Please join me this Saturday night for a one night show at the Boomerang Gallery in Petaluma. I contributed a new piece for this one and I’m excited to be showing it with so many other talented artists. See you Saturday!

Boomerang Gallery is pleased to begin the new art year with a groupshow,”Secondhand Love”. Once again a roster of extremely diverse artists, will show their interpretations of love using thrift store art as a starting point. All of the artists are very excited by the theme and we hope that you will be surprised and delighted as well!

Please join us for an artist’s reception on Saturday February 13th from 6 to 9 PM. This show runs for one night only! All art purchases may be picked up at the end of the reception.

Boomerang Gallery/Heebejeebe is located at 46 Kentucky Street in Petaluma.

For further information or questions call: (707)773-3222

Heard about this from a friend on Sunday morning. Some kid, high on acid, jumped off the roof of the Phoenix Theater in Petaluma because “he thought he could fly”. Having spent a little time on top of the theater, I can verify that this guy is lucky to be alive. That’s a long way to the ground. Wild!!

Police probe drug-related fall from roof

By DAN JOHNSON, ARGUS-COURIER STAFF
Published: Monday, February 1, 2010 at 9:32 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, February 1, 2010 at 9:32 a.m.

Several questions remain unanswered in an incident involving a naked, 19-year-old man who broke his back and suffered other, minor injuries after falling 25 feet off the roof of the Phoenix Theater on Sunday morning.

“He had been at a dance at the theater on Saturday night, but no one noticed that he was under the influence, and we don’t know how he got back in the building after it ended,” said manager Tom Gaffey.

The man, who was identified by Gaffey simply as Jesse, a regular patron, told police that someone surreptitiously gave him a food item containing LSD, causing him to feel that he could fly. He said that he had eaten food inside and outside the theater, which on Saturday night was holding a memorial dance for a Petaluma teen who died in a skateboarding accident last year.

Jesse, whose last name was not known by Gaffey and not released by police, fell off the roof of the theater, at 201 Washington St., and onto a lower roof of the building at around 5:45 a.m. Police officers arrived at the scene, and found that he was naked and injured. He was transported to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, said Lt. Tim Lyons of the Petaluma Police Department.

The circumstances leading up to the fall remain hazy.

“I cleared out the theater when I left at about 3 a.m., but the committee that put the dance on still were there,” Gaffey said.

He is unclear how Jesse got the acid, but said, “Jesse might have gone downtown and bumped into some groups of travelers.”

At some point between 3 a.m. and 5:45 a.m., Jesse returned to the building.

“I don’t know how Jesse got back in, but he might have come in through a side entrance that the people cleaning up were using,” Gaffey said.

The roof can be accessed only from inside the theater. At one point, a custodian heard a noise on the roof, and staff members went up to check.

“They tried to talk him down,” Gaffey said, adding that he did not want to say any more about the situation.

Jesse subsequently fell, and later said that he became delusional and thought he could fly.

“We’re pretty much in shock,” Gaffey said. “Jesse’s usually a good soul — not one of my troublemakers. He sings a lot here. And he’s pretty much a regular guy downtown.”

Police investigators are continuing to probe the incident.

(Contact Dan Johnson at dan.johnson@arguscourier.com)

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