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Almost immediately, he went back to his writing desk and dispatched a letter to a friend in which he said, "I would rather be the man whose house was burned down than the man who burned down the house." A nice distinction from a writer who made a career of making distinctions between the wild and the tame, and between wolflike men such as Wolf Larsen in The Sea-Wolf and the novel's bookish hero Humphrey Van Weyden, a stand-in for London himself. The eerie and oddly beautiful gothic ruins of Wolf House remain, and visitors to the 1,400-acre Jack London Historical State Park in Glen Ellen can see the massive, moss-covered stone walls and imagine the grandeur that might have been. It's as close as the state gets to an official monument to California culture and outdoor living. I think of it, too, as the Golden State's answer to those East Coast literary landmarks in the Berkshires, where the likes of Herman Melville and Edith Wharton decamped and were inspired. I've been to Jack London State Park dozens of times, ever since I first moved to California from New York in 1976. Every time I go back, I see and hear something different: red-tailed hawks, frogs, wild irises and foxes. I'll go back this summer and look and listen all over again, and as though for the first time. Opening its gates to the public in 1960, the park celebrates its 50th anniversary with speakers, barbecues, live music, special exhibitions and games for children on June 27. London, who moved to Sonoma County from nearby Oakland to escape the crowds and urban soot, would probably enjoy the spectacle of so many locals and out-of-towners flocking to his homestead. One of the bestselling novelists of his day, and a glutton for fame and notoriety, he turned his Beauty Ranch into a destination for bohemian artists and writers, members of the Industrial Workers of the World, better known as the Wobblies, and such anarchists as Emma Goldman, who called him "the only real revolutionary writer in America." That image stuck with London for much of his life. It continued after his death in 1916 at the age of 40, and it delayed the transformation of his estate into the state historical park it is today. London's 20-yearlong membership in the Socialist Party of America didn't help, either. The California State Legislature felt uncomfortable about a state-owned and -operated property that would commemorate a card-carrying Socialist, but London wrote Call of the Wild, and that book all on its own, of the 50 or so books he wrote in 17 years, was nearly enough to persuade Sacramento politicians to vote yes. These days, carefully cultivated vineyards surround much of the park, but it still has a wild feeling and a rough-hewn beauty. The walk to the remains of Wolf House takes hikers through dense woods. Signs warn against rattlesnakes and mountain lions, though over the years they have not deterred visitors. There are picnic tables under leafy trees that provide cool shade, and there are water fountains with cold water from the mountain itself. The Glen Ellen bars that London once frequented are gone--burned to the ground, like Wolf House--but there's the saloon at the Jack London Lodge, and for gourmet food there's the Fig Cafe in the heart of Glen Ellen, a town that has no chain store of any kind. Going there feels like going back into the past, and one can appreciate why London fell in love with the place when he first went there in 1905 and began to buy land, grow grapes and make juice, not wine, under the Jack London label. I often feel a certain sadness when I visit the park, perhaps because London died there at such a young age. But I remember the words that Anna Strunsky, a Russian-born Jewish writer who settled in San Francisco, wrote about him right after his death, and they provide a kind of serenity. Watching him as he watched a pair of beautiful humming birds, she noted, "He was a captive of beauty-- the beauty of bird and bower, of sea and sky." Jack London State Park celebrates its 50th anniversary on Sunday, June 27, from 11am to 4pm. 2400 London Ranch Road, Glen Ellen. 707.938.5216. Jonah Raskin is the editor of `The Radical Jack London: Writings on War and Revolution.' Open Mic is a weekly feature in the Bohemian. We welcome your contribution. To have your topical essay of 700 words considered for publication, write firstname.lastname@example.com. `He was a captive of beauty, the beauty of bird and bower, of sea and sky.' THE BOHEMIAN 06.23.10-06.29.10 05 Please ask thinkers to send in suggestions on "what can be done" ("For our Sins," Open Mic, June 16). There are technologies that can be employed to immediately stop the gushing leak. Please ask someone to write on the possibilities of pressing the president to order BP USA into receivership. And ask that the nuclear sub commanders meet and consider experimenting with an underwater bombing of the sea floor to solidify the geology and close the drilled hole. The notion of relief wells has no basis; it is another pretext to keep on drilling and extracting, which is ongoing. the slobber from Pavlov's dog hit them in the face they wouldn't even know it. Times are so bad I had to trade in my Hummer for a Lincoln Navigator. But hey! Don't ride my butt, OK? It's a hybrid and it's still big enough for me to pack in the pit bulls and get them to the fight. It's too bad about Miley Cyrus, ya know, that she had to grow up and there won't be any more Hannah Montanas. I was worried, but the kids haven't even noticed. They can't stay focused long enough to twitter. Why don't they just put a microchip in all our brains that make us vote Republican and have done with it? Most people are already so brainwashed that if Because of the dispersant Corexit, which is deadly poison to aquatic life, animals are not immediately washing ashore, and most are on the bottom of the gulf. The only way we will truly know how many thousands of whales, whale sharks, dolphins, birds, turtles, etc. died is to go to the bottom. Also, animal rescue teams are restricted to look for impacted wildlife on the shores, not to go out on open waters to find them. We'll never really know the extent of the damage to wildlife from this disaster. Why are there no tankers sucking up the oil? It worked in Saudi Arabia (Google "gulf tankers Saudi") and could control the leak and prevent the underwater oil plumes from reaching land. Also why is there no bioremediation? It worked in Texas on a large spill (see www.spillfighters.com). And why is the EPA allowing BP to poison the Gulf with the deadly dispersant Corexit? If we don't demand an end to all this now we probably deserve to go down the toilet. Fight for the earth, she supports you in every aspect of your life. Now she is dying. I was certain that Obama, once elected, would overturn and undo most of Bush's disastrous environmental policies. However, the Obama administration's environmental record has been very uneven. On Earth Day, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) announced that it would permit a return to commercial whaling. Commercial whaling was banned in 1986. Now whales from previously protected species, such as the humpback, will be slaughtered. The delegation that Obama sent to the IWC meeting this month supports the resumption of commercial whaling. That's the last straw for me. I hope that other disappointed environmentalists vote for the Green Party candidate, not Obama, in 2012. Not only did reader Nancy August find all 18 Ulysses nuggets studded throughout last week's special Bloomsday tomfoolery issue, she sleuthed out clues she didn't even need to, such as our placement of the esteemed Mr. James Joyce on our masthead ("Our Odysseus") and his imaginary pals Malachi Mulligan and Joseph Hynes as ordinary contributors. Nancy won herself two $25 gift cards to the Toad in the Hole Pub and our undying Lit Nerd Geek adoration for her close attention to such breathless text. We'll play again in, um, seven years. 06 06.23.10-06.29.10 THE BOHEMIAN news for Sonoma, Marin & Napa Counties "Official Newspaper of High Summer Full Moon Saturday Night" y The problem with systemic fumigants is that they cannot be washed off. However, these berries from Green String Farm are organic and pesticide-free. Anti-pesticide activists fight California's plan for new strawberry fumigant before June 29 comment deadline By Caroline Osborn en the innocent must someday grow up, and the cold taint of controversy has slithered its way into the strawberry fields. The Beatles dreamed of "Strawberry Fields Forever," as a place of refuge and escape from worldly complexities in our collective imagination. Strawberries have symbolized purity for years. But a new chemical proposed for systemic fumigation of strawberry fields has put the fruit's sweet poison back in the spotlight. Strawberries have become a point of contention between anti-pesticide advocacy groups, who disapprove of the use of methyl iodide as a fumigant, and the California Department of Pesticide Regulation, which maintains that it is mostly harmless. Most scientists agree that widespread application of methyl iodide to strawberry fields poses a risk to the health of field workers and nearby residents. Methyl iodide is listed as a carcinogen in California's Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65), which catalogues chemicals known to harm human health. In fact, cancer researchers use methyl iodide on lab animals when they need to induce cancer-cell production. More toxic than methyl bromide, which is the currently favored fumigant, methyl iodide can cause thyroid cancer and birth defects. It can disrupt thyroid hormones, metabolic processes and immune response. A known neurotoxin, it can slowly erode cognitive abilities. While large-scale farmers claim that they need a fumigant to sterilize the soil, organic farmers manage in nontoxic ways. Anaerobic soil disinfestations, treating soil with steam, and rotating crops protect them from pests without killing everything in the soil. Susan Kegley, consulting scientist for Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) and owner of her own private consulting business, Pesticide Research Institute, explains that fumigants kill some organisms that actually help strawberries grow, such as nematodes that eat "bad guy" nematodes and bacteria that hinder fungal growth. James J. Sims, UC Riverside chemistry professor who pioneered methyl iodide as an alternative fumigant, counters that organic farming methods don't work, especially not on an industrial scale. "We still have to have food, and it doesn't grow at the supermarket," he says. "Not in the amounts we need." First proposed in 2002 as an alternative to the ozone-depleting methyl bromide, methyl iodide gained national legality in 2007 when the Environmental Protection Agency approved the chemical for agricultural use in the United States. 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The Scientific Review Committee deemed methyl iodide unsafe due to the tight restrictions necessary to control its use. Their risk-management assessment advised slightly stricter regulations than the DPR's suggestions, but the difference was not substantial. Both the DPR scientists and the Scientific Review Committee recommended barring registration of methyl iodide. But the DPR ignored its own scientists and moved ahead with the registration process. The DPR scientists cautioned state regulators to limit methyl iodide exposure to 0.8 parts per billion, but the current proposal allows 96 parts per billion, which is itself a reduction from the 193 parts per billion allowed by the EPA. In an attempt to reduce risk beyond the shockingly lax EPA regulations, the DPR has not only lowered the legal exposure level but also requires permits for users, larger buffer zones of 100 to 2,500 feet, wider buffer zones around schools and hospitals, virtually impermeable film tarps for post-treatment coverage, fewer acres fumigated at once, time-of-day application limitation, fewer pounds per acre, more stringent groundwater precautions and a longer period of time between treatment and workers returning to the field. "If you use the right precautions and strict supervision, it's a safe chemical to use," Sims says. But Megan Buckingham of PANNA is not convinced. "No restrictions would make it safe for use as a pesticide," she says. "The DPR would like the public to believe they can manage the risk and are able to do so taking science into account. But if you look at what they propose, it's not safe." Don't expect the distance from central valley strawberry fields to save Sonoma, Napa or Marin counties. If California approves methyl iodide, the chemical will also be used in vineyards and orchards. Part of PANNA's concern about methyl iodide stems from the limited empirical research on the chemical's long-term effects when used in agriculture. "It actually hasn't been studied very thoroughly [as an agricultural pesticide]," Buckingham says. "California would be the largest market for methyl iodide." That's quite the bushel of responsibility. Southeastern states such as Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina are home to an abundance of strawberry and tomato fields, and have used methyl iodide as a fumigant since the EPA approved it in 2007. In a letter to the editor of Nature magazine, Sims pointed out that methyl iodide "has been applied to more than 15,000 acres [in the southeast], in fact, with no adverse incidents." As far as is known. Still, anti-pesticide activists maintain that the kind of effects they expect to see from methyl iodide involve long-term complications, such as cancer and developmentally delayed children, that may take time to become obvious. Kegley evokes the three wise monkeys: see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil. "Nobody's looking," she says. "Arysta [the pesticide company with which methyl iodide is registered] is supposed to be monitoring the groundwater, but they're not doing it." Kegley points out another oversight the EPA made when testing methyl iodide safety. "The EPA did not require a developmental neurotoxicity test." After other tests deemed the chemical unlikely to cause fetal death at the proposed rates of exposure, the EPA did not take the next step and examine possible damage to fetuses. Since the concentration of methyl iodide that induces developmental problems will be lower than the concentration that causes fetal death, the EPA's control concentration number protecting against fetal death may do nothing to protect fetuses from the chemical's ability to inf lict developmental delays. Unlike methyl bromide, methyl iodide is applied as a liquid. Sims says this makes it "easier to handle than gases, because you can tell where it is." Kegley points out that methyl iodide volatizes quickly when removed from the tank and reverts to its natural state as a gas. In this form, the chemical could endanger farmworkers and nearby residents. If approved, farmers would apply methyl iodide to the soil before strawberries are planted. "Two weeks later, it will no longer be there," says Sims. "It will never get into the food crop." But Kegley adds that the byproduct of methyl iodide breakdown is the iodide ion, which the fruit may take from the soil and concentrate. "How much do the fruits that are fumigated accumulate over time?" she asks. No one knows the answer. As a chemist with a doctorate degree, Kegley has handled methyl iodide in a lab. Cognizant of the danger it poses, she takes great care in the way in which she manipulates it. She only interacts with it under an overhead vent that ensures none of its off-gassing invades her lungs. She always wears double gloves to protect her skin, and transfers the liquid with a syringe to avoid contact with the open air. Kegley worries about farmers who are not trained in handling hazardous materials applying 125 pounds of this toxic chemical to their soil, calling the idea "ludicrous." Sims, a former professor of chemistry, has also handled methyl iodide, but recalls a very different procedure. "I can tell you that I have used methyl iodide in the lab, off and on, for 50 years," he says. "I never used any special equipment other than a flask and pipet, and there was never a single safety incident." Was Sims just lucky? "Methyl iodide is always in the atmosphere in small amounts, especially on the coastline," Sims says. "We're not totally defenseless." Even though Sims assures dissenters that fumigation will only happen once a year, activists argue that it will still poison those exposed. On Thursday, June 17, PANNA and other anti-pesticide groups attended a hearing and press conference in Sacramento. The organization presented a petition overflowing with 40,000 signatures of methyl iodide opponents to Gov. Schwarzenegger's office. Combined with the rest of the public's protests, methyl iodide is the most protested pesticide-registration decision in DPR's history, although Lea Brooks, assistant director of communications at DPR, points out that "for perspective, today's social media networks provide an easy and efficient way for the public to comment on issues." "It's the corporations against the communities," says Kegley. "The communities next to the fields are very diverse. 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Montgomery High's Green Academy trains, engages teens By Juliane Poirier t age 17, Mindy Gonzalez of Santa Rosa knows more, literally and figuratively, about turning light in to power than do most adults. She not only grasps how alternative-energy technologies work and where they fit in the context of planetary health, but she also understands how people need to get beyond conf licts and work together to create needed change. And she learned all of this in a public high school. For three years, Gonzalez has been a member of the Green Academy at Montgomery High School, an experimental vocational program. She didn't know much about green technologies when she started. "I was aware of global warming," Gonzalez explains, "and wanted to know more about what we can do here in Sonoma County to help." So she signed up. What she got in the bargain was something that is missing from the typical high school experience: a current and practical context for education along with membership in a close-knit learning community. "We all just get along," Gonzalez says. "It's different than being in a classroom. We work together as a group to make projects like sheds and model houses. What makes the program fun is the people." It didn't start out fun, because the group, like any other, had conf licts that threatened to make it falter. According to Gonzales, the history teacher took the problems of their small group and placed them in the context of international strife and outcomes in history. "The teacher got us to look at conf licts around the world," Gonzalez remembers. "That made a difference. About halfway through the year, we got really open toward each other and our true selves came out. After that, we weren't afraid to say what we need. We made the class more personal." Getting personal seems to be a hallmark of success here. Teacher and program co-founder Len Greenwood is personally invested in the Academy and passionate about the students, most of whom were at risk of dropping out before they joined the program. "I've been teaching for 22 years, and during that time watched the vocational arts and career training programs get eliminated by No Child Left Behind and budget cuts. As teachers retired, the programs would just get shelved," Greenwood says. "Everyone wonders about the high dropout rates, but part of it is because we've eliminated programs that 30 or 40 percent of kids use." In the spring of 2008, Greenwood and two other district employees dreamed up a green building and design program, wrote a grant and launched the program. They started with 31 sophomores who were considered at-risk. "I think every kid in high school is at risk," Greenwood says frankly. Now there are between 90 and 100 students, sophomores through seniors, in the program learning, Greenwood says, about "everything from green building to organic farming, alternative energy and permaculture." Sustainability is worked into the curriculum of core classes, so while students are getting basic education they are also preparing for jobs in green industries. As seniors, they do an internship with local green businesses. "Business owners have been very supportive," says Greenwood, who has placed students in green internships around the county. One Academy success story is Charlie Nudi, 17, who came to the program after being expelled from Santa Rosa High School. "I got off to a rough start," Nudi explains. "I was flying under the radar, on suspended expulsion. If I'd gotten in trouble, I'd have been kicked out of the district. The Green Academy really helped me. I'm really engaged. It's a lot more engaging than regular classes. We really care about alternative energy and conservation, and we're really on board with finding new ways to do things." Nudi is now qualified to work in the solar industry after high school. He and other Academy members were also recently certified by the Sonoma County Water Agency as landscape technicians. Greenwood says the principal is proud of the Academy and how it is helping kids stay in school. "Kids understand this is real-world learning," Greenwood says. "They look forward to class and they make statements like `I don't want to miss this stuff.'" `I think that every kid in high school is at risk.' --Len Greenwood SM endless green HYDR 707-254-0200 NAPA, CA O P O N I C S U PPL I E S Advanced Nutrients, FoxFarm, House & Garden, Cutting Edge, Botanicare, General Hydroponics, Hydro Organics 25-3 Enterprise Court, Napa CA Mon-Fri: 10-6, Sat & Sun: 11-4 To help, write firstname.lastname@example.com 10 06.23.10-06.29.10 THE BOHEMIAN Feel at Home with Your Dentist! ! 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While French truffles decline, new producers, including those in Northern California, ascend By Alastair Bland he P�rigord black truffle may owe its name and stardom to the marketing and culinary genius of the French culture, but in the nation of its birth, this famed underground mushroom faces an uncertain future. A century ago, the forests of France produced an estimated 1,200 tons of semi-wild black truffles every winter, but the annual harvest has seen a long and steady decline, and last winter amounted to just 20 tons. The crash has scientists scrambling to explain it, and those with truffle-bearing properties are scared stiff. But for entrepreneurs in the rising truffle-tree cultivation industry, the French decline of the fragrant fungus smells pungently of opportunity. In Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Chile, oak and hazelnut orchards, seeded at their roots with the spores of Tuber melanosporum, the Latin name of the species, have grown into maturity in the last decade. Locally, too, Black Diamonds of Mendocino had been growing black P�rigords in a secretive operation somewhere near Ukiah. Another farm near Santa Rosa is awaiting its first truffles, as are two in the Sierra foothills, each poised to surge into production any winter now. While most local groves are still awaiting their inaugural truffle harvests, the farms of Australia and New Zealand are swelling into viable industries. Buyers down under receive most of these truffles, which appear in late May and remain available through August, but in the last two years they have found their way into local restaurant kitchens, and some North Bay chefs have discovered something that the world until now may never have known before: black truffles go wonderfully with summer squash. While in the past, black truffles may have crossed oceans, they rarely, if ever, crossed the equator from winter into summer. Now they do. For Jesse Mallgren, the executive chef of Madrona Manor in Healdsburg, the possibilities of summertime black truffles invite Californiastyle experimentation. In the past, Mallgren has featured wintertime truffle menus heavy on the meat plates, but last summer he cooked truffles into July peach recipes. The experiment wasn't quite a winner, he says, but he will be experimenting again this summer as freshly unearthed Southern Hemisphere truffles begin appearing in the wholesale sacks of local vendors. Meanwhile in France, nurseries that specialize in manually seeding oak and hazelnut seedlings with Tuber melanosporum spores have become commonplace and could help to offset the decline of the most cherished gastronomic treasure in the land. Dr. Pierre Sourzat, trufflecultivation expert and manager of a truffle center in Le Montat near Cahors, has helped streamline and develop the science behind this growing trade, and he believes that were it not for France's truffle-tree nurseries, which seed and sell approximately 300,000 trees per year, the P�rigord could become commercially extinct in France within 30 years. While some traditionalists decry the plunge of France's truffle production as a disaster, others believe that the rising volume of cultivated production in new nations can and will compensate for any shortage in France. "The Australians are getting ready to supply the world, and the French are trying to create this hype that there is a shortage that can't be replaced, but that's just to keep the price up," says Todd Spanier, a Bay Area mushroom vendor who works under the name the King of Mushrooms. With his cousin, Spanier co-owns one of the young Sierra foothill truffle farms. "The truffles THE BOHEMIAN 06.23.10-06.29.10 13 Simply Vietnam Best Vietnamese Restaurant Traditional Vietnamese Restaurant Thank you on our New Patio The local preference for authentic Vietnamese fresh ingredients large dining room friendly staff always affordable 707.566.8910 966 North Dutton Ave~Santa Rosa Mon�Sat 10�9m Sunday 11�8 dine in & take out they're growing on farms are genetically the same truffle, and they are aromatically the same truffle." Mallgren has been a fan of French black truffles for years, but he sees Australia's truffles as perfect stand-ins. "The Australian truffles I had last year were as nice or nicer than the French ones," Mallgren says. He believes truffles from Australia may arrive in California fresher than those from France, which often pass through more middlemen as they travel from there to here. This summer, Mallgren expects to have access to some of the first New Zealand truffles ever available commercially in the United States. At Cyrus Restaurant in Healdsburg, chefowner Douglas Keane has bought French black truffles for more than 15 years. When he began using Australian truffles two years ago as highlights on his summer menu specials, he was not disappointed. "I'd say these truffles are easily as good if not better than the wild ones from France," he says. Keane adds that he is eager to try those grown in California. "But I've only heard chitter-chatter about people growing them here and there. I haven't seen any yet." Just why France's oak and hazelnut forests have lost their truffle-bearing fertility is uncertain. Explanations include damage from deforestation, poor woodland management, excessive use of pesticides and air pollution. Sourzat says that the endemic disappearance of grazing sheep has likely played a role. Others believe the crash, which began in earnest in the years between the two World Wars, may have begun as peasants ceased to collect firewood from local forests, a cultural shift in woodland use that led to overgrowth of scrub in once productive truffle groves. One thing that's known is that trees older than 30 or 40 produce fewer truffles than younger ones, and this fact puts newer farms on the crest of a young and rising wave--if all works well, that is, because it doesn't always. Though Black Diamonds of Mendocino has produced truffles for 19 years, its owner, Bill Griner, died suddenly in 2008, and the farm operation came abruptly to a halt. The truffles themselves probably still grow, though Griner's sister, Peggy GrinerSiniavsky, who inherited the farm, said that last winter no one was onsite to harvest the fungus, leaving an entire crop to ripen and rot below ground. Prices for black truffles have skyrocketed almost out of control with the increase in demand and the subsequent loss of supply. In the 1950s, Tuber melanosporum sold for the equivalent of 10 euros per kilo, or about $7 per pound. Today, it runs more than $300 per pound straight off the farm before retailers mark the price up as high as $1,500. Turbulence is likely to rock the market in the years to come, but such prices and profits virtually guarantee that truffles will never go away. In parts of France, though, lovers of the black P�rigord may want to smell them while they can. 14 06.23.10-06.29.10 THE BOHEMIAN THE BOHEMIAN 06.23.10-06.29.10 15 What's going on in the vineyards? Take a FREE tour of a Sonoma County vineyard! Welcome to Vineyard Adventures Self-guided tours through the area's most beautiful spots. Currently available at � � Balletto Vineyards Matanzas Creek Winery � Mauritson Family Winery � Paradise Ridge Winery Every day during tasting hours! 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I was a guest on Steve's show nearly every week for more than a year, in the studio or from wherever the heck I was--my place in New York, a basement in Banff, a store room on the Gulf Coast, an airport security line or a ferry boat on the Bay of Naples. I wouldn't miss it. And I have missed it. The guy can talk about anything with anyone and make it fun, useful and real. He never minds learning in public and he knows how to stay curious; and for a great talker with a classic, timeless radio voice that's no mean trick. Don't get me wrong, there are lots of good food talk on the radio, from Steve Garner and John Ash (also on KSRO with their "Good Food Hour" Saturday mornings) to KGO's Gene Burns and "The Kitchen Sisters" on NPR, but Steve Jaxon lets food climb right in there with other real-life parts of an ongoing weekly chat. What I love about Steve is what I love about a really good restaurant: able to be appreciated by the most sophisticated in the community, while equally loved by your aunt from Iowa. Or Fresno. Or Windsor. And now it seems that the big boys in Connecticut have gotten the message that Sonoma County loves and wants a little nibble of Steve. By the time this gets printed in soy ink on recycled paper he'll be back in the studio--same time, same station--talkin' up a storm and making sure the broad range of voices that are America get heard (between some pretty hilarious header music). And I'll be right there with him--usually Thursdays--whenever he lets me, because we need to keep this conversation going. And Steve's the guy to stir that pot. Clark Wolf is a Sonoma County� and New York�based food and restaurant consultant, the author of `American Cheeses: The Best Regional, Artisan, and Farmhouse Cheeses.' Clark Wolf THE BOHEMIAN 06.23.10-06.29.10 17 North County Upvalley N obody's comparing apples to oranges. Around here, we compare apples to grapes. And because it's the local custom to mourn apple trees toppling for the sake of vine rows, naturally the demise of Ace-in-the-Hole Cider Pub, former tenant of this site, was roundly rued. Never mind that everyone there drank beer, and Ace's apples fall from faraway trees. Oh great, it was grumbled, all we need is another winetasting room. Growing up in a longtime West County farming family, Steve Dutton might know a thing or two about the economics of apple vs. grape. He partnered with friend and winemaker Dan Goldfield, who had previously passed the days at some little bodega called La Crema. Their former tasting room shared digs over at Balletto on Occidental Road (Swirl, 10.24.07), where production remains. I wish I could assure mourning pub fans that they haven't created the quintessence of the generic, a "Wine Country Tasting Room Lite," but wishing don't make things so. Walls are white, tiles terra cotta and there's still no kitchen (although food pairings created by local chef Christopher Greenwald will be featured at July 10th's grand opening). It's clean and bright, with a surfeit of real estate recently enlivened by what appeared to be a bachelorette party but which turned out to be the comely waitstaff from a local bar and bistro, to whom winemaker Goldfield was relating all kinds of fun, engaging stories. East County Mid County Downvalley Otherwise, there's not much to recommend it--except, of course, for a stellar lineup of finely crafted, fruitforward and focused wines. Last year's edition of Shop Block Pinot Blanc ($25) is as subtle, dry and yet round and full as ever with light pear fruit and a nose tipped in a white rose. A grownup's Gew�rz, the 2009 Green Valley Gew�rztraminer ($25) is balanced and dry, spicy with allspice, fruity in the tropical way. Bright cherry fruit with a tart, maraschino edge head up soft, red plum fruit in the 2007 Dutton Ranch Pinot Noir ($38), while tea-leaf herbal notes lend the 2007 Freestone Ranch Pinot Noir ($58) more complexity. Plump with plum fruit and hinting of cigar, the 2007 Cherry Ridge Vineyard Syrah ($35) is broody yet fresh and pretty, dressed in purple velvet. The 2008 Stoetz Vineyard Zinfandel ($40) is sure to pull Pinot migrants back into the Zin camp. Goldfield teases out the brightest red cherry fruit here, with raspberry-vanilla. The finish is soft, focused and firm, like cinching shoelaces into a satisfying knot. I've heard that among some types, comparing fruitforward with taut table wines is a matter of apples and oranges. But anyone with complaints about wines like these can stick it in their apple pie-hole. 3100 Gravenstein Hwy. N., Sebastopol. Open 10am to 4:30pm daily. $10 tasting fee. Grand opening reception, Saturday, July 10, from 11am to 4pm. 707.827.3600. West County James Knight 18 06.23.10-06.29.10 THE BOHEMIAN Ed Harris signed on to play the father in `Touching Home,' the inaugural indie film released by CFI. California Film Institute branches out into the world of film distribution By David Templeton erched onstage at San Rafael's Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, moments before the official April 29 theatrical debut of the movie Touching Home, actor Ed Harris shakes his head and laughs. Seated alongside writer-director-actors Noah and Logan Miller, Harris is attempting to describe the often comical route the brothers followed in moving from the crazy notion of making an autobiographical movie to the similarly crazy notion that they could actually talk Ed Harris into playing their father to, finally, tonight's red-carpeted premiere of the crazy notion itself. "Let's face it, most true stories about new filmmakers, they end before they begin," Harris says. "But these guys don't quit so easily. If you tell them no, they just assume it's something you'll say a few times until you finally say yes." The same could be said for CFI Releasing, the newly forged company assigned the job of putting Touching Home in theaters all across the country. A long-planned subsidiary of the California Film Institute (CFI), which produces the prestigious annual Mill Valley Film Festival each year, this brand-spanking-new distribution company is the brainchild of Mark Fishkin and colleagues, the folks who founded the Mill Valley Film Festival in 1978 and who 10 years ago went into the year-round exhibition business with the beloved Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center. Joining other shiny-fresh distribution firms such as Tribeca Film, NeoClassics, Cinema Purgatorio and South by Southwest, which recently launched an effort to release films through video-on-demand, Fishkin says that the idea of creating CFI Releasing was dreamed up long ago and has steadfastly refused to go away. "The idea of CFI having a nonprofit theatrical distribution arm has been part of our strategic plan for close to 10 years," Fishkin says, speaking in his office six weeks after the theatrical premiere of Touching Home. "We've been talking about doing this since the Rafael Film Center opened," he says, recalling a recent phone call from CFI's former director of operations, who reminded Fishkin, "You used to talk about this all the time." Since its late April release, the somewhat baseball-themed Touching Home--the making of which is outrageously described in the Millers' book Either You're In or You're in the Way--has screened all over the Bay Area, stretching east to New York City and Tampa, Fla., where the Millers were invited to throw out the first pitch at a Tampa Rays baseball game while the movie trailer played on the scoreboard. It's also opened in Denver, Colo., at the Stars Encore Theater. "We're very excited," Fishkin explains, "because the Stars is run by the same nonprofit that does the Denver Film Festival. So we feel very comfortable with them." Whereas mainstream films are usually released everywhere all at once, CFI Releasing has adopted a slow, calculated roll-out, much like what was done back in the '70s with many studio films. According to Fishkin, the two-orthree-screens-at-a-time plan allows CFI to send the Miller brothers out to nearly every launch, where they do Q&A's, work the local press, visit baseball stadiums, do book signings--anything to draw extra attention to the film. Part of the idea is to use the Millers' remarkable story to form a connection with potential audiences, who seem eager THE BOHEMIAN 06.23.10-06.29.10 19 paid advertising section to see the film after learning about their hardscrabble West Marin life and alcoholic father, their almost realized childhood dream of playing in the Major Leagues, and the way they charmed a four-time Oscar nominee into giving one of the greatest performances of his career in their little independent film. That fusion of film distribution and showmanship is at the heart of Fishkin's vision for CFI, and is exactly what he feels other small independent distributors will need to do in order to survive. "There are a number of people who are talking about the same things," Fishkin explains, "that in order for theatrical films to succeed there has to a sense of that `event experience.' Our idea was to take the best of the festival experience, couple it with the things that worked from the great art house period and create a new model of exhibition. We're trying to do that with Touching Home, and it seems to be working. By sending Logan and Noah out to do Q&A's, we're giving audiences an extra reason to care. Obviously, you can't put the filmmaker in every theater in the country, but it's important for independent distributors--as well as the responsibility of the independent exhibitors--to create that kind of event surrounding the release and exhibition of a new film." For Fishkin and the California Film Institute, the decision to enter the world of film distribution all goes back to CFI's original mission statement. "Our mission is to celebrate film as art and education," he explains. "We have two major constituents we serve: the independent filmmakers and the community of filmgoers. The work we do has always been about supporting and expanding the mission, and we do that in different ways. Originally, we did it with the festival. We do it with CFI Education. Then we added the Rafael. All of these things are ways we can support our constituencies. "We have always been about giving the public access to films they might not normally get to see, assisting independent filmmakers in getting their films out in front of the right audiences, expanding the public's appreciation and understanding of film. With CFI Releasing, we can explore new and different ways [of putting audiences together with films], that we think aren't being done by the profitmaking sector." Not that anyone expects it to be easy. Independent cinema, once a thriving cottage industry that gave hope to hundreds of up-and-coming filmmakers, has been in a state of f lux for years. Twenty years ago, every major studio had its own art-film side business; nearly all of them are gone now. Movie theaters, many of which used to keep a number of screens available for "small films," foreign films and weird independent films, are much less willing to take a risk in such fare, and as a result distributors are much more choosy about which films they will gamble on. A number of small distributors have, like CFI, turned into nonprofit enterprises, the same way that live theater did many, many years ago. There was a time when all stage theaters were for-profit. Now, very few of them are, because they couldn't sustain themselves that way. Fishkin believes we'll be seeing more of the same in the very near future. HEALDSBURG ARTWALK 13 ART G A LLERIES Art ! / Wine ! / Food ! FIRST FRIDAYS 5 - 8 P.M. 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NORTH, DOWNTOWN PETALUMA WWW.RIVERFRONTARTGALLERY.COM www.hammerfriar.com 707-778-4ART(4278) Greatful Dead Memorabilia 110 North Main St., Sebastopol, CA Around the World firstname.lastname@example.com O Locally Made: treehouse 28 clothing 707.829.ROCK (7625) O Artwork, Collectibles & More O Fine Gems & Minerals from Call Today to Advertise! 707.527.1200 | firstname.lastname@example.com 20 06.23.10-06.29.10 THE BOHEMIAN "To me, our nonprofit world is one of the great successes of this country," he says. "The fact that individuals, corporations and foundations still support cultural activities is a remarkably positive thing about the United States. We don't have the support from the government that other countries have. But we have this other consciousness, the nonprofit consciousness. I think that's important, and it differentiates us from the rest of the world." Currently in negotiations for a small documentary film he saw at the Cannes Film Festival, Fishkin is confident that Touching Home is just the beginning for CFI Releasing. "There is a particular kind of film we want to distribute," he says. "It has to have something significant to say, it has to be entertaining and unusual, and it has to have a strong sense of quality and craftsmanship. We've had a couple of other very interested filmmakers who'd like us to release their films as well. "The whole independent film industry, at this time, is in a tremendous state of change and evolution," Fishkin adds, "but these are times that also create opportunities. We see those opportunities. In the future, there will be many more nonprofits jumping into the distribution arena. It's clear that that's the way things will be going. We're not alone, that's for sure." Do 't Don't Miss the on' Ex xcitement!!!! Excitement!!!! The Full Monty For SHOW INFO or SH HOW TICKETS ONLINE at O Summ SummerRep.com merRep.com or PHONE: PHO : 527.4343 ONE THE BOHEMIAN 06.23.10-06.29.10 21 SUMMER NIGHTS YY c live shows c Movies c WINE c DANCING PICNICING c PLAYGROUND c ART ROOM c FUN U n `Til dawn unique derique tim cain 7:40 Performance / 8:15 Movie TICKETS $5, KIDS 5 AND UNDER FREE Claire Perry and Adam Burkholder parry in `Pan.' MARINJCC.ORG 415.444.8000 OSHER MARIN JCC I N S A N R A FA E L PRIMITIVES � JEWELRY � LIGHTING � KITCHEN TOOLS � ARCHITECTURAL � GLASS � FURNITURE � FRUIT LABELS � GARDEN ANTIQUES � Dude! We're 5 times the fun & bull-free! SRT kicks off inventive summer season By David Templeton always look forward to June in Sonoma County. With June comes the Santa Rosa Junior College's Summer Repertory Theatre, the 38-year-old professional training program and perennial theater company, founded in 1972 by Frank Zwolinski. Summer Repertory is one of those beloved local institutions--like the Napa Valley Wine Auction or Marin's Mill Valley Film Festival-- for which communities demonstrate a wild degree of affection and public pride. The program brings over a hundred international participants to Sonoma County where, under the leadership of artistic director James Newman, they produce five plays in rotating repertory. That's more than 90 performances in a two-month period, a theatrical marathon that gives SRT participants a valuable fullimmersion crash-course in putting on a show. And we get to watch. This year's season opened last Wednesday with the musical comedy Forever Plaid, followed by Saturday's liftoff of J. M. Barrie's original Peter Pan. The rest of the season's shows will open over Antique Society 2661 Gravenstein Hwy So. (Hwy 116) on Sebastopol's Antique Row Open daily! 707 829.1733 100 dealers! Our 21st year! www. AntiqueSociety .com the next 10 days. As is often the case, these opening performances had their share of jitters, f lubbed lines and overly cautious performances, but the pleasure of SRT has always been in watching the cast and crew evolve over the course of the summer. In Forever Plaid, the 20-year-old chamber musical by Stuart Ross, there is almost no plot and next to no character development. Still, the show has achieved a remarkable following over the last two decades and serves primarily as an opportunity for four actor-singers to practice really tight harmonies. The Plaids are a 1960s-era singing group: Jinx (John Krause), Francis (Jason Moody), Sparky (Matt Bradley) and Smudge (Rob Rodems). We learn that the Plaids were killed in 1964 on their way to a career-making performance. Through an unexplained spacetime anomaly, the Plaids have been returned to earth to give the performance they were destined to give. Whether it's worth the effort or not will be entirely up to the group, if they can overcome their various personality quirks and fears long enough to complete the show. Directed by Anne McAlexander, the slight story stays slight, avoiding the imposed dramatic arcs that some directors like to overlay onto the, um, action. On opening night, the cohesion of voices and characters was still in development, but the otherwise charming cast, with dazzling smiles and a delightfully giddy commitment to McAlexander's inspired comic choreography, provided plenty of reasons to enjoy the show. Peter Pan, directed by Newman, will surely inspire a lot of post-show conversation. By boldly choosing to stage Barrie's original nonmusical script, and by electing to break the sacred rule that Peter must be played by a woman (here, he's played by Adam Burkholder), Newman has already set us up for a Peter Pan experience like no other. He then elevates to originality by casting Captain Hook (Claire Perry) and the other pirates as women, by creating a Mad Max-meetsGodspell Neverland that looks something like a paintball course on Mars, and by staging the cleverly gorgeous flying scenes as if they'd been conceived by Cirque du Soleil. At opening, many of the performances seemed strangely flat and lacking in energy. As Peter Pan and Wendy, Burkholder and Skye Bronfenbrenner showed more youthful joy in the curtain call than they did romping through the story. Especially disappointing-- though it is still early in the SRT process--is Perry's Hook. Male or female, Hook should always be scary, and even in battle, this Hook seems a little placid and unferocious. There are many visual delights in Newman's somewhat chaotic production (love the dancing shadows!), so much so that it's frequently hard to tell what's going on or where to look. Hook's climactic demise seems almost off-hand, coming as it does in the midst of a stage-wide explosion of activity, with a gobbling crocodile that is almost impossible to see over the heads of the audience. And yet the haunting and jaw-droppingly lovely ending (wow!) is quite worth the price of admission. After 39 years of rule-bending theater, SRT has never given us anything quite like it. All shows, times and costs can be found at www.summerrep.com. U X TOYS & DOLLS � ARTS & CRAFTS � POST MODERN � COUNTRY � CALIFORNIA 22 06.23.10-06.29.10 X THE BOHEMIAN Wine Country Staycations & Adventures L O D G I N G | S P O R T S & R E C R E AT I O N | D I N I N G | S PA | D AY R E N TA L S Showcase your "Locals" stay & play `Every War Has Two Losers' examines the impact of bloodshed on the psyche. specials for North Bay's resident tourists. William Stafford's pacifist poetry informs new doc By Caroline Osborn ay Area filmmaker Haydn Reiss has had the photograph in his family for a long time. The 8-by-12 portrait captures an image of his uncle, a handsome young man in a Navy uniform, just before he shipped out to fight in WWII. He wasn't there very long before he was killed. The portrait marks one of the last times his family ever saw him. Reiss' grandmother became known as a Gold Star Mother, a title of honor bestowed upon women whose children died in service of their country. Reiss' family also keeps a photograph of his grandmother posing with a group of other Gold Star Mothers. "You could tell the photographer had said, `Put on a nice brave smile for the picture,'" Reiss says. "They all do it except my grandmother." These two photographs forced Reiss to question whether war could solve the world's problems. In his new film, Every War Has Two Losers, he addresses this problem by delving into the pacifist works of poet William Stafford. The film shares its title with Stafford's published collection of journal entries. "The title essentially challenges all those who think wars can be won," Reiss says. "It's the recognition that once you have death and destruction on either side, humanity has already lost." William Stafford was born in Kansas in 1914, the same year that WWI broke out in Europe. Although the war ended long before Stafford was old enough to understand its complexities, his parent's generation flooded his adolescence with tragic stories of the suffering and death caused by governmentordained violence on foreign soil. The onset of WWII distressed the then 25-year-old Stafford. When he was drafted, he claimed conscientious objector status and worked in civilian public service camps instead. "Armies are a result of obsolete ways," Stafford wrote in 1955. Every War Has Two Losers, which screens June 30 at the Smith Rafael Film Center, offers a concise and thought-provoking investigation of Stafford's message and its applicability in daily life. The film presents Stafford's life, work and relevance as described by poets who either knew him or admired him. (When asked why he considers poetry important, Reiss responds, "Why is food important?") Contributors include writers Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston, Michael Meade and Robert Bly. Permeated by a quiet and reflective mood, the film ends with a reading of a Stafford quote: "Here's how to count the people ready to do right: one. One." The screen goes black. The voice returns. "One." "This is a film asking you to think for yourself," Reiss says. "Really take an inventory of the beliefs you carry around. Stafford says you should analyze what you've been telling yourself." The film is part of Reiss' contribution to the antiwar movement. He encourages others to make small changes in their own lives that will further the message of peace. "You may not stop the war," he says, "but the government should know that there are people that are not in lock-step." After World War II stole her brother's life, Reiss' mother, only 16, lied about her age and enlisted the Women's Army Corps. His grandmother joined her. In Reiss' perspective, people can go one of two ways: toward aggression and violence or toward compassion and empathy. "Aggression will never be enough. But empathy is absolutely enough." The Smith Rafael Film Center hosts a screening of `Every War Has Two Losers' on Wednesday, June 30, at 7:15 PM. A panel discussion with Reiss and guests Alice Walker and Norman Solomon follows. 118 Fourth St., San Rafael. 415.454.1222. issue date: June 30 ad deadline: June 23 Phone: 707.527.1200 847 5th Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95404 email: firstname.lastname@example.com THE BOHEMIAN 06.23.10-06.29.10 23 "INFORMATIVE, What's uncovered is ABSOLUTELY ENRAGING." New York Magazine IMPASSIONED... 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Children 12 & under FREE on Thursday, July 1 Go Green: Bring your reusable water bottle and use Fairgrounds water fountains! Smoke-Free Fair. Please�no ice chests, coolers, pets, cans or bottles. FINE ARTS, CRAFTS AND PHOTOGRAPHY FARM ANIMALS SOLAR CAROUSEL GLOBALICIOUS GARDEN BONSAI THANKS TO THE PARTNERS OF THE MARIN FAIR 26 06.23.10-06.29.10 THE BOHEMIAN Boom Bap It was one of those shows seemingly destined to fizzle. KRS-One, onstage in Santa Rosa last month, struggled with monitor problems for a solid half-hour. You'd think he'd learn his lesson and show up to sound checks, but before long he found a microphone he liked. "That's the one!" he yelled, and promptly jumped off the stage into the crowd. For one or two songs, it seemed like a novelty; after three or four songs, it was clear that the Bronx rapper would finish the show out on the f loor among the people, clearing a circle for break dancers and running through hits like "Sound of Da Police," "My Philosophy" and "P Is Free." "Now that was hip-hop!" he declared, walking through the break dancers at show's end and leaving his fans in a sweaty daze. Before he joins the Rock the Bells tour to perform Criminal Minded in its entirety, catch him live and onstage--or on the f loor--Saturday, June 26, at 19 Broadway Niteclub. 19 Broadway, Fairfax. 9pm. $20�$25. 415.459.1091. Yuks & Yaks Who among us hasn't wanted to feed the yen for laughter while feeding one's cows and chickens? Before the show of hands, let it be known that hilarity is promised when three comics take the stage hay bales at Toby's Feed Barn this weekend in what's being billed as a Benefit to Benefit the Benefit. To wit: the Far West Fest, thrown annually by KWMR to benefit West Marin nonprofits, needs a little funding itself. In step five comedians to put the West Fest's stress to rest. Among them are two-time San Francisco Air Guitar Championship winner Alex Koll, Sarah Silverman Show alum and West Coast Cannabis publisher Ngaio Bealum, creator of the standup comedy game show Get It Joe Klocek and clean comic Carla Clay. Beer, wine, food and burlesque are on hand at the 18-and-over laugh fest on Saturday, June 26, at Toby's Feed Barn. 11250 Hwy. 1, Point Reyes Station. 7:30pm. $20. 707.663.1223. Righteous Babe Bayou Jazz To diehard deadheads, it was a treat last weekend to see Peter Apfelbaum playing with Dafnis Prieto in Healdsburg; after all, his Hieroglyphics Ensemble opened a few shows for the Grateful Dead in the 1990s. Also playing in that band was a young Will Bernard, learning from masters like Don Cherry and soaking in the experience which led him to found T.J. Kirk with Charlie Hunter and become a constant presence in the Stanton Moore Trio. These days, Bernard is all manner of busy with his own band, but plays a rare show this weekend with Robert Walter and Simon Lott. Walter, who plays with the Greyboy Allstars, has a long history with Bernard, but adding to the mix is Lott's New Orleans�drenched rhythms. It's bound to be another full dancef loor when the Will Bernard Trio hits town on Sunday, June 27, at the Hopmonk Tavern. 230 Petaluma Ave., Sebastopol. 8:30pm. $15�$18. 707.829.7300. The original poster girl with no poster, Ani DiFranco remains one of modern folk music's most magnetic personalities, with a devoted fan base following her every album--no small task, since she's up to 20 of them by now. Devot�es of her first acoustic releases have grown to love her band, usually a sparse but funky combo anchored by the jazz bassist Todd Sickafoose, and DiFranco's onstage wit and outright joy at performing are a constant. The fiercely independent songwriter, who owns and operates the Righteous Babe label, recently restored a church in her hometown of Buffalo, N.Y., and turned it into Babeville, a concert venue. So it's a fine fit when DiFranco plays Friday, June 25, at the recently restored Uptown Theatre (1350 Third St., Napa; 8pm; $47.50; 707.259.0123). She also plays with folk icons galore at the three-day Kate Wolf Festival running June 25�27 (Black Oak Ranch, Laytonville; $60�$70 daily; 707.829.7067). THE BOHEMIAN 06.23.10-06.29.10 27 Max Weinberg brings his big-band tribute to swing and standards to the Mystic Theatre June 28. See Concerts, above. 28 06.23.10-06.29.10 THE BOHEMIAN Joan Jett's rock 'n' roll mission Y ou've heard the legend of rocker Joan Jett. It's partly the iconic tale told in the recent film The Runaways, with Twilight star Kristen Stewart in the role of Jett, of how she cofounded the '70s all-girl teenage glam-punk sensations. It's partly the episode of her solo career exploding in the '80s with the all-time sing-along stadium mega-hit "I Love Rock 'n' Roll." It's partly the story of her influence on and collaboration with '90s riot grrrls like Bikini Kill. Ultimately, it's the news of her return to the spotlight--a new book and greatest hits disc are out--and securing her stature as a pioneering role model for tough women in rock. That's the familiar narrative of Jett the media star, but a deeper layer behind the storyline reveals a passionate rocker. Joan Marie Larkin has always been one of the form's purest true believers, a performer obsessed with sharing rousing music with her fans, a real-deal champion of the power of the music itself. She's one of rock's last great classicists, dedicated to goldenage music forms and ideals of rock community that have dwindled since the splintering of all things post-punk. You can hear this commitment on cover songs across her catalogue, from crunched-up, good-time swinging oldies like Gary U.S. Bonds' "New Orleans" to more bracing statement-of-purpose oldies like Leslie Gore's "You Don't Own Me." She declares faith on originals like "Good Music," her recording of which features the Beach Boys and Darlene Love. Dedication is also the furious bleeding heart of Evil Stig, her one-off disc with Seattle band the Gits in the wake of the murder of their lead singer Mia Zapata. Jett's recent single, "Change the World," may be a simple set of well-intentioned clich�s atop upbeat pop-punk, but in an era of skepticism, it's saintly that she still embraces her mission. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts keep the faith this Friday, June 25, at the Sonoma-Marin Fair. 175 Fairgrounds Drive, Petaluma. 8pm. Free with $10�$15 fair admission. 707.283.3247. Karl Byrn Gets Delicious in Petaluma with... 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THURSDAY-SATURDAY 4-7PM $1.50 PBR $2 DOMESTIC BEER $3 IMPORT/MICROBREW $3 WELL DRINKS & HOUSE WINE $3 APPETIZER MENU all shows are 21+ unless noted for reservations: 707.545.5876 BASKERY PLUS DGIIN FRI 7/23 � 8:00PM DOORS � $20 ADV/$22 DOS � 21+ REGGAE PATO BANTON AND THE NOW GENERATION For All Ages Shows � No Children Under 10 Allowed 23 Petaluma Blvd, Petaluma 707.545.2343 120 5th street @ davis street santa rosa, ca 707-765-2121 www.mcnears.com 30 06.23.10-06.29.10 lastdaysaloon.com THE BOHEMIAN Chitlin' circuit revivalism scores big with NPR listeners. Carolina Chocolate Drops burst into roots music's big tent By Cat Johnson n 2005, three young musicians with a fascination for African-American folk music attended the Black Banjo Gathering in North Carolina, drawn in part by the promise of seeing fiddler Joe Thompson. Then in his mid-80s, Thompson figured among the last remaining links to the originators of the long-dormant black string band tradition. After picking up the fiddle in the 1920s, Thompson had spent the better part of a century learning and playing footstomping rhythms, short, scratchy fiddle licks and plucky banjo lines in a just-about-anyinstrument-will-do down-home style. Inspired by Thompson's wealth of knowledge, the three--Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson--started traveling to the fiddler's house for weekly jam sessions, where he taught technique and songs. When the trio formed a band, it was to honor Thompson and bring his music back into the spotlight. The name they took, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, is a tip of the hat to the Tennessee Chocolate Drops, popular in the 1930s but since largely forgotten. The band swings into the Mystic on June 26. "Black string band music is something you find between the lines," Flemons says from the road, en route to New Orleans. "A lot of music has been based on string band and blues and spiritual music, but string band music has kind of been swept into the background." Born of the marriage between the European violin and the banjo's roots in African gourd instruments, string bands emerged when slaves were made to learn the folk songs and jigs slave owners wanted to hear. The result is a hybrid of styles that grew out of the dire days of slavery and laid the groundwork for country, bluegrass and blues. Unlike the musical genres they inspired, however, string bands themselves were seldom recorded, primarily because it was assumed they had no market. "Black string music has never been a commercially viable music," Flemons says. "There was no notion that rural people or black people would even buy records." The Chocolate Drops, however, are definitely selling records. Their latest release, Genuine Negro Jig, has been raking in raves and has roots music enthusiasts taking another look at the string bands of old. The album is rich with traditional soul, evident in tunes like "Cornbread and Butterbeans" and "Your Baby Ain't Sweet Like Mine," and illuminates the more introspective side of roots music with the instrumental tune "Snowden's Jig." Committed as they are to preserving tradition, the Chocolate Drops introduce elements entirely grounded in modern-day life, most notably a cover version of Blu Cantrell's "Hit 'Em Up Style," in which a woman gets back at her cheating man by charging up his Neiman Marcus card. The song's exposure helped the group ride the current roots-revival wave that Flemons says is due, in part, to the "perception of simplicity" that folk music provides. "Like with punk or rock 'n' roll, you don't have to be the most accomplished musician to start playing it," he says, "but you can get really good at it. "And of course," he adds, "some people just like the sound." The Carolina Chocolate Drops play the Mystic Theatre on Saturday, June 26. Jimbo Trout & the Fishpeople plus Arann Harris & the Broke Folk open. 8pm. $15. 23 Petaluma Blvd. S., Petaluma. 707.765.2121. RIO NIDO ROADHOUSE BAND EVENTS Sat June 26 THE THUGZ Fri July 2 THE POYNTLYSS SISTARS Fri July 9 LAVAY SMITH & HER RED HOT SKILLET LICKERS Sat July 10 THE UNAUTHORIZED ROLLING STONES All Music 6�10pm � All Shows $5 unless noted Swimming Pool Open to Public Lunch � Dinner � Brunch on Weekends Full Bar � Live Bands 707.869.0821 | 14540 Canyon 2, Rio Nido www.rionidoroadhouse.com THE BOHEMIAN 06.23.10-06.29.10 31 Best Music Venue Best Place for Singles to Meet 5 MINUTE ORGY & FRIENDS THUR ! JUNE 24 ! 9PM GRATEFUL DEAD TRIBUTE CRYPTICAL WITH THE THUGZ HIP HOP GURU KRS ONE NEXT WEEK SAT ! JUNE 26 ! 9PM FRI ! JUNE 25 ! 8PM ! $10 H APPY HOU R M -F 4 -7PM HAPPY HOUR M-F 4-7PM A PP HOU M- -7 O SU N 11-7PM SUN 11-7PM 11-7 11 7PM $2 OF F A L L APPETIZ $2 OFF ALL A PPET I Z ER S APPETIZERS ACACIA THUR ! JULY 1 ! 9PM FRI ! 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JULY 4 ! 4TH OF JULY 1PM ERIKA &DALE ALSTROM JAZZ SOCIETY 6PM 19 BROADWAY SWING BAND 9PM HOUSE PARTY BAND HOT UPCOMING ACTS 7/9: AC/DSHE 7/10: VORTEX TRIBE 7/16: DON CARLOS 7/24: GYPTIAN Galleries Wed, June 23 8:45-9:45am; 5:45-6:45 Jazzercise 10am-12:15pm Scottish Dance Youth and Family 7-10pm Singles & Pairs Square Dance Club Thur, June 24 8:45-9:45am; 5:45-6:45 Jazzercise 7:25�10pm Circles N' Squares Square Dance Club Fri, June 25 8:45-9:45am Jazzercise 10:30�11:30am Zumba Gold 7:00pm DJ Steve Luther hosts WALTZAPALOOZA Sat, June 26 8:00-9:00am; 9:15-10:15am Jazzercise 10:30�11:45am Dance Workout with DJ Steve Luther 7pm Benefit for Mabiba Baegne with Roots/Reggae Music by MIDNIGHT SUN $15 Sun, June 27 8:30-9:30am Jazzercise 10:30�11:30am ZUMBA FITNESS with Anna 12:30�3:30pm Vintage Dance 5�9:30pm DJ Steve Luther Country-Western Lessons & Dancing $10 Mon, June 28 8:45-9:45am; 5:45-6:45pm Jazzercise 7�10pm Scottish Country Dancing Tues, June 29 8:45-9:45am; 5:45-6:45pm Jazzercise 9:30�10:30am WEIGHTWATCHERS MEETING Weigh in 9:30, Meeting 10:00 7:30pm AFRICAN DANCE with Victoria Strowbridge featuring West African & Congolese Dance Santa Rosa's Social Hall since 1922 1400 W. College Avenue � Santa Rosa, CA 707.539.5507 � www.monroe-hall.com 32 06.23.10-06.29.10 THE BOHEMIAN Hand-Crafted Bfrom around the world rews &Tasty Pub Grub Coyote Den Bar & Dance Hall Big Screen Event Saturday, July 3rd � 7pm Sat, June 26 @ 8:00pm New Proposition 8 documentary exposes Mormon role ho needs to watch 8: The Mormon Proposition? The 96-minute documentary confirms everything we already knew or suspected: that the Mormon church, operating under the veil of a "coalition," actively pressured its members to donate millions to pass the proposition banning same-sex marriage in California. Through internal memos, addresses by church leaders and youth-training videos depicted in the film, the Mormon church is shown to have clearly violated its nonprofit status by operating as a political action committee. Who needs to watch The Mormon Proposition? Charles Stoddard, the former Santa Rosa Mission president of the Mormon church, that's who. Stoddard followed the decree and donated a staggering $19,500 to support Prop. 8. The footage of Mormon prophet Thomas S. Monson urging church members to donate money won't be unfamiliar to him, but perhaps his eyes might be opened by the stories of gay Mormon youth who, under the pressure to "reform," commit swift and grotesque suicide. Who needs to watch The Mormon Proposition? Martin McOmber, of the Santa Rosa Stake presidency of the Mormon church, that's who. McOmber appeared before Santa Rosa City Council in advance of the 2008 election to voice his support of Prop. 8, declaring absurdly and falsely that "Proposition 8 doesn't take away existing rights," when in fact that is exactly what it does. Perhaps McOmber will feel a slight tinge at the tears of relief and happiness on the faces of Tyler Barrick and Spencer Jones, above, shown married at San Francisco City Hall after six happy years together. Who needs to watch The Mormon Proposition? We already knew that Mormons accounted for over 71 percent of Prop. 8 contributions; that over $3 million came from Utah in the last week of the campaign; that the Mormon church has clearly violated its tax-exempt status. But for those who followed the urging from their Elders--familiar local Mormon names like Bingham, Huber, Willits, Hershey, Wheelwright--The Mormon Proposition just might inspire thought on the joy that existed for their fellow brothers and sisters. It was a joy that strengthened the institution of marriage. A joy which hurt absolutely no one else. A joy that they and their religion cruelly took away. 8: The Mormon Proposition opens on Friday, June 25, at the Rialto Cinemas Lakeside, 551 Summerfield Road, Santa Rosa. 707.525.4840. Gabe Meline Steve Johnson Blues W Free Appetizer Buffet UFC Fun Gear Giveaway � Glass Beer Specials Sun, June 27 @ 6 pm Radio K-Bob 707.874.9037 | www.barleynhops.com 3688 Bohemian Highway, Occidental www.coyotevalleycasino.com (707) 485-0700 5 miles North of Ukiah, Hwy 101 � West Rd. Exit Dinner and a Show Reservations advised HAPPY HOUR M�F � 4�6PM EST. 1941 Take a scenic drive for a unique dining experience 20 min from downtown Petaluma, 25 min from everywhere else! Comedy Fri June 25 From Rancho Deluxe Sat June 26 Sun ALSO FEATURING DAVE ZIRBEL Hillbilly Jazz 8:00pm / In the Bar A Hot Summer Night! THE JESSE JAY HARRIS QUARTET June 27 Fri 8:30pm California's Finest Country-Rock Band 5:00pm First Friday of the Month SHANA MORRISON I SEE HAWKS IN L.A. KEVIN RUSSELL THE CITY July 2 Sat July 3 Contemporary Blues 8:30pm Tower of Power Meets Cold Blood 8:30pm FEATURING PAULA SORCE ## FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND BBQS ## # # Sun July 4 The Zydeco Flames # Mon July 5 Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band # WITH SPECIAL GUESTS T HE ROWAN BROS. # # ################## Fri CD DAVE GLEASON AND THE RELEASE July 9 GOLDEN CADILLACS 8:30pm Sun PLUS ROSIE FLORES! PARTY July 11 Sat BBQ on the Lawn! THE SUN KINGS Salute to the Beatles Gates at 3pm, Music at 4:00pm July 17 8:30pm MOONALICE 415.662.2219 o Rancht! Debu On the Town Square, Nicasio www.ranchonicasio.com THE BOHEMIAN 06.23.10-06.29.10 33 C. Donatiello Winery Summer Music Series Live from the Middle Reach Dance Events June July 6-27 Catherine Feeny 9-5 Hotel Cafe tour Buddy & Friends 9-12 Troubaduo 7-4 The Hellhounds 9-19 Brian Bergeron 7-11 Alma Desnuda 9-26 Lelia Broussard 7-18 Pat Jordan Band & Chris Pierce 7-25 Samantha Lane September August October 8-1 The Speedbumps 8-8 Chris O'Brien 8-15 Fred odell 8-22 sol Horizon 8-29 Damato 10-3 Audra Connolly 10-10 John Gold C. Donatiello Winery 4035 Westside Road Healdsburg, CA 707.431.4442 www.cdonatiello.com F&D 34 06.23.10-06.29.10 THE BOHEMIAN Field Trips New Old Time Chautauqua brings tradition back to town hat began as a Sunday school teacher-training program soon became the nation's first mail-order educational system. What was started to give people living far from the city a taste of the higher mind grew into an annual cultural staple. What prompted earnest young women in gloves to discuss opera now deeply includes accordion strains and burlesque girls. What all of this is, of course, is Chautauqua. Founded in the late 1800s in upstate New York, on a 700-acre spread that now bears its name and offers year-round cultural enrichment, Chautauqua also gives its name to traveling shows, cultural training on wheels that still comes to give communities a taste of something, if not exactly the higher mind. While the Occidental Arts and Education Center hosts an annual Chatauqua of its own design, Point Reyes Station and Sebastopol welcome the tomfoolery and the teaching when the New Old Time Chautauqua stops in those towns on June 23 and 26, respectively. Composed of a morphing group that could include some 60 individuals, the New Old Time members live in an intentional community and devote their summers to arriving in small towns--announcing their presence first with a parade down Main Street--and then spending the rest of the day performing acrobatics and giving free workshops on circus arts before retiring to a local theater for a full-scale vaudeville show. This year, the Flying Karamazov Brothers (above) accompany with the greatest of ease. Look for the Chautauqua to come to Pt. Reyes Station's Dance Palace on Wednesday, June 23, at 7:30pm. Fifth and B streets. $10�$20. 415.663.1075. They arrive in Sebastopol on Saturday, June 26, at 7:30pm at Analy High School. $10. 707.823.7664. Tomfoolery precedes in each instance. Huzzah! 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