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I am responding to a couple of letters in the April 24 issue of the Pacific Sun by cyclists seeking more access to single-track trails in Marin. One of the cyclists’ letters mentions spending money in Marin. I’m not sure why this is relevant unless it argues for dollars entitling cyclists to some particular privilege. The writer notes that all narrow trail users co-exist “just fine” in other counties. This is what someone might think if they have not been present for an injury or death. Personally, I think cars and cyclists co-exist “just fine” on busy roadways—I’ve never seen a cyclist get hit by a car! Just a couple of weeks ago on Willis Evans trail in Woodacre, a cyclist tore down a blind rise and around a blind curve just ahead of

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Really enjoyed Steve [Heilig’s] cover story [“Looking Back and Moving On,” April 24]. Sorry to see Peter [Coyote] move to Sonoma ... West Marin, not Olema in the Sixties, has the feel of yesterday’s Mill Valley.

Allan Bortel

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The last four paragraphs of Steve Heilig’s interview with Peter Coyote [“Looking Back and Moving On,” April 24] should be required reading for everyone in Marin County. Having lived in Marin over the same decades, I’ve not seen anyone articulate so well the

Peter Coyote is leaving Marin after many years to settle in Sonoma County.

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to walk long distances. And she has a doctorprescribed handicap placard for the car. After about our 10th lap around the parking lot, trying to find an open handicap space or at least an open regular space halfway between Chipotle and Fingers & Toes, I started counting the number of designated handicap spaces and the number of spaces that are just as close to the shops but are designated for ... online ordering ... curbside pickup. On the Fingers & Toes side of this strip of shops, there are two handicapped spaces at the sidewalk. Compare this to the eight (eight!) spaces reserved for people who are in most cases probably healthy enough to walk a few more feet from the general spaces to get their food, but just don’t want to expend the extra time and/or energy to make that journey. I say “journey” because for someone who doesn’t have the physical capability of walking that far, it is indeed a journey! It’s a disturbing question. And it’s a surprising question considering the place and time (Marin County, 2015 ... are we moving forward or backward?) Why does the Northgate Mall discriminate against the physically disabled by not providing enough designated spaces for them but rather chooses to accommodate a segment of the population that could probably do well with a little extra exercise? Food for thought.

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Shelter from the storm Ross Valley divided over flood control plan by Pe te r Se id m an

round the same time that a new report was released, stating that the Ross Valley should prepare for severe storms and flooding, a group of San Anselmo residents started circulating a petition to block a plan calling for a flood control basin in a favorite town park. The report, titled Surviving the Storm, looks at the potential for climatechange-related flooding throughout the Bay Area. A section of the report focuses on the Ross Valley. The watershed that drains the valley, “has been one of the highest FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) damage claims locations in Northern California,” states the report, which was compiled by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute. “San Anselmo ranks seventh among all communities in California for National Flood Insurance Program claims, and the town of Ross ranks tenth. Since the

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federal program was started in 1968, San Anselmo residents have filed 255 claims totaling nearly $11.3 million in flood losses, and Ross residents have filed 237 claims totaling about $9.6 million in flood losses.” That’s nothing that residents of the Ross Valley don’t know, at least in broad terms. They live with the constant threat of floodwater racing down the valley, inundating homes and businesses. Floods have caused widespread damage on a regular basis. In a grant application to the state to help fund flood mitigation measures and craft a flood prevention program, San Anselmo submitted a set of daunting facts to the California Department of Water Resources: “Since 1951, flood flows have been recorded in calendar years 1951, 1958, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1994, 2005 and 2012. Of these, the two most severe floods occurred in 1982

and 2005.” The 1982 event made national headlines with pictures of floodwater and damage in San Anselmo, San Rafael and elsewhere as water caused extensive damage and reached near the tops of street signs. The 2005 flood also caused substantial damage.

It was after the 2005 event that many residents of the Ross Valley decided enough was enough and joined a move to create and raise funds for a Ross Valley flood protection project. The move resulted in a controversial 2007 ballot measure that called for a flood protection fee. Opponents claimed that imposing a flood control fee was an undue burden, an example of government overreach. But it was the sign-the-ballot method of voting that ended up in court. That method of voting failed to ensure secrecy, said San Anselmo Town Councilman Ford Greene. He filed suit to invalidate the ballot measure. The case landed in the First District Court of Appeal, where a three-judge panel rejected the Ross Valley flood control district fee vote. The case then went to the California Supreme Court, where justices rejected the court of appeal decision and allowed the flood control plan—and the fee—to proceed. The split between the two courts was an example of the endemic dissension surrounding the flood control plan in the Ross Valley, which won voter approval by just a small margin. The state Supreme Court decision allowed the Marin County Flood Control & Water Conservation District to assess an annual fee in the Ross Valley’s Zone 9 flood control area, which covers Fairfax, Ross, Kentfield, Corte Madera, Larkspur and San Anselmo. The fee was designed to average $125 and raise about $2.2 million a year for 20 years. Money the fee generates goes to help fund the Ross Valley Flood Protection and Watershed Program. The protection program calls for creating four detention basins that can hold water during a flood. When rain subsides, water in the

basins can be released in a controlled flow, which can prevent, or at least minimize, the kind of flood damage that downtown San Anselmo has suffered continually. The detention basins in the plan—as it was initially delineated— were located at Loma Alta, on county open space land; Lefty Gomez Field in the Ross Valley School District; Red Hill Park in San Anselmo; and Memorial Park, located west of the Red Hill Shopping Center off of Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. The flood protection project also included major upgrades to Phoenix Lake, one of the Marin Municipal Water District’s reservoirs. The proposal to use Memorial Park in San Anselmo as a detention basin drove a wedge into the community. Opponents of the option said that transforming the park into a detention basin would destroy a recreational asset beloved by neighbors and other residents in the town. They also said that the project would reduce property values during construction, cause unacceptable traffic congestion and leave the town with a generic-looking park rather than a homegrown community asset. Proponents of the idea, however, say that using the park as a detention basin could result in a project that would improve the park. According to the website Just Playgrounds, “San Anselmo Memorial Park, also know as Millennium Park, is a testament [to] what can happen when a community pulls itself together for a good cause.” A playground in the park was rather run-down in 2000, when members of the community worked to breathe new life into it. That emotional and physical investment explains at least one part of the staunch opposition to transforming the park into a detention basin to temporarily hold floodwater. According to the grant application that the town sent to the state, “The

park floor will be excavated and lowered by an average of 10 feet below existing grade.” A gate will control the flow of water in Sorich Creek, which runs along the park. Sorich Creek runs into San Anselmo Creek, which eventually becomes Corte Madera Creek. When a flood is imminent, public works personnel will close a floodgate and divert water from Sorich Creek. The water will flood Memorial Park, where it can be held until it is safe to allow controlled flow downstream. According to the grant application, “When full to the spillway crest, water depths will reach a maximum of 14 feet at the southern end, and the basin will inundate [seven] acres and detain 79 acre-feet of floodwater.” After a hefty amount of pushback, the concept of a flood control program for the Ross Valley landed on the desk of a consulting firm, CH2M Hill, to look at what had been proposed and what might be alternatives. Part of that re-examination included another look at whether Memorial Park should remain as a key element in the flood control system. Proponents of the detention-basin plan note that the basins would work together with the improvements to Phoenix Lake as well as improvements to bridges and creek widening to reduce floodwater overflow through the valley. Eliminating Memorial Park would reduce the efficacy of the system unless an alternative site replaced it. CH2M ranked the proposed detention basins using a complicated formula that scored each basin and Phoenix Lake based on criteria that included costs and benefits, and flood control, as well as protection of the environment. Phoenix Lake came out on top. Memorial Park was second in the ranking. In addition to looking at the original list of basins, the consultants studied a batch of additional sites. Deer Park came 9>

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1. In 1956, architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed a house in San Anselmo for what four-legged creature? 2. VISUAL: Those long, narrow loaves of delicious French bread are called what? 3. During the 2012 election cycle, candidate Mitt Romney referred to what percent of the American population as dependent, entitled victims who don’t pay taxes? 4. 350, the “Magic Number” of climate change, refers to the maximum amount (in parts per million) that is considered safe in the atmosphere, of what? 5. VISUAL: This movie with a boxing theme won the 2004 Academy Award for Best Motion Picture. What is 2. the film title, and who are the two main stars and the director (all Oscar winners)? 6. Australia, Canada and Hong Kong all use the same unit of currency, known as what? 7. Sasha Baron Cohen’s outrageous movie, Borat, brought the world’s attention to what large but 5. unknown country located in Central Asia? 8. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, known as the Greatest Show on Earth, recently announced that by 2018, they will no longer feature which animals? 9. Pages on the World Wide Web are written in a language called HTML, which stands for what? 10. Can you name the titles of five Beatles songs that BONUS begin with the word ’She’? BONUS QUESTION: VISUAL: To visit this sport’s International Hall of Fame, you would travel to the Newport Casino in Rhode Island. What sport is it?

▲ Claire Devine, a realtor in San Rafael, stopped at Bordenave’s bakery and the San Rafael Animal Hospital and then headed to Sacramento on a recent Saturday. When she arrived at her destination, she realized that her wallet, which contained cash, credit cards, a driver’s license and even her social security card, was gone. Bordenave’s didn’t have it and neither did the vet. Claire figured she’d never see it again. Surprise. On Monday, a San Rafael policeman knocked on her door and handed her the wallet, with everything intact. The person who found the wallet asked to remain anonymous. Well, Anon, Claire sends her heartfelt thanks. Let’s also give a nod to the San Rafael PD. Who knew that they made house calls to return lost items?

▼ We were saddened to learn that the Marin History Museum, after 80 years, is calling it quits at the end of the summer, due to lack of funding. Come fall, where will we see the fascinating Marin relics that were on display at the Boyd Gate House in San Rafael? Hard to know, since the museum has been quietly auctioning off pieces of Marin’s history. Board members insist that they have the right to sell non-donor restricted items. We bet that the generous folks who donated the items might not be too happy that their Marin artifacts have left the county and gone to the highest bidder. We find the museum board’s behavior to be absolutely disgraceful. We suggest that they pay to bring the items home.—Nikki Silverstein

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in third, the former Sunnyside Nursery ranks fourth, the Bothin Youth Park Center is fifth, San Domenico School is sixth, Lefty Gomez drops to seventh, Marin Town and Country Club is eighth, Red Hill is ninth and Hidden Valley is 10th. (The nursery is private property, a criterion that excluded it and sites like it from the original choices.) Using a system of four basins and Phoenix Lake, which virtually no one suggests should be excised from the plan, Memorial Park still stays in the top tier. The consultants are looking at the revamped list and will return to town with a report in June about their relative efficacy. Proponents of the process say that the renewed investigation will advance the selection process and respond to criticisms aimed at using Memorial Park. Opponents remain adamant that the park would hold back a relatively small volume of water given the amount of money needed to transform the site. Opponents of using Memorial Park make points routinely heard now among a restive portion of the electorate. Among those points is the charge that elected officials refuse to listen to their constituents. Working that vein, a group of opponents to the Memorial Park proposal recently started circulating a peti-

tion that would force the Town Council to alter the town’s general plan. The alteration would prevent using Memorial Park as a detention basin. If opponents collect signatures of 10 percent of the town’s registered voters, council members would either have to adopt the initiative or put it on a ballot. If opponents can collect signatures of 15 percent of the town’s registered voters, the council would have to adopt the initiative or call a special election. Councilman Greene says that he expects the consultants to simply corroborate a flood control plan that supporters already have thrown their weight behind. “The consultants were hired after a sustained groundswell of objections,” he says. “I think their charge is to propagandize the appropriateness of the detention idea for Memorial Park.” Greene supports the petition drive, which, like the Memorial Park proposal, is a wedge splitting the community. “I am in favor of a local vote to determine whether Memorial Park ought to be transformed into a detention basin,” Greene says. “I have advocated for that in Town Council meetings, and I continue to advocate for that.” But opponents of the petition drive say that rather than advancing a form of direct democracy, it’s actually aimed at blocking a flood control project that would be a benefit to the entire Ross

Valley, including San Anselmo. The opposition to Memorial Park, they posit, is a way to drive another wedge, this time into the wider flood control proposal. Opponents of the detention basin strategy suggest that funds raised could be better used to raise endangered homes and businesses above flood levels and otherwise fortify them against floodwaters. That would be a better use of public money than excavating flood basins, they advocate. (But whether that would work in places like downtown San Anselmo is a question about practicality left unanswered.) Supervisor Katie Rice represents the Ross Valley. She supports the detention basin proposal and stands firm in her opposition to the petition gambit. “I think the petition is ill timed,” she says. She questions whether the petition is aimed at promulgating public participation or “thwarting the results” of a process that has looked at and then re-examined the efficacy of detention basins, including Memorial Park, and will return to public scrutiny in June. “I think the process of high-level review of detention-basin sites that were chosen and of potential alternatives is a really good and healthy process,” Rice says. “It helps review [alternatives] with the public to determine whether a site will or will not work.” Rice calls for people who lean toward supporting a petition process to “take the

high ground, no pun intended,” and embrace the process that has proceeded to this point. “The council is going to have to take positions and vote whether to go forward,” Rice says, “and that’s where the public can weigh in.” She also says that people in the Ross Valley should look at the flood control project with a wider lens. “No single basin or project addresses the situation,” she says. “They all work together.” Along with the critical task of reducing flooding in the valley, she adds, each of the proposed detention basins provides an opportunity for “additional benefits to the community.” Those benefits could range from improved recreational facilities to improved trails and reduced sedimentation. Not to mention critical improvements to bridges that would be part of the overall project, Rice notes. While cautions about increased chances of catastrophic flooding echo across the Bay Area, residents in the Ross Valley wrestle with the details of floodwater volume and the efficacy of detention basins and whether their elected representatives are listening to their wishes. Rice cautions that a referendum process, which can be susceptible to political manipulation, isn’t the right avenue for “making decisions about big and important community projects” like flood control. Contact the writer at peter@pseidman.com.

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uilding a Tall Ship So proclaims the curious but slightly inconspicuous sign perched just outside a massive, white, circus-like tent structure across from Marinship Park in Sausalito. Inside is, well, a tall ship. Part of one, anyway. That there would be a nautical vessel of some kind tucked away inside should come as no surprise to anyone. But unprepared visitors to the noisy, bustling construction site—alive with the sound of electric saws, hammering and the shouts of a team of carpenters and other workers—are surely expecting anything other than what is actually being built there. The Matthew Turner, its massive, stillskeletal frame resembling the stripped carcass of a whale, is a traditional “tall ship,” a rigged, two-masted wooden sailing

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vessel the likes of which is more common on the pages of a history book than tucked away under a circus tent in modern-day Sausalito. It’s not a small ship, either. The deck alone will be 100 feet long, and have a 25-foot beam. The interior will include passenger and crew quarters with 38 berths. When finished, it will be the first wooden ship of its size and kind to be built in the San Francisco Bay Area in more than 100 years. The ship’s namesake—the late Matthew Turner—was a legendary 19th century seafarer, ship’s captain and shipbuilder who built a total of 228 ships in his lifetime, 154 of them manufactured at the Matthew Turner shipyard in Benicia, right here in the Bay Area. “He was easily the most prolific builder of his time,” says Alan Olson, founder and executive director of Educational Tall Ship, the locally based nonprofit organization that is managing the construction and oversee-

ing the financial end of the project. With 50 years of experience in maritime construction, engineering, restoration and sailing, Olson is uniquely suited for this $6.2 million project. A lifelong sailor, he’s built a fair number of ambitious projects on land and sea, from a scaled-down brigantine—another breed of tall ship, often distinguished from each other by the number and arrangement of sails—to an impressive Zen temple he designed and built in Northern California. Even in his dreams, Olson has felt a connection to the sea and vessels that crossed them. “I was inspired at a young age,” he says, “by early images and movies of sailing ships.” The mission of Educational Tall Ship is to first complete construction of the Matthew Turner—which began construction in 2013—and then to provide on-the-water and shore-based experiential education for students of all ages and school levels.

Programs will include sailing instruction, classes in marine ecology and maritime history and programs aimed at encouraging teamwork and responsibility. It’s a dynamic project, with rich educational opportunities throughout the entire construction process, and hopefully long after. For now, a team of more than 150 active volunteers is working on a daily basis to complete the building, which is expected to continue for at least another two years. According to Olson, 32,000 hours of volunteer time have already been logged on the project. About a quarter

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Alan Olson, founder and executive director of Educational Tall Ship, works on the Matthew Turner.

drive propulsion motors. But the sails will be its primary power. Modern sail-makers love projects like this. They can make big sails with no problem. These sails will be a little different. They’ll use a little softer material than Dacron. We might put together the sails here, ourselves, if we can find the space to do it. Templeton: This project is primarily being funded by individual donations, isn’t that right? Olson: We’ve raised just about 75 percent of the money we need to complete the

building of the ship. We just had a nice pledge come in recently, and a few more hanging in the balance. Templeton: So, what’s your sales pitch when asking someone to donate to this kind of project? What’s the hook? Olson: Well, most of our donors—not all of them, but most of them—come from a boating background. Some of them have retired from it, but they remember how important boating and sailing was to them. They can see the value of young people having the

chance to get out on a ship like this. Some of them are focused on the educational part of it. Most of them just want to be part of something that promotes and preserves a tradition that is important to them. If they were golfers, they’d probably want kids to learn something about golfing. We want to make sure kids have the opportunity to be sailors, or at least to experience sailing. So, that’s primarily it. Though some donors come in from the historical point of view. They want to keep these kinds of sailing vessels alive. But for most of us, it’s all about the experience of being out on a boat like this. There’s just nothing like it. Templeton: And then, there’s the experience of getting to be part of building a boat like this. It’s one thing to see a tall ship on the water. We don’t get many chances to see a ship of this kind in the process of being put together from scratch. Olson: It is amazing, isn’t it? People are blown away. When it’s all said and done, if you don’t see the bones of the thing, the structure, the way it all fits together, you don’t really know what a boat like this is. It’s fascinating to a lot of people. It certainly is to me. I’m a builder. I want to know how a thing is put together. When I go out on a boat, I start looking around, under the bilge, everywhere, because I’m just interested in how a thing is made. There are a lot of people who feel that way. Most of the people out there working on this right now come from a boating background, or maybe a carpentry background, or are very skilled builders in some way. Getting to be part of a project like this, a ship built of wood—it’s sort of the Holy Grail of carpentry.

If you are a carpenter, if you want to make something really one-of-a-kind, this is probably at the top of the line in terms of the complication of the project, the shapes, the lines and the use of materials. Anderson: Where will the completed ship be docked? Olson: It will be docked at the Bay Model pier. But we’ve got a long way to go yet. We’ll start planking soon—that’s the skin of the boat—but that will take a while, and we’ll leave a section of it unplanked for a long time, so people can see what the inside looks like, and so builders can pass things in and out to each other. I know it looks impressive now, with just the frame of the boat in place, but even with the planking on, I promise you, it will be a pretty imposing sight. Anderson: The general purpose of this, then, is to give kids the experience of sailing on a tall ship?

Volunteers check the plank alignment of the Matthew Turner.

Olson: Yes. It’s about young people and their experience. Not only the experience of sailing, but just being on the water. What it means to work together, as a team. But also— and this is a very important part of why we’re doing this—to get kids tuned into the ecology of the ocean, to water and what’s going on with it. Most people, kids or otherwise, think the ocean is just this big thing that’s out there. Maybe they know fish come out of it, but they don’t know much more. Our hope is that by falling in love with the ocean, it will inspire them to become better stewards of the ocean, and of the entire planet. Y Ask Trent and David if they’re lost at sea at letters@pacificsun.com. The deck of the Matthew Turner takes shape. 12 PACIFIC SUN MAY 1 - MAY 7, 2015

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hanks to a group of dedicated individuals, the Fairfax Food Pantry will turn 4 years old this month. The Fairfax Volunteers have partnered with the town and the Fairfax Community Church to offer groceries provided by the SF-Marin Food Bank to as many as 140 families once a week. Every Saturday from 9am to 11am, anyone in Fairfax and San Anselmo who needs assistance can go to the Fairfax Community Church located at 2398 Sir Francis Drake Blvd. and pick up what they need—typical offerings include

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grains, bread, protein and seasonal fruits and vegetables. The group also currently delivers as many as 15 boxes of food to folks in the area who are housebound or unable to get to the site. For volunteering opportunities or to learn how you can help or receive help, check out their website: fairfaxvolunteers.org/the-foodpantry. FAIRFAX FUN I’m a little biased, but the Fairfax Community Farmers’ Market is my favorite in the county, and I’m excited that it will be starting back up on April 29 after its usual fall/winter break. The lively market goes from 4pm to 8pm and will run every Wednesday until the end of October. Bring the kids, grab some dinner, buy fresh, organic veggies and visit with your neighbors under the redwood trees in Bolinas Park at 124 Bolinas Rd., Fairfax. ART & WINE Head over to Hamilton for a good cause—and good food and wine! The 5th annual Divine Wine & Food Extravaganza will benefit Novato’s Marin School of the Arts, which provides students access to

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a high-caliber public school education with a strong foundation in the arts. More than 10 wineries will present their finest vintages for tasting, and an equal number of local restaurants will offer a specialty dish for a unique pairing experience. The Marin School of the Arts jazz band plays on the lawn at Unity Center. General admission tickets are $95. The event takes place on Saturday, May 9, 5:30pm-9:30pm at the Unity Center, 600 Palm Dr., Novato (Hamilton Air Force Base.) For more information, visit divinewine.org or call 415/389-7266. TUNES ‘N’ TASTES I suppose it goes without saying that a music fest in wine country MUST have a solid lineup of food and drink to go along with the tunes. The list of chef luminaries at this year’s BottleRock Napa Valley includes the likes of Masa Morimoto, Michael Mina and Top Chef Michael Voltaggio. The three-day music event is slated for May 29-31 and there will even be a Williams-Sonoma Culinary Stage that will showcase the country’s top chefs and sommeliers with musicians and celebrities. Not sure who the musicians are, but I’m going for the food! Buy tickets and learn more at bottlerocknapagalley.com. MAY FIESTA I would be remiss not mention at least one Cinco de Mayo celebration in Marin this week—and this is the one that gets my vote. It just so happens to be Copita’s 3rd birthday on May 3rd, and they have some serious festivities lined up for the entire week. May 1 through May 5, Copita will be serving luxe lobster tacos (three

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for $20) and a margarita tasting-flight ($18) that includes the classic margarita (herradura blanco, fresh lime juice, agave nectar)—my personal favorite, Barb Wire (tequila blanco, strawberry rhubarb purée, maraschino liqueur, lime) and Some Like it Hot (housemade spicy tequila, Lillet, grapefruit, lime, agave, fresh ground pepper). On Copita’s official birthday, Sunday, May 3, the kitchen team will serve up fire-roasted ancho chile adobo porchetta with tomatoes, fava beans, epasote, salsa, tomatillo white beans and spicy candied kumquats. Let the celebration begin! Learn more at copitarestaurant.com. Share your hunger pains with Tanya at thenry@pacificsun.com.

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couple of new gardening books caught my eye this month, just in time for Mother’s Day. Growing Beautiful Food: A Gardener’s Guide to Cultivating Extraordinary Vegetables and Fruit by Matthew Benson, will make you want to dash out into your yard and get growing. Not only is this exquisite book filled with gorgeous photographs of plants and produce, but organic farmer/photographer Benson isn’t too hard on the eyes. Though he grew up as an urbanite, he later fell in love with a woman who was raised in the gatehouse of a rambling old estate property in the Hudson Valley, 60 miles north of New York City. The pair now runs Stonegate Farm, an organic market farm and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). “The property wasn’t meant to be farmed, any more that I was meant to be a farmer,” Benson says. “Like me, it’s new to agriculture, so whatever hoeing and growing goes on, we’re in it together.” The collection of 19th century carpenter Gothic outbuildings were there to support the lifestyle of the estate’s first owners; carriage house, stable, icehouse, manger, barn, gatehouse, greenhouse. All of this is documented in photographs throughout the book that will take you back in time. Growing Beautiful Food begins with dreaming up your garden and tips on soil and seed starting, then descriptive chapters on a plethora of vegetables and flowers, chicken coops and beehives—and ends with recipes! “Working the farm, we have become more patient, more capable, more resourceful and more humble,” Benson writes. “Work on the land develops deep connective tissue with simple, empirical purpose— something we’re in great need of in an age of texts and tweets.” Amen. $32.00, Rodale Books For more information about Stonegate Farm, visit stonegatefarmny.org. Fran Sorin, a garden expert who has been guiding individuals to use gardening and connecting with nature as a tool for well-being, has recently published the 10th anniversary edition of her book entitled, Digging Deep: Unearthing Your

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Creative Roots Through Gardening. Sorin believes that gardening is both a sacred act and a playground for our imaginations. “Working in the garden over time, we learn to appreciate the Japanese aesthetic, wabi-sabi—everything is imperfect, impermanent and incomplete,” Sorin says. “Eventually, often without even trying, we discover ourselves sinking into the wabisabi of life. We become less judgmental of ourselves and others and find ourselves more accepting of our own humanness.” Sorin begins with observing, discovering and exploring your garden and then envisioning your dreams. Next she begins a planning and taking action chapter. While Digging Deep focuses on gardening, readers can apply the wisdom and lessons in the book to any creative pursuit. Her message? Being creative fulfills and nourishes us deep within. Mindful gardening is what Sorin wants us to practice. She recommends setting your intent that you are going to work at staying present, prior to entering the garden. “Your attitude has everything to do with how successful you’ll be at reconnecting with your garden,” Sorin says. “For example, if you are pulling weeds and are thinking of errands you need to do before work, gently return your mind to the weeding and say something like, “I’m weeding and enjoying every minute of doing this. I know it’s helping to maintain a thriving, beautiful garden.” OK, I’ll try that in between all the mumbling and cursing I do while slashing my front yard weeds. Namaste. $14.99, Braided Worlds Publishing. Is your mom in need of a very practical gardening book that tells you exactly what to do in your garden each month? Look no further. Claire Splan has organized and scheduled all of your gardening duties into one book called California Month-byMonth Gardening: What to do Each Month to Have A Beautiful Garden All Year. Splan is a freelance writer and editor who lives in Alameda and is also the author of California Fruit & Vegetable Gardening (Cool Springs Press, 2012). “According to a 2013

survey of gardening trends conducted by the Garden Writer’s Association Foundation, it’s not money, weather or space that impacts our gardening activities,” Splan says. “It is available time.” Splan wants you to find your rhythm in your garden, making the time you spend in it a pleasure instead of a series of endless chores. After a general introduction on soil, irrigation, tools, pests and seeds, the author begins the book in January and continues on throughout the year with thorough information on what to do in your garden. For instance, in May she writes, “May is usually the time when I’m starting to wish that I had planted more roses in my garden.” Me, too! May is usually the time when most California roses are beginning to bloom and we all start dreaming about how many more roses we want blooming next year. Splan warns to choose the right plant for the right place. Only plant roses if you have six hours of full sunlight in your garden—preferably morning sun. Other May duties include planting annuals for immediate color or sowing seeds such

as bachelor’s buttons, calendula, cosmos, larkspur, love-in-a-mist, lupine and nasturtium. Tomatoes can be planted now as well, but check with your local nursery to see which varieties will thrive in your region. Also, add plenty of soil amendment to your dirt for healthy, thriving tomatoes. I like the compost at American Soil in San Rafael or compost by Pt. Reyes Compost Company, which you can find at most Sloat nurseries. This way, you’ll have better luck and no need for chemical pesticides later in the season. The May chapter also has useful information on aerating your lawn, saving seeds, growing herbs, dividing and repotting orchids, irrigation tips and general problem-solving. $24.99, Cool Springs Press. Y Ask Annie how she’ll spend Mother’s Day at thedirtdiva@ earthlink.net.

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What was I thinking? How to avoid regrettable fashion by Kat ie R ice Jone s

an perms, hair scrunchies, acid wash jeans, harem pants, Crocs, overalls, velour loungewear and platform tennis shoes are just some of the items contained within the halls of regrettable fashion. Ironically, these same cringe-worthy looks (and so many others) once posed themselves as edgy or extreme or trend-right. And you bought it. However, with a combination of time, distance and honed taste level, you wised up and began to see the err in their fashion ways. In most instances, those regrettable fashion choices that you once made are distant and laughable memories. But in some cases, well, they are not—like when you took a big fashion risk at a big life event. For those are the fashion mistakes that are recorded in photo detail, and those photos will be shared for a lifetime. Take that poufy Dynasty-styled wedding dress that my sister proudly selected for her 1986 nuptials. In 2015, its styling now serves to mar her otherwise charming wedding photos and for that matter, her memories, too. What a shame. While you will make most of your fashion mistakes when you are youngish, or when you are moving between life transitions (that same time that you are developing or navigating your sense of self), there is no time in your life that you are impervious to regrettable fashion. To avoid more “What was I thinking” moments in the future, you must figure out which fashion and dressing trends are going to be regrettable, in your present. Over the years, I have come to find

that those trends that offer a contrarian or ironic fashion perspective tend to be the worst offenders. These types of trends ... • fly in the face of the day’s dressing decorum • suggest juxtaposing an outfit’s separates in style or formality (i.e., sequin jacket with twill micro-shorts) • border on the edge of ridiculousness (i.e., any getup at Coachella) The good news is that you don’t need to be a style expert to forecast regret-

SIX TRENDS THAT ARE QUICKLY HEADED TO REGRETTABLE: •Track pants with dressy top • Hem-rolled jeans with heels • Micro-shorts and blazer • Super-sized top or jacket with slim bottoms • Mustaches and beards • Floral wreaths

table fashion—you just must trust in your personal style, be skeptical of what the runway presents each season, step outside of your local trends and ask yourself, “Does this look stupid on me?” And lean to a more classic look for big life events

like graduations, proms, pregnancies and weddings. If all else fails and you think that you might be currently wearing regrettable fashion, just don’t take pictures! Y Ask Katie what outfits she regrets at letters@pacificsun.com.

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Defying explication Marin Theatre Company’s ‘The Way West’ is what it is

ing tough competition to win MTC’s Sky Cooper New American Play Prize in 1913, it continued to be developed through readings and dramaturgical assistance here and in New York—a process that led to its April, 1914 world premiere by Chicago’s prestigious Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Though most of her playwriting activity has been elsewhere, Mansour is also widely known in the Bay Area for her work with San Francisco’s Golden Thread Productions, a company with the mission of using live theater as a means to widen public acquaintance with Middle Eastern culture. Mansour’s protagonist, a character simply known as Mom, reminds me of Berthold Brecht’s Mother Courage—except that instead of having to defend herself and her family against external threats as they wander the ravaged battlefields of 19th century Central Europe, Mom has to cope with the daily tribulations of an

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Frontier folk songs and tall tales tell the story in MTC’s ‘The Way West’ (above). A Vietnam War vet contemplates his future in Aurora Theatre Company’s ‘Fifth of July’ (right).

ailing widow in a decaying Central Valley, California house, surrounded by family members and visitors who nonchalantly add fuel to the approaching collapse. There’s daughter Michele (Kathryn Zdan), an immature underachiever who has been more or less secretly “borrowing” she fears nothing, and holds no grudges from Mom’s accounts for many years, has- until, inevitably, like Mother Courage, she tening the day when the financial well will can go no further. run dry. There’s daughter Amanda (Rosie The music team of Sam Misner and MeHallett), a Chicago-based businesswoman, gan Pearl Smith contributes some catchy who comes home for a visit determined 19th century country-style melodies, and to put her mother’s affairs in better order, Geoffrey M. Curley’s set—a cluttered room but ends up hearing that the project she under arches that suggest the supports of has been working on a canvas-covered back in the Midwest has prairie schooner— imploded. There’s Tress NOW PLAYING: The Way West runs adds to the ambi(Stacy Ross), Mom’s through May 10 at the Marin Theatre ence. entrepreneurial friend, Company, 397 Miller Ave., Mill Valley. For all this, the Information: 415/388-5298, or boxwhose “magic water” play’s central proboffice@marintheatre.org. Fifth of lotion, developed with lem is the pervadJuly runs through May 17 at Aurora Mom’s financial assising sense of moral Theatre Company, 2081 Addison tance, comes a cropper. detachment. Mom’s St., Berkeley. Information: 510/843And, finally, there’s Luis struggle is real. It 4822, or auroratheatre.org. (Hugo E. Carbajal), touches us viscerthe family friend and ally. If (as it seems) counselor who offers nothing matters mouthfuls of earnest but very much for Manineffectual advice. sour’s characters, how can it matter to us? While all of the above-named actors Tip of the week: Fifth of July, Lanford skillfully bring their characters to life, Wilson’s classic treatment of the challenges it is Anne Darragh’s portrayal of Mom facing returning Vietnam War veterans, that gives the play its distinctive flavor. is on the main stage at Berkeley’s Aurora Undaunted by successive disasters, she Theatre Company. It’s a big play for a small draws upon the “wisdom” of the Old West space, but if you’ve never seen it, this is a (popular sayings imprinted in rustic letrare opportunity. tering on panels introduced by director Hayley Finn) to carry her through. Even as Charles Brousse can be reached at cbrousse@att.net. she sinks farther and farther into the mud, DAVID ALLEN

t’s hard to know what to make of Mona Mansour’s The Way West, which is currently making its Bay Area debut at Mill Valley’s Marin Theatre Company (MTC). Is it an amiable satire of our infatuation with Hollywood’s depiction of America’s Old West as a land filled with self-reliant pioneers who face every adversity with a combination of optimism, grit, ingenuity and the ability to break into song at a moment’s notice? Or, is the satire part of a serious assessment of how far we’ve strayed from the promise of the American Dream? Or, is it a ’60s “happy hippie”-style rumination on nothing in particular but everything in general? Perhaps The Way West defies explication. It is what it is. Classical music composers often offer us whimsical trinkets that they call divertimenti. Why not dramatists? In any case, Mansour’s play comes to Marin with a solid pedigree. Vanquish-

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F R I D AY M AY 1 — T H U R S D AY M AY 7 Movie summaries by M at t hew St af fo r d The Age of Adaline (1:50) Romantic fantasy about a 110-year-old beauty who stopped aging 80 years ago and the heartthrob who just might learn her secret. l The American Nurse (1:21) Documentary focuses on five nurses from across the country as they take on poverty, aging, prison life and the aftereffects of war and violence. l Avengers: Age of Ultron (2:30) Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo and posse are back, saving the world from one disaster or other; Joss Whedon directs. l Big Trouble in Little China (1:39) Over-thetop John Carpenter actioner finds Kurt Russell searching San Francisco for a Chinese beauty and her abductor, a rambunctious 3,000-year-old warlord. l Bottle Shock (1:50) A Napa vintner and an English oenophile conspire to get California wines the international cred they deserve; Bill Pullman, Alan Rickman and Chris Pine star. l Boychoir (1:43) Dustin Hoffman as an exacting boarding school choirmaster who meets his match in a rebellious 11-year-old tenor; Debra Winger and Kathy Bates costar. l Cinderella (1:46) Live-action Disney version of the 1950 Disney cartoon stars Cate Blanchett, Helena Bonham Carter and Lily James as the drudgeturned-glamour girl; Kenneth Branagh directs. l Closer to the Moon (1:52) Incredible true story about a band of Nazi-era Romanian freedom fighters who reunite 15 years later to rob a bank while posing as a film crew; Vera Farmiga stars. l Clouds of Sils Maria (2:03) Insightful French drama about an aging movie star facing down her future; Juliette Binoche stars. l Danny Collins (1:46) Aging rocker Al Pacino is inspired to revisit and refocus his life when he discovers an undelivered letter sent to him 40 years ago by John Lennon. l Deli Man (1:31) Tasty tribute to the joys of Jewish-American noshing and third-generation Texas deli king Ziggy Gruber in particular; Jerry Stiller, Larry King and others pay homage. l Dior and I (1:30) Behind-the-scenes look at the frantic creation of House of Dior designer Raf Simons’ debut collection. l Ex Machina (1:50) Sci-fi thriller about a sexy robot with more on the ball than the nerds who invented her. l Felix & Meira (1:46) Acclaimed Canadian drama about the uneasy attraction between a Montreal loner and a Hasidic Jewish housewife. l Furious 7 (2:17) Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson are back and speedier than ever; Jason Statham, Djimon Hounson and Kurt Russell bring the testosterone. l Get Hard (1:40) Goofball comedy about a rich embezzler who hires his streetwise gardener to prep him for life at San Quentin; Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart star. l The Grateful Dead Meet Up 2015 (2:40) Catch the Dead’s seldom-seen 1989 Alpine Valley show on the big and psychedelic screen; Sugaree and Terrapin Station fill out the bill. l Home (1:34) DreamWorks cartoon about the unusual friendship between a rambunctious earthling and an extraterrestrial misfit; Jim Parsons and Rihanna lend voice. l Insurgent (1:59) Fugitive Shailene Woodley searches the ruins of dystopian Chicago for answers, closure and the meaning of it all; Kate Winslet is her evil nemesis. l Kingsman: The Secret Service (2:09) A topsecret espionage organization turns a tough street kid into an international superspy; Michael Caine and Samuel L. Jackson star. l Little Boy (1:46) Poignant dramedy about a 7-year-old’s determination to get his dad home l

from WWII unscathed. l Mary Poppins (2:19) A mysterious nanny with magical powers drops in on a staid English family and shows them a colorful world they never imagined; Julie Andrews stars. l Merchants of Doubt (1:30) Sardonic documentary focuses on those professional spin doctors hired to laugh off chemical spills, global warming and other inconsequentia. l Monkey Kingdom (1:42) Documentary focuses on a monkey mama struggling to raise her newborn in the wilds of Southeast Asia; Tina Fey narrates. l National Theatre London: The Hard Problem (2:00) Tom Stoppard’s latest drama concerns a cranial biologist whose belief in human psychology is at odds with the computer-centric certainties of her colleagues. l 1971 (1:19) Hard-hitting documentary about the Vietnam-era break-in of a Pennsylvania FBI office and the resulting revelations of widespread citizen surveillance. l Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (1:34) Clueless mall fuzz Kevin James heads to Vegas for a little R&R …or does he? l RiffTrax Live: The Room (2:00) The interstellar wiseguys of Mystery Science Theater 3000 take on Tommy Wiseau’s breathtakingly inept 2003 midnight cult favorite. l The Royal Ballet: La Fille Mal Gardée (2:45) Frederick Ashton’s 1960 ballet comes to bucolic life with young lovers, clog and maypole dances, cavorting chickens and terpsichore galore. l The Salt of the Earth (1:49) Wim Wenders’ documentary pays tribute to the photographs of Sebastião Salgado and his primary subjects: suffering humanity and the beauty of the Earth. l Searching for Sugar Man (1:26) Acclaimed documentary chronicles the life and times of Rodriguez, a phenomenally talented, virtually unknown Detroit soul singer who became an underground icon in apartheid South Africa. l The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (1:57) While hotelier Dev Patel plans his Indian wedding and the opening of a second inn, staffers Maggie Smith and Judi Dench welcome new arrival Richard Gere! l Seymour: An Introduction (1:24) Ethan Hawke’s documentary tribute to Seymour Bernstein, piano prodigy-turned-teacher and mentor to a generation of talented musicians. l 3 Hearts (1:46) French oh-la-la about the love triangle between a man, his wife and her sister (Charlotte Gainsbourg); mon dieu! l Unfriended (1:20) High school mean girls are stalked by the dead victim of an online video prank! l The Water Diviner (1:52) Aussie farmer Russell Crowe heads to Gallipoli after WWI to find his three missing-in-action sons. l While We’re Young (1:34) Noah Baumbach comedy about the desperate friendship between a middle-aged couple and two young hipsters; Naomi Watts and Ben Stiller star. l Wild Tales (2:02) Rollicking Best Foreign Film Oscar nominee dovetails six morality tales of lust, greed and anger in modern-day Argentina. l Woman in Gold (1:50) True tale of a Viennese socialite who fought to reclaim her family’s artworks 60 years after they were seized by the Nazis; Helen Mirren stars. l The Wrecking Crew (1:35) Affectionate documentary about the L.A. studio musicians of the 1960s who backed up everyone from Cole and Sinatra to The Monkees, The Byrds and The Beach Boys.

k New Movies This Week

The Age of Adaline (PG-13)

k The American Nurse (Not Rated)

Avengers: Age of Ultron (PG-13)

Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:45, 3:40, 6:55, 9:35; Sun-Wed 12:45, 3:40, 6:55 Playhouse: Fri 3:45, 7, 9:20; Sat 12:45, 3:45, 7, 9:20; Sun 12:45, 3:45, 7; Mon-Wed 3:45, 7 Regency: Fri-Sat 10:30, 1:10, 4, 7, 9:50; Sun-Thu 10:30, 1:10, 4, 7 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11:10, 1:50, 4:30, 7:30, 10:10 Rafael: Wed 7 (includes panel discussion) Cinema: Fri-Wed 3:30, 10:25; 3D showtimes at noon, 7 Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:15, 2:15, 3:30, 5:30, 6:45, 9:50; 3D showtimes at 1:15, 4:45, 8 Sun-Wed 12:15, 2:15, 3:30, 5:30, 6:45; 3D showtimes at 1:15, 4:45, 8 Marin: Fri 3:25, 9:35; 3D showtime at 6:30 Sat 3:25, 9:35; 3D showtimes at 12:20, 6:30 Sun 3:25; 3D showtimes at 12:20, 6:30 Mon-Thu 3:55, 9:35; 3D showtime at 7 Northgate: Fri-Sat 11:20, 12:40, 2:40, 4, 6, 7:20, 9:20, 10:40; 3D showtimes at 10:40, 12, 1:20, 2, 3:20, 4:40, 5:20, 6:40, 8, 8:40, 10, 11:20 Sun-Thu 11:20, 12:40, 2:40, 4, 6, 7:20, 9:20, 10:40; 3D showtimes at 10:40, 12, 1:20, 2, 3:20, 4:40, 5:20, 6:40, 8, 8:40, 10 Playhouse: Fri 3:30, 4:30, 6:45, 7:45, 9:50; Sat 12, 1, 3:30, 4:30, 6:45, 7:45, 9:50; Sun 12, 1, 3:30, 4:30, 6:45, 7:45; Mon-Wed 3:30, 4:30, 6:45, 7:45 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11, 2:10, 8:30; 3D showtimes at 12:20, 3:40, 5:20, 7, 10:20

k Big Trouble in Little China (PG-13) k Bottle Shock (PG-13)

Regency: Sun 2; Wed 2, 7 Rafael: Thu 7 (includes wine tasting and discussion with oenophiles Virginie Boone, Michael Hantman and Valery Uhl)

k Boychoir (Not Rated)

Cinderella (PG)

Rafael: Fri 4:15, 6:30, 8:45; Sat-Sun 2, 4:15, 6:30, 8:45; Mon-Thu 6:30, 8:45 Northgate: 10:40, 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11:35, 2:15, 5, 7:40, 10:25

k Closer to the Moon (Not Rated)

Clouds of Sils Maria (R) Danny Collins (R)

Lark: Fri 5:50; Wed 8 Rafael: Fri, Mon-Thu 6, 8:30; Sat-Sun 1, 3:30, 6, 8:30 Lark: Sat 6; Tue 3:30 Marin: Fri 4:30, 7, 9:30; Sat 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30; Sun 2, 4:30,

Deli Man (PG-13) Dior and I (Not Rated) Ex Machina (R)

Lark: Tue 6 Rafael: Fri, Mon, Tue 6:15; Sat-Sun 1:30, 6:15 Fairfax: Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:05, 7:15, 9:50; Sun-Wed 1:10, 4:05, 7:15 Regency:

7; Mon-Thu 4:45, 7:15

Fri-Sat 11:25, 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:20; Sun-Thu 11:25, 2:10, 4:55, 7:40 Sequoia: Fri 4:45, 7:25, 10; Sat 2:10, 4:45, 7:25, 10; Sun 2:10, 4:45, 7:25; Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:25; Thu 4:45 k Felix & Meira (R) Furious 7 (PG-13) Get Hard (R) k Grateful Dead Meet Up 2015 (PG-13) Home (PG)

Regency: Fri-Sat 11:45, 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25; Sun-Thu 11:45, 2:25, 5:05, 7:45 Northgate: 12:50, 3:55, 7:10, 10:20 Rowland: Fri-Wed 1, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 Northgate: 12:05, 5, 7:35 Regency: Mon 7 Sequoia: Mon 7 Northgate: 11:50, 2:25, 4:55, 7:15, 9:35 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11:30, 2, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45

Insurgent (PG-13) Kingsman: The Secret Service (R) Little Boy (PG-13) k Mary Poppins (G) Merchants of Doubt (PG-13) Monkey Kingdom (G)

Northgate: 11:10, 1:45, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 Northgate: 10:55, 1:50, 4:45, 7:40, 10:35 Northgate: 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:25, 10:05 Lark: Sun 3 Lark: Sun 12:50; Wed 3:20 Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12, 2:20, 4:30, 6:50, 9; Sun-Wed 12, 2:20, 4:30, 6:50 Northgate: 10:45, 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 9:55 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11:45, 1:55, 4:20, 6:45, 9

National Theatre London: The Hard Problem (Not Rated) Lark: Sat 1 1971 (Not Rated) Lark: Sat 3:50; Mon 6:15 Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (PG) Northgate: 10:50, 11:55, 1:10, 2:15, 3:30, 4:35, 5:50, 7, 8:10, 9:25, 10:30 Rowland: Fri-Wed 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:15 k RiffTrax Live: The Room (R) Regency: Wed 8 k The Royal Ballet: La Fille Mal Gardée (PG) Regency: Tue 7 The Salt of the Earth (Not Rated) Marin: Fri 4:15, 6:45, 9:15; Sat 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15; Sun 1:45, 4:15, 6:45; Mon-Thu 4:15, 6:45 k Searching for Sugar Man (PG-13)

Lark: Tue noon (includes lunch with San Francisco State musicologist

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG) Seymour: An Introduction (PG) k 3 Hearts (PG-13) Unfriended (R) The Water Diviner (R) While We’re Young (R)

Lark: Fri 3; Mon 3:25; Thu 5:10 Lark: Sun 6; Thu 3 Lark: Sat 8:30; Mon 8:20; Wed 5:30 Northgate: Fri-Wed 2:30, 10:10 Regency: Fri-Sat 10:35, 1:25, 4:15, 7:15, 10; Sun-Thu 10:35, 1:25, 4:15, 7:15 Regency: Fri-Sat 11:40, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:40; Sun 11:40, 4:45, 7:10; Mon,

Wild Tales (R) Woman in Gold (PG-13)

Rafael: Fri-Sun 3:45, 8:15; Mon-Tue 8:15 Regency: Fri-Sat 10:45, 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15; Sun, Tue, Thu 10:45, 1:40, 4:30, 7:30; Mon 10:45, 1:40; Wed 10:45, 1:40, 4:30 Sequoia: Fri 4:30, 7:10,

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Thu 11:40, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10; Tue 11:40, 2:20; Wed 11:35, 4:30

9:45; Sat 1:55, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45; Sun 1:55, 4:30, 7:10; Mon 4:15; Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:10; Thu 4:30

The Wrecking Crew (PG)

Lark: Fri 8:30; Thu 8

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

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Tainted Love

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Jason Crosby & Friends feat Pete Sears, Lebo, Reed Mathis, Jay Lane, Roger McNamee & Cochrane McMillan plus Special Guests Sun 5/3 • Doors 7pm • ADV $15 / DOS $17

PaynBirds feat Tom Luce of LUCE and former members of Train Wed 5/6 • Doors 7pm • ADV $15 / DOS $17

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Bluegrass/folk. 7:30pm. $16. Mystic Theatre, 21 Petaluma Blvd. N., Petaluma. 707/765-2121. mystictheatre.com. 05/01: Stacks Live jazz. 6pm. Free. Marin Country Mart, 2257 Larkspur Landing Cir., Larkspur. marincountrymart.com. 05/01: Tainted Love 8pm. $27/adv, $32/door. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley. 415/388-1100. swmh.com. 05/02: Doc Kraft Dance Band Swing, Latin, country, jazz, reggae, R&B, Motown, rock and zydeco! 8:30pm. $10. Fort Baker Presidio Yacht Club, Sausalito. 415/332-2319. presidioyachtclub.org. 05/02: James Moseley Band Motown, R&B, jazz, blues, funk & reggae. 9pm. $15. Sausalito Seahorse, 305 Harbor Dr., Sausalito. 415/331-2899.sausalitoseahorse. com. 05/03: Los Lonely Boys Hailing from San Angelo, TX, Los Lonely Boys are a sibling trio whose music draws equally from rock, blues, Tex-Mex, Conjunto, and Tejano. 7pm. $40-$65. Uptown Theatre,1350 Third St., Napa. 707/259-0123. uptowntheatrenapa.com 05/03: PaynBirds Featuring Tom Luce of LUCE and former members of Train. 7pm. $15/adv; $17/ door. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley. 415/388-1100. swmh.com. 05/07: Acoustic Guitar Summit A joyous tour de force of solo, duet, and group performance

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featuring Teja Gerken, Tim Sparks, and Matthew Montfort. 8pm. $16-$28. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 415/383-9600. throckmortontheatre.org. 05/02: Jason Crosby & Friends Featuring Pete Sears, Lebo, Reed Mathis, Jay Lane, Roger McNamee & Cochrane McMillan plus special guests. 8pm. $20/adv; $22/door. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley. 415/3881100. swmh.com. 05/06: Open Mic All Ages. Sign up at 7pm. You get two songs or 8 minutes, whichever comes first. Each week a feature act plays from 9-9:30pm. Food available for purchase. 7:10pm-11:30pm. Free. Hopmonk Tavern, 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 415/892-6200. hopmonk.com. 05/06: The Weissmen Rock and roll. 9pm. Free. Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd., Fairfax. 415/459-9910. perisbar.com. 05/07: Kurt Huget & Friends Original Americana. 7pm. Panama Hotel and Restaurant, 4 Bayview St. San Rafael. 415/457-3993. panamahotel.com.

05/07: Wayne Hancock plus Lost Dog Found Country. 7:30pm. $16-$19. Mystic

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Comedy 05/05: Tuesday Night Comedy with Mark Pitta and Friends Established headliners and up-and-coming comics drop by and work on new material. $16-26. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 415/383-9600. throckmortontheatre.org.

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05/07: Mort Sahl: Social Satire Provocative humor and engaging conversation. 7pm. Free. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 415/383-9600. 142throckmortontheatre.org.

Theater 4/22 - 05/08:‘The Way West’ Award winning dramedy filled with songs and frontier spirit. The modern-day American dream comes under the microscope in Marin Theatre Company’s West Coast premiere of Mona Mansour’s funny and insightful play, “The Way West”. This hilarious and heartbreaking play about today’s American family explores the mixed blessing of our great frontier spirit. “The Way West” settles in Mill Valley with a few updates from its world premiere at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater Company. 8pm. $40-$53. Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave., Mill Valley,. 415/388.5200. marintheatre.org. 05/01:‘Witness for the Prosecution’A drama based upon one of best-selling crime writer Agatha Christie’s short stories. A young man accused of an elderly woman’s death has only one alibi: his wife. Will that help or hurt his defense? May 1, 2, 8, 9, 10*, 15, 16, 17*, 2015 (8pm, or *Sunday Matinees 2pm). $26. Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd., Santa Rosa. 707/546-3600. northbaystageco.org. 05/01: Fringe of Marin Festival “New” One-Act Plays by Bay Area Playwrights. Talented directors and actors from the Bay Area are featured in this annual event. May 1-May 10. 7:30pm. $25 Festival; $15 general; Seniors & Students $10. Dominican University, 50 Acacia Ave., San Rafael. 415/257-1300. scholar.dominican.edu. 05/01:‘Seagull’ By Anton Chekhov. Don’t miss the chance to see this deeply human play about family and art by the most frequently produced playwright after William Shakespeare. April 30, May 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, and 16 @7:30 p.m.; May 10 and 17 @ 2:00 p.m. in the Studio Theatre, Kentfield Campus. $20 general; $15 senior; $10students/alumni. College of Marin, Performing Arts Bldg, corner of Laurel Ave and SFD Blvd., Kentfield. 415/485-9555. www.marin.edu/ drama.

Film 05/01: The Power of the Heart Film screening event. This film has been shown to sold out houses all over the world, received standing ovations, and won awards. The multi-layered hero’s journey brings forgiveness, love, and enlightenment to a dimension rarely seen in a film. Poetically brought to life by icons such as Michael Bernard Beckwith, Marianne Williamson, Isabelle Allende, Deepak Chopra, Paulo Coelho, John Gray, Immaculée Ilibagiza, Mark Nepo, Eckhart Tolle, Eckhart Tolle and Gary Zukav. Doors open 6pm; 6:30pm Arthur Javier on Guitar; 7pm Inspirational Music; 7:30 pm Film; 9 pm Q & A with filmmaker Baptist de Pape; 9:30 pm Sweet and Greet sponsored by Flour Chylde Bakery. $20. Unity In Marin Center, 600 Palm Dr., Hamilton, Novato. 415/475-5000. unityinmarin.org 05/07: Wine Enthusiast Wine & Film Series

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Each screening will be followed by a tasting of select wines. (You must be 21 or over to participate in the pouring.) 7pm. $12. Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 4th St., San Rafael. 415/454-1222 rafaelfilm.cafilm.org.

ViDEO Deeper waters When its strange backstory and connection to a celebrity writer-director become old news, ROSEWATER will still be on shelves as a political thriller of a very high order, and I’m shocked that director Jon Stewart had it in him. What distinguishes the story from other fine films of its ilk—say Argo, or the suspensers of Costa-Gavras—is a single, weightless fleck of irony that first gets Newsweek’s Iran stringer Maziar Bahari Is he a spy? You decide. (played by Gael Garcia Bernal) 118 days of prison, beatings and interrogations right after the country’s botched 2009 election. A visiting “correspondent” (comedian Jason Jones as himself, doing the bit he did) conducts an interview with Bahari in Tehran, describing himself in passing as an American spy. The segment’s airing on The Daily Show doesn’t translate well for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, already jittery following a stolen election and Bahari’s alarming footage of the ensuing riots—and they bring a brutal detention down on the London-based journo, convinced that he’s an enemy agent. All a blindfolded Bahari can be sure of is that the silken-voiced questioner behind him (Kim Bodnia), who’s as likely to club him off his chair or mock-execute him as serve lemon cucumbers and coffee, knows his trade well—and wears the scent of rosewater. The film can be seen as a favor returned, and Stewart has said as much, but the director takes the opportunity to steer deeper waters—keenly ambivalent of modern news gatherers like ourselves, who wade into a national tragedy to cut brutal posers down to size. Turns out that there’s a class element in the bargain.—Richard Gould

BEST BET Celebrate your inner and outer artist at the 22nd annual Marin Open Studios the first two weekends in May. This exciting, inspiring and free event lets you tour the studios of more than 270 local Marin artists—from painters to sculptors to jewelers to stainedglass artisans. If you have a blank wall screaming for some color, you’re in luck. You not only get to see really cool stuff, but you get to meet and chat with the artists who created the work, and purchase those pieces you just can’t live without. This is a do-it-yourself tour, so you can see as many—or as few—as your art heart desires. A Marin Open Studios gallery exhibition will be held April 21 through May 10, 11am-6pm, Tuesday-Sundays at 302 Bon Air Center, Greenbrae. Marin Open Studios: Saturday and Sunday, May 2-3, artist studios in south and central Marin. Saturday and Sunday May 9-10, artist studios in west and north Marin. 11am-6pm. For more information and to get the free MOS Artist Tour Guide, visit marinopenstudios.org or call 415/343-5667.—Lily O’ Brien

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05/02: Annual Book Sale Thousands of books at bargain prices. Proceeds from the sale support local charities that provide assistance for families in need. Sat., May 2 -10am to 3pm and Sun., May 3 - 9am to Noon. Free admission. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1123 Court St., San Rafael. 415/456-4842. stpaulssanrafael.org.

05/06: The History of the San Francisco Mime Troupe & Political Theatre: A One Book One Marin Program The History of the San Francisco

Mime Troupe & Political Theatre: A One Book One Marin Program Ed Holmes, actor, director, and teacher, has been performing and teaching in the Bay Area for the past four decades. Ed was a member of the San Francisco Mime Troup from 1986 – 2014. He will discuss the history of the Mime Troupe and the origins of political theater, helping readers to put into context the fictional theater group Diciembre, in At Night We Walk in Circles. 7:40 pm - 8:40 pm. Free. Fairfax Library, 2097 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Fairfax. 415/453-8151.marinlibrary.org.

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Exhibitions: Jessica Eastburn, Jon Kerpel, and Geraldine Lia Braaten Exhibition: May 1 thru June 7, open 11 to 5 everyday except Tuesday. Reception 3-5pm. Free. Gallery Route One, 11101 Highway One, Point Reyes Station , CA. 415/663.1347. galleryrouteone.org.

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51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 415/927-0960. bookpassage.com 05/01: Remembering Shel Silverstein Best known today for his children’s books, former Sausalito resident Shel Silverstein was a multitalented musician, songwriter, playwright, poet, and cartoonist. For this special program, program host Bill Kirsch will present a new hour-long video featuring a dialogue about Shel’s feelings for the Gate 5 area, an animated version of “The Giving Tree, ” Shel and Johnny Cash singing “A Boy Named Sue, ” and Meryl Streep’s rendition of a Silverstein song that was nominated for an Academy Award. Following the video, we’ll hear stories and reminiscences. At the conclusion of the program everyone will be invited upstairs to a new exhibit of Shel’s work at the Sausalito Historical Society. 7pm. Free. Sausalito Public Library, 420 Litho St., Sausalito. 415/289-4121 sausalitolibrary.org. 05/01: VIP Preview Party The preview party celebrates the artists participating in Marin Open Studios May 2–3 and May 9–10. 5pm-8pm. $35. Art Works Downtown, 1337 4th St., San Rafael. 415/4518119 artworksdowntown.org

Community Events 05/02: 6th Annual Taste of Town Center

A family-friendly event celebrating food, community, and the outdoors. Families of all ages are welcome to join in on the fun, plan a day of shopping at the Center, enjoy a delicious mid-day break, relax outside and try dozens of delightful samples by many of Town Center’s popular restaurants and food merchants. Olive Twist will work his balloon magic and paint the little one’s adorable faces. Strolling throughout will be Once Upon a Song’s charming prince and princess characters, all trained singers and actresses, who will enthrall and delight the crowd! And, to top it off, live music will fill the air for everyone to enjoy! 12-2pm. Free admission. Town Center Corte Madera, 100 Corte Madera Town Center, Corte Madera. 415/924-2961. shoptowncenter.com.

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ingerstyle guitar fans fret no more— says his biggest influences were John Renborn an evening of masterful, world-class and Burt Jansch (from the ’60s folk/jazz band music awaits. Teja Gerken, Matthew Pentangle), along with other well-known Montfort and Tim Sparks will come toWindham Hill fingerstyle guitarists Michael gether on Thursday, May 7 at the ThrockHedges and Alex de Grassi. Gerken utilizes a morton Theatre to blend world-fusion, very distinctive guitar technique that he says is jazz, blues, classical, celtic and more at the sometimes called “harmonic slaps,” along with Acoustic Guitar Summit. two-handed fretting or tapping, where “you Gerken, who organized the event, has been are actually fretting a note which then allows bringing different players you to free up the left hand together to perform a varito do other stuff.” These Acoustic Guitar Summit, ety of styles for more than techniques create special Thursday, May 7, 8pm, 20 years. “sound effects” that are Throckmorton Theatre, 142 “Tim and Matthew have unique to acoustic fingerThrockmorton Ave., Mill Valley; never met but they have style guitar playing. He also $16 advance/$21 door/$28 a ton in common,” says likes to use alterate tunings, reserved seating. For more inGerken, who has played formation, call 415/383-9600, because he feels that they or visit throckmortontheatre. with both of them before. “I “extend the instrument.” org. just really can’t wait to kind San Rafael resident of see what happens with Matthew Montfort is a the two of them together. world music pioneer, best They both have this strong world music back- known for his work with the world-fusion ground with those odd rythms and meters— group Ancient Future, which recently had they really know that music and I just know its 35-year original member reunion concert they’re going to hit it off, but I haven’t seen it at the Throckmorton. Unlike the other two yet, so I am pretty excited about it.” guitarists, Montfort plays mostly with a pick. Gerken says that the three of them will get “He really is a world music pioneer so his together just a few days before the event and whole thing is to bring music from Bali and craft an evening that will include solo sets, du- India to the guitar,” Gerken says. “His guitar ets and trios. “We all play steel string acoustic has a scalloped fingerboard so he can bend guitars but we all sound completely different,” the notes like he could on a sitar. The spaces he says. between the frets are kind of hollowed out so Gerken, who writes a lot of his own music, you can push down the strings and bend the describes his style as a mix of many different notes. He basically plays a modified guitar things, including classical, jazz and celtic. He but his understanding of the music is so deep

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that he can really transfer all those scales and musical ideas to the instrument as it is—pretty remarkable.” Tim Sparks, who is coming from Minnesota for the summit, has a completely different style. “Tim is really an interesting guy because his range of influences is so big,” Gerken says. Sparks grew up in South Carolina surrounded by bluegrass and country blues, and then studied classical guitar for a long time. His first breaktrough album was a complete guitar transcription of the Nutcracker Suite, and is very highly regarded. His other influences include Balkan and Klezmer. “He is difficult to put into a genre but at the same time, once you hear him and you are familar with his work, there is a common thread that goes through everything,” Gerken says, “and I think that’s the mark of a really unique musician— to be able to put that stamp on everything.” Gerken’s guitar summits are unique events, since they always include different players— and this one promises to be noteworthy. Y

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A safe, successful MOTHERLESS DAUGHTERS GROUP for women who have lost their mothers through death, separation, illness, or estrangement in childhood, adolescence, or adulthood meets every other Tuesday, 6:30 – 8:00 PM in San Anselmo. In a supportive environment, women address and explore relevant issues in their lives, current and past, including relationships, self-identity, the many consequences of mother loss, other loss, and trauma. The group provides opportunities for healing and growth, deepening self-empowerment, gaining acknowledgement for “normal” responses, and support for pursuing individual goals. Facilitated and developed since 1997 by Colleen Russell, LMFT (MFC29249), CGP (41715) with over 20 years experience, whose mother’s death at 15 was a pivotal event in her life. Individual, couple, and family sessions also available. Phone: 415/785-3513.Email: crussellmft@earthlink.net. Website: www.colleenrussellmft.com . OVER 55 WITH AN EMPTY NEST? STAY OR MOVE? Please join me for a discussion of living options in the Bay Area: Staying at home? Downsizing to a smaller home? Senior communities: what should I know regarding costs, qualifications, and medical? There is no “one size fits all”so come learn what option may be best for you or your loved ones.

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Join me for San Rafael’s Friday Nite ARTWALK on May 8th from 5 to 8PM at "The Goldenaires" Art Exhibit/Sale @ PASSION NAIL SALON: 1027 C Street. EQUINE FACILITATED PSYCHOTHERAPY SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN, Six Mondays, beginning Monday May 18, 2015 Please join us for this ongoing experiential group for six Mondays, 10:30 - 12:00p, beginning Monday, May 18. Women face many stressors in their roles as family members & care givers. In this group we will explore how horses, with their innate sense of empathy, can help you heal issues of grief, loss, trauma, ongoing depression and anxiety. We will focus on our own personal processes & connections with our equine co-faciliators through observational exercises & the practice of Equine Body Work. Equine body work, a form of accu-pressure, can release tension in horses, while also releasing tension & emotional blockages in their human partners. There will be time to process before and after each group. Group size will be limited to 6 participants to maximize personal attention. No previous horse experience necessary since we will be working from the ground. This group is presented by Equine Insight and JudyWeston-Thompson, MFT, CEIP-MH (MFC#23268, PCE#4871). Judy has been using Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy in her psychotherapy practice since 2006. Please see our website for sign up availability www.equineinsight.net. Or email us for more at equine insight@aol.com.

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05/02: Bay Area Homeschool Fair This annual Homeschool Fair provides resources and information for homeschooling families as well as those who are interested in learning more about this educational alternative in Marin County and the San Francisco Bay Area. 1-9pm. Free. Golden Gate Learning Center, 921 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., San Anselmo. 415/4468844. bayareahomeschoolfair.weebly.com. 05/06: Art of World Cultures for Kids 6 to 10

In these fun and unique classes, children will learn about different creative traditions from cultures around the world. Sessions will incorporate recycled materials, found and natural objects, paint, special papers, ink and more! 3:30pm - 4:30pm.$20, $16 OHCA Family members. O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, 616 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 415/3884331. ohanloncenter.org. 05/07: Nature for Kids: Stafford Lake We’ll visit a pond, a permanent creek, and a marsh, and talk about the animals that live in these wet habitats. Then we’ll explore a shady forest and have lunch in a beautiful meadow where we can look out over the lake. Remember to bring lunch. We request that no

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05/02: Full Moon Adventure at Indian Tree

Join a ranger for a nature walk to experience this unique preserve after dark. We’ll discuss nocturnal animals and things that go bump in the night! This activity is moderate to strenuous. Dress in layers and wear sturdy shoes. Don’t forget to bring a flashlight. Friendly dogs are welcome, but must be leashed. 5pm. Free. Indian Tree Preserve, Vineyard Rd., Novato. 415/473-6387. marincountyparks.org

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Outdoor Events native plant nursery team and help us germinate seeds, plant seedlings and cuttings, transplant mature plants, and learn what it takes to care for thousands of native plants. Afterwards, take a stroll with us as we collect wild seeds along one of many local trails. No experience needed. 10am. Free. Meet at our office at 9255 Sir Francis Drake Blvd. Olema, CA 94950 at 10am. Please RSVP to Preston Brown at preston@ tirn.net.

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WHAT’S YOUR SIGN? WEEK OF MAY 1 - MAY 7, 2015

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ARIES (March 21 - April 19) Time to get naked, Aries! Whoa—keep it PG. We’re talking about baring your soul. The full moon on May 3 will be a tell-all. All those secrets you’ve been hiding will pour out like a leaky faucet. No use hiding the fact that you have webbed feet any longer. TAURUS (April 20 - May 20) There’s something in the air, and it’s not just that new Febreeze air freshener you picked up from the store, Taurus! What could it be? It’s love—and clearly, there’s never been a better time to stock up on air fresheners and mouthwashes alike. The full moon on May 3 will have you seducing at your full potential. GEMINI (May 21 - June 20) Want some more cash, Gemini? Welcome to the club. Ever consider a little feng shui? It’s the quickest fix for a dried-up bank account. If you’re really hoping to purchase that matching patio furniture by the end of the month, make a drastic move. Try switching your living room with your bedroom. CANCER (June 21 - July 22) Two of your worlds are colliding, Cancer! Are you moving in with your hopefully to-be betrothed? It looks like love and finances are dancing the tango this week, and you’re going to take it to the next level with the full moon in fellow water sign, Scorpio, on May 3. Expect the unexpected, and a few speed bumps. LEO (July 23 - Aug. 22) Communicate while you can, Leo! Mercury is set to go retrograde in two weeks, and its slippery, conniving effects are already using you as target practice. Reading a few short stories from Chicken Soup for the Leo’s Soul might warm you up before a big communication barrier breakdown. Baby steps—and do your best to articulate on May 6. VIRGO (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22) No vacationing in the Galapagos for you, Virgo! You’ve got more than enough projects to keep you busy. You’ll be whistling while you work all week long with your house of professional accomplishments lighting up to make some serious career moves. LIBRA (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22) Are you retiring, Libra?! You may have never thought that you’d see the day, but all of your relatives have been praying for it. The full moon in Scorpio is finally giving you the gusto to walk away from a job or commitment that has left you feeling unhappy or subpar. Either enjoy your new life of golfing on weekdays or find a boss who respects you and provides free coffee and snacks daily. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21) It’s going to be a stressful one, Scorpio! The full moon in your sign on May 3 will have you re-evaluating your entire life. Have you taken all the right steps to end up where you are now? Did you break up with the right people, or say yes to the wrong ones? Your house of long-term planning and goals is on fire. Maybe start with a to-do list and manifest a game plan to tackle this forward thinking. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21) Want to pick up some extra projects, Sagittarius? It’s always good to do a little freelance work on the side. You never know when a company might just up and Washington Mutual on you. Invest in a partnership (maybe with that woman to the left of you at SoulCycle). Whoever it is, you’ll be thankful for a little collaborative innovation. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19) Not to quote the Who, but, “Who are you? Who, who, who, who?” You might find yourself going through a little identity crisis on May 5. Getting deep never hurt anyone—and you can’t avoid it forever. Carve out some time on your lunch break to get a little introspective. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18) Interested in a promotion, Aquarius? If you’re gunning for a new position, the full moon in Scorpio on May 3 has your back! It’s never been a better time to seek professional success. That Employee of the Month placard is yours—no competition. PISCES (Feb. 19 - March 20) Take a trip down Memory Lane recently, Pisces? What a place. Be careful how much time you spend there, though. While it may be helpful to analyze past mistakes (to avoid repeating)—don’t look too carefully or you might end up staying. It’s all about growth on May 3—move forward! Y 22 PACIFIC SUN MAY 1 - MAY 7, 2015

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137059 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: RIVERSONG, 1811 GRAND AVE, SUITE C, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: CLAIRE NIEMISTE, 33 MARTIN DRIVE, 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 Mar 31 ,2015. (Publication Dates:April 10,17,24, May 1 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137063 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: TOTALLY KUSH EVENTS, 905 CRESTA WAY # 2, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: CHEYENNE BLAZE SLOCUM, 905 CRESTA WAY # 2, 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 ClerkRecorder of Marin County on Apr 1 ,2015. (Publication Dates:April 10,17,24, May 1 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137049 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: LITTLE OWLS CHILD CARE, 25 CORTE ORIENTAL, APT 2, GREENBRAE, CA 94904: 1) ADRIANA PALMEIRA, 25 CORTE ORIENTAL APT 2, GREENBRAE, CA 94904. 2) MAYA LONCHAR, 1446 LINCOLN AVE # 5, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901.The business is being conducted by CO- PARTNERS. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on Mar 31 ,2015. (Publication Dates:April 10,17,24, May 1 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137017 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: PRANAFORCE YOGA, 121 MONO AVE B, FAIRFAX, CA 94930: PRANAFORCE, 121 MONO AVE B, FAIRFAX, CA 94930. 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 Mar 26, 2015. (Publication Dates:April 10,17,24, May 1 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137087 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business:ANACELIS SERVICES LLC, 132 BELLAM BLVD, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: ANACELIS SERVICES LLC, 132 BELLAM BLVD, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901.The business is being conducted by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. 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 Apr 03 ,2015. (Publication Dates:April 10,17,24, May 1 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2015137094 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business:1) NIPPLENEST 2) BABYMAMA, 58 SPRUCE AVENUE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: AMFULL ENTERPRISES, 58 SPRUCE AVENUE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960.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 Apr 06 ,2015. (Publication Dates:April 10,17,24, May 1 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137092 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business:ANCESTRAL VOICE- INSTITUTE FOR INDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS, 108 D OLIVA CT, NOVATO, CA 94947: PHILLIP SCOTT, 108 D OLIVA CT, NOVATO, CA 94947.The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant is renewing filing with changes and is transacting business, under the fic-

titious business name(s) listed herein.This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on Apr 06 ,2015. (Publication Dates:April 10,17,24, May 1 of 2015)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No:304614 The following person(s) has/have abandoned the use of a fictitious business name(s). The information given below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the Marin County Clerk-Recorder’s Office on March 17,2015,Under File No:136943. Fictitious Business name(s) WISE WISHES INSTITUTE WWI, 1330 LINCOLN AVE, #208D, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: WISE WISHES INSTITUTE, 1330 LINCOLN AVE, #208D, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Marin County on Mar 27, 2015. (Publication Dates: Apr 10,17,24,May 1 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137122 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT BOOKS, 367A FORREST AVE, FAIRFAX, CA 94930: DENNIS RIVERS, 367A FORREST AVE, 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 Apr 8,2015. (Publication Dates: Apr 17,24,May 1,8 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137125 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: PHASES EXPERIENTIAL THERAPIES, 1010 LOOTENS PL # 18, SAN RAFEL, CA 94901: DAWN ANGEL AVERITT, 1342 RUSSELL ST, BERKLEY, CA 94702. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. 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 ClerkRecorder of Marin County on Apr 9,2015. (Publication Dates: Apr 17,24,May 1,8 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2015137139 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: OCR EXPEDITIONS, 14 MORELOS AVE, FOREST KNOLLS, CA 94933: MICHAEL STOCKER, 14 MORELOS AVE, FOREST KNOLLS, CA 94933.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 ClerkRecorder of Marin County on Apr 10,2015. (Publication Dates: Apr 17,24,May 1,8 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137143 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: CARLEE McCARTY, CERTIFIED RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE APPRAISER, 44 ROYAL COURT, SAN RAFAEL,CA 94901: CARLEE McCARTY, 44 ROYAL CT, 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 ClerkRecorder of Marin County on Apr 13,2015. (Publication Dates: Apr 17,24,May 1,8 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137145 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: THE POSH PLANTER, 51 BOTHIN ROAD, FAIRFAX, CA 94930: SHARON BEGOVICH, 51 BOTHIN ROAD, FAIRFAX, CA 94930.The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. 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 ClerkRecorder of Marin County on Apr 13,2015. (Publication Dates: Apr 17,24,May 1,8 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137064 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: ZEYTOON PERSIAN CUISINE, 2214 FOURTH STREET, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901:

MICHAEL M. KIMIYAIE, 6 LANYARD COVE, CORTE MADERA, CA 94925.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 Apr 01,2015. (Publication Dates: Apr 17,24,May 1,8 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2015137060 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: THERAPY FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY, 822 D STREET, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: MARIEFRANCE Y COTE, 850 NICASIO VALLEY RD, NICASIO, CA 94946.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 ClerkRecorder of Marin County on Mar 31,2015. (Publication Dates: Apr 17,24,May 1,8 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137172 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: ROSIN CONSULTING, 96 WATERSIDE CIR, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: SUSAN E . ROSIN, 96 WATERSIDE CIR, 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 Apr 16,2015. (Publication Dates: Apr 24,May 1,8,15 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137195 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: TAVIANO SALON, 159 E. BLITHEDALE AVE, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: MARY JOY OTTAVIANO, 374 BUTTERFIELD RD, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960.The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant is renewing filing with changes and registration expired more than 40 days ago and is renewing under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Apr 20,2015. (Publication Dates: Apr 24,May 1,8,15 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137202 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: 1) BLUE WILD FLOWER, 2) WILDFLOWER, 3) WILDFLOWERS 4) THE WILDFLOWER BLUES, 167 TERRACE AVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: MARIE CATHERINE RODRIGUES LANG, 167 TERRACE AVE, 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 ClerkRecorder of Marin County on Apr 21,2015. (Publication Dates: Apr 24,May 1,8,15 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137203 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: BASSETT & CO, 1579 LINCOLN AVE #208, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: MARK BASSETT & CO INC, 1579 LINCOLN AVE, #208, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901.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 Apr 21,2015. (Publication Dates: Apr 24,May 1,8,15 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2015137189 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: OPS10, 68 MADRONE AVENUE, WOODACRE, CA 94973: BONITA WARREN, 68 MADRONE AVENUE, WOODACRE, CA 94973.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 Apr 17,2015. (Publication Dates: May 1, 8,15,22 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2015137214 The following individual(s) is (are) doing busi-

ness: HALEY SEZ, 1000 C STREET, APT # 7, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: HALEY R BAKER, 1000 C STREET, APT # 7, SAN RAFEL, 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 Apr 22,2015. (Publication Dates: May 1,8,15,22 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2015137108 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: KREWCO, 1623 BRIDGEWAY #1, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: JAKE JACOB, 1623 BRIDGEWAY # 1, SAUSALITO, CA 94965. 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 Apr 8,2015. (Publication Dates: May 1,8,15,22 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137229 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: POD SYSTEMS, 265 SUMMIT AVE, SAN RAFA4EL, CA 94901: 2XM LLC, 265 SUMMIT AVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901.The business is being conducted by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. 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 Apr 24,2015. (Publication Dates: May 1,8,15,22 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137227 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: BUDGET FRIENDLY TRANSPORTATION, 777 GRAND AVE, STE # 204 A, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: GOLDEN STATE MANAGEMENT GROUP INC, 401 1ST STREET , STE # 165, RICHMOND, CA 94801.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 ClerkRecorder of Marin County on Apr 24,2015. (Publication Dates: May 1,8,15,22 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137150 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: JOY OF DANCE BALLET SCHOOL, 118 C STRAWBERRY DR, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: JACQUELINE LOW, 10 LIBERTY DOCK, SAUSALITO, CA 94965.The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. 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 Apr 13,2015. (Publication Dates: May 1,8,15,22 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137201

The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: LESSERSOUND, 1147 CAMBRIDGE STREET, NOVATO, CA 94947: 1) WAYNE LEWIS LESSER, 1147 CAMBRIDGE STREET, NOVATO,CA 94947 2) LORRAINE MARIE LESSER, 1147 CAMBRIDGE STREET, NOVATO, CA 94947.The business is being conducted by A MARRIED COUPLE. 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 Apr 20,2015. (Publication Dates: May 1,8,15,22 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2015137231 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: LAUNCH, 719 ALTA VISTA ROAD, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: MARY G GASSEN, 719 ALTA VISTA ROAD, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941.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 Apr 27,2015. (Publication Dates: May 1,8,15,22 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137249 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: NAIL BOUTIQUE, 2086 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE BLVD, FAIRFAX, CA 94930: 1) DUNG HA NHAT NGUYEN, 2035 24TH AVE, #04, OAKLAND, CA 94601 2) SI SON PHU DAO, 2035 24TH AVE, #4, OAKLAND, CA 94601.The business is being conducted by A MARRIED COUPLE. 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 Apr 28,2015. (Publication Dates: May 1,8,15,22 of 2015) STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No:304619 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 FEB 27, 2014,Under File No:134196.Fictitious Business name(s) NAIL BOUTIQUE, 2086 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE BLVD , FAIRFAX, CA 94930: SON DANG, 1118 E 15TH ST, OAKLAND, CA 94606. This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Marin County on April 28, 2015. (Publication Dates: May 1,8,15,22 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137200 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: IMPORTEX, 369B THIRD STREET # 635, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: MARLENY PANCORBO SAYAS, CALLE 26 MZ. 93 LTE. 50 JUAN PABLO 11,LOS OLIVOS, PERU.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 Apr 20,2015. (Publication Dates: May 1,8,15,22 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137256 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: IPLAYNTALK, 1618 REDWOOD HIGHWAY, CORTE MADERA, CA 94703: TS COM GROUP INC, 1630 RUSSELL ST, APT D, BERKELEY, CA 94703. 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 ClerkRecorder of Marin County on Apr 28, 2015. (Publication Dates: May 1,8,15,22 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137255 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: VARIEDADES-CELULARES-ENVIOS DINERO-MONEYORDERS, 26 MEDWAY RD #1, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: VARIEDADES CELULARES INC, 26 MEDWAY RD # 1, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. 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 ClerkRecorder of Marin County on Apr 28, 2015. (Publication Dates: May 1,8,15,22 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 1501230. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner THU NGOC NGUYEN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: THU NGOC NGUYEN to GIA THU NGUYEN.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: 05/18/2015 AT 09:00 AM, ROOM A, 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: Apr 3, 2015 (Publication Dates: Apr 10,17,24, May 1 of 2015)

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I’ve always been a feelings stuffer, but I’ve been reading about vulnerability creating intimacy, blah, blah, blah, so I’m trying to be an open book. Though my boyfriend appreciates this, he keeps telling me there’s a line between expressiveness and my making everything an emotional issue to be hashed out. He last said this when I confessed that I had Googled his ex-girlfriend and felt threatened by how pretty she is. Should I have kept that to myself?—Open

If you were any more open, you’d have squatters and roosters. It’s great that you’ve thrown yourself into the trenches of Self-Improvementville, but the way you connect with someone is by letting them see who you are, not poking them in the eye with it every 20 minutes. Vulnerability shouldn’t be a fancy word for “everything you say or do hurts my feelings.” This Carnival of Insecurities, presented as problems for your boyfriend to solve, turns his life with you into a never-ending emotional chore wheel. (Remember, he’s in a relationship with you, not a psychology internship.) This isn’t to say that you’re wrong to look to your boyfriend for soothing. But before you press a problem on him, ask yourself how it would affect him, whether he can fix it and whether it’s really his business to know. Not all feelings are made for sharing. Some need to go off in a corner and die a quiet death on their own. Still, you aren’t without help in ushering them there. (This is what therapists, best friends and the Journaling-Industrial Complex were invented for.) People think that keeping romance alive takes a $10,000-a-night Spanish castle package, complete with moonlight carriage rides with an aria-singing Placido Domingo jogging behind. But it’s actually the mundane daily stuff that matters—how you and your partner respond to each other’s seemingly unimportant remarks and gestures. It turns out that telling your partner, “I can’t find the salt shaker anywhere” isn’t just an expression about a lost object; it’s what marriage researcher John Gottman calls a “bid for connection.” In a study Gottman did with newlyweds, he found that the ones still married six years later were overwhelmingly those who consistently engaged with their partner and met those “bids” with “turn-towards.” Turning toward a partner means being responsive—soothing, encouraging, supportive, or maybe just showing interest. This involves, for example, replying to your partner’s remark about the lost salt shaker—even with, “I hate when that happens!” rather than, “Lemme finish this ‘Minecraft’ session” or saying nothing at all (effectively treating them like some old couch you stopped noticing). This “turning toward” thing is something you and your boyfriend can each do. Think of it as treating each other like you haven’t forgotten you love each other. It’s smart relationship policy and smart life policy—wiser than getting in the habit of responding to a partner’s, “I’m starting a machete collection” with, “That’s nice, dear.”

The guy I’ve been seeing for a month just told me that he doesn’t want a relationship or monogamy. I told him from the start that I was looking for something “real” and wanted to take it slowly. I did sleep with him too quickly— on the first date. Still, I feel that men don’t really respect what you say you’re looking for. They get what they want and then leave. How do I keep this from happening in the future?—Ouch

Nothing like tearing off all your clothes on the first date to say, “I want to take it slowly.” (Your words said no, but your thighs had a marching band and a banner: “Welcome Home, Big Guy!”) Many women claim to be seeking something “real”—either because they are or because they don’t want it to seem like their exercise program is “the walk of shame.” Guys are hip to this, so they nod their heads about the “real”ness-seeking and then nudge the woman to see whether she’ll tumble into bed. In other words, your problem was not that the guy didn’t “respect” what you said you wanted, but that you didn’t. (This might be a good time to notice that “blame” is just “lame” wearing a “b” as a hat.) To avoid another Sexodus, match your behavior to your goals. Research (and common knowledge) finds that having sex pronto is a bad idea for a woman who’s looking for something lasting with a guy. This isn’t to say that sex on the first or second date never leads to more. It’s just a risky strategy to sleep with a man before he’s emotionally attached to you—like when your answer to the question, “So ... how long have you two lovebirds been together?” is, “It’s actually coming up on two and a half beers!” Y

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