Editor’s note: Welcome to another edition of “Community Updates,” which documents real-life developments in Marin County based largely on tips that have been ethically harvested from the eyes and ears of our readers. We hope it is of no utility whatsoever.
[Community Updates, Vol. 2]
The death of Jane Goodall prompted high schoolers in San Anselmo to organize a Gorillas in the Mist-themed party at Roy’s Redwoods; the conservationist was allegedly honored with skimpy animal prints. Celebrities continued to flock to San Rafael, with Joan Lunden and Fabio on hand for meet-and-greets at the grand opening of a new assisted living facility. The Mill Valley Film Festival attracted long lines of superannuated cinéastes, along with paramedics.
A reader who wrote to Marin Magazine asked them to switch to soy-based inks, saying their current printing practices forced her to leave the magazine outside for a week to off-gas. Gas-powered leaf blowers continued to generate a vibrant mix of complaints, commiseration and counter-complaints, though gripes about the whine emitted by their electric replacements were deemed a bridge too far. A fistfight outside the Throckmorton Theater, one of the first in modern Mill Valley history, involved a leaf blower (power source unknown).
A woman publicly requested, and received, from multiple sources, assistance locating Mallomars in Central Marin. Equator customers mourned the loss of the cafe’s brie-avocado waffle, whose tariffed ingredients made it an early casualty of geopolitical warfare. A visitor to Point Reyes was able to find water buffalo soft-serve, but not a bathroom; she was subsequently informed that the town was down to one public toilet. And the restaurant Mijo closed almost immediately after opening, as the people of Corte Madera soundly rejected an attempt to serve them Catalan-inspired cuisine.
Reminder: Send us any interesting, off-beat (and true) tidbits that sum up life in Marin County and you may find yourself publicly thanked at the bottom of this column.
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Special thanks to this edition’s prolific informers: Benjamin Amyes, Rebecca Tarvin, Brenda Brown, Alex Yenni and Robb Webb