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he other day I was on an American Airlines f light home, and as it crossed the Sierra Nevada and began its descent toward SFO, the

stewardess made the usual announcement. “Please shut off all electronic devices,” she said, and then added a litany of what she meant. “Computers, iPods, Gameboys, Kindles. Anything with an on-off switch.” It was the first time I heard the Kindle mentioned as something with the potential to interfere with aircraft navigation systems.

I glanced out the window at the snow-capped peaks, looked ahead to the verdant Central Valley, checked my seatbelt and returned to the well-worn Sonoma County public library paperback copy of Lucky Jim that I had been reading since we left Dallas. The Kingsley Amis satire of academia written back in 1953 still resonates well in the 21st century, no batteries required and with no prohibition on reading below 20,000 feet.

I’m an author. I write books for a living. I want the biggest audience I can garner for my work, and so I embrace the new technologies. My latest book is electronic-reader-friendly. You can read it for $9.99 on your Kindle, and I hope that you do. But if you choose the electronic version of Forbidden Creatures: Inside the World of

Animal Smuggling and Exotic Pets, you’ll miss more than the opportunity to read during take-off and landing.

The dust jacket that Georgiana Goodwin designed is brilliant. Literally. Printed on foil paper, the images explode: a slithering and glistening yellow python, an ominous leopard, a wild-eyed chimpanzee and a sharp-toothed alligator poised to bite your thumb off. If you carry around this book, it’s bound to start conversations with passersby. Same with Lucky Jim and its ominous Edward Gorey cover illustration, or any other book made up of words printed with ink on paper.

No one knows what you’re reading when you close your Kindle and shut it off. All that shows is a nondescript plastic box that

advertises you as an early adopter of new technology. That anonymity may serve you well if your taste in reading material tends toward pornography or how-to books on bomb-making. But I wager most of us enjoy the impromptu conversations that start with a glance at a book cover.

If you want to read Lucky Jim on your Kindle, you’re out of luck even if you’re not descending toward SFO. It’s not (yet)

available on the Amazon electronic reader device, although as of

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78 used copies of the Penguin paperback edition for as little as 90 cents each. A basic Kindle goes for $259, plus at least $9.99 for each downloaded book.

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feet and dropping. It is embossed with the pattern of alligator skin.

Feel the book cover, and you feel one of the eerie animals in the story. The endpapers explode with wild swirls of yellow, ref lecting the python.

Don’t look for a switch that allows you to change typefaces on the non-Kindle edition. The choice of the nonintrusive and easy-to-read Akzidenz Grotesque Bold Condensed typeface was made for you. That’s part of our job as authors, editors and book designers. We research and write the book, edit it and figure out how to make it appropriately appealing as a unique piece of work. It becomes what a book is: a physical and lasting artifact of our culture.

The Kindle is a grand new tool, but it’s no book.

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Reading about or listening to the Goldman-Sachs executives before the Senate Committee in these last months, I remember that the real division in this country isn’t conservatives and liberals, or Republicans and Democrats, or even the extreme right or extreme left. The real division is the same one that’s been here since the first human who figured out he wanted what another human had: greed. The real division is between the haves and the have-nots, the rich and the poor. To this we might now add: the used-to-be rich and the middle class.

After gutting the poor and convincing the middle class that these were the parasites depleting the system, the rich in recent years have gone after the middle class. And in the process, they have robbed many hard-working people of their livelihoods or retirements; things that they themselves—the rich—enjoy quite brazenly, thank you very much.

Meanwhile the Goldman-Sachs guys look down their noses at working-class folks foolish enough to trust them with their hard-earned cash. And then stare back with contempt at the politicians who dare to question them. Not an ounce of humility between them. No regret and, apparently, no regard for the enormous suffering they are responsible for.

In my field, we have a term for people like this: sociopaths.

And what is our punishment for men so adept at robbing others? Give them more money! Big mistake, I think. These guys represent the absolute worst of our society, our species and the capitalist system. Personally, I’m disappointed they are not being severely punished for their crimes against the middle class. A logical punishment in my view, and one worse than prison, would be that they are forever banned from working in the banking industry, their bank accounts seized and they be forced to get real jobs to support themselves and their families. The fairest punishment I can imagine is

these white-collar thieves working at 7-11, driving a truck or being greeters at Wal-Mart.

I just finished reading Juliane Poirier’s article “Gumming up the Works” (Green Zone, May 26), and my first reaction was to want to help Laretta Powell in whatever small way I can. I’m sure there are many Bohemian readers who felt the same.

I’m wondering if there is a means for doing so that would be easy and fast—say, a website that lets one make donations for local causes such as that of Ms. Powell? I don’t have much money myself, but I could definitely donate $10–$20, and I’m thinking if others in our community are like-minded, Ms. Powell could have her teeth in a jiffy without Ms. Denny having to take on the task all by herself.

Could you assist with this or direct us somehow through your paper?

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erry Garrett thinks Sonoma County is weird, and he wants to keep it that way. “If you have a lot of locally owned businesses, you have more character in the community,”

he explains in a comfortable Southern twang. As the co-managing member of Sustaining Technologies and the current operations officer for the Sonoma County GoLocal Cooperative, Garrett’s ready to help independent businesses and their customers interact with each other in a new way.

In February, the Sonoma County GoLocal Cooperative took preliminary steps toward establishing a countywide credit-clearing system. Fancy economic jargon aside, credit clearing fosters a network of exchanges between local merchants and residents. Based on a new and innovative economic theory, the system encourages people to patronize locally owned independent businesses by offering discounts and rewards.

Santa Rosa Community Market, Osmosis Day Spa Sanctuary, Infusions Teahouse and Cricket Landscapes have already signed on to participate, and GoLocal plans to incorporate 250 other area businesses by October. The message is that when people spend money within their community, that money recirculates locally instead of leaking into the pockets of faceless corporate hounds. This is called the economic multiplier effect.

The GoLocal team likes to talk about “making the shift happen,” which is an exciting idea even beyond its delightful marriage of vulgarity and reform. According to Garrett, Sonoma County residents spent $12.8 billion in total shopping in 2007. If residents could shift just 1 percent of their purchases from an out-of-county owned business to a locally owned business, Garrett estimates we could pump $32 million into our county’s economy.

“Our mission is to reclaim our local economic power,” Garrett says. “Part of that is getting control of our money supply. Credit clearing is the perfect way to do that.”

But how does it work? Say Phil spends $25 at a local bookstore. He pays the cashier $25, and the cashier applies a credit to his GoLocal account worth $1.25, 5 percent of his purchase. High on the dopamine rush of a shopping spree, Phil then patronizes his local music store for a total of $30. The cashier swipes his card, sees his $1.25 credit, and only charges him $28.75. She then replaces the redeemed credit with a new credit of $1.44, or 5 percent of the amount he paid. When businesses trade with one another, the GoLocal credit system also applies, and in this way they make up the debits incurred by exchanges with customers.

Garrett’s next step in system design will allow a participant with a surplus of credit to assign that credit to a charity, a nonprofit or a school. If a credit-clearing system defines internal trading within a community, businesses can more easily settle their debts to one another without depending on loans from big banks that will demand interest and an unnecessary drain on finances.

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to implement a fully digitized local credit-clearing system on a large scale that includes residents and merchants. Previous experiments have revolutionized the way businesses trade with one another but overlooked the expanded opportunities possible when the customer participates. Credit clearing will not involve lugging around more cumbersome coins, paper money or coupons. All that is needed is a swipe card.

In addition to the discounts involved in the credit-clearing system, the card will also track a patron’s visits to each store individually. Like a streamlined version of a coffee card, the GoLocal card alerts merchants when a shopper reaches that 10th visit or 100th dollar spent at their store, thus ensuring receipt of the resultant free gift or extra discount.

Not everyone is eager to jump on the GoLocal bandwagon. Kathleen Stroh, former owner of a GNC chain store in Sebastopol, questions the accuracy of the San Francisco study touted on GoLocal’s website as evidence of the multiplier effect. She critiques the small sample size of 10 local stores versus 10 corporate stores.

“The local businesses self-reported their numbers,” Stroh says. “Secondly, the people running the study couldn’t get data from corporate stores, so they chose numbers from the stock exchange and took an average. That is ridiculous.” But Stroh has no quarrel with GoLocal’s intentions; her experience as the owner of a chain store has prompted her wish for GoLocal to clarify that “they’re talking about independent businesses—not local businesses.”

Garrett stresses that the strength of the system comes from the fact that it is “based on trust and credibility and reputable management.” He believes in a turn toward community focus and says that a distraction from this mindset “got us into the trouble that we’re in now with all of our major finances. People in charge didn’t look at the human scale of things; they only looked at spreadsheets and algorithms and computer models that said, ‘How do we extract value from a vast free market for ourselves?’ not ‘How is it serving our society?’ or ‘Is it causing harm somewhere else?’”

With massive chains like Wal-Mart claiming 25 percent of U.S. grocery sales and raking in $340 billion worldwide (more than the GDP of most countries), one starts to feel bleak about the fate of that favorite independent store with its soul still intact. But Garrett reminds that consumers have power. “There are a lot of people who think that free market means big guys can kill little guys, much like we think of sharks eating smaller fish and so on down the food chain,” he says. “But markets don’t really behave that way. It’s an overly simplistic way of thinking about markets. Markets have to have a community to exist.”

Throughout even the densest explanations of economic theory, Garrett emphasizes the cultural importance of independent businesses. “Look at states like Florida or anywhere throughout the South where they’ve lost most of their locally owned independent businesses. You could paratroop down and not be able to identify where you are. The local character has been lost,” he mourns. “We’re really fortunate here not to have lost that. We want to preserve it.”

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he leader of the Lakota Dakota Nakota Oyate, the great Sioux nation, is a man with a vision. Chief Arvol Looking Horse sees a great danger threatening

“Grandmother Earth” and a great hope for restoring her wholeness. So he is calling all nations to prayer of any kind on June 21 in an effort to return the planet to balance, the people to spirit. I asked him why this path is the right path to take.

“A man or a woman without spirit is very dangerous,” Looking Horse explained in a recent phone interview. According to this Sioux chief, the absence of spirit is causing suffering everywhere. “We are in a time of survival,” he said. “But we don’t want to believe it because we have forgotten our spirits. We have forgotten that Grandmother Earth has a spirit.” Disconnected souls, according to Looking Horse, are “hurting others without even knowing they are hurting others.” Those being hurt include animals, trees and waterways.

The Sioux have an inclusive worldview, but it was not shared by the transplanted Europeans who undertook genocide on Indian land, culminating in the Wounded Knee massacre of 1890. That final brutality broke the “hoop” binding Indians together; however, Sioux prophecy foretold that in a hundred years the people would be reunited.

Although surviving tribe members and their descendants were stripped of religious freedoms (returned to them only 32 year ago by the U.S. government), the rituals were kept and the prophecy not forgotten. So the Sioux nations set out on horseback to “mend the broken hoop” of their nation in 1986 at a sacred site known to non-Indians (and Close

Encounters of the Third Kind fans) as Devils Tower or the Great Horn Butte; their ritual went on for four years and concluded in 1990, 100 years after Wounded Knee.

During the course of that long ritual, Looking Horse was surprised by a vision that came to him of peace and unity that included not only the Indian nations but all the nations of the world, each gathering with ritual plants around sacred fires on every continent. The

Sioux chief felt called to oversee a much broader mending. But who was going to listen even to the chief of a people largely ignored in the country where they lived?

“We had to leave our homeland to be a voice in the world,” said Looking Horse. “We are up against a lot of violence and anger and hatred. We need to go back to our sacred

places and pray about this. In every generation, there are changes.

But our way of life, our ceremonies, our prayers

don’t change. Our sacred sites don’t change.

“When the first non-Indian came to this land, our people said, ‘What shall we call this man?’ and they called him Wasicu,” he continued. “It means ‘takes fat,’ which we know today means the

white brothers are taking fat off Mother

Earth. Long ago, when the first nations lived on

Turtle Island, through our prayers and ceremonies, we

maintained harmony and peace, a way of life where there’s no ending,

no beginning. “It’s everyday life for us that we hold

Grandmother Earth sacred, we hold the trees and the plants, everything has a spirit. We need people to be really respectful for each other. The Great Spirit put us here all together. If we’re going to survive, we need to have spirit and compassion. On June 21 we’re asking people to go to their sacred places or sacred spaces to pray.”

Looking Horse seems surprised to be a global spokesperson for the environment. “It seems like it was just yesterday when a woman had no voice in this country, when our people were fighting for their rights,” he said. “Just a hundred years ago, our people were in concentration camps called reservations. Our ceremonies were outlawed, and we were put in boarding schools. I never thought I would have the opportunity to go to the White House. Now today, people all over the world are listening to us.”

And here’s the message. “On June 21,” said Looking Horse, “shut off the electricity and let’s pray.”

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n a windswept kingdom in northwestern France, a farmer’s wife hovers over her hearth. She checks the f lat, round stone heating in the wood fire, gauging when it will be hot enough to cook the f lat bread, or galette, whose name is derived from galet, the French

word for “pebble.” Mixing a batter of water, egg, sea salt and the flour from the buckwheat her husband has grown and harvested in Brittany’s thin soil, she carefully pours a ladleful onto the middle of the hot stone. The woman quickly spreads it into a thin circle with a wooden spatula, then waits for the edges to curl, the signal that it is perfectly cooked.

As her young daughter watches and learns, the woman repeats the process, making a stack of the pancakes for the week, therefore preserving the family’s wood supply. Most often eaten plain, or sometimes filled with ham, cheese or an egg, the galettes serve as the region’s daily bread, much like the tortillas of Mexico, the blinis of Russia or the injera of Ethiopia.

Fast-forward 500 years to the sunny skies and

golden hills surrounding the Marin Civic Center. A group of women hover in front of Brittany Crepes and Galettes, a canvas kiosk tucked between pizza and kettle corn stands at the twice-weekly farmers market. Stylishly coiffed ladies in wedge sandals and perfect pedicures mingle with hippie moms, their babies in pouches, all waiting expectantly to taste a delicious crêpe or galette cooked by proprietor and master chef Laurent Le Barbier, a native of Brittany.

As the line grows, Le Barbier and his two assistants work nonstop over the four propane gas heated crêpe makers, called a bilig in Celtic, the ancestral language of Brittany. When the bilig is heated to a blistering 220 degrees Celsius (425 degrees Fahrenheit), the chef measures out precisely six ounces of batter and ladles it onto the center.

With the grace attained from much practice, Le Barbier spreads the batter in a f luid, circular motion, ensuring a uniform thinness. If the batter is spread too slowly, parts of the pancake will be thicker than others and will heat at different rates, overcooking or undercooking spots.

The T-shaped spreader, or roselle, is traditionally made of rosewood, a tough material that isn’t easily damaged or misshapen by heat and water. When the edges of the galette curl (the word “crêpe” is derived from the Latin “crispa,” meaning “curled”), Le Barbier expertly loosens and then f lips it with a large spatula to heat the other side for a few seconds. Flipping it back to its original position, he adds the filling, folds it up and slips it onto a plate for the hungry customer. “I come here frequently, and get the breakfast galette every time,” says patron Rich Rusdorf. “I wish Laurent had a regular place in San Rafael that was open so I could eat there every day.”

Le Barbier grew up watching his grandmother make galettes on her well-worn cast-iron pan, and as a child ate them for breakfast, dinner or an after-school snack. His mother made crêpes on Fridays, when Catholics often refrain from eating meat.

Many Americans are unaware of the distinction between crêpes and galettes, and Le Barbier rapidly explains the differences in his heavily accented English. Galettes are made with buckwheat f lour and are usually

Laurent Le Barbier prepares a galette at

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Laurent Le Barbier dishes the distinctions between crêpes and galettes

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served with a savory filling, like eggs or cheese. Crêpes are made with all-purpose white f lour and usually have a sweet filling like fresh fruit, jam, or powdered sugar and butter and are served for breakfast or dessert.

Sometimes people add a f lavor to the crêpe batter, like a little espresso or vanilla. There is even a distinction made between the two by how they are folded: galettes into rectangles, crêpes into triangles. Le Barbier explains that this is “restaurant style,” to be eaten from a plate, but that as Parisian street food, both crêpes and galettes are folded into paper cones for easy take away. Le Barbier is in the process of finding a supplier for cones so he can eliminate paper plates and plastic forks and serve a more environmentally friendly product.

The westernization of crêpes is usually credited to Henri Charpentier, a world-renowned chef who served French royalty in the late 1800s. He reputedly created crêpes Suzette, a dessert crêpe f lavored with orange and f lambéed with brandy, and later immortalized in The Patty Duke Show theme song. Charpentier parleyed his fame into restaurants in New York and Redondo Beach, Calif., where Americans tasted his “exotic” fare, and crêpes began to gain recognition throughout the United States.

Fillings for the pancakes now extend far beyond the traditional “galette complete,” made with ham, Gruyère cheese and an egg sunny-side up, to ones made with a variety of ingredients like bacon and sour cream or pesto or bananas, Nutella and chocolate. At Brittany Crepes and Galette, most ingredients are bought or traded from local farmers. Customers have the choice of combining gourmet cheeses, pesto, fresh tomatoes, mushrooms, green onions, eggs and, for the meat eaters, ham, bacon, chicken breast or smoked salmon. The savory crêpes are made with organic buckwheat f lour and are gluten-free.

Le Barbier will not divulge the family secret of making the perfect crêpe. “I grew up with it,” he shrugs, “and the secret is a lot of little things put together—the recipe, how we f lip them, the seasoning of the pan. My mother used to make a game of f lipping the crêpe—how high could we f lip it from the pan.”

The line outside the kiosk never seems to shorten, even though Le Barbier and his helpers are working at full-speed. The market closing time nears. “Spin, spin, spin!” he urges his protégés. “Go faster, faster, faster! Don’t be afraid to spread it!” Then he takes over the job himself. The replaced helper works in the back, prepping more onions and mushrooms for the hungry crowd. The next customer at the window is greeted with a “Bonjour!” and a smile from the master himself.

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I had a terrible dream the other night. For

reasons that weren’t entirely clear in the dream, the social and political order of the United States had broken down. Night was falling and martial law had been declared. People were packing up their belongings—and weapons—and heading into the hills while others hunkered down in their homes. I ran frantically through the house looking for guns, ammunition, food, batteries, sleeping bags and anything else I could think of to prepare myself and my family for the coming anarchy. Trouble was, I didn’t know where my family was and I was terribly worried for their safety.

I figured my best bet was to set up camp in the mountains while I tried to figure out the whereabouts of my wife and children. On the way out of town, I stopped at a Italian restaurant where the owner and his family gave me the last bit of food that remained in the display case, a slice of pizza and some mozzarella cheese, if I remember correctly. Minimally provisioned, I headed out into the fear-filled night.

I woke up with my heart beating hard in my chest. It didn’t take much analysis to figure out what had fueled my nightmare. The day before, I had read an analysis of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico by Richard Heinberg, a fellow at Santa Rosa’s Post-Carbon Institute and author of Blackout: Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis. Heinberg, who has been sounding the peak-oil alarm for years, warns that as easy-to-access oil and coal dries up disasters like the ghastly BP spill will become more common as we are forced to greater lengths to tap harder to reach, riskier petroleum deposits.

“The Deepwater Horizon disaster reminds us that, of all nonrenewable resources, oil best deserves to be thought of as the Achilles heel of modern society,” Heinberg writes. “Without cheap oil, our industrial food system—from tractor to supermarket—shifts from feast to famine mode; our entire transportation system sputters to a halt.”

As a food-centric person, my mind naturally goes to food. As much as soil and water, our food system depends on cheap oil and gas for transportation, pesticides and fertilizers. Remove oil from the equation, and watch governments fall, riots ensue and death by starvation march across the globe.

If you buy the peak-oil argument—that at some point, regardless of price, oil production reaches a maximum rate and begins to decline—it’s hard not to believe that unless we start to wean ourselves from oil immediately, a global food crisis is a question of when, not if. These are the things that wake me up at night.

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Lucky for us, the return of warm weather is accompanied by a new

crop of pink wines. Served chilled, dry rosé is refreshing and flavorful, may appeal to customary imbibers of both red and white, and is often the best value from small and medium-sized locals. This roundup was chosen partly for availability and partly for prior proof of deliciousness, chilled to 46–48 degrees—although perhaps better enjoyed in the low 50s—tasted blind by a gang of four and rated on a scale of 1 to 5.

Thumbprint 2008 Rosé ($18) Brilliant and deep colored. Best liked for fresh aromas of fruit punch, cherries and berries; a meaty, spicy mouthful. First bottle emptied post-tasting. Rating: 4.5.

Balletto 2009 Rosé Pinot Noir ($16) A surprising runner-up given its pale hue. Crediting it with aromas of clover honey, honeysuckle, strawberry and Bosc pear, tasters were won over with flavors of apple, grapefruit and pomegranate. Rating: 4.

Cline 2009 Mourvedre Rosé ($12) A perennial best value shows well again, although the paler, orange-pink hue and floral, old-fashioned peach rose character seem atypical. Strawberry, peach flavors. Rating: 4.

Carol Shelton 2009 Rendezvous Rosé ($15) A pretty medium-pink with appealing apple, strawberry and vanilla following initial aromas, finishing dry. This was among the first polished off once the hard work was done. An example where a newly bottled rosé improves from a little air before serving. Rating: 3.5.

Toad Hollow 2009 Eye of the Toad Rosé ($9) Pale rosy hue, strawberry, watermelon, honeydew and grape aromas, and a fresh, tart palate. This vintage of the often reliable Eye bombed with only one taster. Rating: 3.

Quivira 2009 Grenache Rosé ($15) The pale, peach tint perhaps elicits olfactory impressions of same. This crisp and complex, but comparatively subtle, product of thin-skinned Grenache shares a palpable likeness with some classic rosés from France’s southern Rhône. Rating: 3.

Enkidu 2009 Shamhat Rosé ($20) Medium-pink and perhaps ill-served at lower temperature, with aromas of horseradish, wet earth and pear-cherry flavor. Some thought it sour and dry, while another thought “apples on the tree in the warm summer sun.” I kept the rest for myself and thoroughly enjoyed this texture-driven rosé as it opened up. Rating: 3.

Pedroncelli Dry Rosé of Zinfandel ($10) Nothing like white Zin, this is medium-pink and full-bodied, but unfortunately undermined by weedy, lawn-clipping aromas and a lack of sufficiently compensating flavor. Rating: 2.

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On the fall of fashion and the pleasures of poking around other folks’ digs

For years, we assayed a special fashion issue 1 until the simple question begged, why? There are hundreds, if not thousands of outlets that do nothing but fashion and others that give it the occasional throw and do it far, far better 2 than can a woman whose professional look is heavily inf luenced by wrecked cowboy boots 3 and vintage sequin skirts. And so

we tossed it, replacing our fashion coverage with La Vie Bohème, which attempts to capture some of the design mojo of our market without having to discuss clothes, hair or makeup 4 . This time ’round, inf luenced

by the preponderance of North Bay garden tours 5 and other acts of innocent voyeurism, we thought to look at some unusual local interiors. This time ’round, having come across a particularly good New York Times

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1 El Fudo and Wizzbang Mahnkae do not live typical middle-aged lives. Nor do they live in a typical North Bay home. The eccentric couple, best known for their roles in Sonoma County’s Baby Seal Club band, live in a home designed and built in 1989 to resemble a sailing ship. Entered through an inviting cave of wisteria, the home perches atop a hill surrounded by redwood trees and wildf lowers just west of Sebastopol. When not performing, the couple, who prefer to go by their stage names, make a

living by selling art and real estate. The most significant detail in the home is the presence of a nearly 200-year-old Chinese wedding bed that sits to the side of their comfortable family room. The bed, which would never be found at the local Ikea, holds a portrait of a Chinese bride of long ago, along with images of ancestors and rabbits to promote fertility.

During El Fudo’s battle with cancer (he is pictured left), he received harrowing news about the seriousness of the disease’s progression. Faced with the possibility of losing his partner, Wizzbang impulsively purchased the piece at IMG Antiques in S.F. and transported it to Sonoma County in

his tiny Toyota Tercel in hopes of providing a healing space in which Fudo could recover from the illness. It worked. El Fudo has been cancer-free for over five years. 2 The couple’s former garage is used as

a practice studio for their band, Baby Seal Club. The practice area includes a bar and DJ table in the form of a sliced Nash Metropolitan that El Fudo found while cruising Craigslist for a tiki bar. 3 The kitchen overhang holds mini-altars

of such family items as little mask-wearing monsters, plastic dinosaurs and a bust that Wizzbang’s art professor father used in the classroom. Constructed of bakelite, an early plastic material, she’s since been

clothed with gold paint and a 1930s park ranger hat. 4 Wizzbang’s eerily detailed paper collage paintings line the halls of the house’s front entry and hang over the couple’s homemade bedroom altar. 5 Wizzbang’s father created a themed

lounge, the Sultan Room, at the St. Francis Hotel in Hollywood in the early 1950s. This sign, which has surely witnessed its share of exciting Hollywood action, was passed on and now sits above Wizzbang and El Fudo’s kitchen, protected by monsters, dragons and sparkling demons. 6 Even grown men enjoy an occasional outdoor shower. This fully stocked sun shower provides many a summer refresher behind the house.

Musicians El Fudo and Wizzbang Mahnkae’s affirming eccentricities

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1 From the gardens of the Charles Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa to Bodega Bay’s Doran Beach, the sculptures that Warren Arnold has created during 45 of his 75 years can be seen throughout Sonoma County. Surfers have named the break at Doran “Statues,” and, Warren says, “I’m as proud of that as of anything in the world—that a counterculture has named that spot after my whale sculpture.”

As the founding father of Sebastopol’s Sculpture Jam, an active board member and last year’s president of the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Arnold aims to spread visual art throughout the community.

Residents of Sebastopol, Warren and his wife, Maile, stay fit and youthful by growing most of their own food, working in their gardens raising animals and creating art and landscapes for others to enjoy. Both hold master degrees in Environmental Education and cite nature as a major inspiration for their work. “We’ve chosen this lifestyle—it’s who we are,” Maile says. “We are able to stay healthy because of what we raise and what we eat.” 2 Every evening while Maile cooks dinner—almost all homegrown and made from scratch—Warren reads her poetry. Seamus Heaney is a favorite, Maile says, because “he relates to how it feels to be on the land, digging peat and planting potatoes.” The kitchen stove transforms

into sculpture with the addition of a marble and hardwood volcano. 3 An abundance of art by the Arnolds’ friends grace their home, especially paintings by Bill Wheeler. Much of the furniture and three of the doors are handcrafted by master woodworker, James Stadig. This cherry wood door features a nude echoing a woodcut by Wheeler. 4 Warren sculpts stone at his home studio into a variety of subjects, including dolphins, octopi, nudes and abstract landscapes. He names Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi and Constantine Brancusi as sculptors whose spare styles have inf luenced his work. 5 Working primarily with marbles from

California, Canada, India, and Carrara, Italy, the source of the highly valued stone

Michelangelo used for David, Warren has gone through more than 44,000 pounds of rock. Also imported from Carrara are the nine-inch industrial grade diamond saw blades with a recessed hub. “I wouldn’t be cutting stone without one,” he says. 6 Every Valentine’s Day, Warren carves a heart for Maile, whom he calls “my true inspiration and muse,” from a different red or pink stone. “After all these years, it’s getting harder and harder to find new stone to carve,” Warren laughs. The kukui lei is made from the shells of the state tree of Hawaii, Maile’s birthplace, and is a symbol of enlightenment, protection and peace, qualities found throughout the Arnolds’ home and lifestyle.

Sculptor Warren Arnold and his wife, Maile, live close to the earth, close to the heart

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1 The home of Dan Flock and Jenn Maly in Santa Rosa’s Burbank Gardens neighborhood is an art deco delight, outfitted with era-specific furniture and fixtures. Maly works in Napa Valley restaurants, and when he’s not sitting on Santa Rosa’s Cultural Heritage Board, Flock works in IT. “I’ve chosen to surround myself with things from an era that, at least in people’s minds, has a semblance of a simpler time,” he says. “I’m barraged by technology all day and by people having issues that they need resolved. For me, coming home to this is very calming.” 2 A walnut phone booth with a retracting door and green stamped-tin interior sits in the corner of the dining room, acquired from a garage sale just one block from Flock’s house. “I think it was $200. It’s probably out of an old hotel or something,” he says. It was a beast to load into the house, but the heavy black rotary phone inside still works. 3 Flock’s Spanish-revival house was

built in 1937, “the same year the Golden Gate Bridge was built,” he says. When Flock bought it in 1994, the lights had all been replaced with cheap contemporary fixtures. With an eye out for era-appropriate lighting, he came across a heavy solid bronze chandelier at an antique store near Roseland. Over the years, he searched for matching fixtures (“It took a long time,” he attests), and now nearly all the rooms in his house have the same design. 4 “There was a note that said it was the original pump organ from the Masonic Lodge,” says Flock of this ornate, wood-carved pump organ made by the Cornish Company of New Jersey in 1876. Discovered at downtown Santa Rosa’s late Helping Hearts thrift store, which was known for pricing items cheaply to clear space from their too-small store, the 134-year-old pump organ set Flock back just $400. Its pull knobs are hand-lettered in gothic font, and, yes, it still plays. 5 This old Zenith radio has been plugged

in just once, and it got hot, smelled weird and didn’t make a sound. Still, its beautiful maple casing and aviation-like controls fit

right in with Flock’s other furniture from the late ’20s to early ’40s. When he and Maly went on their first date, they wound up back at Flock’s house, looking through art deco books. “I love old furniture and style,” says Maly, “so I thought the house was pretty great. And I guess I might have thought he was a little cute, too.” They’ve been together ever since. The radio was given to Flock by a neighbor across the street. 6 Late last year, graphic designer Jon Heilman created replicas on canvas of Professor Marvel’s traveling sideshow wagon, which astute film lovers will recognize from a brief, early scene in The Wizard of Oz. “I kept looking at it, and thinking, ‘Where could I put it?’” Flock says, “and then I realized I have this giant crack in the plaster wall here that never goes away. There’s no patching that crack, it’s just going to come back, so I was doing myself a favor by buying it.” 7 Bought at an antique

store in the late ’80s with money from a tax return, this fold-out cocktail bar was Flock’s first art deco acquisition. It was great

for the small apartment he lived in at the time, and it still comes in handy entertaining guests today. Though it’s seen plenty of parties over the years, the walnut casing and bird’s-eye maple have never been blemished. 8 On Flock’s living room wall hangs an old card table, which advertises numerous and mostly now-defunct businesses from the upper Napa Valley like Keller’s Meats and Donaldson’s Hardware. What makes it special is the inclusion of his great-grandfather’s service station, M.W. Flock & Sons, in Yountville. On an adjoining wall hangs a picture of his grandfather, manning the pumps, although there was said to be a roadside attraction atmosphere around the place. “He had a monkey, I heard, and a real live dancing bear named Coco to bring people in,” Flock says. “Our eccentricity goes way back in this family.”

Dan Flock and Jenn Maly’s world of curiosities

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showing how Guthrie’s songwriting skill grew during the tumultuous 1930s and ’40s.

This is not a simple biographical drama. Instead of listing the basic facts of Guthrie’s life, Glazer gives us only the details that support his goal: to illustrate the ways that Guthrie’s earliest encounters and experiences shaped the way he saw himself as a songwriter. From Depression-era railroad cars and tent-city jungles to wartime California and New York City, American Song presents an evolution of America right along with Guthrie’s emergence as America’s original folk troubadour.

The songs, many of which work as little “scenes” unto themselves, are loaded with emotion and sadness, frequently crossing into chills-up-the-spine territory. On opening night, a conspicuous low-energy vibe among the cast, ironically, only added an additional sense of melancholy to songs like “The Grand Coulee Dam,” “Pastures of Plenty,” “Ludlow Massacre” and “Deportee.”

What comes into view by the final, stirring performance of “This Land Is Your Land” is a man who did much more than write songs. As Woody says himself in the various voices of the cast, these songs are taken from the voice of real Americans. Once put to music, the people need to take them back, and sing them with all their hearts. In Woody Guthrie’s American Song, you’ll want to sing along from beginning to end.

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s the summer begins, appreciative North Bay theater audiences have been talking up a handful of truly extraordinary local musical

performances. Many of these are stand-out turns in larger ensembles. At Petaluma’s Cinnabar Theater, Sacramento-based soprano Carrie Hennessey is nothing short of sensational in Tobias Picker’s heart-rending opera Emmeline, a smart, devastating work in which Hennessey proves to be as gripping an actress as she is a singer. In Sixth Street Playhouse’s Rent, actress Stephanie St. James brings so much raw passion and dynamic focus to the part of Mimi that she almost eclipses the other fine performers she shares the stage with.

Something quite different is happening at the Marin Theatre Company, where Woody Guthrie’s American Song just opened. Under the direction of Peter Glazer, who also created the show, the entire ensemble works as a finely tuned unit, with all five featured performers equally good. In fact, when looking back on the show, it’s nearly impossible to think of the cast in terms of individual actors and singers. Backed up by a first-rate onstage band, Lisa Asher, Berwick Haynes, Sam Misner, Matt Mueller and Megan Pearl Smith all work as one, each taking up the autobiographical thread of Woody Guthrie’s life, tossing it back and forth like a football team moving the ball toward the end zone.

The show, a revival of the show Glazer originally presented in New Hampshire 25 years ago, is a musical-theatrical collage, an artful overlapping of Guthrie’s songs and writings, brought to life in a series of vignettes

Sam Misner and Matt Mueller are two of five equally important cast members in ‘American Song.’

Unified cast brings Woody Guthrie’s song to vivid life

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tradition of the Irish movie priest, powerless to defeat sin but damned if he’s going to approve of it, either (“Ya wouldn’t want to say a few Hail Marys on your way out?”).

Long-lens shots bring out Farrell’s virility through juxtapositions. Jordan poses him to look like Hercules, drawing a boat into shore from a rope on top of a cliff, and the forced perspective make the big boat look like a toy. We also see him towering over a lighthouse as if he were Gulliver in Lilliput.

In close-ups, Farrell does a covert job of acting, where shadows conceal his face and hair conceals his eyes. It’s the best kind of something-missing performance yet by this actor, who seems to be getting better in his recent films. That he is working alongside Bachleda, his real-life partner, ensures one of his most relaxed and touching performances.

Luckily, Farrell is working under a companionable director—friendly but with a tough, grave streak. Jordan doesn’t oversell the heartbreak any more than he oversells the fantasy. And Syracuse picks up this air of nonchalance, telling Ondine, “Maybe you just walked into the sea because of a bad marriage. I did that once.”

Jordan’s previous aquatic picture, In Dreams, suffered from too many logical explanations, and eventually, Ondine comes to that point in the film where it must provide a perfectly reasonable explanation for all this. Jordan keeps this section short, but unfortunately, here is where the film has its supposed climax. It’s a murky standoff, and Doyle’s gloaming lapses into semidarkness.

But these few lapses fade in the memory as if they were a coda. More memorable are the elements of Ondine: the light on the water, the salty quip, the sense of possibility.

‘Ondine’ plays at select North Bay theaters

beginning on Friday, June 11.

Fisherman Colin Farrell rescues selkie Alicja Bachleda in ‘Ondine.’

By Richard von Busack

ermaid kitsch must be thundered against, but there’s a surprising amount of grit in Neil Jordan’s Ondine. In his 16th film, Jordan is

clearly working to please himself. The Irish locations are close to his home, and maybe not since The Company of Wolves has he had so much success with Irish magical realism.

I went in unenthusiastic, but it dawned on me once I started watching Ondine that the only thing I would be able to think about for weeks would be the fate of the oceans. The incomparable cinematographer Christopher Doyle brings out the sparkling gloom of these waterscapes, summer’s sunlessness, the lambency that’s almost as emotionally piercing as Irish music.

Syracuse (Colin Farrell) is known to all and sundry as “Circus,” because of the drunken clowning that has marked his life. He has been, however, nearly three years sober on the morning he goes out fishing, and his purse seine hauls a half-dead lady out of the waters off the coast of County Cork.

Ondine (Alicja Bachleda) has a hard-to-place accent; she asks for shelter and to be hidden from the sight of the locals. Syracuse agrees and confides only in the village’s blasé priest (Stephen Rea). Word gets out, though. Syracuse’s precocious, crippled daughter, Annie (Alison Barry), decides that Ondine is a selkie, a Celtic were-seal in human form. Early on, Jordan gives viewers room to be skeptical. After Syracuse first broaches the subject of Ondine, as if he were reciting a bedtime fable about a lady in the water, Annie responds, “That’s a really shite story.”

The same, if less profane, bemusement comes from the padre, whom Syracuse uses as an AA sponsor because there isn’t one in the village. Rea genially revives the old

Colin Farrell and Alicja Bachleda bring out the beauty in po-mo fairy tale ‘Ondine’

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Tim Kasher of Cursive and Yipsy Yazz perform at screening of David Lee Miller’s self-inflicted comedy, June 11 at the Phoenix. See Film list, p38.

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Hollywood actor Corey Feldman garnered great acclaim in such films as

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the squeaky-voiced youngster you knew and loved. But it’s Corey Feldman! Catch him in the

middle of a tour of amusement parks and golf tournaments on Friday, June 11, at 19 Broadway

Niteclub. 19 Broadway, Fairfax. 10pm. $23–$30. 415.459.1091.

The Hag

Never one to pass up a chance to remind people he’s no longer the redneck of “Okie from

Muskogee,” Merle Haggard these days peppers his concerts with references to smoking

weed, jokes about wearing a bra and even occasional barbs about the mentality of the “all-

American” towns he finds himself serenading. With his longtime associates, the Strangers,

ably backing him up, his concerts are a journey through the history of country music itself,

from the early hit “Mama Tried” to the 1970s barn-burner “Big City” to the tenderness of “If

I Could Only Fly.” The Hag lives in quiet seclusion somewhere up near St. Helena, but when

he’s on tour, glimmers of the hellraiser he once was still shine. See him on Saturday, June 12, at

the Uptown Theatre. 1350 Third St., Napa. 8pm. $70–$85. 707.259.0123.

Double-A Daddy

Every word sung by Wayne ‘the Train’ Hancock sounds like it’s emitting from a broken

speaker in a tiny AM radio in the corner of an all-night diner. When horses take on Hancock’s

tone, we call it “whinnying”; when Hancock himself does it, we call it “genius.” Responsible

for the great road song “Thunderstorms and Neon Signs,” Hancock is also behind this bit of

unforgettable stage banter: “This is a song about drinkin’ and drivin’. Who out there likes

to go drivin’ drunk?” (Icy silence, no one raises a hand.) “Aw, no one likes to admit it . . . but

hell, it sure is fun!” Marvel at how he strums his guitar with no pick for over an hour and gets

caught up talking about hot rods on the street outside when Hancock plays on Sunday, June

13, at the Last Day Saloon. 6:30pm. $15–$18. 707.545.2343.

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Though this weekend’s Harmony Festival won’t feature the gigantic MegaRamp from last

year, it will have four bona fide legends of skateboarding at the street course: Ray Barbee,

Omar Hassan, Tommy Guerrero and John Cardiel. Cardiel, in particular, is an inspiring

innovator with a sad story: a famously death-defying skater whose sheer balls helped him

land many a seemingly impossible trick, he was severely injured when a friend accidentally

ran over him. His career and eventual recovery are chronicled in the amazing documentary

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at the mini ramp and car-jump street course, riding, DJ-ing and judging with Barbee, Hassan

and Guerrero—and you, if you bring your board!—on Friday and Sunday, June 11–13, at the

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Behold, James Florence & the Umpires of Taste

The debut album by James Florence & the Umpires of Taste begins with a guitarist messing up, which is

an appropriate beacon for the rest of this wonderfully strange record. A dissonant, sliding boogie riff emerges next, blown-out drums from outer space tickle the perimeter, and a treble-heavy, mosquito-like wisp of guitar slithers over the top. “This machine’s got a mind of its own,” Florence snarls in a semi-distorted blues groan, and one has to agree: this is music not composed but pulled down from the very, very weird skies.

On Quirkaholic, Florence shows a side that most will be unfamiliar with if they’ve run into his soft-spoken, bearded self either on the street or playing with his previous subdued, acoustic band Aitch. A combination of Beck’s more experimental ego and the wild Jon Spencer, Florence and his band go over the top so often that the concept of “top” fades as a memory in the wake of trembling falsetto vocals, backward samples, bullhorn exhortations and cowbell-and-Hammond-organ breakdowns.

It’s not as if Quirkaholic is some kind of unlistenable experiment, however. Danceable rhythms and blues riffs percolate at the heart of Florence’s music, and with lyrics like “she’s a little too much icing on a nonexistent cake,” his open-minded jams play like one joyful soirée after another. While most records lately aim to make a grand artistic statement, Quirkaholic simply invites its listeners into the garage for the party. Join the fun when Florence and his band celebrate the album’s release on Thursday, June 10, at Aubergine (755 Petaluma Ave., Sebastopol; 8:30pm; Free; 707.827.3460) and Saturday, June 12, at the Last Record Store (1899-A Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa; 3pm; Free; 707.525.1963).

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Composing and arranging a one-hour magnum opus of jazz and hip-hop to be performed by a 55-piece orchestra.

Dude. That’s one crazy-ass ollie. But it would be so rad.

Brass, Bows and Beats is the result, a wildly successful masterwork unveiled last year that blends angular horn arrangements, symphonic swells, turntable scratching, freestyle rapping and a hell of a lot of soul. Reminiscent of such large-ensemble works as Charles Mingus’ Epitaph or Miles Davis and Gil Evans’ Live at Carnegie Hall, it captures the mood of San Francisco much like Gordon Jenkins’ Manhattan Tower captured New York City. After hearing its packed-to-the-gills premiere at the Palace of Fine Arts last year, I drove home distinctly feeling that such staggering vision couldn’t possibly stay confined to the Bay Area. It had to go on tour.

This month, Brass, Bows and Beats hops on a plane and does just that. The Jazz Mafia will visit every major jazz festival in North America this summer, from Monterey to Newport to Montreal to New York. They’ll even bring their hybrid opus to the Hollywood Bowl, just two days after a special appearance at the Harmony Festival on Friday, June 11, with guest MCs Lyrics Born and Chali 2na. And everyone’s climbing on board.

“I was just talking to Pink Martini about it last night, actually, ’cause they do something slightly similar to what we’re doing,” Theis says by phone from his Mission district home. “When I said, ‘Yeah, we travel with the whole orchestra,’ they were like, ‘What?’”

Festival guarantees do not cover travel expenses for 30 people, nor the requisite hiring of 15 additional musicians in each city, and the group’s been playing charity house shows where Theis gives a PowerPoint demonstration between sets and passes the proverbial hat. A few benefit shows at Yoshi’s, where the Jazz Mafia have lately been performing Miles Davis tributes, James Brown parties and sitting in with world-class DJs Q-Bert and Just Blaze, help also. (Theis credits Yoshi’s artistic director Jason Olaine with hooking up the festival bookings: “He has a huge reputation in the industry. He just had to make a few phone calls.”)

Though Brass, Bows and Beats utilizes hip-hop rhymes and rhythm courtesy of the brilliant vocalists Dublin, Karyn Paige, Seneca, Aima, Joe Bagale and others, Theis says it’s more the attitude and aesthetic that he sees creeping into modern jazz. “There’s a constant resurging and mixing,” he says. “Hip-hop was born of people not having money to buy grand pianos, and figuring out ways to use low-budget devices to make awesome music. That’s just going to keep happening. That’s going to infiltrate into all kinds of music.”

There’s just one burning question. After packing up music charts, instruments and luggage for 30 people on the summertime tour, is there any room for Theis to bring his skateboard?

“Oh, yeah, always,” he says. “If you don’t, you end up pulling up to the venue, and there’s a skatepark next door.”

Jazz Mafia present ‘Brass, Bows and Beats’ at

the Harmony Festival’s Techno-Tribal Dance

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Adam Theis conducts ‘Brass, Bows and Beats.’

Jazz Mafia masterwork hits the road

By Gabe Meline

t his heart, he’s just a skater,” one of Adam Theis’ oldest friends recently told me. “Everything he does comes from doing skateboard tricks. His whole life

philosophy is ‘Dude, wouldn’t it be rad if . . .’”If you’ve followed Theis and his San

Francisco–based Jazz Mafia these last couple years, you’ll understand. Skating is about envisioning an end result—an ollie up some stairs, say—and then concentrating on it so intensely that the body and mind lock in step and make it happen through some miraculous, unknown power. Theis operates the same way in music. Everything is an ollie.

Dude, wouldn’t it be rad if we arranged a bunch of De La Soul–sampled songs for a jazz band? And then, dude, wouldn’t it be rad if we booked a club and had a De La Soul night? Or no, wait, dude, wouldn’t it be rad if we did it for Tribe Called Quest too? And then, like, dude dude dude dude dude, we hafta do Outkast! Wouldn’t it be rad?

The Jazz Mafia’s giddy enthusiasm hasn’t gone unnoticed. Mos Def recently called on Theis to put together a live backing band, and just last September, Stevie Wonder turned up at a club show and sang two songs with Theis’ outfit. Among all this activity, Theis received a prestigious Emerging Composer grant from the Gerbode-Hewlett Foundation. His project?

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Filmmaker Rudy McClain saves Merlot from ‘Sideways’ sniping

Merlot is suing for libel, and Rudy McClain is its expert attorney. As the Napa Valley native boasts a résumé as

both filmmaker and wine aficionado, he is the perfect man to mount a defense for this defamed French varietal. His documentary, Merlove, celebrates its joys; V. Sattui Winery hosts an outdoor screening June 11.

Onscreen, McClain interviews winemakers from Napa Valley, Washington state and Bordeaux, France, about their experiences with Merlot. He describes the film as a “fun, philosophical journey.”

Ever since the release of the 2004 film Sideways, Merlot’s sales have dropped dramatically. Miles Raymond, the cantankerous protagonist portrayed by Paul Giamatti, spirals into a rage about the possibility that his company might want to drink Merlot. “If anyone orders Merlot, I’m leaving,” he vows. This fictional character’s tirade seeped into wine consumer culture. “For a while, it was a faux pas to drink Merlot,” says Claudette Shatto, vice president of marketing at V. Sattui Winery. “Merlot has been something people hide in the back of their closets.”

McClain has a theory on why a fictional character can influence the market. “I think it goes back to middle school,” he muses. “People are afraid to show up with the wrong clothes or the wrong watch. Anything concrete they can latch on to, they’ll go with.” This taboo against Merlot wormed its way into the wine community so wantonly that it devastated livelihoods. “Lots of [growers] picked up and replanted their vineyards,” Shatto says. “But Pinot Noir was flying off the shelves.” Miles, remember, favors Pinot Noir.

But McClain is not so easily swayed. “Merlot is a chameleon,” he says. “Depending on where it’s grown, it tastes different. It can be an expression of where it’s from.” Shatto agrees, calling it “robust, bright, fruity and more food-friendly than Cabernet.”

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Vickie Shaw promises a gay time for all

“As a community, we should be able to laugh at ourselves and have a good time,” says Vickie Shaw,

the sweet-but-not-shy lesbian comic in her Texan lilt. Shaw knows that people struggling with their sexuality need every opportunity to let loose in a comfortable environment. But she is quick to point out that her set will include material to which everyone will relate regardless of sexual orientation. “I’m not just a gay comic. I’m a woman, female, mom, grandma, menopausal comic. Much of my act is just about life.” She appears June 12th at Santa Rosa’s 16th annual Pride Comedy Night.

Shaw channels her frustrations into her routine with refreshing honesty. She extracted one of her favorite jokes from a delicate real-life situation. After she came out, Shaw worried about what bullies would say to her children on the playground. If one of them asked her children if it was true that their mom was gay, she instructed her children to respond, “Why, does your mom wanna date her?” Other gay parents have since confided in Shaw that they gave their children similar advice. “[Comedy] is all about pain and anger and frustration and being annoyed and pissed off, whether it’s about politics or your family or your life,” Shaw says. “You can either kill yourself or laugh about it.”

The North Bay’s LGBT community would not have access to this outlet if not for the pioneering spirits of Ellen Silver and Robyn Bramhall, who started We Mean It! Productions in 1995 to rectify the distinct deficiency of gay comedy shows in this new neck of the woods. Since then, they have spearheaded 16 Pride Comedy Night events. Bramhall says she is “excited” about this year’s lineup, calling both Shaw and special guest Daniel Leary “hilarious and talented.”

Leary, a young comedian with a background in theater and dance, has recently landed a job writing for Ellen Degeneres. Bramhall characterizes him as clever, imaginative and cute, too. “The guys will appreciate him,” she laughs.

Vickie Shaw and Daniel Leary perform at the 16th Annual Pride Comedy Night on Saturday, June 12, at the Wells Fargo Center. GLAM presents a dance after the show. 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa. 8pm. $19.75–$39.75. 707.546.3600.

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