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On almost any day, people of all ages are enjoying Marin County’s numerous trails, creeks, parks and preserves. With a social and physical environment that embraces

and celebrates good health and activity, it’s no wonder that for the past five years Marin County has been ranked the healthiest county in California.

Among people who lead healthy, active lifestyles, however, many find their exercise routines restricted due to pain, especially in areas of the body such as the knees or feet.

One of the common areas of foot pain is in the big toe joint where arthritic changes have occurred as a result of prolonged weight bearing activity, typically seen in patients who run, hike or engage in certain sports. Arthritis, which is often seen as early as 30 years of age in adults, is the most common cause of this pain, but other causes include metabolic bone disease, chronic gout, injuries and other inflammatory processes.

Arthritis or simply years of use may cause the joint, especially the cartilage between the joint, to start to wear away. Patients come to us with several symptoms: stiffness in the big toe joint; difficulty in obtaining full range of motion; swelling around the joint, particularly after exercise or long periods of standing or walking; discomfort when wearing shoes; and pain in the joint when pushing-off the toes during a regular walking cycle

Ben, 52, one of our patients at North Bay Podiatry, has been a runner for almost 30 years. He first sought treatment for foot pain about ten years ago. Because his big toe pain had not reached a severe stage, we prescribed orthotics for his running shoes. They worked for Ben -- for awhile. Then the pain increased until he could no longer run. The arthritic changes to his big toe had increased causing him much additional pain and restricted movement. We were able to offer Ben the surgical option of joint replacement in the big toe. After the 45-minute outpatient procedure, Ben was able to walk out of the surgery center the same day and has happily returned to the exercise he loves.

Ben’s story shows that, fortunately, pain in the big toe joint can be treated. The podiatrist can utilize several modes of treatment, ranging from conservative – including physical therapy, medications, orthotic footwear – to surgery, including replacement of the big toe joint.

Joint replacement procedures drastically improvedLike other total joints replacement procedures in the body, such as the knee and hip, the technology has drastically improved over the past decade or two. The total joint replacement procedure for the big toe joint now has a consistently high success rate, and allows patients to be pain free and get back to their active lifestyle in a timely fashion.

Surgical intervention is usually reserved for late stage big toe joint arthritis. The two surgical options, with pros and cons for both, are fusion of the joint, or arthroplasty of the joint with placement of an implant. To determine if a patient is a candidate for joint replacement in the big toe, the podiatric surgeon will do a thorough physical exam of the joint, in conjunction with X rays which will show the extent of arthritic damage to the joint. Typical x-ray findings include decreased joint space as well as arthritic changes all around the joint.

During the procedure, the surgeon removes arthritic damage to the joint and prepares it for implantation of an artificial joint with a flexible hinge. The patient can bear weight on the operated foot that same day and resume motion postoperatively wearing a postoperative shoe. After about 3 to 4 weeks, the patient “graduates” into athletic shoe gear and gradually gets back to his or her regular activities.

Arthritis of the big toe joint can be a significant cause of pain and disability for many. Recent advancements in medicine and surgery have changed the way doctors treat patients with arthritis, and have allowed for shorter recovery times with minimal postoperative discomfort. Foot health and functionality play an integral role in staying active and staying healthy. Total joint replacement surgery for the big toe joint can remarkably change one’s life and longevity.

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Hot debateI don’t question the sincerity, dedication and optimism of those described by Stephanie Hiller in her article [“Hot Pockets,” June 10]. One could gue that what they are doing is better than doing nothing but, as Elizabeth Kolbert put it, “… To argue that the current extinction event could be averted if people just cared more and were willing to make more sacrifices is not wrong, exactly; still, it misses the point. It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care … ” There is no real evidence that by joining together and rolling up our shirtsleeves we can regulate/ engineer/ manage our way out of the terracide we are causing.

The statement by the Napa Valley Vintners that, essentially, the jury is still out on the “actual impacts” of climate change and there are still many unknowns, put me in mind of the Buddhist Parable of the Poisoned Arrow. A man wounded with an arrow tipped with poison won’t allow the arrow to be removed until he knows who shot it, whether the shooter was tall, short or medium, whether the bow used to shoot the arrow was a crossbow or a long bow, what kind of arrow was used, etc., etc. While waiting for answers, the lethal toxin from the arrow continues its spread throughout the man’s body, killing him. As Nobel Laureate Sherwood Rowland put it: “What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in

the end, all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?"

We need to get real about how to prepare for a mass extinction event, what Elizabeth Kolbert calls the “morbid topic,” and that starts with massive population reductions. I’m not advocating or hoping for such reductions, knowing that draconian measures will be required to achieve them. I’m simply looking at how we can voluntarily and humanely prevent as much suffering as possible before the time comes when it is the environment that reduces the human population involuntarily.

Jim O’Callahan, Larkspur

Who are you?I understand that one of the missions of an alternative newsweekly is to be the watchdog to make sure that all [are] in on the “up and up” in their respective communities.

A letter-writer this week discourages anonymous letter-writing.

What will it take to convince the non-believers about climate change?

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So, why no investigation of the Marin History Museum? And, what’s up with the letters to the editor which are signed either with a first name only or with something like “happy reader"? This smacks of planted items by management.

A real credibility problem.If the letter can’t be attributed, it

shouldn’t be printed.Karen Hudson

User-unfriendlyPacific Sun staff: I agree completely with Donnel's letter to the editor in [last] week’s issue [“Devoted reader,” June 10]. Please restore the Sundial section to its previous version. It's a royal pain in the ass to have to look at every venue to see if there's something I want to see or do. Organize it by the performer, not the venue. I'm loyal to who I want to see, not any particular establishment. And please don't stop breaking items down by county at the art section, continue it into comedy, dance, events, field trips, food and drink, and lectures, rather than listing items in those sections alphabetically or otherwise haphazardly throwing everything in multiple counties together under a section.

This is a true case of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it,” and if you're looking to improve the Pacific Sun, you really need to fix this section. It worked just fine the way it was. As presently organized, it's about as user-unfriendly as it gets. Thank you.

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Into the weedsNavigating the politics of pot legalization By Tom Gogola

legalization advocacy coalition whose member groups range from the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) to the NAACP.

The group hasn’t filed yet because it wants to absorb the commission’s report to make sure its initiative was in sync with its findings. Now the groups says that it will have to spend more money to get its signatures verified.

The timing suggests that several delicate dynamics are at play as the state rolls toward 2016: The Blue Ribbon Commission (BRC), and Newsom, can’t favor, or appear to

favor, one of several legalization initiatives over another—especially when the commission isn’t itself pro-legalization, even if Newsom is.

Nor can the commission create an appearance that it is coordinating its efforts with ReformCA, even if ReformCA tried to coordinate its efforts with the BRC’s report.

ReformCA pledged to take the commission’s findings into account before writing its initiative in hopes of greater buy-in from voters. But the commission has a timetable of its own.

ReformCA was waiting on the commission report to get input from

A state cannabis commission headed by Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom will issue its final report

July 7, a key date along the road to an expected referendum for the legalization of recreational marijuana on the 2016 California ballot.

July 7 also marks the soft filing deadline set by state Attorney General Kamala Harris’ office to give the state enough time to vet qualifying signatures for voter initiatives.

The double sevens were not good news for ReformCA, a

legalization opponents such as the California Police Chiefs Association. Also high on the list: What to do about cannabis users who are on probation, and those Emerald Triangle mom-and-pop growers anxiously awaiting their fate. Newsom met Humboldt County growers last month to hear their concerns.

“We’d be foolhardy to not understand perspectives of other communities that we may not have had access too, who came out of the woodwork on behalf of the lieutenant governor,” said Dale Sky Jones, who chairs ReformCA and teaches at Oaksterdam University in Oakland, a cannabis cultivation school.

“This is why we are waiting for the [commission],” she says. In anticipation of the deadline, ReformCA had set “an ideal drop-dead date” of July 6 to file its initiative, Jone says.

The cannabis activist says that she understands the commission’s delicate position, given that Californians “don’t want to feel that [legalization] is being pushed down their throats.”

The July 7 filing deadline is tied to verification measures used to certify signatures needed to petition for a proposition. The “full check” system goes beyond random sampling and requires that California’s secretary of state direct county elections officials to verify every signature on the petition.

Harris’ office could not comment on any of the pending initiatives. Press secretary Kristin Ford told this reporter via email that “the AG looks forward to reviewing the findings of the commission.”

Harris is a candidate for Barbara Boxer’s Senate seat in 2016 and has to walk a fine line here, too. Harris’ spokesperson reiterated a previously reported position that she’s not “morally opposed to the legalization of marijuana. But as the state’s top law enforcement officer, it is important to address issues that impact public safety in a thoughtful manner.”

Harris’ work extends to other states that have gone legal.

“Our dialogue with Washington and Colorado has yielded some important avenues to explore and understand further, like edibles and packaging,” Ford wrote.

The unfolding politics of ending prohibition in California seem to go as follows: There are very real concerns over a 2016 presidential election gone bad—Bush III backlash, anyone? Boxer’s seat is up for grabs. There’s an ambitious lieutenant governor who says that he would support an initiative, “provided it is the ‘right one,’” as ReformCA points out on its website.

Meanwhile, several legalization initiatives have already been filed

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with the attorney general—including one from Sebastopol cannabis lawyer Omar Figueroa—but ReformCA has been tuned in to the commission’s work this spring as it sought to establish itself as the most serious coalition. How serious? ReformCA put Howard Dean campaign guru Joe Trippi on its payroll two years ago and is treating the legalization referendum as a “national issue,” Jones says.

Jones says that she started to push Newsom “once [the BRC] was announced” and at every opportunity, “I asked him to turn it the hell up!”

“I’m probably driving the lieutenant governor insane,” she says with a laugh. “Every time I see him, I tell him, ‘Hurry up—you’re going too slow.’”

The commission’s general outlook on legalization? Not so fast.

The forthcoming white paper follows a trio of public forums held this spring that emphasized public safety, youth issues and the tangled web of banking and taxation, says Abdi Soltani, a member of the BRC steering committee.

Soltani, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, says that the report, 18 months in the making, will distill the findings and highlight challenges and options California faces as it moves toward the expected 2016 vote. It’s not a referendum on the referendum, he says, which is to say that the commission isn’t endorsing a pro-legalization regime.

“We wanted to gather people who would be thoughtful about what is it that has to be thought through if the state goes forward,” he says. “But there is nothing inevitable about anything. In the end, the voters will make the decision.”

Pressed for details on what the report might offer, Soltani stressed fairness and transparency. “After July 7, we’ll be in a position to get on

an equal-opportunity basis with all interested parties,” he says, “and we’ll share this with the public.”

Given the size of California, the order of magnitude is much greater here than in states that have legalized recreational cannabis, such as Colorado or Washington. “The biggest factor that presents the biggest challenge is that we would still be dealing with the federal prohibition,” Soltani says. “I don’t think we’ll come out of this process claiming to know everything. It’s a long road. How do you transition from a system that’s prohibition to a system that’s legal? There will be course corrections and new regulations along the way, and we have to take a long view.”

Jones says that she’ll press on with the work of gathering signatures and raising money. “The fact that they are coming in on July 7 when the ideal drop date is July 6 is going to make it more expensive,” she says.

Jones says a referendum will cost between $4 million and $6 million: That’s for getting all the required signatures, and getting the vote out in November 2016. But she says “the goal we are shooting for is $10 [million] to $20 million.”

To qualify for the ballot, the group must gather 585,000 signatures—8 percent of the electorate in the 2014 gubernatorial election. Most of the fundraising, Jones says, would go for big media buys, which are contingent on two unknowns at the present: “Who is going to be president, and how much opposition to legalization is going to be mustered in the state.”

Jones says that she is treating cannabis not as an issue but as a national candidate in 2016. It’s a full-on hearts-and-minds campaign.

“Cannabis—you know her,” Jones says. “You’ve had experiences, and you feel like you know Mary Jane already.”Y

A state cannabis commission headed by Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom will issue its final report on July 7.

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3 According to data from a certain government agency, you consume 1/10 of a calorie every time you lick a what?

4 George Clooney and Ryan Gosling starred in what 2011 movie (whose title contains the name of a month) about dirty tricks in the world of politics?

5 A brief outline of a book, play or movie can be described by what eight-letter word?

6 What three countries produce the most current foreign players in the NBA?

7 A recent British survey determined that there are about 600,000 of these living in Antarctica.

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9 What city did Forbes magazine recently describe as the ‘shopping capital of the Middle East’?

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situation of elk within the fenced-in Tomales Point Reserve should their water sources once again dry up due to the drought. WildCare urged the park to provide supple-mental water, because the 2014 population census of the enclosed elk herd revealed the dramatic decrease of more than 250 animals since 2012. Although we wonder why it took a request and a petition to motivate the National Park Service to act, we’re thrilled that they agreed. WildCare, thank you for continuing to aid and defend Marin’s wildlife.

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welding. “Is that Aquaman?” said the already-skeptical wife. The movie froze solid, five minutes in, staying that way for the rest of the evening. At this point, the wife wanted vengeance herself.

Downloadables left consumers with the familiar frustration of a show crashing in its first or—even worse—last 10 minutes, with screen freezes and spinning asterisks, or yet another apology in cruel white sans serif type. For more than two decades, visionaries told us that streaming television was the future of TV. By the time it was unveiled, on-demand video was so buggy that it was hard to credit the claims.

But this summer, the bugs are at last almost all gone, and streaming

video offers much of what cable previously supplied. The innovation could be called “TV a la carte”—the experience of watching multimedia content untethered to a cable provider.

Los Gatos’ Netflix, which introduced so many to this kind of viewing, claims that what we all watched for the previous 60 years—“linear television,” they call it—is on its way out. According to Time magazine, Netflix’s downloads suck down one-third of Internet traffic. Already, more consumers watch television through an Internet connection than through a cable or satellite service. A reliable Internet hookup—a necessity for anyone trying to make a living in Northern

I t was September 25, 2012. The snacks were laid out on the coffee table, the IPAs were

popped and the rental was paid. It was time to watch Marvel’s The Avengers on the first day it was downloadable from iTunes. On it came. Almost. The black screen of doom informed us that it would take 18 hours to download.

The next evening, we tried again. The Avengers was on just long enough to get to an opening scene of Tony Stark doing some underwater

California—provides a huge amount of film and television content for a relative pittance.

Americans are now discontinuing cable in favor of a $7.99 Netflix subscription, with perhaps another $7.99 subscription for Hulu Plus, and maybe a third $99-a-year subscription for Amazon Prime, whose original programming includes the Emmy-winning Transparent.

For golden-age studio fans, Warner Archive Instant, at $9.99 per month, offers one of the newest and most tempting Internet channels. Here are loads of Pre-Code, vintage anime and musicals. Last month, HBO finally abandoned its cable-only model for HBO Now—a $14.99 monthly subscription to get Game of Thrones,

The end of TVJust recently, HBO finally abandoned its cable-only model for HBO Now—a $14.99 monthly subscription to get ‘Game of Thrones’ and other shows without paying Comcast.

Streaming television has never been more reliable, and the future of film and TV has never been so precarious By Richard von Busack

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during pre-production.“If you have a story and

Netflix likes it, they will take it,” Hill said. “They’ll open lines of communication, and make suggestions—very astute, very helpful comments. I hadn’t worked in this medium before, so I appreciated the support.”

Netflix has 40 million subscribers in the U.S., and 20 million more elsewhere. By 2016, the company plans to be “pretty much everywhere in the world.” This year, Netflix says, it is spending $3 billion on content—original and otherwise. Despite this vastness, Netflix sees itself as a “passion brand.” Their communique—which they prefer handing out to reporters instead of speaking with them—states: “We don’t and can’t compete on breadth of entertainment with Comcast, Sky, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Sony, or Google. For us to be hugely successful we have to be … Starbucks, not 7-Eleven. Southwest, not United. HBO, not Dish.”

Gina Keating, whose book Netflixed studied the rise of the company, told me: “I am not at all surprised that Netflix has made streaming ubiquitous, although it did not look like a sure bet when the app was launched in 2007. The content catalog was small—mainly older titles. What sealed the deal was the disregard content owners had at the time for streaming. They just about gave away rights, not realizing the Netflix user interface had ‘trained’ consumers to look online for content. Plus, Netflix had seven years of data on its consumers and could tailor its catalog to what they liked. That data trove is the basis for decisions about Netflix original content as well.”

In addition to the original programming created in Los Angeles, under the direction of Ted Sarandos, Netflix seeks to cull the hundreds of thousands of movie choices into smaller but better programming. They “seek the best of the 20 documentaries about bicycling.” Then they measure the clickthroughs. The counting of clickthroughs—a mystery I’ll touch on in a minute—explains the vanishing of a film that you’d intended to watch. That, after the technical blackouts, is the single most frustrating aspect of a la carte TV.

The anonymous author of the Netflix Manifesto seeks the mot juste: Netflix is launched, its rival Hulu is (merely) turned on. Hulu went from beta-testing to a billion dollars in revenue within six years, »12

Silicon Valley and True Detective without paying Comcast. It’s possible to subscribe to all of them and still save money compared to cable.

A friend who works at a local movie theater attended a New York Times-sponsored seminar titled, “Look West.” He noted, “East Coast pundits and ideologues harrumphingly admitted that California is winning every culture war because of our stranglehold on tech. This particular iteration of the series featured the Hulu CEO, the Sling TV CEO and Vimeo CEO, all explaining why no one wants to watch TV anymore. They have these great phrases like ‘cord cutters’ and ‘cord nevers,’ meaning people who don't even know what it means to have cable TV in their home.”

Netflix was the gateway drug to streaming; a system that proved it works, by combining a rising studio for original programming and pairing it with a reliable distribution network. The best evidence of the company’s aspirations to become a full-fledged studio arrived last month at a red-carpet event held at the Metreon in San Francisco, where a preview was shown of Sense8, a new Netflix series created by Andy and Lana Wachowski (The Matrix, et al). Sense8 is about a group of eight individuals in eight of Earth’s most thrilling cities, locked together as a hive-mind by some mysterious technical/mystical/biological means.

Much of the cast came in for a grip-and grin-session in front of a picture window overlooking Yerba Buena Gardens. Activist and actress Daryl Hannah was there, as was Lost’s Naveen Andrews. Tearing up the place in a low-cut orange gown was the vivacious transgendered star of Sense8’s San Francisco sequences, Jamie Clayton. Working for Netflix meant a chance to see people like herself on television: “We’re not on the other channels,” she says.

Among the dozen-odd starlets, dressed to kill, was a mild-mannered and quietly dressed figure: Grant Hill, the Australian producer of Terence Malick’s masterpiece The Tree of Life, and much of the Wachowski siblings’ films. Hill said that while every studio is different, it was a new experience working with Netflix. “What’s different is that Netflix is its own distributor. And they don’t have a big development group.” It’s generally agreed among filmmakers that the most terrible part of filmmaking is “development hell”—the Dantean levels of rewriting and note-reviewing

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High-quality, on-demand entertainment, like the Netflix original series, ‘House of Cards,’ has consumers ditching the cable company for a bundle of low-cost streaming services.

after being financed by a consortium led by News Corporation and NBC Universal, and later Disney/ABC and CW. One critic—Mark Rogowski, writing in Forbes, suggests that Hulu should be even bigger than it is given how much industry money it had behind it.

But Los Angeles-based Hulu and its “hulugans” program tons of television, current and vintage. When I pay Hulu their monthly fee, I’m proudest about them carrying much of The Criterion Collection, the crown jewels of cinema. In this pride, I’m probably like my parents, who used to display that set of the Great Books of the Western World in their foyer, despite never reading them.

Hulu carries ads. Repeated ads. And that’s been the difference between Netflix and Hulu … until possibly the near future, since according to Fortune magazine’s Tom Huddleston, Netflix is considering before and after film advertisements in some markets.

You could contrast this Criterion coolness with the hotness of Netflix’s brilliant superhero series, Marvel’s Daredevil. Looking like a fan-made labor of love, the violent film noir exposes all the problems in its closest artistic rival, Gotham on Fox. Imagine what Daredevil would look like if it ran the gauntlet of the broadcasting industry’s standards and practices. Hulu, with the huge amount of industry money behind it, has scads of quality television in their trove. This doesn’t mean just obscure foreign classics, but the entirety of Seinfeld. All the episodes are indexed and ready for the picking, any time one needs a particular episode to illustrate the supineness of human nature. While the entertainment industry drowns in a swamp of male hormones, Hulu also carries Broad City and Inside Amy Schumer from Comedy Central.

Netflix takes justifiable pride in the creation of House of Cards. The American version soaked up the Tory union-busting quality of the original, British version, without noticing or caring about the difference between America and England. To echo the common complaint, the more you know or care about politics, the less House of Cards makes a lick of sense. (And Laurence Olivier’s 1955 film of Richard III, to which House of Cards owes an unpayable debt, is right there on Hulu.)

Remember when Steve Jobs said in 2010: “Nobody's willing to buy a set

top box”? The AppleTV, which Jobs also once publically referred to as “a hobby” has now gotten a bit more important. The recent Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco saw the unveiling of the newest model Apple TV. It’s rumored to have an improved touch control, providing the first updating of the device in years. It’ll have to be very improved to rival the Roku. Named after the Japanese number 6, because it was the DVR inventor Anthony Wood’s sixth startup, the Saratoga-based underdog TV system offers an assortment of programming that won CNET’s survey of over-the-top video players.

Lloyd Clarke, a longtime inventor and Roku’s director of product management, explained how a smaller company could compete against the larger streaming hardware developers. “We’re smaller, yes, and that means we can focus on what we can do better,” Clarke says. “Since 2008, when we started, we’re completely focused on streaming. We get up in the morning and that’s what we think about. There are currently 2,000 channels available through Roku—Netflix is just one of them—and we’re adding five to seven a week.”

The simplicity of Roku is what sells it. Clarke describes coming back from watching Avengers: The Age of Ultron with his son and then deciding to go back to track down all available Samuel L. Jackson films across all available channels. Roku can also notify consumers of the date that a certain film will be available, compare prices from various channels and then notify consumers when the prices come down.

A Roku is just about to replace my still-functional Apple TV of a few years back, as that little black widget slowly evolves into an intelligent drink coaster. Roku is more expensive than Google’s low-priced Chromestick, but the voice-activated software ought to be an industry standard. No more of that miserable pecking away during a search, one letter at a time, like the bell-ringing Tio Salamanca on Breaking Bad.

Will the new, omnivorous, non-linear viewing make it difficult to watch an entire film in the usual way we define a film—three acts, 90 to 120 minutes, credits at both ends?

Mike Mosher, the Silicon Valley recording artist formerly known as “Mike Mayonnaise,” is now a professor at Saginaw Valley State in Michigan. He says he’s not seeing a

limit in the attention span among his students in the heartland.

“We use YouTube in classes, including TED Talks, and chafe when our university network chokes,” Mosher says. “But personally, we don't watch streaming movies, except YouTube songs. We pop in a DVD or VHS downstairs in front of the big couch.”

Elliot Lavine, the film noir expert who is a teacher for Stanford's Continuing Studies program, finds his students are still up to the task of watching entire films. “They consider themselves serious movie-watchers and are more apt to sit through an entire film very easily,” he says. “Since the students in my classes tend to be older than your average college student, it doesn't seem to be an issue at all.”

Chipping away at the difference between movies and television is a subgenre of films released simultaneously on the digital screen and the theater. On Jan. 27, 2006, Steven Soderbergh’s film Bubble became the first movie released in the theater and on TV on the same day, with a DVD release following four days later.

At the time, Soderberg famously said of downloadable cinema: “I don't think it's going to destroy the movie-going experience any more than the ability to get takeout has destroyed the restaurant business." One wonders if exhibitors share his optimism eight years later—2014 was a terrible year for business. Even George Lucas admitted in a lecture at USC last year, “What used to be the movie business, in which I include television and movies, will be Internet television.”

I asked Netflixed author Keating whether streaming will make cinema extinct, and she suggests it’s possible.

“Because VOD [Video On Demand] is so cheap and programming is getting better and better, consumers are demanding a premium experience for the high cost of theater admission. If theater owners and content makers supply that, I think people will keep going to the movies.”

Lavine is more pessimistic. “It already is killing cinema and has been for some time,” he says. “Whenever ‘ease and comfort’ enter the equation, trouble cannot be far behind. Going out to the movies will eventually be a thing of the past, at least as far as modestly produced films are concerned. It won't be long before only huge films will find their way into theaters. Everything else will be streamed into your home. You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”

As for the numbers of actual viewers these small movies will get when they’re relegated to Internet television, that’s an open question. As noted film journalist Scott Tobias wrote on TheDissolve.com: “We know nothing … figuring out what’s successful or unsuccessful on VOD—or the overall viability of the format, period—is like being lost in a wilderness within a wilderness. And the powers-that-be aren’t passing out flashlights.”

That’s what makes Roku’s April 30 announcement interesting: the Nielsen organization, famed for its television ratings, is partnering with Roku to quantify who is out there watching. The numbers matter to filmmakers; if they know how popular their work is, they have more leverage when selling their small handmade films to Netflix or another provider. It also matters to producers, who need to be able to prove a track record when it comes time to finance the kind of little film that will

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eventually only be viable on Internet television.

One wonders at the fate of the DVD, with sales dropping as the quality of high-def streaming increases. Cinephiles still buy Blu-Ray from specialty distributors to get the best out of their home theater. After the epic fail of Netflix trying to split itself into separate online and DVD rental, it’s still red-enveloping DVDs. But this post-office-driven market is declining. Bloomberg News reports that Netflix had 58 mail order outlets at their peak. There were 39 such centers as of fall 2013. Netflix declined to show me around one of the remaining distribution centers, or to speculate on when it forecasts getting out of the physical DVD market.

Keating says that the company is likely to be mailing out DVDs years from now. “(Netflix founder) Reed Hastings joked, before the Qwikster debacle, that he would deliver the last DVD personally around 2030. I thought that seemed like a very long window but he based his calculations on the projected lifespan of CDs and how iTunes had affected that growth curve.”

If CDs eventually vanish, and there is no semi-permanent copy of a film (it’s an open secret that the lifespan of a DVD is nothing like permanent), YouTube will be a last refuge for orphan films, public domain or public domain-ish work. YouTube won’t say what percentage of its content is feature films, posted legally or otherwise. What they promote is the homebrewed video, the celebrity housecat, the person who becomes a star while cooking drunk. What credits YouTube more is less wacky work: the marvelous array of instructional videos, music lessons and technical patches available for free.

Whatever happens, cinema is bound to undergo a change. And such a bounty of moving images has its downside. Structurally, cinema first emulated the play. Technical sophistication allowed it to become something more. With sound and length and depth of field, cinema was able to emulate the interior reveries and the social importance of the novel. And sometimes it transcended even that.

For decades, cinema lovers saw the form perfected—the three-act, 90-minute format. This format will come under pressure from the wide return of an older format than the novel: the serial. Not counting the primetime work like Mad Men, The Sopranos or Breaking Bad, do we often have movies as good as Korean soap

operas? Or melodramas as juicy as the ones in Latin America?

“Feature films can barely compete with TV nowadays, both in narrative structure and style,” Lavine says. “Compelling filmed entertainment is now the property of the small screen. Film culture, as it was once known, will be forever gone. The motion picture industry is slowly and painfully committing suicide right before our eyes.”

It’s hard to see the end of what seemed like a perfect form into something that seems formless, open-ended. And it’s a little poignant seeing the event of a television show at a given time displaced by on-demand, a la carte viewing. It’ll be strange to explain to future generations what it was like to have a regular appointment on Sunday at 8pm for The Simpsons. A la carte television is one more element of decentralization in a land where the center long ago lost its hold.

And some are restless at the way a la carte TV becomes a hometown table buffet. Writer Akiva Gottlieb’s complained in The Nation, “If anything, Netflix’s frictionless all-you-can-eat access model has devalued the image … It’s turned the act of viewing into an endless game of whack-a-mole. I can think of few digital innovations more annoying than the pop-up bombarding you with related programming the very instant a movie cuts to black.”

The ultimate multimedia transformation of the moving image, predicted long ago, has finally come to pass. We’ve made our own hypertexts, combining a handheld device and a TV screen. With a television in front of our faces, and a smartphone in the palm, we cross-reference clothes and items. We comment on what we’re watching to an audience of Tweeters. What was that obscure song they just did the outro with on Mad Men? Where exactly is that location in New York? Where have I seen that actress before? These distractions combine with the old incoming tasks familiar since the 1950s, when audiences first deserted the theater for television.

In his farewell to his 30-year career, San Francisco art critic Kenneth Baker paraphrased the poet John Ciardi: “‘We are what we do with our attention.’ Immersion in digital media has the peculiar effect of making it inordinately difficult to know what we are doing with our attention at the time.”

Now that so much is available for us, where will we turn our gaze?✹

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How sweet it isSweetwater café’s Gordon Drysdale merges food, art and music By Tanya Henry

designed by Swiss architect Mario Botta. More recently, he opened several Pizza Antica pizzerias, including one in Strawberry that was conveniently located only eight minutes away from his Homestead Valley neighborhood (of 27 years).

“We still use beautiful, fresh ingredients and prepare them simply,” Drysdale says of his café menu at the Sweetwater. Occasionally he will even tailor a menu to fit the theme or tastes of visiting musicians. On that note, he was recently approached by music producer Tom Corwin to host a TV pilot entitled, “Starving Artists” that aims to introduce musicians through their love of food. For the shoot, Drysdale hosted Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers and enjoyed one of their favorite meals, followed by a performance by Bluhm and her band.

Having logged countless hours of backbreaking work running Bay Area restaurant kitchens, the fit and energetic Drysdale is more excited than ever about his craft. With a dizzying array of projects in the works—one of which includes revitalizing the working wharf in San Francisco—the accomplished restaurateur never takes himself too seriously. He frequently echoes British chef Marco Pierre White’s famous quip, “At the end of the day, it’s just lunch.”✹

Share your hunger pains with Tanya at thenry@pacificsun.com.

B ringing food, art and music together under one roof is what chef/restaurateur Gordon Drysdale says he

was ultimately born to do. Those familiar with Gordon’s House of Fine Eats will recall the cavernous SoMa space that boasted modern art-covered walls, a hip music lounge and most memorably, a roasted brussels sprouts, egg and bacon salad.

Given the Mill Valley resident’s love for music and food, it is not all that surprising that he was asked to head up the kitchen at the revived Sweetwater Music Hall & Café, which reopened its doors in 2012. The newest incarnation of the venerable music institution is now housed next to what had been the longtime home of this weekly newspaper on Corte Madera Avenue in downtown Mill Valley.

Originally hailing from Rochester, New York, Drysdale came west after graduating from the Culinary Institute of America (Hyde Park). Completing stints (honing his classical French technique) in New Jersey, multiple L.A. restaurants and Newport Beach—where he met his wife of 30-plus years—he eventually landed in the Bay Area in the late 1980s. Drysdale immediately went to work for Cindy Pawlcyn of Real Restaurants, where he was the opening chef at Bix and went on to the Buckeye Roadhouse before going back over the Golden Gate Bridge to run, for nearly 20 years, the ultra-sleek Caffé Museo in SFMOMA--

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Marin Theatre Company’s ‘Choir Boy’ runs through June 28.

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and LGBT issues, McCraney loads his script with emotional dynamite. The setting is the Charles R. Drew Prep School for Boys, an African-American enclave of a type that used to be fairly common south of the Mason-Dixon Line, but today is becoming increasingly rare. His protagonist, Pharus Jonathan Young, is the effeminate and extremely talented student leader of Drew’s renowned choir. The choir’s performances at the annual graduation ceremonies are used to help open the wallets of wealthy donors. In the drama’s opening moments he is front and center, singing a solo version of the school

M.T.C’s ‘Choir Boy’ packed with ‘theatricality’ By Charles Brousse

W hen plays and musicals are praised for their “theatricality,” it

usually means that the artists involved have succeeded in creating an exciting alternate reality that encourages people to stop worrying about the plausibility of what they’re seeing and embrace an approach to truth that is based on what the English poet/aesthetic philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge, writing in 1813, called a “willing suspension of disbelief.” Once that level of involvement is achieved, almost anything that happens on stage is acceptable.

The opening night audience’s enthusiastic response to Marin Theatre Company’s season-ending Bay Area premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Choir Boy illustrates what a powerful influence theatricality can be.

Writing at a time when America is wracked with angst over racial

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anthem when he is interrupted by a voice accusing him of being a closeted homosexual. To the dismay of Drew’s headmaster and Board of Directors, who see their financial future imperiled, the severely shaken Pharus is unable to continue.

That incident sets the story line for the remainder of the roughly 90-minute, intermission-less play. The accuser is a fellow choir boy, Bobby Marrow, the headmaster’s nephew, who aspires to replace Pharus as group leader. Their rivalry intensifies as they hurtle toward a conclusion that will benefit neither, and Pharus has to confront the issue of his own sexual identity. All of this takes place against a chattering background of concerned relatives and school officials that adds fuel to the already incendiary atmosphere.

Admittedly, it’s a lot to digest, and in the initial stages I found myself questioning both the credibility of McCraney’s premises and some of MTC director Ken Gash’s production choices. For example, how could Drew’s vaunted choir—supposedly the institution’s major vehicle for attracting donors—be composed of only five boys? Why did Headmaster Marrow approve

Pharus, whose exaggerated speech and mannerisms clearly suggest he is gay, to represent the school to an extremely conservative board and public? Why are actors of an age more suited to post-doctoral students cast to play 16-year-olds? And why are the two adults—the headmaster and a venerable teacher named Mr. Pendleton—made to seem so ineffectual?

The more I watched Choir Boy unfold, however, the more these doubts were replaced by the pure pleasure of watching the skillful performances of Jelani Alladin, Jaysen Wright, Dimitri Woods, Forest Van Dyke and Rotimi Agbabiaka, including rocking dance numbers and beautifully harmonized spirituals (organized by music director Darius Smith). Although Ken Robinson (Headmaster Marrow) and Charles Shaw Robinson (Mr. Pendleton) are not the main attraction, they are a nice counterbalance to their boisterous “adolescent” charges.

McCraney is a very hot young playwright these days, and “theatricality” is his trademark. ✹

Charles can be reached at cbrousse@att.net.

NOW PLAYING: Choir Boy runs through June 28 at the Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave., Mill Valley. For more information, call 415/388-5200, or visit marintheatre.org.

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The road goes onRobert Earl Keen revisits bluegrass rootsBy Charlie Swanson

NOW PLAYING: Robert Earl Keen performs on Wednesday, June 24, at Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley; 8pm; $55-$60. For more information, call 415/388-1100, or visit sweetwatermusichall.com.

A cclaimed songwriter and country star Robert Earl Keen is best known for hits like his universally

loved anthem, “The Road Goes On Forever,” yet the sixth-generation Texan has always had a soft spot for bluegrass, the music of his youth.

Keen shares this lifelong passion on a new album, Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions, and a summer tour making its way to Sweetwater Music Hall on Wednesday, June 24.

“The first date I ever had, I took a girl to a bluegrass festival,” Keen says. “I don’t recommend it.” Speaking from the hill country of Kerrville, Texas, Keen delves into his latest fork in his musical road. “It did solidify the fact, that number one: I really did love bluegrass. And number two: That really shouldn’t be your first date with a girl you want to keep going out with,” Keen laughs.

Growing up on a steady diet of records by the likes of Bill Monroe and the Stanley Brothers, Keen learned to play guitar alongside those albums and with bluegrass fiddle players in Houston where he grew up.

“It’s really affected the whole way I write and sing,” he says. Still, in a career that spans over three decades, Keen has never produced a strictly bluegrass album until this year, when Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions was released in February to universal critical praise and a top spot on the U.S. Bluegrass charts.

“I got to a point in my life where

I thought, you know, if I don’t do this now, I might never do it,” says Keen about the new album. Collected from a list of 100 of his favorite songs, this record features 15 classic and beloved bluegrass tunes played in Keen’s signature drawl and grit.

Guest appearances by friends like Lyle Lovett and Sara Watkins (Nickel Creek) bolster Keen and his band’s playing, and the record encompasses an eclectic array of what bluegrass means to Keen.

“A lot of people have a real myopic view of bluegrass, but I think of it in terms of a broad spectrum with real nuances,” Keen says. “I wanted to pick songs that represented the entire bluegrass landscape.”Bringing that landscape to the North Bay, Keen returns to Sweetwater, where he has appeared numerous times since sending the venue a handmade press kit back in his earliest days of playing.This time around, Keen and his core band of 20 years will be working the stage with a blend of material off the new record, as well as a crop of his biggest hits, like “Shades of Gray” and “Feelin’ Good Again,” done up in a bluegrass style. Y

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are the size and color of glow-in-the-dark bowling balls. They roll down ramps of mammoth machinery to be safely archived below decks, before sadness can touch and cloud them.

For all the mulling over of emotional conflict, Inside Out is as restless as any summer action film, with both a rocket journey and a train wreck. The amusement-park-like “islands” of Riley’s inner-life (one, a “Goofyland,” is where Riley goes when she pretends to be a monkey to cheer her dad) crumble under the girl’s stress, shaking as if they’d been built on a psychological San Andreas fault.

Co-director Pete Doctor is trying for something funny and also profound. He mostly succeeds. And once again, Pixar gets you right between the ribs, this time with a scene of familiar reconciliation—when Riley comes to understand that there is something called bittersweetness that dwells between the extremes of joy and sadness.✹

‘Inside Out’ opens June 19 in wide release.

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P ixar, the studio that tries harder than any of them, tries something different in Inside Out. It’s

a cartoon inner-space voyage into the subconscious, starring a cast of psychological abstractions.

Riley (voiced by Kaitlyn Dias), not yet a teenager, is uprooted by her parents from her idyllic Minneapolis home to a dingy Victorian in an authentically delineated San Francisco. We see the crisis disrupting her life from the inside of her personality. Riley’s troubles are processed by five color-coded figures: the luminescent, blue-haired pixie Joy (voiced by Amy Poehler), who puts her seal on every event; Sadness (Phyllis Smith of The Office), a shapeless, bespectacled sloucher in a chunky white turtleneck sweater; Disgust (Mindy Kaling), green and scowling with disdain, and, lurking like minions, Anger (Lewis Black) and Fear (Bill Hader).

Joy’s job is to collect and protect memories before they’re sent to the core. The newly minted memories

New Pixar film takes a trip inside the tween mind By Richard von Busack

CinéArts at Marin 101 Caledonia St., Sausalito, 331-0255 cinemark.com/theatre-469 CinéArts at Sequoia 25 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley, 388-4862 cinemark.com/theatre-473 Cinema 41 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, 924-6505 cinemark.com/theatre-468 Fairfax 9 Broadway, Fairfax, 453-5444 northbaymovies.com/fairfax.html Lark 549 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur, 924-5111 larktheater.net Larkspur Landing 500 Larkspur Landing Cir., Larkspur, 461-4849 cinemark.com/theatre-426 Northgate 7000 Northgate Dr., San Rafael, 800-326-3264 northbaymovies.com/cnorth.html Playhouse 40 Main St., Tiburon, 435-1234 northbaymovies.com/tiburon.html Rafael Film Center 1118 Fourth St., San Rafael, 454-1222 rafaelfilm.cafilm.org/ Regency 80 Smith Ranch Rd., Terra Linda, 479-5050 regencymovies.com/ Rowland 44 Rowland Way, Novato, 800-326-3264 cinemark.com/theatre-472

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ConcertsMARINMike G & Left BrainTwo members of the LA rap collective Odd Future appear as part of their Mind Gone Tour, with D-12 rapper Bizarre opening. Jun 17, 8pm. $20-$22. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.1100.

Robert Earl KeenTexas songwriter and storyteller performs off his new bluegrass album, “Happy Prisoner,” with a bevy of his classic hits redone in bluegrass style. Jun 24, 8pm. $55-$60. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.1100.

SONOMABeau DThe pianist returns to the keys for his first solo performance since recovering from an accident that severed tendons in his hand. Jun 20, 7pm. Free. Warren Auditorium, Ives Hall, SSU, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park.

Mark Hummel’s Blues Harmonica BlowoutCelebrated harp player blows through town with feature players Corky Siegel, Little Charlie Baty, Sky O’Banion and others. Jun 20, 8:30pm. $21-$25. Mystic Theatre, 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.765.2121.

NAPAMarnie BreckenridgeAcclaimed singer performs from “The Great American Songbook” in this Lincoln Theater fundraiser. Jun 20, 7pm. $100. Lincoln Theater, 100 California Dr, Yountville, 707.944.9900.

Clubs&VenuesMARIN142 Throckmorton TheatreJun 19, Marley’s Ghost. Jun 20, Marty Balin. 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, 415.383.9600.

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

the World Music Trio. Jun 20, Summer Solstice Celebration with Caroline Casey. 923 C St, San Rafael, 415.457.4191.

Osteria DivinoJun 17, Pedro Rosales Con Quimba. Jun 19, Eric Markowitz Trio. Jun 20, Jeff Denson’s Open Sky. Jun 23, Ken Cook. Jun 24, Noel Jewkes Duo. 37 Caledonia St, Sausalito, 415.331.9355.

Panama Hotel RestaurantJun 17, Dave Getz. Jun 18, Dartanyan Brown. Jun 23, Lorin Rowan. Jun 24, River Town Trio. 4 Bayview St, San Rafael, 415.457.3993.

Peri’s Silver DollarJun 17, the Elvis Johnson Soul Revue. Jun 18, Burnsy’s Sugar Shack. Jun 19, Lumanation. Jun 20, Chrissy Lynne Band. Jun 21, La Mandanga. Jun 23, Waldo’s Special. Jun 24, Twangfest. Mon, Billy D’s open mic. 29 Broadway, Fairfax, 415.459.9910.

Rancho NicasioJun 19, D’Bunchovus. Jun 21, the Blues Broads with the Coverlettes. 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio, 415.662.2219.

Sausalito Cruising ClubJun 20, Jinx Jones and the KingTones. Mon, Blue Monday Blues Jam. 300 Napa St, Sausalito.

Sausalito SeahorseJun 18, Los Flamencos del Pueblo. Jun 19, World music night with Los Troubadoux. Jun 20, James Moseley Band. Jun 21,

Mazacote. Wed, Tango with Marcello and Seth. Tues, Jazz with Noel Jewkes and friends. 305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito, 415.331.2899.

Smiley’s Schooner SaloonJun 18, the Emma Lee Project. Jun 19, Cosmic Mercy. Jun 20, Clear Conscience. Jun 24, Midnight on the Water. Sun, open mic. Mon, reggae. 41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas, 415.868.1311.

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

Station House CafeJun 21, Left Coast Syncopators. 11180 State Route 1, Pt Reyes Station, 415.663.1515.

Studio 55 MarinJun 20, Setchko & Meese. 1455 E Francisco Blvd, San Rafael, 415.453.3161.

Sweetwater Music HallJun 19, Super Diamond. Jun 20, Eric Lindell and Co. Jun 21, Mike Doughty. Jun 22, Crossroads Music School. Jun 23, Jonathan Richman featuring Tommy Larkins. Mon, Open Mic. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.1100.

Terrapin CrossroadsJun 17, the Incubators. Jun 17-18, Jackie Green Band in the Grate Room. Jun 18, CMac & the Casual Coalition. Jun 20, Alex Nelson and friends. Jun 20, Reid Genauer with Reed Mathis in the Grate Room. Jun 21, Midnight North featuring Scott Law. Jun 22, Grateful Monday’s with Scott Law. Jun 23, Stu Allen and friends. Jun 24, “Grateful Dead Funk Night” with Scott Law. 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael, 415.524.2773.

Town Center Corte MaderaJun 21, 2pm, Fabulous Cruise Tones. 100 Corte Madera Town Center, Corte Madera, 415.924.2961.

True North PizzaTues-Sun, live music. 638 San Anselmo Ave, San Anselmo, 415.453.1238.

SONOMA755 After Dark (Aubergine)Jun 20, Chicken Thieves with Kitten Drunk and Car 87. 755 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol, 707.829.2722.

A’Roma RoastersJun 19, Mimi Pirard. Jun 20, Now & Zen. 95 Fifth St, Santa Rosa, 707.576.7765.

Annex Wine BarThurs-Sat, live music. 865 W Napa St, Sonoma, 707.938.7779.

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FenixJun 18, Back N Black with Ann Halen. Jun 19, Frank Bey and Anthony Paule. Jun 20, Terrie Odabi. Jun 21, Tara Linda and the Rumor Mill. Jun 23, classical night with Paul Smith. Wed, Pro blues jam. 919 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.813.5600.

George’s NightclubJun 19, reggae night. Wed, Rock and R&B Jam. Sat, DJ night. Sun, Mexican Banda. 842 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.226.0262.

HopMonk NovatoJun 17, open mic night with DJ Powermove. Jun 18, Roseberry Jam plus Intersection and Bleached Signals. Jun 20, Lef Deppard. 224 Vintage Way, Novato, 415.892.6200.

19 Broadway ClubJun 17, Kortuzi Band. Jun 18, Fog Dub. Jun 19, San Geronimo with the Haggards. Jun 20, Peck the Town Crier. Jun 21, Honeydust. Jun 23, Crooked. Jun 24, Peter Arwen and Eddie Show. Mon, open mic. 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax, 415.459.1091.

No Name BarJun 17, Marc Bourguignon and Hallie Richards. Jun 18, Michael LaMacchia Band. Jun 20, Del Sol. Jun 21, 3pm, Flowtilla. Jun 21, 8:30pm, Migrant Pickers and friends. Jun 24, Soul Syncopators. Fri, Michael Aragon Quartet. Mon, Kimrea and Dreamdogs. Tues, open mic. 757 Bridgeway, Sausalito, 415.332.1392.

Open SecretJun 18, Kirtan with Miriabai. Jun 19,

CALENDAR

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Jefferson Airplane, Marty Balin takes the stage for one night at the 142 Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley on Saturday, June 20 at 8pm.

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Aqus CafeJun 17, West Coast Songwriters Competition. Jun 19, Teja Gerken and Mark Goldenberg. Jun 20, Mama Loshn. Jun 21, 2pm, Steve Schuster and Dick Bay. Jun 24, bluegrass and old time music jam. 189 H St, Petaluma, 707.778.6060.

Arlene Francis CenterJun 18, Angelo Spencer with Future Twin and Gay Henry. Jun 20, Poetry in Soundspace Motion:Polyrhythm. Wed, Open Mic. Tues, Open Didgeridoo Clinic. 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.528.3009.

The Big EasyJun 17, Bruce Gordon and Nicky Otis. Jun 18, Second Sight Jazz with Kendrick Freeman and Company. Jun 19, the Grain. Jun 20, Marty O’Reilly & the Old Soul Orchestra. Jun 21, Miano Jazz Trio. Jun 22, Eric Lindell. Jun 23, the American Alley Cats. Jun 24, Tracy Rose and friends. 128 American Alley, Petaluma, 707.776.4631.

Brixx PizzeriaJun 20, Nate Lopez. 16 Kentucky St, Petaluma, 707.766.8162.

Burgers & VineJun 19, DJ Midnight Sun. Jun 20, DJ Hi C. Tues, “Reggae Market” DJ night. 400 First St E, Sonoma, 707.938.7110.

Christy’s on the SquareWed, Casa Rasta. Thurs, Throwback Thursdays with DJ Stevie B. 96 Old Courthouse Square, Santa Rosa, 707.528.8565.

Chroma GalleryJun 20, 4pm, Jeffrey Halford and the Healers. 312 South A St, Santa Rosa, 707.293.6051.

Coffee CatzJun 18, 4:30pm, DJ Kudjo. Jun 20, 11am, Gary T. Jun 20, 3pm, Billy DaMountain. Mon, open mic. Tues, 12pm, peaceful piano hour. 6761 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol, 707.829.6600.

Deerfield Ranch WineryJun 18, Susan Witt-Butler and Charlie Schlangen. 10200 Sonoma Hwy, Kenwood, 707.833.2270.

Downtown Guerneville PlazaJun 18, Lydia Pense & Cold Blood. 16201 First St, Guerneville.

Epicurean ConnectionJun 17, Dan Neville and Fresh Local Vibes. Jun 18, Bray. Jun 19, the Lo Watters. Jun 20, the Borderline Boys. Jun 21, 1pm, Loralee

Christensen Trio. 122 West Napa St, Sonoma, 707.935.7960.

Finley Community CenterMon, 11am, Proud Mary’s ukulele jam and lessons. Third Friday of every month, Steve Luther. 2060 W College Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.543.3737.

Flamingo LoungeJun 19, Stereo Bounce. Jun 20, Aqua Nett. 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa, 707.545.8530.

Forestville ClubJun 21, Eric Lindell. 6250 Front St, Forestville, 707.887.2594.

French GardenJun 19, Tone Bent. Jun 20, LaFlamme-Lawrence Ensemble. 8050 Bodega Ave, Sebastopol, 707.824.2030.

Friar Tuck’sFri, DJ Night. Wed, Sat, karaoke. 8201 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.792.9847.

Gaia’s GardenJun 19, Duo Guliani. Jun 20, Casi Pájaros. Third Sunday of every month, jazz jam. 1899 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.544.2491.

Gale’s Central ClubJun 21, Car 87 with the Lucky Boys and the Chicken Thieves. 106 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.763.0118.

Gypsy CafeJun 19, Karen Joy Brown with David Silva. 162 N Main St, Sebastopol, 707.861.3825.

HopMonk SebastopolJun 18, Songwriter-in-the-Round. Jun 20, We the Folk. Jun 21, Albert Lee and Cindy Cashdollar. Jun 22, SNWMF after-party. Tues, open mic night. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol, 707.829.7300.

HopMonk SonomaJun 19, 5pm, David Hamilton. Jun 19, 8pm, Hand Me Down. Jun 20, Maverick bluegrass duo. Jun 21, Griffin House. 691 Broadway, Sonoma, 707.935.9100.

Hotel HealdsburgJun 20, Gaea Schell Trio with John Wiitala and Greg Wyser-Pratte. 25 Matheson St, Healdsburg, 707.431.2800.

Jamison’s Roaring DonkeyJun 18, Ricky Ray Band. Jun 19, Matt Bolton. Jun 20, JimBo Trout and the Fishpeople. Wed, open mic night. 146 Kentucky St, Petaluma, 707.772.5478.

Kenwood DepotThird Thursday of every month, Open Mic Cafe. 314 Warm Springs Rd, Kenwood.

Lagunitas Tap RoomJun 17, Brothers Gadjo. Jun 18, Doug Adamz Trio. Jun 19, the Restless Sons. Jun 20, Atta Kid. Jun 21, Junk Parlor. Jun 24, Aqua Velvets. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma, 707.778.8776.

Main Street StationJun 17, Pocket Canyon Ramblers. Jun 18, Susan Sutton Jazz Piano. Jun 20, Wendy DeWitt. Jun 21, Pat Wilder. Jun 23, Uncle Tom-Tom. 16280 Main St, Guerneville, 707.869.0501.

Mc T’s BullpenJun 19, DJ Miguel. Jun 20, Wiley’s Coyotes. Jun 21, DJ Prodkt. Jun 22, DJ Miguel. Tues, Thurs, karaoke with Country Dan. 16246 First St, Guerneville, 707.869.3377.

Mystic TheatreJun 17, Easy Star All-Stars. Jun 18, Leftover Cuties. Jun 19, Igor & the Red Elvises. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.765.2121.

Phoenix TheaterJun 19, 7 Seconds with the Briggs. Sun, 5pm, rock and blues jam. Tues, 7pm, Acoustic Americana jam. 201 Washington St, Petaluma, 707.762.3565.

Redwood CafeJun 17, Gypsy Kisses. Jun 19, Wendy DeWitt. Jun 20, the Rhythm Rangers. Jun 21, 11am, Elizabeth Boaz. Jun 21, 4pm, Gold Coast Jazz Band. Thurs, Open Mic. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.795.7868.

Rio Nido RoadhouseJun 21, D’Ginn. 14540 Canyon 2 Rd, Rio Nido, 707.869.0821.

Rocker Oysterfeller’sJun 21, Bear’s Belly. 14415 Hwy 1, Valley Ford, 707.876.1983.

Rohnert Park-Cotati LibraryJun 20, 1pm, Santa Rosa Symphony Woodwind Quintet. 6250 Lynne Conde Way, Rohnert Park, 707.584.9121.

Rossi’s 1906Jun 19, DJ Izak. Jun 20, Tilted Halos with Free Works and Winoceros. Jun 21, the Tri

Tip Trio. Thurs, What’s Shakin’ jam session. 401 Grove St, El Verano, 707.343.0044.

Ruth McGowan’s BrewpubJun 20, the Vantini Jazz Trio. Sun, Evening Jazz with Gary Johnson. 131 E First St, Cloverdale, 707.894.9610.

Green Music Center Schroeder HallJun 24-28, ChamberFest. 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

Sonoma-CutrerJun 20, 2pm, 707 band. 4401 Slusser Rd, Windsor, 707.237.3489.

Spancky’sJun 19, the Hots. Jun 20, Roadside Attraction. Thurs, 7pm, Thursday Night Blues Jam. Thurs, 11pm, DJ Selecta Konnex. 8201 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.664.0169.

Sugarloaf Ridge State ParkJun 19, “Funky Fridays” with BackTrax. 2605 Adobe Canyon Rd, Kenwood, 707.833.5712.

TradewindsWed, Sonoma County Blues Society. Thurs, DJ Dave. Tues, Open Mic. 8210 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.795.7878.

BestBet

Dynamic vocalist Terri Odabi brings her blend of jazz, blues, gospel and soul to the Fenix in San Rafael, this Saturday, June 20 at 8pm.

Drink up, cool down and get your summertime groove on at the 4th annual California Beer Festival this Saturday, June 20 at Stafford Lake Park in Novato. Featuring more than 70 craft brews, live music, food, vendors, bocce ball and more, this event has fun written all over it.

Beer sampling is from 1pm to 4:30pm and includes ales, lagers and ciders from Lagunitas, Strike, Anderson Valley, Ninkasi, Bear Republic and Mendocino brewing companies, among others. Buying a VIP ticket will score you an early tasting—from 11:30am to 12:30pm, and a chance to meet the brewers. Burt’s garlic fries and select bites from India Gour-met Catering, Hula Huts, Velasco’s Mexican Restaurant and more will be on hand.

To top it all off, the ever-popular Wonderbread5—originally a Michael Jackson tribute band and now covering everything from “Motown to Bean-town”—will provide high-energy entertainment. If world/reggae music is what you crave, you’re in luck with local favorite IrieFuse, and for some good ol’ rock ‘n’ roll, Petaluma’s The Grain is the ticket.

Festival icon Burt the Bear will be prancing through the park, spreading confetti and good cheer, and festival proceeds will benefit the Gen Giammanco Foundation, a nonprofit organization providing financial support to student athletes.—Lily O’ Brien

California Beer Festival, Saturday, June 20, 12:30pm to 5pm (11:30am for VIP ticket-holders); General tickets: $50, VIP tickets: $70, designated driver tickets: $25. For more information, visit californiabeerfestival.com.

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20Twin Oaks TavernJun 17, David Thom Band. Jun 18, Levi’s Workshop with Levi Lloyd. Jun 19, Yo! Pizza Face. Jun 20, 5pm, the Soul Section. Jun 20, 8pm, the Hots. Mon, Blues Defenders Pro Jam. 5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove, 707.795.5118.

Whiskey TipJun 19, Tyler Rich. Jun 20-21, Family Room Silent Disco. 1910 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.843.5535.

Wells Fargo Center for the ArtsJun 24, Transcendence Theatre Company presents “Oh, What a Night!”. 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.546.3600.

ZodiacsJun 17, the Deadlies. Jun 18, Kyle Martin Band. Jun 19, the Coffis Brothers with Saffell. Jun 20, Scarub of Living Legends with Soulmedic and others. Jun 24, Pato Banton. 256 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.773.7751.

NAPABeringer VineyardsJun 20, Trio Solea. 2000 Main St, St Helena, 866.708.9463.

Billco’s BilliardsJun 18, the Last Resort. 1234 Third St, Napa, 707.226.7506.

City Winery NapaJun 17, Leftover Cuties with Sam Outlaw and Taylor Scott. Jun 18, Bob Schneider. Jun 19, Marty Balin. Jun 20, Mike Doughty. Jun 22, Eliane Elias. Jun 23, Albert Lee and Cindy Cashdollar with John Doe. Jun 24, Allen Stone with Brynn Elliot. 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.260.1600.

Downtown Joe’s Brewery & RestaurantJun 18, the Voltones. Jun 19, Bernie Man. Jun 20, Xtatic. Sun, DJ Aurelio. 902 Main St, Napa, 707.258.2337.

FARM at Carneros InnJun 17, Whiskey & Honey Trio. Jun 18, Dan Daniels Trio. Jun 24, David Ronconi Duo. 4048 Sonoma Hwy, Napa, 888.400.9000.

Goose & GanderJun 21, Marty O’Reilly & the Old Soul Orchestra. 1245 Spring St, St Helena, 707.967.8779.

Hydro GrillSun, 7pm, Swing Seven. Fri, Sat, blues. 1403 Lincoln Ave, Calistoga, 707.942.9777.

Lincoln TheaterJun 21, 3pm, Marnie Breckenridge’s Fathers Day Community Concert. 100 California Dr, Yountville, 707.944.9900.

Methode Bubble Bar and RestaurantFri, Sat, David Ruane. 1400 First St, Napa, 707.254.8888.

Molinari CaffeThurs, Open Mic. 828 Brown St, Napa, 707.927.3623.

Silo’sJun 17, Steve Taylor-Ramirez. Jun 18, Bootleg Honeys. Jun 19, DJ Rotten Robbie’s Time Machine. Jun 20, Stealing Shakespeare. 530 Main St, Napa, 707.251.5833.

Uncorked at OxbowThurs, open mic night. Fri, live music. 605 First St, Napa, 707.927.5864.

Uva TrattoriaJun 18, Nate Lopez. Jun 19, Fundz Jazz. Jun 20, Jackie and friends. Jun 21, Collaboration. Jun 24, Tom Duarte. 1040 Clinton St, Napa, 707.255.6646.

ArtOPENINGMARINArt by the Bay Weekend GalleryFridays-Sundays. through Aug 9, “Ever Changing Earth,” artworks inspired by the beauty of West Marin. Reception, Jun 28 at 3pm. 18856 Hwy 1, Marshall. 415.663.1006.

Desta Art & Tea GalleryJun 17-Aug 9, “Line, Form and Texture,” summer exhibit features paintings and ceramic sculptures from local Bay Area artists. Reception, Jun 19 at 6pm. 417 San Anselmo Ave, San Anselmo.

Osher Marin JCCJun 24-Jul 26, “China Camp: A Photographic Journey,” solo exhibit by artist, musician and Marin County resident Osher Levi. Reception, Jun 24 at 5pm. 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael. 415.444.8000.

SONOMAGaia’s GardenJun 17-Jul 31, “Kimberly McCartney Solo Show,” the mixed-media artist utilizes discarded and found objects in her expressive works. Reception, Jun 20 at 2pm. 1899 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. 707.544.2491.

Paradise Ridge WineryJun 20-Apr 30, “Conversations in Sculpture,” eleven artists provide an artistic statement that introduces a conversational topic. Reception, Jun 20 at 1pm. 4545 Thomas Lake Harris Dr, Santa Rosa. Daily, 11am–5pm 707.528.9463.

Petaluma Arts CenterJun 20-Jul 26, “Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist,” works on paper by the artist and his circle. Reception, Jun 20 at 5pm. 230 Lakeville St, Petaluma. 707.762.5600.

Pie Eyed Open StudioJun 20-21, “Vision Quest,” an artistic journey with Angelina Artemoff. 2371

Comedy Open MicThird Sun of every month, 8pm. Free. HopMonk Sebastopol, 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol, 707.829.7300.

Dave BurleighMarincomedyshow presents the standup comedian, seen on “America’s Got Talent,” and other local talents. Jun 20, 8pm. $20. Trek Winery, 1026 Machin Ave, Novato, 415.899.9883.

Eddie IzzardThe comic genius brings his massive Force Majeure world tour back to the U.S. and makes his Santa Rosa debut. Jun 17, 8pm. Sold-out. Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.546.3600.

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

Open Mic ComedyWed. Spancky’s, 8201 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.664.0169.

Tuesday Night ComedyMark Pitta hosts ongoing evenings with established comics and up-and-comers. $15-$20. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, 415.383.9600.

DanceBelrose TheaterSundays, 4pm, Argentine Dance. 1415 Fifth Ave, San Rafael 415.454.6422.

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

Dance PalaceWednesdays, 6pm, Women’s Collaborative Dance. $5 / $15 per month. 503 B St, Pt Reyes Station 415.663.1075.

dhyana CenterJun 21, 6:30pm, Summer Solstice Circle Dancing, led by Tui and Sahar. 186 N Main St, Sebastopol 800.796.6863.

Ellington HallFridays, Friday Night Swing. 3535 Industrial Dr, Santa Rosa 707.545.6150.

Finnish American Home AssociationWednesdays, 5:30pm, African dance and drum workshop, all ages and skill levels are welcome to move and groove with Sandor Diabankouezi, world-class Congolese master drummer. $15. 191 W Verano Ave, Sonoma.

Flamingo LoungeSundays, 7pm, salsa with lessons. Tuesdays, swing dancing with lessons. 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa 707.545.8530.

George’s NightclubThursdays, 8pm, Salsa y Sabor Thursday, lessons followed by DJs spinning the best of salsa and jazz tunes. 842 Fourth St, San Rafael 415.226.0262.

Hermann Sons HallMondays, 7pm. through Aug 3, Summer Folk Dancing, all are welcome to get together for weekly dances that explore worldly styles from Serbia, Turkey, Israel

Local favorites Bodhi Setchko & Stephen Meese along with Robin Zickel & Sarit perform at Studio 55 in San Rafael on Saturday, June 20 at 8pm, in a benefit for the Golden Gate Center for Spiritual Living.

Gravenstein Hwy S, Sebastopol. Sat-Sun, 12 to 3 707.477.9442.

Santa Rosa Central LibraryJun 19, “Seen and Heard,” a visual history of homelessness in Sonoma County. Reception, Jun 19 at 6pm. 211 E St, Santa Rosa. 707.545.0831x539.

Sebastopol Center for the ArtsJun 19-Jul 31, “Mainly Black and White,” showing varied, multimedia artwork, in mainly black and white or with tolerance for a minimal sidestep of color. Reception, Jun 19 at 6pm. 282 S High St, Sebastopol. Tues-Fri, 10 to 4; Sat, 1 to 4. 707.829.4797.

Slaughterhouse SpaceJun 20-Aug 15, “The Battle of Mara,” new paintings from artist Laine Justice. Reception, Jun 20 at 5pm. 280 Chiquita Rd, Healdsburg. Sat, noon to 5, and by appointment. 707.431.1514.

Sonoma Valley Museum of ArtJun 18-20, “Barrels of Hope,” eight local artists’ original creations based on repurposed wine barrels shows for one weekend only. Reception, Jun 20. 551 Broadway, Sonoma. Wed-Sun, 11 to 5. 707.939.SVMA.

NAPADowntown NapaJun 18-May 31, “Napa ARTwalk,” the rotating exhibition of original, high-quality sculpture showcased in public areas around Downtown Napa and the Oxbow District returns for another summer. Reception, Jun 18 at 6pm. First Street and Town Center, Napa.

Napa Valley MuseumJun 19-Aug 30, “do it” Traveling exhibit is a conceptual and interactive experience built upon enacting artists’ written and drawn instructions. Reception, Jun 19 at 6pm. 55 Presidents Circle, Yountville. Tues-Sun, 10am to 4pm. 707.944.0500.

ComedyBill BurrOne of the top comedic voices of his generation makes his first appearance in Santa Rosa. Jun 21, 8pm. $37-$47. Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.546.3600.

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and others. $5. 860 Western Ave, Petaluma 707.762.9962.

Monroe Dance HallJun 19-21, Faultline Frolic Weekend, three day contra dance event with live music by Hotpoint String Band, Rhythm Raptors and others. Wednesdays, Singles and Pairs Square Dance Club. Thursdays, Circles ‘n Squares Dance Club. Sundays, Country-Western dancing and lessons. Mondays, Scottish Country Dancing. Tuesdays, Razzmataz folk dance club. 1400 W College Ave, Santa Rosa 707.529.5450.

Sebastopol Senior CenterFridays, Beginning Line Dancing. 167 High St, Sebastopol 707.829.2440.

Songbird Community Healing CenterWednesdays, Biodanza. 8297 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati 707.795.2398.

Wischemann HallTuesdays, 6pm, Square Dance Beginner Class, put on by Redwood Rainbows. 707.478.6409. 465 Morris St, Sebastopol.

EventsArt In the ParkBenefit for Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods features art exhibit, live entertainment and beer & wine tastings in a wondrous forest setting. Jun 20, 12pm. Free. Armstrong Woods State Reserve, Armstrong Woods Road, Guerneville, 707.869.9177.

The Barlow Street FairThe Barlow takes over McKinley St every Thursday this summer with local food, beer and wine, as well as live music and family-friendly activities. Thurs, 5pm. through Sep 24. Barlow Event Center, 6770 McKinley Ave, Sebastopol.

Beginning Tai Chi ClassesLearn the relaxing techniques that increase energy, f lexibility and balance. Mon, 10:30am. Christ Church United Methodist, 1717 Yulupa Ave, Santa Rosa.

Book SaleFriends of Mill Valley Library holds monthly sale of all genres of literature and reference books, CDs and videos. Third Sat of every month, 9am. Mill Valley Library, 375 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, 415.389.4292.

Community Healing FestivalParticipate in hands-on and aura healings and clairvoyant readings. Jun 21, 6pm. Yoga One Petaluma, 110 Kentucky St, Petaluma, 707.782.9642.

Community Meditation PracticeSitting and walking meditation with free instruction. Followed by tea and snacks. Sun, 9am. Free. Santa Rosa Shambhala Meditation Center, 709 Davis St, Santa Rosa, 707.545.4907.

Domestic Violence Advocate TrainingBecome an advocate over five day-long sessions, and make a difference in your community. Jun 17-27. $300. Center for Domestic Peace, 734 A St, San Rafael.

Drawing & Plein Air Watercolor PaintingHeather Peters leads a weekend of drawing and painting in beautiful Point Reyes. Jun

20-21, 10am. $250. ink.paper.plate studio and shop, 11401 State Route 1, Point Reyes Station, 415.873.6008.

Drop-In MeditationClasses for all levels include guided meditation and brief commentary. Kids welcome. Ongoing. $10. Mahakaruna Buddhist Center, 304 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.766.7720.

Galley TourDiscover the art, history and environment of the Napa Valley. Third Sat of every month, 11am. Free. Napa Valley Museum, 55 Presidents Circle, Yountville, 707.944.0500.

Game TournamentsVarious card and role-playing games including Yu-Gi-Oh, Dungeons and Dragons and Magic: The Gathering. Mon-Thurs-Sun. Outer Planes Comics and Games, 526 Seventh St, Santa Rosa, 707.546.2000.

Heighten Your Experience Through DrummingSix-week class led by Sahar will explore aspects of life that make us feel stuck and help us break through with rhythm. Tues, 7pm. through Jun 23. $108 all sessions. Daisies Magical Musical Wonderland, 790 Hurlbut Ave, Sebastopol, 707.824.1796.

International Surf Day CelebrationExhibition of local surf artists, documentary screening, stellar wines and local food vendors and music by Clear Conscience. Jun 20, 3pm. Free. Longboard Vineyards, 5 Fitch St, Healdsburg, 707.433.3473.

Trauma Recovery ExercisesShed chronic emotional stress with Kristi Doden. Tues, 7:30pm. Sonoma County Healing Academy, 6741 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol, 707.799.8080.

Japanese Cultural DayOsmosis celebrates their Japanese roots with music, cuisine, art bazaar and treatments, as well as a local’s evening event with cedar enzyme foot baths and a Japanese sword demonstration. Jun 17, 10am. $199. Osmosis Day Spa, 209 Bohemian Hwy, Freestone, 707.823.8231.

Kundalini MeditationTues, 7pm. Free. Keene Acupuncture, 7 Fourth St, Ste 50, Petaluma.

Low-Cost PhysicalsFamily physicals for adults and children by appointment. Ongoing. $20-$65. Sonoma State University, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 707.664.2880.

Meditation Group for MothersMindful meditation and sharing experiences for benefit of mothers and their children. Wed, 8:30am. $10. Shambhala Meditation Center, 255 West Napa St, Ste G, Sonoma.

Native Plant Nursery WorkdayAll ages welcome to join LandPaths for garden care. Jun 17, 1pm. Bayer Farm, 1550 West Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.524.9318.

North Bay Stage Company 2015 Grand GalaPopular local actors, singers and dancers come together for an evening of food, entertainment, silent auction and loads of fun. Jun 18, 7pm. $26. Wells Fargo Center

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

Organic Nursery Open HouseSat-Sun through Jun 28. Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, 15290 Coleman Valley Rd, Occidental, 707.874.1557.

Pacific Coast Air MuseumThird weekend of every month from 10 to 4, folks are invited to play pilot in a featured aircraft. Third Sat of every month and Third Sun of every month. $5. Pacific Coast Air Museum, 2330 Airport Blvd, Santa Rosa, 707.575.7900.

Phoenix Pro WrestlingA champion will be crowned in this family-friendly pro wrestling event. Jun 20, 8pm. $2-$10. Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington St, Petaluma, 707.762.3565.

Plant Nursery Work DayVolunteer at the Sonoma Garden Park. Thurs, 9am. Sonoma Ecology Center, 20 E Spain St, Sonoma, 707.996.0712.

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

Resource ClinicGet info on housing, transit, food stamps and Medi-Cal. Wed, 11am. Free. Petaluma Health Center, 1301 Southpoint Blvd, Petaluma, 707.559.7500.

Riverfront Thursday NightsWine, dine, shop and play as shops stay open late. Every third Thurs, from 6 to 9. Third Thurs of every month. Free. Riverfront District, Downtown, Napa, 707.251.3726.

Senior BridgeMeet up and play a few hands, no partner required. Fri. Napa Senior Center, 1500 Jefferson St, Napa, 707.224.2055.

Show & Shine Car ShowFamily-friendly event boasts live music, drinks and food, and plenty of shiny hot rods. Jun 21, 9am. Free. Juilliard Park, 227 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.546.5500.

Street Printing FestivalObserve pavement roller printing and visit display booths by Bay Area artists, writers, publishers and local businesses. Jun 21, 11am. Free. Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S High St, Sebastopol, 707.829.4797.

Teen Health ClinicThurs, 3:30pm. Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington St, Petaluma, 707.762.3565.

Vital Alchemy Fermentation WorkshopWed, Jun 17, 7pm. Sebastopol Grange Hall, 6000 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol.

Weaving CampSpend a week with Silvia Schroeder creating magical treasures from nature. Jun 22-26. $265. Circle of Hands, 6780 McKinley St, Ste 120, Sebastopol, 707.634.6140.

Field TripsAfternoon Community ServiceParticipate in center restoration projects. Third Wed of every month. Richardson Bay Audubon Center, 376 Greenwood Beach Rd, Tiburon, 415.388.2524.

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Cloverdale Certified Farmers MarketFri, 5:30pm. through Aug 28. Cloverdale Plaza, Cloverdale Blvd between First and Second St, Cloverdale, 707.893.7211.

Corte Madera Farmers MarketYear-round. Wed-noon. Town Center, Tamalpais Drive, Corte Madera, 415.382.7846. Wed-noon. Town Center Corte Madera, 100 Corte Madera Town Center, Corte Madera, 415.382.7846.

Cotati Community Farmers MarketThurs, 4:30pm. through Aug 27. La Plaza Park, Old Redwood Highway, Cotati, 415.999.5635.

Demystifying Wine & FoodInteractive discussions on pairings with delectable demonstrations. Sat-noon. $75. Hall Winery, 401 St Helena Hwy S, St Helena, 707.967.2620.

Downtown Napa Farmers MarketTues-Sat, 8am. through Oct 31. Oxbow parking lot, 500 First St, Napa, 707.501.3087.

Downtown Novato Community Farmers MarketTues, 4pm. through Sep 29. Downtown Novato, Grant Ave, Novato, 415.999.5635.

Downtown San Rafael Farmers MarketThurs, 5:30pm. through Oct 1. Downtown San Rafael, Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.492.8007.

Fairfax Community Farmers MarketWed, 4pm. through Sep 30. Peri Park, 124 Bolinas Rd, Fairfax, 415.999.5635.

Farm to Table DinnerFamily-style, garden-inspired dinner in the culinary gardens with amazing wine and food. Jun 20, 6pm. $125. Kendall-Jackson Wine Center, 5007 Fulton Rd, Fulton, 800.769.3649.

Farmers Market at Long Meadow RanchFri, 9am and Sat-Sun, 11am. Long Meadow Ranch Winery, 738 Main St, St Helena, 707.963.4555.

Father’s Day DiningAll-day specials for dad accompany the Brasserie’s regular menus. Jun 21. Left Bank Brasserie, 507 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur, 415.927.3331.

Forestville Certified Farmers MarketTues, 4pm. through Oct 27. Corks Restaurant, 5700 Gravenstein Hwy N, Forestville, 707.887.3344.

Gay Wine WeekendThree days of food and wine in the heart of Sonoma Valley. Also includes a Twilight T-Dance at Buena Vista Winery. Jun 19-21. $25-$150. MacArthur Place, 29 E MacArthur St, Sonoma, 707.495.9732.

Harvest MarketSelling local and seasonal fruit, flowers, vegetables and eggs. Sat, 9am. Harvest Market, 19996 Seventh St E, Sonoma, 707.996.0712.

Healdsburg Certified Farmers MarketSat, 9am and Wed, 3:30pm. through Oct 7. Healdsburg Farmers Market, North & Vine St, Healdsburg, 707.431.1956.

Indian Valley Farm StandOrganic farm and garden produce stand where you bring your own bag. Wed, 10am. College of Marin, Indian Valley Campus, 1800 Ignacio Blvd, Novato, 415.454.4554.

Kenwood Community Certified Farmers MarketSun-noon through Sep 13. Kenwood Plaza Park, 200 Warm Springs Rd, Kenwood, 415.999.5635.

Locals NightSpecial menu items, musical performances and activities. Tues, 5pm. Free. Oxbow Public Market, 610 First St, Napa.

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

Marinwood Farmers MarketSat, 9am. Marinwood Plaza, Marinwood Ave & Miller Creek Rd, San Rafael, 415.999.5635.

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

Mozzarella Making ClassLearn proper techniques for making mozzarella curd and stretching in hot whey. Jun 18, 6:30pm. $25. The Beverage People, 1845 Piner Rd, Ste D, Santa Rosa, 707.544.2520.

Oakmont Certified Farmers MarketSat, 9am. Berger Center, 6575 Oakmont Dr, Santa Rosa, 707.538.7023.

Occidental Bohemian Certified Farmers MarketFri, 4pm. through Oct 30. Occidental Farmer’s Market, 3611 Bohemian Hwy, Occidental, 707.874.8478.

Petaluma Certified Farmers MarketSat, 2pm. through Nov 21. Walnut Park, Petaluma Blvd & D St, Petaluma, 707.762.0344.

Petaluma East Side Certified Farmers MarketTues, 10am. Petaluma Community Center, 320 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma, 415.999.5635.

Petaluma Evening Certified Farmers MarketWed, 4:30pm. through Aug 12. farmers market, Second Street between B and D streets, Petaluma, 707.762.0344.

Pop Up DinnerThird Fri of every month, 4pm. Gourmet au Bay, 913 Hwy 1, Bodega Bay, 707.875.9875.

Pt Reyes Farmers MarketSat, 9am. through Nov 21. Toby’s Feed Barn, 11250 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station, 415.456.0147.

Redwood Empire Farmers MarketSat, 8:30am and Wed, 8:30am. Veterans Memorial Building, 1351 Maple Ave, Santa Rosa.

Renaissance TeaThird Sun monthly at 3pm, treat the belly with specialty teas, sandwiches, scones and sweets. RSVP; ages 12 and up. Third Sun of every month, 3pm. $35. Cedar Gables Inn, 486 Coombs St, Napa, 707.224.7969.

Rohnert Park Certified Farmers MarketFri, 5pm. through Aug 28. City Center Plaza, 500 City Center Dr, Rohnert Park, 707.581.8282.

FilmDinner & 2 MoviesSausalito Boating Community presents dinner and music from Marty Atkinson, followed by showings of “Racing with Copepods” and “Cape Horn Passage in Schooner Wander Bird.” Jun 20, 6pm. Free. Dunphy Park, Napa and Bridgeway Blvd, Sausalito.

The Girls in the BandAward-winning documentary tells the untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their groundbreaking work. Jun 24, 7:30pm. $10. SHED, 25 North St, Healdsburg, 707.431.7433.

InhabitFeature length documentary introducing permaculture is followed by a panel of nationally recognized experts. Jun 19, 6:30pm. Sebastopol Grange Hall, 6000 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol.

Khudito Pashan (Hungry Stones)The stylized classic film screens with a musical score by Maestro Ali Akbar Khan. Jun 20, 8pm. Free. Ali Akbar College of Music, 215 West End Ave, San Rafael, 415.454.6264.

The Mask You Live InDocumentary film explores how culture’s definition of masculinity is harming boys, followed by a community discussion. RSVP requested. Jun 18, 7pm. Free. Osher Marin JCC, 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael, 415.444.8000.

Mind ReelsWeekly 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.

Movie & a MealCommunity event for all to share in. Third Fri of every month. $5-$10. Sonoma Shambhala Meditation Center, 255 W Napa St, Sonoma, 415.412.8570.

Welles 100Weekly retrospective of Orson Welles’ classic films honors the legendary artist on the 100th anniversary of his birth. Sun through Jun 28. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.454.1222.

Food&DrinkBodega Bay Community Certified Farmers MarketSun, 10am. through Oct 25. Bodega Bay Community Center, 2255 California 1, Bodega Bay, 707.875.9609.

California Beer FestivalEighty California craft brews are on hand, with live music by Wonderbread 5, Iriefuse and the Grain and a selection of tasty bites. Jun 20, 12:30pm. $50-$70. Stafford Lake Park, 3549 Novato Blvd, Novato.

Calistoga Farmers MarketSat, 9am. Sharpsteen Museum Plaza, 1235 Washington St, Calistoga.

Chili & Rib Cook-OffThe Knights Valley volunteer fire department hosts this savory fundraiser with live music and premium beers and

Bird WalkMadrone Audubon leads a walk. Jun 20, 7:30am. Annadel State Park, Channel Dr, Santa Rosa, 707.483.8773.

Bohemia Hiker SeriesBohemia docents share the beauty of this property through the changing seasons. Registration is required. Third Sat of every month, 10:30am. Bohemia Ecological Preserve, 8759 Bohemian Hwy, Occidental.

Family Nature WalkPetaluma Wetlands Alliance leads two family nature walks. One-to-two hours, depending on age of children. Jun 20, 10am. Shollenberger Park, 1400 Cader Ln, Petaluma, 707.763.3577.

Garden Volunteer DaySink your hands into the beautiful, rich soil at the Center’s garden and learn from the diversity of plant life. Wed. Free. Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, 15290 Coleman Valley Rd, Occidental, 707.874.1557.

Glen Ellen Green TourIn cooperation with Quarryhill Botanical Gardens and Benziger Winery, the Park offers a day-long tour of all three properties with food and wine tastings included. Reservations required two weeks in advance. Ongoing. $59. Jack London State Park, 2400 London Ranch Rd, Glen Ellen, 707.938.5216.

Hike to Mount St HelenaBeginning at the Stevenson Memorial Trail on Highway 29, the 11-mile journey gives hikers stunning views of Santa Rosa, Sonoma and the Napa Valley. Jun 20, 7am. $10. Napa Valley Museum, 55 Presidents Circle, Yountville, 707.944.0500.

Hiking for FitnessDesigned to promote fitness and fun while learning the basics of hiking. Sat, 8:30am. through Jul 18. $15. Jack London State Park, 2400 London Ranch Rd, Glen Ellen, 707.938.5216.

Public Star PartyObservatory’s three main telescopes plus many additional telescopes are open for viewing. Sat, Jun 20, 9pm. $3. Robert Ferguson Observatory, Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, 2605 Adobe Canyon Rd, Kenwood, 707.833.6979.

Solar ViewingSpecially filtered telescopes allow safe observation of our favorite star, the Sun. Sat, Jun 20, 11am. Free. Robert Ferguson Observatory, Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, 2605 Adobe Canyon Rd, Kenwood, 707.833.6979.

Steward WorkdayLend a hand with LandPaths. Registration required. Jun 19, 9am. Bohemia Ecological Preserve, 8759 Bohemian Hwy, Occidental.

Wild Work DaysRediscover a reciprocal relationship with nature. Third Thurs of every month, 1pm. Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, 15290 Coleman Valley Rd, Occidental, 707.874.1557.

WATER Institute: Beaver Tour & TalkTour the dams and beaver–created habitat. Jun 24, 5pm. Maxwell Farms Regional Park, 100 Verano Ave, Sonoma.

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Ross Valley Farmers MarketThurs, 3pm. through Oct 1. Downtown Ross Post Office, Ross Commons & Lagunitas, Ross, 415.382.7846.

Russian River Certified Farmers MarketThurs, 3pm. through Sep 24. Sonoma Nesting Company, 16151 Main St, Guerneville, 707.953.1104.

Santa Rosa Original Certified Farmers MarketSat, 9am and Wed, 9am. Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.522.8629.

Santa Rosa West End Certified Farmers MarketSun, 9am. through Dec 13. West End Farmers Market, 817 Donahue St, Santa Rosa, 707.477.8422.

Sebastopol Certified Farmers MarketSun, 10am. Sebastopol Plaza, Weeks Way, Sebastopol, 707.522.9305.

Sonoma Mountain Marketplace Certified Farmers MarketSat-Sun, 10am. Sonoma Mountain Village, 1400 Valley House Dr, Rohnert Park, 707.588.9388.

Sonoma State Cellars Release PartySonoma State University celebrates the local community of alumni, friends and supporters of the School of Business and Economics with good food, wine and live music. Jun 20, 11am. $10. Timber Crest Farms, 4791 Dry Creek Rd, Healdsburg, 707.664.3347.

Sonoma Valley Certified Farmers MarketFri, 9am. Arnold Field parking lot, 241 First St W, Sonoma, 707.538.7023.

St. Helena Farmers MarketFri, 7:30am. through Oct 30. Crane Park, Crane Ave & Grayson Ave, St Helena.

Summer Solstice PartyTin Barn celebrates summer with a new vintage of “Joon” Rosé of Syrah, paired with local luncheon catered by the Girl & the Fig. Jun 20, 1pm. $45. Tin Barn Vineyards, 21692 Eighth St E, Ste. 340, Sonoma, 707.938.5430.

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

Tam Valley Farmers MarketTues, 3pm. through Nov 24. Shoreline Shopping Center, 219 Shoreline Highway, Mill Valley, 415.382.7846.

A Taste of NOPADemonstration with Laurence Jossel. Jun 19. $105. The Fork, 14700 Hwy 1, Point Reyes Station, 800.591.6878.

Thursday Night ThrowdownNorthern California’s best baristas battle it out using their latte art skills. Third Thurs of every month, 7pm. through Aug 20. Brew, 555 Healdsburg Ave, Santa Rosa, 707-303-7372.

Thursday San Rafael Farmers MarketThurs, 8am. Marin Center, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael, 415.472.6100.

Totally Truckin’ ThursdaysFour food trucks park in the O’Reilly parking lot, provide you with local goodness and donate 10 percent of sales to a monthly selected nonprofit. Thurs. O’Reilly & Associates, 1005 Gravenstein Hwy N, Sebastopol, 707.827.7190.

Uva a TavolaEvening of exploring and celebrating Italian varietal wines grown in northern California. Jun 21, 5pm. $105. Oddfellows Lodge, 21021 Geyserville Ave, Geyserville, 415.572.8232.

Vintner VinylTastings and tunes come together in the tap bar and restaurant. Mon, 6:30pm. City Winery Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.260.1600.

Valley of the Moon Certified Farmers MarketTues, 5:30pm. through Oct 27. Sonoma Plaza, First St E, Sonoma, 707.694.3611.

West End WednesdaysWest End merchants offer wine, coffee and food tastings. Wed, 5pm. Free. Downtown Napa, First Street and Town Center, Napa.

Windsor Certified Farmers MarketSun, 10am and Thurs, 5pm. through Aug 27. Windsor Town Green, Market St and McClelland Dr, Windsor, 707.838.5947.

Wine UpAward-winning wines and delicious food make for a perfect combination. Sat. Free. Stephen & Walker Trust Winery Tasting Room, 243 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg.

For KidsAmerican Canyon LibraryPreschool storytime. Tues, 10:30am. Free. American Canyon Library, 3421 Broadway (Highway 29), American Canyon, 707.644.1136.

BabytimeStories, songs and more for kids ages 3 to 5. Wed, 10am. Petaluma Library, 100 Fairgrounds Dr, Petaluma, 707.763.9801.

Bay Area Discovery MuseumOngoing, “Animal Secrets.” Hands-on art, science and theater camps, art studio, tot spot and lookout cove adventure area. Wed-Thurs at 10 and 11, music with Miss Kitty. $5-$6. Fri at 11, aquarium feeding. Ongoing. Admission, $8-$10. Bay Area Discovery Museum, Fort Baker, 557 McReynolds Rd, Sausalito, 415.339.3900.

Belvedere-Tiburon LibraryMon at 10:30 and 11, songs and fingerplays for kids under two. Wed at 11, toddler storytime; at 4, read-along program for ages seven and up. Mon. Belvedere-Tiburon Library, 1501 Tiburon Blvd, Tiburon, 415.789.2665.

Breakfast with EnzoBring clapping hands, singing voices, dancing feet and breakfast for weekly family music show. Sun at 10 and 11. Mill Valley Golf Clubhouse, 267 Buena Vista, Mill Valley, 415.652.2474.

Calistoga LibraryStorytime with “Library Grandparent,” Mon and Thurs at 2:30. Bilingual storytime for ages three and up, second and fourth Wed at 10:30. Ongoing. Free. Calistoga Library, 1108 Myrtle St, Calistoga, 707.942.4833.

Carolyn Parr Nature CenterLearn about Napa County habitats and birds of prey through tours, dioramas, games, hands-on activities and books. Ongoing. Free. Carolyn Parr Nature Center Museum, Westwood Hills Park, 3107 Browns Valley Rd, Napa, 707.255.6465.

Children’s GardenWhimsical environments for kids’ exploration. Hours: Mon, noon to 4; Tues-Sun, 9 to 5. Ongoing. Free. Cornerstone Sonoma, 23570 Arnold Dr, Sonoma, 707.933.3010.

Chops Teen ClubHang-out spot for Santa Rosa teens ages 12 to 20 offers art studio and class, open gym, tech lounge, cafe, recording studio and film club. Hours for high schoolers: Mon-Thurs, 3 to 9; Fri, 3 to 11; Sat and school holidays, noon to 11. For middle school kids: Mon-Fri, 3 to 7; Sat and school holidays, noon to 7. Film club meets Tues at 4. Ongoing. Membership, $5-$10 per year. Chops Teen Club, 509 Adams St, Santa Rosa, 707.284.2467.

Cloverdale LibraryTues at 10:30, preschool storytime. Ongoing. Cloverdale Library, 401 N Cloverdale Blvd, Cloverdale, 707.894.5271.

Corte Madera LibraryPreschool storytime. Wed, 11am. Corte Madera Library, 707 Meadowsweet Dr, Corte Madera, 707.924.6444.

Fairfax LibraryTues at Sat at 11, storytime for ages three and up. Tues-Sat, 11am. Fairfax Library, 2097 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Fairfax, 415.453.8092.

Family Story TimeThurs. Petaluma Historical Museum, 20 Fourth St, Petaluma, 707.778.4398.

Guerneville LibraryWed at 11, Preschool storytime. Wed, 11am. Free. Guerneville Library, 14107 Armstrong Woods Rd, Guerneville, 707.869.9004.

Mad Science spectacular: Movie Special EffectsIn this thrilling, high energy science presentation, children will learn how to create special effects sounds and watch how science can create super heros! Jun 24, 11am. Guerneville Library, 14107 Armstrong Woods Rd, Guerneville, 707.869.9004.

Messy Mucking AboutEvery Saturday, 9:30 to 11:30, toddlers and their parents are invited to a drop-in, free-form art studio to create with paint, ceramics, collage, construction, found objects and feathers. Sat. $15. Nimbus Arts, St Helena Marketplace, Ste 1-B, 3111 St Helena Hwy, St Helena, 707.965.5278.

Museum MondaysChildren ages one to five and their families are invited to enjoy storytime, arts, crafts and museum activities. Fourth Mon of every month, 10am. Free-$5. Charles M. Schulz Museum, 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa, 707.579.4452.

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Share your vision for Moving Marin.Marin County needs your help in forming a strategic path forward for transportation, including prioritizing transportation investments for local, regional, state and federal funding over the next three decades.

JOIN US!

Please come to our workshop to learn about the process and let us know what types of transportation projects are most important to you.

COMMUNITY WORKSHOP

Saturday, June 20th, 11 am-3 pmSan Rafael High School cafeteria 185 Mission Avenue, San Rafael Lunch will be provided!

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Visit www.tam.ca.govContact: Derek McGill (415) 226-0825, dmcgill@tam.ca.gov

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Monday, JUNE 29

Library, 100 Fairgrounds Dr, Petaluma, 707.763.9801.

Preschool StorytimeA lap-sit program for infants, one day to 17 months old, accompanied by a parent or caregiver. Fri, 10:45am. Free. Petaluma Library, 100 Fairgrounds Dr, Petaluma, 707.763.9801.

Saddle ClubChildren six and up are welcome for horse- and stable-related games and a casual dinner. Fri, 5:30pm. $20. Sunrise Stables, 1098 Lodi Lane, St Helena, 707.333.1509.

St Helena LibraryFree film series, story and craft time. Tues-Wed-Fri. St Helena Library, 1492 Library Lane, St Helena, 707.963.5244.

Toddler StorytimeHigh-energy storytime for toddlers 18 months to three years old. Fri, 10am. Free. Petaluma Library, 100 Fairgrounds Dr, Petaluma, 707.763.9801.

Windsor LibraryPreschool storytime and storytime for babies and toddlers. Tues-Wed. Free. Windsor Library, 9291 Old Redwood Hwy, Windsor, 707.838.1020.

ZunZunHands-on music celebrating how to be an Earth Hero. ZunZun uses instruments from around the world. Jun 17, 11am. Guerneville Library, 14107 Armstrong Woods Rd, Guerneville, 707.869.9004.

LecturesArt Rising WorkshopLocal artists Gayle Madison and Lorrie Ragozzino lead. Thurs, 4pm. Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington St, Petaluma, 707.762.3565.

Connecting Farm to ForkForum on food-system sustainability features a screening of the film “Ripe for Change.” Jun 22, 6:30pm. First Presbyterian Church of San Rafael, 1510 Fifth St, San Rafael.

Diana Beresford-Kroeger GatheringGathering revisits teachings of botanist and author, and reflects further on its impact upon individuals and communities they serve. RSVP requested. Jun 20, 3pm. Free. Point Reyes Presbyterian Church, 11445 Shoreline Hwy, Point Reyes Station, 415.663.1349.

Landscape FictionsWorkshop with photographer Tressa Pack will help you develop the narrative of place. Jun 21, 2pm. $90. Headlands Center for the Arts, 944 Fort Barry, Sausalito, 415.331.2787.

No Ideas But in ThingsFilmmaker JP Sniadecki lends a behind-the-scenes eye (and ear) into the poetic world of things. Jun 23, 7pm. $35. Headlands Center for the Arts, 944 Fort Barry, Sausalito, 415.331.2787.

Spanish Speaking Course on Relationship HealthWeekly lecture series, in Spanish, is aimed at offering helpful resources and tools to move forward to a safer, healthier and happier life. Thurs, 4:30pm. through Jun 18. Center for Domestic Peace, 734 A St, San Rafael.

The Top Tourist Sights of the Solar SystemIllustrated talk by astronomer Andrew Fraknoi is followed by a laser guided look at the night’s sky. Jun 20, 8:30pm. Free. Cushing Memorial Amphitheatre, 3801 Panoramic Hwy, Mill Valley.

What’s Brewing WithinPart of the coffee talk series with owner Debby Meagher and life coach Jenn Julius. Jun 24, 6:30pm. Coffee Catz, 6761 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol, 707.829.6600.

Writers Forum with Susan AudreyLearn how to access your creativity through your dreamwork. Jun 18, 6:30pm. $15. Petaluma Community Center, 320 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma.

ReadingsBook PassageJun 17, 7pm, “The Angel in My Pocket” with Sukey Forbes. Jun 18, 7pm, “Working Stiff ” with Judy Melinek & TJ Mitchell. Jun 20, 4pm, “Night Tremors” with Matt Coyle. Jun 21, 4pm, “Birds, Bees, Trees, Love, Hee Hee” with Terri Glass. Jun 22, 7pm, “Playing Scared” with Sara Solovitch. Jun 24, 1pm, “Sunken Cathedral” with Kate Walbert. Jun 24, 7pm, “The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty” with Vendela Vida. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera 415.927.0960.

Santa Rosa Copperfield’s BooksJun 24, 7pm, “The Sunken Cathedral” with Kate Walbert. 775 Village Court, Santa Rosa 707.578.8938.

Petaluma Copperfield’s BooksJun 19, 7pm, “Nabokov in America: On the Road to Lolita” with Robert Roper. 140 Kentucky St, Petaluma 707.762.0563.

Calistoga Copperfield’s BooksJun 23, 7pm, “Valley Fever” with Katherine Taylor. 1330 Lincoln Ave, Calistoga 707.942.1616.

Healdsburg Senior CenterThird Sunday of every month, Third Sunday Salon, Join Healdsburg Literary Guild to discuss the craft of writing with a featured author. Free, 707.433.7119. 133 Matheson St, Healdsburg.

Napa BookmineJun 17, 6:30pm, “No Matter the Question, Meditation is the Answer” with Becca Pronchik, includes guided meditation session. Jun 18, 6:30pm, Book Club Meeting, monthly club is currently reading “Our Endless Numbered Days” by Claire Fuller. Wednesdays, 11am, Read Aloud for the Young’uns!. 964 Pearl St, Napa 707.733.3199.

Open SecretJun 17, 7:30pm, “Urantia Revolution” with Jerry Lane. 923 C St, San Rafael 415.457.4191.

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

San Rafael Copperfield’s BooksJun 20, 7pm, “Dietland” with Sarai Walker. 850 Fourth St, San Rafael 415.524.2800.

TheaterChoir BoyAn intimate coming-of-age story threaded throughout with haunting a cappella gospel music. Through Jun 28. $35-$51. Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.5208.

Cowgirls: The MusicalWritten by Betsy Howie with music and lyrics by Mary Murfitt, this funny and warm country musical features six of the best female voices in the Bay Area. Through Jun 21. $26-$35. Lucky Penny Community Arts Center, 1758 Industrial Way, Napa, 707.266.6305.

Dear Ole Dad: A Tribute to FatherhoodPetaluma Readers Theatre, with Tiny Lights and the Theater at Clear Heart, present a series of stories revolving around dads. Jun 18-21. $12. Clear Heart Gallery, 90 Jessie Lane, Petaluma, 707.287.1766.

FalstaffCinnabar’s season ends on a high note with this irreverent opera, sung in English, that combines Verdi’s glorious score with Shakespeare’s uproarious rogue. Through Jun 28. $25-$40. Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.763.8920.

Hello Dolly!The blockbuster musical classic comes to life courtesy of the Raven Players. Jun 19-Jul 12. $30-$35. Raven Theater, 115 North St, Healdsburg, 707.433.3145.

Little MurdersSonoma Arts Live presents this satirical story of a severely dysfunctional family. Through Jun 28. $12-$26. Andrews Hall, Sonoma Community Center, 276 E Napa St, Sonoma, 707.974.1932.

A Midsummer Night’s DreamCo-directors Amy Lovato and Yave Guzman present Shakespeare’s play with an accessible approach perfect for those less familiar with the Bard. Through Jun 21. $12-$18. Cloverdale Performing Arts Center, 209 N Cloverdale Blvd, Cloverdale, 707.829.2214.

The North PlanDark political comedy is set in a near-future martial-law society and focuses on a government agent looking for hope. Through Jun 21. $15-$27. Main Stage West, 104 N Main St, Sebastopol, 707.823.0177.

Oh What a Night!Transcendence Theatre’s “Broadway Under The Stars” kicks off summer season with a journey of music and dance through the ages. Jun 19-Jul 3. $29 and up. Jack London State Park, 2400 London Ranch Rd, Glen Ellen, 877.424.1414.

Peter PanThe Mountain Play Association presents the timeless classic in a picturesque outdoor setting. Through Jun 21, 2pm. $20-$40. Cushing Memorial Amphitheatre, 3801 Panoramic Hwy, Mill Valley, 415.383.1100.

TapasPegasus Theater Company puts on their annual short play festival, serving seven tasty new works in four different towns. Jun 19-20. Graton Community Club, 8996 Graton Rd, Graton, 707.583.2343.✹

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We are now hiring EXPERIENCED CAREGIVERS for Live-In & Hourly Shifts. Top Pay! Flexible Hours! 401K, Health Insurance and Signing Bonus! Best Training! Requirements: 3 professional references, Proof of eligibility to work in the US. Interested candidates should apply in person on weekdays between 9am and 5pm at: Home Care Assistance, 919 Sir Francis Drake Blvd. Ste. 107, Kentfield, CA 94904. Contact Francie Bedinger 415 532-8626.

Retired Professor seeks Personal Assistant $16 to $18 per hour. 3 to 5 hrs per week. Call 415-381-1758 or email NaoKatz@sfsu.edu

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

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AFFORDABLE MARIN? I can show you 40 homes under $400,000. Call Cindy @ 415-902-2729. Christine Champion, Broker.

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SINGLE & DISSATISFIED? Tired of spending weekends and holi-days alone? Join with other singles to explore what’s blocking you from fulfillment in your relationships. Nine-week Single's Group, OR weekly, ongoing, coed Intimacy Groups, all starting the week of June 22, 2015. Groups meet on Mon, Tues, & Thurs evenings. Space limited. Also, Individual and Couples sessions. Central San Rafael. For more information, call Renee Owen, LMFT #35255 at 415-453-8117

OVER 55 WITH AN EMPTY NEST? STAY OR MOVE?Please join me for a discussion of living options in the Bay Area: Stay-ing at home? Downsizing to a smaller home? Senior communities: what should I know regarding costs, qualifications, and medical?There is no “one size fits all” so come learn what option may be best for you or your loved ones. Call now to sign up for next presentation: Sue at (415) 297-1554

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ADVANCED HOUSE CLEANING Licensed. Bonded. Insured. Will do windows. Call Pat 415-310-8784

All Marin House Cleaning Licensed, Bonded, Insured. Will do Windows. Ophelia 415-717-7157

Do you need someone you can trust for house cleaning? Please call Julieta, 415-685-9965

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MOTIVATED WOMEN of all ages address and explore relevant issues in their lives, current and past, in a safe, comfortable environment with an experienced (20+ years) group facilitator. Have a safe place to express yourself, celebrate successes, gain acknowledgement and insight into many challenging situations, learn how others have survived and thrived. Women can be tremendously supportive for one another! Address current issues including those regarding relationship difficulties, loss and grief, traumas, traumatic loss, major transitions, career and parenting concerns, family pressures, mother/daughter, mother/son, sibling or parent conflict, family of origin issues. Deepen self-empowerment and healthy connection with self and others. Learn how other women who have felt “stuck” have gone forward in their lives, navigating through difficult terrain, accomplishing individual goals, in a step by step process of healing and change. Contact Colleen Russell, LMFT (MFC29249), CGP, at 415-785-3513 or crussellmft @earthlink.net.

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1 He claims to have seen sharks, and so he named the land Punta del Tiburon, or Shark Point.

2 When a player forms a word using all seven tiles.

3 A postage stamp, according to nutritional information from the United States Postal Service.

4 The Ides of March

5 Synopsis

6 Canada, 31; France, 22; Serbia, 21

7 Emperor Penguins

8a Atlantic Ocean8b Gulf of Mexico8c East China Sea

9 Dubai

10 Former basketball star Dennis Rodman with his BFF, Kim Jung Un, leader of North Korea

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2015137359 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: NEW EQUATIONS, 111 BUTTERFIELD RD, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: 1) BARBARA TOVEY, 111 BUTTERFIELD RD, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960 2) ALAN SPECKS, 111 BUTTERFIELD RD, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960.The business is being conducted by A MARRIED COUPLE. Registration expired more than 40 days ago and is renewing under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on May 12,2015. (Publication Dates: May 27,June 03,10,17 of 2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137290 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: AUTOSONICS, 19 F DIGITAL DR, NOVATO, CA 94949: NEIL E BYERS, 265 1ST ST # 202, PETALUMA, CA 94952. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.This state-ment was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on May 04,2015. (Publication Dates: May 27,June 03,10,17 of 2015)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No:304628 The following person(s) has/have abandoned the use of a fictitious business name(s). The information given below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the Marin County Clerk-Recorder’s Office on April 02,2010 Under File No:2010124174.Fictitious Business name(s) SAM AMATO SOUND, 596 TAMARACK DR, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: SAM B. AMATO, 596 TAMARACK DR, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903.This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Marin County on May 19, 2015. (Publication Dates: May 27,June 03,10,17 of 2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2015-137364 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: INFUSION, 1100 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE BLVD, KENTFIELD, CA 94904: AMY LITTLE PAGE, M.O. INC, 393 SONGBIRD WAY, PETALUMA, CA 94954. 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 May 12,2015. (Publication Dates: June 03,10,17,24 of 2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2015-137302 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: MINARET, 398 MEADOW WAY, SAN GERONIMO, CA 94963-0222: JENNIFER HENDERSON, 398 MEADOW WAY, SAN GERONIMO, CA 94963-0367. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on May 05,2015. (Publication Dates: June 03,10,17,24 of 2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2015137314 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: RIDERS CHOICE TAXI, 557 EAST FRANCSICO BLVD, GATE 7, SLIP C, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: KIRK KNUTSON, 557 EAST FRANCISCO BLVD, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. The busi-ness is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on May 06,2015. (Publication Dates: June 03,10,17,24 of 2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137466 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: THE MARIN POST, 73 SURREY AVE, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: COMMUNITY VENTURE PARTNERS, INC, 73 SURREY AVE, 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 state-ment was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on June 1,2015. (Publication Dates: June 03,10,17,24 of 2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137460 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: BARBARY BAY SECURITY, 225 CAMELLIA CIRCLE, LARKSPUR, CA 94939: GARY P. DELAGNES, 225 CAMELLIA CIRCLE, LARKSPUR, CA 94939. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on May 29,2015. (Publication Dates: June 03,10,17,24 of 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137417 The following individual(s) is (are)

doing business: CALIFORNIA TIRES& WHEELS, 825 FIFTH AVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: IRFAN NAZIR, 825 FIFTH AVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on May 21,2015. (Publication Dates: June 03,10,17,24 of 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 137432The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: 1) CAMPOTERRA, 2) SPECTRUM IMPORTS 3) TASMANIAN PURE, 1325 MONTE MARIA AVENUE, NOVATO, CA 94947: SPECTRUM IMPORTS LLC, 1325 MONTE MARIA AVE, NOVATO, CA 94947. The busi-ness is being conducted by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on May 26,2015. (Publication Dates: Jun 10,17,24, Jul 1 of 2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 137440The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: EBA CONSULTING, 220 APOLLO COURT, NOVATO, CA 94947: JOSEPH DERUVO, 220 APOLLO COURT, NOVATO, CA 94947.The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) list-ed herein.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on May 27,2015. (Publication Dates: Jun 10,17,24, Jul 1 of 2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 137399The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: ERIK’S HOME SERVICES, 57 WREDEN AVE, FAIRFAX, CA 94930: ERIK ORTMAN , 57 WREDEN AVE, FAIRFAX, CA 94930.The busi-ness is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) list-ed herein.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on May 18,2015. (Publication Dates: Jun 10,17,24, Jul 1 of 2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 137405The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: MATISON REPAIR SERVICES, 345 CATALINA BLVD #20, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: ANGEL RODAS, 345 CATALINA BLVD

#20, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901.The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) list-ed herein.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on May 20,2015. (Publication Dates: Jun 10,17,24, Jul 1 of 2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2015137507 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: BIOTECHURE, 68 MADRONE AVE, PO BOX 1154, WOODACRE, CA 94973: WARREN ARCHITECTS , INC. 68 MADRONE AVE, WOODACRE, CA 94973. The business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) list-ed herein.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Jun 5,2015.(Publication Dates: Jun 17,24, Jul 1,8 of 2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137539 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: CLASSIQUE NAIL ATELIER, 903 C IRWIN ST, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: MARISSA N. FOuRNIER - MULLY, 300 LINCOLN VILLAGE CIR # 219, LARKSPUR, CA 94939. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) list-ed herein.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Jun 10,2015.(Publication Dates: Jun 17,24, Jul 1,8 of 2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137551 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business:

A.V.LANDSCAPING SERVICES, 335 BAHIA LN, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: ANTONIO VELASQUEZ, 335 BAHIA LN, 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 Jun 12,2015.(Publication Dates: Jun 17,24, Jul 1,8 of 2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137561 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: JUST NAIL SPA, 935 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE BLVD, KENTFIELD, CA 94904: NHUNG NGUYEN, 2666 LAS GALLINAS AVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903.The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant is renewing filing with changes and is transacting busi-ness under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.This state-ment was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Jun 15,2015.(Publication Dates: Jun 17,24, Jul 1,8 of 2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 137421 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: MARIN HOBBY + GIFT, 224 GREENFIELD AVE #2, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: CARYN GUTHRIE, 224 GREENFIELD AVE #2, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960. The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) list-ed herein.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Jun 01,2015.(Publication Dates: Jun 17,24, Jul 1,8 of 2015)

OTHER NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No: CIV 1502067. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner 1)DELIA ARALI MALDONADO VASQUEZ 2) WALTER ALEXANDER CHAVEZ RAMOS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: JUNIOR ALEXANDER CHAVEZ MALDONADO to DAVID ALEXANDER CHAVEZ MALDONADO. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons inter-ested 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: 07/31/2015 AT 09:00 AM, DEPT E,ROOM E, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin: PACIFIC SUN. Date OF FILING: JUN 5, 2015 (Publication Dates: Jun 10,17,24, Jul 1 of 2015)

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Q: I’m just out of a bad relationship and ready to start dating. I recently met a guy I liked at the mall. There was definitely a physical attraction, and we had

a lot in common, but not an hour after we met, he sent me a text that said, “Miss you already.” That set off red flags for me. Sweet or creepy? I’m on the fence.—Want to be Charitable

A: He’s looking forward to watching you sleep—from the third-floor apartment across the way, with a set of high-powered binoculars.

Then again, it’s possible that socially, he’s kind of a mouth-breather. Socially clueless guys will sometimes dig around in the “Chicks Love This Stuff ” bin, pull out some romantic-sounding line and lay it on a woman, hoping it’ll stick. They don’t get that prematurely expressed affection can creep women out. Sure, his “Miss you already”—or one of its cousins, “I loved you before I even knew you!”—sounds like a sweet sentiment. But using it before real feeling has time to develop can suggest that one’s underlying motivation is not, “Can’t wait to take you to Paris” but maybe, “Can’t wait to keep you in a crate under my bed.”

That’s probably where your intuition is taking you. Intuitions—gut feelings—are judgments we arrive at without conscious reasoning. But they don’t come out of nowhere. Your brain compares input from your current environment with prior situations (from your past and your evolutionary past), looking for patterns that suggest danger is afoot. The thing is, these alerts are often wrong. But that actually isn’t a bad thing. Evolutionary psychologists Martie Haselton and David Buss find that we seem to have evolved to make the less costly error—like your erring on the side of red-flagging a guy because it’s less costly for you to end up home alone on a Saturday night than to end up crated or dead.

Should you override your weirdo-dar? It can feel unfair to write somebody off on the basis of one yicky remark. But if you’re going to take a risk, it should be an informed risk, meaning that you use information about past behavior (which you’re rather short on) to predict the likelihood that a situation will go south. You also factor in your ability to deal if it does. Like if he turns stalker, will you be all, “Not gonna make it through the armed guards and the moat around my house,” or “My neighbors in 4B would cheerfully buzz in Charles Manson”?

On the other side of informed risk is “cross my fingers and hope it turns out OK,” which, given the level of information you have, is pretty much where you are now. However, the reality is, sometimes throwing caution to the wind makes sense—like if the guy in question seems to be the last man on Earth or your last shot before eternal spinsterhood. If this is the case, it would probably be prudent to pair your high hopes with a bedside Taser, on the off-chance that Mr. Right turns out to be Mr. Right Outside in Your Bushes.

Q: I’m dating my co-worker, and this is kind of embarrassing, but I’ve hooked up with two other guys at our company. These encounters happened a while

back, and they were meaningless. My concern is that one of these guys will get wind of the fact that I am seeing and really like this guy and they’ll tell him and he’ll be put off. He knows I used to be pretty wild and said he didn’t want to know the specifics, but he also didn’t know that they involve our co-workers. Should I warn him?—Unsure

A: To be human is to engage in episodes of poor judgment: Drop-crotch pants ... cornrows on a white person ... vajazzling (adhering sparkly gemstones to

a part of your body that nobody looks at and grumbles, “Gosh, if only it weren’t so plain”). Likewise, though life partners sometimes start as co-workers, it’s generally best to score hookup partners from the larger population pool—men whom you might occasionally run into at the grocery store, as opposed to every 45 minutes in the coffee room.

However, what’s done is done, and what your new beau wants to hear about it is none of it. And sure, there’s a chance that one or both of these guys will spill, but there’s also a chance that neither will. If it comes out, deal with it as needed. Otherwise, what he doesn’t quite know won’t, well ... let’s just say that the abstract idea that you were wild is different from his having mug shots in his head of the specific co-workers who’ve ignored the tattoo on your pelvic bone: “Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here.” Y

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SignAries (March 21 - April 19) Get ready to enjoy a view that’s much nicer than that pile of bills stacking up next to your bed, Aries! You’re headed out of town on June 22—a little quality vacation can go a long way. There’s no better way to kick off the summer season than with a Mai Tai in your hand and sunscreen on your face.

Taurus (April 20 - May 20) Restoration Hardware, who, Taurus? You’ve been the count (or countess) of collecting furniture lately. All that dumpster diving and Goodwill shopping that your significant other has been eye-rolling you about is going to pay off on June 21. Home is where the heart is, and nothing says that more than that set of antelope antlers hanging in your gothic-inspired dining room.

Gemini (May 21 - June 20) Stand by me, Gemini! The new moon in Gemini on June 16 left you feeling a little sentimental. Do you miss making those giant slip ‘n’ slides with free-flowing Coronas back in high school? Some things, unfortunately, do change—at least you’re of legal age to drink the beer now. Reunite with an old buddy on June 18.

Cancer (June 21 - July 22) Are your ears burning, Cancer? Your intuition is at an all-time high on June 17. Whatever feelings you may have about a certain situation or a special someone are likely to be dead-on. Your next-door neighbor might be kind enough to water your plants when you’re out of town, but he or she is definitely snooping through your mail.

Leo (July 23 - Aug. 22) What you’ve been waiting for is about to arrive, Leo! And, no, we’re not just talking about that vintage necklace you found on eBay last week. Spoiler alert: It’s a surprise—what we can tell you is that it’s headed your way on June 22. It’s all thanks to a little friendly beam from Uranus—seriously.

Virgo (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22) Congrats on Employee of the Month, Virgo! It looks like the stars have aligned for your celebration banquet on June 21. A little hard work goes a long way—there’s never any doubt with you. It looks like working a little overtime and missing the Game of Thrones finale will pay off.

Libra (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22) You’re one-of-a-kind, Libra—has anyone told you that lately? The stars are setting you up for some romantic success on June 22. It’s a one-of-a-kind celestial lineup that won’t come your way again until December of 2019. Not even your boss’ lack of communication or your neighbor’s nosiness can trump this joyful day.

Scorpio (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21) Good job, Scorpio! No, seriously, you have a great job. It looks like your bosses are noticing that you’re more of a superstar than a sheep, too. Your recent projects have caught a few of your company’s VIPs’ attention. Your innate creativity mixed with your effortless charm can only result in one thing: A pay raise.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21) Love is in the air, and you might be, too, Sagittarius! Are you flying home from a faraway destination only to meet up with a blind date? This matchless correspondence might just be the one you’ve been waiting for. Line up the mental mug shots (hopefully just figuratively) of your potential beloveds and take your pick!

Capricorn (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19) Get ready for a breakthrough, Capricorn! Have your mom and sister been on your case, lately? Something’s gotta give, if they don’t. Get ready for a family-style intervention on June 19—an intervention so grand that even A&E would be intimidated to film it.

Aquarius (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18) Gear up for some weekend travel, Aquarius. Getting up off your couch and walking one block to your neighboring coffee shop doesn’t count. New scenery might be just what you need to ease the stress of a little work-related drama. Take in the seaside on June 20.

Pisces (Feb. 19 - March 20) Are you dreaming, Pisces? Nope—that freelance job offer is the real deal! A project that would only appear once in a blue moon will land in your inbox on June 19. Celebrate, of course, but don’t have one too many margaritas and forget to reply! Y

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