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pring is here! Living in Marin County with its mountain top views and beautiful trails, we naturally turn our thoughts at this time to the great outdoors. On a beautiful day, is there anything better than a walk around Lake Bon Tempe or a hike to the beach on the Tennessee Valley trail? How about a Sunday bike ride along the Mill Valley-Sausalito path?

bike paths, gradually increasing the distances and level of difficulty as you become stronger and fitter.

Exercise is the key to a healthful life, whether it’s to restore our health after illness or injury or to ensure that we stay healthy for as long as we can as we age. With the many opportunities we have in our area to walk, hike or bike, extra benefits such as fresh air, the beautiful scenery and the chance to commune with Mother Nature are ours as well.*

Carry a lighter backpack or use a waist pack.

All of us walking, hiking and biking enthusiasts, however, would be smart to take inventory of our fitness levels now before we hit the trails in earnest. After being less active during the winter months, we may find that our leg muscles are a little flabby and our endurance for long treks may not be as great as we remember it was.

To prevent injury and to get the most enjoyment and health benefits out of your outdoor exercise program, it’s a good idea to begin by doing some “spring training.”

However fit you are, hiking or walking for long distances or uphill does cause stress to the body especially the hip and knee areas. Preparation and modifications to your exercise routine can go a long way to minimize discomfort.

Develop an exercise regimen to strengthen your leg muscles: your quadriceps, hamstrings, calves.

Start out on more level, even trails or

Once you begin your trek, warm up slowly and stretch. Cool down and stretch again after your hike or bike ride.

Consider using trekking poles or walking sticks to help with balance and to support your joints.

Be sure your boots or athletic shoes fit well and are comfortable. Wear supportive braces if needed and use shock absorbing insoles for your shoes to better protect your knees.

For many people, especially with knee and hip disorders such as arthritis, a long walk or a vigorous hike may seem out of reach. It doesn’t have to be. Exercise is actually beneficial to people with arthritis – it increases the range of motion in the joint, strengthens muscles, improves balance and helps build endurance.

Begin with manageable distances and build your intensity within your comfort level from there. Alternatively, nonweight bearing exercise such as swimming, bicycling and strength training are helpful for reducing pain and improving function for people affected by arthritis. Varying your exercise routine can also allow for “cross-training” and can help prevent overuse injuries from just one activity.

Be sure to check with your physician before going on a hike. Strenuous physical activity can make arthritis pain worse and further damage your joints but people with less-severe arthritis may find hiking and other forms of physical activity actually reduces pain over the long term by maintaining

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range of motion and strengthening your muscles. This helps to support the joint and reduces arthritis joint pain.

To get the most out of your walks and hikes: Start slow. Take a brief walk around your block do a workout on an exercise bicycle, gradually increasing the time you spend exercising or how hard you exercise.

Build comfort into every step.

Make sure your shoes are broken in and that they provide solid support.

Wear gel or supportive insoles.

Use trekking poles or a walking stick to provide balance and reduce pressure on joints.

Stretch before you walk or hike.

Stop and rest throughout the hike and repeat stretches for muscles that may have tightened up.

Before you go, take the recommended dosages of anti-inflammatory medications to help minimize arthritis pain. Take along a lightweight icepack or wrap to use if arthritis flares up.

Try to hike early in the day before undertaking any other exercise.

Also, if cool, damp weather causes you to have arthritis pain, plan to hike on dry, warm days.

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Johnson says that opposition to the suit is coming from a “funny little cabal of dairy lovers out there [‘Beef of burden,’ March 30]. They’ve gotten well-rooted, the local press often favors them, they are nice people and it seems like a good idea. I would say that there’s been something of a public relations war, not really a war but an ongoing struggle, and a handful of wellmeaning elderly environmentalists have long ago fallen in love with dairy cattle.”

Shows just how out of touch with reality these “environmentalists” are. If you were in this community (I am a 40-something Marin Native) you know that support for the ranches is across the board with demographics and political leanings.

This Johnson guy is bad news!

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“Experts” I love it when these self-appointed “experts” start opining about how many cattle should be on a particular piece of land [‘Beef of burden,’ March 30]. It’s laughable.

The only problem is their lawsuit isn’t so funny. It’s clear that their motivation is to run the ranchers

off the land even though many of those ranches predate the very existence of the National Park Service (NPS). And we’re steer manure. It’s fertilizer, not poison.

Fact is, one of the missions of the NPS is historical preservation and for centuries, the primary human activity on the lands that are Marin, was (and still is) agriculture and ranching. Not only that, the federal government has a very long history of helping family farms. Heck, the entire Central Valley water project (one of the largest engineering accomplishments ever) of California was built with the express proviso that the water it delivered was for family farms under 160 acres. And the thing is, OK—so you succeed in running the ranches off the lands. So now you’ve just made it that much more attractive for the (already) 20 MILLION visitors that visit west Marin. Hardly a pristine, secluded accomplishment.

West Marin is getting overrun with TOURISTS. SERIOUSLY. These dingbat environmentalists think they’re accomplishing something when in point of fact all they’re doing is paving the way for ever-increasing numbers of selfdelusional environmentalists to drive out to West Marin, trample over everything, throw garbage everywhere, dump oil and gas from their cars all over the roads and LEAVE. Frankly—I think cow manure smells a whole lot better in my book.

—Guy Palmer, via pacificsun.com

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• The Time to Lead on Climate coalition is presenting an educational forum,“Saving the Bay from Climate Change,” on Monday, April 25, from 7pm to 9pm at the San Rafael Community Center, 618 B St., San Rafael. For more information, visit leadonclimate.org.

• Stand up for your dog’s rights to walk in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and show your opposition to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ intention to cut dog-walking areas by joining the Mighty Mutt March on April 23; 11am to 1pm, Crissy Field; San Francisco. For more information, visit SaveOurRecreation.com.

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1 Opening May 22, this year’s Mountain Play, performed a half-mile above sea level on Mt. Tamalpais, is what show based on a 1957 Broadway musical and 1961 movie that won 10 Academy Awards?

2 This bird’s name comes from the Portuguese word ‘flamengo,’ meaning flame, because of its bright reddish-orange color. What is it?

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3 This sporting field can vary in size, but officially it’s 105m long and 68m wide. What sport?

4 In the 1980s, who said, “One minute I was a nobody, the next minute I was Princess of Wales?”

5 This news magazine was printed weekly from 1933 until 2012, when it fell victim to the new digital economy, but then returned to print in 2014. Which one?

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8 What world-changing attack was launched on December 7, 1941?

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10 That worm resting in a bottle of mezcal is not a worm at all, but the larva of a what?

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Officially named the Car Allowance Rebate System, it was colloquially known by what clever three-word phrase?

▲ Best advice of the week: If you’re going to get caught in a rip current at Stinson Beach, wait until a Tam High water polo coach is nearby. Robert Palmer, 38, a Mill Valley resident, was enjoying a day at the beach last Sunday when he noticed two children in trouble and rushed into the ocean to rescue them. Lucky for the 13-year-old boy, who struggled bravely to keep his 8-year-old sister afloat in the rip current, Palmer, an assistant water polo coach at Tam, is also an experienced swimmer. He saved the exhausted boy, and the girl was helped by others. Thanks to the heroic efforts of Coach Palmer, the siblings are fine. Rip currents are strong this season, so let’s be careful out there.

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I hurried on over. That same woman showed me two obviously not diminutive styles and insisted that people “wear them larger right now.”

Never mind that I looked cross-eyed due to the width. When confronted with her promise, she insulted me with “not that small,” and opened the drawer to the kids’ stuff.—Nikki Silverstein

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Upfront As of now, there is no step-by-step guide for parents to treat kids with cannabis.

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Pediatric cannabis gaining acceptance—but parents still risk losing their kids if they use it By Tom Gogola

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he young boy was borderline autistic and suffered from anxiety and a learning disability when he went to see Dr. Jeffrey Hergenrather.

“He was like a raccoon in his office on that first visit,” says his mother, “Paula,” who requested anonymity for this story, as she described her son bouncing off the medical-office walls like a wild animal. “Literally—like we brought a raccoon,” she repeats with a slight laugh.

That was about four years ago.

Hergenrather, a Sebastopol-based physician, has recommended cannabis to children who have come through his practice since the

state’s 1996 medical cannabis law was enacted. He recommends its use for medical conditions ranging from autism to epilepsy to cancer to genetic disorders and mental disabilities.

For autistic children and teenagers, cannabis “works so well for reducing anxiety, reducing pain and reducing agitation and anger,” Hergenrather says, especially as autistic children become adults. “The calming effect of cannabinoids has been a real plus for families.”

After her consultation with Hergenrather, Paula found a woman in Southern California who had developed an edible product, a brownie, especially for autistic kids.

“That was our first introduction,” she says, “and we started him on it two days before school started. He was just out of summer school and that had been a hot mess—he was miserable, they couldn’t get him to do anything. That was two days before. Then he went to school without any protest, and he did every single task they put in front of him,” Paula says, with another slight laugh.

The parents and teachers and occupational therapists were shocked at the sudden change.

“What the heck happened, what did you do?” Paula recalls them asking her, “and they were looking for me to say that we had put him on meds.”

But Paula played off the inquiries, given the sensitivity and stigma around pediatric cannabis. “I guess we are having a good week,” she told them. “I played dumb. No one put a finger on what happened, but it was a big success.”

Paula’s story is one of thousands involving pediatric cannabis in the state, in a gray-area legal world where the conditions being treated may not be as serious as childhood cancer, but are nonetheless devastating or debilitating to families.

The 1996 California law didn’t come with any age limits on who can or can’t access medical cannabis, but physicians are boxed in by an overarching federal scheduling of

use it, but if they are not getting as good control for seizures as they’d hope to, they’re bringing back more of the THC into the product that they are using.”

Products that contain all the compounds, he says, “work better, you get better pain [relief ], better anticancer, and it’s a better medication for treating seizures. Kids don’t seem to have a problem with more THC in the meds. It’s a fiction.”

Pediatric cannabis got a big boost from CNN’s resident physician Sanjay Gupta in 2013, when he reported on an extract made from a Colorado strain called Charlotte’s Web that helped to control a young girl named Charlotte Figi’s grand mal seizures.

Hergenrather noticed the difference a TV star can bring to a debate.

“I had a bell curve of my age distribution for a number of years,” he says. “And there were very few children and very few older people— the center of my bell curve was about 48 years old, and 99 percent of those people were using cannabis to start with. Over the past five years, that has changed drastically,” Hergenrather says. “I was treating kids for cancers and seizures prior to that time, but it really increased the number of patients that were seeking a recommendation. Parents got a lot more comfortable with it—if they see it on TV, hey, they can do it too.”

Charlotte’s Web is a strain with a high level of CBD but comparatively low levels of THC, about a 20-to-1 ratio, says Hergenrather. “It’s very low in THC, so the psychoactivity is markedly reduced.”

And also more socially acceptable.

The Gupta broadcast and advent of Charlotte’s Web—Hergenrather likens the strain to California’s ACDC strain—led states like New Jersey and Florida to enact last-resort pediatric cannabis laws. But there’s the problem right there, Hergenrather says. “It’s a first resort.”

In the four years that she has used cannabis to treat her son’s borderline autism (but technically undiagnosed) and associated conditions, Paula has noticed the shift in public opinion, too.

“Parents are more open to it, now they are bringing it up. But there’s no step-by-step guide to treating your kid with cannabis in 2016. They need some guidance, and there isn’t anything. We want so bad to be that voice, be that support group, but it is so risky. Even if it’s legal and there’s not necessarily an age limit, it just takes that one person to call Child Protective Services. In the end, maybe you keep the kids, but who the hell needs that anxiety?”Y

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the drug that says marijuana has no medical benefits whatsoever, and the absence of a state law that would legalize cannabis outright.

Even as pediatric cannabis protocols and attitudes are in flux, parents in Paula’s situation are pretty much on their own, she says, and with the risk of a call to Child Protective Services (CPS) if they are not careful with the cannabis they provide their children.

“Because it’s not fully legal here,” says Paula, “[Hergenrather] can’t tell us what strain, what dosage, where to get it—it’s on the parents to figure it out.”

She credits the work Hergenrather’s done on behalf of children in California, as she points out the twisted ironies of cannabis law and morality. “He treats so many kids that are so successful, but their parents are afraid to tell their doctors why.”

Paula and the doctor agree that the best medicine is whole-plant medicine that balances the compounds cannabidiol (CBD) and THC (the psychoactive compound in cannabis) and the terpene oils in the plant.

“CBD is a great physical healer,” Paula says, “but we are focused on cognition.” By itself, she says, CBD-only products “did absolutely nothing” for her son.

Paula and her husband took it upon themselves to find the right medicine for him. Paula’s husband does the medicinal cooking, she says, after they’ve secured one of two strains of Kush, which is hard to come by because you have to grow it outdoors in order to be working with an organic product. They use the Northern Lights variety for depression and the Blue Dream to treat their child’s anxiety, she says.

“We learned a lot about cooking it on our own,” says Paula, who has been making cannabis capsules for her child for four years. She and her husband were open to cannabis treatment for their child all along, she says, unlike many parents who are equally desperate, but “who have this stigma, that this is a horrible drug. For them to have to figure it out on their own, that’s nearly impossible.”

But the government’s ban against children feeling any sort of euphoria has meant the advent of products such as Epidiolex, which comes from Great Britain and is “a federal investigational new drug which is 99 percent CBD and 1 percent non-THC cannabinoids,” Hergenrather says.

“The reason they took out the THC is purely political,” he adds. “THC is a great anti-convulsant. So when doctors in my specialty are trying to control seizures, sometimes they get access to Epidiolex, people qualify to

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The Waldos, originators of ‘420,’ find missing link to story

By Molly Oleson The Waldos, orginators of the term ‘420,’ searched week after week for a secret cannabis patch planted by a Coast Guardsman in Point Reyes in 1971.

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o sooner has Waldo Dave settled into a corner table at Mill Valley’s Depot Bookstore & Cafe, his back to the windows that separate the indoor tables from the outdoor patio, when a loud thud! behind his left shoulder startles him. He whips around to see Waldo Steve’s face smooshed up against the glass. The two men—both in their early 60s, friends of more than 45 years—laugh as Waldo Steve peels his face away and heads inside, leaving behind a drizzly April morning and a contorted imprint.

He grabs a chair, sits down and pats an envelope that contains 167 pages of officially embossed United States Coast Guard records. “This was the ultimate goal,” he says of the highly anticipated mail that arrived three weeks ago but took years of searching to obtain.

“This is what slams the door shut

on everyone who says that our story is a bunch of bull,” Waldo Dave says.

As the story goes, in the fall of 1971, “five wise-cracking friends”— Steve, Dave, Mark, Larry and Jeff, who called themselves the Waldos after a wall they hung out on in between classes at Marin County’s San Rafael High School—were

given a hand-drawn map to a secret patch of cannabis in Point Reyes.

The crop had been planted—and the map leading to it drawn—by a Coast Guard reservist named Gary Newman. Newman, brother-inlaw of Bill McNulty, a friend of the Waldos who gave them the map, was said to have been paranoid about getting busted for planting the cannabis on federal property.

The Waldos were determined to find the patch. Week after week, they planned to meet at 4:20pm at a campus statue of Louis Pasteur.

They’d get high, jump in Waldo Steve’s 1966 Chevy Impala, listen to its “killer” eight-track stereo and head to the Point Reyes coast in search of the treasure. “It was always like Cub Scout field trips,” Waldo Steve says of the group’s Waldo Safaris. “Except we were stoned.”

The Waldos never found the patch. But “420 Louis”—and later, simply “420,”—became their secret code for pot. Today, the Waldos’ three-digit code has become mainstream universal slang for all things cannabis. Every year, April 20 (4/20) is the date of 420 festivals, 420 races, 420 Olympics and 420 college campus “smokeouts.” There are 420 publications, 420 beers, “420-friendly” real estate ads and California Senate Bill No. 420. The list goes on.

The Waldos, who describe their high school selves as intelligent, fit guys who were “seekers” rather than “stupid, slacker stoners,” live throughout Marin and Sonoma and work in fields ranging from financial services to independent filmmaking to the wine industry.

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Dave, the “talking heads” of the group, agreed to meet me prior to the annual worldwide pot holiday to share their story. It’s a busy time of year for them.

“By the way, The Huffington Post just called,” Waldo Steve tells Waldo Dave as he flips through a heavyduty blue binder that contains hundreds of references to 420 culture in newspaper and magazine articles from the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, National Geographic, Time, Esquire and dozens more, records of dissertations on the sociological aspects of 420 and documented proof of conversations, handwritten eyewitness accounts, references to the marijuana map and copies of letters from the early ’70s—all supporting the Waldos’ claims that they were the very first people to use the term “420.”

“Actually, we’re the centerfold in this one,” Waldo Dave jokes, pointing to a cover of Playboy.

The two men enthusiastically exchange inside jokes, noises, secret words, one-liners and impersonations. Their banter is a glimpse into the wild, adventurous world of the Waldos—intertwined with the beauty and the freewheeling counterculture of Marin in the ’70s. A golden era, they call it.

The Waldos don’t know what became of the map that revealed the Point Reyes cannabis patch. But “everything else” is preserved in a high-security bank safety deposit

vault in San Francisco’s Financial District. One letter, written by Waldo Dave and sent to Waldo Steve after he had left Marin for college, reads, My brother is Phil Lesh’s [of the Grateful Dead] manager, and last weekend I had a job as a doorman backstage at a concert. I smoked out with David Crosby and Lesh … p.s. A little 420 enclosed for your weekend.

Another, from a friend who had also left Marin and was living in Israel, informs the Waldos that there’s “no 420 here.”

“It was an original little joke that turned into a worldwide phenomenon,” Waldo Dave says.

Cannabis culture It’s 4:20pm in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, and puffs of smoke drift from groups of young people gathered on “Hippie Hill,” known among potheads as the place to light up. A drum circle provides a fast-paced, background beat, and an older guy dances, hands clapping above his head.

Next to a grove of eucalyptus trees, three friends pass a joint around. When asked what 420 means to them, the one with long, dark dreadlocks proves that he’s adopted the Waldos’ secret code as his own. “Usually means it’s time to smoke,” he says with a crooked smile.

Do they know where the term comes from?

“If I can remember correctly, it

story,” Waldo Steve says, noting the naysayers “come out of the woodwork” each year to attack and discredit the Waldos’ story, or claim to have coined the term “420” themselves.

“There’s so many of ’em you can’t keep track of ’em,” Waldo Dave says. “It’s pretty hilarious. We’ve created a whole generation of 420 claimers now.”

“It’s such a fabled thing,” Waldo Steve adds. “People want to be part of a fable.”

“We’ve had people saying they thought our story was a fairytale,” Waldo Dave says, noting their recent search for the Point Reyes Coast Guardsman who made the map. “So we said, ‘Hey—we’ll go find this guy. We may not be able to find him, but we’re gonna try.’”

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was a group of high school kids who would meet at 4:20 to smoke,” says another. “My mom told me that.”

Dave recalls: “In about 1995 or so we started seeing ‘420’ carved into benches and spray-painted on signs, and we said, ‘Hey, what’s happening here? This is starting to evolve.

We’ve gotta start looking into this thing, you know?”

Waldo Steve remembers Waldo Larry telling him that he was seeing more and more 420 paraphernalia— “more hats, more T-shirts, more everything.”

I better get the story straight, he said to himself.

A phone call to High Times magazine—“the definitive resource for all things marijuana”— resulted in the publication’s editor immediately flying to California to meet the Waldos and verify their claims.

Following the original 1998 article in High Times, the origin story of 420 spread to other publications, one by one. “I think after the internet became big around 2000, then it started snowballing,” Waldo Dave says.

Ever since, the Waldos have fiercely defended their version of events, agreeing to meet journalists at their vault, get on camera and trek out to Point Reyes.

When asked how many hours they’ve devoted to documenting their story, Waldo Steve answers quickly and assuredly: “Thousands.”

“People keep trying to twist the

The missing link The search for Gary Newman began six years ago. It was never easy. There were false starts, deadends, unanswered phone calls, unanswered letters and “no show” meetings in San Jose, where the Waldos had leads that the Coast Guardsman could be living.

“I was getting worried,” Waldo Steve says. “I was thinking, ‘God, this guy could die, and I’ll never get his side of the story.”

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“Somebody had to get into the streets,” Waldo Steve says of the search. For a reasonable price, he hired Bay Area private investigator Julie Jackson.

“He said he needed to find a guy that was basically homeless,” Jackson says of Waldo Steve in a recorded interview. “It was like a needle in a haystack.”

Although she had little information to go on, Jackson was fascinated by the history of the Waldos that was presented to her.

She informed the San Jose Police Department about what she was up to, in case she needed backup, created a perimeter map of where Gary might be located and started reaching out to people who might know him.

“Usually I don’t take cases like that,” Jackson says. “But this one was too good to pass up.”

The phone call Months after getting a hold of Gary’s friend Carol but not hearing anything, Waldo Steve was traveling in a Texas “ghost town” near Big Bend National Park. “Big thunderstorms,” he says. “Cracks of lightning.”

He and his brother Norm were the only people in a little emptiedout Mexican restaurant and saloon.

“And between cracks of thunder, I get a phone call.”

Who could be calling me in the middle of nowhere, he thought to himself.

“This is Carol, I’m Gary’s caretaker,” the woman on the line said.

“And I could hear Gary goin’ [imitating his raspy voice]. ‘I can remember everything about the Coast Guard!’” Waldo Steve says. “It was like, ‘Whoahh!’”

“Major breakthrough,” Waldo Dave says. “He’s aliiive!”

What seemed to be a hot trail led to months of more unreturned phone calls, unanswered letters and no-show meetings. And then, suddenly, everything changed. There was a date, a meeting spot and a time. Gary showed up.

“Gary, we’ve been looking for you for so long!” Waldo Dave yelled when he first saw him.

As it turned out, the Coast Guardsman who had played such a large role in the Waldos’ story, and in what developed in following

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The five Waldos were recently reunited with former Coast Guardsman Gary Newman (center, white beard), who verified the story of the cannabis patch map.

years, was homeless and living on the streets of San Jose. The Waldos paid for their new friend to stay in a San Jose hotel during the Super Bowl, so that he could watch the game. There, they interviewed him to make sure that all records and accounts matched up.

“Gary had no idea what he started,” Waldo Steve says, referring to 420. “I thought it’d be better for him to show us everything,” He rounded up the Waldos, Gary, Carol, Jackson, Patrick McNulty (brother of the late Bill McNulty), and headed out to the Point Reyes Lighthouse, where Gary had been stationed. In a short video made by Waldo Dave, Gary talks passionately about his time there.

The official Coast Guard records that the Waldos sent away for—and received three weeks before our interview—describe a decorated, life-saving Coast Guardsman. Finally meeting him after 45 years, the Waldos say, was like a reunion with a relative they never knew. And through the kindness of someone who Waldo Dave describes as “having a heart of gold,” Gary is no longer homeless.

“And now we’re like some big, happy family,” Waldo Steve says.

The fun never stops Waldo Steve says that with Gary Newman’s official Coast Guard records in hand, and an eyewitness account of his time at Point Reyes, the 420 naysayers of the internet will hopefully be silenced.

“I don’t think it’ll be finished,” Waldo Dave says. “There’ll still be people saying, ‘Oh, that’s not true.’

But you know, they’re entitled to their own opinions; we have the facts.”

Are the Waldos done searching for more proof of their claims?

At some point, Waldo Steve says, he may take some of the Waldos’ evidence to a museum or an auction house that offers forensics, to get an approximate date of creation.

“That’d probably be the last thing we can come up with, right?” Waldo Dave says.

“I don’t know,” Waldo Steve says with a laugh.

“I guess we could find that missing roach from 1971,” Waldo Dave jokes. “Underneath the seat [of the Impala].” He holds up an imaginary roach. “This is proof !”

The Waldos say that in 45 years they haven’t made a penny off of their story. But that was never their intention anyway—they were just a bunch of hippies running around,

oblivious to the idea that their secret code would one day have such far-reaching ripples.

They’re regular, working guys, Waldo Steve says, noting that they have wives, kids, jobs, commitments and bills to pay.

“We’re not doing this to be celebrities,” Waldo Dave says. “We’re just doing this to set the record straight.” The evidence, they say, will probably be in a museum someday.

“We don’t look too deep,” Waldo Steve says of what the group started in 1971. “We just think it’s funny.

And we think it’s funny when people do look deep.”

“It’s like when they tried to find out what the Beatles were saying by turning records backwards, and things like that,” Waldo Dave says, laughing.

After the excitement surrounding April 20, they’ll sit back, watch how their secret code—and all things cannabis—evolves. And they’ll keep on laughing.

“Sometimes,” Waldo Steve says, “I’ll get a message from Dave, and it’ll just be a bunch of wild screaming and antics. We remind each other that we’re all kinda nutty-crazy, that we’re all there for each other in this crazy, mixed-up world.”Y

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Cannabis confidential Seniors getting stoned

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’m keeping a marijuana diary.

On select evenings, I spray a little cannabis mixture under my tongue and wait for nirvana to visit. Don’t call the narcs. I have a legal right to use medical Mary Jane.

Well it’s not quite like that. But at age 87 I have joined a coterie of seniors in Marin—mostly women—who have legal access to medical marijuana through a licensed doctor. She is Dr. Laurie Vollen, a general practitioner with offices in Albany, California, and founder of Naturally Healing MD. By appointment, she visited me at my apartment in Marin for an interview to discuss my insomnia and bursitis, and to determine if Medical Marijuana (MM) could help. A week later I had my little starter bottle mixture of CBD (2.6 mg, non-psychoactive) and THC (.6 mg, psychoactive) in a low-dose, four-to-one combo mixed with coconut oil. I couldn’t wait to join Senior Stoners.

That first night, ready for bed, mouth open, I pointed the arrow of the spray bottle mixture toward the little opening and—phooey! I couldn’t master the technique of the spray. So several anxious days later, 7 Stars, a licensed dispensary in Richmond, California, replaced

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it. (There are no legal licensed dispensaries in Marin.) Not so fast, though. Because of my difficulties with the spray technique I decided to consult with other MM Pioneers, as we were called, to get their results. Before that, though, I tried again, missed my mouth and sprayed over my right shoulder.

I wasn’t the only klutz who couldn’t get the applicator to work.

Several women in our age category (60-90) had trouble getting the sublingual squirter to work. “I tried moving the applicator arrow around and it worked several times and then quit,” Martha said. “I don’t know if I should keep trying.” But it has eased the pain of neuropathy in her feet, she told me, and she wants to continue.

Abby, 79, had no trouble squirting the solution; it was very mild, and she found that it didn’t help her anxiety—so she moved up to a stronger, 8-to-1 solution. “I don’t use it for pain,” she told me.

“I sometimes have anxiety about helping my partner, so I found medical marijuana calms me. I also use a flower-based anti-anxiety solution called Rescue Remedy.”

No one mentioned the munchies that one used to get smoking joints.

That was in the ‘60s, when we were

young enough to eat and not gain weight. Mercedes tried it for spinal stenosis and found at her age of 83 it wasn’t much help. Unable to have surgery on her back because of a heart condition, she found that she couldn’t control the dose until she tried the smokeless inhaler. “It works for insomnia,” she said. But her back pain continues.

Another friend with severe health issues—fibromyalgia, arthritis, back pain—was frustrated that her pain was not under control. Whereas she sometimes felt calm, she also felt that her mind wasn’t coherent.

Now when pain reaches a level of 8 or 9, she uses her medical marijuana despite the mental side effects, and plans to not make any decisions for a few hours.

The one man in our pioneer group uses his 4-to-1 combination for pain and stress relief. With a terminal illness and memory failure, he has multiple issues that seem to be addressed—so far. He has a supportive wife who uses a mild combination of ingredients to reduce stress.

Medical marijuana appears to work best for sleeplessness rather than pain, according to our Senior Stoners. “Also, I think it’s a mood stabilizer and the vaporizer is best,”

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A group of seniors with health issues recently tried Medical Marijuana; one of them started a journal to record her reactions.

said Gabby, who, at age 60, is the youngest of the group. “Drops don’t work for me.”

Medical Marijuana arrived at our retirement facility under the sobriquet of alternative pain management, a specialty of Vollen.

With multiple credentials, including an Master of Public Health, Vollen founded Naturally Healing MD because, she says, “There are many symptoms that can be safely and effectively alleviated through the use of marijuana. It is the most versatile natural remedy known today, with over 2000 years of usage treating a wide variety of symptoms.”

As Vollen—who has been working with marijuana patients for the past 16 years—recounts on her website (naturallyhealingmd.com), patients are looking for alternatives to painkillers, anti-depressants, sleeping pills and other prescription meds.

“I think marijuana is a social justice issue,” she said. “The medical community has been robbed of an opportunity to help patients with a variety of problems through the use of it; as the story of marijuana in America goes forward, I worry that it will go from illegal to a predominantly commercial enterprise, and marijuana will not become assimilated into the mainstream medical culture. Today most physicians are ignorant about marijuana and many continue to stigmatize it out of ignorance.

“Those facing major illness such as cancer, bowel disease or multiple sclerosis find marijuana a valuable resource to cope with the consequences of major disease,” she continues, noting that the other conditions that marijuana offers relief from are depression, ADD, mood disorders and chronic insomnia.

As stated in Vollen’s introductory guide for new users, “The key to using marijuana effectively is finding the right strain (there are about 500 different components in marijuana that have been identified), taking the right dose and using it at the correct frequency.” Starting doses and frequency depend on the symptoms.

Vollen will be returning to our facility next month to listen to the Stoners’ reactions to their first foray into alternative pain management.

She charges $150 for a first-time private visit; the MM itself ranges from $50 to $100 for a two- to three-month supply, depending on method of use.

And yes, I finally got it together the Saturday before Easter. I slept well, and awoke fuzzy but happy. I’m trying it again. Meantime, back to my MM diary to log progress. To be continued after more results are in.Y

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New horizons Iconic Sunset magazine moves to Sonoma and Oakland By Tanya Henry

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here have been a lot of firsts lately for California’s venerable Sunset magazine, which, up until December had been headquartered in Menlo Park since 1951. Last year, a realty investment firm bought the 7-acre site that housed editorial offices, a test kitchen and expansive gardens, and Sunset got the boot. In February, ‘the magazine for Western living’ relocated to a shiny new 22,000-square-foot space in Oakland’s Jack London Square. In May, it will host its 18th annual Celebration Weekend at Cornerstone Sonoma, where the magazine’s new main test garden and outdoor kitchen will be viewed by guests for the first time.

“We are at a very exciting moment in Sunset’s history, and the theme of this year’s Celebration Weekend, ‘The New Sunset,’ reflects that,” says Irene Edwards, editorin-chief of the magazine. “We’re injecting the Sunset experience with new life.”

For the uninitiated, Sunset’s Celebration Weekend takes a deep dive into all things food, wine and garden. Vintners, craft beer brewers and, of course, plenty of chefs—including Ludo Lefebvre, Tanya Holland and TV personality Ellie Krieger—will be offering demos and tastes from the event’s outdoor kitchen cooking stage.

The magazine’s editors will also be presenting, and a garden stage will feature tree experts, florists and more.

It’s quite likely that anyone who has written about food in California has a Sunset story; I am no exception. Upon college graduation, one of my professors introduced me to then-editor Jerry DiVecchio, and arranged an interview. I made a couple of trips from San Luis Obispo to the Peninsula’s 80 Willow Road address, but was ultimately told that Lane Publishing was selling to Time Warner and there was a hiring freeze. Hopes dashed, I moved to San Francisco and started working for the San Francisco Bay Guardian. And here I am today, still contributing to my favorite alternative weeklies.

Whether or not you have a Sunset story, it’s likely that you enjoy food, wine or both; there will plenty of that, along with truly West Coast experiences, at the upcoming Celebration Weekend. Hopefully, it’ll be the first of many.✹ Sunset Celebration Weekend, Saturday and Sunday, May 14-15, 11am to 5pm. Cornerstone Sonoma, 23570 Arnold Drive, Sonoma; general admission each day, $35; sunset.com/cw.

CB: So you headed back to San Francisco?

WM: Right. As it happens, the move turned out OK. I got in at the Actor’s Workshop, which was the city’s best theater company, and when A.C.T. came in they started casting me. When there were breaks, I worked in smaller theaters all over the Bay Area and went out of town to some of the larger regional theaters.

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Gut feelings Spotlight on actor Will Marchetti

By Charles Brousse

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an Rafael actor Will Marchetti is not a celebrity. In fact, you may have never heard of him unless you’re a dedicated playgoer who has been around the Bay Area scene for some time. But, if you have had the good fortune to observe him on stage at A.C.T., Aurora Theatre Company, San Francisco Playhouse, Mill Valley Center for the Performing Arts (MVCPA), Theater Artists of Marin, Magic Theatre or many other venues, large and small, you probably won’t forget the sonorous voice and the uncanny way in which he burrows into the essence of the character he is portraying.

Actually, Marchetti is not just a stage actor. He’s had a number of movie roles, but live theater is his preferred territory, the place where

he feels most at home and where his exceptional talents have been most appreciated. When not performing, he’s been a stage director and the founder or co-founder of several respected production groups— including the North Bay’s flagship Marin Theatre Company. Recently, he’s added playwriting to the list.

Two of his comedies have been produced and the latest, Extreme Measures, a ’40s-style “noir farce,” just opened at the Shelton Theater in San Francisco.

Charles Brousse: Tell me how this long journey of yours began.

Will Marchetti: I was born in San Francisco on November 11, 1933. My parents were from a small town in central Italy. They put on comedy shows there and when they came

here they started doing the same thing at places like Club Fugazi in North Beach. They also had a weekly radio program, Antonio and Maria, on KRE, Berkeley, that was a big hit with the Italian community.

CB: Did you get involved?

WM: Nah. At that time, playing piano was my thing. When they wouldn’t go along, after high school I joined the Coast Guard, but by the time I got out five years later I changed my mind and decided to become an actor. So I hooked up with Lee Abbott, who had a beautiful theater and school. That’s where I studied performance technique and stagecraft. After that, I headed off to New York to continue studying and performing at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Summer

CB: That schedule must have been hard on your personal life.

WM: (Long sigh) What can I say? Three wives? Seven kids …?

The first two marriages fizzled because they couldn’t deal with the separations, financial insecurity and my passion for the theater. Can’t blame them. Susan [Susan Brashear, actress and co-director of the drama department at Tamalpais High School] is different. She knew what it was like going in. We’ve been married 38 years! My relationships with the kids have improved and several will be at the opening night for Extreme Measures.

CB: Looking back, what have been your favorite theater experiences?

WM: Well, I really enjoyed being artistic director of MVCPA during the 1970s, working with producer Sali Lieberman and a fantastic group of Marin-based actors to bring classic plays to the Mill Valley golf clubhouse. You don’t find that kind of collegiality and investment of personal emotion these days.

It’s all hurry up, put in your hours and out the door. As for roles, my favorites are all by Arthur Miller: Eddie Carbone in A View from the Bridge, Joe Keller in All My Sons and Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman.

You gotta realize I’m not one of those flexible actors who can play Shakespeare—anything—if given enough rehearsal time. I need to be able to know the character, get inside his skin, feel in my gut that I can play him as well, or better, than anybody else in the world. That’s a limitation, I know, but it’s just the way I am.Y NOW PLAYING: Extreme Measures runs through May 14 in the basement at the Shelton Theater, 533 Sutter St., San Francisco; 800/838-3006; SheltonTheater.org.

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‘The Moneytree,’ a film about cultivating marijuana on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais, will play on April 23 at the Rafael.

Billy Joe Shaver, who is currently working on a new record, plays at the Sweetwater on April 27.

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airfax’s Christopher Dienstag calls his film The Moneytree “30 years in the making.” It played at the Mill Valley Film Festival in October of 1991, after some six years of work. Back for a one-day screening on April 23 at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, the film depicts the art of cultivating marijuana on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais.

Now that his film has awakened from its long sleep, Dienstag, actor and producer, is launching a crowdfunding campaign to remaster and re-record the soundtrack into Dolby and add new tunes. He’s going to add narration to contextualize what he describes as “the Wild West days” of pot growing.

The plan is to share profits with the Cannabis Prisoners Project.

The audience will see the 35mm print Dienstag owns; he didn’t even have a VHS of the film that he made with his father, now 86.

“My father and I agreed that a film like this had not been done before. If you make a film about a bank robber, you usually don’t actually rob a bank.

We broke the law before your very eyes.”

In the 25 years since the first screening of The Moneytree, we have seen a national change in opinion on marijuana. In 1991, distributors such

as Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema worried about the legal ramifications of a film in which we watch the “grass” grow. The Moneytree was apparently jinxed in its cradle; Dienstag “four walled” (i.e., rented) a theater in Los Angeles to show the movie and lined up interviews with Peter Travers and Howard Stern. But the movie was pre-empted and the theater shuttered during the Rodney King riots.

Dienstag, who hasn’t smoked weed for 23 years, now works as a drug and alcohol counselor. “I was moving through these two worlds, the world of cannabis and the world of recovery,” he says.

Watching the film now, audiences will enjoy the rebellious nature of it, Dienstag says. “We learned to make the film as we went along, and it has a very endearing quality. I feel like the audience for this film was born after it was made, and now they’ve grown up.

Now it’s time.”Y ‘The Moneytree’ plays on April 23 at 12:30pm at the Christopher B. Smith Film Center, 1118 Fourth St., San Rafael; 415/454-1222.

Billy Joe Shaver sings in the key of life

By Charlie Swanson

ven if you don’t know the name Billy Joe Shaver, you’ve heard his songs sung by legends like Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley. At age 76, Shaver brings his outlaw country band to Mill Valley on April 27 for a show at Sweetwater Music Hall.

“God gave me a gift, and I’ve been doing the best I can with it,” says Shaver from his home in Waco, Texas.

Born in 1939 and raised by his grandmother in Corsicana, Texas, Shaver began playing guitar and writing songs when he was a kid.

Even though he lost two fingers in a sawmill accident in 1960, Shaver went to Nashville in ’66 with a handful of songs and a heart full of determination.

“My best songs I already had written before I got there,” he says.

Kris Kristofferson was one of the first artists to notice him and cover his work, scoring a hit with Shaver’s “Good Christian Soldier” in 1971.

His country-western tunes have seen success with artists like Waylon Jennings, whose 1973 album Honky Tonk Heroes is comprised almost entirely of Shaver’s works. Even Bob Dylan sings Shaver’s songs in concert and mentions him in his own 2009 song, “I Feel a Change Comin’ On.” “I have never met [Dylan],” says Shaver. “I’d like to before I close the door on everything.”

Shaver has also been a close friend

of Willie Nelson since the 1950s.

Nelson appears on Shaver’s 2014 album, Long in the Tooth, singing on the opening track, “Hard to Be an Outlaw.”

After more than 20 albums, Long in the Tooth is Shaver’s first record to chart in Billboard’s Top Country Albums. Yet for Shaver, it’s the songwriting that matters most.

“That’s what keeps me going,” he says.

“What I do is I take [the lyrics] and treat [them] like a letter that I’d write to someone that I love,” Shaver says.

“Got to make sure every word counts, almost like a soldier writing to his sweetheart back home while he’s in battle.”

Though Shaver only received an eighth-grade education, he writes poetic lyrics with a focus on simplicity and a personal perspective.

“The best way for me is to just write about myself,” says Shaver.

“I’m pretty sure my life is almost like everybody else’s.”

Currently working on a new record, Shaver says songwriting is also a form of therapy. “It’s the cheapest psychiatrist there is, and probably the best,” he says. “You can’t lie to yourself, you just can’t do it.”Y Billy Joe Shaver performs on Wednesday, April 27, at Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley; 8pm; $30–$35; 415/388-3850.

By Matthew Stafford

Friday April 22 - Thursday April 28 Barbershop: The Next Cut (1:52) Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer and the rest of the gang are back and trying to save the shop from (presumably) greedy landlords, politicians and tech millionaires.

Batman v. Superman (2:31) The Caped Crusader and the Man of Steel go mano-amano, much to the confusion of everyone; Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill star.

Born to Be Blue (1:38) Ethan Hawke as trumpeter-crooner Chet Baker, cool jazz icon and struggling heroin addict.

The Boss (1:39) Industrialist-turned-jailbird Melissa McCarthy is out of the slammer, eager to rehabilitate her image despite old enemies Peter Dinklage and Kathy Bates.

City of Gold (1:31) Tasty documentary about Los Angeles Times restaurant critic Jonathan Gold and his love affair with L.A.’s multiethnic cuisine.

Compadres (1:42) Action comedy about a copturned-ex-con who teams up with a teen hacker to track down the baddie who framed him.

Concerto: A Beethoven Journey (1:33) Documentary focuses on acclaimed pianist Leif Ove Andsnes as he explores Ludwig’s life and work and takes on his five piano concertos.

Criminal (2:13) Kevin Costner stars as a violent convict who’s implanted with the skills of a dead CIA agent and turned into a super-lethal antiterrorist machine.

Deadpool (1:45) Adults-only Marvel Comics comedy adventure about a sardonic mercenary with super powers and a taste for vengeance; Ryan Reynolds stars.

Demolition (1:41) The overemotional complaint letters of investment banker Jake Gyllenhaal spark the interest of customer service rep Naomi Watts; love beckons.

Elvis & Nixon (1:27) True-to-life comedy about the day in 1970 when the King came calling on the President; Michael Shannon and Kevin Spacey star.

Everybody Wants Some!! (1:57) Richard Linklater returns to his Dazed and Confused roots with a raucous teen comedy about a sex-crazed, disco-happy Carter-era softball team.

Eye in the Sky (1:42) Hard-hitting drama about the moral implications of drone warfare stars Helen Mirren as an anti-terrorist Army colonel in dangerous Kenya.

Field of Dreams (1:47) Baseball tearjerker about a farmer whose cornfield ballfield attracts the spirits of disgraced Black Sox ballplayers; Kevin Costner stars.

45 Years (1:35) Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling star in a powerful examination of a 45-year marriage on the edge of dissolution.

Hello, My Name Is Doris (1:30) Romantic dramedy stars Sally Field as a quirky office drone obsessed with a new workmate half her age (Max Greenfield).

A Hologram for the King (1:38) Tom Tykwer drama stars Tom Hanks as a fish-out-of-water businessman in Saudi Arabia who gets by with a little help from a beautiful doctor and a wiseguy cabbie.

The Huntsman: Winter’s War (1:54) The fabled woodsman is back, taking on two evil sisters out to conquer the Enchanted Forest; Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth star.

The Jungle Book (1:51) The Kipling classic hits the big screen with Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson and Ben Kingsley lending voice to a variety of tropical fauna.

The Lady in the Van (1:44) True tale of the quirky relationship between playwright Alan

Bennett and an eccentric who lived in his driveway for 15 years; Maggie Smith stars.

Louder Than Bombs (1:49) A widower and his sons reexamine their relationship with their late photojournalist wife/mother through an exhibition of her photographs.

Love Thy Nature (1:16) Eye-filling documentary about our intimate relationship with the natural world and how we can nurture it; Liam Neeson narrates.

Marguerite (2:07) Sumptuous French dramedy about a 1920s Parisian hostess and wannabe opera singer whose terrible voice enchants the Dadaists of the Left Bank.

Miles Ahead (1:40) Eccentric biopic about the later life of Miles Davis stars Don Cheadle as the jazz superstar; Cheadle writes and directs too.

Miracles from Heaven (1:49) A family and a community are inspired after a child with a terminal disease makes a miraculous recovery.

Most Likely to Succeed (1:26) Inspiring documentary looks at the U.S. public school system and its dedicated teachers and how we can make public education better.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (1:34) Toula and Ian are back and dealing with a sparkless marriage, a teenage daughter and all those wacky relatives; Nia Vardalos and John Corbett star.

My Golden Days (2:00) A French anthropologist revisits his past through a series of harrowing, suspenseful, erotic flashbacks.

National Theatre London: Hangmen (3:00) Direct from the West End it’s Matthew Dunster’s hit comedy about an out-of-work hangman and other colorful denizens of an Oldham pub.

On the Waterfront (1:48) Marlon Brando dazzles as a conscience-stricken longshoreman on the Mob-controlled Hoboken docks; Elia Kazan directs.

Papa (1:49) True tale of the relationship between a young writer and his hero, Ernest Hemingway, during the icon’s expat residence in revolutionary Cuba.

Peace Officer (1:45) Documentary tackles the militarization of modern police departments as seen through the eyes of a SWAT commandoturned-private eye whistleblower.

Race (2:14) Stephan James stars as Jesse Owens, the African-American track star who took on Hitler’s Aryans at the 1936 Nazi Olympics.

Ratchet and Clank (1:34) Feel-good cartoon about a troupe of unlikely heroes who take on a galaxy-destroying bad guy.

A Sidewalk Astronomer (1:18) Documentary joins philosopher-inventor-Sidewalk Astronomers founder John Dobson as he visits star parties, college campuses and Vermont telescope makers.

Sweet Bean (1:53) Japanese tale of the unlikely friendship that develops between a lonely shop owner and his star baker, an elderly woman with secrets of her own.

The Taming of the Shrew (1:30) Rollicking update of the Bard’s comedy of the sexes stars Katherine Minola as a hot-tempered politico and Rufus Sewell as her modern-day Petruchio.

10 Cloverfield Lane (1:45) An accident victim finds herself in the underground lair of a survivalist who insists that the outside world is a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Zootopia (1:48) Disney cartoon about a melting-pot mammalian metropolis where a rookie bunny-rabbit cop teams up with a grifting fox to fight crime.

Barbershop: The Next Cut (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:10, 1:50, 4:30, 7:25, 10:05 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11:20, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Batman v. Superman (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:55, 6:55; 3D showtimes at 3:25, 10:15 Rowland: Fri-Wed 12, 3:30, 7, 10:20 Born to Be Blue (R) Rafael: Fri-Sun 3:45, 8:20; Mon-Thu 8:20 The Boss (R) Northgate: Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:40, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11:50, 2:25, 5:05, 7:40, 10:25 City of Gold (R) Lark: Sat 11; Tue 8:30 • Compadres (Not Rated) Northgate: Fri-Wed 1:15, 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 Concerto: A Beethoven Journey (NR) Lark: Sat 2 Criminal (R) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 9:55; Sun-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:10 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11:30, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Deadpool (R) Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:25, 2, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Demolition (R) Regency: Fri-Sat 11:35, 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:55; Sun, Wed 11:30; Mon, Tue, Thu 11:35, 2:10, 4:40, 7:10 • Elvis & Nixon (R) Rafael: Fri 4:30, 7, 9:05; Sat-Sun 1:45, 4:30, 7, 9:05; Mon-Thu 7, 9:05 Everybody Wants Some!! (R) Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Thu 7, 9:50; Sat-Sun 1:15, 4, 7, 9:50 Regency: Fri-Sat 10:55, 1:40, 4:35, 7:40, 10:20; Sun-Thu 10:55, 1:40, 4:35, 7:40 Eye in the Sky (R) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:45, 6:40, 9:30; Sun-Wed 12:50, 3:45, 6:40 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Thu 6:45, 9:25; Sat-Sun 1:35, 4:10, 6:45, 9:25 Playhouse: Fri 4, 7, 9:30; Sat 1:15, 4, 7, 9:30; Sun 1:15, 4, 7; Mon-Wed 4, 7 Regency: Fri-Sat 11:20, 1:55, 4:45, 7:30, 10:05; Sun-Thu 11:20, 1:55, 4:45, 7:30 Sequoia: Fri 4:30, 7:25, 9:55; Sat 2, 4:30, 7:25, 9:55; Sun 2, 4:30, 7:25; Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:25; Thu 4:30 • Field of Dreams (PG) Rafael: Sun 4:15 45 Years (R) Lark: Mon 3:40; Wed 2:45 Hello, My Name Is Doris (R) Lark: Fri 9; Sat 9; Sun 6:30; Tue 1:15; Thu 8:30 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:05, 1:20, 3:35, 5:50, 8:15 • A Hologram for the King (NR) Regency: Fri-Sat 11:10, 1:45, 4:20, 7, 9:40; Sun-Thu 11:10, 1:45, 4:20, 7 Sequoia: Fri 4:05, 7, 9:30; Sat 1:45, 4:05, 7, 9:30; Sun 1:45, 4:05, 7; Mon-Wed 4:05, 7; Thu 4:05 The Huntsman: Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:45, 4, 7, 9:50; Sun-Wed 12:45, 4, 7 Larkspur Landing: Winter’s War (PG-13) Fri, Mon-Wed 7:15, 10; Sat-Sun 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11, 12:20, 1:45, 3, 4:25, 5:40, 7:10, 8:30, 10 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11, 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:15 The Jungle Book (PG) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12, 1, 2:40, 3:40, 5, 6:45, 7:20, 9:15, 9:40, 3D showtimes at 12:30, 3:10, 5:30, 8; Sun-Wed 12, 1, 2:40, 3:40, 5, 6:45, 7:20, 3D showtimes at 12:30, 3:10, 5:30, 8 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11, 12:40, 1:40, 4:20, 6, 7, 9:40; 3D showtimes at 11:50, 2:30, 3:20, 5:10, 7:50, 8:40, 10:30 Playhouse: Fri 4:15, 5, 6:45, 7:30, 9:15, 9:45; Sat 12, 1, 2:30, 4:15, 5, 6:45, 7:30, 9:15, 9:45; Sun 12, 1, 2:30, 4:15, 5, 6:45, 7:30; Mon-Wed 4:15, 5, 6:45, 7:30 Rowland: Fri-Wed 1:30, 6:50; 3D showtimes at 10:50, 4:10, 9:30 The Lady in the Van (PG-13) Lark: Sat 4:30; Sun 8:40; Mon 5:50; Wed 12:20 • Love Thy Nature (Not Rated) Lark: Fri 6:30 • Louder Than Bombs (R) Rafael: Fri-Sat, Mon-Thu 6; Sun 1:15, 6 Marguerite (R) Rafael: Fri-Sat 3:30, 6:15, 8:50; Sun 6:30, 8:50; Mon-Wed 6:15, 8:50 Miles Ahead (R) Regency: Fri-Sat 11:55, 2:25, 5, 7:45, 10:15; Sun-Thu 11:55, 2:25, 4:55, 7:45 Miracles from Heaven (PG) Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:45, 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:15 • Most Likely to Succeed (NR) Rafael: Thu 7 (panel discussion follows screening with filmmaker Ted Dintersmith and other notables) My Big Fat Greek Lark: Sat 6:50; Sun 4:15; Mon 1:30; Wed 5 Regency: Fri-Sat 11:45, 2:15, Wedding 2 (PG-13) 4:50, 7:20, 10; Sun-Thu 11:45, 2:15, 4:50, 7:20 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11:40, 2:20, 4:40, 7:20, 9:45 • My Golden Days (R) Lark: Fri 3:30; Tue 3:30; Thu 3:40 NTL: Hangmen (Not Rated) Lark: Sun 1 • On the Waterfront (Not Rated) Regency: Sun, Wed 2, 7 • Papa (R) Lark: Wed 7:30 • Peace Officer (Not Rated) Rafael: Mon noon (free admission; RSVP required at eventbrite.com) Race (PG-13) Lark: Mon 8:10; Thu 12:45 • Ratchet and Clank (PG) Rowland: Thu 7:30; 3D showtime at 7 A Sidewalk Astronomer (PG) Lark: Thu 6:30 Sweet Bean (Not Rated) Rafael: Sat-Sun 1 • The Taming of the Shrew (NR) Lark: Tue 6:30 (free admission!)

10 Cloverfield Lane (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Wed 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:25 Zootopia (PG) Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 6:30, 3D showtime at 9:10; Sat-Sun 1, 6:30, 3D showtimes at 3:45, 9:10 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:20, 1:55, 7:20, 9:55; 3D showtime at 4:45 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11:10, 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:55 Showtimes can change after we go to press. Please call theater to confirm.

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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Sundial Concerts MARIN Assembly of Dust Harnessing the folk style of the Band and adding a funky spin to it, the New Yorkbased group plays the Grate Room with Colonel & the Mermaids. Apr 23, 8pm. $20.

Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael, 415.524.2773.

Birthday Tribute to Ali Akbar Khan Seventh annual event features a day of music dedicated to the maestro. Apr 23, 1pm. $20-$60. Ali Akbar College of Music, 215 West End Ave, San Rafael, 415.454.6372.

Marin Symphony Masterworks The symphony and chorus performs Ravel’s iconic Boléro in the season finale. Apr 24, 3pm and Apr 26, 7:30pm. $40-$80. Marin Center’s Veterans Memorial Auditorium, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael, 415.473.6800.

SONOMA An Evening with Chris Robinson Brotherhood Join the popular roots-rock outfit for two nights of groovy guitars and harmonic jams. Apr 21-22, 8:30pm. $35-$39. Mystic Theatre, 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.765.2121.

Jackson Browne A special solo acoustic evening with the acclaimed songwriter is a rare treat for North Bay fans. Apr 24, 7:30pm. $56-$76.

Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.546.3600.

Jesca Hoop Main Stage West fundraiser brings the Sonoma County native and accomplished international songwriter home for an exclusive and intimate performance. Apr 24, 6:30pm. $60. Main Stage West, 104 N Main St, Sebastopol, 707.823.0177.

NAPA Todd Rundgren An evening with the mult-italented songwriter, producer and artist. Apr 27, 8pm. $45-$85. Uptown Theatre, 1350 Third St, Napa, 707.259.0123.

Fenix Apr 20, Bob Marley tribute with Chris Makonnen. Apr 21, Two of Us. Apr 22, the 415’s. Apr 23, Revolver. Apr 26, Caroluna.

Apr 27, Michael Warren & Larry Vann. 919 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.813.5600.

HowellDevine and Lady Bianca. 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio, 415.662.2219.

HopMonk Novato Apr 20, Synergy with the Happy’s and Hot Start. Apr 21, Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers. Apr 22, Pop Rocks. Apr 23, Casey Abrams. Apr 27, open mic night with Seaplane. 224 Vintage Way, Novato, 415.892.6200.

Sausalito Seahorse Tues, Jazz with Noel Jewkes and friends.

Wed, Tango with Marcelo Puig and Seth Asarnow. Apr 21, Fiesta Total flamenco show. Apr 22, Firewheel. Apr 23, 12:30pm, Lady D. Apr 23, 9pm, Marinfidels. Apr 24, 5pm, Candela with Edgardo Cambon. 305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito, 415.331.2899.

Iron Springs Pub & Brewery Apr 20, the Kate Gaffney Band. Apr 27, the Cherry Pickers. 765 Center Blvd, Fairfax, 415.485.1005.

Clubs&Venues

Marin Center Showcase Theatre Apr 22, the Best of the IJ Lobby Lounge.

10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael, 415.499.6800.

MARIN 142 Throckmorton Theatre Wed, 12pm, noon concert series. Apr 23, Tribute to Stéphane Grappelli with Tim Kliphuis, Sam Miltich and Simon Planting.

142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, 415.383.9600.

Marin Country Mart Apr 22, the Lorca Hart Trio with Josh Nelson. Apr 24, 12:30pm, folkish festival with Today’s Special. 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur.

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

19 Broadway Club Mon, open mic. Apr 21, Koolwhip. Apr 22, Sunshine Daydream. Apr 23, Honeydust.

Apr 24, 2pm, Irish jam session. Apr 24, 6pm, Gutter Swan. Apr 24, 8:30pm, Blue Situation with Emerson Caruso. Apr 26, Donna Eagle’s singer-songwriter night. 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax, 415.459.1091.

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

Book Passage Sun, 11:30am, Songs & Stories with Megan. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera, 415.927.0960.

No Name Bar Tues, open mic. Apr 20, Barnyard Hammer and friends. Apr 21, Michael LaMacchia Band. Apr 22, Michael Aragon Quartet.

Apr 23, KC Filson Band. Apr 24, Hurricane Gulch. Apr 25, Kimrea & the Dreamdogs.

Apr 27, Mike Ehlers Band. 757 Bridgeway, Sausalito, 415.332.1392.

Dance Palace Apr 24, 10 x 10 Performance Lab. 503 B St, Pt Reyes Station, 415.663.1075.

Osteria Divino Apr 20, Jonathan Poretz. Apr 21, Jeff Denson’s Open Sky. Apr 22, Jay Sanders Trio. Apr 23, Hippopotamus Trio. Apr 24, Emma Callister. Apr 26, Casey Cameron.

Apr 27, Noel Jewkes Duo. 37 Caledonia St, Sausalito, 415.331.9355.

Panama Hotel Restaurant Apr 20, Paul VornHagen. Apr 21, Deborah Winters. Apr 26, Panama Jazz Trio. Apr 27, Joan Getz Trio. 4 Bayview St, San Rafael, 415.457.3993. gmc.sonoma.edu

Jazz piano legend Chick Corea (right) and banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck play tunes from their Grammy Award-winning album, ‘The Enchantment,” on April 21 at the Green Music Center in Rohnert Park.

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Peri’s Silver Dollar Mon, Billy D’s open mic. Apr 20, Elvis Johnson’s Soul Revue. Apr 21, Burnsy’s Sugar Shack. Apr 22, Afroholix. Apr 23, Vinyl. Apr 26, Sheet Metal. Apr 27, the New Sneakers. 29 Broadway, Fairfax, 415.459.9910.

Rancho Nicasio Apr 22, John Maxwell. Apr 24,

San Rafael Copperfield’s Books Apr 22, 6pm, Glen Pearson Trio. 850 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.524.2800.

Smiley’s Schooner Saloon Mon, Epicenter Soundsystem reggaae. Apr 21, RKS. Apr 22, Ryan Chrys & the Rough Cuts. Apr 23, PSDSP. 41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas, 415.868.1311.

Spitfire Lounge Fourth Friday of every month, DJ Beset. 848 B St, San Rafael, 415.454.5551.

Sweetwater Music Hall Mon, Open Mic. Apr 20, Prezident Brown 4/20 Party with Reggae Angels. Apr 21, House of Cash with John Carter Cash, Ana Cristina and Bill Miller. Apr 22, Joshua Radin and Allison Pierce. Apr 23, WiId Child. Apr 24, Indigenous. Apr 26, David Nelson & Eric Thompson. Apr 27, Billy Joe Shaver with Ashleigh Flynn. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.1100.

Taste of Rome Apr 22, the Jazz Roots Band Duo. Apr 23, the 7th Sons. 1000 Bridgeway, Sausalito, 415.332.7660.

Terrapin Crossroads Apr 20, Greg Loiacono & the Teal Leaf Trio.

Apr 21, Rattlebox with Lorin Rowan, Barry Sless and Doug Harmon. Apr 22, Benefit for Tim Bluhm with Phil Lesh and the Terrapin All-Stars. Apr 22, Top 40 Friday with Knights of Saturn. Apr 23, Free Peoples. Apr 24, 4pm, “Stories & Songs” with Phil Lesh & the Camp Terrapin Family Band. Apr 24, 8:30pm, Elliot Peck and friends. Apr 25, Grateful Mondays with Stu Allen and the Terrapin All-Stars. Apr 26, Colonel & the Mermaids. Apr 27, Electric Sherpa and the Terrapin All-Stars. 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael, 415.524.2773.

SONOMA The Big Easy Apr 20, Bruce Gordon & the Acrosonics.

Apr 21, the Dylan Black Project. Apr 22, the Pulsators. Apr 23, Maria Muldaur & Her Red Hot Blusiana Band. Apr 26, American Alley Cats. Apr 27, Certified Organic. 128 American Alley, Petaluma, 707.776.4631.

Green Music Center Apr 21, Chick Corea & Béla Fleck. Apr 23, Midori. Apr 24, Matthias Goerne. 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

Lagunitas Tap Room Apr 20, Hop Sauce. Apr 21, Hot Grubb.

Apr 22, the Good Bad Band. Apr 23, the Stu Tails. Apr 24, Kingsborough. Apr 27, Lipbone Redding. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma, 707.778.8776.

Mystic Theatre Apr 24, Les Claypool’s Duo De Twang. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.765.2121.

Art OPENING MARIN Corte Madera Library Apr 23-May 26, “Winsome Watercolors,” solo show from artist Jan White features landscapes and still-life studies in beautiful watercolors. Reception, Apr 23 at 10am.

707 Meadowsweet Dr, Corte Madera.

707.924.6444.

Marin Open Studios Gallery Apr 23-May 15, “Marin Open Studios Preview,” get a glimpse at the vibrant collection of art that will be on display during the 23rd annual Marin Open Studios event in May. Reception, Apr 30 at 5pm. 302 Bon Air Center, Greenbrae. Tues-Sun; 11am to 6pm 415.343.5667.

MarinMOCA Apr 23-Jun 4, “Altered Book & Book Arts Exhibition,” seventh annual show displays the work of 150 Bay Area artists who reconstruct and rework books into unique pieces of art. Reception, Apr 23 at 5pm. 500 Palm Dr, Novato. Wed-Fri, 11 to 4; Sat-Sun, 11 to 5. 415.506.0137.

SONOMA Hammerfriar Gallery Apr 23-Jun 25, “Grace,” fine art photography exhibit by Elisabeth Sunday reveals the inspiring interplay of her muse, Africa.

Reception, Apr 23 at 6pm. 132 Mill St, Ste 101, Healdsburg. Tues-Fri, 10 to 6. Sat, 10 to 5. 707.473.9600.

Kitty Hawk Gallery Apr 27-May 29, “Unreliable Narrator,” solo exhibit by local artist Tony Speirs.

Reception, May 7 at 5pm. 125 N Main St, Sebastopol. 707.861.3904.

CONTINUING THIS WEEK MARIN Aroma Cafe Through May 6, “Images of China Camp,” Marin photographers Osher Levi and Brian Byrnes exhibit their photos of the state park and local treasure. 1122 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.459.4340.

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Falkirk Cultural Center Through Apr 30, “Two Views,” married artists Steve Emery and Kathleen Lipinski show their individual and collaborative works. 1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael.

415.485.3438.

Catherine Karnow at Image Flow

HopMonk Sonoma Apr 22, 5pm, Sean Carscadden. Apr 22, 8pm, Thomas Thomsen. Apr 23, 1pm, Matt Bolton. Apr 23, 8pm, the Mosey Boys. Apr 24, 1pm, Dawn Angelosante and Tony Gibson. 691 Broadway, Sonoma, 707.935.9100.

Bay Model Visitor Center Through Apr 23, “The Mooring Series,” collection of watercolors by Nelson W. Hee is full of meditative detail. 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 415.332.3871.

Headlands Center for the Arts Through Apr 28, “Spring Project Space Exhibitions,” Bay Area artist Cybele Lyle’s architectural rooms-within-rooms and L.A.based artist Sarah Rara’s video projections and paintings are on display in the Project Space gallery. Reception, Apr 17 at noon.

944 Fort Barry, Sausalito. Sun-Fri, noon to 4. 415.331.2787.

Marin Society of Artists Through Apr 30, 2pm, “Spring Has Sprung,” juried member show. 1515 Third St, San Rafael. Wed-Sun, noon to 4 pm 415.464.9561.

‘National Geographic’ photographer Catherine Karnow will be showing photos from her recent assignment in Switzerland, and talking about the creative process on April 27 at The Image Flow in Mill Valley.

Novato City Offices Through Apr 26, “MarinMOCA Artists on Exhibit,” paintings by Tania Walters and Jane Liston display. 922 Machin Ave, Novato.

Mort Sahl Social Satire from Sahl. Thurs. $15-$20. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, 415.383.9600.

O’Hanlon Center for the Arts Through Apr 21, “Collage/Assemblage,” featuring artwork from over 20 artists.

616 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. TuesSat, 10am to 2pm; also by appointment.

415.388.4331.

Nick Swardson Standup star and actor hits the stage and dishes on his wild adventures in Hollywood.

Apr 26, 7:30pm. $25 and up. Green Music Center, 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

Osher Marin JCC Through May 31, “Rescue, Relief & Renewal,” exhibit of rare archival photographs from Poland, originally presented at the Galicia Jewish Museum Krakow in 2014. 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael. 415.444.8000.

Tuesday Night Live Featuring comedians at the top of their game, both rising stars and names known worldwide. Tues, 8pm. $17-$27. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, 415.383.9600.

San Geronimo Valley Community Center Through Apr 30, “Brian Frank Carter Solo Show,” paintings by the North Bay native and longtime illustrator are on display.

6350 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, San Geronimo.

415.488.8888.

Seager Gray Gallery Through May 1, “Gwaltney,” the artist’s paintings reflect the sunlit open sky along the beautiful coastline of Laguna Beach.

108 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

415.384.8288.

Tiburon Town Hall Through Apr 28, “Vibrant Colors,” exhibit of works from the Marin County Watercolor Society is bold and beautiful. 1505 Tiburon Blvd, Tiburon.

Comedy Caffeinated Confessions of Mormon Comics Comics from around the world come together for a night of bare-knuckled laughs. Apr 24, 7:30pm. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, 415.383.9600.

Follow the Thread Talented and professional educators lead improv workshops for novice, beginning and experienced actors, improvisers and comedians. Wed, 7pm through Apr 20. $20/week. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, 415.383.9600.

Dance Belrose Theater Sundays, 4pm, Argentine Dance. 1415 Fifth Ave, San Rafael 415.454.6422.

Club 101 Wednesdays, 8:20pm, salsa dancing with lessons. 815 W Francisco Blvd, San Rafael 415.460.0101.

Mill Valley Community Center mondays, 6pm, Swing Dance Lessons.

925.267.2200. 180 Camino Alto, Mill Valley.

Sunrise Center Apr 24, 2:30pm, Dance & Erotic Breathwork with Zahava, connect your movements to your inner power, self-expression, and sensual presence. $20-$25. 645 Tamalpais Dr, Corte Madera 415.924.7824.

Events Bernie, Blues & BBQ A political rally with all the trimmings boasts talks, food by Tri Tip Trolley and music by the Junior Boogie Band and others. Apr 24, 2pm. $10 admission. Sonoma Veterans Memorial Hall, 126 First St W, Sonoma, 707.938.4105.

Butter & Egg Days Parade & Festival Petaluma tradition marks 35 years with food, arts, a historic parade and antique faire. Apr 23, 10am. Downtown Petaluma, Fourth and Kentucky St, Petaluma.

Color Me Calm Adult Coloring Group A relaxing and brain-stimulating group for adults, with supplies provided. Fourth Wed of every month, 2pm. San Rafael Library, 1100 E St, San Rafael, 415.485.3323.

Earth Day at the Bay Model Guest artist George Sumner and his Whale Bus join live music, environmental films, hands-on activities and refreshments throughout the day. Apr 23, 10am. Bay Model Visitor Center, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito, 415.332.3871.

Girlfriends & Game Night Ladies are invited to enjoy the opportunity to play Sparked, the game for women filled with inspiration, heart and hilarity. Hear from Lisa Rueff Schneider, the founder of the game, and author Shasta Nelson. Apr 26, 7:30pm. $20. New Om World, 67 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera, 415.891.3764.

Meditation & Mindfulness Weekly drop-in class lets you work towards experiencing a still mind and discovering inner peace. Thurs through Apr 21. $10. First Presbyterian Church of San Rafael, 1510 Fifth St, San Rafael.

Petaluma Spring Antique Faire Antique and collectable lovers are welcome to come, browse and shop in this 30th annual event. Apr 24, 8am. Downtown Petaluma, Fourth and Kentucky St, Petaluma.

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

Sunday Cruise-In Last Sun monthly at noon, fire up your hot rod and bring the kids for a day of live music, food, prizes and more. Last Sun of every month. Free. Fourth and Sea Restaurant, 101 Fourth St, Petaluma, sundaycruisein.com.

Volunteer Fair Whistlestop, a non-profit agency providing active aging programs and services is seeking friendly and reliable volunteers who want to give back to their community. Apr 21, 3:30pm. Whistlestop, 930 Tamalpais Ave, San Rafael, 415.456.9062.

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HopMonk Sebastopol Tues, open mic night. Apr 20, Lafa Taylor.

Apr 21, the Brothers Comatose. Apr 22, Lynx with the Dogon Lights and Feral Fauna. Apr 23, Sessions hip-hop showcase.

Apr 24, Igor & the Red Elvises. Apr 25, Monday Night Edutainment with DJ Jacques and DJ Guacamole. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol, 707.829.7300.

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Field Trips Afternoon Community Service Participate in center restoration projects.

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

Habitat Restoration at Marin Stables One Tam Earth Day event will focus on removing invasive French broom plants.

Apr 23, 9am. Marin Stables, 139 Wood Ln, Fairfax, marinwater.org.

Headlands Nightlife A family hike and campfire is led by environmental science educators. Apr 23, 6pm. $12. NatureBridge, 1033 Fort Cronkhite, Sausalito, 415.332.5771.

Marin Moonshiners Hike & Picnic Moderate two-mile hike from sunset till the Full Blue Moon rises over SF Bay with midhike picnic. Flashlights provided. Apr 22, 7:30pm. $15. Safeway Parking Lot, 1 Camino Alto, Mill Valley, 415.331.0100.

Film Baseball in the Movies A series of popular and classic movies about America’s pastime screens over the course of a month. Sun through May 29. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael., 415.454.1222.

Pancake Breakfast & Open House Enjoy breakfast prepared by volunteers and listen to live music by Tim Cain. Apr 23, 8am. $6-$11. San Geronimo Preschool, 6001 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, San Geronimo.

For Kids Digital Photography for Kids The Image Flow’s Constance Chu leads a six-session class for aspiring young photographers that’s a fun and challenging journey of photographic exploration and learning. Apr 20. The Image Flow, 401 Miller Ave, Ste. A, Mill Valley, 415.388.3569.

The Magic of Poetry/ Poetry of Magic A Playshop for Kids 7 and up with Marin Poet Laureate Prartho Sereno & magician Ethan Swope. Apr 23, 11am. Marin City Library, 164 Donahue St, Marin City, 415.332.6157.

Lectures Adapting to Surprise Public forum event is a discussion on ecology, archaeology and indigenous knowledge with Dr. Anne Salomon.

Registration required. Apr 27, 6:30pm.

Free. Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, 3150 Paradise Dr, Tiburon, 415.338.3757.

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

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

Normal Is Over Filmmaker Renée Scheltema presents a special screening of her new documentary in anticipation of Earth Day. Apr 21, 7pm. $7-$11. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael., 415.454.1222.

Composting 101 Discover the methods of hot and cold composting, vermi-composting, cover crops, and sheet mulching. Apr 27, 12pm. Free.

Civic Center Library, 3501 Civic Center Dr, San Rafael, 415.499.6058.

Peace Officer A community screening of the doc about officer-involved shootings is presented by CFI education and Indie Lens Pop-Up. Apr 25, 12pm. Free/ ticket required. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael., 415.454.1222.

Contemplating the Sadhana of Mahamudra Join in studying the teaching discovered

by Tibetan meditation master Choygam Trungpa Rinpoche while meditating. Apr 20, 7pm. Tamalpais Shambhala Center, 734 A St, San Rafael, 415.203.0792.

Pee Wee’s Big Holiday A family fun screening event of the new Pee-Wee movie raises funds for the forthcoming Novato Theater’s construction.

Apr 23, 6pm. $15. Trek Winery, 1026 Machin Ave, Novato, 415.899.9883.

The Creative Eye National Geographic photographer Catherine Karnow talks about her creative process and shares images and anecdotes from her recent assignment in Switzerland.

Apr 27, 7pm. Free. The Image Flow, 401 Miller Ave, Ste. A, Mill Valley, 415.388.3569.

Food&Drink Fresh Starts Chef Event Michelle Tam presents a menu from her award-winning blog, Nom Nom Paleo.

Apr 21, 6:30pm. $60. The Key Room, 1385 N Hamilton Pkwy, Novato, 415.382.3363, ext 215.

Friday Night Live Enjoy delicious themed buffet dinners with live music on hand. Fri. $7-$14. San Geronimo Golf Course, 5800 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, San Geronimo, 415.488.4030.

Marin Country Mart Sat, 9am. Marin Country Mart, 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur, 415.461.5715.

Descendants of Light Lecture by Penny Wolin examines American photographers of Jewish Ancestry. Apr 20, 7pm. Free. The Image Flow, 401 Miller Ave, Ste. A, Mill Valley, 415.388.3569.

Designing the Bee-Friendly Garden Presented by international garden designer, consultant, author and educator Kate Frey. Apr 22, 12pm. Free. Civic Center Library, 3501 Civic Center Dr, San Rafael, 415.499.6058.

The Diving Physiology Discussion on how sea lions and porpoises are able to optimize the amount of oxygen they take on a dive, and how the management of the oxygen differs

depending on dive duration. Apr 26, 7pm. $5. Bay Model Visitor Center, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito, 415.332.3871.

Embodied Compassionate Communication Get the fast path to heart-centered communication with Lori Grace. Sat, Apr 23, 1pm. Sunrise Center, 645 Tamalpais Dr, Corte Madera, 415.924.7824.

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

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

Marco Breuer Recipient of the Larry Sultan Photography Award speaks to his radical approach to the photographic medium and his camera-less process of capturing images. Apr 21, 7pm.

Free. Headlands Center for the Arts, 944 Fort Barry, Sausalito, 415.331.2787.

Paper Piecing in Quilting Mt. Tam Quilt Guild presents Jeanne Bartlett teaching the art of paper piecing complex quilt blocks. Apr 23, 10am. $45.

Aldersgate Methodist Church, #1 Wellbrock Heights, San Rafael.

Recomposing Narratives Talk by printmaker Rhiannon Alpers explores how found objects can create new narratives in art and coincides with the “Altered Book” exhibit. Apr 23, 4pm.

MarinMOCA, 500 Palm Dr, Novato, 415.506.0137.

Responsible Animal Agriculture A discussion with farmer Mark Pasternak, who runs Devil’s Gulch Ranch in Nicasio.

Apr 21, 7pm. Driver’s Market, 200 Caledonia St, Sausalito.

Saving the Bay from Climate Change Find out how you can and why you should do your part to meet the challenge of climate change. Apr 25, 7pm. $10. San Rafael Community Center, 618 B St, San Rafael.

The State of Criminal Justice in Marin Jose Varela, Marin Co. Public Defender, will discuss the state of the criminal justice system in Marin and how community members can make a difference. Bring a bag lunch or something to share. Apr 24, 12:30 pm. Free. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Marin, 240 Channing Way, San Rafael. 415-479-4131. uumarin.org.

Structure and Function: Explore Native Flowers & Pollinators Staff from the Marin Municipal Water District talk about the different techniques and growth patterns that native plants use to seduce, manipulate and advertise to pollinators. Apr 20, 12pm. Lake Lagunitas, Sky Oaks Rd, Fairfax.

What the Heck Is Citizen Science & Why Is It So Important Learn about the revolutionary science movement and how you can get involved.

Apr 27, 6pm. $10-$15. Corte Madera Community Center, 498 Tamalpais Dr, Corte Madera.

Readings Book Passage Apr 20, 7pm, “The Great Spring” with Natalie Goldberg. Apr 21, 6:30pm, Marin Poets in the Schools. Apr 21, 7pm, Shakespeare Celebration with Barry Kraft.

Apr 24, 1pm, “My Journey Through War and Peace” with Melissa Burch. Apr 24, 4pm, “My Journey at the Nuclear Brink” with William Perry. Apr 25, 7pm, “Shelter” with Jung Yun. Apr 26, 7pm, “Spain in Our Hearts” with Adam Hochschild. Apr 27, 7pm, “Negotiating the Nonnegotiable” with Daniel Shapiro. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera 415.927.0960.

Falkirk Cultural Center Apr 21, 7pm, Third Thursdays Poetry Series, with Iraqi-born poet, novelist, scholar and translator Sinan Antoon. $3-$5. 1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael 415.485.3438.

Gospel Flat Farm Apr 24, 2pm, “Farmsteads of the California Coast” with Sarah Henry, book launch party. 140 Olema-Bolinas Rd, Bolinas.

Insalata’s Apr 21, 6:30pm, “Flavorwalla” with Floyd Cardoz, hosted by Book Passage, includes dinner and a book. $120. 120 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, San Anselmo 415.457.7700.

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

Point Reyes Presbyterian Church Apr 23, 7pm, “The Earth Wants YOU” with Reverend Billy. 11445 Shoreline Hwy, Point Reyes Station 415.663.1349.

Rebound Bookstore Apr 27, 7pm, Hand to Mouth/ WORDS SPOKEN OUT, with poets Rebecca Foust, Roy Mash and Robin Lee. 1611 Fourth St, San Rafael 415.482.0550.

The Western Gate Teahouse Fridays, 6pm, Candlelight poetry and tea session with Scott Traffas. 7282 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Lagunitas 4157858309.

Theater Anne Boleyn West Coast premiere of the smart historical play examines how a woman with convictions navigates a world of royal ambition, lusty affairs and shifting allegiances. Through May 8. $10-$58. Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.5208.

Boeing Boeing Ross Valley Players presents the Tony Award-winning farce about a playboy living in Paris and juggling love affairs with three stewardesses. Through May 1. $25$29. Barn Theatre, Marin Art and Garden Center, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross, rossvalleyplayers.com.

The Music Man Marilyn Izdebski Productions presents the classic musical performed by young people throughout Marin County. Apr 23-May 1. $15. The Playhouse, 27 Kensington Rd, San Anselmo, marilynizdebskiproductions.com.

Shakespeare Sonnet Celebration Marin Shakespeare Company observes the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death with presentations, readings, song and dance and more. Apr 23, 11am. Free. San Rafael City Plaza, Fourth and Court streets, San Rafael.

The Umpteenth MAW Showcase Terry McGovern’s Marin Actors’ Workshop presents a showcase of scenes from his acting class. Apr 23, 2 and 8pm. $15. West End Studio Theatre, 1554 Fourth St, San Rafael. ✹

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Explore what’s blocking you from fulfillment in your relationships & create more success. More men than women signed up for this nineweek Single’s Class starting May 5th. Small group format. Meets in cozy Victorian in Central San Rafael. Space limited (advance sign-up required).

Possible financial assistance through insurance or flex/health savings accounts. Also: ongoing, coed Intimacy Groups (married, partnered or single), Women’s Group, and Individual, Couples & Family sessions. For more information, call Renee Owen, LMFT #35255 at 415-453-8117

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016-139537 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: LOS PALILLOS, 3060 KERNER BLVD, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: ARACELI GUZMAN, 45 WOODLAND AVE # 20, 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 Mar 30, 2016.

(Publication Dates: Apr 6, 13, 20, 27 of 2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016139487 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: SPARK VIBRANT HEALTH, 21 BRAUN CT, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: DEENA THOMPSON, 21 BRAUN CT, SAUSALITO, CA 94965-1174.

The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Mar 24, 2016.

(Publication Dates: Apr 6, 13, 20, 27 of 2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016-139535 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: MUSCLE HEALTH CENTER- WEST, 16 THOMAS CT, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: DONALD A WILSON, 16 THOMAS COURT, 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 Mar 30, 2016. (Publication Dates: Apr 6, 13, 20, 27 of 2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016-139572 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: WE DO GARDEN MAINTENANCE, 10 LUCKY DR, GREENBRAE, CA 94904: SILVESTRE AMILCAR DIAZ, 10 LUCKY DR, CA 94904. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Apr 04, 2016.

(Publication Dates: Apr 6, 13, 20, 27 of 2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016139542 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: HAMPTON INSURANCE SERVICES, 6 PLAYA VERDE, TIBURON, CA 94920:

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016139493 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: POLLEN & WOOL, 19 THROCKMORTON ST, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941:

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016139567 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: VALLEY PATROL AND SECURITY, 3 FOREST DR, FOREST KNOLLS, CA 94933: JOEBOB BEAUFORD, 3 FOREST KNOLLS, CA 94933.

The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Apr 04, 2016.

(Publication Dates: Apr 13, 20, 27, May 4 of 2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016139608 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: NUTRAORGANICS, 412 LOCUST STREET # C, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: ADELE L NIETO, 32749 S FOLKLORE LOOP, UNION CITY, CA 94587. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Apr 11, 2016.

(Publication Dates: Apr 13, 20, 27, May 4 of 2016)

STATEMENT OF WITHDRAWAL OF GENERAL PARTNER UNDER WITHDRAWAL NO: 201167 The following person(s) have/has withdrawn as a general partner(s) from the partnership operating under the fictitious business name of: WISTERIA SALON, 747 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE BLVD, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960.

The fictitious business name statement, FILE NO: 132890 for the partnership was filed on 08.23.2013 in the County of Marin. The full name and residence of the person(s) withdrawing as a partner(s): MY NHIEN THI DOAN, 203 LABREA WAY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903.

This statement of withdrawal of general partner was filed with the County Clerk of Marin County on April 5, 2016 indicated by file stamp. RICHARD N. BENSON, MARIN COUNTY CLERK,

S.OLIVA, DEPUTY CLERK. (Publication Dates: Apr 13, 20, 27, May 4 of 2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016139597 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: LADYBUG DAYCARE, 50 PARKVIEW CIR, CORTE MADERA, CA 94925: DENIA CAMPOS BRASIL, 50 PARKVIEW CIR, CORTE MADERA, CA 94925. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Apr 7, 2016.

(Publication Dates: Apr 20, 27, May 4, 11 of 2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016-139615 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: 1) STAR SMOG CHECK 2) STAR SMOG 3) STAR SMOG CHECK TEST ONLY STATION 4) STAR SMOG CHECK GREENBRAE, 2080 REDWOOD HIGHWAY, GREENBRAE, CA 94904: YUAN MU ENTERPRISE LLC, 3313 DUNSMUIR CT, PLEASANTON, CA 94588. The business is being conducted by LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Apr 11, 2016.

(Publication Dates: Apr 20, 27, May 4, 11 of 2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016139509 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: HEARTH, 323 CARDINAL COURT, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: LISA WEINDORF, 323 CARDINAL COURT, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941.

The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Mar 28, 2016.

(Publication Dates: Apr 20, 27, May 4, 11 of 2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016139657 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: LUZ DO OURO, 11 FLORIBEL AVE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: KIMBERLY HUGHES, 11 FLORIBEL AVE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on April 18, 2016.

(Publication Dates: Apr 20, 27, May 4, 11 of 2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016139646 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: BARBER – BELLA, 83 BROADWAY BLVD, FAIRFAX, CA 94930: CASEY P BARSOCCHINI, 83 BROADWAY BLVD, FAIRFAX, CA 94930. The business is being conducted by

AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on April 15, 2016.

(Publication Dates: Apr 20, 27, May 4, 11 of 2016)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No: 304690 The following person(s) has/have abandoned the use of a fictitious business name(s). The information given below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the Marin County Clerk-Recorder’s Office on April 8, 2016 Under File No: 2016-139604. Fictitious Business name(s) 1) OURO 2) OUROLOVE, 11 FLORIBEL AVE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: KIMBERLY HUGHES, 11 FLORIBEL AVE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960 AND Fictitious Business statement that was filed at the Marin County Clerk Recorder’s office on April 12, 2016 Under File No: 2016-139621. Name (s) OURO LOVE, 11 FLORIBEL AVE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: KIMBERLY HUGHES, 11 FLORIBEL AVE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960.This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Marin County on April 18, 2016.

(Publication Dates: Apr 20, 27, May 4, 11 of 2016)

OTHER NOTICES SUMMONS (Parentage-Custody and Support) CASE NUMBER SF15-1681 NOTICE TO Respondent: DAWSON RORICK. YOU HAVE BEEN SUED. Read the information below. Petitioner’s Name: BROOKE CHAPPELL. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a response (form FL-220 or FL-270) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter, phone call, or court appearance will not protect you. If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your right to the custody of your children. You may also be ordered

to pay child support and attorney fees and costs. For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately.

Get help finding a lawyer at the California Courts Online SelfHelp Center (www.courts.ca.gov/ selfhelp), at the California Legal Services website (www.lawhelpca. org), or by contacting your local bar association. NOTICE: The restraining order on page 2 remains in effect against each parent until the petition is dismissed, a judgement is entered, or the court makes further orders. This order is enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement officer who has received or seen a copy of it. FEE WAIVER: If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. The court may order you to pay back all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for you or the other party. The name and address of the court is: YOLO COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT, 1000 MAIN STREET, WOODLAND, CA 94695.

The name, address and telephone number of petitioner’s attorney, or petitioner without an attorney, is: MICHELLE R.LAIDLAW (SBN 251384), HUNT JEPPSON & GRIFFIN, LLP, 1478 STONE POINT DRIVE, ROSEVILLE, CA 95661.916-780-7008 DATE: Nov 12, 2015 /s/ Clerk, by D.KRAUSE, Deputy SHAWN C.LANDRY .

STANDARD (Parentage-Custody and Support) Starting immediately, you and every other party are restrained from removing from the state, or applying for a passport for, the minor child or children for whom this action seeks to establish a parent-child relationship or a custody order without the prior written consent of every other party or an order of the court.

This restraining order takes effect against the petitioner when he or she files the petition and against the respondent when he or she is personally served with the Summons and Petition OR when he or she waives and accepts service.

This restraining order remains in effect until the judgment is entered, the petition is dismissed, or the court makes other orders. This order is enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement offer who has received or seen a copy of it. (Publication Dates: Mar 30, Apr 6, 13, 20 of 2016)

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Q:

By Amy Alkon

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My girlfriend and I are both struggling artists in our early 20s. We have a lot of fun, and being poor together seems oddly bonding. But I read an article about a study that said that couples with lower credit scores and less money are less likely to stay together than those with money and good credit. Should we be worried?—Underfunded

A:

Lack of money is the root of many arguments. So, sure, the same couple is likely to be happier if the island they can afford to “winter” on is one in the middle of the South Pacific, as opposed to one in the middle of a four-lane highway.

Still, it’s a little premature to gear up for a bitter battle to divide the Top Ramen and takeout “silverware” packets. Before I explain why, in case any readers pay bills out of a coffee can buried in the backyard, your credit score is a numerical ranking (up to 800) that uses your credit repayment history to predict your credit repayment future (like whether you’re more likely to pay what you owe or, say, fake your own death).

In the study you’re referring to, economist Jane Dokko and her colleagues looked at nearly 16 years’ worth of credit scores of 12 million randomly selected U.S. consumers. They found that two people who come into a relationship with high credit scores—and scores that are relatively similar—are more likely to stay together.

People who have high credit scores tend to be conscientious sorts with a habit of meeting their obligations. But there are also sociopaths with high credit scores— perhaps because they have lucrative jobs and plenty of dough to pay the electric bill (and recognize that it’s easier to scam people if they don’t have to do their plotting by candlelight). Conversely, somebody with a lower score may have been through something catastrophic (a medical bankruptcy as opposed to a moral one).

You might also keep in mind that a study isn’t a crystal ball airing the TV show of your future; it’s merely a guess of what could happen to you based on how things went for a lot of people. Also, the key thing to note about this particular study is that credit scores are being used as a measure of trustworthiness. And, not surprisingly, a mismatch in a couple’s ethical makeup—specifically, in how trustworthy each partner is—can prove problematic for the happily-ever-after-ness of their relationship.

However, even if your most recent rejection letter from a credit card company starts, “Nice try, butthead” (a refreshing change from their usual, “You’ve gotta be fucking kidding”), all is not bleak. Though research finds that money actually can “buy happiness,” social psychologist Elizabeth Dunn explains in a 2011 paper that “it buys less than most people think.” In fact, she deems “the correlation between income and happiness” “modest” and “surprisingly weak.”

Dunn notes that where we go wrong is in what we think will make us happy— versus what actually does. One thing we don’t anticipate is “adaptation”—how we quickly get acclimated to things we buy or are given, which means they soon stop giving us the buzz they did at first. And because our big happiness burst is right when we get something (or take the first sip or bite), Dunn writes that “frequent, small pleasures—double lattes … and high thread-count socks”—make us happier than occasional big ones (like new floors, a new car, or a new chin).

And in even better news for you two, Dunn explains that experiences seem to make us happier than things. Because experiences live on in our heads as stories, they don’t succumb to adaptation the way objects do. We get renewed enjoyment remembering and talking about them—in a way we don’t by verbally bludgeoning people with the fabulousness of our $5,000 espresso machine-slash-massage chair.

And—fascinatingly—bad experiences may lead to more long-term happiness than good ones. By bad experiences, Dunn doesn’t mean screaming matches in the middle of the framing store. She’s talking about the kind you look back on and laugh about, like breaking down in some terrifying part of town, thanks to how your car is held together by duct tape, tree sap and hope.

This brings us to what Dunn reports is “our greatest source of happiness”—other people. And it’s here that you’ve got something over the more moneyed couples.

They rarely experience the cooperative creativity and loving dedication that go into even the most mundane activities when you’re poor—like holding the antenna of your Salvation Army TV at a 47.8-degree angle for your boo: “OK, honey—there!

Don’t move! Only 18 more minutes till this episode is over!”Y Worship the goddess—or sacrifice her at the altar at adviceamy@aol.com.

For the week of April 20

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “The writer should

never be ashamed of staring,” said Aries writer Flannery O’Connor. “There is nothing that does not require his attention.” This is also true for all of you Aries folks, not just the writers among you. And the coming weeks will be an especially important time for you to cultivate a piercing gaze that sees deeply and shrewdly. You will thrive to the degree that you notice details you might normally miss or regard as unimportant. What you believe and what you think won’t be as important as what you perceive. Trust your eyes.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The ancient

Greek geographer Pausanias told a story about how the famous poet Pindar got his start. One summer day, young Pindar decided to walk from his home in Thebes to a city 20 miles away. During his trek, he got tired and lay down to take a nap by the side of the road. As he slept, bees swarmed around him and coated his lips with wax. He didn’t wake up until one of the bees stung him. For anyone else, this might have been a bother. But Pindar took it as an omen that he should become a lyric poet, a composer of honeyed verses. And that’s exactly what he did in the ensuing years. I foresee you having an experience comparable to Pindar’s sometime soon, Taurus. How you interpret it will be crucial.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I measure the

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In many cultures, the

butterfly is a symbol of transformation and rebirth.

In its original state as a caterpillar, it is homely and slow-moving. After its resurrection time in the chrysalis, it becomes a lithe and lovely creature capable of flight. The mythic meaning of the moth is quite different, however. Enchanted by the flame, it’s driven so strongly toward the light that it risks burning its wings. So it’s a symbol of intense longing that may go too far. In the coming weeks, Libra, your life could turn either way. You may even vacillate between being moth-like and butterfly-like. For best results, set an intention. What exactly do you want?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I gladly abandon dreary tasks, rational scruples, reactive undertakings imposed by the world,” wrote Scorpio philosopher Roland Barthes. Why did he do this? For the sake of love, he said—even though he knew it might cause him to act like a lunatic as it freed up tremendous energy. Would you consider pursuing a course like that in the coming weeks, Scorpio? In my astrological opinion, you have earned some time off from the grind. You need a break from the numbing procession of the usual daily rhythms. Is there any captivating person, animal, adventure, or idea that might so thoroughly incite your imagination that you’d be open to acting like a lunatic lover with boundless vigor?

strength of a spirit by how much truth it can take,” said philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Measured by that standard, your strength of spirit has been growing—and may be poised to reach an all-time high. In my estimation, you now have an unusually expansive capacity to hold surprising, effervescent, catalytic truths. Do you dare invite all these insights and revelations to come pouring toward you? I hope so. I’ll be cheering you on, praying for you to be brave enough to ask for as much as you can possibly accommodate.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Difficulties illuminate existence,” says novelist Tom Robbins, “but they must be fresh and of high quality.” Your assignment, Sagittarius, is to go out in search of the freshest and highest-quality difficulties you can track down. You’re slipping into a magical phase of your astrological cycle when you will have exceptional skill at rounding up useful dilemmas and exciting riddles. Please take full advantage!

Welcome this rich opportunity to outgrow and escape boring old problems.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Göbekli Tepe

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “When I grow up, I want to be a little boy,” wrote novelist Joseph Heller in his book Something Happened. You have cosmic permission to make a comparable declaration in the coming days. In fact, you have a poetic license and a spiritual mandate to utter battle cries like that as often as the mood strikes. Feel free to embellish and improvise, as well: “When I grow up, I want to be a riot girl with a big brash attitude,” for example, or “When I grow up, I want to be a beautiful playful monster with lots of toys and fascinating friends who constantly amaze me.”

was a monumental religious sanctuary built 11,600 years ago in the place we now call Turkey. Modern archaeologists are confounded by the skill and artistry with which its massive stone pillars were arranged and carved. According to conventional wisdom, humans of that era were primitive nomads who hunted animals and foraged for plants. So it’s hard to understand how they could have constructed such an impressive structure 7,000 years before the Great Pyramid of Giza. Writing in National Geographic, science journalist Charles C. Mann said, “Discovering that hunter-gatherers had constructed Göbekli Tepe was like finding that someone had built a 747 in a basement with an X-Acto knife.” In that spirit, Cancerian, I make the following prediction: In the coming months, you can accomplish a marvel that may have seemed beyond your capacity.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In myths and folklore,

the ember is a symbol of coiled-up power. The fire within it is controlled. It provides warmth and glow even as its raw force is contained. There are no unruly flames. How much energy is stored within?

It’s a reservoir of untapped light, a promise of verve and radiance. Now please ruminate further about the ember, Leo. According to my reading of the astrological omens, it’s your core motif right now.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Uh-oh. Or maybe

I should instead say, “Hooray!” You are slipping into the Raw Hearty Vivid Untamed Phase of your astrological cycle. The universe is nudging you in the direction of high adventure, sweet intensity, and rigorous stimulation. If you choose to resist the nudges, odds are that you’ll have more of an “Uh-oh” experience. If you decide to play along, “Hooray!” is the likely outcome. To help you get in the proper mood, make the following declaration: “I like to think that my bones are made from oak, my blood from a waterfall, and my heart from wild daisies.”

(That's a quote from the poet McKenzie Stauffer.)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In one of his diaries, author Franz Kaf ka made this declaration: “Life’s splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all of its fullness—but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.” I’m bringing this promise to your attention, Aquarius, because you have more power than usual to call forth a command performance of life’s hidden splendor. You can coax it to the surface and bid it to spill over into your daily rhythm. For best results, be magnificent as you invoke the magnificence.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I’ve got a

controversial message for you, Pisces. If you're addicted to your problems or if you’re convinced that cynicism is a supreme mark of intelligence, what I’ll say may be offensive. Nevertheless, it’s my duty as your oracle to inform you of the cosmic tendencies, and so I will proceed. For the sake of your mental health and the future of your relationship with love, consider the possibility that the following counsel from French author André Gide is just what you need to hear right now: “Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness.

Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.”Y

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