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Also this week: What will be the fate of Sacramento’s oldest black-owned bookstore?

Bites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Final chapter?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Beats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Laser focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Real haters of Sacramento . . . . . . . . 11

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More than Halloween or Second Saturday, does Midtown bro-down and show its true colors on St. Patrick’s Day? One might argue; Jonathan Mendick doesn’t—but he does have partying tips in this week’s calendar. Also this week: Up for a new podcast? This week’s arts feature has a few tips for your ears. Up for a beer? Samuel Horne’s Tavern has a few hundred. Up for sexy local R&B goodness? Josh Fernandez has the scoop on Tessa Evans. And if you can’t decide between vegan or barbecue, then read this week’s 15 Minutes interview and do both.

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GREEN DAYS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Greenlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Child obesity growing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 An Inconvenient Ruth . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Eco-Hit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

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Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg’s signature achievement is Proposition 63, a 2004 initiative that put a 1 percent tax on California millionaires, raising $1 billion dollars per year for mental-health services in the state.

With health experts and agencies readying for the 2014 rollout of the national Affordable Care Act, SN&R thought it a good time to sit down with Steinberg for a broad-ranging discussion about Proposition 63, the stigma attached to mental illness, and the future of mental-health services in California.

Streetalk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Letter of the Week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Poet’s Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

To remember Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 This Modern World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Guest Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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Rick Santorum is one I really believe in. We’re excited about him; we’re excited about all the candidates. We feel like there are real good things going on. I feel like he is a righteous man. He’s got good principles.

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FIRST SHOT SN&R reader photo of the week PHOTO BY JULIUS TRUJILLO

Re “Sex and the bishop” by Jeff vonKaenel (SN&R Frontlines, March 8) and “Catholics’ chain of command” (SN&R Letters, March 8): The contrast between the uncompromising Catholic layperson, [letter writer] Rod Dwyre, and the reasonable Catholic bishop of Sacramento, Jaime Soto, couldn’t be more obvious. While Mr. Dwyre invited all Catholics who disagreed with LETTER OF THE WEEK Catholic teachings to get out (and get out now), Bishop Soto realized that almost all Catholics disagreed with the church on a number of issues (like contraception, abortion, the death penalty, immigration, euthanasia, stem-cell research, helping the poor, etc.), and if all Catholics who disagreed left then the only people left would be conservative loons like Rick Santorum and Mel Gibson.

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Stupid sociology students Re “Occupy the Capitol?” by Nick Miller (SN&R Feature, March 1): From the article: “‘We’re graduating college with a mountain of debt and dim job prospects,’ Eaton said.”

Oh, really? Mr. [Charlie] Eaton, you are getting a Ph.D. in sociology and have an undergrad [degree] in politics. What highpaying job did you expect to get when you signed up for those areas of study? You do realize that attending school for eight-plus years will entail considerable debt, right? If you knew that walking in and still chose those areas of study, who is to blame for that mountain of debt and dim job prospects?

If you want to blame someone, blame the UC system for allowing so many students to choose sociology, ethnic studies and the like for their major, knowing full well there would be not demand for those jobs.

I find it ironic that the professors will be “joining” the occupiers, as they are the No. 1 reason why the costs of college have gone through the roof. They are way overpaid and chose to decrease class offerings and work less hours rather than taking a pay cut.

I think true reform is needed. I would start by making every major that cannot show an ability to have student debt associated with that degree paid off within 10 years of graduation at the average wage for that field be eliminated from financial aid.

Let those that can afford to pay their own way go into these charity-type jobs. That way, those students too stupid to understand basic financial decisions will have the decisions made for them.

Bill Bixby Gold River

You’ll pry his lightbulb from his cold, dark fingers!

Re “Lightbulb apocalypse” by Jeff vonKaenel (SN&R Greenlight, March 1): Just who do you think you are, Mr. vonKaenel? You’re not my mother, you’re not my wife. So butt out of my life. What BEFORE

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kind of lightbulb I use is not your or the government’s business. I am an American, which means I have the liberty to decide how to run my life without your interference.

As for saving energy by using these so-called energy-efficient lightbulbs, the claim is dubious. You do realize that the energy savings can only be claimed by leaving these bulbs on continuously, 24seven? I have found through personal experience that these bulbs—because they are turned off and on—seem to have a much shorter life than traditional lightbulbs.

Also, when these burn out, they explode, leaving not only shards of glass to be picked up, but now they have released toxic mercury into the household. You don’t even mention the mercury issue in your column. And the light from these bulbs is horrible and causes eyestrain (at least for me).

If I choose to pay more for my electricity because I want better lighting than these new bulbs provide, what business of that is yours? All these laws and regulations passed in the name of safety or health reduce significantly my liberty. If I choose to do these things myself all well and good. But if I don’t, it’s none of your—or the government’s—damn business. Mind your own business.

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hospitals, colleges, law schools, etc., are business—big business), the Church should not be allowed to impose its religious beliefs on non-Roman Catholic employees by cherry-picking employee and taxpayer-subsidized health-care insurance coverage.

As for Dwyre’s belief that the human beings who make up the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy are perpetually infallible, I don’t need to go there. Thankfully for millions of Christians around the world, Martin Luther already did, 500 years ago.

Rob Sawyer Sacramento

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Re “Teachers are not royalty” (SN&R Letters, February 23): I just want to make sure that everyone understands what “per capita” means. Derek Link is being deceptive if he’s trying to lead people to believe that teachers make extraordinary salaries above those of other employed adults in the Sacramento region.

“Per capita” income includes people under 18, over 65, and unemployed; there are ample numbers of all of those.

It is an apple-to-oranges comparison to hold the average teacher salary up against the average income of a group that includes 8-year-olds, retirees, welfare recipients and inmates.

The median family income of households with one or two earners is quite different: $37,670 for one earner and

Separation of church and business Re “Catholics’ chain of command” (SN&R Letters, March 8): Rod Dwyre has the U.S. Constitution backwards. The Obama administration does respect his rights. If he believes it to be against his religious principles as taught to him by the Roman Catholic Church, no one in the Obama administration can force him to use birth control.

He’s perfectly free to not use it, just as he’s perfectly free to not have sex outside of marriage, to not marry someone of the same gender, and so on.

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$76,060 with two earners (source: www.city-data.com/income/ income-Sacramento-California.html).

Thus teachers, who have a bachelor’s degree and a teaching credential, make about $25,000 more than average for wage earners in a city where 91 percent of people have less education.

Also, Link’s phrasing that teachers “would earn” an amount that includes benefits is intellectually dishonest since he compares that number with actual income—not income plus benefits— of others.

I agree that teachers are not royalty, but I disagree that $40,000 a year for someone with a B.A. and an additional degree is “royal” wages. Most first-year teachers I know share an apartment with a roommate and have crushing student debt.

I don’t believe teachers are underpaid, but I also don’t believe in putting out misleading information and letting it appear to be true.

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FRONTLINES Just say ‘not no’ If you’ve been following the Kings arena debate on social media, you’ve probably noticed some of the clever hashtags people use. #HereWeSayYes was one of the smarmier ones. #GetItDone was the fair and balanced meme preferred by the news department at Fox40.

by COSMO GARVIN Bites tried to get people tweeting #MustNotThinkBadThoughts, but it didn’t take. #HereWeSayYes is interesting, because even with the big vote last week, the city council has not positively embraced any financing plan in particular for a new arena.

Rather, the council has allowed itself to be maneuvered into a series of “not no” votes. There’s never sufficient detail to say for sure it won’t work, and never enough information to say just how it will. One “not no” vote follows another, creeping incrementally toward a deal that’s still being figured out behind closed doors.

Just what are we committed to, after Tuesday’s big vote? Nothing. Could be anything.

We know that the city got rolled once at the negotiating table, agreeing to pay more than half the arena’s costs, instead of the one-third share that was promised when the council said “not no” back in the fall.

We know the city’s share will come from “monetizing” the public-parking system. But the exact mechanism may not be explained to the public until the summer.

We know that even the arena hawks are souring on the idea of leasing our parking system to a private company for 30 or 50 years. It’s just too much future parking revenue to give up.

But aside from the “concession Gov. Jerry Brown, model” there’s the “lease, lease-back on Sacramento’s plan to build model” the “sell, buy-back model,” and a new Kings arena the “parking-authority model,” all pitched by the various vendors who think they can make money and still help the city get its arena. The city council agreed last week to spend $850,000 in parking revenue to keep that “request for proposals” process moving forward.

“Once that boosterism gets going, it’s like a freight train.”

It’s entirely possible that none of those proposals would work.

But Assistant City Manager John Dangberg says the city already has a plan that will work, though the details aren’t yet ready for public consumption.

Under the “internal model” the city would, through investments in technology and efficiency, make millions of dollars more every year on its parking system—enough to recoup those investments and also spit out a tidy chunk every year to pay for the city’s share of the arena.

Is that likely? Can’t say, since each of these models is, for now, for the public, a black box. (There’s also something a little worrying about tying the health of the city’s general fund to continued reliance on driving and parking. But that’s another column.)

Dangberg says he’s confident that the internal model for parking will generate enough money to do all of these wonderful things. He says that the challenge for the parking companies who want a piece of the parking system will have to show they can give the city an even better deal.

And who’s to say that he isn’t absolutely right? How can you say no, when you haven’t seen the details? You can only say “not no.”

Gov. Jerry Brown visited The Sacramento Bee editorial board the other day.

According to Team Scoopy’s blog, the Swarm, Brown was asked about the arena and warned that, “Once that boosterism gets going, it’s like a freight train.” Not sure if it made print, but truer words have never been spoken, in the Bee. Hopefully these financing models will, when finally revealed, turn out to be everything promised. Because, by then, it may be too late to just say no. Ω

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Sharon Wright inside her now-empty bookstore, Carol’s Books.

From floods to feuds, Carol’s Books—the city’s first black owned and operated bookstore—faces an uncertain fate Will Sacramento soon lose its oldest African-American bookstore?

Sharon Wright runs Carol’s Books on by Christopher Arns Del Paso Boulevard, the city’s first blackowned and operated bookshop and a beloved icon in the local community. But her business has been shuttered going on photo by nine months, since June 28 of last year, Nick Miller when a 70-year-old water main ruptured at the intersection of Del Paso and Rio Linda boulevards, flooding the store and at least 15 other nearby shops.

Today, Wright says the city is dragging its feet and preventing her from filing a claim to reopen Carol’s Books. But the city says Wright has been noncooperative.

Last June, the bookstore owner vividly remembers how water suddenly gushed into her store, instantly turning the shop into a humid death trap for nearly 5,000 books and what she says were dozens of priceless pieces of African-American artwork. Nearly a foot of water covered the floor.

“It was like a levee break,” she said.

It took 12 hours for the fire department to pump out the water—not nearly fast

enough to save Wright’s inventory.

Shelves soaked up floodwater like sponges, while books expanded and warped from the swampy air. It took three weeks and some 300 boxes to move everything into storage.

Wright said she filed a claim last July with York Insurance Services Group, the company that handles liability cases for the city of Sacramento. She said she was assured by an adjuster that the city would accept responsibility.

“It was like a levee break.”

Sharon Wright on the flooding of her bookstore The adjuster, Joe Crady, promised to keep Wright’s damaged inventory for free at a Service Masters restoration warehouse on Roseville Road, and that the city would compensate her for both damages and also lost revenue. And they did; Wright received $25,000.

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Meanwhile, most other businesses affected by the Del Paso water burst and flood have long since reopened; the city has settled eight claims and five are in the process of being paid. Only three cases, including the claim filed for Carol’s Books, are unresolved.

Wright says months of lost revenue continue to pile up, and she isn’t sure if the store will survive.

“I feel like the city is breaking my spirit, and I’m struggling to stay motivated,” she said.

It’s been a two-front battle for the bookstore owner. On one hand, Wright is fighting with the city to reopen her business. At the same time, she’s also been overwhelmed by customers, who are furious about the shutdown. Many have left angry messages on her voice mail.

“They just expect the store to be here, and they’re mad,” said Wright. “I really had to take a few days and digest that.”

Many of these community members have started blaming city officials. At a city council meeting earlier this year, several bookstore customers repeatedly accused council members of not doing

Carol’s Books flooded in 2011 when a city water main burst on Del Paso Boulevard.

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enough to save Carol’s Books. One customer at the meeting, Rickey Boyland, said he was shocked at city’s reaction to the situation.

“I’m not sure if the city council and the mayor really understand the true depth and value of this particular icon of the community,” Boyland told the council.

At this meeting, city officials deflected accusations and instead blamed Wright for dragging her feet to reopen the bookstore.

Councilwoman Sandy Sheedy, whose district includes the parts of Del Paso Boulevard where Carol’s Books is located, forcefully defended the city’s response.

“We are not the reason for the holdup. We need people to cooperate with one another.”

John Shirey city manager “Risk management has been very, very attentive to this situation,” Sheedy said.

“To come in here and say nobody has been paying attention is wrong, because I’ve been updated on this continuously.”

City Manager John Shirey sided with Sheedy and said most of the 16 liability claims filed against the city from the broken water main had been resolved. He pointedly blamed Wright and the bookstore property owner, Allen Warren—who incidentally is running for Sheedy’s council seat—for being uncooperative.

Shirey says that Wright had already received $25,000 to reopen but is asking for more without giving adequate proof of her losses.

“We are not the reason for the holdup,” said Shirey. “We need people to cooperate with one another and cooperate with us in order to be able to get this done. We haven’t had that kind of cooperation or this would have been done many months ago.”

Wright says that she would’ve provided the city with business records and an appraisal of damaged inventory, but back in December—when she tried entering the Service Masters warehouse on Roseville Road to comb through her inventory—she was denied entrance by a storage-facility employee.

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Wright then tried contacting Crady, the York Insurance claim adjuster for help, and again failed to hear back.

Even David Plag, executive director for the Del Paso Partnership, has had similar problems contacting Crady. Plag tried helping Wright when he first heard about her problems with the city’s claims adjuster.

“When the flood first occurred, [Crady] was very responsive,” said Plag, who noted that it has been several months since Crady last called him back. “As I was being asked by individual owners to step in and make a phone call, it’s become a lot more difficult to get a hold of him.”

A spokesman for both the city and Crady defended the adjuster’s handling of the bookstore’s claim.

Supervising deputy city attorney Brett Witter acknowledged that Wright had been blocked from visiting her inventory in December, although he blamed Service Masters for the mix-up. Witter also denied any blame fell on Crady, calling him “honest” and “efficient.”

“Ms. Wright is saying the phone calls weren’t made, and Mr. Crady is saying they were,” said Witter. “We tried very hard to get Ms. Wright where she needs to be, but we need to have documentation of the loss, and we don’t have it.”

SN&R asked if the city could disprove Wright’s claims that her messages went unreturned, especially regarding problems entering the Roseville Road storage facility; Witter said Crady couldn’t provide specifics because he didn’t make such notes in the claim file.

Despite the communication breakdown, Wright is moving on. But she says most of the $25,000 from the city has already been spent on utility bills and other expenses that needed to be paid.

On February 29, nearly eight months to the day since water swamped her bookstore, she finally began reviewing her bookstore inventory and assessing damages. She has no idea how long it will take to reopen Carol’s Books—or if her business is still viable at this point.

“I haven’t the foggiest,” Wright said.

“Until we crack open box by box, I have no idea.” Ω

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Arena dominates District 4 debate Candidates for the District 4 city council seat met last weekend to talk arena, Broadway bridge, arena, historic neighborhoods, arena, strong mayor and arena. But mostly arena.

The event was put on by the Sacramento Old City Association. District 4 includes Land Park, Southside Park, downtown and Midtown.

Candidate Terry Schanz was among the most skeptical about the proposed arena-financing deal, saying it sounds like “bad math.”

“This should be a business deal. Not a charity. If we’re putting up the most money, we need to be making money on the deal,” Free the food trucks! #Vote4Kai. said Schanz, a Land Park resident who works as policy director for Assemblyman Isadore Hall.

Candidate Joe Yee, an architect who serves on the city’s planning commission, said that the proposed arena timeline that’s been presented by the mayor—breaking ground in April of next year, and completed the facility before the opening of the 2015 NBA season—may be unrealistic. “That’s a quick schedule. Watch out.”

He said, “From an urban-planning standpoint, there are lots of reasons to support the arena,” but cautioned, “If we can’t get the best deal for the city, we need to look somewhere else.”

Other candidates were more positive about the plan.

Candidate Phyllis Newton, an attorney who works with architects, and former executive director of the American Institute of Architects-Central Valley, said she’s hopeful that the arena, “will be the first vehicle that’s come along in a long time to help us grow our way out of the recession.”

The Sacramento Old City Association was involved in efforts to preserve the historic train depot near the proposed arena site, and members were concerned about how the arena plan will impact the long-planned intermodal transit facility there. Newton said, “We need to make sure the intermodal doesn’t play second fiddle to the arena.”

Candidate Steve Hansen acknowledged that an arena deal is far from done but urged “patience” while the details are hammered out. “I’ve got concerns about the financing too, but we have to suspend our disbelief to see how this turns out.”

Hansen is an attorney who works for Genentech, a downtown resident and a neighborhood advocate, and a board member of the Sacramento Downtown Partnership.

He served on the redistricting advisory board that was instrumental in uniting the central city neighborhoods of downtown and Midtown into District 4.

Midtown resident Kai Ellsworth said Saturday that while he wants an arena, “I don’t like the way we’re getting it.”

Ellsworth’s platform includes a Sacramento minimum wage and rolling back restrictions on food trucks. He also says on his website that, “I am in favor of building the arena in Midtown.”

Not sure what spot Ellsworth’s got in mind. But we’re going to go out on a limb and say the arena is going to be an issue in this campaign, and probably the other races, too.

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Michael Oskin, professor of geology at UCD, isn’t about to proclaim as much just yet.

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Recently, the team co-authored a piece in the journal Science about their use of light detection and ranging to create pre- and post-earthquake images. LIDAR is a laser scanner flown in an Learn more about aircraft that surveys landscapes and creates threethese scientists 3-D dimensional images of fault lines.

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“But we can’t predict earthquakes in time,” Oskin conceded.

Closer to Sacramento, the Delta region is a water supply central to the needs of Californians, from farmers to urban dwellers.

But the Delta also has scattered, small faults under some of its hills. Similar smaller faults triggered Mexicali’s 7.2 earthquake.

The probability of a huge earthquake, however, is relatively low in the Sacramento region, Oskin said. He bases that assessment on the movement rates and relative sizes of fault structures in the region.

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The Southern Poverty Law by Center, a nonprofit group that has Kel Munger been working to defend the rights kelm@ of minorities and stop violence newsreview.com based on prejudice for more than four decades, lists 84 hate groups in California. Eight of them are in Sacramento, and the latest to be included is also the city’s first antigay hate group.

What did Save California, a group supposedly devoted to family values, and its president, Randy Thomasson, do to get on the SPLC’s hate-group list?

According to Heidi Beirich, director of SPLC’s Intelligence Project, Save California has lied about gay people. A lot.

Save California, the newest addition to the list, is Sacramento’s only anti-gay hate group.

“In order to make the list as an anti-gay group, the group has to lie, defame or spread false propaganda about the LGBT community,” Beirich told SN&R. “In this case, language that depicts LGBT people as predatory, attempting to convert children and as having unhealthy lifestyles—all of those things—are what got him on the list.”

Beirich noted that such language about an entire group “increases the likelihood of hate crimes being directed at that group.”

Each year, the SPLC updates its list of active “hate groups” in the United States. And white-supremacist and racist-skinhead groups that have long resided in Sacramento are on that list. Among them is the American Front, a white-supremacist group whose leader, David Lynch, was shot to death at his home in Citrus Heights last year.

Read more about hate groups in Sacramento on Kel Munger’s blog, www.newsreview. com/hotflash.

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Sacramento also has active members in the American Aryan Reich, European Americans United and the National Alliance, all of which fall into the white-supremacist or white-power category, as does North Highlands’ Life Rune Industries/Heathen Noise Productions, which produces white-supremacist music.

The Nation of Islam, a black nationalist religious group, has some Sacramento membership, and is included on the list because of what SPLC calls “the deeply racist, anti-Semitic and anti-gay rhetoric of its leaders.”

As-Sabiqun, an Islamic nationalist group with strong anti-Semitic leanings, also has some active members in Sacramento, according to SPLC. But Save California, the list’s newest addition, is Sacramento’s only anti-gay hate group.

Save California, which has also operated under the names Save America, Rescue Your Child and the Campaign for Children and Families, lists as its address a box at the central post office in downtown Sacramento. Its phone number is directed to an answering machine, and all requests for press and interviews are funneled through a booking agency. Repeated attempts to reach Thomasson or any spokesperson for Save California were unsuccessful.

So, what would Save California— and more specifically Thomasson, who is the only paid employee of the group, according to tax records— have to do to be removed from SPLC’s list of hate groups?

It’s pretty simple, according to Beirich. “He’d have to stop lying” about LGBT people, she said, and renounce his previous defamatory statements. Ω

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Religion can be used to divide us, as Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum demonstrated when he suggested President Barack Obama subscribes to a “phony theology.” But religion can also bring us together. That is certainly how I felt at the 25th anniversary of Sacramento Area League of Associated Muslims held Friday, February 24. Even though I am not a Muslim, I have been moved many times by the events held at SALAM and the friendships I have made there.

Dr. Metwalli Amer’s original vision was a place where the Muslim community could engage in dialogue with the non-Muslim community. It has been this openness to others that has made SALAM such a Sacramento treasure. Its members, particularly Metwalli, have been very active in interfaith activities. Metwalli immeMetwalli Amer immediately diately set himself apart at events by bringing a set himself apart at these these gigantic platter of baklava events by bringing a gigantic to virtually every interplatter of baklava. faith event he attended.

SALAM’s outreach efforts really made a difference in the days after 9/11.

It hosted many community events at its center, and as a result, many Sacramentans were moved to stand up and say that we would not tolerate violence against our Muslim neighbors. At the 25th anniversary celebration, United States Attorney Benjamin Wagner described it as a national model for an American mosque, bringing in different cultures and providing a bridge to the non-Muslim community.

Over the last 25 years, SALAM has contributed mightily to interfaith dialogue in Sacramento and has Want to learn more built three magnificent buildings on College Oak about the outreach Drive. But I believe its most important achievement programs and events has been combining the best aspects of Muslim faith that SALAM holds? with the best aspects of American life. For example, Find out more at www.salamcenter.org. unlike other mosques, and unlike some Christian organizations, Muslim women are active in the leadership at SALAM. At times, women have made up the majority of the board. But my favorite example is something I saw several years ago: Muslim rap.

At a community event at the mosque, a young high-school student who loves rap music presented his devotion to Islam in a rap format. What was so lovely about the performance was the obvious sincerity of the young performer. He was melding two things he cared deeply about in an admittedly unusual combination. Most of the audience consisted of older members Jeff vonKaenel is of the mosque. I suspect they were not rap fans, our the president, CEO and young rap artist was warmly received. majority owner So, while there are some who use religion to of the News & Review place themselves above the rest, there are others, like newspapers in Sacramento, Chico the members of SALAM, who believe there are and Reno. many diverse paths to God, and we can all climb the mountain together. With people like these in the community, maybe religion can be more of a force for unity and peace. Ω

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Child obesity slowing

Why so glum?

And yes, it’s March in Climate Change America, and spring is in the air! Doesn’t it feel like love? Like shorts and sandals and margaritas by the river? Why, maybe this is the month when Auntie Ruth writes her magnum musical: Springtime for Santorum in Michigan.

La la!

La La la!

La La! But then, that’s already been done! More or less! Goodness me, and oh well!

UC Davis researchers examine student physical-fitnesstest results

But as the Republicans continue

Obesity is still on the rise among California students, but after years of prevention measures in schools, the rate is slowby Joanna Lin ing, new research shows.

More than 35 percent of students were overweight or obese in 2008, up from one-third in 2003. That’s an average annual increase of 0.33 percent, compared with 0.8 to 1.7 percent each year in decades prior.

The findings, released earlier in March, are based on the results of state-mandated physical-fitness testing of fifth-, seventh- and ninth-grade students. Researchers at UC Davis examined test results of 6.3 million students over six years.

The tests showed overall improvements in aerobic capacity, upper-body strength and flexibility and declines in healthy body composition, abdominal strength and trunk-extensor strength.

The percentage of students achieving healthy fitness in all categories jumped from about 29 percent in 2003 to nearly 35 percent in 2008.

Joanna Lin is a “This is a first step. It’s a big first reporter for California Watch, the state’s step because for the first time, we’ve largest investigative at least been able to block the progresreporting team, and sion or increase in obesity,” said Dr. part of the Center for William Bommer, a professor of carInvestigative Reporting.

Learn more at diovascular medicine at UC Davis and www.california senior author of the study. watch.org.

Of the three grades tested in physical fitness, researchers found the youngest students to be of greatest concern. Heavier each year, incoming fifth-graders are driving the overall increase in student obesity, Bommer said. After entering fifth grade, obesity leveled off, suggesting that students might need new, earlier interventions.

Green Days is on the Bommer was part of a state task lookout for innovative sustainable projects force in 2004 that recommended physthroughout the ical activity and healthy food and Sacramento region. drink standards in California schools.

Turn us on at For every 10 school days, the state sactonewstips@ newsreview.com. now requires at least 200 minutes of physical activity for students in first through sixth grades and 400 minutes for students in grades 7 through 12.

And high-fat, sugary foods and beverages are banned from schools.

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know how well we did in those [kindergarten through fifth] grades,” Bommer said. “To be honest, I can’t tell you whether the problem is before kindergarten, K-5 or both of those where we still have the increase in obesity.”

Bommer said physical-fitness testing at earlier ages could help identify the onset of obesity. But statewide fitness testing is at risk.

In 31 of the state’s 58 counties, the prevalence of overweight and obese students has increased.

Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed eliminating the state-mandated program—an annual appropriation of nearly $3.5 million. In its budget analysis, the Legislative Analyst’s Office said, “These tests do not supplement state physical education requirements in any substantive way nor are the test results used to improve physical education practices.”

Audits, studies and surveys have found that many students do not receive the required amounts of physical activity. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson and public-health advocates say the tests are an important diagnostic component of physical education.

“The superintendent is very much [for] educating the whole student, and that includes the body as well as the mind,” said Linda Hooper, an education-research and evaluation consultant for the Department of Education. Torlakson recently launched an initiative to promote physical activity and healthy eating in schools and communities.

Eliminating funding for physicalfitness tests would hurt those efforts, Hooper said, adding that without the

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Physical-fitness-testing results are perhaps the department’s mostrequested data, he said.

The California Center for Public Health Advocacy last year used physical-fitness testing data to identify significant disparities in the rates of overweight and obese students throughout the state. In 31 of the state’s 58 counties, the prevalence of overweight and obese students has increased even as the statewide average has declined.

“It gives the schools tools to be able to assess where they might need to beef up their physical education or where students have specific needs,” said S. Alecia Sanchez, policy director for the California Center for Public Health Advocacy.

Simply requiring physical activity in school is not enough, Bommer said.

“If we don’t test, we really can’t tell whether we’re having an effect or not,” he said. “If you can’t have this testing, we might just assume, gee, obesity has gone away, and it isn’t a problem. But this tells us there’s still an ongoing problem.” Ω

their long-suffering revelation of Tourette’s syndrome—it’s a family-wide affliction, from Rick Santorum’s equating the desire for a college education with snobbery, to Mitt Romney’s offhand remarks about Cadillacs and $10,000 wagers, to Ron Paul’s assertion that the free market can regulate new drugs as they come to market, to pretty much anything that comes out of Newt Fa fa, la la, ho hum.

Gingrich’s mouth—Auntie Ruth says never mind all that. Let’s put our minds on the positive! Put your toes in the wading pool and wiggle, wiggle, wiggle! Let all the babies run on the lawn and grass-stain their diapers and giggle in the soft air!

It’s springtime in March, and Auntie Ruth feels fine!

It was, after all, America’s fourth-warmest January in documented history, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (This has probably fed the low, low number of influenza cases this year, according to The New York Times.) And, as Bill McKibben detailed in these pages last month, Jeff Masters, “the Web’s most widely read meteorologist … thinks it likely [that the first week in January will prove] ‘the driest first week in recorded U.S. history.’”

This, after 2011 and 14 weather disasters (each costing $1 billion or more). The old record, according to McKibben, was nine.

Recent images of Midwestern tornadoes followed immediately by snowfall come to mind.

And while Europe has a few things over Northern California—really, it does—they can’t claim balm, not this winter.

According to meteorologist Paul Yeager, hundreds of Eastern Europeans have died in the current spate of brutal weather, many of them homeless. “In Romania, thousands are isolated due to closed roads … in parts of the Balkans, residents have had to dig tunnels in snow as deep as 15 feet to get out of their homes.”

Really?

Oh, my. Not here. Not now. Not us.

Springtime in Climate Change America. Why so glum? Ω (Come friend Aunt Ruth on Facebook and let’s hang out.)

ECO-HIT City of (even more) Trees Sacramento is already the City of Trees.

But for 30 days (March 7 to April 8), the Sacramento Tree Foundation is trying to boost the city’s number of trees—by 30,000. In honor of the foundation’s 30th anniversary, it’s hosting a communitywide drive to plant 30,000 trees. Those who wish to help can pledge to plant trees at www.30ktrees.com. People can Trees surround the Sacramento skyline. also sign up with a group or businesses, organize a tree-planting event, and suggest a spot that could use more trees. Once you pledge to plant trees, you’ll receive free information on how to care for the trees you plant.

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Seth Sandronsky With sparkling eyes and smile, Mary—a devoted a Sacramento-based environmental and peace advocate—lived her life in supfreelance writer port of all people to have the right to fully develop their abilities and capacities. For her, nobody should be less or more equal; every human being was a chosen person.

Mary had a deep understanding of people’s strengths and weaknesses, far beyond mine. We met in the mid-1990s when I was a co-editor with Because People Matter, Sacramento’s progressive paper. Her incisive news articles and book reviews improved the publication.

In addition to her ceaseless environmental work to save Mother Nature from destruction, Mary made a public choice to agitate and organize for an end to Israeli occupation of Palestine. Discussing the latter subject with those who hold opposing views is difficult. I am proof of that.

To put it mildly, I have let emotions govern me in more than one such discussion. Mary showed me another way to proceed in the marketplace of ideas. Hers was a crucial lesson, indeed.

More than once, my wife and our then-young daughter joined Mary at 16th and J streets to rally for peace and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians. In my mind’s eye, I see Mary there speaking with adults and youth, allies and foes, standing for nonviolence, calmly yet firmly.

How could I be in Mary’s presence and not be inspired to continue opposing militarism and its evil twin of racism? Like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., she believed it was vital as for conscious American citizens to oppose what this great said was “the greatest How could I be in man purveyor of violence in the Mary’s presence and world,” namely the U.S. government of, by and for not be inspired to corporate power and wealth.

Mary entered Vassar continue opposing College in 1943 as the spread militarism and its evil of fascism spawned World II. Its end heralded a twin of racism? War new dawn of freedom for the world’s people. Yet what rapidly unfolded for human rights in former colonial regions such as the Middle East was a lack of liberation and selfdetermination for the native people.

Mary’s motive for exploring that post-war regional history was to help forge a regime of nonviolence there.

For her, the future was an open book, the meanings of yesterday were evolving and the present is what we had to work with.

Always in motion, Mary shared her network of contacts with me. They included Diana Buttu, who I interviewed at a coffee shop in Midtown Sacramento; Laurie King-Irani; and Robert Fisk. I am forever grateful for this.

Mary lived morally, with a heartfelt compassion for victims of oppression, from people in Palestine to those in Central America and East Timor, while understanding the importance of engaging with their oppressors. That’s easy to say, not so much to do for both personal and political reasons.

Mary’s approach to activism helped to shape me over the years. Thanks so much for your mentoring, dear friend. Ω

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Rush to the door When you try to dominate and demean women, you harm It sends a message if Limbaugh faces no all of humanity. If I have the exact same lasting consequences for his tirade against views as Sandra Fluke on the issue of birthSandra Fluke—if, as he claims, the advertiscontrol availability, does radio talk-show ers that have left are easily replaced (or host Rush Limbaugh—in his heart of worse yet, if those that have suspended their hearts—feel that I owe him a sex tape? ads slink back after they feel the controversy Limbaugh hides behind has blown over). The the label “entertainer,” message is that if you We have to find a but his comments are a smart woman expose an enduring attempting to create a way to protect our undercurrent of misogplace for yourself at the by girls from this kind table on issues that Natalia Mercado yny in our society, affect you, no bounda local teacher, as well leadership and news of hate and reverse reporting. aries of integrity or as a woman who uses It is appalling to me decency will be the brain God gave her the damage years to hear the language respected when your of unabated being used in attempts opponents use sex to degrade and control in attempts to misogyny in our American women. I do discredit you. social discourse has not want the little girls And everyone will of today to grow up and look the other way. done to our young The emails already Have a comment? be treated the way we Express your views are currently being sent to Limbaugh’s women. in 350 words on treated. I want the idea advertisers have yielded a local topic that anyone can just get some results. Now we of interest. away with calling a smart, assertive, reasonmust continue to pressure stations that carry Send an e-mail to able, young woman a “slut” or a “prostitute” his show as well as any potential advertisers editorial@ newsreview.com. to become completely unfathomable. We that even flirt with the idea of supporting have to find a way to protect our girls from him. Driving Limbaugh into obscurity is the this kind of hate and reverse the damage first step to creating a public discourse in years of unabated misogyny in our social which all participants feel safe to speak. Ω discourse has done to our young women.

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God’s own party The direction of discourse surrounding the Republican presidential primaries couldn’t be more disturbing if it—well, there’s really no place to go from that. It simply couldn’t be more disturbing.

That’s because the GOP hopefuls for the presidential nomination all seem to be vying with one another to take the most extreme—and, unfortunately, theologically based—position possible. Whether we like it or not (and there is every indication that a great many Americans are made uncomfortable by it), the Republicans are moving into uncharted territory.

They are in danger of becoming an overtly religious party.

Mind you, we’ve got a constitution that makes clear The GOP hopefuls that there is to be no religious for president seem test for office. But that doesn’t to be vying with one seem to be stopping the Republican candidates, nor another to take the does it seem to be slowing most extreme—and, down the party’s activists, who engage in arguments unfortunately, about which candidate is more theologically based— committed to ending insurance coverage of position possible. contraception, pushing a constitutional amendment to declare a fertilized egg a legal “person,” or planning to “unmarry” all the same-sex couples who are legally wed in this country. (Counting the 18,000 married in California between June and November 2008, that’s about a quarter of a million people.)

The latest is as absurd as it is disquieting: GOP officials in Laurens County, South Carolina, have actually asked all potential Republican candidates for office to sign a document pledging not only to lower taxes and oppose marriage equality, but also to avoid porn and have no sex outside marriage. The penalty for refusing to sign is to forfeit the party’s support in the election.

It’s bad enough that we have a climate in which a sizable—albeit misinformed—percentage of the population believes that President Barack Obama is a Muslim when he’s repeatedly discussed his Christianity. Or that polls show a Republican frontrunner as having difficulty in southern states for no reason other than that he is a member of the Church of Jesus Read a transcript or watch the video of Christ of Latter-day Saints. Or that another leading President John F. candidate—a Catholic himself—refers to the late Kennedy’s 1960 speech President John F. Kennedy’s speech about the separaon religion in the public tion of church and state in our Constitution as making sphere at NPR: www.npr.org/ him nauseous. templates/story/story.

But when an entire party places religious belief php?storyId=16920600. ahead of the good of the country, we can only ask if this party understands that the president of the United States is the president of all the people in the entire country.

If, in fact, the GOP is determined to become God’s Own Party in a literal sense, they may gain a number of “true believers.” But they do so at the risk of abandoning the very principles that make this a nation in which they are free to worship God as they choose.

When the day comes when this particular brand of Christianity is in the minority, they may also find themselves hoping that others are more willing to remember JFK’s words—and heed them. Ω

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Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg’s signature achievement is Proposition 63, which put a 1 percent tax on California millionaires, raising $1 billion dollars per year for mental-health services in the state.

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t first, I was confused in my search for State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg’s office in Room 200 of the state Capitol.

When I asked a fellow passing by for directions, he gave me a look that New Yorkers give when you ask “Where’s the Empire State Building?”—a look that says, “You’re clearly not part of our world.”

But I found Steinberg’s office. And when I walked into Room 200, it was plain to see it was not your normal crammed state senator’s workplace. It was gigantic—more like a living room than an office. The layout did not direct you to a front desk. Instead, this was more like a day-care center with many different play stations. A desk here, a sitting area with couches there, some work stations someplace else. This was clearly a room where more than one thing was going on at once, where important stuff happened or will soon be happening.

Room 200 says a lot about its current tenant—the focus should be on the happening, not the man.

Steinberg is, in many ways, an unusual choice to head up the California Senate. He is from Sacramento, not Los Angeles or San Francisco where there are larger populations and more campaign dollars. Well-liked and extremely knowledgeable, Steinberg has been the author of many pieces of legislation that have significantly improved the operations of government.

But this signature achievement is Proposition 63, the Mental Health Services Act, which put a 1 percent tax on California millionaires, raising $1 billion dollars per year for mental-health services in the state.

With health experts and agencies readying for the 2014 rollout of the national Affordable Care Act, this seemed a good time to begin a broad-ranging discussion with Steinberg about Proposition 63, the future of mental-health services in California, and how it all ties into the implementation of health-care reform.

Just the kind of far-reaching subject you might expect to hear discussed by a politician whose base of operation looks as expansive as Room 200.

The following is an edited version of the text of our conversation.

Jeff vonKaenel : I’d like to focus our discussion on what’s happening with mental-health services in the state and how that fits into the rollout of health-care reform in 2014. Can we start by talking about the genesis of Prop. 63?

SN&R chats with Senate leader Darrell Steinberg about the future of mental-health services in California

Darrell Steinberg: Well, I was on the [Sacramento] City Council.

Specifically, it was February of 1997—I remember it very well because it was … the month my son, Ari, was born, and the month the council made the decision, on a 6-2 vote, to sue Loaves & Fishes for exceeding its feeding capacity on Sundays.

[Mayor] Joe Serna and I were the two members of the council to vote against that lawsuit, and it was an anguishing period for the city. We ended up in People magazine and Hard Copy, as sort of a man-bites-dog story, “Why would the city be suing an entity whose mission is to feed people?” [Editor’s note: The case ended up settling out of court.]

I was just beginning my thoughts about running for the State Assembly in 1998, and I decided I wanted to make homelessness and the issue of mental illness and mental health, as related to homelessness, my cause. That’s because I recognized at the time that the underlying cause of the tension between the city and Loaves & Fishes was the fact that as a society and a state, we have failed to grapple with the fact that there are so many people who need help who aren’t getting the help that they need.

Was this because of Proposition 13?

There were many reasons; Prop. 13 was one. And the fact that state finances never were what they had been in the ’60s and ’70s. But I also think mental health is an issue that, by and large, people have been unwilling and afraid to talk about. So, I got elected in 1998 … and I met up with Rusty Selix and said, “I want to do something about homelessness and mental illness.” Rusty is the executive director of the Mental Health Association in California and the California Council of Community Mental Health Agencies. So he and I cooked up Assembly Bill 34 together. And in its original version, it sought $350 million dollars of funding for community mental-health treatment. And we came up with that number because we estimated that there were 50,000 homeless mentally ill people in the streets of California in any one night. And that would be a cost of about $7,000 a person, really $14,000 because you would match it up with federal Social Security disability funds.

It was an estimate. By the end of year, we declared a great victory when Gov. Gray Davis signed the bill with $10 million of funding. That was my first lesson on how it really works.

So you were after $350 million, and you wound up with $10 million?

I was brand-new, obviously not experienced. But definitely full of energy. So I went to see [President Pro Tem] John Burton and [Gov. Davis’ wife] Sharon Davis, and I was just a pain in the butt. … I will say that once the bill was signed, the Department of Mental Health did a great job in taking that $10 million and getting it out on the street. We had three pilot projects—in Sacramento, in Los Angeles and Stanislaus counties. And we had 1,000 people enroll in something that was a very different concept of treating mental illness—integrated services … which really means “whatever it takes.” So much of government funding is restricted. But what we said here was that if you are homeless and mentally ill—with the array of challenges that puts in your life— the money should be unrestricted in terms of housing, mental-health treatment, substance abuse treatment, vocational assistance … whatever it takes so long as somebody meets the definition of serious mental illness. It was so successful that the next year, since the state budget was still in good shape back then, that we got it to $55 million. And so we expanded.

When did you decide that a ballot initiative was necessary?

Rusty and I sat down with our coalition in about 2003 and asked the question, “Are we satisfied?” We decided that we weren’t satisfied, and we wanted to do more. So we cooked up the idea of an initiative—to take the program that we had built and bring it to scale. We did a bunch of polling and focus groups. And this was well before the Occupy movement, but we centered on a 1 percent tax on million-dollar earners. So we put together an initiative that not only focused on the full-service partnership model, but we said, “Look, if we are really going to do this right, we need to build the whole system.” And that means focusing on prevention and early intervention, and innovation and technology and housing.

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Seen here in his office in the Capitol building, Steinberg stands next to a painting created by an artist being treated for mental illness.

And so Prop. 63 was written very deliberately to put a significant emphasis on prevention and early intervention. The initiative reads that 20 percent of the money every year has to go to prevention and early intervention, and an additional 5 percent to innovation and the remainder for services. And Rusty and I have both been very fond of saying for many years, “The real goal of the initiative, the real goal over time, is to flip those numbers so that 75 percent of the money eventually would be spent on prevention and early intervention.” The science [on mental illness] is much more advanced now than it was when we started.

and other. What we found in the first round is that the grant applications were just too cumbersome and it was taking too long to get the money out. So what we’ve done is essentially gotten the state out of the application-review process. The focus of the state is now on evaluations and outcomes. Counties are much happier now, because the money is flowing a lot easier.

The other thing is I wanted the money to go to counties, but I also wanted there to be a statewide focus on a couple of key issues. And that includes housing. I think there’s been a recognition that if we are really going to end or significantly reduce homelessness, supportive housing has got to be a lead strategy. If somebody is not in a safe place, all of the array of services will often go unused because the person is out on the street.

So Prop. 63 passed in 2004.

Yes, and we were very lucky! You know, I’ve had this conversation a lot over the last couple of days because the California Federation of Teachers is going after a millionaires tax now, but I always say—you know, humbly—that I’m the only politician in the state, maybe in the country, that’s ever successfully passed a tax on millionaires. … The only funded opposition we had was a very limited Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and the Church of Scientology. I raised the minimum amount of money necessary to go one week on TV, and we won, not overwhelmingly but with 53 percent of the vote, and people ask, “How did you win?”

[One] reason we won was because this is an issue that affects everybody. Everybody knows somebody. And as I campaigned around the state, the stories from people from all walks of life, all socioeconomic categories, all races and ethnicities, genders … everybody knows somebody with mental illness. So this thing touched a chord. And so we passed the law. And it generates about $1 billion a year, and for the last number of years its implementation has been sometimes slow, but now is really beginning to take off. The beauty of the Mental Health Services Act is that, it’s not just like a one-time shot of money or one-time pilot. It repeats—the funding repeats itself every single year. As great as this is now, it’s going to be even more significant a decade from now, 20 years from now.

So getting housing for homeless people with mental illness is key?

And so it took some time, but once everything got off the ground it worked. I know 25,000 people have now benefited from fullservice partnerships. … The counties are where to invest the money. Some are investing in the more traditionally homeless mentally ill population, some are focused on the ethnic communities that have been underserved for a long period of time, and some are investing in transition-age foster youth with serious mental illnesses. The counties are all defining how they want to spend the funds.

You’ve said the “whatever it takes” approach has been successful from early on. Do you mean in specific outcomes? And in reducing other kinds of expenses?

So $1 billion comes into the system and creates this frenzy of different people wanting to get funding. Let’s talk about that process and what you’ve learned.

Yes. We saw reduced hospitalization, days of homelessness and jail time. Those are three major indicators. You know, with politicians it’s become a bit of a cliché that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. There is no question.

One of the things we did earlier with Sharon Davis was we toured the county jail systems, including the Los Angeles County jail which was renowned for being the biggest mental-health

The mental-health community—which is large and diverse and includes clients themselves who are very, very active—have felt excluded from the political process. And no one really expected that this opportunity would arise. Because for years what they dealt with were diminished funding, budget cuts and not much attention paid to this issue. So, one of the things that we’ve said from the beginning is that it shouldn’t just be a top-down decision as to how these funds are actually invested—the community and the clients need to be involved. There’s an estimate that, at one time, we had 100,000 people involved around the state in various stakeholder meetings to determine the act’s priorities. And this was a very important and positive thing. But there was a cost to it, and not just a literal cost. I would say the first round of funding was a little bit slow as everyone sort of adjusted to this gift, really and how to properly invest it.

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program in California, the county jail system. I mean, even conservatives were writing about the fact that we had criminalized the mentally ill in California, because the only place for anybody to get help was to get arrested, or to get in some kind of trouble, or find themselves on the street.

And, of course, the philosophy behind Assembly Bill 2034 and Prop. 63 has always been about early intervention and case management. That means having one stop where someone can get the help that they need and regain their lives.

Prop. 63 requires that lots of the funds go to new services. That’s caused some controversy, right?

Some people say that, especially at first, there was a very cumbersome process in terms of allocating the Prop. 63 money. True?

Yeah, well, we were very concerned when we wrote the initiative that if we were going to ask the public for this kind of money—and of course it was from million-dollar earners but still public money—that there should be a real emphasis on accountability for the dollars. So we set up a process that had the counties, the state Department of Mental Health and an oversight and accountability commission as sort of coequal partners in checking and balancing one

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Well, this has been another challenge. The idea is that the money cannot be used to supplant. In other words, we didn’t want this new pot of money to come forward and have the state and counties then take the same amount out of their core system intentionally, leaving us with the same amount of money. So there is a strict nosupplant clause. But what’s happened is … the bottom has dropped out on state and county finances. So, we’ve had this odd situation where the core system is being reduced while the whatever-it-takes and prevention system is kicking in.

And some have complained that some people are getting the Cadillac while the Hyundai is no longer working. Of course, I reject that. Because what we are attempting to do, and what we are doing slowly, is building one system. And it’s one system that is premised on a very different and better philosophy, which is recovery—doing whatever it takes, which is not just having people

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Yes. My push was to set $400 million dollars aside for permanent supportive housing for people living with mental illness. And in a number of different instances—including, right here in Sacramento—that money is not the exclusive financing for housing, but it’s a major catalyst where units have been set aside for people living with mental illness. It’s not segregating them; it’s all integrated within a community. But it’s where we have the money.

And right now we are at 1,800 [units] that are actually built and up and running. And more to come. And if you think about it, 1,800 units— that’s 1,800 fewer homeless people on the streets. Obviously, though, there’s a lot more to do there. …

We are also taking a statewide approach to suicide reduction, prevention and studentmental-health services where we now have programs in all three public-university systems to enhance their ability to provide help to young people. The college campuses are often where the first signs of schizophrenia turn up.

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stigma in [certain] communities and so it’s a challenge how to approach and how to help people living with mental illness. In Sacramento County, for instance, some of the monies are going directly to multicultural centers that are focused on those sorts of outreach. So diversity, cultural competency and also there’s a real focus on the resources being spent in a client-centered way. In other words, it’s not about this is what we are going to do for you, because recovery is about the person living with mental illness being part of their own recovery. …

There needs to be a whole lot more work on educating people on what those signs are so they can either get help for themselves or help a friend or help a family member.

cycle in and out of clinics or in and out of institutional care and hospitals.

To put the question a different way, and as I once said to [an SN&R reporter], “Given what has happened to the core system, where would mental-health services be today without the Mental Health Services Act?” I mean, it would be horrible, because there would be so much less. So there are some challenges because we are trying to integrate an old system and a new system in a time where one pot of money is increasing and another is decreasing. But we are trying to integrate them; the goal is one system.

Let’s talk about that one system. You mentioned earlier how we’ve learned that people who are prone to schizophrenia generally have their first episode sometime in their late teens or early 20s. With early intervention and prevention, how much mental illness do you think we can actually reduce in California?

I’ve heard that 5 percent of the people use about 50 percent of total expenditures when it comes to Medi-Cal. And that about half of them involve some mental-health issue. Are we in the ballpark there?

Well, it’s earlier than college, even. For example, at the MIND Institute at the University of California at Davis, the researchers are doing a lot of research on some of the indicators for early onset schizophrenia.

And it’s evolving, but they believe that as early as age 13 or 14—with the right kind of awareness and education—parents and pediatricians and school

It’s probably not far off. We’ve done some work here in Sacramento on the emergency-room crisis and the fact that the emergency rooms are impacted by [the mental-health issue]. The police bring somebody to the emergency room, then the emergency room has to figure out how to treat the person. Just like the county jails, the emergency room shouldn’t

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What does the Mental Health Services Act do to address the stigma that’s often attached to mental illness?

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Yes, there be significant pension reform, but we are going to protect the middle class while we do it.

Is there an end in sight to spiraling higher-education costs?

Yes. We’re going to make an aggressive effort to reduce the costs of instructional materials and textbooks for college students with Senate bills 1052 and 1053. It’s one strategy among many.

I am 60 years old; will I ever ride on a California high-speed train?

You will definitely ride on segments of the California high-speed-rail train and hopefully the full ride.

On the next year’s state budget, how many billions of dollars must be found?

Well, the deficit is just under $10 billion. We have to pass the governor’s revenue initiative because it’s the only initiative that provides real relief on the noneducation side. We’ve made far too many cuts to the poor, to the safety net in California, and the governor’s initiative is crucial to ensure that we don’t make more cuts than are absolutely necessary.

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officials can know, or at least have some sort of suspicion, that a young person needs intervention. If we have the resources, over time we may not be able to absolutely prevent the onset of a biologically based, chemically based illness, but we can do a whole lot more to make sure it’s manageable. And then individuals can get the support they need to lead a regular life. That’s the goal. Mental illness does not have to be a life sentence of homelessness, hopelessness. It does not have to be.

I saw a program in Los Angeles a couple of months ago [that involved] single moms, many of them teenagers with some mental-health issues, who had given birth. They take a mother-child approach to mental-health intervention and mental-health treatment and work with the mother on her issues and make sure that bonding between mother and child occurs early on. So it’s going back to the earliest stage possible to intervene and help somebody who, because of their life situation, because of their family history, because of their circumstances, or because of their own behavior that they need help.

Will there be significant pension reform this next year?

I am more confident that the new arena will actually be built.

(Laughs.) That’s my answer, and I’m sticking to it. be the primary place where people are referred for mental-health care. But that’s because we haven’t had an act like this before, with its focus on outreach, case management and whatever it takes.

How will the federal Affordable Care Act, which includes mental-health coverage, impact the efforts of Proposition 63 with its emphasis on early intervention and prevention?

Proposition 63 passed in 2004. It was way ahead of its time with its emphasis on early intervention and prevention. Both the Mental Health Services Act and the Affordable Care Act are very compatible working on similar principles. The real push in the Affordable [Care] Act is the creation of a medical home model.

A medical home model?

There is where each patient would have a medical home where many of their health needs were met such as mental health, physical therapy and primary care.

There would be different medical homes or community clinics that have different emphasis.

What’s the end result of combining both Prop. 63 and the Affordable Care Act? To help people get healthy without the experience of a dramatic life event or more serious illness is the goal. It is one of the primary goals of the Affordable Care Act, and it is the primary goal of the Mental Health Services Act. Ω FEATURE

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Will Californians support any of the proposed tax initiatives?

Yes, they will. But I’m worried if there is more than one on the ballot.

There needs to just be one, and it ought to be the governor’s.

How many electoral votes will President Barack Obama receive?

Over 300.

Different political clubs like the Sierra Club and the chamber of commerce rate politicians. What would the Darrell Steinberg rating of Gov. Jerry Brown be with one the lowest and 100 the highest?

Oh, Jesus. Oh, you’re killing me. Well, I’d give the governor a good solid 90—how is that? I think his leadership has been steady, I think there is a lot more to do, but I think he is doing just fine.

If we asked you in the fifth grade what you wanted to do when you grew up, what would you say?

When I was in the fifth grade? Well, of course I wanted to be a baseball player. Unfortunately, I had a hard time hitting from the right side. And then I wanted to be a doctor, but I wasn’t all that great in science, and so I found that I was pretty good at arguing a case, so I found my path.

Finally, if you had to be stranded on a deserted island with one Republican state senator, who would it be?

OK, here’s my answer: I would happily sit with all of them so long as their numbers were less than one-third of the Senate. How is that? (Laughs.)

But who’s the one?

That I would hang out with? Let me think about it. Give me a second—you know what? I would probably sit with Tony Strickland, because we could talk sports all day. Ω

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ARTS&CULTURE POPSMART A wake-up call Last week, the calendar marked International Women’s Day, but you’ll have to excuse me for not really noticing this milestone: I was too busy dodging the latest bullets lobbed in the war on women.

On that day, for example, Republicans observed the

by RACHEL LEIBROCK event by debating a new bill designed to restrict abortion rights. Specifically, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution held a March 8 hearing on the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act, which would make it illegal for anyone other than a parent to accompany a teenage girl across state lines for the purpose of getting an abortion—regardless of the circumstances.

The hearing was just the latest in a series of events underscoring the power religious conservatives are trying to exact on women.

Apparently, we haven’t come a long way, baby.

Witness the Susan G. Komen for the Cure-Planned Parenthood defunding debacle.

Or Rush Limbaugh infamously branding Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute” because she testified to Congress on the need for health-care supported birth control. Then, there’s the state of Virginia’s attempt to require women to be subjected to a medically invasive ultrasound prior to undergoing an abortion.

And, of course, there’s House Republicans’ attempt to introduce a measure allowing employers to opt out of birth-control coverage (and other reproductive-related services) by claiming a religious or moral objection.

And don’t forget Foster Friess, the wealthy Rick Santorum backer, who helpfully explained his views on contraceptives, which, amazingly, sounded as though they were lifted directly from a Mad Men script.

“Back in my day, [women] used Bayer aspirin for contraceptives,” he told MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell. “The gals put it between their knees, and it wasn’t that costly.”

Frankly, I can’t believe we are even still having such discussions in the year 2012. Birth control? Abortion? These are the causes my mother and her peers fought for in the 1960s and 1970s. Why are we still talking about this? It’s appalling and frightening and not only strips a woman of the right to have control of her body, it’s incredibly dangerous.

Still, while this ongoing battle is an abysmal indication of how easy it is to chip away at pro-choice rights, I’m extremely grateful to conservatives for making this an issue of national debate in the months leading up to the presidential election.

In new poll numbers released earlier this month, for example, a Wall Street Journal and NBC News survey shows that 51 percent of women want Democrats to retain control of Congress—a number that’s several percentage points up from a similar poll conducted last summer.

Meanwhile, President Barack Obama’s approval rating among women has increased from 40 to 45 percent in the same time period.

Oklahoma Sen. Judy McIntyre perhaps best explained the shift in political support after at a recent state protest against the Personhood Act. The bill, recently passed by the Oklahoma senate and expected to be signed into law by the governor, would bestow personhood rights to embryos from the moment of fertilization.

“The Republicans have awakened a sleeping giant,” McIntyre said. “When you get women stirred up, particularly the young women who are used to being able to make decisions about their own bodies, you are going to be challenged and challenged hard.”

So, go ahead and threaten to take away our rights—you’re not just pissing off a nation of women; you are spurring them into political action.

See you in the voting booth. Ω

Birth control?

Abortion?

These are the causes my mother and her peers fought for in the 1960s and 1970s. Why are we still talking about this?

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Local musicians, sports nuts, comic aficiandos and other chatterboxes perfect the art of the podcast

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It’s 8 o’clock on a recent night at Empires Comics Vault on Fulton Avenue. Inside, five black folding chairs are arranged in a circle, surby rounded by two small tables. There’s a Lory Gil microphone on one table and on the other, a laptop computer running the music-editing software program, GarageBand. Here, four photos guys sit debating whether She-Hulk would by William Leung make a good girlfriend while, nearby, Star Trek plays on a television set. It might not look like it, but the group is prepping to record a new episode of a Sacramento-based online radio show, Empire’s Open Podcast.

Excitement mounts as their host gathers them around the microphone. Without skipping a beat, the show begins and the conversation continues—only now, it’s being recorded for the world to hear.

The world of online talk radio has grown to epic proportions since the rise of the podcast. Not only have established public-radio shows such as NPR’s This American Life and Fresh Air been made available for listening on-demand, but celebrities such as Ricky Gervais and Kevin Smith have also taken to the digital airwaves.

While the exact history of podcasts is a bit fuzzy, one early mention of the word dates back to August 2004, when writer Doc Searls linked readers to a Google search of the word in a blog post at www.ITGarage.com. Then, he wrote about how many hits the term generated at that time.

“That last link currently brings up 24 results on Google,” he said then. “A year

from now, it will pull up hundreds of thousands, or perhaps even millions.”

Try 200 million, Doc. The popularity of the medium took off a year later when Apple introduced podcasts as part of an iTunes update—a move that brought subscription-based podcasts to iPods everywhere. Within just a few days of Apple’s update, the company boasted more than 1 million podcast subscribers.

Now, the art of podcasting has become so easy that even your next-door neighbor is probably sitting in his garage right now, talking into a microphone as he dishes on the movies he hates or his favorite type of meat product.

In fact, Sacramento is home to a wealth of podcasters, if you know where to point your browser. Aspiring comedians, musicians, sports fans, gardeners and business owners across the region share a common thread: They have something to say and a means to say it.

Take Ben Schwartz, for starters. As the owner of Empires Comics, Schwartz launched Empire’s Open Podcast as part of a social-media campaign designed to boost interaction with customers. The campaign started with Facebook and Twitter and, eventually, a blog. The podcast, he says, was a natural evolution from there.

Now, Schwartz says he’s found the medium helps him better connect with customers and comic book fans.

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Picture Sacramento summers with triple-digit heat spanning 100 or more days by the end of the century, with average July temperatures of 104 degrees and even hotter and longer heat waves. Sacramento will probably be more like Phoenix in 2100, if we do nothing.

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“We are keenly aware of the potential issues associated with climate change,” said Erik deKok, senior planner with the city of Sacramento. “Fortunately, many of the actions that help to mitigate climate change also help to preserve our quality of life.

Scientists agree that recent increases in global average temperature are associated with increases of greenhouse gasses (GHGs) that act like a blanket, holding in more of the sun’s heat. As the sun warms the Earth, about half of its heat is absorbed by the Earth’s surface while the rest is reflected back toward space. Some of the heat escapes and some is retained by naturally-occurring GHGs in the atmosphere. But the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation increase GHGs, trapping too much heat in the atmosphere. That’s why the first goal of the Climate Action Plan is to reduce GHG emissions. In the case of Sacramento, the target is to reduce GHG emission by 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.

Scientists also agree that our global climate is already changing —seasons are shifting, temperatures are fluctuating and sea levels are rising. Without efforts to reduce emissions, we can expect these impacts to escalate at an alarming rate. The second goal of the plan is to prepare for and adapt to the impacts of climate change.

That’s why acting now, as a community, is critical towards significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions and minimizing these risks. The good news is that we can reduce our green house gas emissions by taking simple steps in our daily lives and enjoy cobenefits such as cleaner air. The solution is in every day action, by everyday people, right here in the community of Sacramento.

To facilitate cooperative action, the City of Sacramento created a Climate Action Plan detailing steps the city—in coordination with residents, businesses and partners— will use to address the challenges of a changing climate.

Over the last decade, the city of Sacramento has proven its commitment to addressing climate change by proactively participating in partnerships and agreements with other jurisdictions in California and the rest of the nation. The city’s guiding vision is the 2030 General Plan, which includes goals and policies to create a more sustainable future and reduce our community’s carbon footprint. The Climate Action Plan will implement this vision.

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ohn “Bucky” Perez imagines a slower and safer Sacramento. He imagines a Sacramento with smarter land use and better connectivity.

His Sacramento of the future has fewer and less congested roadways with casualties from automobile collisions near zero. More recreation space takes the place of these roads, and people enjoy better health with more opportunities for exercise and cleaner air. Bike paths and walkways thread through the landscape, connecting urban infill homes with mixed-use buildings housing coffee shops, restaurants and varied stores.

it’s not only good for the environment, it’s good for your health and your pocket book, too.

John lives about five miles from his workplace and began commuting via bike rather than his Chevy Avalanche two years ago. Actions like this help prevent unnecessary vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in the Sacramento area, which in turn reduces the amount of greenhouse gases leaked into the atmosphere.

The City of Sacramento Climate Action Plan’s goal is to reduce VMT per capita 7% by 2012 and 16% by 2035.

City efforts toward this goal include facilitating compact development patterns, reusing underutilized properties, promoting development near transit and expanding infrastructure for bikes, pedestrians and transit users.

Sacramentans like John can help by utilizing the smart land use that might already exist. If you live a couple of blocks away from a grocery store, walk or bike instead of driving. John found that biking to work only takes 10 minutes longer than driving. And biking allows him to feel energized upon arrival.

“It’s kind of like how you warm up a car in the morning,” John said. “By the time I get to work, I’m ready to go.”

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» Drive more efficiently: avoid rapid acceleration or braking, observe the speed limit, remove excess weight, avoid excessive idling and use cruise control or overdrive.

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what can I do? » Reduce the amount of new products you buy, or if you do need to buy new products, look for items with less packaging, that are long-lasting, and made from recycled materials. » Reuse things you already have instead of buying new products. » Donate items you no longer need instead of throwing them away. » Buy locally: support Sacramento businesses and local farmers’ markets: www.california-grown.com. » Recycle glass, metal, plastic, and paper products, as well as electronic devices.

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acramento resident Amanda Bohl envisions a selfsustained Sacramento. A Sacramento where the weekly rumble of garbage trucks becomes a rarity and where backyard composting becomes the norm. This lowwaste future would benefit Sacramentans far beyond the aesthetic appeal of less clutter.

The decisions we make about the goods we consume and how we dispose of them greatly affect the amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions we produce. The processing and transportation of packaged goods across the country causes the release of many GHGs, as does the decomposition of garbage in landfills.

» Use reusable bags every time you go shopping, reusable water bottles on the go and reusable mugs when you go to coffee shops. commit to make a change. For example, pledge to stop using plastic carryout bags and take your own reusable shopping bags with you when you shop.”

Amanda’s family committed to reducing waste by making as many meals from scratch as possible. These meals feature ingredients Amanda buys in bulk and produces in her backyard garden. Passing on prepackaged food prevents her from throwing away a lot of plastic wrappers and cardboard boxes.

Another way Amanda cuts down on waste is by eliminating paper towels and napkins from her household.

Other easily thrown away items like sealable plastic bags are rinsed, hung to dry and reused.

“We can’t afford to live in a disposable city any more,” Amanda said.

Food scraps in the Bohl home go into compost. Amanda said they bought the bin from a city program, and it’s easy to use.

“it’s not difficult. in time, it becomes part of a daily or weekly routine.”

“It’s not difficult,” she said. “In time, it becomes part of a daily or weekly routine.”

That’s why the City is working toward becoming a “zero waste” community—meaning no discarded material is sent to landfills—by 2040. To accomplish this goal, the City needs everyone’s help.

Steve Harriman, Integrated Waste General Manager for the City of Sacramento, suggests becoming more familiar with what we are throwing out as a first step.

“Get to know your waste!” Harriman said. “As a family, look in your garbage can and identify what could be reduced, reused or recycled, and then identify alternatives and

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The City’s Harriman said these waste reducing habits aren’t just good for nature but come with perks for the users.

“Reducing waste has both economic and environmental benefits,” Harriman said. “We not only save money by consuming less and avoiding costly disposal fees, but we conserve natural resources.”

City waste reduCtion and reCyCling goal by 2040:

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» Try to borrow or rent things you will only need to use for a short time, like costumes or landscaping tools. » Compost organic materials to use as garden fertilizer. Learn how at www.cityofsacramento. org/utilities/solid-waste-recycling/ residential/residential_education_ backyard_composting.cfm » Plant a vegetable garden or participate in a community garden to access fresh produce close to home: www.cityofsacramento.org/ parksandrecreation/parks/ community_garden.htm » Donate business waste that could be reused for art and educational purposes. Learn how at www.raftsac.org and www.recreate.org. » Do your own waste audit at home or work to see what can be reduced, reused, recycled or composted, and then commit to making the change.

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the beauty of saving water

what can I do? » Show your blue thumb!

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» Fix leaks right way. Leaks may waste water one drop at a time, but over the course of days and weeks, that adds up! » Schedule a Water Wise House Call to check for leaks and learn about potential water savings: www.sparesacwater.org » Greenscape your yard using drought-tolerant plants.

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oe Zaniker, a local business owner, imagines a future in which every Sacramento yard conserves water and looks gorgeous.

“I think that yards that are landscaped to save water are so much more interesting to look at,” he said. “It doesn’t take a lot of money to make a yard beautiful and water conservative. A little repetition, pattern, texture, and color all work together to make a huge difference.”

Sacramento has recognized the importance of conserving water and reducing water-related GHG emissions. Joe decided to help by completely re-landscaping his yard to become more water efficient.

His plan included installing a drip irrigation system, replacing the current plants with more water-friendly ones and also removing a majority portion of the lawn and concrete.

Joe realizes that with the recent climate changes in our region, water conservation throughout our community is more important now than ever before.

“By removing the hardscape in our yard, we were able to ensure that the water was actually going into the ground and not just running off of it,” Joe explained.

Sacramento produces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through the energy used to pump, transport and treat pure water and wastewater throughout the city.

By using a drip irrigation system rather than sprinklers, Joe is able to water individual plants and not the ground next to them. He also tries not to water as often during the peak rain seasons since it isn’t really needed.

reducing water is critical.

California’s water supply is already impacted and will be further constrained by the impacts of climate change.

With his beautiful and water-friendly new yard in place, Joe went a step further and installed a tankless water heater inside his home. He encourages more residents to take steps in their personal lives to conserve water.

While GHG emissions from water and wastewater are a relatively small portion of our community’s carbon footprint, expected climate change effects like frequent and intense heat waves, hotter summers, continual and persistent droughts, and unpredictable flooding will likely put additional strains on our water supply. Water shortages also place increased stress on local utilities and infrastructure, threaten public health and jeopardize the city’s economy.

As part of an overall plan to reduce GHG emissions and adapt to the current climate changes, the City of

“There are so many ways to conserve water throughout the home,” he said. “Simple ways include installing water saving appliances, flushing only when necessary and turning the water off while brushing your teeth.”

As a community, we can all learn from Joe Zaniker.

Making small changes to save water will make a huge difference in the effort to conserve this valuable resource, not to mention.

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» Install low-flow or highefficiency fixtures and appliances like showerheads, toilets, dishwashers, and washing machines. You may be eligible for rebates from the City of Sacramento Department of Utilities, SMUD, or PG&E. » Use water conservatively: avoid taking baths and limit showers to 10 minutes or less, scrape dishes rather than rinsing them before putting them in the dishwasher, wash only full loads of laundry and dishes, and turn off the faucet when brushing your teeth or shaving. » Reduce outdoor water use: water your yard 1-3 minuets less and only during off-peak hours, use drip irrigation or hand watering, use a broom to clean driveways and patios, adjust sprinklers to avoid overspray and repair leaks, and get an auto shut-off hose nozzle. » Increase the amount of permeable surfaces and pavement allowing stormwater absorption. » Install a plumbing system that reuses rainwater or graywater for irrigation.

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Building a brighter tomorrow, today

what can I do? » Replace incandescent lightbulbs with more efficient compact flourescent lightbulbs (CFL). » Turn down water heater temperature and turn off your water heater during extended periods of non-use. » Use only cold water to wash laundry.

{ by Shawn barnum } » Air dry clothes whenever possible and avoid overusing the dryer (clean the lint trap, check on clothes regularly).

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ooftop gardens and solar panels adorn homes and offices in the Sacramento of tomorrow. Inside, these buildings are models of energy-efficient comfort. And it’s not just new construction—even existing structures can be transformed, like the historic Fair Oaks home recently purchased by Nate and Christy Dunn.

It was the young couple’s first home. Even though it was old—built in 1956—it was in pristine condition and the perfect foundation to mold their dream house. And with the sudden death of their water heater just weeks after moving in, they realized this home could become energy-efficient as well as beautiful.

Nate and Christy knew that the more energy they used, the more greenhouse gases were emitted into the air. By replacing the dead storage water heater with an energyefficient tankless model, the Dunn’s made the first in a series of upgrades to make their home part of the solution to climate change.

“these changes have transformed our living experience in this house.”

Inspired, Nate and Christy contacted SMUD’s Home Performance Program and underwent a “home energy audit.” Not only did the audit give them ideas for more improvements, the program offered rebate incentives. They could actually get money back from SMUD for upgrading the energy efficiency of their home!

Jim Parks, SMUD’s Program Manager, said incentive programs like the one the Dunn’s participated in are examples of how agencies like SMUD and PG&E are working to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

“SMUD’s focus is to partner with the community to conserve energy in order to reach our goal of a 90 percent greenhouse gas reduction by 2050,” said Parks.

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As Nate and Christy began upgrading their home, they envisioned creating a house that would be able to withstand long-term energy use as well as provide them with affordable comfort.

“We wanted to live somewhere we could utilize the heater and AC as much or as little as we pleased, but not worry about our energy bill increasing dramatically,” Nate said.

To this end, they installed a whole house fan, replaced all the windows throughout their home with dual pane windows and added a ceiling furnace.

“Although the process was slow, these changes have transformed our living experience in this house,” Nate said. “We were able to increase our home’s efficiency by 56 percent which qualified us for the maximum rebate amount.

This allowed us to see half of our project costs returned.”

As an added bonus, the two noticed a staggering decrease in their overall natural gas consumption.

Nate and Christy now understand that small changes have a significant impact on the amount of energy they consume or save. By making smarter energy decisions like the Dunns, we can all be part of the climate change solution – all the while enjoying smaller energy bills!

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» Unplug appliances, televisions and computers when not in use. » In the winter set your thermostat down to 68 degrees during the day and 55 degrees during the night. During the summer, set your thermostat to 78 or higher. » Increase heating and cooling efficiency: Change the air filter regularly, tune up HVAC equipment, seal ducts, add more insulation, replace windows with dual pale models, plug door leaks, and install a programmable thermostat that allows you to adjust temperatures when you are away from home. » Purchase Energy Star electronics and appliances to save energy. You may be eligible for SMUD, CEC, or EPA rebates: www.smud.org or www.energy.ca.gov or www.epa.gov. » Generate your own renewable energy: install solar panels, or a solar water heater. » Use SMUD energy saving tips, schedule a home energy audit through SMUD and participate in a SMUD energy program: www.smud.org.

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taking action together

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here’s no time left to waste on inaction—the climate change clock has run out and is now a ticking time bomb. Taking action to reduce GHGs and adapt will take everyone’s help. Even small changes make a big difference.

Change requires new behaviors and new ways of thinking that start today. Don’t wait until you can afford to move to start driving less; drive less today by taking public transportation, biking or telecommuting a couple days a week. Even if you can’t replace your appliances right now, you can switch to a reusable water bottle and adjust your thermostat.

Climate action is about more than just adaptation and reducing ghg emissions – it’s also about better quality of life for everyone.

These new ways of thinking must extend beyond the walls of our own homes so we can connect with the rest of the community toward the common goal of climate action. We can encourage and challenge friends, neighbors and co-workers to both measure and take pledges to reduce their carbon footprint (measure and pledge at www.coolcalifornia.org). We can join the City of Sacramento in raising awareness of climate change and bringing people together with outreach and education programs.

Education programs include water conservation workshops at the City Department of Utilities Water Conservation Office. Become a Water Conservation Ambassador at www.sparesacwater.org. SMUD also offers electricity efficiency classes at the Energy and Technology Center (usage.smud.org/etcstudent).

Community organizations already working to reduce GHG emissions and planning for climate change can always use new volunteers, too.

The City encourages community involvement in policy development, program planning, implementation and assessment. One way to participate is to attend a city or local homeowner’s association meeting to lobby for infill and mixed-use development, complete streets and neighborhoods, and coordinated transit, bicycle and pedestrian systems. Through community involvement, new climate action and sustainability leaders will emerge and, by taking action together, we will influence and inspire each other.

But climate action is about more than just adaptation and reducing GHG emissions—it’s also about better quality of life for everyone. We not only share a future at risk of the damaging effects of climate change if we don’t act, we will all reap the benefits of effective action. Together we can create a healthier, safer and more sustainable Sacramento, while increasing the number of jobs and business opportunities.

take the cool california challenge! { by AnnA bArelA }

The City of Sacramento has accepted the Cool California Challenge and urges households to join the largest team ecochallenge in the history of our Golden State! Starting April 1st, cities across the State will face off in two rounds to win prizes and a chance for the title of the “Coolest California City.”

Sacramento households can earn points for Team Sacramento by going green—and by just being green already.

volunteering. After three months, three finalist cities will move on to round two.

In round one, current transportation and home energy use demonstrate low-carbon lifestyles that earn major points.

Measure your carbon footprint at www.coolcalifornia.org to see how your household stacks up against similar households in your area.

Play as part of an EcoTeam of friends, colleagues, or neighbors and earn points for your household, your team and your city. You can even earn points by referring others! Create a CoolCalifornia.org profile where you can track your progress and see your points. Leading households, EcoTeams and cities will be recognized and awarded throughout the competition as they close in on the title of “Coolest California City.”

Earn double points by reducing your carbon footprint during the competition. You can even earn points for the green things you already do for your community, like recycling and

The competition heats up in round two, as the three finalist cities face off for a grueling nine months. Only the greenest will survive as households continue to earn points for transportation and home energy use, with bonus points for onetime actions like pledging to eat vegetarian for a week.

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1. Starting April 1st, sign up at coolcalifornia.org.

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Take action today Change can’t take place without the proper tools. The following are websites that contains the tools you need to affect climate change little by little, day by day. » Take a look at the Climate Action Plan (CAP) that will identify how the city and the broader community can reduce Sacramento’s greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). www.sacgp.org/cap.html » Green Building Program City of Sacramento Community Development Department www.cityofsacramento.org/dsd/ building/green-building » CoolCalifornia.org’s goal is to provide resources to all Californians in order to reduce their environmental impact and take action to stop climate change. Visit www.coolcalifornia.org ... and don’t forget to take the Cool California challenge starting April 1st! » 350 Sacramento encourages Sacramento-area citizens to help build a global climate movement. www.350sacramento.org » The Sacramento Sustainability Forum is a monthly venue to support movement toward a more sustainable future. sacramentosustainabilityforum.org » The Sacramento Area Sustainable Business program promotes businesses that take voluntary actions to prevent pollution and conserve resources. sacberc.org/Web/programs/ ssbp/index.php

EnErGy EFFiCiEnCy » SMUD www.smud.org » Pacific Gas and Electric www.pge.com/myhome » Go Solar California www.gosolarcalifornia.org » Energy Upgrade California is your one-stop-shop for home improvement projects to make your home healthier and more comfortable. energyupgradeca.org

LAnD USE AnD MoBiLiTy

WAT E r C o n S E r vAT i o n

» Sacramento regional Transit District www.sacrt.com

» City of Sacramento, Department of Utilities www.sparesacwater.org

» City of Sacramento 2030 General Plan www.sacgp.org

» river-Friendly Landscaping is a whole systems approach to gardening and landscaping that works to support the Sacramento River watershed. www.msa.saccounty.net/ sactostormwater/RFL

» Sacramento Area Council of Governments www.sacog.org » City of Sacramento, Department of Transportation, Bikeway and Pedestrian Program www.cityofsacramento.org/ transportation/bikeped.html

» regional Water Authority www.rwah2o.org/rwa

» Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates sacbike.org

UrBAn ForEST

» regional Water Authority Blue Thumb www.bewatersmart.info

» WALKSacramento is a nonprofit community organization working to create a more walkable Sacramento. www.walksacramento.org

» City of Sacramento Urban Forestry Services provides care service for trees on sidewalks, in city parks and on city property. www.cityofsacramento.org/transportation/ urbanforest/index.html

» May is Bike Month www.mayisbikemonth.com

» Sacramento Tree Foundation www.sactree.com

WASTE rEDUCTion

Air QUALiTy

» City of Sacramento Solid Waste & recycling www.cityofsacramento.org/recycle

» Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District www.airquality.org » Kids Be Green www.kidsbegreen.org

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No oNe arouNd here caN remember exactly why St. Patrick’S day iS Such a feStive holiday.

Perhaps the festivities hold religious significance in honor of one Saint Patrick, known for converting pagans to Christianity back in the Irish homeland. Maybe the reason to celebrate has more to do with honoring Irish culture ever since the holiday’s first appearance in the United States, thanks to the not-soCatholic Charitable Irish Society of Boston. Or maybe it’s both—after all, the trademark shamrock was not only rumored to have been used by Saint Patrick to demonstrate the trinity; it was also a sacred icon of rebirth and eternal life in ancient Ireland.

But none of that really matters. What matters is that SN&R has been getting and helping you get tipsy on Saint Patty’s Day for … oh, well the years get kind of fuzzy after downing copious amounts of Guinness and Irish whiskey. At least 20 years or more!

SN&R’s Tour O’ Pubs is your guide to the best pub crawl and green beer in town, not to mention a smorgasbord of specials on Irish cocktails. Grab your friends and don’t even risk a DUI as Tour O’ Pubs leads you by the clover from pub to bar, most within staggering distance on the grid of midtown Sacramento.

Just to spice it up, this year we’re holding our first ever Irish Cocktail Challenge.

Participating bars and pubs have created unique cocktail concoctions with an Irish flair to tempt even the most ardently dry Catholics to take a sip this lent.

Be sure to swing by all the bars participating, and then vote for the one with the best Saint Patty’s day cocktail. We’ve made the voting as easy as possible for even the most bleary-eyed: scan the QR code prominently displayed at the participating bars and pubs with your smart phone—if you can remember how to use it after all those drinks. You can only vote once, so be sure to sample as many as possible. Or at least until you start seeing tiny, green leprechauns.

So, join our Tour O’ Pubs this Saturday and celebrate the true meaning of Saint Patrick’s Day: Getting together with friends—Irish or otherwise—for a night to forget and watch on Youtube later.

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IngredIents: Bushmills Honey and Butterscotch schnapps with orange juice chaser

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IngredIents: Kahlua coffee liquer, Jameson Irish Whiskey and topped with house-made whipped cream

IngredIents: tiki Jamie, lime juice grenadine, allspice dram with Lemonhart 151 float

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IngredIents: Jameson Irish Whiskey, triple sec, fresh squeezed lemon juice and sprite

IngredIents: godiva chocolate vodka, crème de menthe liquer and Bailey’s Irish cream

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IngredIents: Crispin natural Hard Apple Cider, Jameson Irish Whiskey, fresh apples

IngredIents: Jameson Irish Whiskey, peach eau de vie, lemon juice, green chartreuse and orange juice with a lemon peel garnish

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IngredIents: Irish whiskey, triple sec, Irish cream, brown sugar and lime

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The Kevin Cavey (or the Irish Surfer) Irish Girl Scout

Jameson and the Giant Peach Sexy Crocodile

1010 White roCk road

Irish Ginger Snap

IngredIents: Jameson Irish Whiskey, Peach schnapps, homemade ginger ale, and a splash of orange juice

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It’s hard to cure a hangover. Pure and simple.

There isn’t some kind of eye-of-newt potion you can brew that will have you feeling right as rain the morning after partying hard. We know. We’ve been looking for one for the past 20-something years. The fact of the matter is that you had a good time, and now you are paying for it.

However, plenty of people in the world aside from us have taken a whack at finding this post-drinking Holy Grail. Some methods involve swimming with dolphins as some do in Tahiti, or taking a bath in beer like some do in the Czech Republic. Maybe one of these more common methods of hangover relief will work for you.

Sweating it out by gorging on spicy food is a popular option among seasoned lushes. It’s kind of like jumpstarting your body’s detox process.

Anything as simple as eggs and salsa fits the bill here, but if you really want to boot the booze from your body, up the ante. Drown your chicken noodle soup in chili sauce. Stuff your breakfast burrito with jalapeños and drown it in Tabasco. The sky’s the limit. Just remember, the more bloodshot your eyes get, the more the cure is working.

Eating a mountain of greasy food is another tried and true method of fixing what ails ya’ after a night of drinking. An easy way to meet this need is by going to the nearest diner and ordering whatever the fattiest, coronary-causing food item on the menu is. Biscuits and gravy, French toast, waffles and pancakes all work, especially when partnered with a mound of bacon or sausage (sorry, vegetarians). Or, hell, order a mound of eggs if meat isn’t your thing. Diner eggs are usually cooked in hockey puck of butter, anyway (sorry, vegans).

One of the most favored ways we know of for hangover relief is by keeping the party going the next morning with more booze! A bit of the hair of the dog is great for immediate relief. The only downside is that it often just delays the pain.

But, really, what greater excuse do you need to drink than for pain relief? Also, you can score bonus points here by combining spiciness into your drinks. A few dabs of hot sauce in that morning beer or Bloody Mary might make the day even more manageable.

Of course, you could just let your body rest and drink plenty of fluids and yadda yadda yadda. But where’s the fun in that? Maybe the above cures aren’t as exciting as swimming with dolphins or bathing in beer, but they are time tested and sworn on by people worldwide. And until that hangover Holy Grail is found, these are likely the best options you’re going to find.

Looking for a beverage that won’t make you feel like a alcoholic the night after drinking? A good ol’ cuppa Joe ought to do the trick. Nothing tells a hangover to scram like a few CCs of caffeine straight down the gullet. And if you like the caffeine and don’t mind being a lush? Well, we hear whisky and coffee get along pretty well.

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“We’ll start with the newest Batman comic and [then] end up talking about the latest Jane Austen movie. You just don’t know where it is going to go each week.”

Ben Schwartz podcaster

“There are so many people that have so much to say and have so many great ideas, but there are also people who can’t come to their local shop and have the same experience,” Schwartz says. “We wanted to replicate that [with the podcast] and put it out there for them.”

So, each week, Schwartz gathers a small group of like-minded fans and engages them in a roundtable discussion of all things pop culture. While the subject matter usually revolves around comic-related topics, there are no restrictions.

“We’ll start with the newest Batman comic and [then] end up talking about the latest Jane Austen movie,” Schwartz says.

“You just don’t know where it is going to go each week.”

If you want to know Ben Schwartz’s thoughts on SheHulk, you’ll need to tune into his Empire’s Open Podcast show.

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But podcasting isn’t just a way to grow a business.

For some, it’s an outlet for creative expression.

Paloma Jordan, for example, doesn’t have anything to promote.

She’s simply a music lover with a knack for conversation and her Five Songs With Paloma podcast focuses on music—mostly with musicians as guests. For each show, Jordan invites someone to talk about five songs that can be tied together, thematically. Past topics have included subjects such as good memories, songs about murder and breakup songs. In one episode, Jordan chatted with Keith Jukes from the Sacramento band Black Eyed Dempseys; the two discussed unusual things that have happened to the musician such as getting struck by lightning and being attacked by a bear.

“I’m kind of scared to hang out with you,” Jordan joked after hearing about Jukes’ many close calls.

The idea to start a podcast came about as an accident, she says. While helping her husband, local musician Bobby Jordan, check the equipment for his own podcast, Vowel Movements, she started talking about five songs that she likes to sing in the car. This test run turned into the first episode of Five Songs With Paloma. Initially, she says, she had no intention of turning the podcast into a regular show, but it was so much fun, she decided to continue.

“I’d been looking for an artistic outlet, and the one thing I had going for me is that I like to talk a lot,” Jordan says.

Guests of Five Songs are given some pre-show attention. Jordan says she realizes that recording a show can be intimidating—so she calms anxieties with a drink or two.

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them more willing to talk to me,” she says.

Discussing specific subjects such as comics and music is a great way to draw in niche listeners, but there’s also a growing popularity for podcasts that don’t fit a particular theme but, instead, wander through a bevy of subjects—whatever happens to the cross the host’s mind while recording.

For Devin Maple, Jesse Carter and Kyle Rothenbaum, the three best friends behind Game of Bros podcast, there’s no specific structure. The idea is that a few friends get together to discuss things such as movies, music and what part of anatomy they would eat first if forced to become cannibals.

“It’s almost just like the three of us sitting around having a drink at a bar together,” says Carter.

The trio started their podcast in June after realizing they needed an excuse to get together more often.

“We’ve all been fairly creative as people,” Maple says. “As we get older, the outlet for that gets less and less because life starts taking over.”

And, despite a lack of thematic unity, the friends’ resulting podcast, Carter explains, is actually aimed at a specific demographic.

“We cater to the guys and girls that are getting into their 30s, but still have a fun sense of humor and still like to go out and have a drink. We hope to be the companion to those types of people.”

While stream-of-conscience style podcasting can turn out surprisingly humorous results, there is something to be said for traditional comedy.

Aspiring comedian Junior Bruce is the host of Beware of Podcast. He and his longtime friend David “Just Plain Gordo” Gordon bring a humorous tint to life in general.

Bruce had been mulling around the idea of starting a podcast and decided one day that his rapport with Gordon would make for good material.

Now, Bruce records and edits his podcast in a tiny corner of his bedroom, right under a window that happens to be near a duck pond.

As nice as that sounds, the ducks can be an annoyance.

“I have to pick a time to record … when the ducks aren’t socializing,” he says.

Of course.

Although Schwartz, Jordan, The Bros and Bruce produce very different shows and discuss a diversity of themes, they have one thing in common: A desire to share and entertain.

It’s simple, really, Maple says.

“A podcast really doesn’t require that much other than creativity, some microphones and a couple of stupid ideas.”

And the possibilities are endless.

“Podcasting is kind of like the Wild West of radio,” Jordan says. “You [are] free to do what you want with your medium.” Ω A RT S & C U LT U R E

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Wait a minute, Mr. Postman A partial list of items that made their way through the United States Postal Service and onto the walls at the downtown Milk Gallery: A purse covered in paper and filled with peanuts, a painting in a frame, a tiny diorama of pine trees in a plastic milk bottle, a funk artstyled papier-mâché head, and many, many small paper works of art and decorated envelopes.

The conceit of this show—named simply Sent— exploits a little known fact about the oft-maligned USPS: they will allow you to send any object in the mail, unwrapped, if it is properly addressed and has the correct amount of postage.

To be included in Sent, an artist needed to abide by two rules: The works had to travel through the mail, and they had to arrive ready to hang—hence, the unwrapped items. The resulting show is a chaotically hung exhibition featuring more than 400 works of art from all over the world.

All the works are for sale, and the price is a negotiation between the buyer and the proprietors of Milk Gallery, Amy Greer and Melanie Bown.

Most artists specified a Heads up—this piece of art minimum amount, was less than but, beyond that, $6 to mail.

Bown says, “The idea is for people to think about how you value art … think about how long you think this would take to make and think about how much you make per hour at your job.”

Bown and Greer recognize that they would be unable to keep track of the sales for this many pieces, so the minute a piece of art is purchased, it walks right out the door with the buyer. During the March 8 opening reception, works were snapped up at a brisk pace as a Willie Nelson-esque crooner strummed in the corner.

Bown pointed out a particularly clever piece by an artist named Diablo: Two envelopes covered in pencil doodlings, each with a tamper-evident seal on the back and a fake $100 bill clearly visible inside. This work plays with the theme of trust; the letters arrived intact, but if they had been opened it would have been clear that a tampering mail clerk trusted that the bills were real.

When asked for her favorite work, Greer chose the largest piece in the show: an assemblage of 100 letters

by Oran Miller, arranged to form a painting of a mysterious woman gazing into the eyes of the viewer.

The artist, in attendance on opening night, says he considered himself lucky because he was the only artist who was able to hang his own work.

Miller was coy about discussing the subject of the painting and the content of its 100 letters, but forthcoming about his offbeat materials: beet juice and ink suspended in coffee and cola. Miller says he “just guessed” that the sugar in cola would bind the ink, and that his creativity with pigment was borne of necessity because, “that much ink would cost $40.”

This, and other standout works in Sent hearken back to a pre-Internet time of fan letters, pen pals and print zines. The days when your pulse raced at the sight of the mailman may be long gone, but for a brief spell at Milk Gallery, mail still exuded bit of mystery and glamour.

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DON’T MISS! RETIRED RANGERS AT AUDUBON MEETING: A ranger

couple that retired after 20 years of fighting to preserve Mono Lake will share photos and stories of a tour around the world to visit important lakes, rivers and wetlands; learn about local water problems; and meet inspiring scientists and activists.

Th, 3/15, 7pm. Free. Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, 9399 Old Davis Rd. in Davis; (530) 754-2787; www.mondaviarts.org.

Classes REAL ESTATE REWIND: Join Bruce Norris at the Northern California Real Estate Investors Association as he reveals the most profitable source of deals in 2011. Learn as Norris delves into the world of shadow inventory and reveals how banks are hiding this mythical ball of inventory. Th, 3/15, 6:30-9pm. $20. Crowne Plaza Hotel, 5321 Date Ave.; (916) 791-8322; www.norcalreia.com.

Th of every month, 3:30-4:30pm through 6/21. Triple R Greenhaven, 7375 Park City Dr.; (916) 808-4003.

BALANCE YOUR EMOTIONS WITH HYPNOTHERAPY: Learn to live a calmer and happier life with hypnotherapy by reprogramming your brain’s responses to the stressors in your life. Each session will begin with a progressive relaxation followed by post-hypnotic suggestions designed for maximum transformation and change.

Registration required.

Th, 10-11am through 4/5. $100.

Creative Healing and Arts Center, 2862 Arden Way; (916) 209-0599; www.new emergencehypnotherapy.com.

Concerts CELLO, PIANO CONCERT AT SACRAMENTO STATE: Cellist Paul Cohen

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DON’T MISS! THE WORLD IS WATCHING: The

World Is Watching: Democracy and Human Rights in Palestine-Israel is an event that will recognize people across the Middle East who are struggling for democracy, dignity and human rights. F, 3/16, 7pm. $5-$15. First United Methodist Church, 2100 J St.; (916) 451-1512; www.firstumcsac.org.

Special Events PRESERVING OUR OAK WOODLANDS:

and pianist Robert Merfeld will perform. Cohen has been a guest artist at the Aspen Music Festival. Merfeld was a founding member of the Apple Hill Chamber Players and has performed as a soloist with the orchestras of Costa Rica, and Harvard and Boston universities.

Th, 3/15, 7:30pm. $5-$10.

Sacramento State, Capistrano Hall, 6000 J St.; (916) 278-5155; www.csus.edu/music.

As part of the American River Natural History Association’s Distinguished Speaker Series, Connie Wade will give a lecture titled Preserving our Oak Woodlands about healthy oak woodland ecosystems which can support human communities and native wildlife. F, 3/16, 6:30pm. $5. Effie Yeaw Nature Center, 2850 San Lorenzo Way in Carmichael; (916) 489-4918; www.effieyeaw.org.

Meetings & Groups ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION SUPPORT GROUP: Attend local groups or speak to a family-care specialist who assists with care planning and managing challenging situations. Third

GIRLS NIGHT OUT: The Cosumnes Community Services District’s Girls Night Out returns for a night of shopping, a fashion show and a chocolate fountain.

Head out for an evening with your favorite gals. F, 3/16, 6pm. $10-$12. Wackford Community Center, 9014 Bruceville Rd. in Elk Grove; (916) 405-5600.

MEDIEVAL GERMAN MUSICIANS: Hear medieval German stories and ballads with harp, voice medieval fiddle and rebec, sponsored by the German-American Cultural Center. Popular tunes of this day used by Martin Luther for his religious hymns and songs of the Minnesinger will be presented, interwoven with stories of the times. F, 3/16, 7:30pm. $5$10. Sacramento Turn Verein, 3349 J St.; (916) 421-8032; www.sacramnetoturn verein.com.

WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP SYMPOSIUM: Join the California Diversity Council for its 2012 Women in Leadership Symposium for an interactive panel discussion.

Topics include: winning at the game of office politics, establishing credibility in the workplace and overcoming workforce barriers. F, 3/16,

8:30-11:30am. $49. InAlliance, 6950 21st Ave.; (956) 437-5636; www.californiadiversitycouncil.o rg/wil-registration/sacramento.

Classes MASTER DANCE CLASS: Dancers and actors with an interest in musical theater dance who have at least three years of dance experience can take a class taught by a cast member from the touring company of Mamma Mia! F, 3/16, 3:30pm. $20. American River College, 4700 College Oak Dr.; (916) 446-5880, ext. 147.

Concerts FLASH EXPERIENCE 2.0: The Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento hosts Flash Experience 2.0, which will feature the eclectic sounds of five members of the Sacramentobased Electro-Acoustic Music Collective. The performers will make noise in mathematically pleasing organizations and share the stories behind how they made it. F, 3/16, 7:30pm.

Free. Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, 1519 19th St.; (916) 498-9811; www.ccasac.org.

MICHAEL LANDAU: Michael Landau is one of the most widely respected session guitarists of all time and one can count on an energetic and memorable live performance. He has toured and/or recorded with Pink Floyd, Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, B.B. King, James

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Taylor and Rod Stewart, and he is an expressive guitar player.

F, 3/16, 8pm. $25. State Theater, 985 Lincoln Way in Auburn; (530) 885-0156.

TCHAIKOVSKY ST. PETERSBURG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: From St. Petersburg, Russia, this 90piece orchestra under the direction of Roman Leontiev, will perform Wagner’s Prelude and Liebestod (Love-Death), Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 5. F, 3/16, 8pm. $12-$59. Three Stages at Folsom Lake College, 10 College Pkwy. in Folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.ThreeStages.net.

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DON’T MISS! CROSSROADS: CONNOR AND

DALKEY: The Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento hosts a Saturday-afternoon reading series featuring distinctive poetic voices, hosted by Trina Drotar and Sandy Thomas. Special guests on this date will be Julia Connor and Victoria Dalkey. Sa, 3/17, 3pm. Free. Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, 1519 19th St.; (916) 498-9811; www.ccasac.org.

Special Events MISS ASIA SACRAMENTO MEDIA LAUNCH PARTY: Meet the young ladies competing in the 2012 Miss Asia Sacramento Pageant in their first public appearance amid media and photographers.

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SACRAMENTO’S ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE This free event featuring hundreds of marchers, dancers, and pipe and drum bands happens annually in Old Sacramento. It begins Saturday at 1 p.m. at Second and L streets. For more information, call the Old Sacramento Visitor Center at (916) 442-7644, or visit http://oldsacramento.com.

DE VERE’S IRISH PUB CELEBRATIONS De Vere’s Irish Pub has hosted events for St. Patrick’s Day ever since it kicked off the tradition with a block party a few years back. Instead of celebrating one day of the holiday, it’s now partying all week with special events at both locations.

Highlights include Irish coffees in the morning, a family-friendly brunch and the St. Baldrick’s Day fundraising drive. Visit http://deverespub.com for more details.

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ST. PATRICK’S DAY PUB CRAWL This one goes to 19. Different stops, that is. Organized by Five Hundy Social Club, the crawl begins Saturday at 2 p.m. at Blue Cue (1004 28th Street), before stopping at 18 other bro-cations such as Barwest, The Golden Bear and, of course, Dive Bar. Many stops will have food and drink specials, and some will even have live music. Hit up www.5hundy.com for more details, dude.

ST. PATRICK’S DAY IN SAN FRANCISCO A company called Sac Trips is organizing a bus to the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in San Francisco. Meet at one of the pickup locations in Davis and Sacramento on Saturday morning, and for $49, you get transportation, snacks and beverages on your way to a day of activity in San Francisco. For more information, call (916) 443-8741, or visit http://sactrips.ticketleap.com.

GO OUT TO A SHOW, OR GO CLUBBING Many venues are holding special band and DJ performances on St. Patrick’s Day. See Eight Gigs (page 42) and Nightbeat (page 44) for more details.

In its fifth year running, the Miss Asia Sacramento Scholarship Foundation continues to encourage young Asian women to develop a deeper understanding of their heritage, build self confidence and esteem, and polish their personal appearance and presentation skills. Sa, 3/17, 6-9pm. Free. Fugu Lounge in Oshima Sushi, 2071 Natomas Crossing Dr.; (916) 515-1958; www.missasiasacramento.com.

RECEPTION, SILENT AUCTION AND PERFORMANCE: This fundraiser benefiting the American Association of University Women features a reception, silent auction and performance of Legally Blonde by Runaway Stage Productions. Sa, 3/17, 6-10pm. $40.

Sierra 2 Center, 2791 24th St.; (916) 452-3005; www.aauwsacramento.com.

SHOW, DONT TELL, REWRITE, REUSE, RESELL: The California Writers Club, Sacramento Chapter presents an event open to the public. Author Judith Horstman, poet and educator Kate Asche, and Editor J.T. Long discuss how to find the right details to make writing pop for both fiction and nonfiction writers. Sa, 3/17, 11am. $12-$14.

Tokyo Buffet, 7217 Greenback Ln. in Citrus Heights; (916) 722-7888; www.cwcsacramentowriters.org/2012/03/02/ luncheon-march-2012-paneldiscussion.

ST. PATRICK’S DAY DANCE SHOWCASE: Enjoy the tradition of Irish dance as the O’Sullivan Academy of Irish Dance dancers treat you to an afternoon of the art. Be amazed and entertained as they leap their way into your hearts. Sa, 3/17, 3-5pm. $15. Oakmont High School, 1710 Cirby Way in

Roseville; (916) 780-5270; www.osdance.com.

TOTAL TRANSFORMATION HEALTH EXPO: This health expo, presented by Impax World Foundation will benefit local children’s health charities. It features speakers, health screenings, raffles, health experts and vendors. Sa, 3/17, 11am-4pm. Free. El Dorado Hills Commuity Services, 1021 Harvard Way in El Dorado Hills; (916) 939-9800; www.impaxworldevents.com.

Classes SHOOTING YOUR OWN MUSIC VIDEO: Peter Oakes, producer and director of the film The Bill Collector, guides a hands-on workshop on music-video production, editing and budgeting.

Bring your own camera to get the most from the workshop.

Sa, 3/17, 11am-4:30pm. $50. Call for location in Auburn; (530) 613-9440.

SHORT FILM PRODUCTION TIPS WITH NATE SCHEMEL: In four four-hour sessions, Schemel will help you prepare to produce short films.

Whether you are just beginning and need to know very basic information or if you are skilled but in a narrow field and need a better understanding of the “big picture,” this is the class for you.

Sa through 4/7. Opens 3/17. $50.

Coloma Community Center, 4623 T St., Ste. A; (916) 396-8298.

Literary Events MEET THE AUTHOR: Meet Author Barry Martin, who wrote Forgotten Aviator: The Adventures of Royal Leonard.

The book profiles a man who flew in and out of aviation history, always just on the edge of fame.

Nevada City; (530) 265-5462; www.minersfoundry.org.

His exploits mirror important developments in the golden age of American aviation (1925-1941) and the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). Sa, 3/17, 1pm. Free.

California State Military Museum, 1119 Second St.; (916) 854-1904; www.militarymuseum.org.

ST. PATTY’S DAY ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL: Hear trance, house, dubstep and other electronic music forms at this celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, featuring two stages for deejays, bars and patios. Sa, 3/17, 7pm-2am. $10.

Pinky’s Bar and Grill, 6985 Garden Hwy in Nicolaus; (530) 656-2638; www.facebook.com/ events/110736985719019.

MEET THE AUTTHOR: JAMES FRANKLIN GREY: Get to know an American aviator who fought in the great air wars over Europe during World War II and steered a B-29 right through the center of a mushroom cloud from an atom bomb blast, among other aerial feats. Sa, 3/17, 3pm. Free.

California State Military Museum, 1119 Second St.; (916) 854-1904; www.militarymuseum.org.

19MON

Help out kids and celebrate St. Patrick’s Day at the second annual Mustard Seed Charity Concert featuring musician Cary Farley along with special guests.

Proceeds benefit Sacramento’s Mustard Seed School for homeless children, a small school operated through Loaves & Fishes. Beverages, including wine, will be available for purchase. Sa, 3/17, 8pm. $20. Guild Theatre, 2828 35th St.; (916) 705-3799; www.caryfarley.com.

simple to advanced dances from Bulgaria, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Japan and more. Most dances don’t require a partner, are good workouts and mentally stimulating. Su, 7-10pm through 4/29. $25-$35. Davis Art Center Studio E, 1919 F St. in Davis; (530) 758-0863; www.davisfolkdance.org.

STRAIGHT NO CHASER: View a per-

SACRAMENTO NORTH JOB FAIR: Meet face to face with top employers at the National Career Fairs Job Fair.

Attendance is free for job seekers. Register at www.national careerfairs.com, and you will receive the company list and an online job-fair guide. Free résumé reviews will be available at the event from two local career experts. M, 3/19, 11am2pm. Free. Thunder Valley Casino, 1200 Athens Ave. in Lincoln; (702) 818-8896; www.national careerfairs.com/career_fairs.

INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCE: Learn

Nevada City to rock St. Patrick’s Day with Lonely Kings and 23 Shades at the Miners Foundry. Riding the wave of success of its latest album, the rock trio just won the Best Live Performance at the 2012 Portland Music Awards. Sa, 3/17, 6pm-midnight. $20. Miners Foundry, 325 Spring St. in

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FLOATER WITH LONELY KINGS AND 23 SHADES: Floater returns to

have a short fuse or find yourself getting into frequent arguments and fights? Anger is a normal, healthy emotion, but it’s unhealthy when it flares up all the time or spirals out of control. Learn how to express your feelings in healthier ways and keep your temper from hijacking your life. Tu, 5-6pm through 12/18. $25. Center for Fathers and Families, 920 Del Paso Blvd.; (916) 568-3237; www.fathersandfamilies.com.

Women’s History Month with a poetry reading by Traci Gourdine, Anna Marie Sprowl and V.S. Chochezi.

This reading is a benefit for WEAVE, Women Escaping a Violent Environment. Guests are encouraged to bring poems about women to share at the open-mic from 7-7:30 p.m. M, 3/19, 7-9pm.

Free. Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th St.; (916) 441-7395; www.sacramento poetrycenter.org.

VIOLIN COMPETION WINNER ITAMAR ZORMAN: InConcert

AN EVENING WITH CARY FARLEY:

TAMING YOUR TEMPER: Do you

WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH POETRY READING: Celebrate

DON’T MISS! Sierra presents the gold medalist of the Tchaikovsky International Violin Competition, Itamar Zorman, performing a virtuosic program on a 1745 Pietro Guaneri violin. A preconcert talk will begin at 1:15 p.m. Su, 3/18, 2pm. $24.

Seventh Day Adventist Church, 12889 Osborne Hill Dr. in Grass Valley; (530) 4775017; www.gvadventists.com.

Library, 4660 Via Ingoglia; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

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HISTORY OF WOMEN’S RIGHT TO VOTE: One hundred years ago, California women won the right to vote by the slimmest of margins. The Sacramento Public Library will present a free adult program on the history of women’s suffrage. Local historian Carolyn Martin, dressed in period costume, will discuss this historical women’s movement through stories and pictures. W, 3/21, 6:30pm. Free. Arden-Dimick Library, 891 Watt Ave.

tionally on March 17. Over time, it devolved into a worldwide frat-houselike atmosphere where obnoxious drunk bros (pictured) drink green beverages from beer helmets, and the number of DUIs spikes unnervingly high. Needless to say, some here at SN&R aren’t thrilled at the impending arrival of the bro-hijacked holiday (yes, we feel similarly about Cinco de Mayo, too). Still, if you must celebrate the holiday this weekend, here are some of the region’s best events. And if you dislike being pinched for not wearing green, you can celebrate some of our anti-St. Patty’s Day suggestions, too.

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ROCKIN’ AND ROLLIN’: Enjoy a mixture of photography, art, music and dance. The event features Reggie Ginn, the Sacramento Ballet, the Mach 5, photography

by Jay Spooner and paintings by Brooke Walker-Knoblich. W, 3/21, 5:30pm; F, 3/23, 5:30pm. $5-$25.

The Sacramento Ballet Studios, 1631 K St.; (916) 552-5800, ext. 101; www.sacballet.org.

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DRINK NONGREEN BEER

EAT CHINESE FOOD AND WATCH A MOVIE As a Jew, this has always been a great way to pass time during annoying holiday celebrations—namely Christmas. Besides, eating Chinese food ties in well with the yin-and-yang theme.

CELEBRATE CINCO DE MAYO Cinco de Mayo is essentially the generic Mexican-themed version of the St. Patty’s Day holiday. So instead of squeezing through a mile-long line of bros trying to get a pint, why not enjoy a quiet evening sipping margaritas at your favorite Mexican restaurant? (Vice versa, try celebrating Cinco de Mayo at an Irish pub.)

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Enjoy a more refined evening by heading to a local wine bar, such as 58 Degrees & Holding Company (1217 18th Street), Enotria Restaurant Wine Bar (1431 Del Paso Boulevard), or even a local winery like Railbridge Cellars (400 N. 16th Street) or Revolution Wines (2831 S Street).

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Samuel Horne’s Tavern is dark, loud and crowded—in a good way—even on a weeknight. No doubt, management is grateful, but the patrons of this Old Folsom bar appear equally enthused. Here, one is instructed to “Respect Sam” and “Respect beer.” There is a 100-mile happy-hour list featuring brewskies brewed within that radius. Think globally. Quaff locally.

To the right of the register of this narrow, wood-wainscoted establishment exists a wall of 16 small, square chalkboards touting what elixirs currently can be culled from the 16 taps below.

There’s Lagunitas, Allagash, Auburn, New Belgium, to name some—any number of stylish brews that both whet the whistle and sashay across the palate—to say nothing of the cornucopia of bottled varieties.

Those manning the register are happy to suggest pairings with the comestibles offered along with all the potables. That inevitably leads into one of the most vexing foodilogical questions of the eons: What came first, the beer or the burgers? Is an establishment primarily a potables purveyor or is it cuisine-centric with, coincidentally, some of the most bitchin’ healing malt beverages around?

There isn’t going to be a deadlocked jury on this question when it comes to Sam’s. If the 100-mile happy hour isn’t dispositive, consider the seating provided by kegs with cushions atop them. To say nothing of the admonitions: “Respect what you drink.”

“Don’t just drink beer.” “Keep it real.”

Certainly the overheard commentary from the patrons regarding color, foam, nose and flavor nuances suggests the chief topic isn’t whether to go with the garlic cheese bread or the chili fries.

That said, Sam’s lacks the invention— and panache—of the kitchen at, say, The Golden Bear. But it does offer a few surprises among its largely standard bar food.

While not necessarily the first choice to accompany the swilling of suds, the spinach salad has much to commend. In no particular order: dried cranberries, candied pecans, blue cheese, bacon, and a perky sweet-and-sour vinaigrette. For the extra $2, it’s worth substituting the salad for the ubiquitous fries accompanying sausage, dog and burger.

Additionally, a salad substitution can at least partly assuage any guilt that might accrue from ordering the almost as imposing as its namesake Johnny Cash burger. A hefty patty with crisp bacon, cheddar, grilled onions and a punchy taste-the-bourbon BBQ sauce. It’s almost good enough to make one want to do it all over again. But that would only land a diner in the Fool’s Hall of Fame.

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A flare-up of seemingly unquenchable hubris fuels the asking of management to spice up the already fairly caliente steak and peppers sandwich, which is a spirited twist on the ol’ Philly cheesesteak. Fire-roasted red peppers—swell.

Caramelized onions—killer. Extra portion of hot red cherry peppers—incendiary. And not in a good way. Well-beyond five-alarm. More like standing under a Saturn V booster rocket at liftoff. Lesson learned.

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On a subsequent visit, no additional warmth is sought on the Snow Cone, a hot link generously heaped with chili and topped with onions, cheddar and some of those devilish cherry peppers. It’s easy to quickly get the nomenclature behind the Cootie: a burger with pepper-jack cheese, pepperoncinis, a fried egg and spinach. Don’t bother with Listerine—skip ahead to Mr. Clean.

Sam’s is a cheery bar that was standingroom-only on several weeknight and weekend visits, but that can detract from the dining experience. So can the multiple—all sticky—glass rings on a table. The lack of napkins or utensils on one visit increased the challenge of consumption considerably.

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Speaking of olive oil, it’s all that’s needed to accompany the fluffy, light focaccia, whose four rectangles come neatly stacked. Share The Press with someone you love.

Mediterranean. 1809 Capitol Ave., (916) 444-2566. Dinner for one: $15-$30. ★★★1⁄2

Here are a few recent reviews and regional recommendations, updated regularly. Check out www.newsreview.com for more dining advice.

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Mati’s There’s a reason “Indian Express” was part of Mati’s previous title. A variety of dishes are offered daily in a buffet, but Mom serves instead of diners slopping stuff onto their own plates. Options are fairly straightforward: A small dish at $6.99 with rice and two items, and a large, which has up to four items, at $8.99. Subtract $1 if going vegetarian. There’s five dishes in the daily veg rotation, most of them vegan. Offerings run the gamut from mild to spicy, although the temperature of spicy is well within tolerance, except for the most heat adverse. This is straightup, nicely prepared Indian food without frills. Mom and daughter make it even more appealing. Indian.

1501 16th St.; (916) 341-0532. Dinner for one: $9-$12. ★★★ The Press Bistro There are flashes of Greece, such as the crisscross rows of bare light bulbs over the front patio. Or the summery small plate of stacked watermelon squares with feta and mint.

Even Italian vegetarians get cut into the action with mushroom ravioli and its corn, leek and dill triumvirate. Another special is a colorful small plate of pepperonata—slightly-pickled-in-champagne-vinegar

Sampino’s Towne Foods turns out to be a bright jewel in a drab Alkali Flat strip mall of paycheck cashers and laundromat. It’s everything an Italian deli should be and more, right down to the Louie Prima on the box and the timpano in the refrigerated display case. Several lobbyists, who elect to drive the six to seven blocks from their offices near the capitol, to pick up sandwiches or—in one instance—five meatballs, begin spewing superlatives when asked their views on Sampino’s. Italian Deli. 1607 F St., (916) 441-2372. Dinner for one: $7-$15. ★★★★1⁄2

Tequila Museo Mayahuel On each visit chef Ramiro Alarcón offers a tantalizing taste of what’s to come. One time it’s a tart, fishladen ceviche that’s neither sugary nor syrupy. Another it’s a cup of albondigas soup. For many years, 524 Mexican Restaurant had cornered the market on meatball soup. Mayahuel’s is superior: a thicker, more flavorful broth and generously sized meatballs.

Bookending the meal is a complimentary dessert. The free flan is memorable, but spending $5 on mango cheesecake is a Lincoln well-invested. Mayahuel seems to be benefiting from positive word of mouth. Each time is busier than the

previous visit. Mexican. 1200 K St., (916) 441-7200. Dinner for one: $12-$20. ★★★★

Thir13en From the start—and, lo, these many weeks hence—the situp-take-notice plate remains the pork tonnato sandwich. It’s the Italian peasant spread or sauce made with tonno—tuna—tonnato that empowers this open-face masterwork. Spread on a toasted half baguette, the tonnato is the foundation upon which the pork rests.

Above the pork is an awning of mixed greens, with a generous overhang, sprinkled with not enough crispy onions and paperthin slices of pickled fennel. There isn’t space to wax poetic about the cordon bleu sandwich, the burger, the designer cocktails or the fizzy water from Wales. See for yourself.

Very authoritative. American.

1300 H St., (916) 594-7669.

Dinner for one: $12-$20. ★★★★

East Sac

Formoli’s Bistro Formoli’s is the other half of the restaurant swap on J Street that sent Vanilla Bean Bistro (formerly known as Gonul’s J Street Cafe) to Formoli’s old warren and brought Formoli’s into its current high-ceilinged, spare, dark cranberry space of black tables and chairs just six blocks away. Flavor combinations are a big part of the Formoli playbook, and the blend of the tower’s components is the payoff just as it is in the salad of beets—wafer-thin enough to be used interchangeably in the carpaccio—with shaved fennel, frisée, a few orange segments and pistachios laced with a stentorian balsamic vinaigrette. Mediterranean.

3839 J St., (916) 448-5699. Dinner for one: $20-$40. ★★★★

Vanilla Bean Bistro Gonul’s J Street Cafe has moved up the street and evolved into the Vanilla Bean Bistro. Its narrow, lowceilinged coziness is consonant with its understated, whatever-theimpulse-inspires alchemy that owner/chef Gonul Blum, has shown over the past eight years. Blum hails from Turkey. That country’s culinary tradition provides a sturdy foundation, but for her, it serves more as a launching pad. A recurring feature practiced here is the inclusion of fruit—preserved and fresh—in many dishes. And the tabbouleh delivers a roundhousepunch flavor combination. Turkish.

3260-B J St., (916) 457-1155. Dinner for one: $10-$20. ★★★★1⁄2 The Wienery The Wienery is wondrous, metaphysical, even. This 35year-old East Sacramento landmark sells old-fashioned steamed franks—and sausages—to a clientele that cuts across Sacramento’s socioeconomic and demographic lines. The menu warns that the Fiesta Dog—refried beans, onions, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes and taco sauce—is “surprisingly good.” Who can quarrel with truth in advertising?

Even a simple, straightforward creation such as the Ranch Dog, starring—natch—ranch dressing, can engender a “Whoa, tasty!” The sausages—such as the Polish or Tofurky Kielbasa—are grilled as is the bacon-wrapped dog with its not-easily forgettable jalapeño relish. American. 715 56th St.,

(916) 455-0497. Dinner for one: $10-$20. ★★★★

Land Park/ Curtis Park

Pangea Two Brews Cafe Tables, tall and short, are large and communal, fostering that casual camaraderie that should be the goal of any self-respecting brewpub.

There’s a fairly extensive menu, including breakfast items. Not to put too fine a point on it: Pangaea’s offerings are not beers that will be found at Save Mart or even Nugget.

They are nuanced. Brewed with artisanship. In some cases for hundreds of years. A large number are Belgian. There’s the usual panoply of French dip, hot pastrami, Reuben and so on. Among the signature offerings is The Gobbler. Turkey, natch. Cranberry sauce, natch.

Then red onion, several roma tomato slices, a thicket of green leaf and pepper jack cheese, all shoehorned into a big baguette. Brewpub. 2743 Franklin Blvd., (916) 454-4942.

Dinner for one: $10-$20. ★★★1⁄2

North Sac

Enotria Restaurant and

Wine Bar The longtime eatery’s reworked patio cries out for lazing on an amber autumn afternoon.

Enotria is an enophile’s dream.

The waiters here speak fluent wine and their knowledge is both capacious and definitive. Enotria promises “Food made for wine made for food,” and it delivers on the pledge. The paella remains Enotria’s signature dish. A recent $32 prix-fixe meal begins with a rectangular plate upon which is

served an alternating line of caramelized plantains and campaign-button size pork tenderloins.

The accompanying wine is a 2008 white burgundy, Olivier LeFlaive “Les Setilles.” The one-two punch here is, obviously, the food and wine. But the knock-out punch—at least when all cylinders are firing— is the delivery. American. 1431 Del Paso Blvd., (916) 922-6792. Dinner for one: $20-$40. ★★★★1⁄2

South Sac Sabaidee Thai Grille If the menu at Sabaidee Thai Grille is any indication, pumpkin and other squashes play a major role in Laotian cuisine, which, in turn, plays a major role at Sabaideee. Sabaidee—“hello” in Lao—requires fortitude to find. The khalii khapou, listed as “curried crab stew” on the menu, comes from the hometown of the matriarch who is happy to answer questions about the ingredients and volunteers what is apparent after one mouthful: real crab is used. On the appetizer front, the pumpkin wontons are a new enough addition that they’ve yet to appear on Sabaidee’s website. A word about the freebie salad that accompanies each meal: expect mixed greens, a dash of carrot shreds, cucumber chunks, a quarter of a tomato, a spattering of sesame seeds and what taste like fried shallots. All this with a tamarind emboldened dressing. Now that’s a freebie. Service can be kinda slow and tentative, but certainly part of that is due to the freshness of the fare. Sabaidee isn’t cheap, but it’s a quality meal for the price. Thai/Laotian. 8055 Elk

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Ambience It’s not surprising the folks at Zagat have done a fair amount of hyperventilating over Ambience, the decidedly upscale eatery on Fair Oaks Boulevard.

Where else in Carmichael can you find a $222 meal for two—without alcohol? There is coulis and confit and soufflé and brûlée and reductions and stuff that’s sliced wafer thin and, of course, vast white real estate that surrounds the small portions served on the plates. As the meal progresses, the presentation of the food gets better and better, as does the complexity of the offerings. Baked Alaska for dessert is as rich and decadent.

It is also the largest item to appear on a plate all evening.

Kudos to chef and owner Morgan Song for a truly memorable meal.

American. 6440 Fair Oaks Blvd., (916) 489-8464. Dinner for one: $60 and up. ★★★★★ Arigato Sushi Tucked inconspicuously into a strip mall on Howe Avenue, Arigato’s décor seems skewed to a youngish demographic: One wall is lit with changing colors—blue, green, magenta. The miso is somewhat bereft of the tofu and seaweed flotsam and jetsam found in many bowls elsewhere. The poki, with slices of cucumber and onion, is artfully presented and more than lives up to its “three red chili” billing in the menu with an unrelenting

assault on the tongue. The chef recommends the Spanish mackerel (aji) over the mackerel for dessert.

He’s right, of course. There are beginner’s sushi samplers, bento boxes, udon, teriyaki and sukiyaki options. But Arigato’s chief attraction is raw fish bits. And if that’s what you crave, then this place’s crowds you should brave. Sushi.

1608 Howe Ave., Ste. 5; (916) 920-5930. Dinner for one: $20-$40. ★★★1⁄2

Nagato Sukiyaki Nagato Sukiyaki’s website says that it is the oldest Japanese restaurant in Sacramento; its doors opened here 41 years ago. And yet business is brisk. Perhaps part of the attraction is the menu with sushi rolls priced well-below the mid-tohigh teens. Another bright spot is sushi chef and owner Don Kawano, who extolls virtues of simple rolls such as albacore, avocado and jalapeño that are unsullied by myriad sauces. The menu runs the gamut of Japanese cuisine: somen, soba, udon and a variety of generously portioned bento boxes. The warmth of chef Kawano and the familiar feel of a longtime quiet neighborhood fixture are the restaurant’s trump cards. Sushi.

2874 Fulton Ave., (916) 489-8230.

Dinner for one: $10-$20. ★★★1⁄2 Palenque Cocina Mexicana Palenque’s flautas don’t taste greasy—something of a feat—and are presented on a bed of shredded lettuce with zigzags of cheese and mayo rivaling the handiwork of the Lilliputians on Gulliver. Kinda don’t want to tear into it—for like a second or two. Requests are

readily accommodated, like bringing buckets of the habanero miracle salsa, which, based on the minuteness of the dice, must be quite a labor-intensive hassle to create. Mexican. 2598 Alta Arden Expwy., (916) 483-1751. Dinner for one: $6-$12. ★★★1⁄2

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The blackberry from the large selection of Italian sodas hits the spot, albeit tasting a bit like a fruit syrup and 7 Up combo. The shrimp pot stickers are blanketed with a Penang-colored curry peanut sauce. Management and staff are endearing. Food is simple but fresh—and addictive. Asian. 11088 Olsen Dr., Ste. A, Rancho Cordova; (916) 635-2744. Dinner for one: $10-$25. ★★★★

Folsom

Ruchi Indian Cuisine The sambar is a standout. For fans of lunch buffets at Indian restaurants, Ruchi’s version is varied and somewhat adventurous.

There is the inevitable tandoori this-that-or-the-other, but there are also more than a dozen other options. Indian.

601 E. Bidwell St., Folsom; (916) 983-2871. Dinner for one: $10-$20. ★★★

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First, get some local wildflower honey. A couple of weeks ago on a Sunday morning, I purchased a gigantic 6-pound jar of Lienert’s Honey ($20) at the Central Farmers Market (Eighth and W streets). Owner Britt Floyd says the sweet stuff will lessen your body’s immune response to flower pollen. Anyway, glob a spoonful of honey into a mug, add a dash of fresh citrus—like a handful of crushed kumquats or half a sliced lemon—and then stir with boiling water. Optional: Add your favorite tea, and pour over ice.

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Sahara Grill & Cafe It’s an oasis that seems far more Persian than Mediterranean. Yes, there’s dolma, falafel and Greek salad, but the core of the menu seems far less occidental. There are oval platters crammed with foot-long kefta or chicken kabobs, all shoehorned against the base of a parsley-dusted ridge of two-tone basmati rice that’s torn directly from the Persian culinary playbook. No diner will ever be parched here, thanks to the restaurant’s organic juice bar. Those looking for something stronger won’t find it. No liquor license. With its sleek black chairs and tables, the interior here is upscale and scrupulously maintained. Mediterranean. 5207 Madison Ave., (916) 332-3294.

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My 20-year high-school reunion is this summer. I was made fun of in high school and fantasized about showing up at the reunion as a huge success. That would have been possible if the economy hadn’t crashed. My business went bust, I lost my house, my wife left me, and I was diagnosed with prostrate cancer. I now live with my parents. I’ve been depressed and am out of shape, but I am obsessed with this damn reunion. I can’t decide if I should go or not. Why? You want to prove your former classmates wrong. Some part of your brain believes that if you do, it means you are smarter, more capable and talented than your entire graduating class. But the real issue has nothing to do with whether you possess greater insight into an individual’s ability to actualize potential than the class bullies did. My concern is your huge investment in what other people think. If your values are centered in truth, trust, commitment and community, what anyone thinks of you is none of your business.

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STAGE Women in prison The House of Bernarda Alba The opportunity to see a play by Spanish poet Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) comes once in a by blue moon hereabouts, almost always in an Jeff Hudson academic context. This playwright’s moody, poetic, tragedies call for big casts—too big for local Actors’ Equity Association companies with small venues—so we typically see Lorca at our colleges, with students in the cast.

But the current production at UC Davis is a professional effort in many ways. Visiting director Juliette Carrillo came up through Yale University and has done shows at the Mark Taper Forum and South Coast Repertory.

Actress Susan-Jane Harrison (Bernarda Alba) trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and has worked professionally in London and San Francisco. Actress Bella Merlin (Maria Josepha) is a faculty artist who has worked in London and Moscow.

Harrison, as the icy, imperious widow Bernarda Alba, holding her entire household in a state of grim suspension, is impressive.

And Merlin—playing a senile grandma—is memorable in a part that merges character aspects of both Lear and Ophelia. The relentlessly bullied daughters and maids jockey for position and advantage as they dream of escape.

The House of Bernarda Alba is dark, thoughtful, extremely well-done—and it plays through next weekend just over the causeway.Ω

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The House of Bernarda Alba, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m.Sunday; $12-$19. The Main Theater in Wright Hall, UC Davis, 1 Shield Avenue in Davis; (530) 754-2787, http://theatredance.ucdavis.edu. Through March 18.

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This handsome production also takes advantage of the technology at the UC Davis Main Theater in Wright Hall. There’s a raked platform center stage, with a trap door, used to stunning effect when characters emerge from the basement. And there’s an old-school, ostentatious curtain raising—how often do you see that these days?

Lorca’s story involves a dark, hot, airless house filled with socially isolated, frustrated women, most dressed in black for mourning.

Carrillo stages it as a theatrical ritual, with a chorus of eight women, their gelled hair teased into Mohawks, who bark like dogs, blow foghorn notes on empty wine bottles, and tap sticks in a percussive manner. There are parallels to Greek tragedy, but also to Japanese drama; the distancing manner in which Carrillo handled the inevitable ending reminded me of The Love Suicides at Sonezaki.

The spare-looking—but complex—scenic design by Rose-Ann Raphael, the eye-catching costumes by Maggie Chan, and the thoughtful lighting by Kourtney Lampedecchio are all noteworthy. This is a concept show that is something to behold.

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Legally Blonde

Here’s how to know if a musical theater production is sublime: Is it so good it makes you consider watching the movie? Then yep, it’s here. This light-hearted confection is exactly as advertised. Legally Blonde is a feel-good paean to the power of pink to unearth our inner Wonder Woman and send her to the top of the law-school ladder, and Runaway Stage Productions crosses the bar with this one.

As Elle, the Malibu fashion maven turned high-powered attorney, Cassie March is wonderful. Her voice is just raspy enough to sound breathy, but not so far gone that she loses the sweet tinge. She’s exceptionally well-paired with Matt Welch as Emmett, the workingclass lawyer who shows Elle how to belt out her motions. And special props go to Kate Richardson, who played Boston-brash hair stylist Paulette with style—and with aplomb in the face of a malfunctioning microphone.

Darryl Stroh’s choreography is stunning, especially in the scenes involving cheerleader moves, and his jumped-up jump-rope dance for the song “Whipped Into Shape” was both funny and athletic at the same time. Under the direction of Bob Baxter, the show moves so quickly and seamlessly, that the two hours fly by—and this is with live animals onstage.

Apparently, Baxter decided to ignore W.C. Fields’ rule about working with animals and cast a real Chihuahua (Kobe) and a gorgeous bulldog (Bubba), who were obviously enjoying themselves and were much-loved by both cast and audience.

—Kel Munger

Legally Blonde, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday; $15-$22. Runaway Stage Productions at the 24th Street Theatre, 2791 24th Street; (916) 207-1226; www.runawaystage.com. Through April 1.

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A NorCal premiere of a prize-winning Los Angeles play, The Idea Man pits the 1 percenters against the 99 percenters as Al (Loren Taylor), a machinist, comes up with a billion-dollar idea that Frank (Eric Baldwin) is supposed to make marketable.

F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 3/17. $15-$20. The California Stage, 2509 R St.; (916) 451-5822; www.calstage.org. P.R. Absence, anxiety, loss and loneliness are at the heart of Canadian playwright Morris Panych’s latest play, getting its American debut here. An excellent cast—Elisabeth Nunziato, Kurt Johnson, David Pierini, Jamie Jones and Dan Fagan—tackles the wordy and sometimes problematic script with supreme confidence. Tu 6:30pm; W 2pm &

6:30pm; Th, F 8pm; Sa 5pm & 9pm; Su 2pm. Through 4/15. $18-$30 with some student rush tickets available. The B Street Theatre; 2711 B St.; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org. J.C.

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Three men are locked in a room, trying to pound out a workable script for a juggernaut of a film, and their only outside contact is the secretary. It’s the story of how Gone With the Wind went from best-selling novel to screen sensation. Th, F, Sa 8pm; Su 2:30pm. Through 3/24. $10-$15. Big Idea Theatre, 1616 Del Paso Blvd.; (916) 960-3036; www.bigideatheatre.com. K.M. This 90-minute version of Shakespeare’s play about starcrossed teen lovers gets punked as Nina Collins turns Romeo & Juliet into Sid and Nancy. F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 3/17. $12-$15.

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This hour-long Family Series show is primarily for younger kids. The script is somewhat inchoate, but there are marvelous cameos, including Rick Kleber’s wild scene as a cowboy; children in the theater giggled with delight. There’s also a fine scene on a moving train, an ingenious lowtech illusion. Sa, Su 1pm & 4pm. Through 4/15. $13-$22. B Street Theatre, 2711 B St.; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org. J.H.

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An irreverent movie comedy rehash of a premise taken way too seriously by late-1980s TV, 21 Jump Street holds up a fun-house mirror to a deranged society in which the less you look like a teenager the more amusing it apparently is when you act like one. The question of how we got here has many answers, but one thing to remember about the late 1980s is that it was a time of just enough amiably hysterical anti-drug conservatism to posit the narc as ultimate bad-boy outsider. The premise that baby-faced cops go undercover in high schools somehow wasn’t deal-breaker ridiculous, but instead, as mounted by a then-fledgling Fox network, had at least enough traction to launch Johnny Depp’s career.

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This 21 Jump Street gets right to work, whisking its duo of rivals-cum-buds right along from high school to police academy to a genteel bike patrol, promptly botched, and then back to school, now preposterously undercover.

(Wait for that easy zinger about how police departments, like entertainment companies, jadedly recycle their old ideas.) There, armed with only a bond of mutual incompetence, they stumble into richly comic reversals of fortune: The pieties of political correctness have upended established high-school social codes.

Thus Hill’s chubby sensitive thespian stands tall at last on the precipice of popularity, with Tatum’s blunt beefcake jock consigned to further schooling from a fringe of science geeks.

Glee is duly blamed, and the man-boys proceed with their mission particulars. These include negotiations with a foul-mouthed boss played by Ice Cube, a lust-crazed teacher played by Ellie Kemper, a grounded love interest played by

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Brie Larson, and a smarmy cool-kid drug dealer played by James Franco’s little brother Dave. The drug is synthetic, but its name, HolyFuckingShit, seems wholly organic to users’ experiences.

Somehow—without falling apart entirely— 21 Jump Street combines flip vulgarity, daffy warmth, and antic wish fulfillment about revisable high-school history.

Unexpectedly more than merely another crass exercise in raiding the dusty cupboards of pre-existing programming, 21 Jump Street offers at least as much personality as should be expected from a film conceived by Hill, scripted by Michael Bacall, also of Project X and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and directed

by Phil Lord and Chris Miller of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. Some movies, especially comedies, can seem collaborated to death, but this one actually benefits from its slapdash pluralism.

Actually, the most appealing thing about it is that sense of conspiratorial abandon—of Tatum really wanting the world to know that he’s actually sweet and fun and funny, and of Hill totally having his back with that. Joining Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg in The Other Guys, and Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in Hot Fuzz, these two sit well together among recent on-screen pairs of improbable cops.

This may not tell us much about modern law enforcement, but it does imply a social contract of sorts. Somehow—without falling apart entirely—21 Jump Street combines flip vulgarity, daffy warmth and antic wish fulfillment about revisable high-school history. It couldn’t be more suited, therefore, to the odd entertainment-property paradox of movies containing such adolescent indulgence that actual adolescents may not see them unless accompanied by adults. In this case adulthood means being old enough to cough up 20 bucks worth of half-ashamed nostalgia for the original show. (It may be reported, without spoilage, that the filmmakers do their requisite-cameo duty stoutly.)

No, it’s not like anybody begged Hollywood for another impish semi-spoof in the subgenre of More Shit From When We Were Growing Up Turned Into Shit That Now Reminds Us We’re Getting Old. But if 21 Jump Street the show could be said to deserve a movie, this one must be it. Ω

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Writer-director Michaël R. Roskam’s debut feature, an Oscar nominee, might be the best Beligan cattle-hormone-mafia movie you’ll ever see. That allows some leeway for general imperfections, yes, but who’d have even thought to make a character study like this, and to cast it so perfectly? Matthias Schoenaerts stars as a steroid-addled simpleton whose highly unfortunate childhood needs revisiting when his family beef business gets embroiled with cops, mobsters and an estranged old friend who once let him down (Jeroen Perceval, also very good). Occasional plot holes and unfortunate twitches of bumbling-criminal comic relief can’t keep Schoenaerts down; with Roskam’s help—playing mud-dark scenes of stifled anguish against occasional painterly low-horizon landscapes— he raises bovine dimness and brutality to tragic proportions. A basic analysis of humans, mostly male, behaving like animals, this is a groin-tug of a movie, but not only in the ways you might expect. J.K.

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Two platonic best friends (Adam Scott and writer-director Jennifer Westfeldt) agree to have a kid together, no strings attached, so they can get “the parent thing” out of the way and continue their separate searches for Ms. and Mr. Right. We know where this is heading, but the beauty of Westfeldt’s script is that the characters are so threedimensional that we want it to go there, and there are a lot of knowing laughs along the way. First-time director Westfeldt, a veteran actress and writer of 2001’s Kissing Jessica Stein, has something like the wit and insight of Woody Allen at his best, and her movie is a bracing antidote to shallow rom-coms like Failure to Launch and Made of Honor. She has a great cast, too (Maya Rudolph, Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiig, Chris O’Dowd), and gives them plenty of good lines. J.L.

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A young woman in Portland, Oregon, (Amanda Seyfried, in a virtual onewoman show) comes home from work to find her sister (Emily Wickersham) mysteriously missing. She’s convinced that the man who abducted and nearly killed her a year ago is back; but she has a history of mental instability, and the police don’t believe she was ever abducted in the first place—and they certainly don’t believe her now. Allison Burnett’s script

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Writer-director Michel Hazanavicius’ exuberant throwback—a black-andwhite movie, with no spoken dialogue, set in 1927—has the clarity and grace to delight homage-mad nostalgists without alienating everyone else. Framed around the romance between a has-been silent-movie star (Jean Dujardin) and an upstart extra (Bérénice Bejo) at the dawn of the talkies, the structure is slight but sound. More important is the will to entertain, as promulgated through the enduring cinematic values of radiant chemistry and technical precision. Hazanavicius has a light touch and manages sophistication without pretension.

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A fast-talking, insincere literary agent (Eddie Murphy) finds a magic tree in his backyard that loses a leaf for every word he says; when the last leaf is gone, he and the tree will both die. How does he know this? It has something to do with a simpering New Age guru (Cliff Curtis), but really, don’t ask—it’s just one of the gaping holes in Steve Koren’s script, which seems to be suffering from some mysterious strain of screenplay blight. The movie is equal parts labored allegory without resonance and forced comedy without laughs. Murphy does what he can but is reduced to flailing and grimacing; his considerable talents don’t extend to making a bad script better, and neither do the far more modest skills of director Brian Robbins. Kerry Washington, Clark Duke and Alison Janney flounder in support. J.L.

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John Carter: Aliens make him look more manly.

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is far-fetched, devoid of surprises, and hardly a recruiting poster for the Portland Police Department (they are portrayed as insensitive, slow-witted and no match for a determined short-order waitress on her day off). Director Heitor Dhalia huffs and puffs to keep up the suspense, and the movie lurches from scene to scene. Seyfried does what she can, but she doesn’t get much help. J.L.

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Three high-school losers (Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper, Jonathan Daniel Brown) plan a huge parents-out-of-town party to put them on the social map, but things get immediately out of hand, and before the night is over, their neighborhood looks like Baghdad on a bad day. Written by Matt Drake and Michael Bacall and directed by Nima Nourizadeh—and couched once again in the form of found-footage video, a style fast becoming tiresome—the movie seeks to be the ultimate party flick. It certainly pulls out all the stops, with all the sex, booty shots, bare boobs and destruction-without-consequences that a 15-year-old dweeb could possibly want, even though he wouldn’t be old enough to get into this R-rated show on his own. But underneath all the jacked-up mayhem, it’s a lame, laughless, pathetic little comedy. J.L.

Silent House

In a secluded house in the country (with no electricity or cellphone service, natch), a teenage girl (Elizabeth Olsen) and her father (Adam Trese) are terrorized, and the father bludgeoned, by an unseen intruder. Who is this person (or persons), and how can she escape? Writer-directors Chris Kentis and Laura Lau (adapting a Uruguayan film by Gustavo Hernández) try an experiment: making their movie in one long real-time unbroken take. The experiment is interesting for about half of the movie’s 85-minute running time, but better they had written a less contrived script, a more believable resolution, and characters (including Eric Sheffer Stevens as the girl’s uncle) who don’t do the usual slasher-victim dumb things. Olsen, kid sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley, pants, whimpers and sobs with some conviction. J.L.

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This Means War

Two CIA agents and close buddies (Chris Pine, Tom Hardy) find themselves dating the same woman (Reese Witherspoon) at the same time they’re more or less following the case of an international thief (Til Schweiger) who’s out to avenge their having killed his brother. Timothy Dowling, Simon Kinberg and Marcus Gautesen’s script is a fantasy for stunted adolescent boys masquerading as an action rom-com—too much action, not enough comedy, and no romance at all. Director McG (full name Joseph McGinty Nichol, whose body of work makes Michael Bay look like Woody Allen) manages to waste both Angela Bassett and Rosemary Harris in less-than-nothing roles. For that matter, he wastes Witherspoon too; she serves as a beard for Pine and Hardy’s

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A Civil War veteran and gold prospector in 1880s Arizona Territory (Taylor Kitsch) is miraculously transported to the planet Mars, where his superior strength and agility make him a mighty warrior, while his valor, honor and good looks win the heart of a beautiful Martian princess (Lynn Collins). Edgar Rice Burroughs’ seminal 1912 pulp-fiction adventure, after influencing fantasy and science fiction for 100 years, comes to the screen courtesy of Disney, Pixar and writers Mark Andrews, Michael Chabon and Andrew Stanton (who also directed). The result is great fun, true to the spirit of the original and, with some tweaks and adjustments, reasonably faithful to the letter as well. Burroughs fans everywhere (he still has millions) can rest easy, and hope that Stanton and company can keep the series going. J.L.

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Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds

A conscientious, hard-working San Francisco executive (writer-director Tyler Perry), despite the fact that he has a fiancée (Gabrielle Union) and a hot-headed brother (Brian White) who’s making problems for the family business, becomes involved in the problems of a homeless young widow (Thandie Newton) trying to eke out a decent living for herself and her toddler daughter.

Auteur Perry is at his slickest, and the movie is smoothly entertaining. Eventually, though, Perry is undone by his own deft clichés, and he doesn’t know when to stop; things dither away in too many climaxes and a welter of tears from all concerned. Perry is a little too subdued (a reaction, perhaps, against the overthe-top Madea, happily absent here) while Newton’s performance careens back and forth between abrasiveness and bathos. J.L.

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Wanderlust

Two New Yorkers (Jennifer Aniston, Paul Rudd) lose their apartment and are forced to move in with his brother in Atlanta (Ken Marino, co-writer with director David Wain); on their way south, they stumble across a hippie commune and decide they’d rather live here than with the obnoxious brother and his liquor-addled wife (Michaela Watkins). Be warned: The script is raunchy, profane and studded with producer Judd Apatow’s trademark frontal nudity, but if you leave your prudery at home, you probably won’t see a funnier movie all year. Aniston and Rudd’s comic rapport, sharpened on Friends and 1998’s The Object of My Affection, hasn’t lost its edge, especially when the good lines come as fast and thick as they do here. Great supporting cast, too: Alan Alda, Justin Theroux, Kathryn Hahn, Linda Lavin, etc. J.L.

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The Woman in Black

A London solicitor (Daniel Radcliffe) travels to a gloomy seaside village to close out the estate of a wealthy recluse, becoming embroiled in sinister goings-on involving the apparition of a woman in black and the sudden deaths of local children.

Susan Hill’s 1983 novel, already adapted for British television and as a highly successful play in London’s West End (22 years and still running), is turned here into a good old-fashioned horror movie, one that depends more on an atmosphere of dread than on blood and cheap scares. Writer Jane Goldman takes major liberties with the letter of Hill’s book but stays faithful to its grim spirit (no pun intended), and James Watkins directs with a firm sense of foreboding. It’s a virtual oneman show for Radcliffe, with able support from Ciarán Hinds and Janet McTeer. J.L.

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I had my first band when I was 16. That’s when I started doing the live-music circuit.

You have a really stripped-down, jazzy, folky thing going on.

A little bit. My approach to recording is—real. I don’t do Auto-Tune. I don’t do a lot of layers to cover it up. I have a more old-school approach of like, “Here are my vocals.” … I always keep it raw, because it’s a real voice. That’s something that doesn’t happen a lot anymore.

Speaking of which, do you watch American Idol ?

Oh, man. Goodness. My old voice coach was actually the voice coach for American Idol.

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Point is, she’s been working super hard.

Evans just dropped a Jae Synth-directed music video where she destroys Lil Wayne’s “She Will” track with some gnarly, sadomasochistic lyrics that would make Robert Mapplethorpe blush. The controversial song will appear on her mixtape Champagne & Cocaine. And with some help from her team—Jason Geter, Mike Lace, Cal-E Porter and Young Dizzy—the girl’s about to, uh, blow.

Tell me about Champagne & Cocaine.

Find out more at www.facebook.com/ tessaevansmusic.

Well, it kind fits with the whole vibe of all the records. With mixtapes, you’re allowed to be a little more edgy. It’s just the real Tessa Evans, uncensored, not having to worry about radio edits and stuff like that. I love mixtapes because they’re honest.

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(Laughs.) No, but the vibe of the mixtape is about that life—those late nights, early mornings and everything that comes along with the shows and the trips and all that kind of stuff.

My goodness! At this point ... they’re like, “She’s a grown-up, and she will do what she will do.” I think at first some of my edgy stuff was shocking. But they’ve adjusted.

The Internet says you’re Latina.

My mother is Latina. My dad is Welsh. If I [started] going into my bloodline, it would bore you to tears.

That’s like me, I’m half.

It’s like Heinz 57 [Sauce]; a little bit of this and that.

But if it’s for scholarships, I’m hella Mexican.

You know what? My mom says the same thing.

She’s like, “We’re going to list you as fullblooded Latina.”

Does it make you mad when you see artists who aren’t super talented but they just have luck?

I think it used to. It doesn’t anymore because there’s an X-factor in what makes people want to see you. You might not have the voice, but you might be entertaining. I feel like this is the “entertainment industry” not the “Can she sing opera?” industry. I used to look at it as a purist.

By the way, have you seen D’Angelo lately?

I really thought I was going to get married to D’Angelo.

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It was just a hobby for a long time. I’m really,

He’s like a crazy, fat, crackhead alcoholic now.

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There are musicians onstage, but they don’t seem to be touching their instruments: I feel like a complete outcast walking into the UC Davis Pavilion for Drake’s Club Paradise tour.

In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever felt so estranged among my peers. The crowd is all designer ball caps and fake nails, and they all seem to be drunk on either caffeinated alcoholic beverages or pure enthusiasm for mediocre hip-hop.

The opening group, ASAP Rocky, despite receiving so much positive press in the blogosphere makes me want a refund, ASAP. I can hear nothing, but feel everything. The bass seems to be shaking the fillings right out of my teeth and completely drowns out any tonal noises that might make up the rest of the songs being performed. I’m shell-shocked.

The ushers continually request me and 100 other roamers to find a seat. I move through each section noncommittally faced by 8,000 ticket holders guarding themselves with the expression so familiar to childhood school buses: “This seat’s taken.”

Armed with what I hope looks like casual ignorance, I worm my way into the disabled section in the front of the balcony. Here, they are not dancing, but rather bobbing their heads from the comfort of their wheelchairs. Or

staring glumly up from their crutches at the swaying crowd pressed against the front of the stage. I am viewed suspiciously, but never asked to leave.

Though more akin to a Milli Vanilli performance, Drake’s set is hailed with unabated enthusiasm by thousands of smartphone-wielding fans. There are musicians on the stage, but they don’t seem to be touching their instruments.

And recorded vocals take the lead on every song while the Drake of flesh and blood before us offers a layer of shoutouts, hype and occasionally the lyrics to the song playing on with or without him. As the last moments of the set wind down, I give myself away by jumping up and sprinting for the exit in an effort to beat the crowd.

The parking garage adjacent the pavilion is like a tailgate party.

Traffic immediately becomes a gridlocked standstill for nearly an hour.

Music thumps from every stereo, girls abandoning their high heels sit barefoot on car hoods, and bootleg shirt vendors approach passengers’ windows with last-chance wares.

Though the evening’s performances were far from worth the ticket price, the environment added something I was happy to come away with.

Sitting at the wheel of my busted-ass civic, my feeling of alienation among

strangers turns to wonder as I observe the ongoing antics of a community brought together by the one bonding experience to rule them all: jumping my car’s dead battery.

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Concerts in the Park lineup, revealed: Monday marked one of the biggest releases for the Sacramento music scene since some guy emptied his full bladder into a glass bottle at a Guns N’ Roses concert at Arco Arena and hucked it at Axl: the 2012 Friday Night Concerts in the Park lineup.

Everyone knows the drama by now: Longstanding booker Jerry Perry is out, seven new guys called Play Big Sacramento are in. The lineup is good.

It’s not the most inclusive spread— hip-hop segregation! Scant indie offerings! Hello suburban bro rock!— but the inclusion of a deejay for each show is a nice touch.

And there are some big headliners.

The party opens on Friday, May 4, with Arden Park Roots and DJ Shaun Slaughter. Megarock duo Middle Class Rut will follow up the opener on May 11, and other notables include Zugh, Oleander and 7 Seconds.

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Robert Schwartzman’s family tree is full of celebrity fruits: Francis Ford Coppola and the dreamy Jason Schwartzman, to name a few. What’s more is Schwartzman has made appearances in ’90s flicks, such as The Virgin Suicides. But what he’s best known for is his stint as the frontman and guitarist for the band Rooney. Now, he’s got a brand-new bag as an eponymous solo artist. Also bringing a little familiarity to the stage in support of POP ROCK Schwartzman this Friday is the Relationship, featuring Brian Bell, best known as the guitarist and backing vocalist for Weezer. Come eat your teenage hearts out. 2708 J Street, www.facebook.com/rcschwartzman.

Born in a San Francisco garage, Red Meat has spent the last 20 years crafting a sound that is at once completely familiar and yet always fresh. Fusing honky-tonk and classic country HONKY-TONK sounds with rockabilly swing and sweet doses of gospel, the band is just as deft at getting fans out on the dance floor—swing your partner, dosi-do—as it is at evoking heartfelt emotion and stirring up some good-ol’ fashioned musical spirituality. Take note: In a musical landscape generously dotted with throwback-era posers, that’s no mean feat. 13 Main Street in Winters, www.redmeat.net.

—Rachel Leibrock

Local hard-rock and metal bands have a hard time getting gigs in the downtown grid. Many club owners think they’ll bring a bevy of crazy drunks that’ll lay waste to their clubs. Whatever your preference may be, these bands deserve better opportunities than they’ve been afforded in the past decade. Old Ironsides is hosting End of Days, a hard-rock band HARD ROCK weaned on current rock trends (insert Soundgarden, Alice in Chains and Gruntruck) with able players who understand dynamics. Take a good listen to “Cycles” or the heavy-handed “My Demise” on its Reverb Nation page, and let the guitar leads take control. 1901 10th Street, www.facebook.com/endofdaysmusic.

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The 10-year anniversary of Sonic Love Affair promises to be jam-packed with ear-splitting power chords and rock angst. We’re not talking post-Nirvana self-pitying ROCK angst—just pure, wild, drink-tillyou-puke rock ’n’ roll aggression; the kind real rock gods used to have oozing from their pores. Sonic Love Affair has spent its 10-year career channeling the blues-pumping sounds of the classic Rolling Stones, albeit a more amped-up version. Really, it resembles the heavier proto-punk bands of the ’60s like MC5, the Real Kid and the Flamin’ Groovies. Lead singer Dylan Rogers sings like a crazed Mick Jagger. In concert, you better watch out: He’s a sweaty maniac. 1050 20th Street, www.myspace.com/sonicloveaffair.

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Mykal Rose is a Jamaican reggae artist known for his work as the former Black Uhuru lead singer and as a solo artist. In 1985, they earned the first REGGAE ever Grammy award for reggae, helping craft a “steel-pulse” sound that remains a timeless influence on the genre. Rose’s work is defined by a distinct vocal style, peppered with scat singing, and a hardcore Jamaican pride that finds its way onto singles like his signature “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.” Rose recently changed the spelling of his name from “Michael” and ventured into an urban modern-style reggae, singing about inner-city problems, and utilizing hip-hop and R&B-influenced sounds.

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Davis’ Zac Bauman, who also can be heard in his duo, Oh Foot, has a lovely collection of solo work. His vocals have has a soft, throaty quality—which one could mistakenly assume means “he sounds like Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes.” (He does not.) Instead, his voice holds a quality thickness that blends with his guitar picking and fun sampling. The songs he does in ACOUSTIC FOLK Oh Foot with his partner and co-member Madeline Shernock have more playfulness because of her sweet and feathery vocals—which blend with his rather beautifully—whereas Bauman’s solo stuff sounds like Elliot Smith collaborating with the Books. 2416 16th Street, http://soundcloud.com/zac-bauman-1.

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Javalounge, 8 p.m., $5

Don’t be confused by the title of tonight’s event: Take Thursday Off!, a Mahtie Bushapproved night at Blue Lamp, goes down on Wednesdays—because you’re supposed to get based and call in sick the HIP-HOP next day, Thursday. Duh. This week’s party features Ghettosocks and Timbuktu from Canada (pictured), who collaborate as the soulful and old-school hip-hop duo Teenburger. The guys’ entire album, Burgertime, adheres to a schooldaze theme with early ’90s beats and rhymes and fun, smart lyrics (“I flunked French ’cause I misspelled biciclette”). The always ferocious Task1ne and Bush and 7evin’s new project will open. 1400 Alhambra Boulevard, www.facebook.com/mahtie.

The Kuti clan helped catapult Afrobeat to heretofore unimaginable popularity. While Fela Kuti (a hero in his native Nigeria and a boutique star in the states) has been dead for more than a decade, the eight children sharing his surname have benefited handsomely from brand recognition. Call it good genes, but Seun Kuti is an almost ungraspable talent, hyperbole be damned. Last year’s From Africa With Fury: Rise is a convincing testimonial to AFROBEAT that fact. Producer and perennial tastemaker Brian Eno gets the best out of Fela’s youngest son Seun, who talks about weed and civil unrest with equal relish. 314 West Main Street in Grass Valley, www.myspace.com/seunkuti.

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Blue Lamp, 10 p.m., $5

Center for the Arts, 7:30 p.m., $25

May 3-5 Sacramento Electronic Music Festival May 26 B-Side Players

TUE MAR 27 8PM $10

May 31 Young Dubliners June 1 Cash’d Out

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Fabulous and Gay Fridays, 9pm, call for cover

BLUE LAMP

THREE BAD JACKS, LEFT ALONE, MOTEL DRIVE; 8:30pm, $10

THE BOARDWALK

KIDD UPSTAIRS, CO GREEN, CALI COLAB, KENTASTIK, IRIS; 8:30pm

2003 K St., (916) 448-8790

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Saturday Boom, 9pm, call for cover

Sin Sunday, 8pm, call for cover

Mad Mondays, M; Latin video flair and Wii bowling, 7pm Tu

JOURNAL, CLOUDS ON STRINGS, MEMENTO MORI; 9pm, $7

JOE BUCK YOURSELF, HOOTEN HALLERS, THE NUMBER 13; 9pm

The Session, 9pm, $5

APE MACHINE, PAPER PISTOLS; 8pm Tu, $5; GHETTOSOCKS, TIMBUKTU; 10pm W

PHILBEN GREEN, DONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T TELL NIK, SUNBURN, FORCE MULTIPLIED; 8pm

STEPCHILD, FALLRISE, PRYLOSIS, AMERICAZ MOZT HAUNTED; 7:30pm, $15

1815 19 St., (916) 822-5668

SHROUDED STRANGERS, OLIVIA MANCINI, BLACK HOLES WHAT; 8pm, $5

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The Mitch Show, 8pm, $20-$22

314 W. Main St., Grass Valley; (530) 271-7000

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Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike, 9pm, call for cover

DJ Billy Lane and DJ Benji Lugo, 9pm, call for cover

FACES

Deejay dancing and karaoke, 9pm, $3

Hip-hop and Top 40 Deejay dancing, 9pm, $5-$10

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FOX & GOOSE

STONEBERRY, THE CONGRESS; 8-11pm, no cover

JENN ROGAR AND THE ADORABLES, ARDELLAS CROWN; 9pm, $5

GRIFFIN, WHISKEY & STITCHES; 4pm1am, $2-$10

CITY OF VAIN, A SINGLE SECOND, BASTARDS OF YOUNG; 10pm, no cover

THE SOFT BOMBS, 10pm-1:15am, no cover

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2000 K St., (916) 448-7798

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Wine tasting with Michele Herbert, 7pm Tu, call for cover SUZZY AND MAGGIE ROCHE, LUCY WAINWRIGHT ROCHE; 7:30pm, $20-$22

SEUN KUTI & EGYPT 80, AFROMASSIVE; 7:30pm W, $20-$25

Dragalicious, 9pm, $5

Queer Idol, 9pm M, no cover; Latin night, 9pm Tu, $5; DJ Alazzawi, 9pm W, $3

DEAD WINTER CARPENTERS, 8:30pm, $10

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LANCE RICHARDS, MARK DEFYANCE, MARTIN PURTILL; 8pm, $5

UNION HEARTS, COLD HEART RE-PRESS, URBAN WOLVES; 8pm, $6

PORTER PROJECT, 4pm, $5; CONCUSSION, MALCOLM BLISS; 8pm, $6

JOLTHROWER, VANKMEN; noon; HYBRID STUMBLEBUM BRASS BAND, GOAT ROCREEPS, TRAVIS LATRINE; 7pm, $5 DEO, WHISKEY & STITCHES; 8pm W, $5

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ADRIAN BOURGEOIS, ELIZABETH BUSCH, JESSE ELLIOT; 8pm, $6

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MONKEYS IN SPACE, THE THREE WAY; 9:30pm, $7

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DIRT NAP BAND, PATRICK WALSH, LUCKY LASKOWSKI; 8:30pm, $5

STONEBERRY, WANNABE BARNABY, CAMPFIRE CROONERS; 8:30pm, $5

POMEGRANATE, FELSEN, ADRIAN BOURGEOIS; 8:30pm, $5

Jazz session, M; EMILY KOLLARS, KOLORGIZE; Tu; MONKEY FLOWER, W

OLD IRONSIDES

1901 10th St., (916) 442-3504

Acoustic bluegrass jam, 7:30pm, no cover

GOLDENER, END OF DAYS, MY DIRTY ADDICTION, OVERWATCH; 9pm, $5

WAR ELEPHANT, WHITE WALLS, GHOST RIVER; 9pm, $5

STRAPPED FOR CASH, NUANCE; M; Karaoke, 9pm Tu; Open-mic, 8:30pm W

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OTIS, ENSLAVE THE CREATION, PDP, CURSED, TBOM; 8pm, $5

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Top 40, 9pm, no cover

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DJ Club mixes, 10pm, no cover

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PISTOL PETE’S

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

SECOND STORY ALIBI, 9pm, $5

BAD IRON, 9pm, $5

Karaoke, 9pm W, no cover

PO’ BOYZ BAR & GRILL

Jam with Roharpo, 7pm, no cover

ANDRE THIERRY, 9pm, $12

EARL THOMAS, 9pm, $15

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AUDIOBOXX, 10pm, $10

ELEMENT OF SOUL, THE INFAMOUS SWANKS, ALL IN A DAY; 9:30pm

THE PRESS CLUB

2030 P St., (916) 444-7914

BASTARDS OF YOUNG, HEAR THE SIRENS, THE COMMUNITY; 8:30pm, $5

Top 40 w/ DJ Rue, 9pm, $5

Top 40 Night w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9pm, $5

Sunday Night Soul Party, 9pm, $5

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Country dancing, 7:30pm, no cover, $5 after 8pm

Country dancing, 7:30pm, no cover, $5 after 8pm

Country dance party, 8pm, no cover

Comedy open-mic, 8pm M; Barbecue, blues jam and karaoke, Tu, call for cover

Third Friday reggae, 6-10pm, call for cover

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GARY FARMER & TROUBLEMAKERS, 9pm Tu, $4; KERI CARR BAND, 9pm W

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X-GVNR versus Record Club, 9pm, $5

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Open-mic comedy, 9pm M; Jam with Dave Channell, 7pm Tu; Trivia, 7pm W

Blues Jam, 2pm, no cover

DJ Alazzawi, DJ Rigatony, 10pm Tu, $3; STREET URCHINZ, 9pm W, $5

Doey Rock 10pm Friday, call for cover.

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Butane hash oil, often referred to as Even then, experts say patients should BHO, is a concentrated form of cannabis be wary of purchasing BHO, as most BHO prized for its smooth flavor and strong makers don’t have the industrial licensing effects. According to Jeff Hatley at Sequoia needed to acquire high-quality butane.

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BHO is against There’s a lot the law. of chatter on “That’s right,” social-media sites said Oaklandabout “dabs” and based attorney “wax,” which are Michael Backes Robert Raich. “If slang terms for hash Abatin Wellness Center you are caught in the oil. Along with the act of manufacturing, or increased popularity if they raid you and find has come more scrutiny tools for making BHO, you into how BHO is made, and could be charged.” questions about whether BHO is safe Raich added that although it is illegal to to use. make BHO, it’s not illegal to possess or to Concentrated cannabis, usually called sell, so long as one is a qualified cannabis hashish or hash, is made by collecting the patient. crystals that form on the cannabis plant. This “There was a case, People v. Bergen [in can be done by dry sifting cannabis flowers to 2008] that ruled that MMJ patients could make kief, by using extremely cold water to possess BHO,” Raich said. “Health and Safety separate the crystals from the flowers, or by Code 11379.6 is used mostly to go after manuusing a solvent—usually butane, sometimes facturers of methamphetamine.” carbon dioxide or alcohol. The butane evapoHe also mentioned that the now-defunct rates, and the result is a waxy substance high Medical Marijuana Regulation, Control in THC. and Taxation Act, which was sponsored by Of course, butane is an extremely flamAmericans for Safe Access and UFCW, would mable chemical. There have been many have allowed the manufacture of BHO. instances where someone making BHO has Many dispensaries in California don’t set themselves on fire. carry BHO, and attempts to find a club in “I wouldn’t advise anyone to make BHO Sacramento selling BHO were unsuccessful. at home any more than I would advise them Most dispensaries even refused to go on to make land mines at home,” said Michael record about BHO. Backes of Abatin Wellness Center, the collec“We don’t carry it,” said Backes of Abatin tive Montel Williams advises in Sacramento.

Wellness, “mostly because of people’s “No one ever died from making water hash.” prejudices.” He did add, however, that new A local BHO producer, who preferred to techniques with water are yielding hash with remain anonymous, makes BHO and he says BHO-level THC percentages. he is very careful. “Never make it inside. Any For now, though, it seems that Sacramento kind of spark can create an explosion,” he patients will have to travel to the Bay Area if explained. “I don’t even wear a wool sweater they want to try high-quality BHO. or a watch or carry my cellphone when I make BHO. Static electricity can be very tricky.”

I wouldn’t advise anyone to make [butane hash oil] at home any more than I would advise them to make land mines at home.

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FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 15, 2012

ARIES (March 21-April 19): This week you

may learn the real reason the tortoise beat the hare, why two of the three blind mice weren’t really blind, and the shocking truth about the relationship between Cinderella’s fairy godmother and the handsome prince.

Myths will be mutating, Aries. Nursery rhymes will scramble and fairy tales will fracture. Thor, the god of thunder, may make a tempting offer to Snow White. The cow’s jump over the moon could turn out to have been faked by the CIA. An ugly duckling will lay an egg that Chicken Little claims is irrefutable proof the 2012 Mayan Apocalypse is imminent. Sounds like a rowdy good time for all!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Roots and

wings. But let the wings grow roots and the roots fly.” That was written by Spanish poet Juan Ramon Jimenez, and now I’m passing it on to you. It will serve as a keynote for the turning point you’re about to navigate. In the coming weeks, you’ll generate good fortune by exposing your dark mysterious depths to the big bright sky; you’ll be wise to bring your soaring dreams down to earth for a pit stop. The highs need the influence of the lows, Taurus; the underneath will benefit from feeling the love of what’s up above. There’s one further nuance to be aware of, too: I think you will find it extra interesting to interweave your past with your future. Give your rich traditions a taste of the stories that are as-yet unwritten.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Is it possible

you were a spider in a previous life? If so, please call on the abilities you developed back then. You need to create an extra big, super-fine web, metaphorically speaking, so that you can capture all the raw materials you will be needing in the coming weeks and months. If you’re not sure whether you are the reincarnation of a spider, then simply imagine you were. Stimulate daydreams in which you visualize yourself as a mover and shaker who’s skilled at snagging the resources and help you require.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): British

writer Kenneth Tynan asked a movie director about how he’d film an advancing army.

Did it matter whether the action went from right to left across the frame or left to right? “Of course!” said the director. “To the Western eye, easy or successful movement is left to right, difficult or failed movement is right to left.” The director showed Tynan an illustrated book as evidence. On one page, a canoe shooting the rapids was going from left to right, while a man climbing a mountain was headed from right to left. Use this information to your benefit, Cancerian. Every day for the next two weeks, visualize yourself moving from left to right as you fulfill a dream you want to accomplish.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Hanadi Zakaria al-

Hindi is the first Saudi Arabian woman to be licensed to fly a plane. But there’s an absurd law in her country that prohibits women from driving cars, so she needs a man to give her a lift to the airport. Is there any situation in your own life that resembles hers, Leo? Like maybe you’ve advanced to a higher level without getting certified on a lower level? Or maybe you’ve got permission and power to operate in a sphere that’s meaningful to you even though you skipped a step along the way?

Now would be a good time to think about whether you should do anything about the discrepancy, and if so, how to do it.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Recent scien-

tific studies have confirmed what Native American folklore reports: Badgers and coyotes sometimes cooperate with each other as they search for food. The coyotes are better at stalking prey above ground, and the badgers take over if the hunted animal slips underground. They share the spoils. I suggest you draw inspiration from their example, Virgo. Is there a person you know who’s skilled at a task you have trouble with and who could benefit from something you’re good at? It’s prime time to consider forming symbiotic relationships or seeking out unusual partnerships that play to both parties’ strengths.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): How did the

Vikings navigate their ships through rough northern seas on cloudy and foggy days?

Medieval texts speak of the mysterious “sunstone,” a “Viking compass” used to detect the hidden sun. Modern theories suggest that this technology may have been Iceland spar, a mineral that polarizes light, making it useful in plotting a course under overcast skies. Do you have anything like that, Libra? A navigational aid that guides your decisions when the sun’s not out, metaphorically speaking? Now would be an excellent time to enhance your connection with whatever it is that can provide such power.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): If you set up

two mirrors in just the right way, you can get a clear look at the back of your head.

You’re able to see what your body looks like from behind. I suggest you try that exercise sometime soon. It will encourage your subconscious mind to help you discover what has been missing from your self-knowledge.

As a result, you may be drawn to experiences that reveal things about yourself you’ve been resistant to seeing. You could be shown secrets about buried feelings and wishes that you’ve been hiding from yourself. Best of all, you may get intuitions about your soul’s code that you haven’t been ready to understand until now.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

According to my Sagittarius friend Jonathan Zap, the Greek playwright Aristophanes had an ambivalent attitude about divine blessings. He said that no great gift enters the human sphere without a curse attached to it. I’m sure you know this lesson well. One of last year’s big gifts has revealed its downside in ways that may have been confusing or deflating. But now here comes an unexpected plot twist, allowing you to add a corollary to Aristophanes’ formulation. Soon you will find a second blessing that was hidden within the curse in embryonic form. You’ll be able to tease it out, ripen it, and add it to the bounty of the original gift.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Writing in the science magazine Discover, Corey S. Powell says, “There’s an old joke: If you tell someone the universe is expanding, he’ll believe you. If you tell him there’s wet paint on the park bench, he’ll want to touch it to make sure.” In accordance with the astrological omens, Capricorn, I invite you to rebel against this theory. I think it’s quite important for you to demand as much proof for big, faraway claims as for those that are close at hand. Don’t trust anyone’s assertions just because they sound lofty or elegant. Put them to the test.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s an

excellent time to better appreciate your #@%(!)* vexations and botherations. In fact, let’s go ahead and make this Honor Your #@%(!)* Irritations and Annoyances Week. To properly observe this holiday, study the people and things that irk you so you can extract from them all the blessings and teachings they may provide. Are you too tolerant of an annoying situation that you need to pay closer attention to? Is it time to reclaim the power you’ve been losing because of an exasperating energydrain? Does some jerk remind you of a quality you don’t like in yourself? Is there a valuable clue or two to be gleaned from a passive-aggressive provocateur?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Seahorses

have an unusual approach to reproduction.

It’s the male of the species that cares for the eggs as they gestate. He carries them in a “brood pouch” on his front side. Of course it’s the female who creates the eggs in the first place. After analyzing the astrological factors coming to bear on your destiny, Pisces, I suspect you will benefit from having a seahorse-like quality in the coming weeks. Whatever gender you are, your archetypal masculine qualities should play an especially strong role as you nurture a project that’s in its early developmental phases.

You can call Rob Brezsny for your Expanded Weekly Horoscope: (900) 950-7700. $1.99 per minute. Must be 18+. Touchtone phone required.

Customer service (612) 373-9785. And don’t forget to check out Rob’s website at www.realastrology.com.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

Dueling menus Carlos “Cawzlos” Lopez cooks up both sides of the menu at BBQ vs. Vegan.

The restaurant’s homestyle meals— including meaty tri-tip sandwiches and perfectly fluffy vegan falafel— are high-quality and fast. Located inside Round Corner Tavern, the bar that’s served Sacramentans at 24th and S streets for more than 70 years, BBQ vs. Vegan does not plan on opening a drive-thru (even though two vehicles have literally driven through the bar in its history). Lopez, also a local musician, takes the same artistic approach with food and music. “The fusion food I make is a lot like the music I make. It’s like hip-hop and rock mixed together,” he said. “It’s like a hybrid of some sort. I guess that’s just the kind of person I am.”

You’re a musician who’s toured the country and most of Europe. What are you doing in a kitchen?

I lived a crazy life with the music. [Then] I found out I had a daughter. She’s the best thing that happened to me, and I realized that I couldn’t be on the road all the time. … Because I’m an artist, everything I do, I come from an artist mindset. Everything is in a frame-of-art mentality. I’m just constantly changing my mediums.

How’d you segue into food?

I came into the food business when I was younger. My grandparents owned a restaurant, El Padrino. They’re off of Fruitridge [Road]. They’ve been doing it for over 30 years. Authentic Mexican food: It’s bomb. That’s some O.G. shit. Fools ain’t ready for that.

But after I stopped music completely about two-and-a-half years ago, I told some old friends of mine that I needed a job. I have no education; I didn’t graduate high school. Like, I’ve been traveling the world.

I’ve been gone. At that point, I wasn’t stable enough to raise my daughter.

So my friends let me work at My BBQ Spot off of 25th and J [streets]. I was just sweeping and mopping, and I fell in love with the food business. That’s where I got initiated into the business. I became a prep cook, and I just fell in love with tri-tip.

And then you came to Round Corner?

Even when I was mopping the floors, I was in love with the food business. I felt like, “Oh my God! This is me. This is what I really want to do.”

At that time, my buddy came up to me and said, “Hey buddy, I got this spot over here,” which is Round Corner. “Let’s open something in there. I think it will work.” So we checked it out, and I was like, “I don’t know, man. This crazy dive bar?”

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What did it look like when you got there?

Which tastes better: vegan or barbecue?

The one thing that drew me into that spot was the fact that it’s been there for 70 years. The location, it’s not the greatest.

But then it is because … in downtown it is so hard to find parking. That place is a gem.

If you really look at it, that place is a gem.

I’m a meat eater. You know, though, I think they can be equally as good. I used to think that vegan was bland and not tasteful, because I just tasted other people’s versions of vegan and vegetarian food. Now that I taste my version—not bragging, but now that I eat, breathe and shit the business of vegan, vegetarian and carnivore dishes—I have to think about what other restaurants are doing. What can I do that makes them want to do what I’m doing?

Why BBQ vs. vegan?

The reason it’s called BBQ vs. Vegan is because my partner, Steve Glassfire, pulled me from the BBQ scene and suggested we have a dueling vegan menu. Like, your shit vs. my shit, and we fuse it together.

It was hell in that kitchen, having all these carnivore dishes with these vegetarian dishes in that tiny kitchen and not contaminating anything. We have separate fryers. It’s deep.

It’s hella intricate. We don’t cook the vegan food on the grill where we cook the meat products. We cook them on separate skillets.

It’s a process, and, I mean, there’s no cross-contamination. You know what I’m saying? The knives we use are all sterilized.

Everything is constantly getting sanitized for it to turn out as a carnivore/vegan restaurant.

So now I’m really into the vegan. My vegan tofu rice bowl smashes, bro.

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Does BBQ vs. Vegan plan on expanding?

The next move is right next door where that art gallery is. We’re going to be making home-style dinners, fast. You can go get ribs, like, right now! Like how we just went and got coffee.

The next store I’m going to open [will be] a barista deli where you can get coffee in the morning and home-style meals at night. All the good stuff, like, BBQ-plattertype foods: hot links, brisket, tri-tip, pulled pork, the whole nine! Ω BBQ vs. Vegan is located at 2333 S Street.

For more information, visit http://downtownskitchenbbqvsvegan.com.

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