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A decade later, with a growing family and increased water use, my bill was around $40, and there it hovered for many years until ‘water industry professionals’ got on the district’s Board of Directors and started to corporatize the district, swelling the payroll and making MMWD into a plump takeover target for Coca Cola, Nestlé or the French water company, Veolia.

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‘Our’ district, because under California law the district is owned by its rate-payers. We could fire the Board of Directors and the administration anytime we choose and put a placeholder in charge while we reorganize the whole shooting match. This before we lose control to some corporate raider greedily eyeing the district’s cash flow and assets in its land, dams and distribution network.

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Dear Editor, I’ve just read an academic thesis by Dominican University student Felicia Burgess bearing on affordable housing in Marin (scholar.dominican.edu/seniortheses/29/). I’ve learned Marin County’s extreme levels of racial segregation are neither accidental nor benign, something established by a federal government audit, and it is precisely [the kind of ] opposition to affordable housing that has exacerbated segregation.

Marin’s opponents of affordable housing are recruited through fear-mongering promoting the notion that affordable and subsidized housing bring high density, increased crime and lower property values, a mistaken notion soundly refuted by academic studies. It is obvious that many of the opposition act out of deep, sometimes unexamined, racism, classism or both. Perhaps if housing was debated with facts rather than prejudices, Marin would now be promoting affordable and low-cost housing and thereby begin to reject its legacy and practice of damaging and unjust segregation.

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7 Can you identify the capital cities of Norway, Sweden and Finland?

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Two bicyclists, Jonathan Kibera, 38, of Mill Valley and Alex Boal, 38, of Corte Madera, were riding south on Shoreline, near Panoramic, when a group of cars began passing them. A vehicle honked and Boal made an obscene gesture with his finger. The last car, a black Tesla, pulled in front of the cyclists and slowed down. As Kibera continued riding, the driver appeared to intentionally impede the cyclist’s movements and eventually slammed his brake. Kibera collided with the Tesla and was ejected onto the roadway.

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The delay of the commercial Dungeness crab season has put the pinch on fishermen and local nonprofits that depend on crab dinners for fundraising.

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Crab feeds in question throughout North Bay

By Tom Gogola

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ll over the North Bay in recent days, crab committees have been meeting, boards of directors have been discussing and nonprofit organizations have fretted over the question: What to do about our annual Dungeness crab feed?

The state delayed the opening of the Dungeness crab season indefinitely on November 5 when a potentially fatal neurotoxin, domoic acid, was discovered in the Dungeness and in a year-round red

crab fishery, which was also shut down. This was very bad news for a $60 million California crabbing industry, and especially for the commercial crabbers who haul the pots, but the closure has also rippled to dozens of crab feeds planned in the North Bay in coming months.

Some organizations have come to rely on the fundraising power of the popular Dungeness crab—tickets in the $40–$60 range are often sold out months in advance—and there is real pain afoot if the crustaceans

aren’t available in time for the events, many of which are held toward the end of the commercial crab season, in February.

“This is not chump change we’re talking about, but some serious bucks for some serious projects” says Petaluma Rotary Club president Gary Brodie. His organization hosts an annual February crab feed in conjunction with a big raffle that has raised up to $35,000 for a range of programs: An annual $8,000 set-aside for gifts for needy

kids around the holidays and a $5,000–$8,000 check to support a local, free dictionary program for third-graders.

Brodie is hopeful that scuttlebutt about a season opener by early in the new year will bail out the crab season, even if the huge spike in demand could send the price through the roof. “At that point, we’ll find out if it’s going to reopen,” says Brodie, who owns an auto shop in Petaluma. “If it doesn’t, I’m sure we will replace the crab with some other food. We’re in wait-and-see mode.”

The Sonoma County Farm Bureau says it has been assured by its Bodega Bay crab wholesaler, the Tides Wharf, that come hell or high levels of domoic acid, there will be crab a-plenty at the organization’s February 6 event.

“People want the crab and want to know what we are doing,” says Marisa Ruffoni, a spokesperson at the Farm Bureau. “We’ve gotten a few calls to see if we’re going to stick to it.”

They are. The Great Sonoma Crab and Wine Fest is in its 27th year and draws 1,200 or more people a year, Ruffoni says. The feed is held to raise money for scholarship and agricultural-education programs, and features a gigantic inflatable Dungeness crab that hangs above crab-laden tables at Grace Pavilion at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds.

Ruffoni says the worst-case scenario is that the Farm Bureau may need to purchase crabs from Washington state (where there is no domoic disaster), via their Bodega wholesaler.

“I have heard that some are trying to find crab from elsewhere, and I think that might be a wise backup plan,” says Jordan Traverso, a spokesperson at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), which shut down the Dungeness and rock-crab fisheries.

Traverso says the CDFW is itself in wait-and-see mode. “I really can’t say how long this closure will last,”

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The Novato Horsemen event has been going on for at least 20 years, Colvin says, and worked with a broker in years past to supply the crab. “We’ve got to get on the phone with him,” he says. “This is a yearly deal, people call us and they expect us to do the crab. We’re kind of sitting here waiting and hoping for the best. It’s our first fundraiser of the year, and we usually make about $5,000 that we can put toward feed in our cattle program. We’re talking spaghetti, but we’re not going to make the money with that,” Colvin says.

As feed organizers fret, the state continues with its work as it emphasizes public safety.

“We certainly sympathize with organizations that have a cherished tradition of holiday crab feeds,” Delson says. “We know that it’s a big tradition, and we certainly hope that the acid levels will reach a level where we can make a recommendation. I can’t say when that will be, and public health and safety is the overriding priority.”

The Bolinas Community Center is a relative newcomer to the crabfeed scene, having hosted two in recent years, but development director Randi Arnold says that the feeds quickly became the center’s leading fundraiser after its annual Labor Day blowout, netting $4,000 in 2013 and then about $14,000 the following year.

The center has already shifted gears to a blues-and-barbecue theme for its late January event, which, like all these events, takes months to organize and begins with contacting fishermen or fish brokers, and getting enough crab commitments to feed the crowd. The center sold 140 tickets to its last feed.

“We decided that it wasn’t worth the risk to put all that work into it if the crabs aren’t going to be edible,” Arnold says. “But we’re not set in stone. If by December 31 it is lifted, crab would be our preference.”

Traverso stresses that the state is sympathetic to the crab-feed conundrum but isn’t lifting the ban until it’s safe to do so for everyone.

“It would be awful if a number of people got sick at a fundraising event due to domoic acid,” she says.

State Senator Mike McGuire has called a public meeting on December 3 to address the ongoing crab crisis, from 3pm to 6pm at the Steele Lane Community Center in Santa Rosa.Y

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she says via email. “The California Department of Public Health is doing testing, and once they see the levels go down to the point that it is not a significant human health risk, they could be compelled to lift the health advisory. Then the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) could be compelled to change their recommendation to us regarding the closures. I really have no way of knowing how long that could take. We are operating from the recommendation of OEHHA.” Other organizations have looked past the crab in their worst-case planning. “We were just saying how we’re going to have to do something else,” says Kim Hanson, chair of the Penngrove Social Firemen, which raises money for the local fire department. Hanson, whose son is a San Francisco crabber, says the organization is talking about a steak dinner in Penngrove Park as an alternative to its February crab feed.

This isn’t the organization’s biggest fundraiser, says Hanson, but adds that the Rancho Adobe fire department in Penngrove hosts a crab feed and fundraiser that it has come to rely on for purchasing equipment. The crab shutdown, she says, “will impact them greatly. They make around $10,000 a year and use it to buy critical equipment they need.”

In order to reopen the fisheries, state health officials need to see a two-week trend that would show that levels of the acid had dropped below 30 ppm. The OEHHA says it has been encouraged by the most recent tests undertaken by state health officials. “Thus far they remain above [30 ppm], but there has been some sign of improvement,” says Sam Delson, deputy director at OEHHA. “These crabs do process [domoic acid] through their system, but they have a slow metabolism.”

Time’s running out for the Novato Horsemen, which hosts an annual Valentine’s Day crab feed in February. “We haven’t made a decision, but we’ll have to make it by [this] week,” says Scott Colvin, a board member and past chairman of the organization’s crab committee. He’s not especially optimistic. “I don’t think we are doing it,” he says. Even if the season were to reopen, Colvin says, “the price of crab will be so astronomical—the numbers I’m hearing are up to $15 a pound.”

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The 36th annual Great Dickens Christmas Fair, which has roots in Marin, returns to the Cow Palace on Saturday, November 21.

The best gift

36th annual Great Dickens Christmas Fair returns

By David Templeton and Trent Anderson

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nspired by the writings of one of the greatest storytellers of all time, the Great Dickens Christmas Fair has surpassed the prolific Charles Dickens himself, by giving birth to thousands and thousands of brand new stories told by hundreds and hundreds of people who’ve been touched, in one way or another, by the magic of the massive annual recreation of Victorian England.

Everyone who’s ever

attended the fair, or helped organize its monstrous infrastructure, or peddled their crafts in the streets from a cart or booth, or played one of the hundreds of costumed historical and Dickensian characters, has walked away with their own stories—and possibly stepped into someone else’s story without even knowing it.

The 36th annual Great Dickens Fair, which opens on November 21 at the Cow Palace in Daly City, is produced each year by Red Barn

Productions, a descendent of the Living History Center, which famously produced the original Great Dickens Fair, along with two Renaissance Pleasure Faires—one in Novato, and one in Southern California. Founded by Ron and Phyllis Patterson, the Ren Faires were sold long ago to another company, which still runs them in Hollister and Irwindale. But the Dickens Fair is still a family operation, produced each year by the Patterson’s son Kevin and his wife Leslie. Red Barn Productions is named for the iconic red barn that once was a landmark for visitors arriving at the Ren Faire in Novato’s Black Point Forest.

Once again, this unique Bay

Area institution, staffed largely by folks from Marin County and surrounding areas, will be delivering bite-sized Dickensian adventures, placing them right in the path of wide-eyed visitors. In the countless encounters served up by the cast of characters and craftspeople who join together every year, brand new stories are about to be born. To honor this tradition, we’ve asked five people to tell their own Dickens Fair stories. Here they are, wrapped in garlands and served with a hot spiked eggnog.

Jay Davis first attended the Dickens Fair in the late 1970s, but wouldn’t become a recognizable part of it until decades later, after a friend invited

Among the many craftspeople who have sold their wares at the Dickens Fair—and the Renaissance Faires, too—few are as recognizable and depended upon as Rosie Echelmeier of San Anselmo. Twenty-five years ago, at the Dickens Faire, she created Rosie’s Posies, selling flowered garlands, head adornments, and small pin-on rosettes to visitors and Fair-workers, many of whom approach Echelmeier’s handiwork, less as crafty costume accessories, and more as beautiful pieces of wearable art.

Rosie Echelmeier “Twenty-five years. Where do I start?

I was a teacher in San Francisco, with a fine arts background. In my spare time, when I had any, if I wasn’t painting, I was making something with my hands. When I decided to retire from teaching, I knew I wanted to devote my time to creating things, but also needed to keep making some money.

I attended a Renaissance Faire, I fell in love with seeing so many people making their living doing their art. I thought, ‘Look at these gorgeous people, and these gorgeous things they are making! Maybe I could do something like this.’

So I put in an application to be a craftsperson, thinking I might make garlands or crowns out of twigs from Golden Gate Park. I didn’t have any formal training, but I thought I could probably do it. The

Over the past 45 years, Trent Anderson has attended the Dickens Christmas Fair more times than he can count. Formerly the director of marketing and corporate sponsorship for the Living History Center—the nonprofit which for years operated

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A Charles Dickens impersonator can be found at the Great Dickens Christmas Fair, where hundreds of people in costume recreate Victorian London.

the California Renaissance Pleasure Faire and the Great Dickens Christmas Fair—Anderson became the executive director of the Living History Centre in 1996, after the Renaissance Pleasure Faires (in Novato and in Southern California) were sold. Though no longer associated with the Fair in any way, he relishes returning every year to see old friends, and enjoy the kind of revelling and merry-making that only happens when hundreds of artists gather together to build a bit of Victorian London in San Francisco.

Those Victorians may have been tight-laced—but they knew how to party at Christmas time.

Trent Anderson “I don’t actually remember my first Dickens Fair, but I know I was there—because I’ve seen the pictures.

That one was held in San Francisco in a building down near what is now Army Street, just off Highway 101 South. I think the next one was held at Fort Mason, then at Pier 45 on the Embarcadero, then at The Great American Music Hall on O’Farrell Street—and then, up at the Cal Expo Fairgrounds in Sacramento. Eventually, the Dickens Fair opened at the Cow Palace in Daly City, where it’s been for a number of years now.

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“I asked myself, ‘What doesn’t the Dickens Fair have? Ah, I know! They don’t have a crackpot Victorian scientist!’”And thus my character, Professor Phineas J. Flockmocker III F.H.S.G. (Former High School Graduate) was born.

He believes he’s a genius and is intellectually superior to everyone else. He uses ‘Flockmocker Science,’ an incompetent science that only he (partially) understands. But in reality, a genius he is not.

During the mid-19th century, there were many bad ideas concerning heavier than air flight.

This is something that Flockmocker decided to conquer. So using scientifically unsound principles, the Steam Powered Flying Conveyance came into being and was a big hit at the fair. Appearing to be of cast iron and supposedly weighing in at only 250 pounds, it easily straps to my back. Of course, it would never get off the ground, but Flockmocker insists it will. He repeatedly tells visitors the tale that, on its very first attempt at flight, his former assistant attained the incredible altitude of 150 feet. In reality, that was because the device’s boiler exploded—but nevertheless …

150 feet, straight up!!! I like to tell people that I’m still searching for another assistant.

Once, while in character— wearing this same contraption—I encountered a NASA scientist. He couldn’t grasp the fantasy of the Dickens Fair, so he immediately pointed out a few of the many flaws in my invention. I responded, in character, by verbally grabbing him by both his collars and, shall we say, ‘taking him over the edge into the depths of absurdity.’ In the end he gave up, finally realizing that there was no getting through to Flockmocker.

first show I did was the Dickens Fair.

The first time I sold a wreath at the Dickens Fair—a big beautiful wreath with red flowers—the person asked me how much I wanted for it, and I heard myself saying, “Forty-five dollars.” It was quite beautiful, but as soon as I said it, I thought, ‘Well, they’ll never pay that. You just wrecked the sale.” But they didn’t bat an eye. They gave me the money and walked away happy, and stood there, shocked. Part of me couldn’t believe that someone would pay that much for something I made. Another time, a woman picked up a really lovely crown I’d made out of twigs and flowers, and she said, with a look of surprise on her face, “Well, I don’t have one of these … yet,” and I just smiled and said, “I’m happy you finally found it.”

After that year, I just never stopped.

I became a full-time, professional Renaissance and Victorian craftswoman. Over the years, I’ve hired many, many women of different nationalities to help me make garlands and wreaths. I’ve hired women who really needed work. And it’s been a wonderful second career. I bought a home in Marin. I sent my son to Waldorf School. All from money I made working at the fairs.

It’s an amazing thing that Phyllis and Ron created. So many people have been able to make their living and express themselves as artists at the same time. I especially love the looks on the faces of children, when they come up to my booth and start looking at all of the things I have on display. It’s just magical, that look of wonder.

It’s happened many times that a parent buys their child something from the cart, some beautiful little rosette or something, and then they go away, but after a while I feel a little tap on my arm, and there’s the child, coming back to say thank you.

But I just want to thank them. All of these people I meet, all of those smiles, it all adds up to a wonderful life. I’m so thankful for it, and I never forget the wonderful gift I found when I first became a part of the fair.”

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As an inventor, my most impressive item to date is an 8-foot tall, mechanical automaton I call ‘Steam Man.’ Every time I take him out, as he lumbers about the fair, people debate whether he is a real robot … or just a person inside.

To prove he is a real mechanical man, I open a small door in his stomach area. This reveals various gears whirling around, proving he is supposedly mechanical. One time a small child stared up at the spinning mechanism, completely filled with amazed wonderment.

That memory will remain with that young man for the rest of his life.

Over the years, my team of assistants and I have presented Flockermocker’s time machine, we’ve described traveling to the moon, hunting for ghosts and even dabbled in dentistry. We have a motto now: ‘At Flockmocker’s Workshop—the pots are always cracked.’”

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him to join the fair’s enormous cast of actors. It sounded appealing, but he knew that he would need to think up a character to play, and he didn’t want to be just another random Victorian.

With his years of skill at fabricating machines and props, he thought long and hard to come up with something truly original. The character he devised has, over the last 11 years, become one of the Fair’s most recognizable and eccentric residents. He now “performs” with a cast of seven other “assistants,” and shows off many of his inventions at a Dickens Fair “environment” known as Flockmocker’s Workshop.

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England—with my wife and young son—the Dickens’ invited us up to their estate in North Yorkshire.

While there, Jeanne-Marie Dickens informed me that she would be visiting the United States … and California … within a few months. When she did arrive, I was privileged to have lunch with her, where she was able to meet Phyllis Patterson, and her son Kevin Patterson.

That was Renaissance Faire time, so I was able to bring her out to the Faire in Los Angeles, where she met many of the participants and others—and created quite a stir. Later on, she also visited San Francisco, but unfortunately she was not able to stay long enough to attend the Dickens Fair that year.

She missed out. Had she stayed, she would have had loads of fun, would have witnessed a wonderful bunch of incredibly talented performers, and would have enjoyed some truly excellent food and drink.

I still go every year. The location may change from time to time, but one thing that never changes about the Dickens Faire is that it’s still one of the best ways in the Bay Area to celebrate the Christmas Holidays with style, fun and a dash of living history.

David Templeton has written about the arts in the Bay Area for almost 25 years, during which he’s attended the Dickens Fair as a volunteer game-booth worker, a costumed reveler (he was a Scottish explorer, complete with kilt and furry creature on his belt), a member of the reviewing press and last year, as a stalker. Here’s the story, with all of the juicy details.

David Templeton Last year at the Dickens Fair, for one full day, I became a stalker. I don’t mean that metaphorically.

With my adventurous son Andy as my accomplice, I spent the better part of my trip to the Fair’s faux Victorian London following one of literature’s most notorious bad guys as he made his way around the fair, intimidating and harassing everyone in his path. Why did I do this, you may ask?

To learn a few tips from a master, that’s why.

Charles Dickens wrote his share of villains. The two-faced Uriah Heep and the monstrous Mr. Murdstone,

from David Copperfield. Wackford Squeers, the evil headmaster from Nicholas Nickleby. Even the relatively likable Fagin, king of pickpocket boys, is, in the original book a pretty despicable guy.

But then there’s Bill Sikes.

Compared to him, all the others are amateurs.

I’d recently been cast as Bill in a production of the musical Oliver!

I wasn’t originally planning on stalking the Fair’s own version of Sikes when I arrived with the rest of my family. Though I always enjoy observing the actors at work— particularly appreciating the truelife historical figures who gather, associate, lecture on 19th Century science and recite Victorian poetry inside the Adventurers Club—I assumed that my day would largely consist of watching the stage shows, perusing the craft booths and grazing the food and drink booths for roasted chestnuts, oysters and chips, gingerbread and a cup or two of Christmas ale.

But within the first 30 minutes of walking the festively adorned streets constructed inside the Cow Palace, Andy and I wandered right past an encounter between Fagin and Bill Sikes himself. The cool thing about the Fair’s way of presenting Dickens’ characters is the way we see them in the context of their novels. In the morning, we see them improvising their way through scenes from the first chapters of their books, and throughout the day, those stories continue, scene by scene, through to the climax of the story. Ebenezer Scrooge, for example, when encountered shortly after opening, can be seen bah-humbugging his way through the streets, and as the day unfolds, we see him walking with the various Ghosts of Christmas, finally retracing his steps as a newly redeemed believer in Christmas.

“Hey Dad,” suggested Andy, after Sikes strolled imposingly off into the crowd. “Let’s follow him!” So we did. It wasn’t easy. Played by the impressively tall Anders Scott Hudson, this Bill Sikes moves fast, and would frequently disappear from sight for long periods of time.

When we would catch up, it was usually when he’d stop to bully another fair actor, or stop to engage another Oliver Twist character in conversation lifted, loosely, from the book.

Kevin Patterson “I was 10 when the first Dickens Faire happened. That was in the old anchor works, which is no longer there. It’s now Levi Plaza in the Embarcadero. It was an old smelting factory, with a 50-foothigh ceiling, and there was a giant chimney off to one side, with a huge

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Kevin Patterson, the producer of the Dickens Fair, recalls that the fair sprang from a Victorian-themed Christmas party his parents threw one year. It was so beautifully conceived, with detailed decorations and authentic costumes, that many of the guests said, “You have to do a Victorian Faire.

Like the Renaissance Faires, only with Dickens characters!’ A year or two later, the Great Dickens Christmas Fair was born. After a hiatus in the ’90s—due largely to the Loma Prieta earthquake—Kevin and his wife Melanie resurrected the Dickens Fair in 2000, moving it to the Cow Palace, in Daly City, where it has grown into a true Northern California holiday institution.

opening. And I remember that the chimney sweeps—who were, for a kid of 10, the perfect Dickens Fair characters—they would use that chimney as their ‘office.’ They’d sit in there and have their tea, and they would climb up this rope into the chimney, and then crawl across the roof and come down another rope somewhere else. That’s my first memory of the Dickens Fair, and it was absolutely magical!

The version of old Victorian England that my parents created always had that sense of magic to it, though they very much wanted it to feel real, too, especially at the beginning.

Another early memory of the Fair was being recruited to play one of Fagin’s pickpockets. I remember that every day, at one point, Fagin would stand up and deliver a morality speech to the people passing by, as all of the boys would scatter out and pretend to pick the crowd’s pockets. It was very, very cool. Over the next years, I became involved in the family business in various ways, working in the box office, running my own game booths, teaching proper English pub darts at my own ‘dart parlor.’ That dart booth is now being run by one of my sons.

Since bringing the Fair back 15 years ago, I can say that not a day of the fair goes by that I don’t find myself being surprised and delighted by something I could never have expected. It’s the magic of the holiday season. People’s hearts are just a little more open at this time of year, and when you put those people in an environment where they feel playful and safe, where there are funny and interesting and delightful characters around every corner, people do the most curious things. I am amazed and gratified every single day that I produce this show, and experience it as a person.

And I do. I make sure, whenever I’m walking through the Fair— even when I’m busy—to stop and look at what’s happening around me. It chokes me up, sometimes, it honestly does. To be part of something that has brought so much magic to the Bay Area for so many years.

It’s the best Christmas gift I could ever get.”Y

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By late afternoon, Bill started to recognize Andy and me, glaring at us harder and harder each time, until finally, he seemed to accept our constant, silently tagging along. At one point, shortly after we’d watched him make a plan, with Fagin, to track down and capture Oliver Twist, whom he’d just elaborately described as having been left in a ditch, Bill suddenly walked straight for us, stopping to glare one last time, looking us each in the eye before slowly smiling and nodding and tipping his hat.

“Gentlemen,” he snarled, and pushed between us, disappearing again into the crowd. We never saw him again, and though we hoped to catch up with him in time to watch the final fatal encounter between Sikes and his doomed accomplice Nancy (a scene that has become a bit of Fair legend for it’s stylishly played-out silhouetted violence, we were never able to cross his path for the rest of the day.

But for a while there, following in the frightening footsteps of one of literature’s greatest creations, Andy and I had the rare treat of experiencing the Fair in a whole new way. This year, we might even try it again, though perhaps we’ll pick a different character. This time, Ebenezer Scrooge might just end up being haunted—silently and respectfully, of course—by more than just ghosts.

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The acorn appetizer recipe, largely sourced from foraged

ingredients, is one of 11 from a West Marin Thanksgiving menu featured in the autumn issue of the Inverness Almanac. A minty yerba buena julep kicks off the celebration, chips and crackers precede the meaty mains (more on those in a minute) and panna cotta rendered from candy cap mushrooms closes out the feast with a dessert that’s definitely not grandma’s pumpkin pie.

“You are foraging year-round to make this menu,” says farmer and

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You are foraging year-round to —Molly Myerson make this menu.

species of out-of-town foragers.

The menu is not an invitation for everyone in San Francisco to come here to forage rose hips.” Instead, it honors the idea of intentionality around food, she says, with a menu that respects the land and those who live from it.

“It’s all about how you forage,” Myerson says. “You are on the land you love, and you protect [it], and you are getting food from that land as you harvest in a respectable way.”

Of course, there are shortcuts and supermarkets that will help you out, but if you want to get hardcore about it over the course of the year, you’ll need to shoot or otherwise acquire a deer; you’ll have to dive for an abalone—for which a license is required, and a guide if you haven’t done it before; and you may be driven to grab one of the numerously unhinged wild turkeys that seem to wander about everywhere.

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The abalone will be crusted and feature a crab-butter dipping sauce (give it up for the currently toxic Dungeness and rock crab as you bow your head in prayer this year), while the venison will be matched with roasted salsify root and huckleberry.

Note that it can take hours to gather enough of the berries for one pie. But you will experience the taste of that pie differently, Myerson says, even if it actually tastes the same as what you’d buy in four minutes at Whole Foods.

Try to wrap your head around that one as you start to gather the acorns. It will be worth it, Myerson insists—and may reveal your inner “balanoculturalist,” your archaic acorn eater, who appreciates the nutritional value of the nut of an oak and is willing to work for it.

“The process is part of the reward,” Myerson says. “You are changed by the food.”✹

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Myerson, 34, is a native of Washington Heights in upper Manhattan, and has been farming in the North Bay for eight years.

Her home neighborhood is definitely known more for its Cubano sandwiches and plantainbased platters of mofongo than prickly pear chutneys and mushroom tortes.

Myerson graduated from Bard College and headed west without any of the knowledge that would come to sustain her and her farm, she says. She supplies produce to the Point Reyes Station restaurant Osteria Stellina, and quail eggs to numerous Bay Area businesses. Her knowledge was earned through accrued “dirt time”—walking, finding and digging in West Marin.

Though Myerson loves foraging, she knows it’s a touchy subject because its popularity can trample the land. Foraging should be slow food, with an emphasis on the sloooow.

“People come here and don’t respect that there are people who have been watching over and tending to forage spots for decades,” Myerson says. “The pushback comes from a good place: The invasive

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menu co-author Molly Myerson, who created the menu with Leah Fritts. Fritts hails from the Sierra Foothills town of Paradise and has worked at and enjoyed restaurants up and down the coast, most recently as maitre’d at Sir and Star in Olema, a post she left to focus on events management and “helping to support and grow the amazing creative talents of West Marin, from chefs and farmers, to musicians, artists and naturalists.”

Fritts credits Myerson with most of the recipes. “She was able to paint the picture and with my experience in restaurants (mostly loving them and eating in them), I was able to offer suggestions, and a few personal touches I felt would be intriguing and delicious.”

Myerson grows vegetables and tends to a thriving quail-egg enterprise at Little Wing Farm on an acre in Bloomfield, between Petaluma and Tomales. The dinner, Myerson says, is grounded in a traditional Thanksgiving menu, with upgrades and substitutions plucked from the obscurity of the deep woods and meadows of the greater Point Reyes wilderness and beyond. You’ll pour a rich, spicy sage gravy over that wild turkey stuffed with porcini, fennel and

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Double dose Theresa Rebeck brings two comedies to the North Bay By David Templeton

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“While the play is billed as a comedy,” Elfenbaum says, “the dramatic scenes are surprisingly rich with nuance and complexity.

In addition, there is a sense that we know these inconsistent people— that they are, in fact, us.”

“Each character is noble yet flawed,” he says. “For actors, it’s a wonderful treat to explore the wide variety of these characters’ traits, through both comedy and drama in the same show.”

As a director, Elfenbaum says that he appreciates the way Theresa Rebeck doesn’t tie her plays up in a nice neat bow at the end.

“Perhaps it’s a spoiler,” he says, “but at the end of Dead Accounts we’re left without a clear resolution of the protagonist’s journey. We’re given a peek at the direction he might choose, but we don’t get to see him completely resolve his conflict.”

The point is, in Theresa Rebeck’s world, a nice clean resolution is rarely on the table. Which brings us to Seminar, which opened last weekend.

“Don’t defend yourself,” intones Leonard (Ron Severdia), an

Douglas (Devon McConnell) and Izzy (Veronica Valencia) give strong, appealing performances in a play in which every character is required to be torn apart, before learning the fine art of tearing apart others.

As Leonard gleefully pronounces early in the show, “Writers, in their natural state, are as civilized as feral cats.”

This entertaining exploration of artistic egos under pressure is a bit overcooked at times, but on the whole is deliciously fierce, ferocious and funny.Y

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wo entertainingly hardpunching comedies by Theresa Rebeck are hitting the North Bay within a week (and a 30-minute drive) of each other. From the number-crunching family members of Dead Accounts, beginning Friday and running through December 6 at the College of Marin (COM), to the mud-slinging wordsmiths of Seminar, running through November 28 at Santa Rosa’s Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, the desperate, big-dreaming residents of Theresa Rebeck’s gorgeously detailed universe have one thing in common— they rarely get what they want the way they want it.

Rebeck’s audiences, on the other hand, always walk away with more than they bargained for.

In COM’s Dead Accounts, directed

by Adrian Elfenbaum, a brokenhearted, white-collar criminal seeks sanctuary at his parents’ house, with millions of stolen dollars in tow, and his greedy, soon-to-be-ex-wife in pursuit. The result, according to director Elfenbaum, is a series of hilarious situations and brilliant comic wordplay—and a touch of something deeper.

esteemed author-turned-teacher-forhire. “If you’re defending yourself,” he tells a group of young writers he is in the middle of eviscerating, “you’re not listening.”

In this wickedly witty and wonderful, but (occasionally) infuriating comedy-drama— presented by Left Edge Theatre, Severdia plays Leonard with a mix of weary resignation, grinning antagonism and vicious, sociopathic bloodlust. Directed by Argo Thompson with a strong ear for the rapidly shifting rhythms of intellectual debate and literary doublespeak—though with a tendency to have his entire cast perform out to the audience instead of to each other—Seminar is the story of four would-be writers who pay a local legend $5,000 apiece to give a private class, “critiquing” their writing, and everything else about them, over the course of 10 soulshattering weeks.

Rose Roberts, as the Jane Austenloving Kate (who rents the New York apartment where the classes take place), is at the top of her game, and her variously talented classmates Martin ( Jacob de Heer),

Actor Jacob de Heer plays Martin in Theresa Rebeck’s play ‘Seminar.’

Loss of a legend Revisiting a ‘Showgirls’ conversation with stripper Carol Doda By David Templeton

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wenty years ago, in 1995, I picked up Carol Doda.

Literally.

The pioneering stripper and “adult” entertainer was waiting for me on the side of the road in San Francisco, where we’d arranged to meet before going to see the nownotorious movie ‘Showgirls.’ The film was a hot ticket, freshly landed in theaters, and everyone was curious— including Doda.

She was delighted by my invitation to escort her to the film, and the resulting pre-and-post-film conversation ranks among my favorite interviews of all time. With news that the legendary Doda has passed away, at the age of 78, I thought it would be an excellent time to revisit that conversation from two decades ago. Carol Doda, wherever you are, thanks for the memories, and we hope you are raising as much hell in Heaven as you once raised on Earth. ✹✹✹

“This is good. I almost never go to movies anymore! I’m too damn busy,” Carol Doda says with a sigh, slipping into my car for the ride across San Francisco.

We’re on our way to see the racy new musical Showgirls, much hyped for its unapologetic use of nudity.

Doda, of course, is the charismatic and legendary singer/dancer who, in the early ’60s, brought topless dancing into the mainstream with her groundbreaking shows at San Francisco’s North Beach District’s Condor Club, and whose then-unheard-of use of silicone implants gave her a 44-inch, touristattracting bust that was at one time insured by Lloyd’s of London for $1 million. Doda, certainly, is the most appropriate companion for this particular film.

It has been 10 years since Doda left the Condor Club after a 20-year reign as the Queen of Broadway.

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out on their way to the top. It is a glitzy, entertaining, thoroughly silly film. And … um … yes, there are more naked breasts per square inch than I personally have ever seen on screen—and that includes the bachelor party I once attended where Debbie Does Dallas was gleefully projected onto the wall above the outside swimming pool.

“Really? I barely even noticed any nudity,” Doda says with a laugh, as we leave the theater. “I wasn’t bothered in the least. As if I’m going to protest a little nudity, right?”

As we drive back to her shop, Doda admits to enjoying the film.

“All in all, I thought it was very well done. It entertained me. The nudity all made sense, though they may have embellished it a bit. The backstage stuff—don’t know how realistic that was. The dancers I know never paraded around naked saying, ‘Here I am, here I am.’ We were getting paid to take off our clothes in front of an audience. No one paid us to be naked backstage.

I’m not going to run around nude unless someone is paying me. To hell with it!

“I must say though,” she adds, “that I did streak once, in the ’70s, as a publicity stunt. I was totally embarrassed doing it! I ran down the Marina Green wearing only argyle socks and sneakers. It was very uncomfortable for me. But put me on a stage … I’m not embarrassed a bit. As long as people are paying so see my naked body, I don’t care. Let them look.”

Nomi, Showgirls’ tough-talking dancer from nowhere, has a similarly practical sense of modesty, though her drive for stardom takes her way beyond mere stripping.

“I’ve seen a lot of girls like Nomi,” Doda notes. “Dancers with that hard-edged, been-around, on-thestreets attitude. The business can hurt you if you’re not careful. The movie depicts that pretty well.

“So,” she says, smiling winningly, “my final pronouncement has to be that I liked it. I liked it a lot. But then I wasn’t expecting to see War and Peace.”

Doda laughs.

“Though, you know, there were a lot of wars going on in this movie, and we did see a lot of pieces.”

She’s on a roll now.

“And how come we never saw the men naked? I mean, fair is fair, right? Tit for tat.” She laughs again.

“So to speak.”✹

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Carol Doda, who passed away on November 9 at the age of 78, was well-known for her act at San Francisco’s Condor Club.

Since then she has taken on countless projects and business endeavors, including her leatherclad rock group Carol Doda and Her Lucky Stiffs. Then there is her Union Street lingerie shop (Carol Doda’s Champagne & Lace Lingerie Boutique) and an adultsonly telephone fantasy line (Carol Doda’s Pleasure Palace). She has put together a radio show called “Single in the City,” which she plans to syndicate nationally and she’s writing a live stage show in which she will portray fellow sex symbols Marilyn Monroe, Mae West and others.

She wasn’t kidding about being busy.

We arrive at the theater early, and end up at a nearby diner to kill some time. I ask about her lingerie business, which, I am informed, is about to go high-tech with a new online catalog service.

“There are a couple of unusual things about my store,” she explains.

“One is that we have all sizes: Small, medium, large, full-figured. Bra sizes used to be just 32, 34 and 36–A, B and C. But now, people come in needing D’s, E’s, F’s, double F’s, G’s and H’s. You wouldn’t believe it! We carry them all. I also have a lot of customers—men—who are crossdressers, and that’s just fine with me. If somebody says, ‘Don’t you mind when a man comes into your shop wanting a bra?’ I say, ‘Hey! I wouldn’t mind if a hippopotamus came in wanting a bra, as long as he has the money.’ I mean what the hell are clothes anyway? Who cares what people wear?”

Doda has a long-held reputation of being a first-class, natural-born businessperson. In 1974 she was even voted Business Person of the Year, for her “Asset Management,” by the Cambridge Club at Harvard University. It is a label she shrugs off.

“I’m just logical,” she says. “If you have to fend for yourself, you make the decisions that make sense. I did the breast implants way back when because I knew it would make my show better, and now I sell women’s apparel to whoever wants it, because it doesn’t make sense not to. I’m not out be some great businesswoman, but, you know, survival is survival. Which, I expect, is what this movie is about.”

Showgirls tells the tale of two feuding Las Vegas showgirls, Nomi Malone (Elizabeth Berkley) and Cristal Connors (Gina Gershon), who will stop at nothing and will bare everything to beat each other

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short half-century ago in San Francisco, a handsome young San Francisco State University art student with an angelic but powerful tenor voice gathered a few musician friends to form a band that, before long, was named the Jefferson Airplane. And the rest, as they say, is musical history.

To this day, Marty Balin has never stopped singing and writing songs— especially the romantic kind. In fact his very first recorded song was titled “I Specialize in Love”— released in 1962.

“I love a good love song, you know?” he reflects today. “I guess I’m just one of the those wimpy romantic singers.”

In 1965, Balin founded San Francisco’s first real rock club, The Matrix, when the folk clubs wouldn’t let him plug his guitar in. “It was a thrill, we spread the word about this club and this band the Jefferson Airplane, and since nobody knew what that meant, on the first night we played, all the record labels were there looking to sign us as the new thing. Rock music then was part of this tsunami of change.”

After “the Airplane” flew high through the latter half of the 1960s and then noisily imploded, Balin carried on with the Jefferson Starship, garnering even more mainstream success through the 1970s. He moved to Mill Valley in 1968, and still has a house there, “although I haven’t been there that

much—I came down to Florida permanently in 2000 because I have a daughter here who is disabled.”

Many of his songs—“It’s No Secret,” “Coming Back to Me,” “Miracles,” “Count on Me”— remain classics decades later.

Others—“Plastic Fantastic Lover,” “Volunteers,” “She Has Funny Cars,” “3/5 of a Mile in Ten Seconds”—are more of cult favorites, echoes of a fading time.

Balin performs many of these songs and more in new, mostlyacoustic arrangements on his recent, two-CD collection Good Memories, released to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Airplane. The first impression that the collection gives is that his voice remains strong and unchanged. He also has another new record of all new songs titled The Greatest Love.

He will sing both old and new tunes at the Throckmorton Theatre on Saturday, November 21.

In some ways, Balin remains a voice of ’60s idealism. “There was good and bad then too, of course,” he reflects. “But I still love the positive, uplifting songs, and I believe in songs with those qualities.

I believe that music can help change the world for the better.”✹ Marty Balin; Saturday, November 21; 8pm; 142 Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley; 415/383-9600; throckmortontheatre.org.

“SHEER JOY IN CINEMATIC FORM, Scott Mendelson,

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In ‘Heart of a Dog,’ Laurie Anderson takes the advice of a Buddhist advisor when it comes to the death of her terrier, Lolabelle.

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Laurie Anderson explores grief in ‘Heart of a Dog’ By Richard von Busack

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n Heart of a Dog, performance artist Laurie Anderson addresses the subject of grief the way she addresses any subject—by sidling up to it. “I want to tell you a story about a story,” she says, describing what a tale-teller leaves out, just out of the habit of codifying memory. She narrates through clouds of on-screen images. It’s a blend of found footage, home movies slowed and manipulated, images taken from a small camera mounted on the head of a dog and white-on-black animation.

She talks of the tension of reconciling Buddhist practice with her own letting go. Her late terrier Lolabelle was no ordinary dog.

Anderson recalls going on a solo trip with Lolabelle to the Northern California coast, in an effort to see if she could expand the animal’s reputed understanding of 500 words. The presence of circling redtails above, hunting him, taught the territorial little animal that he had a new perimeter to observe.

Thus Anderson broadens the subject to include September 11, a day reminding us that death could come from the sky. New York after the attack, white with ashes like the aftermath of a snowfall, leads to the account of the death of Anderson’s mother in snow country.

The comforting yet omniscient

voice is more clipped now, more urgent. There’s a shorter interval in the significant pause before she pronounces the last word in one of her koans. But faith makes a person counterintuitive sometimes: Anderson took the advice of a Buddhist advisor instead of a veterinarian; the Buddhist argued that the dog didn’t need to be put to sleep on the grounds that Lolabelle needed more time to process her impending death. This, to me, was idiotic. Is it not more likely that the question of death is above a dog’s paygrade … and that this is what gives the dying of a pet its unique keenness: They don’t understand it, and we do?

Otherwise, Anderson builds her story like a good song—first gone dog, then gone mother, then gone city. And the last voice we hear in this film is Anderson’s late husband Lou Reed on the soundtrack. Heart of a Dog is like the Sufi proverb by Idries Shah: “The rose has gone from the garden; What shall we do with the thorns?”Y ‘Heart of a Dog’ plays through Thursday, November 26 at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center; rafaelfilm.cafilm.org.

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Now where did I put those keys?

By Mark Sockell, MD, specialist in internal medicine and geriatrics

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hen asked who played opposite Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, do you draw a blank? Do you sometimes forget the exact date if you haven’t just read the newspaper?

When these things happen, do you chalk it up as a minor frustration of getting older or do you worry it could be a symptom of something worse, like Alzheimer’s?

Certainly, there is some cause for worry. More than five million Americans are affected by neurodegenerative disorders such dementia. Alzheimer’s, the most common form of dementia, occurs in 10% percent of people over age 65, 33% of those over 85 and more than 50% of people over 90.

Age is the biggest risk factor for such disorders, but the good news is that all forgetfulness is not dementia.

Occasional minor memory loss, trouble recalling specific words or names, and greater difficulty in multi-tasking are all part of the normal, lifelong process called “cognitive aging.” Much like muscles and muscle function, as we get older our brains undergo gradual structural and functional changes such as loss of volume, reductions in blood flow and changes in the brain’s neurotransmitters. Although the degree is different in every individual, this typically causes a modest decline in cognitive abilities such as language, memory, and reasoning.

How do we know what we are experiencing is the expected part of aging?

We can start by understanding the key feature of Alzheimer’s disease -- the insidious onset over months to years of cognitive decline severe enough to be recognized by friends and family and which affects the ability to function in a work or social environment. Forgetting Bogart’s counterpart is not Alzheimer’s, but forgetting your mother-in-law’s or boss’s name could be. Forgetting where you left your tie is not Alzheimer’s but using it as a belt instead of under the collar could be. Not being able manage all the functions of the TV remote is not dementia, but forgetting how to work the stove may be. And how about forgetting where you put your keys? This, too, is not indicative of Alzheimer’s, unless they end up in weird places, like the refrigerator.

Most Alzheimer’s is characterized by a forgetfulness that impairs a person’s ability to learn and retain new information. With cognitive aging, however, it probably will be harder to learn Spanish, even at age 55, but you should be able to retain new information and slowly improve your skills.

Alzheimer’s also affects nonmemory areas, such as decision making, judgment, reasoning and planning and organizing. You may take longer to mull over how to plan or monitor your finances – that’s normal cognitive aging (and commonsense). But turning such

decisions over to someone you don’t know might be the sign of a more serious impairment. You may not be able to master an Android, but if you forget how to use the telephone, see your doctor.

Age-related cognitive changes aren’t necessarily all negative. With age, we see and often experience an increase in wisdom, breadth and depth of knowledge, and compassion. In addition, research shows that certain cognitive abilities stay stable as we age, including intelligence, long term memory, ability to focus, use of language and problem solving.

Can anything be done to slow down or compensate for age-related changes to our brain function? More good news: we can take certain steps to maintain our healthy brains as we age: the best evidence is for exercise, and I recommend at least 15-30 minutes twice daily of something you enjoy. Reducing stress managing sleep issues will improve learning and memory; a heart healthy diet such as the Mediterranean Diet is recommended by most experts.

Finally, see your doctor regularly and ask her to review to your prescription and over the counter medications to see if any impair brain function.

Many older patients develop adaptive strategies to help memory such as always putting things in the same places, writing notes or keeping a calendar. Keep mentally stimulated and socially connected. Take a Tai Chi class, talk to friends, and keep doing that daily crossword puzzle!

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A Grand Overture-Gala Saturday, November 21, 2015 @ 5pm

Crushers of Comedy

Saturday, November 28, 2015 @ 7:30pm

Karen MacNeil

Tuesday, December 1, 2015 @ 7pm

Carlene Carter

Saturday, December 5, 2015 @ 7pm

By Matthew Stafford and Lily O’Brien

Friday, November 20 - Thursday, November 26 including her own. Soprano Marlis Petersen plays the title role.

Mind Reels: The Art of the Steal (1:30) Art-filled film about the decades-long controversy over the fortune, governance and location of the Barnes Collection.

Mockingjay Double Feature (4:19) Catch The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 and 2 in one action-packed four-hour marathon. Discount hot dogs, ice cream, popcorn and soda pop, too!

My All American (1:53) Biopic of inspirational football star Freddie Steinmark and his UT Austin football coach Darrell Royal; Aaron Eckhart stars.

National Theatre London: Hamlet (4:00) Catch Benedict Cumberbatch as the Bard’s conflicted, vengeful prince of Denmark, direct from London in big-screen high definition.

The Night Before (1:41) Ethan (Joseph GordonLevitt), Isaac (Seth Rogen) and Chris (Anthony Mackie) are childhood friends searching for the ultimate experience for their annual Christmas Eve reunion.

The Peanuts Movie (1:26) Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus and the rest of the gang return to the big screen in 3D animation; the Red Baron co-stars.

Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict (1:37) Documentary by Lisa Immordino Vreeland about a colorful character who was not only ahead of her time but helped to define it.

Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (2:46) An overworked Hindu king switches places with a happy-golucky commoner who’s his spitting image; palace intrigue and a lovely princess complicate matters.

Room (1:58) A 5-year-old boy who’s spent his life trapped in a tiny room with his loving mother gets to savor the outside world for the first time.

Secret in Their Eyes (1:51) Thirteen years after the teenage daughter of one of the members of a team of investigators is murdered, an unspeakable secret is discovered. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Julia Roberts and Nicole Kidman star.

Spectre (2:30) Daniel Craig’s farewell to James Bond finds 007 on the trail of his favorite crime/ terrorism/revenge/extortion outfit; Christoph Waltz and Monica Bellucci co-star.

Spotlight (2:08) True story about the Boston Globe’s tenacious investigation into a decades-long Catholic Church cover-up; Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton and John Slattery star.

Suffragette (1:46) Carey Mulligan stars as a turnof-the-century activist who uses civil disobedience to fight for women’s suffrage; Meryl Streep cameos as Emmeline Pankhurst.

Touch of Evil (1:11) Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh star with Welles in a visionary drama about police corruption and racism at the Mexican border. This was Orson Welles’ last film for a Hollywood studio.

The 33 (2:08) True tale of the daring rescue of 33 Chilean miners who were trapped for 69 days in 2010; Antonio Banderas directs Martin Sheen and Jennifer Lopez.

Trumbo (2:4) Bryan Cranston stars at the legendary hollywood screenwriter who won two Academy Awards and and went on to expose the absurdity and injustice of the Hollywood blacklist in 1947. Hellen Mirren co-stars.

You Can’t Take it With You (2:6) Classic Frank Capra film star James Stewart as a man from a family of snobs who is engaged to a woman from an eccentric family.

What Our Fathers Did (1:36) A human rights lawyer conducts conversations with two men whose fathers were indicted as war criminals for their roles in WWII.

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

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

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All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records (1:34) Affectionate documentary about the once-dominant vinyl superstore features memories from David Geffen, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen and other aficionados.

A Ballerina’s Tale (1:25) Documentary portrait of African-American prima ballerina Misty Copeland and her struggles with injuries, race and body image.

Brooklyn (1:23) Moving story about Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan), a young Irish immigrant navigating her way through 1950s Brooklyn.

By the Sea (2:12) Angelina Jolie-Pitt wrote, directed and stars in (along with hubby Brad Pitt) this film about a couple In 1970s France, attempting to rebuild their crumbling marriage on an extended vacation to a small coastal town.

Bridge of Spies (1:35) Real-life Spielberg thriller stars Tom Hanks as a Brooklyn lawyer recruited by the CIA to rescue an American pilot from the Soviet Union; screenplay by Ethan & Joel Coen.

The Good Dinosaur (1:40) Pixar Animation’s take on what would have happened if the asteroid that hit earth and killed all the dinosaurs— missed! Raymond Ochoa lends voices to Arlo the Apatosarus.

Goosebumps (1:43) Brechtian yet familyfriendly horror comedy in which real-life author R.L. Stine (Jack Black) accidentally unleashes the creatures from his Goosebumps stories.

Heart of a Dog (1:15) Musician Laurie Anderson’s acclaimed, unconventional documentary weaves together art, politics, philosophy and memory into a celebration of her late pooch Lolabelle.

He Named Me Malala (1:27) Documentary about Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai and her fight for education for all girls worldwide.

Hotel Transylvania 2 (1:29) The horrific hoteliers are back and opening their doors to human guests as well as a cranky old vampire named Vlad (Mel Brooks).

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 (2:10) Rebel leader Katniss Everdeen is back, raising an army against the president as violence consumes the Capitol; Jenifer Lawrence and Donald Sutherland star.

The Intern (2:01) Retired business tycoon Robert De Niro lands an internship at a fashion startup run by perky Anne Hathaway.

Jafar Panahi’s Taxi (1:22) The rogue filmmaker outfits a cab with cameras and chats with his passengers about censorship, morality and other not-so-serious subjects.

Labyrinth of Lies (2:4) Story about the discovery of an Auschwitz guard in post-war Germany and the lies and guilt that a young attorney finds when he takes on the case.

Love the Coopers (1:46) Comedy about the kooky mishaps surrounding a Christmas Eve family reunion; Diane Keaton, Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei and John Goodman star.

The Martian (2:16) Ridley Scott sci-fi adventure about a daring NASA attempt to rescue an astronaut marooned on Mars; Matt Damon stars.

Meet the Patels (1:28) Reality rom-com about 30-year-old Ravi Patel, the apex of a triangle between himself, his parents and the woman of his dreams.

Meru (1:27) Acclaimed documentary follows three determined climbers up treacherous, “unclimbable” Mount Meru in the Himalayas.

The Metropolitan Opera: Lulu (4:30) Berg’s notorious femme fatale who shatters lives,

A Ballerina’s Tale (No Rating) Lark: Fri 1:40; Tue 5:15; Thu 4 All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records (Not Rated) Lark: Sat 5; Tue 3; Thu 6 Bridge of Spies (PG-13) Larkspur Landing: Fri 6:45, 10; Sat-Sun 12:15, 3:30, 6:45, 10; Mon 6:45, 10 Marin: Fri 4, 7, 10; Sat 1, 4, 7, 10; Sun 1, 4, 7; Mon-Wed 4, 7 Northgate: FriMon 11, 2:10, 5:20, 8:30 Rowland: Fri-Tue 12:45, 4:05, 7:25, 10:40 Regency: Fri-Sat 11:15, 1:55, 4:45, 7:40, 10:25; Sun-Tue 11:15, 1:55, 4:45, 7:40 • Brooklyn (PG-13) Regency: Fri-Sun 10:25, 1:20, 4:10, 7:15, 10:15; Mon-Tue 10:25, 1:20, 4:10, 7:15 • By the Sea (R) Northgate: Tues 8pm, 10:35pm 12:01am; 3D showtimes at 7, 9:25; Wed-Thu • The Good Dinosaur (PG) 10:40, 1:10, 3:40, 6:10, 8:40; 3D showtimes 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30 Goosebumps (PG) Northgate: Fri-Mon 5:10, 10:15; 3D showtimes at 2:40, 7:40 Heart of a Dog (Not Rated) Rafael: Fri 4:45, 6:45, 8:30; Sat-Sun 2:45, 4:45, 6:45, 8:30; Mon-Thu 6:45, 8:30 Lark: Sun 6:15; Wed 7:30 • He Named Me Malala (Not Rated) Hotel Transylvania 2 (PG) Northgate: Fri-Mon 12:15 The Hunger Games: Century Cinema: Fri 7 Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:15, 1:15, 2:15, 3:25, 4:45, 5:25, 6:40, Mockingjay Part 2 (PG-13) 7:45, 7:45, 9:50; Sun-Tue 12:15, 1:15, 2:15, 3:25, 4:45, 5:25, 6:40, 7:45 Marin: Fri 3:45, 6:45, 9:45; Sat 9:45, 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45; Sun 12:45, 3:45, 6:45; Mon-Tue 4, 7; Wed-Thu 1, 4, 7 Northgate: Fri-Thur 10:50, 11:50, 12:50, 1:55, 2:55, 3:55, 5, 6, 7, 8:05, 9:05, 10:05 Rowland: Fri-Thu 11:15, 1, 2:25, 4:10, 5:45, 7:20, 8:55, 10:30 Tiburon: Fri 3:30, 6:50, 9:50, Sat 12, 3:30, 6:50, 9:50, Sun 12, 3:30, 6:50, Mon-Tue 3:30, 6:50 The Intern (PG-13) Lark: Fri 8:45; Sat 7:15; Mon 5:50; Wed 4:45; Thu 8:15 Jafar Panahi’s Taxi (Not Rated) Rafael: Fri, Mon-Thu 6:15; Sat 2:15, 6:15; Sun 2:15 • Labyrinth of Lies (Not Rated) Lark: 6; Sat 2:15; Mon 1; Tue 7:20 Love the Coopers (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Mon 11:10, 1:50, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 Rowland: Fri-Tue 11:50 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:35 The Martian (PG-13) Larkspur Landing: Fri 7; 3D showtimes 10:10; Sat-Sun 12:30, 7, 3D showtimes 3:45, 10:10; Mon 7, 3D showtimes 10:10; Northgate: Fri-Wed 4:10, 10:30; 3D showtimes at 1, 7:20 Meet the Patels (Not Rated) Rafael: Fri-Sat 4:00, 8:15; Mon-Thu 8:15 Meru (Not Rated) Lark: Mon 8:30 Lark: Sat 9:30am • The Met. Opera: Lulu (NR) • Mind Reels: The Art of the Steal (Not Rated) Lark: Tue 3 Mockingjay Double Feature Northgate: Fri-Thu 10:50, 11:50, 12:50, 1:55, 2:55, 3:55, 5, 6, 7, 8:05, 9:05, (PG-13) 10:05 Rowland: Fri-Thu 11:15, 1, 2:25, 4:10, 5:45, 7:20, 8:55, 10:30 My All American (PG) Northgate: Fri-Mon 11:40 Northgate: Fri-Thur 12, 2:30, 4:55, 7:30, 10; Roland: Fri-Tue 12, 2:45, 5:20, 8, • The Night Before (R) 10:40 • National Theater London: Hamlet (Not Rated) Lark: Sun 2 The Peanuts Movie (G) Larkspur Landing: Fri 7:15pm, 9:40pm; Sat-Sun 11:40, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:40; Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:20, 1:40, 2:40, 4:10, 5:10, 7:45, Sun-Tue 12:20, 1:40, 2:40, 4:10, 5:10 Northgate: Fri-Mon 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7:05, 9:30; 3D showtimes at 12:45, 3:15 Rowland: Fri-Tue 11:40, 2, 4:25, 7, 9:30 Tiburon: Fri 3:20, 5:40, 8, Sat-Sun 1, 3:20, 5:40, 8, Mon-Tue 3:20, 5:40, 8 • Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict (Not Rated) Rafael: Fri 4:15, 6:30, 8:45 Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (NR) Northgate: Fri-Mon 2:35, 6:10, 9:45 Room (R) Northgate: 11:20, 2:05, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 Regency: Fri-Sat 10:35, 1:20, 4:05, 7:10, 10; Sun-Thu 10:35, 1:20, 4:05, 7:10 • Secret in Their Eyes (PG-13) Northgate: Thu 8,12:01am; Fri-Mon 11:35, 2:20, 5:05, 7:45, 10:30; Rowland: Thu 8pm , 10:45; Fri-Tue 11:30am, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30 10:10 Spectre (PG-13) Larkspur Landing: Fri 6:30, 9:50; Sat-Sun 11:50, 3:10, 6:30, 9:50; Mon 6:30, 9:50 Fairfax: Fri-Sun 1:15, 4:30, 6:40, 8, 9:55; Sun-Tue 1:15, 4:30, 6:40, 8 Northgate: Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:45, 5:35, 7:10, 8:50, 10:25 Rowland: Fri-Tues 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:25 Sequoia: Fri 3:45, 7, 10:15; Sat 10:35am, 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:25; Sun 10:35, 1:30, 4:25, 7:20; Mon 3:45, 7; Tue 3:45 Tiburon: Fri 3:45, 7, 9:55, Sat 12:30, 3:45, 7, 9:55, Sun 12:30, 3:45, 7, Mon-Tue 3:45, 7 Spotlight (R) Regency: Thu 11:05, 12:55, 2:20, 3:55, 5:25, 7; Fri 11:05, 12:45, 2:20, 3:55, 5:25, 7; Sat 11:05, 2:20, 3:55 5:25, 7, 8:30, 10:05; Sun-Tue 11:05, 12:55, 2:20, 3:55, 5:25, 7 Sequoia: Fri 4:25, 7:20, 10:25; Sat 10:35, 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:25; Sun 10:35, 1:30, 4:25, 7:20; Mon-Tue 4:25, 7:20 Suffragette (PG-13) Regency: Fri 11:35, 2:10, 4:55, 7:50, 10:20; Sat 4:55, 7:50, 10:20 Sun 11, 7:50 Mon-Thu 11:35, 2:10, 4:55, 7:50 Rafael: 4:30, 7 • Touch of Evil (Not Rated) The 33 (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Mon 11:15, 2:15, 5:15, 8:15 Rowland: Fri-Tue 10:45, 1:40, 4:35, 7:35, 10:30 Regency: Fri-Sat 10:30, 1:30, 4:20, 7:30, 10:25; Sun-Tue 10:30, 1:30, 4:20, 7:30 • Trumbo (R) • You Can’t Take It With You (NR) Lark: Sun 11am • What Our Fathers Did (NR) Lark: 3:45; Sun 8:20; Mon 3:45; Wed 2:30

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Sundial Concerts MARIN David Nelson Band The legendary musician and his band of psychedelic rock veterans call the Grate Room home for a three-night extravaganza.

Nov 20-22, 8pm. $40. Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael, 415.524.2773.

M Lockwood Porter Straddling the line between Americana and rock ‘n’ roll, this Bay Area transplant plays with a dusty Midwestern heart. Folk duo New American Farmers open. Nov 24, 8pm. $10. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.1100.

Marty Balin Founding member and lead vocalist of Jefferson Airplane is now a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member. Nov 21, 8pm.

Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, 415.383.9600.

SONOMA The Joy Formidable London alt-rockers get loud in the historic Redwood Barn, with a wine bar and food trucks on hand. Nov 21, 8pm. $37. Gundlach Bundschu Winery, 2000 Denmark St, Sonoma, 707.938.5277.

Clubs&Venues

Lucius Brooklyn indie pop stars play a benefit for the Phoenix in partnership with Lagunitas Brewing Company. 21 and over only.

Nov 21, 8pm. $18. Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington St, Petaluma, 707.762.3565.

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NAPA Shawn Colvin Popular songwriter delivers her heartrending folk music, with New York songstress Sara Rachele opening. Nov 20, 8pm. $40-$50. City Winery Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.260.1600.

Squeeze British new wave duo of Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook return to the US for the first time in nearly two decades with an acoustic set of new material and old favorites. Nov 18-19, 8pm. $45-$55.

City Winery Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.260.1600.

Belrose Theater Thurs, open mic night. 1415 Fifth Ave, San Rafael, 415.454.6422.

Benissimo Ristorante & Bar Thurs, Fri, live music. 18 Tamalpais Dr, Corte Madera, 415.927.2316.

Old St Hilary’s Landmark Nov 22, 4pm, the Divisa Ensemble. 201 Esperanza, Tiburon.

Corte Madera Library Nov 19, 7pm, “Over the Sea to Skye” Celtic music with Margaret Miles.

707 Meadowsweet Dr, Corte Madera, 707.924.6444.

Osteria Divino Nov 18, Jonathan Poretz. Nov 19, Passion Habanera. Nov 20, Parker Grant Trio. Nov 21, Mark Meadows Trio. Nov 22, Gabrielle Cavassa. Nov 24, Parker Grant. Nov 25, Noel Jewkes Duo. 37 Caledonia St, Sausalito, 415.331.9355.

Dance Palace Nov 22, 4pm, Common Voice Fall Concert, Talent Show & Sing-a-long. 503 B St, Pt Reyes Station, 415.663.1075.

Fenix Nov 19, Eric Wiley. Nov 20, Shana Morrison & Caledonia. Nov 21, the Unauthorized Rolling Stones. Nov 22, the Carter Family Review. Wed, Pro blues jam. 919 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.813.5600.

Symphony Napa Valley Tenth anniversary concert is a “Grand Overture” gala celebration. Nov 21, 3pm. $30 and up. Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater, 100 California Dr, Yountville, 707.944.9900.

First Presbyterian Church of San Anselmo Nov 21, Marin Baroque presents “And All in Friendly Consort Meet” with Dan Cromeenes. 72 Kensington Rd, San Anselmo, 415.497.6634.

George’s Nightclub Nov 20, Pride & Joy. Nov 21, DJ Maroquien.

Nov 24, Planet Barz free-style rap battles.

Wed, George’s Jazz Time jam. Thurs, California Flight Project. Sun, Mexican Banda. 842 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.226.0262.

HopMonk Novato Nov 19, Benefit for Haitian children with Elvin Bisop and the Sam Chase. Nov 20, Absynth Quintet. Nov 21, Points North.

Nov 25, Jimi Hendrix Birthday open mic with Garrick Davis. 224 Vintage Way, Novato, 415.892.6200. paradigmagency.com

Songstress and Grammy award-winner Shawn Colvin takes the stage on Friday, November 20 at City Winery Napa.

9pm, Walt the Dog. Nov 24, Song Book Night with Matt Herrero. Nov 25, Black Wed with the Hump. Mon, open mic.

Wed, the Hump. 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax, 415.459.1091.

No Name Bar Nov 18, Scott Wilcox and friends. Nov 19, Michael LaMacchia Band. Nov 20, Michael Aragon Quartet. Nov 21, Chris Saunders Band. Nov 22, Devin Patrick & the Vigilante. Nov 25, Tin Whiskers. Mon, Kimrea and the Dreamdogs. Tues, open mic.

757 Bridgeway, Sausalito, 415.332.1392.

Bay Area Discovery Museum Nov 21, 11am, Alison Faith Levy. Free with admission. Fort Baker, 557 McReynolds Rd, Sausalito, 415.339.3900.

Y&T The Bay Area’s own innovators of hard rock bring their shredding sounds to the North Bay for two shows. Nov 20-21, 8pm. $36$41. Mystic Theatre, 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.765.2121.

CALENDAR

Marin Center Showcase Theatre Nov 22, 2pm, Marin Golden Gate Barbershop Chorus. 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael, 415.499.6800.

19 Broadway Club Nov 18, Black Wed with the Hump. Nov 19, Fistful of Scandal. Nov 20, 5:30pm, Darren Nelson. Nov 20, 9pm, Cha Ching. Nov 21, the Sam Chase and Timothy O’Neil Band.

Nov 22, 5pm, Jazz Roots Band. Nov 22,

Panama Hotel Restaurant Nov 18, Deborah Winters. Nov 19, C-JAM with Connie Ducey. Nov 24, Lorin Rowan.

Nov 25, River Town Trio. 4 Bayview St, San Rafael, 415.457.3993.

Peri’s Silver Dollar Nov 18, the Elvis Johnson Soul Revue. Nov 19, Burnsy’s Sugar Shack. Nov 20, Soul Mechanix. Nov 24, Waldo’s Special. Mon, Billy D’s open mic. 29 Broadway, Fairfax, 415.459.9910.

Rancho Nicasio Nov 22, Ron Thompson. 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio, 415.662.2219.

Rickey’s Nov 20, Andoni. Nov 21, Charles Wheal Band. Nov 22, Karen Sudjian. 250 Entrada Dr, Novato, 415.883.9477.

Sausalito Seahorse Nov 19, Marin Jazz Trio. Nov 20, Michael LaMacchia. Nov 21, Ruckatan. Nov 22, Candela with Edgardo Cambon. Mon, Marco Sainz Trio. Tues, Jazz with Noel Jewkes and friends. Wed, Tango with Marcello and Seth. 305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito, 415.331.2899.

Smiley’s Schooner Saloon Nov 19, Festival Speed. Nov 20, the Rusty String Express. Nov 21, Cazadero. Nov 25, Midnight on the Water. Mon, Epicenter Soundsystem reggaae. Sun, open mic. 41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas, 415.868.1311.

Spitfire Lounge Third Friday of every month, DJ Jimmy Hits. 848 B St, San Rafael, 415.454.5551.

Sweetwater Music Hall Nov 18, Gaelic Storm. Nov 20, Duran Duran Duran. Nov 22, the Sticky Fingers

Project perform “Let It Bleed” with the Marinfidels. Nov 25, Vinyl Black Party. Mon, Open Mic. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.1100.

The Marin School Nov 21, Adey Bell and Mikey Pauker. 150 N San Pedro Road, San Rafael, 415.924.4848.

True North Pub & Grill Tues-Sun, live music. 638 San Anselmo Ave, San Anselmo, 415.453.1238.

SONOMA

Cloverdale Library Nov 21, 1pm, Santa Rosa Symphony String Quartet. 401 N Cloverdale Blvd, Cloverdale, 707.894.5271.

French Garden Nov 20, New Skye. Nov 21, LaFlammeLawrence Ensemble. 8050 Bodega Ave, Sebastopol, 707.824.2030.

Arlene Francis Center Nov 21, Bucc Nyfe with Great Apes and the Illumignarly. Tues, Open Didgeridoo Clinic.

Wed, Open Mic. 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.528.3009.

Barley & Hops Tavern Nov 19, Ricky Alan Ray. Nov 20, Dave Hamilton. Nov 21, Stephanie Salva. 3688 Bohemian Hwy, Occidental, 707.874.9037.

Bergamot Alley Nov 18, John Craigie. 328-A Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, 707.433.8720.

The Big Easy Nov 18, Bruce Gordon & the Acrosonics.

Nov 20, P Butta Quartet. Nov 22, Misner & Smith. Nov 25, Highway Poets. Tues, the American Alley Cats. 128 American Alley, Petaluma, 707.776.4631.

Bluewater Bistro Nov 19, 5pm, Joseph Clopton. 21301 Heron Dr, Bodega Bay, 707.875.3513.

Brixx Pizzeria Nov 21, the Hots. 16 Kentucky St, Petaluma, 707.766.8162.

B&V Whiskey Bar & Grille Nov 21, valley fire benefit with Crystal Vision, Half People, Tilted Halos and others.

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Friar Tuck’s Fri, DJ Night. Wed, Sat, karaoke. 8201 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.792.9847.

Green Music Center Nov 20, Symphonic Chorus and Chamber Singers. Nov 21, 3pm, Santa Rosa Symphony’s Youth Orchestra. Nov 22, 7pm, Compañia Flamenca with José Porcel. 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

Green Music Center Schroeder Hall Nov 19, Safra with John Erlich. Nov 21, 3pm, Musicians from the Valley of the Moon Music Festival. Nov 22, 2pm, Brass Ensemble. 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

Healdsburg Library Nov 21, 11am, Santa Rosa Symphony Percussion Trio. 139 Piper St, Healdsburg, 707.433.3772.

HopMonk Sebastopol Nov 18, Shook Twins with Tall Heights.

Nov 19, Songwriters in the Round. Nov 20, Russ Liquid. Nov 21, the Pachyderm Pre-Turkey Bonanza. Nov 23, Monday Night Edutainment with DJ Daneekah.

Nov 25, Brainstorm EDM night. Tues, open mic night. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol, 707.829.7300.

HopMonk Sonoma Nov 20, Nate Lopez. Nov 21, Tom Rhodes.

Nov 22, John Craigie. 691 Broadway, Sonoma, 707.935.9100.

Hotel Healdsburg Nov 21, the Carlitos Medrano Trio with Antonio Cortada and Julio Cesar. 25 Matheson St, Healdsburg, 707.431.2800.

Jasper O’Farrell’s Tues, Sessions hip-hop and reggae night. 6957 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol, 707.829.2062.

SAT 11/21 $10 8PM DOORS / 8:45PM SHOW 21+

Shana Morrison, daughter of legendary singer Van Morrison, brings her own brand of blues and rock to the Fenix in San Rafael on Friday, November 20.

Kenwood Depot Nov 22, 2pm, Sonoma Strings. 314 Warm Springs Rd, Kenwood.

Lagunitas Tap Room Nov 18, JimBo Trout. Nov 19, the Machiavelvets. Nov 20, Deluxe. Nov 21, Blithedale Canyon. Nov 22, Los High Tops with Chantilly Lace Vincent. Nov 25, Jason Bodlovich. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma, 707.778.8776.

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Main Street Bistro Nov 19, George Heagerty. Nov 20, Twin Soles. Nov 21, Wendy DeWitt. 16280 Main St, Guerneville, 707.869.0501.

Mc T’s Bullpen Nov 20, Strange Cabbage. Nov 21, Walt the Dog. Nov 22, 9pm, DJ Miguel. Mon, Wed, DJ Miguel. 16246 First St, Guerneville, 707.869.3377.

Fri 11/20 • Doors 8pm • ADV $17 / DOS $19

Murphy’s Irish Pub Nov 19, David Thom. Nov 20, Sean Carscadden Trio. Nov 21, the Perfect Crime.

464 First St E, Sonoma, 707.935.0660.

Mill Valley Music's 8th Anniversary with the Sticky Fingers Project performing ‘Let It Bleed' w/The MarInfidels

Phoenix Theater Nov 20, the Misfits. Nov 22, the Story So Far. 201 Washington St, Petaluma, 707.762.3565.

Redwood Cafe Nov 20, Adam Traum Trio. Nov 21, 11am, Elizabeth Boaz. Nov 21, 8pm, the Sorentinos. Nov 22, 11am, Douglas Cross.

Nov 22, 6pm, Irish jam session. Thurs, Open Mic. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.795.7868.

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Sun 11/22 • Doors 7pm • $14

Sat 11/28 & Sun 11/29 • ADV $32 / DOS $37

Melvin Seals & JGB

Mon 11/30 • Doors 8pm • ADV $20 / DOS $25

Jamaican Reggae Legend Yellowman with Afrofunk Experience

Wed 12/02 • Doors 7pm • ADV $22 / DOS $25

Cy Curnin of The Fixx

Rio Nido Roadhouse Nov 21, Tom Finn Band. 14540 Canyon 2 Rd, Rio Nido, 707.869.0821.

Fri 12/04 • TWO SHOWS • Doors 6:30pm & 9pm • ADV $37 / DOS $47

Rossi’s 1906 Nov 18, Kerry Pastine & the Crime Scene.

Nov 20, 7pm, Kevin Russell & the Rhythm Rangers dinner show. Nov 21, Midnight Sun Massive. Nov 22, Sweet Potato 5. Nov 25, Trainwreck Junction. 401 Grove St, El Verano, 707.343.0044.

Sat 12/05 • Doors 8pm • ADV $20 / DOS $25

Del McCoury Band

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Finley Community Center Third Friday of every month, Steve Luther.

Mon, 11am, Proud Mary’s ukulele jam and lessons. 2060 W College Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.543.3737.

A’Roma Roasters Nov 20, Hank Levine. Nov 21, the Bee Rays.

95 Fifth St, Santa Rosa, 707.576.7765.

Aqus Cafe Nov 18, Them Travelin’ Birds. Nov 20, the Harmonic Three. Nov 21, Bug Jug Band. Nov 22, 2pm, Blue Seven. Nov 25, bluegrass old time jam. 189 H St, Petaluma, 707.778.6060.

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Corkscrew Wine Bar Nov 20, the Incubators. Nov 21, Ain’t Misbehavin’. Nov 24, songwriter’s lounge with Lauralee Brown. 100 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.789.0505.

Flamingo Lounge Nov 20, Hot Zone. Nov 21, UB707. 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa, 707.545.8530.

Annie O’s Music Hall Nov 21, reggae night with DJ Casa Rasta.

Nov 25, Country Night with Dr Doug. 120 Fifth St, Santa Rosa, 707.484.1331.

EVERY WEDNESDAY OPEN MIC NIGHT WITH DENNIS HANEDA

Coffee Catz Nov 19, 4:30pm, DJ Kudjo. Mon, open mic.

Tues, 12pm, Jerry Green’s Peaceful Piano Hour. 6761 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol, 707.829.6600.

755 After Dark (Aubergine) Nov 24, One Armed Joey with Legal Disaster and Kid Dreamer. 755 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol, 707.829.2722.

Annex Wine Bar Nov 19, Judy Williams. Nov 20, Stacey Tuel and Mia Edsall. Nov 21, Sonoma Sound Syndicate. Wed, Calvin Ross. 865 W Napa St, Sonoma, 707.938.7779.

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Throckmorton Theatre Nov 22, the Blues Broads. Wed, 12pm, Noon concert series. 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, 415.383.9600.

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Cellars of Sonoma Nov 19, Craig Corona. Nov 20, John Pita.

Nov 21, Ricky Alan Ray. Tues, Wavelength.

133 Fourth St, Santa Rosa, 707.578.1826.

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Terrapin Crossroads Nov 18, Chrissy Lynne Band. Nov 19, San Geronimo. Nov 20, Knights of Saturn with Jeff Miller. Nov 21, Scott Law and friends.

Nov 22, Midnight North with Scott Law. Nov 23, Grateful Mondays with Stu Allen and Scott Law. Nov 24, Stu Allen and friends. Nov 25, Scott Law and friends. 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael, 415.524.2773.

Tues, “Reggae Market” DJ night. 400 First St E, Sonoma, 707.938.7110.

Disco. 1910 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.843.5535.

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Windsor Library Nov 21, 12:30pm, Santa Rosa Symphony Percussion Trio. 9291 Old Redwood Hwy, Windsor, 707.838.1020.

Zodiacs Nov 20, Achilles Wheel and Grateful Bluegrass Boys. 256 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.773.7751.

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The Festival continues year-round.

‘Art of the Spirit: Epiphany’ is the new exhibit opening at the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts on November 25, with a reception on December 1.

Ruth McGowan’s Brewpub Nov 20, Manzanita Moon. Nov 21, Wine Country Swing. Sun, Evening Jazz with Gary Johnson. 131 E First St, Cloverdale, 707.894.9610.

Sebastopol Center for the Arts Nov 22, Coastal Winds & the Brass Quintet.

282 S High St, Sebastopol, 707.829.4797.

Sebastopol Community Center Nov 22, Chris Smither. 390 Morris St, Sebastopol, 707.874.3176.

Sonoma Valley Women’s Club Nov 21, Samantics sings Hitchcock. 574 First St E, Sonoma, 707.301.7708.

Downtown Joe’s Brewery & Restaurant Nov 19, the Humdingers. Nov 20, Cross Town 5. Nov 21, the Voltones. Tues, the Used Blues Band. Sun, DJ Aurelio. 902 Main St, Napa, 707.258.2337.

Hydro Grill Sun, 7pm, Swing Seven. Fri, Sat, blues. 1403 Lincoln Ave, Calistoga, 707.942.9777.

Methode Bubble Bar & Restaurant Fri, Sat, David Ruane. 1400 First St, Napa, 707.254.8888.

River Terrace Inn Nov 20, Randy Foisy. Nov 21, Nate Lopez.

1600 Soscol Ave, Napa, 707.320.9000.

Silo’s Nov 18, Tom Duarte. Nov 20, the Incidentals. Nov 21, the Used Blues Band.

Nov 22, 4pm, NVJS presents Gail Pettis with the Larry Dunlap Trio. 530 Main St, Napa, 707.251.5833.

Uva Trattoria Nov 18, Bob Castell Blanch. Nov 19, 3 on a Match. Nov 20, Tony Macaroni Trio. Nov 21, Nicky DePaola. Nov 22, Tom Duarte.

Nov 25, Trio Solea. 1040 Clinton St, Napa, 707.255.6646.

Spancky’s Thurs, 7pm, Thursday Night Blues Jam. Thurs, 11pm, DJ Selecta Konnex. 8201 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.664.0169.

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St Andrew Presbyterian Church Nov 20, Sonoma Bach performs Mozart’s Requiem. 16290 Arnold Dr, Sonoma, 707.996.6024.

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St Vincent de Paul Church Nov 22, Sonoma Bach performs Mozart’s Requiem. 35 Liberty St, Petaluma.

Stout Brothers Nov 19, Landbirds. Fri, Sat, DJ night. 527 Fourth St, Santa Rosa, 707.636.0240.

Toad in the Hole Pub Sun, live music. 116 Fifth St, Santa Rosa, 707.544.8623.

The Tradewinds Bar Tues, Open Mic. Wed, Sonoma County Blues Society. 8210 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.795.7878.

Twin Oaks Tavern Nov 19, Levi’s Workshop with Levi Lloyd.

Nov 20, the Hots. Nov 21, SugarFoot.

Nov 22, 5pm, Blues and BBQ with the Soulshine Band. Nov 25, Dylan Black Band.

Mon, Blues Defenders Pro Jam. 5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove, 707.795.5118.

Whiskey Tip Nov 19, singles night with DJ MD. Nov 20, Northbay Cabaret. Nov 21, Silent

Art Works Downtown Nov 20-Dec 31, “Small Works Exhibition,” a wonderful opportunity to find affordable, quality artwork for the holiday gift-giving season. Reception, Dec 11 at 5pm. 1337 Fourth St, San Rafael. Tues-Sat, 10 to 5.

415.451.8119.

O’Hanlon Center for the Arts Nov 25-Dec 19, “Art of the Spirit: Epiphany,” eclectic exhibit is juried by Rosemary Ishii MacConnell. Reception, Dec 1 at 6pm. 616 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. Tues-Sat, 10 to 2; also by appointment. 415.388.4331.

SONOMA Calabi Gallery Nov 21-Jan 3, “Woodblock Prints by Michael McMillan,” the artist’s fine woodwork centers an show that also features works by Douglas Ballou, Mary Jarvis, Sherrie Lovler and others. Reception, Nov 21 at 4pm.

456 10th St, Santa Rosa. Tues-Sun, 11 to 5.

707.781.7070.

Chroma Gallery Nov 20-Dec 27, “Four Seasons: Sonoma

County Landscapes,” paintings by Brooks Anderson, Thomas Creed and Donna DeLaBriandais capture nature’s beauty in their own unique styles. Reception, Nov 20 at 5pm. 312 South A St, Santa Rosa.

707.293.6051.

Finley Community Center Nov 18-Jan 28, “The Dynamic Duo,” Judith A Eisen’s lifetime of watercolors and oils are on display. Reception, Nov 19 at 5pm. 2060 W College Ave, Santa Rosa. Mon-Fri, 8 to 6; Sat, 9 to 11am. 707.543.3737.

Steele Lane Community Center Nov 24-Jan 14, “Documenting Sonoma County,” photographer Sara Silver explores Sonoma County and the surrounding area in all its glory. Reception, Nov 25 at 4pm.

415 Steele Ln, Santa Rosa. Mon-Thurs, 8 to 7; Fri, 8 to 5. 707.543.3282.

Studio 35 Nov 19-30, “Art of Gratitude,” a wide range of artists was asked to paint, draw and sculpt their gratitude about something in their life and complement the visual with a poem, prose or writing. Reception, Nov 20 at 6pm.

35 Patten St, Sonoma. Thurs-Mon, 11am to 5pm. 707.934.8145.

NAPA Mumm Napa Nov 21-May 1, “Jim Marshall Seen Through the Eyes of Carlos Santana,” an exhibit of photographs by Marshall, curated

by Santana, show Marshall’s genius as a photographer, a chronicler of history and portraitist of no equal. Reception, Nov 21 at 6:30pm. 8445 Silverado Trail, Rutherford.

Daily, 10am-4:45pm 707.967.7740.

CONTINUING THIS WEEK MARIN Bay Model Visitor Center Through Dec 26, “Art & the Environment,” exhibit of oil paintings by Bay Area environmental impressionist George Sumner promotes conservation. 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 415.332.3871.

Falkirk Cultural Center Through Dec 20, “Fall Juried Exhibit,” annual show displays works by many local artists. 1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael.

415.485.3438.

Gallery Route One Through Dec 6, “The Museum of Curious Thought,” a retrospective exhibit of contemporary artist Betty Woolfolk is matched with video installation by Minoosh Zomorodinia and abstract work from Johanna Baruch. 11101 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station. Wed-Mon, 11 to 5. 415.663.1347.

Marin Society of Artists Gallery Through Nov 21, “88th Annual Member Show,” juried show is the last exhibit held in the Ross Art and Garden Center Gallery before the MSA moves next year. 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross. Mon-Thurs, 11 to 4; Sat-Sun, noon to 4. 415.454.9561.

MarinMOCA Through Jan 24, “Drawing / Secrets,” a nationally juried exhibit of drawings joins a member juried show revolving around the theme of secrets. Novato Arts Center, Hamilton Field, 500 Palm Dr, Novato. WedSun, 11 to 4, 415.506.0137.

O’Hanlon Center for the Arts Through Nov 19, “reimagining

Robert Allen Fine Art Through Nov 30, “Nature Abstracted,” group exhibition features works on canvas and paper by Nick Coley, Beatrice Findlay and others. 301 Caledonia St, Sausalito.

Mon-Fri, 10 to 5. 415.331.2800.

San Geronimo Valley Community Center Through Nov 30, “Pressing Matters,” sisxth annual printmakers group show highlights local print artist’s etchings, woodcuts, linocuts, lithographs, screen prints and monotypes. 6350 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, San Geronimo. 415.488.8888.

Seager Gray Gallery Through Dec 6, “James Shay: Grove Studies,” the Lucas Valley artist depicts the dramatic rolling hills of west Marin’s landscape. 108 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

SONOMA Art Escape Through Nov 19, “Books & Words,” exhibit includes over 40 entries featuring books, collage, photography, drawing, painting and more. 17474 Sonoma Hwy, Ste A, Sonoma.

707.938.5551.

Art Museum of Sonoma County Through Nov 29, “The Sculpted Fiber,” selection of two- and three-dimensional contemporary fiber works by several renowned artists. 505 B St, Santa Rosa. TuesSun, 11 to 5. 707.579.1500.

Arts Guild of Sonoma Through Nov 29, “Helen Mehl Solo Show,” the Sonoma-based watercolor artists and arts guild member displays. 140 E Napa St, Sonoma. Wed-Thurs and Sun-Mon, 11 to 5; Fri-Sat, 11 to 8. 707.996.3115.

Charles M. Schulz Museum Through Dec 13, “Celebrating 65 Years of Peanuts,” see how your favorite characters developed and changed in this installation celebrating 65 years of Peanuts comics.

Through May 30, “The Peanuts Movie,” exhibit traces Peanuts from Schulz’s pen to the new big-screen feature. Through Apr 24, “Snoopy and the Red Baron,” learn about the real Red Baron and Schulz’s attention to historical detail through rare artifacts, original artworks, and an expansive selection of cartoons showcasing Snoopy’s famous alter-ego. 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa. Mon-Fri, noon to 5; Sat-Sun, 10 to 5.

707.579.4452.

DG Sculpture Studio Gallery Through Nov 27, “Daniel Graham & T Alma,” the two artists pair up for an exihibition of modern sculptures and paintings. 25-A Maxwell Ct, Santa Rosa.

Wed-Sun, 12 to 5. 707.477.2655.

Finley Community Center Through Dec 10, “Light’s Canvas,” photographic landscapes in color and blackand-white by Richard Fung shows in the Person Wing at the Center. 2060 W College

Gallery One Through Dec 30, “Deck the Walls with Red,” juried multimedia group show revolves around the color red. 209 Western Ave, Petaluma. 707.778.8277.

Graton Gallery Through Dec 13, “Double Vision,” paintings and more by Bruce K Hopkins and Susan Shore, with guest artists. 9048 Graton Rd, Graton. Tues-Sat, 10:30 to 6; Sun, 10:30 to 4.

707.829.8912.

Gregory Roberts StudioC2 Through Dec 5, “GOBLET,” Wyatt Amend exhibits a series of ritualized ceramic drinking vessels base on goblets, chalices and Champagne flutes. 620 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. Thurs-Wed, 11 to 5. 415.533.0009.

Healdsburg Center for the Arts Through Nov 22, “Emerging Artists Exhibition,” second annual juried exhibit presents exciting new works by young artists and art students. 130 Plaza St, Healdsburg.

Daily, 11 to 6. 707.431.1970.

History Museum of Sonoma County Through Jan 10, “Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation,” exhibition moves past pop-culture stereotypes of Indian Americans to explore the diverse contributions of Indian immigrants and their descendants in the United States. Through Feb 7, “Journey to Fountaingrove,” exhibit chronicles the life of Japanese national Nagasawa Kanaye, who took over the Fountaingrove estate and made renowned wines in Sonoma County. 425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa. Tues-Sun, 11 to 4. 707.579.1500.

Opera House Collective Through Nov 22, “Group Show,” featuring Hilary Williams, Kevin Clark and Sharon Eisley. 145 Kentucky St, Petaluma. Daily, 11 to 5 707.774.6576.

Orpheus Wines Tasting Room Through Dec 20, “clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose,” Marin artist Jamie Weinstein creates visual commentary on the everyday world.

8910 Sonoma Hwy, Kenwood. 707.282.9231.

Paradise Ridge Winery Through Apr 30, “Conversations in Sculpture,” 11 artists provide an artistic statement that introduces a conversational topic. 4545 Thomas Lake Harris Dr, Santa Rosa. Daily, 11 to 5. 707.528.9463.

Petaluma Arts Center Through Nov 22, “Black Artists on Art: The Legacy Exhibit,” features over 50 contemporary and legendary black fine artists spanning three generations. 230 Lakeville St, Petaluma. Thurs-Mon, 11 to 5.

707.762.5600.

Prince Gallery Through Dec 6, “Hidebound,” a solo show from emerging artist Tyler Steele instills real-world dimensions within fantasy-like paintings. 122 American Alley, Petaluma.

707.889.0371.

Santa Rosa Golf & Country Club Through Dec 4, “Mario Uribe Solo Show,” known locally as an arts activist and highly influenced by Asian brushwork and philosophy, Uribe’s Zen art displays through autumn. 333 Country Club Dr, Santa Rosa.

707.546.3485.

Sculpturesite Gallery Through Dec 5, “Twenty-Five Year Anniversary,” the gallery celebrates a quarter

century with a collection of fine sculpture works from more than 30 artists. 14301 Arnold Dr, Ste 8, Glen Ellen. Daily, 10 to 5.

707.933.1300.

Mort Sahl Social Satire from Sahl. Thurs. $15-$20.

Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, 415.383.9600.

Sebastopol Center for the Arts Through Nov 28, “Fiber Arts VII,” international exhibition features over 60 pieces of fiber art that ranges from traditional to innovative. 282 S High St, Sebastopol. Tues-Fri, 10 to 4; Sat, 1 to 4.

707.829.4797.

Open Mic Comedy Wed. Spancky’s, 8201 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.664.0169.

Shige Sushi Through Nov 29, “Mark Eanes Solo Show,” the Bay Area painter, printmaker, photographer and educator presents a mixed-media exhibit. 8235 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati. hours vary 707.795.9753.

Sonoma Community Center Through Nov 25, “Dick Cole Solo Show,” watercolors from the local artist display in Gallery 212. 276 E Napa St, Sonoma. Daily, 7:30am to 11pm. 707.938.4626.

Sonoma Valley Museum of Art Through Dec 6, “An Accomplishment in Creativity,” world-famous Egyptian tapestries made by imaginative youth are on display. Through Dec 6, “Jane Baldwin: Kara Women Speak,” Sonoma Valley photographer gives voice to the women of the Omo River Valley of Southwestern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya. 551 Broadway, Sonoma. Wed-Sun, 11 to 5.

707.939.SVMA. Steele Lane Community Center Through Nov 19, “Plein Air Artists of Sonoma County,” group show features scenes painted outdoors by members of local plein air group. 415 Steele Ln, Santa Rosa. Mon-Thurs, 8 to 7; Fri, 8 to 5.

707.543.3282.

Studio 428 Through Dec 5, “Dart Project,” a multimedia group show of art projects made about a particular local site, chosen by throwing a dart at a map of Sonoma County. 428 Moore Ln, Healdsburg. by appointment 707.433.6842.

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.

Will Durst The Northbay’s favorite political satirist headlines this standup show. Nov 19, 8pm. $20-$25. Trek Winery, 1026 Machin Ave, Novato, 415.899.9883.

Dance Belrose Theater 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 Wednesdays, 6pm, Women’s Collaborative Dance. $5-$15 per month. Sundays, 10am, Ecstatic Dance Point Reyes, explore different rhythms with no experience necessary 503 B St, Pt Reyes Station 415.663.1075.

Finnish American Home Association Wednesdays, 5:30pm, African dance and drum workshop, all ages and skill levels are welcome to move and groove with Sandor Diabankouezi, world-class Congolese master drummer. $15. 191 W Verano Ave, Sonoma.

Flamingo Lounge Tuesdays, swing dancing with lessons.

Sundays, 7pm, salsa with lessons. 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa 707.545.8530.

Studio Space Santa Rosa Through Nov 30, “Monthly Group Art Show,” featuring works by Brian Henderson, Anna-Jaël Hotzel, Collin Morrow and others. 840 Piner Rd, Suite 14, Santa Rosa.

Lomitas School House Third Thursday of every month, 7pm, Argentine Tango Lessons & Dance, with SoCo Tango. $5-$10. 2421 Lomitas Ave, Santa Rosa 707.523.4336.

University Art Gallery Through Dec 13, “Linear Equations,” artists Mari Andrews, Marc Katano and Sabine Reckewell offer up works revolving around the line as an artistic element. Sonoma State University, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park. Tues-Fri, 11 to 4; Sat-Sun, noon to 4.

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Marin Center Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium Nov 22, 2pm, Just Dance Academy Winter Performance. $20-$22. 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael 415.473.6800.

Comedy Gilbert Gottfried Standup legend, TV and film actor brings a fearless wit and distinct personality to the stage. Nov 19, 8pm. $28. Sally Tomatoes, 1100 Valley House Dr, Rohnert Park, 707.665.0260.

Janeane Garofalo Standup veteran and comedy star delivers two shows of her razor-sharp and unflinching honesty. Nov 21, 7 and 9:30pm. $28-$35. City Winery Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.260.1600.

Monroe Dance Hall Nov 20, North Bay Country Dance Society.

Nov 21, Mitch Woods & His Rocket 88s.

Mondays, Scottish Country Dancing.

Tuesdays, Razzmataz folk dance club.

Wednesdays, Singles and Pairs Square Dance Club. Thursdays, Circles ‘n Squares Dance Club. Sundays, Country-Western dancing and lessons. 1400 W College Ave, Santa Rosa 707.529.5450.

Redwood Cafe Nov 18, 7pm, Irish set dancing. Nov 25, 7pm, Irish set dancing. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati 707.795.7868.

Sebastopol Community Center Youth Annex Fourth Sunday of every month, 11am, Dances of Universal Peace, Multicultural sacred circle dancing and joyous group singing to rejuvenate the spirit and open

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Uptown Theatre Nov 25, 8pm, An Irish Christmas, holidaythemed performance is presented by Kerry Irish productions. $35-$55. 1350 Third St, Napa 707.259.0123.

Wischemann Hall Mondays, 5:30 and 7pm, Redwood Rainbows Mainstream & Basic Class.

707.478.6409. Sundays, 10am, Soul Motion, open movement practice 465 Morris St, Sebastopol 707.823.0926.

Events Advanced Degrees Party for Singles Meet new single friends who possess a doctorate or master’s degree in a fun mixer.

Nov 24, 7pm. Spinnaker, 100 Spinnaker Dr, Sausalito, 415.332.1500.

Rancho Nicasio’s Anniversary & Birthday Party The stars will be out as the popular spot celebrates 17 years of business and the 70th birthday of owner Angela Strehli with cocktails and live music. Nov 21, 6pm. $25$30. Rancho Nicasio, 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio, 415.662.2219.

Art Contemporary Marin Auction Fundraiser features original art by 50 local artists, silent and live auction bidding, live music, wine and refreshments. Nov 22, 3pm. Free admssion. Claudia Chapline Gallery, 3445 Shoreline Hwy, Stinson Beach, 415.868.2064.

Full Moon Sail The captain and crew of the FREDA B take you on the waters to experience the full moon and views of the bay. Wed, Nov 25, 4:30pm. $59. Sausalito Yacht Harbor, 100 Bay St, Sausalito, 415.331.0444.

Galley Tour Discover the art, history and environment of the Napa Valley. Third Sat of every month, 11am. Free. Napa Valley Museum, 55 Presidents Circle, Yountville, 707.944.0500.

Gifts ‘n Tyme Holiday Faire Over 85 local and regional artists of fine crafts, artwork, holiday music and gourmet foods to sample. Nov 20-22. Free. Napa Valley Exposition, 575 Third St, Napa.

Holiday Craft Fair Unique crafts for sale, with entertainment, food, prizes and holiday photos with Santa.

Nov 21-22. Petaluma Community Center, 320 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma.

International Games Day Kids can read, learn and play with a variety of classic and modern games with snacks and refreshments. Nov 21, 2pm. Marin City Library, 164 Donahue St, Marin City, 415.332.6157.

The Milky Way Planetarium show looks at what makes up our spiral galaxy, where we live in this city of stars and why it looks the way it does on dark and clear nights. Through Nov 22. $5-$8. SRJC Planetarium, Lark Hall, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.527.4465.

Mill Valley Library Book Sale Friends of Mill Valley Library holds monthly sale of all genres of literature and reference books, CDs and videos.

Third Sat of every month, 9am. Mill Valley Library, 375 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, 415.389.4292.

Open Studios at Fulton Crossing Artists and crafters open their studios to the public, show their work and engage in community conversations that foster creative energies. Third Fri of every month, 5pm. Fulton Crossing, 1200 River Rd, Fulton.

Pacific Coast Air Museum Third weekend of every month from 10 to 4, folks are invited to play pilot in a featured aircraft. Third Sat of every month. $5. Pacific Coast Air Museum, 2330 Airport Blvd, Santa Rosa, 707.575.7900.

The Puppet Festival Annual event includes special performances from Greater Arizona Puppet Theater and Parasol Puppets with a Afternoon workshop on Saturday. Nov 20-21. $10-$15.

Jarvis Conservatory, 1711 Main St, Napa, 707.255.5445.

Radiant Presence With Peter Brown. Every other Tues. Open Secret, 923 C St, San Rafael, 415.457.4191.

Redwood Guild of Fiber Arts Sale Weavings, tapestries, hand-spun wool and other knitted items are available, as the guild celebrates 65 years. Nov 21-22, 1pm.

Free. Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S High St, Sebastopol, 707.829.4797.

Riverfront Thursday Nights Wine, dine, shop and play as shops stay open late. Every third Thurs, from 6 to 9. Third Thurs of every month. Free. Riverfront District, Downtown, Napa, 707.251.3726.

Tam Valley Craft Fair Friday evening and all-day Saturday fair features Bay Area artists and craftspeople with a wide range of beautiful, hand-crafted items perfect for everyone on your holiday list. Nov 20-21. Tam Valley Community Center, 203 Marin Ave, Mill Valley.

Tellabration Storytelling Performance Evening of tales told by four professional storytellers is fun for ages 8 to 98. Nov 21, 7pm. Free. Glaser Center, 547 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.545.5977.

Young Writers Essay Contest Awards Ceremony Awards presented to sixth through eighth graders who submitted an essay to the contest. Sponsored by the River Friends of the Library. Nov 21, 1pm. Guerneville Library, 14107 Armstrong Woods Rd, Guerneville, 707.869.9004.

Field Trips Afternoon Community Service Participate in center restoration projects.

Third Wed of every month. Richardson Bay Audubon Center, 376 Greenwood Beach Rd, Tiburon, 415.388.2524.

The Bay Trail Walk along this newly restored area, look for waterfowl, shorebirds and other wildlife, and see how the tidal flow is changing the landscape. Sun, Nov 22, 10am. 415.893.9527.

Hamilton Wetlands Path, south end of Hanger Ave, Novato.

Bohemia Ecological Preserve Workshop Series Wilderness guide Rachel Ruach teaches you how to gather and process one of our local food sources, acorns. Registration required.

Nov 19, 1pm. $20-$25. Join specialist and tracker Joshua Asel to learn how to track large carnivores and other critters.

Registration is required. Nov 22, 10am. $30-$40. Bohemia Ecological Preserve, 8759 Bohemian Hwy, Occidental, landpaths.org.

Bohemia Hiker Series Bohemia docents share the beauty of this property through the changing seasons.

Registration is required. Third Sat of every month, 10:30am. Bohemia Ecological Preserve, 8759 Bohemian Hwy, Occidental.

Moonwatch Gaze at our celestial satellite, learn about the moon and the stars and enjoy a campfire. Nov 21, 5:30pm. NatureBridge, 1033 Fort Cronkhite, Sausalito.

Nature for Kids at Cascade Canyon Bring the kids and enjoy the changing of the seasons and the colors of fall while they look for insects and other animals. Nov 24, 10am. Cascade Canyon Preserve, Cascade Dr, Fairfax, 415.893.9508.

One Tam Day of Thanks Start a new family tradition of thanks in our natural community through conservation hosted by Tamalpais Lands Collaborative.

Nov 21, 9am. Bothin Marsh, Bayfront Park, Mill Valley.

Restoration of Manzanita Fire Road A special restoration planting at the Giacomini Open Space Preserve along the newly upgraded Manzanita Fire Road.

Thurs, Nov 19, 10am. Free. San Geronimo Valley Community Center, 6350 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, San Geronimo, 415.488.8888.

Sleepover by the Bay Explore the Center after hours and enjoy campfire fun and activities. Sat, Nov 21, 7:30pm. Bay Model Visitor Center, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito, 415.332.3871.

Trekking the Model Join a ranger-guided tour of the Bay Model, a 1.5-acre hydraulic model of San Francisco Bay and Delta. Nov 19, 1pm. Bay Model Visitor Center, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito, 415.332.3871.

Film The Bicycle Thief The classic Italian drama is presented as part of the Vintage Films series. Nov 23, 7pm.

Sebastiani Theatre, 476 First St E, Sonoma, 707.996.9756.

CULT Film Series Two of Brad Pitt’s best films, “Fight Club and “Se7en,” get a double billing. With a showcase of local shorts included. Nov 19, 7pm. $10. Roxy Stadium 14 Cinemas, 85 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.525.8909.

Journey to Italy Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders star in Rossellini’s 1953 masterpiece. Fri, Nov 20, 7pm and Sun, Nov 22, 4pm. Sonoma Film Institute, Warren Auditorium, SSU, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 707.664.2606.

Mind Reels Weekly series presents notable documentary films as well as guest speakers and performers bringing the film’s ideas to life. Tues-noon. $25-$30. Lark Theater, 549 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur, 415.924.5111.

Movie & a Meal Community event for all to share in.

Third Fri of every month. $5-$10. Sonoma Shambhala Meditation Center, 255 W Napa St, Sonoma, 415.412.8570.

Wandering Reel Film Festival Traveling short film festival showcasing compassionate films and followed by live music strives to engage the community with socially-conscious cinema. Nov 20, 6:30pm. $10. Bolinas Community Center, 14 Wharf Rd, Bolinas.

Welles 100: The Maverick Part two of Smith Rafael’s Orson Welles retrospective looks at the director’s postHollywood films such as “The Trial” and “F Is for Fake.” Times and days vary. Thurs-Sun through Nov 22. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.454.1222.

Food & Drink

The Culinary Dude’s Thanksgiving Break Kids Cooking Camp Caterer and educator Scott Davis keeps the kids busy with a series of cooking classes, from cakes to casseroles, cookies to vegetables and breads to meats, taking place during the holiday break. Nov 23-25, 10am.

St. Hilary School, 765 Hilary Dr, Tiburon, www.theculinarydude.com.

Demystifying Wine & Food Interactive discussions on pairings with delectable demonstrations. Sat-noon. $75.

Hall Winery, 401 St Helena Hwy S, St Helena, 707.967.2620.

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.

Holiday in Carneros Open house event with several Carneros wineries. Enjoy wine, food samplings, music, meet the winemakers and more. Nov 2122. $50. Carneros region, several locations, Napa, 707.256.0693.

Locals Night Special menu items, musical performances and activities. Tues, 5pm. Free. Oxbow Public Market, 610 First St, Napa.

NorCal Beer Geeks Festival Over 20 craft breweries and cider companies pour unlimited tasting samples, with souvenir tasting glass, two bite size food samples and live music is included.

Nov 21, 1:30pm. $45-$55. Veterans Memorial Building, 1351 Maple Ave, Santa Rosa.

Pop Up Dinner Third Fri of every month, 4pm. Gourmet au Bay, 913 Hwy 1, Bodega Bay, 707.875.9875.

Speakeasy Night Featuring vintage bubbly cocktails with bitters, food pairings led by award-winning winemaker Penny Gadd-Coster and more.

Dress in dapper attire. Nov 21, 5pm. $39.

Breathless Wines Tasting Room, 4001 Hwy 128, Geyserville, 707.433.8400.

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Wine Up Award-winning wines and delicious food make for a perfect combination. Sat. Free.

Stephen & Walker Trust Winery Tasting Room, 243 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg.

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.

Carolyn Parr Nature Center Learn about Napa County habitats and birds of prey through tours, dioramas, games, hands-on activities and books.

Ongoing. Free. Carolyn Parr Nature Center Museum, Westwood Hills Park, 3107 Browns Valley Rd, Napa, 707.255.6465.

The Giant Turkey has returned to Corte Madera Town Center, and will collect donations distributed by the SF-Marin Food Bank to Marin families in need this holiday season.

Children’s Garden Whimsical environments for kids’ exploration. Hours: Mon, noon to 4; TuesSun, 9 to 5. Ongoing. Free. Cornerstone Sonoma, 23570 Arnold Dr, Sonoma, 707.933.3010.

Fukushima: The Ongoing Crisis An update from nuclear engineer Arnie Gunderson. Nov 21, 7pm. Free.

Dance Palace, 503 B St, Pt Reyes Station, 415.663.1075.

Chops Teen Club Hang-out spot for Santa Rosa teens ages 12 to 20 offers art studio and class, open gym, tech lounge, cafe, recording studio and film club. Hours for high schoolers: Mon-Thurs, 3 to 9; Fri, 3 to 11; Sat and school holidays, noon to 11. For middle school kids: MonFri, 3 to 7; Sat and school holidays, noon to 7. Film club meets Tues at 4. Ongoing.

Membership, $5-$10 per year. Chops Teen Club, 509 Adams St, Santa Rosa, 707.284.2467.

Museum Mondays Children ages one to five and their families are invited to enjoy storytime, arts, crafts and museum activities. Fourth Mon of every month, 10am. Free-$5. Charles M. Schulz Museum, 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa, 707.579.4452.

Lectures CBT/DBT Group for Depression Skills-based education and training group is designed to help you cope with facing basic everyday problems including distressing emotions like depression and anxiety. Tues, 6pm. $20-$40. Community Institute for Psychotherapy, 1330 Lincoln Ave #201, San Rafael, 415.459.5999.

CityZen Evening of sitting meditation, tea and dharma talk. All are welcome. Mon, 7pm.

Free. Glaser Center, 547 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.568.5381.

Dharma Study & Discussion The Rev Ron Kobata leads a Dharma class on a variety of Buddhist topics.

Nov 19, 7:30pm. Free. Buddhist Temple of Marin, 390 Miller Ave, Mill Valley, buddhisttempleofmarin.org.

Gardening with California Natives Learn to use native plants and build a beautiful landscape that uses less water and fewer chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

Nov 21, 11am. Novato Library, 1720 Novato Blvd, Novato, 415.898.4623.

Golden Gate Computer Society Apple Group Explore everything Apple, including Mac computers and iOS devices such as iPhone, iPad, etc. Third Thurs of every month, 1pm.

First Presbyterian Church of San Rafael, 1510 Fifth St, San Rafael, 415.927.2289.

Gratitude Workshop Tune into the vibration of gratitude through meditation, experiential exercises and music with author Deborah Perdue.

Nov 22, 12:30pm. $20. Golden Gate Center for Spiritual Living, 199 Greenfield Ave, Ste. B, San Rafael, 415.721.2492.

A History of 20th-Century Photography Join photographer and art historian Jeffrey Martz to examine the technologies, practitioners, and key works that made photography integral to the last 100-plus years. Thurs, Nov 19, 7pm. Free. The Image Flow, 401 Miller Ave, Ste. A, Mill Valley, 415.388.3569.

The Language of Light Nine-session photography workshop with Leanne Hansen looks at light with opportunities for location shooting at different times of the day. Wed, 7pm. through Nov 18. The Image Flow, 401 Miller Ave, Ste. A, Mill Valley, 415.388.3569.

LGBT Senior Discussion Group Fourth Tues of every month, 1pm.

Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 547 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa.

Memoir Class Learn to write and tell tales of personal and family history in a new, easy way. Open to all ages. Tues, 1:30pm. Free. Sebastopol

Senior Center, 167 High St, Sebastopol, 707.829.1549.

Navigating San Francisco Bay Ranger talk offers information on boating in the bay, dealing with winds and tides and more. Nov 21, 1:30pm. Bay Model Visitor Center, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito, 415.332.3871.

QuickBooks Boot Camp Hands-on workshop with laptops and sample data provided introduces the useful and flexible QuickBooks accounting and bookkeeping application. Nov 19, 9:30am. $159. Renaissance Center, 1115 Third St, San Rafael, 415.348.6300.

Draw Fast & Loose Develop skill in sketching what you see as simply and boldly as possible using basic art materials. Third Sat of every month, 10:30am. $40. Napa Valley Art Supplies, 3250 California Blvd, Napa, 707.224.2775.

Root Causes of Migration Rev Deborah Lee of the Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights and her colleagues present stories and findings from their recent trip to Honduras and Guatemala.

Nov 18, 7pm. $5-$10. Westminster Presbyterian Church, 240 Tiburon Blvd, Tiburon.

Speak to Me Lunch & Learn Series Nutritional expert Sonya Angelone talks about power foods and supplements in this lunch event. Nov 19, 11:30am. $49. Piatti’s Ristorante & Bar, 625 Redwood Hwy, Mill Valley, 415.380.2525.

Support Group for Women in Transition Encouragement during life transitions such as relationship changes, career changes and difficult life events. Thurs, 6pm. $20-$40.

Community Institute for Psychotherapy, 1330 Lincoln Ave #201, San Rafael, 415.459.5999.

Survey of Contemporary Photography Jeffrey Martz a deep knowledge of photography in this talk. Nov 19, 7pm. Free.

The Image Flow, 401 Miller Ave, Ste. A, Mill Valley, 415.388.3569.

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Beaujolais Nouveau Celebrating the first wine of the harvest all day with special menu items and pairings.

Nov 19. Left Bank Brasserie, 507 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur, 415.927.3331.

West End Wednesdays West End merchants offer wine, coffee and food tastings. Wed, 5pm. Free. Downtown Napa, First Street and Town Center, Napa.

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My Neighbourhood Film tells the story of a Palestinian boy loses half of his home to Israeli settlers in East Jerusalem. Nov 22, 2pm. Sonoma Community Center, 276 E Napa St, Sonoma, 707.938.4626.

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Thanksgiving Floral Arrangement Workshop Join ranger staff in making your own mini pumpkin floral centerpiece for the Thanksgiving Day table. RSVP required.

Nov 22, 11am. McNear’s Beach Park, Cantera Way, San Rafael, SBurkhart@ marincounty.org.

Twenty-Something Support Group Explore adulthood with emphasis on life skills such as mindfulness, interpersonal skills and healthy coping skills. Thurs, 6pm. $20-$40. Community Institute for Psychotherapy, 1330 Lincoln Ave #201, San Rafael, 415.459.5999.

Writing Workshop Get motivation and writing assistance from rotating hosts. Wed, 7pm. Smiley’s Schooner Saloon, 41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas, 415.868.1311.

Readings Angelico Hall Nov 18, 7pm, “M Train” with Patti Smith, in conversation with Dave Eggers, presented

by Book Passage. $35. Dominican University, 50 Acacia Ave, San Rafael 415.457.4440.

Arlene Francis Center Nov 20, Underground Railroad Poetry with Jaqueline Lawrence. 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa 707.528.3009.

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in 1940 as Barbara Levy. Thanks for the question to Stanton Klose from Terra Linda.

Book Passage Nov 18, 7pm, “The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto” with Mitch Albom. $30. Nov 19, 7pm, “Super Genes” with Deepak Chopra. $30. Nov 20, 6pm, “Chasing Secrets” with Gennifer Choldenko. Nov 20, 7pm, “The Annotated Alice” with Mark Burstein. Nov 21, 2pm, “Kitchen Creamery” with Louella Hill. Nov 21, 4pm, “Dream House” with Catherine Armsden. Nov 24, 7pm, “City of Clowns” with Daniel Alarcon. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera 415.927.0960.

Commonweal Nov 23, 7pm, “Text, Jews and Rock ‘n’ Roll” with Lily Brett, registration required Free.

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Depot Bookstore & Cafe Nov 19, 7pm, “Wasted, Murder in the Recycle Berkeley Yard” with John Byrne Barry. Nov 21, 12pm, “A Grateful Nation” with Ivan Weinberg, with a meet and greet. 87 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley 415.383.2665.

5 Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page

Left Bank Brasserie Nov 18, 6:30pm, “Simply Nigella” with Nigella Lawson, a ‘Cooks with Books’ event, presented by Book Passage. $125. 507 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur 415.927.3331.

western Morocco—virtually tied for this distinction.

6 The lotus, a type of water lily 7 Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki 8 A marathon foot race 9 Juno; Michael Cera and Ellen

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Napa Bookmine Nov 19, 6:30pm, Monthly Book Club, read and discuss “Welcome to the Monkey House” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Wednesdays, 11am, Read Aloud for the Young’uns. 964 Pearl St, Napa 707.733.3199.

Point Reyes Books Nov 20, 7pm, “Trace” with Lauret Savoy.

Free. Fourth Monday of every month, Spanish book group. 11315 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station 415.663.1542.

Sebastopol Copperfield’s Books Nov 24, 7pm, “The Beauty of What Remains: A Memoir” with Sarah Johnson Hadler. 138 N Main St, Sebastopol 707.823.2618.

Sebastopol Senior Center Nov 22, 3pm, Poetry with members of Rumi’s Caravan. $10. 167 High St, Sebastopol 707.829.2440.

The Sitting Room Third Wednesday of every month, 2pm, Sitting Room book club. 2025 Curtis Dr, Penngrove 707.778.3972.

SRHS Performing Arts Auditorium Nov 19, 7pm, “The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto” with Mitch Albom, presented

by Copperfield’s Books. $37-$47. 1235 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa.

Theater Annie Marilyn Izdebski Productions presents the beloved musical, performed by young people from throughout Marin County. Through Nov 22. $15. Playhouse, 27 Kensington Rd, San Anselmo, 800.838.3006.

Beyond Therapy Delightful comedy from playwright Christopher Durang embraces the quirky personalities and emotions we all are familiar with. Through Nov 22. $21-$31.

Lucky Penny Community Arts Center, 1758 Industrial Way, Napa, 707-266-6305.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang The family-friendly musical about everyone’s favorite flying car is presented by Cinnabar’s Young Rep. Nov 20-Dec 6. $10$15. Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.763.8920.

A Christmas Carol New stage version of the famous Dickens story of Ebenezer Scrooge comes to life for the whole family this holiday season. Nov 20-Dec 20. $15-$37. 6th Street Playhouse, 52 West Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.523.4185.

Mega Molten Hot Lava New Play Festival Annual play festival showcases aspiring playwrights with readings of new short plays from SSU’s department of theatre arts and dance playwriting program. Nov 19-21.

Ives Hall Studio 76, SSU, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park.

My Mañana Comes Marin Theatre Company presents the Bay Area premiere of this thoughtful character study, as four busboys in a Manhattan restaurant fight for their selfworth. Through Nov 22. $10 and up. Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.5208.

Richard III Shakespeare’s masterpiece about politics and power stars Aidan O’Reilly as the villain we all love to hate. Through Nov 27. $12-$35.

Marin Shakespeare Company, 890 Bella Avenue, San Rafael, 415.499.4485.

Seminar Left Edge Theatre performs this biting Broadway comedy about four aspiring writers engaged in a tense writing seminar.

Through Nov 28. $30. Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.546.3600.

Spoon River Anthology Curtain Call Theatre presents the poignant and humorous series of Americana monologues delivered by ghosts of a Midwestern cemetery who represent our collective hopes and fears. Closing night is a fundraising gala. Through Nov 21. $15-$20.

Russian River Hall, 20347 Hwy 116, Monte Rio, 707.524.8739.

The Spy Who Killed Me Get a Clue Productions returns with an interactive murder-mystery dinner theater experience. Select Friday and Saturday nights. getaclueproductions.com. Sat, Nov

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 138437 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: GLAMOROUS NAILS AND SPA, 631 SAN ANSELMO AVE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: GLAMOROUS NAILS AND SPA INC, 1127 REDWOOD BLVD, NOVATO, CA 94947. The business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. 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 Oct 23, 2015.

(Publication Dates: Oct 28, Nov 4, 11, 18 of 2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 138457 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: WINE, WOMEN & SONG, 16 G STREET, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: SUSAN ZELINSKY, 16 G STREET, CA 94901.

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business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Oct 27, 2015. (Publication Dates: Oct 28, Nov 4, 11, 18 of 2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2015138469 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: FOGLE’S TAPE PRO, 16 COAST OAK WAY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: BRUCE FOGLE, 16 COAST OAK WAY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. 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 Oct 28, 2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2015138424 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: WARDROBE EXCHANGE, 621 SAN ANSELMO AVENUE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: VERLENE MORGAN, 110 GARDEN AVENUE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. 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 Oct 21, 2015. (Publication Dates: Nov 4, 11, 18, 25 of 2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2015138450 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: BLOOM WELLNESS, 16 MILLER AVE, SUITE 204, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: JIN CHOE, 2 YUKON PLACE, NOVATO, CA 94947.The

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 138474 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: MILL VALLEY FRENCH LAUNDRY AND CLEANERS, 228 E BLITHDALE AVE, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: 1) MARTHA AVILES, 612, 33 rd ST, RICHMOND, CA 94804 2) NORMA AVILES, 1530 ARMSTRONG AV # 12, NOVATO, CA 94945. The business is being conducted by A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP. 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 Oct 29, 2015.

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STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No: 304652 The following person(s) has/have abandoned the use of a fictitious business name(s). The information given below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the Marin County ClerkRecorder’s Office on November 4, 2013, Under File No: 2013133428.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 138484 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: 210 MISSION AVE APARTMENTS, 210 MISSION AVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: MARIA PINEDA, 21 BIRCHWOOD DR, NOVATO, CA 94947. 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 Oct 29, 2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No. 138335 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: FIRMAMENTA , 936 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE BLVD # 403, KENTFIELD, CA 94904: CHIARA PAOLETTI, 936 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE BLVD # 403, KENTFIELD, CA 94904. 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 Oct 8, 2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 138442 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: DECAY MUSIC, 901 A STREET, SUITE C, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: 1) RAYMOND J PEPPERELL, 901 A STREET, SUITE C, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: 2) GEOFFREY VINTON LYALL, 901 A STREET, SUITE C, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901.The business is being conducted by A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP. 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 Oct 23, 2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2015138512 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: WORKFORCE CHARTING GROUP, 175 KELLY DR, NOVATO, CA 94949: JOHN C BRUNER, 175 KELLY DR, NOVATO, CA 94949. 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 Nov 3, 2015 (Publication Dates: Nov 11, 18, 25, Dec 2 of 2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2015138519 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: 1)K&G MEDIA 2) MADE TO ORDER, 208 EL PRADO AVENUE, SAN

RAFAEL, CA 94903: MARKYAR, INC., 208 EL PRADO AVENUE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. The business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. 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 Nov 4, 2015 (Publication Dates: Nov 11, 18, 25, Dec 2 of 2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 138523 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: BANYAN ACUPUNCTURE, 753 C CENTER BLVD, FAIRFAX, CA 94930: BREE DELLERSON, 6 SNOWDEN LN, FAIRFAX, CA 94930. 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 Nov 4, 2015 (Publication Dates: Nov 11, 18, 25, Dec 2 of 2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 138571 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: ESTATE WINES, LTD, 124 PAUL DR # 106, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: RANDALL YAZZOLINO, 1259 BASS BLVD, SONOMA, CA 95476. The business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registration expired more than 40 days ago and is renewing with changes under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Nov 12, 2015 (Publication Dates: Nov 18, 25, Dec 2, 9 of 2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 138504 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: ROSS VALLEY CHIROPRACTIC, 200 BROADWAY STE 101, FAIRFAX, CA 94930: CHRISTINE DILLON, 47 OAK RD, FAIRFAX, CA 94930.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 138486 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: IN HOME PHYSICAL THERAPY SERVICES OF MARIN P.C., 195 NOVA ALBION WAY #36, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: IN HOME PHYSICAL THERAPY SERVICES OF MARIN P.C., 195 NOVA ALBION WAY # 06, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. The business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant is renewing filing with changes and is transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder

of Marin County on Oct 29, 2015 (Publication Dates: Nov 18, 25, Dec 2, 9 of 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2015138586 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: COGNIZANT FILMS, 145 MAYWOOD WAY. SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: JONATHAN HINMAN, 145 MAYWOOD WAY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. 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 Nov 13, 2015 (Publication Dates: Nov 18, 25, Dec 2, 9 of 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2015138556 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: MADE

BY MACE, 6 BOULEVARD TERRCE, NOVATO, CA 94947: KAREN MACE, 6 BOULEVARD TERRACE, NOVATO, CA 94947.

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 Nov 9, 2015 (Publication Dates: Nov 18, 25, Dec 2, 9 of 2015

OTHER NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No: CIV 1503874. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner GRACE ANNABELLE FADER DOUGHERTY filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: GRACE ANNABELLE FADER DOUGHERTY to GRACE ALOYSIUS DOUGHERTY. 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: 12/21/2015 AT 09:00 AM, Dept E, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin: PACIFIC SUN. Date Of Filing: Oct 23, 2015 (Publication Dates: Oct 28, Nov 4, 11, 18 of 2015)

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By Amy Alkon

Astrology

Goddess

I’ve been in a long-distance relationship with my dream man. When we aren’t together, I feel super-disconnected and needy. I’ve never been that sort of person, but he is a master of compartmentalization and just calls or texts back when I contact him and is happy to see me when he sees me. This just isn’t working for me. I need a guy who’s excited enough about me day to day that he takes a little initiative to talk to me. I’ve asked him repeatedly to even just text me first from time to time so I can feel like I matter to him. However, nothing changes.

I now think I should end it. I do love him, though, and my friends are telling me that I’ve already invested nine months of my life in this relationship and I might as well see it through now. There is the possibility he’d move to my city, but that wouldn’t be for at least eight months, and it is only a possibility.—Across The Country In situations like this, “absence” would be more useful if, instead of making the heart “grow fonder,” it made the heart grow little legs and trot off to a bar to chat up somebody new.

You’ve told this guy what you need—no, not diamonds, furs and surgical conjoinment; just a textiepoo at some point in the afternoon, or maybe a call as he’s on his way someplace. He pretty much responded, “I hear ya, baby—and can’t wait to keep doing the exact same thing!” This led you to the obvious (and healthy) conclusion: Time to jump off the lost-cause train. But just then, up popped your friends to yank you back into the boxcar, advising you to put up with the unhappy and see where it goes—because you’ve already put in so much unhappy.

Right.

This sort of thinking is called the “sunk cost fallacy.” It’s a common cognitive bias—an error in reasoning—that leads us to keep investing in something simply because we’ve already invested so much. Behavioral economist Daniel Kahneman explains that even when we sense that investing further is futile, we’re prone to do it because of how powerfully loss affects us. His research finds that we may even feel twice as much pain from a loss as we feel happiness from a gain. So, rather than take the hit to our ego by admitting that we’ve wasted our time, we waste more time doing whatever wasted our time in the first place.

The rational (and misery-reducing) approach is recognizing that the time we’ve already put in is gone and that throwing more time in after it won’t change that.

What makes sense is deciding what to do based on how likely it is to pay off in the future. In this case, sure, your boyfriend could have a near-death experience, reevaluate his life and start texting you heart emojis every 20 minutes—and Elton John could divorce his husband and start dating women. Of course, if you do ditch this guy, your replacement dream man may not pop up immediately in his wake.

But at the very least, you should find that there are many men out there who can fail to meet your needs without your spending thousands of dollars a year on plane tickets.

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I love my girlfriend but don’t love how aggressive she is with her tongue when we kiss. I like softer kissing, but I think she thinks I won’t find her “passionate” enough that way. She has big, beautiful lips, and she’s intense, and I don’t need her tongue down my throat to feel connected. How do I navigate this difference in styles?—Uncomfortable

A:

It’s great to have your girlfriend’s kisses kick off a fantasy in your head, but not that you’re playing spin the bottle with a camel.

Unfortunately, there’s really no such thing as “constructive criticism.” As I explain in Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck, “Criticizing people doesn’t make them change; it makes them want to clobber you.” That’s because we’re living in modern times with an antique psychological operating system. A verbal attack sets off pretty much the same biochemical alarm as a guy in a loincloth and face paint coming after you with a bloody spear. The good news is that turning criticism into opinion often makes all the difference in getting it heard. In this case, this simply involves telling your girlfriend how you like to be kissed—and then (fun!) showing her. It’s great to have a woman who takes your breath away—but not because she’s trying to give you a laryngectomy with her tongue.Y Worship the goddess—or sacrifice her at the altar at adviceamy@aol.com

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Urbandictionary. com defines the English word “balter” as follows: “To dance without particular skill or grace, but with extreme joy.” It’s related to the Danish term baltre, which means “to romp, tumble, roll, cavort.”

I nominate this activity to be one of your ruling metaphors in the coming weeks. You have a mandate to explore the frontiers of amusement and bliss, but you have no mandate to be polite and polished as you do it. To generate optimal levels of righteous fun, your experiments may have to be more than a bit rowdy.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’ve arrived

at a crossroads. From here, you could travel in one of four directions, including back towards where you came from. You shouldn’t stay here indefinitely, but on the other hand you’ll be wise to pause and linger for a while. Steep yourself in the mystery of the transition that looms. Pay special attention to the feelings that rise up as you visualize the experiences that may await you along each path. Are there any holy memories you can call on for guidance? Are you receptive to the tricky inspiration of the fertility spirits that are gathered here? Here’s your motto: Trust, but verify.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): English model

and TV personality Katie Price has been on the planet for just 37 years, but has already written four autobiographies. You Only Live Once, for instance, covers the action-packed time between 2008 and 2010, when she got divorced and then remarried in a romantic Las Vegas ceremony. I propose that we choose this talkative, self-revealing Gemini to be your spirit animal and role model. In the coming weeks, you should go almost to extremes as you express the truth about who you have been, who you are and who you will become.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): A flyer on a

telephone pole caught my eye. It showed a photo of a 9-year-old male cat named Bubby, whose face was contorted in pain. A message from Bubby’s owner revealed that her beloved pet desperately needed expensive dental work. She had launched a campaign at gofundme.com to raise the cash. Of course I broke into tears, as I often do when confronted so viscerally with the suffering of sentient creatures. I longed to donate to Bubby’s well-being. But I thought, “Shouldn’t I funnel my limited funds to a bigger cause, like the World Wildlife Fund?” Back home an hour later, I sent $25 to Bubby. After analyzing the astrological omens for my own sign, Cancer the Crab, I realized that now is a time to adhere to the principle “Think globally, act locally” in every way imaginable.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): How well do you treat

yourself ? What do you do to ensure that you receive a steady flow of the nurturing you need? According to my reading of the astrological omens, you are now primed to expand and intensify your approach to selfcare. If you’re alert to the possibilities, you will learn an array of new life-enhancing strategies. Here are two ideas to get you started: 1. Imagine at least three acts of practical love that you can bestow on yourself.

2. Give yourself three gifts that will promote your healing and stimulate your pleasure.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): To activate your full

potential in the coming weeks, you don’t need to scuba dive into an underwater canyon or spelunk into the pitch blackness of a remote cave or head out on an archaeological dig to uncover the lost artifacts of an ancient civilization. But I recommend that you consider trying the metaphorical equivalent of those activities. Explore the recesses of your own psyche, as well as those of the people you love. Ponder the riddles of the past and rummage around for lost treasure and hidden truths. Penetrate to the core, the gist, the roots. The abyss is much friendlier than usual! You have a talent for delving deep into any mystery that will be important for your future.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Normally I charge

$270 an hour for the kind of advice I’m about to offer, but I’m giving it to you at no cost. For now,

By Rob Brezsny

at least, I think you should refrain from relying on experts. Be skeptical of professional opinions and highly paid authorities. The useful information you need will come your way via chance encounters, playful explorations and gossipy spies. Folk wisdom and street smarts will provide better guidance than elite consultants. Trust curious amateurs; avoid somber careerists.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Some athletes

think that it’s unwise to have sex before a big game.

They believe it diminishes the raw physical power they need to excel. For them, abstinence is crucial for victory. But scientific studies contradict this theory.

There’s evidence that boinking increases testosterone levels for both men and women. Martial artist Ronda Rousey subscribes to this view. She says she has “as much sex as possible” before a match. Her approach must be working. She has won all but one of her professional fights, and Sports Illustrated calls her “the world’s most dominant athlete.” As you approach your equivalent of the “big game,” Scorpio, I suggest you consider Rousey’s strategy.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you were embarking on a 100-mile hike, would you wear new boots that you purchased the day before your trip? Of course not. They wouldn’t be broken-in.

They’d be so stiff and unyielding that your feet would soon be in agony. Instead, you would anchor your trek with supple footwear that had already adjusted to the idiosyncrasies of your gait and anatomy. Apply a similar principle as you prepare to launch a different long-term exploit. Make yourself as comfortable as possible CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Here’s how Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins: “Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.”

The preface I’d write for your upcoming adventures would be less extreme, but might have a similar tone. That’s because I expect you to do a lot of meandering. At times your life may seem like a shaggy dog story with no punchline in sight. Your best strategy will be to cultivate an amused patience; to stay relaxed and unflappable as you navigate your way through the enigmas, and not demand easy answers or simple lessons. If you take that approach, intricate answers and many-faceted lessons will eventually arrive.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Confederation of African Football prohibits the use of magic by professional soccer teams. Witch doctors are forbidden to be on the field during a match, and they are not supposed to spray elixirs on the goals or bury consecrated talismans beneath the turf. But most teams work around the ban. Magic is viewed as an essential ingredient in developing a winning tradition. Given the current astrological omens, I invite you to experiment with your own personal equivalent of this approach. Don’t scrimp on logical analysis, of course. Don’t stint on your preparation and discipline. But also be mischievously wise enough to call on the help of some crafty mojo.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Slavery is illegal

everywhere in the world. And yet there are more slaves now than at any other time in history: At least 29 million. A disproportionate percentage of them are women and children. After studying your astrological omens, I feel you are in a phase when you can bestow blessings on yourself by responding to this predicament. How? First, express gratitude for all the freedoms you have. Second, vow to take full advantage of those freedoms. Third, brainstorm about how to liberate any part of you that acts or thinks or feels like a slave. Fourth, lend your energy to an organization that helps free slaves.Y

Homework: Take a guess about what your closest ally most needs to learn in order to be happier; freewillastrology.com.

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