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‘Tradition is the illusion of permanence’—Woody Allen

“If the pigs come, then we’ll join forces and fight them together.” This is a line from the 1970s movie, The Cross and the Switchblade, based on the true story of the work of the late Rev. David Wilkerson in reaching gangs in New York City. Two opposing gangs were having a “war conference” for a gang fight, setting down rules of confrontation and the time and place of the battle. Though the gangs wanted to destroy each other, they agreed to join forces in the event that their common enemy, “the pigs,” i.e. police, got involved.

This camaraderie of enemies over a common foe explains why today we see homosexuals and liberal feminists aligning with the same political agenda as the radical Muslims. It is well known that Muslims despise homosexuals and refuse to recognize the rights and dignity of women. In Muslim countries homosexuals are not only not tolerated, they are often executed for their homosexuality. Women are treated as chattel and can be beaten or even killed for not staying under the thumbs of Muslim men.

Though these groups despise each other elsewhere in the world, here in the U. S. they join forces against their common foe—that being traditional American values. These are the values that were held uniformly in America until the last four or five decades and are still maintained by a large percentage of Americans. Liberal feminists and homosexuals hate traditional American values because they support the traditional family and marriage being between one man and one woman. Muslims, on the other had, fight traditional American values because these values support individual dignity and freedom and reject the cruelties of Sharia law.

So, here in the U.S. these would-be enemies work together for the destruction of their common foe—America as it once was—the very system that gives them their freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of political action and protest.

Now the question should be asked, “If these groups succeed in destroying their common enemy, will they then turn on each other?”

Probably the answer is “yes.”

What will life be like when that happens? Well, probably we traditionalists won’t live to see the answer to that question.

Steve Casey, West Marin

Roll over, Beethoven ...

Last night up here in Shasta County I woke to the sound of a lone trumpet playing in the distance. At first it seemed only “A minor” inconvenience.

But then it seemed to build into a crescendo as it resonated around the house. Then, as I noted its tone, there appeared to be some treble from the source. Apparently, the individual hadn’t yet reached a chord with his surroundings. Perhaps it simply wasn’t his strong suite, I don’t know. I was, of course, bassing my judgment on insufficient information, since I couldn’t C the guy. I wondered, who is keeping score here? Should I fret? Should I refrain? I didn’t want to miss a beat, even if I didn’t measure up. In the end, after a progression of thoughts, I felt confident that I had conducted myself well. Understanding is always the key.

Skip Corsini, Shasta

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Carlo Gardin, Fairfax

This is what’s called, ‘playing the race-horse card’!

Be careful what you say about Blackie’s Pasture. A woman recently wrote a letter to the editor of the Ark, stating that the name is a racial slur and in her words, “As one of the few upper-middle African-American families in Marin I find the name to be offensive.”

Still Rockin’, West Marin

We’re more offended that Marin’s most lauded figure is a lazy, odd-toed ungulate with bad posture.

Dazed, confused and lost

Just yesterday I was at the San Francisco Ferry Building, waiting for the Larkspur-bound ferry. A number of foreigners approached the ferry building, looking confused and lost.

San Francisco is a world-class city, and I don’t understand why transit officials fired all the folks who are supposed to greet people, and answer questions about the ferry. It is ridiculous, pennywise and pound-foolish.

Nadia Silvershine, San Rafael

Such a ‘smooth’ performance ...

Anybody with a radio heard it: Carlos Santana giving a Hendrix riff to the old glorious, but did you hear the crowd rise?

Every game has a songster trying to touch our hearts with a fresh anthem.

Some are more touching than others but very few win a stadium crowd, no matter who is singing. The Banner can bring a live audience to a point, somewhere about the land of the free ... when everyone is near desperate to roar ... All that tailgate beer seems to inspire unison power and at least a little impatience ... they want their game to get ON. But on Saturday night Santana had 43,378 people cheering him to do it again!

The anthem has never felt less obligatory ... For the first time, one could say San Francisco was hosting the American party. As if we finally added sports to the list of Things We Do Good. The World Series is not just another dressup event ... now we care.

As a city, I’d say we’re not that keen on watching. The Burning Man motto ~No Spectators~ works for a reason: We are the parade. Taking part is always the great fact of San Francisco.

Cities with less to do, I expect, have more sports fans ... Places without

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Seems to me Carlos Santana performed the San Francisco difference.

You know that bombs bursting song?

Well, here’s how we play it in Frisco. We rock the vote, we take the toke and, Say Hey!, tonight we rock out with baseball!

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Mill Valley Miller Avenue Streetscape Plan paves ahead

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hen Mill Valley City Council members recently unanimously approved spending $14 million for a Miller Avenue Streetscape Plan, they moved the city along on a project that will transform one of the two main arterials in Mill Valley. The vote also capped a decades-long debate over transit and development that at times split the community into factions that each held doggedly to their visions of how the city should bring Miller Avenue into the 21st century.

To the credit of city officials, planners and council members, initially stung by criticism from community members who reared up against what was at first a grand plan for Miller, the officials, council members and planners moderated the city’s objectives. That moderation led to the unanimous vote. The road Mill Valley took to arrive at the Streetscape Plan could provide signposts for other communities in Marin contemplating major projects that could affect transportation and development. The pushback against the plan in Larkspur for transportation and development near the ferry terminal and future SMART station is remarkably similar to the reaction of Mill Valley residents who formed a grassroots organization to fight the grand plan for Miller.

To what extent Mill Valley—and

Larkspur and other Marin communities looking at transportation and housing— benefit from adjusting their goals after grassroots pushback is a debatable topic, one which opponents as well as proponents are not shy about discussing as they seek to influence their elected officials and appointed planners. What is certain is that the debates shape the future of communities for decades.

An initial phase of street improvements on Miller already went forward as part of a pilot project, which included repairing pavement and working on vehicle and bicycle lanes on Miller, between Sunnyside Avenue and Millwood Street.

Part of the initial project included creating what’s called back-in parking along Miller as the street heads out of town in the neighborhood of Reed Street down to Camino Alto. The back-in arrangement is an attempt to improve safety for bicyclists and pedestrians as well as motorists. The parking arrangement acknowledges the ascendency of walking and biking as increasingly important methods of transportation. They’re part of what’s called multi-modal transportation. The Miller Avenue Streetscape Plan pays particular attention to that term—and those methods of transportation.

The goals of the plan, including the nod to multi-modal transportation, also

include the advantages the plan can bring to the ecology and landscape along Miller Avenue as well as an acknowledgement of the history and cultural value Miller Avenue has for Mill Valley.

In a TV commercial in the 1970s, an Earth-mother-type admonished people who were putting a questionable spread on their bread. The ad, for Chiffon margarine, included copy that had the Earth-mother saying, “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.” When Mill Valley officials unveiled their grand vision for Miller Avenue, echoes of that commercial could have rung loudly as residents metaphorically said, “It’s not nice to fool with Miller Avenue.”

Changing one of the two most significant streets in town—a street that held a long history as an entrance to Mill Valley—was an audacious job city officials handled without the sophistication needed to bring along concerned residents. Even if the officials had jumped through silver and gold public relations hoops, it’s unlikely that a grand plan for Miller would have sailed through town. That’s a lesson that has echoed through other Marin communities during the last few decades as an increasingly vocal contingent of Marin residents balk at proposed changes in their communities. The big lesson: City and county officials must ensure that residents believe they are part of a discussion and not presented with a grand plan and then

››NEWSGRAMS County to consider ‘living wage’ increase Should workers employed by county contractors be paid enough, according to a county ordinance, to “meet the basic needs of their families”?

That’s what the Marin County Board of Supervisors considered on Tuesday, as they heard from county staff about increasing the minimum pay in the county’s Living Wage Ordinance, which requires businesses contracted with, or receiving subsidies from, the county to pay their employees minimum rates that are typically above the state minimum wage. The Supes supported the County Administrator’s proposal to raise the current living wage by 90 cents to $13 per hour for non-benefited positions or $11.40 per hour for benefited positions. If approved on Nov. 25, the change would go into effect in January of 2015.

The change will affect about 1,500 in-home health care workers, who provide in-home supportive services to seniors and people with disabilities in Marin, in addition to 180 other county employees serving as library aides, library technology aides, performance attendants, seasonal firefighters and service workers. The living wage increase for county workers would cost the County of Marin government about $1.1 million annually.

According to the Bay Area Consumer Price Index, the cost of living in the North Bay increased by about 3 percent last year.

How does a living wage differ from a minimum wage? According to Marin County Counsel, counties such as Marin have no legal jurisdiction to raise the minimum wage set by the state, but they can mandate that their own employees and the employees of those they contract with be paid a minimum “living wage.” Marin first adopted a living wage in 2002.

However, certain municipalities with their own charter form of government—Oakland, Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego and Los Angeles, among them—have established their own minimum wages above those required by the state.—Jason Walsh San Rafael to purchase body-worn cameras for its police department It looks like fighting tickets in San Rafael is about to get a little more difficult.

On Nov. 3 the San Rafael City Council unanimously approved the city’s police department to purchase 60 body-worn cameras that will capture both audio and video evidence.

The cameras are pager-sized and are being purchased from VIEVU LLC, a Seattle-based company that specializes in wearable video cameras.

The San Rafael Police Department started testing out the use of cameras in February.

The testing phase included camera use during the day, nighttime and was tested on motorcycle, foot patrol and bicycle officers. Ten additional cameras were added to the police department in June for further testing.

The city plans to spend $45,160 to purchase the 60 cameras, which officers say capture evidence so clearly, it’s like being present at the scene. According to San Rafael Police Capt. Glenn McElderry, the department will eventually have 74 cameras for every swornin employee on the force.

In Marin, similar body-worn cameras are being used by police in Tiburon, Belvedere and Novato.

Officials hope that the use of the cameras will support criminal allegations, refute potential use-of-force complaints and reduce hostility among suspects.

The camera system’s software package requires only the one-time fee and will be installed on the police department’s controlled server. All data will be held locally.

—Stephanie Powell

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asked, “So how do you like it?” Right or wrong, that road leads to opposition.

That’s not to say the grand vision for Miller Avenue was without merit.

For years, decades really, Miller Avenue was the lower-class relative to the city’s upscale downtown area. One of the most notable landmarks on the avenue was the 2 A.M. Club, which received notoriety on the cover of a Huey Lewis and the News album in a kind of recognition of working-class aura of the area. That’s the image Miller Avenue exuded, along with the kind of character accentuated by auto-body shops, a muffler-repair outlet, cleaners and fast-food restaurants. It was, in fact, the epitome of what many Marin residents say they desire: a commercial street that caters to locally owned and locally serving businesses. But Lower Miller Avenue had a patina that painted it as a place to get a carburetor rather than a latte.

The years softened Miller Avenue a bit, especially with the addition of the Mill Valley Theatre Company, which brought with it a touch of the artistic atmosphere that used to permeate the city in the late ’60s and the 1970s, when it was possible to rent a nice place for $150 a month.

And then the future revealed itself when Whole Foods opened the wildly successful outlet right in the heart of what the Miller Avenue Streetscape Plan called “The Heart of Miller Avenue.” The store, in the 400-block, added an element of organic flavor to the distinctly automotive atmosphere of the street in the area. Then a muffler shop was replaced with a design firm.

Then the Miller Avenue Plan took a center-stage position in a City Council election that gave residents a chance to

debate whether the city should move forward with a grand vision for the street.

Six candidates ran for three spots on the council. Council members Dick Swanson, Chris Raker and Anne Solem were ending their terms. During their tenure, they had been instrumental in starting a planning process for Miller Avenue. The Miller Avenue Precise Plan was the document that encapsulated their ideas.

The city had designated Miller as a locally serving commercial area, where auto-parts stores, body shops and muffler repair businesses would be appropriate. But the high-tech boom in the go-go 1990s started people thinking that entrepreneurs might look at Miller Avenue for redevelopment potential. The thought of funky Miller Avenue becoming a dot-com campus sent chills through many Mill Valley residents. Lower Miller Avenue, from Tam High to the Whole Foods area, seemed particularly susceptible to redevelopment pressure.

Rather than let economic nature take its course with no guiding hand from the city, the three council members proposed that Mill Valley create an overall vision for Miller. The result was the Miller Avenue Precise Plan. The plan went dormant for a time—until 2007. Many residents had forgotten about it, until the city presented the work of Berkeley-based design consultant David Early, whom Mill Valley had hired to help craft the Miller Avenue Plan.

In a series of meetings, residents woke up to the fact that the plan was alive and proceeding.

Many were not happy. Words like “urban” and “boulevard” started cropping up to describe Miller Avenue. In strict planning terms, those descriptions are accurate and appropriate, but in a

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1. Congratulations to our San Francisco Giants—World Series Champions! What three Giants (two still with the team) were World Series MVPs in 2014, 2012 and 2010?

2. The oldest north-south main thoroughfare in New York City, dating back to the first settlement by the Dutch, and still existing today, has what name?

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1956 d. Took the role of rocker Tina Turner in 1993 (Oscar-nominated) 7. People travel from all over the world to an isolated location in Australia to visit a huge sandstone rock formation that towers more than 1,000 feet from the flat desert floor. Give the modern, as well as the Aboriginal name, for this visual wonder.

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Howard Rachelson invites you to upcoming Team Trivia Contests: Tuesday, Nov. 11, at 6:30pm, at the Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael; also to a big community Trivia Fundraiser at Congregation Kol Shofar in Mill Valley on Saturday, Nov. 15, at 7:30pm; and Tuesday, Nov. 18, at 6:30pm at the Sweetwater in Mill Valley. Have a great question? Send it in and if we use it, we’ll give you credit. Email Howard at howard1@triviacafe.com or visit www.triviacafe.com. ▲ Want to battle climate change, save money every month and increase the value of your home? Making your home energy efficient helps you accomplish it all. Of course, that upfront investment for improvements such as solar panels, new windows or a rainwater catchment system is often daunting. Not so anymore for Mill Valley residents. The City Council recently adopted a resolution allowing homeowners to finance clean energy upgrades and repay the loan over 20 years on their property tax bill.

“This is something that we’ve been talking about for years—it’s a long time coming,” Mill Valley Vice Mayor Ken Wachtel said. Corte Madera, Fairfax, Larkspur, Novato, San Anselmo, San Rafael, Tiburon and Marin County also participate in the innovative program. Visit www.californiafirst.org for more information.

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▼ If you happened upon Holstrom Circle in Novato last Saturday around midnight, you might have thought a rowdy new bar just opened. Instead, Novato Police responding to a call on the block discovered a large party with juveniles and alcohol at the home of Alex Koehler, 49, parent of one of the teens. Koehler was cited and released for an alleged violation of the Novato Social Host ordinance, which holds adults accountable when they provide alcohol to minors or allow underage house parties on their property where alcohol is being consumed. Many kids fled the home when police arrived. Two of them, a 16-year-old boy departing with a bottle of alcohol and a drunken 15-year-old girl were cited, detained and released to their parents. Yikes.—Nikki Silverstein

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< 7 Nightmare on Miller Avenue? place that values its small-town character above almost everything, those terms are fighting words. And when residents saw a presentation of the Miller Plan, offered in spiffy computer-generated drive-throughs and fly-overs, opponents of the plan went to the barricades.

In a clear case of unintended consequences, residents saw the computer animation as making the re-envisioned Miller Avenue look like a broad Parisian Boulevard—or perhaps an arterial in the San Fernando Valley. They said it didn’t look like Mill Valley. The animation never was intended to depict what the street actually would look like. It was meant simply to express the idea of what it could be. But it was a mistake.

Opposition to the plan began to solidify around a core objection: City leaders weren’t listening to the community.

Residents said they wanted to be part of the planning process. Planners and the City Council had followed the letter of planning law and procedure, but they had failed to take into account the heavy weight of public relations. Town leaders said they had held many meetings concerning the plan, and they would hold more. But residents said they still felt left out of the process because town officials attended meetings, listened to residents, and then proceeded to do what the officials had been doing, with little regard for the thoughts and suggestions of residents who wanted the plan altered or scrapped.

That’s a script since heard in other Marin communities about projects ranging from affordable housing to the SMART commuter rail line. (Of course, the opposing viewpoint holds that the projects that officials unveil are good and take public input into account, and the opposition is attempting to block what most Marin residents would, in the end, come to appreciate. The opponents generally bring their arguments to the table with more force than supporters of the projects present their positions.)

The belief among Mill Valley residents that city leaders had become deaf to their desire for true participation in the planning process led to the creation of Friends of Mill Valley, a grassroots organization designed to promote a more interactive government. It’s still active. The situation reached something of a crescendo when then City Manager Ann Montgomery said the town was taking a six-month hiatus on the Miller Plan—time that would allow additional dialogue with the community as well as an opportunity to collect more information about traffic, parking and other implications.

Then came the 2007 City Council election. Two of the six candidates who ran for spots on the council were members of Friends: George Gordon and Kerry Katzenbach Stoebner, who was strongly opposed to the Miller Plan.

Three candidates who ran for seats were described during the campaign as middleof-the-road on the Miller Plan. The three were Stephanie Moulton-Peters, Ken Wachtel and Gary Lion. One position that united them, at least to a degree, was their belief that the Miller Plan was not a done deal and needed additional scrutiny— with ample community input. One candidate who was the most amendable to the Miller Plan was Maureen Parton, an aid to then-Supervisor Charles McGlashan.

In a clear indication that they wanted the town to rethink the Miller Plan, Mill Valley voters cast ballots that put Stephanie-Moulton Peters, Ken Wachtel and Gary Lion on the council. The three council members are still serving.

The original Miller Avenue Plan called for much more than realigning the street and providing better parking and bike access. The plan proposed taking a look at zoning along the street and even took the bold position of suggesting that the city consider mixed-use developments to promote business and housing on Miller. The plan looked at the street from Lower Miller all the way to downtown in segments, which the plan called “rooms.”

Each room would receive an appropriate treatment.

But the opposition to the grand plan reached a point at which city officials decided to split the Miller vision in two.

One part would include aesthetics and improvements to the street that could allow better transit. Issues such as zoning could go back on the shelf for future consideration. The city even changed the name of the plan from the Miller Avenue Precise Plan to the Miller Avenue Streetscape Plan to reflect the change in goals.

The $14 million re-envisioned plan, which gets most of its money from Measure A funds, is what received that unanimous approval—without the infuriated opposition that met the original proposal.

Work is expected to start next year and last a few years.

The experience in Mill Valley highlights the ability of city officials to compromise with opponents and arrive at a solution that still benefits the community. That process can translate to other cities in the county. But whether something is lost in compromise is worthy of debate.

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Hawaii Five-0 McGarret is kidnapped with Wo-Fat—he has a vision of what life would be like if the Five-0 team had taken different actions at a pivotal point. Every show has a It’s a Wonderful Life episode but we had no idea that Mr. Potter was in a league with the Yakuza. CBS. 9pm.

Mysteries at the White House The mystery this week seems to be why they didn’t put a billboard on the roof saying, “Unemployment Down, Deficit Down, Economy Up” and plug in the neon. Travel Channel. 9pm.

SATURDAY, NOV. 8 Dead on Campus A geeky introvert dies after being seduced by a sorority pledge and seeing the tryst go viral and his sister suspects the sorority has a sinister side. We thought the sinister side of sororities was the fraternities and usually when something goes viral from a sorority, they just mix cold sore cream in with the lipstick. (2014) Lifetime. 8pm.

The Nine Lives of Christmas It’s starting again. (2014) Hallmark Channel. 8pm.

Sleeping Beauty A princess is cursed with eternal sleep, but is saved by a prince’s kiss. In modern life, she’d be looking for the prince’s snooze button. (1959) ABC Family.

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parka. MTV. 8pm.

Late Show With David Letterman At some point Katie Holmes needs a career that involves more than appearing on magazine covers with headlines about “starting over.” She and Tom Cruise divorced two years ago. She needs a new hobby. CBS. 11:35pm.

TUESDAY, NOV. 11 The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Investigations grind to a halt as all the S.H.I.E.L.D. staffers spend all day downloading the new Avengers trailer. ABC. 9pm.

Navy SEALS—Their Untold Story You probably didn’t know a Navy SEAL could incapacitate an enemy with one eyebrow.

KQED. 9pm.

Supernatural Sam and Dean learn that a school is producing a musical based on their lives. We’d want to see the script, have approval on casting and make sure there were an adequate number of fog machines and lasers. CW. 9pm.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12 The Rocky Horror Picture Show What’s the point if you don’t get to lie to your parents and sneak liquor into the theater? (1975) LOGO. 6pm.

9 1/2 Weeks A woman takes a submissive role in a relationship with a dominant man. This is the ’80s, so it’s Fifty Shades of Grey without as much waxing. (1986) Independent Film Channel. 8pm.

Criminal Minds When people with big social Their ‘funny hats’ may be outdated, but at media followings start SUNDAY, NOV. 9 The least they are available by cellphone. turning up dead, investi2014 CrossFit Games gators must share hunThis is a lot like American dreds of impossibly cute kitten memes before Ninja if the ninja arts included moving giant they can narrow in on a suspect. CBS. 9pm. tires around. ESPN2. 6:30pm.

The 2014 European Music Awards It’s like the MTV Music Awards, but with more cigaTHURSDAY, NOV. 13 The Da Vinci Code rettes. MTV. 7pm.

It turns out the conspiracy was never to The Holiday Baking Championship In Mill destroy the Catholic Church, but merely a Valley, it’s the “Stopping at Whole Foods to prank to “make the Pope wear funny hats.”

Pick Up Something on the Way to the Party (2006) American Movie Classics. 4:30pm.

Championships.” Food Network. 9pm.

Young Guns Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips and Charlie Sheen MONDAY, NOV. 10 play young outlaws on Gotham Gordon investhe run in the Old West, tigates a deadly fight robbing trains and small club. The hard part of town banks to support the investigation is that their hair gel habit. (1988) nobody will talk about CMT. 8pm. fight club. The other How to Get Away with hard part is that nobody Murder A woman is will talk about fight club. accused of killing a Fox. 8pm.

At least these ‘young guns’ are supportnanny. So she faces not Slednecks Another ing one another’s hair gel habit instead of only the murder charge, docu-series following the Sheen’s drug habit. but also the more dauntlives of a group of young people, this time in Alaska, where producers ing threat of having to find a new nanny.

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or almost a quarter century, Dennis McNally held a job that could be considered an ultimate dream or nightmare, depending on one’s perspective— he was the official publicist for the Grateful Dead. And while he freely and proudly admits to being a “Deadhead” before and during his stint with the legendary band, he came by the job in an unusual way—in 1979, Dead figurehead Jerry Garcia read a book McNally had worked on throughout the 1970s, titled Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, The Beat Generation, and America and hired him to write the band’s story. McNally’s second book was thus A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead, the definitively authorized but “warts and all” story, published in 2002.

A little math indicates that McNally is not a fast writer; he spends about a decade per book. As it should be, as he is a professional scholar, holding a Ph.D. in history and very serious about his research. But his writing is not the dense prose of an academic, even when covering the serious and complex ethnomusicology that is the topic of his new book, On Highway 61: Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom.

Still, like any good professor, he has a thesis, and it is that music, namely AfricanAmerican music, has had a profound influence not only on the arts in America but on our politics and very way of life—or at least in some times and places. Hardly striking on the face of it, maybe even obvious, but in his book McNally ties many strands and names together in ways not yet envisioned by the scores of authors who have written on jazz, blues, folk, rock and more. Iconic music 10 PACIFIC SUN NOVEMBER 7 - NOVEMBER 13, 2014

names like Louis Armstrong, W.C. Handy, Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Leadbelly, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and many more have already been covered exhaustively by others, but not in a way that links in Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Bob Dylan and the entire scope of forces leading up and into the civil rights movement and “the sixties”— and, for example, the Grateful Dead.

Page, the “mouth of the south” who played all kinds of black music of the day, and Dylan was just fascinated by it all. And it changed his life, and thus indirectly, many others’ lives as well.

One thread through the whole book as you trace the origins of jazz, blues, folk and more was that black musicians made the music but were not really recognized outside of small circles until white * * * * * promoters and record label owners took them on and garnered Why Highway 61?— it’s both literally them exposure. You identify it and metaphorically important, right? as “love of black music, Yes. The real Highway 61 runs but not blackness itself.” from the Canadian border to New Try and imagine American Orleans, and is essentially synonymusic without black music—it mous with the Mississippi River. by would be a really short stack of There’s this incredible current of Steve records! There is no such thing energy, both water and otherwise Heilig as “pure” white or black music. there, running through the heart It’s just a dumb distinction. If you of America. It’s the lifeblood of the look at any kind of music—take entire continent. The Midwest has country music—Jimmie Rodghad this image of stability, “normalers is supposed to be the father of country, ity,” long before the 20th century even. And and it’s easy to trace the black influences that so much of the great American music that formed him, or Hank Williams, too. But we is the main subject of the book manifested have to remember how prevalent racism has within 50 miles of the banks of that river, been throughout our history. from ragtime and jazz and blues onward.

You quote the infamous statement by You cover all that music, and wind up Sonny Boy Williamson about white boys with Bob Dylan’s explosion of creativity wanting to play the blues so badly, and doand influence in the 1960s. How was he ing just that … linked in to that highway?

Well, you could understand why some Dylan, when he was still a teenaged Bob of these originators could feel a bit negative Zimmerman up in Minnesota in the 1950s, about only white musicians being able to listened to a radio show out of Little Rock, make their music popular. Some have tried to Arkansas named “No-Name Jive.” The DJ dismiss, say, Robert Johnson as not being so was a white guy named Frank “Gatemouth”

great since he didn’t sell any records in his time.

But since the ’60s, say, we’ve been able to recognize a genius regardless of his sales or color.

There are so many books on jazz, blues, folk, and must be 100 books on Dylan—what were you trying to do differently and new with this one?

What’s unique about this book is connecting a chain of events that starts at least as far back as the 1840s to the 1960s. In fact, a couple of editors rejected the book saying, “We know this stuff already.” And yes, we know Dylan went electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival and caused a historic stir, but I’m a trained historian and context is everything, and nobody ever drew all these threads together before so far as I know. I started with a question, and didn’t know the answer for three years of research, and then it was seven more years to write it all.

So what was your question?

My mission was to ask, “Why did the ’60s happen—what led Americans to ask the most critical and serious questions about the dominant American ideology?” And eventually I saw that I had to start with Tho-

PG13 reau, who started the idea of social criticism when modern America really got started.

America as we know it, the corporate state, really started not with Columbus or even the American Revolution, but in the early 1800s with Alexander Hamilton and the idea that “freedom” was really about making as much money as possible, however one chooses.

And Thoreau stood up and said, “Eh, maybe not so much.” He argued there were other forms of freedom, of thought, of religion, of political philosophy. So he established a certain path, based upon him being an abolitionist, relating to black people at the bottom of the pyramid, as having worth and even something to teach us. And that tradition went to Mark Twain, who starts off as a basic Missourian product of the slave system and winds up producing Huckleberry Finn, the era’s masterpiece of anti-slavery literature.

And so what was your answer in a nutshell?

The revolutions of the ’60s can be traced to the relationship of black people to white culture, and specifically the music, from minstrelsy in the 1800s all the way to Bob Dylan.

So the music was key to the spread of progress from then on.

Certainly a key, if not the key. The generation that came of age after emancipation saw an explosion of talent and creativity, with jazz, ragtime, and blues and as that seeped out into the white world over the course of the 20th century, you saw massive social change. Beyond the modern influence of thinkers like Darwin and Freud, there was an increasingly secular society. And one thing that pushed things even more than suspected was dancing—dances based on ragtime, like the foxtrot. In the ’60s I recall thinking of the foxtrot as dopey and boring, but in the early century it was revolutionary. Same thing happened in the 1920s and 1930s with jazz, in the 1950s with blues and the 1960s with rock and roll.

The Beats in the 1950s were a key element of this white discovery of black music too, right?

Yes, and I write of Jack Kerouac’s first discovery of black be-bop jazz and that became key to much Beat writing and such.

You note that Dylan’s first serious girlfriend, Suze Rotolo, who was with him on the cover of “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” LP in 1963, was involved in the Civil Rights Movement—you imply she was a huge influence on him, intentionally or not.

She had more of an impact on him than she ever dreamed of. They met about two months after the Freedom Rides, when she worked for CORE—the Congress of Racial Equality. The Rides were an attempt to desegregate the interstate bus system. At one point the buses were fired on, which got the attention of President Kennedy, who sent people to the South to figure out what was going on.

When a Freedom Rider named Diane Nash was told, “Somebody’s gonna get killed here!” her reply was, “Then others will follow them.”

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only imagine how a 19-year-old Bob Dylan hears this and recognizes the importance of the Civil Rights Movement. Not just that it might win—I don’t really know if it’s won to this day—but that it was a shining example of morality in action. It informed the rest of his life.

But Dylan soon rejected being the “voice of a generation,” the activist mantle, that had been thrust upon him. He seemed to hate that.

Well, yes, and that likely started with the assassination of JFK, which took everybody’s idealism down. It so lowered his image of society as a whole that he had to walk away. But just because he walked away from the movement, that does not mean he walked away from absolute commitment to freedom. The songs he wrote after the ones that made him famous—“The Times They Are a-Changin’’’ and so on, were still about personal freedom and commitment.

With the fractioning of our culture, there hasn’t been a real spokesperson who inspires and unites young people, or all people, ever since. He wrote anthems everybody knew in the way that everybody knew each new song by The Beatles. They all sang of some kind of “revolution.” But whatever “movement” there was in the ’60s, fueled by music, is very fractured now, with popular music seeming to be mostly about only materialism and romance.

Yes, and when I went off to college in 1967, you could not walk from one end to the other of my college dorm without hearing “Sgt. Pepper’s”—it was a universal experience; everybody had it and knew it by heart. Dylan has admitted that he mistakenly set himself up to be a generation’s spokesman with those songs. He was just a guy with a guitar, even when singing at the historic March on Washington. But I don’t think there ever was a chance of a revolution in America, like there was in France or Russia—there, the social structure was so rigid and contemptuous that the only thing to do was to butcher the elites. In England and here there was a certain amount of compromise. But I am sure if you asked, say, the Koch brothers about, say, FDR, they’d call him a “socialist.”

But FDR actually saved capitalism when it was wobbling by putting in a social safety net.

I’m now old enough for Medicare and I like it. There’s only a small fracture of people who object to it—until they need it, that is.

But I have a peculiar and possibly naïve faith that in our time, my time, even, and that’s not that long left, there will be musically somebody who gathers up all these snapped threads and has a remarkable impact.

As for remarkable, you spent many years with one of the most notable bands from that era, and from Marin, who in fact unified many people—the Grateful Dead. How did that come about and what was it like?

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Next year it will be 20 years since Well, I became a Deadhead in 1972, their Garcia died. Were you close to him? biographer in 1980, their publicist in 1984, Yes. Our relationship changed over until Jerry Garcia died in 1995, and worked the years since for the band’s we first met offshoots until and he treat2008. It was not ed me like just a job, but an an important adventure, even author. Then a life, you might I became his say. employee I heard you and it’s just got the job as not the same Dead biograthing. But I pher because was greatly Jerry Garcia fond of him. liked your KerI mean, he ouac book.

Dennis McNally and Jerry Garcia photographed by Novato-based walked my True! He photographer Bob Minkin. wife down the loved Kerouac aisle, and served and saw that as a as substitute father of the bride, as hers legitimate resume item. And then for three had died. years while researching and writing I had to He struck me as a sweet and humble be “vetted” by the rest of the band and family, so when he hired me I was a known quantity. guy, somewhat parallel to Dylan in some ways as somebody who had been I guessed I hadn’t pissed off anybody too cast as an icon, a guru even, against his much. will. And I heard he chafed mightily For most publicists, the main role is under that burden, too. seeking publicity—was that yours too, It was indeed a burden. He dealt with or were you mostly doing, say, “damage it with a much better sense of humor control”? than Dylan, though. And in Marin he Some of that, but they didn’t need publicwas mostly treated as a person, you ity, didn’t want it; my job description was know, not bothered much. The madonly “not to suck up” to the press. The Dead ness would happen out on the road. He had become the biggest-grossing band on still had to pump his own gas in Marin. tour, and it reached the point where wherUntil well into the 1970s the band had ever they went, local media were themselves this ideal situation where they could just Deadheads and wanted access. So I went on make a living, but not be too famous and the road with the band. My job was to give, have troubles. It wasn’t until the late ’80s say six TV crews access while keeping them where everything went crazy. invisible from the band and crew. We kept Did you ever have to manage conthe cameras out by the soundboard.

Many true Deadheads proudly count the flicts among the band?

Er, no. I was trusted, but if there were number of shows they saw. How about you? conflicts in the family, they either did or I saw 200 before I got the job, and then didn’t deal with it face-to-face, but they around 900 while working with them. didn’t call on me to get in the middle.

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Not your average ‘round-up’ Holiday gifts for gardeners and the hortiholics in your life

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eing a die-hard hortiholic myself, I would be thrilled to receive any of these garden gifts for the winter holidays. So get shopping! Most of these you can find at your local garden nursery here in Marin.

1. Garden Mosaic Hoopla Berkeley filmmaker and designer, Catherine Ryan, has created stunning mosaic hooplas that will make your garden light up with magic. “No water necessary for great color and sparkle in the garden,” she promises. I saw them hanging at the Green Jeans nursery and fell madly in love. You can also find them at Illumigarden in Mill Valley or on Ryan’s website, www.lunaproductions. com. These stunning mosaic hooplas are created from recycled barrel hoops, cut glass, mirrors and ceramic and glass tile. “I am such a mosaic maniac that I get very excited when they go out into the world and create space for me to make more!” Let’s help feed her craving to create more beauty. Price: $85-$150.

2. V-neck Women’s T-shirt from Point Reyes Compost Co. Point Reyes Compost Company creates my favorite compost: “Double Doody,” a blend of horse and cow manure created from animals spoiled rotten in the hills of Point Reyes at Giacomini Ranch. This is the compost I use at the school gardens I coordinate and it makes the ornamental and edible plants sing with joy. This makes my team of high school students and me, look like pros! We take all the credit for the prolific harvests, but it’s the powerful organic, locally-made and aged soil amendment that is really doing all the work. With the tagline, “Purveyors of premium poop. Don’t let anyone else give you crap,” how can you resist? Visit www.prcompostco.com to order or locally at Toby’s Feed Barn, 11250 California 1, Point Reyes Station. Price: $26.

3. FarmHer Black Mesh Cap Iowa-based photographer, Marji GuylerAlaniz, has worked in agriculture for the past 11 years. She felt that images of farmwomen were long overdue. She is on a mission to bring women in agriculture to the forefront.

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providing food, giving to their communities and sharing with others. You can follow her journey (and buy some super cool T-shirts and hats) at www.farmher.com. Price: $20.

4. Mount Tam Microgreens Ronna Reed, owner of Mount Tam Microgreens, has developed a method for growing organic microgreens that allows home gardeners to harvest out of a relatively small container. Her microgreen kits and bowls are now available at Green Jeans and at the Marin Country Mart Farmers’ Market. Each kit contains a full-color brochure, and includes two durable recycled

paper pots, seeds (enough for four harvests) and markers. All you need is organic potting soil and you can start harvesting in as little as a week!

Visit www.mttammicrogreens.com for more information. Price: $25.

5. A Gardening Book to get Those TechHipsters Off of Screens & Into Growing Food.

The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff (St. Lynn’s Press, 2014) by Dee Nash. Like the rest of us veteran gardeners, Nash spent lots of time and money on plants that didn’t work and wanted to pass on her hard-won knowledge to the next generation. “My children know how to garden because I’ve shown them throughout their lives,” Nash says. “However, I noticed their friends didn’t know how, and I wanted to help them.” This book is full of photos and a step-by-step guide to easy, very achievable growing. As she writes, “No one is born with a green thumb. Gardening is a skill learned by trial and error. You just need a

coach to help you get started.” Where was this book 20 years ago when I moved here from NYC and watered the weeds thinking they were flowers. Hey, I’m from Manhattan. What do we know? Give us a break! Price: $17.95.

6. Seed Tabs Will and Wyatt Roscoe, co-founders of SeedTabs, a sustainable agricultural start-up in the Bay Area, want everyone to join in the homegrown revolution by making seeds easily available. You’ll be seeing their affordable and convenient organic seed packs displayed on countertops at coffee shops, bookstores, toy stores and grocery stores nationally. “A nation of new gardeners would strengthen communities as members invest in the land, educate millions about important global ecological issues, and make our world fundamentally more sustainable,” says co-founder Wyatt Roscoe. They also create branded seed tab packets for businesses or events. Personalized SeedTabs are a bold statement that you believe in sustainability and the benefits of more people growing their own food! Order at www.seedtabs.com. ✹ Ask Annie what she wants for the holidays at thedirtdiva@earthlink.net.

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The patience of a saint Director Theodore Melfi talks tracking down Bill Murray for ‘St. Vincent’

by David Te mp l e ton

A dance session with Bill Murray merits the title of sainthood if you ask us.

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heodore Melfi is a born storyteller.

That’s what’s made him a successful director of television commercials (for MTV and a gazillion other advertisers), what guided him through his role on the production-end of a dozen ultra-independent films (Winding Roads, MorphMan, Game of Life), and what makes his directorial effort—the new Bill Murray comedydrama St. Vincent—so much loopy, scruffy and shaggy-doggy fun to watch. Of course, being a born storyteller also helps Melfi when he just, you know, tells a story.

“St. Vincent is based on a couple of true stories,” he informs a standing-room-only audience before a sold-out screening at the Mill Valley Film Festival, “and one of those stories—my daughter Taylor—is actually here tonight.”

Melfi, whose dry, intelligent sense of humor is somewhat reminiscent of, well, of Bill Murray, gently gestures to his daughter, who stands up, shoots him one of those “ohmy-god-dad-really?” expressions, and then drinks in the applause of the audience.

“Eight years ago, my brother died,” Melfi says. “He was Taylor’s dad, and it was a big shock to our family. Her mother wasn’t in the picture, so my wife and I adopted her and moved her from Tennessee to Sherman Oaks, California. We eventually put her in Catholic School, and in her sophomore year she gets this homework assignment in her World Religion class, to identify someone in real life who matches the qualities of a saint.”

OK. So far, so good. Our storyteller has

hooked us with a masterful opening line, drawn us further in with a few tantalizing tidbits artfully blended with a couple of genuine surprises, and now, with this new morsel about the homework project, he’s letting us think we can see where his story is going. We wouldn’t be here if we hadn’t read the blurb in the film festival program, so of course we know that St. Vincent is about a hard-drinking, gambling-addicted, curmudgeonly scruff-ball (Murray) who ends up becoming the paid babysitter and, um, “life-coach” to a lonely, likably odd, bullied little boy named Oliver (Jaeden Lieberher), the only Jewish kid at a Catholic elementary school. And we know that, in the film, Oliver is also asked to select someone as a real-life saint.

“In my case, my daughter picked me,” Melfi continues. “And she started working on the project, and I immediately thought, ‘Well OK, this is a story that has to be told— though in the movie, Taylor wouldn’t pick someone like me, she’d pick someone like a drunken Bill Murray, and instead of it being Taylor, it would be a little boy.”

For the character of Vincent, Melfi incorporated the other “true story” he’d referenced—that of his wife’s real-life father, who Melfi admits was “not a really good guy.” A hard-drinking Vietnam vet, he abandoned her when she was 9, but eventually reentered her life 25 years later when she tracked him down after a seminar she took about controlling the story of your own life. They became the best of friends, and stayed that

way for the rest of his life.

“It was obvious,” Melfi tells the crowd, “that my wife’s dad would be the model for that Bill Murray-like character in my movie, and that the only person I would want to play him ... was Bill Murray. So now, I had to actually find a way to get Bill Murray into my movie.”

Here is where Melfi’s story gets a little shaggy.

“I think everyone knows by now that Bill Murray doesn’t have an agent or a manager.

He has a 1-800 number. That’s not a joke.

You call this number, and it’s not even his voice. There’s this other voice. Anyway, you leave a message, and if he calls you back, he calls you back. I left dozens and dozens of messages.”

Through an acquaintance, Melfi eventually tracked down the number of Bill Murray’s lawyer.

“So I called him up and asked how I can get a script to Bill Murray,” Melfi says. “And the lawyer said, ‘How have you been trying to reach him?’ and I mentioned the 800 number, and the lawyer said, ‘Well, that’s what I have.’

“He actually told me he’d just been talking to Bill’s accountant, who couldn’t find Bill to sign his tax forms. So ... I just kept leaving messages on the 800 line, and eventually, Bill called his attorney and said, ‘This Melfi guy keeps leaving me messages. Tell him to write a one-page letter and snail mail it to me.’”

He sent the letter. A few weeks later, the lawyer called Melfi, said Murray thought the letter was “swell,” and gave another address to send the script to. A few weeks after that, Melfi was in his car on his way to a commercial shoot in Los Angeles.

“I didn’t believe it was Bill Murray at first,” Melfi admits, not laughing at the memory.

“He had to convince me. He eventually said, ‘I read your script, and I think it’s pretty good. Would you like to get together for a coffee ... tomorrow morning?’ But I was shooting tomorrow morning, so I suggested maybe in the evening, and he said, ‘OK. Tomorrow evening. In New York.’

“I explained that I couldn’t get to New York by the evening, not after working all day in Los Angeles, so he says, ‘Well, how about Friday?’ I said, ‘Sure, I can be in New York on Friday,’ and he says, ‘No no ... In Cannes. In France. It’s going to be a good time.’”

Murray finally gave up, muttered a few words about maybe calling again in a couple of weeks, and abruptly hung up. Melfi was

sure that his life—certainly his dream of making the film with Bill Murray—had probably just ended. His friends and family suggested it was time to move to his backup plan.

“But Bill Murray was my only plan!” he says. “Two more weeks later, on Memorial Day weekend, I’ve thrown my back out. I’m in terrible pain, and I get a text, at 8am. ‘Ted. It’s Bill. Can you meet me in one hour at LAX? I’ll be in the baggage claim area.’ So, I take two Vicodin, grab the cane my kids gave me because they thought I’d look funny walking with a cane ... and I head to LAX— and there’s Bill Murray. The first thing he says to me is, ‘What happened to your back?’

I told him I’d thrown it out, and he said, ‘Well ... you have to stretch.’”

Murray suggested they discuss the script while taking a drive.

“We get in this town car waiting at the curb,” Melfi says, maintaining a steady where-is-this-story-going-anyway cadence, “and first thing, we stop and get four In-NOut burgers, which was weird for me since I’m a vegetarian—I got a couple of grilled cheeses, which Bill liked better than his burgers—and then we drive ... for three hours. I have no idea where we’re going. At one point I look up and see that we’ve just passed the Pechanga Indian Reservation. Which is like, Mexico, almost.”

Eventually, after arriving at a remote ranch house Murray owns in the desert, having gone over the script line by line, Murray offering a number of sharp observations and useful suggestions—the Vicodin long ago having worn off—Murray said the words Melfi had been waiting for.

“He said, ‘OK. You seem good. You want to make the movie with me? I think we should make the movie.’ And I said, ‘Wonderful, but would you please do me a favor?

Would you please tell someone else that this actually happened, because I’m afraid no one’s going to believe me.’”

The town car took Melfi home, leaving Bill Murray alone in the desert. Melfi says it took another whole year to raise the money, secure a distributor and put everything together to make St. Vincent a reality.

“Of course,” Melfi says, a laugh lurking somewhere unseen behind his straight face, “now that I was ready, I had to actually make the movie. I had to make a movie ... with Bill Murray.

“But that’s another story.” Y Ask David who his real-life saint is at talkpix@earthlink.net.

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F R I D AY N O V E M B E R 7 — T H U R S D AY N O V E M B E R 1 3 Movie summaries by M at t hew St af fo r d Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (1:21) Disney version of Judith Viorst’s classic children’s tale about a singularly crappy day in the life of an 11-year-old boy stars Dick Van Dyke, Jennifer Garner, Steve Carell and young Ed Oxenbould. l Awake: The Life of Yogananda (1:27) Biodoc of Paramahansa Yogananda, the Indian yogi who brought meditation and yoga to the West in the 1920s; Krishna Das and Deepak Chopra share insights. l Big Apple Circus: Metamorphosis (2:00) Step right up as New York’s renowned one-ring circus dazzles one and all with an evening of juggling, clowning, acrobatics and more. l Big Hero 6 (1:30) Disney cartoon concerns a boy, his posse and their repurposed crimefighting robot, but the real star is a dazzlingly reimagined mashup of Tokyo and San Francisco complete with skateboarding geishas and a toriiturreted Golden Gate Bridge. l Billy Elliot: The Musical (3:00) Live from London’s West End it’s Elton John’s Tony-winning musical about a budding boxer-turned-ballet sensation. l Birdman (1:59) Offbeat comedy from 21 Grams director Alejandro González Iñárritu about a onetime movie superhero (Michael Keaton) trying to get himself some thespian cred by starring in a Broadway play. l The Book of Life (1:25) Dazzlingly colorful Latin-accented, Day of the Dead-themed animated musical features vocals from Zoe Saldana, Hector Elizondo, Cheech Marin, Plácido Domingo and other luminaries. l Citizenfour (1:54) Documentary follows investigative filmmaker Laura Poitras across the globe in search of budding whistleblower Edward Snowden. l Close Encounters of the Third Kind (2:17) Steven Spielberg blockbuster follows a group of UFO lovers to an alien hookup in the wilds of Wyoming; François Truffaut stars! l The Equinox (1:11) Stop-motion horror fantasy by future visual effects whiz Dennis Muren about four picnicking friends who are attacked by a demon. l Force Majeure (2:00) Cannes Film Fest fave about a perfect alpine family vacation torn asunder by an unexpected avalanche. l Fury (2:14) WWII action flick about a Sherman tank, its five-man crew and their impossible mission behind the German lines; Brad Pitt leads the charge. l Gone Girl (2:28) David Fincher filmization of Gillian Flynn’s best-seller stars Ben Affleck as a seemingly stable family man who becomes a murder suspect when his wife goes missing. l The Green Prince (1:41) Documentary focuses on Mosab Hassan Yousef, a Palestinian agent who was an informer for Israel for over a decade. l Interstellar (2:49) Spacey Christopher Nolan sci-fi drama follows a troupe of hungry astronauts through a newly discovered wormhole to the far reaches of the galaxy; Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine and Matthew McConaughey are among the crew. l John Wick (1:41) Retired hit man Keanu Reeves goes gunning for the punks who ruined his life, wreaking havoc on the borough of Manhattan in the process. l The Judge (1:42) Courtroom dramedy finds used-up lawyer Robert Downey Jr. defending small-town judge/estranged father Robert Duvall against a murder charge; Billy Bob Thornton co-stars. l

Laggies (1:40) Loose-limbed Lynn Shelton comedy stars Keira Knightley as a pushing-thirty slacker who dodges a marriage proposal by hiding out with a teenager buddy and her wiseass dad (Sam Rockwell). l Men, Women & Children (1:59) Scathing look at how digital technology has trumped human interaction, closeness and desire; Jason Reitman directs Jennifer Garner, Judy Greer and Emma Thompson. l The Metropolitan Opera: Carmen (3:40) Bizet’s sexy saga of a saucy, spirited señorita is presented direct from New York in glorious bigscreen high definition. l My Old Lady (1:47) Maggie Smith and Kristin Scott Thomas as expat Parisians who refuse to be ejected from their beloved apartment by ugly American Kevin Kline. l National Theatre London: Skylight (2:15) Live from the West End it’s David Hare’s dramatic showdown between two ex-lovers on a stormy night; Stephen Daldry directs Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy. l Nightcrawler (1:57) Lean and hungry Jake Gyllenhaal stars as a Weegee-type tabloid photographer specializing in crime and catastrophe; Rene Russo costars as a seen-it-all TV newshound. l One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (2:09) Ken Kesey’s classic novel of nonconformity hits the big screen with Jack Nicholson as a free spirit in a battle of wills with the head nurse at a tightly run mental institution; Milos Forman directs. l Ouija (1:30) Clueless girl fools around with Ouija board, dies mysteriously, posse of friends investigates, Ouija board gets mad: Duh. l Pelican Dreams (1:20) Documentary follows a brown pelican from capture on the Golden Gate Bridge to rehab at San Rafael’s WildCare; Judy Irving (The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill) directs. l Pride (1:59) Feel-good true story about a group of gay and lesbian London activists who supported a tiny Welsh chapter of the National Union of Mineworkers during a nationwide strike. l Rosewater (1:43) Jon Stewart of The Daily Show writes and directs a no-holds-barred docudrama about the real-life imprisonment and torture of Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari. l St. Vincent (1:42) Unwitting single mom Melissa McCarthy leaves her 12-year-old son in the questionable day-care of neighbor Bill Murray, who mentors the kid in the art and science of playing the horses, tipping the strippers and shooting the whiskey. l The Skeleton Twins (1:31) Estranged twins Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader reconnect after both survive near-death experiences on the same day and try to come to terms with their out-of-control lives. l A Thousand Times Good Night (1:57) Juliette Binoche stars as a war correspondent torn between her duty to her profession and the love and safety of her family. l Through a Lens Darkly (1:30) Documentary looks at how photography has shaped and chronicled the African-American experience from the 1840s to the present. l The Two Faces of January (1:38) Patricia Highsmiths’s classic thriller hits the big screen with Kirsten Dunst and Viggo Mortensen as American tourists caught up in a web of intrigue in Greece and Istanbul. l Whiplash (1:46) Indie sleeper about the edgy, ferocious mentor-pupil relationship between a gifted young jazz drummer and his exacting taskmaster.

k New Movies This Week

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (PG) Awake: The Life of Yogananda (Not Rated) k Big Apple Circus: Metamorphosis (G) k Big Hero 6 (PG)

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k Billy Elliot: The Musical (PG-13)

Birdman (R)

The Book of Life (PG) Citizenfour (R) k Close Encounters of the Third Kind (PG) k The Equinox (Not Rated) k Force Majeure (R)

Fury (R) Gone Girl (R)

The Green Prince (PG-13) Interstellar (PG-13)

John Wick (R) The Judge (R) k Laggies (R) Men, Women & Children (R) The Metropolitan Opera: Carmen (Not Rated) My Old Lady (PG-13) National Theatre London: Skylight (Not Rated) Nightcrawler (R)

k One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (R)

Ouija (PG-13) Pelican Dreams (G) Pride (R) k Rosewater (R) St. Vincent (PG-13)

The Skeleton Twins (R) A Thousand Times Good Night (Not Rated) k Through a Lens Darkly (Not Rated) Two Faces of January (PG-13) Whiplash (R)

Northgate: Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:30, 4:40, 7, 9:30 Rafael: Fri 3:45, 6:15, 8:15 Sat 1:15, 3:45, 6:15, 8:15 Sun 2, 7:15 Mon-Wed 6:15, 8:15 Thu 6:15 Regency: Sat 12:30 Fairfax: Fri-Sat, Mon 12:45, 1:45, 3:45, 4:45, 6:40, 7:40, 9:15 Sun, Tue-Wed 12:45, 1:45, 3:45, 4:45, 6:40, 7:40 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 7:30; 3D showtime at 10:05 Sat-Sun 2, 7:30; 3D showtimes at 11:15, 4:45, 10:05 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:5, 1:15, 2:35, 3:55, 5:15, 6:30, 7:55, 9:15, 10:30; 3D showtimes at 11:10, 12:35, 1:55, 3:15, 4:35, 6, 7:15, 8:35, 9:50 Playhouse: Fri 3:45, 4:45, 6:45, 7:40, 9:20 Sat 12:45, 1:45, 3:45, 4:45, 6:45, 7:40, 9:20 Sun, Tue 12:45, 1:45, 3:45, 4:45, 6:45, 7:40 Mon, Wed 3:45, 4:45, 6:45, 7:40 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11:15, 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55; 3D showtimes at 12:35, 3:15, 5:55, 8:35 Regency: Wed 2 Fairfax: Fri-Sat, Mon 12:35, 4, 7:05, 9:55 Sun, Tue-Wed 12:35, 4, 7:05 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 6:45, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:15, 4, 6:45, 9:30 Marin: Fri 4:05, 7:10, 9:55 Sat 1:10, 4:05, 7:10, 9:55 Sun 1:10, 4:05, 7:10 Mon-Thu 4:05, 7:10 Regency: Fri 10:30, 1:25, 4:25, 5:50, 7:25, 8:45, 10:25 Sat 10:30, 11:50, 1:25, 2:50, 4:25, 5:50, 7:25, 8:45, 10:25 Sun-Tue 10:30, 11:50, 1:25, 2:50, 4:25, 5:50, 7:25 Wed-Thu 10:30, 11:50, 1:25, 2:50, 4:25, 7:25 Northgate: Fri-Wed 12, 2:45, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Rafael: Fri 4, 6:30, 9 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4, 6:30, 9 Mon-Wed 6:30, 9 Thu 8:15 Rafael: Thu 7 (special effects maestro Dennis Muren in person) Rafael: Sun 4:30 (filmmaker Dennis Muren in person) Rafael: Fri 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 Sat-Sun 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 Mon-Thu 6:45, 9:15 Regency: Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:45, 7, 10:10 Sun 12:30, 7 Mon-Thu 12:30, 3:45, 7 Rowland: Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:20, 7:30, 10:30 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 6:30, 9:45 Sat-Sun 12, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45 Marin: Fri 3:50, 7, 10:10 Sat 12:40, 3:50, 7, 10:10 Sun 12:40, 3:50, 7 Mon-Thu 3:50, 7 Playhouse: Fri, Mon, Wed 3:50, 7:30 SatSun, Tue 12:30, 3:50, 7:30 Rowland: Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:55, 7:10, 10:25 Lark: Fri 3:25 Mon 6:10 Cinema: Fri-Wed 11:15, 3, 6:50, 10:30 Fairfax: Fri-Wed 12, 2, 3:45, 6:15, 7:15 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:15, 12:10, 1:05, 2, 2:55, 3:50, 4:45, 5:40, 6:35, 7:30, 8:25, 9:20, 10:15 Rowland: 11:40, 1:30, 3:20, 5:10, 7, 8:50, 10:35 Sequoia: Fri 4:10, 8 Sat-Sun 12:20, 4:10, 8 Mon-Wed 4:10, 8 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:20, 1:50, 4:25, 7:10, 9:40 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11, 2:10, 5:20, 8:30 Regency: Fri-Sat 11:15, 1:55, 4:35, 7:10, 9:50 Sun-Thu 11:15, 1:55, 4:35, 7:10 Lark: Fri, Sun 8:30 Tue 1 Lark: Sat 11 Lark: Sat 3:15 Mon 1 Tue 3:45 Thu 2 Lark: Thu 7:30 Fairfax: Fri-Sat, Mon 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:50 Sun, Tue-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 7:15, 10 Sat-Sun 11, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10 Marin: Fri 4:20, 7:20, 10 Sat 12:55, 4:20, 7:20, 10 Sun 12:55, 4:20, 7:20 Mon-Thu 4:20, 7:20 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:05, 12:40, 2:15, 3:35, 5, 6:20, 7:45, 9:05, 10:30 Rowland: FriWed 11:05, 1:50, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 Regency: Sun 2 Wed 2, 7 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11, 1:25, 3:40, 5:55, 8:10, 10:25 Lark: Sun 1 Wed 4:10 Lark: Fri-Sat 5:45 Sun 3 Mon 3:30 Thu 4:30 Regency: Thu 7:30 Regency: Fri-Sat 11:30, 2:15, 4:55, 7:45, 10:25 Sun-Thu 11:30, 2:15, 4:55, 7:45 Rowland: Fri-Sat 11:30, 2:15, 4:55, 7:45, 10:20 Sun-Thu 11:30, 2:15, 4:55, 7:45 Sequoia: Fri 5, 7:30, 10 Sat 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10 Sun 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30 Mon-Wed 5, 7:30 Lark: Mon, Wed 8:30 Lark: Sun 5:45 Wed 1:30 Lark: Fri 1:10 Tue 6:15 Lark: Sat, Tue 8:30 Wed 6:10 Regency: Fri-Sat 11:20, 2, 4:45, 7:35, 10:15 Sun-Tue, Thu 11:20, 2, 4:45, 7:35 Wed 11:20

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

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

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SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL TWO WEEKENDS: Based on the splendid works of NOV 7-9 & 14-16 Dr Seuss... anything’s possible! A FRI: 7:30PM Throckmorton Youth Performers SAT, SUN: 2:00PM production, fun for the entire family!

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Live music 11/07: The 7th Sons 60s-70s pop, rock. 8:30pm. $10. Presidio Yacht Club, Travis Marina, Fort Baker, Sausalito. 847-2670. the7thsons.com.

11/07: Danny Montana Americana. 5pm. No cover. Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. perisbar.com.

11/07: Music at the Elk: Flanelhed and Phoenix Uprising Doors at 7pm. Show at 8pm.

All ages. $10. Tickets are available at the door, cash only. Parking available behind the Lodge. Food and full bar available. 8pm. San Rafael Elks Lodge, 1312 Mission Ave., San Rafael. 721-7661.

11/07-09: David Nelson Band 8pm. Nov.7-8; 4:20pm Nov. 9. $35. Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr., San Rafael. 524-2773. terrapincrossroads.net 11/07: Reckless in Vegas With Michael Shapiro, vocals/guitar: Mario Cipollina, bass/vocals; Ryan Low, drums/vocals. 8pm. $15-18. Fenix, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael. 813-5600. fenixlive.com.

11/07: Soul Mechanix Soul/rock. 9:30pm. $8.

Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway, Fairfax. perisbar.com.

11/07: The 7th Sons 60s-70s pop, rock. 8:30pm. $10. Presidio Yacht Club, Travis Marina, Fort Baker, Sausalito. 847-2670. The7thSons.com.

11/08: Audrey Moira Shimkas Trio Jazz. With Gaea Schell and Paul Eastburn. 6pm. No cover. Tavern at Tiburon Lodge, 1651 Tiburon Blvd, Tiburon.

847-8331. audreyshimkas.com.

11/08: Global, Local and Homemade Round robin show with singers Terry Garthwaite, Becky Reardon and Elise Witt. 8pm. $15-18. Studio 55, 1455 E. Francisco, San Rafael. studio55marin.com.

11/08: It’s a Beautiful Day With David LaFlamme, violin. Folk, jazz rock. 8pm. $20. Fenix, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael. 813-5600. fenixlive.com.

11/08: Leon Bristow Acoustic folk. 4pm. No cover. Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. perisbar.com.

11/08: Tracy Blackman Band “Mercy!” CD release show. With Jimmy Dillon, Mark Karan, Don Bassey, Kevin Hayes, Kudisan Kai and Rebecca Roudman. 8pm. $25-35. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 383-9600.

142throckmortontheatre.org.

11/09: Amanda Addleman Jazz piano and vocals. 6pm. No cover. Panama Hotel and Restaurant, 4 Bayview St., San Rafael. panamahotel.com.

11/09: An Evening With Toulouse Engelhardt Americana, acoustic blues, ragtime and surf

Hide and seeking

11/11: Phil Lesh and the Terrapin Family Band with Jeff Chimenti 8pm. $25.

Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr., San Rafael. 524-2773. terrapincrossroads.net 11/12: Migrant Pickers Rootsy folk-punk jam.

With Gary Adler, guitar; Elliott Shannonhouse guitar; Cole Bailey, drums; Jay Chavez, bass. 8pm. Free.

Iron Springs Pub and Brewery, 765 Center Blvd, Fairfax. ironspringspub.com.

7:30pm. No cover. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 388-1100. swmh.com.

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TIM WEED BAND

SAT NOV 15 8PM

ERNIE WATTS QUARTET

WED NOV 19 7:30PM

JAY ALEXANDER’S “MIND TRICKS” MAGIC SHOW

FRI NOV 28 8PM

2x Grammy winning Jazz legend, considered top living saxophone player and winner of 2014’s prestigious Frankfurt Music Prize.

Based on the 2008 John le Carré novel (and with a great bonus track featuring him), A MOST WANTED MAN shows us a modern Hamburg much like the postwar Vienna of Greene/Reed’s The Third Man: A semi-lawless zone with teams of competing Stephen Cornwell, one of the film’s producers, is John le Carre’s son. intel agencies—Russian, ‘A Most Wanted Man’ marks the first project the father-son duo have German, CIA and a couple collaborated on. of homegrowns working the shadows, like that headed by Günther Bachmann (Philip Seymour Hoffman, with an accent). Already traumatized by its sheltering of the original 9/11 sleeper cell, the city is now a hotbed of spying turf war centered on the immigrants who arrive there daily—most of them refugees from brutal regimes, a couple with illintent. But a decade since the surveillance toys of all players have leapfrogged: CCTV on every railway platform and the face-recognition technology to back it up, black-bag jobs that in 10 minutes can turn any private apartment into a fishbowl on computer display at headquarters and de facto rights of rendition for all. Into this hornet’s nest comes Issa Karpov (Grigoriy Dobrygin), a Chechen refugee with all the telltale signs of danger: victimhood from torture, a fundamentalist Muslim faith and surprise access to €10 million in a private local account. Thus begins the race to take him down, or maybe turn him—complicated by one Annabel Richter (Rachel McAdams), a human rights lawyer who has gotten close to Karpov and believes in his basic goodness. All here shine, as great actors given great material do—Willem Dafoe’s turn as the mercurial Brit private banker Tommy BrueHawaiian/Reggae is the most revelatory.—Richard Gould

guitar. 6:30pm. $10-12. Fenix, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael. 813-5600. fenixlive.com.

11/09: Zan Stewart Trio Jazz. Zan Stewart, tenor sax; Ollie Dudek, bass; Ron Marabuto, drums. 5pm.

No cover. Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr., San Rafael. terrapincrossroads.net.

11/10: Open Mic Night Hosted by Marty Atkinson. 7pm. No cover. Sausalito Seahorse, 305 Harbor Dr., Sausalito. sausalitoseahorse.com.

11/10: Open Mic with Austin DeLone

Celebrating the release of her new CD “MERCY”! with Jimmy Dillon, Mark Karan, Don Bassey, Kevin Hayes, Kudisan Kai and Rebecca Roudman.

“Tim can play everything from hardcore bluegrass to Bach - he’s the Ali Akbar Khan of the banjo.” – David Grisman

ANUHEA

Renowned master magician, Jay Alexander, is considered one of the top high-society entertainers in the country. He has performed at private events for U2’s Bono and The Rolling Stones members.

This is the ultimate post-Thanksgiving family event!

MATT JAFFE AND THE DISTRACTIONS SAT Discovered by Talking Heads’ Jerry Harrison, Matt Jaffe & The Distractions are now fast rising stars of the alternative indie rock genre.

Their unique style and original sound create an incredible live show that will blow your mind!

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Fri 11/14 • 8:30pm doors • 21+ • 1980's cover band

MANGO KINGZ AND REBEL SOULJAHZ

fingerstyle guitarist Stevie Coyle who co-founded the contemporary string band the Waybacks. 9pm.

No cover. Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway, Fairfax.

11/12: The Machiavelvets Jazz. 7pm. Free.

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

11/13: Cris Loiter and the Hangouts Rock.

8pm. $15. Fenix, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael.

813.5600. fenixlive.com.

11/13: Wanda Stafford Jazz vocalist. 7pm. Free.

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

SAT NOV 8 8PM

TRACY BLACKMAN AND BAND

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11/10: Open Mic with Derek Smith 8:30pm.

Free. 19 Broadway Night Club, 17 Broadway, Fairfax. 459-1091. 19broadway.com.

11/10: Open Mic with Simon Costa 8:30pm.

Free. The Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax.

485-1182. sleepingladyfairfax.com.

11/11: James Moseley Jazz, blues. 7pm. No cover. Panama Hotel and Restaurant, 4 Bayview St., San Rafael. panamahotel.com.

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Fri 11/28 • 7:30pm doors • 21+ • Country Rock/Bluegrass

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Sat 11/29 • 7:30pm doors • 21+ • Blues/Rock

ROY ROGERS & THE DELTA RHYTHM KINGS PLUS DEREK IRVING & HIS COMBO Sat 12/13 • 7:30pm doors • 21+ • Bluegrass

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Comedy 11/11: 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. 3839600. throckmortontheatre.org.

Sat 12/27 • 8:30pm doors • 21+ • Island Reggae

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NYE 12/31 • 8:30pm doors • 21+ • Blues/Rock

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11/13: Mort Sahl: Social Satire Provocative humor and engaging conversation. 7pm. Free.

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

Theater 11/07: Dinner Theater: ‘Mystery on Boot Hill’ Performed by the Tam Valley Players. 6:45pm Nov. 7-8. 3pmNov. 9. $10-20. Mill Valley Golf Clubhouse Theater, 267 Buena Vista, Mill Valley.

383-1370. millvalleycenter.org.

11/07: Soul-O: Solo With Nina Wise and Jane Siberry Pioneering performance artists Nina Wise and singer-songwriter Jane Siberry join forces for a cool sounding evening of theater and music.

Works seeking to unearth and explore our expansive human condition. Presented by Motion Institute and Lloyde Barde Productions. 8pm. $27.50.

Marin Showcase Theater, 10 Ave. of the Flags, San Rafael. 459-3766. marincenter.org.

11/07: ‘Young Frankenstein: The Musical!’

Directed by Rodney Franz. Devin Parker Sullivan and Donna Cerio, choreography. Musical Director Scott DeTurk. 7pm. $8-15. Novato High School Performing Arts Center, 625 Arthur St., Novato.

269-8005. marinschoolofthearts.org.

11/08: Bay Area Playback Unique improvisational theater where stories are brought to life on the spot. Members of the audience are invited to tell stories from their lives, then watch as they are enacted using movement, music and dramatic spoken word. Audience and performers co-create a theater event whose subject is the life experiences of the people attending the show. 800-838-3006.

8pm. $10-18. Open Secret Bookstore, 923 C St., San Rafael. 457-4191. bayareaplayback.com.

11/14- 12/14 ‘Persuasion’ Mary Ann Rodgers Jane Austen’s classic work made for stage by Jennifer le Blanc. 7:30pm Thurs.; 8pm Fri.-Sat.; 2pm Sun. Ross Valley Playhouse, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Ross. 456-9555. rossvalleyplayers.com Through 11/09: ‘Avenue Q’ Novato Theater Company presents the Tony Award-winning musical. The adult Sesame Street comedy is directed by Carl Jordan with musical direction by Monica Norcia. It features puppets and human actors. Not recommended for children under 13. 8pm Fri.-Sat.; 2pm Sun. $22-25. NTC Playhouse, 5420 Nave Dr., Suite C, Novato.

883-4498. novatotheatercompany.org.

Concerts 11/07-09: College of Marin Fall 2014 Contemporary Opera Marin: Devilish Delights Eight micro and mini operas appropriate for Halloween and Dia de los Muertos, including Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin’s “Three Choral Scenes,” Stephen Oliver’s “Cinderella,” Jonathan Dove’s “Greed” and others. This family-friendly 75-minute program is fully staged in English.

7:30pm. Nov. 7 at Lefort Recital Hall, College of Marin, 835 College Ave., Kentfield. 7:30pm. Nov. 8 at Muir Beach Community Center, 19 Seacape Dr., Muir Beach. 7pm. Nov. 9 at The Dance Palace, 503 B St., Point Reyes Station. 485-9460. marin.edu/ performingarts/music/music-calendar.html.

11/07-09: Mill Valley Philharmonic: A Russian Festival Mill Valley Philharmonic begins its

15th season with its fall series. Program includes works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Balakirev, Glazunov and Prokofiev. Kevin Stewart, saxophone. 8pm.

Nov. 7 and 4pm Nov. 8 at Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church, 410 Sycamore Ave., Mill Valley.

2pm Nov. 9. at Osher Marin JCC, Kanbar Center for the Arts, 200 North San Pedro Rd, San Rafael.

383-0930. millvalleyphilharmonic.org.

11/08-09: Madame Butterfly Puccini. Golden Gate Opera. 7:30pm Nov. 8; 2:30pm Nov. 9. Marin Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium, 10 Ave. of the Flags, San Rafael. 473-6800. marincounty.org.

11/09: Kevin Kenner Piano. Works by Schubert, Liszt and Chopin. Part of the 2014-15 Guest Concert Series. 482-3579. 3pm. Free to $18. Angelico Hall, Dominican University, Acacia Ave., San Rafael.

482-3579. dominican.edu.

11/13: Musica Pacifica: In the Gardens of Spain With Judith Linsenberg, recorders; Eliza-

beth Blumenstock, violin; Kevin Cooper, guitar; Katherine Heater, harpsichord; David Morris, bass viol. Sonatas and vibrant dances from baroque-era Spain and its territories. Presented by Barefoot Chamber concerts. 6:30pm. $13-15. Petaluma Woman’s Club, 518 B St., Petaluma. 510/220-1195. barefootchamberconcerts.com.

Dance 11/07-08: Visions: Fall Dance Concert Pre-

sented by College of Marin. With the San Domenico Dance Ensemble. 8pm. $10-20. College of Marin Performing Arts Bldg. James Dunn Theatre, 835 College Ave., Kentfield. 485-9555. marin.edu

Art 11/08: Art and All That Jazz Live benefit auction in support of Marin Society of Artists. Support one of Marin’s longest running art associations.

Doors open at 4:30pm. $20 donation. Marin Society of Artists, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Building L, Roaa. marinsocietyofartists.org.

11/08-26: Robert Brady: Selected Works

Modernist American ceramic and wood sculpture.

Reception 3pm. Nov. 8. Free. College of Marin Fine Arts Gallery, Performing Arts Building, 835 College Ave., Kentfield. marin.edu/departments/ FineVisualArts/FineArtGallery/index.htm

11/13: Exploring Collage with Elaine Larson Create a collage that reflects your heart’s

desires, spring, (or any other theme that appeals to you)! Elaine will be working on several collages, demonstrating a variety of techniques, and will have lots of images to share. All materials supplied, and feel free to bring images you love. RSVP by Nov. 11. Thursday, Nov. 13. 1-4pm. $30, $24 OHCA members, $5 materials fee. O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, 616 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 388.4331. ohanloncenter.org.

11/14: Four Ways of Seeing Water Will Noble, Mary Wagstaff and Nelson Hee, paintings.

Reception 5:30-7:30pm Nov. 14. Through Dec. 27.

5:30pm. Free. Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission Ave., San Rafael. 485-3328. falkirkculturalcenter.org.

Through11/10: Mi Polin: From Poland

Art from Warsaw-based art duo of Helena Czernek and Aleksander Prugar. Free. Osher Marin JCC, 200 N San Pedro Road, San Rafael.

444-8000. oshermarinjcc.org.

Through 11/30: Neon Fiction New abstract paintings. The Wounded General,12315 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Inverness Park.

Through 11/29: Legends of the Bay Area: Squeak Carnwath Reception 5-7pm Nov 8.

Squeak Carnwath, paintings. 4pm. Free. Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, 500 Palm Dr, Novato. 506-0137. marinmoca.org.

Kids Events 11/07: Dia de los Muertos Bilingual Altar Making Event Explore Day of the Dead customs

with Luz Elena Castro. Listen to traditional healer Micaela Sanchez play a ceremonial flute and make a beautiful Day of the Dead altar to honor a loved

one. Enjoy authentic Day of the Dead treats, too. For age 5 and up, families welcome 3:30pm. Free. Mill Valley Public Library, 375 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 389-4292 ext. 4741. millvalleylibrary.net.

11/07-09: ‘James and the Giant Peach’

Musical inspired by Roald Dahl’s classic tale about the orphaned boy who escapes from his wicked aunts aboard an enormous enchanted peach inhabited by a bevy of very big bugs. Directed

by Nina Meehan 7pm Nov. 6-7; 4pm Nov. 7; 10:30am, 12:30 and 3pm Nov. 8-9. $18-$22.

Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave., Mill Valley. 388-5200. marintheatre.org.

11/07-16: Seussical the Musical Presented by the Throckmorton Youth Performers. 7:30pm Nov. 7; 2pm Nov. 8. $14-$35. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 383-9600.

142throckmortontheatre.org.

11/07: Tawni Waters Special event for young adults. “Beauty of the Broken” is a story about a forbidden first love, and how a teen seeks the courage to care for another girl despite her town’s bigotry and her father’s violent threats. 6:30pm.

Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

Fri 11/07 • Doors 8pm • ADV $14 / DOS $17

Jerry Joseph & The Jackmormons With Ashleigh Flynn

Tue 11/11 • Doors 7pm • $20

Kiddo! Fall Music Series featuring: Erik Yates of Hot Buttered Rum & Friends Fri 11/14 • Doors 8pm • ADV $22 / DOS $25

TR3 feat Tim Reynolds from Dave Matthews Band

Sat 11/15 • Doors 8pm • ADV $22 / $24

Wild Child - A Live Re-Creation of a 1960s Doors Concert Fri 11/21 • Doors 8pm • ADV $30 / DOS $32

11/11: Nature for Kids: Birds at Las Gallinas

See ducks in colorful breeding plumage, hawks and songbirds. Rain may cancel. 893-9527. 10am.

Free. Las Gallinas Sanitary District water treatment ponds, 310 Smith Ranch Rd, San Rafael. 893-9508. marincountyparks.org.

11/13: Preschool Dance Party Music, parachute time, bubbles, scarves, shakers and refreshments. Parents and caregivers are welcome. Sponsored by the Friends of the San Rafael Public Library.

3:30pm. Free. San Rafael Public Library, 1100 E St., San Rafael. 485-3322. srpubliclibrary.org.

Film 11/07: Film: ‘Death Makes Life Possible’

Transformative Cinema presents. Post-screening Q&A with producer, writer, co-director and narrator, Marilyn Schlitz. 7pm. $10. Unity in Marin, 600 Palm Dr., Novato. 475-5000 ext. 121. unityinmarin.org.

11/14: Film Series: Story of Stuff and Director Discussion Sustainable Fairfax will be showing five short films from the “Story of Stuff” series.

Director Louis Fox of Free Range Studios appears after screening for a discussion about the films.

7pm. $5-15, suggested donation. Fairfax Women’s Club, 46 Park Road, Fairfax. 7pm. Fairfax Women’s Club, 46 Park Road, Fairfax. sustainablefairfax.org.

Outdoors 11/08: November Full Moon Sail: Frost Moon Join SF Bay Adventures for a three hour

full moon sail aboard the classic schooner Freda B. From the deck of this traditional sailing vessel.

Enjoy watching the moon rise by the S.F. skyline.

Boarding for this sail is at 4:45pm. Sunset is at 5:04pm. Moonrise begins at 6:51pm. Please wear practical shoes and bring a windbreaker and warm clothes for when the sun sets. 5pm. $35. Schooner Freda B slip 907, 100 Bay St., Sausalito. www.eventbrite.com/e/sf-bay-full-moon-sail-2014-beavermoon-tickets-352-834-0631 11/08: Pizza Party on Horse Hill Broom busting pizza party and raffle on Horse Hill with The Alto Bowl Horseowners Association. Over the past 16 years they have fought invasive French and Scotch broom on this Open Space preserve. Now your help is needed to make a final push into the broom frontier on the western part of the preserve.

The work site is located toward the top of the hill.

Help to pull broom and sow native grass seed.

Work requires considerable strength and stamina but it is possible for volunteers as young as 5 years

Box Set Duo featuring Jeff Pehrson of Furthur & Jim Brunberg

The Tracy Blackman Band will release its new CD “Mercy” on Saturday, Nov. 8, at the Throckmorton Theatre. old to join if teamed with a parent or guardian.

Some members of association will talk about their horses living on the preserve. Participants will get a chance to meet the horses up close and enjoy pizza lunch. 9am. Free. Alto Bowl, Horse Hill, 49 Lomita Dr., Tiburon. 473-3778. marincountyparks.org.

11/09: Nature Prepares for Winter: Indian Valley As the days get shorter and cooler the

natural world bolsters itself for the coming winter through a variety of fascinating adaptations. For ages 15 and up. No pets (except service animals) please. Rain may cancel. 893-9527 after 7am on the morning of the walk. 10am. Free. Indian Valley Campus, 1800 Ignacio Blvd., Parking lot #6, Novato. 893-9508. marincountyparks.org.

11/14: Marin Marine Protected Areas (MPA) Watch Environmental Action Committee of West Marin holds a citizen science training. The Marin Marine Protected Area Watch Program will present a volunteer training. Program is citizenscience monitoring project that trains volunteers to observe and record. 9am-1pm. Free. Point Reyes National Seashore Red Barn Classroom, Olema.

663-9312. marinmpawatch.com.

Readings 11/07: Books and Bites: Heather Greene Whiskey Distilled: A Populist Guide to the Water of Life Cavallo Point pairs a meal to go along with this special brown spirit. Greene is the current director of the Whiskey School at the Flatiron Room in Manhattan and the first American woman to serve on the Scotch Malt Whiskey Society tasting panel in Edinburgh. Seats are limitedattendees must be 21 years or older. Ticket includes copy of the book. 6:30pm. $125 person. Cavallo Point Cooking School, 601 Murray Circle, Sausalito. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

11/07: David J. Haskins “Who Killed Mister Moonlight?” 7pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

11/08: Gail Strickland “Night of Pan.” Left Coast Writers Launch. 7pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

11/08: Mary Street Alinder “Group f.64: Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and the Community of Artists Who Revolutionized American Photography.” 4pm.

Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

11/08: Michael Connelly “The Burning Room.” 7pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

11/09: Carole Bumpus Rising out of the collateral damage wrought by both World Wars, A Cup of Redemption is a touching story about love, loss and the search for identity. Carole Bumpus, a retired family therapist, writes a food/ travel blog called Savoring the Olde Ways taken from excerpts of her interviews with French and Italian families. 7pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

11/09: Cooks with Books: Gabrielle Hamilton “Blood, Bones and Butter.” Her straight

forward cooking style garnered nods from food critics, gourmands and fellow chefs alike. Hamilton has won the James Beard Award for Best Chef NYC, and writes regularly for Bon Appetit, GQ, the New Yorker, Saveur, and many other publications. $125-185, includes meal, wine and a signed copy of the book. Left Bank, Larkspur. 835-1020. bookpassage.com.

11/09: Hazel Dixon-Cooper “Harness Astrology’s Bad Boy.” 1pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

11/09: Jay Schoenberger “I Am Coyote: Readings for the Wild.” Wilderness related essays, poetry and passages. 4pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

11/10: Cristina Olsen “Kissing the Sky.” Left Coast Writers event. 6pm. Book Passage, 1 Ferry Building, Corte Madera. .

11/10: Lalita Tademy “Citizens Creek.” 7pm.

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

Sat 11/22 • Doors 8pm • ADV $19 / $22

Gaelic Storm

Fri 11/28 • Doors 8pm • $20 / $22

Beso Negro

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DAVID “ELOSO” Flamenco Guitar

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Fri 11/07

Funk, Soul & Jazz

Sat 11/08

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Sun 11/09

SALSA CLASS 5pm | 4pm $10 ORQUESTA BEMBE

OLIVE & THE DIRTY MARTINIS

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Tues 11/11

7pm | No Cover

Wed 11/12

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JAZZ W/ NOEL JEWKES & FRIENDS TANGO MILONGA

Thurs 11/13

7pm | No Cover

COLLEGE OF MARIN BIG SWING JAZZ BAND

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11/11: Anne Lamott “Small Victories.”

7pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera.

11/11: Timothy Kuhner “Capitalism vs.

Democracy.” 6pm. Free. Book Passage, 1 Ferry Building, S.F. 11/11: Tony Gemignani “The Pizza Bible.”

12:30pm. Free. Book Passage, 1 Ferry Building, S.F.

11/12: Charlie Kelly: Founding Father of Mountain Biking Charlie Kelly, co-founder

of the MountainBikes company and organizer of the Repack races, recounts the complete and often unbelievable history of the rise of mountain biking and its lasting culture in his new book, “Fat Tire Flyer: Repack and the Birth of Mountain Biking.” 7pm. Free. Corte Madera Library, 707 Meadowsweet Dr., Corte Madera.

924-3515. marincounty.org.

11/12: Geoffrey Jowett “The Power of I Am.” 7pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera.

11/12: Jamie Metzl “Genesis Code.” 6pm.

Free. Book Passage, 1 Ferry Building, S.F. 11/13: Victoria Tennant In conversation with Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfinch; introduced by Peter Coyote. “Irina Baronova and the Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo” is a sumptuous, illustrated history that tells the story of the rise of modern ballet through the story of one of its most glamorous stars. 7pm. Free.

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

11/13: Why There Are Words Literary Reading series “Gravity.” Readings by Julia

Fierro, Molly Giles, Don Mitchell, Antonya Nelson, Ruth Thompson and Peter Turchi.

7pm. $10. Studio 333, 333 Caledonia St., Sausalito. 331-8272. whytherearewords.com.

11/14: Richard Blanco “The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood.” 7pm. Free.

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

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11/07: Fall Labyrinth Moon Walk Contemplative walk under the light of the full moon with live harp music and light refreshments provided. 7:30pm. Free. San Francisco Theological Seminary, 105 Seminary Road, San Anselmo. 451-2805. sfts.edu.

11/07: San Geronimo Holly Fair Old fashioned carnival with children’s games and prizes, turkey dinners, homemade pies and preserves, holiday gifts, silent auction, book nook, bargain sales of household goods. Free admission. Family friendly an fun for all ages. 4pm. Free. San Geronimo Community Church, 6001 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., San Geronimo. 488-9318. sgpchurch.org.

11/07: Spaghetti Bingo Friday Bingo and spaghetti dinner with salad, garlic bread and dessert.

Prizes for all winners. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Limited seating. 6:15pm. $8.

Tamalpais Valley Community Center, 203 Marin Ave., Mill Valley. 388-6393. tcsd.us.

11/07: First Friday: Alison Gopnik on the Philosophical Baby “The Philosophi-

cal Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love and the Meaning of Life.” Gopnik is a professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at UC Berkeley. 7pm. Free. Mill Valley Public Library, 375 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. millvalleylibrary.org.

11/08: China Camp Public Meeting Public meeting to discuss Friends of China Camp’s accomplishments in 2014 and plans for 2015. Refreshments served. 10am. Free. China Camp State Park, 100 China Camp Village, San Rafael. 456-0766.

11/08: Marin Charitable Benefit Mystery and Magic Masquerade Ball Whether you

fancy Carnivale in Venice, Italy or denizens of the Paris Opera House, come ready for entertainment of a clandestine nature while providing opportunities for Marin youth in need. Event will feature gypsy fortune tellers, harlequin jugglers, fancy auction items, raffles, dinner, dancing to live music with the Soul Providers. 6pm. $225. Corinthian Yacht Club, 43 Main St., Tiburon. 314-4003. marincharitable.org/events/fall_fundraiser.php.

11/09: French Flea Market Outdoor antique market. Vintage shabby chic and a host of other items. French music and crepes add to the ambiance. Marin Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium Parking, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. Free admission and parking. 383-2252. goldengateshows. com. 9am. Marin Veterans Auditorium Parking, 10 Avenue of the Flags - Marin Civic Center, San Rafael. 383-2252.

11/08-09: St. Anne’s Guild Holiday Bazaar and Rummage Sale Funds raised support the charitable activities of St. Anne’s Guild. 10am-3pm Nov. 8; 9am-noon Nov. 9.

Free admission. 1123 Court St, , San Rafael.

456-4842. stpaulssanrafael.org

11/10: Post-Election Wrap-Up and Dinner The Marin Women’s Political Action Committee’s Post-election Dinner program will feature Brad Breithaupt, Jeanne McLeamy and Greg Brockbank, who will give their perspectives on local, state and national election outcomes. 6pm. $35. San Rafael Joe’s, Fourth St., San Rafael. 897-1224. mwpac.org.

11/11: Sound Healing Circle with Jan Cercone Connect with your spirituality through

9:30am. Free. YWCA-Marin, 4380 Redwood Hwy. Suite A-1, San Rafael. 479-9922. ywcasf-marin.org.

11/11: Tuesdays to Your Health “Stay Healthy as the Seasons Change.” Join Bradly Jacobs MD MPH to learn about herbal remedies and simple lifestyle changes that may help protect you against colds and flu, low energy and depressed mood in the winter months. 6:30pm. Free. Healing Arts Center and Spa, Cavallo Point Lodge, 601 Murray Circle, Sausalito. Debbie. drbradjacobs.com.

11/12: Business Edge Briefing Series: Kit Yarrow “Decoding the Consumer Mind.” Kit Yar-

row, an award-winning consumer research psychologist, a professor, author and consultant, will be keynote speaker in this event. Tickets include breakfast and an autographed copy of Yarrow’s book. Sponsored by Redwood Credit Union and presented by the Dominican’s Institute for Leadership Studies (ILS), North Bay Leadership Council and Stanton Chase International. 7am. $45. Creekside Room, Dominican University of California, 100 Magnolia Ave., San Rafael. 4821918. businessedgebriefing.eventbrite.com.

11/12: Marin Winter Networking Social

Join HR colleagues for an evening to cultivate new relationships, catch up with friends and enjoy great hors d’oeuvres. Presented by Northern California Human Resources Association. 5:30pm. $25-35.

Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Drive, San Rafael. 291-1992. nchra.org.

11/13: CVNL 2014-15 Forums: Jara DeanCoffey “Impact: What Do You Need to Do to

Have It and Demonstrate It?” 9am. $55-70. The Key Room, 1385 North Hamilton Parkway, Novato.

448-0322. cvnl.org.

sound and meditation to destress and heal deeply. Join Jan for a sound mediation that teaches people to relax and heal themselves vibrationally.

We will use crystal bowls, toning and processes developed to drop into deep bliss where healing miracles and messages occur. 7pm. $10. Open Secret Bookstore, 923 C St., San Rafael. 457-4191. opensecretbookstore.com.

11/13: Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council Meeting

The YWCA of Marin will be offering its four-day workshop “Taking Control of Your Job Search” starting Tuesday, Nov. 11 from 9:30-4pm. This free workshop is open to Women 50+, who are just starting their job search, currently looking and job seekers in search of new tools. Participants will develop a strong resume, improved interview skill, creative job search techniques and an action plan for how to move forward after the workshop ends.

Mangalananda will explore and share the deep spiritual Tradition of kirtan from village India which he has imbibed from years of immersion in India. There will be many stories of his experiences in India, group chanting and introduction to different styles of Indian devotional chant.

7pm. $10 donation, no one turned away. Open Secret Bookstore, 923 C St., San Rafael. 457-4191. opensecretbookstore.com. ✹

11/11: Taking Control of your Job Search

Meeting of the community-based advisory body that advises sanctuary management and serves as a liaison to sanctuary community constituent groups. 9:15am. Free. Point Blue Conservation Science, 3820 Cypress Dr., Petaluma. 663-0314. cordellbank.noaa.gov

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ARIES (March 21 - April 19) Brush up your resume, Aries! It would appear that all of that Craigslist creeping and cover-letter-writing has finally paid off. Expect work-related news on Nov. 10. If you’re tired of flipping burgers or waking up at 4am to make other people’s coffee, this is your week.

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TAURUS (April 20 - May 20) Clear your calendar, Taurus! It’s time to free up your spare time for some socializing. Back away from the couch and the remote. You’ve been hibernating a bit too long, and on Nov. 13 you’re finally ready to hit the ground running. Your friends sure are ready for it.

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LEO (July 23 - Aug. 22) Wondering what to do this weekend, Leo? It’s time to work! Mars and Pluto are double-teaming you for a work-filled weekend. Sure, you can take breaks and binge on some Ben & Jerry’s, but don’t forget that nothing will get the job done other than you! Sign out of Netflix and open up your email.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19) Your rent is about to go up, Capricorn! Sure, your parents or Great Aunt Midge might be your landlord, but it’s not going to stop them from capitalizing on this housing bubble! Don’t let it get the best of you—you need somewhere to live, after all. Try to avoid popping, er, exploding—you don’t want to end up at the Motel 8.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18) Trying to get out of town, Aquarius?

If you try to drive, you might get a flat tire. If you try to fly, you’re likely to be delayed. If you take the bus, you’ll likely miss it. Nov. 8 isn’t the day to venture out on the road again. Stay close to home, or if you must gallivant around, bring extra cash and maybe a bicycle.

PISCES (Feb. 19 - March 20) Did your BFF just hardcore take one for the team, Pisces? Don’t feel guilty for leaving your bestie with that creepy stalker-like bar fly last weekend—that’s what friends are for. Do your best to show your appreciation through the written word—a handmade card or haiku should do the trick.

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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: 415-785-3515. Email: crussellmft@earthlink.net. Website: www.colleenrussellmft.com .

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LIBRA (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22) Really into feng shui lately, Libra? It’s no coincidence—your domestic house shoots into overdrive on Nov. 11 with the help of Pluto and Mars. Your home might call for a makeover or you might switch rooms with a loved one. If you turn your house upside down, just remember that you have to put it back together!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21) You are officially crowned the new eBay champ, Sagittarius! It looks like that Princess Diana Beanie Baby you’ve been holding onto is going to pay your rent for the rest of the year. Income is about to become your main focus—so get ready to start taking your friends out to dinner and taking the occasional limo to work instead of Golden Gate Transit.

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RELATIONSHIP CHALLENGES? Tired of endless relationship or marital challenges? Or single and sick of spending weekends and holidays alone? Join coed Intimacy Group, Single's Group or Women's Group to explore what’s blocking you from fulfillment in your relationships and life. Weekly, ongoing groups or 9-week groups starting the week of Nov. 10, 2014 - Mon, Tues, or Thurs evening. Space limited. Also, Individual and Couples sessions.

Central San Rafael. For more information, call Renee Owen, LMFT#35255 at 415/453-8117.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22) Have you checked your spam email recently, Virgo? It’s full of monetary offers that reside overseas—keep in mind that we’re all related to a “prince” from a small country in Europe.

Don’t take any financial decisions lightly. A financial opportunity that manifests on Nov. 9 could end in a big mistake.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21) Don’t leave your home on Nov. 12, Scorpio! The stars will be busy creating tension all over your chart. A simple “no thank you,” could turn into a full-on bar brawl. Mind your manners and take deep breaths to avoid ending up in the county jail.

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FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 135813 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: MERIDIAN COMMERCIAL, 68 MITCHELL BLVD, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: MCII, INC, 7 BROOKSIDE DRIVE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960. The business is being conducted with

by A CORPORATION. Registrant is renewing filing with changes and is transacting business, under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on October 8, 2014, 2014(Publication Dates: Oct. 17th, 24th, 31st & Nov. 7th of 2014.)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014 -135806 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: KIDSCONTENT, 118 CYPRESS AVENUE, KENTFIELD, CA 94904: CLAIRE COMINS, 118 CYPRESS AVENUE, KENTFIELD, CA 94904.

This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. 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 October 7, 2014. (Publication Dates: Oct. 17th, 24th, 31st & Nov. 7th of 2014.)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014135847 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: HANDYMAN REPAIR SERVICE, 239 D ST, #1, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901 : PETER B RICE 239 D ST #1, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. 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 October 14, 2014. (Publication Dates: Oct. 17th, 24th, 31st & Nov. 7th of 2014.)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 135781 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: COLLABORATIVE COMMUNICATION COACH, COLLABORATIVE MEDIATION COACH, MEDIATION COACHING, 1115 THIRD STREET , SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: HAYLIE CHRISTANTE, 4 CIRCLE DRIVE, APT G, BEL TIBURON, CA 94920. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.

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 October 2, 2014. (Publication Dates: Oct. 17th, 24th, 31st & Nov. 7th of 2014.)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 135876 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: THE MONETA ACADEMY, 15 SCENIC ROAD, FAIRFAX, CA 94930 :KATHERINE ANGELA WEIKEL, 15 SCENIC ROAD , FAIRFAX, CA 94930. The business is being conducted with 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 October 17, 2014, (Publication Dates: Oct. 24th, 31st & Nov. 7th , 14th of 2014.)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014135765 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: MARIN CHIROPRACTIC STUDIO , 7 MT. LASSEN DR, SUITE C 134 , SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: KAREN JOSEPHS D.C. , 7 MT LASSEN DR, SUITE C 134 , SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903.

This 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 Sept 30, 2014. (Publication Dates: Oct. 24th, 31st & Nov. 7th, 14th of 2014.)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 135874 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: ARCHITECTURE FOR ADVANCED MEDICINE, 115 CORTE ANITA , GREENBRAE, CA 94904: WILLIAM H . FOSTENBERG, 115 CORTE ANITA , GREENBRAE, CA 94904.

This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. 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 October 17, 2014. (Publication Dates: Oct. 24th, 31st & Nov. 7th, 14th of 2014.)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 135856 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: CAFE LOTUS, 1912 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, FAIRFAX, CA 94930 : JOTI LLC ,704 4TH ST, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY .Registrant is renewing filing with changes and is transacting business, under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on October 15, 2014. (Publication Dates: Oct. 24th, 31st & Nov. 7th, 14th of 2014.)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014135885 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: M1 AUTO REPAIR, 53 MARK DRIVE #3,

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This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. 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 October 20, 2014. (Publication Dates: Oct. 24th, 31st & Nov. 7th, 14th of 2014.)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014135908 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: AGINGINVESTOR.COM, 930 IRWIN STREET, SUITE 215. SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: MIKOL DAVIS, 930 IRWIN STREET, SUITE 215. SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901; CAROLYN ROSENBLATT, 930 IRWIN STREET, SUITE 215, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901.The business is being conducted by JOINT VENTURE . 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 October 22, 2014, (Publication Dates: Oct. 31st & Nov. 7th , 14th , 21 st of 2014.)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014135875 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: FILIGREE, 4302 REDWOOD HIGHWAY, SUITE 200, SAN RAFAEL CA 94903 : KHUSHALI PATEL, 39034 GUARDINO DRIVE , APT 301, FREMONT, CA 94538.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 October 17, 2014, (Publication Dates: Oct. 31st & Nov. 7th , 14th , 21 st of 2014.)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 135835 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: KIMCYN CLEANING SERVICES, 2303 RUMRILL BLVD, SAN PABLO, CA 94806: ALICIA ESCOBAR, 2303 RUMRILL BLVD, SAN PABLO, CA 94806. The business is being conducted

by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on October 10, 2014, (Publication Dates: Oct. 31st & Nov. 7th , 14th , 21 st of 2014.)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 135899 The following individual(s) is (are) doing busi-

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ness: RAKE ELECTRIC, 1221 ANDERSON DR, SUITE J, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: JOHN FRANK RAKE, 162 GLEN PARK AVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901; .The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL . Registrant expired for more than 40 days ago and is renewing, transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on October 21, 2014, (Publication Dates: Nov. 7 , 14, 21, 28 of 2014) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014135802 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: GOLDEN GATE LEARNING CENTER, 921 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE BLVD, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: CELESTE L EZELL, 1117 SIR FRANICS DRAKE BLVD ,#6, KENTFIELD, CA 94904;WILLIAM D EZELL, 1117 SIR FRANICS DRAKE BLVD, #6, KENTFILED, CA 94904.The business is being conducted by A MARRIED COUPLE . Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on October 6, 2014, (Publication Dates: Nov. 7 , 14, 21, 28 of 2014) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014135957 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: DMC PROPERTIES, 185 GREENWOOD WAY, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: DAVID M COLLINS, 185 GREENWOOD WAY, 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 October 30, 2014, (Publication Dates: Nov. 7 , 14, 21, 28 of 2014) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 135888 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: THE COFFEE CART, 124 BELVEDERE STREET, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: XIMENA PAOLA RODRIGUEZ MENESES, 4 DE LUCA PLACE,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 October 20, 2014, (Publication Dates: Nov. 7 , 14, 21, 28 of 2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 135979 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: ZZ SMOK'N BAIL BONDS, 76 SAN PABLO AVE, SUITE 200, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: LYNN SIMON, 942 WILMINGTON WAY, REDWOOD CITY, CA 94062.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 Nov 3, 2014, (Publication Dates: Nov. 7 , 14, 21, 28 of 2014)

OTHER NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No. CIV 1404023. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MARK ROBINETT, BETH CASSEL filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: RUDI CASSEL ROBINETT TO RUDY WILLIAM ROBINETT. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: 12/22/2014 9:00 AM, ROOM L, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903.

A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin: PACIFIC SUN. Date OF FILING: OCT. 21, 2014, (Publication Dates: Oct. 31,Nov 7, 14, 21 of 2014.)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No. CIV 1404032. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner VALERIE NICOLE RODGERS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: BARRETT ALAN COSTELLO TO BARRETT

ALAN RODGERS. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: 12/11/2014 08:30 AM, ROOM B, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903.

A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin: PACIFIC SUN. Date OF FILING: OCT. 22, 2014, (Publication Dates:Oct. 31, Nov 7, 14, 21 of 2014.)

FORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No. CIV 1404095. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JOSE ALEXANDER RAMOS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: JOSE ALEXANDER RAMOS TO JOSE ALEXANDER. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: 12/10/2014 AT 08:30 AM, ROOM B, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903.

A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin: PACIFIC SUN. Date OF FILING: OCT. 28, 2014, (Publication Dates: Nov 7, 14, 21 , 28 of 2014.)

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n HONORING n ROLAND (ROLLY) NELSON MULVEY MAY 15, 1927 - OCTOBER 20, 2014

Rolly Mulvey passed away peacefully surrounded by his family and friends on October 20, 2014 at The Redwoods in Mill Valley, CA. Rolly will be remembered for his love of music, kind heart, dedication to family and friends, and his unwavering commitment to the Mill Valley Seniors for Peace. Born to a musical family and raised on a farm in Wilmington, NY, his mother taught all three boys and a girl piano and violin. Rolly enlisted in the Navy at the age of 17, went to radar school, and was put on a troop ship to the Philippines. Due to the conclusion of WWII, rather than manning radar stations, Rolly wound up as a security guard protecting beer and ice cream! Via the GI Bill, Rolly graduated from Harpur College, Binghamton, NY earning a degree in business. Upon graduation, Rolly moved to New York City and was employed by Pez-Has Candy Co. and The Chrysler Corp. In 1957, Rolly married Janet Powers and was hired by Georgia Pacific as an account executive. In 1963, the family was transferred to Northern California where he raised a daughter and two sons in Kentfield. Rolly remained in the paper industry for the next 34 years. Rolly continued his passion for music as a member of the San Francisco Folk Club and was in initial founder of the Marin Folk Club Society. In 1997, Rolly moved to The Redwoods, located in Mill Valley, CA. Rolly participated in numerous events at The Redwoods and as the "Music Man" could always be called upon to play his guitar, banjo, or harmonica. In 2003, Rolly and other Redwoods residents started "Seniors for Peace." This peace movement group protested the US involvement to the Iraq War. For the past 11 years, every Friday afternoon at the corner of Camino Alto and Miller Avenue, with his signature 12 string guitar, covered with anti-war bumper stickers, Rolly would lead his fellow seniors in musical songs protesting war. Filmmaker David L. Brown took note of these protestors and made a documentary about "Seniors for Peace" which was featured at the Mill Valley Film Festival and won numerous awards. The film received world-wide notoriety, and Rolly has been featured in numerous magazine, newspaper and radio shows. Rolly is survived by two sons, Brian Mulvey of Boise, ID; Kevin Mulvey of Marlboro, MA; and daughter Sharon Cyr and husband Kevin Cyr of Beverly, MA. A Celebration of Life Service will be held on November 16, 2014 at 3:30 PM at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Marin, 240 Channing Way, San Rafael, CA 94903.

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I try to be direct, but my girlfriend often sees this as meanness. For example, when we’re out to dinner, she sometimes takes forever to order when the server is standing right there. I’ll call her out on this—tell her she was rude to keep the guy waiting.

Personally, I think it’s unhealthy in the long run to keep quiet about issues, but my girlfriend gets upset whenever I give her constructive criticism. How can I convince her that she’s being too sensitive?—Honest

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There are times when directness is best. Like if you’re an air traffic controller.

What’s important is not that you make the pilot feel supported in his life goals, but that he brings the plane to a stop on the runway instead of in some lady’s pool.

But, in many non-emergency situations, being direct—like bluntly criticizing someone—is about as effective as throwing somebody a fruit basket instead of a life preserver when they’re drowning. The problem, as I explain in Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck, is that “criticizing people doesn’t make them change; it makes them want to clobber you.” Because of a lack of software updates to our body’s ancient fight-or-flight system, we respond to a verbal attack with the same supercharged biochemical ammo we would if we were attacked by some sharp-fanged thing looking to turn our left eyeball into an after-dinner mint.

You are right, by the way; your restaurant table shouldn’t start to seem like a bus stop for the waitstaff because your girlfriend’s applying Bayes’ theorem to whether she’d prefer the chicken to the pasta. But is your ultimate goal hammering her with how right you are or having a relationship? If it’s a relationship you’re after, you need to keep her fight-or-flight defensiveness from whirring into action by transforming accusations (like “You’re rude!”) into information (like reasons the term “waiting” shouldn’t be taken literally). For example, you could say, “Hey, I know you love good food and don’t want to make a bad choice at dinner. But I was thinking that when the server waits for a while at our table, he may feel we don’t respect his time, and other customers may feel neglected and leave him a crappy tip.”

By asking her to sympathize with the waiter instead of telling her what a jerk she’s been, you help her stay cool enough in the head to consider potential solutions— like doing a little online menu recon before hitting the restaurant. If you both start sending criticisms up for processing to the kindness and tact department, you could get in the habit of “accepting influence” from each other—listening to each other and becoming better individually and together—a practice marriage researcher John Gottman sees in the happiest, most stable relationships. Think of this as living the dream—the one where your relationship is a safe place to expose the real you (as opposed to that dream where you’re back in 10th grade standing naked in front of the school assembly just as your mom starts reading your diary over the PA).

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A female “friend” of my boyfriend’s is always leaving flirty comments on his Facebook page, and it’s making me upset and worried. He doesn’t really respond, but because he’s a guy with a girlfriend, it seems that the considerate thing for him to do would be to tell her to cool it. How can I bring this up to him in a sane way?—Disturbed

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Guys also say “Hello, beautiful!” to the 200-year-old grocery store cashier, and probably not because they’re angling for her to send a selfie of how she looks without her compression hose. What keeps a guy from being all “Let’s blow this timeline item and go to a motel” is whether he’s ethical and into the relationship he has. If that doesn’t describe your boyfriend, why are you still with him? If it does, instead of saying, “Hey! People are socializing with you on a website designed for socializing!” let on that you’re feeling a little worried, like by gently remarking, “That friend of yours sure is flirty” (or whatever it takes to get your worry across). Rather than trying to control him, which leads a person to rebel, you’re asking for reassurance, which should lead him to put his arms around you and explain why you have nothing to worry about. This, in turn, should get the two of you back to using Facebook as it was intended—as a place to bring people together to view videos of cats and police brutality. Y

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