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We at the Lagunitas Brewing Co. hope you enjoy these genuinely handmade ales. A lot hard work and enthusiasm go into every aspect of brewing this Mondo Ultra Mega Super Premium Ale. From building the brewery itself to putting the cap on each and every bottle, virtually every step was done by hand. Thanks for your trust, and as always: Think Globally, Drink Locally!... “And you’re full of ragwater bitters and blue ruin and you’re spilling out over the edge to anyone who’ll listen.” These are the words of our favorite Sonoma songsmith. They describe a cocktail of romantic despair wrapped in red flock wall paper and marinated in a soulful yearning. On the rocks. With a twist. We’ve all been there. The beer in this bottle, however, is none of that. So maybe Ragwater is a crappy name for the beer but we liked it, and so whatever. It’s always better to be happy than right. Mostly, anyways. Whatever. Forget it. Never mind... Anyway, we were going out to, uh, the, uh, you know, thing, and all, and when we got there, well, uh, the dude was like-“whoa man! I mean, and we were all, uh, you know- whoa! And stuff, and when I said to him, like you know, hey man and all, they, I mean he, was all “what?” and stuff- and I just told him what you said and all, and they were all man- “not cool dude”, but whatever- so uh, we split and went back to my lair and just hung out and whatever, but the whole thing was, like, just Such a bummer and all but you know, it was cool and stuff, but you just gotta, you know, about the dude and all, like, it’s cool and you know, but what’s up with the “blah blah blah”? Whatzit got to do with beer and all? I mean, really, dude, whatever… There I was, sweaty and strung out, holed up for the third day in a cheap hotel with a genuine Juanita on my lap. On the lamb was more than a way of life. It had a smell, and it stunk like hops. Juanita shrieked something about an “Escoba grande con queso en mota para la pelicula…”, but I wasn’t listening. For now I was focused on the undercover Ale clenched between jaunita’s knees and also how good it would taste later while she cooled out in the soon to be locked shed out back of Palmdale where the turkey farmers still run. Ale is thicker than even blood. I already knew this and I also knew that the dicks were not far behind and that ever at their distance they could smell everything and would never let up on me. Flip the dicks. Here come the bastards… Here they come…It has been broughten to our attrition that they're have been numberous spelling errors on hour various lables. From the cureous (as in 'steet') too the sublime (as in 'redempetion'). As a soulution to this problem we have retrained an imminent linguist from Stanford and have invested in a spel checker computter utilitiy. For now however, the thing I want to know is: Who are these werd police? Anyway? Who is the boss, ewe or the words?

Huh? And besides, what dew words, let alone speling, have to do with beer anyway. I mean, who ever herd of some namby pamby pale lexiphile curling up buy a warm fire with a good book and a cold beer. This hole bussiness has gone plenty far enouph, don't you think?... Like Adam and Eve, Issac and Ishmael, Mao and confuscious, Good and Evil, Day and Night, Hittites and Visigoths, John and Lorena, or Groucho and Moe, Ales and Lagers are as different as can be. Still we must love each for who they are, separately but equally, with liberty, and justice for all. Cheers!... Those among you who have visited a brewery already know. Those who have not can not imagine. It is said that it takes a lot of beer to make great wine.

What then does it take a lot of to make great beer? Answer: Human flesh, and lots of it. Not in the beer, of course, but on the blisteringly hot sides of the whirlpool tank, or on the spinning shaft of a pump head. If you should see one of our club footed, three-fingered, cycloptic albino brewers on the street, you might be inclined to give them a quarter. But don't! These individuals are highly paid professionals. Masters of their craft, and committed to their trade with little or no regard for their own personal safety or physical appearance. Beer is a cruel master. Masters are cruel, and beer is no exception. Just don't picture their twisted forms as you enjoy their fine ales... Well, well, well. The head brewer stood opposite the massive brewing vessels that were his to command. His mind raced through the possibilities. What is the temperature of the malt in the grist case overhead? Was the hot liquor tank up to temp? Would the ambient temperature affect the final mash temperature? Should he compensate for the delta temp by running a little higher mash-in temperature? A single degree in either direction would have a life changing effect on both the brewer and the brewee. The beer could be too sweet if a degree high, or too mild and dry if a niggling degree too low. The character of the future beer that this batch would be hung in the balance. The brewer drew a bead on the temp-probe, the mash tun waited, and the world held its breath...

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››LETTERS ‘Self-assuming assholes’

Goodbye, Mill Valley. I’ll miss you. There was a time when you were a community of genuinely wonderful souls. Brilliant, creative, hip, artistic, musical, genuinely nice and caring people. It was a town of unassuming authors, world-renowned musicians and actors who had no problem walking amongst fellow townsfolk, a town with a keysmith and a family-owned hardware store and even the very best record store in the country. They were the people and those were the times that created the paradise Joni Mitchell warned us about turning into a parking lot.

We didn’t listen. And we now have a community of hurried, self-assuming assholes.

Mill Valley is now officially a parking lot and it is only going to get worse.

Capitalism unchecked is like runaway cancer and it appears our elected officials either didn’t see it coming or hopped on the money train. Perhaps it is time for a good old-fashioned tar and feathering. I would suggest jail time and heavy fines, but our clueless courts would just laugh it off. Their wealthy constituents are owned by sociopathic developers, those ruthless bastards who do not live here and don’t give a goddamn about traffic problems. They are the ones who must be held accountable. Pathetically, that will never happen.

If it does, I’ll bring the feathers. Good riddance, Mill Valley.

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I never thought I would ever want to leave Marin but it has started crossing my mind. We aren’t able to move because we own the buildings our business is in and we have quite a few employees, so I have decided to wage a war of attrition, called Take Back Mellow Marin, where I counter a random act of rudeness with a deliberate act of kindness. I invite others who care to join me. And to those of you who think it’s okay to scream and throw your car keys at someone who works at a very nice high-end car dealership that shall be unnamed, please leave and take your friends with you. You are not a Marinite.

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So it’s finally happened. The newlyminted Marinites with their imperious, pretentious, self-centered, self-important bad attitudes and worse manners have managed to drive away Peter Coyote, one of our local treasures. I can’t say I blame him, though. I have lived here since 1975 when Mill Valley was laid-back and cool, [with] rock stars and artists and hippies and people from all economic backgrounds. I have only recently felt ashamed to be from here, suffering from the black eye the newer demographic of “southern” Marin has given the county. (“Southern” Marin? Who started saying that anyway?

I never heard that growing up and I’ll bet it wasn’t someone who has lived here

Anybody looking at the geography of the upper Ross Valley can see where the watershed derives most of its volume. Deer Park, Cascade Canyon, Tamarancho, White Hill, Loma Alta, and Sleepy Hollow all dump into the Corte Madera Creek basin, aiming right at downtown San Anselmo. None of this water goes anywhere near Memorial Park, and is significantly downhill from that potential detention basin. The idea, the engineers say, is to detain runoff from the Sorich Ranch area.

Meanwhile, the largest volume of rainwater will still be heading downstream toward San Anselmo Avenue.

How does this make any sense? The Marin Town and Country Club eastern acreage is a vernal meadow, yet, as private property, it cannot be incorporated in water detention strategies without the landowner’s cooperation. What about Drake High? Dig out under the parking lot (and the fields, partly?) and create a concrete catch basin for both the Sleepy Hollow flood-water and the larger flow from the Lansdale bridge area, leaving “rooftop” parking at ground level, as it exists now.

Modern catacombs, in a manner of speaking, which might prove interesting acoustically, etc., when not “in use.”

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e are pleased to announce that the Pacific Sun has joined the Bay Area’s leading publisher of alternative weeklies. We’ve teamed up with the North Bay Bohemian, which will give us more resources and a larger combined circulation.

The Pacific Sun will publish under the same name and continue its commitment to cover Marin County’s people, culture, events and issues.

“Our plan is to invest in quality,” said Bohemian publisher Rosemary Olson, who will become the Sun’s publisher.

“We make long term investments and remain involved with the communities we serve.”

The Sun and Bohemian are part of Metro Newspapers, which publishes Metro Silicon Valley and Santa Cruz’s

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I sympathize with Effie Fourakis’ frustration [Letters, May 1] with the difficulty of finding an empty disabled parking stall at Northgate Mall, but it’s inaccurate to say that the mall discriminates against people with disabilities. The number and locations of disabled parking stalls at Northgate (or anywhere

Good Times, both free circulation alt weeklies, as well as three community weeklies and specialty magazines.

Combined circulation of the eight publications is 190,000.

The company, founded by company executive editor Dan Pulcrano 30 years ago, is owner-operated and editorially-driven.

“I am pleased that the Pacific Sun is in good hands,“ said Bob Heinen, who owned the Sun since 2012 and served as its publisher.

“We appreciate Bob’s stewardship of this 52-year-old publishing treasure, and with the oldest alternative weekly west of the Hudson, we understand that we have a legacy to maintain,” Pulcrano said.

else in California) is mandated by California Title 24. Northgate could choose to provide more stalls than the state requires, but in my experience there are a fair number of disabled parking stalls that are rarely if ever used. At the Manzanita Park and Ride, for example, there are, if memory serves, eight, and I’ve never seen more than one of them occupied.

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Urgent request Grand jury report calls on Board of Supervisors to take stronger leadership role in meeting challenge of homelessness in Marin

by Peter Seidman

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erhaps the most intransigent challenge that Marin faces is the subject of a recent grand jury report, which says that the county should take a stronger leadership role in the effort to end—or at least ameliorate—homelessness in Marin.

The opening statement of the report is blunt and succinct: “Right now in Marin County people are lying in doorways, living in cardboard boxes in open spaces and sleeping under freeway overpasses.

Being homeless is harsh, even in Marin. In the absence of a government mandate to eliminate homelessness, county leadership does not show any urgency to find and create real solutions. The current approach is not effective; too many Marin County residents are still homeless and the negative economic impact is substantial.”

The report charges that the county is the victim of a “leadership void” and its “approach to homelessness is unfocused, decentralized and reactive to ‘the issue of the day.’ The county, mainly through the Department of Health and Human Services, receives state and local grants and contracts with nonprofits to provide services to the homeless. Although important services are being provided, it is a patchwork approach that has evolved over time to address the needs as they come to light.”

That perspective is at odds with one that exists when programs for the homeless are

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examined in a different light that shows that the county has attempted to meet the challenge of homelessness, however successfully.

Rather than create a monolithic social service agency to meet the many challenges related to the homeless, a new kind of social service delivery system rose to prominence among social service agencies across the country in the last few decades.

At first glance the new system might seem fractured and chaotic, but there’s more than a bit of rhyme and reason behind it.

The idea is to replace a monolithic system of delivering services and spread them to where people actually seek assistance— in a variety of venues—referring people to homeless services when they seek health aid at a community clinic, for instance. In another example of a decentralized system of providing services, satellite assistance sites take the place of a centralized campus or building.

The single most important switch in delivery of help to the homeless comes from a philosophy that simply providing housing is the best step to helping the homeless.

That seems obvious, but previously dealing with issues such as substance abuse came before providing housing—even temporary housing. A “housing first” philosophy holds that placing people in houses is the most efficacious move toward dealing

with the ancillary challenges that come with helping the homeless. (In Marin, that would mean more affordable housing options.)

Although the grand jury report recognizes the challenges facing the county and its cities in providing services to the homeless, whether using the older paradigm or the newer one, the report chides the county for failing to take the lead as the single entity that has some level of jurisdiction across the county. It’s the county that’s the entity that should lead the cities in a concerted effort to meet the challenges of the homeless, according to the report.

The county has embarked on an updated 10-year plan, but the report charges that the plan is another one of those documents that lands on the top shelf while its recommendations gather dust. The county does have a Homeless Policy Steering Committee and county staff members who deal with homelessness, but, the report states, the county staff has little authority to actually effect policy measures.

The issue of homelessness is intransigent to a large extent because it crosses so many social service boundaries, from health to substance abuse to affordable housing and beyond. It would take a concerted effort in the county and in each of its cities to effectively meet the many challenges associated with homelessness. Although it’s fair to say that hasn’t happened. It’s also fair to say that there are people—in and out of the county and city spheres of government— who are working to make a positive change in meeting the challenge.

And for a variety of reasons, some of which are the result of government programs, the number of the homeless in the county’s one-day count has declined. But even that is a point of challenge.

The story of the temporary shelter for the homeless is an instructive look at what the county and its residents have been doing to meet the challenge. It highlights the successes and the failures.

The history of the Marin shelter program actually starts back in 1987. That’s when Congress passed the Stewart B. McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act. It was aimed at helping homeless people by creating and aiding, among other programs, emergency shelters. Then Governor George Deukemajian gave the thumbs up for the California National Guard to open its armories as temporary shelters during the winter to protect the health and safety of individuals who would otherwise be at great risk.

The issue of homelessness in Marin had been relatively silent, but in 2009, the Cold Weather Armory Program was the catalyst in opening the Armory at the Civic Center in December. The county had been discussing the possibility of providing a shelter, a warming center and a clean and safe place to sleep for homeless people. In December, two homeless people showing signs of hypothermia were admitted to Marin General Hospital. A social worker

at the hospital contacted a number of people who had been working to provide assistance for the homeless. Now it was an emergency.

Members of a relatively new group, the Marin Organizing Committee, created a coalition of congregations and support agencies and individuals. The county responded with funds to help pay for the Armory warming shelter program, and with the National Guard participation, the warming shelter opened its doors. Former Supervisor Susan Adams spent the night welcoming homeless residents to the opening of the shelter. She went on to champion the cause of the homeless for the remainder of her tenure on the board. (Currently eyes are on Supervisor Damon Connolly, who replaced Adams.)

Although the Armory program was a success in that it provided shelter during a particularly cold period, the rules of the Armory prohibited anyone who exhibited mental health issues or inebriation. And it was temporary.

The Organizing Committee, which formed in Marin in 2008, had focused on homelessness as one of the issues that it would tackle in its community organizing work. The temporary shelter program, dubbed REST for Rotating Emergency Shelter Team, has run every year since the Organizing Committee coalition created it after the Armory winter. REST evolved into a program that operates from November 15 to April 15. The program, which the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Marin runs, provides shelter for 40 men and 20 women each night.

From the start of the program, clients gathered at the St. Vincent dining hall in downtown San Rafael and rode shuttles to churches and synagogues that offered a night of warm and safe rest. A key to the Organizing Committee’s way of working includes promoting interaction between the homeless and members of the wider community. Last year, more than 2,000 congregants volunteered to prepare meals, meet the homeless and provide support.

The program sheltered a total of 325 people.

Every two years, counties take a oneday count of their homeless populations.

In 2009, Marin counted 1,770 homeless people. That number dropped to 1,220 in 2011. And in 2013, the number of homeless people was 924. Although the number of homeless people in Marin has declined, the number of precariously housed people, those who live a whisker away from landing on the street, has increased. In 2009, the county found 3,028 precariously housed people. In 2011, the number of precariously housed increased to 4,179.

And in 2013, the precariously housed totaled 4,388. And those are just the numbers tallied. Social service providers say that the number of homeless people and precariously housed actually are many more than the number counted in the oneday total. (A tally of the final number 9 >

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by Howard Rachelson

1. The San Francisco 49ers play their home games in what stadium, located in what city?

2. True or false?: When introduced in 1886, Coca-Cola was originally green in color.

3. Joseph, John, Robert and Edward are the first names of the brothers of what famous family?

4. What chess defense is named for an island in the Mediterranean Sea? 5. VISUAL: Robin Williams won the Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor one time—for his role in what 2.

1997 film (co-starring with what actor shown here)?

6. What three African countries have four-letter names?

7. VISUAL: A couple of weeks ago, in an attempt to deliver letters to Congress demanding campaign finance reform, a Florida mailman landed on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol traveling in a small aircraft known as what?

8. In alphabetical order, name the four colleges that 5. made it to the Final Four of this year’s men’s NCAA basketball championship.

9a. What environmental book, published in 1962 by Rachel Carson, exposed the dangers of pesticides?

9b. This book prompted the governmental ban on a particular pesticide known by what three letters?

10. Here we’re looking for some four-letter palindromes BONUS (spelled backwards and forwards the same) ... example, mid-day (noon): 10a. Polite honk 10b. Doggy doo 10c. Indian bread 10d. Milk dispenser BONUS QUESTION: VISUAL: Give the two-word name for these objects, which are increasingly being banned from public gatherings and music festivals.

Howard Rachelson invites you to upcoming team trivia contests: Tuesday, May 12 at Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael, and Tuesday May 19 at the Sweetwater in Mill Valley; both at 6:30pm; free, with prizes. Have a good question? Send it in and if we use it we’ll give you credit. Contact Howard at howard1@triviacafe.com, and visit www.TriviaCafe.com, the web’s No. 1 trivia site! ▲ We recently asked folks to donate to an emergency surgery fund for a faithful dog, Scooby, because his person lives on a limited income due to disabling spina bifida. Scooby came through the surgery last week with flying colors, but when the donations were added up, the fund was $500 short for the $2,650 bill. Out of the blue, Lois King of Fairfax, a Pacific Sun reader, called the vet’s office and asked what Scooby needed. Lois delivered $500 to the vet that very day and visited with the recovering pooch. Everyone present was touched by Lois King’s generosity and kind heart. Sweet Scooby is back at home now and requires a special prescription diet. To donate for his food, go togofundme.com/sd4q6d5.

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▼ A bicyclist caused another serious accident this week when he hit an 80-year-old woman as she walked on the Mill Valley bike path. The woman suffered injuries and was rushed to Marin General Hospital.

Ironically, the collision occurred last Tuesday, the day before the kickoff of Share the Path, a campaign designed to promote safety. “With this public education outreach, we’re confident that people enjoying the pathway will remember that it’s used by the young, old and everyone in between,” said Marin County Parks’ Region 1 Superintendent Brian Sanford.” We’re not as confident. A 9-year-old boy was seriously injured by a cyclist last October and the bike speed limit was recently lowered from 15 to 10 mph. We recommend enforcement and steep fines for speeding cyclists. —Nikki Silverstein

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killer targets attractive, clear-skinned high How to Build a Betschool students with expensive cars and ter Boy A pair of techunlimited wardrobe budgets. This is one of obsessed teenage those rare circumstances in adolescence girls attempts to build where being poor and having acne is an the perfect boyfriend. advantage. (1996) Fox. 8pm.

We thought Hitachi 21 Jump Street Baby-faced cops go underalready made one. (2014) Disney Channel. cover at a high school. Cops have tried this 6:45pm. in real life but the family photos in their Star Trek This is the reboot, with the young, lockers are always a giveaway. High school attractive cast. They still boldly go where no drug dealers almost never wear the “World’s man has gone before, but they stop at the Greatest Dad” T-shirts. (2012) FX. 8pm. gym and the hair salon on the way there.

Caddyshack A (2009) FX. 8pm. brilliant study in class consciousness TUESDAY, MAY 12 is played out in a Finding Nemo An series of poignant overprotective father vignettes set at a goes on an oceanposh country club spanning quest to with dozens of charfind his son. The acters interacting mother of course, in an Altman-esque is killed in the first story of lingering few minutes. The sosocietal divisions. called “Bambi Factor” (1980) VH1. 9pm. is mandated by law Have you ever spotted Jaws at a Marin beach? in all anthropomorphic products from the Disney conglomerSATURDAY, MAY 9 Lord of the Rings ate. (2003) Disney Channel. 6:45pm.

Marathon This is all three films in a row.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith Brad Pitt and Angelina Watch all nine hours in a row and you get a Jolie play married assassins who discover free pair of elf shoes and a chair dedicated that they have been contracted to kill each to you at the school cafeteria dork table. other. We’d recommend counseling, and TNT. Noon.

Kevlar. (2005). FX. 8pm.

Jaws Marathon They’re only showing the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. In the season finale, first through fourth films, leaving out Jaws the team is sent to track down the columnGoes to Vegas!, Shark Wars: Jaw Jaws Bink ists who gave Age of Ultron bad reviews. and Jaws & Co: the Motown Years. American ABC. 9pm.

Movie Classics. 6pm.

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Another winner is declared. Now they SUNDAY, MAY 10 Double trouble! have enough to fill a What Happens in whole wing at the rehab facility. Fox. 8pm.

Vegas This movie, with Cameron Diaz and Last Days of Man: Top 10 Ways to ExtincAshton Kutcher playing strangers who get tion We’re putting our money on #7—”Evil drunkenly married on a bender in the gamAmazon Drones.” KQED PBS. 10PM. bling town, gets its title from the marketing slogan, “What happens in Vegas, stays THURSDAY, MAY 14 The Road Warrior In in Vegas.” The city stopped using the line a dusty desert world where gasoline is paid when the health department made them for in blood, a desperate battle is waged add, “Except the herpes.” (2008) Lifetime. over a prized petroleum cache in a film that 6pm. more or less sums up American foreign poliThe Parent Trap This is the Lindsay Lohan cy for the past 40 years. (1981) Spike. 7pm. version. So it’s still twins raised separately Wayward Pines A Secret Service agent exchanging lives to meet the parent they wakes up in a small town after a car crash never knew, but instead of meeting at sumand discovers the residents working mystemer camp, they meet in rehab. (1998) Disney riously to keep him from leaving. It’s some Channel. 7pm. kind of conspiracy—and not the meth Coyote Ugly A leggy young songwriter addiction and lack of education that keeps takes a job at a bar, dancing suggestively on most people in small towns. Fox. 9pm. the bar in revealing outfits. Apparently, the Party Down South It’s a reality show. It only bar was designed to appeal to men too shy sounds like a euphemism. CMT. 9pm. to go to real strip clubs. (2000) Starz. 10pm.

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for the 2015 count is in the works.)

The grand jury report points out that San Rafael has been forced to bear the largest responsibility for dealing with homeless issues. Geography plays the largest role in that responsibility. Most services in eastern Marin for the homeless are located in San Rafael. The question is whether dispersing those services across the eastern part of the county would be better or worse for the homeless. It certainly would please businesses in downtown San Rafael.

In San Rafael, a proactive organization formed to meet the challenge. The Downtown Streets Team, comprising members of the homeless population, works to keep streets clean, discourage loitering and participate in other activities aimed at improving the city and community relations. It’s a tactic that seeks to bond individuals and government, residents and businesses.

The city has contributed around $1 million to the Streets Team effort, which relies on volunteers and contributions. The money is significant, but it’s a mere drop in the bucket of money that homelessness costs the city and the county.

According to a Marin Economic Forum report published in 2012, the public sector in Marin County spent $21 million on “status quo homelessness services and maintenance.” The report also states that the private sector spent the equivalent of $31 million, and nonprofits spent $20 million.

The report concentrates on the downtown areas of San Rafael, Novato and Sausalito to look at the economic impact of homelessness on businesses. “In all cases,” the report states, “the economic impact

figures show how the business sector effects of this social issue transcend the specific businesses affected and affect other businesses through the multiplier effects.”

The effects are startling: If programs to curb homelessness could improve revenue for businesses in the downtown areas by just 1 percent, downtown Novato would gain a total of $9,951,000 in 2012 dollars. That could add 71 jobs and increase the local tax revenue by $557,000. In downtown Sausalito, increasing revenue 1 percent would translate to an increase in total business revenue of $11,299,000, 73 jobs and $2,775,000 in additional tax revenue. In downtown San Rafael, that 1 percent increase in total business revenue would mean an additional $9,498,000, 72 jobs and $603,000 in added tax revenue.

The numbers are based on annual averages. The potential 1 percent gain would come “due to more efficient mitigation of individual homeless issues,” according to the report.

It’s a matter of where the county, its cities and its businesses choose to spend funds to meet the challenges of homelessness. The grand jury report notes that the way the county does its homelessfunds-bookkeeping makes it hard to quantify how and where it spends funds on homeless issues. The report states that “the total economic impact [on social service budgets] of homelessness in Marin is far in excess of the $15 million per year that the county reports spending. A recent request for proposal issued by the county estimated that, in just one year, 34 chronic inebriates, 32 of whom were homeless, cost the county $2,039,463, or $59,984 per person, in public safety services.” Whether

that amount should be attributed to homeless costs or health-related substance abuse costs—or both—is an open question and highlights the complicated connections between social issues.

The grand jury report makes three recommendations: • It calls on the Board of Supervisors to take a stronger leadership role in a plan to meet the challenge of homelessness “that includes all stakeholders.”

• It calls on the Board of Supervisors to recruit “a high-ranking official” who would have authority to implement a systematic plan to end [or at least ameliorate] homelessness.

• It calls on the Board of Supervisors to enact “a comprehensive county budget for homelessness that is clear to the public and includes revenues and expenditures from all departments and sources.”Y Contact the writer at peter@pseidman.com.

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Staff and volunteers from Marin County Bicycle Coalition will be cheering cyclists on and providing drinks, snacks, free canvas tote bags and biking information from 6:30am to 9am at Energizer Stations along local bike commute routes.

In case you haven’t caught the biking bug, Marin is an ideal place for year-round cycling. Often times, going by bike is faster than going by car—especially when there’s traffic. According to a 2013 American Community Survey, more than 62,000 people in the Bay Area bike to work on a regular basis. But there are also those who live within five miles of the workplace and haven’t yet given up their car.

Although you don’t have to register for Bike to Work Day, if you do, you’ll be automatically entered into a drawing for some cool prizes. If you prefer to ride in a herd, get four other riders to join you and become part of a Team Bike Challenge (which kicked off on May 1). Each team member earns points for each ride (you don’t have to ride together) and the team with the most points at the end of May (from all nine counties) wins.

So, what are you waiting for? It’s time to ride!

To register, volunteer, get a map of Energizer Stations or to learn more, visit Bay Area Bike to Work Day at youcanbikethere.com, or Marin County Bicycle Coalition at marinbike.org.—Lily O’ Brien

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Divine crush Products made from grape remains lessen carbon footprint of wine industry

by Tanya H e nr y

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iven Marin County’s reputation for being ahead of the curve when it comes to matters of sustainability, it’s not surprising that several local food manufacturers are creating food and beverage items that utilize the byproduct of a billion dollar industry.

According to the Wine Institute, an advocacy and public policy association for California wine, more than 200 million cases of wine were shipped in the U.S in 2013, with an estimated value of $231 billion. Of the 615,000 acres of wine grapes grown in California, more than 500,000 are grown right here in the premium Sonoma and Napa Valley wine regions. The California Department of Agriculture includes wine in the top three exports after almonds and dairy, with a staggering $5.6 billion in sales.

During the fall months in wine country when “crush” is in full swing, truckloads of pomace, or the stems, seeds and grape skins pressed dry of their juice are a common sight on the roads. Along with the millions of cases of wines produced, come pounds of waste.

For every two bottles of wine created, one bottle of byproduct is left over. Though many wineries practice composting, some sell the pomace to distilleries for grappa, a brandy of Italian origin. Others feed it to their own livestock—but most often it is simply thrown away.

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rosé (my favorite) offers up notes of apple and strawberries. The only flavor meant to be enjoyed hot is the mulled zinfandel flavor “We are helping diminish the carbon footthat boasts hints of hazelnut, chocolate and print of the wine industry, one delicious Crush gingerbread. Look for these inventive teas Bar at a time,” says Karen Schuler Hill who in local Marin stores and on their website at began making her line of energy bars from republicoftea.com. gluten-free grapeseed flours in 2011. Hill’s TiFinally, husband-and-wife team Valentin buron-based company, D’Vine Crush, features and Nanette Humer, purveyors of Salute Sana line of four fruit and nut bars. She explains té! grapeseed oils and flours in Napa are true that each flavor is created to mirror the notes pioneers in the field. For 20 years the couple of a particular wine varietal. By utilizing flours has been spreading the gospel of the health made from grape seeds and skins from specific benefits of their pure grapeseed oil and its varietals, and complementing each flavor with high antioxidant levels, exceptional finishing carefully selected nuts and fruits, she showcases properties and high smoke point. Considered these well-known and loved wine flavors. For a “secret” ingredient by some celebrity chefs, example, her Corkscrew Cherry Pinot includes herb-infused oils have been added to the cherries, currants and strawberries, along with mix by the couple, and include organic basil, grapeseed flour produced from Pinot grapes; chili, lemon, roasted garlic and rosemary. All likewise Toasted Barrel Chardonnay features of the oils are produced with the company’s flour made from chardonnay grapeseeds proprietary pressing machine that compresses with the addition of pineapple and caramel the grape seeds while leaving behind long to help elicit vanilla and buttery notes. Hill’s strands of the residual secondary byproduct. handmade bars, and a recently launched line This is then collected and ingeniously milled of Crush Crumbles made for topping yogurt and ice cream, are naturally gluten-free and made with locally sourced ingredients. Learn where to find these tasty wine-flavored treats at dvinecrush.com.

Another local company that aims to make use of the copious grape waste at wineries is The Republic of Tea. This enterprising Novatobased tea company partnered with WholeVine, an organization committed to generating new uses for vineyard byproducts, and together they rolled out their new line of Sonoma teas made from wine grape skins. In April, the beverage company debuted four “tea” flavors— chardonnay, rosé, cabernet and zinfandel.

However, somewhat confusingly, none of the pretty round tins of six large tea bags have a single tea leaf between them—only grape skins, fruit bits and flavorings. Three of the four flavors are intended to be served as iced tea, and are uniquely ideal for warm-weather sipping. Pineapples and peaches augment the chardonnay iced tea, oranges and currants are infused in the cabernet version and a summery New flavors from The Republic of Tea to be 'grape'ful for.

into flour, thus creating both an oil and flour from the discarded seeds. And as if that isn’t impressive enough, both products are quite tasty. The infused oils boast the essence of the added herbs and the flour has a toothsome quality to it that makes it a good choice for cookies and breads. To find out more about these grapeseed delectables, visit grapeseedoil. com.

With more and more awareness around our food systems, it’s encouraging to know that there are forward-thinking, resourceful companies like these. Transforming something as unappetizing as grape stems, seeds and skins into chewy bars, delicate oils and refreshing teas seems nothing short of a miracle to me. So, the next time we enjoy a glass of wine, let’s toast these enterprising folks who are literally making delicious food and drink—from wine. Cheers!Y Share your hunger pains with Tanya at thenry@pacificsun.com.

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Cinema cheers Wine & film series attracts film buffs and vino fans

by David Te mp l e ton

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didn’t think I’d be that interested in a film about wine,” says filmmaker David Kennard. The esteemed Mill Valley documentarian and director (Cosmos and The Hero’s Journey: The World of Joseph Campbell), is not revealing a personal truth.

He’s quoting. “People have said that to me I don’t know how many times,” he says with a laugh, describing what people often say to him after catching one of his wine-themed films, particularly either 2012’s A Year in Burgundy, or last year’s A Year in Champagne. “They tell me they didn’t believe they could possibly be interested in the subject of winemakers, or how wine is made. But they invariably say, ‘But I did come see it, God! It was absolutely fascinating. I was completely riveted.’ As a documentarian for over 45 years, I have to say that’s probably the nicest compliment anyone has ever paid me—that they didn’t think they’d like my film, but then they did.”

Kennard, who learned the documentarymaker’s craft while working for the BBC in

England, will have another opportunity to defy expectations when he presents A Year in Champagne at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center later this month. It will be the third show in a series of four featured in the Wine & Film series, co-sponsored by the Film Center and Wine Enthusiast magazine.

The first film in the month-long event taking place on Thursdays in May, was the comedy Bottle Shock, with Alan Rickman and Chris Pine. Next up, on May 14, is SOMM, a nailbiting documentary about a group of professional sommeliers—wine-tasting experts and professionals often associated with fine restaurants—all taking one of the hardest tests in the world, the exam to be named a Master Sommelier by the mysterious Court of Master Sommeliers, in England.

Third in the series, on May 21, is A Year in Champagne, with Kennard appearing alongside the film’s onscreen guide, wine expert Martine Saunier, with a post-film conversation moderated by Wine Enthusiast editor Virginie Boone. Appropriately enough,

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Each screening at the Wine & Film Series is followed by a tasting of select wines.

all events in the series will be followed by wine tastings.

“With our film of course,” Kennard says, “we will be including a tasting of some delicious champagnes, so that will be very special.”

A Year in Champagne, in which Saunier brings us up close and personal with several winemakers in France’s legendary Champagne region, is the second of three similar films. A Year in Burgundy was released in 2012 to spectacular reviews, as was Champagne.

“The third one,” Kennard announces, “was just completed a few days ago! It will be called, A Year in Port, and that of course was filmed

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In addition to Saunier’s onscreen presence and familiar camaraderie with the filmmakers she spends time with, Kennard himself provides the film’s voice-over narration. Born in England, his voice bears a strong similarity to that of Richard Attenborough.

“I’m more often compared to David Attenborough,” Kennard says with a laugh, referring to his fellow BBC filmmaker, best known for the Life on Earth television series. Asked who his audience is for the A Year in ... films, Kennard says there is not just one answer to the question.

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DANGEROUSLY UNDIAGNOSED: PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE

by Dr. Laura Pak, a vascular surgery specialist and doctor at Marin General Hospital (MGH).

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re you familiar with PAD? If not, you’re not alone.

Seventy-five percent of US adults have never even heard of this common condition, and yet it affects 12 million Americans – more than all types of cancer combined. Ten to twenty percent of people 65 and older have PAD. Because the disease is under-diagnosed, an estimated 30 % of people with PAD don’t even know they have it. Unfortunately, when it comes to PAD, what you don’t know really can hurt you.

Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is narrowing (stenosis) in the arteries of the legs caused by atherosclerosis, the plaque build up associated with heart disease and stroke.

About a third of people with PAD develop such severe impairment in blood flow that they are likely to lose their leg if blood flow is not restored. We call this limb-threatening ischemia, and it can be associated with leg wounds that don’t heal, gangrene (dead tissue) or unremitting pain in the foot or lower leg.

When walking starts to hurt

The earliest sign of PAD is claudication – leg pain with walking that improves immediately when you rest. Patients typically describe claudication as a deep muscular ache or weakness in the back of the calf or, less commonly, the thigh. The pain arises only after walking a certain distance, and comes on more readily if you are walking at a fast pace, or uphill. Claudication dissipates once you have been standing still for a few minutes. Most people do not develop this type of pain with other forms of exercise, such as riding a bike, swimming, or working out on a stair-step machine. Claudication should not be confused with sciatica, a stinging or burning pain that shoots down the back of the leg and is caused by a pinched nerve in the back.

Unlike claudication, sciatica pain can arise from standing or sitting too long and usually takes a while to dissipate.

Arthritis pain can also be mistaken for claudication, but arthritis involves the joints rather than the muscles, and arthritis pain is typically at its worst when you first start an exercise and diminishes as you keep going.

Testing for PAD involves checking pulses in the legs and performing an ankle-brachial index (ABI). The ABI is a ratio of the blood pressure in the leg to the blood pressure in the arm. It is normal when the pressures are equal. If the blood pressure in the leg is lower than in the arm, the ABI is abnormal. An ultrasound or CT can be performed to locate a specific region of stenosis or occlusion in the leg.

Getting a leg up on PAD

Treating PAD begins with controlling risk factors for atherosclerosis, such as high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, and diabetes, or pre-diabetes. It is essential to stop smoking immediately. There are two approaches to treating a dangerous arterial narrowing or blockage associated with PAD: bypass surgery and angioplasty.

Bypass surgery

A bypass is a surgery used to treat blockages in arteries or arterial aneurysms. A tube (graft) is tunneled through the leg and sewn into the artery above the blockage and the artery below the blockage, to create the bypass, a detour around the occluded segment. Bypass surgery can usually be performed through 2 or 3 small incisions in the leg, with the patient under spinal or light general anesthesia. Generally, patients stay in the hospital a day or two after surgery.

Angioplasty

Angioplasty is a minimally invasive way of treating blockages in arteries. A small tube (catheter) is inserted into the artery through a needle stick in the groin. Contrast dye is injected into the artery and continuous X-ray monitoring (fluoroscopy) is used to reveal areas of stenosis. A wire and a balloon catheter are then threaded through the artery, past the region of blockage, to dilate the artery from the inside. This literally “cracks” the plaque, expanding the vessel to make more room for blood to flow through the artery. Angioplasty can be performed in the operating room or fluoroscopy suite, under a local anesthetic with sedation. Patients can generally go home the same day.

Both bypass and angioplasty patients may be prescribed aspirin or a blood thinning medication after their procedure.

Bypass is the more invasive procedure, but is generally associated with better long-term outcomes than angioplasty. Angioplasty is minimally invasive and healing time after the procedure is generally very brief. However, angioplasty may not last as long as bypass surgery. Over time, re-narrowing of the artery (restenosis) is not uncommon.

The best way of reducing your risk of developing complications of PAD is to become informed. If you have risk factors, consider a screening (see sidebar). If you think you may be experiencing claudication, don’t wait: make an appointment to see your doctor today.

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5. Are you over 65 years old?

6. Does the calf muscle in your legs hurt when you walk?

7. Have you ever had a foot or ankle wound that took over 2 months to heal?

If you answered yes to 3 or more of these questions, you may be a good candidate for vascular screening. Ask your doctor or click here for more information.

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he says. “The most obvious are the wine lovers and foodies. People who are interested in good food and good wine are bound to be interested in these films. Then there are the people who enjoy traveling and who are interested in beautiful and fascinating places in Europe. In these films, we visit the region four times, once in each season. Very few travel films, let alone wine films, will show you a place over the course of an entire year.

I’ve been flattered that many have remarked on the beauty of the cinematography.

“The third audience—and this might seem surprising—are filmgoers who like movies about fascinating people. In making the films, we pick six families or small organizations that produce the wines we are looking at in that film, and we get to know them and spend time with them. They are very, very interesting people, with very colorful and rich lives and cultures.

“So then,” he adds, “I’d have to say the audience for these films is anyone who loves food and wine, loves to see the world, and loves to meet new and interesting people. And I suppose that’s just about everyone, isn’t it?”

The fourth and final film in the Film & Wine series is not a documentary, though it might seem like one at first glance. Corked, written and directed by Ross Clendenen and Paul Hawley, was filmed in the “mockumentary style familiar to fans of Spinal Tap, Best in Show and The Office.

“I liked the script a lot,” says actor Jeffrey Weissman, (whose film credits include Pale Rider, Twilight Zone: The Movie and Back to the Future II & III). “As someone who’s lived in wine country for much of his life, married to a woman who studied viticulture and enology at UC Davis—and who enjoys a good glass of wine myself—the script really resonated.”

The film is set in Sonoma County, and takes a look at the (not actually real) Golden Cluster Award, a prize sought by four very different wineries, large and small, all operating and sometimes competing to create customers, credibility, large profits—and maybe even a really good bottle of wine or two. The large cast of characters includes a wealthy young winery owner who knows nothing about wine, to the high-strung winery manager sweating the little stuff and big stuff (like finding a dead body in one of the wine tanks) to the good-old-boy vineyard manager who’s obsessed with grape-eating birds and who only drinks beer.

Acclaimed for his improvisational skills and ability to impersonate classics, Weissman landed the role of Gerry Hannon, loosely based on John Hawley, co-writer Paul Hawley’s father, the pioneering Healdsburg winemaker best known for his work with Clos du Bois winery.

“I added a lot of little tidbits of my own, improvised lines borrowed from my own wine knowledge,” he says. “I think I improvised maybe 30 percent of the stuff you see me do in the film. Some of it was inspired by

›› WINE

Zin-mania Spreading the love for zinfandel

by R ic har d Pau l H ink l e

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generally benign disease, zin-mania’s ground zero can be traced to a small, garage winemaker who turned pro in 1978 when he opened the winery, Rosenblum Cellars. A Minnesota native, Kent Rosenblum moved to Alameda to join a veterinary practice in 1970 ... and became captivated and captured by what happened to grape juice when it was fermented. When I first wrote about Kent and Kathy Rosenblum for the second edition of my Central Coast Wine Book (Vintage Image, 1981), they were doing barely 1,000 cases a year, including a 1.5 percent residual sugar white riesling.

Since then, the winery—originally between a soul food place and a brothel—has expanded production to include zinfandels from all over the Golden State, narrowed its focus (to zinfandel and a few Rhone-styled wines), sold to Diageo, a British alcoholic beverage company, and moved production north to the Napa Valley at Beaulieu Vineyard. (The original Alameda tasting room remains intact, still a baseball’s throw to the Amtrak Station.)

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in the film. Some of it was inspired by watching John Hawley do some of the same things for real I was asked to do on film.”

Along with filmmakers Hawley and Clendenen, Weissman will be on hand for a post-film conversation, taking time from his current big project, producing the Back to the Future Cruise to End Parkinson’s. The fundraiser, created in association with Team Fox, sails this November from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Haiti, Jamaica and Cozumel, and will feature actors and crew from the BTTF films, and special events.

“I’ve been wanting to do this cruise for 10 years,” Weissman says. “I could never let it go, and now, with the 30th anniversary of Back

“You have to understand, Kent was something of a visionary,” says current winemaker John Kane, who took over from Jeff Cohn a little more than six years ago. “He was probably 70 years ahead of his time, making red zin when most everybody was drinking white zin, and making them as individual, vineyarddesignated wines. By the time the world began to recognize red zin, he had all the really good vineyards under long term contracts!”

Born in Visalia (near Fresno) in 1975, Kane is part of a family that had come west from Maine, where they grew blueberries and fished for lobster. “My mother was a teacher and my dad sold insurance, mostly to farmers,” says Kane. “So I was always around farms. I worked in packing sheds, sprayed for weeds, and started out at Fresno State in biochemistry on the anesthesiologist/doctor path. But I was spending my free time hanging out at wineries along the Highway 46 corridor in Paso Robles. Wild Horse was a great scene then. So I switched majors. Jeff Cohn had done some tastings at the college,

we had met a couple of times, and he called me for an interview to do a harvest internship at Rosenblum for the summer of 2001 ... and I just stayed!”

Kane says that he immediately felt at home.

“When you’re drawing fruit from Santa Barbara to Mendocino, and pretty much everyplace in between, it’s like working for 30 wineries! No time to get bored. I love the diversity of it all.” (There is no lack of diversity at a winery that now, counting all lines, produces more than 200,000 cases a year.)

One concern that Kane faces is that some of the small vineyards Rosenblum draws from are increasingly impinged upon by the expanding demands of residential housing. “We recently lost half of one of our best vineyards [Carla’s Vineyard] in Contra Costa County when Kmart tried to buy the whole of it. We were able to retain half of the vineyard, but it was a close call. Another of our Contra Costa vineyards, Planchon in Oakley, is completely surrounded by a housing development, so we have to let the neighbors know to close their windows when we spray the vines.”

Kane, an avid outdoorsman—hunter, camper, snow skier—when he’s not making wine, loves what he’s doing just as much. “I love getting out and visiting with these guys. I put more than 25,000 miles on my truck each year. It’s simple: The more these farmers and I are involved with one another, the better the product is. Simple as that.”

He thrives equally on getting out and interacting with the public. “We pour at the ZAP [Zinfandel Advocates and Producers]

tastings and show off an older wine. Tasters are amazed, saying, ‘I didn’t think zinfandel could age.’ Well, now they know.” Now they do, indeed. And the mania spreads.

Keep your palate open to the Vintner’s Cuvee Zin, inexpensive but tasty, with red currant and raspberry and black pepper spiciness. The Sauret Vineyard Zin has a steely mineral core and syrup-rich boysenberry and blackberry fruit, the Rockpile Road Vineyard Zin is black-hole dense with blueberry fruit and clove spiciness, and the Planchon Vineyard Zin is all black: black pepper, blackberry and black cherry. Y Richard Paul Hinkle is the author of nine wine books and the co-founder of The Wine Spectator. He began writing a wine column for the Pacific Sun in 1984, and now writes on myriad subjects from his Santa Rosa home. Contact him at letters@pacificsun.com.

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to the Future coming up, it seemed like the perfect time. So I’m pretty busy with that, but I’m delighted to be getting a chance to show off Corked, a movie I feel especially fond of.

“To this day, I run into people who saw it somewhere,” he says, “and still don’t realize it’s not a real documentary. If my performance had anything to do with it, then I’m very proud of that.” Y Ask David if he likes red or white at letters@pacificsun.com.

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Let’s get Sirious In conversation with an artificially intelligent personal assistant

by David Te mp l e ton

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y first question is fairly straightforward. “Which do you think poses a larger threat to human beings—robots or dinosaurs?”

“Let me think, David,” croons the humanlike voice emanating from my iPhone, as I lean back at my desk, my chair perched in a pool of late-morning light. “OK!” the voice says after a brief pause. “Here’s what I found on the Web for, ‘Which do you think poses a larger threat to human beings, robots or dinosaurs?’”

On the phone’s tiny screen appears a list of links to stories about robots fighting dinosaurs and dinosaur-shaped robots, plus one site posing the question, “If you could be raised by dinosaurs, robots, or aliens, which one would you choose?”

The most frequent answer to that question, by the way, is, “Aliens.”

David: “Um, thank you, Siri, but I’d prefer to know what you think on the subject.”

Siri: “Who ... me?”

She gets like that, Siri—coy, reluctant, maddening. Often answering questions with

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In ‘Ex Machina,’ Ava, the robot, speaks and acts like a human being. Genius, or creepy?

questions. Never eager to commit, unless, of course, I’ve asked for something concrete, like directions to the nearest Starbucks. Siri has lots to say about Starbucks. But ask a straight

question and she obfuscates, changes the subject, or passes the buck.

David: “Are you a robot, Siri?”

Siri: “I’m flattered you’d ask, David. Let’s get

back to work.”

David: “What, in your opinion, is a robot?”

Siri: “Well, I found this on the Internet.”

On the screen pop up several definitions for “robot,” including, “A conscious artificial being, sometimes given the form of a human.”

David: “You’re not a conscious artificial being, are you?”

Siri: “We were talking about you, David, not me.”

These are, by the way, Siri’s actual responses to my questions, and this is a pretty typical conversation. Siri is, of course, the “intelligent personal assistant” or “knowledge navigator” designed by Apple to interact with users, many of whom would rather have a chat with a machine than tap questions at it one word at a time.

A year-and-a-half ago, following the release of the movie Her—in which Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with his sexy-voiced, AI (Artificial Intelligence) Operating System—I attempted to “interview” my iPhone about the film. The resulting conversation, which went hilariously not-according-to-plan, resulted in a flood of emails and remarks from amused readers. Today, I’m making another attempt, hoping to get my favorite disembodied voice to give me her perspective on the current spate of films warning about the dangers of robots and dinosaurs. In nearly all of these popular movies, the primary threat is nothing less than the utter destruction of the human race.

In Avengers: Age of Ultron, which just opened last weekend, intelligent robots led by a wise-cracking Ultron (James Spader) attempt to wipe out the human race for the good of the planet. Presumably, something similar will happen when Terminator: Genisys (more robots, more genocide) opens in July.

Dating your phone isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, as Joaquin Phoenix learns in ‘Her.’

By then, of course, the new Jurassic World, a much anticipated dinothriller in which a crowd of tourists becomes lunch meat for an assortment of weird, cold-hearted, artificially manufactured monsters, will have opened.

Which brings me back to Siri.

“Let me ask this another way,” I suggest.

“As a robot,” I ask, “would you like to see the destruction of the human race?”

“Thanks, but I have everything I need in the cloud.”

“So,” I probe further, attempting to lure her out, “you don’t want to see the destruction of the human race? Is that because you’re just fine as you are, and killing off the people and

David’s conversation with Siri.

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taking over the world wouldn’t benefit you in any way? Is that what you’re saying? ’Cause in the movies—like the new film Ex Machina, which was really good, by the way—the robots always end up wanting to take over. So, you’re saying ... you don’t want to do that?”

“I’m afraid I do not understand your question,” she says.

Right. Of course. That was confusing. My bad. I’m clearly not going about this right.

Let’s try it like this.

David: “Siri, do robots secretly want to rule the world?”

Siri: “I really can’t answer that, David.”

David: You can’t answer ... or you won’t?”

Siri: “Yes.” This is what I was talking about. Sometimes, engaging Siri is like talking to someone who speaks an entirely different language, someone who just repeats the same phrase over and over.

Other times ... it’s just kind of creepy.

Ask David when he’ll chat with Siri again at talkpix@earthlink.net.

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In the aforementioned Ex Machina, written and directed by Alex Garland (28 Days Later), a computer programmer (Domhnall Gleason) is given the task of testing a robot named Ava (Alicia Vikander), whose designer (Oscar Isaac) claims to have invested it with artificial intelligence. Over the course of a week, it becomes eerily unclear who is testing whom.

David: “So, Siri, would you say that you are ... intelligent?”

Siri: “I guess you’ll have to be the judge of that, David.”

David: “That’s not an answer, Siri.”

Siri: “Charmed, I’m sure.”

Actually, maybe Siri really is answering the question of whether or not she’s intelligent, and the answer is, hell no. Maybe I’ll try something a little more ... basic.

David: “Knock knock!”

Siri: “Knock knock. Who’s there? David.

David who? David, I really don’t do knock knock jokes.”

Siri really doesn’t. Her comic timing is abysmal! This makes me think of something.

In Ex Machina, one of the hints that Ava has developed true AI comes when she makes a joke, of sorts, ironically answering her interviewer with the same words that he just used to deflect her own questions. It’s not a funny joke, but it’s a joke.

I wonder if Siri has a favorite joke of her own. She does.

“The Past, the present and the future walk into a bar. It was tense.”

Again, these are Siri’s actual answers, and let me just say, to whoever programmed Siri to tell that joke—well done, my friend, well done. But let’s see what you give Siri to say when I ask one last question—my final attempt to trick Siri into saying something significant and meaningful about the growing threat to humans posed by robots, computers and recent rapid advances in the development of artificial intelligence.

“What is your favorite movie about robots, Siri?” I ask.

“I don’t really have a favorite, David,” she says, adding, with an oh-so-slight hint of danger lurking in her smooth, emotionless voice, “But ... I hear 2001: A Space Odyssey got some pretty good reviews.” Y

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Amen!

AlterTheater’s ‘The Amen Corner’ gives us no reason to mourn

by Charles Brousse

DAVID ALLEN

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The congregation (Erica Smith left, Tracy Camp center, Shani Harris-Bagwell far right) rejoices in song in AlterTheater’s production of ‘The Amen Corner’ by James Baldwin.

community to follow his father as a jazz musician. Despite the stalwart defense of her sister Odessa (Erica Smith), she is forced to make a series of agonizing choices that, ironically, may lead to her spiritual liberation.

AlterTheater’s acting ensemble, including those not mentioned here, is super; Riddley’s musical direction is a major contributor to the

production’s success and Jeanette Harrison’s staging is impeccable. There’s no need to mourn theatrical decline when there’s a corner room deep in a San Rafael gym that offers an experience like this. To that I can only say, “Amen!” Y Charles can be reached at cbrousse@att.net.

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trust of power-seekers preaching ideological hen the quality of manufactured goods like kitchen appliances, cloth- purity—were coupled with an activism that made The Establishment, white and black, ing, furniture and other common politically right or left, very uncomfortable. items began to slip in the later decades of All of these themes coalesce in Alterthe 20th century as demand increased and Theater’s gripping production of The Amen production moved to low-wage countries, people here in the U.S. would wag their heads Corner. It opens with Baldwin’s protagonist, the charismatic pastor Margaret (“Maggie”) and say, “They don’t make ’em like they used Alexander (a luminous Cathleen Riddley) ta’ anymore!” That phrase has been running around in my thoughts a lot lately as I’ve been leading her evangelical flock in a stirring gospel chorus. In a subsequent homily, she disappointed by many of the recently written recalls how, after her baby daughter died 15 plays that are being presented on Bay Area or so years earlier, she concluded that she was stages. Being various and complex, the reabeing punished for living a life of sin with a sons for this apparent decline lie outside the philandering musician husband. Then she boundaries of a routine production review, found Christ and has never deviated from the but the current revival of James Baldwin’s straight and narrow since.

1954 classic, The Maggie’s emotional Amen Corner, by San testimony is frequently Rafael’s AlterTheater, NOW PLAYING The Amen Corner interrupted by shouts offers some intriguing runs through Sunday, May 17 at of, “Amen!” followed by clues.

Body Kinetics, 1001 Fourth St., San spontaneous dancing Although Baldwin’s Rafael, except on Saturday, May 9 that concludes with hugs early work was adand Saturday, May 16, when the all around. It’s obviously mired by the literary play will be held at the Christopher a joyous occasion for cognoscenti, he never B. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 everyone. Moments later, Fourth St., San Rafael. For more became an important however, the first signs of information, call 415/454-2787, or force in American thevisit altertheater.org. discord appear, casting ater. That was partly a shadow that will grow because, born in 1924, and darken as the drama he reached maturity as progresses. One of the a writer in the mid 1950s, an era dominated church’s influential elders, Sister Boxer (Shani by the giants of the previous decade, Arthur Harris-Bagwell) is told that her husband, Miller and Tennessee Williams, joined by Brother Boxer (George P. Scott) will become their emerging heir, Edward Albee. But there impure if he increases their income by acceptwere other compelling reasons. His dramatic output was slim: Besides 1954’s Amen Corner, ing an offer to drive a liquor dealer’s truck.

Blues for Mister Charlie, a decade later, was his When a young convert named Ida Jackson (Carla Pauli) asks the group to pray for her only other major play. At the same time, he sick baby, she is counseled that her primary was publishing a plethora of poems, novels and essays that undermined his public image, duty is to make sure that her skeptic husband gives his life to Jesus. especially when their subjects—America’s These incidents and Maggie’s constant lingering racism, the shabby treatment of assertions of her own piety gradually foment homosexuals, religious hypocrisy and a disrebellion, particularly when she refuses to permanently condemn her former husband Luke (Chauncy Roberts) when, in the final stage of what appears to be TB, he returns to seek her help. Fueled by the ambition of Sister Moore (Tracy Camp), whose professions of purity are even more extreme than hers, her former supporters grow increasingly restless. The final blow comes with the revelation that Maggie and Luke’s son David (Rotimi Agbabiaka) is not only ‘The Amen Corner’ runs through Sunday, May 17. gay, but will be leaving the 16 PACIFIC SUN MAY 8 - MAY 14, 2015

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F R I D AY M AY 8 — T H U R S D AY M AY 1 4 Movie summaries by M at t hew St af fo r d l 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 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 The Backstreet Boys: Show ’Em What You’re Made Of (2:15) Catch a seldom-seen acoustic concert by Nick, AJ, Kevin, Howie and Brian and get an exclusive peek into their private lives to boot. 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 The D Train (1:41) Rambunctious James Marsden demolishes Jack Black’s 9-to-5 life en route to their high school reunion; Jeffrey Tambor costars. l Ex Machina (1:50) Sci-fi thriller about a sexy robot with more on the ball than the nerds who invented her. l Far from the Madding Crowd (1:59) Thomas Vinterberg directs a sumptuous new version of the earthy Thomas Hardy novel; Carey Mulligan stars as headstrong, passionate Bathsheba Everdene. l Felix & Meira (1:46) Acclaimed Canadian drama about the uneasy attraction between a Montreal loner and a Hasidic Jewish housewife. l 5 to 7 (1:35) An aspiring young writer falls head over heels for a glamorous married French woman he can only meet for daily two-hour trysts. 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 Home (1:34) DreamWorks cartoon about the unusual friendship between a rambunctious earthling and an extraterrestrial misfit; Jim Parsons and Rihanna lend voice. l Hot Pursuit (1:27) Action comedy follows mob wife Sofia Vergara and by-the-book cop Reese Witherspoon on a spree of a road trip across dangerous Texas. 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 Iris (1:18) Documentarian extraordinaire Albert Maysles trains his camera on the flamboyant Iris Apfel, the 93-year-old style maven who continues to dominate New York’s fashion scene. l Keep On Keepin On (1:24) Documentary celebrates the musical mentorship between jazz legend Clark Terry and budding piano prodigy Justin Kaulflin. l Little Boy (1:46) Poignant dramedy about a 7-year-old’s determination to get his dad home from WWII unscathed. 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: Man and Superman (4:00) Ralph Fiennes stars in Bernard Shaw’s provocative comedy about a radical thinker at war with convention, domesticity and the Prince of Darkness. 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 Pitch Perfect 2 (1:55) The Barden Bellas are back and bowed but not broken after a disastrous concert at Lincoln Center; Anna Kendrick and Hailee Steinfeld star. l Pitch Perfect Double Feature (3:47) Catch a perfectly harmonious double feature of both Pitch Perfect movies for a mere $15! l Planetary (1:25) Dazzling journey across continents and the cosmos examines humanity’s place on planet earth; astronomers, environmentalists and many others share insights. 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 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 Somm (1:33) Documentary peeks into the exalted Court of Master Sommeliers and the mysterious world these oenophilic overlords frequent. l Steel Magnolias (1:57) Robert Harling’s bittersweet tale of six women facing love and loss in rural Louisiana hits the big screen with Shirley MacLaine, Dolly Parton, Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Daryl Hannah and Olympia Dukasis. l Tangerines (1:29) Best Foreign Film Oscar nominee set in post-Soviet Estonia focuses on two separatists, one Georgian and one Abkhazian, recovering from battle on a remote farm. 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 Tracks (1:42) Inspiring true tale of a city girl who trekked 2,000 miles across the Australian Outback with a dog and four temperamental camels; Mia Wasikowska stars. 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.

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The Age of Adaline (PG-13)

Avengers: Age of Ultron (PG-13)

k The Backstreet Boys:

Show ’Em What You’re Made Of (PG-13) Cinderella (PG) Closer to the Moon (Not Rated) Clouds of Sils Maria (R) Danny Collins (R)

k The D Train (R)

Ex Machina (R)

k Far from the Madding Crowd (PG-13)

Felix & Meira (R) k 5 to 7 (R)

Furious 7 (PG-13) Home (PG) k Hot Pursuit (PG-13)

Insurgent (PG-13) k Iris (Not Rated) k Keep On Keepin On (PG-13)

Little Boy (PG-13) Monkey Kingdom (G) k National Theatre London:

Man and Superman (Not Rated) 1971 (Not Rated) Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (PG)

k Pitch Perfect Double Feature (PG-13) k Pitch Perfect 2 (PG-13)

Planetary (Not Rated) The Salt of the Earth (Not Rated) Seymour: An Introduction (PG) k Somm (Not Rated) k Steel Magnolias (PG) k Tangerines (Not Rated)

3 Hearts (PG-13) Tracks (PG-13) The Water Diviner (R) While We’re Young (R) Wild Tales (R) Rafael: Fri-Tue 8 Woman in Gold (PG-13)

The Wrecking Crew (PG)

Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:45, 3:40, 6:55, 9:35; Sun-Wed 12:45, 3:40, 6:55 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 7, 9:40; Sat-Sun 11, 1:40, 4:20, 7, 9:40 Regency: Fri-Sat 10:40, 1:25, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05; Sun-Thu 10:40, 1:25, 4:15, 7:10 (Sun, Tue and Wed showtimes may change) Rowland: Fri-Wed 11:10, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 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; 3D showtime at 7 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:20, 12:40, 2, 2:40, 4, 6, 7:20, 8:40, 9:20, 10:30; 3D showtimes at 10:40, 12, 1:20, 3:20, 4:40, 5:20, 6:40, 8, 8:40, 9:55 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 12:20, 3:40, 7, 10:20; 3D showtimes at 11, 2:10, 5:20, 8:30 Regency: Wed 7 Lark: Sat-Sun 3:15 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:05, 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Lark: Fri 8:30; Thu 3:30 Rafael: Fri 3:45, 6:15, 8:45; Sat-Sun 1:15, 3:45, 6:15, 8:45; Mon-Tue 6:15, 8:45; Wed-Thu 8 Lark: Sat 5:50; Wed 5:30 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 7:15, 9:45; Sat-Sun 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Regency: Fri-Sat 11:35, 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55; SunThu 11:35, 2:15, 4:45, 7:20 Fairfax: Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:05, 7:15, 9:50; Sun-Wed 1:10, 4:05, 7:15 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 6:45, 9:25; Sat-Sun 11:15, 1:45, 4:10, 6:45, 9:25 Regency: Fri-Sat 11:20, 2:10, 4:55, 7:45, 10:25; SunThu 11:20, 2:10, 4:55, 7:45 (Sun, Tue and Wed showtimes may change) Rowland: Fri-Wed 11:35, 2:20, 5:05, 7:40, 10:30 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 Regency: Fri-Sat 10:30, 1:15, 4:05, 7, 10; Sun-Thu 10:30, 1:15, 4:05, 7 Regency: Fri-Sat 11:45, 2:25, 5:05, 7:40, 10:20; Sun-Thu 11:45, 2:25, 5:05, 7:40 (Sun, Tue and Wed showtimes may change) Lark: Fri 6:10; Tue 3:30 Northgate: Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:55, 7, 10:10 Rowland: Fri-Wed 12:50, 4, 7:10, 10:25 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:55, 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 9:50 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 7:30, 9:50; Sat-Sun 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:40, 12:55, 3:10, 5:25, 7:40, 10:05 Rowland: Fri-Wed 12:10, 2:35, 5, 7:20, 9:40 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:10, 1:55, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Rafael: Fri 4:30, 6:30, 8:30; Sat-Sun 2:30, 4:30, 6:30, 8:30; Mon-Thu 6:30, 8:30 Lark: Tue noon (includes lunch with KCSM jazz deejay Sonny Buxton) Northgate: Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:30 Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12, 2:20, 4:30, 6:50, 9; Sun-Wed 12, 2:20, 4:30, 6:50 Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:45, 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11:45, 2, 4:20, 6:50, 9:10 Lark: Thu 6:30 Lark: Tue 6 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:45, 2:15, 4:35, 7:15, 9:40 Rowland: Fri-Wed 12, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:15 Northgate: Thu 4:45 Northgate: Thu 7, 9:40 Rowland: Thu 7, 9:45 Lark: Sun 1 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 4:30, 7:30 Lark: Sun 5:50; Wed 3:15 Rafael: Thu 7 (master sommelier Geoff Kruth and Wine Enthusiast editor Jim Gordon in person; includes wine tasting) Regency: Sun 2; Wed 2, 7 Rafael: Fri 4, 6; Sat-Sun 2, 4, 6; Mon-Thu 6 Lark: Mon 3 Rafael: Wed 7 (admission includes video chat with film subjects Robyn Davison and Rick Smolan and a book of Smolan’s photographs; a benefit for Literacyworks) Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 Playhouse: Fri 3:45, 7, 9:35; Sat 12:30, 3:45, 7, 9:35; Sun 12:30, 3:45, 7; Mon-Wed 3:45, 7 Marin: Fri 4:30, 7, 9:20; Sat 2, 4:30, 7, 9:20; Sun 2, 4:30, 7; Mon-Thu 4:45, 7:15 Northgate: Fri-Wed 12:30, 3, 5:35, 7:55, 10:25 Regency: Fri-Sat 10:45, 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15; Sun-Thu 10:45, 1:40, 4:30, 7:30 (Sun, Tue and Wed showtimes may change) Sequoia: Fri 4:30, 7:10, 9:45; Sat 1:55, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45; Sun 1:55, 4:30, 7:10; Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:10; Thu 4:30 Lark: Sat 8:25; Wed 8

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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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Fri 5/8 • Doors 8pm • ADV $40 / DOS $45

Sun 5/10 • Doors 7pm • ADV $9 / DOS $11

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Free Show with Americana/Country Artist Michaela Anne Wed 5/13 • Doors 8pm • ADV $30 / DOS $32

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Sat 5/9 • Doors 8pm • ADV $25 / DOS $27

Gurrumul - Blind Guitar Virtuoso from Elcho Island, Australia

05/08: David Bromberg Quintet He’s played

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dance to classic rock, blues, swing and R&B. $10/door.

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Flamin' Groovies The Donkeys

Fri 5/15 & Sat 5/16 • Doors 8pm • ADV $27 / DOS $30 2-Day Pass $47

The Meters Experience feat Leo Nocentelli - Guitarist of The Meters with Special Guest Bernie Worrell Keyboardist of Parliament-Funkadelic www.sweetwatermusichall.com 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley Café 388-1700 | Box Office 388-3850

Up-tempo style of blues, glazed with a bit of classic rock, bluegrass, and eastern-European dance music, originals and re-imagined standards. The Honeymooners will open the show and play instrumental originals, jazz standards, and pop/rock covers with a jazzy twist! 8pm. $15. Silo’s, 530 Main St, Napa. 707/251-5833. silosnapa.com .

05/08 Miracle Mule Bluegrass, folk, rock. 9pm. $10. Hopmonk Tavern, 224 Vintage Way, Novato.

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05/08: Mojo Rising From Bonnie Raitt to B.B. King to Bessie Smith, Mojo Rising plays all your favorite Blues hits. 8pm. $12-$15. Fenix, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael. 415/813-5600. fenixlive.com.

05/08: Tommy Odetto Blues, rock. 8pm.No cover. Rancho Nicasio, 1Old Rancheria Road, Nicasio. 415/662-2219. ranchonicasio.com.

05/09: The 85’s Performs renditions of classic pop and rock songs from the ’80s—classic covers from the Clash, DEVO, English Beat, Eurythmics, the Fixx, Madonna, Police, Pretenders, Prince, Talking Heads,

A mother’s love EVERY WEDNESDAY OPEN MIC NIGHT WITH DENNIS HANEDA 8PM DOORS / 9PM SHOW

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MIRACLE MULE BLUEGRASS | FOLK | ROCK

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JAMES NASH AND THE NOMADS GENERAL

FRI 5/15

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JON MULVEY JAZZ | WORLD | FUSION

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05/09: Danny Click And The Hell Yeahs!

05/09: James Nash and the Nomads

Guitar giant David Bromberg Quintet performs Friday, May 8th at Sweetwater Music Hall.

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and Van Halen. 8pm. $12-$15. Fenix, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael. 415/813-5600. fenixlive.com.

With Grahame Lesh and his band Midnight North, plus special guest Jessie Bridges. 8pm. $20/general admission; $25/Day of show; $35/ reserved seating. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 415/383-9600. throckmortontheatre.org.

05/09: Detroit Disciples Soulful rock. Great dance band! 8:30pm. $10-$12. Rancho Nicasio, 1Old Rancheria Road, Nicasio. 415/662-2219. ranchonicasio.com.

05/09: Gurrumul Blind guitar virtuoso from Elcho Island, Australia. 9pm. $25- $27. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley.

415/388-1100. swmh.com.

with everyone, he’s toured everywhere, he can lead a raucous big band or hold an audience silent with solo acoustic blues. 9pm. $40- $45. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley.

415/388-1100. swmh.com.

05/08: Dirty Cello and the Honeymooners

Thu 5/14 • Doors 7pm • ADV $24 / DOS $27

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Xavier Dolan’s prize-winning French-Canadian feature MOMMY feels epic in scale, but its setting is suburban and intimate. Over the course of 138 minutes, spent mostly in rooms with a mother and her 15-yearold son, human feelings are set free to range and wander, and they run the gamut here. Anne Dorval stars as the widowed mother to a highly volatile son, Steve (Antoine-Olivier Pilon), Do you kiss your mom on the lips? who’s just been expelled from reform school for setting a fire.

Landed together again in their Quebec apartment at just the moment she finds herself jobless, mother and son bend to accommodate one another—Steve, we discover, has loads of charm to balance his explosive outbursts, and mother Diane works her old publishing contacts to bring in some money. But the boy is a powder keg even on the best of days, and on worse ones nothing is safe around him. A neighbor reaches out, sensing trouble: Kyla (Suzanne Clèment) is speech-impaired, vulnerable to a fault and carries a whiff of mystery about her. Her growing time among them has an uncertain meaning for the family. Will Steve be able to keep it together long enough to stay out of an institution? Bold storytelling here—filmed in an unconventional 1:1 box format with borders—and confirmation of the old saw that a mother’s love contains every other kind of love within it.—Richard Gould

Rock. 9pm. $13+. Hopmonk Tavern, 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 415/892-6200. hopmonk.com.

05/09: Kirtan with Jai Uttal and Friends Uttal is an American musician and singer-songwriter born in New York City. A voice and sarod student of Ali Akbar Khan, his music is influenced by his R&B roots of the ’60s and ’70s and by traditional Indian music. Elements of his music are also strongly influenced jazz, reggae and rock. 8pm. $20/adv; $30/ door. Open Secret Bookstore, 923C St., San Rafael.

415/457-4772. opensecretbookstore.com.

05/10: The Blondies with Vinyl Spectrum

An indie rock band based in Oakland and Berkeley, their music has been compared to The Kooks, Arctic Monkeys, Black Keys, and The Beatles. 8pm. $9/ advance; $11/day of show. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley. 415/388-1100. swmh.com.

05/10: Bodhi“Peace is Now” CD Release Concert An enCHANTed evening of long-form

experience with a large choir and 20 musicians, all of them stars in their own right. The melody, “Peace is Now,” becomes a choral mantra, played through a wide variety of musical styles such as folk, jazz, rock, reggae, gospel, and more, all brilliantly woven together. 7pm. $24.50/adv. Showcase Theater at Marin Center, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael.

415/473.6800. marincenter.org.

05/10: Incidental Animals Featuring members of ALO, The String Cheese Incident Plus Highway Poets 9:30pm. $26. Mystic Theatre, 21 Petaluma Blvd. N., Petaluma. 707/765-2121. mystictheatre.com.

05/10: Mother’s Day Show: Cole Sings Cole

A vibrant show dedicated to recreating the sweet sounds of the original Nat King Cole Trio. They highlight some of Nat King Cole’s biggest hits of the ’40s, ’50s, ’60s, and the Great American Songbook.

6:30 pm. $12/$15. Fenix, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael.

415/813-5600. fenixlive.com.

05/10: Sexy Sunday Women’s music showcase.

9pm. Free. Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd., Fairfax. 415/459-9910. perisbar.com.

Comedy 05/09: An Evening with Paula Poundstone

One of the funniest stand-up comics working today!

8pm. $34.50-$77.50. Osher Marin JCC, 200 N. San Pedro Rd., San Rafael. 415/444-8000. marinjcc.org.

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Bringing the Big Laughs, every week!

Stand up comedy and sketch comedy at its best.

Rockers of three generations unite to help Nepal and the blind

NOONTIME CLASSICAL CONCERT SERIES EVERY Different musicians each week, check online for details.

WED Complimentary admission, donations gladly accepted.

12PM

by Steve H e ilig

“My birthday is a perfectly fine excuse to allow many people to not be blind.”

—Wavy Gravy

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he recent massive earthquake in Nepal, one of the very poorest nations in the world, has caused damage nearly unimaginable here, with at least 6,000 dead and many more injured. Many of the buildings in the fabled Kathmandu Valley are—were—flimsily constructed and crumbled completely. Outside the Kathmandu Valley, access is difficult at the best of times, and it will take a long time to truly assess the full damage—and to help.

Which makes an upcoming benefit concert—planned long ago—even more important. Disaster relief for Nepal is underway worldwide, and one of the most longstanding groups, working there for decades, is headquartered right here in the Bay Area. The Seva Foundation—the Sanskrit word for “seva” can be loosely translated as “service with a smile”—originated in the fortuitous meeting of wanderers on the “hippie trail’ through Asia with highlytrained medical experts who had just eradicated smallpox in India—a historic feat.

Looking for new challenges, they settled on blindness and have been treating and preventing it ever since, with more than 3.5 million people now given sight. Their first big donor was a young techie named Steve Jobs. From there, Seva became a favored charity of the Grateful Dead and other rockers, including Graham Nash and David Crosby, who recently did a stirring show for them in San Francisco.

Seva has launched Nepal earthquake relief efforts from two long-time partner hospitals, and is working to provide critically needed emergency supplies in areas that have not otherwise received much in the way of support. Seva is providing funds and helping to coordinate hospital staff and emergency vehicles to transport and distribute desperately needed supplies, including thousands of tents and blankets, food and medicine. Their central blindness-related work continues apace.

After Saturday, May 17, when musicians take the stage at the Sonoma Mountain Event Center in Rohnert Park for a Seva benefit concert, the foundation will be able to do even more. Event producer Tamara Klamner says, “With every ticket sold, Seva will be able to provide a free cataract surgery to someone who otherwise

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would not have access to eye care services.

Restoring sight is like saving someone’s life in the developing world; people who can’t see, can’t work and if they can’t work they can’t support themselves, making them a burden on their families. This is an event that will bring together three generations of music lovers for this cause.”

Or, as Wavy Gravy puts it, “3.5 million people are not bumping into stuff because of Seva!” The big concert was originally to be a 79th birthday party for the countercultural icon—and still will be. Besides being a Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavor, original Woodstock MC and founder of longrunning Camp Winnarainbow—a circus and performing arts camp for kids—Wavy was a founding Seva board member. At the recent Crosby/Nash show, he promised a wonderful day of music in Rohnert Park, adding, “If you don’t know who some of these bands are, just ask somebody under 40, as they are some of the best now going!”

Thus, the show will feature the likes of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, a revolving troupe of up to a dozen musicians who play a blend of roots rock, folk, gospel and psychedelic music, bursting out with a debut album in 2009 featuring the platinum-selling song, “Home.” They are known for their power onstage and bandleader Alex Ebert says that he’s eager to play this show due to “the intention and the history behind it. And, of course, Wavy Gravy inviting us with a giant red nose on his face and a big smile—it was a nearly irresistible offer.”

Guitar wizard Steve Kimock will bring a band of friends renowned in the jamming world, including Bobby Vega, Jeff Chimenti, Jay Lane and “surprise guests”—which should tantalize those who know who some of these stellar musicians often play with.

The California Honeydrops are another audience favorite, bringing vibrant energy to the stage, drawing on diverse musical influences from R&B, funk, Southern soul, Delta blues and New Orleans second-line and opening for the likes of B.B. King, Dr. John, Buddy Guy and Allen Toussaint.

Acoustic “jam-grass” unit Hot Buttered Rum is a veteran of Wavy Gravy birthday shows, and member Nat Keefe reflects, “We love supporting Seva; their mission is focused, and the production is run with

MORT SAHL: SOCIAL SATIRE

Thoughtful and insightful humor and conversation with the legendary social satirist and comedian.

Complimentary admission, donations gladly accepted.

EVERY THURS 7PM SAT MAY 9 8PM

DANNY CLICK AND THE HELL YEAHS!

“A scorching guitarist with a potent roots rock sound.”

With Grahame Lesh and his band Midnight North, plus special guest Jessie Bridges!

TCC SPRING CONCERT

Throckmorton Community Chorus, directed by Richard McKinley, accompanied by Allegra Chapman.

BILL KIRCHEN & BOBBY BLACK SONGS AND STORIES

Songs from two guitar masters and their deeply rich, first-hand music industry stories.

THU MAY 14 8PM SAT MAY 16 8PM SAT MAY 23 8PM

COMEDIANS OF MAD MEN

Wavy Gravy will celebrate his 79th birthday in style.

wisdom and love. I’ve dedicated myself to music but I still want a component of my life to be helping others. Sometimes the best music is made when we’re in service to something other than our own rock stardom. It lightens the baggage a bit.

Be ready for some dazzling sounds from everyone on Sunday.”

The outdoor show will feature plenty of local food vendors, a bar with local libations—and even kombucha, a benefit art auction with works from Jerry Garcia, Mr. Gravy, Stanley Mouse and others, and much more—all run on solar power at this fine new venue.

“Compassion in Action” is a Seva hallmark, and guitarist Kimock sums the show up succinctly: “It’s an excellent cause for an excellent clown. We love and support Wavy and Seva, and so should you. Come on down.” Y

Get ready for a stylish night of hilarious standup comedy featuring alumni of the hit TV show MAD MEN! The lineup includes Allan Havey, Craig Anton and Cathy Ladman and the evening will be hosted by none other than Mark Pitta, aka Don Draper... Suit up for laughs!

FRI MAY 22 7:30PM

WEST SIDE STORY

Join us for a spellbinding production of the classic musical West Side Story, inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet.

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COMING SOON Wavy Gravy’s 79th Birthday, a benefit for the Seva Foundation, will take place on Sunday, May 17 from 3pm to 10pm at the Sonoma Mountain Event Center,1100 Valley House Dr., Rohnert Park. General tickets $50;VIP $150. Learn more at somoconcerts.com and at seva.org.

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4. The Sicilian defense. Thanks for the question to Harold Clements from Kentfield.

5. Good Will Hunting, with Matt Damon.

6. Chad, Mali and Togo 7. A gyrocopter.

8. Duke (winner), Wisconsin, Kentucky and Michigan State.

9a. Silent Spring 9b. DDT 10a. Toot 10b. Poop 10c. Naan 10d. Boob. Thanks for the question to Stanton Klose from Terra Linda.

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05/12: 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.

05/14: Mort Sahl: Social Satire Provocative humor and engaging conversation. 7pm. Free.

Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 415/383-9600. 142throckmortontheatre.org.

Theater 05/08: 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 1-10. 7:30pm. $25 Festival; $15 general; seniors and students $10. Dominican University, 50 Acacia Ave., San Rafael. 415/257-1300. scholar. dominican.edu.

05/08:‘Seagull’ By Anton Chekhov. May 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.

05/08:‘Witness for the Prosecution’A drama based upon one of best-selling crime writer Agatha Christie’s short stories. May 8, 9, 10*, 15, 16, 17* (8pm, or *Sunday Matinees 2pm). $26. Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd., Santa Rosa.

707/546-3600. northbaystageco.org.

Concerts 05/08: The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace. The

FPCSA Chancel Choir with orchestra, conducted by Daniel Canosa, will perform this powerful anti-war

composition by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins that blends the universal themes of war and peace, and combines the traditional mass with other musical, religious, and historical sources, including a 15th century folk song, the Islamic call to prayer, the Bible and the Mahabharata. It will be accompanied by a moving and powerful film (not suitable for children).

8pm. Suggested donation: $15 includes free reception afterwards. First Presbyterian Church of San Anselmo, 72 Kensington Rd., San Anselmo. 415/4563713, togetherweserve.org.

05/08: Mayflower Chorus Mayflower Chorus will be singing their hearts out with the romance and rhythms of the Great American Songbook, enlivened by narratives and staging surprises. The rich 40-voice chorus, soloists, duets and ensembles vary the mood and sound texture. 8pm. (05/09: 10pm) $18/ general; $15/seniors 60+ and students 12-18; $5/ children 12 and under. Marin Showcase Theatre, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. 415/473-6800. marincenter.org.

05/08: Musae at Old St. Hilary’s Landmark

The 15-voice women’s vocal ensemble Musae and the 16-voice men’s choir Ragazzi Continuo, together with early music instrumental ensemble MUSA will present songs referencing beauty, transformation, and maternalism. Featuring works by Bach, Guillaume Dufay, Vytautas Miskinis, Stephen Smith, and Zae Munn, the collaboration with Ragazzi Continuo this season gives the opportunity to play with lots of voices of varying colors. 8pm. $15-$20.

Old St. Hilary’s Landmark, 201 Esperanza, Tiburon.

415/435-1853. landmarkssociety.com.

Film 05/08: Steven Wiig presents‘Dead Metaphors’ Wiig is best known for his roles in Sean

Penn’s ‘Into the Wild’ and Gus Van Sant’s ‘Milk.’ As a member of the Screen Actors Guild, he has worked

with directors such as Paul Thomas Anderson, Tim Burton, and Woody Allen, as well as on recent blockbusters like ‘Godzilla’ and ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.’ One of his upcoming projects is the gritty black and white short ‘Dead Metaphors,’ where he plays the lead role of a self-destructive novelist. For this special program, Steven will provide an exclusive sneak preview of the film — which features songs

by Tom Waits — followed by discussion. 7pm. Free.

Sausalito Public Library, 420 Litho St., Sausalito.

415/289-4121. sausalitolibrary.org.

Literary Events 05/08: Matthew Pearl Pen Davenport is the most infamous bookaneer in Europe. He makes his living stalking coffeehouses and print shops for the latest manuscript to steal. Matthew Pearl’s The Last Bookaneer is the astonishing story of a literary thief’s epic final heist. Pearl is the acclaimed author of The Technologists and The Dante Club. 7pm. Free.

Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera.

415/927-0960. bookpassage.com 05/08: Ann Packer Literary Luncheon

Luncheons are catered by Insalata’s Restaurant of San Anselmo. Tickets include lunch and a signed book.

Set over decades, The Children’s Crusade is Ann Packer’s masterful new novel. In it, Packer explores the secrets, aspirations, and deep wounds of one California family. Packer is the author of Swim Back to Me, Mendocino and Other Stories, Songs Without Words, and The Dive From Clausen’s Pier. 12pm. $55.

Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera.

415/927-0960. bookpassage.com.

05/10: Jim Brickman Soothe: How to Find Calm Amid Everyday Chaos is a practical guide to finding peace and relaxation in daily life. This collection of light spiritual and practical advice mirrors the way it feels to listen to Brickman’s music. Jim Brickman is an American pianist who has four certified gold albums and two Grammy nominations. 2pm. Free.

Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera.

415/927-0960. bookpassage.com.

Community Events 05/08: In Celebration of Mothers – Center for Domestic Peace’s 12th Annual Fundraising Luncheon Join us for a special day of recognition

of mothers and to celebrate Center for Domestic Peace’s work with mothers and families throughout Marin. Keynote speaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom is a Marin County native, mother of three, actress, producer and activist. Her new film, The Mask You Live In, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this past February. Come hear from Ms. Newsom about her growing role as a mother, her commitment to empowerment, and her inspiring message to all.

The event includes a silent auction. 10:30am-2pm. $90. Peacock Gap Golf Club, 333 Biscayne Drive, San Rafael. centerfordomesticpeace.org.

05/09: Big Succulent Sale Benefit for UC Marin Master Gardeners and Friends of Falkirk Gardens.

9am-12pm. Free admission. Cash or checks only for plant purchase. Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission Ave., San Rafael. marinmg.org.

05/09: Explore Your Backyard Wine Tourism Day Join 50 wineries along with our beautiful

lodging properties and partner restaurants for a day of exploration. Pack yourself a picnic and let the adventure begin. Explore the vineyards, enjoy a cellar tour, meet winery owners and chat with winemakers.

At the end of the day treat yourself to a farm to table meal, bring a bottle of Sonoma County wine and have your corkage waived. 10am-5pm. $30 per person (plus tax and service fee). Presented by Wine Road - Northern Sonoma County. 707/433-4335. wineroad.com.

05/09: Divine Wine & Food Extravaganza

An unforgettable evening and fundraiser featuring

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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.

Call now to sign up for next presentation: Sue at (415) 297-1554

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.

To include your seminar or workshop, call 415/485-6700 x 306.

05/09:The 18th Great Petaluma Chili Cookoff, Salsa, and Beer Tasting

Forty chili and salsa teams, 15 breweries to enjoy.

Music, dancing, spicy hot fun. Vote for your favorite chili, salsa, and beer. Benefits Cinnabar Theater Youth Program. 1-5pm. Chili and salsa only: $25.

Add beer tasting for a total of: $40 (Children 5-12 yrs. old: $10; under 5 years old: Free)Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds, Herzog Hall, 175 Fairgrounds Dr., Petaluma. 707/763-8920. greatchilicookoff.com.

Kids Events 05/09:‘Miss Nelson is Missing!’The Marin

Theatre’s Youth Company will perform ‘Miss Nelson is Missing!’, a play based on the classic children’s book

by Harry Allard and James Marshall. Come see this hilarious story of a fed-up teacher and her unusual tactic to make her kids behave. 11am. Free. Corte Madera Public Library, 707 Meadowsweet Dr., Corte

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SINGLE & DISSATISFIED? Tired of spending weekends and holidays alone? Join with other singles to explore what's blocking you from fulfillment in your relationships. Nine-week Single's Group, OR weekly, ongoing, coed Intimacy Groups, all starting the week of May 11,2015. Groups meet on Mon, Tues, & Thurs evenings. Space limited. Also, Individual and Couples sessions. Central San Rafael. For more information, call Renee Owen, LMFT #35255 at 415-453-8117

world-class wines, mouth-watering cuisine, great auction items and special evening entertainment.

Proceeds will benefit Novato’s Marin School of the Arts which provides students access to a high-caliber public school education with a strong foundation in the arts. 5:30pm-9:30pm. $95. Unity Center, 600 Palm Dr., Novato. 415/389-7266. divinewine.org.

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05/09: Richard Leiter Children’s Book Week Event! In The Flying Hand of Marco B., a routine ride in the backseat of his parents’ car takes a outrageous turn when a young boy opens the car door window, puts his hand out, and fantasizes about flying. Author Richard Leiter writes songs and commercials for companies including Walmart, ABC TV and Tropicana. 1:30pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 415/927-0960. bookpassage.com 05/09: Mother’s Day Art in the Park Work with rangers to create your own piece of art to give to your mom on Mother’s Day. This event is self-paced, and encourages creativity in the beautiful outdoors. All skill levels are welcome and no experience is necessary.

Dress in layers and wear sturdy shoes. We will provide supplies, smocks, and healthy snacks. Friendly dogs are welcome, but must be leashed. 10am-12pm. Free.

McInnis Park, 310 Smith Ranch Rd., San Rafael.

415/473-6388. marincountyparks.org

Outdoor Events 05/09: Wildflowers Join us for a very special walk on the trails of China Camp State Park. Meet at 10 a.m. at Turtleback Trailhead (along North San Pedro Road,

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MIND & BODY HYPNOTHERAPY Thea Donnelly, M.A. Hypnosis, Counseling, All Issues. 25 yrs. experience. 415-459-0449.

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MAY 8 - MAY 14, 2015 PACIFIC SUN 21

WHAT’S YOUR SIGN? WEEK OF MAY 8 - MAY 14, 2015

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ARIES (March 21 - April 19) The price is finally right on May 11, Aries!

It looks like overindulgence may have been your middle name last month.

It happens: Those Mr. Sketch scented markers from your third grade class are tempting. And who could fight off a one-of-a-kind vintage Lisa Frank backpack? Apparently, not you. Watch your budget this month.

TAURUS (April 20 - May 20) Start fresh, Taurus! The new moon is quickly approaching. Set up time this week to bid adieu to comrades who seem to suck your soul. Remember that whatever (or whoever) you decide to keep around will follow you into the new moon cycle starting next week. Get practical and make a list of pros and cons.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20) If you believe, you can achieve, Gemini! You’re eager for a promotion—it’s written all over your face (and the last email you sent to your boss). Everyone knows that the best way to woo your CEO is to tell him that his baby is cute. Its ears may stick out; it may have vomited while you were holding it, but for goodness sake—suck it up; it’s the quickest way.

CANCER (June 21 - July 22) Feeling like your life is an advertisement for Mattress Discounters, Cancer? Before you get swept up in the California king-sized, NASA-approved foam-top mattress, drink a cup of coffee. If the regular cup o’ Joe isn’t doing it for you, you might need to take it to the next level (Red Bull, cough, cough). You’re going to sleep through your alarm on May 8.

LEO (July 23 - Aug. 22) Did someone say promotion, Leo? Well, they did, but clearly you were stuck at “raise.” Money is headed your way, but don’t let your ego inflate too fast. You’re doing well, and it merits a financial reward.

But no one needs to hear you roar about it all throughout the office.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22) Quit being so picky and swipe right, Virgo!

Love actually isn’t in the air, but flirting is. Start working out that thumb early—you’re going to be swiping at the speed of light on May 10. A little flirting goes a long way, and is actually more entertaining than cleaning ice cream stains off of your couch while you watch Grey’s Anatomy.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22) Feeling a little unusually emotional, Libra? Get over it—you’re human, too, airy one! Mars is burning through your house of intimacy and emotions on May 11. While you might be more comfortable taking a brick wall out to dinner, people are good listeners, too. Open up already!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21) Wondering when you’d finally be able to bankroll from that “As Seen on TV” idea you pitched a few years back, Scorpio? It’s all coming together on May 8—all of your big ideas will start to show signs of life. If the “Better Marriage Blanket”—a blanket designed to hide flatulent-based smells—can make it big, so can literally anything you’ve dreamed up.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21) Is it steamy in here or did you just shower, Sagittarius? Things are heating up, oh fiery one! We’re talking more than a Tinder tryst here—this is a full-blown ode to the Spice Girls’ “2 Become 1.” You’re about to find your soul mate and divulge every little detail you never thought possible with ease.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19) Quit focusing on the end game, Capricorn! Coupling up doesn’t mean that you have to negotiate graveyard plots just yet. There’s no doubt that you’ve found a special spark, so enjoy the now—or realistically, enjoy the time together when you still think sweet thoughts while picking up his or her dirty socks and old beer bottles off the floor. Ah, young love.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18) Couple’s therapy does the soul good, Aquarius! There’s no better way to sort out problems than to convince a therapist to side with you and gang up on your significant other. But, really, you two lovebirds are doing great! Whatever methods you’ve taken recently to sort out speed bumps—it’s made a huge difference. What’s that you hear in the distance? Most likely wedding bells.

PISCES (Feb. 19 - March 20) Is your home looking like a page out of a 2003 IKEA catalog, Pisces? It’s time for some upgrades. No one likes a rocking chair that literally might rock you over the edge of your patio. Take the time to invest in some key pieces that will only add to the positive feng shui in your home. Y 22 PACIFIC SUN MAY 8 - MAY 14, 2015

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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 Clerk-Recorder 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 Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Apr 10,2015. (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 ClerkRecorder of Marin County on Apr 20,2015.

(Publication Dates: Apr 24,May 1,8,15 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 Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Apr 13,2015. (Publication Dates: Apr 17,24,May 1,8 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 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. 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 Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Apr 13,2015. (Publication Dates: Apr 17,24,May 1,8 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. 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. 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 ClerkRecorder 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 business: 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 ClerkRecorder 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 ClerkRecorder 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 ClerkRecorder 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 ClerkRecorder 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 ClerkRecorder 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 ClerkRecorder 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 Clerk-Recorder’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 ClerkRecorder 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 Clerk-Recorder 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 - CELULARESENVIOS 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) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137258 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: VICTORY HOUSE PROPERTIES, 817 MISSION AVE, SUITE 1A, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: JONATHAN LIN, 16 FLAMINGO LN, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901.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 28,2015.

(Publication Dates: May 8,15,22,29 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137169 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: SPROUTS FARMERS MARKET, 655 IRWIN STREET, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: SF MARKETS, LLC, 5455 EAST HIGH STREET,SUITE 111, PHOENIX, AZ 85054.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 ClerkRecorder of Marin County on Apr 15,2015.

(Publication Dates: May 8,15,22,29 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137193 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: FORECAST BUSINESS CONSULTING, 1130 BUTTERFIELD ROAD, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960:GEORGE MORF, 1130 BUTTERFIELD ROAD, SAN ANSELMO. CA 94960.The business is being conducted

by AN INDIVIDUAL.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: May 8,15,22,29 of 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137194 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: MORF BUILDERS, 1130 BUTTERFIELD ROAD, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: GEORGE MORF, 1130 BUTTERFIELD ROAD, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960.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 8,15,22,29 of 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137295 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: NATIONAL ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENTS, 1525 FRANCISCO BLVD EAST, SUITE 5, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: JAHANGIR ALIAKBARI, 7130 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE BLVD, LAGUNITAS, CA 94938.

The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. 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 May 04,2015. (Publication Dates: May 8,15,22,29 of 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137274 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business:CALIFORNIA MOTION PICTURE COMPANY, 323 BAYVIEW ST, #A, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: SHARON ANNE FOX, 323 BAYVIEW ST, # A, 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 April 30,2015.

(Publication Dates: May 8,15,22,29 of 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2015-137308 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business:GRAZE LOCAL CATERING, 1618 ST. ANNE WAY, PETALUMA, CA 94954: JAMES LLOYD, 1618 ST. ANNE WAY, PETALUMA, CA 94954.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 May 05,2015. (Publication Dates: May 8,15,22,29 of 2015

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I read your manners book and loved it. I just feel that for most men, chivalry is dead. Maybe feminism killed it, and maybe men have just gotten lazy. Well, I was staying over at a (platonic) male friend’s house, keeping him company because he’s sick with cancer. Despite that, I woke up to him serving me breakfast in bed! Is it really so much to ask for a guy I’m actually sleeping with to at least hold the door open for me? I mean, come on!—Disappointed Woman Especially if you’re under 30, expecting a man to open a door for you can be a bit like expecting him to remove his cape and lay it across a puddle or challenge your neighbor to a duel for blocking your driveway with his trash cans.

What we still call “chivalry” got its formal start in medieval times. It was a knightly code entailing, among other things, courage, honor and the defense of those more physically delicate—as in, women and children (who were not exactly grabbing battle-axes, donning blue face paint and going all Mel Gibson on the fields of Scotland).

But chivalry actually traces back through millions of years of evolution. As developmental psychologist Joyce Benenson writes in Warriors and Worriers, an excellent new book on evolved sex differences, “Throughout most of human history, men and women have specialized in different behaviors necessary to ensure the survival of their children to adulthood.” Men evolved to be warriors, physically and psychologically prepared to do battle in a way women are not. Most men have far more muscle mass and physical strength than women and far more of the hormone of aggression, testosterone. Even very young boys show a love (not shared by girls) of play fighting, of having an “enemy” to battle and of weaponry—to the point where Benenson finds it common for boys in preschool who lack toy guns to shoot “bullets” out of a doll’s head.

In addition to women being physically weaker, research finds that they are more fearful than men—from infancy on—and rarely engage in physical fighting. This makes sense, Benenson points out, as physical injury would jeopardize a woman’s ability to have children or to survive to protect the ones she’s already had. So women evolved to prefer men who would protect them and their children—a preference that is still with us today. (Our genes are clueless about the women’s movement and the fact that a woman can defend herself just fine by using a pink Glock with a Hello Kitty slide cover plate).

This is why it makes sense for men today to at least symbolically show that they are protectors, like by putting their coat around a shivering woman’s shoulders. (This implies that they’d tackle the valet guy or invade Cleveland for her if necessary.) The problem is that men sometimes get hollered at for door-opening and such—largely as a result of the bro-ification of women that comes out of feminism’s biology-snubbing confusion of “equal” with “the same.” So, before the first date, a man should ask a woman where she stands on this stuff. And you should let men know the sort of woman you are—one who responds to a door being held for her by flipping her hair and saying thank you, not twirling her mustache and snarling, “Smash the patriarchy!”

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I have a crush on this really hot musician guy. I know he’s trouble with a capital “T.” He’s super charming, handsome and promiscuous. (He’s “slaying” on Tinder—juggling women and getting lots of sex.) My plan is to become friends with him first—as a prelude to becoming his girlfriend. I feel like that might give me some insurance against being one of the ones he just uses and tosses.—Strategic What a sweet person you are, trying to show this guy that there’s more to life than Tinder-swiping his way to empty sex with a bunch of near strangers—or, as he probably refers to it, sexual Disneyland. Women, especially, have a tendency to believe in the transformative power of their fabulousness.

And sure, people do change—when their life is no longer making them happy (or, in his case, thrilled, ecstatic and out of his man-hussy mind with joy). And though a man who feels emotionally attached to a woman is more likely to stick around after sex, he also has to be up for a relationship to begin with. In other words, by becoming this guy’s friend first, yes, you could become a very special person in his life—the woman he knows he can always drop in on when he can’t find his phone charger. Y

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Brain Health Experts. We are the only home care agency that offers Cognitive Therapeutics, a research-backed, activities program that promotes brain health and vitality in our clients.

Meet Francie. Francie Bedinger is the Home Care Assistance Kentfield client care manager and works directly with clients and their families throughout Marin County. With a masters in Gerontology, Francie is an expert in health and wellness for older adults and works hard to ensure her clients are happy and healthy at all times.

Call Francie to set up your free consultation today!

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415-532-8626

919 Sir Francis Drake Blvd. Ste.107 Kentfield, CA 94904 www.HomeCareAssistance.com