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Remove all ornaments, lights, tinsel and tree stands. Marin Sanitary Service Customers: Larkspur, Greenbrae, Kentfield, Las Gallinas Valley, Ross, San Anselmo, San Rafael, Fairfax and Ross Valley (Sleepy Hollow and Oak Manor): trees will be collected at the curb on your regular yard waste pickup day through the month of January. If trees are greater than 6 feet in length, please cut them in half. Remove all metal stands, plastic tree bags, and ornaments. Flocked trees will not be accepted. Residential customers are encouraged to set trees out during the month of January on their regular service collection day. Mill Valley Refuse Customers: Almonte, Alto, Belvedere, Corte Madera, Mill Valley, Homestead, Strawberry, & Tiburon: put trees out on the curb on any regular green-waste collection day, starting the week after Christmas. Trees taller than 5 feet in length must be cut in half. Remove metal stands (wooden stands are OK) and all tinsel and ornaments. Flocked trees will not be accepted. All apartment building tenants should contact their manager. They will set up one day for all Christmas tree collection. Novato Disposal Customers: During the week of January 2 – January 6 customers may place Christmas trees at the curb the night before their regular collection day. Additionally, trees may be cut in half to fit inside your yard waste container
for collection on your regular service day. Remove all lights, tinsel, ornaments and stands. Flocked trees will not be collected. Redwood Empire Disposal: Bolinas, Forrest Knolls, Inverness, Marshall, Muir Beach, Nicasio, Olema, Point Reyes, Station, San Geronimo, Stinson Beach, West Marin and Woodacre: cut trees to fit inside your yard waste container. Remove all lights, tinsel ornaments and stands. Flocked trees will not be collected. Sausalito/ Marin City: Bay Cities Refuse customers in Sausalito and Marin City can place trees at the curb or in the green cart on your weekly green-waste pick up day. A debris box will be set out at MLK property until mid-January for tree drop off. No metal stands or flocked trees accepted and remove all ornaments. Tamalpais CSD: Curbside pickup week of January 9th, $15 charge for pickup after the10th, residents can also bring their trees down to the Community Center parking lot and drop off next to the mulch piles. Please make sure to remove all tree stands (wood, metal, or plastic), tinsel, ornaments, etc. Trees can also be cut into pieces no longer than 2 feet long and placed in your green cart. The lid must be closed completely.
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Remove all ornaments, lights, tinsel and tree stands. Kentfield: January 2nd through 12th, Trees greater than 6’ in length must be cut in half. College of Marin, Parking Lot #12 (south of gym) Larkspur: January 2nd through 12th, Trees greater than 6’ in length must be cut in half. • Piper Park, 250 Doherty Dr. • Fire Station 16, 15 Barry Rd., Greenbrae / Niven Park, Drakes Landing Rd. Marinwood: January 2nd through 12th, Trees greater than 6’ in length must be cut in half. Flocked Trees and trees with wooden stands will not be accepted. • Marinwood Fire Station, 777 Miller Creek Rd. Point Reyes: December 26 -January 15 , 8:00am-5:00pm. Flocked Trees and trees with stands will not be accepted. • Point Reyes Fire Station; 4th & B Streets th
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Ross: January 2nd through 12th, Trees greater than 6’ in length must be cut in half. • Marin Art & Garden Center; 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd (across from fire station) Please DO NOT drop trees at the Fire Station. San Rafael: January 2rd through 12th. Trees greater than 6’ in length must be cut in half. • Fire Station 2: 210 3rd St. (3rd & Union) • Pickleweed Community
Center; 50 Canal St. • Fire Station 7: 3530 Civic Center Dr. (Civic Center) • Fire Station 5: 955 Point San Pedro Road (Glenwood/Peacock Gap Area) • Manuel T. Freitas Parkway & Del Ganado (Scotty’s Market Parking Lot) • Marin Resource Recovery Center, 565 Jacoby Street, during the month of January, trees accepted free of charge. (There will be a charge for flocked trees). Stinson/Bolinas: M-Sa 9am-5pm. No flocked trees, tinsel, ornaments or stands will be accepted. • Bolinas-Stinson Recovery Park; 25 Olema Bolinas Rd. Tam Valley: Tamalpais Valley Community Center parking lot next to the mulch piles no later than January 30th. Tomales: December 26th -January 15th, 8:00am-5:00pm. No Flocked trees or wooden stands. • Tomales Fire station; 599 Dillon Beach Rd. Woodacre: December 26th-January 15th, 8:00am-5:00pm. Flocked Trees and trees with wooden stands in place will not be accepted. • Woodacre Fire Station; 33 Castle Rock Rd
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Trivia Café Highlights of 2016, Part II: 3 1 What GOP candidate with an exciting name withdrew from the 2016 presidential race on February 20, after $150 million had been raised on his behalf ? 2 On September 4, in Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City, among a large crowd of people from all around the world, Pope Francis canonized what woman, declaring 6 her a saint? 3 It was very sad when this entertaining daughter and mother died on consecutive days, December 27 and 28. 4 In April, visitors from around the world converged on Stratford-upon-Avon to celebrate what anniversary 8 of William Shakespeare’s death? 5 In March, computer intelligence took a large step forward when a computer program developed by Google defeated for the first time ever, in a five-game match, the world champion, Lee Sedol, in what game? 6 In December, President Juan Manuel Santos received the Nobel Peace Prize for leading his country to make peace, after a 52-year Marxist Revolutionary people’s insurgency, in what country? 7 In July, for the first time ever, the United States federal government gave a private company permission to build the apparatus to travel to what unusual place (in 2017)? 8 On August 31, before a preseason game against San Diego, what happened here? 9 For the whole month of May, a major Midwest city celebrated the 100th observance of what annual competitive event? 10 2016 sports highlights: a. In April, the Golden State Warriors set an NBA record after winning how many games in a season? b. The Chicago Cubs ended their 108-year championship drought, defeating what team in an exciting seven-game World Series? BONUS QUESTION: Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight website, which focuses on opinion poll analysis, printed its final prediction of ‘Who will Win’ the 2016 election, on the morning of Election Day (November 8), giving Hillary Clinton a what percent chance of winning?
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▼ We agree that a bag of Doritos tastes delicious, but we just don’t think it’s worth $75,000. Apparently, the Marin County court believes differently. That’s why a Kentfield man who allegedly stole a bag of chips was arrested and bail was set at the absurd amount of $75,000. The so-called theft occurred at the Shell station on Fourth Street when Peter Newcome, 66, allegedly refused to pay for his Doritos, had a skirmish with the attendant and fled. A few days later, on Christmas, Newcome was pulled over and arrested by the San Rafael police for his alleged criminal activity from the previous week. We hope that the District Attorney doesn’t place much value on a bag of chips and won’t press charges. —Nikki Silverstein
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Upfront Obamacare has generally been a benefit to California and to the North Bay.
Bitter pill Will the cure for the Affordable Care Act make matters worse? By Tom Gogola
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This bill is being shoved down the throats of the American public” was a welltraveled Republican refrain around the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as it wended its way through the legislative process back in 2009, and a favorite rhetorical talking point of former House Speaker John Boehner. Now the Republican majority promises to repeal Obamacare as
the first order of business for the 115th Congress. And it appears that they aren’t proposing any sort of replacement for it, a move that will likely cause pain in California and across the country. The Republican plan is to “repeal and delay,” but nobody knows if a GOP omnibus health bill is in the offing that would replace some of the popular aspects of Obamacare,
which include a ban on denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions and a ban on annual caps on coverage. “What we don’t know yet is, when will it take effect?” says U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman. “Will there be a two-year cliff or a four-year cliff ?” The GOP plan also includes a promise of extortion if Democrats don’t go along. House majority
leader Kevin McCarthy says that if Democrats don’t participate in postObamacare, then they’re responsible for whatever consequences ensue. The Sonoma County chapter of Organizing for Action (OFA), the post-Obama, activist-outreach organization, has been busy protesting at McCarthy’s office and that of fellow California GOP Rep. Darrell Issa, neither of whom support the idea of healthcare as a basic human right, but who represent districts with significant buy-in to the ACA. “When they know that their district is going to push back on them, it might give them pause,” says Sonoma-based OFA organizer Linda Hemenway. “We’re trying to educate the public about what’s going on, and our basic premise is that you can’t repeal it without a replacement that has been presented to Congress and explained to the American public, instead of this fantasy replacement that the American public supposedly supports. We’re on the defensive, we’re under attack and we’re going to say, ‘Do you really want these rights and benefits taken away from you?’” Obamacare has generally been a benefit to California and to the North Bay. The state embraced the Medicaid expansion that went along with the healthcare overhaul, and was one of the first states out of the gate to set up a state-run exchange, Covered California. Thanks to Obamacare, the state halved its uninsured population, and the reforms have trickled down to hospitals, which are seeing fewer people in their emergency rooms— amid a greater, holistic appreciation for the benefits of preventative care. The Sutter Health system has experienced big savings in its hospitals located throughout California, including one in Sonoma County. The company reported that it spent $52 million in uncompensated “charity care” in 2015, compared to $91 million in 2014. The North Bay has embraced the Obamacare benefits and mandates, and stands to lose if the ACA is repealed. The Sonoma County Economic Development Board published a report in 2016 that highlighted benefits brought to Sonoma County citizens under the law, especially given the county’s aging population and composition of its labor force. Many lowerincome immigrants qualified for the Medi-Cal expansion.
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“Healthcare is contributing to the economy’s vitality,” the report noted. The potential post-ACA risk for a place like California, which enthusiastically embraced Obamacare and a Medicaid expansion, is that it has the most to lose under a Republican repeal-and-delay plan. The Urban Institute estimates that up to 30 million Americans will lose insurance if the Affordable Care Act is repealed, and even if the Republican Party decides that the politics are against them and starts cherry-picking popular aspects of the law, it’s unclear how they’ll keep the ban on denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions without, as Huffman says, “wading into risk pools and market forces.” Previous GOP repeal bills haven’t addressed those issues. The Republican position on Obamacare has also helped to drive down enthusiasm among younger people to sign up, a key piece of the bill’s success in driving down the cost curve over time. The previous GOP push to undo Obamacare has been pretty simple: Repeal it and send the bill to Obama who dutifully vetoes it. Now that the GOP has total power to eliminate it without a replacement, there are signs that there are limits to “shove it down your throat” politics. Even as the Republicans vow to disable the law, Americans continue to flock to the ACA-created health exchanges to buy an insurance product suitable to their budget. “Will [Republicans] be smarter,” says Huffman, “or just set up some distant cliff and count on everyone to come together before the cliff takes effect? We’ll see.” Whatever happens, Huffman says, congressional Dems will try to hold the line. “Obviously, we will fight that,” he says. “We will focus our efforts on the effects it will have on Medicaid and on
Medicare, because the ACA actually stabilizes [Medicare] and provides funding to seniors.” The latest plan from House Speaker Paul Ryan is to reform Medicare, a legacy of the LBJ-era Great Society programs. One of the strangest things about Obamacare, as it has been received by Americans, is that, while there is wide support for many of its benefits, the law itself remains unpopular, and one of the reasons has to do with a basic question of nomenclature. A 2014 CNBC poll found that while 46 percent of Americans were opposed to “Obamacare,” only 37 percent opposed the Affordable Care Act. Part of the explanation for this disconnect is the rhetorical violence that has met the bill since its inception in 2009. Democrats have not adequately addressed the rhetorical divide. “The sales pitch by the Republicans was much more effective than the sales pitch on our side,” Hemenway says. And yet nobody seems to remember that, as part of his sales pitch for the bill, President Obama put the ACA framework into the hands of pragmatic Maine Republican Susan Collins and said, “You write it.” But Collins joined every Republican in voting against the bill, even as liberals screamed betrayal that Obama hadn’t implemented a single-payer system that would have destroyed the employer-based healthcare system. “It was a step forward, even if it wasn’t a big enough step forward,” Hemenway says. And so now it’s time for a big step backward, and the latest news from Collins is she isn’t so sure it’s such a great idea to dismantle the ACA. The other infamous line from
the ACA’s inception was minority leader Nancy Pelosi’s observation that Congress had to pass the bill to know what was in it. That comment takes on a new urgency in light of the pledge to repeal and maybe replace some of it. The Affordable Care Act is more than 2,000 pages long and part of the reason for that is lawmakers from around the country were able to include health reforms targeted at the particulars of their district, even when they opposed the bill as a whole. As they did with the first Obama economic stimulus package, Republicans rejected the bill, but not before making sure their constituents were appeased in some way. That fact leapt into the media last week in a well-traveled news story on CNN from the heart of coal country, where residents who had mainly voted for Donald Trump now wondered about those parts of Obamacare that dealt with the effects of black lung disease on coal workers and their families. A standard Republican talking point on the ACA at the time was that it was too much, too fast and that a better legislative strategy would have been—and will be—to pass each of its component parts as a separate bill. If the Republicans make good on their plan to repeal and delay replacement, that will give lawmakers like Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell time to write up a targeted bill for his constituents. In California, repeal means that the state would have to pick up the slack and account for a Medicaid
expansion that has helped the state halve its uninsured population from 6.8 million pre-ACA to under 3 million now. There’s been buy-in across the state and the region. Marin County recently reported that about one-fifth of its 250,000 residents have in some way been touched by Obamacare, either through the Medi-Cal expansion or through Covered California. Napa State Sen. Bill Dodd says Sacramento Democrats are ready to take up the fight in the likely event of repeal-and-delay. “I’m an ardent supporter of Covered California,” he says. “The idea of people not getting insurance at all, forcing families into poverty or, worse yet, forcing them to suffer, is not my idea of a prudent 2016 or 2017 health policy.” Dodd is a former Republican who readily admits that while the ACA is not perfect, the needed reform is not repeal. “While I’d be the first to admit that the cost of Obamacare is not what we’d all have liked to have seen the markets move to, they are what they are and I’m hoping that the next presidential administration will be a little more pragmatic and look at Obamacare through a lens of not political but practical,” Dodd says, as he promises a forceful pushback to the Republican’s push to repeal and delay the ACA. “You are going to see the Democratic Party in the Legislature defending the people who are on Obamacare,” he adds. “The Republicans could have gotten involved in this system instead of trying to kill it.”Y
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Marin General Hospital’s new performance center prepares athletes for greatness By David Templeton
Dr. Brian Keeffe (left), medical director of Marin General Hospital’s Cardiovascular Performance Center, and Exercise Physiologist Taylor Valentino (right) work with patient Chris Hobbs.
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he year 2016 will surely be remembered, among other reasons, as a year when a remarkable number of famous people died, many of them suddenly. Several of those—most notably, and recently, the Star Wars actress and Postcards From the Edge author Carrie Fisher—died of apparent heart failure. Such occurrences cannot help but make us wonder at our own life expectancy, and such musings are the perfect motivation to get ourselves off the couch and onto the trail.
Exercising, after all, is something every one of us ought to do more of. Or is it? “There is a weird kind of a dichotomy with exercise,” says Dr. Brian Keeffe, director of Marin General Hospital’s recently opened Cardiovascular Performance Center in Novato. “If you do regular moderate aerobic exercise, your overall cardiovascular risk—your morality risk—is definitely lower, over the long-term.” That sounds pretty good. So we should all strive to become athletes, right? Keeffe cautions, “The truth is, during the actual time that you are exercising, whether it’s 30 minutes a day or 60 minutes a day or whatever it is for you—and certainly if you are training for a three-hour marathon— your risk is higher during that period
of exercise.” This, he notes, is why people are always shocked when somebody has a heart attack during a triathlon or some other endurance race like that. It’s one thing to have a cardiac event on an airplane, when one is in dubious health, but for a fit-as-afiddle athlete to have such an attack while in the middle of a run—how can that happen? “It makes sense,” Keeffe says, “because your risk is actually higher when you are exercising hard, than when you are sitting on the couch or in a movie theater. That said, your overall risk is definitely lower by being active and by regularly exercising, than it would be if you don’t exercise at all.” For those who do value the lifestyle and health benefits of regular exercise—and Marin County
has a demographically high number of folks who do—Keeffe has built a medical specialty around sports cardiology, caring for those who want to push their bodies hard, and want to do it safely. It’s to assist such “extreme athletes,” and even more casual exercisers, in achieving their goals, that Marin General Hospital, back in November, opened the Novato center. Among its many services is an array of high-level cardiac tests. The major point of such cardiac testing, of course, is to make sure that there are no “occult heart problems”—medical speak for hidden cardiac complications—which an active athlete or other healthconscious person is not yet aware of. Many of the center’s clients are those preparing for a particularly grueling upcoming competition, or those
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operator of Western Espresso Coffee & Tea—is the creator of the annual Marin County Half Marathon (coming up on April 30, 2017) and the Marin County Triathlon (October 28 and 29, 2017). A competitive athlete since his late 40s, Liebert is also the founder of the Sustainable Sports Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes local athletic events encouraging healthy lifestyles, with particular emphasis on providing opportunities for underprivileged Marin County students to learn to swim. When Liebert first began considering upping his game and competing at a high level, he visited his own doctor to make sure his body could take what he planned to be putting it through. “I did have a complete physical, CT scan and everything, maybe 15 years ago, before I started doing endurance events,” says Liebert, who will turn 65 in March. “I checked out fine. Since then, I work out hard, but I keep things in moderation. I generally run three days a week, usually about 20 miles when I’m training for a marathon, and 8-to-10 miles when I’m not. I enjoy it. It feels good, it clears my mind and it puts me in a good headspace.” Liebert, who says he runs a marathon about every four years or so, actually began as a cyclist. “I decided I wanted to do a triathlon,” he explains, “but I’d always hated to run and I didn’t know how to swim.” He learned to swim, forced himself to start running and finally did the triathlon, at which point he realized that he actually preferred running to cycling and swimming. “Now,” Liebert says with a laugh, “I just run. It’s helped me. I feel strong and it gives me a good attitude, and a good excuse to get
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planning on stepping up from doing half marathons to tackling their first full marathon. “Basically, if someone is going to do some extreme exercise,” Keeffe says, “getting tested first can help you have the confidence that it’s safe to do so.” The new facility provides such testing from an athlete’s perspective. Keeffe himself is a regular runner, having competed in the grueling Dipsea Race five times in the last eight years. Though cardiac health is the bread-andbutter of countless hospitals and clinics around the country, there aren’t that many which specialize in sports cardiology. “There are places that do some of these things,” Keeffe says. “You can even go to some gyms and do a VO2 max test, but they are purely looking at exercise parameters. They are not really looking at it from a medical perspective. So there hasn’t been specifically medical testing of what’s called cardiopulmonary exercise testing, or CPET, in Marin—at least not in the 12 years I’ve been here. “In Marin,” he continues, “you have a lot of older people who are competitive athletes and they either have concerns about their risk of developing heart disease, or they could have symptoms that they are concerned could be related to the heart, but also are interested in their performance and training. Taking advantage of the innovations in sports cardiology is a way you can combine cardiac evaluation with a performance evaluation.” The primary lesson here is, if you are going to exercise, and exercise hard, that’s probably a good thing. But you should make sure you have no “occult” heart problems waiting to drop the flag on your fun. Mark Liebert—founder and
Dr. Brian Keeffe is an athlete himself, having competed in the famous Dipsea Race five times in the last eight years.
out onto the trails.” Asked what advice he’d give to others who, like him, have considered running, swimming or cycling to get in shape, but haven’t quite found the motivation to kick things off, Liebert says that right now is as good a time to start as any. “It’s the beginning of the year, after all,” Liebert says, “time for New Year’s resolutions. There’s not a better resolution I can think of than to get yourself fit and feeling strong. If you don’t exercise, you should start. If you do, but don’t compete, sign up for a race, because they are lots of fun and force you to stay fit while you’re training. “And while you’re at it,” he adds, “you should definitely sign up for our race in April.” This leads to another question for the doctor. Are marathon runners healthier than casual joggers? “That’s a hard question to answer,” Keeffe replies with a laugh.
“There’s been this debate in the medical profession about whether extreme exercise is beneficial. There are studies looking at it both ways. Some studies say that all you really need to do is 20 minutes of good aerobic exercise three times a week, or 30 minutes at a lower level. That’s where you get your greatest benefit. And then there are also studies that look at blood tests and imaging of the heart right after a marathon or triathlon, that suggest there may be some negative effect on the heart from that very extreme kind of exercise. “But then,” he adds, “there are other studies, mostly out of Europe, looking at people who’ve been long-term competitive athletes, which show that there is actually a lower risk for those ‘endurance athlete’ kinds of people. When I go to some of the exercise cardiology conferences, there’s often a »12 bit of a debate amongst the
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attendees, because there really isn’t a clear answer to that question.” It is certainly assumed that if you do a significant amount of exercise, you are immune to cardiovascular problems, but that, Keeffe points out, is definitely not the case, especially for older folks. “As people get into their 40s and 50s, they are more inclined to either start developing symptoms, or to start thinking about the possibility of heart issues,” he says. “Not that people in their 20s and 30s can’t have heart palpitations or other symptoms, but percentage-wise, as people get older, there tend to be more cardiovascular issues.” For runners, swimmers and cyclists, the risks are more than just potential heart attacks. Cardiac issues could mean that they’re not running a mile as fast as they once did. “Some people do come in with symptoms related to their exercise regimen,” Keeffe says. “They might come in and say, ‘My mile time dropped by a whole minute over the last year. Is that because of my heart?’ Or they might say, ‘My heart
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Chef Tony Adams is now at the helm of the Cavallo Point Cooking School.
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enthusiastic chef hails most recently from Nantucket, where he spent several seasons running high-end restaurants including the Boarding House. Before that he was at the forefront of the culinary scene in Orlando, Florida, opening some of the first pop-up and underground restaurants along with a food truck. Adams grew up in Maine and received a degree in Culinary Arts from Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island. He spent years working in fine dining restaurants, but his most satisfying work was as an instructor for Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Orlando, where he spent
more than five years teaching over 4,500 students. “I really like sharing the secret of cooking—it’s really all about remembering tricks and tips and learning seven basic methods— everyone can do it,” says the chef, who hit the ground running when he arrived in October. The cooking school is housed in an airy demonstration kitchen above Cavallo Point’s restaurant and bar. Its farmhouse-style room is warm and inviting and feels more like someone’s kitchen than a classroom. In many ways, this amazing resource is one of Marin’s best-kept secrets—and hopefully with the school’s new leadership,
the community will be more encouraged to participate in its many high-caliber offerings. Adams has already taught a candy-making class for the holidays, and hopes to introduce a new series that will include both a cooking experience and private chef dining opportunity. “For me, it is all about making the classes accessible,” Adams says. Cooking From the Farmers’ Market, Taco Utopia and Gluten Free, The Way to Be, along with a free olive oil tasting, are just a sampling of the enticing classes coming up in the new year. To learn more, visit cavallopoint.com.Y
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Red hot Sharon McNight goes full Tucker By David Templeton
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It started as a dream—literally,” says Sharon McNight, describing how her affection for the music of late vaudeville legend Sophie Tucker became the one-woman show Red Hot Mama—The Sophie Tucker Story. A Tony Award nominee for her lead performance in the 1989 fantasy-musical Starmites, McNight brings her acclaimed solo show to the Cinnabar Theater for four more weekends, after an opening performance on New Year’s Eve. The dream wasn’t even McNight’s dream. “It was the guy who signed me to my first record contract,” she recalls. “He said that he saw me playing Sophie Tucker on a Broadway stage. This was 1981, and I was performing in Provincetown, Mass. at the time. “The guy woke up, called my manager, and he said, ‘I had this dream about Sharon and Sophie Tucker, and I think it’s a really good idea,’” she continues. “Tell Sharon to get Sophie Tucker’s biography and start putting together a show. It’s important that this happen. I think it could be really big for her.’” Though it took a few years for the Sophie Tucker project to get rolling, it was, it turns out, a dream come true. Modesto-born McNight has won
critical acclaim for Red Hot Mama, and several other shows she’s written and performed over the years. “She was really something,” McNight says of Tucker, whom the Los Angeles Times once called “one of the great wonders of the musical stage.” “At a time when women were not all that independent,” McNight says, Tucker “was totally in control of her own life. She carried her own suitcases, negotiated her own contracts, chose her own path. She was amazing, though her life was never easy, largely because of those choices.” In the show, McNight sings dozens of Tucker’s songs, including “Red Hot Mama,” “Some of These Days,” “My Yiddishe Momme” and “I Don’t Want to Get Thin.” “It’s those songs that I first fell in love with,” McNight says. “Sophie could beautifully ‘sell a song.’ She really knew how to tell a story.” And clearly, so does Sharon McNight.Y ‘Red Hot Mama—The Sophie Tucker Story’ runs Jan. 6–29 at the Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd. N., Petaluma; Friday–Saturday, 8pm; Sunday matinees, 2pm; $25–$40; 707/763-8920.
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In ‘Things to Come,’ a philosophy teacher deals with the death of her mother, among other life-changing events. Ronstadt Generations performs twice in the North Bay this week, hitting up the HopMonk Tavern in Sebastopol on January 6 and Novato’s HopMonk Tavern on Jan. 7.
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Acute portrait
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‘Things to Come’: Precise and sensitive
Ronstadt Generations carries the torch
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he Ronstadt family traces their roots in Tucson, Arizona back five generations, and each one of them has been a music lover. Everyone of a certain generation knows the name Linda Ronstadt, but she’s not the only singer and songwriter currently carrying on the family tradition. Formed in 2009 by Linda’s brother Michael J. Ronstadt, and now fronted by his sons Michael G. and Pete, Ronstadt Generations blends almost 200 years of Southwestern musical folk heritage to create a lush, sundrenched and multi-genre repertoire all their own. Only 13 months apart in age, Michael G. and Pete grew up with music ingrained in family activities and gatherings, though they also got to see the professional side of that life early on. “When we were young, my aunt [Linda] was doing mariachi records and my dad [Michael J.] was singing with her, so we got to travel to studios and be a part of that,” Pete says. “Looking back on it, it was impactful in how we came up as musicians; it really left a big imprint on my life.” The brothers formally got into music
through school bands. Michael chose the cello, “because he could sit down to play it,” jokes Pete. “In my opinion, he plays the cello like no one else.” Pete started his musical upbringing on violin before migrating to upright bass and guitar. “I just try to expand my musical library of instruments,” he says, noting that he also dabbles on banjo and tuba. After a few years of playing as a trio on the road, Michael J. and sons evolved their family band into a six-piece ensemble by recruiting fellow Tucson musicians Alex Flores (tenor sax and vocals), Sam Eagon (upright and electric bass) and Aaron Emery (drums and percussion), and expanding the band’s moniker to Ronstadt Generations y Los Tucsonenses. Sadly, Michael J. Ronstadt passed away early in 2016 at the age of 62, though his sons are committed to keeping the family tradition going. “We all put a lot of heart into it,” Pete says. “I think he would want to see it live on.”Y Ronstadt Generations y Los Tucsonenses; January 6, HopMonk, 230 Petaluma Ave., Sebastopol; 8pm; Jan. 7, HopMonk, 224 Vintage Way, Novato; 8pm; hopmonk.com.
By Richard von Busack sabelle Huppert’s acute portrait of a woman of a certain age in Things To Come towers over her much-vaunted performance in Elle. Huppert plays Nathalie, an aging philosophy teacher who needs all the consolation her discipline can provide. Her neurotic mother (Edith Scob, of the horror classic Les Yeux Sans Visage) is prone to suicide threats and anxiety attacks. Nathalie’s husband Heinz (André Marcon) is a stout and humorless old pedant, who is secretly seeing someone on the side. And Nathalie’s reputation as a scholar isn’t enough to save her from the bottom-line obsessed executives at her publishing house. Though she’s renowned in her field, her textbooks aren’t selling. Fellow snobs, who love the blank white covers of French paperbacks with the stark titles on them, will cringe along with Nathalie at the redesign of her books—the moneymen at the publishing house want eye-catching abstract colorful patterns, as if a quart of rainbow sherbet melted all over them. There are small consolations in the older woman’s plight: She learns fondness for the overfed cat her mother left her to care for. It’s a warmer, cattier cat than the highly symbolic feline in Elle, the one who gave the cold eye-of-god look as her owner was raped. A particularly handsome and talented former student, Fabien
(Roman Kolinka) helps get Nathalie out of her shell. He’s involved in the political fight against the French government’s cutting of benefits. Fabien has joined a commune of international students at an Alpine farmhouse, where he proposes to edit a revolutionary journal. Huppert’s flexibility is a marvel. She sets the pace of this movie as few actresses could. Director Mia Hansen-Løve’s study is the opposite of a woman-getting-her-grooveback drama. And there’s an air of nostalgia in the soft Kodachromish colors Denis Lenoir (Still Alice) brings to bear. Early on in the film, Nathalie and her family take a trip to a summer house in Brittany, not far from the seaside monument where the writer and adventurer Chateaubriand is buried. Near that grave is a plaque telling the visitor to be silent and listen to the sounds of the wind and the waves; Things to Come is similarly quiet, with little music: Some Schubert, some Woody Guthrie, and that lullaby that provided another first-rate French film with its title, “I’ve Loved You So Long.” The movie cherishes the importance of the thinkers who puzzled out the rights of all humans to freedom and dignity. Things to Come has a philosopher’s precision and a poet’s sensitivity.Y
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•New Movies This Week
By Matthew Stafford
Friday, January 6– Thursday, January 12 • Afterimage (1:38) Andrzeg Wajda’s last film is a loving biopic of 1920s Polish avant-garde artist Wladyslaw Strzeminski. • Apprentice (1:37) Cannes favorite about a young cop whose obsession is to apprentice Singapore’s top executioner. • Arrival (1:56) Sci-fi for grownups as Amy Adams grapples with humanity, existence and other cosmic issues after mysterious spacecraft pay Earth a visit. • Assassin’s Creed (1:45) Michael Fassbender experiences the exploits of a medieval knight/ ancestor through “genetic memory” and uses his new knowledge to take on some 21st century baddies. • The Black Hen (1:30) Nepalese tragicomedy about two boys who scheme to sell the eggs of a rare and pampered hen. • The Book of Love (1:46) A widowed architect and a footloose teen bond as they plan a trip across the ocean on a makeshift raft. • Carousel (2:20) Rodgers & Hammerstein’s greatest musical hits the big screen with Gordon McRae as a carny ne’er-do-well and Shirley Jones as the gal who loves him till death do they part. • Collateral Beauty (1:37) Ad exec Will Smith grapples with tragedy by writing letters to love, time and death and is understandably taken aback when they write back. • Dangal (2:30) Hindi drama about an exwrestler who transfers his dreams of glory to his two rambunctious daughters. • The Distinguished Citizen (1:57) An Argentine novelist visits the hometown that inspired his stories and finds the locals weirder than he remembered. • Do Not Resist (1:12) Hard-hitting look at how the increasing militarization of U.S. police forces is edging the nation into a police state. • The Eagle Huntress (1:27) Eye-filling documentary about a 13-year-old Mongolian girl and her quest to become her family’s first female eagle hunter in 12 generations. • Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2:12) J.K. Rowling’s new cinematic franchise takes place among New York’s secret coven of witches and wizards circa WWII. • Fences (2:19) Filmization of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play stars Denzel Washington as a father struggling to raise his family in racially explosive 1950s Pittsburgh; Washington directs as well. • Fire at Sea (1:54) Italian documentary focuses on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa and the locals and African refugees who live there. • A Flickering Truth (1:33) Documentary looks at 100 years’ worth of Afghani movie archives that were banned by the Taliban. • The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (1:32) Wry biopic of the Finnish boxer’s bid for the World Featherweight title of 1962. • I Am Nojoom, Age 10 and Divorced (1:39) True story of a Yemeni girl who escaped her forced marriage to a 30-year-old and sued him for divorce. • Jackie (1:35) Pablo Larrain’s psychological biopic of the elegant, mysterious First Lady focuses on the tumultuous week following her husband’s assassination; Natalie Portman stars. • Julieta (1:39) Lush Pedro Almodóvar melodrama about a college professor’s fling with a fisherman and its effect on her life across the years and decades. • La La Land (2:08) Bold, brilliant Hollywood
• Afterimage (Not Rated) • Apprentice (Not Rated) • The Black Hen (Not Rated) • The Book of Love (PG-13) • Carousel (PG)
musical circles around the bittersweet romance between a struggling jazz musician and an aspiring actress; Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling star. • Land of Mine (1:40) Complex Danish drama about German POWs ordered to remove a million live landmines the Nazis left behind at the end of WWII. • Letters from War (1:45) A Portuguese medic manages to endure the 1971 Angola war through the love letters he sends home to his wife. • Lion (2:09) Two-hour commercial for Google Earth in which an Indian orphan searches the globe for home and family. • Loving (2:03) True story of Mildred and Richard Loving, the courageous interracial couple who faced harassment and worse in the American South of the 1950s. • Manchester by the Sea (2:15) Poignant, bittersweet tale of a Boston janitor who returns to his seaside home town to raise his newly orphaned nephew; Casey Affleck stars. • The Metropolitan Opera: Nabucco (3:05) Placido Domingo stars in Verdi’s epic tale of ancient Babylon; James Levine conducts. • Moana (1:43) Disney musical about a Polynesian girl’s epic ocean voyage across the wide Pacific; songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda. • Office Christmas Party (1:45) A spiraling cubicle company tries to impress a last-ditch client with an end-all be-all Xmas bash rife with crude sexual content, drug use and graphic nudity; Jennifer Aniston stars. • Paradise (2:11) Edgy drama about the furtive affair between a Russian noblewoman and her Nazi captor in the waning days of WWII. • Passengers (1:56) When the hibernating passengers on a spaceship to another planet wake up 90 years into their 120-year journey, it’s up to Jennifer Lawrence to change the spark plugs. • Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2:13) Disney and Lucasfilm cook up a standalone Star Wars flick about a scheme to swipe the plans to the Death Star; Mads Mikkelsen stars. • Seasons (1:37) Dazzling cinematic essay focuses on our planet’s wildlife and how it’s evolved from the Ice Age to today; Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud (Winged Migration) direct. • Sing (1:48) Animated musical about a koala impresario’s all-star singing competition features vocals from Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane and Scarlett Johansson. • Sparrows (1:39) Coming-of-age drama about a Reykjavik choirboy sent to Iceland’s barren Westfjords to live with his gruff father. • Tampopo (1:55) Newly restored Japanese cult comedy classic about (among other things) a modern urban cowboy, the proprietress of a noodle shop and a food-obsessed gangster. • Tanna (1:44) Mystical romance of forbidden love set among the Yekel people of Vanuatu in the South Pacific. • Things to Come (1:43) Isabelle Huppert stars as a philosophy professor whose crumbling personal life liberates her to explore the next chapter of her existence. • Toni Erdmann (2:42) Surreal German dramedy about the complex, hard-to-sever bond between father and daughter. • Why Him? (1:51) Overprotective dad Bryan Cranston is understandably appalled when he meets his daughter’s boyfriend, doofus tech zillionaire James Franco.
The Distinguished Citizen (Not Rated)
• Do Not Resist (Not Rated)
The Eagle Huntress (Not Rated)
• Fire at Sea (Not Rated) • A Flickering Truth (Not Rated) • The Happiest Day in the Life
Rafael: Wed 8:30 Rafael: Sun 7 Rafael: Sun 5 Lark: Thu 6:30 (includes closed-circuit interviews with stars and filmmakers) Regency: Sun, Wed 2, 7 Rafael: Fri 5:30 Lark: Sat 7 Rafael: Fri 4, 6; Sat-Sun 2, 4, 6; Mon-Thu 6 Rafael: Sat 3 Rafael: Wed 6 (filmmaker Pietra Brettkelly in person)
of Olli Mäki (Not Rated)
Rafael: Sat 5:30
and Divorced (Not Rated)
Rafael: Tue 8:15 Rafael: Sat 7:30 Rafael: Mon 8:15 Rafael: Sun 2:30 Rafael: 5pm daily
• I Am Nojoo, Age 10
• Julieta (Not Rated) • Land of Mine (Not Rated) • Letters from War (Not Rated) Loving (PG-13)
• The Metropolitan Opera: Nabucco (PG-13)
• Paradise (Not Rated) Seasons (PG)
• Sparrows (Not Rated) Tampopo (Not Rated)
• Tanna (Not Rated)
Things to Come (Not Rated)
• Toni Erdmann (Not Rated)
Lark: Sat 9:55am; Wed 6:30 Regency: Sat 9:55am; Wed 6:30 Sequoia: Sat 9:55am; Wed 6:30 Rafael: Fri 8 Rafael: Sat-Sun 2:15 Rafael: Mon 6 Rafael: 8pm daily Rafael: Tue 6 Rafael: 7:30pm daily Rafael: Thu 6:30
Showtimes for the Cinema, Fairfax, Lark, Larkspur Landing, Northgate, Playhouse, Regency, Rowland and Sequoia were not available as we went to press. Please call theaters or visit fandango.com for schedule updates. We regret the inconvenience.
In 'Julieta,' Spain's Pedro Almodovar adapts three Alice Munro short stories into a passionate tale.
Showtimes can change after we go to press. Please call theater to confirm. CinéArts at Sequoia 25 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley, 415-388-1190 Cinema 41 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, 415-924-6506 Fairfax 9 Broadway, Fairfax, 415-453-5444 Lark 549 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur, 415-924-5111 Larkspur Landing 500 Larkspur Landing Cir., Larkspur, 415461-4849 Northgate 7000 Northgate Dr., San Rafael, 415-491-1314 Playhouse 40 Main St., Tiburon, 415-435-1234 Rafael Film Center 1118 Fourth St., San Rafael, 415-454-1222 Regency 280 Smith Ranch Rd., Terra Linda, 415-479-6496 Rowland 44 Rowland Way, Novato, 415-898-3385
Concerts MARIN
Aaron Redner & His Band of Love Ninjas Food drive concert benefitting St. Vincent De Paul society also features James Nash, Bryan Horne, Ben Jacobs and Lucas Carlton. Jan 8, 6:30pm. $12-$14. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.3850. A Broadway Cabaret Marin Musical Theatre Company presents song and dance from top Broadway shows in a bistro setting with wine, raffle prizes and a silent auction. Jan 6-7, 8pm. $30-$75. The Playhouse, 27 Kensington Rd, San Anselmo, 415.258.4640. Muriel Anderson The renowned fingerstyle guitarist presents a show titled “Wonderlust” that’s a musical and visual journey. Jan 8, 7pm. $12-$15. Fenix, 919 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.813.5600.
SONOMA John McCutcheon Songwriter and folklorist returns to Sonoma for another round of melodic Americana. Jan 9, 7:30pm. $25. Sebastiani Theatre, 476 First St E, Sonoma, 707.996.9756. Santa Rosa Symphony The symphony’s first show of 2017 is a program titled “Heavenly Harp” that
features renowned virtuoso Marie-Pierre Langlamet. Jan 7-9. $20 and up. Green Music Center, 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.
NAPA Alvon Johnson The versatile performer is known as the Ambassador of Blues around the world. Jan 7, 7 and 9:30pm. $10-$20. Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.603.1258.
Clubs & Venues
415.897.5181.
HopMonk Novato Jan 5, the Happys. Jan 6, Metal Shop. Jan 7, Ronstadt Generations. 224 Vintage Way, Novato, 415.892.6200. INCAVO Wine Tasting & Collective Tues, 7pm, Open Mic Night with Simon Costa. 1099 Fourth St, Ste F, San Rafael, 415.259.4939. Iron Springs Pub & Brewery Jan 4, Giggle Sticks. Jan 11, Tom Finch Trio. 765 Center Blvd, Fairfax, 415.485.1005.
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Marin Country Mart Jan 6, 5:30pm, Friday Night Jazz with Jeff Derby Trio. 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur.
The Belrose Thurs, open mic night. Second Wednesday of every month, Ragtime jam. 1415 Fifth Ave, San Rafael, 415.454.6422.
19 Broadway Club Jan 6, First Friday reggae with Broken Silence Sound System. Jan 7, King & Ace. 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax, 415.459.1091.
Benissimo Ristorante & Bar Thurs, Fri, live music. 18 Tamalpais Dr, Corte Madera, 415.927.2316.
No Name Bar Jan 6, Michael Aragon Quartet. Jan 9, Kimrea & the Dreamdogs. Jan 10, open mic. 757 Bridgeway, Sausalito, 415.332.1392.
Fenix Jan 4, Pro Blues Jam with the Bobby Young Project. Jan 5, Pat Wilder Band. Jan 7, Stephanie Keys Band. Jan 8, 11:30am, Sunday Brunch with David Bialos Trio. Jan 10, songwriters showcase with Sara Rodenburg and others. Jan 11, Pro Blues Jam with Dallis Craft. 919 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.813.5600. Grazie Restaurant Jan 7, Gail Muldrow. 823 Grant Ave, Novato,
Panama Hotel Restaurant Jan 4, John Hoy. Jan 5, Vardo. Jan 10, Panama Jazz Trio. Jan 11, Lady D & the Tramps. 4 Bayview St, San Rafael, 415.457.3993. Peri’s Silver Dollar Jan 4, the Weissmen. Jan 6, Afroholix. Jan 7, Ann Halen. Jan 8, the Brian Travis Band. Jan 9, Billy D’s open mic. Jan 10, Fresh Baked Blues. Jan 11, the New Sneakers. 29 Broadway, Fairfax, 415.459.9910. Presidio Yacht Club Jan 7, the 7th Sons. 600 Sommerville Rd, Sausalito, 415.332.2319. Rancho Nicasio Jan 6, Jerry Hannan. Jan 7, Rancho All Stars with Annie Sampson and others. Jan 8, 4pm, Jeremy D’Antonio with Darren Nelson and friends. 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio, 415.662.2219. Sausalito Seahorse Wed, Milonga with Marcelo Puig and Seth Asarnow. Jan 6, Doc Kraft and Company. Jan 7, Wobbly World and Freddy Clarke. Jan 8, 5pm, Karabali. Jan 10, Noel Jewkes and friends. 305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito, 415.331.2899. Servino Ristorante Jan 6, Lloyd Gregory. 9 Main St, Tiburon, 415.435.2676.
'Tanna,' one of 15 films playing at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center as part of the 'For Your Consideration: A Selection of Oscar Submissions from Around the World' series (Jan. 6-12), is the tale of young lovers of the South Pacific island, Vanuatu.
Smiley’s Schooner Saloon Jan 5, James Patrick Regan. Jan 6, Lisa Marie Johnston. Jan 7, Rainbow Girls. Jan 9, Epicenter Soundsystem reggae. 41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas, 415.868.1311.
CALENDAR Spitfire Lounge First Thursday of every month, the North Bass DJ night. First Friday of every month, Truthlive. 848 B St, San Rafael, 415.454.5551. Sweetwater Music Hall Jan 5, Talking Dreads. Jan 6, Rush vs Yes with Fred Barchetta and Shine Delirious. Jan 7, Mustache Harbor. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.3850. Travis Marina Second Sunday of every month, the Lonestar Retrobates. Fort Baker, Sausalito.
SONOMA Arlene Francis Center Tues, Open Didgeridoo Clinic. Wed, Open Mic. 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.528.3009. The Big Easy Jan 4, Buckley. Jan 5, Free Peoples. Jan 6, Ricky Ray Band. Jan 7, the Pleasure Palace. Jan 8, Festival Speed. Jan 10, Buck Thrifty. Jan 11, the Wednesday Night Big Band. 128 American Alley, Petaluma, 707.776.4631. Blue Heron Restaurant & Tavern Jan 10, 6pm, Michael Hantman. 25300 Steelhead Blvd, Duncans Mills, 707.865.2261. Brew Jan 6, Emily Lois. 555 Healdsburg Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.303.7372. Brixx Pizzeria Jan 7, Dirty Red Barn. 16 Kentucky St, Petaluma, 707.766.8162. Church of the Incarnation Jan 8, 4pm, “Renaissance Glory” with the Festival Consort. $20. 550 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.528.6370. Coffee Catz Tues, 12pm, Jerry Green’s Peaceful Piano Hour. 6761 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol, 707.829.6600. Corkscrew Wine Bar Jan 6, the Stratospheres. Jan 7, Mystery Pacific. 100 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.789.0505. Dry Creek Kitchen Jan 9, 6pm, Dick Conte and Steve Webber Duo. Jan 10, 6pm, Jim Adams and John Potter Duo. 317 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, 707.431.0330. HopMonk Sebastopol Jan 5, Kimock. Jan 6, Ronstadt Generations. Jan 7, Johnny Downer Tribute. Jan 8, Parcivillian. Jan 9, Monday Night Edutainment with Young Fyah. Tues, open mic night. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol, 707.829.7300. HopMonk Sonoma Jan 6, Sean Carscadden. Jan 7, Dan Martin.
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691 Broadway, Sonoma, 707.935.9100. Jamison’s Roaring Donkey Wed, open mic night. 146 Kentucky St, Petaluma, 707.772.5478. Lagunitas Tap Room Jan 4, Little Jonny and Aki Kumar. Jan 5, Matt Lax. Jan 6, Mitch Woods & His Rocket 88s. Jan 7, the Smiling Iguanas. Jan 8, Timothy O’Neil Band. Jan 11, Hot Grubb. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma, 707.778.8776. Murphy’s Irish Pub Jan 6, David Gans & the Broken Angels. Jan 7, Three on a Match. 464 First St E, Sonoma, 707.935.0660. Mystic Theatre Jan 7, Tommy Castro & the Painkillers with Shana Morrison. Jan 10, Midge Ure Band with Luvplanet. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.765.2121. Phoenix Theater Jan 6, E Money with NU and G Rob. Jan 7, X-Method and Thought Vomit. 201 Washington St, Petaluma, 707.762.3565. Redwood Cafe Jan 4, Irish set dancing. Jan 5, Kevin Russell and friends. Jan 6, Ruminators. Jan 7, Phil Lawrence with David and Linda LaFlamme. Jan 8, 3pm, Celtic Fiddle Music. Jan 8, 6pm, Irish jam session. Jan 9, Open Mic with DJ Loisaida. Jan 11, Brian Rashap and friends. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.795.7868. Spancky’s Bar Thurs, 7pm, Thursday Night Blues Jam. Jan 6, Sweet Leaf with Two Minutes to Midnight. 8201 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.664.0169. Spoonbar Wed, 6pm, Michael Hantman. 219 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, 707.433.7222. Toad in the Hole Pub Sun, live music. 116 Fifth St, Santa Rosa, 707.544.8623. Twin Oaks Roadhouse Jan 5, Levi’s Workshop with Levi Lloyd. Jan 6, the County Lips. Jan 7, Weekend at Bernie’s. Jan 9, the Blues Defenders pro jam. Jan 10, open mic with RoJo. 5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove, 707.795.5118. Whiskey Tip Jan 6, the Restless Sons and Domenic Bianco. 1910 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.843.5535.
NAPA Blue Note Napa Jan 4, 6:30 and 9pm, Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers. Jan 5, 6:30 and 9pm, Sandy Cressman & Homenagem Brasileira. Jan 6, 7 and 9:30pm, the Funk Revival Orchestra. Jan 8, 7 and 9:30pm, the Michael O’Neill Quintet featuring Kenny Washington and Tony Lindsay. Jan 11, 6:30 and 9pm, Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers. 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.603.1258. Hydro Grill First Saturday of every month, Always Elvis. 1403 Lincoln Ave, Calistoga, 707.942.9777. Jarvis Conservatory Jan 7, It’s a Grand Night for Singers. 1711 Main St, Napa, 707.255.5445.
Silo’s Wed, 5pm, Mike Greensill’s evening jazz. Jan 5, flamenco guitar with Jason Wright. Jan 6, C4 Inc. Jan 7, Petty Theft. Jan 11, David Kelleher. 530 Main St, Napa, 707.251.5833.
Art OPENING MARIN O’Hanlon Center for the Arts Jan 4-26, “Annual Members’ Show,” O’Hanlon Gallery presents their members’ show with a special auxiliary show at the Mill Valley Community Center. Reception, Jan 10 at 6pm. 616 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. Tues-Sat, 10 to 2; also by appointment. 415.388.4331. Throckmorton Theatre Jan 4-31, Mary Black & Millicent Tomkins,” the two artists share wall space and present their latest abstract encaustics and magical realism works of art. Reception, Jan 10 at 5pm. 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.
SONOMA The Art Wall at Shige Sushi Jan 4-Feb 26, “Sami Lange: Paintings & Drawings,” Lange’s works on paper, created by stitching together detailed drawings, give the appearance of intricate paper quilts. Reception Jan 9, 5pm. 8235 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati. Hours vary. 707.795.9753. Arts Guild of Sonoma Jan 6-31, “Annual Invitational Exhibition,” Arts Guild of Sonoma kicks off its 40th anniversary year with this popular show. Reception, Jan 6 at 5pm. 140 E Napa St, Sonoma. Wed-Thurs and Sun-Mon, 11 to 5; Fri-Sat, 11 to 8. 707.996.3115. Fulton Crossing Jan 4-31, “January Art Show,” several artists open their working studios for a showing of their latest art. Reception, Jan 20 at 5pm. 1200 River Rd, Fulton. Sat-Sun, noon to 5pm 707.536.3305. Healdsburg Center for the Arts Jan 7-Feb 5, “Members’ Exhibition,” see an extraordinary array of art in several mediums shown without constraints of a theme. Reception, Jan 7 at 5pm. 130 Plaza St, Healdsburg. Daily, 11 to 6. 707.431.1970. Riverfront Art Gallery Jan 11-Mar 5, “Photoshopped or Not?” Riverfront Gallery co-owner and photographer Lance Kuehne shows new work that concentrates on magnificent and vibrant local landscapes. Reception, Jan 14 at 5pm. 132 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. Wed, Thurs and Sun, 11 to 6. Fri-Sat, 11 to 8. 707.775.4ART. Sebastopol Center for the Arts Jan 6-Feb 12, “Marvelous!” an international exhibit of collage, assemblage and other constructed works. Reception, Jan 6 at 6pm. 282 S High St, Sebastopol. Tues-Fri, 10 to 4; Sat-Sun, 1 to 4. 707.829.4797. Upstairs Art Gallery Jan 4-29, “Sunrise in Sonoma County,” artist Laura Roney’s landscape paintings capture the first light of the day. Reception, Jan 14 at 2pm. 306 Center St, Healdsburg. Sun-Thurs, 11 to 6; Fri-Sat, 11 to 9. 707.431.4214.
CONTINUING THIS WEEK ART MARIN Art Works Downtown Through Jan 7, “AWD Members Exhibition,” showcasing the many talented artists who are members of the Art Works Downtown community. 1337 Fourth St, San Rafael. Tues-Sat, 10 to 5. 415.451.8119. ARTrageous Gallery Ongoing, inaugural exhibit featuring Roberta Ahrens, Harriet Burge and others. 857 Grant Ave, Novato. Tues-Sat, 11 to 6, Sun 11 to 4, Thurs 11 to 8. 415.897.8444. Baobab Gallery Ongoing, Shona sculptures, watercolors, jewelry, baskets, handmade paper items and handmade fabrics. 556 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur. Tues-Sat, 11 to 5. 415.924.8007. Bay Model Visitor Center Through Jan 7, “A Touch of Blue,” a show of new, and some old, quilts using mainly blue or just a bit of blue. 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 415.332.3871. Corte Madera Library Through Jan 5, “Global Wand’ring … Bali and Back,” photos by Terry Peck brings the world to you. 707 Meadowsweet Dr, Corte Madera. 707.924.6444. Dance Palace Ongoing, 503 B St, Pt Reyes Station. 415.663.1075. Depot Bookstore & Cafe Ongoing, 87 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.2665. Desta Art & Tea Gallery Through Jan 15, “Reality, Memory & Fiction,” exhibit of paintings by Stephen Namara features people, objects and landscapes seen as snapshots of his life. 417 San Anselmo Ave, San Anselmo. Mon-Sat, 10 to 6 415.524.8932. Gallery O Ongoing, still lifes and abstract landscapes by Tim Schaible, and glasswork by Colleen Cotten. Highway 1 and Dillon Beach Road, Tomales. Thurs-Sun, noon to 5, and by appointment. 707.878.2898. Gallery Route One Through Jan 22, “Tell Tales,” Madeline Nieto Hope’s repurposed art shows in the Center Gallery, while “The Inverness Almanac: Collective Retrospective” shows in the project space and Isis Hockenos’ “She Said She Said” shows in the annex. 11101 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station. Wed-Mon, 11 to 5. 415.663.1347. Garzoli Gallery Ongoing, work from contemporary artist Laurie Curran and recent gallery acquisitions on view. 930 B St, San Rafael. 415.459.4321. Liberty Ship Gallery Ongoing, artist cooperative gallery with works by Eulah Capron, Katheryn Holt, Barbara Jackson, Darcy J Sears and Scott Gordon Woodhouse. 10 Liberty Ship Way, Bay 2, Ste 210, Sausalito. Sat, 11 to 5; also by appointment. 415.289.0705. Margaret Muldoon’s Artistic Furniture Ongoing, hand-painted furniture, plus “UnStill Photography” by Alan Babbitt. 411 San Anselmo Ave, Fairfax.
Marin History Museum Wednesdays-Saturdays, “Faces of Marin History,” special exhibit features rarely seen original portraits, photos and stories of Marin County’s founders and notable residents past and present. Ongoing, “Treasures from the Vault,” local artifacts; also, “Ranching and Rockin’ at Olompali” features history of State Park; also, “Growing the Future: Farming Families of Marin.” Boyd Gate House, 1125 B St, San Rafael. Tues-Fri, plus second and third Sat monthly, 11 to 4. 415.454.8538. MarinMOCA Through Jan 8, “Sandi Miot: The Medium Is the Muse,” retrospective exhibit of the Marin-based artist is a visual look at her journey through wax and encaustic works. 500 Palm Dr, Novato. Wed-Fri, 11 to 4; SatSun, 11 to 5. 415.506.0137. Marty Knapp Photo Gallery Through Jan 16, “The Night Sky,” Knapp shows new photographs of the starry skies above the Point Reyes coast and the deserts of Southern California. 11245 Shoreline Hwy, Point Reyes Station. Fri-Sun, 11am to 5pm. 415.663.8670. Marin Society of Artists Ongoing, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross. Mon-Thurs, 11 to 4; Sat-Sun, 12 to 4. 415.454.9561. MINE Art Gallery Ongoing, 1820 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Fairfax. Museum of the American Indian Ongoing, “Jewelry of California and the Southwest.” 2200 Novato Blvd, Novato. Tues-Fri, 10 to 3; Sat-Sun, 12 to 4. 415.897.4064. Pine Street Museum Ongoing, opening exhibit features interactive display of scrolls, ceramics and special barcodes to explain them. 124 Pine St, San Anselmo. 415.485.0484. Robert Allen Fine Art Through Jan 27, “Abstract Works on Canvas,” group exhibition features Beatrice Findlay, Jeffrey Long, Michael Moon, Richard Saba and Geoffrey Williams. 301 Caledonia St, Sausalito. Mon-Fri, 10 to 5. 415.331.2800. Robert Beck Fine Art Ongoing, California landscape painters including Maynard Dixon. 222 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, San Anselmo. Wed-Sun, noon to 5:30. 415.456.7898. Rustic Bakery Through Jan 31, “California Colors,” plein air oil paintings by Laura Culver boast vibrant colors and light. 2017 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larksput. 415.461.9900. San Geronimo Valley Community Center Ongoing, 6350 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, San Geronimo. 415.488.8888. Studio 333 Ongoing, 45 local artists on display. 333 Caledonia St, Sausalito. Mon-Sat, 11-5. 415.331.8272. Tomales Gallery Ongoing, paintings by Jonnie Baldwin,
Denise Champion, Timothy David Dixon, Clark Mitchell and others. 3985 TomalesPetaluma Rd, Tomales. Fri-Sun, 12:30 to 5; also by appointment. 707.878.2680. Wilderness Collections Gallery Ongoing, photographs by Rodney Lough Jr. 8 Princess St, Sausalito. Daily, 10 to 6. 866.432.9453.
Comedy Improv Skills Workshop Learn the tricks to developing improvised sketches and skits. Mon, 7pm. Arlene Francis Center, 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.528.3009. Mort Sahl Sahl takes the stage every week to deliver his legendary, take-no-prisoners wit. Thurs, 7pm. $20. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, 415.383.9600. Tuesday Night Live Featuring comedians at the top of their game, both rising stars and names known worldwide. Tues, 8pm. $17-$27. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, 415.383.9600.
Dance Alma del Tango Studio Ongoing, Swing Dance Classes, Learn East Coast Swing and Lindy Hop with instructor Jasmine Worrell. Four-week sessions begin the first of every month. First Wednesday of every month, 7pm, Introduction to Argentine Tango, learn to dance like they do in Buenos Aires, no experience necessary. $18. 167 Tunstead Ave, San Anselmo 415.459.8966. The Belrose Sundays, 4pm, Argentine Dance. 1415 Fifth Ave, San Rafael 415.454.6422. Club 101 Wednesdays, 8:20pm, salsa dancing with lessons. 815 W Francisco Blvd, San Rafael 415.460.0101. Dance Palace Sundays, 10am, Ecstatic Dance Point Reyes, explore different rhythms with no experience necessary. Wednesdays, 6pm, Women’s Collaborative Dance. $5-$15 per month. 503 B St, Pt Reyes Station 415.663.1075. Mill Valley Community Center Mondays, 6pm, Swing Dance Lessons. 925.267.2200. 180 Camino Alto, Mill Valley. Sausalito Seahorse Sundays, 4pm, Salsa class. Free. 305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito 415.331.2899. Sol Studios Fairfax Thursdays, 10:45am, Flamenco Dance Class, bring a shawl and join in the barefoot class. $9. 12 School St #12e, Fairfax 415.785.4861.
Events CranioSacral System Screening Explore whether you or your child could benefit from CranioSacral therapy to treat migraines, headaches, chronic neck and back pain and other body pain and tension. Wed, Jan 11, 10am. Free. Breathing
Retraining Center, 12 Mitchell Blvd, San Rafael. The Draped Figure Draw or paint from live models in a variety of costumes and settings. Tues, 10am. $15. MarinMOCA, 500 Palm Dr, Novato, 415.506.0137. Harlem Globetrotters The world-famous basketball ambassadors of good will play two exhibition games in Santa Rosa on the heels of setting nine Guinness World Records. Wed, Jan 11. $32 and up. Santa Rosa Junior College, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, 866.777.8932. Media Mixer Join this informal brainstorming meeting at the Community Media Center of Marin to plan activities for Earth Day 2017. RSVP requested. Jan 4, 7pm. Free. Community Media Center of Marin, 819 A St, San Rafael, marinartists@hotmail.com. Monday Painting Group An open space to paint with fellow artists. Space is limited. Mon-noon. $10. MarinMOCA, 500 Palm Dr, Novato, 415.506.0137. Santa Rosa Gem Faire Find fine jewelry, precious and semiprecious gemstones, millions of beads, crystals, minerals and much more at manufacturer’s prices. Jan 6-8. $7. Sonoma County Fairgrounds, 1350 Bennett Valley Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.545.4200. Senior Access Caregiver Support Group Caring for an adult can be challenging. This group is facilitated by a specially trained professional. First Thurs of every month, 11am. Episcopal Church of the Nativity, 333 Ellen Dr, San Rafael. Toastmaster’s Open House Group invites the public to join them in unlocking communication skills. Express yourself, find your voice and shape your words. Thurs-noon. Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael, 415.485.3438. Wild Cat Adventure Five live cats from around the world strut their stuff with professional handlers. Jan 8, 3pm. $5-$10. Sebastopol Community Center, 390 Morris St, Sebastopol, 707.874.3176.
Field Trips Afternoon Community Service Participate in center restoration projects. First Wed of every month. Richardson Bay Audubon Center, 376 Greenwood Beach Rd, Tiburon, 415.388.2524. Coho Salmon Creek Walk Tour Explore the Lagunitas Creek watershed and learn about the ecology of the endangered native population of coho salmon. Sat, Jan 7, 12:30pm. $35. Samuel P Taylor State Park, Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Lagunitas, catie@ tirn.net. Family Camp Weekend is focused on getting outdoors and playing, learning, serving and working in our National Park. Through Jan 8. $275 per family. Point Bonita YMCA, 981 Fort Barry, Sausalito, 415-331-9622. Garden Volunteer Day Sink your hands into the beautiful, rich soil at the OAEC’s garden and learn from the
diversity of plant life. Wed. Free. Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, 15290 Coleman Valley Rd, Occidental, 707.874.1557.
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Marin Moonshiners Hike Monthly three-mile hike to experience sunset, moonrise, picnic and spectacular views. Pack your own picnic. Second Tues monthly at 7:30. $15. Pelican Inn, 10 Pacific Way, Muir Beach, RSVP, 415.331.0100.
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Marin Community Foundation Through Jan 13, “Om Prakash: Intuitive Nature,” renowned Indian artist’s abstract paintings display. 5 Hamilton Landing, Ste 200, Novato. Open Mon-Fri, 9 to 5.
Native Garden Work Days Help improve our native habitats and create gardens. First Thurs of every month, 10am. Richardson Bay Audubon Center, 376 Greenwood Beach Rd, Tiburon, 415.388.2524. Trail Crew: Spiff Up That Old Sled Trail Meet on Bolinas-Fairfax Road at Old Sled trailhead to help perform long overdue maintenance on tread, drainage and vegetation. Jan 7, 9am. Marin Municipal Water District, 220 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera.
Film Burn Country New thriller filmed in Guerneville, Monte Rio and around the Russian River features James Franco and Melissa Leo. Jan 6-8. $10. Rio Theater, 20396 Bohemian Hwy, Monte Rio, 707.865.0913. CULT Film Series Two of Stanley Kubrick’s best films get a double bill, when “A Clockwork Orange” and “2001: A Space Odyssey” screen back to back. Jan 5, 7pm. $10. Roxy Stadium 14 Cinemas, 85 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.525.8909. For Your Consideration View some of the year’s most distinguished international films, many of which are film festival prizewinners and all of which were submitted to the Academy for Oscar consideration. Jan 6-12. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.454.1222.
Food & Drink Corte Madera Farmers' Market Wed-noon. Town Center Corte Madera, 100 Corte Madera Town Center, Corte Madera, 415.382.7846. Friday Night Live Enjoy delicious themed buffet dinners with live music on hand. Fri. $7-$14. San Geronimo Golf Course, 5800 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, San Geronimo, 415.488.4030. Girl’s Night Out Happy hour lasts all night long, even for the guys. Thurs. Bootlegger’s Lodge, 367 Bolinas Rd, Fairfax, 415.450.7186. Indian Valley Farm Stand Organic farm and garden produce stand where you bring your own bag. Sat, 10am. College of Marin, Indian Valley Campus, 1800 Ignacio Blvd, Novato, 415.454.4554. Marin Country Mart Sat, 9am. Marin Country Mart, 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur, 415.461.5715. Marin Jewish Women’s Chai Tea Gathering Enjoy a celebration of loved ones hosted by journalist, author and speaker Allison
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For Kids Bay Area Discovery Museum Ongoing, “Animal Secrets.” Hands-on art, science and theater camps, art studio, tot spot and lookout cove adventure area. WedThurs at 10 and 11, music with Miss Kitty. $5-$6. Fri at 11, aquarium feeding. Ongoing. Admission, $8-$10. Bay Area Discovery Museum, Fort Baker, 557 McReynolds Rd., Sausalito., 415.339.3900. Belvedere-Tiburon Library Mon at 10:30 and 11, songs and fingerplays for kids under two. Wed at 11, toddler storytime; at 4, read-along program for ages seven and up. Mon. Belvedere-Tiburon Library, 1501 Tiburon Blvd, Tiburon, 415.789.2665. Breakfast with Enzo Bring clapping hands, singing voices, dancing feet and breakfast for weekly family music show. Sun at 10 and 11. Mill Valley Golf Clubhouse, 267 Buena Vista, Mill Valley, 415.652.2474. Children’s Storytime Thurs, 10:30am. Diesel Bookstore, 2419 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur, 415.785.8177. Corte Madera Library Preschool storytime. Wed, 11am. Corte Madera Library, 707 Meadowsweet Dr, Corte Madera, 707.924.6444. Fairfax Library Tues at Sat at 11, storytime for ages three and up. Tues-Sat, 11am. Fairfax Library, 2097 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Fairfax, 415.453.8092. Museum Mondays for Little Ones Children ages one to five and their families are invited to enjoy storytime, arts, crafts and museum activities. Mon, 10am. through Feb 27. $5. Charles M. Schulz Museum, 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa, 707.579.4452. Teen Double Feature Kids grade 6 through 12 can enjoy “Grease” and “Pitch Perfect” with a pizza break in between. Jan 5, 4pm. Novato Library, 1720 Novato Blvd, Novato, 415.898.4623.
Consciously Co-Creating a New Life Michael Mirdad leads a workshop wherein attendees are guided towards becoming co-creators of the best life possible. Jan 8, 2pm. $40. Center for Spiritual Living, 2075 Occidental Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.546.4543. E-Book Help Get one-on-one help in downloading library e-books to the Kindle, iPad and other devices. Call ahead to reserve a session. Thurs, 10am. Civic Center Library, 3501 Civic Center Dr, San Rafael, 415.473.6058. Evening of Miracles Michael Mirdad’s lecture is an amazing experience for all students of spirituality and healing. Jan 9, 7pm. $20. Center for Spiritual Living, 2075 Occidental Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.546.4543. Fashion & Culture in the Impressionist Era Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco docent Ellen Harden discusses how Impressionists and other artists captured the time through their paintings and works of art. Jan 10, 12pm. San Anselmo Library, 110 Tunstead Ave, San Anselmo, 415.258.4656. Kaffee Extravaganza Mt Tam Quilt Guild hosts Christine Barnes and Heidi Emmett to share their knowledge of San Francisco-born and London-based designer Kaffee Fassett. Jan 10, 7pm. Aldersgate Methodist Church, #1 Wellbrock Heights, San Rafael. The Marin Referral Network Join other professionals and entrepreneurs to share success stories and challenges, and brainstorm how to grow our businesses through referrals and leads. Thurs, 8am. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 240 Channing Way, San Rafael, 949.680.6153. Novato Garden Club Meeting Potluck luncheon for prospective club members includes hands-on workshop, “Making a terrarium.” Reservations required. Jan 11, 11am. Margaret Todd Senior Center, 1560 Hill Rd, Novato, 415.897.9822. Pet Portrait Workshop Barbara Lawrence leads a painting workshop. Sat, 2pm through Jan 28. $60/$190 all classes. Riley Street Art Supply, 1138 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.457.2787. Sea Level Rise: Consequences & Challenges Will Travis and John King, authorities on planning for sea level rise, speak on the challenges of accommodating the bay’s impending expansion. Jan 5, 1pm. Outdoor Art Club, 1 W Blithedale Ave, Mill Valley, 415.383.2582. Spanish Conversation Club Spanish language facilitators Carol Costa and Joe Cillo host a mix of beginning and intermediate conversational Spanish. Mon, 1pm. San Rafael Library, 1100 E St, San Rafael, 415.485.3323. Wildlife Picture Index Project Come to this training and learn how to contribute to the volunteer project by helping maintain wildlife cameras and processing photos. Jan 5, 1pm. Marin Water
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Readings Book Passage Jan 5, 7pm, “Hippie Inc” with Michael Klassen. Jan 6, 7pm, “The Journey to Wealth” with James Demmert. Jan 7, 1pm, “Six Months to Live” with Cathy Anello. Jan 7, 4pm, “Sharon” with Leon Borensztein. Jan 7, 7pm, “You Can Complete That Book!” with Leslie Keenan. Jan 8, 1pm, “At What Cost” with Jim L’etoile. Jan 9, 7pm, “My Life on the Ragged Paths of Pan” with Thanasis Maskaleris. Jan 10, 7pm, “A Prison Story: Iran” with Mehri Dadgar. Jan 11, 7pm, “How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen” with Julie King. Jan 11, 7pm, “Swing Time” with Zadie Smith. $30. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera 415.927.0960. Diesel Bookstore Jan 6, 6pm, “I Don’t Want to be Big” with Dev Petty, a kids pj party with the children’s author. 2419 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur 415.785.8177. Dr Insomnia’s Coffee & Teas Second Wednesday of every month, 7pm, “Poetry Farm” with local writers, bring your own poetry to read. 800 Grant Ave, Novato 415.897.9500. The Western Gate Teahouse Fridays, 6pm, Candlelight poetry and tea session with Scott Traffas. 7282 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Lagunitas 4157858309.
Theater Becoming Dr. Ruth Humorous and life-affirming one-woman play starring Ann Woodhead tells the story of Dr Ruth, America’s most famous sex therapist. Jan 5-22. $15-$30. Main Stage West, 104 N Main St, Sebastopol, 707.823.0177. The Lover The intriguing one-act play by Harold Pinter that examines the private intricacies of modern marriage gets a limited run from the Valley Players. Through Jan 5. Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater, 100 California Dr, Yountville, 707.944.9900. Private Lives, Private Lies North Bay playwright Dianna L Grayer’s original play about the struggles and joys of eight LGBTQ characters plays for one weekend only. Jan 7-8. Lucky Penny Community Arts Center, 1758 Industrial Way, Napa, 707.266.6305. The Real Americans Playwright and performer Dan Hoyle gets out of his bubble for this fascinating and funny one-man show about a roadtrip through the rust belt. Jan 7, 8pm. $25-$40. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, 415.383.9600. Red Hot Mama The acclaimed one-woman musical biography of entertainment legend Sophie Tucker comes alive with the sights and sounds of Broadway, vaudeville and Las Vegas nightclubs. Through Jan 29. $25-$40. Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.763.8920. Got a listing for our Sundial section? Send it to calendar@pacificsun.com.
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SINGLES WANTED! Single & Dissatisfied? Tired of spending holidays and weekends alone? Join with other singles to explore what’s blocking you from fulfillment in your relationships. Stimulating, growthful & fun. Nine-week coed Single’s Group starts week of Jan 9 (advance sign-up required). Space limited. Also, starting week of 1/09: ongoing, coed (emotional) INTIMACY GROUPS (partnered or single), WOMEN’S GROUP and INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY & COUPLES THERAPY. Central San Rafael. Possible financial assistance (health/flex savings accounts or insurance). Call (415) 453-8117 for more information. Renée Owen, LMFT#35255. https://therapists.psychologytoday.com/1834
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Feb 1-Mar 15, 2017. Turn any sliver of your life into a short piece of personal non-fiction writing– a mini-memoir. Led by veteran journalist/writing coach Mary Ann Hogan. Weds 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. @Tam High (Through the Tam Union H.S. Community Ed Program. Community Ed fees apply.) Register now at:Marinlearn.com or call 415-945-3730 RELATIONSHIP ISSUES, DIFFICULT TRANSITIONS, LOSS, TRAUMA, CHALLENGES, CHANGE, HEALING, GROWTH. Groups are often a preferred therapy option. Openings/waiting lists are available in each of the following safe, successful groups: 1)GENERAL GROUP FOR WOMEN AND MEN; 2) MOTHERLESS DAUGHTERS GROUP for women who have lost their mothers through death, illness, narcissism, separation, estrangement; 3) LOSS & GRIEF GROUP, death of a loved one or significant loss; 4) WOMEN OLDER & WISER (WOW! 55+); 5) FORMER MEMBERS OF HIGH DEMAND GROUPS, “spiritual,” “political,” “philosophical,”etc.Contact Colleen Russell, LMFT (MFC29249), Certified Group Facilitator, 25 years experience with individuals, couples, families, groups: 415-785-3513; crussellmft@earthlink.net; www.colleenrussellmft.com. Kentfield.
Teachings on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. With Sarah Woodard, Senior Student of the Vidyadhara Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Each Wednesday from January 18th-February 22nd, 7 pm-9pm. In this class, we will study and practice the Four Foundations of Mindfulness based on Satipattana Sutra. This teaching lays the ground for all mindfulness-based meditation methods. The classes will be held at Tamalpais Shambhala Meditation Group, 734 A Street, Suite 1, San Rafael. For more info visit: tamalpais.shambhala.org
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drew from the 2016 presidential race on February 20, after $150 million had been raised on his behalf ? City, among a large crowd of people from all around the world, Pope Francis canonized what woman, declaring her a saint?
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3 It was very sad when this entertaining daughter and mother died on consecutive days, December 27 and 28.
4 In April, visitors from around the world converged on Stratford-upon-Avon to celebrate what anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death?
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT —File No: 2016-141274. The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: JOELLY’S FASHION, 957 FRONT STREET, NOVATO, CA 94945: VINICIO GOMEZ, 2651 17TH ST, SAN PABLO, CA 94806. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Dec 27, 2016. (Publication Dates: Jan 04, Jan 11, Jan 18, Jan 25 of 2017)
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OTHER NOTICES NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: MICHAEL G. MULLIGA; Case No. PR-1604559 filed on Dec 20, 2016. To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of MICHAEL G. MULLIGAN. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by court. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed in the Superior Court of California, County of MARIN. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that BERNADETTE MULLIGAN 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: JAN 27, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept. M, Superior Court of California, Marin County, located at Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, Room # 113, 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 a notice under Section 9052 of the California Probate Code. 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 OR PARTY WITHOUT ATTORNEY: JAMES A. ZAKASKY Esq. sbn 256971, LAW OFFICES OF JAMES A. ZAKASKY, 50 OLD COURTHOUSE SQUARE, SUITE 605, SANTA ROSA, CA 95404. Telephone: 707-595-1148. FAX: 707595-1149 (Publication Dates: Dec 28 of 2016 and Jan 04, Jan 11, of 2017)
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No: CIV 1604458. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner YANGCHEN LHAMO CHANGBHAR filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: YANGCHEN LHAMO CHANGBHAR to YANGCHEN LHAMO CHANGRA. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: 02/08/2017 AT 08:30 AM, DEPT B, ROOM: B, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94913. A copy of this ORDER TO
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My girlfriend found a certain little blue pill in my jeans pocket, and her feelings were hurt. I explained that I’m as into her as ever; I just need a little extra help because I’m getting older. However, she’s taking this personally. How do I reassure her?—Rhymes With Niagara
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Back in seventh grade, erections were easy to get—especially when you were standing in front of the class giving your oral report on Harriet Tubman. A penis is generally at its peppiest when a man’s in his teens and 20s (before genes and/or years of bad living narrow the arteries from superhighways to single-file footpaths). That’s because erections are blood flow-powered—ultimately, anyway. They start in the brain in response to a thought or something from the environment—like being touched or seeing the hot neighbor bending over in yoga pants. Nitric oxide gets released and starts a chemical reaction that relaxes smooth muscle in the penis, allowing blood vessels to dilate: “Open up! Party time!” Then, sex researcher Dr. Robert Kolodny explains, “an increased amount of blood flows into the penis, where it is trapped in three spongy cylinders that run the length of the organ. The resulting fluid pressure is what causes the penis to increase in size … and to become rigid.” There’s an elastic fibrous membrane, the tunica albuginea, that keeps the blood in the penis. And this thing being leaky—kind of like a submarine hatch with a bad seal—is just one of the things (along with narrowed arteries, anxiety, endocrine problems, smoking and diabetes, among others) that can cause a penis to stay floppy or get wilty. Using a pharmaceutical erection helper is basically like calling in a plumber when the shower pressure isn’t what it used to be. It doesn’t make a man the least bit more attracted to a woman or more into sex than he’d otherwise be. It just relaxes the smooth muscle and increases blood flow, making the, um, cadet more likely to report for duty. Explain all of this to your girlfriend. Then tell her how beautiful and sexy you find her, and tell her again. And keep telling her—with regularity. Men don’t quite understand how much this means to a woman. When a woman believes her man finds her attractive, it helps her feel loved and secure. That reassurance, combined with being clued-in on the mechanics of the manpart, should help your girlfriend understand that there’s no reason to take your pill-popping personally. The pipes just need a little help; it isn’t the penis version of Groundhog Day—with the little feller peeking out, deciding the landscape is hopeless, and going back into hiding.
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In “senior dating,” how, and how soon, do you suggest I disclose my ED [erectile dysfunction]? I’m 77, and this woman I’m seeing is 60ish. —Man of Yore
When I was 13, I could read a book from across the room. These days, it’s sometimes hard to make out the words on those ginormous highway signs unless I let my Leader Dog take the wheel. Lucky for me, nobody snickers that I’m less of a woman because I have less-thanperfect eyesight. And it’s pretty stupid that we attach that baggage to the aging penis. We don’t expect a 1939 Studebaker to drive like a 2016 BMW. (And hey … where’s the backup camera on this thing?!) To say that you aren’t alone is something of an understatement. In reviewing survey data from men 75 or older, UCLA urology professor Christopher Saigal found that 77.5 percent reported experiencing some degree of erectile dysfunction—the inability to “get and keep an erection adequate for satisfactory intercourse.” And 47.5 percent have a complete inability to achieve liftoff. (P.S. This isn’t exactly a secret to women who date 70-something men.) Unfortunately, the reality for aging penises goes poorly with the ridiculous belief many people have that intercourse is the only “real” sex. However, sex therapist Dr. Marty Klein observes that ultimately, “what most people say they want from sex is some combination of pleasure and closeness.” You can give that to a woman—even if, at 77, everything on you is stiff but the one part you’d like to be. That’s what you need to convey. But don’t sit there in the bright lights of the diner and be all, “Let’s talk about my penis.” Wait till there’s a makeout moment, and after you kiss a bit, pause the action. In telling her, consider that you set the tone for whether your situation is some shameful thing or “just one of those things.” Humor tends to express the latter pretty well—like, “I have a pet name for my penis. It’s Rip Van Winkle, because he’s been out cold since the Bush administration.”Y
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Light, electricity
and magnetism are different expressions of a single phenomenon. Scottish scientist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) was the first to formulate a theory to explain that startling fact. One of the cornerstones of his work was a set of 20 equations with 20 unknowns. But a younger scientist named Oliver Heaviside decided this was much too complicated. He recast Maxwell’s cumbersome theory in the form of four equations with four unknowns. That became the new standard. In 2017, I believe you, Aries, will have a knack akin to Heaviside’s. You’ll see the concise essentials obscured by needless complexity. You’ll extract the shining truths trapped inside messy confusions.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “The thornbush
is the old obstacle in the road,” wrote Franz Kaf ka. “It must catch fire if you want to go further.” Let’s analyze this thought, Taurus. If it’s to be of maximum use for you in 2017, we will have to develop it further. So here are my questions: Did Kaf ka mean that you’re supposed to wait around passively, hoping the thornbush will somehow catch fire, either through a lucky lightning strike or an act of random vandalism? Or should you, instead, take matters into your own hands—douse the thornbush with gasoline and throw a match into it? Here’s another pertinent query: Is the thornbush really so broad and hardy that it blocks the whole road? If not, maybe you could just go around it.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The fictional character Scott Pilgrim is the hero of Bryan Lee O'Malley’s series of graphic novels. He becomes infatuated with a “ninja delivery girl” named Ramona Flowers, but there’s a complication. Before he can win her heart, he must defeat all seven of her evil ex-lovers. I’m sure your romantic history has compelled you to deal with equally challenging dilemmas, Gemini. But I suspect that you’ll get a reprieve from that kind of dark melodrama in 2017. The coming months should be a bright and expansive chapter in your Book of Love. CANCER (June 21-July 22): The creature known as the short-eared elephant shrew is typically four inches long and weighs a little more than one ounce. And yet it’s more genetically similar to elephants than to true shrews. In its home habitat of southern Africa, it’s known as the sengi. I propose that we regard it as one of your spirit animals in 2017. Its playful place in your life will symbolize the fact that you, too, will have secret connections to big, strong influences; you, too, will have natural links with powerhouses that outwardly don’t resemble you. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “When I look back, I see
my former selves, numerous as the trees,” writes Leo poet Chase Twichell. I’m sure that’s an experience you’ve had yourself. Do you find it comforting? Does it feel like being surrounded by old friends who cushion you with nurturing familiarity? Or is it oppressive and claustrophobic? Does it muffle your spontaneity and keep you tethered to the past? I think these are important questions for you to meditate on in 2017. It’s time to be very conscious and creative about shaping your relationships with all of the people you used to be.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “‘Life experience’ does not amount to very much and could be learned from novels alone … without any help from life.” So said Nobel Prize-winning author Elias Canetti, who was born in Bulgaria, had British citizenship and wrote in German. Although his idea contradicts conventional wisdom, I am presenting it for your consideration in 2017. You’re ready for a massive upgrade in your understanding about the nature of reality—and first-hand “life experience” alone won’t be enough to ensure that. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I am rooting for you to be flagrantly unique in 2017. I vehemently want you to be uninhibited about expressing your deepest, rawest, hottest inclinations. In this spirit, I offer the following four rallying cries: 1. “Don’t be
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addicted to looking cool, baby!”—my friend Luther. 2. Creative power arises when you conquer your tendency to stay detached.—paraphrased from poet Marianne Moore. 3. If you want to be original, have the courage to be an amateur.—paraphrased from poet Wallace Stevens. 4. “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.”—Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “There is a desperation for unknown things,” wrote poet Charles Wright, “a thirst for endlessness that snakes through our bones.” Every one of us has that desperation and thirst from time-to-time, but no one feels the pull toward perplexing enchantments and eternal riddles more often and more intensely than you Scorpios. And according to my astrological meditations on your life in 2017, you will experience this pull even more often and with greater intensity than ever before. Is that a problem? I don’t see why it should be. In fact, it could make you sexier and smarter than ever—especially if you regard it as a golden opportunity to become sexier and smarter than ever. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I hope you will seek out a wide range of intoxicating experiences in 2017. The omens predict it. Fate sanctifies it. I hope you will gracefully barrel your way through the daily whirl with a constant expectation of sly epiphanies, amusing ecstasies and practical miracles. There has rarely been a time in your life when you’ve had so much potential to heal old wounds through immersions in uncanny bliss. But please note: The best of these highs will NOT be induced by drugs or alcohol, but rather by natural means like sex, art, dancing, meditation, dreamwork, singing, yoga, lucid perceptions and vivid conversations. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I thought
of you when I read a tweet by a person who calls himself Vexing Voidsquid. “I feel imbued with a mysterious positive energy,” he wrote, “as if thousands of supplicants are worshipping golden statues of me somewhere.” Given the astrological omens, I think it’s quite possible that you will have similar feelings on regular occasions in 2017. I’m not necessarily saying that there will literally be golden statues of you in town squares and religious shrines, nor am I guaranteeing that thousands of supplicants will telepathically bathe you in adoration. But who cares how you’re imbued with mysterious positive energy, as long as you are?
AQUARIUS ( Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When it’s summer in the Northern Hemisphere, the birds known as arctic terns hang out in Greenland and Iceland. Before the chill sets in, they embark on an epic migration to Antarctica, arriving in time for another summer. But when the weather begins to turn too cold there, they head to the far north again. This is their yearly routine. In the course of a lifetime, a single bird may travel as far as 1.25 million miles—the equivalent of three roundtrips to the moon. I propose that you make this creature your spirit animal in 2017, Aquarius. May the arctic tern inspire you to journey as far as necessary to fulfill your personal equivalent of a quest for endless summer. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In June 1962, three prisoners sneaked out of the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, located on an island in San Francisco Bay. Did they succeed in escaping? Did they swim to safety through the frigid water and start new lives abroad? No one knows. Law enforcement officials never found them. Even today, though, the U.S. Marshals Service keeps the case open, and still investigates new evidence when it comes in. Are there comparable enigmas in your own life, Pisces? Events in your past that raised questions you’ve never been able to solve? In 2017, I bet you will finally get to the bottom of them.Y Homework: Send me a list of your top five New Year’s resolutions. Go to RealAstrology.com and click on “Email Rob.”
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