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In the Jan. 20 issue alone, the Wal-Mart story, "Shake It" and "Mo' Funny" plus "Down Lonesome" were brilliant! Thank you. So glad to have found the North Bay Bohemian. Another fan, Thanks for writing the excellent epitaph for Johnny Downer ("Thanks and Praise," Jan. 6). It is true, he was inspiring, special and will be very much missed. The question remains unasked, however: Why was such a beloved local luminary turned away from the Occidental Area Health Center when he tried to seek medical care? Johnny had been complaining of chest pains and numbness in his arm, but because he didn't have proof of income, he was not admitted to see a doctor. The truth is, it may not have helped even if he had gone to see someone there, but he should have at least gotten to tell someone what was going on. I have had several instances of gross mistreatment at both Guerneville and Occidental health centers, so much so that I wonder if they are not trying to kill people. Once I was given the wrong antibiotics in Guerneville, resulting in an ER visit. The second time I had a misdiagnosed ear problem that was continually treated as an infection, but had clear symptoms of a fungus. Taxpayers subsidize these clinics, yet they charge low-income patients as well. My ear visits cost me twice as much as a visit to the specialist, who fixed me up in a hurry; after three months of hell, I was put right in three days. The clinics did not refer me to a specialist, but rather sent me out the door saying there was nothing wrong with me. For a DJ, this was about the worst affliction I could have, and it cost me a summers' worth of joy. What I see is that it could have been my life. This situation with our local health centers should be a major wake-up call, deserving of an expos�. Let's not let Johnny's untimely death go in vain. He was denied basic healthcare with easily recognizable symptoms of heart failure. This is a terrible loss to the creative community, and chances are it could have been prevented. How are working creative people, who often don't have regular incomes, supposed to get healthcare? I make wine with James Matthisen at Springhouse Cellar in Hood River, Ore. About two years ago, James started using refillable bottles. Our tasting room is upstairs from the winery, so we are by definition a factory and can factory-seal a refillable bottle. On a good day, about half our sales come from local Hood River people coming by the winery to get their bottles refilled. Two points here: First of all, reusing is infinitely more efficient than recycling, especially in a lot of places in Oregon and Washington that don't offer glass recycling. Second, the wine has to be great. Otherwise the bottle is just a gimmick. 06 02.03.10-02.09.10 THE BOHEMIAN news for Sonoma, Marin & Napa Counties "Official Newspaper of Everyone Always Speaking on the Record" y Rick Bartalini, center, with Dana Carvey and his manager Marc Gervitz following taping of Carvey's HBO special. Wells Fargo Center entertainment director Rick Bartalini is out By Gretchen Giles and Gabe Meline We always look forward to seeing Rick when we come through. --Lyle Lovett he North Bay's entertainment community received a surprise blow on Wednesday, Jan. 27, when it was announced that Rick Bartalini was leaving his post as entertainment director for the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts. Bartalini, 40, has been with the WFC for 11 years, beginning in marketing when the center was still known as the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts. He was promoted to entertainment director in 2001. Due to a gag order on staff, determining why he is no longer with the WFC is something of a knotty endeavor; Bartalini was unable to comment on the change. What is known is that staffers, board members and even artists and their management are stunned. Where this leaves the North Bay's most prestigious performance house, recently placed in Pollstar's ranking of the top 60 theaters worldwide, is still to be determined. WFC public relations manager Kristi Buffo said, "I can't even confirm he was fired." Buffo could confirm that the change was not a cost-saving effort and that Bartalini's former assistant, Chrissy Hall, will take over his role as the entertainment programmer for the center, with Anita Wiglesworth, director of arts and education programs, now overseeing all booking for the nonprofit. WFC board member Darlene Walley, who has served the nonprofit for three years and who helms the ballet company associated with the center, resigned last week. "It was over the reasons for letting Rick Bartalini go," she stated. "I can't really say more. We're all under a gag order. "My love for the center drove me to resign," Walley continued. "I love all the staff there, and Rick Bartalini is a huge part of that. I think that his departure puts the center at risk. As a board member and as a one who contributes financially to the center, I feel that he not only does a fabulous job with the center's shows, but I also saw him first-hand interacting with our donors, honorary board members, prospective board members--if we had someone who wanted to interact with the center, he helped us. He helped us in all different areas of the center's mission. He's a great team member. He's helped all members of the staff." 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To welcome the two, he had their room filled with spa products and other comforts best welcomed by those just coming off the campground. DeGeneres responded with a handwritten thank-you note and, when pal Kathy Griffin was looking for a venue to film her 2007 HBO special, recommended the WFC. During a busy two-year spate, Bartalini successfully negotiated deals with HBO that resulted in Dana Carvey, Lisa Lampanelli, the late George Carlin and, indeed, Kathy Griffin all recording live shows at the WFC. When Dolly Parton was booked in 2007, the WFC was not big enough to hold her stage set, so Bartalini transferred the concert to the Sonoma County Fairgrounds and staged a lavish pink-hued tribute to the country queen for a Valentine's concert. He paired Kris Kristofferson with Merle Haggard in their first live performance together, handling and calming Haggard when he got cold feet and almost pulled out. And so on. Artists and their managers credit Bartalini with thinking of the small touches that make a long tour more manageable and make them more willing to return. Sheila Groves, until recently the talent buyer for the Mystic Theater in Petaluma, said, "My feeling is that it's his personality that's brought acts to that venue. He goes out of his way; you feel like you're coming to Rick's home when you play there. He goes over the top with taking the personal care and interest and finding out what the person's likes or dislikes are. If an artist brings a dog, he buys a dog bed and the dog's favorite bones. Most promoters don't do that. I don't think that [the Wells Fargo Center] realize that it's because of him, personally, that the big acts come." Bartalini's departure raises many questions for North Bay concert-goers, not the least among them being the viability of the Wells Fargo Center. A source close to the center who spoke only on the condition of anonymity said, "If the hardest working man in show business can get fired, then anyone can, you know? We're all very heavily invested in the place, we want to see it survive and I know the community does, too." But Buffo assures that all is well, the venue solvent and programming is going forward. "There's a great deal of respect in this community for Rick Bartalini and there's a great deal of respect in this organization for him," she said. "I just can't stress enough that we are committed to continuing the programming that he did." 08 02.03.10-02.09.10 THE BOHEMIAN What Tim O'Reilly didn't mean to wreak By Daedalus Howell o sooner had popular culture digested the term "Web 2.0" than the ante was upped by the next generation of the worldwide web. Behold, "Web 3.0." Um, yeah. This unfortunate protologism, doomed to eternal comparison to its pithy predecessor, proves the adage that "Good technologists borrow, great technologists steal and then add 1." Also known as the "semantic web," Web 3.0 presently has several working definitions, the most salient of which seems to be web godfather Sir Tim Berners-Lee's suggestion that a semantic web will enable "the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily lives" and "machines talking to machines"--meaning data presented on the web and necessarily meant to be interpreted by humans, but inscrutable to machines, will soon become scrutable. Though the notion of machines talking to each other about one's web queries, sundry database entries and general arcana of our digital lives might lead to a more expeditious online experience, it may also foment a paranoia of the sort described in a Philip K. Dick novel. Especially if the machines are chatty and gossip-prone. Interestingly, the semantic web's etymological ancestor, Web 2.0, was coined by Sonoma County's own Tim O'Reilly, the open-source maven, publisher and founder of O'Reilly Media based in Sebastopol. O'Reilly chose the term to describe the emergence of post-crash, web-based businesses and the commonalities they share (social, collaborative, no Fusbol game in the foyer) as the raison d'�tre for a conference. "Could it be that the dotcom collapse marked some kind of turning point for the web, such that a call to action such as `Web 2.0' might make sense?" O'Reilly wrote in a 2005 post entitled "What Is Web 2.0" archived on OReilly.com. "We agreed that it did, and so the Web 2.0 Conference was born." So, too, was born an infectious meme that has seen the "2.0" appliqu� on everything from healthcare reform to sex. (Incidentally, the Sex 2.0 conference, which explores the "intersection of social media, feminism and sexuality" returns to Seattle this May.) In the half-decade since O'Reilly's coinage, culture has undergone something of a digital renaissance (think Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter), and his Web 2.0 Conference is now the annual Web 2.0 Summit. So how is it then that New York�based Mediabistro, a trade group that bills itself as "the premier content, career and community resource for media professionals" came to host the socalled Web 3.0 Conference last week? Clearly, something has gotten out of sequence. That is, unless Web 3.0 involves time travel and paid us a visit here in the present to show us the future with a stack of PowerPoint slides. Gimmicky, sure, but revealing nevertheless--about half of the seminars and presentations were presented by marketers about leveraging the semantic web, which some hope will emulate a kind of artificial intelligence, to target consumers. "KaChing 3.0" might have been a more apt title for the conference. (Better lock that in--the KaChing Button, an iPhone app that makes a cash register sound for the currency of your choice, is already up to version 1.0.3.) Given the Sonoma County provenance of Web 2.0, it was somehow apropos that its unrelated pseudo-sequel was held at the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara, where the conference rooms are dubbed "Sonoma," "Napa" and "Mendocino." Adorning the walls are tilt-shift prints, photo-collages and other digitally produced, eye-candy designed to evoke a Silicon Valley aesthetic, despite its wine country pretensions. And whither Wine 2.0? That conference happened in New York last November. In the coming years, perhaps we will experience Web 4.0, which will find its comeuppance when Webs 2.0 and 3.0 join forces and become Web 5.0. Web 4.0 will respond by rehabbing Web 1.0 out of its postbust stupor (so named the way the Great War became World War I) and attempt to beat Web 5.0 at its own game. An accord will ensue and all parties will reform together as simply the Web--at which point it will become sentient and enslave us all. You know, if it hasn't already. `KaChing 3.0' might have been a more apt title for the Web 3.0 conference. Read more Daedalus Howell at DHowell.com. Watch more at DHowell.TV. THE BOHEMIAN 02.03.10-02.09.10 09 Fine Dining For Wild Birds Kipling and history remind that Afghanistan is unconquerable By Rob Loughran 'm a writer, and when I'm writing fiction I read nonfiction, because if I read fiction, I'm constantly comparing and contrasting my work with what I'm reading. Right now I'm writing fiction, so I'm reading a biography, The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan by Ben McIntyre. It's the story of a Pennsylvania Quaker named Josiah Harlan who left America after being jilted by his true love. Harlan traveled to India and functioned as a soldier, spy, surgeon, naturalist and writer. He journeyed into Afghanistan as an agent provocateur for the exiled Afghan king. He spoke Persian and several other local languages and became commander-in-chief of the Afghan armies. In 1838, he traced the footsteps of Alexander the Great across the Hindu Kush and--get this--conquered and created his own kingdom. But before Harlan could rule in any significant way, he was ousted by the invading British. This bold and fascinating American became the basis for Rudyard Kipling's short story (and subsequent John Huston movie) "The Man Who Would Be King." Fascinating book, McIntyre's, but the epilogue contains a paragraph that made me shiver: Harlan had been right: the Afghans fought tirelessly among themselves, but when a foreign invader threatened, they united to drive him out. Even Alexander's hold had been fleeting. Macedonian, Mogul, Persian, Russian, British and Soviet armies had all tried and failed to control the Afghan tribes. Harlan's words echoed down the centuries: "To subdue and crush the masses of a nation by military force, when all are unanimous in the determination to be free, is to attempt the imprisonment of a whole people: all such projects must be temporary and transient, and terminate in a catastrophe. And now, apparently, it's America's turn to learn this lesson. It's true that no other army in history has had such a technological edge over its enemy. We possess the bombs and the planes and the electronics and the drones and the gadgets. Should be easy as playing a video game. And we smug little Americans also assume we have a moral edge: to stamp out terrorism and bring democracy to a benighted world. But if you read some British history, in the 18th century we Americans were the dirty little terrorists rebelling against civilization and propriety, king and empire. History, go figure. I'm all for making the world safe, if not for democracy, at least for air travel. The Twin Towers horror was a blatant chickenshit attack on defenseless civilians, but we have to look, at least for a moment, at the history of invading Afghanistan. One example will suffice. In 1841, Kabul was ready to explode. Broken British promises to various tribes had the entire city seething. The son of the exiled Afghan king was in full revolt against the British-installed puppet ruler. More diplomacy (lies) ensued, but the Afghans couldn't be calmed. The situation escalated when the British envoy William Macnaghten decided to halve payments to the Ghilazi tribe. Macnaghten was murdered, dismembered and his body parts dragged gleefully through the streets of Kabul. It was time for the British to flee the country, through the Khyber Pass, to the safety of the British fort at Jalalabad, 80 miles due east. On Jan. 6, 1842, some 15,000 soldiers (along with wives and children) headed up through the Khyber Pass. On Jan. 9, 1842, the snows and the Afghans descended. The deadly accurate Afghan snipers fired their jezails--long barreled muskets--killing and wounding their country's invaders. At night Afghan women would walk among the Brits, robbing the dead and slitting the throats of the wounded. As Rudyard Kipling wrote, "When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains / And the women come out to cut up what remains / Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains / And go to your God like a soldier." On Jan. 13, 1842, Dr. William Brydon, the only survivor of the 15,000 who had set out the week before, arrived at Jalalabad. The only survivor of 15,000. Do we really know what we're getting into with this "surge" in Afghanistan? It is said that those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. But William Faulkner said, even more aptly, "The past is never dead. It is not even past." Rob Loughran's latest book, `What Happens When the World Doesn't End?,' is available at www.unlimitedpublishing.com/loughran. 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THE BOHEMIAN 02.03.10-02.09.10 11 The Right to Vote Act is Orwellian for PG&E's right to exploit us By Juliane Poirier he fabulous photo-illustration for Chris Hedges' Jan. 24 column on TruthDig.org perfectly captures the content of his article, which is titled "Democracy in America Is a Useful Fiction." The photo-manipulation is brilliant! A must-see. It shows the formal black-gowned justices of the Supreme Court grouped in their conventional stodgy pose, but with the face of each obliterated by a corporate logo. McDonalds' golden arches rest on the shoulders of one justice, Shell Oil's yellow icon on another's, and so forth. "Politicians do corporate bidding," Hedges charges, "and stage hollow acts of political theater to keep the fiction of the democratic state alive." Could Hedges be on to something? Let's search for fascism in action here at the state level, where local jurisdictions can't fund an initiative that will strengthen and enrich the community, though a corporation can fund an initiative that will ultimately, and quite literally, disempower all California communities. Then of course it will become a national precedent. Playing at a political theater near you this June is a voting farce backed solely by PG&E. The utility doesn't want community choice aggregation (CCA) law to ruin a perfectly good monopoly, so it has spent a thrifty $5 million so far to stop communities from purchasing electrical power, such as wind and solar, from independent producers. Their production is a voter initiative called the Ratepayers' Right to Vote Act. We pause here to raise an eyebrow on behalf of George Orwell. Last fall, this column ("Monopoly Money," Oct. 21) reported that PG&E "wants to stop informed communities from following the example of Marin (and other climate-protecting jurisdictions including those in the San Joaquin Valley) to buy its own electricity through a CCA plan. Why? The new citizen-controlled power purchasing will not only replace dirty electricity with cleaner power, give Marin the authority to negotiate its own energy contracts and significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the North Bay, but also divert millions of dollars from PG&E. No big surprise that the utility wants to keep jurisdictions out of the powerpurchasing business." In that column, we heard from Marin Energy Authority interim director Dawn Weisz, who said, "This program will take about $94 million per year away from PG&E. We will be taking that money to buy renewable energy and the money left over will be used to fund local renewable and energy efficiency projects." No wonder it's worth a few extra million ratepayer dollars for the utility to block CCA projects. That's a bargain. The PG&E ballot initiative would require a two-thirds vote for any community to launch a CCA program. That is certain death to any CCA. The utility is the only funder of the initiative. Government organizations are prevented by law to spend public dollars to promote ballot issues. PG&E is purchasing obfuscation, a dimming of the real issue. Wacky, isn't it? The same PG&E that sells us (mostly dirty) juice for our light bulbs is using the money we send them to put us in the dark and remove the rights now afforded to us by law. Well, do we go along without a fight since the Supreme Court has shifted our status anyway, as Hedges suggests, from citizens to prisoners? The so-called Ratepayers' Right to Vote Act is the corporate state at work: stealing citizens' rights and preventing community power-purchasing. The Los Angeles Times calls it PG&E's "stealth initiative . . . a dagger aimed directly at a movement to enable municipalities to offer renewable green power to their residents in competition with private utilities." Communities, backed by present law, can purchase greener power and offer ratepayers lower rates. This poses serious competition to, and cuts into the profits of, PG&E. So in June the utility will have tricked voters into thinking that the ballot initiative means preserving their rights. In fact, it will remove rights. Here is fascism in action. Who can afford to buy more TV time and spin doctors than PG&E? And they'll do it using the money we overpay them. Go figure. 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Brightman wasn't fooling around when she called her restaurant "Tiny Thai." Though by some standards she might be considered large ("In Thailand, I'm a big girl," she says), Brightman actually is very small. Fortunately, the portions aren't tiny and the prices are reasonable. The duck curry is a steal at $12.95, and the crab-fried rice is a penny-pincher's dream come true at $10.95. Every single rice kernel is delectable; every single dish is a treat for the taste buds. Brightman comes from Chiang Mai in the North of Thailand, famous for its regional cuisine known as khan toke. She cooked at home as a young woman, went to cooking school in Chiang Mai, came to California, and worked in a string of Thai restaurants before opening her own place last August. The dishes she makes are as close to authentic Thai as can be found anywhere in the North Bay, though some traditional dishes like deep-fried pig skin don't make it to menu. There are, however, crispy egg rolls ($5.95) and deep-fried chicken wings marinated in tamarind sauce ($5.95). Brightman cuts every vegetable on the menu by hand with the sharpest of knives from Thailand. Cutting vegetables is the first thing she does each morning when she arrives for work at 10:30am, and each thinly sliced onion, carrot, mushroom or tomato looks like a miniature work of art. The basic ingredients are all authentic: lemongrass, garlic, basil, kalanta, which looks like ginger but has more kick to it, as well as the leaf of the kaffir lime, and tiny Thai chiles that are about a quarter of the size of a jalape�o. What they lack in mass they make up for in heat. Brightman grows some Thai chiles in her own garden, but she buys most of them and the other ingredients she needs from Asian Market on Petaluma Hill Road in Santa Rosa. "I love to cook," she said on a recent rainy afternoon. "I love it when people eat everything on the plate, and when all the food I've made is gone. That makes me very happy and my dreams come true." In addition to the ever popular duck curry and crab fried rice, which are often lunch specials, customers like pra ram, a rich, creamy dish of steamed spinach and broccoli with peanut sauce ($6.95). Brightman buys ground peanuts and cooks them in coconut milk, another basic in Thai cuisine, until they're tender and sweet. Her jasmine rice and her mango sticky rice are also both cooked to perfection and intensely f lavorful. The only drawback is the absence of Thai beer. There's nothing like a cold Singha to go with hot, spicy Thai food, but the green tea is good and so is the Thai ice tea and Thai ice coffee, both $2.50. Of course, there's Pad Thai ($7.95), the dish that no self-respecting Thai restaurant would be without, and Brightman makes it especially well. "Feeding people is what I like to do," she says. "If I could feed everyone in the whole world, that's what I would gladly do." Tiny Thai, 8238 Old Redwood Hwy., Cotati. Lunch, Monday�Saturday; dinner, Monday�Sunday. 707.794.9404. THE BOHEMIAN 02.03.10-02.09.10 15 16 02.03.10-02.09.10 THE BOHEMIAN eir to the appliance dynasty that bears his surname, Fritz Maytag was a restless Stanford graduate in the early '60s who occasionally liked to sip San Francisco's own Anchor Steam beer. When he heard that the company was in trouble, he purchased a 51 percent share of it in 1965 and then quickly devoted himself not only to fixing the brewery's problems (the beer often went sour) but, surprisingly, to limiting production. Three years later, he bought the whole shop. H Realizing that quality far bested quantity, Maytag's biggest innovation in the microbrew industry was to make less beer. Demand so far outweighed production that he finally began to teach others how to microbrew, and so a fond explosion was founded. Maytag joins Hopmonk Tavern owner and beer master in his own right Dean Biersch for a special brewmaster's luncheon on Sunday, Feb. 1, at 1pm. A four-course meal matched with Anchor Steam beers, this memorable pre-game (we hear they're playing some football that afternoon) meal is just $45 and reservations are a must. Call 707.829.7300 to reserve. For 21 years, Rodney Strong Vineyards has hosted its Wine and Chocolate Fantasy in celebration of Valentine's Day, and this year's event promises to be a doozy, featuring the jump-jive boogie of Mitch Woods and His Rocket 88s, chocolate cooking demonstrations by Zin chef-owner Jeff Mall and a full spectrum of artisanal chocolates and other delectables, all paired with plenty of good dead grape. This event always sells out the pink-bedecked tasting room, so now is exactly the time to get your $40 ticket. 707.433.0998. Gretchen Giles bite club eats THE BOHEMIAN 02.03.10-02.09.10 17 Illustration/Branding: Ranch7.com Illustration/Branding: Ranch7.com 18 02.03.10-02.09.10 THE BOHEMIAN THE BOHEMIAN 02.03.10-02.09.10 19 or your weetheart Mid County North County Red Velvet Cake with natural beets East County Valentine Princess Cake Sweetheart Cake for Two Chocolate dipped Strawberries and Truffles Assorted Valentine Cookies and Cupcakes NOW SERVING BREAKFAST IN SEBASTOPOL 7225 HEALDSBURG AVE SEBASTOPOL � 707-829-8101 1445 TOWN & COUNTRY DR SANTA ROSA � 707-527-7654 West County South County Upvalley 20 02.03.10-02.09.10 THE BOHEMIAN THE BOHEMIAN 02.03.10-02.09.10 21 Bring your Sweetheart for a Romantic Evening with THE BAGUETTE QUARTETTE Celebrate Valentine's Day SPECIAL VALENTINE'S DAY MENU ENTR�ES Flame Broiled Filet Mignon served with a mushroom marsala sauce and potatoes au gratin S at Rancho Nicasio Garlic & Rosemary Rack of Lamb served with roasted fingerling potatoes, butternut squash, and greens Lobster Ravioli with Dungeness Crab Alfredo sauce Fresh Seafood Paella with mussels, clams, prawns, scallops, cod and saffron rice Downvalley On the Town Square Prime Rib of Beef au Jus with a baked potato and Yorkshire pudding Nicasio, California Baked Salmon en Cro�te with champagne sauce and creamy polenta eems like we've been down this road before and under these leaky gray clouds, peering over the bridge at the rushings of a swollen, cappuccino-colored Dry Creek. At a bend in the road, Lambert Bridge Winery looms like some old fishing lodge over this lake of mist. Inside, the warm glow of redwood and chandeliers makes rustic grace out of the barnlike vault, and hours' worth of real firewood crackles away in the fireplace. Normally, we're told, a big yellow lab would be reposed on the hearth, but on this rainy day, even the dog is out sick. The reward to locals who venture out on days like this is what we find here: no crowds and a more personalized, relaxed tasting. Even then, I try to avoid rainy days, because for whatever reason--humidity, barometric pressure, bad traffic--red wine just tastes like spoiled grape juice. Lucky thing, then, for that big crackling fire. Founded in 1975, Lambert Bridge worked up to a production of 40,000 cases before paring down to 8,000 and refocusing on limited production releases, a familiar trend for many local wineries since the overheated wine market at the turn of the century. The winery's not followed the trend of quietly trimmed pricing, but its labor and time-intensive practices, like double-sorting both clusters and berries, pay off in results some degrees beyond the usual. With racy, floral and tropical aromas, the 2008 Sauvignon Blanc Bevill Vineyard ($28) is alive with lychee, Asian pear and pear juice flavors. The sparkly bright acidity is softened by barrel aging, lending a hint of roasted cashew nut; this is an SB that softens in the glass but never lets up the excitement. With a flavor of apple fritter, the 2007 Sonoma County Chardonnay's ($35) mild lumber and dairy notes stay demure, our host explains, because they special-order water-bent barrels in place of the twice-fired kind. 415-662-2219 www.ranchonicasio.com Dungeness Crab Louie Salad The 2007 Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel, Forchini Vineyards ($50), reminds me of sunnier days, but the clean red plum and cherry-jelly aromas and bright fruit with vanilla spice remind me not of Dry Creek at all--if anything, maybe of a certain punctilious Russian River Valley Zin house 10 miles to the south. The grapes are twice-sorted, ensuring no green berries or raisins heat up the mix. Even the 2006 Dry Creek Valley Petite Sirah ($45) falls on the friendly side of often inky purple aromas. This one's warmed up with spicy Christmas cake, allspice and chocolate, with leather and blueberry-vanilla. With Lambert Bridge's Bordeaux varietals, style and structure overcome the more obvious spokes of the flavor wheel. Vanilla, cherry, tea cake, dry chocolate and herbs might characterize the 2006 Sonoma County Cabernet Franc ($63), but are deferential to close-grained claret balance. Soaking up 100 percent new French Oak with ease, the 2006 Crane Creek Cuv�e ($95) is bright with tart red berries, celery seed, anise and more tea cake seamlessly knit together. Ah, at well past closing in the gloaming of the day, and at the end of the wine list, it's our feet, not our palates, that become hot and dry. Lambert Bridge Winery, 4085 West Dry Creek Road, Healdsburg. Open daily, 10:30am�4:30pm. Tasting fee $10. On Feb. 13, the winery hosts a one-of-a-kind 14-year vertical tasting of the winery's signature cuv�e, paired with a six-course meal. Yes, it's $350. 707.431.9600. EAST WEST CAFE 2 FOR 1 DINNER Valid after 4pm. Not for take-out. Exp. 2/17/2010 with this coupon WITH PURCHASE OF 2 DRINKS 128 N. Main St, Sebastopol BREAKFAST � LUNCH � DINNER 707.829.2822 James Knight www.EastWestCafeSebastopol.com 22 02.03.10-02.09.10 THE BOHEMIAN Uncorking Centuries of Artisan Excellence Drink l Loca Complimentary chocolates with wine tasting Feb 14th 11am to 5pm 707.280.4658 D'ARGENZIO WINERY 1301 CLEVELAND AVE., SANTA ROSA, CA 95401 [corner of cleveland ave. and ridgeway ave.] www.dargenziowine.com LoCoco's I CUCINA RUSTICA I A Romantic Italian Evening for your Valentine LoCoco's is everything an Italian restaurant should be--boisterous, busy, fun, with excellent authentic food of the best quality. Fresh seafood, meats and pasta. Service is friendly and fast. Try the pappardelle with wild boar sausage and forest mushrooms; or the veal chop valdostana with fontina and prosciutto. Chicken under a brick is the best anywhere, including Italy. All desserts homemade. "4 star cannoli" - Jeff Cox, Press Democrat Back by popular demand: $45 locals 3 course prix fixe Now, through the end of March. 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Feb. 13th 9:00pm Dance Concert � very limited seating $20 advanced / $23 door A Bluegrass interpretation of `Dark Side of the Moon' w/ special guest Aaron Redner of Hot Buttered Rum on fiddle; liquid lights, costumes and movie backdrop Fri. Feb. 26th 8:00pm Premium tickets $30; General tickets $25 adv/$28 door V�SEN - Mar. 5 All concerts at: Sebastopol Community Cultural Center Tickets & info: 707-823-1511 www.cumuluspresents.com People's Music, Last Record Store JOHN GORKA & PATTY LARKIN - Mar. 12 ALTAN - Mar. 21 24 02.03.10-02.09.10 THE BOHEMIAN Some say that alpacas are simply too cute to eat. Such `novelty' animals as alpacas, llamas, emus and ostriches have turned out to be poor investments for aspiring ranchers By Alastair Bland lpacas came to the North Bay 25 years ago, and in the decades since, thousands of entrepreneurs around the state and the nation have invested heavily in the small exotic-animal cottage industry, many with the hopes of striking it rich. While the shaggy beasts, natives of the Andes and relatives to llamas, vicunas and camels, can sell for thousands of dollars apiece, and while their f leece may be softer, finer and silkier than that of sheep, the value of the animals and the entire industry itself took a big hit with the economic crash of 2008. Industry analysts say the game is over, that those who bought in are unlikely to recover lost capital, but local alpaca owners insist the crash is just a slump, and now, they say, is the time to buy. Veteran alpaca owner Vicki Arns calls the current state of things "a buyer's market, like real estate." Arns, with a little help from her husband Don, operates Alpaca Shire in Sonoma, the oldest alpaca ranch in Sonoma County and one of the oldest in the nation. Founded in 1985, the farm began with the purchase of several animals, including a now 25-year-old male, or sire (females are called dams), who was among the very first alpacas to arrive in the United States from South America. Back then, Arns paid as much as $12,000 a head. The market was hot, and Arns hoped she might be able to pull in a viable income entirely off the exotic animals, mostly through selling their offspring, supplemented by fleece production. Arns began selectively breeding her animals and building her herd, and last summer a peak population of 30 alpacas from six generations ranged over her two-acre pasture. While gentle and rewarding pets, the animals haven't exactly paid off, Arns says. She shears them in the spring and sends the raw f leece, also called "fiber," to mills, including one in Yreka, where machines clean the material and spin it into yarn. Arns then weaves the processed fiber into garments and sells them onsite, but proceeds don't cover the overhead costs of maintaining the farm, and sales of animals themselves have dropped off steeply. Arns calls the business "a labor of love." (For his part, husband Don calls the alpacas "yard ornaments.") Now Arns is trying to sell as many as a third of her animals, aiming to cull the herd down to 20. She sold two alpacas last fall, in fact, though they went for half the price that they would have pulled several years ago. "And that," says Arns, "was still a pretty good deal." Animals of the Andes Alpacas, Vicugna pacos, have been bred for thousands of years in Chile, Peru and Bolivia as f leece- and meat-producing livestock. Of two breeds--huacayas and the less prominent suris--alpacas number as many as 3 million in Peru alone, where they graze on high chilly pastures up to three miles above sea level. Minimal effort or cost is spent making THE BOHEMIAN 02.03.10-02.09.10 25 the animals comfortable, and massive factories process their fiber at hugely profitable economies of scale. In fact, imports of cheaply made Peruvian alpaca products compete with American weavers and fleece millers, though farmer Mark Emery of Brookfarm Alpacas in Glen Ellen says sales of raw fiber and yarn, which he and his wife, Debbie, produce onsite, continue at an encouraging rate. The Emerys, who bought several pregnant females four years ago and have since bred their herd's numbers to 24, have even launched a new CSA program in which city slickers and other faraway fleece fans can purchase yarn, carpets, scarves and other farmstead alpaca products. The Emerys also had planned to sell their alpacas for profit before the crash hit, says Emery. "Now, we're waiting for the market to rebound." Dr. Rich Sexton, a professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis who has studied the alpaca industry, doubts that it will. "There is no hope of returning to those halcyon days of huge prices," Sexton says. "The economic fundamentals are crystal clear. It doesn't take a Ph.D. to see it. [Alpaca's] fiber in this country is next to worthless." Prices have never been lower. Just several years ago, an alpaca of excellent fleece quality could move for $35,000 while females averaged more than $10,000. In 2005, one super-stud in Virginia named the PPPeruvian Royal Fawn sold for $600,000. More than 300 offspring owe themselves to the rigors of this huacaya sire, whose stud fee has run as high as $5,000 a pop. Another stud, the now-deceased 4Peruvian Legacy, sold for even more in 2006 when a half-share in the animal drew $750,000. But today, alpacas sell, comparatively, for pennies. "I've seen some people selling their animals for $2,000," says Arns. "I won't do that." Fleece sales barely, if at all, turn profits. The fibers sell for just $2 to $4 per ounce, and an animal with especially dense fleece may produce 10 pounds of fleece annually. Most produce less, and at the very best an alpaca may generate several hundred dollars of fleece per year for its owners. Sexton says the fact that the one marketable product of the animals is "worthless," combined with the fact that the animals themselves are now, relatively, almost worthless, makes the industry itself worthless. Indeed, Arns says that alpaca profits are made through sale of the animals. "The real money is in the alpaca," she says. "You make way more from selling them than you do selling their fleece." on high hopes and risky speculation, thrives for a time on investor enthusiasm and ultimately fails. Such industries follow a three-stage pattern, the paper states, beginning with mania. Distress follows. Finally, panic ensues as owners try to sell out as prices tumble. Ultimately, so goes the model, speculators are left with a farm full of yard decorations. Classic cases of past speculative bubbles include the chinchilla, ostrich and emu industries. The text, published a year prior to the economic crash and first drafted in 2005, reads like a prophecy of the alpaca industry. "During [the panic stage], investors rush to sell their assets before prices drop further. Yet the sale of assets only serves to further perpetuate the decline in asset valuations." This crash, the authors write, signifies the "bubble bursting." Classic cases of past speculative bubbles include the chinchilla, ostrich and emu industries, according to Sexton. The emu, a 100-pound f lightless bird native to Australia, was hyped as the beef of the 21st century by marketers ("the new red meat"). That was before the 21st century actually began, and such predictions would prove less than accurate. Today, American emu farms are in a state of attrition. Feather Farm in Napa once kept emus. Co-owner Arlyta Brown says the investment, first made in 1987, was potentially lucrative, with each pair of birds capable of producing 60 chicks per year. Emu meat, she says, is lean and healthy, while just under the animal's hide lies a layer of fat marketable as an anti-inflammatory ointment. (Whether it really works is another story.) "Emus," Brown declares, "could have been an excellent source of Third World protein." Could have been, but slaughter facilities were too clogged with beef to accommodate any competing meat source, and early last decade, Feather Farm sold away its last emu. Around the nation, other emu farms have disbanded one bird at a time as the industry has proven worthless, though the big birds remain on scattered ranches. Emu Enterprises near Redding still owns 40 emus. "We once had a hundred," says owner John Smelcer, who produces and sells emu salami, ground beef, steaks and oil. "Now we're hanging on, hoping that things will come back." The ostrich industry, meanwhile, is entirely defunct. After its own boom, it went the way of the dodo in the late 1990s. In the years prior, enthusiasm drove prices high. Meat, hide and feathers were believed to be fortunes in the making. Then reality kicked in. Supply of the fast-reproducing birds vastly outsized the demand, peaking with a U.S. population of a quarter million ostriches in 1995 but no one interested in eating them; the old red meat, beef, was still the thing for dinner. Prices crashed at a capsizing rate of a quarter of a percent daily for six years. That marked the panic stage of the bubble model. By 1999, the giant birds in America were virtually worthless. Peru's Provenance While Dr. Sexton says the alpaca industry is hopelessly crashing, ranchers remain active. Arns says that sales of finished alpaca fleece products have increased since the economic crash, oddly enough, and Mark Emery also reports that his knitted alpaca products are "selling very well." Alpaca optimists remain. Targie Lewis says now is the time to buy. Lewis and his wife, Laura, bought in six years ago, taking a package deal on several females for 20 grand, and today 29 alpacas graze the grounds on the three-acre property in Wooden Valley near Lake Berryessa. Females are valued because of their capacity to produce an alpaca baby, or cria, every year. This economic thread is based on the assumption that alpacas are worth having at all, and Lewis concedes that they may be just a financial drain until the industry works out its kinks. "One of the main things is that we need to find something to do with the retired animals," he says. An alpaca whose fleece was soft and silky in its youth may bear entirely unmarketable, coarse fleece by the time it is just a decade old, says Lewis. For an animal that can live 20 years or more, this creates a substantial problem for those struggling to make their money back through fleece production. In Peru, the solution is simple: retired alpacas are eaten. "That grosses me out," says Arns, who initially bought her first animal, a $12,000 female named Bonnie, as a pet. Lewis says American breeders tend to cultivate relationships too intimate with their alpacas for a meat industry ever to launch. "We spend time with them, trim their toenails, see them face to face," Lewis says. "They look cute, and we get to know them by name, and it makes it hard to even think about sending them to be butchered." Yet Peru's f leece industry, streamlined, successful and sustainable, may be worth imitating. For now, cheaply made imports of South American f leece undercut the prices of local f leece producers. Lewis, who is still building his herd and believes the industry will find its feet, encourages consumers to bypass alpaca products made in South America. Arns, though, can't blame those who don't. "Frankly, Peru makes a better product. We can't match their quantity or quality. We have a lot of catching up to do, and I'm not sure we ever will catch up." Pop! In 2007, Sexton and co-author Tina Saitone published a paper in the Review of Agricultural Economics that closely analyzed the alpaca industry. The authors determined that the trade was just another "speculative bubble," an insular industry based initially 26 02.03.10-02.09.10 THE BOHEMIAN Jenner resident Carol Sklenicka's new Raymond Carver biography has been hailed as one of 2009's best books. Biographer Carol Sklenicka on researching `Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life' By Gabe Meline here's blood on the back of the book. Old, browned, dried blood that once seeped into the pages until it coagulated. There's hair, too, gummed up in the splotchy stain. Sitting in her home studio overlooking the Pacific Ocean on the outskirts of Jenner, Carol Sklenicka says that mint copies of this book, Raymond Carver's first published work, Near Klamath, are worth several thousand dollars. This one's been ruined by . . . by what? The answer is a Raymond Carver story unto itself. Sklenicka, author of the recently published Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life ($35; Scribner), the first full-length, exhaustive biography of the notoriously rough-andtumble writer, explains that the book belonged to Curt Johnson, Carver's first publisher, and indeed, his name is written on the inside f lap adjacent to an inscription by Carver's first wife: "It's all been worth it, and I'm excited. (This is ridiculous!) We love you, Maryann." Johnson was a notorious binge drinker, and one night he had a seizure and collapsed on the f loor. He cracked his head open near a pile of books. That's his blood. And hair. Stuck to Carver's first book. "So that's pretty creepy," Sklenicka says calmly. "And sad." Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life is full of such sadness, as any aficionado of the masterful shortstory writer might ascertain. It's also received a glowing front-page review by Stephen King in the New York Times Book Review, which named it one of the 10 best books of 2009 for its connective insight between Carver's life and work. Shot to prominence in the 1980s for his haunting stories of lower-class characters and domestic despair, Carver, as Sklenicka's book expertly and constantly illuminates, often scrabbled through the same desperation he told on the page. "There's no doubt his behavior was bad," says Sklenicka, a compact woman in a red vest and jeans, seated in her book-lined office with a large black dog at her feet. "I blame the disease of alcoholism more than I blame him as an individual. He hit bottom six times, I think, or more. They always say you have to hit bottom before you can recover. It didn't work for him. He just kept hitting bottom over and over-- blackouts, he was in trouble with the law, he was violent to Maryann, he was a terrible father, couldn't keep a job." For Sklenicka, who grew up among working-class people on California's Central Coast and says discovering Carver's writing in 1976 "was unlike anything else I thought I'd read before," uncovering sordid details about Carver's life involved more than 10 years of criss-crossing the country, from Syracuse, N.Y., to Yakima, Wash. El Paso, Iowa City, Sacramento, Arcata--Sklenicka visited them all, the many places Carver moved to in a recurring effort to start his life anew. In her study sit boxes upon boxes of Carver's correspondence, on loan from the library collection at Ohio State University; she has cassettes full of interviews conducted, old newspapers with references to Carver's stories. "This was all pre-Google, by the way," Sklenicka says wryly, mentioning yearbooks, old places of employment and city directories as treasure maps for Carver's scattered acquaintances. "At every stage in his life--and his life, to me, had so many distinct stages, partially because he kept moving--there would be a whole group of people," she says. "He had so many friends who really loved him. And I don't think it's just because he's famous." Nearly every Carver fan wonders, THE BOHEMIAN 02.03.10-02.09.10 27 paid advertising section when reading his stories, how much of the discord is autobiographical. Sklenicka constantly sews the two together, and this is one of the book's most rewarding qualities. With its characters Ralph and Marian resembling Raymond and Maryann, "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?" covers Carver's trip to Mexico, his time spent in Chico, his unfounded distrust of Maryann. "The Night the Mill Boss Died," one of Carver's early stories, was inspired by Carver witnessing a man collapsing from a heart attack at the Simpson Plywood Mill in Eureka, where he brief ly worked. Even the cat in "Neighbors," named Kitty, was based on Carver's landlord's cat, who scratched up his couch. One story haunted Sklenicka to distraction: "So Much Water So Close to Home," in which a group of fishermen find the body of a young girl in the river and do nothing about it for the duration of their entire camping trip. "This is just how obsessed I was with research," Sklenicka explains. "Carver said he read it in a Memorial Day weekend newspaper story in the early '70s. I went through the Chronicle for every Memorial Day weekend, and I couldn't find it." Prominent in Short Cuts, Robert Altman's 1993 film based on Carver's stories, "So Much Water So Close to Home" was later adapted for Jindabyne, a 2006 film starring Gabriel Byrne and Laura Linney. Carver's widespread fame came ultimately from his association with Knopf editor Gordon Lish, painted in Sklenicka's book as a manic, power-obsessive man who overstepped his bounds, particularly with his ravaging of Carver's second book, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Lish severely altered Carver's voice and changed his endings or killed them entirely, as in the iconic "A Small, Good Thing," the story of a baker who makes angry calls to a couple whose son, unbeknownst to him, has just been struck by a car. In Lish's edit, titled "The Bath," the story ends with the baker's antagonizing demand for the couple to pick up the cake they'd ordered. But in Carver's original version, the baker reconciles with the grieving couple, offers them pastries and talks with them until dawn in his kitchen. This exemplifies Carver's empathy for his characters, whereas Lish, Sklenicka says, "had disdain for Carver's characters. That's pretty much what he told me. He said he thought they were `below the salt.'" The literary world had long bandied opinions on whether Lish's imposition on Carver was a small, good thing or a disastrous wreck. Sklenicka turns somber when she talks about the disappearance over the years of Lish's first round of edits for What We Talk About before the scalpel-like second edit. "I think there's a wonderful book there," she rues, "that got trashed in the second round of editing." If Lish emerges as a devil in Sklenicka's book, there's an angel as well: Maryann Carver, Raymond's first wife, who believed in and supported his literary ambitions by working and raising kids for 25 years while Carver drank everything in sight, wrote brilliant stories and once, in 1975, nearly killed her by smashing a wine bottle against her head. Sklenicka's treatment of their tumultuous marriage remains in thrall to Carver's genius while clearly outlaying his brutish, selfish nature. (A letter to the editor from Maryann herself, in fact, praised Stephen King's New York Times review for piecing together the facts of her marriage and defending her patient inf luence on Carver.) The Bazzaar Quality handmade art & goods made exclusively in Sonoma County! 52 Mission Plaza Ste. 123, Santa Rosa a t 3 o 707.537.9454 | bazzaar.rpweb.com Contemporary/Museum Framing Conceptual Art Gallery Nearly every Carver fan wonders, when reading his stories, how much of the discord is autobiographical. Carver did eventually quit drinking in 1977, in McKinleyville, Calif., two days after his publisher sent him a $4,000 advance for his long-talked-about novel. Sklenicka, who studied alcoholism in depth while writing about its debilitating effects on Carver, thinks this is a crucial point in the career of a writer whose characters were so often desperate. Carver's ability to finally quit drinking came from having enough money to live on for the summer, and having something to do. "He had to hit bottom, there's no doubt about it," she says, "but he also had to have, I'd say, hope." After two years of sobriety, Carver met poet Tess Gallagher and further cemented his status in the literary world. In 1988, Carver was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Two weeks later, he married Gallagher in Reno; six weeks after that, he died. But his stories live on, and, thanks to Sklenicka's astounding biography, his own story lives on--for better or for worse. "Finding out about the man didn't change my admiration for the work. It just showed me how hard he had to struggle to stay alive to do that work," she says. "It's almost like people want to completely dismiss his work when they find out about his jerky behavior. That seems na�ve to me about the human condition. It seems to me there's this false moralism around, and people, they're just not going to admire someone if they're not perfect. I don't know, I think we'd lose a lot of good music and art and writing if we stuck by that." Carol Sklenicka reads from and discusses `Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life' on Wednesday, Feb. 17, at River Reader. 16355 Main St., Guerneville. 7pm. Free. 707.869.2240. 707.473.9600 707.474.9600 www.hammerfriar.com Contemporary Japanese Prints 707.875.2922 1781 Hwy 1, Bodega Bay www.renbrown.com RIVERFRONT ART GALLERY Sebastopol Gallery 150 N. Main St. Sebastopol, CA 707.829.7200 Daily 11-6 132 PETALUMA BLVD. NORTH, DOWNTOWN PETALUMA WWW.RIVERFRONTARTGALLERY.COM 707-778-4ART(4278) sebastopol-gallery.com Greatful Dead Memorabilia 110 North Main St., Sebastopol, CA Around the World firstname.lastname@example.com O Locally Made: treehouse 28 clothing 707.829.ROCK (7625) O Artwork, Collectibles & More O Fine Gems & Minerals from Call Today to Advertise! 707.527.1200 | email@example.com 28 02.03.10-02.09.10 THE BOHEMIAN Quarteto Vivace Brasil Sunday, February 7, 3:30pm Wells Fargo Center for the Arts Top Classical Ensembles as they bring sizzling energy to Brazilian sambas and ch�ros, Argentinean tangos, American ragtime, and arrangements of favorite classics by Bach, Carmen by Bizet and Carnival of the Animals by Saint-S�ens. Concert sponsored by American Ag Credit Season Sponsor: Sequoia Senior Solutions Buy One Ticket, Get One Free at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts Box Office: 50 Mark West Springs Road Santa Rosa Must present this ad for offer. Students may purchase any seat in the house for $10. Reserved seats: $20-$40 Purchase 10 or more tickets and receive a 10% discount Tickets: 546-3600 SANTA ROSA CONCERT ASSOCIATION Great Artist Series 2009-10 www.srconcert.org A FULL SERVICE SALON CALL FOR AN APPOINTMENT 707. 228 . 0 4 4 0 R I VA M I S T 707. 523. 4313 NANNETTE RECEI V E A H A IRCU T W I T H MEN T ION OF T HIS A D 122 FOURTH STREET | SANTA ROSA 25% OFF THE BOHEMIAN 02.03.10-02.09.10 29 FUNCTIONAL ART wo ti amoie ni Je t'aime konoronhkwa Funny Valentine Special Guest Artist Doostat d aram Just say... I Love You, s'agapo Bahibik miluji te fine & fashion jewelry beautiful handmade gifts supporting local artists since 1999 Craig Jessup sings Rodgers & Hart RUTH HASTINGS presents February 13 February 19 � 28 VALENTINE 146 N. Main St., Sebastopol 707.829.3036 ~ Daily 10:30 to 6:00pm, Sunday til 5:00pm www.artisanafunctionalart.com Actors' Theater For Children Fairytale Follies Spreckels Performing Arts Center 5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park www.spreckelsonline.com Box Office: 588-3400 SEBASTOPOL COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTER Sat. Feb. 6th 8:00pm UPCOMING CONCERTS AT THE Premium tickets (1st 8 rows/ centered): $20 General tickets: $15 advanced / $18 door CD release concert--the "Ghost Town" tour Sat. Feb. 13th 9:00pm Dance Concert � very limited seating $20 advanced / $23 door A Bluegrass interpretation of `Dark Side of the Moon' w/ special guest Aaron Redner of Hot Buttered Rum on fiddle; liquid lights, costumes and movie backdrop Fri. Feb. 26th 8:00pm Premium tickets $30; General tickets $25 adv/$28 door V�SEN - Mar. 5 All concerts at: Sebastopol Community Cultural Center Tickets & info: 707-823-1511 www.cumuluspresents.com People's Music, Last Record Store JOHN GORKA & PATTY LARKIN - Mar. 12 ALTAN - Mar. 21 30 02.03.10-02.09.10 THE BOHEMIAN Carrie Paff and Kevin Rolston co-star in `Sunlight.' MTC's `Sunlight' shines down on truth, love and country By David Templeton atthew Gibbon, the legendary president of a prestigious Midwestern college, is never happier than when at the center of a fight. Unapologetically arrogant, Matthew has fiercely fought to establish his college as a bastion of liberal ideology, ruling the institution as a colorfully eccentric dictator, a staunch defender of the power of free-thinking. As playwright Sharr White's intellectually and emotionally complex new work Sunlight begins, Matthew would seem to be facing the disintegration of his job, his legacy and possibly his college. An astonishing act of vandalism has taken place on campus, and the neoconservative forces that have been systematically attacking the left-leaning president are now accusing Matthew himself of being the criminal. He faces a vote of no confidence led by the conservative dean of the college's law school, the fiery and slightly paranoid Vincent-- who happens to be married to Matthew's daughter, Charlotte. The family, along with Matthew's feisty longtime secretary Midge, find themselves holed up in his opulent home, alternately fighting, plotting, explaining and defending their various positions. What might have become mind-numbingly ponderous is instead a roller coaster of surprises, disclosures and brilliantly written one-liners. Developed over the last year at the Marin Theatre Company, and recipient of a 2009 Edgerton Foundation New American Play award, Sunlight is now running in its world premiere at MTC, which, under the artistic direction of Jasson Minadakis, who also directs this play, has become known for its dedication to launching new playwrights. White stands among the company's best new finds, a bold writer who knows enough to place his play's intense intellectual debates within a context of real human conflict. After its Mill Valley run, Sunlight will go to three other national companies. Though some critics have accused the play of turning toward melodrama in the second act, audiences are sure to respond powerfully to the late-in-the-game twists that ultimately give the play its heart and soul. With remarkable confidence, White allows his story and its central mystery to unfold as slowly as a blanket gradually pulled from some hidden artifact. As each new element comes into view, the entire picture keeps changing, right up to the play's final moments. With dialogue that includes passionate academic discourse, such stuff requires a steady-handed director and a first-rate cast, and MTC's production has both. Minadakis keeps the pace up, powering through sections that other directors might have stopped to wallow in. His cast is up to the task, presenting a quartet of characters that are each as flawed as they are strangely noble. As Matthew, Charles Dean is a raging, wounded lion, too full of his own certainty to recognize he's run out of last-minute tactics. In Dean's hands, Matthew is an amazing character, impossible to pin down, an omni-dimensional crusader who's lost track of what he really stands for. Kevin Rolston plays the conservative Vincent as his own kind of wounded animal, as convinced of his own positions as Matthew is of his, though in Vincent's case, he's willing to stop at nothing to defend his ideas, his family and even his country. At the center of this epic battle are Pentagon memos that Vincent drafted, supporting the government's use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" on Afghan detainees. The late revelation explaining why Vincent is so steadfastly convinced of the moral rightness of torture has been described as "improbable" by some reviewers; tell that to the friends and family of those who died on Sept. 11, 2001. Vincent's ultimate decisions may be morally reprehensible--and it's fairly certain where White stands on this issue--but the recognizable human pain that powers it is palpably clear in Rolston's aching, clench-fisted performance. Charlotte, possibly the play's most difficult role, is nailed by Carrie Paff, another actor skilled at playing hard and soft at the same time. As Midge, to whom White gives many of his best lines, Wanda McCaddon is all ice and fire, both grieving for the end of Matthew's once-magnificent career and furious at how he appears to have squandered everything so f lippantly. Sunlight signals the arrival of a serious and talented new playwright, and in this complex, elegant production, MTC gives Sharr White a first-class debut. `Sunlight' runs Tuesday�through Sunday through Feb. 14. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday�Saturday at 8pm; Wednesday at 7:30pm; Sunday at 7pm. Also, Feb. 4 at 1pm; Feb. 7 and 12-13 at 2pm. $33�$51. Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave., Mill Valley, 415.388.5208. THE BOHEMIAN 02.03.10-02.09.10 31 New Movies Also Playing www.bohemian.com Your Online Weekly Source 32 02.03.10-02.09.10 THE BOHEMIAN Garrison Keillor's `Prairie Home Companion' beams direct from the icy shores of Lake Woebegone to the Rialto Cinemas Feb. 4 and 9. See Film, p42. Bargain Tuesday - $7.50 All Shows Bargain Tuesday $7.00Thu,Feb 11th All Feb 26th Schedule for Fri, Feb -20th -�Thu, Shows Schedule for Fri, Feb 5th Schedule for Fri, June 22nd - Thu, June 28th Academy Award Nominee 3 Academy Award Nominations! Best Foreign Language Film! "Raw and Riveting!" � Rolling Stone CRAZY HEART WALTZ WITH HEART BASHIR (1:45) 4:30 7:00 9:30 R A MIGHTY 7:00 9:15 R (1:00) 2:45 5:00 (12:30) 3:00 Award 7:20 9:45 R Academy 5:00 Nominee! 2 Academy A SINGLEIncluding Best Actor! Award Noms MAN 10 Academy Award Noms Including Best Picture! THE YOUNG VICTORIA "A Triumph!" WRESTLER Observer (12:30) 2:45 7:20 9:40 R THE � New York (12:20) 2:45 5:10 Nominations! 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MILK WAITRESS Film capsules by Richard von Busack and Eloy Camacho. www.bohemian.com FOR NORTH BAY MOVIE TIMES, GO TO www.sonomamovietimes.com www.marinmovietimes.com www.napamovietimes.com www.bohemian .bohemian.com www.bohemian.com www.bohemian.com FROZEN RIVER Sat, Sun & Mon Mornings 9:50 AM Fri, (12:00) 2:30 5:00 7:30 10:00 10:15 AM VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA 10:10 AM A SERIOUS MAN 10:20 AM CHANGELING 10:20 AM UP Venessa Redgrave Meryl Streep Glenn Close 10:40 AM RACHEL GETTING MARRIED 10:30 AM INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (No Show Sat) 2009 EVENING 10:40 AM NINE LIVE ACTION SHORTS (Fri/Mon Only)) 10:45 AM 10:45 AM 2009 ANIMATED SHORTS June 29th! Starts 10:50 AM THE HURT LOCKER Fri,(Sun Only) REVOLUTIONARY ROAD PARIS, JE 9:50 R THE (11:45) 4:45T'AIME OF IMAGINARIUM (1:15) 4:15 7:00 9:30 R Kevin Jorgenson presents the California Premiere of DOCTOR PARNASSUS (2:30) A BOULDERING FLICK PURE: 9:45 PG-13 No Shows Wed Michael Moore's Thu, Feb 26th 7:15 A SERIOUSatMAN SICKO MOVIES IN THERMORNING 5:00 Starts Fri, June 29th! Fri, Sat, Sun MORNING MOVIES On THE& Mon Advance Tickets IN Sale Now at Box Office! THE BOHEMIAN 02.03.10-02.09.10 33 34 02.03.10-02.09.10 THE BOHEMIAN Hangin' Out When you've fronted one of Sonoma County's most dependable club acts and won annual awards left and right for dance-rock ditties like "Hugs Not Drugs," what's the next step? Become a spiritual mentor and open a rock 'n' roll ashram? Found a chain of strip-mall Mexican restaurants? Those are all well and good, but if you're Pat Jordan, leader of the Pat Jordan Band, you author a book and call it My Penis Is in This Book, Please Read It. Now, even if we knew what the book was about, it's seems better to simply let the mystery hang. Maybe there's a reference to his penis in the book. Maybe the entire story is about his penis. Maybe, good God, there's some sculptural process for the book's pages that is better left unconsidered. Either way, Jordan celebrates the release of his book by singin' and strummin' with the Pat Jordan Band, with Partner and Tommy Rickard from Wonderbread 5 opening, on Friday, Feb. 5, at the Hopmonk Tavern. 230 Petaluma Ave., Sebastopol. 8pm. $12�$15. 707.829.7300. more frequently to Beethoven's sonatas in recent annual trips to Napa. This year, he celebrates Chopin's bicentenary by returning to the work of the composer who helped him make his name 40 years ago in the classical world in an all-Chopin program that's promised to include the delightful 24 Preludes. As for the rest of the program, the sky's the limit; after all, Ohlsson's 16-CD set Chopin: The Complete Works on Hyperion shows no sign of being toppled as the definitive complete piano recordings of one of the instrument's finest composers. He appears on Friday, Feb. 5, at the First United Methodist Church. 625 Randolph St., Napa. 7:30pm. Tickets available only by subscription at $100 for four-concert series. 707.226.2190. Poets on Parade The average Joe who reads a book or two every year might only know author Michael Ondaatje as a novelist behind the film-adapted and Booker Prize-winning The English Patient. But Ondaatje is deeply informed by poetry, having published more than twice as many books of poetry as novels. He sits down this weekend to talk poetry with fellow word sculptor Robert Hass, who served as poet laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and whose collection Time and Materials stands as a modern masterwork. Ondaatje and Hass have appeared together before to discuss their own work together, although as with most meetings of creative minds, tributaries have always been explored--they've chatted about everything from British imperialism to The Seventh Seal to Robert Rauschenberg. See what unexpected topic pop up when the two literary giants appear in conversation on Saturday, Feb. 6, at the Dance Palace. Fifth and B streets, Pt. Reyes Station. 7pm. $20. 415.663.1075. The Elements Breakdancing, MC-ing, graffiti writing and DJing: these are the elements of hip-hop, and the foundations on which the distinctly American art form is built. All four are in full force this weekend at `The Power of Hip-Hop,' an event reinforcing the positive vibes and roots of an oft-maligned genre by bringing together all factions of the local hip-hop community. On the wheels of steel are DJs Primo, Rob Cervantes, Ciao Montano and Ricky Switch; on the mic are Alkhemy, New Day, Distant Relatives, Dahlak and Rob-I-Root. Keep your ears peeled especially for God's Oddities, a Santa Rosa group with a full live band that sounds like Atmosphere fronting early Sublime. Breakdance crews will be in effect getting busy over a four-turntable DJ jam and an open-mic freestyle battle, and to top it all off, there'll be a 40-foot graffiti wall for some serious wild styles. Now all we gotta do is convince Nas to come to show him that hip-hop isn't dead on Friday, Feb. 5, at the Phoenix Theater. 201 E. Washington St., Petaluma. 7pm. $8. 707.762.3565. Piano al Forte The Grammy-winning pianist Garrick Ohlsson, who became the first American to win the International Fr�d�ric Chopin Piano Competition in 1970, is a world-renowned star of classical piano. With an enormous repertoire and a dizzying finger span (a 13th in the left hand; 12th in the right), Ohlsson, a resident of San Francisco, has turned ever Dirty South The malaise of the desert, the heat of the asphalt, the heartbreak of sprawl--these are the fuels for L.A.'s country songwriters, from Clarence White to Dave Alvin. The Southern California country scene is not and never will be as huge as Nashville's, but it sure does inf luence everything around it. Who could have predicted the Byrds' twang-tinged Sweetheart of the Rodeo or seminal punk band X regrouping as the bluegrass outfit the Knitters? Or, for that matter, the singer for the Strawberry Alarm Clock joining the outstanding roadhouse ensemble I See Hawks in L.A.? With the Strawberry Alarm Clock's Paul Marshall--yes, that's him singing in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls--I See Hawks in L.A. have grown into what Alvin himself calls "one of California's unique treasures." With high three-part harmonies and a psychedelic bent that would make Gram Parsons proud, the band celebrates their new collection Shoulda Been Gold: 2001�2009 on Friday, Feb. 5, at Studio E. Rural Sebastopol, map provided with ticket. 8pm. $22. 707.542.7143. THE BOHEMIAN 02.03.10-02.09.10 35 EVERY MONDAY ! DEREK SMITH'S OPEN MIC EVERY TUESDAY ! UZILEVSKY KORTY DUO THURS ! FEB 4 ! 9PM ! $10 FRI ! FEB 5 ! 9PM ! $22ADV/$25DOS SAT ! FEB 6 ! 9PM ! $12 19TH BROADWAY RISES FORM THE ASHES ALBINO MUNGA HONURABLE SPECIAL GUEST: HILLSIDE FIRE & MAMA'S COOKIN ROB BLAKE BAND NEXT WEEK SUN ! FEB 7 ! 9PM UZILEVSKY KORTY DUO WITH SPECIAL GUESTS WED ! FEB 10 BARTHYME 6PM DIAMOND ORTIZ 9PM TUESDAY ! FEB 9 ! 9PM HOT UPCOMING ACTS REGGAE VETERAN MICHAEL ROSE 2/13 $25ADV/$30 DOS WONDERBREAD 5 2/19 $15 ELVIN BISHOP 2/26 $22.50ADV/$30 DOS MELVIN SEALS & JGB $20/$25 DOS 36 02.03.10-02.09.10 THE BOHEMIAN Concerts Wed, Feb 3 8:45-9:45am; 5:45-6:45 Jazzercise 10am-12:15pm Scottish Dance Youth and Family 7:00-10:00pm Singles & Pairs Square Dance Club Thur, Feb 4 8:45-9:45am; 5:45-6:45 Jazzercise 7:25�11:00pm Circles N' Squares Square Dance Club Fri, Feb 5 8:45-9:45am Jazzercise 7:15�11:00pm DJ Steve Luther hosts a West Coast Swing Party $10 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 2/4 8:30 PM SHOW > $10/12 > HIP HOP + Rapping 4-Tay + At All Costs Sat, Feb 6 8:00-9:00am; 9:15-10:15am Jazzercise 10:30-11:45am Salsa Workout with DJ Steve Luther 7:00pm DJ Freddie Marsh-Lott hosts 8 pm dance an evening of dance - cha cha lessons with Jennifer & Dennis Goff $10 Sun, Feb 7 8:30-9:30am Jazzercise 10:30�11:30am Zumba Fitness with Anna 5:00�9:30pm DJ Steve Luther Country-Western Lessons & Dancing $10 Mon, Feb 8 8:45-9:45am; 5:45-6:45pm Jazzercise 3:30pm WEIGHTWATCHERS MEETING Weigh in 3:30, Meeting 4:00 7:00-10:00pm Scottish Country Dancing Tues, Feb 9 8:45-9:45am; 5:45-6:45pm Jazzercise 9:30am WEIGHTWATCHERS MEETING Weigh in 9:30, Meeting 10:00 7:15-9:00pm AFRICAN DANCE with Victoria Strowbridge featuring West African & Congolese Dance San Quinn 2/5 9:30 PM SHOW > $15 > HEAVY METAL SFARZO STRINGS PRESENTS LIZZY BORDEN + Damage Inc. (Tribute to Metallica) + Aftertayst 2/6 9:00 PM SHOW > $15 > MOTOWN PRIDE & JOY + DJ ON-QUE 2/7 1:00 PM SHOW > $10 > DIXIELAND JAZZ Santa Rosa's Social Hall since 1922 1400 W. College Avenue � Santa Rosa, CA 707.539.5507 � www.monroe-hall.com GOLD COAST JAZZ BAND + T.R.A.D. J.A.S.S. 2/11 9:30 PM SHOW > $6/8 > REGGAE ROCK PION 2 ZION + BLUESHIFT + DJ DISTRUST 2/12 9:00 PM SHOW > $15/20 > MALE DANCERS HAVE A GIRLS NIGHT OUT CALIFORNIA BAD BOYZ 2/13 9:30 PM SHOW > $13/15 > ROCK FRANK HANNON (LEAD GUITARIST BAND FROM TESLA) + LUVPLANET + 21 GRAMS 2/16 5:30 PM SHOW > $7/10 > R&B FUNK I-10 MUSIC SERIES PRESENTS MARDI GRAS PARTY WITH RHYTHMTOWN-JIVE FEATURING MIKE RINTA 2/18 8:30 PM SHOW > $10/12 > ROCK HALESTORM + ADELITAS WAY + 26 MPH 2/19 8:30 PM SHOW > $15/18 > BLUES W.C. CLARK all shows are 21+ unless noted for reservations: 707.545.5876 707.545.2343 120 5th street @ davis street santa rosa, ca John Courage blows back through town Feb. 5 at the Sweet Spot. See Concerts, left. lastdaysaloon.com THE BOHEMIAN 02.03.10-02.09.10 37 Dinner and a Show Reservations advised HAPPY HOUR M�F � 4�6PM EST. 1941 Take a scenic drive for a unique dining experience 20 min from downtown Petaluma, 25 min from everywhere else! DON'T FORGET...WE SERVE FOOD TOO! Clubs Mc Near's Dining House Breakfast � Lunch � Dinner BBQ � Pasta � Steak FRI 2/5 � 7:00PM DOORS � $15 ADV/$17 DOS � 21+ ROCK Fri Feb Sat 5 RON THOMPSON 8:00pm / In the Bar Blues Wizard Feb Sun UNAUTHORIZED ROLLING STONES 6 8:30pm SUPERBOWL SUNDAY PARTY 7 Pregame Brunch 11�3 Happy Hour Menu 3�6 Serving Dinner 5�9 Rancho Debut! Hot Latin Jazz Fusion Dance Band 8:30pm 8:30pm Special Valentine Songs Feb THE MOTHER HIPS WITH BIG LIGHT & DAVE BROGAN SAT 2/6 � 8:45PM DOORS � $17 � 21+ DANCE PARTY BAND Valentine's Weekend Fri Feb 12 Sat BAUTISTA AN EVENING WITH Feb 13 Sun TOMMY CASTRO BAND Ash Scheiding and Brian Moss return to form WONDERBREAD 5 FRI 2/12 � 7:00PM DOORS � $23 ADV/$25 DOS � 18+ SINGER/SONGWRITER Feb 14 MIKE LIPSKIN & DINAH LEE E 4:00pm / In the Bar Enjoy a Romantic Evening with A LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III PLUS SOLID AIR SAT 2/13 � 7:00PM DOORS � $15 � 16+ ROCK THE BAGUETTE QUARTETTE 7:30pm Fri SPECIAL VALENTINE'S DAY MENU Feb 19 Sat Feb 20 Sun THE LOST BOYS WITH CLOVERLEAF DRIVE FRI 2/19 � 8:00PM DOORS � $25 ADV/$30 DOS � 21+ REGGAE Original Western Swing 8:30pm Special Luau Buffet WILLIE K WITH AVI RONEN & JOE CANO "Hands of Fire" 8:30pm High Octane Americana 4:00pm BIG BEN AND HIS SNAKEOIL SAVIORS D K R Feb 21 HOUSTON JONES THE KINGDOM OF ZION TOUR On the Town Square, Nicasio www.ranchonicasio.com 415.662.2219 ALBOROSIE & THE SHENGEN CLAN SAT 2/20 � 7:00PM DOORS � $20 BALCONY/$25 FLOOR � 16+ COMEDY LOOKING FOR INTELLIGENT LIFE TOUR GALLAGHER SUN 2/21 � 7:30PM DOORS � $25 � ALL AGES FUNK/BLUES/HIP HOP G LOVE & SPECIAL SAUCE WITH REDEYE EMPIRE TUE 2/23 � 7:00PM DOORS � $30 ADV/$32 DOS � 18+ JAZZ AN EVENING WITH MEDESKI MARTIN AND WOOD WED 2/24 � 7:00PM DOORS � $25 � 21+ FOLK/BLUES JORMA KAOUKONEN PLUS GE SMITH SUN 2/28 � 8:00PM DOORS � $25 � 21+ JAM BAND sh Scheiding, who lived across from the Bohemian offices for years and who possesses one of the most hypnotic voices ever to grace a Sonoma County stage, has a new band. That's not news, at least to those who have followed her immense talent--Scheiding has generally kept a band, or a band name, for a year or two before moving on. One could say she trades up. Her latest, Kindness and Lies, is Sheiding's best band yet, owing largely to the strongest songs she's ever written. "I feel really solid about this band," she told me recently. "I have good feelings about us working together for quite a while." Good feelings abound on the band's newest EP Look Up Now, featuring "Rosa," which addresses the emotions on packing up and finally leaving Santa Rosa. Where Scheiding's new songs are more straightforward, "Rosa" contains all the elements that make this band great: Betsy Adams' tasteful guitar, Niki Marie's perfect harmonies, and as always, Scheiding's voice, which sounds like a thousand hearts breaking. "Will the next thing, next phase, look anything the same?" she sings. "Will I stop referring to you as home?" Home--it's a concept by which Brian Moss measures his life; with his acoustic project Hanalei, he often sings of returning there from some upheaval or another. Hanalei's upcoming album One Big Night was even recorded entirely at home, using only the internal microphone on Moss' laptop. (It does not sound like crap.) Sad songs in happy, major keys are Moss' forte-- though the words point to last night's debauchery, the light, finger-picked guitar lines herald a new dawn with eyes slowly adjusting. Moss, who grew up in the Bay Area before moving to Chicago and founding seminal post-punk band the Ghost, still sings of the Midwest as if the whole thing were a mixed relationship he still hasn't untangled. "Twilight Gleam" memorializes "the apathy of I-80 and the promises of Dan Ryan," the expressway around Chitown. The apathy of I-80? If you've ever driven across the country, you know what he means. Kindness and Lies, Hanalei, Snipers and the True Mad North play on Friday, Feb. 5, at Guayak� Mate Bar. 6782 Sebastopol Ave., Sebastopol. 7pm. $5. 707.824.6644. Gabe Meline (CHRIS BERRY TRIO) WITH SPECIAL GUEST CB-3 STEVE KIMOCK For All Ages Shows � No Children Under 10 Allowed www.bohemian.com www.bohemian .bohemian.com www.bohemian.com 23 Petaluma Blvd, Petaluma 707-765-2121 www.mcnears.com 38 02.03.10-02.09.10 THE BOHEMIAN www.bohemian.com Coyote Den Bar & Dance Hall Saturday, February 6th � 7pm Huge Screen in Event Center Across the bridge Free Appetizer Buffet � Fun UFC Stuff Giveaway UFC Pint Glass Beer Specials Budweiser� Ring Girl 707.485.0700 � ww.coyotevalleycasino.com 5 miles North of Ukiah, Hwy 101, West Rd. Exit THE BOHEMIAN 02.03.10-02.09.10 39 Most fans could easily pick Dave Rawlings' indelible style out of a lineup. Dave Rawlings is terrible at sounding like other people By Gabe Meline here's a recurring skit Dave Rawlings sometimes brushes off during his concerts that he and his band mate, the esteemed Gillian Welch, like to call "It's Not the Guitar." Having fielded unending questions from guitar nerds about what type of guitar Rawlings plays--as if possessing such secret information would magically unlock untapped abilities in the inquisitor--the two switch guitars, Welch plays a ragged version of "Wildwood Flower" on Rawlings' old 1935 National archtop guitar, and the truth is clear. It's not the guitar. "A lot of people have picked up my little guitar over the years and said, `This doesn't sound that good,'" laughs Rawlings from the road, on tour between Los Angeles and Tucson. "There is a certain way to play that instrument to make it sound good; it's just not necessarily the most obvious. You sort of have to manhandle it." Rawlings, who appears with Welch and members of the Old Crow Medicine Show at the Mystic Theatre Feb. 8, is among the most unique guitarists in modern bluegrass. Like the singular late saxophonist Eric Dolphy, Rawlings has a habit of incorporating dissonant notes that land just a little offkilter into his melodic solos. "I don't know why those notes appeal to me, but they always have. As soon as I started playing any instrument, I had a predisposition for those sounds," he explains. "Playing those notes," he adds, "means I don't have to worry too much about going, `Well, I've got to think of something that doesn't sound like other people.' And, I mean, I'm terrible at sounding like other people." What he's amazing at is sounding like himself. On Gillian Welch's sublime 2001 album Time (The Revelator), Rawlings' surreal playing makes the 14-minute "I Dream a Highway" go by in what seems like two or three minutes; it also provides an exciting moment on the live-recorded "I Want to Play that Rock and Roll," when his iconic solo, with occasional notes just askance of proper, rumbles to a rigorous close, rousing the audience at the Ryman Auditorium to audible, disbelieving joy. A Friend of a Friend, Rawlings' new album made to tide over fans waiting six years for another Gillian Welch record (she's working on one, he consoles), isn't just a fine showcase for his playing, heard in its most morphine-like quality on the lengthy cover of Neil Young's "Cortez the Killer." "Ruby" and "Bells of Harlem" show Rawlings' commanding songwriting and voice, which he casually says has a "lack of prettiness." "When I say `lack of prettiness,'" he clarifies, "I don't necessarily mean that as a bad thing. It's hard for me to appreciate my own voice, that's true, but I'm at least intellectually aware that I like male vocalists with reedy, strange voices. Those are my favorite kinds of singers." Combined in medley with "Cortez the Killer" is the Bright Eyes song "Method Acting," originally sung by the reedy, strange voice of Conor Oberst. Once a feisty, uptempo outlet for Oberst's angst, Rawlings draws out a heretofore unrecognized sorrow in the song's inward-looking lyrics. "That's one of the great things about music," Rawlings says. "It can go a few different ways, as long as there's some sort of underlying emotional truth to it. Are you familiar with the Joe Cocker version of `With a Little Help from My Friends'? I always thought that was a great cover, and very valid, because it sounded like Joe had completely different friends." Traveling on a string of dates with his own friends, Rawlings says the tour's set list comprises his record, his recordings with Welch, some Old Crow songs and, as always, a handful of covers. It's a troubadour revue that's not to be missed. Rawlings' last day job was working as a bar back and glass-runner at the enormous Wright's Farm Restaurant in Rhode Island, and he says that his perpetual smile onstage isn't just an act--that he feels blessed to play onstage night after night. It shows. "The moment that someone gave me $65 playing guitar in a country band one night," he says, "I knew I would never work another straight job in my life. 'Cause that seemed like all the money in the world to me." The Dave Rawlings Machine plays Monday, Feb. 8, at the Mystic Theatre. 23 Petaluma Blvd. N., Petaluma. 8pm. $28�$30. 707.765.2121. 40 02.03.10-02.09.10 THE BOHEMIAN Molly Hills Perez is among the South A Street artists in Lucky 10. See Events, below. Galleries THE BOHEMIAN 02.03.10-02.09.10 41 Sonoma County's only `art house' has vision anta Rosa hasn't always been a mecca for folks favoring art and foreign films as well as Hollywood's finest offerings. Many had maintained that Sonoma County couldn't sustain a movie house catering to "special" audiences. That all changed in early 2000, the year that the Rialto Cinemas Lakeside doors opened. Proprietor Ky Boyd remembers it as "a lifelong dream [which] became a reality that has changed my life in more ways than I ever dared dream." As a kid growing up in Great Falls, Mont., Boyd says that he "was a borderline reading student in third grade, but movies changed my life." Today, Boyd, 45, is almost as dedicated to books as to movies. "When I was a teenager, movies were an escapism, but in college I discovered foreign film and that's where my passion comes from." He took a circuitous route to Santa Rosa, first earning a business degree at Missoula's University of Montana, then a Master of Arts at the University of Cincinnati. He says at age 18, he "discovered there were films beyond the mainstream." After three years with the Indianapolis Repertory Theatre, California called. In 1993 he worked at the University of California's San Francisco Medical Center. Despite naysayers, and with strong support from family, friends, hard work and demographic studies, the Rialto Cinemas Lakeside came to be. The Rialto provides a bridge between culture and commerce, and offers community involvement benefiting both Sonoma County and the theater. Among its unusual offerings are the live screenings of opera. Boyd remembers, "During the Christmas season of 2006, a patron came up to me one night and said, `You are going to be doing the Metropolitan Opera presentations, aren't you?' At that moment I didn't know what he was referring to, but I promised to look into it." Everyone assumed Boyd loved opera, since he ultimately took a chance on such a risky idea. However, he's not an opera fan. "But," he says, "the arts administrator in me recognized there was an audience. I think some of my staff thought I was crazy at the time." Boyd almost waxes poetic when describing what he feels is a wonderful life, as he did in these recent remarks: "A great movie is like catching lightning in a bottle. The stars really have to be alive. One of the great joys has been bringing little or great movies to the Sonoma County audiences these past 10 years." Geets Vincent S Comedy 42 02.03.10-02.09.10 THE BOHEMIAN Dance F&D Events Lowest Price in Town! Brazilian Waxing � � � � fast (30 min) licensed & professional clean & sanitary affordable ($35) "Always Professional, Always Affordable" Touchstone Therapies 707.331.0631 882 2nd Street, Santa Rosa www.touchstonespatherapies.com THE BOHEMIAN 02.03.10-02.09.10 43 Film Steelhead Festival raises awareness about threatened species ow in its third year, the Healdsburg Wild Steelhead Festival aims to educate the community about its underwater members. Threatened by development of their native habitat, the population of steelhead trout in the Russian River watershed is dwindling where it once flourished. Overly 60 sponsors have come forward to support the effort, a surprisingly varied group of local organizations that are nonetheless united by love of steelhead, whether for sport, cuisine or conservation. Money raised from the nonprofit event, which is primarily supported by sponsorship, will pay for a restoration plan for Foss Creek, a tributary of the Russian River that runs through Healdsburg. But the troubling disappearance of steelhead isn't limited to Healdsburg alone. "Even though the festival is in Healdsburg, it brings attention to all the watersheds of Sonoma County," says event organizer Liz Keeley. Running Feb. 5�7, the festival kicks off with a threecourse seasonal meal prepared by chef Charlie Palmer's Dry Creek Kitchen and guest speaker Jim Lichatowich, author of Salmon Without Rivers: A History of the Pacific Salmon Crisis. The dinner is followed on Saturday by a plethora of free activities at the Healdsburg plaza. Young, aspiring anglers can try their hand at the trout pond or decorate a cookie fish at the Costeaux French Bakery table. A live steelhead display--a fish tank as big as a room--offers visitors a chance to get up close and personal with the threatened species. On Sunday, visitors are invited to truly plunge into the fish world by booking a guided fishing trip or sign up for a sustainable, steelheadcentric cooking class with Dustin Vallette at the acclaimed Relish Culinary Center. The cooking class will demonstrate how to select, handle, store and cook steelhead, and will conclude with a delicious seafood feast. The Healdsburg Steelhead Festival runs Friday�Sunday, Feb. 5�7. Friday, Hotel Healdsburg, 25 Matheson St., Healdsburg. 6pm., $100. Saturday, Healdsburg Plaza, 10am�4pm, Free. Sunday, Relish Culinary Center, 14 Matheson St., Healdsburg. 11am. $92. 707.484.6438. Rose McMackin N Lectures Field Trips For Kids 44 02.03.10-02.09.10 THE BOHEMIAN Public Enemy's Professor Griff speaks at SSU on Feb. 8. See Lectures. 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