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‘Monsters’ Doggonit [‘Sunshine thieves,’ Letters, Sept. 7]!

I prefer the beaches to be free from the slobbering, barking, yelping, drooling, “man’s best friend” Rover disturbing my moment of peace.

It’s bad enough that I have to contend with these beasts at the mall, in the cafes, at the parks, in the department store and at the auto mall! Or as I am returning to my car in a parking lot and I spill my hot coffee on my lap as some schmuck has left Fluffy in the back seat with the windows rolled up and they go crazy when someone gets near, hoping they are to be set free or protecting vehicle?

Maybe their subliminal realization that millions of “nondomesticated” animals are raised to be tortured throughout their lives and slaughtered to fulfill the desire of carnivores creates this need for “dog owner” loyalty and love for these “domesticated” creatures.

Or maybe it is the power and control that one can maintain?

“I love my animals better than my kids” … yes, I have heard this statement on many occasions or some form of it.

Then there is the repulsiveness and disdain they feel when [they acquire] knowledge that other countries dine on a variety of animals considered

by their standards as domestic, while diving into their New York Strip … and their obnoxious “Masters” that accompany them as their “fashion” statement where oftentimes “bigger seems to be better!?”

IE: Two Great Danes at the patio at Marin Country Mart at a popular brewpub—as I take a sip from my lovely glass of 3 Flowers and dangle my left hand, I jumped three stories at the surprise licking that I received from one of these monsters and when I turned around and saw these two behemoths!

Why do they need to take these horses to a mall?! WTF! Best in show? Keep them on your ranch or estate and out of my space! Take them to a farm or some “pet zoo” but please keep them away from the mall, the cafes, the department stores … not everyone is a “dog lover,” and if your pooch “likes me,” please keep him outta my crotch unless he is indeed a “service dog!!!”

Bow wow wow yippie yi yippy ye.

—BTM P.S. And to the Todd Rundgren remarks: Grow up and be happy he is still performing and open your mind to his artistry and just maybe he has something “new” to say [Hero & Zero, Sept. 7]! Joni Mitchell once remarked to an audience with a cute little snicker: “NO ONE EVER ASKED VAN GOGH TO PAINT A STARRY NIGHT AGAIN.”

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1 The internationally acclaimed Mill Valley Film Festival returns in early October, led by longtime festival director Mark Fishkin, who founded the event in what year—the sum of whose digits is 24?

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2 What coffee brand is named after the French phrase ‘without caffeine?’

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3 Which country was first to land a spacecraft on the moon? What was the spaceship’s name?

4 What superstar released her 35th music album on August 26, entitled ENCORE: Movie Partners Sing Broadway?

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6 What three U.S. state names begin with vowels, and have two-word capital cities?

7 What food condiment, that goes well with fish and chips, is made from mayonnaise, chopped pickles, capers and onions, and has a Russian name?

8 The steps of what public building in New York City are guarded by stone lions? What are the lions’ names?

9 America’s first college fraternity was founded in 1776, in the country’s second oldest college. Which fraternity and which college?

10 What is the two-word name for the moment around September 22 of each

year when day and night are approximately equal in length?

BONUS QUESTION: Which U.S. President has been portrayed in more films than any other, perhaps 130 to 150 times?

▲ Breast cancer survivors will model the latest styles at the Breast Cancer Foundation’s Stepping Out To Celebrate Life annual gala next week.

Though some of the models are currently battling the disease and undergoing treatment, they’ll sashay down the runway escorted by prominent physicians to raise funds for the foundation’s grants program. By distributing money to local nonprofit organizations, the program helps provide services for underserved populations living with breast cancer. Help support this worthy cause by attending the gala, which includes gourmet dining, a fashion show, live music, dancing and an auction.

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▼ Cardboard boxes housed 34 cats and kittens that were abandoned outside of the Marin Humane Society (MHS) during the middle of the night last week. It’s the fifth time in the last four years that a clandestine crew has dumped dozens of black and white “tuxedo” felines at the shelter along with a note asking that homes be found. Since the cats aren’t spayed or neutered, MHS believes they may come from a hoarding situation and wants to offer help to resolve the overbreeding.

C’mon, the group deserting these charming creatures knows this shouldn’t continue and they need to come forward. In the meantime, you’ll be the cat’s meow if you adopt one of these captivating creatures. No adoption fees for adult cats through September.—Nikki Silverstein

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Bill AB 1066 was passed as California’s agriculture industry faced billions in losses in 2015. The biggest drop was in the dairy industry.

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nja Raudabaugh, CEO of Western United Dairymen in Sacramento, published an eyebrow-raising memo on August 26 in response to the debate underway in the California State Legislature over a contentious effort to overhaul the state’s overtime rules for farmworkers.

Raudabaugh, whose organization lobbies on behalf of state dairy farmers, was responding to implicit charges that opponents of proposed overtime extensions to farmworkers had played the proverbial race card, and the lobbyist flat-out went off on legislators who had thrown the card into the debate. “The snowflake culture, a culture that some belong to and feel entitlement is owed and due,” she wrote on the Dairymen’s online newsletter, “is one that utilizes the cry-

bully tactic and calls its enemies racists, slavers, and falsely sows the seeds of hatred to damage the logical optics in play on an issue.”

The correct view in this case, she added, is a focus on choice—as in, the choice of workers to labor in the fields, which was theirs to make. The “logical optic with the allowance of agricultural overtime—along with many other industries and sectors that have been given the exemption to overtime, is that this is a VOLUNTARY method for people in this state to make money and decide for themselves how to feed their families.

Eliciting phony racism sentiments and likening agriculture to slavery is the lowest point the conversation could have gone. I don’t think the leadership’s capacity for loathing agriculture could be matched with this low blow.”

Raudabaugh’s note did not mention that, as harsh as it may sound, dairy farmers themselves are not obligated to participate in their chosen industry, but let’s set that aside for the moment.

The bill, AB 1066, was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown in Sacramento on Monday, September 12. It was passed through the Legislature with healthy majorities, and will phase in new overtime rules over the next nine years. The bill was also passed without the support of most of the North Bay delegation to Sacramento, a curious development given that they’re all Democrats and this is a very ag-oriented region where there is general consensus that farmworkers are a struggling class of workers whose efforts are critical to the economic well-being of the region.

But there you have it. Senators Mike McGuire and Jim Wood joined assemblymen Bill Dodd and Marc Levine to either vote against the bill or abstain from voting. Napa senator Lois Wolk was alone among North Bay legislators to vote aye for time-anda-half hourly overtime wages at the heart of the bill, which was sponsored

by San Diego Democrat Lorena Gonzalez and offers a phased-in overtime regime for agriculture workers, beginning in 2019. Farms with operations of fewer than 25 workers will be phased in beginning in 2022.

In voting no, the former Republican Dodd emailed in advance of the Labor Day holiday to say that, “I had concerns with the bill that weren’t worked out, so I wasn’t able to support it. I’m supportive of what it’s trying to do, but I want to ensure that changes are balanced and crafted in a way that minimizes unintended negative consequences.”

There lies the rub behind legislators’ no votes and abstentions from the final vote, whose rationales tended toward an implied critique of its onesize-fits-all approach to agricultural workers that lumped dairy and cattle workers in with fieldworkers. Dodd’s district is exceedingly agricultural in its fidelity to Big Grape, but you’d be hard-pressed to find a dairy farm in Napa County.

McGuire offered a more specifically anguished reasoning behind his didnot-vote posture on the bill. He’s got dairy and grape farms in his district, which includes all of Marin and most of Sonoma County.

“This was a difficult decision,” McGuire says via email. “I’m never going to vote against farmworkers, which is why I stayed off the bill. The concerns we advanced relating to small family farmers and dairy owners here on the North Coast were never addressed. Given the tight time frame of this bill we were unable to find middle ground.” Lawmakers signed off on the overtime measure in the lastminute legislative scramble before the Labor Day break, when bills had to be moved or scrapped.

Dairy owners are already paying more than twice the average wage than fieldworkers, according to advocates I talked to who represent those respective workers. Factor in a state dairy industry that is already highly subsidized—which could collapse without annual federal subsidies to prop it up and where the price of milk is essentially socialized with state-set price controls—and the no votes begin to make a little more sense, despite the clear and obvious socialjustice question at the heart of the farmworker wage battle.

Because of the price controls and rules governing the subsidies, dairy farmers can’t pass off increased labor costs to consumers if they are forced to pay higher wages. Non-dairy farmers were also opposed to the new overtime bill and argued that it would force them to further automate their operations to make up for the workers they’d no longer be able to afford to hire or pay.

But let’s back up a minute here. To understand the genesis of Raudabaugh’s juicy online riposte—whose “snowflake culture” language is more typically seen in rightward-leaning discourses that slam college campuses over trigger warnings and safe spaces as a bulwark against the dreaded onslaught of the oversensitized and politically correct—the overtime bill aims to move California beyond federal overtime rules that date back to the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt and are enshrined in The Federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which, as AB 1066 itself recalls, “excluded agricultural workers from wage protections and overtime compensation requirements.”

California, as Raudabaugh observes, is one of four states where overtime pay does kick in for all farmworkers, at a 60-hours-worked threshold. The bill that Brown signed offers overtime pay

overtime benefits for their workers through collective bargaining instead of pushing through the Legislature a wholesale redo of the entire agriculture-worker economy, where fieldworkers earn an average of $9 an hour, says Bennett, though dairy workers are in the $21-an-hour range, according to Raudabaugh. A collectivebargaining set-to was always going to be a losing fight, say observers of the process, and supportive lawmakers led by Gonzalez took up the call this year to force the issue across the board, from grape field to milking station.

There’s a big difference between picking grapes and milking or slaughtering cattle, and Raudabaugh says that higher wages are paid to cattle-workers because of regulations and sanitary requirements and the cattle themselves, who must be managed in a responsible and humane way. Because of the skill set and particularities of the industry, she says “we want to hire the most competitive labor possible.”

The particulars of the dairy industry are also distinct from other agricultural pursuits when it comes to those subsidies and price controls.

According to federal data compiled by the Washington, D.C.–based Environmental Working Group, between 1995 and 2014, the Sonoma County dairy industry received $17 million in federal subsidies out of a total of $95 million that flowed to the county, the highest subsidy delivered to any sector of the economy, including emergency services.

Marin County, which hosts numerous small- and mid-size dairy operations that provide some of the country’s most sought-after and delicious dairy and cheese products, not to mention the beef itself, got $6 million in subsidies over that same time, out of a total of $13 million.

Clover Stornetta works closely with 28 family farms in Sonoma and Marin counties to make its organic milk products in Petaluma, says company CEO Marcus Benedetti, who adds that “the impacts are on their cost side” as he highlights the price controls that restrict any North Bay dairy operation’s ability to cover increased labor costs with a higher price at the market. And he notes the particulars of the local dairy economy itself, where workers at some dairies that contract with Clover Stornetta are housed onsite—a form of compensation in the high-rent North Bay. “In many cases, it’s a community,” Benedetti says of local dairy operations, adding that “not all dairy is monolithic in the state of California, and these farms here are vastly different than what you’ll find in the Central Valley,” with its

corporate and decidedly non-organic mega-dairies.

In a recent interview, the Dairymen’s Raudabaugh reflected on her blistering critique of the Sacramento snowflake crowd with a chuckle as she defended the pushback against social-justice arguments for the bill that focuses on race. “I do think the race card was played here, and once that rabbit hole was gone down, it became a very difficult argument to overcome logically,” she says.

Raudabaugh, who has been in her post since 2015 and was once a staffer for former Republican Congressman Doug Ose, stresses that she is “respectful of the dynamics; this is a social-justice issue and I am cognizant of that.”

But she says the race card tainted what should have been a rugged and logic-driven debate over the catch-all nature of a bill that did not distinguish between respective groups of farmworkers and failed to appreciate the struggling margins that dairy farmers, many of them minorities, already occupy.

“It’s really deployed when you have no merits left in the argument,” Raudabaugh says, noting that “we have a very Latino- and black-owner industry, my owners are across the board, but that is not how it was depicted.”

The final bill, with its phase-in of the overtime changes, appears on its surface to be a compromise bill that reflected input from concerned parties such as the Dairymen. Raudabaugh says the lobby has expressed its misgivings to Brown and worked to create a better bill for its members despite ultimately opposing it. And despite the phase-in period designed to lessen the blow on farmers’ bottom lines, she says dairy workers are already fretting. “The scramble is already on to see how to make this work without having to let people go.”

Why weren’t there two separate tracks or a bill that excluded dairy and cattle farms from its scope? “Believe me,” she says, “the Dairymen talked about it but there was no separate effort” by any legislators to offer a bill that would be “better tailored to the types of commodities that we are looking at. There is an intense harvest period for cabbage, for grapes,” she adds. Dairy work is not seasonal or subject to high-season hiring spikes and “some of the more logical lawmakers who did not know that were put into a corner, and there was no way for them to win that corner,” she says. The fix was in when lawmakers started making speeches about how their relatives were sharecroppers, she says, while stressing

that she’s not unsympathetic to the history.

“I don’t discount those things,” she says, even if many lawmakers did not appreciate the particularities of the dairy and cattle industries as they made speeches over past racial sins and tied them to the current battle.

Marc Levine was among the lawmakers whose position synced with the dairy industry. The lawmaker’s district, which straddles Marin and Sonoma counties, produces many millions of dollars a year in specialty organic cheeses and dairy products, and Raudabaugh says her office discussed the bill with the two-term Democratic assemblyman “at great length.” Levine didn’t vote for the bill, and Raudabaugh notes that his district is filled with the putatively progressive new-economy farmers, “the smaller producers, the non-GMO, the grassfedbeef ones—those are the ones that are going to take this the hardest.”

In a telephone interview, Levine says it was a difficult call to abstain but insists it was the right call. The lawmaker notes that he has supported other efforts designed to address income inequality and that he spoke to Gonzalez about the unintended consequence her bill would bring to family dairies. The major unintended consequence he fears is that farm owners will put “downward pressure on the number of hours on the schedule” and reduce work hours for all their workers and tear at the “amazing but fragile dairy economy” of the North Bay. Levine says he is all for raising the wages of the lowest paid and lowest skilled farmworkers but sees a value in pushing on other fronts to get at the strain on the weekly paycheck and the person signing the check—affordable housing being the standout concern in the North Bay, not to mention the boutique nature of much of the dairy action here. “It’s challenging to distinguish between multibilliondollar ag enterprises and dairy farms that young entrepreneurs are trying to start with a commitment to the local ethic,” he says. “I want to treat all workers fairly,” he adds and highlights, for example, efforts that small-time operators put into providing on-site housing for their workers.

But legislators’ efforts to cleave cattle from the overtime bill did not ultimately hold sway. Once the specter of race was raised, Levine says “it became a difficult conversation, and unfortunately the national political conversation today is quite toxic.”

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through a phase-in period and by the time it’s fully implemented, overtime would kick in at 40 hours worked, for all workers, in 2025.

Marty Bennett of North Bay Jobs with Justice, which vociferously and unsurprisingly supported the overtime overhaul, says that the bill is “at least a half a century overdue and it really does go back to the era of segregation, when African-Americans were cut out of wage-hour legislation because of Southern segregationists in Congress.

Roosevelt cut a deal with the racists,” who at the time were Southern Democrats hell-bent on enforcing Jim Crow, often through lynching and other terror tactics. It was an ugly compromise for its dust-bowl time, but what does that have to do with Northern California Democrats in 2016?

Well, sure, there’s a drought. And AB 1066 was passed amid an unpleasantly anxious backdrop as California’s agriculture industry faced almost $9 billion in losses in 2015, according to an annual state crop report issued last week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that garnered headlines around California. The biggest drop was in the dairy industry, which accounted for about one-third of the total lost revenues between 2014 and 2015, and which saw state output plummet from $56.5 billion to $47 billion. The trickledown impacts have been just shy of disastrous for the dairy industry, as hundreds of dairy operations have been driven out of business around the state since the advent of the drought.

The drought extends to North Bay fieldworkers themselves, who are very definitely feeling the pinch of low wages and could use a rainmaker of their own to come to the rescue. An October 2015 report from the Sonoma County Department of Health Services focused on farmworkers’ health and well-being, and is filled with awful stats that tell the story of a woefully underpaid workforce that binge-drinks too much and can’t afford the rent as it noted that 92 percent of farmworker families didn’t “earn enough to meet their family’s basic needs in Sonoma County.” The survey highlighted a “dramatic disparity between farmworkers and even the poorest Sonoma County residents.”

And the USDA report found confluence in Sonoma County, where the 2015 crop report found a “dramatic decrease in yield” between 2014 and 2015 which translated into a 14 percent decrease in total crop value over those two years—$756 million from $879 million in 2014.

As the overtime battle unfolded, critics noted that the United Farm Workers, which represents California laborers, could have fought for

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Capsule of time Team behind ‘Inverness Almanac’ keeps literary tradition alive

By Flora Tsapovsky

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o one could predict that the internet and social media would turn the spotlight on niche magazines and indie press initiatives. And yet, according to market reports and sources like TheMediaBriefing.com, there’s never been a better time to be a quality publication. In publishing, some say, it is the golden age of small, independent presses and publishing houses, as they manage to push the boundaries while their established colleagues compete for the next ‘big’ series or future

bestseller. Alternative magazines, following Kinfolk’s and Lucky Peach’s footsteps, are equally blossoming. Sometimes funded by crowdsourcing sites like Kickstarter, and often artfully designed and imaginatively edited, they provide an alternative to the media cycle, in which ‘recycling’ is now a key word. Unlike nationally circulating lifestyle brands, each independent magazine carries a small testament of place, and of the atmosphere and area in which it was created. No wonder niche magazines are increasingly called ‘time capsules.’

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Jeremy Harris, Katie Eberle and Ben Livingston (let to right), three of the five creators of the ‘Inverness Almanac,’ work in the ‘Almanac’ office above the Old Western Saloon in Pt. Reyes Station.

you enjoy the richness of what it tells you, or the way it looks on your coffee table, it can satisfy the consumer desire on levels of both function and form.”

Since emerging on the scene, the Almanac has served as part magazine, part calendar, with seasonally-based literature and recipes, illustrations, art, a calendar with information regarding tide charts specific to Tomales Bay, solar and lunar cycles and notifications of natural events; plants blooming, birds migrating, ocean currents changing. Now, the team is hoping to bring the same natural and cultural sensibilities into publishing.

“Mount Vision Press started as a way to continue and broaden the work of the Almanac,” Livingston says. “We have gotten to know so many talented writers and artists

while working on this project, and being able to give their work more space, say, a book, is very exciting.”

According to Livingston, the press, like the Almanac, will gently balance on the local-global scale.

“It won’t necessarily focus on West Marin work, but it is a fertile starting ground,” he says. “We intend to publish work that is honest, grounded, and contributes to the larger conversation of making sense of life in these times.”

The main reason for discontinuing work on the Almanac, Harris explains, is a desire to move on to publishing other books, like the first forthcoming Mount Vision Press title Journeywork, a collection of poetry by David Bailey. “In the Almanac’s format, we can only showcase so much of someone’s work,” he says. »10

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The first issue came together with the help from the local community of artists, writers and artisans. “We put the word out that we’d be collecting submissions to form a publication about our landscape— the place, the people who live here and what gets made here,” Harris says, and submissions poured in. By Volume Four, which will be released this month, the team “received many more attractive submissions than we had space to include.”

Embodying the West Marin spirit, the Inverness Almanac has been, nevertheless, sold in some of the best boutiques and decor stores in the Bay Area and beyond. “The spirit of the Almanac communicates universally to anyone who appreciates the natural world and the many ways humans artistically respond to it,” Harris says. “Whether

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This is very much the case with the Inverness Almanac, a biannual print publication from West Marin, a region abundant with past niche publications; Floating Island and Estero are well-loved and good examples.

With only four volumes since its inception around two years ago, Inverness Almanac managed to set a certain tone. On each cover, an image from nature is featured. Inside, local poetry, art, scientific texts and inspirational ideas fill the pages.

This month, the team behind the publication puts it to rest to focus on their next adventure— Mount Vision Press—without really leaving the niche category. The group consists of Jordan Atanat, 34, a woodworker from Point Reyes Station, Katie Eberle, 30, a radio host, DJ and designer from Marshall, Ben Livingston, 28, a farmer and musician from Inverness, Jeremy Harris, 30, a musician from Inverness and Nina Pick, 33, a poet and editor who currently travels all over.

The five came together united by their love of West Marin and creativity, and married their individual skills. “We were inspired both by the beauty of West Marin, as well as the rich community of artists, writers and naturalists who live here,” Harris says. “West Marin also has a tradition of local publications such as Floating Island, Tomales Bay Times, Pacific Plate, West Marin Review.

Basically the Inverness Almanac is the publication that we wished to exist. It didn’t, so we decided to create it.”

Ben Livingston remembers the exact conversation that encouraged him to join. “The idea was brought forth around a campfire in Bolinas.

Jordan Atanat told me about his vision for a local publication and I was immediately on board. It was a perfect venue for sharing my experience of the landscape I had grown up in, as well as embarking on a larger creative project than I ever had before.”

While “the dreaming phase flowed pretty easy,” according to Livingston, the practical part was educational, to say the least. According to Harris, the Almanac has been printed in Minnesota and Wisconsin, to avoid the high costs of the Bay Area. There were other obstacles, too: “There is the actual making of the book, and then there is interfacing with printers, figuring out business structures, promoting the book, selling the book, planning release parties, on and on,” Livingston recalls. “Dealing with the business side of things is probably the most difficult for me.”

Jordan Atanat, Katie Eberle, Jeremy Harris, Ben Livingston and Nina Pick (left to right), the team behind the ‘Inverness Almanac.’

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“Being able to give some of the work a book’s-worth of space is really valuable.”

Both Livingston and Harris are naturally huge fans of print and limited editions, despite “using computers and the internet every day.” They must be. Why else would a group of young people, with startups and endless app entrepreneurs in close proximity, decide to print something as intricate as the Almanac, or a poetry book? In the fourth and last volume, for example, the readers can find a partial lexicon of Miwok, “an ancient language that was spoken here way before us,” Livingston says.

Not your average bit of information,

but that seems to be the point.

“The internet has harkened the rise of attention-span-deprived, ephemeral media consumption,” Harris says. “What’s popular or interesting one day is forgotten the next. We think smaller publications are trying to resist the tide of everything moving to the internet, to create something meaningful and lasting, something you can hold in your hands and have a relationship with.”

Physical location, in the case of this literary project, has something to do with it. “Marin is in a special position of being in the liminal zone of urban and rural,” Livingston says.

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—Jeremy Harris “The wilderness of Point Reyes and the influence of a global city nearby can coalesce into something both rooted in the local forest but looking outward into the world at large.”

“There might be a bit of an anticorporate sentiment expressed by some more overtly than others,” Harris adds. “We’re interested in real things made by real people. Also, the Inverness Almanac doesn’t require a battery, doesn’t hit you with blue light before bed and doesn’t advertise to you, which are all very nice things.”

And, unlike many technological grand schemes of Silicon Valley, sustaining a publication like the Almanac, aside from the hardships of figuring out Tomales Bay tides and layout, sounds pretty easy: “All it takes is a tiny room and a lot of Pu-erh tea,” Harris says, nonchalantly.

On September 17 at Love Field in Point Reyes Station, you can raise a cup of Leaves & Flowers tea with Harris and the rest of the team, at a big party geared towards celebrating the final volume of the Almanac, and the transition to Mount Vision Press.

Multiple bands will play, the food will be provided by Casa Mañana, and the beer by Lagunitas.

“With [Mount Vision Press], as with the Almanac, we’re not as interested in capitalizing on the moment as we are in making things we’ll want to enjoy for, hopefully, decades,” Harris says.Y ‘Inverness Almanac’/Mount Vision Press party, Saturday, Sept. 17, 4pm-10pm; Love Field, Point Reyes Station; $20 at the door; $10 ages 12-18; under age 12 free; mountvisionpress.com.

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Getting to Know the Heart of an Athlete

by Brian G. Keeffe, MD, FACC, Cardiologist & Medical Director, Marin General Hospital Cardiovascular Performance Center

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s a cardiologist caring for patients in Marin for more than 10 years, I have long since learned the importance of regular exercise for lowering long-term cardiovascular risk. The American Heart Association recommends at least 30 minutes of moderate intensity aerobic activity at least 5 days a week, or at least 25 minutes of vigorous aerobic activity at least 3 days per week, or a combination of both.

If you are an exercise enthusiast as so many of us who live in Marin County are, you are likely meeting and exceeding those basic requirements with regular trips to the gym, or hiking, or biking on the weekends.

Marin County also has more of its share of endurance and competitive athletes, who participate in sports such as triathlons, long distance running, open water swimming, rowing, or endurance bicycle races or gran fondos. Most of these athletes set ambitious goals for themselves such as increasing the distance run or cycled or coming across the finish line with faster times. Whatever the goal, these athletes must be able to depend that their hearts, lungs, and muscles are working efficiently and at top levels.

Because of my own interest and participation in endurance sports, I have developed a strong interest in a new field called sports cardiology. Sports cardiology focuses on helping athletes of all levels stay healthy and active. This includes diagnosing and treating cardiac symptoms or condi-

tions in athletes, decreasing the risk of heart disease development in athletes, and improving the cardiovascular health of athletes at all levels.

In a sports cardiology practice, for example, I consult with patients who have existing or suspected heart disease and who want to find out if they can safely return to or participate in sports. I may evaluate recreational athletes who want to increase fitness levels safely and effectively. I may assess high level, endurance athletes, knowing they are fit but who want to be able to perform at the highest levels safely. I also commonly assess patients who have unexplained symptoms or exercise intolerance who want to know if they can continue to exercise or even begin an exercise program after a time of inactivity.

In all these cases, the goal is to be able to understand, diagnose and test the heart’s performance in the context as athletic individuals. We perform comprehensive cardiovascular and physiologic testing to assess the athlete, including history, physical exam, electrocardiography, echocardiography, and exercise testing tailored to the patient’s sport of choice and often including cardiopulmonary exercise testing.

The heart is a miraculous organ, beating 100,000 times a day, 35 million times a year and about two billion times in an average lifetime. Because of the great dependability of the heart, patients at times may take it for granted by not paying attention to the tenets of good cardiovascular health – starting with a heart healthy diet and regular exercise. For athletes especially, the heart

is something that should not be taken for granted.

That’s why I am excited to announce a new resource for athletes from beginners to experienced and competitive endurance athletes, the Marin General Hospital Cardiovascular Performance Center, which is opening this fall in Novato. The center will offer a number of services including comprehensive cardiovascular screening, evaluation of cardiovascular symptoms, assessment of unexplained drops in exercise performance, evaluation of cardiovascular risk factors, clearance for returning to sports participation, and advanced exercise testing, including cardiopulmonary exercise testing.

For more information about sports cardiology or Marin General Hospital’s new Cardiovascular Performance Center, visit www.maringeneral.org/cpc.

Note: Dr. Keeffe has competed twice in the Leadville 100 mountain bike race at 10,000 feet elevation in Leadville Colorado. He has also completed multiple sport distance off road triathlons, and is a regular competitor in Marin’s Dipsea Race.

Dr. Keeffe has been working with members of the San Rafael Fire Department for the past five years, testing their cardiac status through electrocardiogram exercise testing as well as their exercise fitness through cardiopulmonary exercise testing. “It gives me great satisfaction to help the firefighters in the city I live in,” he says.

For more information, please contact: Cardiovascular Performance Center 1-415-306-3694.

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A goal of Vines Wine Shop & Bar is to offer guests wine from beyond the nearby popular wine regions.

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New discoveries A tour of the world, through vino, at Vines Wine Shop & Bar By Tanya Henry

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’ve always been a social butterfly,” says Vines Wine Shop & Bar owner Desiree Richard, who moved to Marin with her family two years ago from Boulder and opened her shop last fall in San Anselmo’s Red Hill Shopping Center. The engineerturned-retailer/wine educator couldn’t be a more enthusiastic ambassador for the industry.

“I want people to be comfortable and not intimidated—I want them to discover new wines they have never heard of before,” Richard says, adding that she will never stock wines that are sold in big-box stores. Instead, her intention is to educate folks about lesser-known varietals and bottles coming from further away than just our nearby famous wine regions.

A handsome and inviting 10-seat bar has replaced aisles filled with DVDs (from former longtime tenant Silver Screen Video). Tables and comfortable chairs share the space with the retail portion of the store, where wines are shelved alongside one entire wall.

Perhaps the most interesting, if slightly confusing aspect of Vines is just how many different options customers have. Flight tastings of three different offerings from the wine on tap system are available for a reasonably priced $8.

If someone prefers to purchase a bottle

and consume it at the bar, that’s also an option (there is an $8 sitting fee).

In addition, 20 different by-the-glass selections are available. And finally, just stopping in to pick up a bottle for dinner or a gift is also encouraged.

As someone who is reasonably knowledgeable about wine, I was pleased to discover a delicious Damilano Langhe Arneis from the Piedmont region of Italy, made from 100 percent arneis grapes that Richard described as a wine that would be produced “if sauvignon blanc and pinot gris had a baby.”

For the retail side of the business, wines are primarily displayed by region. Bottles from Spain, France, Italy and South Africa all have designated areas. In addition, sparkling wines, champagne, proseccos and cavas are shelved together.

Along with a small menu of cheese, charcuterie and nibbles, more than 10 carefully selected beers are also available. But it’s really wine that is in the spotlight here, and with Richard’s gregarious personality, there’s a good chance that like me, you, too, will be introduced to something delicious that you never even knew existed.Y Vines Wine Shop & Bar, 906 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., San Anselmo; 415/5215500; vineswineshopandbar.com.

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Coming home Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival celebrates 60 years of creativity and community

By David Templeton

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hen one of the North Bay’s most beloved, enduring, eccentric and characteristically “Marin” events turns 60 years old, there must be an enormous amount of pressure to really deliver something big, something different, something new.

Right?

“The opposite is true,” says Steven Bajor, executive director of the Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival (MVFAF), returning on September 17 and 18 to Old Mill Park for its sexagennial gathering of artists, musicians, food purveyors and redwood-loving revelers. “I think what we’re enjoying here is a real renaissance in community interest, and community involvement, in the event.”

Much of that interest, he

says, is rooted in the small-town simplicity and throw-back charm of a gathering that, in many ways, defines what is special about Mill Valley, and what continues to be its alluring draw despite changes that, to some, have forever altered the nature of the town.

With nearly 150 artists displaying works that include handcrafted pottery, woodworking, jewelry, fashion, crafts, paintings, sculptures, prints and more, the event continues to attract people from all over the Bay Area. The music, too, is a major part of the event’s enduring popularity, a throwback to a time when local musicians gathered in the town square, residents could stroll the streets enjoying local artists’ paintings on display in shop windows, and then return to the square for more music.

“There was a time,” Bajor says,

“for anyone growing up in Mill Valley, when there wasn’t ever a question of whether or not you played a musical instrument—but what musical instrument you played. It’s no surprise that so many good musicians grew up in the area, back in the ’60s and ’70s.”

According to Bajor, the recent influx of new folks to Mill Valley, drawn from the city by a promise of good schools and a higher quality of life, may have chased away oldtimers with memories of a much more affordable, patently more bohemian and artsy population, but at least the new arrivals are showing an interest in becoming part of the fabric of the town. Keeping alive such historic institutions as the MVFAF—and keeping it the way it’s always been—Bajor suggests, has become a clear goal of a number of relatively new Mill Valley residents.

The Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival runs Saturday and Sunday, September 17 and 18, at Old Mill Park, Throckmorton Ave. and Cascade Drive, Mill Valley; 10am to 5pm; $10 general; $5 seniors and students; free for children under 12; mvfaf.org.

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Marin artist Tom Killion has exhibited his work at the Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival since he was 16 years old.

“We’re getting a lot of support,” he says. “A great number of things are being accomplished in the event’s 60th year, that are based on a whole new level of energy and enthusiasm.”

The entertainment at this year’s event, per tradition, will be divided into performances on the Main Stage, near the library, and a “Children’s Grove,” where magic, marionettes, youth-based choruses and something called “Octopretzel” will be keeping the kids amused. On the Main Stage, the music will range from bluegrass and Americana to New Orleans and gypsy jazz, slack-key guitar, and good old Mill Valley rock ’n’ roll.

The location, tucked in and around a grove of towering redwoods, makes for an interesting set of challenges when figuring out where to put so many artists, musicians, visitors and food booths.

“It’s a very difficult site for artists to get into and get out of, that’s for sure,” says Bajor, “but the natural beauty of the redwoods gives it a real sense of home, and environmental atmosphere. That makes it all worth it.”

As a result of the kinds of changes he referred to earlier, Bajor says that the geographic picture of the attending artists is such that participants—many of whom once lived in the area but moved away—now come from all over for the weekend. While there are a number of longtime locals who still show up to display their work, a large number of artists, new and old, commute many miles for the chance to show off their talents against one of the most beautiful landscapes in the state.

“There’s a definite homecoming vibe for this event,” he says. “On the art level, definitely, but even more so on the community level.

Folks know this is one of the few affordable annual arts events where they can come and see old friends, get caught up and share that social dynamic that makes it such a vital piece of being in community with others. And in this case, we get to do it in the context of art, and music, and food and beauty.”Y

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Charles Brousse dreams of a day when playhouses across the country will offer insightful perspectives on America’s ever-evolving social landscape.

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By Charles Brousse

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friend of mine, who had read the first part of these musings (‘Deconstructed,’ Aug. 31) about current trends, asked me what I meant by our failure to create an “American National Theater.” Did I mean a place, an actual building like the National Theatre in London? And what, exactly, derailed the project?

No, I said. The answer to the first question is that what I was writing about was more an aspiration, a dream that one day playhouses (large and small) throughout the country would feature our best writers (old and new), telling stories that offered insightful perspectives on America’s ever-evolving social landscape. In fact, it almost happened. Roughly between Eugene

O’Neill’s Ah Wilderness! in the early ’30s to Edward Albee’s 1962 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, all the elements seemed in place.

Here’s how it worked. New plays by established or especially talented new writers were usually born in New York, on or off-Broadway. From there, the cream of each year’s crop moved on to the large regional theaters, either as touring productions or as in-house projects. The final step in this progression was the amateur, or semi-amateur community playhouses, of which there were—and still are— literally hundreds scattered across the nation. At every level, critics, newspapers and magazines published judgments that, along with audience response, influenced whether a

particular work had the potential to be included in the “standard repertoire.”

Of course, that arrangement wasn’t popular with everybody. Emerging playwrights who weren’t part of the New York network complained about the difficulty of getting their scripts produced. Regional companies didn’t like the long waiting periods before production rights were released.

Nevertheless, for a few decades, America had what I might call a sustainable “theatrical ecosystem” that nurtured a generation of outstanding writers and engaged the culturally aware public with familiar names and play titles.

By the end of the century, that ecosystem had almost totally collapsed.

It didn’t happen overnight. Albee, Neil

Simon and David Mamet continued to write plays that received widespread distribution into the ’80s and beyond.

Newcomer Tony Kushner made a splash with Angels in America (1991), but that play, which originated in San Francisco’s old Eureka Theater before moving to New York instead of the other way around, signaled the start of a new era.

The reasons for such a catastrophic ecosystem collapse are many. It began at the center. Burdened by high production costs and declining audiences, Broadway turned to megamusicals to justify the soaring ticket prices. As drama at the national level lost prestige and funding, writers migrated to the greener pastures of movies and TV, or turned their attention to the major regional theaters that were offering play development programs. The public was lured away by competing forms of entertainment and changing tastes. Informed criticism waned as newspapers closed and the remaining few outlets cut their staff. (The Bay Area, with its 7.5 million inhabitants, has for some time had only one regional daily newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, which employs one full-time theater critic.)

The result? With just about every theater, large and small, loudly extolling its “world” or “Bay Area” premieres of works by writers (many of them local) whose names and performance records are unfamiliar, how does anyone decide what is worth seeing? For a while, Shakespeare filled the void. At least that was a recognizable name and body of work. Lately, though, “authentic Shakespeare”—that is, productions that have not been tinkered with too much and have actors and directors who respect the playwright and have the necessary skills—is becoming harder and harder to find.

So where is this all leading? Nobody talks about an American National Theater anymore. Every company has a different audience, with different tastes. I think people will identify their favorites and trust that what they will be seeing is worth their time, money and effort. While some guidance may come from the few of us who are still active critics, and there are numerous blogs of varying quality that offer online advice, I can imagine a seamless process in which you search the web for what’s on, punch in a ticket order on your smartphone without knowing much about the play’s content and reserve a driverless car that will transport you to the chosen venue.

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Tom Hanks plays pilot Chesley Sullenberger in Clint Eastwood’s ‘Sully,’ about a US Airways flight that made an emergency landing on the Hudson River on January 15, 2009.

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lint Eastwood’s often pretty good Sully is highlighted by the self-effacing underacting of Tom Hanks as Chesley Sullenberger. Hanks plays the Diablo Valley-based pilot as a dream movie hero, soft-spoken and reluctant to accept praise. Though nerveless in the cockpit, the fear only strikes him later on when he’s alone in the bath, or out jogging off the anxiety.

Winging to Charlotte, North Carolina from New York’s LaGuardia Airport, US Airways Flight 1549 encountered a flock of Canadian geese.

The birds exploded both engines on the Airbus A320. Eastwood’s film suggests that the real ordeal was to come: Suspicious questions from government agents who believed that Sullenberger could have brought the jet home to one of two nearby airports, instead of splashing down on the Hudson River.

It’s all natural material for a movie.

The silent, powerless jet gliding over the Manhattan skyscapes is bad enough on an ordinary screen; on IMAX it must be terrifying. Hanks handles the plane with fear swallowed down, leaving a rugged Aaron Eckhart (as Flight 1549’s first officer Jeff Skiles) to give up the larger reactions. As in American Sniper, there’s a nervous wife at home; a squandered Laura Linney

doing the acting over the telephone that she was satirizing last May on Inside Amy Schumer.

The indication of government ill will has been criticized by National Transportation Safety Board officials, who don’t enjoy being presented as villains. Perhaps they shouldn’t have taken it personally. Clint Eastwood has been in an unusual business for more than 50 years, and I suspect he thinks that air agencies operate in the same way as the movie world does.

Why else would the committees, in their beige meeting rooms, look so much like a film press junket in which half the critics present aren’t convinced by a story they’re hearing?

We all know what Eastwood thinks of Michael Moore. So it’s bemusing that Moore caught an angle on Sully’s post-Flight 1549 career that Eastwood neglects, in his documentary Capitalism: A Love Story. Rather than the victim of a nasty government agency, Sully was the man who asked the government to help airline pilots during a congressional hearing.

The stand shows what kind of man Sullenberger is: Someone who saved lives, not just because of his own remarkable skills and guts, but because of sterling technology and the strength of regulations.Y

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Friday, September 16 - Thursday September 22 Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III (3:00) The cutting-edge London theatre company presents Ralph Fiennes and Vanessa Redgrave in the Bard’s brilliant drama of political intrigue.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (1:41) The groundbreaking modern dance company performs four outstanding works: Grace, Takademe, Chroma and the troupe’s signature tour de force, Revelations.

Author: The JT LeRoy Story (2:03) Documentary focuses on San Francisco housewife Laura Albert, whose fictional alter ego JT LeRoy captivated the cognoscenti for over a decade.

Bad Moms (1:41) Three overstressed, overworked suburban mamas go on a long-overdue binge of bad behavior; Mila Kunis stars.

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week—The Touring Years (1:46) Ron Howard’s authorized documentary focuses on the band’s early years through rare footage and interviews with Paul, Ringo and other luminaries.

Blair Witch (1:30) Reboot of the 1999 horror sensation about a troupe of young dolts who venture into the woods in search of spooky stuff, and find it.

Bridget Jones’s Baby (2:05) Renée Zellweger is back as the chronically befuddled Brit, now navigating her fateful 40s.

David Bowie Is (1:39) Take a behind-the-scenes tour of the Victoria & Albert Museum’s treasurefilled 2013 exhibition celebrating the late rocker’s life and art.

The Disappointments Room (1:32) Yet another perky family moves to yet another gothic Southern mansion and grapples with yet another evil force of nature.

Dr. Strangelove Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1:33) Icy Kubrick comedy about a paranoid general, a fully equipped B-52 and the end of the world; Peter Sellers stars as a clipped British major, a demented Nazi scientist and the President of the United States.

Don’t Breathe (1:28) Horror flick about three thieves who break into the wrong spooky old mansion.

Globe On Screen: Richard II (2:40) The Bard’s epic tale of a weak-willed king, the corruption of power and the power of rebellion, brought to you direct from the banks of the Thames.

Hell or High Water (1:42) Two embittered brothers go on a bank-robbing spree … until they come up against aging Texas Ranger Jeff Bridges.

Hillsong: Let Hope Rise (1:48) Documentary follows the Australian Christian rock band on stage and into the recording studio.

The Hollars (1:28) A New York artist returns to his hometown and has to navigate his mother’s illness, resurfacing memories and his goofball family; Richard Jenkins stars.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (1:41) Wry New Zealand adventure comedy about the unlikely relationship between a cranky backwoodsman and his fellow outlaw, a 13-year-old out-of-hiselement city boy.

Indignation (1:50) The Philip Roth novel hits the big screen with Logan Lerman as a workingclass Jewish boy from Newark trying to fit into a midcentury Midwestern college town.

Ixcanul (1:33) Guatemalan folktale about the forbidden love between a young Mayan and a girl betrothed to the owner of a coffee plantation.

Jason Bourne (2:03) The amnesiac secret agent is back, trying once again to unlock the secrets of his past; Paul Greengrass directs Matt Damon, of course.

Kubo and the Two Strings (1:41) Animated action fantasy about the epic battle between three Japanese villagers and a gang of vengeful spirits; Charlize Theron, Ralph Fiennes and George Takei provide the voices.

The Light Between Oceans (2:13) Period romance stars Michael Fassbender as a scarred WWI vet whose happy new life with Alicia Vikander is upended when a mysterious child enters the picture.

The Magnificent Seven (2:06) Remake of the epic Western stars Denzel Washington as the leader of a band of mercenaries hired to protect a village from rapacious evildoers; Antoine Fuqua directs.

The Mask You Live In (1:30) Documentary looks at how our skewed concept of masculinity has had a negative impact on men, boys and society as a whole; Jennifer Siebel Newsom directs.

Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary Performance (2:50) Direct from London’s Prince Edward Theatre it’s Cameron Mackintosh’s musical tragedy of love, loss and the fall of Saigon, complete with a helicopter.

Mr. Church (1:44) Bruce Beresford drama stars Eddie Murphy as a mystery man who transforms the lives of the single mom and daughter he cooks for.

National Theatre London: A View from the Bridge (2:15) Arthur Miller’s dark tale of lust, jealousy and betrayal is presented in a dynamic production direct from the West End. Nerve (1:36) A goody-two-shoes teen gets caught up in sex, drugs, drink and naughty language when she joins an online gaming group.

No Manches Frida (1:54) Raucous comedy about an ex-con’s scheme to retrieve loot he buried under a high school gym by working as a substitute teacher.

Pete’s Dragon (1:30) Remake of the ’70s Disney fantasy stars Robert Redford as a small-town coot whose tall tales of a local dragon just might be true.

Racing to Zero: In Pursuit of Zero Waste (1:00) Documentary follows San Francisco Zero Waste Manager Robert Haley on his quest for a total garbage metamorphosis and with it a cleaner, healthier world.

Sausage Party (1:29) Raunchy cartoon about a gang of supermarket sausages dodging hungry shoppers on the Fourth of July; Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig and Jonah Hill vocalize.

The Secret Life of Pets (1:31) Sneak peek at what pets get up to when they’re left alone in their Manhattan penthouses features vocals from Albert Brooks, Dana Carvey and others.

Snowden (2:14) Biopic stars Joseph GordonLevitt as the CIA spook-turned-whistleblower; Oliver Stone directs Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson and a host of others.

Stage Russia: Eugene Onegin (3:30) The Vakhtangov Theatre Company presents a magical new stage version of Alexander Pushkin’s epic poem.

Storks (1:32) Family-friendly cartoon about two storks and their regular gig of delivering babies to parents; Andy Samberg and Kelsey Grammer vocalize.

Suicide Squad (1:40) Another live-action comic book, this one starring Will Smith and Jared Leto as super-villains seeking redemption by leading a heroic if suicidal mission of mercy.

Sully (1:36) Tom Hanks stars as Chesley Sullenberger, the airline pilot who managed 2009’s heroic emergency landing on the Hudson River; Clint Eastwood directs.

War Dogs (1:54) Entrepreneurial doofuses Jonah Hill and Miles Teller get in over their heads when they take on a $300 million deal to arm the Afghan military.

When the Bough Breaks (1:47) Thriller about a deranged surrogate mother and the sweet young couple she terrorizes.

The Wild Life (1:32) Belgian cartoon version of Robinson Crusoe as told from the local fauna’s point of view (whimsical parrots, kingfishers, chameleons, what have you).

Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III (Not Rated) Lark: Sun 1 Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (Not Rated) Lark: Tue 6:30 • Author: The JT LeRoy Story (R) Regency: Fri-Sat 11:30, 2:15, 5, 7:50, 10:30; Sun-Wed 11:30, 2:15, 5, 7:50; Thu 11:30, 2:15, 5 Bad Moms (R) Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:20, 1:50, 4:25, 6:55, 9:25 The Beatles: Eight Days a Week—The Touring Years (Not Rated) Rafael: Fri-Sun 3:30, 6:15, 9; Mon, Tue, Thu 9; Wed 6:15, 9 • Blair Witch (R) Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:05, 1:20, 3:35, 5:50, 8:05, 10:25 Rowland: Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:20, 5:40, 8, 10:20 Bridget Jones’s Baby (R) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:35, 3:40, 6:40, 7:35, 9:30; Sun-Wed 12:35, 3:40, 6:40, 7:35 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 7, 10; Sat-Sun 1, 4, 7, 10 Regency: Fri-Sat 10:30, 1:30, 4:40, 7:40, 10:05; Sun-Wed 10:30, 1:30, 4:40, 7:40; Thu 10:30, 1:20, 4:30 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11:10, 2, 4:50, 7:40, 10:35 • David Bowie Is (Not Rated) Rafael: Mon-Tue 6:30 • The Disappointments Room (R) Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:10pm • Dr. Strangelove (PG) Regency: Sun, Wed 2, 7 Don’t Breathe (R) Northgate: Fri-Wed 12:10, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 9:55 • Globe On Screen: Richard II (Not Rated) Lark: Thu 7:30 Hell or High Water (R) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 1:15, 4:10, 7, 9:35; Sun-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 7:15, 9:50; Sat-Sun 2, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Playhouse: Fri 4, 6:45, 9:15; Sat 1, 4, 6:45, 9:15; Sun 1, 4, 6:45; Mon-Wed 4, 6:45 Regency: Fri-Sat 11:20, 2, 4:50, 7:30, 10:30; Sun-Wed 11:20, 2, 4:50, 7:30; Thu 11:10, 1:55, 4:40 Rowland: Fri-Wed 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 • Hillsong: Let Hope Rise (R) Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:35 • The Hollars (PG-13) Regency: Fri-Sat 10:25, 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:45, 10:20; Sun, Wed 11:45, 4:35; Mon, Tue 10:25, 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:45; Thu 12, 2:30, 4:45 Hunt for the Wilderpeople (PG-13) Rafael: Fri-Sun 3:45, 8; Mon-Thu 8 Indignation (R) Rafael: Sat-Sun 1 • Ixcanul (Not Rated) Rafael: Fri, Mon-Thu 6; Sat-Sun 1:45, 6 Jason Bourne (PG-13) Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 6:45, 9:40; Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 Northgate: Fri-Wed 9:35pm Rowland: Fri-Wed 7, 9:50 Kubo and the Two Strings (PG) Fairfax: Fri-Wed 12:05, 2:25, 4:45 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:45, 4:50, 9:45; 3D showtimes at 2:15, 7:15 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11:20, 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:30 The Light Between Oceans (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:15, 2:20, 5:20, 8:20 • The Magnificent Seven (PG-13) Northgate: Thu 7, 10 • The Mask You Live In (Not Rated) Rafael: Thu 6:15 (a benefit for Beyond Hunger) • Miss Saigon (Not Rated) Regency: Thu 7 • Mr. Church (PG-13) Rafael: Fri 4:15, 6:30, 8:45; Sat 2:15, 4:15, 6:30, 8:45; Sun 2:15, 7; Mon-Wed 6:30, 8:45; Thu 6:30 National Theatre London: A View from the Bridge (Not Rated) Lark: Sat 1 Nerve (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 No Manches Frida (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Wed 11, 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Pete’s Dragon (PG) Northgate: Fri-Wed 2:10, 7:25; 3D showtimes at 11:40, 4:55 • Racing to Zero: In Pursuit of Rafael: Sun 4:15 (producer Diana Fuller and environmentalists James Kao and Zero Waste (Not Rated) Alex Dmitriew in person) Sausage Party (R) Northgate: Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8, 10:15 The Secret Life of Pets (PG) Northgate: Fri-Wed 12, 2:25, 4:45, 7:05 • Snowden (R) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:45, 6:50, 9:55; Sun-Wed 12:40, 3:45, 6:50 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 6:30, 9:45; Sat-Sun 12, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45 Playhouse: Fri 3:20, 6:40, 9:40; Sat 12, 3:20, 6:40, 9:40; Sun 12, 3:20, 6:40; Mon-Wed 3:20, 6:40 Regency: Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:45, 7:15, 9:55; Sun-Wed 12:30, 3:45, 7:15; Thu 12:30, 3:45 Rowland: Fri-Wed 1, 4:10, 7:30, 10:30 Sequoia: Fri 3:50, 6:50, 9:45; Sat 12:55, 3:50, 6:50, 9:45; Sun 12:55, 3:50, 6:50; Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:50; Thu 3:50 • Stage Russia: Eugene Onegin (Not Rated) Lark: Wed 7:30 • Storks (PG) Northgate: Thu 6; 3D showtime at 8:20 Rowland: Thu 8:30; 3D showtime at 6 Suicide Squad (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 Sully (PG-13) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 7:30, 9:20; Sun-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 7:30 Playhouse: Fri 3:30, 7, 9:20; Sat 12:45, 3:30, 7, 9:20; Sun 12:45, 3:30, 7; MonWed 3:30, 7 Regency: Fri-Sat 11, 1:40, 4:20, 7, 9:40; Sun-Wed 11, 1:40, 4:20, 7; Thu 11, 1:40, 4:20 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11:40, 2:15, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Sequoia: Fri 4:20, 7:20, 9:50; Sat 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 9:50; Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:20; Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:20; Thu 4:20 War Dogs (R) Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:10, 1:55, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05 • When the Bough Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:25, 2:05, 5:05, 7:55, 10:30 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11, 1:40, Breaks (PG-13) 4:30, 7:20, 10 • The Wild Life (PG) Fairfax: Fri-Wed 12:10, 2:30, 5 Northgate: Fri-Wed 2:45 7:40; 3D showtimes at 12:20, 5:15, 10 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11:30, 1:55, 4:35 Showtimes can change after we go to press. Please call theater to confirm.

CinéArts at Sequoia 25 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley, 415-388-1190 Cinema 41 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, 415-924-6506 Fairfax 9 Broadway, Fairfax, 415-453-5444 Lark 549 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur, 415-924-5111 Larkspur Landing 500 Larkspur Landing Cir., Larkspur, 415461-4849 Northgate 7000 Northgate Dr., San Rafael, 415-491-1314 Playhouse 40 Main St., Tiburon, 415-435-1234 Rafael Film Center 1118 Fourth St., San Rafael, 415-454-1222 Regency 280 Smith Ranch Rd., Terra Linda, 415-479-6496 Rowland 44 Rowland Way, Novato, 415-898-3385

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Connie Ducey An elegant lunch concert features the hottest jazz singer in the SF Bay Area music scene. Sep 15, 11:30am. $8-$10.

Whistlestop, 930 Tamalpais Ave, San Rafael, 415.456.9062.

New Century Chamber Orchestra The orchestra kicks off its 25th anniversary season with a debut appearance by Israeli pianist Inon Barnatan performing Mozart.

Sep 18, 5pm. $29 and up. Osher Marin JCC, 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael, ncco.org.

SoulSong with Gary Malkin & Friends “Sharing Hearts & Voices” - An evening of chant, musical artistry, poetry & ritual around the theme of Forgiveness. The evening will feature an amazing multicultural ensemble. TMS Performing Arts center, 150 N. San Pedro Rd, San Rafael (near the JCC). $24 advance, $30 door, Students $18 (w/ID) Sound Summit Sustainable and festive event honors the spirit of Mt Tam and features Wilco, Los Lobos, Bill Frisell’s Guitar in the Space Age and the Stone Foxes. Sep 17, 11am. $50-$100 and up. Mountain Theatre, Mt Tamalpais State Park, 801 Panoramic Hwy, Mill Valley, soundsummit.net.

Summer Jam Full day of music includes Phil Lesh and friends, Brothers & Sister, the Terrapin Family Band and many other surprise guests. Sep 17, 12pm. $65. Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael, 415.524.2773.

Iron & Wine Solo project from hushed indie folk songwriter Sam Beam comes to Sonoma for an intimate performance. Chicago guitarist Ryley Walker opens the show. Sep 21, 7pm. $45. Gundlach Bundschu Winery, 2000 Denmark St, Sonoma, 707.938.5277.

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Vain Classic metal band from San Francisco returns for their first Santa Rosa show in 28 years, with support from Union Jack & the Rippers. Sep 15, 7pm. $15. Annie O’s Music Hall, 120 Fifth St, Santa Rosa, 707.542.1455.

The Avett Brothers The harmonic and energetic folk-rock siblings perform off their new album, “True Sadness.” Sep 15, 7:30pm. $45-$65. Green Music Center, 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

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California Conscious Music Fest Good vibes abound with Kool & the Gang, Mike Love, Sol Horizon and others. Sep 18, 2pm. $50 and up. SOMO Village Event Center, 1100 Valley House Dr, Rohnert Park.

Art Garfunkel A close-up and intimate performance from the folk hero encompasses his solo hits, Simon & Garfunkel songs and cuts from his favorite songwriters. Sep 16, 8pm. $55$95. Uptown Theatre, 1350 Third St, Napa, 707.259.0123.

Earle Fest Benefit for Earle Baum Center for the Blind features headliner Lucinda WIlliams with the Mavericks, the Paladins and Girls + Boys. Sep 17, 1pm. $55-$65. SOMO Village Event Center, 1100 Valley House Dr, Rohnert Park.

Music Festival for Brain Health Musician and humanitarian Michael Franti & Spearhead headlines this fundraising affair, which also includes science symposiums and wine tastings. Sep 17. $750 and up.

Staglin Family Vineyard, 1570 Bella Oaks Ln, Rutherford, music-festival.org.

Hakadu Benefit show for local boy with a brain tumor is a retro party featuring New Order and the Cure tribute bands and several solo performers doing their favorite ‘80s hits. Sep 17, 7pm. by donation. Arlene Francis Center, 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.528.3009.

Clubs&Venues MARIN Belrose Theater Second Wednesday of every month, Ragtime jam. Thurs, open mic night. 1415 Fifth Ave, San Rafael, 415.454.6422.

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

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

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On Saturday, Sept. 17, rock group Wilco will headline Sound Summit, an annual music event that is held on, and benefits, Mt. Tam.

Fenix Sep 15, Blue Bayou & Urban Outlaws. Sep 17, Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers.

Sep 18, 6:30pm, Daria. Sep 21, pro blues jam with Alvon Johnson. 919 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.813.5600.

CALENDAR Grazie Restaurant Sep 17, Phil Lewis and Catherine Goldwyn.

823 Grant Ave, Novato, 415.897.5181.

HopMonk Novato Sep 14, open mic night with the Levines.

Sep 15, Jazz at the Monk. Sep 16, Fleetwood Mask. Sep 18, 5pm, cookcout concert with Steve Poltz and Tom Brosseau. Sep 21, open mic night with Wonderment. 224 Vintage Way, Novato, 415.892.6200.

Marin Country Mart Sep 16, 6pm, Friday Night Jazz with the Sanford Barnett Trio. Sep 18, 12:30pm, Folkish Festival with Jeffrey Halford & the Healers. 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur.

19 Broadway Club Sep 14, the Melt. Sep 15, Koolwhip. Sep 16, 5:30pm, Todos Santos. Sep 16, 9:30pm, the Tommy Odetto Group. Sep 17, 5:30pm, Tara Spring and Bodhi Setchko. Sep 17, 9:30pm, Sabbath Lives. Sep 18, 4pm, Erika Alstrom with Dale Alstrom’s Jazz Society. Sep 18, 8pm, King & Ace album release show.

Mon, open mic. Sep 21, Blonde Sinded. 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax, 415.459.1091.

No Name Bar Tues, open mic. Sep 15, Michael LaMacchia Band. Sep 16, Michael Aragon Quartet.

Sep 17, Charity and friends. Sep 18, 3pm, Flowtilla. Sep 18, 8:30pm, Migrant Pickers and friends. Sep 19, Kimrea & the Dreamdogs. Sep 21, Barnyard Hammer and friends. 757 Bridgeway, Sausalito, 415.332.1392.

Old St Hilary’s Landmark Sep 16, Moon Songs with Caroluna. 201 Esperanza, Tiburon, 415.435.1853.

Osteria Divino Sep 14, Jonathan Poretz. Sep 15, Bay Tones Trio. Sep 16, Gabrielle Cavassa. Sep 17, Jay Sanders Trio. Sep 18, Noel Jewkes Duo. Sep 20, Suzanna Smith with Lee Bloom. Sep 21, Deborah Winters with Ken Cook. 37 Caledonia St, Sausalito, 415.331.9355.

Panama Hotel Restaurant Sep 14, Bob Gordon & the UFOs. Sep 15, Deborah Winters. Sep 20, Swing Fever.

Sep 21, Vardo. 4 Bayview St, San Rafael, 415.457.3993.

First Presbyterian Church of San Anselmo Sep 16, Marin Baroque presents Sylvestris Quartet. 72 Kensington Rd, San Anselmo, marinbaroque.org.

Peri’s Silver Dollar Sep 14, the New Sneakers. Sep 15, Sticky’s Backyard. Sep 16, Honeydust. Sep 17, Lumanation. Sep 18, Grateful Sundays with Achilles Wheel. Mon, Billy D’s open mic.

Sep 20, Waldo’s Special. Sep 21, the Elvis Johnson Soul Revue. 29 Broadway, Fairfax, 415.459.9910.

George’s Nightclub Sep 15, college night. Sep 16, Crosby Tyler and friends. Sep 17, DJ Jorge. Sep 18, Mexican Banda. Sep 20, hip-hop open mic. 842 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.226.0262.

Rancho Nicasio Sep 17, the Overcommitments. Sep 18, 4pm, BBQ on the Lawn with Buck Nickels & Loose Change. 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio, 415.662.2219.

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Gary Malkin & Friends “SoulSong” Sharing Hearts & Voices for Forgiveness Kim Rosen, Lior Tsarfaty, Bouchaib Abdelhadi, Miranda Macpherson, Eliyahu Sills, Yari Mander Sept 24 • 8 pm • concert $24/$48; workshop $30

Ajeet Kaur: “Haseya” CD Release Concert & Workshop Chant, Dance & Journey into Healing Song Sept 30 • workshop12:30-3:30 • adv $20/student $15

Orgone Energy: The Solution to Pollution & EMF in the Home Clean our world and Increase our Consciousness Oct 8 • 8pm • adv $24/door $28/student $18

A Special Evening with Adey Bell Soul-stirring piano & voice, Transcendent songs Oct 22 • 8pm • adv $25/door $30

MaMuse in Concert “Beauty & Magic” Merry duo of Sarah Nutting & Karisha Longaker Oct 28 • 8 pm • adv $25/premium $40

Simrit — 2016 Global Unity Tour ”Songs of Resilience” CD Release Concert” Nov 19 • 8 pm • adv $25/door $30

Ayla Nereo in Concert Lyrical mastery, Heartful folktronica “Ayla’s voice is a lucid instrument”

All Ages • Pre-concert Reception at 7pm Plenty of Parking • Welcoming Atmosphere

TMS Performing Arts Center 150 N. San Pedro Rd, San Rafael 415.924.4848 • www.dancemarin.com

Lunch & Dinner Sat & Sun Brunch

Outdoor Dining 7 Days a Week

Din ner & A Show

The Overcommitments Sep 17 Rock and Funk 8:30 D a nce Sat

Rivertown Trio Sep 23 with Julie Bernard Fri

Party!

8:00 / No Cover Fri 30 Swing Dance Lessons 7:45 Sep Stompy Jones 8:00

Hannan Oct 7 Jerry Prince of Poetry and Song Fri

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Oct 9 Jeremy D’Antonio Sun

Darren Nelson

& Friends 5:00 / No Cover Guitar Virtuoso Oct 14 Freddy Clarke Fri

Classical/Flamenco 8:00 / No Cover

BBQs on the Lawn!

Sun, Sep 18 • “The Last BBQ”

Buck Nickels & Loose Change/ The Jones Gang Gates open at 3pm / Music at 4pm

Coming in October

Oct 16 • Kaye Rodden & Friends Oct 23 • Will Durst Oct 28 • San Geronimo

Halloween Party Oct 30 • Todos Santos Reservations Advised

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On the Town Square, Nicasio www.ranchonicasio.com

Sausalito Seahorse Wed, Milonga with Marcelo Puig and Seth Asarnow. Sep 15, flamenco show with Toque Tercero. Sep 16, DJ Jose Ruiz. Sep 17, Greg Johnson’s Contemporary Big Band.

Sep 18, 5pm, Candela with Calixto Obviedo.

Sep 19, 6pm, Judy Hall. Sep 20, Jenny Ferris and friends. 305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito, 415.331.2899.

Smiley’s Schooner Saloon Sep 14, Doobie Decibel System. Sep 15, DJ Samir Neffati. Sep 16, Jethro Jeremiah. Mon, Epicenter Soundsystem reggaae. 41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas, 415.868.1311.

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

Sweetwater Music Hall Sep 14, Tim Bluhm with Andy Cabic and Johnny Irion. Sep 15, Rudy Colombini & the Unauthorized Rolling Stones. Sep 16, Davina & the Vagabonds. Sep 17, 10pm, Sound Summit After Party with Los Lobos. $90. Sep 18, Will Hoge. Sep 19, Sammy Hagar and friends. Sold-out. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.1100.

Art OPENING MARIN EV Lounge Sep 14, “Earth & Sky,” landscapes by Kathleen Lipinksi and Wendy Goldberg.

Reception, Sep 14 at 6pm. 500 San Anselmo Ave, San Anselmo. 415.419.2577.

Marin Community Foundation Sep 21-Jan 13, “Om Prakash: Intuitive Nature,” renowned Indian artist’s abstract paintings display. Reception, Sep 21 at 4:30pm. 5 Hamilton Landing, Ste 200, Novato. Open Mon-Fri, 9 to 5.

Osher Marin JCC Sep 18-Oct 30, “We Are the Bridge,” exhibit showcases over 30 artists from multiple faith traditions, the majority of whom live and work in the Bay Area. Reception, Sep 18 at 1pm. 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael.

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Terrapin Crossroads Sep 14, Deep Blue Jam with Lorin Rowan.

Sep 15, Sean Leahy and friends with Kiyoshi Foster. Sep 16, Top 40 Friday with the Terrapin All-Stars. Sep 18, 4pm, “Stories & Songs” with Phil Lesh & the Camp Terrapin Family Band. Sep 18, 8pm, the John Kadlecik Band. Sep 20, Stu Allen and friends. Sep 21, Terrapin Family Band with Graham Lesh. 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael, 415.524.2773.

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Throckmorton Theatre Wed, 12pm, noon concert series.

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Mort Sahl Sahl takes the stage every week to deliver his legendary, take-no-prisoners wit.

Thurs, 7pm. $20. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, 415.383.9600.

Trek Winery Sep 16, the Hamiltones. 1026 Machin Ave, Novato, 415.899.9883.

Unity in Marin Sep 21, 7pm, Steven Halpern: Art of Sound Healing. Free. 600 Palm Dr, Novato.

SONOMA The Big Easy Sep 15, Osito with Imagery Machine and Buenos Diaz. Sep 16, the Incubators birthday show. Sep 17, John Courage with Whiskerman. Sep 18, Miano Jazz Trio. Sep 20, Elwood. Sep 21, Bruce Gordon & the Acrosonics. 128 American Alley, Petaluma, 707.776.4631.

Green Music Center Sep 16, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

Lagunitas Tap Room Sep 14, Ragtag Sullivan. Sep 15, TV Mike & the Scarecrows. Sep 16, Arizona & the Volunteers. Sep 17, Jinx Jones. Sep 18, the Grain. Sep 21, Jeffrey Halford. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma, 707.778.8776.

Mystic Theatre Sep 15, Wayne Hancock with the Vivants.

Sep 16, G Love & Special Sauce. Sep 17, Mad Professor. Sep 19, Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.765.2121.

Rodney Strong Vineyards Sep 17, 5pm, The B-52s. $89 and up.

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Jackass Live Show Cast members of the MTV show recount tales of Jackass lore, perform stunts, pull pranks and stick around for a meet and greet. Sep 21, 8:30pm. $37-$47. Mystic Theatre, 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.765.2121.

Scott Capurro Popular bay Area standup comedian makes with the funny. Sep 17, 8pm. $15$20. HopMonk Novato, 224 Vintage Way, Novato, 415.892.6200.

Tuesday Night Live Featuring comedians at the top of their game, both rising stars and names known worldwide. Tues, 8pm. $17-$27.

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

Sausalito Seahorse Sundays, 4pm, Salsa class. Free. 305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito 415.331.2899.

Events Circus Vargas The world premiere of iLUMINOUS! includes flying aerialists, acrobats, clowns and music under a blue and yellow big-top tent. Free interactive pre-show teaches kids circus skills. Through Sept 18, $20-$70, kids under 2 are free. The Village at Corte Madera, 1618 Redwood Hwy, Corte Madera, 877.468.3861.

Gem Faire Find fine jewelry, precious and semiprecious gemstones, millions of beads, crystals, gold, silver, minerals and more at manufacturer’s prices. Sep 16-18. Marin Center Exhibit Hall, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael, 415.499.6800.

Indian Valley Fall Plant Sale Indian Valley organic farm and garden offers workshops and family activities with herbs and flowers for sale. Sep 17, 10am.

College of Marin, Indian Valley Campus, 1800 Ignacio Blvd, Novato, 415.457.8811.

Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival Over 130 fine artists from all across the country, live music and children’s entertainment come together for the 60th annual Fall Arts Festival. Sep 17-18. $10. Old Mill Park, Throckmorton and Cascade, Mill Valley.

Rustic California Chic Open Studio Artist and interior stylist Debra Amerson shows her eclectic collection of handmade decorative pots for interior plants. Sep 17, 10am. Free. Deeper Green, 224 Arroyo Rd, Forest Knolls, 415.488.1987.

TEDxMarin Six original TEDTalks, a gala reception with appetizers from Good Earth Natural Foods, Equator Coffees and Urban Remedy, a showcase of start-ups with executives on hand and more. Sep 17, 6pm. $70. College of Marin Kentfield Campus, 835 College Ave, Kentfield, tedxmarin.org.

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Will Durst Political satirist continues with his ‘Elect to Laugh 2016’ tour. Sep 14, 7:30pm. Main Stage West, 104 N Main St, Sebastopol, 707.823.0177.

California Coastal Cleanup Day Join in the 32nd annual statewide effort to make a difference. Check with Bay Model for locations. Sep 17, 9am. Bay Model Visitor Center, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito, 415.332.3871.

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

Bow Wow Film Festival Family-freindly event boasts several short films about man’s best friend and raises funds for the Kern Project Animal Rescue.

Sep 17, 5pm. $7-$15. Creek Park, Sir Francis Drake Blvd and Center Blvd, San Anselmo, 415.258.4640.

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

Fairfax Pavilion Wednesdays. through Nov 30, Dance a la Moxie, fun total body workout for ages 55 and over covers international dance steps throughout time. Free, 415.302.0659. 142 Bolinas Rd, Fairfax.

Cinema & Psyche: 1932 Pre-Code Pearls Film studies class will study, watch, and discuss six pre-Code essentials from 1932.

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Dekalog Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski’s series of ten individual moral tales loosely inspired by the biblical commandments screens throughout the week in two-part installments. Through Sep 15. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.454.1222.

Marin Country Mart Movie Night Gather friends and family to enjoy a classic film on the green throughout the summer.

Wed, 6pm. Marin Country Mart, 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur.

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.

Racing to Zero Sausalito filmmaker Christopher Beaver presents his award-winning doc about finding solutions to global waste screens, with Q&A discussion. Sep 18, 4pm. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.454.1222.

Throckmorton Theatre Mountainfilm Festival Fifth annual festival explores extreme sports and locations through several adventurous documentaries. With special guests, live music and gala parties. Sep 15-18.

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

Food&Drink Fresh Starts Chef Event Bay Area celebrity butcher David Budworth, gets you ready for Oktoberfest in a special hands-on sausage-making class. Sep 14, 6:30pm. $75. Next Key Center, 1385 N Hamilton Pkwy, Novato, 415.382.3363, ext 213.

Indian Valley Farm Stand Organic farm and garden produce stand where you bring your own bag. Sat, 10am.

College of Marin, Indian Valley Campus, 1800 Ignacio Blvd, Novato, 415.454.4554.

Kimchi Like a Pro Culinary Class Learn how to make traditional, gourmet kimchi with Karen Diggs of Kraut Source.

Sep 15, 6:30pm. $50. Driver’s Market, 200 Caledonia St, Sausalito.

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

Marinwood Farmers’ Market Sat, 9am. Marinwood Plaza, Marinwood Avenue and Miller Creek Road, San Rafael, 415.999.5635.

Mill Valley Farmers’ Market Fri, 9:30am. CVS parking lot, 759 E Blithedale Ave, Mill Valley, 415.382.7846.

Sunday San Rafael Farmers’ Market Sun, 8am. Marin Farmers Market, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, 415.472.6100.

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For Kids Flamenco Dance Class for Kids Kids 5 to 9 can learn rhythms, armwork, moving across the floor and footwork in a safe and playful environment from teacher Andrea La Canela. Mon, 4pm. through Nov 14. Knights of Columbus Hall, 167 Tunstead Ave, San Anselmo.

Lectures BEMER Technology Presentation Learn about the importance of a healthy blood flow and how this European medical device can increase flow in your tiniest blood vessels. Wed, Sep 14, 11:45am. Free.

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Climate, Climate Change & the Gardener Learn about how climate affects our gardens, and about the best practices we can use to adapt our gardens to climate change. Sep 16, 12pm. Free. Civic Center Library, 3501 Civic Center Dr, San Rafael, 415.473.6058.

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Don Pasquale Preview Lecture San Francisco Opera Guild previews its upcoming performance of Donizetti’s opera. Sep 19, 7:30pm. The Redwoods, 40 Camino Alto, Mill Valley, 415.383.2741.

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Explore Cuba Road Scholar ambassador Gladys Gilliland shares pictures and experiences of her trip to Cuba just before the travel restrictions were relaxed. Sep 21, 7pm. Fairfax Library, 2097 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Fairfax, 415.453.8092.

The How’s of Honey Workshop for intermediate beekeepers talks about how to collect honey from the hive, how to process cappings and more. Sep 17, 10am. The Fairfax Backyard Farmer, 135 Bolinas Rd, Fairfax, 415.342.5092.

Introduction to Online Marketing Get an overview of the different ways online marketing can promote and streamline your business. Thurs, Sep 15, 6pm. San Rafael Library, 1100 E St, San Rafael, 415.485.3323.

The Marin Referral Network Join other professionals and entrepreneurs to share success stories and challenges, and brainstorm how to grow your businesses through referrals and leads. Thurs, 8am.

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Time to Lead on Climate An engaging group of speakers, including U.S. Congressman Jared Huffman, talk about the impending climate change tipping point and what can be done. Sep 19, 7pm. $10. Angelico Hall, Dominican University, 50 Acacia Ave, San Rafael, 415.457.4440.

Readings Angelico Hall Sep 14, 7pm, “Find a Way” with Diana Nyad. $25. Dominican University, 50 Acacia Ave, San Rafael 415.457.4440.

Book Passage Sep 14, 7pm, “Weapons of Math Destruction” with Cathy O’Neil. Sep 15, 7pm, “Active Peace” with Scott Brown. Sep 16, 6pm, “The Midnight War of Mateo Martinez” with Robin Yardi. Sep 16, 7pm, “Running Man” with Charlie Engle. Sep 17, 1pm, “Venomous” with Christie Wilcox. Sep 17, 4pm, “American Yellow” with George Omi. Sep 18, 1pm, “Dying to Wake Up” with Dr Rajiv Parti. Sep 18, 4pm, “A Gentleman in Moscow” with Amor Towles. Sep 20, 7pm, “Mad Enchantment” with Ross King.

Sep 21, 7pm, “A Kingdom of Their Own” with Joshua Partlow. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera 415.927.0960.

Diesel Bookstore Sep 21, 7pm, Larkspur Book Club Pioneers, discussion group talks about “Gutenberg’s Apprentice” by Alix Christie. 2419 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur 415.785.8177.

Hall School Sep 14, 7pm, “Ghosts” with Raina Telgemeier, hosted by Book Passage. $15.

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Novato Copperfield’s Books Sep 16, 7pm, “A Field Guide to Lies” with Daniel Levitin. 999 Grant Ave, Novato 415.763.3052.

Osher Marin JCC Sep 21, 7pm, “Fifty Shades of Talmud” with Maggie Anton. 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael 415.444.8000.

Outdoor Art Club Sep 15, 1pm, “Leaning on the Arc” with M. Gerald Schwartzbach. 1 W Blithedale Ave, Mill Valley 415.383.2582.

Point Reyes Books Sep 20, 6:30pm, Contemporary Classics, monthly discussion group reads and talks about “Zero K” by Don DeLillo. $20. Third Tuesday of every month, 7pm, women’s book group. 11315 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station 415.663.1542.

Theater Animal Crackers The zany musical comedy by the Marx Brothers antes up the antics for a hilariously

fun night at the theater. Through Sep 18. $15$38. 6th Street Playhouse, 52 West Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.523.4185.

As You Like It Petaluma Shakespeare Company presents the comical farce as part of the ‘Shakespeare by the River” series. An equity approved project. Sep 16-Oct 1. Free. Foundry Wharf Green, 1st & H Street, Petaluma, petalumashakespeare.org.

August: Osage County MTC opens their 50th season with a performance of the celebrated family drama, its first Bay Area professional production since 2009. Through Oct 2. $22-$60. Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.5208.

Baskerville Ingenious, fast-paced Sherlock Holmes comedy/mystery features five actors portraying more than 40 characters. Sep 16-Oct 9. $16-$26. Spreckels Performing Arts Center, 5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park, 707.588.3400.

Capacity Main Stage West presents the world premiere of Rebecca Louise Miller’s smart and provocative dramatic play. Through Sep 18. $15-$25. Main Stage West, 104 N Main St, Sebastopol, 707.823.0177.

Father Goose’s Tales The first show of Marin Theatre Company’s family series presents classic Mother Goose fairy tales with imaginative puppetry. Sep 17-25. $18-$22. Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.5208.

House That Jack Built World premiere play charts a course through Jack London’s grudges, expenses, and injuries that led to the destruction of his Wolf House.

Through Sep 25. $10-$26. Studio Theatre, 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.523.4185.

The Most Happy Fella Cinnabar opens its season with the touching, dramatic and intensely personal love story from the composer of “Guys and Dolls.” Through Sep 25. $25-$35. Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.763.8920.

Othello Powerful tale of jealousy and manipulation follows the tragic transformation of a brave general driven to rage and regret when betrayed by his opportunistic and vengeful friend. Through Sep 25. $10-$35. Marin Shakespeare Company, 890 Bella Ave, San Rafael, 415.499.4488.

Romeo & Juliet Shakespeare’s tale of star-crossed lovers comes alive in the natural settings of the state park, presented by We Players. Through Sep 25. Petaluma Adobe State Historic Park, 3325 Adobe Rd, Petaluma, weplayers.org.

A Streetcar Named Desire Masterful drama from Tennessee Williams depicting the descent of the fragile Blanche Dubois opens NTC’s theatrical season. Through Oct 2. $12-$27. Novato Theater Company, 5240 Nave Dr, Novato, 415.883.4498.

Sylvia Ross Valley Players kicks off their season with the modern relationship comedy about a man, a woman and a charming dog who enters their life. Sep 16-Oct 16. $15$27. Barn Theatre, Marin Art and Garden Center, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross, rossvalleyplayers.com. ✹

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PublicNotices FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016-140456 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: HAVEN CA, 2122 CENTRO EAST, TIBURON, CA 94920: MORGAN LANE INC., 2122 CENTRO EAST, TUBURON, CA 94920.The business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on AUG 16, 2016 (Publication Dates: Aug 24, 31, Sep 07, 14 of 2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016-140417 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: CULTURE SHOCK, 171 CANYON RD, FAIRFAX, CA 94930: LORIE KULBERG, 171 CANYON RD, FAIRFAX, CA 94930.The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant is renewing filing with changes and is transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on AUG 08, 2016 (Publication Dates: Aug 24, 31, Sep 07, 14 of 2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016-140386 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: IN & OUT SERVICES, 2405 WARRIOR LN, RENO, NV 89523: DI- ANA MARIE BEAZELL, 2405 WARRIOR LN, RENO, NV 89523.

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 AUG 03, 2016(Publication Dates: Aug 24, 31, Sep 07, 14 of 2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016-140507 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: SHAMROCK COMPRESSOR SERVICE, 1169 MEADOWSWEET DRIVE, CORTE MADERA, CA 94925: JAMES ANTHONY MALONE, 1169 MEADOWSWEET DRIVE, 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 ClerkRecorder of Marin County on AUG 22, 2016(Publication Dates: Aug 24, 31, Sep 07, 14 of 2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016-140351 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: GOLDEN ARROW EVENTS, 2 OAK AVE APT 2, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: KELLY A PHU, 2 OAK AVE APT 2, 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 Jul 28, 2016(Publication Dates: Aug 24, 31, Sep 07, 14 of 2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016-140501 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: GLASSWORK, 1111 FRANCISCO BLVD E, UNIT A, SAN

RAFAEL, CA 94901: 1) MAHEND KUMAR, 125 CIELO LN, APT 204, NOVATO, CA 94949 2) MOHAMMAD SHIRAZI, 125 CIELO LN , APT 204, NOVATO, CA 94949. The business is being conducted by A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on AUG 19, 2016 (Publication Dates: Aug 31, Sep 07, 14, 21 of 2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016-140527 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: IMPROV MARIN. 500 OAKCREST ROAD, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: ANDREW MERIT, 500 OAKCREST ROAD, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on AUG 23, 2016 (Publication Dates: Aug 31, Sep 07, 14, 21 of 2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016-140552 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: BOLINAS RUSTIC RETREAT, 230 ASPEN ROAD, BOLINAS, CA 94924: TRAVIS SMITH, 309 EAST BLITHEDALE AVENUE, 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 AUG 26, 2016 (Publication Dates: Aug 31, Sep 07, 14, 21 of 2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016-140535 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: GMP AUTOSPORT, 74 HAMILTON DR #A, NOVATO, CA 94949: GMP CARS, LLC, 448 IGNACIO BLVD #339, NOVATO, CA 94949. The business is being conducted

by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on AUG 24, 2016 (Publication Dates: Aug 31, Sep 07, 14, 21 of 2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016-140481 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: FUNDS FOR REFUGEES, 172 RIDGEWAY AVE, FAIRFAX, CA 94930: MARGUERITE ELLIOT, 172 RIDGEWAY AVE, FAIRFAX, CA 94930. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on AUG 17, 2016 (Publication Dates: Aug 31, Sep 07, 14, 21 of 2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016-140434 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: FIBER CARE CARPET CLEANING, 4939 FILAMENT ST, ROHNERT PARK, CA 94928: SEBASTINO PEREIRA MARTINS FILHO, 4939 FILAMENT ST, ROHNERT PARK, CA 94928. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registration expired more than 40 days ago and is renewing

with changes under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on AUG 11, 2016 (Publication Dates: Aug 31, Sep 07, 14, 21 of 2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016-140577 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: THE SOURCE WAVE FOUNDATION, 28 BELLA VISTA AVE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: THE CHURCH OF CONSCIOUSNESS, 28 BELLA VISTA AVE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960. The business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on Sept 01, 2016 (Publication Dates: Sep 07, 14, 21, 28 of 2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016-140581 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: RICHARDSON BAY PROPERTY WATCH, 28 MADERA BLVD, CORTE MADERA, CA 94925: MICHAEL LANE, 28 MADERA BLVD, 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 Sept 01, 2016 (Publication Dates: Sep 07, 14, 21, 28 of 2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016-140582 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: MI CASA CAFÉ, 85 WOODLAND AVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: MI CASA CAFÉ CORPORATION, 85 WOODLAND AVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901.

The business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant is renewing filing with changes and is transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Sept 02, 2016 (Publication Dates: Sep 07, 14, 21, 28 of 2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016-140441 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: MOM’S NEW PAD, 206 ORRIS TERRACE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: MOM’S NEW PAD LLC, 7 BROCKTON DR, NOVATO, CA 94949.

The business is being conducted by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on Aug 11, 2016 (Publication Dates: Sep 07, 14, 21, 28 of 2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016-140565 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: LISA KRISTINE FINE ART, 75 PELICAN WAY STE G, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: LISA KRISTINE INC., 410 VIEWPARK CT, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941. The business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant is renewing filing with changes and is transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Aug 31, 2016 (Publication Dates: Sep 14, 21, 28, Oct 5 of 2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016-140605 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: EL HUERTO, 5800 NORTHGATE MALL, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: 1) SUSAN D CORONADO, 42 LOS RANCHITOS RD, APT 11, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903 2) ADRIAN OLVERA, 42 LOS RANCHITOS RD, APT 11, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903.

The business is being conducted by A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Sep 07, 2016 (Publication Dates: Sep 14, 21, 28, Oct 5 of 2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016-140613 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: URMYFAVE, 232 DEVON DRIVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: THE MR MAX STUDIO, 232 DEVON DRIVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. The business is being conducted

by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on Sep 08, 2016 (Publication Dates: Sep 14, 21, 28, Oct 5 of 2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016-140503 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: ONCE AROUND, 352 MILLER AVENUE, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: PROVENANCE ART, INC., 451 RALSTON AVENUE, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941. The business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on Aug 19, 2016 (Publication Dates: Sep 14, 21, 28, Oct 5 of 2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016-140504 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: OAK INK PRESS, 113 MARIN VALLEY DRIVE, NOVATO, CA 94949: JAMES E GRONVOLD, 113 MARIN VALLEY DRIVE, NOVATO, CA 94949. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on Aug 19, 2016 (Publication Dates: Sep 14, 21, 28, Oct 5 of 2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2016-140513 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: 1) NICASIO VALLEY CHEESE CO, 2) NICASIO VALLEY FARMSTEAD CHEESE CO, 5300 NICASIO VALLEY ROAD, NICASIO, CA 94946: NICASIO VALLEY CHEESE CO, INC., 5300 NICASIO VALLEY ROAD, NICASIO, 94946.

The business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant is renewing filing with changes and is transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Aug 23, 2016 (Publication Dates: Sep 14, 21, 28, Oct 5 of 2016)

OTHER NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN No: CIV 1602852. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner REYNA AVILA filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: 1) ELISEO STEVEN TAPIA to STEVEN ETHAN AVILA 2) ELIANE NATHALY TAPIA to NATHALY SARAH AVILA 3) ELIZABETH REYNA DIAZ to ELIZABETH JENSINE AVILA 4) ESTHER REYNA DIAZ to ESTHER NADINE AVILA. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: 10/04/2016 AT 08:30 AM, DEPT B, ROOM B, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94913. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin: PACIFIC SUN. Date of filing: AUG 08, 2016. (Publication Dates: Aug 24, 31, Sep 07, 14 of 2016)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN No: CIV 1602948. TO ALL

INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner BRIAN DUENAS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: BRIAN ZACHARY ROBERTO DUENAS to BRIAN ZACHARY ROBERTO. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: 10/07/2016 AT 09:00 AM, DEPT L, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94913.

A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin: PACIFIC SUN. Date of filing: AUG 16, 2016. (Publication Dates: Aug 24, 31, Sep 07, 14 of 2016)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN No: CIV 1602922. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JULIAN GOLDFARB filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: JULIAN GOLDFARB to JULIAN GOLD. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: 10/07/2016 AT 09:00 AM, DEPT L, ROOM L, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94913. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin: PACIFIC SUN. Date of filing: AUG 12, 2016.

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By Amy Alkon

Goddess

I dragged my boyfriend into the makeup store Sephora, and he said, “Save your money! You don’t need any of this stuff. I like you better without makeup.” Huh? Why is there a huge makeup industry when so many men say they don’t even like makeup?—Pretty Confused

A:

A friend of mine, bioethicist Alice Dreger, tweeted, “True story: I was on Oprah for a show about how appearance doesn’t matter and there was a whole guy tasked with doing just her eyelashes.”

A whole lot of us are in some denial about makeup. And sure, there are men who really do like women better without a drop of the stuff. And then there are those who just think they do—like the men on Reddit who posted all of these supposed “no makeup!” photos of female celebs. I particularly loved one of Jenna Jameson that a guy captioned “before all the surgeries and without makeup.”

Meanwhile, tiny type below the photo lists the makeup and hair goo she actually has on. My other favorite was one of Rihanna, who also very clearly was not sans maquillage. Guys, sorry, but cat-eye liquid eyeliner does not appear naturally on the female eye in the wild.

Biological anthropologist Douglas Jones finds that men are attracted to women with somewhat “neotenous” features—meaning somewhat babylike ones like big eyes, full lips, a small jaw and chin, and clear skin—which correlate with health and fertility. So, basically, what we call “beauty” is evolution’s version of a street-corner sign spinner: “Genes passed on here!!! Best babies in town!!!”

In other words, makeup is fake-up—a woman’s way of making herself out to have more neotenous features and thus a higher mate value than she actually does. (The male version of this is leasing a top-of-the-line Tesla while living in a tent in Grandma’s backyard.)

So, a man will think he has an aversion to makeup, but it’s really an aversion to being deceived by it. This doesn’t mean that you have to stop wearing it. Just keep in mind that—except for special occasions and those special dudes who are into your looking like your office is a pole—men generally prefer the “natural look.” Of course, the reality is, this sort of “natural” is about an hour and a dozen products away from being “au naturel.” What ultimately matters is that you don’t look so dramatically different in makeup that when your boyfriend bumps into the barefaced you at the fridge in the wee hours, he puts his hands up and yells, “Take whatever you want; just let me live!”

Q:

This guy and I have been friends with benefits for six months. We were casual friends for two years prior to hooking up, but we have gotten much closer since. So, can FWB things ever turn into real relationships, or did we blow our chance?—Hoping

A:

Friends-with-benefits arrangements are, to some degree, replacing dating.

Unfortunately, trying to turn an FWB thing into a relationship can be like trying to return a shirt. One you’ve worn. For a while. You march straight up to the counter and lay the thing out. The guy at the register frowns: “Ma’am, Macy’s closed six years ago. This is Chipotle now.”

It’s helpful to understand what anthropologist Helen Fisher and her colleagues have discovered—that lust, love and attachment aren’t just emotions; they are motivational systems (ultimately for the purpose of reproduction and child rearing). Lust eventually wanes (which makes sense, because “Ohhh, baby” needs to give way to feeding the baby). The neurochemistry behind lust “can trigger expressions of attachment,” Fisher explains. However, in men, high testosterone— in general or from having sex—“can reduce attachment.” This is probably more likely if a man has a “high baseline level of testosterone,” which is typically reflected in a strong jaw and chin, a muscular body and dominant behavior.

Because you two were friends first and seem to care about each other, maybe you can be more than sex friends. Tell him you really enjoy hanging with him, and ask whether he’d be up for more than FWB. But take the low-pressure approach: You don’t want an answer on the spot; you’d just like him to think about it. This should make you seem less desperate and possibly let him feel like having more was his idea. If he wants less, you should probably stop seeing him— at least naked—for a while. He may end up missing you, which could energize his interest in you in a way FWB tends not to do. (They call it “the thrill of the chase,” not the thrill of “you can text any day at 2am and she’ll let you come over.”)Y Worship the goddess—or sacrifice her at the altar at adviceamy@aol.com.

For the week of September 14

ARIES (March 21-April 19): What should you

do if your allies get bogged down by excess caution or lazy procrastination? Here’s what I advise: Don’t confront them or berate them. Instead, cheerfully do what must be done without their help. And what action should you take if mediocrity begins to creep into collaborative projects? Try this: Figure out how to restore excellence, and cheerfully make it happen.

And how should you proceed if the world around you seems to have fallen prey to fear-induced apathy or courage-shrinking numbness? My suggestion: Cheerfully kick the world’s butt—with gentle but firm good humor.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): For the foreseeable future, your main duty is to be in love.

Rowdily and innocently in love. Meticulously and shrewdly in love. In love with whom or what?

Everyone and everything—or at least with as much of everyone and everything as you can manage. I realize that this is a breathtaking assignment that will require you to push beyond some of your limitations and conjure up almost superhuman levels of generosity. But that’s exactly what the cosmic omens suggest is necessary if you want to break through to the next major chapter of your life story.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): What do you hope to be when you are all grown up, Gemini?

An irresistible charmer who is beloved by many and owned by none? A master multi-tasker who’s paid well for the art of never being bored? A versatile virtuoso who is skilled at brokering truces and making matches and tinkering with unique blends? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to entertain fantasies like these—to dream about your future success and happiness. You are likely to generate good fortune for yourself as you brainstorm and play with the pleasurable possibilities. I invite you to be as creative as you dare.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Dear Soul Doctor: I have been trying my best to body-surf the flood of feelings that swept me away a few weeks ago. So far I haven’t drowned! That’s good news, right? But I don’t know how much longer I can stay afloat. It’s hard to maintain so much concentration.

The power and volume of the surge doesn’t seem to be abating. Are there any signs that I won’t have to do this forever? Will I eventually reach dry land?—Careening Crab.” Dear Careening: Five or six more days, at the most: You won’t have to hold out longer than that. During this last stretch, see if you can enjoy the ride more. Re-imagine your journey as a rambunctious adventure rather than a harrowing ordeal. And remember to feel grateful: Not many people have your capacity to feel so deeply.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If there can be such

a thing as a triumphant loss, you will achieve it sometime soon. If anyone can slink in through the back door but make it look like a grand entrance, it’s you. I am in awe of your potential to achieve auspicious reversals and medicinal redefinitions.

Plain old simple justice may not be available, but I bet you’ll be able to conjure up some unruly justice that’s just as valuable. To assist you in your cagey maneuvers, I offer this advice: Don’t let your prowess make you overconfident, and always look for ways to use your so-called liabilities to your advantage.

By Rob Brezsny

convictions and replaces them with a new set of rigid beliefs. But I’d like to propose an alternative definition for your use in the coming days. According to my astrological analysis, you now have an extraordinary power to thoroughly wash your own brain—thereby flushing away toxic thoughts and trashy attitudes that might have collected there. I invite you to have maximum fun as you make your inner landscape clean and sparkly.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): My astrological

divinations suggest that a lightning storm is headed your way, metaphorically speaking. But it shouldn’t inconvenience you much—unless you do the equivalent of getting drunk, stumbling out into the wasteland and screaming curses toward heaven. (I don’t recommend that.) For best results, consider this advice: Take shelter from the storm, preferably in your favorite sanctuary. Treat yourself to more silence and serenity than you usually do. Meditate with the relaxed ferocity of a Zen monk high on Sublime Emptiness. Got all that? Now here’s the best part: Compose a playfully edgy message to God, telling Her about all the situations you want Her to help you transform during the next 12 months.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Novelist Tom Robbins said this about my work: “I’ve seen the future of American literature and its name is Rob Brezsny.” Oscar-winning actress Marisa Tomei testified, “Rob Brezsny gets my nomination for best prophet in a starring role. He’s a script doctor for the soul.” Grammy Award-winning singersongwriter Jason Mraz declared, “Rob Brezsny writes everybody’s favorite astrology column. I dig him for his powerful yet playful insights, his poetry and his humor.” Are you fed up with my boasts yet, Sagittarius? I will spare you from further displays of egomania under one condition: You have to brag about yourself a lot in the coming days—and not just with understated little chirps and peeps.

Your expressions of self-appreciation must be lush, flamboyant, exultant, witty and sincere.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): By normal

standards, your progress should be vigorous in the coming weeks. You may score a new privilege, increase your influence or forge a connection that boosts your ability to attract desirable resources. But accomplishments like those will be secondary to an even more crucial benchmark: Will you understand yourself better? Will you cultivate a more robust awareness of your strengths and weaknesses, your needs and your duties? Will you get clear about what you have to learn and what you have to jettison?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’m confident that you would never try to sneak through customs with cocaine-laced goat meat or 100 live tarantulas or some equally prohibited contraband. Please use similar caution as you gear up for your rite of passage or metaphorical border crossing. Your intentions should be pure and your conscience clear.

Any baggage you take with you should be free of nonsense and delusions. To ensure the best possible outcome, arm yourself with the highest version of brave love that you can imagine.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Caution: You may soon be exposed to outbreaks of peace, intelligence and mutual admiration. Sweet satisfactions might erupt unexpectedly. Rousing connections could become almost routine, and useful revelations may proliferate. Are you prepared to fully accept this surge of grace? Or will you be suspicious of the chance to feel soulfully successful? I hope you can find a way to at least temporarily adopt an almost comically expansive optimism. That might be a good way to ensure that you’re not blindsided by delight.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Should you be worried if you have fantasies of seducing a deity, angel or superhero? Will it be weird if some night soon you dream of an erotic rendezvous with a mermaid, satyr or centaur? I say no. In fact, I’d regard events like these as healthy signs. They would suggest that you’re ready to tap into mythic and majestic yearnings that have been buried deep in your psyche.

They might mean that your imagination wants to steer you toward experiences that will energize the smart animal within you. And this would be in accordance with the most exalted cosmic tendencies.

Try saying this affirmation: “I am brilliantly primal. I am wildly wise. I am divinely surprising.”✹

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Brainwashing” is a word with negative connotations. It refers to an intensive indoctrination that scours away a person’s

Homework: Read my response to the periodic internet rumors that astrology is based on wrong assumptions, and that there’s a 13th sign: Bit.ly/13thsignhoax.

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