text:
A OG OCKET Y Y ZU MANL LY A UMB T OF EA S TE A AT SE A O R Locals receive 707-829-0692 Rose Lucchese DDS 568 Petaluma Ave Sebastopol The Hyatt Vinyard Creek Hotel & Spa 170 Railroad Street, Santa Rosa Reservation: 707.636.7300 Hotel: 707.636.7100 www.vinyardcreek.hyatt.com must bring in this coupon ! Full Service Dentistry ! 21 Years in Practice ! Cosmetic Dentistry ! Warm environ- ment with knowledgable staff ! All ages welcome! 02 THE BOHEMIAN 01.20.10-01.26.10
Catching Air GABE MELINE THROWS HIMSELF AT IT H F 2010 RO H&F 2010 ROCKET YOGA OCKET YOG A MANLY ZUMBA GREATEST OF EASE MANLY ZU L UMBA GREATEST AT EASE A Feel at Home with Your Dentist! ! Full Service Dentistry ! 21 Years in Practice ! Cosmetic Dentistry ! Warm environment with knowledgable staff ! All ages welcome! Locals Spa Pass Locals receive 20% off must bring in this coupon The Hyatt Vinyard Creek Hotel & Spa 170 Railroad Street, Santa Rosa Reservation: 707.636.7300 Hotel: 707.636.7100 www.vinyardcreek.hyatt.com in the Spa Rose Lucchese DDS 568 Petaluma Ave Sebastopol 707-829-0692 02 01.20.10-01.26.10 THE BOHEMIAN $ 00 1 Off any size bag of Prairie dry Dog or Cat food Western Farm Center Fine Dining For Wild Birds 71 Brookwood Ave., Santa Rosa 707.576.0861 Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 11am-4pm � www.wbu.com Birdseed . Feeders . Birdbaths . Optics . Nature Gifts . Books THE BOHEMIAN 01.20.10-01.26.10 03 calm org organic s ene calm calm orga serene c ganic sere 04 01.20.10-01.26.10 THE BOHEMIAN THE BOHEMIAN 01.20.10-01.26.10 05 As a member of the management team at Wine Bottle Recycling, LLC, we certainly appreciate the positive comments we have received regarding the excellent article on our wine-bottle reuse program featured in the Jan. 6 issue ("Bottle Blues"). Although members of our team made certain comments relative to recycling that appeared to be negative, we all know and understand that reuse is but one of many ways to improve our environment when it comes to glass bottles, and that includes recycling and newer light-weight bottles, to name a couple. One of the strengths of our business plan is predicated on working with local recycling facilities. They have the infrastructure, delivery system and expertise to handle all facets of bringing a more green glass to the marketplace, whether it is for reuse or recycle. While experts in the field all agree that reuse is higher on the resource recovery hierarchy, both reuse and recycling share important and tangible environmental benefits, including significant energy savings and CO2 reductions. Both strategies create new local jobs and capture raw materials (and for glass containers with no loss of purity, quality or additional waste or by-products created) and therein lies the promise of a truly sustainable society. Any opportunity to recycle and save energy is certainly worth our time and effort. Thanks for allowing me to make an important points regarding the importance of our entire recycling program for glass and other materials. After a couple reads of last week's article about Douglas Keane's civil suit against a Healdsburg teenager, I still have no idea what her gender has to do with the story ("Foie Gras Flap," Jan. 13). It really is a giant WTF. My memories of being a 16-year-old hetero, white, gender-conforming male are tough enough; I can't imagine how rough it would be to be outed in the local alt weekly just after being sued for a million bucks by a guy who has tried to peg you as a crazed fringe element. I'm wondering about a couple other things also. Why didn't the Healdsburg police or Sonoma County DA pursue criminal charges for the alleged assault or the threatening emails? Why didn't the article even mention the million dollar punitive damages aspect of the suit Mr. Keane's legal team filed? Last time I checked, a restraining order is a pretty easy thing to get, especially if there is a pattern of intimidation. Going after a teenager for a million bucks with a high-priced legal team seems kind of excessive. That law enforcement didn't go after these charges also says something. And finally, even though foie gras got top billing in the headline, there was no description of why it's controversial or what a vet would be doing at a farm that raises birds for foie gras. Enlighten me. I'm a power-dynamics and social-movements guy, and I could give a crap about yuppie grub. This is your chance to get me to read about food, and you're blowing it. I wanted to let readers of and writers for this publication know that using the word "transvestite" with regard to a minor who may or may not be "out" to their family or community is not OK. It is a violation of privacy. I am not involved in this case and don't have feelings about foie gras one way of another, but I object strongly to the possible defamation of the young person in question. We need to be sensitive to the fact that there are differences between transvestites, transsexuals and transgendered people. Use the correct term when appropriate for an adult or for someone who wishes to be identified in this way. The tone of the article uses the word "transvestite" as a weapon to show that the young activist is some how unhinged. I wish that the Bohemian, of all publications, would be more sensitive to queer identities in future. 06 01.20.10-01.26.10 THE BOHEMIAN news for Sonoma, Marin & Napa Counties "Official Newspaper of President Obama's Second Year in Office" y Wal-Mart plans to open a supercenter in every California county similar to this one in Canada. Wal-Mart's proposed Rohnert Park expansion is just part of the usual plan, says UC history professor By Kylie Mendonca elson Lichtenstein can sound like someone with important news to share when he starts talking about Wal-Mart's contributions to the American and global business worlds. Not one for a pregnant pause or lulls in conversation, Lichtenstein moves seamlessly between his thoughts, fast as they come. For all his excitement over the mega-retailer, Lichtenstein is not singing the praises of cheap products and cheaper labor. This University of California Santa Barbara history professor, as they say, "wrote the book" on Wal-Mart--literally--penning some 300 pages of history, criticism and personal journey on the company ranging from its sweatshops in China to its corporate home in Arkansas. Lichtenstein will speak and sign copies of his new book, The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business, on Jan. 22 in Santa Rosa. His arrival has local resonance. In the coming weeks, Rohnert Park city officials will be talking about Wal-Mart, too. The proposed 24-hour Wal-Mart supercenter project will go before the planning commission for review this winter, a proposal to expand the city's current Wal-Mart into a full grocery store. The only other such supercenter in the North Bay is located in American Canyon, though the company is said to have plans to construct one in each California county. Locally owned grocers are concerned, and opposition in Napa County stalled the American Canyon project for three years before it was finally approved. Under the current proposal, the shopping center could grow by more than 40,000 square feet, ballooning from its current 131,532-square-foot footprint to almost 171,800 square feet. According to the environmental impact report, finalized Jan. 15, the space will bring locals new job opportunities, new shopping convenience-- and plenty of new traffic congestion, too. While neighbors worry that the expansion could put local grocery stores out of business, Lichtenstein focuses on the ripples left by the retailer across the global business landscape. The problem with Wal-Mart, THE BOHEMIAN 01.20.10-01.26.10 07 LAW SCHOOL Informational Seminar Tuesday, February 2 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. Keynote Speaker: Professor Kadin W. Blonski, Esq. Associate, Lanahan & Reilley LLP Empire Class of 2006 Since 1973, Empire College School of Law has prepared more than 700 graduates for careers as attorneys. Alumni now comprise approximately 25% of the Sonoma County Bar and include members of the judiciary in Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino, and Merced Counties. In praise of living so close to the earth you can always touch it with your foot By L. Bailey Jean ast April, I rid myself of a car to start land longboarding, and to attempt to build my artisan business within what I call a "naturo-physical" state. A response to the manufactured lifestyle I know as mainstream society, the naturophysical state is my attempt to direct and better control the relationship among raw physical ability, biodynamic food, clean water, immediate environment, personal work and interests, successes and progress, and social interactions. The notion is that I can design a livelihood within a manual radius, essentially meaning on foot, and can maintain prosperity without the abundance of external materials and mechanized behavior that defines a "typical" American life. I believe that if individuals molded their lives in accordance to a naturo-physical state, then we would see a shift en masse away from the inertia of lives spent merely producing goods, not-so-goods and everything in between. Land longboarding grants me the kind of mobility, albeit a rustic kind, that resonates with much of my internal direction. By moving and working, mostly on foot, my body grows fit, and this fitness helps increase my vitality. I can then work harder or go farther on the board, and so can reach more people. At some point during the day, certainly, my physical capability will be tapped, but this merely provides an opportunity for another to continue the project; the lifestyle, then, is inherently cooperative. Such a system, I believe, could encourage more people to supply the materials a society requires, spreading activity and engaging the community. In the larger society of our country, I envision many smaller circles promoting a kind of life keyed to the specific and natural ebb and f low of an area's biology and harvest rhythms. The naturo-physical state encourages a lifestyle that partakes of organic gardens, clean water and air, agile movement, good sleep and balancing perceived needs with what is available on foot. On the longboard, more time is needed to get around, but the journeys are undertaken with intention, for I cannot carry much. In this mode, fewer things seem important, but what is important receives more attention. It's true there are times when having a car would be nicer, but difficulties traveling on the board and going by foot merely elicit thoughts about what drives lifestyle, community and city development. I am almost at a point where my business is demanding increased vehicular mobility, which could possibly create a dilemma over the basic principles of living in a naturophysical state. But with resourceful thinking, or people in the community willing to horse-and-buggy around an over-idealist, I may be able to keep a business f lowing and growing on foot. Longboarding everyday certainly takes effort, but now I sort of need it. I like improving my balance and foot-touch, and I like the daily physical exertion. As with anything requiring practice, the more hours spent utilizing fine motor skills, the better these skills become. And, too, my physical movement and prowess increase just by living life, for even if it is raining and I have to be somewhere, I can always run. As my body grows stronger, I am driven to keep it strong and it is easier to maintain. Of course I need to earn a living and pay bills, yet staying physically fit is the thing I care about most, no matter what I do. L. Bailey Jean is the owner of Espresso Bloc, hand-ground artisanal coffees. She's online at www.espressobloc.com. Open Mic is a weekly feature in the Bohemian. We welcome your contribution. To have your topical essay of 700 words considered for publication, write firstname.lastname@example.com. Call today to reserve your seat! 707-546-4000 www.empcol.edu 3035 Cleveland Ave. Santa Rosa Get relief from allergens with... This revolutionary new line of products helps eliminate the build-up of allergens that cause on-going irritation and sensitivity. aah! products work with a unique blend of powerful, non-toxic, plant and mineral based ingredients that quickly break down allergen proteins from dust mites, dog and cat dander while being safe to use anywhere in your home, including around children and pets. Look for aah! at these selected stores near you. Windsor (8852 Lakewood Drive) Santa Rosa (1 407 Fulton Road) Rohnert Park (100 Raley's Town Center) Petaluma (1 N. McDowell Boulevard) 57 Napa (21 Soscol Avenue) 7 Benicia (890 Southampton Road) On the longboard, more time is needed to get around, but the journeys are undertaken with intention, for I cannot carry much. www.aahzone.com Save $100 on any Asthma & Allergy Health product RETAILER: LIMIT ONE COUPON PER ITEM PURCHASED. Reproduction of this coupon is expressly prohibited and any other use constitutes fraud. Coupons not properly redeemed will be void and held. Please send this coupon back to: GameChanger Products, 2207 Harbor Bay Parkway, Alameda, CA 94502. BOH STORE COUPON � � � � � EXPIRES 3/31/1 0 Anti-Allergen Soft Surface Care Anti-Allergen Hard Surface Cleaner Anti-Allergen Laundry Detergent Anti-Allergen Pet Shampoo Anti-Allergen Pillow Encasement 08 01.20.10-01.26.10 THE BOHEMIAN he argues, is not so much found in the trail of small-town retail wreckage it leaves but in the example it sets for other major retailers and their employees. Wal-Mart is less important as a Wal-Mart, Lichtenstein says, "than it is important for what it teaches." The Wal-Mart model, Lichtenstein says, is low prices bought on the backs of workers. Sure, the consumer saves a buck, but that buck has to come from somewhere, and Lichtenstein argues it comes from the workers in the form of lower wages, scanty benefits and minimal job security. "In general," Lichtenstein says, "they are pulling down the wage level for millions of people" For Lichtenstein, this trend was underscored some five years ago when a group of grocery store workers in Southern California held massive demonstrations against their corporate bosses. In response to market pressures, he writes, corporations such as Safeway and others asked workers to take pay cuts. The unions, of course, were not keen. Lichtenstein identified this request as a sort of "Wal-Mart effect." Several local business groups have latched on to Lichtenstein's message. The Living Wage Coalition on Sonoma County, Go Local Sonoma County and the North Bay Labor Council, are among the groups sponsoring Lichtenstein's upcoming talk. Martin Bennett, co-chair of the Living Wage Coalition of Sonoma County, is among those who oppose the proposed expansion. "The decision by the Rohnert Park city council will be closely watched and, if affirmative, highly controversial, particularly given the rejection by the Santa Rosa city council of a proposed Lowe's Home Improvement store earlier this year," he says. For Bennett, the construction of a supercenter is about more than low wages and what some see as unfair grocery store competition. In addition to an EIR, the Living Wage Coalition consistently seeks community impact reports for such large businesses, looking to measure how the overall quality of life is affected when a bigbox retailer comes into town or, as in this case, grows even bigger. In 2006, Wal-Mart approached the city of Santa Rosa to take over an idle lot in the unincorporated southwest part of town. The corporation finally dropped efforts to build last February after activist groups successfully pressed a lawsuit against the corporation over its environmental impact report. The store's loss meant a half a million dollar estimated loss in Santa Rosa sales tax revenue. But being sued is part of the WalMart story, according to Lichtenstein. He writes: "When Wal-Mart locates one of its grocery-selling supercenters in metropolitan America, it asserts the legitimacy and power of a brand of capitalism that is antithetical to the regulated marketplace. . . . The company is therefore constantly defending itself against a set of class-action lawsuits." In other words, it's par for the course. Nelson Lichtenstein appears at Copperfield's Books on Friday, Jan. 22, at 7pm. 2316 Montgomery Drive, Santa Rosa. Free. 707.578.8938. Santa Rosa Treatment Program get high on not on drugs SANTA ROSA TREATMENT PROGRAM 1901 Cleveland Ave Suite B, Santa Rosa 707-576-0818 � Heroin/Opiate (Vicodin, Oxycontin) detox and maintenance utilizing Methadone � Methamphetamine and other stimulant treatment � Subutex/Suboxone available � Providing Treatment since 1984 � Confidentiality assured life Lowest Price in Town! Brazilian Waxing 35 $ Touchstone Therapies 707.331.0631 "Always Professional, Always Affordable" 882 2nd Street, Santa Rosa | www.touchstonespatherapies.com THE BOHEMIAN 01.20.10-01.26.10 09 Don't discount recycling when searching for a new biz model By Juliane Poirier o enter the new green paradigm requires a change in thinking, which naturally leads to change in behaviors and strategies. In the transforming market place especially, self-touted greenies might blunder if they use marketing tools that belong to a past era. Take swiping, for example. As old as sales itself is the tactical put-down: "My new whozit is so fabulous that your longtime whatzit must be trash." So went the comments of Bruce Stephens, quoted in the recent Bohemian article ("Bottle Blues," Jan. 6) about the business he co-owns with Napa supervisor Bill Dodd. The two entrepreneurs plan to profit from washing wine bottles for reuse. Cool idea. But Stephens plugs his bottle-washing business by dissing glass recycling. Not cool. In fact, I'd call that a major tactical error. Time to call in the damage-control experts before serious setbacks result, once again, for recycling. (See Letters, p6.) When I checked in with the gracious pros, they had nothing but good to say about the glass-reuse venture. "This is a great business idea. We support it 100 percent," said Tim Dewey-Mattia of Napa's Recycling and Waste Services. "However, there is no need to take a swipe at recycling. The real message should be that recycling and reusing bottles are both part of the solution, along with waste reduction including thinner bottles and more efficient production processes where the bottle begins." Responding to the claim made in the article that recycling is not worth the effort because it only saves a little silica, DeweyMattia points out that the strongest reason for recycling glass is not merely to save silica any more than it is to merely save space in landfills, though both are achieved in the process. "It's the energy savings," he says. "It takes only two-thirds the energy to produce a glass bottle from recycled glass than from virgin materials. That's a significant savings. Couple that with the fact that washing a bottle saves four times the energy, and we get a comprehensive, positive message, a hierarchy in which both reuse and recycling are good, and reuse is better than recycling." Latecomers to green industry often make two critical mistakes: they can use oldparadigm business strategies (undermining, for one); and they can fail to recognize that the foundation of their business opportunity was built by hard-won legislation and decades of public education done largely by nonprofit organizations whose members continue to help change the American throw-away mindset. David Briggs is among the North Bay's waste-management career professionals. He's disappointed by the claims Stephens is quoted as making about recycling. "We promote reuse businesses, but the project consultant's comments, including that `recycling is hardly different than buying new bottles,' may do more to misinform the public than any messages I've read related to the impact of glass recycling on issues ranging from landfill space preservation to climate change," says Briggs, who has worked in the recycling and wastemanagement field for more than 20 years, and now manages recycling programs for the Napa County. "Reuse and recycling both fit into an integrated approach," he stresses. "Reuse and recycling are not in conflict with each other as `green' strategies," explains Kevin Miller, waste manager for the city of Napa. "Both are representative of the integrated wastemanagement hierarchy-- reduce, reuse, recycle. At the top of the hierarchy is waste prevention, with reuse coming in higher than recycling but both being far superior options to litter or land-filling of discarded materials." Recycling professionals are hoping to add wine bottles to the bottle bill. "It would be a huge boost in both recycling and reuse efficiency," says Dewey Mattia. "Besides adding funding to a struggling program, this addition will lead to more color sorting of glass and high-grading of bottles, which will provide quality feedstock to the bottle manufacturers and more bottles to bottle-washing companies. It's a win-win situation." There you go. New paradigm thinking at its best. Meanwhile, old-market thinking and old paradigm strategies--such as selfpromotion tactics that take swipes at the public good--are clunkers trashing the new green marketplace. They should be scrapped and, yes, recycled. `Reuse and recycling are not in conflict with each other as "green" strategies.' --Kevin Miller 10 01.20.10-01.26.10 THE BOHEMIAN The Power of Balance Good Feet Arch Supports can help with Bunions, Plantar Fasciitis, Heel Pain and Back Pain GO GREEN! Best Prices A Wide Variety of Outdoor Medications for Verifiable Patients SM endless green HYDR 707-254-0200 NAPA, CA O P O N I C S U PPL I E S 7 0 7. 5 2 6 . 5 6 0 0 by Toys-R-Us and Cost Plus 2 6 6 9 S a n t a R o s a Av e n u e Medicine grown indoors cost $600-$1000 per pound of coal, oil or natural gas fired power to produce We have a variety of hard to fit shoe sizes. 420 Herbal Street Herbal Street r Santa Rosa Area Delivered Santa Rosa Area Delivered 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 www.goodfeet.com 420herbalstreet.com 420herbalstreet.com 707.528.9420 Learn how to build a strong portfolio with Socially Responsible Investing (SRI). An SRI portfolio design adds an important screening element to enhance the traditional investment process, allowing you to exclude or focus on specific industries, countries or company practices. For more information, contact Patrick at 415.357.5000 x232 or Costello_ James @ NLVMail.com C O S T E L L O & A S S O C I AT E S C ERTIFIED F INANCIAL P L ANNERTM SAN FR ANCISCO | MARIN COS TEL LOA N DA SSOC .CO M J. P ATR ICK C OSTELLO IS A R EGISTERED R EPRESENTATIVE AND I NVESTMENT A D V I S O R R E P R E S E N T A T I VE O F E Q U I T Y S E R V I C E S , I N C . S E C U R I T I E S A N D I NVE S T M E N T A D V I S O R Y A R E O F FE R E D S O L E LY BY E Q U I T Y S E C U R I T I E S , I N C . M E M B E R FINRA/SIPC , O N E N A T I O N A L L I FE D R I VE , M O N T P E L I E R, VT 05604. 802.229.3900. C O S T E L L O A N D A S S O C I A T E S I S I N D E P E N D E N T O F E Q U I T Y S E C U R I T I E S , I N C . C A I N S U R A N C E L I C E N S E #: OB33627 Promote Your Green Business in our new section "Going Green" Call Today @ 707.527.1200 and ask for rates, sizes and expert tips! The Bohemian is "Going Green" Every Week! www.bohemian.com www.bohemian .bohemian.com www.bohemian.com www.bohemian.com THE BOHEMIAN 01.20.10-01.26.10 11 Functional Training resulting in a stronger, better you Teache r Tr now in aining startin g both lo catio Call fo r details ns. ! We ride. Join us! It's all about the ride. We've got yours. Specialized Felt Time Look Colnago Pinarello Yeti Intense Rocky Mountain Electra GT Haro 707.258.8729 796 Soscol Ave, Napa www.naparivervelo.com $19 Group Reformer Classes with Hard Core Membership! Intro 5 classes for $75 when you mention the Bohemian. Group Equipment & Mat Classes, Private Lessons, Cardio & Circut Training Pole Dancing*, & Yoga* 971 gravenstien hwy. s. sebastopol 707 829 3312 8 *class available in Petaluma Corporate Discounts Available. Inquire About Franchise Opportunities www.fuerzapilates.com Petaluma Studio 707-765-6922 Marin Studio 415-419-5312 www.bohemian.com www.bohemian .bohemian.com www.bohemian.com www.bohemian.com 12 01.20.10-01.26.10 THE BOHEMIAN The only glass Moonlight brews ever touch are in the hand. Hop grower and brewer Brian Hunt Moonlights for a living By Alan Stoltzfus eside the driveway to the Moonlight Brewery near Sebastopol, a small white sign leans against a 16-foot pole in the hop yard. "Abbey de St. Humulus, Anno 2005," it reads. Humulus lupulus is the scientific name for hops, but this is no European-style Abbey. Rather, it is a California monastery of the imagination. Above the left pocket of owner Brian Hunt's gray, official-looking shirt is his Moonlight label. On the right are embroidered the words "Fr. JeanPierre, Director of Ecumenical Services"--which could be one reason why rumors have circulated that Hunt is a monastic man. Apocryphal. However, this brew master does have the religious zeal of a missionary spreading the faith of quality craft beer through a land of drinkers guzzling dreck from a can. What drives him? "The best craft beer possible," he says. His enlightenment occurred some years ago in Leeds, England, during the Real Ale Festival. After tasting some of Britain's best, he felt the calling to make better beer himself, but to do it on his own terms. Sitting in a plastic Adirondack chair on his gravel driveway on a wooded hill, shifting every 20 minutes to stay in the mid-day sun, he reveals his teaching. "I'm just supporting my habit," he says. (Friars wear habits.) "Just like a chef, I have to know my ingredients. I taste the grains, I chew on the herbs. Sometimes I make a tea. I pretty much just wrap my head around it." After that there are no experimental small batches. He makes 10 to 15 barrels and just puts it out there. Each barrel contains 104 pint glasses. Such confidence. Hunt pours himself a glass of Moonlight and eagerly stops in front of a maze of piping near where his mash is initially filtered--the first step in the process--and in the fermentation room between tall cylinders full of beer in the making, obviously proud of what he has accomplished. Everything is contained in the square, gray brewery that he built in 2003. At an efficient 1,000 square feet, it is the largest commercial building the county would allow on his property. Starting back in 1992 with much-used equipment cobbled together from other nearby breweries, Hunt now distributes his kegs throughout the Bay Area. When he talks about brewing, it is with the depth of devotion people usually reserve for discussions of philosophy or religion. He will not bottle his product because he believes that bottling ruins beer. Maybe it's beer that runs through his veins. "Whether it is beer or life, Brian thinks outside the box," says Vinnie Cilurzo, brewmaster and co-owner, with his wife, Natalie, of Russian River Brewing Company, and surely in that class of unusual brewmasters himself. (For "outside the box," read: "crazy alternative.") "He is a pioneer in the craft beer industry." When Korbel closed its brewpub where Cilurzo was brewmaster and replanted the three acres of hops with grapes, he and his wife brought rhizomes for Hunt to plant. The two brewers shared the hops for a few years when both made a fresh hop beer, and they THE BOHEMIAN 01.20.10-01.26.10 13 bite club eats have become good friends. And while the Cilurzos eventually opened the Russian River Brewing Company in downtown Santa Rosa, Hunt has continued on his solitary path, making unusual beer from his own hops when he pleases. Hunt has personal things he wants to keep secret. Any direct question about himself soon turns into a dissertation on another aspect of brewing. He made mead in his parent's garage when he was only 15, but it was not with the typical teenager's desire to get drunk; he just wanted to observe the magic. That magic pulled him into biochemistry at San Diego State University, but he found that competing with pre-med students was not what he wanted. After two years, he transferred to the viticulture and enology program at UC Davis. His fermentation instructor, Dr. Michael Lewis, was also the brewing professor, and he gave Hunt a job working in his lab. The die was cast. He found the brewing department less competitive and more focused on the craft, which has its natural ups and downs. At Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company of Milwaukee, his first job after graduating from Davis, Hunt was brought in to help turn around a faltering company. But he wasn't a speech writer, which was evidently what they needed, for the CEO was quoted as saying that it didn't matter what they put in the can, if it said "Schlitz" on the label, people would buy it. That was the death sentence for a brand that had once been America's bestselling. The brewers tried to bring back the public's confidence. They succeeded in making a much better beer, Hunt says, but the damage was done. Budweiser took the lead and surged ahead. Schlitz management, concerned about maximum return on their investment, gave up, not reintroducing the brand to wide market sales again until 2008. Hunt can find room in his soul to defend Budweiser, perhaps as part of his ecumenical duties. "Anheuser-Busch has tried to maintain quality, but also tried to be more efficient about it," he says, a surprise for all the purists out there. He also stresses that when a company devotes too much time to advertising, it means it is paying less attention to quality. Since Hunt doesn't advertise, he can devote all of his energy to quality. The result is a lot of happy drinkers. Hunt has paid his dues as brewmaster for several craft breweries, and he's ahead of the competition. Still, he's relaxed, although always alert to a new train of thought about his favorite subject. He enjoys his life. He has a few Pinot Noir vines and makes wine. He grows enough hops, which his friends help him pick, to make a single batch of fresh hop beer every autumn. Because he won't let the stuff touch glass unless it's a customer's glass, Moonlight is only found at area brewpubs, and the sign on his gate warns, "By appointment only." Occasionally, Hunt's two daughters have helped with his business. "If they needed money badly enough, they were willing to wash kegs," he allows. They are older now, which leaves Hunt as sole proprietor and employee. He makes about a thousand barrels of his product himself per year (compare to the 80,000 or so barrels that Lagunitas Brewery produces), sells his product himself, delivers his product himself, and if one is lucky enough to get an invitation to enter his brewery, will pour some of his product himself. `If everyone absolutely loves everything I'm making, then I'm not really experimenting enough.' He has made Death and Taxes for years, as well as Lunatic Lager, Reality Czech, Bombay by Boat IPA and a few other regulars. But there is no telling what he will make next year for his special beer. "I like diversity in beer. I like to press the limits of what beer can do," he says. "I want them to be intriguing. If everyone absolutely loves everything I'm making, then I'm really not experimenting enough." For the beer he calls Artemis, he reached back into history and used mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris, a plant in the same genus as sagebrush and tarragon. Mugwort is one of the herbs used in gruit, which the church in the Middle Ages ordained to be the only flavoring in beer. Hunt assures that drinking a pint of this every day for a week produces beautiful dreams. In the beer he calls Working for Tips, he reached up into the branches of the redwood tree next to his brewery. The new growth gives a fresh taste to the drink while a few inches back, the needles contribute a more bitter flavor. Just to keep things balanced, he calls Twist of Fate his "ultimate session beer. At 5.5 percent alcohol, it offers enough calories for stamina, and the hop content keeps your temperament relatively stable," he says. To put it another way, three pints won't get drinkers blitzed. Next season it will be something new, something totally different, something no other brewery is making. Yeah, he does this. It's his calling. And whatever he does, he does it for you. 14 01.20.10-01.26.10 THE BOHEMIAN Illustration/Branding: Ranch7.com Illustration/Branding: Ranch7.com THE BOHEMIAN 01.20.10-01.26.10 15 he Best of Belgium T Supreme Quality and Worth! 16 01.20.10-01.26.10 THE BOHEMIAN W ith images of the recent tragedy in Haiti haunting us, it is all the easier to remember that even in this modern age, much of the globe doesn't enjoy such First World niceties as clean water, let alone building codes, a living wage or electricity. In a suburb of the Ghanaian city of Tamale, the small town of Jissonaayili struggles to educate its kids without much fresh water, with few robust structures, with a living wage of some $500 a year for its citizens and with no electricity in the schools. Set on the savannahs near the Sahara, Jissonaayili is just a few kilometers from what is called the "NGO capital of Northern Ghana," and not surprisingly, an NGO has set about to help the children there get wired. Called the Ghana Women/Children Collective of North America, this nonprofit group hosts a benefit for their efforts on behalf of Jissonaayili's school children on Sunday, Jan. 24, at the French Garden in Sebastopol. Called "Turn on the Lights, I Want to Read," the afternoon features entertainment by Afia Walking Tree and the female drumming ensemble Spirit Drumz as well as a performance by the Rising Moon Playback Theatre. Jakada Imani, executive director of Oakland's Ella Baker Center, will speak, and of course the French Garden's good food, currently served up by former St. Rose chef-owner Mark Malicki, makes everything in the world seem right. Mark it down for Jan. 24 from 2pm to 6pm at the French Garden, 8050 Bodega Ave., Sebastopol. $50, single; $80, couple. 707.604.7044. Gretchen Giles THE BOHEMIAN 01.20.10-01.26.10 17 18 01.20.10-01.26.10 THE BOHEMIAN t may be the greatest question we face as wine buyers: "Is this bottle sustainable?" I Of course it isn't--it'll be gone by night's end. The wine industry itself, though, will hopefully last indefinitely, and early in 2010 the industry took a big step toward this magical goal. On Jan. 13, the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance (CSWA), a nonprofit created by the Wine Institute, launched a third-party certification program designed to better identify and honor wineries and vineyards that are making actual, honest efforts to reduce their impact on the environment and neighboring communities. According to Allison Jordan, executive director of the CSWA, between five and seven accredited inspectors will be licensed to do the job of inspecting wineries and vineyards and rating them for sustainability across a comprehensive range of 227 criteria, including energy usage, water conservation and enhancing relations with customers and employees. Within these criteria, there are 58 prerequisites which companies must meet in order to be eligible for the program. Once certified, wineries and vineyards will be granted permission to post a CSWA logo on their websites and other marketing materials. A bottle label logo remains a future goal. The program is entirely voluntary, requiring payment from winery or vineyard to the individual conducting the assessment. Naturally, the possibility of favoritism exists, and to prevent such lawlessness, fees may be capped. Moreover, repeated hiring of the same inspector at the same facility may be limited to prevent, say, inappropriate friendships from developing between parties. Until now, CSWA has merely offered guidelines for companies to follow in voluntarily assessing themselves for sustainability. Frey Vineyards in Mendocino County, for example, one of the largest certified organic wineries anywhere, assessed itself several years ago under CSWA's guidelines, according to the winery's assistant winemaker Eliza Frey. The winery gave itself quite a good rating, too. At Cain Vineyard and Winery in St. Helena, winemaker Chris Howell believes CSWA's new program is absolutely essential. "You can't self-assess," he says. "You need that third party." Howell believes true sustainability is a profound notion. He points to vineyards in Europe that have operated for a thousand years. "I'd like to see that for the Napa Valley," he says. "Green" claims abound in many industries, often appearing on labels to influence consumer choices, and carefully monitored third-party review systems can add integrity, transparency and a critical eye to inspection and assessment. All wine bottles soon run dry, and even the industry will someday wither and fade, but the year 3000 is just 990 years away. EAST WEST CAFE Alastair Bland 2 FOR 1 DINNER Valid after 4pm. Not for take-out. Exp. 2/3/2010 with this coupon WITH PURCHASE OF 2 DRINKS 128 N. Main St, Sebastopol BREAKFAST � LUNCH � DINNER 707.829.2822 www.EastWestCafeSebastopol.com THE BOHEMIAN 01.20.10-01.26.10 19 North County West County East County Downvalley South County Mid County Back by popular demand: $45 locals 3 course prix fixe Now, through the end of March. Our incredible Thurs. Night Winemaker Dinner Series Hosted by Farmhouse Master Sommelier, Geoff Kruth Feb 4 Arnot-Roberts, Feb 18 Windgap, Mar 4 Scherrer Hot Hotel Deal, as featured in Travel & Leisure 2 nights & dinner in our Michelin starred restaurant.$512 Join us on Facebook 7871 River Road, Forestville For Reservations Call Upvalley 707-887-3300 www.farmhouseinn.com 20 01.20.10-01.26.10 THE BOHEMIAN he name seems like fitting wordplay for a man named John Hart with a passion for wine, and the come-hither cast on his labels only play it up. Ah, but he founded the winery with his wife, Desire. Is not life sometimes surprisingly perfect? Hart can either be found both hobnobbing with jet-set vineyard owners or out in the fields, picking entire lots of grapes as his own crew. T Swirl 'n' Spit last saw him in Cloverdale, pouring at the opening of a--now-shuttered--bright, white art gallery and tasting room for which Cloverdale was apparently not ready. Now, he's set up at the Waterfront tasting room, part of the Old Roma Station collection of wineries by the Russian River, sharing the bar with Christi Vineyards and J. Keverson Winery. There's art on the exposed brick walls of this giant space, too, and visitors can paint their own square on a guest's canvas. There's a candy-colored jukebox, and works by the artist Loreta Hornall, who provides Hart's earth-toned, sensual labels depicting bedroomeyed vixens, amatory couples and, on his 2007 Grenache Ros� ($18), an ardent devil in form-fitting red spandex making a brash play for an angel. The ros� has herbal thyme and pine aromas, a nose of candied-strawberry and rhubarb, and is sweet-bodied but finishes nice and dry. Hart's 2008 Russian River Valley, Ritche Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc ($20), softened in neutral oak barrels, has a candy-lime, tropical fruit nose, and the sensation of a fat raindrop on the tip of an outstretched tongue puts the crisp acidity in balance. This is a classy Blanc from a vineyard that lends these attributes to a few other Russian River wineries' product. J. Keverson's light-bodied 2006 RRV Labyrinth Vineyard Pinot Noir ($38) serves up classic cherry cola flavors, with clove and allspice while fern, allspice and orange peel characterize Hart's silky 2007 Eastman Lane Pinot Noir ($36). With an air of fresh dirt after rain, gorgeous cherry-plum fruit and flannel-soft tannins, Hart's 2007 Rockin H Ranch Pinot Noir ($35) sways the senses. Long a source of Hart's Desire vintages, the Ponzo Vineyard provides the 2007 Old Vine Zinfandel ($25) with aromas of blueberry danish and layers of chocolate and blackberry flavor. The 2008 Late Harvest Zinfandel ($25) delights with a clean, sticky raisin aroma and a plush, porty palate--not too sweet or hot, more like fur on the tongue. Nightcap-sippers looking for a bit more of a "kick" can move to the end of the bar for a less subtle salve--Christie Vineyard's late harvest Zinfandel, which is actually called "Panty Dropper." Just watch out where that kick is aimed. Hart's Desire Wines, 53 Front St., Healdsburg. Open Thursday�Monday, 11am�5pm. Tasting fee $5. Old Roma Station hosts a special event on Feb. 14, Valentine's Day. 707.433.3097. James Knight THE BOHEMIAN 01.20.10-01.26.10 21 22 01.20.10-01.26.10 THE BOHEMIAN Michael Corley merely chooses to transport himself in the most efficient manner. A weekend spent in search of the art of parkour By Gabe Meline ccording to Ryan, I'm ready to double-kong over picnic tables. I've already mastered a monkey jump, a cat walk, a cat leap, a speed vault and a few precision jumps. Come to the jam on Sunday with the other traceurs, he insists. I'm a natural. Right? What I am is sore. I've just spent a weekend immersed in parkour, a vigorous gymnastic practice rapidly blazing across the urban landscape. In the Bay Area, where two organizations promote the culture with monthly jams and regular training sessions, it's never been more alive and encouraging of new practitioners, or, in the original French, traceurs. Ice, ibuprofen and Tiger Balm not included. What is this new mystery sport? Parkour, or l'art du d�placement, is a noncompetitive discipline regularly defined as the art of overcoming obstacles in the most quick and efficient way possible using only one's body. But since its inception in France in the late '80s, generally credited to David Belle and his childhood friend S�bastien Foucan, it has collected elements of gymnastics, track and field, ninjutsu, combat training and general trickery to evolve into a fascinating and eye-catching method of traversing the urban environment. Think of it as Chuck Norris meets Nadia Comaneci. Thanks to shows like MTV's Ultimate Parkour Challenge, movies like Casino Royale (featuring Foucan) and District-13 Ultimatum (starring Belle) and even a parkour spoof on an episode of The Office, parkour is more popular than ever. I got a basic run-down of the phenomenon by packing up my shorts and deodorant and heading to CrossFit Marin, where Andres De La Rosa, 35, and Ryan Fulmer, 21, teach classes to everyone from a four-year-old boy to a 40year old woman who plays violin with the Philadelphia Philharmonic. "Kids, when they're like three, four and five, they seem to be running around doing a little baby version of parkour," De La Rosa says, "and in a way, they're just learning how to traverse their environment." As people get older, he points out, they lose that natural curiosity, and parkour is a good way to rediscover it. Most traceurs, much like street skateboarders, are constantly assessing their urban environment and adapting quickly to its unpredictable terrain. Fulmer and De La Rosa work like opposite sides of the same sawhorse. Routinely and hilariously in disagreement with each THE BOHEMIAN 01.20.10-01.26.10 23 other, they give two different approaches to the sport, both of which are valuable. Fulmer is what's referred to as a "huck and chuck" instructor, basically kicking his birds out of the nest and watching them freefall into a shoulder roll. De La Rosa, on the other hand, stresses personal fitness and safety, and when he leads me out to drill some basic safety maneuvers, Fulmer cups a hand to his mouth and whispers, shaking his head in mock protest, "This here, this isn't parkour." De La Rosa starts me out with some simple extensions, head rolls and shoulder rolls, making sure I have orientation and know what to do in the event of a fall. He has me trip myself backward and come out of it into a candlestick rock, protecting my head by keeping my body "hollow," or arched. He shows me some simple precision jumps, and soon has set up a basic obstacle course with boxes and mats. I jump off a wooden box, over a block, slap the ground, run and monkey-jump a block, drop and shoulder-roll out. This is not easy, at least mentally. I find myself mapping my moves ahead of time but relying on a hazy instinct for motion while in the rapid throes of momentum, and sometimes stepping with the wrong foot or rolling raggedly. I am not a particularly athletic or coordinated person, I explain, but they insist that I am doing well. Ideally, De La Rosa says, I would have much more basic training before advancing to technical moves. But Fulmer must see something in me--though I'm not sure quite what it could be--because he starts setting up larger blocks and pads inside the gym in what seems like a recipe for disaster. "OK, get in here!" he shouts. In contrast to De La Rosa's gym gear, Fulmer is in jeans, black-frame glasses and a tight black T-shirt. At just 21, he has several physical parkour trophies: calluses across his palms and a sizable calcium deposit on his shoulder, like a sub-epidermal doorknob. He hooked up with Bay Area Parkour a few years ago and started their monthly "jams,"gatherings of enthusiasts in different cities around the Bay Area, and now teaches "pure" parkour, venomously eschewing the "free running" approach of wall f lips and showy tricks. His goal for me today is to land a double kong, whatever that is, and he's got about 20 minutes to do so before the next class starts. So we run some jumps. With unstoppable confidence, Fulmer pushes me to the next difficulty level as soon as I complete each maneuver. I leap up a large block, navigate myself over with my hands and land poorly on my side. Whoops! Try again: good. Next! Leap atop the block, jump down, shoulder-roll. Good. Next! Jump over the entire block, shoulder roll. Great! As tiring as this is, I seem to be making fast progress, and after some forward and backward cat-walking on a balance beam, I'm full of genuine anticipation when Fulmer says it's time to square up two large blocks together. This is the double kong, he says, and bolts into a run. Slapping the blocks once each with his palms, he leaps them both in a single bound, lands in a run and coils back to talk me through the move. I run, I jump, I stall. Strike one. I run, I jump, I tumble. Strike two. Run faster, jump higher, and keep your head up, Fulmer says. Motion is the key, he stresses, adding that "a lot of parkour is just catching up to your own momentum." He tells me to "pop hard," look forward, throw my legs up over my head as I go over the blocks and to somehow, some way, land on my feet. What the hell. There are mats. So I tear off into a run, pop as hard as I can and invert my lower body in the air. I push off the first block with my palms, then whiz by and slap the second. I enter that magic zone where I'm not thinking anymore and am utterly stupefied when I notice that I have somehow, some way, landed on my feet. "Great!" Fulmer says. "That's the double kong! Now you can jump over car hoods." I leap up a large block, navigate myself over with my hands and land poorly on my side. Whoops! wasn't about to jump over cars anytime soon, but I knew I wanted to hit some actual streets with Brett Robert. A 30-year-old teacher's aide, Robert is one of Santa Rosa's most high-profile traceurs and a mentor of sorts to people like Christian Fairfax, 18, and Michael Corley, 19, who gathered on a recent morning at a local high school to train. While Corley and Fairfax practice running flips and precision jumps along tall, skinny banisters, Robert, somewhat sheepishly, admits that he got into parkour the way most do--by watching videos of it on YouTube. About two years ago, a nasty judo injury had torn his knee's meniscus, and he was walking on a cane for four months when he discovered Oleg Vorslav's famous Dvinsk Clan `Le Parkour' video. He threw the cane away and started practicing on his own. "Coming from a punk-rock background," he says, "at first I was like, `If only I could find someone to teach me!' But then I was like, whatever--do it yourself." One might never guess from his ebullient spirit and fluidity of motion, but Robert is an ex-heroin user and alcoholic who drank and used drugs for a decade before entering a group home six years ago. He's been clean ever since, and evades the go-to motivational speaker's stance of comparing the high of parkour to the high of heroin. Yet parkour plays a part in his recovery, he says, because "it's really, really positive. It's like going back and healing all of that stuff. A way of making amends." The tight-knit parkour community, Robert says, is where he finally found his place to belong. "After years of searching in the bottle and in the spoon, I found a spiritual solution and a way to stay clean, a way to feel normal without getting high," he says. "Freedom from addiction is more than I could have hoped for, but I still wasn't happy. It wasn't until I found parkour a few years after that I found a path to happiness." As with the younger people he trains, he runs me through some precision jumps from varying heights, stressing the absorption of impact. I learn speed jumps and speed-safety jumps--essentially side vaults over obstacles too high to leap over--and we do some monkey jumps. A concrete surface changes everything psychologically, so there's no way I'm flinging my body sideways through the air and double-konging anything outside the gym. Still, the act of applying skills in a somewhat real-life setting--walls, benches, banisters--feels much more renegade and authentic outside. "Authentic" and "pure" are words tossed around in the parkour community quite often; message boards provide endless and sometimes acrimonious debate on what's "pure" parkour, and as Fulmer told me, there's a huge rift between the practitioners of "free running" and parkour. Parkour is all about efficiency; free running stresses a more lackadaisical approach to the urban environment; none of it means anything. "All the controversies that happen in parkour, they happen online," Robert says. "They never happen in person." Fulmer noticed this static disconnect between traceurs, and started the Bay Area's monthly Parkour jams, where the online community gets together and trains face-to-face in parks, schools, buildings and beaches around the Bay Area. The next one is tomorrow, and every traceur I've talked to has invited me regardless of my beginner status. But it's not the long drive or the chance of rain or even any perceived inability on my part that keeps me away. It's that I'm so sore I can barely type, let alone vault my tired body over some trash cans. I'm not alone. "A lot of people within the parkour community," Robert says, "are afraid that we're going to experience massive growth from getting more media attention; from there, being more commercial . . . But I personally think parkour's not going to become massively popular, because it's hard." For more information about parkour in the Bay Area, see www.baparkour.com or www.sfparkour.com. Marin CrossFit holds several parkour classes a week at 412 Tamal Plaza, Corte Madera. 415.250.9710. Many hours can be lost watching parkour on YouTube; good places to start include Oleg Vorslav's `Out of Time,' David Belle's `A Little Less Gravity,' Levi Meeuwenberg's `2009 Show Reel,' `Dvinsk Clan "Le Parkour,"' Team Tempest's `I Freerun L.A.,' TK17's `Go' and SFParkour's `A Beautiful Weekend.' 24 01.20.10-01.26.10 THE BOHEMIAN Rocket Yoga is distinguished by its emphasis on lifting the body off the ground. Rocket yoga promises to get students to fitness nirvana faster By Dani Burlison t takes steadfast devotion and an elephant's memory to keep track of the continuously growing styles of yoga springing up around the world and the countless strings of studios that house the numerous classes. The basic, traditional yoga forms of the East, such as Iyengar, hatha and ashtanga, have morphed into various styles that appeal to those of us in the West by bringing us such tangible results as toned arms and a sweet ass. With 142 nonstop movements of intense strengthening asanas (postures) that focus primarily on repeatedly lifting oneself off of the ground within a 75-minute session, rocket yoga is no exception. Each class is guaranteed to heat its practitioners up, get them sweating profusely and kick the detoxification into high gear before they can weakly mutter "Om Namah Shivaya." For many, simply hearing the term "rocket yoga" may conjure visions of sweaty WWE wrestlers pounding Red Bulls while Pantera guitar riffs blast through the air. The asanas are surely accompanied by moaning and possibly even desperate cries for help as beginners limp sheepishly out the back door while the prowrestlers continue their testosterone fest. According to rocket yoga creator Larry Schultz, however, these fears should be as tenderly wiped away as a Tibetan sand mandala. Rocket yoga, he assures, is for everyone. Rocket yoga is rooted deeply in ashtanga yoga, which was brought to the West from Mysore, India, by K. Pattabhi Jois, or Guruji as his devotees lovingly called him until his death in May 2009. Ashtanga practice swept through the West like wild fire in the 1990s and was promptly picked up by celebrities such as Madonna, Sting and even that wacky Willem Dafoe. The vigorous style of asanas includes a primary series that leads into another hardcore and intimidating six levels that very few of even the most serious yoga students manage to ascend. The goal of this intense style of bending, balancing and lifting postures--intended to flow along with each breath--is to produce balance, strength and clarity of mind for the practitioners. Schultz developed rocket yoga as a form of exercise for the Grateful Dead to keep them trucking from city to city during their many tours. He took the often vigorous and intense ashtanga yoga style and modified it to be fun, exciting and much easier on beginners than the progressively difficult and challenging ashtanga regimen. Though the word "rocket" tends to imply that the practice is more quickly paced and therefore more difficult, Schultz claims that by taking the hierarchy out of the practice and introducing beginners to the advanced poses, rocket yoga creates a more enjoyable and beneficial situation for everyone. Schultz, along with his wife, Marie, founded It's Yoga in San Francisco in 1989 and began teaching classes as well as holding teacher training courses for those serious about learning and sharing his invigorating style. The Schultzes continue to share their abundance of energy and passion for rocket yoga by opening a new studio in the North Bay. While the studio in Glen Ellen focuses on its specialties of workshops and yoga teacher trainings, classes may be offered at a future date. There is no doubt that rocket yoga challenges the body by taking individual practice to new levels. And surely it challenges the mind as well, provoking such questions as "How in the hell am I supposed to get my legs to do that?" If you aren't afraid of buckets of sweat pouring into your eyes and burning your corneas, and the sheer thought of huffing and puffing your way to a connection with your inner guru excites and motivates you, rocket yoga may be your next step as a yogi. According to Schultz, his rocket style does indeed get you there faster. For more information about rocket yoga, including video demonstrations, a schedule of teacher trainings and workshops, visit www.itsyoga.net. It's Yoga Sonoma Retreat, 14301 Arnold Drive, Glen Ellen. 707.935.5933 Coaches Corner Free Weights � State of the Art Equipment � Group Exercise � Yoga Spinning � Personal Training � Massage � Contemporary Line Dance (NEW) S2 Virtual Reality Bikes � (NEW) Peak Pilates Reformer 42 0 M o r ri s S t . S e b as t o p o l � 70 7- 8 2 9 - 5 1 8 0 www.bohemian.com Your Online Weekly Source THE BOHEMIAN 01.20.10-01.26.10 25 . . . doesn't actually make sense but is accurate. Having fun is the first rule of Zumba By Michael Houghton was in a serious rut, bored on an existential level with my exercise routine. I'd been biking the same route, lifting the same weights and making sun salutations through the same beginner's yoga all out of crushing and stagnant habit. And no matter how distracting the TV on the wall was, being stuck on a treadmill was feeling like, well, being stuck on a treadmill. I felt like I was f logging myself for past transgressions. I desperately needed a change. And it was time to step things up. Years ago, I'd read a quote from the Dalai Lama that one of the secrets to happiness is to do something you've never done at least once a month. Or was it once a week? Honestly, all I've ever been able to achieve is once in a while, but it's an idea that I've come back to every time the doldrums require conquering. And I've found that this something is best if it's at least a little out of character for me, especially at times when I'm not so sure I like my character very much. The thing I was most looking for was fun with a capital F--that in the f lush of moving and grooving, I would forget that I was also getting exercise. I kept thinking of that line in Fight Club about the fighters starting to "see everything differently"-- that "Fight Club gets to be your reason for going to the gym and keeping your hair cut short and cutting your nails." I wanted something of my own like that, but without all the face punching. So I picked Zumba. Zumba is one of the latest crazes in fitness: a combination of aerobics with Latin dance and whatever other high-energy, hip-wiggling dance styles the instructor decides to include in her choreography, from hip-hop to African to belly dancing and South Sea shanties. As best as I can tell, the choice of music (always fast and often techno- and rapinf lected Latin rock) and choreography varies from instructor to instructor. Some make it girlier than others, but all make it girly. Because, if nothing else, Zumba is almost entirely by and for women. So there I was, rolling up to the throng of women milling outside the doors, waiting for the class--and there they were, immediately surprised and thrilled that a man was going to be joining them. I explained that I'd done some Afro-Cuban dance a few years ago and knew the basic samba step, so I wasn't going in totally cold. They reassured me that, though it was confusing at first because there's not much how-to instruction, I shouldn't worry. Everyone is confused initially. The first few songs, I did OK. The steps were reasonably easy to follow. Sure, I felt pretty silly prancing and hip-bomping through the more feminine moves and even sillier with all the punctuating cries of "Come on, ladies!" and the high pitched whoooos. I'll be honest: with this particular teacher, if you're a straight man, you've definitely got to be pretty secure in your sexuality--or at least find all the gender-bending sashaying pretty amusing. Fortunately, female friends had told me that just being brave enough to show up there gets you lots of extra credit with a whole class full of ladies. But then the "routine" songs started, and I was completely lost. Every couple steps, something new was happening, and I was always behind, off balance, spinning spastically, my brain buzzing with confusion. Every time I started to vaguely understand the choreography, the song was over and the next was even more confusing. Somewhere in there, though, I was still having fun. All the genuine, unforced grinning and laughter of the other dancers enjoying the class put me at ease and let me laugh at my own mistakes. And when it was over (after three whole songs of confusion), I was sweating like a squeezed sponge and pleasantly exhausted. How did that happen? Before I left, one of my classmates exclaimed, "You did awesome!" She said I'd done way better than she had in her first class, which felt good. "Don't worry about getting all the steps," she encouraged me. "Who cares, as long as you're moving and having fun? You'll get the steps eventually--just keep coming back!" So I did. I came back later that week, and now have been going twice a week for the last few months. And I did pick the steps up-- slowly. I still got confused, but I stopped worrying about it, and just smiled. I got better at recognizing the patterns, and at jumping in one cycle later when I missed the changes, as I still often do. I learned that the better your form, and the more you swivel your hips, the better the exercise, and that an hour of hip swiveling feels like you accidentally did 200 sit-ups. And I started really looking forward to each class. I also noticed changes in my body almost immediately. The too-tight-aroundmy-belly jacket of a week before was now loose. My initially sore knees and ankles started feeling strong and lubricated, no longer crackling all the time, in ways that years of biking and yoga had never fixed. I found myself randomly jumping and skipping (at age 37) just because I could. My old belt has come in two notches. And I feel like I'm really living in my body and enjoying its f low of movement in a way that all these years of being a smart guy failed to give me. I also remembered something that we, as adults, seem to forget: the nature of real fun. Everything I can think of that is real fun--not just watching a funny movie or cracking a joke, but side-splitting joy-- always involves making a complete ass of yourself and no longer being embarrassed about it. We spend so much of our time trying to look cool, to never let down our guard of dignity, that we forget that fallingoff-a-chair laughing only happens when we've let go of being so damned uptight. So now I am seeing things a little differently. I feel more confident. I'm downright evangelical about my newly reclaimed health. A few classmates call me the "Zumba King." (I reply, "There's not much competition.") I'm even thinking of buying dance sneakers. Sure, I still occasionally feel like a Brazilian tranny on a Carnivale f loat, but I'm OK with that. Those trannies are clearly having a blast. And now I'm the one telling the newbies at the end of the class, "Who cares if you got all the steps perfect? All that matters is that you're moving, and that you're having fun." Zumba has reached that level of ubiquity where your run-of-the-mill corporate gym offers at least one class a week, which is why you won't find your RoM corporate gym roundedup below in what we are the first to admit is an incomplete snapshot of tri-county Zumba classes. But, like the New Year and new commitments themselves, it's a start! Sonoma County Core in Motion Tuesday�Friday; 134 Weeks Way, Sebastopol. 707.823.1074. Finley Community Center Monday and Wednesday; 2060 W. College Ave., Santa Rosa. 707.543.3737. Monroe Hall Sunday�Monday and Friday; 1400 W. College Ave., Santa Rosa. 707.570.0670. Petaluma School of Ballet Monday�Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday; 110 Howard St., Petaluma 707.762.3972. Tone Fitness Classes daily; 850 Fourth St., Santa Rosa. 707.526.3100. Marin County Balance Workout Wednesday and Friday; 5768 Paradise Drive, Corte Madera. 415.945.0111. Bay West Ballroom Saturday�Sunday; 1133 East Francisco Blvd. Ste. D, second floor, San Rafael. 415.457.4619. �lan Fitness Center Monday�Tuesday, Thursday, and every other Saturday; 230 Greenfield Ave., San Anselmo. 415.485.1945. Five Points Fitness Wednesday and Friday; 5651 Paradise Drive, Corte Madera. 415.927.9494. Mill Valley Health Club & Spa Wednesday; 639 E. Blithedale Ave., Mill Valley. 415.380.8787. Napa County Expressions School of Dance Monday�Saturday; 2310 Laurel St., Napa. 707.254.1962. Napa Valley Dance Center Tuesday and Thursday; 950 Pearl St., Napa. 707.363.4569. Napa Zumba Classes daily; 2310 Laurel St., Napa. 707.529.8407. Ultimate Fitness American Canyon Monday�Saturday; 120 W. American Canyon Drive, American Canyon. 707.644.4110. Yountville Community Center Tuesday�Thursday; 6550 Yount St., Yountville. 707.944.8851. --Gretchen Giles 26 01.20.10-01.26.10 THE BOHEMIAN Don't miss these Amazing Stories performed as Plays! Best Selling Author BARBARA KINGSOLVER! By Order your tickets online: www.santarosa. edu/theatrearts January CLASSIC FILM Schedule Harvey, JAN. 17 at 3pm The Philadelphia Story, JAN. 24 at 3pm Bringing Up Baby, JAN. 31 at 3pm $6.00 ALL SEATS Spreckels Performing Arts Center 5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park www.spreckelsonline.com Or call our Box Office at: 527-4343 Recommended for age 15 and above. Contains strong language. Box Office: 588-3400 THE BOHEMIAN 01.20.10-01.26.10 27 Reebok and Cirque du Soleil have teamed up to create Jukari, a trapeze sport. expect their trainers to have had some, um, training. Good news for everyone. Novelty Niche If getting your heart rate up for 30 minutes a day and eating less were all it took to lose weight, everyone would do it. Right? Not so much. We're a flighty species, and the prospect of exotic exercise gets our hearts and brains pumping faster than a wind sprint up 10 flights of stairs. Most of all, we don't want to notice that we're exercising, and if that means undulating to Bollywood soundtracks or somehow keeping a slippery hula hoop in motion, we'll do it. There's an Ab for That As a Certain Someone in our office who has selfishly lost 16 pounds over the last few months simply by using the free Lose It iPhone app can attest, knowing exactly how many calories there are in that can help a girl decide whether or not to savagely stuff it in her craw and rapidly gulp it down. This Certain Someone--who really should think of others by eating much more than her iPhone currently allows--says that knowing the calorie count of everything and her own daily limit is like being given a fresh wad of cash every day. "I just decide how to spend it," she says, the hollows of her cheeks mimicking the mandibular ways of runway models. Ranging from free to not-so-much, iPhone does indeed have apps for everything from managing kettle balls to practicing yoga available at that online store of theirs. Not for the iPhone but recommended by the ACE are the tracking items GoWear Fit and Fitbit. Our Certain Someone could probably recommend them, too, if she weren't so weakened by selfishly maintaining her ideal healthy weight while making it seem so easy . . . peaking of those darned exotic exercises, the mash-up is in, particularly when it comes to the core. Witness piloxing, a combination of pilates and boxing. According to the exhausted young reporter that the Times of London sent to the gym to try this stuff out, such cross-training was designed to create "an army of sleek, sexy, powerful women" who can high-kick an intruder in the face while maintaining a healthy and engaged lower back and strengthening their Kegels. Then there's TenPilates, a caffeinated hepup that results in an aerobic high somehow achieved while prone on those torture sleighs known as "reformer beds." Spin-Lates has participants jumping from the stationary bike after 30 minutes of sprints and uphill climbs directly to the unstable playground of the proformer machine for half an hour of ungainly gravity-sucking stretches that cause muscles to freak out as they scramble to stabilize. Eeeevil . . . And finally, the hot new exercise that we're not going to try because it's only been introduced in 21 cosmopolitan cities around the world (think Sydney and Manhattan, not American Canyon and Cloverdale) is Jukari. Developed by Reebok and Cirque du Soleil, Jukari not surprisingly requires lots of coolio Reebok-branded equipment and special sleek Reebok-branded clothing and could probably benefit from a new pair of Reebokinscribed tennies but essentially can be done by anyone with a rope and a pair of sweats. A group workout, Jukari has participants swinging en masse on trapeze as well as doing standing pushups and other more traditional moves transposed upright. It looks suspiciously easy to hoist oneself up on a bar and fly across the room with Reeboked knees held high, but if our fitness routines have taught us even one single thing it's that nothing, not even plain old playing, is as easy as it looks. 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 Higher minds have looked to fitness fads and found them good By Gretchen Giles ast month the American Council on Exercise released its top 10 exercise trends for 2010, underscoring the wisdom that we want to save money while we save time while we save what we can of our bodies while we use the latest gadgets while being trained by instructors who have actually themselves been trained. Basing their results on a fairly exhaustive survey of fitness professionals and club owners, the ACE predicts that this year it will all be about . . . Cost-Conscious Workouts Less personal training time, perhaps even less gymmembership time, will be spent as the Great Recession drags endlessly on, capturing too many of us in its sooty tide. Of course, exercising and staying fit are important jobseeking tools, as they help to abate depression and act to clear the brain. Plus, it gives you something to do until Oprah. Buddy System Group training rather than personal training marks this year as belt-tighteners look to shave more than just inches by having small knots of strangers sweat alongside them to split the cost. Thirty As a Magic Number More of us don't want to spend the languor of an entire hour on our fitness routines--OK, most of us don't want to spend even five minutes-- making intense half-hour workouts the trend. The thinking is, it's so fast, you won't even remember it! Exergaming Perhaps the most ungainly word of the decade, "exergaming" refers to engaging Wii and other electronic games as a prompt for movement. Health clubs and gyms are embracing the trend as it means less actual human instructors on the payroll. Actual humans seem to like it just fine anyway. Boom Boom Rooms That young crop of new elders just aren't willing to give up and die the way their grandparents were, and to that end are exercising more and staying healthy longer. Expect to share a mat with an AARP member who can kick your ass before breakfast, and remember to thank them. Like in Real Life Evolved from rehabilitative therapy, functional training focuses on building strength through a focus on disparate muscle sets with specialized equipment. Those TRX pulleys, developed by a former Navy SEAL and easily adapted to an office or home door frame, are predicted to grow in popularity as more folks choose to get a quick informal workout near the copier or the stove. Getting It Not wanting to let the great opportunity of a crisis go by without acting, an increasing number of us will get off our more-than-amples and exercise and diet this year. We don't actually believe it, but that's what the experts say. License at the Door As consumers become more savvy about their exercise dollars, so too are we becoming more demanding of our instructors. Certification and licensing is on the rise as more employers 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 28 01.20.10-01.26.10 THE BOHEMIAN GrayWolf and Courtney Walsh make matches in `The Miser.' RVP's `Miser' is a feast of farce By David Templeton e are a bad gender, I agree, but can't you see me as the exception?" So says Val�re, a resourceful servant, to his lover, Elise (the daughter of his master), in response to her disparaging remarks about the male of the species in Moli�re's The Miser. This exchange would appear to be the set-up for some sort of battle of the sexes, but anyone who has ever read Moli�re will know that the great French playwright and social critic never fought merely one battle at a time. With a body of theatrical work that easily stands as one of the greatest in history, Moli�re (who would have turned 388 on Jan. 15; happy birthday, Mo!) was famous for his satirical jabs at everyone and everything, and The Miser is a fine example. The just-opened production by the Ross Valley Players (enjoying its 80th anniversary this year) nicely exacerbates the social mayhem by unlocking the story from its 17th-century roots, using a modern translation by David Chambers that dispenses with the traditional rhyming couplets. Directed with a strong command of physical comedy by Bruce Vieira, the show serves as a perfect entry point for anyone who's not yet experienced the shootinggallery funhouse that is a Moli�re farce. Elise (whose earthy enthusiasm is well played by Kelly Rinehart) wants to marry the dashing Val�re (Chad Yarish), but knows that her tyrannical father Harpagon, the miser of the play's title, will see no financial benefit in the marriage. When she enlists the support of her foppish brother, Cl�ante (brilliantly played by the physically flippyfloppy Andrew Gruen), she finds that he, too, has fallen in love, with the supremely youngsweet-and-innocent Mariane (a pitch-perfect Beth Deitchman). The siblings' plan to force their father to grant each of them the right to marry is thwarted when Harpagon (played by GrayWolf--yep, that's the actor's name--as a comically paranoid blend of selfish calculation and pitiable self-delusion) announces his own intentions of marrying Mariane. Complicating matters are the machinations of the sexy, debt-ridden matchmaker Frosine (played with hilarious commitment by Courtney Walsh) and the ongoing battle of wits between Val�re and Master Jacques (Ben Knoll), Harpagon's beleaguered chef and footman. There is also the matter of Harpagon's 10,000 gold pieces, which he has recently hidden in the garden (guarded by a pack of Dobermans), and about which he constantly frets and worries. It is the wealthy but stingy Harpagon's obsession with riches that is the trampoline for much of the play's humor, Harpagon lurching about in filthy old clothes because he is to cheap to spend money on anything that is not necessary. When he announces that he has promised Elise to an affluent foreigner ("He only exploits the most resource-rich Third World countries"), the plot is pushed into overdrive, resulting in the rapidly escalating misunderstandings for which French farce is known. The secret to this kind of thing is pace, and despite the script's slight lack of focus in the second half, director Vieira keeps things spinning along at a pleasantly frisky pace. Though technically set in the 1600s, the modern-language text effectively places the story in a time-traversing world of its own, an attribute which Vieira highlights with his clever costuming scheme. Beautifully realized by costumer Michael A. Berg, the idea is that every period between Moli�re's day and our own finds some expression in the smashup wardrobe worn by The Miser's many characters. Someone might be wearing a Napoleonic coat, a bowler hat and sunglasses, for example. Just about everyone appears in tennis shoes at one point or another. David Apple's stage set is just as clever, depicting Harpagon's once-opulent home as a palace left to deteriorate by its master's pennypinching neglect. A nice recurring sight gag is Harpagon's furniture, of which every chair, table and fireplace grate has been chained down so that no one can steal it. Under Vieira's inventive hand, Moli�re's various pieces add up to a very satisfying and eye-pleasing whole. Harpagon may be content to serve his guests a dinner of bread crumbs and weak tea, but with this enjoyable production of The Miser, Ross Valley Players present Moli�re's treat as a tasty feast of theatrical pleasures. `The Miser' runs Thursday�Sunday through Feb. 14. Thursday at 7:30pm; Friday�Saturday at 8pm; Sunday at 2pm. The Barn Theatre, Marin Art & Garden Center, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Ross. $15�$25; Jan. 22 at 6:45pm, singles reception precedes, $25�$30. 415.456.9555. BUY YOUR TICKETS TODAY! WWW.MARINJCC.ORG MUSIC OF THE WORLD ~ DANCE SAT 1/23 @ 8PM DHOLRHYTHMS LIVE OF NON STOP BHANGRA A joyous & unique dance driven by the energy and passion of India. Bollywood LIVE! $20 WWW.MARINJCC.ORG / 415.444.8000 200 N. SAN PEDRO ROAD, SAN RAFAEL, CA / Just � mile off Highway 101 / Free parking! THE BOHEMIAN 01.20.10-01.26.10 29 Bakers Dozen 2010 January 22�February 28, 2010 Artist Reception: Saturday January 23, 4�6pm "In Memory Of..." Kirk Hinshaw Collage/mixed media 50"x50", 2007 6671 Front St/Hwy 116 � Downtown Forestville 707-887-0799 � 11-6 Thurs�Mon (closed Tues & Weds) quicksilvermineco.com Jeff Bridges portrays a charismatic wreck of a man. "Raw and Riveting!" � Rolling Stone Winner of 2 Golden Globe Awards Including WALTZ WITH BASHIR A MIGHTY HEART Best Actor � 5:00 � Jeff Bridges (1:00) 2:45 5:00 7:20 9:45 R (12:30) 3:00Drama 7:00 9:15 R (1:15) 4:30 7:00 9:30 R "A Triumph!" WRESTLER Observer THE � New York "One Of TheLA VIE EN 7:30 Year!"R � TIME Best Movies The 9:45 (12:20) 2:45 5:10OfROSE 10 Academy Award Noms Including Best Picture! 2 Academy Award Noms Including Best Actor! Bargain Tuesday - $7.50 All Shows Bargain Tuesday $7.00 All Feb 26th Schedule for Fri, Feb -20th � Thu,Shows Schedule for Fri, June 22nd - Thu, June 28th Academy Award Nominee Bargain Tuesday - $7.50 All Shows Schedule for Fri, Jan 22nd � Thu, Jan 28th Best Foreign Language Film! 3rd Sonoma CRAZY HEART Environmental Film Festival Jan 22 - 24 Special guests... Jon Bowermaster, Ron Colby, Trathen Heckman A 3:45 6:45 9:45 PG-13 (12:45) SINGLE MAN (12:30) 2:45 5:00 7:20 9:40 R " SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE � � Really, THE YOUNG Truly,�Deeply VICTORIA R One of (1:15) 4:00 7:10 9:40Newsday This Year's Best!" (12:20) 5:10 7:30 PG Jeff Bridges carries the contradictions of `Crazy Heart' By Richard von Busack haven't read Arizona writer Thomas Cobb's 1987 novel Crazy Heart, although it was praised by both Kinky Friedman and Donald Barthelme, and I'm sorry. The novel might have provided a key for the failure of guts in the Sundancean movie Crazy Heart. The film plays softball, despite the hefty acting by Jeff Bridges. Crazy Heart gives Bridges a belly-baring role, his sliteyed Bad Blake as a kind of Bad Lebowski, a morose, sweet-talking satyr drinking his way to the grave. Bad Blake is an outlaw country-western musician playing far-apart and none-toolucrative gigs all over the West. He travels via an ancient 1978 Chevy Suburban, and he slaps together sets with pickup bands that he meets just before showtime. And in his few sober moments, Blake lives with the humiliation of having been commercially surpassed by a country superstar named Billy Sweet (Colin Farrell), who was once one of his backup musicians. Touring in Santa Fe, Bad meets a former Oklahoma newspaper reporter named Jean (Maggie Gyllenhaal), who lets him pick her up. Typically, he has a great line for her, cutting off her questions: "What I wanna talk about is how bad you make this room look. Didn't realize what a dump it was." ONCE 8 5:10 or 7:30p Shows on Wed, Jan 27 NoAcademy Award Noms Including (1:00) 3:10 5:20 & Best Director! 9:40 Best Picture, Best Actor7:30 Ebert R !" � Roger " MILK BROKEN EMBRACES No 9:45p Show on Wed, Jan 27 Please Note: No 1:30 Show Sat, No 6:45 Show Thu "Wise, Humble and(2:30) 6:45 Funny!" � Newsweek (1:30) Effortlessly 9:30 R 4:10 9:45 R (1:30) 4:00 7:10 9:30 R 5 Academy Award Noms Including Best Picture! (12:40) 7:40 R No 12:40p Show Sat (2:15) 7:20 R "Swoonly Romatic, Mysterious, Hilarious!" THE IMAGINARIUM OF � Slant Magazine WAITRESS www.seff.us PRECIOUS FROST/NIXON REVOLUTIONARY ROAD DOCTOR 4:45T'AIME PARIS, PARNASSUS (11:45) JE 9:50 R (3:00) 9:50 PG-13 (1:15) 4:15 7:00 9:30 R Michael Moore's Thu, Feb 26th at 7:15 Kevin Jorgenson presents the California Premiere of THE LOVELY BONES PURE: A3:45 6:45 9:35 PG-13 (12:50) BOULDERING FLICK Starts Fri, June 29th! Fri, Sat, Sun & Mon Advance Tickets IN Sale Now at Box Office! MOVIES On THE MORNING FROZEN RIVER Sat, Sun & Mon Mornings 9:50 AM (12:00) 2:30 5:00 7:30 10:00 Fri, 10:15 AM VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA 10:00 AM JULIE AND JULIA (NO SHOW SAT) 10:20 AM CHANGELING 10:10 AM NINE Venessa Redgrave Meryl Streep Glenn Close 10:40 AM RACHEL GETTING MARRIED 10:10 AM THE HURT LOCKER 2009 LIVE ACTION EVENING 10:20 AM A SERIOUS MAN SHORTS (Fri/Mon Only)) 10:45 AM 10:45 AM 2009 ANIMATED Starts Fri, June 29th! 10:40 AM AN EDUCATIONSHORTS (Sun Only) NINE SICKO MOVIES 5:20THE MORNING IN PG-13 There goes journalistic ethics as far as the movie is concerned; Jean keeps covering his story after she's slept with him, which bothered me more than the near 30-year age difference between them is going to bother some women. Jean is single-parenting a young son. What truly concerns Jean is the question of what kind of influence this charismatic wreck of a man will be on her child. Add a long-distance factor, and the fragile relationship grows even shakier. Robert Duvall, who co-produced, plays a clean and sober bar owner in Houston who is also Bad's mentor, and like Jean, he's a character who doesn't really live on his own terms. He's there to echo Bad's legend. Scott Cooper, a first-time director, has nailed some details of a musician's life, such as an argument between Bad and a sound man that has just the right amount of tension. Bridges does his own songs. Despite the credited input by T Bone Burnett, none of the tunes are really memorable, but you sink into them anyway. Bridges sings with the flair of a born performer, and the encircling camera gives the scenes some rhythm. Cooper also deserves props for a surprise he brings in, the unexpectedly kind way Billy Sweet behaves to Bad. It's unusual in a movie to find out that a character named Sweet will behave sweetly, especially when played by Farrell, a chronic misbehaver himself. But there are other matters that Cooper can't seem to get straight, such as the question of what strata of fame Bad Blake occupies. Bad plays the lounges in bowling alleys and carries his own guitar. But he still has an L.A. manager who loves him and keeps tabs on him. The way Cooper goes in for a close-up on Bad when he's pounding the drinks back says it all: Crazy Heart tells us that once Bad Blake unplugs his worst habit, all of his problems are over. This is a two-dimensional take on a drunk's character, as two-dimensional as a drunk's belief that drinking will solve all his problems. Then there's the matter of Cooper's truly banal visualization of Bad's stab at rehab. It's a meeting under the aspens, a setting as glossy as the commercials for the drying-out clinics on morning TV. Crazy Heart doesn't scratch the other things that might have embittered Blake, the way his fortunes changed as the public taste changed, the feeling of fury as age took him over, and the bitterness of not having much to show for himself after years of work. What integrity Crazy Heart doesn't borrow from Bridges it picks up from the glorious wide-open-spaces cinematography by Barry Markowitz (Sling Blade). Ultimately, it may be that Bridges is more damned fun to watch as a drunkard. His Bad has a hostile, coolly funny mean streak that goes away when he gets dry and sensitive. The role, then, is a conduit for Bridges' upcoming performance in True Grit, where he will assay a really titanic punisher of the whiskey, Rooster Cogburn. Watching Crazy Heart, though, you think of that story of Greta Garbo leaving the theater after seeing Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast, and saying "Give me back my beast." `Crazy Heart' opens on Friday, Jan. 22, at the Rialto Cinemas Lakeside, 551 Summerfield Road, Santa Rosa. 707.525.4840. 30 01.20.10-01.26.10 THE BOHEMIAN New Movies Dwayne `the Rock' Johnson embodies the eponymous. Also Playing THE BOHEMIAN 01.20.10-01.26.10 31 paid advertising section FOR NORTH BAY MOVIE TIMES, GO TO www.sonomamovietimes.com www.marinmovietimes.com www.napamovietimes.com The Bazzaar Quality handmade art & goods made exclusively in Sonoma County! 52 Mission Plaza Ste. 123, Santa Rosa s n . 2, a 707.537.9454 | bazzaar.rpweb.com Contemporary/Museum Framing Conceptual Art Gallery 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 O Fine Gems & Minerals from 110 North Main St., Sebastopol, CA Around the World email@example.com O Locally Made: treehouse 28 clothing 707.829.ROCK (7625) O Artwork, Collectibles & More Call Today to Advertise! 707.527.1200 | email@example.com Film capsules by Richard von Busack and Eloy Camacho. 32 01.20.10-01.26.10 THE BOHEMIAN Eclectic Soul Songwriting juggernaut Chuck Prophet has been a Bay Area fixture since his early days in the protoexperimental rock outfit Green on Red, but far more rewarding has been his prolific solo output. �Let Freedom Ring!, his ninth studio album, has the outsider's take on what's generally referred to as Americana music with an over-the-border bent. Recorded in Mexico City during the first panic of the swine f lu scare, the album has a jagged anxiety of shifting tectonic plates. The chugging minor-key tune "Sonny Liston's Blues" traipses along to kick things off as if on a crumbling ledge. Slowly congealing into torn-love songs replete with the usual Prophet trademarks--such as the inimitable way he hollows out his throat and nose to drawl his long o's--the lingering metaphor is about America, el Norte, where "the hawk cripples the dove." Always a passionate live performer, Prophet headlines on Friday, Jan. 22, at the Mystic for the KRSH 95.9-FM listener appreciation party. Jesse DeNatale opens. 23 Petaluma Blvd. N., Petaluma. 8pm. $15. 707.765.2121. Classical 101 The Santa Rosa Symphony this weekend presents a program of American composers including Barber and Copland, but all eyes these days are on Elliott Carter. Few people live to be 101 years old, but Carter, still alive and active in his Manhattan apartment, is defying the wheels of time past the centennial mark. Not that his age should steal the attention from his compositional powers, which over the years successfully adapted to the modernistic touches of the late 20th century with acumen and skill. In 1944, Carter was commissioned a piece to celebrate the liberation of Paris in World War II; the resulting "Holiday Overture" is a layered and optimistic work, to be performed this weekend. With guest conductor JoAnn Falletta conducting Michael Ludwig in John Corigliano's perennial favorite "The Red Violin Concerto," on Saturday�Monday, Jan. 23�25, at the Wells Fargo Center. 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa. Saturday, 2pm and 8pm; Sunday, 3pm; Monday, 8pm. $10�$42. 707.546.8742. That's Sahl, Folks Jay Leno's getting a bad rap these days; he can't help it if his network is clueless, and the stirring resentment over his mere presence is spilling over into unwarranted attacks on his style of comedy. The same might be said for Mort Sahl back in the day. Hailed as an inf luence by Leno, Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen, Sahl in the 1960s dressed in a casual sweater with a newspaper in hand, and delivered jazzlike, stream-of-consciousness zingers about racial politics, free love, misguided wars and whatever snapped into his sharp, quick mind. Usually, it riled the masses, but that didn't stop Herb Caen from urging him to run for president of the United States. Dick Gregory, one of the first black comedians to address civil rights issues to a white audience, actually did run for president in 1968; he now calls America "the most dishonest, ungodly, unspiritual nation that ever existed in the history of the planet." The two comedy legends appear Saturday, Jan. 23, at the 142 Throckmorton Theater. 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 8pm. $38�$48. 415.383.9600. Exhaustin' Austen Exactly when the glut of Jane Austen literary takeoffs utilizing bloodsucking vampires, groaning zombies, enraged pharmacists, psychotic webmasters, possessed iPhone apps or whatever ridiculous modern trendy twist comes next will end is anybody's guess. One thing's sure, and that's people are still reading the original Austen books. Indispensable to the Austen fan is Susannah Carson's magnetic anthology A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Why We Read Jane Austen, in which 33 writers from Eudora Welty and Virginia Woolf to Somerset Maugham and C. S. Lewis dwell on the majesty and details of Austen's work. Amy Heckerling tells how she adapted Emma into the 1996 movie Clueless, while contemporary writers like Anna Quindlan extract specific plot points and character traits for an engaging portrait of Austen's appeal. Carson discusses the book on Thursday, Jan. 21, at Copperfield's Books. 3900-A Bel Aire Plaza, Hwy. 29, at Trancas St., Napa. 7pm. Free. 707.252.8002. THE BOHEMIAN 01.20.10-01.26.10 33 What are you thankful for? VAPORIZERS ON SALE AT Gravenstones Concerts Clubs 2 new great vapes for your on the go lifestyle: The Launch Box $89 � Essential Vaaap $76 Both are made here in California, come in and check them out! Plus fantastic deals on Cali blown spoons, bats, bubblers and tubes! Organic Raw papers in stock Friendly knowledgeable staff--come see us, you'll be glad you did! 707-795-8498 8246 Old Redwood Hwy. Downtown Cotati Mon�Sat 11am to 7pm Sun 12 noon�6pm (Next door to Redwood Cafe) We have the best priced Detox in Sonoma County. We now have detox online. To get detox delivered to your door, go to www.Gravenstones.com It is Solved by Walking . . . Labyrinth Walk and Dinner in Petaluma Hills January 31st 707.283.0373 www.veriditas.org 34 01.20.10-01.26.10 THE BOHEMIAN 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 DON'T FORGET...WE SERVE FOOD TOO! Mc Near's Dining House Breakfast � Lunch � Dinner BBQ � Pasta � Steak FRI 1/22 � 7:00PM DOORS � $15 � 21+ AMERICANA 1/21 + + + + rEACH OUT TO HAITI EVENT Seraphin + BluesBurners the thugs + volker strifler Linda Ferro Band OTHER GREAT BLUES BANDS 9:30 PM SHOW > $8/10 > 90'S ROCK 80'S METAL COVERS 6:30 PM SHOW > $10+ DONATIONS FOR THE AMERICAN RED CROSS CHUCK PROPHET PLUS JESSE DENATALE KRSH LISTENER APPRECIATION PARTY SAT 1/30 � 7:00PM DOORS � $25 ADV/$28 DOS � 18+ SINGER/SONGWRITER 1/22 New albums this week from Spoon and RJD2 ingers find their voice, writers find their style, and bands, like Spoon, find their groove. Since their wonderful 2001 release, Girls Can Tell, the Austinbased band has continually outdone itself in a public experiment of re-imagination. Four excellent albums beyond Girls, the band this week slows down with Transference, which is more arty and less oomphy than their previous album, the weirdly titled Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. The studio serves as the fifth member here, as leadoff track "Before Destruction" sets the tone of cobbled recordings mixed as a re-edit of demos and professional sheen. With this semi-psychedelic tinge--and allusions to "Hurdy Gurdy Man" and "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds"--there are the usual Spoon touches: "Written in Reverse," with Daniel's manic yowl; and "Who Makes Your Money," with all the obtuse imagery Spoon have become known for. Support for Spoon is provided by NPR, which streamed the album a week before its release and which, according to local record stores, is now more responsible for selling records than Top 40 radio, Rolling Stone or that once-dominant cable network that airs Jersey Shore combined. That the power of community radio should reign over commercial media outlets is reflective of our new times, but that fact shouldn't obscure Daniel's immense talent, nor a good headphone listen or three. Also out this week is The Colossus, a "comeback" album from Columbus DJ/Producer RJD2. RJ's previous record, The Third Hand, was a troubled affair; its borderline Jack Johnson acoustic guitar ballads were a sharp and unsuccessful departure from his usual minorkey crinkled hip-hop textures, and hopes were high after a lead-off single featured beats and horn stabs. But on the whole, The Colossus is just another retro-rock/soul album with sad lyrics sung too earnestly, reminiscent of Gnarls Barkley's last record or Jamiroquai's later work. "Games You Can Win" boasts barely a beat, navel-gazing into itself, while the runway-ready "The Glow" cops major-seventh chords and tambourines in a version of lazy beach life as seen from a Midwest window. RJ's recently started his own label and reissued his magnificent first two albums, Deadringer and Since We Last Spoke, both of which still tower as skyscrapers of accessible instrumental hip-hop, and a better place to start than the shaky walls of The Colossus. SEX TYPE THING + metal shop + cage the rage GREG BROWN TUE 2/2 � 7:00PM DOORS � $25 � 21+ BLUES S 1/23 9:00 PM SHOW > $15 > 80'S DANCE TAINTED LOVE + DJ ON-QUE MARK HUMMEL'S HARMONICA BLOWOUT WITH KIM WILSON & ROD PIAZZA FEAT RUSTY ZINN & THE ACES FRI 2/5 � 7:00PM DOORS � $15 ADV/$17 DOS � 21+ ROCK 1/28 7:30 PM SHOW > $7 > IMPROV COMEDY WORLD'S BIGGEST COMEDY DUO + THE PIDGINS Musical Accompaniment by Win Meyerson THE MOTHER HIPS WITH BIG LIGHT & DAVE BROGAN FRI 2/6 � 8:45PM DOORS � $17 � 21+ DANCE PARTY BAND AN EVENING WITH 1/30 8:30 PM SHOW > $10 > BLUES WONDERBREAD 5 MON 2/8 � 7:00PM DOORS � $28 ADV/$30 DOS � 21+ BLUE GRASS/AMERICANA FOLK VOLKER STRIFLER BAND + ALABAMA MIKE & 3RD DEGREE 2/4 8:30 PM SHOW > $10/12 > HIP HOP San Quinn + Rapping 4-Tay + At All Costs 2/5 9:30 PM SHOW > $15 > HEAVY METAL SFARZO STRINGS PRESENTS DAVE RAWLINGS, GILLIAN WELCH AND KETCH SECOR, WILLIE WATSON & MORGAN JAHNING (MEMBERS OF THE OLD CROWE MEDICINE SHOW) FRI 2/12 � 7:00PM DOORS � $23 ADV/$25 DOS � 18+ SINGER/SONGWRITER DAVE RAWLINGS MACHINE WITH LIZZY BORDEN + Damage Inc. + Aftertayst (Tribute to Metallica) LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III SOLO PLUS SOLID AIR SAT 2/13 � 7:00PM DOORS � $15 � 16+ ROCK 2/6 9:00 PM SHOW > $15 > MOTOWN THE LOST BOYS WITH CLOVERLEAF DRIVE FRI 2/19 � 8:00PM DOORS � $25 ADV/$30 DOS � 21+ REGGAE PRIDE & JOY 2/13 9:30 PM SHOW > $13/15 > ROCK THE KINGDOM OF ZION TOUR Gabe Meline FRANK HANNON BAND (GUITARIST FROM TESLA) all shows are 21+ unless noted for reservations: 707.545.5876 ALBOROSIE & THE SHENGEN CLAN SAT 2/20 � 7:00PM DOORS � $20 BALCONY/$25 FLOOR � 16+ COMEDY LOOKING FOR INTELLIGENT LIFE TOUR GALLAGHER For All Ages Shows � No Children Under 10 Allowed 707.545.2343 120 5th street @ davis street santa rosa, ca 23 Petaluma Blvd, Petaluma 707-765-2121 www.mcnears.com 01.20.10-01.26.10 THE BOHEMIAN lastdaysaloon.com 35 Across the bridge 36 01.20.10-01.26.10 THE BOHEMIAN Frobeck could be a jam band, but instead streamline varied elements into a solid groove. Frobeck's new disc a funky soul vaccination By Karl Byrn he Sonoma County�based quartet Frobeck fashion a complex blend of funk, soul, pop, rock, gospel and jazz with a simple appeal that can bring unexpected attention. Upon winning the 2008 NORBAY award for Best Rock Band, guitarist and vocalist Kris Dilbeck says he initially thought, "We're not a rock band, we're a funk band," though he's come to a new realization. "Our shows," he says today, "can get pretty rocking." Vocalist and keyboardist Spencer Burrows notes, "Our music is hard to niche; there's a lot happening." Fans of regional jam band scenes have taken notice, and Frobeck "can be kind of like chameleons," Burrows says, "because we have all these styles. We're not a jam band, but the fact that we could be is kind of nice." Frobeck's funky, rocking jams find sweet focus on their recently released third disc Other Side of the Light, which the band will feature at a record-release party this Friday at Hopmonk Tavern. Dilbeck and Burrows write warm originals that mix upbeat pop-rock, like the Steely Dan/Boz Scaggs�style vibe of the title track, with traditional soul movers in the style of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles soul movers like "Please Don't Say." Further creative excitement is generated when bassist Steve Froberg, who played with Burrows in the '90s with Eric Lindell and the Reds, and new drummer Paul Spina, from the reggae act Groundation, expand the songs with jazz-based artistry and monster grooves. Talented guest vocalists and instrumentalists alike give Other Side of the Light traces of reggae, folk-blues and jazz improv. "The hard thing is, if you pull from all those styles, you can have a record that's completely disconnected," says Dilbeck, who produced the disc with engineer and mixer (and original drummer) Cory Stuck. "We do a really good job of bringing it all into this one thing. It's not like there's a jazz song, then all of a sudden a country song. The album is one piece of work." Burrows, who met Dilbeck in the Sonoma State University choir in the late '90s and again when they both later attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, enthuses that "we're really getting our sound." Other Side of the Light, he says, "feels like we found it. Whatever it is we sound like, it's there." The songwriting team is comfortable with that sound being eclectic and evolving. "What we're inf luenced by together and separately is what makes up Frobeck," says Dilbeck, who notes that the four diverse musicians find common ground admiring Bay Area horn funk legends Tower of Power. "With Frobeck," he says, "I don't feel I have to write a certain style of music." Other Side of the Light is also a technical move forward, recorded at the prestigious Prairie Sun Studios using the band's victory earnings from a 2008 battle of the bands at the Mystic Theatre. "The recording and songwriting process develops better each time," says Dilbeck. "The arrangements are a little more developed and a little more interesting on this record." Burrows adds, "We're physically better players than we were over the last years. You keep getting better at your craft." Frobeck's 2010 game plan includes lining up professional management and expanded regional touring. Burrows imagines the coming year will be "very much like a boiling point--we're here, it's boiling, and it takes that one degree to get over the top. We've got people talking about us, starting to hear us, and this year is going to be a huge boost." That boost is really about connecting with audiences, as both songwriters proudly note the personal nature of the new material. "We can write about us or see if that matches up to or vibes with the problems or happiness of other people," Burrows says, adding, "One of our hopes is to help the local scene by inspiring people to get out and listen to original music. We invite you to come out and be part of our journey." Frobeck celebrate `Other Side of the Light' with a record release party on Friday, Jan. 22, at Hopmonk Tavern, 230 Petaluma Ave., Sebastopol. Opening the show is Sonoma County jam band Seraphin. 8pm. $10�$12; 21 and over. 707.829.7300. TWICE THE PURPLE. TWICE THE BLONDE. TWICE THE HOT! Two New Years Eve Parties Two Chances to win $100,000 nd December 31st 9:00 pm and 11:15 pm Start Earning Tickets December 1st www.riverrockcasino.com 707.857.2777 - 877.883.7777 HWY 101 N to Geyserville Exit. Right onto HWY 128 E THE BOHEMIAN 01.20.10-01.26.10 37 EVERY MONDAY ! DEREK SMITH'S OPEN MIC EVERY TUESDAY ! UZILEVSKY KORTY DUO THURS ! JAN 21 ! 9PM ! $10 (80'S HAIR METAL TRIBUTE) FRI ! JAN 22 ! 9PM ! $18ADV/$22DOOR METAL SHOP & KNIGHT DRIVE HOMEGROWN BAND DANCEHALL SENSATION KONSHENS WITH THE SAT ! JAN 23 ! 9PM ! FREE SHOW AND HIGH FIDELS TRIBUTE TO THE SOLDIERS BO RAT, D'WIGGINS NEXT WEEK THURS ! JAN 28 ! 9PM ! FREE SHOW NIGHT ROCK SHOW! 5 MINUTE ORGY & FRIENDS FRIDAY ! JAN 29 ! 9PM ! $12 FARAWAY BROTHERS FEAT SAT ! JAN 30 ! 9PM ! $20ADV/$22DOOR ERIC MCFADDEN CASUAL OF HEIROGLYPHICS Z-MAN HOT UPCOMING ACTS 2/5 DANCEHALL SUPERSTAR MUNGA 2/13 MICHAEL ROSE 2/26 ELVIN BISHOP Galleries 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! Fri Jan 22 Sat Winter Luau! AND SPECIAL GUEST FRAN GUIDRY 8:30pm LUAU WITH LED KAAPANA Wed, Jan 20 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, Jan 21 8:45-9:45am; 5:45-6:45 Jazzercise 7:25�11:00pm Circles N' Squares Square Dance Club Fri, Jan 22 8:45-9:45am Jazzercise 7:00�11:00pm DJ Steve Luther presents Motown, Disco & Rock'n'Roll Sat, Jan 23 8:00-9:00am; 9:15-10:15am Jazzercise 10:30-11:45am Salsa Workout with DJ Steve Luther 7:00pm Stompy Jones SF's top Swing Band $15 Sun, Jan 24 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, Jan 25 8:45-9:45am; 5:45-6:45pm Jazzercise 3:30pm WEIGHTWATCHERS MEETING Weigh in 3:30, Meeting 4:00 7:00-10:00pm Northwest Pacific Railroad Historical Society Tues, Jan 26 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 JOHNNY VEGAS AND THE HIGH ROLLERS G Jan 23 High Energy Rock and Soul Review Sun Jan 24 Fri 8:30pm Rancho Debut! Unplugged from Petty Theft and Revolver 4:00pm / In the Bar "Tequila Time" THE DAN & BARRY SHOW NATASHA JAMES Jan 29 Sat Riding High on the Charts! 8:30pm LAVAY SMITH AND HER RED HOT Jan 30 SKILLET LICKERS L K Annual Winter Party! 8:30pm R&B and Blues 4:00pm / In the Bar Rancho Debut! Hot Latin Jazz Fusion Dance Band 8:30pm 8:30pm Enjoy a Romantic Evening with Sun Jan 31 Fri THE JEB BRADY BAND Valentine's Weekend Feb 12 Sat BAUTISTA Feb 13 Sun TOMMY CASTRO BAND Feb 14 7:30pm SPECIAL VALENTINE'S DAY MENU 415.662.2219 THE BAGUETTE QUARTETTE Santa Rosa's Social Hall since 1922 1400 W. College Avenue � Santa Rosa, CA 707.539.5507 � www.monroe-hall.com THE BOHEMIAN On the Town Square, Nicasio www.ranchonicasio.com 38 01.20.10-01.26.10 Coyote Den Bar & Dance Hall Saturday, February 6th � 7pm Huge Screen in Event Center Free Appetizer Buffet � Fun UFC Stuff Giveaway UFC Pint Glass Beer Specials Budweiser� Ring Girl Boho critic David Templeton's one-man show `Wretch Like Me' moves to Mill Valley. See Theater. 707.485.0700 � ww.coyotevalleycasino.com 5 miles North of Ukiah, Hwy 101, West Rd. Exit Comedy Dance www.bohemian.com www.bohemian .bohemian.com www.bohemian.com www.bohemian.com THE BOHEMIAN 01.20.10-01.26.10 39 F&D For Kids Events Film Patrick Ball once again inhabits the voice of Turlough O'Carolan S Field Trips Lectures ebastopol musician and actor Patrick Ball had one of his early successes with a recording of Celtic harp music by Ireland's legendary 17th-century harpist Turlough O'Carolan. O'Carolan, a beloved storyteller, composer and world-class Irish carouser, is a character so vivid and colorful that Ball eventually began thinking about doing a show in which he would do more than just play the music of the O'Carolan--he would become him. With a script co-written with Peter Glazer, Ball has now performed the one-man play O'Carolan's Farewell to Music hundreds of times, and twice in short runs at Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park. The last time he brought the show to Spreckels was nearly 10 years ago, so fans of authentic Celtic music, and aficionados of classic Old World storytelling have been excited ever since it was announced that the celebrated solo show would have a full three-weekend run as part of the theater's full-season series of oneand two-actor plays. Here Ball actually portrays two characters, O'Carolan as well as his longtime friend the poet Charles MacCabe, who recounts his early meeting with the famous musician, their growing friendship and the recurring conflicts between them regarding English rule of Ireland. Ball's renowned gift for storytelling is shoved up a few big notches when he merges it into the voice and dialect of the two characters, each of whom are pretty fair storytellers themselves. Word is that there is high demand for seats in Spreckels' smallish Condiotti Experimental Theater, where all of the center's theatrical shows will be staged this year. Folks who've seen the show several times plan to bring their children to be dazzled and entertained by O'Carolan's unstoppable life-force and musical power--as well as by the effusive charm of Patrick Ball himself. O'Carolan's Farewell to Music plays Thursday�Sunday from Jan. 21 through Feb. 7. Thursday at 7:30pm; Friday�Saturday at 8pm; Sunday at 2:30pm. Spreckels Performing Arts Center, 5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park. $21�$24. 707.588.3400. David Templeton 40 01.20.10-01.26.10 THE BOHEMIAN Sonoma Enivro Film Fest looks at the world he rains are here, it's still dark by 5:30pm and spending stats report that we're all hiding out winter's worst by going to the movies. The Sonoma Environmental Film Festival, therefore, is perfectly aligned with our wintry sights. Now in its third year, the SEFF features documentaries this year on gorillas, climate change, the ocean's health, Amazonian natives, Tibetan dams, urban sustainability, the politics of Big Organics and visionary thinking, among others. Running Jan. 22�24 at the Sonoma Valley Woman's Club, the festival begins and ends with feature films and offers a New Orleans buffet lunch on Saturday that begins--per the lessons of Katrina--with dessert ("Life can change, eat dessert first" goes the motto). Other special events within the festival include a screening of Numen: The Nature of Plants (above) followed by a discussion of the healing properties of the natural world paneled by members of the Sonoma County Herb Exchange, United Plant Savers and a rep from the Traditional Medicinals tea company (Jan. 23). Local heroes are featured on Sunday with screenings of A Return to Dry Farming examining area vineyards and The Story of STRAW, which finds Peter Coyote narrating the evolution of a fourth grade Sonoma County class project now a 20-mile restorative program run by the Bay Institute. The fest starts on Friday with A Touch of Spice, a Greek film that takes on food as love and features a reception with island fare and ends with Blue Heavens, a love story set in Kyrgyzstan in which a vagabond in search of his father falls in love with a woman trapped in an abusive marriage. All variety of issues large and small show in between. Perfect for the introspection of the rains. The Sonoma Environmental Film Festival runs Friday� Sunday, Jan. 22-24, at the Sonoma Valley Woman's Club, 574 First St. E., Sonoma. Films screen all day; $8�$10. For details, call 707.935.3456 or go to www.seff.us. T Readings Theater Gretchen Giles THE BOHEMIAN 01.20.10-01.26.10 41 BOHEMIANROMANCE check us out online at: www.NorthBayRomance.com To become a member, call To listen & respond to ads using your credit card, call For customer service, email bohemian@ placepersonal.com, or call 1-617-450-8773 Women Seeking Men 1949 CLASSIC SWF, tall, slender, active, enjoys swimming, bicycling, mysteries, hiking, cooking, barbecuing, symphony. Seeking well-mannered, caring S/DWM, 50-60, N/S, N/D, N/Drugs, with similar interests, for friendship and companionship. 415313 SHE'S A LADY Attractive SWF, 69, seeks gentleman, 65-75, for friendship and companionship. Let's talk and see what develops! 305310 LOCAL GAL WF looking for someone fun, nice, loyal, honest and intelligent who likes good conversation, wine tasting, art, barbecues, camping, hanging out at home and more. 40-55. 306414 ARE YOU THE ONE? SF, 40, 5', 115lbs, likes music, gardening, beaches, camping, long walks, having fun. Looking for SM for possible relationship. 325750 LOOKING FOR YOU SWF, 40, 5'2'', reddish-brown hair, enjoys horseback riding, art, the ocean, going new places, shopping, antique stores, movies, going for drives, taking trips. Looking for SWM, 40-55, with similar interests. 323931 LET'S GO OUT & HAVE FUN! Honest woman, 50s, very caring, compassionate, kind, my interests are long drives, walks, dancing, visiting new places, dinners. Seeking nice SM, 50s-60s, for LTR. 297169 LET'S HAVE FUN Spiritual SWF, young 70s, petite, professional, employed, kids grown, ISO a fine, grounded gentleman, 65-70, for possible LTR. 240656 TRADITIONAL VALUES SAF, 60, petite, very healthy, very active, secured, honest, sincere, hard-working, likes gardening, cooking, reading, home stuff, occasional drives to the countryside. Seeking SWM, 60-75, who's cleancut, N/S, N/D, with similar qualities, for friendship first, possible LTR. 313785 PETITE BLONDE Educated and attractive, down-to-earth WF would like to meet someone who shares some of my interests like metal music, concerts, learning and more. If you have an open mind, I definitely want to hear from your. 35-50. 314433 LET'S MEET FOR DINNER SWF, 49, 5'4'', H/W proportionate, blondish-brown layered hair, big blue eyes, down-to-earth, mellow, nice, kind, sweet, considerate, laid-back, seeks SM, 35-55, who has a good sense of humor. I enjoy cats, beaches, hiking, camping, movies. 310278 LET'S MEET AND TALK SWF, 39, 5'3'', loves music, dancing. Looking for a social SWM, mid 40s, for friendship first. 318133 LOOKING FOR A FRIEND SAF, 48, 5'4'', looking for a friend who will eventually become my partner in life. 318943 PRETTY & SLENDER Bright and youthful SWF, 50+, enjoys listening to or playing music, travel, playing at the beach, and dating. Seeking nice-looking, kind, intelligent SM, 50s plus or minus, with sense-of-humor, financially secure, to share fun indoors and out, concerts and movies, dining out and walks, cozy fireplaces and sometimes campfires. 303711 SHY AND ARTISTIC Single female in her 50s looking for a male who enjoys music, television. Let's meet and see if we connect! 308997 FRIENDS OR MORE Nurturing, artistic, bright, hard-working, compassionate, feminine female in her 50s, enjoys music, dancing, travel, the beach, kayaking, dining, taking walks. Seeking male, 50-69, for friendship with the possibility of more. 309768 ONE HONEST WOMAN LEFT Bright SF, 60s, with good values, flexible and honest, likes reading, camping, travel, taking walks. Seeking similar male, 50-69, for friendship, casual relationship, possible LTR. 309769 VERY PERSONABLE Motivated, bright, artistic, hard-working, health-conscious female, 50s, personable and flexible, seeks male, age open, who likes museums, travel, long drives, camping, hiking. 309770 LOOKING FOR LTR Outdoorsy, health-minded, clean-cut, honest woman in her 30s, who enjoys biking, dining, shopping, the beach, hiking, taking walks, wants to meet a male in his 30s for LTR. 309772 CAPTIVATING! Adorable, hard-working, classy female, 50s, enjoys museums, shopping, travel, coffee shops, the beach. Seeking SM, 50s, for friendship, casual relationship, or LTR. 309776 A CARING HEART Outdoorsy, flexible, nurturing, feminine woman, 50s, likes camping, long drives, travel, coffee shops, taking walks. Seeking male, 40-59, for LTR. 309777 GOOD VALUES Caring, personable, compassionate, classy, hardworking female, 50s, likes music, dancing, travel, reading, museums, dining, the beach. Seeking SM, 50s, for friendship, possibly more. 309780 WAITING ARMS Caring, educated, honest, optimistic, hard-working SF, 30s, enjoys travel, dining out, long drives, the beach, reading, walks, hiking, music and more. Would like to meet like-minded man, 30-40, for LTR. 313123 TAKE A CHANCE ON ME Motivated, outdoorsy, honest, health-conscious woman, with good values and optimistic attitude, likes most kinds of music, dining out, walks, camping, travel and relaxing time at home. Seeking a nice, honest, active man, 30-40, with similar interests, to spend time with, possible leading to LTR. 313124 MANY FINE QUALITIES Caring, outdoorsy, honest, artistic, hard-working SF, early 50s, optimistic homebody with good values, has many interests including music, dining out, museums, travel, long drives, reading, walks, camping, biking and more. Looking for an honest, down-to-earth SM, 50-70, for friendship and dating first, possibly leading to something more serious. 313126 ADORABLE AND BRIGHT Caring, friendly, goal-oriented, feminine, honest, compassionate woman, 60s, likes travel, exercise, music, hiking, long drives, dining out, the beach, reading and more. Seeking a great companion, 50-70, to share these activities and quiet times with. 313128 COMPASSIONATE Friendly, honest, artistic, outdoorsy, caring SF, 30s, likes watching tv, dancing, the beach, travel, walks, music, hiking, museums, dining out, more. Searching for a partner in life, 30-50, for possible LTR. 313131 OUTGOING AND FUN Compassionate, caring, friendly, honest SF, 20s, likes going to clubs, camping, hiking, reading, the beach, dining out, more. Looking for a down-to-earth, easygoing man, 22-35, for LTR. 313136 LIKE GOING OUT? Honest, goal-oriented personable, artistic, sophisticated, hardworking SF would like to meet a SM, 4060, who enjoys travel, walks, the beach, music, reading, camping, long drives, museums, tv, dining out, dancing and more. Seeking LTR. 313138 1 800.214.3435 1 800.273.8235 To listen & respond to ads, call 1 900.287.1222 Call costs $2.29/min. Must be 18+ SEEKING LTR Honest, compassionate, artistic, friendly, goal-oriented, caring SF, 50s, health-minded with good values, into music, the beach, dancing, tv, travel, museums, walks, reading and more. Would like to meet SM, around the same age, for companionship. 313139 LIKE PBS? Personable, caring, goaloriented friendly, artistic, compassionate woman, with good values, likes coffee shops, music, reading, walks, travel, dancing, dining out and more. Looking for honest, respectful man, 5070, for LTR. 313143 PACIFIC NORTHWEST Casual guy, enjoys mountain and beach trips, walks, outdoors, moonlit nights, cuddling. Seeking SWF, 40-56, slim/medium build, to come spend quiet times in Pacific Northwest. 954499 SHARED JOY SWM, 59, 5'9", 160lbs, nicelooking, with good SOH, seeking woman to have fun with, race/age unimportant. I like dancing, partying, shows and dining out. Call me! 972627 LOVES TO COOK DM enjoys playing pool, dancing, riding my bike, watching tv, conversation and more. Would like to meet a S/DWF, 50-55, to spend some time with 326801 TO CHERISH AND LOVE SWM, 5'7'', likes to talk and be social. Seeking SWF, 6570, to talk to and see if we connect. 326394 YOUR XMAS PARTY COMPANION Handsome, athletic, 54, 6', 195lbs, respectful gentleman, with good values, who's educated, N/S, sociable and mischievous. Looking for a classy, friendly SWF, dances, with a beautiful smile and pointed ears. 325406 GOOD SENSE OF HUMOR SWM, 59, 5'11'', 180lbs, nonsmoker, blue eyes, sandy brown hair, enjoys fishing, beaches, dining out and more. Seeking female, 5565, for possible relationship. 309857 WELL-TRAVELED WRITER Sensitive, compassionate, honest WM, warm, open, considered attractive, wonderful listener, quiet entertaining, likes most kinds of movies, music, travel, more. Seeking WF, 52-71, for possible relationship. 323098 HAPPILY EVER AFTER Single white male, 46, 5'11'', 190lbs, brown hair, blue eyes, Aquarius, interested in music, film, literature. Seeking the real deal, the storybook, the fairy tale princess. 323596 NO GAMES OR DRAMA WM, 6', 190lbs, brownishgray, hazel, goatee, loves playing pool, the outdoors, football, trying new things. Looking for a lady, 25-55, who wants to meet a nice guy. 323674 BLONDE A PLUS SM, 5'10", 185lbs, black/ brown, light complexion, looking for a slim WF, 19-29, for dating. 324312 LET'S CONNECT SM, 6'2'', 220lbs, athletic, outgoing, loves the outdoors. Looking for similar SW/AF, 18-55, for fun and friendship. 324795 FRIEND LOVER SOULMATE SWPJM, 56, 5'10", blue eyes, sandy brown hair, kind, passionate, artistic, sincere, committed and fun, enjoys ocean walks, travel, arts, food, wine and nature. Seeking SF, 50-62, kindred spirit, kind, soft, sensuous, for life's adventures together. 309779 GET TO KOW ME SBM, 53, 6'1", 190lbs, looking for a fun, loving woman, 25-65, with a good personality, who likes having a good time, the beach, horseback riding, movies, walks and more. 314332 LTR AND LOVE IN BOOTS Italian Taurus, SM, 45, 6', 218lbs, N/S, N/Drugs, N/D, long hair, educated, published, financially/emotionally secure, respectful, inspiring, tender, great sense of humor, enjoys alternative music, dancing, movies, animals, cooking, conversation, mountains. Seeking thin, dancing SWF, 18-33, in boots for LTR. 315052 HOPE TO FIND YOU Sociable, good-hearted, compassionate, healthy gentleman, 63, published writer/ poet, D/D-free, non-drinker, enjoys quiet times, home, sports, simple times. Seeking loving, happy, intelligent woman to share life, love, possible LTR. Bay Area preferred. 224839 LOOK NO FURTHER SWM, 30, 5'4'', looking for a woman, 30-40, who wants to hang out and get to know each other. 317907 COOKING FOR YOU! SWM, 62, 5'10", 170lbs, N/S, light drinker, clean shaven, hazel eyes, self-employed, loves cooking, jazz and traveling. Seeking a similar woman, 50-80, race unimportant, for possible LTR. 318883 ONE GOOD MAN LEFT SHM, 32, N/S, likes soccer, running. In search of SA/BF for friendship first possibly leading to more. 319059 JUST MOVED HERE SWM, 5'7'', 190lbs, brown eyes, wants to meet soulmate in similar SF, 30-55. I love swing dancing, travel, gourmet cooking, animals, nature. 305800 Men Seeking Women SEEKING AN OPEN MIND SBM, 33, 250lbs, smoker, enjoys cars, long walks, working out. Looking for SF, 20-65, kids ok, for possible relationship. 304990 Singles Parties ADULTS OF ALL AGES WELCOME! Servino's Friday, January 22, 7:30pm, Tiburon Frantoio Thursday, February 4, 7pm, Mill Valley CO-SPONSORED by Bohemian Romance and Society of Single Professionals INFO at www. ThePartyHotline.com or 415-507-9962 ABBREVIATIONS: A-Asian; B-Black; C-Christian; F-Female; G-Gay; H-Hispanic; J-Jewish; M-Male; N/S-Non-Smoker; P-Professional; S-Single; W-White Guidelines:BohemianRomanceisacommunitypublication.ParticipantsintheBohemianRomancemust be 18 years or older. Use of Bohemian Romance for any illegal purpose will be subject to prosecution. Bohemian Romanceisnotliableforthecontentofthepersonalsadvertisementsortheresponsetosuchadvertisements.BohemianRomance encourages readers to take appropriate safeguards when responding to personal and arrangingmeetings.Screenallrespondentscarefully.Meetingswithnew companions should occur in public places and participants should not divulge their addresses. Be smart, not sorry. Notallboxescontainavoicegreeting. Dial 1.900.287.1222 or 1.800.273.8235 (with credit card or check) 0114 Only $2.29 per minute � 18 and up � Or call toll-free 1.800.214.3435 to become a member. THE BOHEMIAN 01.20.10-01.26.10 42 BOHEMIANROMANCE To become a member, call To listen & respond to ads, call 1.800.214.3435 To listen & respond to ads using a credit card or check, call 1 900.287.1222 Call costs $2.19/min. Must be 18+ Men Seeking Women SOMEONE LIKE ME SWM, youthful 51, 5'11'', 200lbs, dark hair, hazel eyes, looking for a lady, 40-59, who likes to party, is outgoing, adventurous. 319319 EASY ON THE EYES Outgoing, good-looking WM, 6', 175lbs, salt-n-pepper/blue, good sense of humor, spontaneous, romantic, adventurous, likes weekend getaways, concerts and more. Seeking honest, appreciative woman, 22-65, who has goals in life. 320839 JACK OF HEARTS Handsome dude, 57, good SOH, interesting, spontaneous, fun, adventuresome, looking for attractive woman. I enjoy dancing, concerts, dining out, hiking, beach combing and holding hands also loves animals, dogs, cats and horses. Happy trails! 201639 SEEKING A REAL WOMAN WM, 6', 200lbs, blond/blue, a few tattoos, very athletic, loves the beach, bike rides, romantic evenings at home, great conversation. Seeking honest woman, 18-50, no games. 322539 COLLEGE PROF-SUMMERS OFF! Tall, dark, handsome, positive, athletic SM, 60, 6', 200lbs, looks 45, feels 35, loves life! A seafood vegetarian, nonsmoker and light drinker. Loves the outdoors, hiking, walking, mountain biking, tennis, acoustic music, volunteer work, walks on the beach, traveling, long road trips, cuddling, spending time with someone special. 322787 I'M NOT THE GUY... ...for long walks on the beach, dancing the night away. Retiree, 48, moderately disabled with MS, SSU grad, into jazz, films, progressive talk radio. San Francisco native seeks caring, happy lady, 40-50, for companionship. N/S. I'm a good listener, talk to me. Tell me about yourself. 219612 SOMETIMES MISCHIEVOUS Optimistic, honest, cleancut, caring, outdoorsy man, 50s, likes music, walks, long drives, running, watching tv, museums, dining out. Seeking SF, 50s, for companionship. 313135 KISSING & CUDDLING Single man in Sonoma County, extremely romantic, looking for an equally romantic partner. I love soft kisses, snuggling on the couch, and making you laugh! 315225 LOTTERY WINNER if you respond to this ad you will in effect have won the lottery. I'm a bald 54 year-old, handsome man, well-traveled, love cooking, adventure, exploring. Ready to have a slender, attractive, sexy, happy girlfriend. 325270 FRIENDSHIP FIRST Caring, honest, nurturing SM, 60s, enjoys music, watching tv, walks, camping, coffee shops, hiking and museums. Looking for SF, 30-70, for dating possibly leading to LTR. 313144 LTR AND LOVE IN BOOTS Italian Taurus, SM, 45, 6', 218lbs, N/S, N/Drugs, N/D, long hair, educated, published, financially/emotionally secure, respectful, inspiring, tender, great sense of humor, enjoys alternative music, dancing, movies, animals, cooking, conversation, mountains. Seeking thin, dancing SWF, 18-33, in boots for LTR. 315055 LET'S MEET FOR COFFEE SM, 20s, bright, artistic, ambitious, optimistic, personable, likes dining, travel, the beach, walking, exercise. Seeking female, 20s, for possible relationship. 318319 COMPASSIONATE SM, 60s, with good values, likes camping, dancing, dining, reading, hiking, walking, biking. Looking for SF, 50s, for LTR. 318320 1 800.273.8235 Women Seeking Women LET'S GO OUT WF, 5'2", 125lbs, would like to meet a BF, 48-59, for fun, romance and possible relationship. Give me a call. 326658 WHERE ARE YOU? You are 35-45, very feminine, dark, mystical, spiritual, with a sense of humor, know what you like, and want to enjoy life, but not alone. I'm trying to find you, where are you? 310085 LOOKING FOR YOU SWF, 41, Santa Rosa area, looking for a SWF, 30-45, to hang out and have fun with. 318644 KEEP IT DISCREET WF, 30s, dark/dark, light complexion, fun-loving, bi-curious, seeks discreet female, 28-55, to have fun and party with. 314779 WHATEVER YOU DECIDE! SM, 5'11'', 170lbs, light brown hair, blue eyes, athletic build, shaved, smooth and sexy, well-endowed, into a wide variety of pleasures. Anything goes; role play, fantasy fulfillment, toys, porn, lingerie. Seeking couples and females to party and play. 316161 COUPLE SEEKS WOMAN Very attractive, middle-aged, married white couple, she's 5'2", 125lbs, 34D. He is 5'11", 172lbs. Both and very sensual and she is multi-orgasmic. We are N/S, light drinkers, heal-conscious, pleasant, non-pushy. Please be N/S, H/W proportionate, white, Hispanic or Asian, under 55. Bi or bi-curious ok. Discretion assured. Let's have fun. 314002 TURN THE TABLES Handsome, sane, married WM, 57 is looking for a woman, who knows how to use a strap on, for ongoing, mostly daytime play. I will please you in any way that you want and I take directions well. 318288 GREAT LEGS! Tall, slender cross-dresser, very nice legs, looking for men or a group of men. Give me a call, let's have some fun! 318996 BD/SM SWM, submissive, wants one or two females or young male for BD/SM, watersports, torture, anal. Never did any of this before, but curious to try now! 319455 SEEKING COUPLES Good-looking bi male, 50, would like to meet bi man/ woman couples for erotic interlude. 319986 TRIPLE PLAY Handsome, easygoing, discreet, polite gentleman, 57, enjoys couples. I am a WM, 6', 190lbs, athletic build, well hung and Bi. I also like dominant women. 232423 LET'S HAVE SOME FUN Male looking for an older gentleman, 35-65, to teach me the ropes. I haven't been with too many people. I like watching adult movies and trying new things. 321782 I NEED HELP! Married HM, 49, 5'11", goodlooking, doesn't get it at home. Looking for a wild woman with a high libido for a discreet sexual encounter. 322196 FREAKY MAN... looking for a freaky, spontaneous, wild, erotic woman, 18-55, to get together and have some fun, adult times together. 322361 JOIN US Bi couple looking for a stud, a muffin or both. Satisfaction guaranteed. 323336 SANTA ROSA AREA WM, 41, looking for openminded people who enjoy adult fun. I like adult movies, toys and looking for a couples and females. I can be orally bi depending on the chemistry. 323130 LET'S HAVE FUN SM, 38, 6'2", 200lbs, looking for a top or couples to get together and share good times with. 324363 DISCREET ENCOUNTER BiHM, 50, 5'6", 180lbs, nonsmoker, seeking males, females or couples to have some hot fun and more. 324668 Alternative Lifestyles ANYTHING GOES I love to please and be pleased. Looking for a couple for fun times together. 325726 BROWN SUGAR SBF, 44, big behind and beautiful breasts, loves to get freaky. Spontaneous and open-minded, searching for well-endowed, spontaneous, open-minded, well-dressed man who appreciates a good lady. 325727 INTIMATE ENCOUNTERS SWM, 47, 6', blond/blue, very strong, Scorpio, seeks discreet intimate encounters with single, married or divorced ladies in the North Bay. I'm a great masseusse as well. 326306 JOIN US White couple looking for a female, 18-25, for fun, discreet times together. Give us a call. 311573 READY FOR FUN? SWM, 30, feminine bottom, looking for a top WM, 20-60, for good times and fun. Let's see where it goes! 311892 SPANK YOU VERY MUCH Woman, thou shalt be spanked. Gentle or hard, clothed or naked, whatever you deserve, by a sexy man who knows how to do it. 288495 SHE-MALE SEEKS GOOD TIMES Want to spend time with a man or a woman. I am very affectionate, beautiful, and love to be held. Interested? 279657 18+ 866.689.5312 Get ready to meet someone special. Missed Connections AMAZON KINDLE Hello, I met you Friday June 27 at the Russian River Brewing Company on Fourth St. in Santa Rosa. She may be a computer programmer from St. Helena Hospital and watched on this day 3 movies back to back in the theater on Fourth St. in the town of Santa Rosa The Love Guru by Mike Meyers, Wall-E and another film. And she sipped a little beer and read from her Amazon kindle. I would like to get in touch with this girl and ask her to edit my book. She is a perfect candidate for my book. Hope to hear from you. Phil. 274972 CORINA IN OLIVER'S Saturday at 4:00PM, You had 15-year-old twins with blacks belts in karate. I have two cute little kids. We talked about children and kale. Lunch? 311695 Men Seeking Men LOOKING FOR LOVE Seeking one man to love and care for completely and forever. Me: SBM, 50ish, affectionate, supportive, genuine, lots to offer. You: just be yourself, imperfect, mature older man, 70-90, with some humor, some laughter. Are you the one? 299175 COMPASSIONATE GUY Hard-working, classy, cleancut, caring, honest male in search of a male, 58-69, who likes night clubs, television, travel, dancing, the beach, taking walks, exercise. 308996 call 1.800.214.3435 (with credit card or check) 0114 The Bohemian is no longer servicing walk-in ads. Please call 1-800-214-3435 to become a member. Dial 1.900.287.1222 or 1.800.273.8235 43 01.20.10-01.26.10 THE BOHEMIAN Only $2.19 per minute � 18 and up � Or call toll-free 1.800.214.3435 to become a member. Placing an Ad BOHEMIANCLASSIFIEDS Contacting Us Bohemian Classifieds 847 5th Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95404 Monday through Friday, 8:30a.m. to 5:30p.m. ph: 707.527.1200 � By Phone Call the Department at 707.527.1200 Mon.-Fri., 8:30a.m.5:30p.m. By Fax Fax your ad to the Classified Department at 707.527.1288 g Employment Jobs Carpet Vacuum job 35 hours/week Call 510-273-9005, fax 510-658-3732. $11.50/hour Activists ROAD RULES JOB! 18-25 People Needed. Must Be Free To Travel. Crystal 800-428-4613 MOVIE EXTRAS NEEDED Earn $150 to $300 Per Day. All Looks, Types and Ages. Feature Films, Television, Commercials, and Print. No Experience Necessary. 1-800-340-8404 x2001 (AAN CAN) g Business Opportunities Wanted through out Bay Area !! Help qualify California Initiatives. $12-$25 Hourly. Flexible hours. Please call 707-332-9118 ggg Family Services Adoptions $19.99 per month. HBO & Showtime Free. Over 50 HD Channels Free. Lowest Prices no equipment to buy! Call now for details: 1-800-9430685. (AAN CAN) Miscellaneous Home Services Remodeling/Repair Get Dish-Free Installation $19.99 per month. HBO & Showtime Free. Over 50 HD Channels Free. Lowest Prices no equipment to buy! Call now for details: 877-887-6144. (AAN CAN) Pregnant? Considering Adoption? Talk with caring agency specializing in matching birthmothers with families nationwide. Living expenses paid. Call 24/7 Abby's One True Gift Adoptions. 866/413-6293 (AAN CAN) Miscellaneous learn about the orgins and inner workings of Consciousness and how to apply this knowledge to your everyday life. Tom has taken Einstein's Theory of Relativity that one step further. Campbell, CA, February 20/21, 2110, Costa Mesa, CA, February 27/28, 2010, New York, NY, May 1/2, 2010. www.mbtevents.com g Miscellaneous GAIN NATIONAL EXPOSURE Reach over 5 million young, educated readers for only $995 by advertising in 110 weekly newspapers like this one. Call Jason at 202-2898484. This is not a job offer. (AAN CAN) Professional Services Golden Star Grafix Need a quality designer? Business cards, brochures, flyers, posters, digital collage, cd covers, photographic restoration, general marketing materials. Mark Schaumann 707-795-0924, email@example.com Bartenders In Demand No experience necessary. Make up to $300 per shift. Part-time, day, evening, night shifts available. Training, placement, certification provided. Call 877-879-9153 (AAN CAN) $$$HELP WANTED$$$ Extra Income! Assembling CD cases from Home! No Experience Necessary! Call our Live Operators Now! 1-800-405-7619 EXT 2450 www.easywork-greatpay.com (AAN CAN) g For Sale Computer Services g Your Personality Determines Your Happiness Know why? Call for your free personality test. Call 1-800-293-6463 High School Diploma! Fast, affordable and accredited. Free brochure. Call Now!. 1-888-532-6546 ext. 97 www.continentalacademy.com (AAN CAN) Want Better Grades? FOCUSfactor can be the answer � Boosts Your Memory, Focus, and Concentration. Money Back Guarantee! Try FREE. Only $4.95 S&P 1-877-243-0688 (AAN CAN) g For Sale Electronics Get Dish with FREE Installation $19.99/mo HBO & Showtime FREE - Over 50 HD Channels FREE Lowest Prices � No Equipment to Buy! Call Now for full Details 1-877-482-6735 (AAN CAN) g Classes & Instruction Free Advice! We'll Help You Choose A Program Or Degree To Get Your Career & Your Life On Track. Call Collegebound Network Today! 1-877-892-2642 (AAN CAN) Gain National Exposure Reach over 5 million young, active, educated readers for only $995 by advertising in 110 weekly newspapers like this one. Call Jason at 202/289-8484. (AAN CAN) g Miscellaneous Real Estate Rentals 5 Steps To Access Reality Consciousness Workshops with Thomas Campbell, physicist and author of My Big Toe. www.mybigTOE.com. Come ***FREE Foreclosure Listings*** Over 400,000 properties nationwide. LOW Down Payment. Call NOW! 1-800-817-5290 (AAN CAN) Get Dish-Free Installation g g g g Adult Entertainment Adult Entertainment THE PLACE TO MEET HOT Quality and Maturity Kara, in Marin. Call for photos. Please, no calls from blocked phone numbers. No calls after midnight. 415/233-2769. Adult Massage **North Bay Beauties** Convenient incall off 101. Ask about website pix. Liza * 707-566-7866 Kayla * 707-843-2271 Chatline * FREE TO T RY ! WHERE SINGLES MEET Listen & Respond FREE! 707/5831055 Code 6999 Visit MegaMates.com, 18+ Dateline CALL NOW! 707-206-6494 AT HOME? Collect Call Billing! 1-866-607-5282 1-900 PRICING OPTIONS! 1-900-622-1100 ON THE GO? DIAL #CLICK (#25425) 79�/min. Sprint. Boost, AT&T SANTA ROSA 18 + *CARRIER CHARGES MAY APPLY MEN SEEKING MEN Browse & Respond FREE! 415-430-1199 Code 5631 Meet Your Man Here! THE BOHEMIAN 01.20.10-01.26.10 44 HEALTH&WELL-BEING gg Healing & Bodywork Massage & Relaxation Dickson Massage Calendar" for pics & availability. Great Healing Massage Affordable Swedish, Deep Tissue or Acupressure. Free parking Downtown Santa Rosa. CMT Mary 707-228-3275 Strong Thorough and Intuitive 30 yrs experience. Excellent Rates! 1/2 hour, hour or 90 mins. Colin, CMT 707-823-2990. A Provider of Pleasure Guerneville In a safe, relaxing, comfortM4M Massage able space by a "mature", compatible, easy-going gentleman! Since 1991 I`ve provided pleasure to women, men, couples. Good virtues. NW Santa Rosa, Jimmy, (C) 707-799-4467 or (L) 707-527-9497. Opening Specials � FREE Table Shower � Excellent Massage � Relaxing Body Treatments � Large Steam Sauna � Easy & Safe Parking Petaluma Lavender Day Spa FLOWER SPA Windsor: 4 Men Brent, C.M.T. 26 years experience. Nurturing, intuitive touch. Private, discrete studio. 707/477-0400. Deep Relaxing Full Body Massage To total Completion by a mature male $40/hour. Napa Valley location. Roger 707-525-1771. RELAX! Relaxing massage and bodywork by male massage therapist with 11 yrs experience. 707-542-6856 Mitch, CMT. Mature. Cindy Cross, CMT Professional. Relaxing Need a relaxing massage? intuitive touch. Private discrete studio. 707-849-7409 Come in for Swedish, Deep Tissue, Tui Na, Reiki, MEN! Get a Massage Lifestream, Acupressure and the way you like it. Swedish see what a difference it can make. Call 707.665.9020. and deep tissue techniques. First Time Client Special! Relaxing and rejuvenating. 90 minutes for $60. Cindy Flexible schedule for your Cross, C.M.T. 665-9020 convenience. Outcalls By appointment only available. Call James 707-477-4365. Walk ins Welcome Open 7 Days 9-10pm 131 Liberty St, Ste. D at Washington behind Wachovia Bank Massage � Reflexology Swedish/Shiatsu Open 7 Days: 10am-10pm 707.782.9898 Take Care of Yourself With a deeply relaxing, pampering, sensual, massage. Winter Special. CMT in Santa Rosa. Call Bliss - 415/717-9378. Golden Flower Massage Spa g Psychics 1626 4th St. Santa Rosa 707.526.6888 Prayer with the Master (Free 4-Week Workshop) Deepen your understanding and experience of prayer by learning from the prayer life of Christ and the writings of other teachers of prayer. All are welcome! Mondays, Jan 25 - Feb 15, 6:30-8:30p, Journey Center, Santa Rosa, 707-578-2121, www.journeycenter.org. Man of Your Dreams Men, women, couples. TLC, massage, Tantra, nurturing mutual touch. William 707-548-2187 A Safe Place To Be Real Holistic tantric masseuse. Unhurried, private, heartfelt. Monday thru Saturday. NEW CLIENT DISCOUNT. 707-793-2232. Psychic Palm and Card Reader Madame Lisa. Truly gifted adviser for all problems. 827 Santa Rosa Ave. Call for Appointment 707-542-9898 � Swedish & Deep Great Massage By Joe, CMT. Relaxing hot tub Sensual Massage and pool available. Will do With a mature, playful CMT. outcalls. 707-228-6883. Comfortable incall location near the J.C. in Santa Rosa. Soothing, relaxing, and fun. Visa/MC accepted. Gretchen 707/478-3952. Full Body NOW OPEN Therapeutic Massage Center Body Massage o $55/hr Open 7 days 9-10pm Tissue Massage � Hot Stone Massage 699 Petaluma Blvd. N 707.765.1879 Open 7 days 9am-10pm Call the Bohemian NOW to advertise! 707.527.1200 email@example.com Grand Opening! Massage $55 hr � Deep Tissue/Swedish � Sports � Shiatzu � Back Walking � Foot Reflexology � Chair $10/10 min massage MASSAGE FOR GUYS Warm up from the winter with my full-body DEEP pain-relieving massage. Two Locations! Sebastopol & Guerneville. 707-824-8700 or Google search "James Foot Massage $19.99/45 min 2460 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa 707.578.3088 SPIRITUAL CONNECTIONS Finding inspiration and connecting with your community The Journey Center: Christ-centered Spirituality, Healing, & Wholeness Reading room, art gallery, prayer/ meditation gatherings, spiritual journey resources, bodywork, bookstore, free WiFi. 1601 Fourth Street, Santa Rosa. www.journeycenter.org 707.578.2121 Santa Rosa Shambhala Meditation Center Free instruction and practice opportunities Tuesday 4:30-5:30 PM, Wednesday 7 PM, Sunday 10 AM - 11:15 AM. www.santarosa.shambhala.org Mahakaruna Buddhist Meditation Center Offers ongoing introductory and advanced classes. Weds at noon, Tues & Weds evenings 7:30�8:45pm Prayers for World Peace, Sun, 10:30�11:45am Everyone welcome. 304 Petaluma Blvd., North, Petaluma www.meditationinnorcal.org Dream Power 5-wk Dream Series & Classes, Jan 24-Feb 24 Sundays 10:30am & Wednesdays 6:30-8:30pm Drop-ins welcome. Fee: Loving Offering SPECIAL DREAM WORKSHOP Feb. 7th, 1-4pm with JEREMY TAYLOR, D. MIN. Call for info. Happy Health Spa open 10-10, 7 days 525 Ross St, Santa Rosa 707-591-8899 Chinese Medicine & Massage Therapy Center FREE CONSULTATION with a Chinese medicine expert & Qi Gong Master. Treatment for pain & injury. Extensive traditional Chinese herbal pharmacy Lily Spa RELAX Asian Massage g Miscellaneous Open House Jan 24th, 11:45am Visit our new facility and have fun with Unity friends Prof Surrogate/Masseuse Holistic, caring, help with all sexual concerns. Tantric and relationship coaching. Supervising Dr available. 707-793-2232 MORE THAN 15 MASSAGE TECHNIQUES FOR PERFECT RELAXATION Swedish, Deep Tissue, Acupressure, Reflexology Qi Gong � Thai Chi � Acupuncture Cupping herbs � Infrared Sauna � Same-day Appointments Walk-ins Welcome � Treatments Start at $20 - Insurance Accepted Gift Certificates � Open 7 days, 10 AM to 8 PM Unity Church of Santa Rosa 4857 Old Redwood Hwy, Larkfield Business Park www.UnityofSantaRosa.org | 707.542.7729 Share your organization's inspiration with over 95,100 Bohemian Readers monthly! Phone: 707.527.1200 email: email@example.com 707.762.9111 � 172 Keller Street, Petaluma 45 01.20.10-01.26.10 THE BOHEMIAN Place your pet related ad here today! Call 707.527.1200 For the week of Jan. 20 ANIMAL COMMUNICATOR ~ AUTHOR OF "Communication with all Life, Revelations of an Animal Communicator" Location: Sonoma Humane Society 5345 Hwy 12 West Santa Rosa, CA 95407 Date: January 30th (Saturday) Time: 2:00pm-4:00pm Cost: $20 All Proceeds go to: Sonoma Human Society www.sonomahumane.org To Reserve a spot for this workshop, Call Christy Hamilton - 707.545.7721 www.joanranquet.com JOAN RANQUET Presents Low Cost Vaccination Clinics every Sunday, 9:30-11am WESTERN FARM CENTER 707.545.0721 21 West 7th St. Santa Rosa $100 off 35 years training experience Guest on the Discovery Channel's K-9 Cops for his expertise Obedience training the natural way 10 acres of safe, country training grounds Exceptional for aggression issues Strong leadership skills taught for owners Meet Charlotte � Kitty of the Week HUSH, HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE! This wee and wonderful 3-year old kitty truly lives up to her name � the word sweet could have been invented for her! We know you're out there! Just a few minutes with this charmer, full of purrs and head butts, and you'll be sold for life. Come meet the new love of your life! To learn more about adopting Charlotte or many other homeless animals at the Sonoma Humane Society, please visit us or check us out online. The Adoption Center is open 7 days a week from 12PM - 6PM and is located at 5345 Highway 12 West, Santa Rosa (just 5 miles west of Hwy 101 @ Llano Rd) www.sonomahumane.org Doggie Boot Camp or 3 private sessions for $200 (reg $240) exp. 01/31/10 707-322-3272 www.incrediblecanine.com Meet Panda � Doggie of the Week MEET PANDA! Can you guess where this 1 year old Border Collie got his name? He's a real huggy bear! This 1-year old Border Collie is a real charmer, once you've been properly introduced: he has manners, after all, and doesn't just cotton to any old stranger! He'd be the perfect companion for long walks and snuggling by the fire! To learn more about adopting Panda or many other homeless animals at the Sonoma Humane Society, please visit us or check us out online. The Adoption Center is open 7 days a week from 12PM - 6PM and is located at 5345 Highway 12 West, Santa Rosa (just 5 miles west of Hwy 101 @ Llano Rd) www.sonomahumane.org Meet Bear � Doggie of the Week HI, I'M BEAR and I can "bearly" stand waiting until my new owners come in and meet me! I'm a 4-year old Shepherd/Chow mix with good looks AND charm! I'd be a great companion for your new exercise regimen and I make a great rug by the fire when I stretch out to join you in your quieter moments. To learn more about adopting Bear or many other homeless animals at the Sonoma Humane Society, please visit us or check us out online. The Adoption Center is open 7 days a week from 12PM - 6PM and is located at 5345 Highway 12 West, Santa Rosa (just 5 miles west of Hwy 101 @ Llano Rd) www.sonomahumane.org In addition to this column, Rob Brezsny offers expanded weekly audio horoscopes and daily text message horoscopes. To buy access, go to www.realastrology.com. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1.877.873.4888 or 1.900.950.7700. THE BOHEMIAN 01.20.10-01.26.10 46 BOHEMIAN FLIPSIDE Stony Point Rd. "OVO is a remarkable and welcome return of Cirque to the Bay Area, and maintains the company's high standards of quality" � Mercury News Storage Master Self Storage Dutton Ave. W. Robles Standish Ave # 3205 Dutton Avenue Bellevue Hearn Rd. � Call for our current specials � Month to Month Availability � Boxes, Packaging & Moving Supplies � Residential & Commercial � Professional On-site Managers 707-546-0000 707-578-3299 Todd Rd. Corby Auto Row Santa Rosa Rohnert Park HWY 101 1435 Sebastopol Road WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY DEBORAH COLKER PRESENTED BY Q UALITY G RAPHIC D ESIGN BUSINESS CARDS � BROCHURES POSTERS � T-SHIRTS � CD COVERS FLYERS � PHOTOGRAPHIC RESTORATION LEAVING THIS SUNDAY OPENS FEBRUARY 4 AT&T PARK IN SAN FRANCISCO AT TAYLOR STREET BRIDGE IN SAN JOSE GET YOUR TICKETS NOW! cirquedusoleil.com FOR PREFERRED SEATING, ASK FOR THE TAPIS ROUGE TM VIP EXPERIENCE GROUP SALES AND : 1-800-450-1480 OFFICIAL SPONSORS MEDIA PARTNERS SAN FRANCISCO SAN JOSE general marketing materials UNDER THE GRAND CHAPITEAU firstname.lastname@example.com Mark Schaumann 707.795.0924 THE BOHEMIAN 01.20.10-01.26.10 47 SANTA ROSA TREATMENT PROGRAM Medical Marijuana Evaluations Local. Independent. Comprehensive. Absolute lowest fee. 10% off for Seniors and Vets. Be legal. Be safe. Call for your confidential appt. 707-528-1829. 1901 CLEVELAND AVE SUITE B, Santa Rosa Meth and Alcohol Treatment that allows you to keep your day job! Santa Rosa Treatment Program can help.(707) 576-0818. MEDICAL MARIJUANA EVALUATIONS Affordable, Professional, & Trusted. Appt. within 1 week GUARANTEED!! Call (707) 568-0420 24/7 Verification www.GREEN215.com Donate Your Auto 800.380.5257 We do all DMV. Free pick up- running or not (restrictions apply). Live operators- 7 days! Help the Polly Klaas Foundation provide safety information and assist families in bringing kids home safely. Napa Mustard Festival A Season of Sensational Events! Celebrate Napa Valley`s food, wine, art, agricultural and cultural bounties during the Mustard Season. Jan. 30 to Mar. 27. 707-938-1133. mustardfestival.org Golden Star Grafix Need a quality designer? Business cards, brochures, flyers, posters, digital collage, cd covers, photographic restoration, general marketing materials. Mark Schaumann 707.795.0924 Your Personality Determines Your Happiness Know why? Call for your free personality test. Call 1-800-293-6463 MacAdvantage Macintosh Computer Repair FREE Diagnosis, Friendly In-House Staff Answer Calls, Hardware/Software, DATA Recovery, Internet, Email, Wireless Network Setup & Security, Apple Authorized Business Agent, Tam Nguyen-Chief Tech, M-F 10-6. 707.664.0400, email@example.com SUBUTEX/SUBOXONE available for Safe Oxycontin, Vicodin, Other Opiate Withdrawal! Confidential Program. (707) 576 1919 Green Earth Catering Organic and Earth friendly foods and supplies Scott Goree - Entertainment coordinator and business manager 707.795.7358 home, 707.479.5481 cell firstname.lastname@example.com Medical Marijuana Certifications $125. Santa Rosa. 707-575-7375. Santa Rosa CopWatch First and third Tues at 7, discussion of police accountability and observation plus know-your-rights training. Free Mind Media, 546 Pacific Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.579.1605 Make a New Year's resolution to help animals. www.compassionate-carnivores.org SKIRT CHASER VINTAGE NEW LOCATION! 208 Davis Street., Railroad Square 707546-4021. ALWAYS BUYING! Photography by Paul Burke 707.664.0178 firstname.lastname@example.com Relapse Doesn't Mean Failure Santa Rosa Treatment Program can help. (707) 576 0818 MY 2010 INTENTION...TURN MY LIFE AROUND DAAC can help with your alcohol or other drug addiction Turning Point Residential Program � 30 to 270 days of treatment � Opiate Treatment Track � NEW Payment Plan HOPE HEALING HEALTH CALL TODAY 707.544.3295 or visit www.daacinfo.org A F F O R DA B L E � CO N F I D E N T I A L � 4 0 Y E A R S O F CO M M U N I T Y N O N - P R O F I T S E RV I C E