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The arts at SunRidge are integral to every day and every lesson. Our students sing, play instruments, draw, paint, and do rhythmic movement and other creative expression as part of their daily lessons and class activities. It is one of the reasons our students love school, and graduate 8th grade--not just well-prepared for high school--but also with their curiosity, creativity, and love of learning intact. SunRidge students enjoy the following visual and performing arts: Other SunRidge Benefits: How does our "education is art" measure up academically? Last year our students' STAR test scores earned us an API score of 808 and our graduates--who attend many high schools in the county including Sonoma Academy and Tech High--consistently report feeling either "well-prepared" or "over-prepared" for the academic demands they faced in high school. Art is smart! SunRidge School is a K-8 Public Charter School inspired by Waldorf education. Our small school community provides a safe, nature-based, and holistic educational environment, where every child's unique gifts are honored and nurtured. Our Open Application period for next school year is February 7 through March 11. Call for information about our application process, or visit our website to learn more. SunRidge School ~ "Education from the Heart" 487 Watertrough Road, Sebastopol, CA 95472 (707) 824-2844 www.sunridgeschool.org 04 01.19.11-01.25.11 THE BOHEMIAN The real cause of divisiveness in America By Kevin Russell oes anybody besides me think we're looking at the wrong end of the horse? The wealthy of this country, and their political emissaries the Republican Party, attack Obama's healthcare reforms declaring it will result in jobs being taken away from American workers. Jobs, jobs, jobs, they say, is what Americans need the most, and what government ought to focus on. This from the wealthy--the plutocracy, if you will--that have spent the last 30 years systematically eliminating jobs in this country by taking their business overseas to exploit cheap labor and, in effect, exploit our less organized, less represented, more desperate brothers and sisters. Even more cunning is the way they make the focus of the economic conversation about out-of-control spending. There isn't enough money to pay for basic services, they say. Why the hell not, I ask? Where'd all the money go? Aren't we the richest nation on earth? We used to have basic services covered. And we had decent schools. And we took care of the less fortunate members of our community. Oh, that's right--the money trickles up. The wealthiest 1 percent take home 23 percent of all the income in this country. The wealthiest 10 percent take 50 percent of the entire wealth of the country. By the way, it didn't use to be this way. The largest period of growth for the middle class occurred between 1945 and 1980. But between 1980 and 2005, 80 percent of all new income went to the top 1 percent. The wealthy have manipulated the system so that corporations have many of the same rights as individuals but few of the responsibilities. How else to explain that Exxon Mobil, the most profitable company on Earth, made $19 billion in 2009 in profit and paid zero in taxes. Yeah, you read that right. Zero. But it gets better. Indeed, they got a $156 million refund from the IRS. What? How could that be? And whatever happened to the notion that everybody ought to pay a fair share? Even corporations? You don't have to be a genius to see that we wouldn't need to be talking about spending cuts to basic services, schools and the Christian values�based work of Social Services if the wealthy paid their fair share. The decline of the middle class began with the same guy who didn't know a vegetable from a condiment: Ronald Reagan. And every Republican since Reagan has accelerated the erosion of the middle class. But to be fair, some Democrats have also had their hand in it as well. That's because the divide that is growing in the country isn't actually between Republicans and Democrats any more than it's between the right and the left. It's between the wealthy and the rest of us. So the public conversation is about spending too much. And who could argue with that? Even decent, hard-working, middle-class people know that you shouldn't spend more than you take in. Working-class people understand this very well. Why? Because when you live on a limited budget, you learn how to make sure your basics are covered before you look at what my own working-class mother called "the extras." When the wealthy direct the conversation, we are told to look at the hard facts of not enough money for all of our needs. But what we miss by looking only in this direction is that the wealthy are doing just fine. Remember the banking crisis? The deregulation sought and obtained by George W. and company created the ground for rampant exploitation of regular working people. And after they created the economic disaster, who did they turn to for the bailout? Us. We the People saved their sorry asses. So with foreclosures happening everywhere, job losses everywhere, basic services threatened everywhere, it's a bit galling that Wall Street CEOs are now earning more money than they were before the bailout. The depletion of money for basic services isn't happening because there's no money to be had; it's because the wealthy have found ways to avoid paying their fair share. It's an old story: the rich get richer while the poor, and now middle class, gets poorer. This is the conversation we're not having. And to the extent that we don't, we participate in our own demise. Open Mic is a weekly feature in the Bohemian. We welcome your contribution. 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The EAC appealed the approval of the guy-wired towers urging adherence to the precautionary principle, a concept supported by the countywide plan and the California Environmental Quality Act that utilizes understanding and preparation, rather than determining an acceptable level of harm. The EAC supports wind energy as a viable alternative to carbon-based forms of energy, and did not oppose approval of the wind-study towers. Rather, the EAC appealed to ensure that the appropriate environmental review occurred prior to erection of the study towers in one of the nation's highest bird diversity areas. The proposed 198-foot wind-study towers would each be secured with over 3,500 feet of guy wires, and guy wires kill birds. The towers would be sited on top of ridges and next to Tomales Bay, which is a Ramsar Convention International wetland of concern and coastal wetland of statewide significance; next to the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary; only a few miles from the Point Reyes National Seashore and Philip Burton Wilderness; and near the Estero de San Antonio. The Estero de San Antonio is cited in Marin's Local Coastal Program as being a coastal wetland of statewide significance and having a "wide variety of habitat types and a high diversity of associated animal species" including over 130 bird species. Given the movement of the considerable number and diversity of birds populating and migrating through this area, these anomalous structures pose a real risk of bird injury and fatality. The applicant, NextEra Energy Resources LLC of Juno Beach, Fla. (self-professed largest wind-turbine company in the country), and county relied on studies performed of guy-wired towers near the Montezuma Hills, but that area is a grassland habitat with relatively low avian species diversity. The EAC filed an appeal with the California Coastal Commission this week seeking a site-specific biological assessment and imposition of necessary mitigation measures prior to issuance of a coastal permit for the guy-wired wind-study towers. The EAC welcomes alternative, noncarbon forms of energy, but the need for clean energy does not justify overriding our environmental laws and the public process or needless harm to wildlife. If E.T.s were really dangerous ("E.T. 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Yet a recent proposal by Santa Rosa City Schools to integrate charter school classes into the public school campus has some affected parents upset. Under the plan, the kindergarten and first grade programs at Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts (SRCSA) would be relocated to share space at Doyle Park Elementary School's campus. Introduced at a Jan. 12 Board of Education meeting, the proposal anticipates future enrollment growth at the charter school while filling available rooms at the public school. An 80 percent growth in enrollment since SRCSA's first year of operation, in 2007, has pushed the school beyond capacity. In contrast, Doyle Park Elementary has experienced an acute and ongoing decline in enrollment in a trend that threatens to further dismantle already ailing public schools. With eight classrooms open, the school currently houses special education classes as well as a district-operated class for deaf and hard of hearing infants. These classes would be moved elsewhere in the fall of 2011 if the proposal goes through. "We are positive and open about how things would work out. People are curious about the possibilities of how that would look," says Kaesa Enemark, principal at Doyle Park Elementary. However, many SRCSA parents who attended the school board meeting say they felt blindsided by the possibility of splitting up students of the charter school, which itself is a former public elementary school closed due to declining enrollment. "There hasn't been a long-term plan to address growth reasonably and sustainably," says Hannah Hoffman, the parent of a first grader and one of the plan's more vocal opponents. "This is a knee-jerk reaction to the obvious popularity of the program." Hoffman has helped to form a group called Parents for the Sustainable Growth of SRCSA which established a Facebook page within 72 hours of the school board meeting. 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Approved by voters in 2002, Proposition 39 guarantees that public school facilities be shared equally within the school district, including among charter school students. Before Prop. 39, charter schools were sometimes relegated to less than optimal sites and conditions. Santa Rosa Charter School has shared a campus with Comstock Middle School in northwest Santa Rosa since 2007. Along with a few portable classrooms, the 16-year-old K-8 independent charter school leases two wings at Comstock--which has also experienced drastic declining enrollment--from the Santa Rosa City School District, the charter school's monitoring agency. LaDonna Moore, director of Santa Rosa Charter School, explains that a lot of thought has gone into making the relationship with the neighboring middle school work. The students are on different bell schedules, and a black fence separates the two campuses. "There isn't a great deal of interaction between the two populations," Moore says, going on to say that the relationship between the two schools is amiable and that their space is shared "pretty well." Moore was impressed, she says, when Comstock invited the charter school students to combine sports teams. Yet even as the adjacent schools share space and sports teams, demographically they rank miles apart. While Comstock Middle School is 66 percent Latino, the charter school has a Latino student population of just 18 percent. Sixty-seven percent of the students at the charter school are white. "Many charter schools do not attract a large Hispanic population, and we've wondered why," says Moore. "Families don't know the choices out there, or they might be more inclined to follow tradition. It's been a topic among charter schools. How do you attract families who may not know the options? How do we get the word out there?" Stone Bridge School, a Waldorf-inspired program in Napa, has shared a Napa Valley Unified School District campus with Salvador Elementary since the summer of 2007. According to Darryl Centers, administrator of Stone Bridge, each school has its own section of the campus--with the two rarely having to share space--and the relationship has been nothing but smooth. "It's very positive. They're great, considerate neighbors," says Centers. "We stagger the arrival and departure time and the recess times. We give each other the space we need. It's kind of neat to work with another group and be able to collaborate in that way." In addition, the two schools have combined forces on Boys and Girls Club activities, as well as a Day of the Dead celebration. Centers sees the proximity of the schools as a boon for both students and administrators, an attitude shared by Enemark, who says that the teachers at her small elementary school are excited about the possibility of collaborating with teachers from the Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts. In the Sausalito Marin City School District, the charter school Willow Creek Academy shares a campus with Bayside Elementary. Carol Cooper, Willow Creek's head of school, says that the relationship between the two schools has been made easier by the fact that they share a large space on an unusual campus with a baseball field in the middle. The school is on a hill, making it simple to create physical divisions. At the same time, Willow Creek has grown from 37 students to 70 since opening. This has led to minor issues, but Cooper says that the two campuses have always been able to work out any problems. "It's easily dealt with," says Cooper. "Just as in a house, when a family grows, there is more competition for the space. We built our own playground on an opposite side of the campus from Bayside classrooms. I'm sure that either one of us would rather have the campus to ourselves, but we are pretty good neighbors." (The schools share after-school programs and play sports together.) Santa Rosa Treatment Program get high on not on drugs life `Many charter schools do not attract a large Hispanic population, and we've wondered why.' Santa Rosa Treatment Program 1901 Cleveland Ave, Ste B, Santa Rosa 707.576.8018 | www.srtp.net hile the majority of administrators view campus-sharing as a positive trend, the disparities between Doyle Park elementary school students and the charter school students has some concerned. The demographics are already skewed: 62 percent of the charter school students are white, and 36 percent qualify as socioeconomically disadvantaged, while at Doyle Park, 70 percent of the students are Latino, and 76 percent are considered disadvantaged. Opposing the integration of the schools, some suggest, looks bad on paper. It's that very aspect which concerns Elizabeth Nern. Nern has two children at the Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts, and says that she is "primarily disgusted with the inequity" of the proposal to move classrooms to Doyle Park. "By putting our kids on this impoverished campus, they will be benefiting from improvements, THE BOHEMIAN 01.19.11-01.25.11 11 WIN FRONT ROW SEATS TO ROW SEATS TO A AT at Well s Fargo Center on Marc 4th at Wells Fargo Center on March 4th! Well Farg Center March 4th! JERRY SEINFELD! J E R R Y S E I N FE L D ! 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Santa Rosa City School Board member Larry Haenel agrees that the school should expand its campus facilities in order to allow more students to attend, and that moving the kindergarten and first grade classes is one way to do this. "It's just the start of the conversation," says Haenel. "We loved hearing the proposal. We want to give as many kids as possible that opportunity." Michelle Sparks, whose three children attend SRCSA, says she has mixed feelings about the plan. "On one hand, my children would not be at school if they had not opened up an additional kindergarten this past year. We were lucky to get in because the board opened it up. I would like other parents interested in that unique curriculum to have that same opportunity." But Sparks also worries about the costs of bussing students back and forth, as well as the emotional effect on the kids who would have to readjust to new settings and situations on their return to the original charter school campus for the second grade. An administrator for 10 years, Enemark says that "children are resilient and can handle things more than parents think." But parents have accused the district of pushing for expansion as a way to gain more money, since the district receives money for each registered student. "There are some questions about whether this is more about the bottom line than about the students," says Hoffman. Haenel acknowledges that there is a financial impetus for the district to expand the charter school--since the charter allows the school to pull from outside of the district and thus receive more funding--but he says that the board does want to work with parents to come up with a solution. "The idea for that proposal was that it would have the least impact on the charter school, but we are finding out that this is not the case," says Haenel. As a way to iron out the differing agendas, two town-hall meetings will be held to discuss the potential repercussions and benefits of the plan. 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Lake, director of the Marinbased Women's Earth and Climate Caucus, says the "something" that women have is a unique relationship with nature. "Women have a very special relationship with the earth--not better than men's, but different--and because we haven't heard women's voices in the culture, part of changing the dynamics is hearing from them," says Lake. "It's part of what's needed right now." Apparently, it's been needed for a long time in the United States. For a sustainable society, Lake writes in her book, a "full story of human history that equally reveres both genders is crucial." Part of that story is purely visual to Lake, a sculptor, who points out that of the 210 statues in the U.S. capital, only nine are of female leaders. A story in chapter four tells how Congress re-rejected a statue depicting suffragettes in the capitol rotunda as recently as 1995. The statue--of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott--had been banished to storage in 1921, returned by women leaders in 1995, then sent to the basement by an all-male Congress "not sure the women's contributions had been significant enough, and that the women were too unattractive and too old." The women leaders then had to shame Congress publicly--and raise $125,000 privately--to get the suffragettes back on display. Despite historical suppression, women may be powerfully reshaping the conversation about climate. Lake's book describes research by communications experts showing that "foundations directed by or primarily made up of women are particularly interested in the root causes of social and environmental problems," and that "women are willing to face issues directly and insist on change at a systemic level, not just settling for superficial or short-term solutions." (This explains why Congress wanted those suffragettes in the basement.) If climate change is going to be addressed effectively, Lake writes, women need to lead from all levels of all society. Lake refers to United Nations studies indicating that when women are informed and educated, major improvements occur, from population stabilization to more sustainable communities. "We know that women are the ones producing most of the food in the world," Lake says. "They are the ones who collect the water for the family's daily needs and cook the food. Where people don't have access to stoves, they are going out and chopping down trees to burn. And where there is no clean water they walk to carry it back, sometimes two to six hours of walking." In Cameroon, the leadership of African geologist Rosemary Enie resulted in trainings where village women learned how to use low-cost technology to live more sustainably, including learning how to collect rainwater, build water storage tanks, test water for bacteria and sterilize it when necessary. There are also workshops for building solar stoves. Here in the North Bay, it's the consumer angle. "In the U.S., over half the wealth is in the hands of women who are behind 80 percent of all purchasing decisions," says Lake. "How do we inf luence that 80 percent to drive us toward clean energy decisions? Women are more important than their power to purchase, but when we're talking about a climate crisis, we have to shift our economies. And one important tool is purchasing power." Lake quotes Elinor Ostrom, Nobel laureate in economics: "We need all levels of human society to work on this to be effective in the long run" including the "networks of people [who] have been neglected as players. . . . We need to take action on smaller levels." "It's not about putting men down," Lake insists. "It's about lifting women up, and about men and women working together for climate protection and improving our world." 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Hexane, hexane everywhere--even in `natural' foods By Ari LeVaux ood purists often fuss about the inadequacies of the USDA's organic food standards, how pitifully watered down they are from the lofty principles that built the organic movement. They have a point. After all, the USDA's National Organic Program was created to deal with the big agribusinesses determined to exploit the lucrative organic market. But for all the complaints about federal organic standards, the noncertified alternatives, with some foods especially, can be downright scary. It's ironic that many of the scariest, noncertified organic foods are labeled "natural," a term that couldn't be more misleading. Like "home-style" or "old-fashioned," the label "natural" can mean whatever the labeler wants it to mean. You could put "natural" on a lab-grade jar of MSG crystals or on a packet of 10-year-old Twinkies without violating any law. And all too often, it's the companies playing the "natural" card that are doing the most unnatural things to your food. Consider the widespread use of hexane, a neurotoxin, in processed foods that aren't certified organic (those lame organic standards do at least prohibit hexane use). Hexane is a highly flammable, EPA-listed air pollutant that is used in the manufacture of cleaning agents, glues, roof sealer and automobile tires; it's also used in making energy bars, veggie burgers and soy, corn and canola oils. If these food products are not certified organic, some of the ingredients have probably been processed with hexane, no matter how many times the word "natural" is stamped on the package. Since hexane is used in the manufacturing process, it's not listed as an ingredient, though residues find their way into the finished product. The European Union has strict standards for acceptable hexane residue levels in soy and oilseed products, but in the States, there are no such limits. The organic watchdog group Cornucopia Institute arranged for a lab to test samples of U.S. soy products for hexane content. Hexane was found in levels as high as 21 parts per million, more than twice the 10 ppm allowed by the EU in comparable products. According to the manual Technology and Solvents for Extracting Oilseeds and Nonpetroleum Oils, published in 1997, the principle reason that hexane has been the solvent of choice for oilseed extraction since the 1930s is "its availability at a reasonable cost." It's inexpensive because it's a byproduct of gasoline production that would otherwise be expensive to dispose of properly. Petroleum companies gain handsomely from the fact that industrial oilseed extraction, under status quo production methods since the 1930s, provides a profitable market for its toxic waste. Not surprisingly, much of the research cited in the book is funded by the likes of Exxon and Phillips Petroleum. The reason hexane is so reasonably priced is that it's a byproduct of gasoline production that would otherwise be expensive to dispose of properly. Petroleum companies gain handsomely from the fact that industrial oilseed extraction, under status quo production methods since the 1930s, provides a profitable market for its toxic waste. Oilseed extraction is currently responsible for more than two thirds of hexane use nationwide. Not surprisingly, much of the research cited in the book is funded by the likes of Exxon and Phillips Petroleum. THE BOHEMIAN 01.19.11-01.25.11 17 Companies know the careful way to word their responses when people ask about hexane. A chapter devoted to "Toxicity Data for Commercial Hexane" appears to give serious consideration to concerns about hexane's impact on human health, while presenting no evidence that such concerns have been seriously investigated. The chapter explains that "commercial hexane," the type used to extract oilseeds, is a mix of petrochemicals. One of these, n-hexane, which composes more than 50 percent of commercial hexane, has been shown to be a neurotoxin. The chapter acknowledges that humans are about four times as sensitive as rats to n-hexane, especially over prolonged exposures. Nonetheless, in the very next paragraph it's revealed that only one acute neurotoxicity study has been considered. The study evaluated the ability of rats to retain a learned behavior immediately following inhalation of commercial hexane, and then again one and two days later. But that amouants to conducting a carcinogen trial that only monitors the subjects for signs of cancer in the two days following exposure. The chapter concludes that "commercial hexane is a relatively safe chemical," despite the fact that it consists mostly of a known neurotoxin. Hexane-extracted soy protein, a favorite of vegetarians and body builders, turns up in some unexpected places, according to the November Cornucopia Institute report on ways that soy proteins and chemical solvents intermingle in nutrition bars and meat alternatives. Popular protein bars like Clif, Mojo, Balance and Luna all contain hexaneprocessed soy, according to the report, as do Boca veggie burgers, Gardenburger products, Trader Joe's veggie burgers and many others. Because the supply chain of many soycontaining products is long and complex, companies have some wiggle room in how they respond to inquiries from concerned consumers. According to Cornucopia, companies that make soy-based food products have responded to inquiries about hexane with answers like "Our soy ingredients are not hexane-derived" and "[Our company] does not use hexane to process soybeans." Both answers are worded to give the impression that the product did not come into contact with hexane. But in the first sentence, "hexane-derived" actually means "created from" hexane, rather than "treated with." And the latter claim leaves open the possibility that the company's supplier did the hexane-laced dirty work. I got a similar answer when I contacted Dean Foods, which owns White Wave, the company that makes Silk Soymilk: "Silk does not use hexane in the manufacturing of any of our products." According to the Cornucopia Institute, Silk's nonorganic "Light" and "Heart Health" soymilk products are made with soy flour instead of whole soybeans, and the "only known" sources for nonorganic soy flour involve hexane. Of course, it's possible that White Wave has found a way to source its soy flour from hexane-free sources, which buys a measure of hope for Silk lovers who are concerned about hexane. Soy products have been under fire from many directions for more than just the hexane issue. The heavily subsidized crop isn't easily digested without some form of processing, and there are concerns that estrogen-like molecules in soy can mess with the human hormonal system. That's why many consumers have switched from soy milk to other nondairy milk substitutes, like almond milk. Nonetheless, another soy product, soy lecithin, manages to make its way into most of these alternatives. And guess what? 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Recently found in film festival gift bags, in chicha morada, a nonalcoholic drink served at Peruvian restaurants, and, of course, on a foot or two of shelf space in Whole Foods, enthusiasts of this polyphenolic compound claim healthier cardiovascular systems with regular intake. R "I took two a day, and within 20 to 30 minutes I felt a burst of energy," testifies Jennifer Wright, team leader and specialist of the bodycare department at Sebastopol's Whole Foods market. "It was like the boost you get from coffee, but it didn't wear off and leave you tired." Resveratrol is naturally produced by plants, and is found in high amounts in the skins of red grapes and, subsequently, red wine. It's also found in smaller amounts in peanuts, cranberries, blueberries, cocoa and purple corn, the main ingredient of chicha morada. Sales of resveratrol supplements have been on the rise, but like many other nutritional supplements on market shelves, resveratrol is still being studied. According to the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon, experiments have shown positive results in lengthening the lifespan of yeast, fruit flies, nematodes and rats--and inhibiting cancer growth in mice--but these same effects have yet to be proven in humans. That doesn't prevent consumers from spending anywhere from $17 to $44 for 60 capsules of resveratrol. Since no widely accepted side effects have been found so far, and since both the caps and chichi morada seem to give users a pick-me-up, here's hoping the studies of its effects on humans conclude positively with another nod to healthy living. Suzanne Daly FREE ENTREE ENTR REE Buy one entree, 2 beverages, bever rages, and recieve second e entree FREE! Save up toonly. Valid w//combine $8. Valid coupon, for dine-in, dinner only. Cannot 1.31.10. w/ any other offers. Exp. 1.31.10. 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Wines were tasted in the order listed, not blind, and scored on a scale of 1 to 5 stars. P North County South County Angeline 2009 Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon ($18) No time wasted getting this young Cab to market. With bright plum, sharpie and violet aromas, and a lively, thin palate of blackberry punch, it's easy to sip but doesn't endear itself on the finish: tannin out of proportion with an otherwise agreeable gulper. Angeline 2008 Stags Leap District Cabernet Sauvignon ($18.99) Also bright at first sip, but with more typical Cab character, this was nuanced with prune, sandalwood, cedar and warm brown spice. A favorite of the tasting, it was the first bottle finished in the aftermath. Courtney Benham 2008 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon ($25) Aromas of dark toast, juicy brambleberry flavors knitted in dense tannin, made for a solid and robust red. Martin Ray 2007 Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon ($55) Sweet notes of caramel, dried papaya and stewed plums; tart berries and cocoa powder lead to a bit of a sticky finish. Mid County Downvalley West County Martin Ray 2008 Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon ($55) Strangely softer than its older iteration, with similar caramel notes. Herbal, anise flavors with dried berries on a dry, but more focused finish. Martin Ray 2008 Diamond Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon ($55) Beef burgundy--or was that just my food pairing on the stove? With raspberry, plum aromas, and buttery, herbal notes of marjoram, tobacco and milk chocolate, this was among the more refined of the bunch. Martin Ray 2007 Santa Cruz Mountains Cabernet Sauvignon ($45) Whether it's chocolate mint, thyme or dried parsley, the cool, herbal aromas of this deeply colored wine lead to mouth-tingling flavors of smoked meat and black cherry, while not finishing hot; with a fine-grained finish, this Cab from the late Mr. Ray's own stomping ground seems like the one with the best future. Martin Ray Winery, 2191 Laguna Road, Santa Rosa. Winter hours, Thursday�Monday, 11am�4pm. No fee. 707.823.2404. James Knight East County 22 01.19.11-01.25.11 THE BOHEMIAN Part yoga, part gymnastics, pole-dancing fitness is gaining ground to possibly even become an Olympic sport. One girl's fearless foray into pole-dancing fitness By Rachel Dovey face the pole in gym shorts and six-inch heels. Per my director's instructions, I wrap my left knee around the vertical bar, grasp it at head and waist height, and push off the platform with my right foot. Suddenly, I'm orbiting the metal strip, falling in dizzying circles to the ground. A skilled exotic dancer looks weightless as she twirls through midair, as if tied down only by a silver thread. But here, in this beginners' polefitness class in an industrial section of Rohnert Park, my own mass feels magnified. When you're trying to slide slowly and gracefully down a pole, gravity is one unforgiving bitch. Which is why pole-dancing is a great workout. And also why iCandy, the studio where I'm learning these moves, exists. The company, founded by a group of mothers and grandmothers, markets itself online as a "studio for fun and fitness." According to its staff (and evidenced by my sore muscles), pole-dancing isn't just an illicit activity involving tassels and onedollar bills; it's also a sport. A sport for which I'm wearing open-toed platform shoes. attire looks surprisingly understated against the pink wall behind her. She asks for my shoe size and hands me some patent-leather heels, so I obediently remove my sneakers, strap them on and take a few wobbly steps. Teetering around in my puffy polyester shorts and Disneyland sweatshirt, I feel like Lady Gaga's awkward, minivan-driving twin. Six women beside myself have shown up for the lesson. Currently, none of the elementary classes is co-ed, though Thompson and Carter are launching an aerial fitness program that may include both genders, depending on interest. We're an assorted group, aged roughly 25 to 50, dressed in Lycra-style activewear. "You'll probably burn from a hundred to 500 calories, depending on how much you put into it," Thompson, who teaches the class, tells me before we start. As we strut, kick and hobble our way through an hour of Pilates-inspired moves, I guess (or hope) we're closer to burning 500. Throughout our routine, the pole functions as an unconventional exercise ball; we squat against it to target our quads, grip it to stretch our THE BOHEMIAN 01.19.11-01.25.11 Gaga's Awkward Twin Housed in a gray warehouse, iCandy looks like any other suburban dance studio from the outside. Inside? Not so much. The reception area is designed in hot pink and black decor. A sign in the corner titled "10 Great Things About Pole Dancing" lists one-liners like "Nothing gets you in shape like swinging from a pole" and "Lets out your inner sex goddess." The large red studio contains 12 poles, each with its own spotlight, and plenty of floor-to-ceiling mirrors. Two Betty Page posters adorn one wall, while another sports an ad for "Lil' Mynx: The World's Finest Removable Dance Pole." Karla Thompson, business partner of iCandy owner Pam Carter, checks me in when I arrive for my Saturday class. Her simple black workout 23 legs and finally hook it with our knees and spin. But of course, the pole is no mere exercise ball. It's a symbol whose connotations are clear in iCandy's not entirely sexed-down routine. To a blasted selection of Katy Perry, Beyonc� and Rihanna, we curl our biceps with weighted "blue balls" ("Always fun to say," Thompson smiles), rise off the floor in "booty ups" and generally shake it like a Polaroid picture. Stretched on the floor, as I roll onto my stomach and point my pleather-clad toes in a series of kicks, I wonder whether this is seductive, degrading or just plain bizarre. Is It Empowerment? Of course, our workout is hardly X-rated. There's no stripping, no money, no voyeuristic display. But whenever we climb onto that pole and spin splay-legged to the floor, I can't forget that what we're doing comes from an act in which sexuality is blatantly commodified. It's not exactly Feminism 101. And yet maybe it is. The word I keep overhearing throughout our lesson, both from Thompson and my classmates, is "empowering." Initially, I roll my eyes at this. Empowerment is loosely associated with a variety of things in my mind--denim, birth control, Hillary Clinton's hair and, most importantly, comfortable shoes--but as I grasp the pole and attempt to gyrate my pelvis convincingly, I realize I'm probably biased. Dancers commonly use the term `empowering' to describe their workout. `We're women. There's a part of us that wants to be a stripper.' two women who appear to be in their late twenties, tell me they're both therapists. "I didn't want to come at first," says Stark. "But then I looked into it a little more and realized what it was about." "It's just a sexy way to work out," Curley adds. "You hang on a pole and learn some moves." I ask if they would join a co-ed class. "I don't know," Stark responds. "I can't see a man dancing on a pole." Jennifer, a blonde woman who whispers that she is 49 and asks me not to print her last name, proves that one of iCandy's main draws--and perhaps the source of its empowerment--is the female camaraderie it offers. She says she suffered a bad romance and wound up severely depressed until she found a group of women who were fire dancers. Her new friends introduced her to the studio, and coaxed her back to joie de vivre through informal pole nights with wine and dollar jars. "We're women," she says. "There's a part of us that wants to be a stripper. We're not going to give it up, and there are no guys here. I wouldn't be here if there were guys. But part of us wants that. I once did an erotic dance for a boyfriend in a Santa suit." in South San Francisco," she says. "It was so much fun, and we realized there was nothing like it around here." The studio opened in June 2008. Thompson splits her title of business partner with Carter's daughter, Christie Henderson, while Carter is the executive owner. The stretchy bands swaddling the two women are part of a new routine Carter calls "a love child of yoga swing, aerial silk and TRX." The classes are designed to both utilize the pole-filled space and bring a new level of acrobatics to iCandy. It's difficult to imagine the campy red studio as a serious athletic space. But, Carter reminds me, it already is. Pole-dancing is an organized international sport. The US Pole Dance Federation, founded in 2008, holds professionally judged national and regional competitions each year. It calls pole-dancing "a sensual athletic dance form that demands coordination, f lexibility, sensuality, creativity, individual style and physical strength." Another organization, the Pole Fitness Association, is even petitioning to enter what they term "pole sports" into the 2012 Olympics. Though the activity has long been a competitive pastime, with championships held informally in clubs and judged by applause, USPDF aims to unify dancers and legitimize their craft. Its website lists 88 USPDF-incorporated studios across the country. Though iCandy is unincorporated, choosing to focus on fitness rather than competition, it's clearly part of a growing movement. "Pole-dance is not just some sleazy, hotel backroom situation," says Thompson. "Sometimes when we have community events, women will come up to me and say, `Oh, I don't strip,' and I'll say, `I don't either.'" A Fitting Symbol On my way out of iCandy, I notice a blackand-white poster of Lucille Ball. She's clinging desperately to a high-rise ledge, dressed as Superman. It's from the 1957 episode "Lucy and Superman," in which she dons an outfit of the iconic hero to attract George Reeves' attention. She's crouching over the city, looking like she's about to jump or fly. Ball used the trappings of her own domestic life--motherhood, wifely submission, frustrated obscurity--to launch a career outside her home. She took a handful of patriarchal symbols and turned them to her own advantage, subverting them in the process. She's a fitting symbol for this pink room in the heart of suburbia. When Thompson says, of the pole-and-heel-top workout, "We want women to feel comfortable enough to step out of their box a little," it might seem strange at first. But in a way, as I leave the gym flush from what I now realize is a real workout, it makes perfect sense. And my comfortable old sneakers never felt so good. Where to channel your inner Gypsy Rose Lee iCandy These fitness-based pole-dance techniques are available for beginners and advanced students alike. New aerial classes combine harnesses with poles. 554 Martin Ave., Rohnert Park. 707.799. POLE. www.icandysonoma.com. Pole Dance Magic Offered at Stage Dor Dance Studio and Stars Ballroom. Run by Virginia SimpsonMagrude, these lessons include intro and beginner classes as well as Polerobics and require no previous dance experience. Stage Dor Dance Studio, 10 Liberty Ship Way #340, Sausalito Stars Ballroom, 1559 S. Novato Blvd., Suite C, Novato. 415.827.2827. www.poledancemagic.com. The Art of Being Sexy Without Taking Your Clothes Off A workshop combining burlesque and pole-dance techniques, co-taught by Virginia Simpson-Magrude and Shara Switala. 415.453.0233. www.poledancemagic.com. I can't deny that I belong to the Liz Lemon school of Ladydom. As my bedroomchallenged idol puts it, the word "lovers" bums me out unless it's between the words "meat" and "pizza." In the few non-rockconcert settings where I've ventured onto a dance floor, I've tended to look less like Britney and more like an electrocuted snake. I wear my own WASP-ishness like a bulky, overlong coat, and stripping down, even to my cable-knit sweater underneath, makes me want to curl into a fetal position. And maybe play some Elliott Smith. After class, we remove our heels and chat. Lauren Stark and Melanie Curley, A Growing Sport When the other students have left, Thompson and Carter, who has just arrived, sit suspended from the studio ceiling in purple cloth. They're demonstrating the materials for Fly Gym, their aerial fitness program. As we talk, Thompson climbs up the nearest pole and flips upside down. A blonde woman in a pink sweatshirt and UGGs, Carter is both a coronary investigator and a grandmother, as well as iCandy's owner. She recounts the history of the gym. "A group of us had a girls' night out at a place 24 01.19.11-01.25.11 THE BOHEMIAN Many swear by the simple ways of the neti pot, like this one made by Red Hot Ceramics in Santa Rosa. Old-fashioned cleansing remedies go in and out of vogue By Jessica Dur, Kylie Mendonca and David Templeton breathed so well in my whole life." The concept is simple enough: you fill the pot with warm water, dissolve some salt, turn your head sideways over the sink, insert the spout into your top nostril and slowly tip the pot as your sinus cavities fill up, until eventually the water pours from the other nostril. "I'm a little teapot, short and stout! Here is my handle--my nose is my spout!" Believe it or not, these weird little pots with the funny name are suddenly all the rage. Ancient in concept, their popularity skyrocketed a couple of years ago when Dr. Oz, appearing on the Oprah Winfrey show, demonstrated the use of the neti pot, proclaiming its many health benefits (while warning of possible side effects like sinus infection and--get this--"neti-pot addiction"!). As it turns out, two of the better-known manufacturers of neti pots are right here in the North Bay. NeilMed, a large maker of medical supplies, has a whole line of nasal irrigators, and the smaller outfit Red Hot Ceramics makes its own homegrown line called Baraka Neti Pots. Both have headquarters in Santa Rosa. So, what is it like to actually use a neti pot? My own first shot at neti cleansing-- emotionally heightened by Jenna's warning that unless one uses the proper amount of salt, the experience can be "unpleasant"--was a bit wet and wild. The second I tipped the pot into my nose, I started choking, spraying salty water all over the bathroom. After understanding that my head was not tilted sideways properly, one small minor adjustment had me spouting like a faucet--and, yes, in a good way. The immediate effects of this nasal tsunami certainly were noticeable, the neti having opened up breathing capabilities I didn't know I had. And here's the other thing: once you get over the intrinsic "ick" factor and the sheer weirdness of it all, using a neti pot becomes oddly calming, and even kind of fun. That said, the jury is still out on whether I'll be making neti-potting a daily practice. Am I the next Sonoma county candidate for neti pot addiction? Who nose?--D.T. Neti for Action Health comes in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes, it resembles a tiny teapot you stick up your nose. I know this, because at Christmas, I was given a small ceramic neti pot. If it weren't for the box of Kosher salt that accompanied the gift, I might have thought it was the world's smallest teapot. No doubt bearing a somewhat blank expression, I gazed down at the lovely little blue pot in my hands as my daughter Jenna and her health-conscious boyfriend, Bernie, enthusiastically explained the nature of their gift. Sometimes called a "nasal irrigator," once only popular within the yoga community and now going mainstream, the neti pot (rhymes with "yeti snot") is designed to clear out one's sinus passages by f lushing them with water. Describing his own experiences with the mighty neti pot, Bernie colorfully exclaimed, "It's like a cathedral opened up inside my brain!" "I've been using one for a couple of months now," added Jenna. "I feel like I've never Lend Me Your Ears Ear-candling reminds me of that Columbia House record club I fell prey to when I was 13. Twelve free CDs sounded like the all-time greatest bargain until the mailman greeted me with Scorpions' Greatest Hits and THE BOHEMIAN 01.19.11-01.25.11 25 G A L L E R Y ART Llewellyn Galler y e American Dipper (Cinclus Mexicanus) PA I D A D V E R T I S I N G S E C T I O N Oseguera B y A pp o i n t m e n t 707-887-2373 6525A First Street, Forest ville, C A RIVERFRONT ART GALLERY 132 PETALUMA BLVD. NORTH, DOWNTOWN PETALUMA WWW.RIVERFRONTARTGALLERY.COM 707-778-4ART(4278) Contemporary/Museum Framing Conceptual Art Gallery Art Through Two Lenses January 2 - February 27 Joann Lustig Jewelry John Hanses Photography 707.473.9600 707.474.9600 www.hammerfriar.com Sebastopol Gallery 150 N. Main St. Sebastopol 829-7200 Anne Murray's Christmas album. I'll admit that my preliminary research on ear candles led me to some grand expectations, like hearing oceanic vibrations and sinking into a deep relaxation. But honestly, when I tried it, all I experienced was a warmed-up ear and a smoky living room. There is evidence that humans have been practicing the therapeutic art of earcandling since 2500 B.C.E. Many believe that it developed concomitantly with the domestication of the honeybee, whose beeswax is used to coat an unbleached cotton cloth that's rolled into a 9- to 12inch hollow tapered candle. The candle is placed in the ear, lit on fire, and allowed to burn for about 12 to 15 minutes. According to enthusiasts, ear candles are effective at improving sinuses and hearing, cleansing the ear canal, restoring equilibrium, purifying the blood, opening the chakras, reducing stress and alleviating allergies. And while these purported benefits might conjure an image of snake-oil peddlers, perhaps they explain why stores like Santa Rosa's Community Market maintain healthy sales of the candles. In fact, the largest U.S. seller of ear candles, Wally's Natural Products of Auburn, Calif., reported sales of $1.2 million in 2004. Of course, the internet is loaded with scary tales of botched ear-candling, mostly involving hot wax dripping into the inner ear or perforating the ear drum. (For the record, my candles burned smoothly and seemed to pose no such threat.) According to the FDA, ear candles may not be sold as medical devices in the United States, and Canada has gone so far as to make earcandling illegal. Interestingly, the most damaging aspect of ear-candling might be what they don't actually do. When I cut open the remaining candle to survey the detritus it had sucked from my ear, I found a lumpy deposit that looked a lot like candle wax. Turns out, it was. The widely believed myth that the candle acts as a sort of chimney to draw out excess ear wax is, given the density of the wax, scientifically unsound. As one doctor put it: "A good ear is like a good oven--it performs its own self-cleaning." So is ear candling really a valuable therapeutic art or a solution in search of a problem? For just three bucks a candle, you might as well find out for yourself.--J.D. That Not-So-Fresh Feeling Why can't a person have a serious conversation about vaginal irrigation without conjuring images of overly manicured, muscle-f lexing, fake-tanning, kissy-face posing, vaguely aggressive antiintellectual men? You know what I'm talking about: douchebags. The fact is, while calling a man a "douchebag" has become wildly popular in Call Today to Advertise! 707.527.1200 firstname.lastname@example.com 26 01.19.11-01.25.11 THE BOHEMIAN America, the practice of female douching has fallen out of popularity to a large extent. An earnest internet search for "douche bag industry" or similar phrases will yield pages and pages of man-hating rants and blogs as well as "I'm a Douchebag" T-shirts, and even a red plastic-y douche-bag Halloween costume, which is so unironic that it can only mean the term "douche bag" has reached it's zenith as a pop-culture force. So what if a person wanted to find information about douche bag sales figures? There's the www.douchebagmarketing.net website, but, alas, it is about "reviewing the spammiest online marketing techniques, not about marketing of feminine hygiene products." The situation has become so dire that no one seems willing to stand up for the original red plastic bag with an irrigation hose and nozzle, and declare, "Let's hear it for the douche bags." (Except for Kanye West.) That is to say, there seems to be no proud Association of Douche Bag Manufacturers to consult. So, as with most forbidden subject matter, the populace must glean what information it can from advertisement. On the topic of douching and douche bags, luckily, there is a colorful history in ads dating back to 1900, at least. The practice of female douching, however, goes all the way back to Hippocrates, at least. One of the best collections of these ads is retained by the Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health, affectionately called MUM for short (check out www.mum.org). Advertising can capture attitudes from a time and place with a poetic nuance and style completely absent in more scholarly works. In the 1920s, when douching was all the rage, adds showed pert young women peering coyly from under the brims of hats, hiding behind hand fans or sometimes looking sulky, while the voice of wisdom, indicated by large font, declared some vague form of female doom to befall women who didn't douche. "If only she had known!" the ads lamented. "Sterizol" and "Zonite"--those are the names of real products from the 1920s intended for introduction into a vagina via douche bag. To most now, those product names sound so acrid and searing as to be unworthy of scrubbing a toilet, let alone cleansing a goddess yoni. (Actually, according to MUM, Lysol was once sold to women for douching purposes.) How "douchebag" became a slur is unclear. One reason for all the tiptoeing around douche bags and douching, according to MUM, is that douche was primarily used for contraception, not just "freshness" and cleanliness. Love in the time of Sterizol was still risky, as douching is not a reliable form of birth control. But it could be that douchebags (men) are a form of birth control for the new millennium, at least for the guy in the red douche bag costume, who has probably reduced his risk of impregnating a girl by at least half--the old fashioned way.--K.M. C LU B J: M U S I C L I BA T I O NS DA NC I NG SambaD� SAT, SAT, 1/29 @ 8PM PM Pre-event samba lesson @ 7:30 with Dandha da Hora! samb ba Dand dha rhy ythms, hip-ho op, African rhythms, samba, funk, hip-hop, rock. y e High-energy performance - danceable grooves. Coming Soon Coming Soon Comin Soon Coming Soon omi oo A capable cast doesn't rescue the strange pacing of `Ring of Fire,' another country-music bio. Coming Soon Coming Soo Coming Soon Coming Soon o oon Mekli Mekli Meklit Hadero it SAT, SAT, 2/5 @ 8PM 8PM Striking worldly, with voice Striking & worldly, with a voice redolent of Tracy Chapman, Joni redolent of Tracy Chapman, Joni Mitchell and N Nora Jones. Dholrhyt Dholrhythms of ythms Non-Stop Non-Stop Non-Stop Bhangra t SAT, SAT, 2/12 @ 8PM 8PM Performance, Lesson & Dancing Dancing ~ Bollywood Style THE KANBAR CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS & THE CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE CENT TER TH E AT T HE OSHE R M A RIN JC C 200 N ORT SAN PEDRO ROAD, SAN RAFAEL NORTH S AN P E D RO R OA D , S AN R AFAEL TH Sixth Street's Man in Black revue could use some of Johnny Cash's fire PRIMITIVES � JEWELRY � LIGHTING � KITCHEN TOOLS � ARCHITECTURAL � GLASS 415.444.8000 | MARINJCC.ORG � FURNITURE � FRUIT LABELS � GARDEN ANTIQUES � TOYS & DOLLS � ARTS & CRAFTS � POST MODERN � COUNTRY � CALIFORNIA By David Templeton ince the title of Sixth Street Playhouse's new musical production is Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash--with deliberate emphasis on the word "music"--audience members might be expecting a little more Johnny Cash than what shows up in this slapdash (though occasionally well-performed) jukebox revue. In the show, written by Richard Maltby Jr. and William Meade, and directed by Michael Fontaine, seven performers take turns singing 32 of the Man in Black's songs, with snippets of uneven narration (jumping oddly from first person to third with no rhyme or reason) that are passed from performer to performer like lyrics in a gospel tune. Short scenes from Cash's early life are reenacted here and there, with different actors playing Cash each time, creating a bit of initial confusion while serving to remind us that this show, after all, is not really about Johnny Cash; it's about Johnny Cash's songs. Fortunately, his songs are great. One tends to forget what a sharp and twisted sense of humor Cash had, on prominent display in songs like "Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart," "Dirty Old Egg-Suckin' Dog," the darkly comic murder ballad "Delia's Gone" and of course "A Boy Named Sue." All of Cash's famous songs are here: "I Walk the Line," "I've Been Everywhere," "Ring of Fire," "Jackson." The songs are arranged in thematically similar clusters, performed as blocks of music introduced with smatterings of biographical data, some of it unintentionally hilarious. The second- act cluster of prison songs ("Cocaine Blues," "Orleans Parish Prison" and "Folsom Prison Blues") is set up with a short speech allowing that, while Cash never actually served time in prison, he did go to jail a few times, and that was why he felt so strongly about telling the stories of murderers and thieves. The strangest moment in the show comes right after a stirring full-ensemble rendition of "Why Me Lord?"--a true highlight--when the audience is told to sit tight for a moment and spend three minutes watching slides of Johnny Cash posters while the band, a tight, pleasing quartet led by music director Eddie Guthman, continues playing. Once the cast returns, dressed in concert finery, we're told that the rest of the show is more of a concert than what we've already seen (!?), and each of the performers proceeds to tell us how much they like Johnny Cash's music before singing a few more songs. The cast is capable, though uneven. The women (Courtney Arnold, Shari Hopkinson and Heidi Lechner) handily out-belt the men (Jacques Archer, James Bryant, John Faulkner and Eric Chazankin), though Chazankin has one of the show's most entertainingly Cashlike moments, with his resonant, forceful performance of "Folsom Prison Blues." In the end, "Ring of Fire" could use a bit more fire-- and perhaps a bit more Cash. `Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash' runs Thursday�Sunday through Feb. 13 at the Sixth Street Playhouse. Thursday�Saturday at 8pm; Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2pm. 52 W. Sixth St., Santa Rosa. $15�$39. 707.523.4185. We've got your BACK Great Prices! Coffee too! 2661 Gravenstein Hwy So. (Hwy 116) on Sebastopol's Antique Row Open daily! 707 829.1733 Antique Society 21 100 dealers! Our st year! www. AntiqueSociety .com THE BOHEMIAN 01.19.11-01.25.11 27 Elle Fanning plays an 11-year-old daughter who gamely cheers up her malaise-ridden movie-star dad. `Somewhere' a retread of bored fame for Coppola By Richard von Busack Ever Wanted to be an ArtQuest Kid? ArtQuest Information Night, Thursday, Feb. 3, 6:30 pm, Image concept by Brendan Borrall Multipurpose Room, Main Building, SRHS, Priority Application Deadline, Feb. 18, 2011 1235 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa, CA 95401 , , 1/2 1 1/21 � 1/27 Blue Valentine Blue Valentine R (10 : 0 5 , 12 : 25 , 2 : 4 5 , 5 : 0 5 ) 7: 25, 9:45 (10:05, 12:25, 2:45, 5:05) 7:25, 9 : 45 Santa Rosa Premiere Santa Rosa Premiere r Rabbit Hole PG13 Santa Rosa Premiere Rabbit Hole PG13 Santa Rosa Premiere r (10:15,, 12:30,, 2:40,, 5:00) 7:10, 9 :15 (10 :15 12 : 30 2 : 4 0 5 : 0 0 ) 7:10, 9:15 Made in Dagenham (12: 35 Made in Dagenham R (12:35)) Vision : From the Life of Vision: From the Life of Hildegard Von Bingen Hildegard Von Bingen NR (11:00 am) 7: 0 0 pm (11: 0 0 am ) 7:00pm King's Speech King's Speech R Black Swan Black Swan R (10:10, 1:30, 3:15, 4:15,) 6 : 0 0 8 : 30 9 : 30 (10 :10, 1: 30, 3 :15, 4 :15, ) 6:00,, 8:30,, 9:30 (10:30,, 12:45,, 3 : 0 0 , 5 :15 ) 7: 30 , 9 : 4 5 (10 : 30 12 : 4 5 3:00, 5:15) 7:30, 9:45 Women's Health Specialists confidential compassionate nonjudgmental More Than Just Health Care... 5 51 S umme r fie ld R d . , Sant a Ro s a 551 Summerfield Rd., Santa Rosa 707.537.1171 www.cawhs.org 707- 522- 0719 707-522-0719 28 01.19.11-01.25.11 THE BOHEMIAN early 22 years ago, Sofia Coppola debuted with her script for the film New York Stories. It concerned Zoe, a 12-year-old girl who lived in the Sherry-Netherland. She was a Manhattan princess, like Eloise, lullabied to sleep by her father's flute. Nothing has changed in the decades since. Despite wide praise, the new Coppola film, Somewhere, is essentially a princess' movie. There's no reason why the daughter of the man who made The Godfather should pretend that she's ordinary. But after only three previous feature-length films, the director is repeating herself. Note how the scene of Bill Murray's bemused gaze at a stripper in Lost in Translation is doubled up with two dancers in Somewhere. The twin blondes twirl before the sated gaze of Stephen Dorff 's Johnny Marco, a Brad Pitt�level celeb cooling his heels at L.A.'s Chateau Marmont. Stubbled and tattooed, he's a male version of the other pining, semibored celebs in Coppola's films: the Lisbon sisters in The Virgin Suicides (1999), the two sleepy people in her best movie, Lost in Translation (2003) and the shop-till-you-drop queen in Marie Antoinette (2006). Marco is enduring the junket of the European opening of his latest film, Deadly Agenda. Michelle Monaghan has an incisive cameo as his co-star, who seemed to have had a lousy time with him off-camera. Johnny mutters his answers as a scrum of European critics ask him questions that are way above his pay grade. It's a rough life. Women waylay him, flash him or wait topless in his bed, while makeup artists show him what he'll look like when he's old and wrinkled. Marco is so exhausted that he falls asleep face first in a pickup's crotch. Mysterious texts arrive, demanding to know why he's such a pig. Like a grumpus in a Shirley Temple movie, Marco has all that he can desire. But it's killing him, and only a little girl can help him find his way to happiness. That's his daughter, Cleo (Elle Fanning), who has been foisted on him by his ex to watch for a few days before she's due at summer camp. Eleven-year-old Cleo is unresentful of her father's promiscuousness; she's a trooper, too, ready to accompany him to Milan for an awards ceremony. The star of the sequence is the Hotel Principe di Savoia, with a private in-house swimming pool, and then nothing more of Milan is seen; it's airport-hotelairport, and back to the Chateau. The sadness of a life spent in transit, sleeping with whomever and driving a sports car fast is essential to the triste undertones, though Dorff does project some humanity. Unfortunately, this makes for sentiment that spoils Coppola's picture of alienation--this, and the utter perfection and lack of mood. Why is this film being looked at as anything but piffle? It must be Coppola's eye: the way the giant figures on Sunset Strip billboards leer into the Chateau's windows (an effect also achieved in the 1999 Hurlyburly), the wide Ed Ruscha�like storefront dwarfing Marco's Ferrari and those blank, long L.A. streets and freeways. As in Marie Antoinette, Coppola faces the problem of trying to have her cake and critiquing it too. When you're a filmmaker, and you love the sweet life and have a great eye, there's a natural career for you: television commercials. Who couldn't sell a suite at the Chateau Marmont with these images? `Somewhere' is playing at Century Regency 6 (280 Smith Ranch Road, San Rafael; 415.4796496) and opens Jan. 28 at Summerfield Cinemas in Santa Rosa. New Movies Also Playing THE BOHEMIAN 01.19.11-01.25.11 29 F LiveE ree ntertainment DJ Kurt LD Productions Thursday, January 20th 8:30pm Karaoke Celebrating Elvis Friday, January 21st 9pm lndecisos Musical Banda, Cumbia, Rancheras Saturday, January 22nd 9pm `Rear Window' screens at the Sebastiani Theater Jan. 24. See Film, p39. Twice as Good Rockin' Blues Coyote Den Bar & Dance Hall C oyotevalleycasino.com � 707-485-0700 5milesN of U H 101 � W R E orth kiah, wy est d. xit SM The King's Speech Fri & Sat, Jan 21 & 22, 6:00 & 8:30pm Sun, Jan 23, 3:30 & 6:00pm Tues, Wed & Thurs, Jan 25-27, 7:00pm endless green HYDR Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" (1954) Mon, Jan 24, 7:00pm $8 Vintage Film Series presented by the Sebastiani Theatre Foundation 707-254-0200 NAPA, CA O P O N I C S U PPL I E S The Snow Maiden Presented by the Sonoma Ballet Conservatory January 29 & 30, 2:00pm Sebastiani Theatre Reserved seating Adults $30 Children 12 & under $20 Tickets 707-996-9756 476 1st St. E. Sonoma, CA www.sebastianitheatre.com 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 Film capsules by Richard von Busack, Ugo Lambui and Rothtana Ouch. N O R T H B AY M O V I E T I M E S www.sonomamovietimes.com www.marinmovietimes.com www.napamovietimes.com 30 01.19.11-01.25.11 THE BOHEMIAN Blow the Whistle On star power alone, it's a minor miracle that the recent collaboration between 50 Cent, E-40 and Too Short didn't hit the Billboard Top 10-- although naming the single "Bitch" probably didn't help get airplay. Nevertheless, the track plays just about every hour on 106.1 KMEL-FM, because after all, Too Short pretty much is Bay Area rap, even if he moved to Atlanta over a decade ago. The simple-minded rapper pops up in large theaters often, but this weekend brings classics like "Life Is Too Short," "Freaky Tales" and quite possibly his verse on R. Kelly's "I'm in Love with a Stripper" to a tiny nightclub on Saturday, Jan. 22, at 19 Broadway Niteclub. 19 Broadway, Fairfax. 10pm. $25. 415.459.1091. Guitar Majesty Joaqu�n Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez is one of those pieces so captivating that it can stop listeners dead in their tracks if they haven't heard it before. Whether in the hands of jazz legend Miles Davis, nouveau flamenco duo Rodrigo y Gabriela or even pop-opera singer Andrea Bocelli, the timeless melody is a skin-creeper, which explains why the Santa Rosa Symphony has presented it several times in the past decade. This weekend, playing the piece is Grammy-winning guitar phenomenon Sharon Isbin, who has performed everywhere from the Academy Awards to the Obama White House. Catch her in a program including works by Piazzolla and Ch�vez on Saturday�Monday, Jan. 22�24, at the Wells Fargo Center. 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa. Saturday and Monday at 8pm; Sunday at 3pm. $28�$55. 707.546.8742. Cut & Style Bloom Salon in Napa, owned by Leilani Slack, might have just been another downtown hairstyling joint in an old building with a great reputation. But with the help of husband Paul, who plays in the Napa band Planets, the two have turned the Main Street salon into an after-hours venue for art and music in the center of Napa's artistic scene. Bloom has been no secret to Napa for years, but this weekend, Sonoma County's newest indie bands hop over the mountain to discover the place. Trebuchet, consisting of members of Not to Reason Why, and Odd Bird, with the Velvet Teen's Judah Nagler, play with opener Rachel Sculley on Saturday, Jan. 22, at Bloom Salon, 1146 Main St., Napa. 8pm. Free. 707.251.8461. Pitch by Pitch It's hard enough sitting down and writing a 300page novel. As for getting it published? If you don't have the right connections (or if it's not about vampires), forget about it. Or should you? The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published: How to Write It, Sell It, and Market It . . . Successfully is the latest book by agents / authors Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry, and in their appearance this week called Pitchapalooza, they ask for your book pitches, with the winner getting connected with an appropriate agent in New York. Likewise, anyone who buys their book gets a free consultation on their story idea when the authors appear on Wednesday, Jan. 19, at Book Passage. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 7pm. Free. 415.927.0960. THE BOHEMIAN 01.19.11-01.25.11 31 the last day saloon nightclub & restaurant DON'T FORGET...WE SERVE FOOD TOO! 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IRIE DOLE 2/25 9:30 PM SHOW > $10/13 > ROCK DOUBLE D PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS MONSTERS OF BASS TOUR FREQ NASTY, MARTY PARTYAND OPIUO WITH For All Ages Shows � No Children Under 10 Allowed ROYAL BLISS + Boba Flex + Oceans Divide all shows are 21+ unless noted for reservations: 707.545.5876 23 Petaluma Blvd, Petaluma 707.545.2343 120 5th street @ davis street santa rosa, ca 707-765-2121 www.mcnears.com 32 01.19.11-01.25.11 THE BOHEMIAN lastdaysaloon.com Christopher O'Riley brings his popular NPR program `From the Top' to the Lincoln Theater Jan. 23. See Concerts, above. Lunch & Dinner Sat & Sun Brunch DI NN E R A ND A Thur Reservations Advised S H OW SINGER/SONGWRITER SERIES Jan 20 HOSTED BY LAURALEE BROWN 7:00pm / No Cover Best Music Venue Best Place for Singles to Meet FRI ! JAN 21 ! 10PM ! $10 WINDSHIELD COWBOYS Jan 21 Gourmet Music Rancho Fri 8:00pm / No Cover Debut! Sat Jan 22 Sun BIG B AND HIS SNAKEOIL SAVIORS Original Western Swing 8:30pm Classy Jazz 4:00pm / No Cover CHROME JOHNSON SAT ! JAN 22 ! 10PM ! $25 Jan 23 Fri THE ROBERTA DONNAY TRIO TOO SHORT FRI ! JAN 28 ! 10PM ! $18 GENTRY BRONSON BAND Jan 28 Keyboardist/Singer/Songwriter Rancho 8:00pm / No Cover Hot Soul Music 8:30pm Debut! CULTURAL DANCEHALL REGGAE Sat Jan 29 Sun THE JAMES MOSELEY BAND JAMI JAMESON Coming in February Rancho Debut! KONSHENS SAT ! JAN 29 ! 9PM ! $10 Jan 30 Sassy Jazz 4:00pm / No Cover CATHY COTTEN & ELLIOT'S EVIL PLAN HOT UPCOMING ACTS FRI ! FEB 4 SAT ! FEB 5 FRI ! FEB 18 FRI ! FEB 25 The top workout songs for the gym T o most of us, workout music is a forgettable playlist with a bunch of artists whose albums we'd never buy and whose songs we'd never listen to outside of our headphones while huffing and puffing on the treadmill. But to Chris Lawhorn, administrator of Run Hundred, it's an obsession. As the "web's most heavily trafficked workout-music site," Run Hundred has its finger on the throbbing pulse of what's fueling those calorie-burning sessions nationwide. A few weeks ago, Run Hundred published its annual readers poll for the best workout tracks of the year. Heard of any of 'em? If so, then you're probably on your way to the gym right now. If not, never fear--typing "Shiny Toy Guns" into a search engine won't result in a visit from Homeland Security (at least, we don't think so). According to the 75,000 voters in Run Hundred's poll, here's the best workout tracks of 2010: 1. Flo Rida and David Guetta, "Club Can't Handle Me" 2. Lady Gaga, "Bad Romance" (Starsmith Remix) 3. Kesha, "We R Who We R" 4. R.I.O., `After the Love" 5. Pitbull and Akon, "Shut It Down" 6. Taio Cruz and Ludacris, "Break Your Heart" (Mixin Marc & Tony Svejda Radio Edit) 7. Black Eyed Peas, "Rock That Body" (Chris Lake Remix) 8. Yolanda Be Cool and Dcup, "We No Speak Americano" 9. Shiny Toy Guns, "Major Tom" 10. Edward Maya and Vika Jigulina, "Stereo Love" FEB 11: T HE LINDA I MPERIAL BAND FEB 12: S HANA MORRISON FEB 13: MIKE LIPSKIN & DINAH LEE FEB 14: SPECIAL VALENTINE'S DAY SHOW WITH THE BAGUETTE Q UARTETTE FEB 27: JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS On the Town Square, Nicasio www.ranchonicasio.com NORRISMAN Endoxi 1-Octane Wonderbread 5 415.662.2219 Gabe Meline THE BOHEMIAN 01.19.11-01.25.11 33 WED � JAN 19 HOPMONK PRESENTS BLUEGRASS/GOSPEL/FOLK RED MOLLY DOORS 7PM $10/21+ ubergine A ALBUM RE LE ASE Afte A er After Dark... 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See Concerts, p32. 34 01.19.11-01.25.11 THE BOHEMIAN Tim Hockenberry from the Trans-Siberian Orchestra plays Jan. 21 at George's Nightclub. See Clubs, p34. Ayurvedic Indian Head Massage � relief from tension headaches, eyestrain, and sinusitis � improves mobility in neck and shoulders � balances energy Margery Smith 707.544.9642 Across the bridge THE BOHEMIAN 01.19.11-01.25.11 35 Sebastopol Community Cultural Center and Cumulus Presents proudly present Girlyman Coyote Grace opening January 29 (Community Center) Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas February 12 (Community Center) Ra Ra Riot's latest album, recorded amid an orchard, wound up on many year-end lists for 2010. Ra Ra Riot find solace in `The Orchard' Chris Smither February 20 (Community Center) By David Sason or Brooklyn-based, Syracuse-bred Ra Ra Riot, having all the right friends is a double-edged sword. Sure, being close with Vampire Weekend and Death Cab for Cutie has likely turned many on to the baroque-pop quintet, who bring their energetic show to Sonoma's Gundlach Bundschu Winery on Sunday. But one can barely find an article on Ra Ra Riot not chock-full of comparisons to rock bands with a penchant for lush orchestral flourishes. Even I can't help it: think Vampire Weekend with less quirk and more strings. Or a more restrained Arcade Fire who make a glorious spectacle with only half the personnel. Thankfully, The Orchard, the band's more somber sophomore album released last year, is doing a better job of distinguishing Ra Ra Riot in both substance and circumstance. Although singer Wes Miles' lyrics reach new levels of melancholia, his airy voice along with violinist Rebecca Zeller and cellist Alexandra Lawn's buoyant accompaniment forge a singular sound that's at once aching and hopeful. One can't hear the chilling title track, or the achingly bouncy "Shadowcasting," without imagining the record's singular genesis. "When it came time to record, we were looking to get out of New York City and stay focused on the task at hand," says bassist Mathieu Santos, via phone from his folks' home in Massachusetts. "In the past, we did that at Wes' parents and Rebecca's parents' houses, which are both in the suburbs. This time we wanted to do our own thing and not impose. We ended up on a peach farm." Their decision to seclude themselves in a friend's upstate New York property to write the new album is already the stuff of indie-rock folklore. But if you're thinking of a Kenya Safari Acrobats March 4 (Analy High School Theatre) Greg Brown Bo Ramsey March 18 (Community Center) with special guest Arlo Guthrie with The Burns Sisters Tax Day April 15 (Analy High School Theatre) Information: www.seb.org 707-823-1511 Community Center Community Last Record Store, Cultural Center People's Music 36 01.19.11-01.25.11 THE BOHEMIAN Sebastopol Tickets and debauched residency � la Exile on Main Street, you're very far off. "It was more like baking peach cobbler and drinking tea," says Santos. "It was so unbelievably quiet. We were just surrounded by acres and acres of peach trees." It may seem strange for a such a young band to need some alone time, but after gaining a large buzz early on, drummer and co-writer John Ryan Pike drowned in 2007 before the band could record The Rhumb Line, 2008's acclaimed debut. "The reason we decided to continue is we had laid all this groundwork with John and all these ambitions with him," says Santos, who studied painting at Syracuse. "After he passed away, we didn't want all those things to be gone, too. In a way, everything we have done since then has been in honor of him." For The Orchard, the new environs and slight pressure to follow up their wellreceived debut fostered an experimental period for the band. ("We definitely took a lot of chances this time around," remembers Santos.) Ra Ra Riot's live performances are gelling as well, with a nimble musical chemistry and an infectious glee consuming every member, but there's a palpable sense of duty within their joy. Nearly four years later and one tragedy-free album under their belts, Ra Ra Riot still remember the friend they lost with every new achievement. "We just toured in Japan for the first time last year. It was the most amazing experience, and that was something we always talked about with him: `One day we'll tour in Japan,'" says Santos. "Whenever we are able to do something fun and cool, he's always on our mind." Ra Ra Riot play with openers Givers and Pepper Rabbit on Sunday, Jan. 23, in the redwood barn at Gundlach Bundschu Winery. 2000 Denmark St., Sonoma. 6:30pm. $25. 707.938.5277. Pamela Powell's `Soft Voices' is among the work of 30 artists at the Graton Gallery. See Openings, adjacent. Galleries THE BOHEMIAN 01.19.11-01.25.11 37 Comedy The extraordinary life of a composer hen then-unknown composer Robert Schumann asked 18-year-old Clara Wieck to marry him, she'd already been performing in public to critical acclaim for half her life. It took three years and a court trial (Clara's father adamantly opposed the union) before she became Mrs. Schumann. And though she shared the company of leading 19th-century composers like Chopin, Brahms, Liszt and Mendelssohn, her legacy has often been cast in their shadow. For 61 of her 76 years, Clara performed concert piano; she also taught, composed and helped to usher in the revolutionary practice of playing from memory. All this while raising seven children and serving as the primary bread-winner of her family. (Her husband's unstable mental health eventually left her widowed at the age of 37). Amazingly, she devoted her life to editing, playing and promoting her husband's work, whereas her own compositions remained largely unknown until the second half of the 20th century. Clara's remarkable life is the subject of pianist and actor Katie Ketchum's tribute show, An Evening with Clara Schumann. As a teenager looking for female role models, Ketchum felt inspired to write a play about Clara but was afraid she couldn't speak with a German accent. Now in her 50s, she "decided to get a German tutor and write the play." The result is an educational concert/drama that brings Clara Schumann to life through storytelling, piano, letters and costume. The drama, which takes place in 1892, just a few years before her death, deals with Clara's scandalously suggested affair with composer Johannes Brahms. "[He] was in love with her, and she was his muse for his compositions, which are my favorite piano pieces to listen to and to play," Ketchum says. In addition to some of Clara's rarely performed works, Ketchum will play pieces by Robert Schumann, Chopin and Brahms. "There is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of selfforgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound," wrote Clara Schumann. Learn more about this fascinating musician on Saturday, Jan. 22, at Sebastopol Community Church (1000 Gravenstein Hwy. 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