the shocker we all know is coming finally does—an invisible wall that materializes one morning to shut a woman inside a sleepy Alpine Martina Gedeck plays a woman walled off from others, but with a good valley, cut off from the dog and excellent lighting. rest of the world—we’re completely on the film’s wavelength. What’s happened? The woman (she has no name) criss-crosses the walled-off tract of Austrian landscape by foot to make sense of things and keep madness at bay. Only two people can be seen beyond it, frozen in place, and she assumes humanity is dead. But the overwhelming feeling—film can highlight this in a terrifying way—is of an existential death of the woman, her separation from the past and old meanings and all human contact. Only her dog, Lynx, the hardscrabble farm she builds from nothing and the urgency to keep a record (written on the back of every scrap of paper in her hunting lodge) keep her going. Martina Gedeck (The Lives of Others) is tasked here with carrying an entire film solo, and absolutely compels with every look of hope and despair that crosses her face. The change she undergoes to her most basic self through dint of will is the real crux of this allegory, told in a pareddown Bresson style that trusts the drama of survival. —Richard Gould but perhaps you can score a magic ticket. 8pm. $79.

Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr., San Rafael.

524-2773. terrapincrossroads.net.

12/04: The Weissmen 9:30pm. No cover. Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 464-7420. perisbar.com.

12/05: Angel Lights Countdown Benefit Featuring Tim Hockenberry, Jeff Derby Trio.

See “All in Good Taste”, p. 20. 6-9pm. $200.

Ondine, 558 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 435-3972. angelisland.org/angellights

12/05: 33 1/3 Mile Showcase with Bedrock Radio, Tyler Allen 7:30pm. $5. Hopmonk Tavern Novato, 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 892-6200. hopmonk.com/novato.

12/05: Buffy Ford Stewart with the John Stewart Band “I Heard the Bells.” 8pm. $25-40.

Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 383-9600. 142throckmortontheatre.org.

12/05: Burnsy’s Sugar Shack 9pm. Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 464-7420. perisbar.com.

12/05: C-JAM w/ Connie Ducey Eclectic jazz.

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

12/05: Johnny Richter of Kottonmouth Kings plus Sozay Rock, hip hop. 9pm. $15-20. 19

Broadway Night Club, 17 Broadway, Fairfax. 2509756. 19broadway.com.

12/05: Thea Rose with the Equinox Jazz Trio Jazz. 7:30pm. Free. Sausalito Seahorse Supper Club, 305 Harbor Dr., Sausalito. 331-2899. sausalitoseahorse.com.

12/06: Buffalo Wedding Original rock, dance. With Andy Padlo, Stephen Ehret and guest performances. 9pm. $10. Sausalito Seahorse Supper Club, 305 Harbor Dr., Sausalito. 331-2899. sausalitoseahorse.com.

12/06-07: Danny Click and the Hell Yeahs

Blues rock. 9:30pm. The Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway Blvd., Fairfax. 464-7420. sleepingladyfairfax.com.

12/06: Deborah Winters with the Peter Welker All Star Band Peter Welker, fluglehorn/trumpet; Doug Morton, trumpet; Mel Martin, alto sax; Chris Amberger, bass; Leon Joyce, drums; Randy Vincent, guitar; Rob Roth, tenor saxophone, Doug Rowan, baritone saxophone. 8pm. $28-45. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley.

383-9600. 142throckmortontheatre.org.

12/06: Jesse Brewster Americana, country rock.

8:30pm.$10-12. Rancho Nicasio, 1 Old Rancheria Road, Nicasio. 662-2219. ranchonicasio.com 12/06: The Over Commitments Soul, funk, rock hits. 9pm. $10-15. George’s Night Club, 842 4th Street, San Rafael. 497-8690. acenterforinnerpeace.org.

12/06:Poor Man’s Whiskey Original Americana, rock. Head for the Hills opens. 8:30pm. $18-20.

McNear’s Mystic Theatre, 21 Petaluma Blvd. North, Petaluma. 707-765-2121. mystictheatre.com.

12/06: Shed Sessions Vol. 2 Sponsored by MONO A diverse night live music. 7:30pm Caroline

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11/29: Jay Alexander: Mentalist Comedy, magic. 8pm. $25-40. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 383-9600.

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12/03: Mark Pitta and Friends Standup.

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

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Theater 12/05: A Child’s Christmas in Wales Marin Poetry Center Presents. The public is welcome and refreshments will be served. A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas is presented by the Rebound Players, a local theatre troupe featuring Joel Eis, Roy Mash, and Margaret Stawoway. The Players will read and perform an adaption, with music, of the beloved holiday classic. 7:30pm. $3-5. Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission Avenue and E St., San Rafael. 889-5295. marinpoetrycenter.org.

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12/06: Thrust 9:30pm. $8. Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 464-7420. perisbar.com.

12/06: Two Gallants Adam Stephens and Tyson Vogel. 9pm. $20-22. Sweetwater Music Hall , 19 Corte Madera, Mill Valley. 388-3850. swmh.com.

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12/04: Symphonic Band Concert Walter Mikolajcik conducts band works by Clifton Williams, Leroy Anderson, Carl Teike, Adrian L. Quince, Jaime Texido, Harry Warren, Alfred Reed, Leroy Anderson, others. 7:30pm. College of Marin, James Dunn Theatre, 835 College Ave., Kentfield. 485-9460. marin.edu/ performingarts/music/music-calendar.html.

12/06: The Holidays in Harmony Novato Music Association Chorus, directed by Mr. Cary Cedarblade, presents their annual holiday concert. 8pm Dec. 6; 2pm Dec. 7 and 14; 4pm Dec. 8. $5-18, under 12 free. St. Vincent’s Chapel, 1 St. Vincent Drive, San Rafael. 516-7373. novatomusicassociationchorus.org.

12/07-08: Marin Symphony “Concerts by Candlelight.” With the Marin Symphony Chamber Chorus, Marin Girls Chorus and the Golden Gate Brass Quintet. 7:30pm. Dec.7; 4pm Dec. 8. $25-30. Church of St. Rafael, 1104 Fifth Ave., San Rafael. 479-8100. marincenter.org

Dance 12/07: Performing Arts Academy of Marin “Holiday Spectacular.” 7pm. $14-18. Showcase Theatre, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. 473-6800. marincenter.org or paamarin.com 12/07-08: Stapleton Ballet “The Nutcracker.” 1 and 5pm. $20-32. Marin Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. 473-6800. marincenter.org or stapletonschool.org

11/29-30: Art Fundraiser Paintings on canvas, board, glass and clothing. Tax deductible and credit cards accepted. Proceeds to support advocacy for a permanent homeless shelter in Marin. 10am. Free admission. Artist’s Studio, 70 Rafael Dr., San Rafael.

453-6221. joan-of-art.org.

fax artist Sandra Cohn’s work integrates sculptures with salvaged rusted metal pieces and written word.

11am. Free. MINE gallery, 1820 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Fairfax. 755-4472. gallerymine.com.

11/29-12/01: Point Reyes Open Studios

Art lovers are invited to this annual open studios event. Over twenty artists will display and demonstrate their work in their studios and homes.

Visitors can find brochure/maps in local shops and online. The free self guided tour enables visitors to explore the backroads of this area from the forested lanes of Inverness Ridge to the grassy hills around Tomales Bay. Group exhibition through Nov. at the Blackbird Cafe, 12781 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Inverness.11am-5pm each day. Free. Various locations throughout Pt. Reyes Station and Inverness.

699-7195. pointreyesart.com.

12/06: ICB Artists’ Winter Open Studios: Factory 45: Artists Exposed Preview party for the ICB winter open studios with over 80 visual artists opening their studios to the public. In celebration the collective of artists is inspired by Warhol’s screen tests. All of the artist have been exposed on video. Get a visual of the artists by visiting Gallery 111 on the ground level where the screen tests will be projected on the walls and looped. Totally cool. 6pm. Free.

Industrial Center Building, 480 Gate 5 Road, Sausalito. 264-7640.

Kids Events 11/30: Holiday Cookie Decorating Panera Bread will host a cookie decorating event inside their cafe. Held in two one hour slots. Each child will receive a holiday sugar cookie to decorate as they wish. Pre-registration required. 2 and 3pm.

Free. Panera, Northgate Mall, San Rafael. 444-0734. shopatnorthgate.com/events.

11/30: Learn to Saltwater Fish at McNears Join us at McNears Beach where rangers will teach the basics of saltwater fishing. A limited number of fishing poles and bait will be provided first come, first served to beginners thanks to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Fishing license is not required when fishing from the pier. No animals (except service animals) please. Rain will cancel. 446-4424. 8:30am. $5.

McNears Beach Park, 201 Cantera Way, San Rafael.

446-4424. marincountyparks.org.

11/30: Jose Luis Orozco Bilingual songs and dance. 11am. $5-15. Bay Area Discovery Museum, 557 McReynolds Way, Sausalito. 339-3900. baykidsmuseum.org.

12/04: The Elf on the Shelf Storytime and Adopt an Elf Event 7-8pm. Free. Barnes and

Noble, 313 Corte Madera Town Center, Corte Madera. 927-9016. bn.com 12/05: Triwizard Tournament After the library closes, step inside and be transported to Hogwarts to participate in the After Hours Triwizard Tournament. The Goblet of Fire will determine the school you will represent. Although this tournament is not for the faint of heart, you can expect some delicious refreshments to reward all efforts, brought to you by Hogsmeade’s own Honeydukes Sweetshop.

Registration is mandatory as only thirty witches and wizards will be able to compete for the glory of winning the Triwizard Tournament. Costumes are highly encouraged. Only high school students are eligible to participate in the Tournament and the organizers are

not afraid to use an aging spell to ridicule those who try to circumvent this rule. 8:30pm. Free. Mill Valley Public Library, 375 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley.

389-4292 ext. 4727. millvalleylibrary.org.

12/06: Polar Express Storytime 7-8pm. Free.

Barnes and Noble, 313 Corte Madera Town Center, Corte Madera. 927-9016. bn.com

Film 11/29: Village Music: The Last Of The Great Record Stores 2pm. Free. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera, Mill Valley. 388-3850. swmh.com.

12/04: American Jerusalem Tells the story of the pioneer Jews of San Francisco, who came to California from central Europe during the Gold Rush and were instrumental in building the city. Q&A with producer Jackie Krentzman follows the screening. 7:30pm. $12-17. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 383-9600.

142throckmortontheatre.org.

12/05: Richard II David Tennant stars as Richard II in the first of a series of Shakespeare plays presented at the Rafael from the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. 7pm. $18. Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St., San Rafael. cafilm.org/rfc/films/1941.html.

Outdoors 11/30: Acorn Preparation: Modern Methods for a Heritage Food Acorns are a California superfood. A highly nutritious staple of native cuisine is ready to take its place in your kitchen.

In this workshop, you will learn about simple acorn processing methods that do not require any specialized equipment or skill. You will also learn about the ecology of our native oaks and how to identify local species found in Marin. Acorn cookies

will be provided. 1pm. Free. Tomales Bay State Park, 1208 Pierce Point Rd., Inverness. 898-4362 x 204. parks.ca.gov/TomalesBay. 12/05: Mushrooms at Indian Tree The mixed forests of this Novato preserve usually host an array of mushrooms at this time of year. Distance: 6.5 miles, elevation gain 1,300 feet. This walk is for ages 15 and up. No pets (except service animals) please.

Heavy rain may cancel. David Herlocker will lead.

10am. Free. Indian Tree Preserve, Vineyard Road, Novato. 893-9508. marincountyparks.org.

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12/01: Sim Van der Ryn “Design for an Empathic World: Reconnecting People, Nature, and Self.” 1pm.

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12/03: Gary Vaynerchuk at Book Passage

“Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy, Social World.” 7:30pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

12/03: Mark Nepo “Reduced to Joy.” 7pm. Free.

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12/05: Greg Kihn Kihn continues to pioneer the rock thriller genre with “Rubber Soul.” 6pm. Free.

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12/06: Clint Hill and Lisa McCubbin “Five Days in November” tells the stories behind iconic images of the infamous, tragic days surrounding JFK’s assassination. 7pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

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Travel guru and affable, everyman Rick Steves hams it up with the ladies in Iran; Steves discusses the country and its culture (no urinals there - men pee sitting down) at Book Passage in Corte Madera on Dec. 6.

12/06: Malinda Lo “Inheritance.” Teen science fiction thriller. 6:30pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

12/06: Rick Steves: Iran Travel Journal Join travel writer and public television host Rick Steves for a lecture on modern Iran. Steves will guide us across this perplexing nation whose government so exasperates America. He offers his insight to help us understand the 70 million people who call Iran home. 1pm. $12, free admission with the purchase of a Rick Steves item from Book Passage. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

Community Events 11/29-30: 34th Annual San Rafael Parade of Lights and Winter Wonderland A snow advisory is expected in downtown San Rafael at the annual holiday celebration. Features a marketplace, live entertainment, children’s activities, free snow sledding, tree lighting ceremony and the Parade of Lights with Santa and his friends. The marketplace is open from Noon-8pm on Friday; the Parade of Lights begins 5:30pm on Friday at E and Fourth streets and travels eastbound down Fourth Street to City Plaza.

Free, donations greatly appreciated. Downtown San Rafael. 800-310-6563. sresproductions.com.

11/30: A Day of Healing and Liberation for Self-Identified People of Color in Recovery

Explores 12-steps in relation to the Dharma. Includes guided walking, sitting and kindness practices. With Shahara Godfrey. 10am. $25-60, sliding scale. Spirit Rock Meditation Center, 5000 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Woodacre. 488-0164. spiritrock.org.

12/01: Relationship as Spiritual Practice

Appropriate for those with or without partners.

With Debra Chamberlin-Taylor and George Taylor.

9:30am. $50-120, sliding scale. Spirit Rock Meditation Center, 5000 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Woodacre.

488-0164. spiritrock.org.

12/01: Winterfest With live music, children’s activities and community camaraderie. Celebrate the coming holidays at the annual Winterfest. Attractions include snow slide, a holiday musical program, food and drinks, kids crafts, Bubblesmith Sterling Johnson, Santa in an antique fire truck, holiday tree lighting ceremony and costume contest, Singers Marin caroling and other special guests. 11am-6pm.

Free. Depot Plaza, 87 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

388-9700. millvalley.org.

12/02 and 05: Covered California: The Affordable Care Act in Marin Margaret Ballou

from Marin County Health and Human Services will discuss how to determine your health care options and eligibility in the new Covered California marketplace. This meeting will cover the four tiers of coverage offered through the exchange; four par28 Pacific Sun November 29- december 5, 2013

ticipating health plans; available premium subsidies and qualifications and how to use the shop and compare California Covered website. Free. 7pm Dec. 2 at Marin City Library, 164 Donahue St., Sausalito. 332-6159. 7pm. Dec. 5 at Civic Center Library, Room 427, 3501 Civic Center Dr., San Rafael.

473-6058. marinlibrary.org or marinhhs.org.

12/03: Explore the Yoga of Radiant Presence with Peter Brown Your experience, your reality, may not be what you think it is. Perhaps, in actuality you are part of an infinite, miraculous, subtle energy field that contains all of reality. 7:30pm. $10. Open Secret Bookstore, 923 C St., San Rafael. 457-4191. opensecretbookstore.com.

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12/03: Kali Puja: A Special Kirtan Worship of the Divine Mother Kali is considered the

Great Mother of joyous ecstasy, the compassionate Goddess of the soul and fiercely devoted to the transformation of every being. 7:30pm. Donation. Open Secret Bookstore, 923 C St., San Rafael. 457-4191. opensecretbookstore.com.

12/03: Live Your Best Life Part of the Tuesdays to Your Health series hosted by Dr. Bradly Jacobs.

Activate your senses in this experiential workshop designed to provide practical tools to live your best life through Dr. Brad’s 6 Pillars of Healthy Living.

Learn how to improve memory, mental focus, sleep quality, attitude and resilience. Understand the physiology of stress and the influence of technology and lifestyle on sleep and mental performance. 6:30pm.

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339-2692. cavallopoint/drbrad.com.

12/04: Healthy Eating on a Budget

Whistlestop and SCAN Health Plan will present a free health education seminar. Includes senior nutrition guides, nutritious, low cost sample meals, snacks and community resources. 11am-noon. Free.

Whistlestop Active Aging Center , 930 Tamalpais Ave., San Rafael . 456-9062 . whistlestop.org.

12/05: Marin History Museum Annual Holiday Party A toast of good cheer to the holiday season and the coming new year. The Gate House will be all aglow with holiday treats, wine, cider and festive activities. 5-8pm. Free, donations gratefully accepted. Boyd Gate House, 1125 B St., San Rafael.

454-8538. marinhistory.org.

12/06: First Friday: Eco-Buddhism and Mindfulness For climate change to become a

national priority, a stronger connection must be made between global warming and people’s daily lives. Green economy/climate change expert and award winning educator Dr. Antwi Akom will discuss how social justice influences environmental issues and how we can achieve a sustainable, socially just, and spiritually fulfilling world. Event is part of the Mill Valley Public Library’s First Friday series. Preregistration strongly recommended. 7pm. Free. Mill Valley Public Library, 375 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 389-4292, ext. 3. millvalleylibrary.org. ✹

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ARIES (March 21 - April 19) December opens up to Mercury bunking in your house of finances—and all you can think about is your next vacation. Try to save up and don’t splurge on that As-Seen-On-TV set of knives for your niece. Place a spare set of keys in a well-lit location—Dec. 4 you will be lose nearly everything you touch.

TAURUS (April 20 - May 20) Last week was draining—your emotions were all over the place, so unlike you! Mercury is ditching Taurus’ house of relationships so don’t worry by Dec. 5 your tough exterior is back in action. But this process wasn’t all for nothing, a huge burden is lifted allowing focus on your greatest immediate needs: work and finances.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20) All work and no play makes Gemini a bored sign. Don’t worry your playful side takes the reins on Dec. 2 with the involvement of a major crush. If you’re crushing on your committed partner, this is the day to show them just how deeply you care. Gather up your dirty socks from the bedroom floor and put them in the hamper. Or, there’s always flowers.

CANCER (June 21 - July 22) Jupiter and Saturn have teamed up to revamp your road for December. The first week’s a little rough with the urge to remain in your pj’s all day on Dec. 2. This is your house of progression calling—it’s not all going to be easy! If you decide to stay home from work, decorate your home.

You’ll feel more adjusted on Dec. 4.

LEO (July 23 - Aug. 22) If your nagging is starting to bother yourself it’s time to give it up this week, dear Leo! You can’t convince everyone you’re always right and it’s no good for your house of partnerships. Dec. 3 marks the start of a rewarding exploration in love. Don’t be too prideful—show your partner your gentle side, your sensitivity will be rewarded.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22) The Thanksgiving spirit got you geared up for family time. You’ll find yourself tending to matters at home and blowing off friends for your kin. But don’t get in the habit of blowing off everyone for family, you still have to take care of yourself. Tend to your spirit on Dec. 5—that’s the day to seek out a yoga Groupon.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22) Friends, family and forward movement at work—you have a full plate! This week your home of achievements influences all of the aforementioned areas and places you in a star-given trine to be the master shopper. Start your holiday shopping early this year on Dec. 4—you will be inundated with deals. Perhaps you’ll find some twofers on TVs. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21) You can thank Jupiter’s impact on your house of money for your recent bank visits. This month will be about working hard— on the surface work will take precedence, but emotional exhaustion is underneath. Although you are not one to complain, book a massage on Dec. 4. You deserve to treat yourself.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21) Is it hot in here, or is it just you? No need to worry, you didn’t leave the stove on. It’s just your house of partnerships screaming out for attention. The month starts with you treating Dec. 2 like Jan. 1 with a New Year celebration! Your resolutions include spending time with a special partner or crush. Your relationship reaches new levels when you two sync up harmoniously.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19) Love is in the air! Dust off your tealight candles and bring your classic Marvin Gaye 45 out from storage. It’s time to get in tune with your emotions, listen to your inner voice and trust what you hear.

Venus, the planet of love, is planning a prolonged stay in Capricorn. On Dec. 4 trade paperwork and negotiations for romance and affection.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18) There is a fine line between flirting and friendship—and those lines are starting to blur, oh flirty one. Although you’ll be the first to smack a partner’s wrist if you catch him or her eye gazing at another party, this week, especially Dec. 1, you just can’t help yourself. Pull yourself together on Dec. 2 and treat your partner with deserved love and admiration.

PISCES (Feb. 19 - March 20) Your imaginative mind drives a yearning to learn this week. If you’re signing up for a new class or finally bidding on that next level of Rosetta Stone on eBay—your mind is your weapon and you are sure to succeed. Soak up your surroundings like a sponge, they cater to your work nicely. Enjoy a staycation on Dec. 1—give your brain a break! Y November 29- december 5 Pacific Sun 29

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 133357 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business GRACEFUL OPTIONS FOR LIVING, 1131 4TH STREET, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: AREF S. AHMADIA, 131 4TH STREET, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901 This business is being conducted by CO-PARTNERS. 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 24, 2013. (Publication Dates: NOVEMBER 8, 15, 22, 29, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013133371 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business KEFALI PROPERTIES, KEFALI PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, KEFALI PROPERTY & ASSET MANAGEMENT, 34 SHANNON LANE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: GEORGE BALLAS, 34 SHANNON LANE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on November 7, 2013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on October 25, 2013. (Publication Dates: NOVEMBER 8, 15, 22, 29, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013133363 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE, 338 BOLINAS ROAD, FAIRFAX, CA 94930: MICHEAL S. LEAHEY, 338 BOLINAS ROAD, FAIRFAX, CA 94930. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on October 1, 2013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on October 23, 2013. (Publication Dates NOVEMBER 8, 15, 22, 29, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013133374 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as TRAVEL ITALY A LA CARTE, 137 REDWOOD AVE, UNIT 2, CORTE MADERA, CA 94925: CHRISTINA TERESA PARISI, 137 REDWOOD AVE, UNIT 2, CORTE MADERA, CA 94925. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on October 1, 2013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on October 25, 2013. (Publication

Dates NOVEMBER 8, 15, 22, 29, 2013)

County on October 31, 2013. (Publication Dates: NOVEMBER 8, 15, 22, 29, 2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013133389 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as GRANDES PLACES SELECTIONS, GPS, 410B JOHNSON STREET, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: J. REISS WINES, LLC, 410B JOHNSON STREET, SAUSALITO, CA 94965. This business is being conducted by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on May 8, 2013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on October 29, 2013. (Publication Dates NOVEMBER 8, 15, 22, 29, 2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 133403 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business TASTE OF ROME, 1000 BRIDGEWAY, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: CAFE SAUSALITO INC, 1000 BRIDGEWAY, SAUSALITO, CA 94965. This business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on August 31, 2008. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on October 31, 2013. (Publication Dates: NOVEMBER 8, 15, 22, 29, 2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013-133392 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as SYNERGY HOMEOPATHIC, 11 COMMERCIAL BLVD, SUITE 1, NOVATO, CA 94949: SYNERGY HOMEOPATHIC, 11 COMMERCIAL BLVD, SUITE 1, NOVATO, CA 94949. 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 October 29, 2013. (Publication Dates NOVEMBER 8, 15, 22, 29, 2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013-133186 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business FISH WINDOW CLEANING, 80 MITCHELL BLVD, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: KUEGLE VISIONS INC, 168 PICNIC AVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on September 23, 2008.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on October 01, 2013. (Publication Dates: NOVEMBER 8, 15, 22, 29, 2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013133407 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business PICK ME UP JAM, PICK ME UP CHOCOLATE, NANCI STARR CHOCOLATIER, 5 LIBERTY DOCK, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: NANCI STARR, 5 LIBERTY DOCK, SAUSALITO, CA 94965.

This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on October 31, 2013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on October 31, 2013. (Publication Dates: NOVEMBER 8, 15, 22, 29, 2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013-133448 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business ALLEN & COMPANY CPA, 75 CORTE PATENCIO, GREENBRAE, CA 94904: DWIGHT ALLEN, 75 CORTE PATENCIO, GREENBRAE, CA 94904. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL Registrant is filing a renewal with changes. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on November 5, 2013. (Publication Dates: NOVEMBER 15, 22, 29; December 6, 2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 133409 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business FIORI APARTMENTS, 102-110 MARRYDALE ROAD, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: MARCELLO FONIO TRUSTEE OF FONIO FAMILY REVOCABLE TRUST, 1600 LINCOLN AVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901.

This business is being conducted by A TRUST. Registrant is filing a renewal with changes. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013133431 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as BIG OAK FIREARMS, 5227 RED HILL ROAD, PETALUMA, CA 94952: RONALD L. POMI and MARK L. POMI, 5227 RED HILL ROAD, PETALUMA, CA 94952. This business is being conducted

by CO-PARTNERS. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on October 24, 2013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on November 5, 2013. (Publication Dates NOVEMBER 15, 22, 29; December 6, 2013)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 133276 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as ARMA ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES, 72 SURREY LANE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: JACEK MACHNOWSKI W., 72 SURREY LANE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903.

This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on November 30, 1992 and the fictitious business name has expired more than 40 days ago. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on October 11, 2013. (Publication Dates NOVEMBER 15, 22, 29; December 6, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 133277 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as SOL-SPANISH, SOL-SPANISH. COM, SOL SPANISH, 925 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE BLVD, KENTFIELD, CA 94904: SOLVEIG MARIA FLORES and JACEK MACHNOWSKI W., 72 SURREY LANE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. This business is being conducted by A MARRIED COUPLE. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on January 09, 2009 and is filing a renewal with changes. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on October 11, 2013.

(Publication Dates NOVEMBER 15, 22, 29; December 6, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013133470 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as ACADEMIA EDUCATION, 200 MCNEAR DRIVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: LORI MORITZ, 200 MCNEAR DRIVE, 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 November 08, 2013.

(Publication Dates NOVEMBER 15, 22, 29; December 6, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 133455 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as BIOPHILIA BOTANICALS, 683 DEL GANADO ROAD, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: ALICE DUVERNELL, 683 DEL GANADO 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 ClerkRecorder of Marin County on November 6, 2013. (Publication Dates NOVEMBER 15, 22, 29; December 6, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 133426 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as 4 LESS SMOG CHECK, 630 BLITHEDALE AVE, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: EVANGELINE RUALO, 7713 SOUTH COVE DRIVE, SACRAMENTO, CA 95831.

This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on November 4, 2013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on November 4, 2013. (Publication Dates NOVEMBER 15, 22, 29; December 6, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 133429 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as EROTIC ART EVENTS, 660 SUNSET PARKWAY, NOVATO, CA 94947: PETER KERESZTURY, 660 SUNSET PARKWAY, NOVATO, CA 94947. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on November 4, 2013. (Publication Dates NOVEMBER 15, 22, 29; December 6, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 133414 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as ON PAR CONSULTING, 45

ALAMEDA DE LA LOMA, NOVATO, CA 94949: PHOEBE AMANDA ROSS, 45 ALAMEDA DE LA LOMA, NOVATO, CA 94949. 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 November 1, 2013. (Publication Dates NOVEMBER 15, 22, 29; December 6, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 133452 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as MARIN FIREWOOD, 6690 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE BLVD, FOREST KNOLLS, CA 94933: RUSSEL MICHAEL WAGNER, 6690 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE BLVD, FOREST KNOLLS, CA 94933. 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 November 6, 2013.

(Publication Dates NOVEMBER 15, 22, 29; December 6, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 133401 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as WEST BAY URGENT CARE ASSOCIATES, 4000 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE, SUITE 206, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: WEST BAY URGENT CARE ASSOCIATES, INC, 4000 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE, SUITE 206, 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 August 20, 2013. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on October 31, 2013. (Publication Dates NOVEMBER 15, 22, 29; December 6, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013133472 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as LJW DIVINE SIGHT, 1716 5TH AVE, UNIT A, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: LISA J. WINSTON, 1716 5TH AVE, UNIT A, 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 November 08, 2013.

(Publication Dates NOVEMBER 15, 22, 29; December 6, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013-133482 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business NGUYEN’S HAULING, 9 CHARLOTTE DRIVE #1, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: HAI THANH NGUYEN, 9 CHARLOTTE DRIVE #1, 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 November 12, 2013. (Publication Dates: NOVEMBER 22, 29; December 6, 13, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 133466 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business WASABIANCA WEB DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN, 302 STARLING ROAD, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: JANIS A. OBERMAN, 302 STARLING ROAD, 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 November 7, 2013.

(Publication Dates: NOVEMBER 22, 29; December 6, 13, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013133510 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business BEAUPRE COACHING, 800 VIA ESCONDIDA, NOVATO, CA 94949: PAT BEAUPRE BECKER, 800 VIA ESCONDIDA, NOVATO, CA 94949. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun transact-

ing business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on November 14, 2013.

(Publication Dates: NOVEMBER 22, 29; December 6, 13, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013133380 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business COURSE PUBLISHING, 1220 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE BLVD, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: NICHOLAS R KANE, 1220 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE BLVD, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960. This business is being conducted

by AN INDIVIDUAL. 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 28, 2013. (Publication Dates: November 29; December 6, 13, 20, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 133480 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business ERROR! NOT FOUND, 605 SUNSET PARKWAY, NOVATO, CA 94949: EVAN TOGNOTTI, 605 SUNSET PARKWAY, NOVATO, CA 94949. 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 November 8, 2013 (Publication Dates: November 29; December 6, 13, 20, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 133553 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business STILLWATER CONSTRUCTION, 1314 YUKON WAY, NOVATO, CA 94947: LUKE CHAMBERS1314 YUKON WAY, NOVATO, CA 94947. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein and is filing a renewal with changes. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on November 21, 2013 (Publication Dates: November 29; December 6, 13, 20, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 133386 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business MAXILLO FACIAL IMAGING ASSOC, 666 THIRD STREET #222, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: LOUIS T. KIRKOS DDS., PHD., D.I.P.O.M.F.E.R., 824 PT SAN PEDRO RD, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901 and SIMBARASHE JGRAVAYA, 6101 SILVER OAK CIRCLE, STOCKTON, CA 95219. This business is being conducted by A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein and is filing a renewal with changes. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on October 28, 2013 (Publication Dates: November 29; December 6, 13, 20, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 133517 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business 330 CANAL STREET APARTMENTS, 330 CANAL STREET, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: GOLDEN GATE EQUIPMENT CORPORATION GP OF 330 CANAL STREET LP, 51 FEDERAL STREET #202, SAN FRANCISCO CA, 94407. This business is being conducted by A LIMITED PARTNERSHIP. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on July 1, 1974 and is filing a renewal with changes. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on November 15, 2013 (Publication Dates: November 29; December 6, 13, 20, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 133554 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business ROSS VALLEY COMPOUNDING PHARMACY, 1525 EAST FRANCISCO BLVD #1, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: MARIN APOTHECARIES INC, 1525 EAST FRANCISCO BLVD #1, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted

by A CORPORATION. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the

fictitious business name(s) listed herein and is filing a renewal with changes. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on November 21, 2013 (Publication Dates: November 29; December 6, 13, 20, 2013)

Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: JOHN L. BOUDETT, 368 SAN ANSELMO AVE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960. (415) 454- 4020.

(Publication Dates: November 8, 15, 22, 29, 2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013133548 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business SCUDO, 804 SPRING STREET, UNIT A, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: PATRICIA A HUEBNER, 804 SPRING STREET, UNIT A, 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 November 20, 2013 (Publication Dates: November 29; December 6, 13, 20, 2013)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No. 304516 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): NGUYEN’S RECYCLING, 9 CHARLOTTE DRIVE #1, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. Filed in Marin County on: AUGUST 08, 2013. Under File No: 2013132806.

Registrant’s Name(s): HAI THANH NGUYEN & PHA THI KIM NGUYEN, 9 CHARLOTTE DRIVE #1, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Marin County on November 12, 2013. (Publication Dates: NOVEMBER 22, 29; December 6, 13, 2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013133543 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business IMPERIAL DESIGN WORKS, 100 SYCAMORE AVE, APT. 21, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: STEFAN S. MEHOLICK, 100 SYCAMORE AVE, APT. 21, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on November 1, 2013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on November 19, 2013 (Publication Dates: November 29; December 6, 13, 20, 2013)

Other Notices NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JEAN ROSE DRAGO. Case No. PR- 1304374. To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of JEAN ROSE DRAGO, JEAN ROSE LEVEY, JEAN LEVEY. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: LINDA JEAN LEVEY in the Superior Court of California, County of Marin. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that LINDA JEAN LEVEY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: December 12, 2013 at 9:00 AM in Dept. C, Room C, of the Superior Court of California, Marin County, located at Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of the notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE- 154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for

SUMMONS Family Law (CITACION Derecho Familiar): Case Number (Numero De Caso): FL 1304230. NOTICE TO RESPONDENT (Aviso Al Demandado): PIERRETTE WELLS: YOU ARE BEING SUED (LO ESTAN DEMANDANDO). PETITIONER’S NAME IS (Nombre Del Demandante): VICTOR WELLS. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this SUMMONS and PETITION are served on you to file a RESPONSE (FL120 OR FL-123) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call will not protect you. If you do not file your RESPONSE on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. If you want legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. You can get information about finding lawyers at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo. ca.gov/selfhelp), at the California Legal Services web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia. org), or by contacting your local county bar association. Tiene 30 días corridos después de haber recibido la entrega legal de esta Citación y Petición para presentar una Respuesta (formulario FL-120 ó FL-123) ante la corte y efectuar la entrega legal de una copia al demandante. Una carta o llamada telefónica no basta para protegerlo. Si no presenta su Respuesta a tiempo, la corte puede dar órdenes que afecten su matrimonio o pareja de hecho, sus bienes y la custodia de sus hijos. La corte también le puede ordenar que pague manutención, y honorarios y costos legales. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario un formulario de exención de cuotas. Si desea obtener asesoramiento legal, póngase en contacto de inmediato con un abogado.

Puede obtener información para encontrar a un abogado en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte. ca.gov), en el sitio web de los Servicios Legales de California (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org) o poniéndose en contacto con el colegio de abogados de su condado.

NOTICE: The restraining orders on page 2 are effective against both spouses or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment is entered, or the court makes further orders. These orders are enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement officer who has received or seen a copy of them. (AVISO: Las órdenes de restricción que figuran en la página 2 valen para ambos cónyuges o pareja de hecho hasta que se despida la petición, se emita un fallo o la corte dé otras órdenes. Cualquier autoridad de la ley que haya recibido o visto una copia de estas órdenes puede hacerlas acatar en cualquier lugar de California.) NOTE: If a judgment or support order is entered, the court may order you to pay all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for yourself or for the other party. If this happens, the party ordered to pay fees shall be given notice and an opportunity to request a hearing to set aside the order to pay waived court fees. AVISO: Si se emite un fallo u orden de manutención,

la corte puede ordenar que usted pague parte de, o todas las cuotas y costos de la corte previamente exentas a petición de usted o de la otra parte. Si esto ocurre, la parte ordenada a pagar estas cuotas debe recibir aviso y la oportunidad de solicitar una audiencia para anular la orden de pagar las cuotas exentas.

1. The name and address of the court are (El nombre y dirección de la corte son): SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN, 3501 Civic Center Drive, Post Office Box 4988, San Rafael, CA 94903. 2. The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: (El nombre, dirección y número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante si no tiene abogado, son): VICTOR WELLS, 55 MITCHELL BLVD, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903, (224) 628-3109. Date (Fecha): OCTOBER 15, 2013. Clerk, by (Secretario, por) Kim Turner, E. CHAIS Deputy (Asistente).

NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served (AVISO A LA PERSONA QUE RECIBIÓ LA ENTREGA: Esta entrega se realiza) as an individual (a usted como individuo). (Pacific Sun: NOVEMBER 22, 29; DECEMBER 6, 13, 2013) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ALBERT C. LOCATI. Case No. PR- 1304752. To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of ALBERT C. LOCATI. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: MARILEE ROGERS in the Superior Court of California, County of MARIN. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that MARILEE ROGERS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: January 2, 2014 at 9:00 AM in Dept. C, Room C, of the Superior Court of California, Marin County, located at Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of the notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE- 154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: JOHN L. BOUDETT, 368 SAN ANSELMO AVE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960. (415) 454- 4020. (Publication Dates: November 29: December 6, 13, 20, 2013)

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Q:

Around Valentine’s Day, my beloved boyfriend of a year kept hinting about a big surprise. He’d been talking about moving in with me, and I was expecting a proposal and a ring. I got a fondue pot. I have two children and, apparently, the idea that a man should put a ring on a woman’s finger before moving in with her and her kids. He said he’d propose when he was ready. Then, by accident (I think), he left his Amazon.com page open on my computer, showing the tackiest, cheapest ring in the world and a pocketknife for himself (which cost more than the ring).

I told him to move in and forget the ring. I bought myself a ring, but that didn’t work. I felt unvalued and ashamed. We fought often, and he ended up moving out. He wants me back, but I don’t want to live with him without the stupid ring.

We’re both too needy to live apart. Can we salvage this? —Heartbroken Mama

A:

The man you love did give you a shiny object that you could show off to the girls at the office, even if the admiring remarks you were hoping for weren’t “Look at that thing! It’s twice the size of Miranda’s Crock-Pot!” and “Ooh, is that stainless steel?”

Diamond engagement rings can seem like a completely stupid thing to want.

They’re absurdly expensive and hard to tell from lab-created rings available at a fraction of the cost. And what good are they, really? As evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller jokes in The Mating Mind: “Why should a man give a woman a useless diamond engagement ring, when he could buy her a nice big potato, which she could at least eat?”

Well, the answer is that men can walk away after sex and women may walk away with a bunch of little mouths to drag around and feed, so women evolved to seek reliable signs that a man has access to resources and a willingness to provide them. Any hump ’em and dump ’em smooth talker can make promises. The most reliable signs of commitment are those economists call “costly signals,” meaning that they require substantial effort or financial investment and are therefore difficult to fake. Basically, only a guy who’s madly in love with you would be willing to prove it with an object as wildly expensive and useless as a diamond. That’s why buying yourself a ring didn’t work and why you felt “unvalued and ashamed” when your boyfriend got down on one knee, but only so he could plug in a moderately priced kitchen appliance and propose, “How ’bout we put stale bread cubes on sticks and dunk ’em in melted cheese?”

Being too needy to live alone is reason to get a dog or paste a face on your robot vacuum cleaner, not rush into a lifelong commitment. The way to figure this out is by spending time together without living together until he’s ready to commit or you’re ready to throw in the towel. But pick a date to take stock of whether progress is being made so you aren’t hanging on endlessly. As they say in the fondue world, there comes a time when a guy needs to either dip or get off the pot.

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I want to break up with my girlfriend, but we are supposed to go to Costa Rica and have already paid for the house we’re renting for the month with her friends. Is it ridiculous to wait till after Costa Rica to break up? —I Sound Like a Jerk When you put off canceling a relationship to avoid canceling your vacation, even posing for photos can get complicated. You might find yourself trying to put a native person or pre-Columbian artifact between the two of you to avoid blurting out, “Hey, can you stand a little farther away from me? It’ll make it way easier to crop you out.” Unfortunately, you can’t do much to cushion the blow when she invariably squeezes out of you that you stuck around long after you stopped loving her, which will make her feel stupid and humiliated, in addition to the usual fun feelings that come with being dumped. Barring some immediate need for your emotional support (like your partner’s grandma’s impending funeral or bail hearing), the kindest thing you can do is break up as soon as you know it’s over—even if it bummers up your travel plans and means you’ll eat some costs. Letting your girlfriend go without you to Costa Rica might allow her to look back fondly on both the relationship and the vacation—in a way she couldn’t if she were flipping through her trip photos saying, “And this is the guy who wanted nothing to do with me kissing me under a jungle waterfall.” 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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