Debriefer: June 22, 2016

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Debriefer: June 22, 2016

THE RAID

Santa Rosa Police and Drug Enforcement Agency officers raided the cannabis dispensary Care by Design on June 15, halting the distribution of medical cannabis to patients statewide. In response, advocates, supporters, patients and leaders joined together the next day to protest the raid on the steps of the Sonoma County Superior Courthouse.

Care by Design has been operating in the legal gray area for over two decades, and the raids came right after the company gave a tour to law enforcement to discuss industry regulations. The state passed an omnibus bill to regulate legitimate medical-cannabis businesses last year, but last week’s raid reveals that regulation and law enforcement are not in sync.

Attorney Joe Rogoway is representing Care by Design and told a crowd at the rally that the business was “attempting to move past a model of incarceration for cannabis operators” and emerge into regulatory compliance.

Tawnie Logan, executive director for the Sonoma County Growers Alliance, also addressed the crowd to say what cannabis distributors, patients and workers want is adherence to guidelines established by the 1996 Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act. Logan stated that “we the people are inspiring law on a local level in order to inspire law on a national level,” and noted that California is one of the leaders in the medical marijuana industry in the United States. (Read “The Nugget” on page 34 for more from Logan.)

Denis Hunter, a founding patient member of CBD, was arrested on charges of manufacturing a controlled substance by chemical extraction, a law typically applied to meth labs. Hunter was arrested and bail was set at $5 million. He was released 48 hours later and charges were dropped.

Officials also confiscated cannabis, cash and equipment, which the company is trying to get released.

Rogoway told the crowd that the raids resulted from “a business dispute from a disgruntled employee who was attempting to gain a market advantage.”

In a follow-up interview, CBD spokesman Nick Caston alleged that the ex-employee started a competing company and provided officials with false information about his former employer. Caston says CBD hopes to be back in operation in short order.—Casey Dobbert

BIG AG OVERTIME

On June 2, the state Assembly failed to pass bill AB 2757, a story we first read at Salon.com. The bill would have compelled employers to pay farmworkers overtime benefits based on the industry-standard threshold of a 40-hour work week or eight hours per day. Local assemblymen Marc Levine and Bill Dodd both voted against the bill.

Overtime benefits for farmworkers now kick in at 10 hours a day or 60 hours across the week. The effort recalled a similar workers’ rights bill that passed through Sacramento in 2013 and extended OT benefits to domestic workers, many of whom, like the farmworkers, are immigrants. Assembly Bill 2757 was opposed by the California Farm Bureau Federation, which claimed that the new regulations would lead to higher food prices.

Levine and Dodd have accepted contributions from the Farm Bureau, which is listed as among Levine’s top contributors at the Vote Smart campaign-data portal; the Farm Bureau contributed $2,500 to his last District 10 campaign. Spread over a five-day work week, that’s $500 a day.
—Casey Dobbert and Tom Gogola

Cold, Wet, Pink

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Cold, Wet, Pink

While Grenache is one of the major grapes of the south of France, where it’s used to make world-famous rosé, it’s quite rare on the North Coast. But when local rosé is made from this scarce grape, it can compare very favorably, indeed.

Mathis 2015 Sonoma Valley Rosé de Grenache ($20) What is a former winemaker and general manager of Ravenswood Winery, famed for the slogan “No wimpy wines,” doing with light, pink wine? Great things. “It’s as close to perfect as I’ve ever made,” says Peter Mathis. Long smitten by Grenache, Mathis planted seven acres on a hillside above Sonoma. Like a dollop of sorbet on the tongue, good, pink Grenache like this cools the palate, while lingering long, despite sizzling, pink grapefruit acidity. A Bohemian staff favorite.

Davis 2015 Cote Rosé Russian River Valley Rosé ($25) You can have your crushed rock and macerated wild strawberries—we’ll have this pink bubblegum-scented, pale wine made from whole-cluster pressed Grenache, Syrah and Viognier. Crisp, tart and lightly flavored of raspberry and cherry, this wine typically sells out early in the summer.

Quivira 2015 Dry Creek Valley Rosé ($22) Made from biodynamically farmed grapes—if that energizes your crystal—this radiant pink rosé is aged on the lees, and shows toasty notes of unbuttered popcorn with a vinous hint of red wine and orange oil. It’s 55 percent Grenache, with classic partners like Mourvèdre, Syrah and Counoise.

Clif Family 2015 Mendocino Rosé of Grenache ($24) Just add a plate of local artisan cheese: the palest of pinks, this wine has the fruit plate covered, with citrusy flavors of pink grapefruit, cool tones of nectarine plucked from the ice chest and a scent of pink rose for decor.

Grande Récolte 2015 Côtes de Provence Rosé ($19.90) Offered in an outrageously heavy, square-sided bottle, this light pink blend of Grenache and Cinsault plays up nectarine aromas and flavors, while creamy, leesy notes soften and sweeten the finish.

Benziger 2015 Sonoma Mountain Syrah Rosé ($26) With more Syrah comes more color, and confectionary, red raspberry and cherry aromas and flavors that Bohemian tasters split on. Deliciously crisp and dry, but not as fleshy as some of the paler, Grenache-based rosés here.

Perle de Margüi 2015 Coteaux Varois en Provence Rosé ($25) Hardly pinker than a Pinot Grigio, this leans on Cinsault, with 35 percent Grenache, and is certified bio (European organic). The subtle fruit aromas entice, and watermelon, strawberry and nectarine flavors linger cool and long.

Letters to the Editor: June 22, 2016

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Letters to the Editor: June 22, 2016

Soured on Grapes

Great article (“Of Water and Wine,”
June 15). Thank you for writing it and for publishing it in the Bohemian. I live on a hillside in the Napa Valley about a mile from the proposed Calistoga Hills Resort. A neighbor of mine cleared many acres of beautiful hillside forest and planted vineyard in its place. The chainsaws, tractors and excavators were operating at all hours and days of the week on and off over several years. The county and the state have no issue with clear-cuts like this, and I don’t think he is done yet, as there are still some trees left on his property. I wonder how many more “conversions” will be taking place on the hills of this county, since there is no agency that restrains greedy owners from cutting all the trees on a property.

—Don Scott

Calistoga

Though there are problems in Napa, they seem far ahead of Sonoma County in reining in the overgrowth of the wine industry, and thus preserving food farming and rural diversity. That’s why Napa vintners such as Paul Hobbs and Joe Wagner are moving some of their operations out of Napa and into Sonoma County and beyond. For more information, go to www.winewaterwatch.org.

—Shepherd Bliss

Sebastopol

Angwin, Howell Mountain and Napa County are under massive logging/deforestation proposals. Conversion to vineyards is the No. 1 threat to the environment. Ground-water depletion, climate change, habit loss, wildlife migration corridors blocked, streams destroyed.

—Save Rural Angwin

Via Bohemian.com

Water and Tar

Thanks so much for your incisive coverage of these two huge challenges to our environment (“Crude Awakening,” June 8, and “Of Water and Wine”). We need the rigorous investigative journalism you are publishing. So needed, so appreciated.

—Kathleen Needels

Santa Rosa

Readjusted Crown

From: A Golden State Warriors fan
To: The Cleveland Cavaliers and their fans

Congratulations! You won it fair and square. LeBron has sealed his legacy as the greatest sports hero on the shores of Lake Erie since Jim Brown parachuted into France.

I imagine Cleveland’s celebratory release that has been building for 50 years will match the intensity of Oakland’s 40-year wait last year, the Giants’ first San Francisco title in 2010 and the granddaddy of All Bay Area celebrations, the first 49ers’ Super Bowl parade in 1982. Enjoy it, you deserve it.

—Elliott Kolker

West Marin

Write to us at le*****@******an.com.

New Soul

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New Soul

Born in the rich musical climate of the Bay Area, Monophonics draw from the region’s diverse tastes and mix elements of funk and psychedelic rock into a fiery neo-soul. A popular sight at North Bay venues and events like last month’s BottleRock Napa Valley, Monophonics bring their sound to SOMO Village Event Center in Rohnert Park and open for Seattle-based soul man Allen Stone on June 30.

“A lot of us grew up around R&B, soul, blues, gospel, music basically rooted in church music,” says lead singer and keyboardist Kelly Finnigan. “We are all music lovers, but there’s something about the rawness and emotion in soul music that we appreciate, and we want to carry that on.”

The band formed out of college by guitarist Ian McDonald, and now consists of bassist Myles O’Mahony, drummer Austin Bohlman and trumpeter Ryan Scott. Monophonics were largely instrumental before Finnigan began jamming with them in 2010.

“There was never a moment where we sat down and made it official,” says Finnigan. “It was kind of an unspoken agreement between all of us that this felt right.”

“We knew to take it to the next level,” McDonald adds, “we’d need songs that people could sing along to and get stuck in their head. At first it was just a couple songs, but we kept it going and it worked out in a great way.”

Since Finnigan joined, Monophonics have been on a roll, recording and releasing two well-received albums. Twenty twelve’s

In Your Brain delivers memorable tunes with funky, danceable soul rock and hints of psychedelia. Their next album, 2015’s Sound of Sinning, went from toe-dipping in a psychedelic sound to a full-blown swan dive that recalled ’60s rockers like the Zombies or Jefferson Airplane, while remaining firmly rooted in soul. Recorded at the band’s Transistor Sound Studios in San Rafael and produced by Finnigan and McDonald, Sound of Sinning sees the band at their most focused.

“We wanted the album to be focused on the art of songwriting, the art of pop arrangements,” Finnigan says. “And I’m not talking about today’s pop; I’m talking about what evolved into popular music songwriting. We wanted to bring those influences out.”

With a third album in the works and a constant touring schedule, Monophonics are happy to be in the upcoming show with Allen Stone. “He’s a great artist doing great things,” says McDonald. “It’s going to be a great time.”

Match Made

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Match Made

It’s a warm evening in the agricultural/industrial flats of western Santa Rosa.

A looming Taylor Mountain glows a tawny brown in the fading sun to the east. There’s a Warriors game on (sorry, sore subject) behind the bar at HenHouse Brewing Company’s new taproom, with the sound turned down and a groovy Pandora station turned up. Groups of two and four pull into the parking lot and head inside for a freshly pulled pint from the wall of 10 bristling taps.

Beers in hand, patrons trickle outside and sidle up to the tomato-colored Red Horse Pizza truck, only this pizza truck is made from a horse trailer. Hence the name. The mobile pie shop has made HenHouse a regular stop on weekends, and it’s a perfect match.

HenHouse opened its taproom in March in a massive industrial space that was supposed to house Amy’s before they decided to open their Rohnert Park drive-through restaurant. Part of the Quonset-hut-like building is occupied by the good folks at Wildbrine, makers of great sauerkraut. (When is ‘kraut going to turn up as a bar snack or as a beer flavor? I’m guessing it’s only I matter of time.)

For me, HenHouse’s flagship beer is its oyster stout. I’m on a personal mission to extol the virtues of non-IPA beers, and this refreshing, light but full-bodied beer (a wee 5.4 alcohol by volume) is as good a counter-argument as any against IPA hegemony. And it’s made with oysters. I don’t know why it works but it does.

HenHouse’s saison comes
in a close second. Crisp, balanced and eminently drinkable at
5.5 percent ABV. It’s brewed with black pepper and coriander, but it’s barely detectable at the back of the throat. This is your summer beer right here.

But if it’s a hoppy beer you must have, HenHouse will treat you right. Chemtrails is a new brew that weighs in at 7.7 percent ABV and is powered by a trio of hops: Cascade, Chinook and crystal. It’s delicious.

All that beer is bound to make you hungry, so stroll outside and get a pie. For me, pizza lives or dies on the quality of its dough, and Red Horse’s tangy sourdough recipe is the perfect foil for beer. While no one is going to call eating and drinking fermented grains low-carb, Red Horse’s crust is thin and light enough that one slice of pizza is more of a hearty snack than a full meal.

While they make the excellent dough, Red Horse relies on a who’s who of local purveyors for everything else. Sausage come from Petaluma’s Thistle Meats and greens from Sebastopol’s Laguna Farms. Tomatoes are plucked by Soda Rock Farms in Healdsburg. The cheese is sourced from Pt. Reyes Farmstead Cheese Co. (mozzarella) and Redwood Hill Farm and Creamery (goat).

A basic margarita pie goes for $12. The delicious mushroom and sausage pizza is $15. I like ordering a fistful of arugula on top of mine for $2. It’s like a pizza and salad in one.

HenHouse and Red Horse were made for each other: delicious small-batch beers and artisanal sourdough crust pizza topped with locally sourced vegetables, cheese and meat all in one location. What more do you want? How about another beer.

HenHouse Brewing Company,
322 Bellevue Ave., Santa Rosa.
henhousebrewing.com.

Speaking Out

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Speaking Out

NOTE: DUE TO ILLNESS, HARRY BELAFONTE HAS CANCELED HIS UPCOMING PERFORMANCE AT THE KATE WOLF MUSIC FESTIVAL.

Singer Harry Belafonte has long used his position and his voice to promote civil and racial equality and justice.

Though the “King of Calypso” rarely sings anymore, he will use his seminal talent on Saturday, June 25, at the 21st annual Kate Wolf Music Festival, appearing in conversation with fellow headliner and blues singer-songwriter Eric Bibb.

“I find that I’m at a time of life, almost 90, and I have something to say,” says Belafonte from his home in New York City. “And since I don’t say it musically anymore, because of the intervention of age and preoccupation with other things, talking to an audience and having a Q&A is an idea we are embarking on.”

At the festival, Belafonte will be addressing many aspects of pop culture, a force he says “can move the energy of a civilization and what it chooses to do.

“Almost everything we did in black music informed the community,” Belafonte adds, “all the nuances that touched our daily humanity. Once it became evident that the culture could be replicated and money could be made, I think we lost a lot of the heart and soul of the voice of America speaking to its own experience and interest.”

Belafonte doesn’t consider himself a songwriter, though he’s written songs. Yet as a performer, he came to prominence for sharing the Caribbean culture
he grew up in, bringing Calypso to the American masses in the 1950s.

Using his popularity to support the Civil Rights movement in the ’60s, Belafonte embraced what he calls the great folk period in America, where artists became involved in the cultural landscape through their music and message. “That part of our world has eluded us,” says Belafonte. “By and large, the variety of information that flows from the music we listen to [now] is vague and very anemic.”

The upcoming Kate Wolf Music Festival will be the first time Belafonte is appearing in this conversational format, though it will be anything but unknown territory. Fans of the singer are long familiar with his role as a voice for humanitarian efforts and political discourse.

In the past few years, Belafonte has used that voice to deliver speeches—during the NAACP Image Awards and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s Governors Awards, for instance—that both challenge and motivate his peers. “I launched into my critiques of Hollywood and race, and how much the arts have missed talking about the human condition,” says Belafonte.

As a result of these conversations, Belafonte formed Sankofa in 2013, a nonprofit organization built on the idea that artists and performers can shape society’s cultural landscape to promote equality and peace.

“This can become a culture of content, a culture of storytelling, a culture of commentary on the human condition.”

Mailing It In

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Mailing It In

Are you frustrated that we must wait so long after an election for final vote results? We have only ourselves to blame for the situation. Too many people who vote by mail wait until the day of the election to deliver or mail their ballot. And that’s the problem.

California election officials want us to vote by mail instead of at the polling place, and mail voting has steadily increased over the decades. In 1962, only 2.63 percent of California voters voted by mail. Statewide, there were just 156,167 mail ballots to be counted, out of a total of 5.9 million votes cast.

That percentage has skyrocketed over the years. In 2008 during, the June presidential primary, 42 percent of California voters voted by mail, or 3.7 million out of 9.1 million votes cast. In the 2012 presidential primary, a whopping 65 percent of the votes cast were mail ballots.

This year, after California’s June 7 votes were posted, there were still around 3.5 million ballots to be processed. Sonoma County alone had about 43,000 ballots remaining to be counted. Mail ballots require minute attention; verifying those ballots is a painstaking and time-consuming process that must be followed carefully to ensure that each ballot is valid.

Unfortunately, a very large number of California’s voters wait until Election Day to deliver their mail ballot to a polling place, or mail it on Election Day, guaranteeing that their votes cannot be included in the election tally. Only after every signature is verified can those mail ballots be counted.

This year, mail ballots that were postmarked by June 7 and received at election offices by June 10 were accepted. Election officers have four weeks to process those ballots and produce the final tally. In the case of this election, that final date is July 8.

Those who complain about California’s yet-to-be counted ballots must acknowledge the problem caused by waiting until the last minute to cast a mail ballot. Next time, to ensure that your ballot is included in Election Day totals, get your mail ballot to the election office before the day of the election.

Alice Chan is a long-time Democratic Party activist and a co-chair of the Coalition for Grassroots Progress.

Open Mic is a weekly feature in the ‘Bohemian.’ We welcome your contribution. To have your topical essay of 350 words considered for publication, write op*****@******an.com.

Ashram Confidential

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Ashram Confidential

If a documentary is worth anything, it will display mixed feelings about its subject. I’m not completely sure how beguiled Gurukulam filmmakers Jillian Elizabeth and Neil Dalal are by their tour of an ashram in the mountains of rural Tamil Nadu, in the lower tip of India. The presiding guru, Dayananda Saraswati, is elderly, requiring the support of a pair of acolytes when he gets around. Elizabeth and Dalal had fine access; Saraswati pays no attention to the camera or anything but his reading.

On a trip to purify a temple, the guru meets with farmers whose fields are being invaded by elephants, beasts they’ve been trying to pray away. Saraswati presents them with dried beans, a gift that underwhelms them, as it would most anyone.

I got the most sense out of the guru’s utterances during a sermon delivered to a group of children: “Work when you work, play when you play. . . . If you want to be a good person, have good thoughts.” Inarguable, yet dismaying to hear the same futile “I must not think bad thoughts” advice most of us got as children.

Working when they work, as it were, the unidentified devotees shinny up coconut trees, clean dishware and sweep the pathways with handleless brooms. It’s unclear how much of a contrast the filmmakers intend between the life of the mind and the labor carried out by the people who keep the ashram humming.

What Gurukulam does well is encourage that daydream—part Elizabeth Gilbert, part Doctor Strange comics—of dropping out in the East. The appeal is best explained in the film by a former psychology professor who gave the West up to live life as a disciple for more than a decade.

And Gurukulam is a lovely ashram: 14 acres on a mountaintop, with peacocks. But ultimately besotted with the subject, the camera grows passive in the end, encouraging the hierarchal approach to enlightenment, and the kind of wishful thinking that tries to pray away elephants.

‘Gurukulam’ opens Friday at Rialto Cinemas 6868 McKinley Ave.,
Santa Rosa. 707.525.4840.

Safe Harbor

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Safe Harbor

A shockwave hit Sonoma County last week as one of the most reputable CBD (cannabidiol) oil producers, the CBD Guild, was subject to a multi-agency raid on June 15. What triggered this excessive use of force appears to be an anonymous complaint and an alleged code violation.

The outpouring of support from around the state and the due diligence of the CBD Guild led to a swift release of one of the company’s directors, the only person arrested in the raid.

“We’ve already begun working with the city of Santa Rosa to resume operations,” says CBD Guild political consultant Nick Caston, “and are looking to reclaim our property this week so we can continue to provide quality medicine for our patients.”

The event clearly shows that the cannabis industry, local government and law enforcement are at a critical juncture in the regulatory process and are in dire need of guidelines that articulate how to proceed during this transition. Even in the best of situations, it is difficult for so many people in the cannabis industry to transition their thinking from “government as law enforcer” to “government as regulator,” and it is in this climate of confusion that we should encourage participation in the upcoming regulations.

“We believe it is necessary to create an ‘operator in good standing registration,'” says Jonathan Cachat, a member of the Sonoma County Growers Alliance Working Group, “where legitimate operators can declare their intention to achieve licensing and commit to operational best practices to follow until licensing becomes available.”

We’re at a momentous time in California history. There has never been a pre-existing, multibillion-dollar industry brought into regulation before. We need creative solutions to ensure the transition satisfies public safety needs and environmental protections while also fostering an economic upside for businesses preparing to pay taxes and engage in the greater community.

Tawnie Logan is the executive director of the Sonoma County Growers Alliance. Go to SCGAlliance.com for more info. Send comments to co******@*********ce.com.

Sonoma-Marin Fair Celebrates Local Community

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Sonoma-Marin Fair Celebrates Local Community

The World’s Ugliest Dog Contest is just one of the many highlights of the Sonoma-Marin Fair, happening this week, June 22-26, at the Petaluma Fairgrounds.

A tradition 75 years in the making, this year’s fair “Goes Local” and highlights the community members and businesses who make the North Bay a uniquely vibrant region.

Aside from the many standard fair festivities like livestock, carnival rides, art exhibits and kids activities, the fair also boasts a lively concert schedule that includes Tower of Power on June 22 and LeAnn Rimes on June 25 among other headlining acts. These concerts are free with fair admission.

The fair is also introducing a new sporting event this year, the Swoop Motorcycle Race, on June 26. Audiences can watch skilled motorcyclists riding through a technical balancing course of cars, tires and obstacles on extremely lightweight, seatless bikes. The challenge of the race comes in navigating the course without touching the ground with your feet, a difficult proposition considering the crazy course.

Last, but not least, the fair’s culinary pavilion is an oasis of award-winning chefs offering up delicious demos and tastings with wines from the North of the Gate Wine Competition on hand for sipping. 

For more info and tickets, you can visit the fair’s website, here.

Debriefer: June 22, 2016

THE RAID Santa Rosa Police and Drug Enforcement Agency officers raided the cannabis dispensary Care by Design on June 15, halting the distribution of medical cannabis to patients statewide. In response, advocates, supporters, patients and leaders joined together the next day to protest the raid on the steps of the Sonoma County Superior Courthouse. Care by Design has been operating in...
Read more

Cold, Wet, Pink

While Grenache is one of the major grapes of the south of France, where it's used to make world-famous rosé, it's quite rare on the North Coast. But when local rosé is made from this scarce grape, it can compare very favorably, indeed. Mathis 2015 Sonoma Valley Rosé de Grenache ($20) What is a former winemaker and general manager of...
Read more

Letters to the Editor: June 22, 2016

Soured on Grapes Great article ("Of Water and Wine," June 15). Thank you for writing it and for publishing it in the Bohemian. I live on a hillside in the Napa Valley about a mile from the proposed Calistoga Hills Resort. A neighbor of mine cleared many acres of beautiful hillside forest and planted vineyard in its place. The chainsaws,...
Read more

New Soul

Born in the rich musical climate of the Bay Area, Monophonics draw from the region's diverse tastes and mix elements of funk and psychedelic rock into a fiery neo-soul. A popular sight at North Bay venues and events like last month's BottleRock Napa Valley, Monophonics bring their sound to SOMO Village Event Center in Rohnert Park and open for...
Read more

Match Made

It's a warm evening in the agricultural/industrial flats of western Santa Rosa. A looming Taylor Mountain glows a tawny brown in the fading sun to the east. There's a Warriors game on (sorry, sore subject) behind the bar at HenHouse Brewing Company's new taproom, with the sound turned down and a groovy Pandora station turned up. Groups of two and...
Read more

Speaking Out

NOTE: DUE TO ILLNESS, HARRY BELAFONTE HAS CANCELED HIS UPCOMING PERFORMANCE AT THE KATE WOLF MUSIC FESTIVAL. Singer Harry Belafonte has long used his position and his voice to promote civil and racial equality and justice. Though the "King of Calypso" rarely sings anymore, he will use his seminal talent on Saturday, June 25, at the 21st annual Kate Wolf Music...
Read more

Mailing It In

Are you frustrated that we must wait so long after an election for final vote results? We have only ourselves to blame for the situation. Too many people who vote by mail wait until the day of the election to deliver or mail their ballot. And that's the problem. California election officials want us to vote by mail instead of...
Read more

Ashram Confidential

If a documentary is worth anything, it will display mixed feelings about its subject. I'm not completely sure how beguiled Gurukulam filmmakers Jillian Elizabeth and Neil Dalal are by their tour of an ashram in the mountains of rural Tamil Nadu, in the lower tip of India. The presiding guru, Dayananda Saraswati, is elderly, requiring the support of a...
Read more

Safe Harbor

A shockwave hit Sonoma County last week as one of the most reputable CBD (cannabidiol) oil producers, the CBD Guild, was subject to a multi-agency raid on June 15. What triggered this excessive use of force appears to be an anonymous complaint and an alleged code violation. The outpouring of support from around the state and the due diligence of...
Read more

Sonoma-Marin Fair Celebrates Local Community

County fair and carnival runs June 22-26 in Petaluma.
Read more
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