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Most people's ideas about witches are shaped by the media, in which many harmful, prejudicial, reinforcing images of witches are abundant. This has resulted in painful, embarrassing and physically harmful witch-bashing. In this liberal and conscious area, this should be as unthinkable as would be printing images of Mother Mary with a green face, missing teeth and a hooked nose, or allowing people to throw eggs at black peole who don't sit at the back of the bus. the committee and the company as we continue to try to do our part to help the planet. I appreciate the story and what a great job Bill McKibben is doing by sacrificing his time away from his wife and daughter to make a difference in this world for our very existence on this planet. For an update on this situation, see p9. Thank you for a great article ("None Like It Hot," Oct. 21). I sit on the Go Green committee for our company, Entertainment Partners, and picked up a copy of the magazine while on a four-day mini trip up north last weekend. I will be sharing this article with Please stop accepting ads from people who think it is fun, innocent and not a problem to portray Congratulations to Birgit Nielsen on her article ("Goodbye, Lenin!" Open Mic, Oct. 28) on the dismantling of the Berlin Wall. Not only does it brim over with first-hand experience of the events of the time, but unlike many political articles that can't avoid self-righteous diatribe, her article clings to the earth with details. A rusted VW Rabbit travels through "a flurry of fat snowflakes," as she first hears of the event on her car radio, "windshield wipers squealing." Afterward, there's a celebratory beer with a friend. Looming over her tale are "the deserted gray booths of the former border crossing." The formerly state-owned fields the Wall once divided are now fenced and owned by corporations, says Nielsen. Physical walls can come down quickly, but often one system replaces another, with the freedom to roam free through one's life being much more elusive. "Belief systems," she says, "have to be taken down one miserable brick at a time." Well done! Robert Feuer does occasionally contribute to our music section, but we couldn't let that stop us from printing his sincere kudos. Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary superintendent Maria Brown would like to correct the Bohemian's implication in last week's news story, "Great White Ways," that Dr. Pete Klimley, who spoke out against Dr. Michael Domeier's controversial shark research techniques, was consulted by the NOAA for his opinion. 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While witnesses watched with binoculars and telescopes from the Farallon Islands, a team of scientists with government research permits hooked, landed, tagged and released a 13-foot great white shark which, according to sources, appeared to be bleeding from its rear vent, or cloaca, during the procedure. Researcher Dr. Michael Domeier, president of San Diego's Marine Conservation Science Institute (MCSI), caught the animal using marine mammal blubber for bait and a hook the size of a large U-lock. The intention was to hook the fish in the mouth, pull it aboard a platform next to the vessel, bolt a specialized SPOT (smart position or temperature transmitting) tag onto its dorsal fin, release the shark and repeat the procedure on up to nine more individuals, to be observed for years via satellite correspondence. But the first operation didn't quite go as planned, according to Maria Brown, superintendent of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. The shark, a male, swallowed the bait and was hooked deep in the throat, she says. Before its release, the hook was cut, leaving the business end lodged in the fish's throat tissue. Mick Menigoz, captain of the great white cage-diving boat Superfish, spoke to witnesses who work on the islands. They told Menigoz that a buoy serving as a giant fishing bobber had become jammed in the animal's mouth. After a 40-minute tussle at the end of the line, the researchers grappled with the shark, then onboard the floating platform, to remove the buoy from its jaws before they could place a hydrating hose in its mouth to direct seawater over its gills. But eight minutes passed in which the fish could not respirate, sources said. Once the water THE BOHEMIAN 11.04.09-11.10.09 09 osmosis D A Y S P A S A N C T U A R Y REJUVENATE FOR THE HOLIDAYS! 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To finally release the animal, witnesses said, the scientists had to insert a pair of large bolt cutters through the animal's gill slits and into its throat cavity, and, through the force of three men, cut the giant hook. On Friday afternoon, Brown, concerned that the shark had been injured, suspended Domeier's project, which had been permitted under the agreement that it would be halted if a shark suffered injury during handling. Brown, Domeier's team, and government observers who had watched the procedure met over the weekend. They reviewed video footage and determined that the shark was not internally bleeding and that a shallow flesh wound had been the source of the blood reported by witnesses. Brown gave Domeier the go-ahead to resume fishing on Monday. Menigoz, with a boatload of sharkviewing clients, was nearby that day and watched as Domeier's team pulled in a 14.5-footer. "This time it went well," Menigoz says. "It was hooked in the mouth, where it was supposed to be hooked." The shark reportedly spent 12 minutes onboard the platform with a hose running water over its gills the entire time as the MCSI team bolted on the transmitter. "And with a little nudge, it swam away again," Menigoz says. Yet he and other critics continue to question whether subjecting great white sharks to such stress is ethically appropriate or scientifically responsible. Dr. Pete Klimley, a professor of marine sciences at UC Davis, points out that other tagging techniques already in use by white shark researchers in California are far less invasive, stressful and violent. "They just use a seal-shaped decoy to bring the sharks to the surface and a piece of bait on a rope to lure them to the boat," says Klimley. Sean Van Sommeran, an independent Santa Cruz researcher with the Pelagic Shark Research Foundation, has been tagging white sharks for more than 15 years in California using a hand-held lance to prick each animal in the back, leaving a transmitter lodged in the hide. He is baffled that the government bodies that placed a moratorium on great white shark fishing in state waters in 1994 would allow a scientist to hook the animals and pull them onboard a vessel. "If you were to hook a protected species of two-ton marine mammal and drag it onboard a boat, people would go through the roof." Anyway, Van Sommeran doubts that the results to be gained by Domeier's techniques will reflect natural shark behavior. "Speaking facetiously, I might call his study `Flight Behavior of White Shark with a Barbed Hook in Its Gut.'" Brown says that the shark caught and released by Domeier on Thursday is still swimming. Great white sharks are negatively buoyant and will sink if they cease to swim. But on Monday night, the SPOT tag broke the surface of the Pacific Ocean and sent a "ping" to a satellite above, Brown says. "The shark," she assures, "is still alive and well." 10 11.03.04-11.09.04 THE BOHEMIAN A brief history of Sonoma County's dirty dealings with the dump By Bruce Robinson reshman Sonoma County Supervisor Efren Carrillo may have surprised his colleagues and numerous other observers with his vote against the proposed "divestiture" of the county dump on Oct. 27, but he also did them a favor. Even if the full board had unanimously and enthusiastically embraced the 20-year, multibillion dollar deal with Arizona's Republic Services, the pact had a snowball's chance in Phoenix of actually going through. Getting the county's approval would have been the easiest of the three steps needed to move it forward. Fulfillment of that contract also depended on getting most of the cities within Sonoma County to buy into it, as well as Republic's presumed ability to win the support of state water regulators to allow the private firm to reactivate the dormant landfill. Neither is anywhere close to a given, and both have been given short shrift up to now. At the public landfill forum in Santa Rosa last March, it was clear that Santa Rosa and other essential municipal players were not in the loop as the county's process crept forward, and were reluctant to make any meaningful commitment to participating in the deal when it was done. Yet the hard truth is that any plan the county pursues will depend on having a bankable stream of debris coming in, because trash flow equals cash flow when it comes to securing financing. And to elevate the numbers enough to take on the challenges posed by the Meacham Road facility, the county needs considerably more than the rubbish hauled in from the unincorporated areas. But they have done precious little to build support for that. Although he had briefed some local city managers about the emerging divestiture deal, county Public Works director Phil Demery admitted to the board last week, "We have not had direct contact with city elected officials." But those council members have been hearing from their constituents, one reason that four of them--from Windsor, Santa Rosa, Healdsburg and Petaluma--each publicly questioned the proposal Tuesday. With a possible joint powers agreement as one of the remaining possibilities for the future management of the county dumpsite, it would seem that an overdue overture to their probable municipal partners should now be a priority. But at least they have interests that align, unlike the state's water regulators. A contentious Oct. 23 letter from the California Integrated Waste Management Board, demanding that "divestiture must proceed this year or the site must close," provided a bitter subtext to the board's meeting on the 27th. That letter, characterized by several critics as "bullying," had actually been requested by county staff, Demery said, to clarify the state's stance. This is just the most recent in a lengthy, unfortunate series of confrontational communications about the dump dating back to the discovery in May 2003 of a small amount of "leachate" between layers of the liner beneath the garbage. The problem was promptly repaired, and none of the contaminate escaped into the surrounding groundwater, but the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board called for costly remediation measures. Rather than seek a compromise, the county retained a "flamethrower" attorney to fight the requirement, whereupon positions hardened, the stakes escalated and the county, ultimately, lost. Significantly, other counties elsewhere, with similar issues, have found ways to work with regulators to keep their landfills operational. But Sonoma County got slapped down hard, and the resultant costs--environmental as well as economic--have been mounting ever since. Underlying each aspect of this sorry story is an unfortunate aura of administrative arrogance. Had the county built an effective and collegial team with local cities, a united front might have formed the basis for effective negotiations around mitigation measures to protect groundwater around the dump. But even after that window of opportunity had long since closed, key county bureaucrats persisted in the go-it-alone, take-it-or-leave-it approach that brought them--and us--to the present predicament. Hubris has dug this hole, and as the late Molly Ivins repeatedly reminded us, the First Law of Holes is: stop digging. In its dealings with both its neighbors and its nemeses, the county history in this matter shows decided deficits in respectful communication and a genuine desire for collaborative solutions. Maybe, even now, it's not too late to give them a try. Bruce Robinson is the news director for KRCB public radio and television, 91.1-FM and channel 22, respectively. 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. Trash flow equals cash flow when it comes to securing financing. PRACTICE Y MORE and fOl GeA e e be t t r . e F i nd i n ne r p e a c Do Bikram Yog nthly Intro Offer a $29 mnolimited u 31 Classes per ot Yoga" The Original "H week osa.com yogaofsantar www.bikram h & Wilson corner of 7t on the a Rosa Street, Sant 522 Wilson 70 7. 54 5. 96 42 Santa Rosa bby and Expanded lo ers. men's show clothing, More yoga cessories. books & ac THE BOHEMIAN 11.04.09-11.10.09 11 Rob Nelson's quest to heal eco-depression By Juliane Poirier new form of energy therapy is credited with helping even the most eco-depressed people recover their positive thinking. Developed by a Sonoma County local, emotional freedom techniques (EFT) is an East-West touch, or tapping, therapy that allegedly cures the depression that sensitive people feel in response to planetary crises. More significantly perhaps, for the past 15 years it has helped war veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Help is in the fingers. Santa Rosa EFT practitioner Rob Nelson claims a half-hour of this guided tapping can often do the trick. "Some clients have come to me virtually paralyzed by anguish over the state of the earth. Some people reach such a level of hopelessness that they can hardly get out of bed in the morning," Nelson says. "We're talking serious depression." To help folks, Nelson gives tapping sessions. Along the body's chi meridians, mapped by Chinese physicians centuries ago, EFT therapists show clients how and where to rhythmically tap away what's bothering them. "We use about nine acupuncture meridian points, close to the surface," Nelson explains. "Instead of inserting needles, we tap on these points while calling up whatever is disturbing the person. It may be an old trauma. But it doesn't matter what the cause is. The tapping sequence will still work. Even young children can learn to use it." Nelson claims the method can be selftaught at a basic level by using a manual downloadable for free at www.emofree.com. Other more advanced materials are "modestly priced and can be copied up to 100 times to give, not sell, to others," says founder Gary Craig of Sea Ranch. Craig is a Stanford-trained engineer, self-described as an outsider to the field of psychology. "I've always had an interest in personal psychology, but I'm not stuck in the conventions of someone trained in the field," Craig says. Free, then, to experiment, Craig recast a complicated system taught to him by psychologist Roger Callahan. "Engineers take things apart and put them back to together," Craig reminds. "So I simplified his system and put it out to the public. Now I've got hundreds of thousands of people doing this around the world. It's an emotional version of acupuncture, very simple in concept. It's a fresh look." Emotional freedom techniques differ from traditional Western psychotherapy by positing that negative emotions are disruptions in the body's energy systems. Nelson claims the fix is fast. "It takes about half an hour to bring eco-depressed clients back to a comfort level, with a renewed sense of purpose and hope," he says. War veterans with PTSD have proven to take a bit longer to cure--about five or six hour-long sessions. Craig and his colleagues worked in cooperation with the Veterans Administration in Los Angeles in the mid-1990s when EFT was new. "We didn't really know what we were doing then," Craig admits, "but after their sessions, veterans began sleeping better. A few even checked out of the facility. The techniques worked." Craig and others, now including a group of EFT practitioners collaborating on an initiative called the Stress Project, have worked successfully with veterans, from those who served in Iraq to those who served in Vietnam. Their website (www.stressproject.org) streams a video depicting effects of tapping sessions on veterans (caution: footage of vets describing combat atrocities in graphic detail). The EFT sessions demonstrated measurable success, including cortisol levels reduced by an average of 25 percent. Published research shows that veterans, even those who have carried trauma in their bodies for decades, have tested negative for PTSD after completing sessions of EFT. The Stress Project has helped over 400 veterans of American wars, for free or at low cost. Compared to combat trauma, it's no surprise that eco-depression and gardenvariety anxiety are a cinch to fix with tapping. "One of the things I love about EFT is that it only eliminates the negative energies, the depression, phobias, anxiety or rage," Nelson says. The good stuff, presumably, remains. "We could tap all day, and my activist clients are never going to lose their healthy levels of outrage or their caring," he says. "They'll never lose concern for the earth." Promote Your Green Business in our new section "Going Green" Call Today @ 707.527.1200 and ask for rates, sizes and expert tips! The Bohemian is "Going Green" Every Week! `It's an emotional version of acupuncture, very simple in concept. It's a fresh look.' --Gary Craig 12 11.04.09-11.10.09 THE BOHEMIAN Fine Dining For Wild Birds 71 Brookwood Ave., Santa Rosa 707.576.0861 Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 11am-4pm � www.wbu.com Birdseed . Feeders . Birdbaths . Optics . Nature Gifts . Books THE BOHEMIAN 11.04.09-11.10.09 13 14 11.04.09-11.10.09 THE BOHEMIAN General manager Elisa Weber, center, with Vanessa Pritchard and Elena Miska. Della Fattoria's bread is raised by farm and family By Tori Masucci lisa Weber grew up on the 14-acre ranch in Petaluma that her grandfather bought back in 1940. To this day, the Webers continue to grow gardens and raise livestock on the land. Yet the Weber's real story should be told from the inside--where the smell of coffee and baked bread wafts through the kitchen of their Petaluma cafe, Della Fattoria. Entering Della Fattoria is like entering a home of sorts, where friends sit across from one another, telling stories and catching up on the latest chitchat over rich espressos and warm, flaky cinnamon rolls dripping with sweet syrup and crushed walnuts. As the morning sun shines through the front windows, the cowbell tied to the door chimes and regular patrons buzz by to grab a few baguettes or a loaf of their favorite artisan ciabatta. Della Fattoria has the charm of a small European cafe; its inviting atmosphere can be attributed to the Webers' emphasis on upholding the basics: family and food. "We live together and work together," Elisa says. "The cafe is like an extension of our home. Everyone cooks in our family; the kitchen is where everyone gathers. That's where the love and magic happens. Cooking together is important, because it's what we love to do." Della Fattoria, appropriately translated as "from the farm," is indeed a family affair. Elisa is the cafe's general manager, her brother, Aaron, is the head baker, and their parents, Kathleen and Edmund, run the wholesale bread distribution on their farm, as well as the farmers markets where their bread is sold on Thursdays in Marin and Saturdays in San Francisco. A lengthy list of restaurants and grocery stores, from Santa Rosa's chic Syrah Bistro to Whole Foods in Mill Valley, now carry Della's bread for its organic, handmade quality. Straight from the wood-fired brick ovens that evenly cook the bread using retained heat, Della Fattoria makes anywhere from 300 to 1,000 loaves of bread each day, based on distribution needs. "We are quite a small production compared to most bakeries, but it takes a lot of hands and its very labor-intensive. You have to be very patient. You can't rush the bread," Kathleen explains. In 1994, she created a natural starter of organic flour, water and a cluster of grapes from their ranch. The next morning, the slurry was bubbling, the scientific foundation to an art that became their bread-baking business, which first ran from their home on the ranch, until Edmund found the space downtown a decade later. What makes their bread so special? To that, Aaron--still wearing his apron as he steps out of the kitchen--responds, "The care that goes into it. We don't pay a bunch of underwaged workers to come in and make our products for us. We all tend to it. I think that matters a lot. A lot of other bakeries use mixers, and dividers or shapers, or machines that put it in the oven. We do everything by hand, the way it was done for hundreds of years." Baking the bread is a 24-hour cycle, from heating the ovens to infusing the dough with the original starter--or as the Webers refer to it, "the mother"-- which is still used as a natural leaven for their breads. It is fed twice a day with organic flour and pure well water "to keep it happy," as Aaron quips. The Webers are very careful with their bread; they know its behavior, down to the way it responds differently to the touch of a newly hired baker's hands. "So many things can go wrong that impact the bread, especially the weather, the temperature or even how it is handled," Elisa says. Yet Kathleen points out the rare beauty of their loaves from the hearth. "Our customers know that our bread is consistently inconsistent," she says. "It's consistently good, but on some days it can be taller or darker, or the shape of loaves can be a little different, but it's all done by hand, so they appreciate that." THE BOHEMIAN 11.04.09-11.10.09 15 But bread isn't the only thing Della Fattoria gets right. The cafe bustles with friends enjoying savory breakfasts, dinners and weekend brunches. "It comes down to starting with the best ingredients and locally, organically farmed produce. It's really important to us," Elisa says. "We support our community, because without farms, we'd have no food. I wouldn't think of anything else. If you're setting out so many wonderful products, you have to start with the best ingredients. We can't cut corners." As conscious protectors of the environment, the Webers take all of their compost, from coffee grounds to vegetable scraps, back to the ranch to feed the chicken and sheep or enrich the garden's soil. It's a continual circle of nourishment. "Giving back to the earth and to the community is a really key thing to have in your life. It's the idea of not being a taker and not adding to the landfills, but instead taking an active role and trying to make the world a better place," Elisa says. Although the changes in the economy have impacted their business--the price of flour has tripled in price within the last few years--the Webers deem themselves fortunate to have such a good standing in the community, enabling them to put that extra finesse into the quality of their food. Amid a bustling lunch crowd, Kathleen beams. "For all of us, it's a lifestyle. We're doing something we really enjoy. We enjoy people, we love preparing food, and we love baking our bread. It's just that sort of wonderment of doing something that someone else really appreciates. Food is kind of a social equalizer. If you can cook a good meal, anyone can appreciate that." Alexis Baking Company and Cafe Alexis excels at baked goods, like their "Best Damn Lemon Cake" and offers killer breakfasts and sensible soup 'n' salad lunches. Their diverse bread choices include tomato basil, walnut wheat, challah or buttermilk dill. 1517 Third St., Napa. 707.258.1827. Basque Boulangerie Cafe The Boulangerie serves up fresh grilled cheese and tomato sandwiches on toasted French bread like nobody's business. Local sweet tooths also swear by their cinnamon raisin bread. 460 First St. E., Sonoma. 707.935.7687. Bovine Bakery If the adage "you are what you eat" is true, Bovine Bakery is unsuitably named, because everything about this small treasure on the main street of Pt. Reyes Station is the opposite of dull. Lured by the smell of coffee and delectable pastries, customers also line up each morning for a bite of their fresh, vegan bread. 11315 Shoreline Hwy., Point Reyes Station. 415.663.9420. Cousteaux French Bakery If a taste of Cousteaux French Bakery's multigrain batard does not leave its customers praising the dough gods "en Fran�ais," the fact that it has won Best of Show for the last three consecutive years at the Sonoma County Harvest Fair will. Handcrafted and hearty, their famous loaves are risen proof that the French know their bread. 417 Healdsburg Ave., Healdsburg. 707.433.1913. Downtown Bakery & Creamery Old-fashioned is not always a bad thing--at least not when it comes to good bread. Downtown Bakery and Creamery in Healdsburg stands by this belief, with everything from hearty sandwich rolls to French sweet breads among their most popular fares. 308-A Center St., Healdsburg. 707.431.2719. Full Circle Baking Right over the railroad tracks in Penngrove lies this small treasure trove of a bakery. Their baking process--beginning with milling their own flour and ending with distributing to farmers markets and grocery stores like Oliver's--truly does come full circle. 10151 Main St., Penngrove, 707.794.9445. The Model Bakery Keeping the carbomaniacs happy for over 80 years, the Model Bakery sets the standard for beautiful loaves of hearth-baked seeded sourdough and garlic cheese baguettes. 1357 Main St., St. Helena. 707.963.8192. Tomales Bakery Devotees know to get there early because they close when the good stuff 's sold out. 27000 Hwy. 1, Tomales. 707.87.2429. Village Bakery The only place in wine country that makes Scandinavian goodies and organic Danish breads, Village Bakery is a rare treat. Try the Kernebrod, a honestto-goodness rye bread generously doused with poppy, flax and sunflower seeds. 1445 Town and Country Drive, Santa Rosa. 707.527.7654. Wild Flour Bread Set in the tiny town of Freestone on the way to Bodega Bay, Wild Flour Bread is an eclectic bakery well-known for its organic sourdough-based loaves. With names like "Jungle bread," infused with bananas, walnuts and cardamom, Wild Flour's as wildly pleasing as its name denotes. 140 Bohemian Hwy., Freestone, 707.874.2938. --T.M. 16 11.04.09-11.10.09 THE BOHEMIAN THE BOHEMIAN 11.04.09-11.10.09 17 a new era of cuisine and winemaking with romantic sunsets Special three-course, pre fixe menu for $28.95 Family Night Italian menu on Monday, 5pm�8pm Thurs Nights: "Locals Night" --No corkage fee Corks Fine Dining Wed�Sat 5pm�9pm Lunch: Mon-Fri 11:00am�2:30pm Sat & Sun Brunch: 10:30am-2:30pm Sunday Patio Party 4-7pm 5700 Gravenstein Hwy N Forestville For Reservations, Call 707-887-3344 Tasting Room Open 7 days a week 11am-5pm visit russianrivervineyards.com for menu updates 18 11.04.09-11.10.09 THE BOHEMIAN t used to be that in order to attract girls all a guy had to do was pick up an electric guitar. But these are back-to-the-land times, and now a sharpened meat cleaver is as likely to possess rock-star status as a Fender Stratocaster. While no one was looking, butchery has morphed overnight from a nearly lost art to a blazing urban phenomenon, with "slaughter parties" at apartments in Brooklyn and slicing demos at dive bars countrywide. Where once old butchers hoped for young apprentices to carry on the tradition nearly wiped out by factory farming, it seems that now they have nothing to fear. The art, if current trends continue, will survive. I This weekend, the Bay Area's best and brightest stars of the new butchery movement appear at Primal, a celebration of early cooking's revival. With Taylor Boetticher of Napa's Fatted Calf Charcuterie and red-hot Ryan Farr from San Francisco's 4505 Meats, butchers will give a side-by-side demonstration on how to break down a complete pig, cow, goat and lamb into cuts of meat. Afterward, chefs will create and cook meaty creations over a hickory, applewood or almond wood flame for attendees, and a 100-pound pile of bones will be roasted to collect marrow served on artisan breads. Wine, wine, wine washes it all down, down, down. With an emphasis on heritage breeds and whole animal utilization, Primal is the antithesis of the factory farming exposed in films like Food, Inc., and a reminder that the best food is locally grown and prepared not by machines but human hands. Fifteen different wineries and nine different butchers and chefs--including Jeremy Fox, from Michelin-star vegetarian restaurant Ubuntu, preparing heirloom vegetables--get out the knives and slice raw flesh on Saturday, Nov. 7, at Chase Cellars' Hayne Vineyard. 2252 Sulphur Springs, St. Helena. 3�7pm. $65�$100. 404.849.3569. Gabe Meline THE BOHEMIAN 11.04.09-11.10.09 19 South County North County Mid County he corporate wine trade likes to talk about a consumer's relationship with a brand, but they have nothing on Duxoup Wine Works, a two-person outfit where the relationship is truly inseparable from the wine. Andy and Deb Cutter might not have been thinking about building an alternative to the creed of ever-expanding corporatism when they finished their cellar in 1981--and besides, they were broke. But their ultimately successful venture embodies the artisan way. T The Cutters have made basically the same reasonably priced lineup for over 20 years, using varietals sidelined by big wineries that can't or won't risk experimentation: Gamay Noir, Charbono and Dolcetto. There is no extra capacity in their gravity-flow winery that fits together like a jigsaw puzzle, and they have no plans to expand. From the just-so fit of the removable fermenters to the network of pulleys and winches that do the heavy lifting, Duxoup is a custom-built system for doing exactly what they do, year after year. Making artisanal wine doesn't require a lot of expensive toys, but it does require a lot of tinkering. Andy quips that a friend who retired from winery equipment sales thoroughly checked out his setup and concluded, "You know what? A small winery doesn't need all that stuff I was trying to sell you." It's a slower way of doing things, and a quieter way. Not surprisingly, the Cutters are cat people. Typical of this rare, enticing varietal, the 2006 Napa Valley Charbono ($18.50) only looks like a tough customer, dark and brooding with aromas of char and leather. Wild grape and plum juice take on chocolate notes on the easy, silky finish. The Cutters added Dolcetto after a fact-finding trip to Piedmont, Italy, where it's a beloved everyday quaff; the 2008 Dry Creek Valley Dolcetto ($20) has a lively palate of fresh blueberry and cherry following a pretty floral nose with blueberry and sage. Duxoup will pour alongside other hard-to-find, local producers at the first annual Artisano event slated for Nov. 14. The Slow Food�sponsored food, wine and art festival will feature over 50 small plates and winetastings from local purveyors from Zazu to Zin; cheese galore of the cow, goat and sheep variety; chef demonstrations, silent auctions, plus live music from the Steve Pile Band. Proceeds benefit Slow Food Sonoma County's school garden projects. Get a plate, grab a glass and get local. Duxoup Wine Works, Healdsburg. Not open to the public. For information go to www.duxoup.com. Artisano: Saturday, Nov. 14, from noon to 5pm at the Geyserville Inn, 21714 Geyserville Ave., Geyserville. $75; $90 day of event. For info, call 888.878.6621 or go to www.artisano.org. West County Upvalley Downvalley James Knight East County 20 11.04.09-11.10.09 THE BOHEMIAN THE BOHEMIAN 11.04.09-11.10.09 21 22 11.04.09-11.10.09 THE BOHEMIAN John Cusack is the everyman caught by plausible apocalyptic destruction in `2o12.' The end of the world just isn't as much fun as it used to be By Hannah Strom-Martin ccording to Roland Emmerich, director of such fine films as Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow, the world ends like this: the American government, having failed to heed warnings about imminent alien invasion / global warming / ancient doomsday prophecy, finds itself presiding over a global holocaust. A torrent of nuclear-scale destruction rains down (the White House inevitably destroyed via laser or tsunami), and when the smoke clears, a handful of scrappy survivors come together for a last-ditch effort to restore the status quo. Enter Will Smith in a Range Rover. Or Jake Gyllenhaal in a frozen cargo freighter full of wolves. Or John Cusack in a motor home. Such quaint imaginings were once the bread and butter of the multiplex. Independence Day raked in over $800 million in 1996. The Day After Tomorrow took in around $540 million in 2004. But that was five years and several bailouts ago. In succeeding years, global warming has gone from a sidebar to a headline. Evidence of secret Iranian nuclear facilities has soured our Cold War romanticism. From healthcare to finance, the prefix "broken" has been applied to every industrialized system humankind has had the gumption to design. When Emmerich's 2012 opens on Nov. 13, the world that lapped up his last two end-time fables might not be so eager for part three. Think back to those cargo-ship wolves. They were silly at the time. Today, they're downright insulting. From Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth to the glut of green literature, humanity has now learned more about climate change than we ever wanted to know. In 1996, most newspapers didn't have a "green" section--shucks, in 1996, newspapers still mattered. Now concern over global warming and oil dependency are so common that President Obama speaks about them on a weekly basis, and the first lady keeps a vegetable garden. She's not alone. As phrases like "peak oil" cease to be late-night punch lines, vegetable gardens are once again popping up all over America. Some people hope to shrink their carbon footprint. Some have been terrified by record outbreaks of E. coli as inadequately regulated foodstuffs make their way to the dinner plate. Throw in a few viral outbreaks such as H1N1, a couple of brewing geo-political conflicts, and you no longer need to see John Cusack pitted against giant CGI tsunamis in order to score yourself a boatload of apocalyptic thrills. In time like these, the apocalypse needs a new hero. On `The Road' John-in-a-motor-home, meet Viggo-with-ashopping-cart. Coming fast on the heels of 2012, a fin-de-si�cle shocker keyed to the supposed world end predicted by the Mayan calendar, is the filmic version of Cormac McCarthy's The Road, slated to open Thanksgiving weekend, Nov. 25. The novel, detailing a never-named father and son's THE BOHEMIAN 11.04.09-11.10.09 23 Reach the North Bay's Nonprofit Donors in The Bohemian's Nonprofit Guide Issue Date: November 18th The mission of our guide is to provide a bridge between our giving community and our region's nonprofits. We believe that philanthropy is a lifelong commitment. Our goal is to enlighten all people, whether sharing large or small donations of time and money, to become our region's philanthropists. Support the positive effects of private nonprofit funding and the power of small donations. Advertise Your Creative gift giving ideas for your nonprofit. The investment is minimal to participate. Call Today 707.527.1200 journey through a post-apocalyptic America, won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize. It is a quietly devastating book--one that would give you the willies even if it weren't so eerily in step with current scientific forecasts of doom. While McCarthy never names the cataclysm that has rendered his fictional world into a series of "nights dark beyond darkness and days more gray each one than what had come before," the landscape he creates is haunted by present-day anxieties. A kind of nuclear winter grips the planet. Unexplained ash rains from the sky. Plants and seasons have ceased to exist. All animals are extinct and those humans that survive must either scavenge from a dwindling pool of such urban resources as canned food or resort to cannibalism. Daily life in the post-apocalyptic era looks like this: "An hour later they were on the road. He pushed the cart and both he and the boy carried knapsacks. In the knapsacks were essential things in case they had to abandon the cart and make a run for it. Clamped to the handle of the cart was a chrome motorcycle mirror that he used to watch the road behind them. He shifted the pack higher on his shoulders and looked out over the wasted country. The road was empty. Below in the little valley the still gray serpentine of a river. Motionless and precise. Along the shore a burden of dead reeds. Are you okay? he said. The boy nodded. Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire." Computer-generated meteor showers pale in comparison to McCarthy's chilling, strippeddown prose (he uses no quotation marks in his dialogue, as if to imply the uselessness of such formalities in the post-civilized world), and the new movie starring a deeply disheveled Viggo Mortensen and directed by John Hillcoat (of the equally grim The Proposition) looks set to follow in his footsteps. What's even scarier, of course, is that so many of our planet's brightest minds seem to think that The Road, is indeed, where we're heading. From James Howard Kunstler's nonfiction work The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change and Other Converging Catastrophes of the TwentyFirst Century, to the writings of awardwinning climate-scientist James Lovelock, the doomsday scenarios are pouring in. in a fool's climate, accidentally kept cool by smoke, and before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable." Lovelock is known for such pronouncements. In a 2007 interview with Rolling Stone, he predicted that as global warming wreaks havoc on our atmosphere, "extreme weather" will become the norm, resulting in a mass exodus of people as formerly habitable places fall victim to rising tides and the encroachment of deserts. Such migrations, he predicts, will result in epidemics of disease as refugees mingle, killing off all but 500 million people by 2100. As world temperatures shift, survivors will discover that the most attractive real estate is in Oslo (where Lovelock currently resides). This sounds rather like the plot of one of Emmerich's movies, but Lovelock, creator of the electron capture detector, a device which enabled the discovery of dangerous levels of chlorofluorocarbons in our atmosphere and paved the way for the detection of ozone-layer depletion, is not so easily dismissed. He's a former NASA scientist whose work analyzing planetary atmospheres led him to formulate the Gaia hypothesis: a theory viewing the earth as a super-organism, its interconnected systems (weather, energy, plant life, etc.) acting much like an immune system to maintain the planet's equilibrium. If you poison Gaia, say by pumping pollutants into the air, the planet's system of ecological feedback will devise a way to balance the damage. Gaia is a staple of the environmental movement, and though initially dismissed in the 1960s, the hypothesis has gained more respectability in the scientific community as awareness of climate change evolves. The idea that a planet in the grip of a "morbid fever" might attempt to regulate itself through floods, droughts and changing weather patterns no longer seems like New Age mysticism when the U.N. acknowledges (in a recent Associated Press article) that natural disasters like the recent back-toback typhoons in the Philippines have contributed to food shortages in Third World countries, or when the U.S. Government Accountability Office authors a report warning of increased risk of flooding and droughts across the nation if current levels of greenhouse gasses are maintained. As in The Road, a time might come when a scattered populace, suffering from climactic upheaval, must make their way to safer climes or die. Morbid Fevers Just how likely is a Road-like scenario, really? What could cause it? According to the new crop of environmental journalists like Alan Weisman (The World Without Us) and The Guardian's George Monbiot (who has called The Road "the most important environmental book ever written"), climate change is a good place to start. And the scientific community agrees with them. "The earth is about to catch a morbid fever that may last as long as 100,000 years," James Lovelock wrote in The Independent in 2006. In this essay, he declares, "We are Oil Eaters Freak weather, of course, isn't the worst that could happen. In his book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman consults with nuclear scientists and chemical plant inspectors and concludes, as McCarthy has, that in the event of apocalypse a nuclear winter would definitely be part of the equation. The ash that floats perpetually across McCarthy's blasted landscape could be caused by a chain reaction brought on by the failure of the electrical grid. If the human population found itself decimated and no one was left to www.bohemian.com 24 11.04.09-11.10.09 THE BOHEMIAN keep the lights on, Weisman writes, the electronic computer systems we use to regulate our country's oil refineries would also fail. This could lead to explosions, as the pressure exerted by the refining process goes unvented. As Weisman sees it, a "mini chemical nuclear winter" could result from the release of built-up clouds of toxic chemicals. Actual nuclear winter might not be far behind as the uranium contained in the planet's 441 nuclear power plants inevitably succumbs to uranium decay, melting reactor cores and spewing radioactive poison into the earth and sky. If Weisman's scenario plays out, those of us who miraculously survive nuclear fallout and clouds of hydrogen cyanide might encounter actual mutants like the short-lived albino swallows who sprang up around Chernobyl only a year after its meltdown. Such animals have shortened life spans and perhaps die off more easily. This lines up nicely with McCarthy's mythology: there are no animals in The Road, and at times the characters glimpse still-smoldering fires, as of distant machinery burning. Of course, Weisman's experiment is based on the idea that we won't be around to see the end. James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency knows we won't be so lucky. "I view the period ahead as one of generalized and chronic contraction," he writes. Kunstler describes a world in which our oil-rich suburban existence is gradually dismantled back to its agrarian roots. While sharing Lovelock's view that climate change will drastically cull the human population, altering forever our way of life, Kunstler credits much of the coming catastrophe and loss of life to our inability to cope with the depletion of the oil reserves we rely on to supply us with cheap goods, transportation and, most importantly, food. (His predictions assume that the world reached peak oil production sometime in 2005 and that from now on we have only half the oil that ever existed to rely on for the duration of our tenure on earth. This is an idea supported by many scientists and energy authorities, including a number of former oil-company geologists.) "To put it simply," he writes, "Americans have been eating oil and natural gas for the past century, at an ever accelerating pace. Without the massive `inputs' of cheap gasoline and diesel fuel for machines, irrigation and trucking, or petroleum-based herbicides and pesticides, or fertilizers made out of natural gas, Americans will be compelled to radically reorganize the way food is produced, or starve." That reorganization, Kunstler posits, will take the form of more centralized living arrangements--the abandonment of suburbia for "easily walkable," close-knit towns and cities, and a focus on smallscale agricultural production among comparatively tiny communities, as espoused by the Transition communities springing up worldwide whose U.S. center is based in Sonoma County. Education, consumerism and all the other normal constructs of society will either cease to exist or take a firm back seat to the production of food and simple survival. Like McCarthy's characters, we will mostly worry about food. Always food. And of protecting what little we have. The competition for resources, Kunstler thinks, will be the scariest part of The Long Emergency. While he agrees with Lovelock that climate change will result in massive loss of life, he predicts even greater strife as oil supplies dwindle and the world's governments vie for control of vanishing reserves. As he points out, much of the world's oil is "located in places where the people hate us." "A military contest over oil," he warns, "could eventually inflame a theater of war stretching from the Middle East to Southeast Asia" as nuclear powers like India, China and America vie for control of vanishing oil reserves. A nuclear war would certainly result in the sort of blasted landscape McCarthy describes-- and as bad as that sounds, Kunstler is also thorough in his dismantling of hope on a domestic scale. Post-oil America, he says, could face re-emergence of feudalism as limited resources draw people together in tight social enclaves. "People desperate for legitimate authority to assist them in organizing their survival," he writes, "will probably accept more starkly hierarchical social relations in general and disdain democracy as a waste of effort." Extreme religiosity might also reemerge as a frightened populace attempts to reconcile previous modes of existence with a new, stark reality. Religion also plays a part in The Road. And here is where the similarities between Kunstler and McCarthy part ways. Despite frequent passages in which the main character curses God and rejects His existence, the spirituality in McCarthy's book is largely positive. In the face of extreme suffering, love becomes the character's religion as the father continually, and selflessly, sacrifices for the good of his son. One would hope that if the ominous portents of Kunstler, Lovelock or Weisman come true, we would also adopt these charitable attitudes. hatever happens, we can no longer deny we're in for some hard times. At the very least, the world will have to reckon with climate change, which in itself could radically alter how we live. The global financial meltdown has already turned several once prosperous industrial hubs into ghost towns right out of McCarthy's imagination. Science aside, it isn't hard for a growing population of foreclosed-upon families and laid-off workers to imagine themselves behind that rusty shopping-cart. Whatever our own personal suspicions about the end of the world, in times like these we tend to look for people we can relate to. When 2012 opens next week, ushering in the beginning of the fall movie season, less people may be interested in another high-tech, high-octane disaster epic with well-groomed A-list stars. By anyone's standard, Viggo Mortensen's nameless drifter is looking far more relatable. Like us, he's haggard. Like us, he's struggling. And in his careworn face we seem to read a sentiment that all of us share: It's the end of the world as we know it. 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THE BOHEMIAN 11.04.09-11.10.09 25 paid advertising section Theater has tackled La Boh�me. It's a shame, too, because it's is exactly the kind of opera at which Cinnabar excels. Directed by Elly Lichenstein, with musical direction from Nina Shuman, this new production benefits from strong lead performers, who can both sing beautifully and act with tremendous depth and emotional truth--not always a given, based on some of Cinnabar's less successful recent operatic efforts. In four relatively short acts--staged fluidly with one intermission and a pair of brief "seventh inning stretches"--and employing an English translation by Donald Pippin, Lichenstein uses the smallness of the space to effective advantage. The graceful set by Scott Barringer changes from the spare poverty of the artists' meager apartment to a busy street-side cafe to the imposing gates of Paris and back to the apartment. It's in that garret where most of the drama takes place. The Bohemians are represented by the foursome of Rodolfo, a poet, Marcello, a painter, Coline, a philosopher, and Schaunard, a musician. On Christmas Eve, as Rodolfo (played with puppy-dog sincerity by tenor Will Hart Meyer) prepares to burn his latest manuscript for heat, a series of events are set in place that will lead to his doomed romance with frail but large-hearted Mimi (superbly and sweetly played by soprano Leslie Sandefur), who knocks on Rodolfo's door to borrow a match, and ends up falling in love. The story is told in scenes that resemble snapshots, with certain connective details left to the imagination, as the story compares and contrasts the love of Mimi and Rodolfo with Marcello's steamy-stormy affair with the singer Musetta. Performed with admirable range by soprano Julia Hathaway, her Musetta is a delight, as sly and adaptable as Mimi is guileless and true, with a spry voice that turns the beloved waltz "Quando Me n'vo" into a flirtatious call to arms when she sees her former love Marcello (passionately performed, with excellent comic touches, by baritone Todd Donovan) celebrating--and spending-- the rare paycheck of musician Schaunard (baritone Eugene Walden). The early scenes of youthful love, friendship and petty larceny--the Bohemians' solution to a larger-than-expected cafe bill is especially funny--eventually give way to tragedy, as Mimi's illness becomes apparent, and each make their own sacrifices to save her. For penniless Rodolfo, his plan is to break Mimi's heart so that she will leave him for a suitor with more money. When Mimi returns to the garret, in grave condition, the philosopher Colline (bass William O'Neill) decides to sell his beloved overcoat to buy medicine for her, and it is a testament to O'Neill's skill that his farewell song to the coat is so genuinely moving. The final act, which ends the way all great operas must--with a truly excruciating death scene--is played with such tenderness and calm beauty that even the hardest of hearts will surely feel something give way deep down. That after all, is what great operas do, and what this lovely La Boh�me does better than most. `La Boh�me' runs through Nov. 21. Wednesday at 7:30pm; Friday�Saturday at 8pm; Sunday, Nov. 15, at 3pm. Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd. N., Petaluma. $32�$38. 707.763.8920. RIVERFRONT ART GALLERY Contemporary/Museum Framing Conceptual Art Gallery 707.473.9600 707.474.9600 132 PETALUMA BLVD. 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Like Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and the movie Gone with the Wind, enough details have seeped out into mainstream culture that even among those who've never attended a live opera you are likely to find several individuals who can tell you that, in La Boh�me, someone named Mimi dies penniless in a garret-- whatever that is. The 113-year-old opera's status as a beloved masterpiece is more than a result of its beautiful music; there is something in the story of poor artists struggling to survive, falling in and out of love, defying social expectations and making one mistake after another that establishes La Boh�me as particularly human and down-to-earth. When the poor seamstress Mimi finally dies in that garret, her artist lover Rodolfo sobbing at her side, her death may lack the epic grandeur of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, or the poetic tragedy of the self-sacrificing Madame Butterfly; but in the end, it is La Boh�me's lack of hugeness that makes it so moving, so identifiably human. It has been several years since the Cinnabar 1781 Hwy 1, Bodega Bay www.renbrown.com Call Today to Advertise! 707.527.1200 | firstname.lastname@example.com Northstone ORGANICS "Mendocino County's Original" Fine Medicinal Grade Cannabis Small Farms Strong Community Sustainable Living WWW.NORTHSTONEORGANICS.COM (707) 485-8814 * For qualified patients only. Valid California I.D. and Doctor's recommendation required. Farm-Direct Discreetly to Your Door* 26 11.04.09-11.10.09 THE BOHEMIAN Agn�s Varda's new doc explores shores and inlets of her life. Agn�s Varda explores her own craft in `Beaches' By Richard von Busack gn�s Varda opens her documentary The Beaches of Agn�s with the comment, "I'm playing the role of a little old lady." This is Varda's essay on herself, as a filmmaker startled to discover that she's about to be 80 years old. What holds the film together is the theme of the waters' edges; at beaches, riversides, canals or stone quays, she voyages out and returns home. In one instance (Varda describes it as "a flop," because she can't feel what she thought she would feel), the director revisits a childhood home in Brussels and walks along the rim of a dried-up pond in the backyard. By contrast, her favorite place growing up is Sete, on the Mediterranean. Varda and her family lived on a boat in the canals there. We see a dreamy Medieval landscape, a place with its own language. But Sete is also a poor fishers' city, and Varda's first film was shot there, 1954's La Pointe Courte, a neorealist effort with shifting perspectives, influenced by Faulkner's Wild Palms. Varda films herself piloting a flatbottomed boat with an Arabian sail up to the Rhone to Avignon, and down the Seine. She visits old friends at Venice Beach in Los Angeles. She recreates her old place at the Rue Daguerre. Fancy being a photographer, living and working on the street named after the inventor of the camera! Every glimpse of Varda's work makes you want to see more. Here are excerpts from Cleo from 5 to 7, recently released on Criterion, and the documentary Daguerreotypes about her neighbors on the Rue Daguerre. Varda explains that she could only shoot that documentary in a 300-meter radius around her front door because no one wanted to pay for the electricity, so she ran the lights off an extension cord protruding from the mail slot on her gate. But the point is that Varda isn't just reviving her old movies like a guest on a chat show. She has a wider gaze than that. I can't recall a film so honest about the pleasures and pitfalls of filmmaking. It seems that what drew Varda to the movie camera was a democratic eye and a doit-yourself mentality. This French New Wave veteran was always good at spotting talent, whether it was the young G�rard Depardieu (seen in Varda's quay-side short titled Nausicaa), the lovely and severe Jane Birkin, Philipe Noiret or the young Harrison Ford. If there'd been a spot of pretense or greatladyisms, The Beaches of Agn�s would be unwatchable. Varda is not afraid to look fond or ridiculous. In honor of the heart-shapedpotato sequence in her brilliant The Gleaners and I, she dresses in a potato costume as part of a multimedia piece on the spud. Varda loves flea markets, and her instincts as a recycler make her take the print of one of her failed films--a forgotten film "with beautiful actors"--and construct it into a sheltering structure in a park. In Beaches, Varda includes the part that death plays in her life. At a photo exhibit, honoring her friend Jean Vilar, the creator of the Avignon Festival, she points to the lost friends in the photos. It prepares us, finally, for the tombstone reading "Ici Repose Jacques Demy." "The most cherished of the dead," Varda says of her husband, the director of one of the most popular French imports of the 1960s, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Varda made another movie commemorating the 100th anniversary of cinema. She personified cinema as a grandmannered aristocrat of many names and a fading memory. From the vantage of The Beaches of Agn�s, a better embodiment of cinema would be an old lady: frank, kind, fearless and full of charming and fascinating stories, one who'd been with us at childhood and one who would somehow be there all the way to the end. `Beaches of Agn�s' continues at the Lark Theater, 549 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur. 415.924.5111. 2009�10 Interdisciplinary Theme I me VISUA L FINE ARTS VIDEO ARTS D I G I TA L A R Last Opportunity to Shadow this Fall! Shadowing Available through Nov. 20 By Appointment Only 707-528-5070 x6789 Santa Rosa High School 1235 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa www.artquestonline.org THE BOHEMIAN 11.04.09-11.10.09 DANCE INSTRUMENT AL MUSIC PHOTOGRAPHY T H E AT R E A R T S VOC AL MUSIC 27 Academy Award Nominee "A Superbly Written Satire Played By A Cast Best Foreign Language Film! 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THE DAMNED Starts Fri,(Sun Only) UNITED Documentary of resistance fighter Hannah Senesh screens Nov. 10 as part of SC Jewish Film Fest. See Film, p38. New Movies Also Playing 1428 Main Street St Helena CA 707.967.9700 www.napaloha.com 28 11.04.09-11.10.09 THE BOHEMIAN FOR NORTH BAY MOVIE TIMES, GO TO www.sonomamovietimes.com www.marinmovietimes.com www.napamovietimes.com HOLIDAY arts 2009 Advertise your holiday events and happenings in our North Bay guide for the visual and performing arts scene November 11th Book your reservation NOW! Call 707.527.1200 today! firstname.lastname@example.com Film capsules by Richard von Busack and Eloy Camacho. THE BOHEMIAN 11.04.09-11.10.09 29 HO, HO, HO, HONDAS! Every Wednesday, November 18th-December 23rd Win a brand new Red or White Honda Civic Plus $4,000 in cash prizes Start Earning Tickets Monday November 2nd The Holiday Cars & Cash Giveaway www.riverrockcasino.com 707.857.2777 - 877.883.7777 HWY 101 N to Geyserville Exit. Right onto HWY 128 E 30 11.04.09-11.10.09 THE BOHEMIAN Player's Ball With over a hundred advance tickets sold, it was a supreme letdown when the E-40 show at the Santa Rosa Armory back in August was shut down by police before even getting underway. Just like the Vallejo rapper got his second wind with his smash album My Ghetto Report Card after a long career languishing in obscurity, so the ill-fated show gets its second wind by moving to . . . the Odd Fellows Hall? You read it right. Underneath framed medals and portraits of past encampment officers--not to mention a hallway covered in garish photos of Rose Parade f loats from the 1960s to today--the "Ambassador of the Bay" makes a return to the area slangin' his trademark rapid delivery of crazyintellectual lingo. The Ambassador's subordinate lodge includes "noble grand" Turf Talk, "chaplain" Laroo Nump, "wardens" the DB'z, "color bearer" Cousin Fik, "vice grand" Ant D.O.G. and a host of guardians and supporters on Saturday, Nov. 7, at the Odd Fellows' Hall. 545 Pacific Ave., Santa Rosa. 8pm. $30. 707.843.6624. Grievous Angel Certain voices never fail to provide an immediate sense of calm, and Gram Parsons, who died in 1973, may have possessed just about the most paradoxical. With a tumultuous life that ended in tragedy out in Joshua Tree, Parsons left behind a near-perfect catalogue of songs, each one a hazy window into carefree ease. Over the years, the legend of Parsons ebbs and flows in varying degrees (reaching an apex in 2003 with Grand Theft Parsons, a film based on the hilarious journey of Parsons' corpse after his death), but it's never a bad time to resurrect his brilliant, emotional catalogue. No band in the area does Parsons' music better than Laughing Gravy, a supergroup featuring members of Solid Air, Under the Radar, the Ruminators and more. Knowing better than to mimic Parsons, Laughing Gravy instead capture the essence of songs like "Hickory Wind" and "Hot Burrito #2" and runs it through their Northern California filter. It'll be hearts on fire when Laughing Gravy play Friday, Nov. 6, at the Last Day Saloon. 120 Fifth St., Santa Rosa. 8:30pm. $8�$10. 707.545.2343. Bailando Cumbia We are human, and therefore we cannot be alone. A book, a movie, a cat-- these are nice Man on Wire things to keep us company, but only up to a point. What we really need is other bodies, and preferably moving ones. The best bet for such escape this week is in the form of the Los Angeles Latin-hip-hop-rock ensemble Ozomatli, who for 10 years have gotten crowds on their feet with horns, turntables, harmonies, MCs and guitars. Begun as a fundraiser for a community center in L.A., Ozomatli has since toured the world with one of the most energetic live shows imaginable, and have brought people together under the banner of peace, freedom and music. On certain nights, the band has been known to hop off the stage, walk through the crowd while playing, and lead everybody out into the street for a parade of music and dancing. Some call it radical, but really it's just human nature at its best when Ozomatli play on Wednesday, Nov. 4, at the Mystic Theatre. 23 Petaluma Blvd. N., Petaluma. 9pm. $30�$32. 707.765.2121. Let us praise the crazies, the dreamers, the artists who ask "Why not?" instead of "Why?" In other words, let us praise Philippe Petit, the man who admired the newly built World Trade Center towers in 1974 so much that he decided to honor them one morning by stringing up a tightrope and walking, without a net, from one tower to the other while a surprised downtown Manhattan populace gasped from below. As recounted in the excellent documentary Man on Wire, Petit was immediately arrested for his feat, but he has since gone down in history for one of the most daring acts of guerrilla acrobatics. If you've ever rooted for ideas that seemed too absurd to be feasible, or if you've ever dreamed of the impossible, the gut reaction after viewing is to find Petit, shake his hand, and say thank you. (As for himself, he went directly to bed with a stranger.) The film screens and Petit himself appears in conversation on Wednesday, Nov. 4, at the Napa Valley Opera House. 1030 Main St., Napa. 7pm. $35. 707.226.7372. THE BOHEMIAN 10.04.09-10.10.09 31 Coyote Den Bar & Dance Hall Concerts Hillariously Hypnotic The Steve Bayner Show Hypnotist Saturday, November 7th � 8pm Clubs Thursday Night KARAOKE . 8:30pm $100 Cash Drawing 707-485-0700 � www.coyotevalleycasino.com 5 miles North of Ukiah, Hwy 101, West Rd. Exit 32 11.04.09-11.10.09 THE BOHEMIAN Dinner and a Show Reservations advised "A Historic West Marin Landmark" Fri EST. 1941 Take a scenic drive for a unique dining experience 20 min from downtown Petaluma, 25 min from everywhere else! HAP PY HOUR � M �F � 4�6PM DON'T FORGET...WE SERVE FOOD TOO! THE RANCHO ALLSTARS Nov 6 Great Dance Band! 8:30pm Sat Mc Near's Dining House Breakfast � Lunch � Dinner BBQ � Pasta � Steak WED 11/4 � 8:00PM DOORS � $30 ADV/$32 DOS � 18+ LATIN/HIP HOP/ROCK Nov 7 Sun West Coast's Premier Zydeco Band 8:30pm 4:00pm / In The Bar 7:30pm THE ZYDECO FLAMES Nov 8 Fri DANNY UZILEVSKY BILL KIRCHEN AND FRIENDS DAVE GLEASON AND THE Nov 13 GOLDEN CADILLACS OZOMATLI PLUS NATHAN MAXWELL Sonos reinvents the modern indie rock songbook, a cappella�style en McLain is in a van in Kentucky, and he's in a wonderful mood. His genre-bending a cappella group Sonos is on tour in support of their brilliant debut Verve release, SonoSings, featuring all-vocal versions not of musical theater or jazz standards, but of modern, indie rock songs by Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Bjork and The Bird and the Bee. Anyone tired of the cast from the television series Glee and their cover of Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" will find welcome fresh air with Sonos, although the two share a love of spontaneity. "We're singing all the time, in bathrooms, everywhere," McLain says. "That's one of the joys of being on the road." The group's concept of taking the oldest tool of music-making--the human voice--and applying it to new, hipster-radar bands has brought them wide acclaim. Justin Vernon of Bon Iver said he was "honored" by the Sonos version of "Re: Stacks." Sara Bareilles joined the group in the studio for their version of "Gravity." And in perhaps the group's strangest and proudest moment, they even once sang their lush, multilayered version of the Fleet Foxes' "White Winter Hymnal" with Dennis Haskins, the actor who played Mr. Beldings on Saved by the Bell. Sonos began as a postcollegiate group. While performing an Imogen Heap song on the taste-making Los Angeles radio station KCRW, they immediately lit up the phone lines. "And then our manager heard it," McLain says, "and said, `Wait! Do a whole album of songs like this! Cutting-edge, kind of cool! It's such a different sound than what a cappella usually portrays!'" The result is an album--released on CD and indie-friendly vinyl-- with innovative arrangements and subtle sensuality. Using sparse effects pedals, the group's version of Radiohead's "Everything in its Right Place" makes a natural fit, and a drastic reworking of the Jackson 5's "I Want You Back" showcases the group's arranging prowess. McLain, along with band mates Jessica Freedman and Paul Peglar, grew up in Sonoma County, attending Maria Carrillo High School and studying with choir teacher Gail Bowers. Bowers was a huge inspiration: "We got to do progressive stuff," McLain says, "and she gave us a head start on everything." With a groundbreaking new album and reams of positive reviews, Sonos return for a hometown concert with the Maria Carrillo jazz choir opening on Sunday, Nov. 8, at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center. 5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park. 4pm. $12�$20. 707.588.3434. Gabe Meline Country Rock Extravaganza 8:30pm 8:30pm (OF FLOGGING MOLLY) SAT 11/7 � 8:00PM DOORS � $20 ADV/$22 DOS � 18+ REGGAE JOHNNY ALLAIR'S Nov 14 Gratitude Rock'n Roll Dance Party Sat Sun B Nov 15 Fri It's a CD Release Party! 4:00pm HOUSTON JONES PATO BANTON & THE NOW GENERATION PLUS 11TH ANNIVERSARY WEEKEND Nov 20 Sat Hot Honky Tonk and Country Rock 8:30pm 8:30pm Rancho Debut! Instrumental Virtuoso 4:00pm / In the Bar RANCHO DELUXE MIDNIGHT SUN JIM LAUDERDALE Nov 21 Celebrated Singer/Songwriter Sun FRI 11/13 � 8:45PM DOORS � $17 � 21+ DANCE PARTY HITS AN EVENING WITH Nov 22 TIM WEED WONDERBREAD 5 SAT 11/14 � 8:00PM DOORS � $25 � 21+ FOLK/CELTIC ROCK + Sweet Harmonies THANKSGIVING DINNER THURS, NOV 26, NOON�7PM Outdoor Dining 7 Days a Week On the Town Square, Nicasio www.ranchonicasio.com GREAT BIG SEA PLUS JEREMY FISHER 415.662.2219 THUR 11/19 � 7:30PM DOORS � $25 � 21+ ACOUSTIC/FUNK/ROCK AN EVENING WITH KELLER WILLIAMS FRI 11/20 & SAT 11/21 � 7:00PM DOORS � $35 � 21+ ROCK IGHTS TWO N SAT & FRI AN EVENING WITH FRIDAY NIGHT ONLY / MEET & GREET AFTER SHOW FRI 11/27 � 7:00PM DOORS � $25 � 21+ COUNTRY/ROCK Y&T NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE SAT 11/28� 7:00PM DOORS � $20 � 21+ CD RELEASE ROOTS.BLUES ROY ROGERS AND THE DELTA RHYTHM KINGS AN EVENING WITH PARTY PLUS JEFFREY HALFORD AND THE HEALERS WED 12/2 & THUR 12/3 � 7:30PM DOORS � $30 � 18+ SINGER/SONGWRITER TWO NIGHTS WED & THU R RICHARD THOMPSON SAT 12/5 � 8:00PM DOORS � $15 ADV/$18 DOS � 21+ ROLLING STONES & PINK FLOYD TRIBUTE BANDS UNAUTHORIZED ROLLING STONES PLUS HOUSE OF FLOYD WED 12/9 � 7:00PM DOORS � $20 � 18+ SINGER/SONGWRITER TODD SNIDER For All Ages Shows � No Children Under 10 Allowed 23 Petaluma Blvd, Petaluma 707-765-2121 www.mcnears.com THE BOHEMIAN 11.04.09-11.10.09 33 the last day saloon nightclub & restaurant the best place for live music, dancing and dining THE BAR AND RESTAURANT OPENS ON ALL SHOW DAYS AT 4 PM Hand-Crafted Bfrom around the world rews &Tasty Pub Grub 11/5 9:00 PM SHOW > $10/13 > R&B HIP HOP MAC MALL + RAPPIN 4 TAY + AT ALL COSTS + SKEE-LO + AARON "AY" YOUNG Thursday, Nov 5 @ 6:30pm Acoustic Folk www.myspace.com/davidhuebner David Huebner Friday, Nov 6 @ 7:30pm 11/6 8:30 PM SHOW > $8/10 > AMERICANA a musical celebration of gram parsons by LAUGHING GRAVY 11/7 9:30 PM SHOW > $5/7 > DUB REGGAE Acoustic Folk www.myspace.com/jennifertucker2008 Jennifer Tuker Saturday, Nov 7 @ 8pm Silian Rail's two-piece epic instrumentalism breaks the cloudburst L THE DIRTY DUB BAND + WHOGAS 11/12 8:30 PM SHOW > $12/15 > ROCK & ROLL Americana Folk Rock www.myspace.com/theeasyleaves The Easy Leaves Sunday, Nov 8 @ 12pm SUPERSUCKERS + THE LAST VEGAS + COCKPIT 11/13 8:30 PM SHOW > $10 > BLUES Radio KBOB 707.874.9037 | www.barleynhops.com 3688 Bohemian Highway, Occidental tHE PULSATORS + VOLKER STRIFLER BAND + THE BONAFIDE BLUE 11/14 8:00 PM SHOW > $20/25 > BLUES two time grammy winner Bill (RECORD RELEASE) champlin formerly with chicago 11/17 7:30 PM SHOW > $12 > AMERICANA ROCK ROGER CLYNE AND THE PEACEMAKERS Wed, Nov 4 8:45-9:45am; 5:45-6:45 Jazzercise 10am-12:15pm Scottish Dance Youth and Family 7:00-10:00pmSingles & Pairs Square Dance Club Thur, Nov 5 8:45-9:45am; 5:45-6:45pm Jazzercise 7:25-10:30pm Circles & Squares Square Dance Club Fri, Nov 6 7:15pm 8:45-9:45am Jazzercise DJ Steve Luther hosts a West Coast Swing Party with dance instructors Edna & Dick $10 11/19 8:30 PM SHOW > $10 > BLUES ROCK TWICE AS GOOD + JACQUES WILKINS + SOULSHINE BLUES BAND 11/20 9:30 PM SHOW > $10/12 > ROCK ROYAL BLISS + RESIDENT HERO + SHAMANS HARVEST 11/21 8:30 PM SHOW > $15 > ROCK FUNK Sat, Nov 7 8:00-9:00am; 9:15-10:15am Jazzercise 10:30-11:45am Salsa Workout with DJ Steve Luther 7:00pm Singles & Pairs Square Dance Club Hoedown Sun, Nov 8 8:30-9:30am Jazzercise 10:30�11:30am Zumba Fitness with Anna 1:30-3:30pm Vintage Dance with Gary Thomas 5:00�9:30pm DJ Steve Luther Country-Western Lessons & Dancing $10 Mon, Nov 9 8:45-9:45am; 5:45-6:45pm Jazzercise 3:30pm WEIGHTWATCHERS MEETING 7:00-10:00pm New Scottish Country Dancing Tues, Nov 10 8:45-9:45am; 5:45-6:45pm Jazzercise 9:30am WEIGHTWATCHERS MEETING 7:15-9:00pm AFRICAN DANCE with Victoria Strowbridge feat. West African and Congolese Dance Weigh in 9:30, Meeting 10:00 Weigh in 3:30, Meeting 4:00 ike other two-member bands currently on the musical map (Lightning Bolt and Sleigh Bells come to mind), Robin Landry and Eric Kuhn, otherwise known as Silian Rail, manage to make a lot of beautiful noise with a limited amount of people power. A live performance by the Oakland-based duo contains enough drama to fuel a million soap operas, but this is the good, healthy kind of drama, the sort that derives from a driving combination of instrument and pedal-board manipulation instead of romantic entanglements. Landry excavates a wild array of combinations from the fret board, digging into deep reverb-drenched riffs that build from anthemic highs to rhythmic lows. Kuhn plays everything else: drums, synthesizers, guitar and even glockenspiel. It all comes together like a cathartic exercise in ascension, as the riffs build up a swooping tension only to swiftly descend into shimmering, fingerpicked melodies. Silian Rail are the logical offspring of a lineage that began with the 1991 release of Spiderland by Slint, the legendary nearly instrumental group out of Louisville, Ky., who perfected the quiet-loud dynamic later built upon by Mogwai and then Explosions in the Sky (though some might argue that this type of heavy riffing truly had its start with Black Sabbath, or if you want to dig really far back, with early Captain Beyond). This is music for erudite headbangers, who have more likely come from a study session at the library than smoking weed behind the gym. It's no surprise that Silian Rail have performed original live scores for the past four years at the Madcat Women's International Film Festival, or that their music was recently featured in the 10-minute short film The Recess Ends. Live, they are a cinematic, mesmerizing simmer of beats and riffs, one that conjures images of dark mountaintops and thunderous skies, rainbows shining through a break in the clouds, and all of the illustrious visions that arise from listening to epic, instrumental rock music. Silian Rail erupt with the New Trust, Goodriddler, Guy Henry, Not to Reason Why and Scoundrels in a benefit for Free Mind Media on Saturday, Nov. 7, at Guayak� Mate Bar. 6784 Sebastopol Ave., Sebastopol. 7pm. $5. 707.579.1605. JOE KROWN TRIO FEATURING WALTER "WOLFMAN" WASHINGTON & RUSSEL BATISTE JR. Leilani Clark all shows are 21+ unless noted for reservations: 707.545.5876 707.545.2343 120 5th street @ davis street santa rosa, ca Santa Rosa's Social Hall since 1922 1400 W. College Avenue � Santa Rosa, CA 707.539.5507 � www.monroe-hall.com lastdaysaloon.com 34 11.04.09-11.10.09 THE BOHEMIAN Across the bridge Now OPEN! Wednesday thru Friday 3pm - 9pm Saturday & Sunday 1pm - 7pm Enjoy His Beverage Under His Lights! THE BOHEMIAN 11.04.09-11.10.09 35 alistoga Blues Festival C November 7th, 1pm-7pm Chateau Montelena Envy Winery Grant Street Vinyards Lava Vine Vinyards Tudal Winery Tristant Vinyards Twomey Cellars Solovino Wines Silver Rose Cellars Calistoga Wine Shop Johnny Smith, Tia Carroll, Stan Erhart, Herb Gibson, Jimmy Smith, Susan Sutton & Levi Lloyd among many others November 8th, 12pm-5pm Dutch Henry Winery, Envy Winery Lava Vine Vinyards, Madrigal Vinyards Siver Rose Cellars Tickets: Saturday: $25 for 16 tastings/per person (can be shared) Sunday Passport: $35/per person Weekend Pass: $50/per person For more information visit: www.calistogavisitors.com or call 707.942.6333 Girlyman's fanbase continues to grow more rabid year by year. Girlyman bend genres, genders and hearts By Leilani Clark eople don't really like the Atlantabased pop-folk trio Girlyman. Truly, people don't like the band that has opened for such folk icons as the Indigo Girls and Dar Williams, and guest-starred on comedian Margaret Cho's upcoming album Guitarded. Nope, people don't like Girlyman; people wholeheartedly love them, with unabashed glee. On the band's homepage, Cho herself effuses ecstatically about the trio, saying that they "genre-bend as fearlessly and flawlessly as they gender-bend. It's the music of my heart and soul." It's a sentiment that's echoed by the band's loyal fan base, one that began building soon after their first practice in a Brooklyn apartment in 2001. On the phone from his home in Atlanta, guitarist and vocalist Nate Borofsky--onethird of a band that also includes guitarist Doris Muramatsu and drummer and multiinstrumentalist Ty Greenstein--remains both incredulous and thrilled by the fan response. "I have a work ethic that makes me think in order to be successful you have to suffer somehow. You have to slave away," Borofsky says. "It's amazing to realize that Women's Health Specialists confidential compassionate nonjudgmental More Than Just Health Care... what we do in the band is fun and joy-filled for us, that those are things that people are connecting with." The best part, according to Borofsky, is that he would be making this music anyway. "In a lot of ways, that's where the creativity comes from," he says. "If I was thinking, `Oh well, this many thousands of fans out there are going to buy this CD,' I don't think I would be able to write a thing." Heavily influenced by the vocal harmonizing of the Mamas & the Papas and Simon & Garfunkel (Greenstein says that she and Muramatsu "got into a huge hippie guitar kick and spent a lot of time playing songs from the '60s late into the night in her parents' kitchen"), the members share years of classical and jazz training, leading to a solid blend of acoustic, Americana and rock. The band's genre-bending makes for a hard-to-categorize sound. "I try to get a gauge on what someone's musical tastes are before I describe what we do," Borofsky says. "To someone who listens to hip-hop or electronica, `folk music' sums it up nicely. But for people who listen to folk, what we do is more pop. There are acoustic instruments, but there's also a pop sensibility. We're making the music that feels most natural to us; it doesn't fit neatly into one category or another." This refusal to follow strict musical categorization allows for a layered interplay between melody and tension in Girlyman's songs. On "Easy Bake Ovens," from the band's fourth studio album Everything's Easy, a sugar-spun harmony contrasts with upfront lyrics that challenge the false placidity of suburbia: "You were setting those Easy Bake Ovens on fire / I was carving my name on a chalkboard with nails / Waiting for somebody else to be there." Playful performance is another ingredient in the band's broad appeal; gender-queer visibility is a hallmark of Girlyman shows. Borofsky often takes the stage in mascara and lipstick, while Greenstein usually wears a masculine vest and tie, confounding societal expectations of gender conformity. "It's what feels natural to us," Borofsky says. "And certainly all of us would identify as queer, at least in the most general sense." Girlyman fans, known as "Girlyfans," showed their appreciation when it came time to record the self-produced and engineered Everything's Easy. While the band had most of the equipment to be able to record the album on their own, they were missing one crucial element. "We sent an email out to our fans and said that anyone who wanted to contribute could, that we would thank people in the liner notes," Borofsky remembers. In an incredible show of support, they collected enough to buy a $10,000 dollar microphone in less than two months. "I don't know if we are affecting a lot of people somewhat, or affecting a smaller amount of people incredibly. But, definitely, there are people that certainly connect with the music that we do, and it's nice to realize that," he says. Girlyman play on Friday, Nov. 6, at the Sebastopol Community Center. 390 Morris St,, Sebastopol. 8pm. $20�$25. 707.823.1511. 707.537.1171 www.cawhs.org 36 11.04.09-11.10.09 THE BOHEMIAN Galleries Catherine J. Richardson, Sasha Duerr and Corey Hitchcock open a new show at Artspace404 on Friday. Events Comedy Dance THE BOHEMIAN 11.04.09-11.10.09 37 F&D Pilobolus perform stunning human transformations Nov. 6 at the Marin Center. See Dance, p37. Field Trips Film 38 11.04.09-11.10.09 THE BOHEMIAN Huge names swarm the North Bay pace is tight, so here's the breathless rundown of amazing literary names just sort of casually dropping into our area this week. All details are contained in our Readings section, p40: Michael Chabon The handsomest married father-offour to win the Pulitzer in some good time reads from and discusses his parenting tome Manhood for Amateurs on Thursday, Nov. 5, at 6pm at Copperfield's Santa Rosa and again on Saturday, Nov. 7, at 7:30pm in Pt. Reyes. Jonathan Safran Foer Everything Is Illuminated author returns with his newest, Eating Animals, his personal look at factory farming on Friday, Nov. 6, at 1pm at Book Passage. John Irving (Above) Look for the missing body part, because with Irving, there's always one! He reads from his newest, Last Night in Twisted River, on Friday, Nov. 6, at 7pm at Book Passage. Anne Lamott Marin's most spiritual recovering alcoholic and its wryest eye appears with Roger Housden and Nina Wise at a "Benefit to Bring Water to an African Village" on Sunday, Nov. 8, at 2pm at the 142 Throckmorton Theatre. Al Gore You might have heard of him. His new book is titled Our Choice and the former vice president says that he remains optimistic that humankind won't really carbonize itself out of existence. He appears on Monday, Nov. 9, at 7pm at Dominican University. $40; includes a signed book. Garth Stein Author of a legitimate New York Times bestseller, a literary novel, Art of Racing in the Rain, starring a dog (I know, right?), appears on Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 7pm at Copperfield's Santa Rosa. Ken Auletta The New Yorker magazine's media critic's new book is Googled: The End of the World As We Know It. Auletta spent some two years on the Google campus trying to determine such simple facts as how many engineers they employ (upwards of 10,000) and how much they earn (ain't no one talking), posing the question: What will happen when--not if--Google goes bad? Catch him on Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 7pm at Book Passage. Gretchen Giles S For Kids THE BOHEMIAN 11.04.09-11.10.09 39 Lectures Readings Poet Carlos Andr�s Gom�z visits SSU arlos Andr�s Gom�z, a Harlem-born poet internationally renowned for his work, was ranked twice as a National Poetry SlamFinalist, collaboratively performed on Broadway with tap dancer Savion Glover and has starred in the Spike Lee joint Inside Man. "I moved like crazy growing up," Gomez by phone from an Illinois hotel, part of a frantic fall tour schedule, listing off several East Coast states and nations such as Brazil and Switzerland as areas where he grew up. Being the child of a father who worked for the U.N. and mother who was an anthropologist, Gom�z moved quite frequently in his youth. Even with such educated parents, he recalls, "I used to dislike reading and writing. I didn't learn English until I was five, and I wasn't able to read until I was 10." This changed when he was 16 and at school in Providence, R.I., when he heard poet Martin Espada perform. "I was entranced with reading and writing [after that], and haven't stopped since." Gom�z went on to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia with a degree in American history, and spent a year and a half as a social worker and four years as a public school teacher in New York City. As a poet, Gomez is still influenced by Espada as well as by Pablo Neruda. He has taken cues from his favorite poets and also incorporates complex themes and conceptual ideas in his work. His goals are always to reveal a sense of clarity that allows a voice to be present in the piece, and to utilize said themes and concepts to in turn reveal himself. "I write every single day, could be five poems or little scraps, ideas, lines or concepts or journaling," he says. Gom�z carries a moleskin notebook with him at all times to jot down thoughts or ideas. Having found national fame for his slampoetry performances, Gom�z is now able to be more selective with the shows he chooses to perform, be they paid positions or benefit shows for a good cause. Still, he is often on the road, and does been 100 and 150 shows a year. As a performer, Gomez will never do the same show twice. "You have to feel out the energy and vibe of the crowd. It's like teaching," he says, where sometimes you have to "shift on a dime." Carlos Andr�s Gom�z appears at the SSU Student Union's multipurpose room on Friday, Nov. 6 at 7pm. 1801 E. Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park. Free. 707.664.2382. 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