Gualala Arts’ 70Th Birthday Celebration
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ALWAYS FREE Lighthouse Peddler Issue #179 September 2016 (707) 684-1894 www.thelighthousepeddler.com Jarekus Singleton at Arena Teater Blues For Te 21st Century • Friday, September 16 It’s not exactly the same as your frst love, September 16. Te music starts at 8:30pm. but it’s prety close. Te frst time you go to a At just 30 years old, Jarekus Singleton is not club and see a quality blues your stereotypical image musician in the fesh and of the grizzled traveler of sweat, you usually end up bygone days. Te genre is a bit caught up in the mo- transcendent and we are ment. Te music, the au- blessed with a new genera- dience, the lyrics, all wrap tion of players, and Single- themselves around you. It’s ton is one of them. He’s a an unexpected embrace. musical trailblazer with a Warm, but not smothering. bold vision for the future of Emotional, but it’s no tear- the blues. Maybe it’s in the ful trainwreck. Tat’s the dirt, the soil of Mississippi. wonderful contradiction Singleton comes from the about the blues. It doesn’t launching pad for Char- bring you down. It lifs ley Paton, Muddy Waters you up. It’s a release from and B.B. King. His cuting- whatever may be ailing you edge sound, equally root- at that particular moment. ed in rap, rock and blues If you haven’t been to one traditions-is all his own. of the Blues On Te Coast He melds hip-hop word- shows this year, it is time to play, rock energy and R&B get up out of your chair and grooves with contemporary and traditional step into the greatest blues club north of the blues, turning audiences of all ages into devoted Golden Gate. At least for that evening. Friday, cont’d on page 4 Saturday, October 15 5K & 10K Runs, 5K Fun Walk and Coastal Creatons Brunch Beneftng: Family Resource Centers Gualala and Point Arena Online: www.actve.com or RunSignUp.com Call or visit Acton Network’s website for complete Printable Form: informaton on our current programs, actvites and www.ActonNetwork.info services: www.actonnetwork.info (707) 884-5413 From the Editor’s Desk Advertisers Index Te year seems to be fying by. Maybe it’s all the things we can do on the coast. 215 Main 4 KTDE 12 Bluesman Jarekus Singleton brings Blues to the Coast on Friday the 16th at Arena Action Network 15 KZYX 15 Teater in Point Arena. (Cover). Anchor Bay Store 5 Litle Green Bean 6 Dragon’s Breath Teatre is set for the 17th Anniversary Variety Show and Art Walk. (Page 3.) Arena Frame 4 Mar Vista 6 Te Cosmic String Duo plays for two events at 215 Main on Labor Day Weekend. Arena Pharmacy 6 MTA 14 (Page 3.) Arena Market and Cafe 12 Ofce Source 10 All the answers can be found here. (Te September Crossword puzzle answers, Arena Tech Center 15 Outback Garden and Feed back cover anyway.) Page 3. Arena Teater 5, 9 Oz Farm 6 Peggy Berryhill, the driving force behind local radio station KGUA will be at Sunday @ Te Library. (Page 4.) B Bryan Preserve 9 Peter McCann P.T. 6 Te Queer Queens of Qomedy can’t get enough of the Mendonoma Coast; right Banana Belt Properties 8 Phillips Insurance 12 back at ya. (Page 5.) Bed and Bone 4 Pier Chowder House 5 Blake More gives us a preview of this month’s poet, Marin County Poet Laureate Cove Cofee 15 Pizzas & Cream 4 Prartho Sereno. (Page 6.) Denise Green 9 Point Arena Light Station 7 Point Arena’s Annual Harborfest to support the pier at Arena Cove is Sunday September 4. (Page 5.) Dream Catcher Interiors 4 Red Stella 2 Nuts, seeds and berries are on Karin Uphof’s mind this month in her Words on Four-Eyed Frog Bookstore 8 Redwood Coast Chamber of Commerce 7 Wellness column. (Page 7.) Garcia River Casino 7 Redwood Credit Union 16 Gualala Arts’ 70th Birthday Celebration. (Page 7.) Green Room, Te 4 Rollerville Café 10 Sudoku is here with numbers, sequences, boxes of nine, and other ways to stimulate the Roots 2 mind (or trigger a headache). Page 7.) Gualala Arts 11 Two flms are set for September by Arena Teater Film Club. (Page 8.) Gualala Bldg. Supply 3 Sea Trader 3 New exhibits announced at Gualala Arts, opening September 9. (Page 8.) Gualala Supermarket 11 Te Lof 3 Te Dolphin Gallery shows of two artists with dimension. (Page 9.) Healing Arts and Massage 6 Transformational Bodywork 8 Tea Time with author James Norwood Prat is set for Gualala Arts on September 25. High Tides 3 UnedaEat 8 (Page 9.) “Honey, It’s Always About Te Sax” is David Stefen’s topic this month. Spelling error? Ignacio Health Insurance Services 5 Wellness on the Coast 3 (Page 10.) Jasper Brady 5 Zen House Motorcycles 6 Our beloved Coast Community Library is in need of a community hug (and some KGUA 4 Village Bootery 5 funding.) Page 11. Miss the Midwest? “Ya Betcha” is the frst column from our newest, and occasional contributor Sally Marshall. (Page 12.) Improve your mind with a 5-class course of study in Fort Bragg. (Page 12.) Mitch McFarland ponders whether Roundup pushes us to “the last roundup”in this month’s Scutlebut. (Page 13.) Read the Peddler Online- News & Notes&late breaking news is here. (Page 13.) Voting is on the mind of Marghi Hagen this month. We can’t escape so get some Its Free & In Full Color! insight on casting your ballot this fall. (Page 14.) Te sun comes to the aid of Arena Teater. Read Armand Solero’s piece. (Page 14.) www.thelighthousepeddler.com Te Crossword Puzzle, as always, is ready to challenge you. (Page 15). Our thanks to contributors Marghi Hagen, Mitch McFarland, Sally Marshall, Blake More, Armand Solero, and Karin Uphof. Issue #179 September 2016 red stella ROOTS Lighthouse Peddler H Dolly Stefen: Publisher, Production Mgr. David Stefen: Contributing Editor O [email protected] M E Herbal Apothecary (707) 684-1894 Specializing In Healthcare For The Whole Family P.O. Box 1001 Cypress Village HRS: Mon. - Sat. 10:00am to 5:00 pm Point Arena, CA 95468 884-1072 Gualala 250 Main Street, Point Arena www.thelighthousepeddler.com 882-2699 Pg 2 Lighthouse Peddler, September 2016 Dragon’s Breath Teatre Returns September 10 Annual Variety Show & Art Walk Saturday, September 10th, Fred and bites and tapas plates provided by Barbara Cheryl Mitouer of Transformational Body- and Fernando of Anchor Bay Store. Te The Sea Trader is a fne work Associates (with co-production assis- Dragons’ Breath Teatre space itself is the emporium of delight- tance of Blake More), present the 17th an- hand-hewn outdoor amphitheater nestled ful and heart-felt gifts nual Dragons’ Breath Teatre Variety Show on a hillside on the Fish Rock property of including beautiful & Art Walk. Fred and Cheryl Mitouer, co founders of We now rent tools for lawn handcarved sculptures As always, the show lineup ofers a mix the Pacifc School of Massage and Healing from Thailand , spiri- of seasoned and frst time performers, some Arts and Transformational Bodywork Asso- and garden, concrete work, tual books, greeting local, others from the Bay Area and beyond. ciates and long time community members. foors, pumps, much more cards, CD’s and much Surprises always abound (last year Grammy Incorporating their careers in Transforma- much more. award winning musician KT Tunstall did tional Bodywork, organizational consult- 38501 South Hwy 1 Gualala Hwy. One, N. Gualala an acoustic performance). Tis year’s acts ing, movement disciplines, holistic health 884-3248 Daily 10-5, Sun. 11-5 include circus arts, dance, music, comedy, counseling and massage, the pair started 884-3518 drama, poetry, fredance and storytelling. Dragons’ Breath Teatre seventeen years Out of town performers include Trapeze by ago as a forum for cultural experiments in 6pm, September 10th. Pack a picnic and Amanda Grace, dramatic comedy by Lisa consciousness and irreverent play. bring blankets. Mature children over 13 or Hori-Garcia, Ed Holmes and Rotimi Agba- Te show also includes the Dragons’ with parental discretion; please leave dogs biaka of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, Breath Gallery “Art Walk”, which this year at home. Te admission is a suggested dona- Creativity Soars Upstairs performance artist Sherry Glaser, poet Hal will include hats by Chris Bee, jewelry by tion of $20 (sliding scale is available and no- Robins, and the return of New Orleans pia- Ling-Yen Jones and several other artists. body will be turned away for lack of funds), Quilting, Fine Yarns, 884-4424 nist Nelson Lunding and friends. In Fred’s words, “Dragons’ Breath is just us with profts going to Sparx Storytelling. For Tis year’s local talent includes musi- folks – fun, creative and edgy performances Fabric, Arts & Crafts, 10-5 Mon. - Sat./ 11-3 Sun. more information, call 707-884-3138 or cal performances by Ava Peterson, F.A.M., under the stars with old friends and new email [email protected]. Handmade Gifts Sundstrom Mall, Gualala Chris Skyhawk, Cassie and Wayne, Black connections. We love the mix of fresh talent Sugar Rose, Barbara Schultz, and others; and professionals and the soulful way the spoken word by James Humecky Jr., Blake performers and audience interact.” More, Fred Mitouer; dance by Blake More Dragon’s Breath Teater is located at the “Wherever you go, there you and Melissa Newhall & Maria Kostick; and dragon gate on 44800 Fish Rock Road (car- are.” of course, other special surprises.