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SURPRISE: SUBURBS STILL SPRAWL see Feature Story, page 16

EARTH DAY, YEAH! see Streetalk, page 5 see Green Days, page 13 see Essay, page 14 see Night&Day, page 24

FAREWELL, CYNTHIA DALL see Popsmart, page 22

WHAT’S UP,

FOOD TRUCK? see Frontlines, page 8

CALL OF DOODY see 15 Minutes, page 47

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Overbuilding the suburbs—this was a major reason the real-estate collapse hit Sacramento harder than most places. Yet government leaders and developers throughout the region—Elk Grove, Rancho Cordova, Folsom—are sprawling onward, unfazed and ready to annex and build even more houses and malls and developments in their respective ’hoods. Cosmo Garvin looks at the future of sprawl in Sacramento.

The mobile-food-truck craze was a trend that took a while to come to Sacramento. And, fittingly, it’s taken a while for the city of Sacramento to look at, and possibly revamp, its contentious mobile-food-vending ordinance. Jonathan Mendick reports on a year of food trucks in California.

Also this week: SN&R looks at the Maloofs arena drama, Amy Wong hangs with Sacramento’s electric-vehicle geeks, Auntie Ruth contemplates an old British guy or Mad Men, and SN&R’s publisher Jeff vonKaenel and its editorial board celebrate Earth Day. What’s up, food-truck? . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Beats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Let’s fake a deal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

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STREETALK Asked at the Central Farmers Market at Eighth and W streets:

To save the environment, I’ll give up …

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Money is usually the one thing people have to give up. I’ve got an electric motorcycle that I’ve invested in. I actually gave up my car years ago.

I refuse to single-occupancy commute, ever. I won’t drive a single-occupancy vehicle for more than $2 a gallon.

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I would give up plastic bags to save the environment, because I think they are not biodegradable. They take forever to decompose in the earth, they add to landfills, and many countries have gone to material bags, like canvas. ... We should get away from plastic completely, any way we can.

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I would give up automobiles, because there’s plenty of other ways to get around.

I have the advantage of living in Midtown; I don’t have a vehicle myself. There’s trains, bicycles, light rail, buses. Automobiles are not necessary.

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Re “Bain’s benefactors” by Darwin BondGraham (SN&R Frontlines, April 12): Wow! Really great article.

It is funny how capitalism works. These pension funds are government funded because the teachers are essentially government workers. They have a union that is supposed to protect them. These unions take this government-sponsored funding and invest it in overseas economies. The products of these overseas economies are created in harsh working conditions that don’t have the benefits of unions or government pensions. Then the products of these overseas economies are shipped back here and consumed with the profit made by these same American government workers.

LETTER OF The money that is used to purchase these goods is then sent back THE WEEK to overseas economies that use it to perpetuate a vicious cycle.

Has anyone forgotten that this is supporting communistic governmental regimes?

Does anyone notice the problems that have occurred because of lack of social systems in place in these countries?

Here we have social systems that are using their power to essentially fund the lack of social systems in other countries. This in turn is making our own social systems here less competitive in the world market.

Meanwhile, the private-investment firms could be playing the whole market for their own benefit because of the lack of government regulation. Watch the movie Margin Call, and get an idea of who these investment firms look out for.

Garrett Waters via email

Wheelin’ is a sport Re “Wheels of fortune” by Becca Costello (SN&R Arts&Culture, April 12): This was a well-written article and the most factual that I have read.

As a mother of two boys who worked very hard at dance, freestyle, figures and speed, this sport has never been recognized as the sport that it is. When my younger son was turning 18, the [International] Olympic Committee considered putting roller skating in, but failed. My son and so many other young people worked very hard in case the sport was accepted.

Roller skating was an important part of our children’s lives, as well as the parents who made friends all over the country. In the ’60s and ’70s, Texas was winning most everything, and it has been on the decline.

Congratulations to California for reviving the sport. I hope someday that it is considered as important as some others.

Mary Claunch-Walthall North Richland Hills, Texas

Just wait ’til 2014!

Re “No initiative” by David Downs (SN&R The 420, April 12): It isn’t over yet. The Jack Herer initiative (California Cannabis Hemp and Health Initiation 2012, www.cchhi2012.org) has until June 5 to land itself on the 2014 ballot. We have between 700 and 900 folks on the streets, over 500 shops and a massive online campaign growing.

We missed the 2012 deadline for this November, true, but we have Jack on our side.

What’s that mean? Jack wrote the finest legalization bill ever. Please read it on the website or visit the Facebook page for the juicy details.

The other initiatives were all compromised half-steps that deserved to fail. Jack BEFORE

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knew herb, he knew herbalists, and he knew the vast potential of hemp for food, fuel (how big is that for a state budget?), fiber and medicine.

The idea that this is just about getting high is lame and played out. Hemp can save the planet, but only if we let it. If we ride this wave of momentum and get this on the 2014 ballot, we can be driving cars on hemp fuel, eating safe nonGMO food and ending one of the greatest human-rights violations in American history by 2015.

But it’s up to you! Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something.

Heads-up when you’re at Sports Page Restaurant & Bar in Roseville during Happy Hour. It’s a nice view.

targeting those who can least afford it (elderly, working class, poor) to finance trillions more in tax cuts for the very rich.

There is one impediment to full recovery: the Republicans’ persistent effort to stall the economy. Why would they do that, you ask? Simple! A healthy economy means Mitt Romney and Republicans lose all the way around.

Patrick Moore Los Angeles

Follow those houses Re “Going vogue” by Lien Hoang (SN&R Feature, April 5): What a great story! Who knew that this subculture—more common in the big cities—had such a following in Sacramento. Keep us posted, please, as these houses grow and develop.

Ron Lowe Nevada City

Fight it yourself Re “Time to rise” by Terri Enborg-Kent (SN&R Guest comment, April 5): May you ascend from your “illuminated” brainwashing. Unless you are willing to suit up and fight, don’t promote more war.

Rob Heidler Sacramento

GOP is looking down Re “Things are looking up” (SN&R Editorial, April 5): On the bright side, things are looking up. Optimism is the prevailing mood stirring in America. Spring is here, new beginnings, fresh starts. Unemployment is slowing down, the economy is adding over 200,000 new jobs each month, and the best business indicator of all: New-car sales are up. People are buoyant, expectant of continuing economic improvement.

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busy pursuing higher education and ended up in a career that is decidedly inside.

Wherever this job takes you, I hope you trust your instincts! Ride on!

Ahbra Peach Davis

Correction In our editorial, “Forgiveness,” which ran on March 29, we misspelled the name of the congressional sponsor of the Student Loan Debt Forgiveness Act of 2012. Rep. Hanson Clarke was also incorrectly identified as being from Missouri; he is a Democratic congressman from Michigan.

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Ride on Re “Speedy delivery” by Ted Cox (SN&R 15 Minutes, April 5): I hope that Melissa Dye follows her passion as a bike messenger as long as she can. The best job I ever had was outside. It didn’t pay much, but I loved what I was doing (plant nursery). I didn’t know it at the time, but that was my dream job. I was |

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Chris Jarosz, Joelle Dennis and Leila Mann (left to right) of Wicked ’Wich food truck, which launched this past year and is one of the region’s more successful food trucks—this despite an unchanged and, some say, unfair city ordinance.

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amento, Cit A year after the craze hit Sacr Sacramento’s mobile-food community celebrates an anniversary this week: the nearly oneyear benchmark since the city’s by Jonathan Mendick original two “gourmet” food trucks, trendy across the nation, finally conjonathanm@ verged on the local scene. newsreview.com It’s been a year—and yet officials still haven’t addressed city laws that many argue restrict mobile-food vending from becoming a huge business and economic boon, à la Los Angeles or Portland, Oregon.

Despite the status quo at City Hall, however, gourmet trucks are on the rise—although the overall number of mobile-food vendors in the region is down. Meanwhile, the food-truck biz has had to deal with all sorts of drama: unreBites is still on vacation. solved tiffs with restaurant owners, hiccups abiding by (and skirting) the city’s mobile-food ordinance, a controversial bill at the state Legislature—and positive developments, such as going where supermarkets won’t and serving Sacramento’s food deserts.

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It’s been a year. What the truck has changed?

“Nothing has changed” when it comes to the laws, noted Paul Somerhausen, of food-truck advocacy group SactoMoFo. Somerhausen helped organize the first SactoMoFo festival last year on April 30. The festival came as a result, he says, of six months of unsuccessful talks with the city to change its current mobile-food regulations, created in 2008 as Chapter 5.68 of the city code.

But last year’s SactoMoFo created a stir. Not only did upward of 10,000 people show up in Midtown’s Fremont Park, the event also even impressed several city council members, Somerhausen said. Its success led to a series of talks between restaurant owners, food-truck operators and city leaders.

But the talks eventually stalled. The city council postponed all three official

hearings on its food-truck laws during the past year. Most recently, it canceled a meeting set for March 20, because of Assembly Bill 1678—a bill that would have prohibited mobile-food vendors

“We don’t have to deal with the moving every half hour too much right now. We’ve kind of found some creative ways around that.”

Davin Vculek owner Mini Burger food truck statewide from selling near schools.

But A.B. 1678 was scrapped on March 28, and the city recently scheduled a new food-truck hearing for May 8.

“Jay [Schenirer] likes the food trucks and wants to figure this out,” said Joe Devlin, Schenirer’s chief of staff. “[In talks so far] I don’t think anything has been resolved that has provided any clarity, but we want to move forward.” Schenirer heads the city’s Law and Legislation Committee, which will explore recasting current mobile-food laws.

“At this point, all they’re doing is reaching out to the mobile-food community [and] getting input from the stakeholders,” said Maurice Chaney of the city’s Economic Development Department.

In 2010, 151 food trucks were permitted within the region, but today only 140 are currently registered, according to Mark Barcellos, a Sacramento County environmentalmanagement-department supervisor.

While this number seems high, it also includes seasonal operations such icecream vendors and catering trucks, plus the dozen or so local food trucks

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Earth beat serving lunch on a regular basis, he said.

Most food-truck operators in the past have complained about the city’s “30minute rule,” but in 2011, owners have found ways around the unique law.

“We don’t have to deal with the moving every half-hour too much right now,” said Davin Vculek, owner of Mini Burger. “We’ve kind of found some creative ways around that.”

For most of the week, Vculek says he parks his truck outside of city limits, where there are no rules. But when he does park in the central city, he stops with permission on state properties, which are exempt from city ordinances.

Parking at locations such as the Department of Motor Vehicles or the State Board of Equalization is free with prior arrangement. The State Board of Equalization even requested Mini Burger and other trucks to serve there after its cafeteria unexpectedly closed.

La Mex, operating since 1998, also opened a new La Mex Taqueria restaurant last month, one of many trucks to go from mobile to brick-and-mortar. Drewski’s Hot Rod Kitchen also now does the food at the Republic Bar & Grill, while Mama Kim Cooks and Mini Burger both plan on opening brick-and-mortar locations soon.

Additionally, Drewski’s and Mini Burger plan to launch second trucks this year.

Mini Burger’s first truck will shift gears, turning into a “concept cuisine” truck serving gourmet tacos, such as Maine lobster tacos.

And, despite the so-called restrictive ordinance, all the trucks are apparently staying out of trouble with the law. According to Bob Rose, city of

Sacramento’s code-enforcement manager, there were nine violations related to mobile-food vendors in 2010, only three in 2011 and none so far in 2012.

“At this juncture, our current staffing levels require us to handle mobile-food vending code enforcement activities on a complaint-basis only,” he told SN&R.

“I think the law was put into place for a purpose, and that law is being ignored by many of the food-truck owners currently.”

Mike Brown owner Capitol Dawg Perhaps this is because the trucks spend so much time in Roseville, Elk Grove and Rancho Cordova, which have been “good and accommodating” to Sacramento’s food trucks, according to Somerhausen.

Somerhausen also said that while the city of Elk Grove has restrictive mobilefood laws, they’ve expressed an interest in changing them to make them more business friendly. According to current laws, food trucks in Elk Grove cannot sell past 2 p.m., nor can they stay in one place for more than 15 minutes.

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SactoMoFo mobile-food festival founder Paul Somerhausen chows on some Mini Burger truck fare. SactoMoFo4 is this week.

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And the trucks are also serving the underserved in the region’s food deserts. Joshua Lurie-Terrell of SactoMoFo and food blog Yum Tacos (www.yumtacos.com) says that most of the trucks go to places with few other restaurants or food options.

Drewski’s owner Andrew Blaskovich says he takes pride in going to the “less-served areas” in town. “The places where we park, there’s not a whole lot of restaurants around, and that’s ideally where you want to be,” he said. “You don’t want to be next to 30 different restaurants, because no one wants that competition.

“I’m more of a lone wolf.”

Others, like Mini Burger’s Vculek, enjoy serving in high-density places in the central city. And that’s where mobile-food vendors still run into vocal opposition from the likes of restaurateur Randy Paragary and Mike Brown, owner of Midtown’s Capitol Dawg.

“I think the law was put into place for a purpose, and that law is being ignored by many of the food-truck owners currently, and has been ignored since the newer trucks came aboard early last year,” Brown told SN&R. “If anybody has shown irresponsibility up to this point, it’s the truckers.”

Whether it’s a matter of trucks disobeying the law, or a lack of enforcement, Brown said he just wants to see trucks be more “respectful” of restaurant owners and to follow the code.

“I don’t want restaurateurs or the politicians feeling like they’re wearing black hats for trying to protect their interests,” he said.

At the same time, mobile-food entrepreneurs are protecting their own.

Almost a year since the original SactoMoFo festival, incarnation No. 4 rolls under the freeway near Southside Park this weekend. It boasts double the amount of Sacramento mobile-food vendors—more than a dozen this year, compared to last year’s six—in addition to even more out-of-town vendors, a beer garden and a stage for live music.

So, however slow the city goes in addressing mobile-food regulations in earnest, the community seems to be driving forward, pedal to the foodtruck metal. Ω The fourth SactoMoFo mobile-food festival parks Saturday, April 21, under the freeway at X and Sixth streets; 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; www.sactomofo.com.

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Popular environmental-news magazine Mother Jones recently published a collection of Wal-Mart vs. the world info charts, which compared the mega retail chain and its environmental impact to that of other not-so-relative benchmarks.

Consider: According to Mother Jones, the combined area of each and every Wal-Mart store covers more square miles than the island of Manhattan. There are nearly five times more Wal-Mart employees than U.S. firefighters. And Wal-Mart’s CO2 emissions, at 21 million metric tons, are greater than the 50 lowest-CO2 emitting countries on the planet combined.

Low prices, maybe. Big carbon footprint, for sure. (Nick Miller)

Lid on the coal New power plants in the United States will Happy Earth Day. have federally imposed caps on greenNow back to work! house-gas emissions for the first time, it was announced recently, though no restrictions have been placed on existing coal-fired plants. Which are most of the nation’s plants.

The new policy was driven by the Obama administration and draws a stark contrast between Democrat and Republican policy in an election year. The rule, issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in early April, also drew the ire of Republicans and the coal industry.

The limit will require new plants to emit no more than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide (or CO2) per megawatt hour of electricity produced. The average coal plant emits 1,768 pounds of CO2 per megawatt hour of electricity, while natural-gas plants emit 800 to 850 pounds per megawatt hour. (courtesy of Chico News & Review)

Renewable shower power Install a solar water heater in your home or business, get up to half-a-million bucks?

It could happen: Four investor-owned utilities in California just launched a new effort, California Solar Initiative’s thermal program, to get residents to switch from propane, electric- or natural-gas-powered water heaters to those warmed up by the sun’s rays. Owners of single-family homes can get up to a $1,875 rebate for making the switch; commercial buildings could get up to $500,000.

According to a CSI-Thermal Program website (www.waterheated bythesun.com), rebate amounts will decline over time; the program expires in December 2017, and so far only Pacific Gas and Electric Company customers are eligible locally. (N.M.)

Delta is never easy A team of researchers assigned to analyze the environmental state of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta concluded there is no simple way to reconcile the growing conflict between endangered species and water demands.

The new study, released by the National Research Council, was conducted over two years by 17 scientists. The Delta, which is a source of water for 25 million Californians, has been strained by water diversions, pollution and invasive species. Since 2002, populations of nine native-fish species have decreased dramatically, prompting an unprecedented closure of commercial fishing.

“We’re trying to give our fellow citizens a wake-up call that water scarcity is not simply limited to drought situations, but is more or less a constant characteristic of the emerging water situation,” said Henry Vaux, one of the study’s co-authors. (courtesy of CN&R)

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‘Slide 16’ email from NBA to Maloofs hints at alternative narrative to Kings-arena collapse Chat at the office watercooler goes something like: The Maloofs and Mayor Kevin Johnson shake hands in Orlando. Tears flow, there’s Maloofby Johnson cheerleading at a game, Gavin Nick Miller high-fives fans in person at City Hall, the mayor nickam@ roars “Yesss!” on that dais and city council newsreview.com approves a landmark new Kings arena deal.

But weeks later, those crazy Maloofs get cold feet. And finally—inexplicably!— announce they’re pulling out of what’s now a “bad deal,” calling Mayor Johnson and Co. liars all the way to Las Vegas.

But is that really how the new Kings arena accord tanked?

Skeptics of this conventional-media narrative point to a February 29 email from National Basketball Association counsel Harvey Benjamin to George Maloof.

In the document—which was revealed in A more complete version of this story slide 16 of a Maloof PowerPoint presentation appears online at last Friday in New York City—the NBA’s www.newsreview. com/snog. Benjamin wrote: “Several of the points you make are agreeable to the city, but they say they cannot put the provisions you want into the document at this time.”

They could not be included “for political reasons,” Benjamin added.

A city official told SN&R that they were attempting to “peel away the layers” and get more clarity as to these political reasons.

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Were the Maloof’s concerns not included to shelter the owners’ quibbles and secure the five votes needed from city council members? Was it done to make the arena pact appear less shaky?

Or, as the same official pondered, was it a “collusion” between the NBA and the mayor’s office to streamline a term sheet and arena deal and, accordingly, discourage any worthy adversaries from running against Mayor Johnson, who is up for re-election this June?

The mayor’s office was unable to comment at press time.

The first documented evidence of the Maloofs’ problems with the term sheet appeared on February 29. The council vote approving the pact was March 6. And the deadline for candidates—Deborah Ortiz, in particular, was still in the mix at this time, according to reports—to register to run for Sacramento mayor was March 8.

SN&R’s many queries to NBA counsel Benjamin were rerouted to vice president of marketing communications Michael Bass, who did not return calls by deadline.

And the city of Sacramento has declined to comment on the NBA-Maloof email or allegations that the term sheet was compromised for political reasons.

“It is important for us to see the entire letter before responding,” city spokesman Amy Williams said. Ω

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by JEFF VONKAENEL

Spend this Earth Day appreciating the planet we live on

This Sunday is Earth Day. Over the last 42 years, Earth Day has become a little like Mother’s Day or Father’s Day. As a society, we spend a day recognizing what is very important to us.

I bet Hallmark is trying to figure out how cards could be mailed to Mother Earth. And restaurants would have a much better day if only Mother Earth would sit down at a table and eat her fair share of locally grown organic foods.

And just as I would encourage you to spend some time with your parents on Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, may I suggest that you spend some quality time with Mother Earth on her special day.

You have many good options. For those of you who enjoy being with large numbers of your fellow humans, you can go to Southside Park (2115 Sixth Street) for the annual Earth Day celebration. From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., you can meditate on the wonders of Mother Earth. At the same time, you will hear cool music, pick up some free stuff at the booths and have a fun, relaxing time.

If large groups of people are Spend some quality time not your thing, Mother Earth with Mother Earth on provides other opportunities to her on this special her special day. recognize day. The American River Bike Trail provides an excellent way to be reminded of the beauty of Mother Earth’s rivers. As you ride along, you will see not only the ecosystem along the river, but you might also notice some of the damage your fellow humans are doing to it and the planet.

The beauty of Mother Earth can be visited in numerous hiking trails throughout our region, and, of course, with snowshoes in the Northern Sierra.

Mother Earth would love you to drop by and give her the recognition she duly deserves.

For those of you who prefer horror movies to love stories, Mother Earth provides numerous opportunities in Sacramento. You could take a leisurely walk in a Want more info on the treeless, pedestrian-unfriendly suburb. During your sixth-annual lonely walk, the only other moving things will be Environmental Council metallic, energy-guzzling vehicles. of Sacramento Earth Day celebration? Find Or you could stroll over to the deserted out more at Sacramento rail yards for a toxic-land horror show. Or www.sacramento how about taking a deep breath around the meeting earthday.net. place of Highway 50, Business 80, Interstate 5 and Highway 99?

Earth Day is a time to consider what we can do for our Mother Earth. She deserves a little consideration.

Jeff vonKaenel is Unlike our parents, there is a chance that Mother the president, CEO and majority owner Earth will stay with us. She doesn’t need to be a of the News & Review memory. She could stay strong, healthy and forever newspapers in young throughout our lives. And I hope, our kids’ and Sacramento, Chico grandkids’ lives, too. and Reno.

Believe me, Mother Earth’s funeral is not a day to look forward to. So spend some time with her this Saturday, and reflect on what we need to do to make sure she stays around for a while. Ω

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Greater Sacramento Electric Auto Association’s (left to right) Guy Hall, Tom Dowling, Elia Bassin and David Link show off their electric vehicles.

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Perhaps you, like many, keep a list of the places you

For Tom Dowling, embracing new-fangled gadgets is something that runs in the family.

“My father was an early adopter, by Amy Wong and we had the first TV set on the block,” said Dowling, who today is vice president of the Greater Sacramento Electric Auto Association, and owner of two electric cars. That’s right, he’s also an early adopter to the latest auto technology.

Now retired and settled in Folsom, Dowling joined a local chapter of the national Electric Auto Association and spends a lot of his time sharing expertise on things such as electric chargers with other electric-vehicle owners.

There are 85 members in the GSEAA, which is run like an auto club for alternative-vehicle enthusiasts. But a club “for geeks,” according to member David Link, a retired math teacher and owner of a 1998 Honda Civic GX natural-gas car, which is charged by a gas compressor.

Link said the club has been around since the ’70s and has had two incarnations. Its original members were experimenters: They would take ordinary gasoline cars, strip the vehicles of its gas tank, gasoline engine and all Kick your gas-guzzler parts that were strictly gasoline operto the curb and join the ated, because there was no EV Greater Sacramento industry prior to the ’90s.

Electric Auto “There are cars you see driving Association at www.greatersaceaa.org. around that are missing their tailpipe,” said Guy Hall, GSEAA president, who listed old Porsches as vehicles that are popular to convert to electric. “There is still a little bit of that [conversion] going on in the club, it’s mostly [made up of] people who have bought commercial EVs.” The manufacturing of commercial Green Days is on the EVs and their batteries is a direct lookout for innovative result of President Barack Obama’s sustainable projects $800 billion economic-stimulus packthroughout the age in 2009. More than $2 billion in Sacramento region.

Turn us on at federal grants, combined with another sactonewstips@ $2 billion in private investment for newsreview.com. EV manufacturing and its infrastructure has made EVs a higher-profile industry.

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wish to go before you die. Fair enough—if a two-hour meeting requires an agenda with bullet points, why not some kind of cursory outline for the unfolding of a life, eh?

Maybe what’s most notable isn’t what lands on the list, but what doesn’t. Care to dive under the water in the Antarctic Ocean and witness the sea life? Care to hang out in 150-mph winds and watch the penguins mate? If so, bully for you. Go over there in the corner and eat lunch by yourself.

Better yet, make a documentary. Make a couple. Get out there on the frozen polar ice, film it all with the technology of gods, as E.O. Wilson calls it, and bring it back to the rest of us. Shorten our list of things to do before we kick. Make the frozen tundra of cable TV a less foreboding place.

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Those are small numbers compared to the nearly 32 million gasoline-fueled vehicles in the state, but it is an industry in its infancy after many false starts.

Between 1997 and 2000, Honda, Nissan, Toyota, General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. produced electric cars to test the viability of a commercial EV market, but most of these vehicles were only available by lease. By 2003, manufacturers phased out EVs.

There are 85 members in the Greater Sacramento Electric Auto Association, which is run like an auto club for alternativevehicle enthusiasts.

The Obama administration’s revival of the EV industry still has a long way to go to meet its goal of putting 1 million EVs on the road by 2015.

“It’s sticker shock and range anxiety,” said Link about what keeps people from buying EVs. Dowling owns a 2011 Chevy Volt and said he paid $47,000, prior to the $7,500 federal tax credit and the $2,500 California rebate as incentive for purchasing his car.

Hall owns a Nissan Leaf and he spent $600 on his charging station. He chose electric because of the dramatically lower cost of fuel and maintenance.

“You have to keep in mind that a lot of people only look at the money you’re saving on gas. They’ve got valve adjustments, smog checks, clutch problems, oil checks. All those things don’t exist with electric cars,”

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explained Elia Bassin, GSEAA member and owner of the 2010 Zero Motorcycle, one of the first classes of electric motorcycles.

To put range anxiety into perspective: Dowling’s Chevy Volt has 40 miles of battery life. On trips to San Francisco to visit his grandchildren, he uses up his battery life, then lets the gas motor kick in so that it charges the battery while he drives.

Bassin pointed out that most people only have 10-mile commutes.

Part of the success of traditional gasoline cars is the way it continues to symbolize unlimited freedom on the open road for American consumers.

The GSEAA network of alternative-fuel owners are interested in changing people’s minds about EVs, in order to dispel the many fallacies they see associated with alternative vehicles. One tactic is noting the high cost of fossil fuels.

“When I had my first car, gas was 99 cents,” Bassin said, “and I’m not even 30 years old, and it has gone to over $4 dollars a gallon. It’s bigger than any inflation of anything, maybe bigger than health-care inflation.” Ω

Sir David Attenborough has made a career of this. If you haven’t seen the 2007 Discovery Channel series Planet Earth, described as the biggest nature documentary ever made for TV, seek it out.

This guy or Mad Men? Narrated mostly by Sigourney Weaver, it is a stunning examination of life on the planet, flora and fauna, notable for the fierce commitment of Attenborough’s crews to endure hardships for months at a time to capture to-date unseen footage of the natural world.

That work was notable for its muted environmentalism.

Attenborough lets his well-captured tales of nature speak for nature’s defense, with almost no asides as to the human impacts.

Which is all so five years ago. These past Sunday nights on the Discovery Channel, Attenborough’s latest effort, Frozen Planet, has been aired with even more urgency (the series will run in its entirety on Earth Day, April 22). Three years in the making, Frozen Planet has all the trademark Attenborough moves—voiceover by Alec Baldwin; high-quality, high-definition footage; the careful unpacking of the story (this gaggle of penguins, that flotilla of killer whales). But make no mistake, this is great environmental work: factually accurate, thoughtfully stated, here to stay. It’s up against heady TV competition—oh, to choose between Mad Men, The Good Wife and this?—but the profundity of it all will stay with you long after you forgot just why Don Draper got remarried in the first place. Ω

(Come friend Aunt Ruth on Facebook and let’s hang out.)

ECO-HIT As green as it gets

With so many innovative green cars on the market and gas prices on the rise again, purchasing a new fuel-efficient car seems like a no-brainer, right? Actually, it’s rather complicated. That’s why you should check out the Green Car Reports website at www.greencarreports.com for the latest news and reviews on hybrid, electric, fuel-cell and clean-diesel cars. On the site, find buying guides, tips on fuel efficiency and even sneak peeks at some of the green-concept cars of the future.

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Sen. James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) put it this way: “The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous.”

It hardly needs pointing out that “He,” in this instance, is God. And it’s not unusual to see this sentiment expressed in religious terms. After all, if human beings are reshaping the basic biophysical systems of the planet, they are like unto gods. What terrifies people about that idea is not so much the power itself, but the responsibility that comes with it. If the state of the entire biosphere is the product of our decisions and actions, then we hold the fate of the Follow David Roberts’ Twitter feed at only known life-bearing planet, and www.twitter.com/ all the life on it, in our hands. drgrist.

That is an almost unthinkably heavy burden to bear. Nonetheless, Go to www.anthro there it is. We have entered what a pocene.info to watch a growing number of earth scientists video on what some are calling the Anthropocene, a geoearth scientists believe is a new geological era. logical era characterized by the influence of a single species.

There’s a new video—from an educational project developed by the

Planet Under Pressure conference— that does a great job of introducing the idea (see column note).

The most mind-bending aspect of all this is that 1950, the point when truly massive changes began to occur at hyper speeds, wasn’t that long ago.

People born after 1950 grew up alongside changes of a scope and scale that defy anything they were prepared for in their education or personal experience. Their cultural identities have been shaped under circumstances that no longer exist and assumptions that no longer apply.

If the state of the biosphere is the product of human decisions and actions, then we hold the fate of the only known lifebearing planet, and all the life on it, in our hands.

The Anthropocene represents a shift in perspective that goes beyond the political or economic. It is ethical, ontological, even existential. The full implications won’t be clear for many years. We are still denying it or negotiating with it or trying to squeeze it into conventional categories. It will be for our children to fully come to terms with it—and, unfortunately, to suffer for our failure of imagination. Ω PH

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Let’s talk taxes California, like most states, needs additional revenue to Can the economy prosper with a poorly educated fund schools and to invest in the future. Our workforce? public schools are in crisis—and they are getting California grew and prospered from 1970 to worse. Their decline is a direct result of massive 1994, based upon a well-educated workforce. budget cuts imposed by the Legislature and the The wealth that funds our current highways, governor in the last four years. Total expendiparks, universities, community colleges and jobs tures are down by more than $1,000 per student. is based upon past public investments. Then, in The result is massive class-size increases. the period between 1994 and 2008, more than Students are often in classes too large for quality $10 billion in corporate-tax cuts were passed, learning. Supplementary services such as tutormaking the current economic crisis much worse. ing and art have been California suffers from a by eliminated. More than decade of disinvestment in Duane Campbell California suffers education and in infrastructure.

14,000 teachers have a professor already been dismissed Instead of continuing our from a decade of (emeritus) of and thousands more face state’s once proud commitment bilingual/multicultural layoffs. disinvestment in to public education, today antieducation at California schools are tax forces have imposed a Sacramento State, the education and in author of Choosing now 47th in the nation in “Mississippi model” on our Democracy: per-pupil expenditure and children and our schools. infrastructure.

A Practical Guide to 49th in class size. Our low California needs to invest in Multicultural roads, bridges, telephone lines, Education and blogger achievement scores on national tests reflect this communications systems, parks, clean energy at www.choosing severe underfunding. and quality education. These are the down paydemocracy. blogspot.com The economic crisis of 2007 to the present— ments that make prosperity possible. Republican caused by bankers and their lobbyists—made opposition to any new taxes ignores the undenimatters worse. The state took in some $30 billion able historic fact that prosperity depends upon Have a comment?

Express your views less in taxes, and thus had less to send to the having a viable educational system and a wellin 350 words on schools. School budgets have been cut by some functioning infrastructure. a local topic $10 billion.

As Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell of interest.

The question for the anti-tax advocates, the Holmes said, “Taxes are what we pay for civiSend an e-mail to California Chamber of Commerce—and ultilized society.” Ω editorial@ newsreview.com. mately for California voters this fall—is this: BEFORE

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If you don’t think climate change is real, ask an insurance agent. The folks who have you “in good hands” when someone rear-ends you in Midtown or dings your door in the Arden Fair mall parking lot have one agenda: to make money. It’s the American capitalist way.

And early this year, National Public Radio reported that insurance rates for homeowners were rising across the board for one very specific reason: recent weatherrelated catastrophes—“Snowmageddon,” hurricanes, tornadoes and even wildfires—which caused $35 billion in insurance losses. That’s in addition to the roughly $70 billion in economic losses.

The thing about insurance agents is that they’re not the nervous type. The people who go into the business tend to be pretty calm. Instead, they’re all about measuring risk and betting against it. They want to take your premiums for 40 years and never have to pay out for much of anything—maybe a broken window or a new fence from a terrible storm.

That’s how insurance agents Climate change tends make their money. They pay attento have a politically tion to risk—and they know that climate change, with its associated destabilizing effect. extreme-weather events, is real.

If you doubt that, They know it’s going to cost money, a lot of it, and they don’t ask the Pentagon. want it to be their money.

You know who else knows climate change is real?

The people who live on the archipelago nation of the Maldives. Located in the Indian Ocean, the Republic of Maldives is the world’s lowest-lying country, with an elevation of less than 5 feet. Its first democratically elected president, Mohamed Nasheed, has been speaking out about climate change and its threat to his country right up until February, when he was ousted in a coup by the nation’s former dictatorship.

You see, in addition to costing money, climate change tends to have a politically destabilizing effect. If “The Current Status of you doubt that, ask the Pentagon. The Department of Climate Change—A Defense first identified climate change as a possible Non-Partisan Analysis,” national-security issue in a 2003 report, but starting in a lecture by UC Berkeley 2010, climate change has been included in the professor Rich Muller, is Quadrennial Defense Review. The threat to our national available as an online http://science security—and to world stability, given the way that cli- video: atcal.berkeley.edu/ mate change causes migration—is of great concern to lectures. both the Pentagon and the CIA, according to its own news releases.

So as we celebrate yet another Earth Day—the 42nd—let’s think about the consequences of climate change. It’s real. It’s here. It’s already changing our lives in ways both big and small. The question is: What are we willing to do about it?

Because the planet—Earth itself—will go on, at least until it’s struck by an asteroid and shattered or swallowed up in the sun’s death. But in the near future, life on this little blue marble can easily become impossible for us, our children and our grandchildren.

So park your car and walk or bike to work.

Plant a garden. Clean up your street. Talk to your neighbors about gardening a food co-op, or neighborhood work days. Use the time we’ve got to make the Earth a little healthier and plan for what’s to come. And make sure your insurance is paid up. Ω |

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Recession and real-estate collapse be damned: Sacramento-area leaders and developers continue to plot to grow the suburbs

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The hulking, half-built Elk Grove Promenade makes a too-fitting symbol of the real-estate collapse and the end of seemingly unlimited suburban sprawl.

It’s like a ghostly shipwreck, warning Elk Grove’s civic leaders: “Turn back, before it’s too late.” Even the name of company that went bankrupt trying to build this mall, General Growth Properties, seems a little bit on the nose. Turn back.

Elk Grove is not turning back.

Instead, the once-booming city is pushing to expand its sphere of influence—the reach of the city’s land-use authority—and then eventually annex about 8,000 acres to its south and east, pushing farther into the Cosumnes River basin, farmland and critical wildlife habitat. If approved, the city would grow by 30 percent, overnight.

There’s even a new developer promising to restart the wreck of the Elk Grove Promenade. The company is called The Howard Hughes Corporation.

True, there’s not a lot of demand right now for new subdivisions and malls. Nobody’s talking about sprawl these days; it’s all about recession, foreclosures, stagnation.

So it might seem counterintuitive—maybe even a little crazy—to put so much land in play for new development.

And yet …

• The city of Folsom has almost successfully annexed a 3,500-acre swath of oak woodlands and farmland on its southern border, instantly adding 25 percent to that city’s area.

• Both cities’ development plans would break Sacramento County’s longstanding urban-growth boundary. “This was considered to be the very long-term edge of growth,” says Rob Burness, a former urban planner with the county.

• And Sacramento County itself is considering approval of a massive new development called Cordova Hills—in an area previously considered off-limits to development.

Linking all of these hot spots: Local officials, business groups and developers are pushing forward on a plan to build a $500 million “connector” from Elk Grove to Folsom and on to the suburban El Dorado Hills in the next county.

This will undoubtedly relieve congestion—for a while. But critics say the roadway will just open up the rural east county to even more development.

“Overbuilding the suburbs is precisely how we got into the real-estate crash we’re in now. You step out of rehab, and the first thing you do is head for the bar?”

Alex Kelter former president Environmental Council of Sacramento

Add it all up, and it’s not hard to imagine a whole new ring of sprawling suburbs, far away from the urban core.

“Overbuilding the suburbs is precisely how we got into the real-estate crash we’re in now,” says Alex Kelter, former president of the Environmental Council of Sacramento, or ECOS. “You step out of rehab, and the first thing you do is head for the bar? That’s not the way out of this mess.”

The mall that built itself a city

“It’s no secret that Elk Grove has always thumbed its nose at other jurisdictions,” says Chris Tooker, a member of the Sacramento County Local Agency Formation Commission. “They are just bound and determined to go off and do things their own way.”

His agency will ultimately decide—probably by this summer—whether to approve Elk Grove’s application to expand. The board is mostly made up of elected officials from other government agencies, cities and special districts. Tooker is the board’s elected-atlarge public member. He seems skeptical.

He calls the environmental review of the proposal so far “woefully insufficient,” and also says “Elk Grove should be looking inside of its own boundaries” for infill opportunities to address the “jobs-housing balance.”

Elk Grove has a long history of pushing that urban limit.

In the 1990s, developers tried to get county approval for a regional shopping mall on the site of the old Lent Ranch, down the road from the town of Elk Grove. The proposed site was right next to the county’s Urban Service Boundary, the long-term limit for development.

The whole idea behind the USB, established in 1993, is to require development to proceed in a more or less orderly and efficient fashion. Inside the USB, services such as roads, sewers, schools, transit, police and fire protection can be added on incrementally— not spread out over ever farther-flung exurbs.

That’s supposed to be good for the environment, and for taxpayers.

County officials reasoned that sticking a shopping mall right next to the USB would almost certainly open the farmland south of the mall to runaway sprawl, and they rejected the mall proposal.

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Even after the recession and realestate collapse, the cities of Elk Grove, Rancho Cordova and Folsom still aim to expand and “sprawl” (see pink-colored areas for proposed city growth). What’s more, a $500 million, six-lane, 35-mile-long “connector” (see gold line) is being planned to connect all three newgrowth areas. Federal dollars and countywide Measure A sales tax will pay for most of the new expressway.

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But in 2000, Elk Grove-area residents went to the ballot to form their own city. The incorporation effort was largely bankrolled by developers, and the company pushing the Lent Ranch Mall, M&H Realty Partners, turned out to be the biggest campaign contributor to the candidates for Elk Grove’s first city council.

In the spring of 2000, voters approved the incorporation of the new city of Elk Grove. In the spring of 2001, the new Elk Grove City Council approved the construction of the mall.

And the city’s been sprawling ever since. Just 12 years old, Elk Grove is already the second-largest city in Sacramento County. In 2005, it was declared America’s fastestgrowing city.

There’s something in Elk Grove’s “civic culture” that makes it want to grow, says Mike Eaton. “It’s pretty clear that the idea behind the sphere is to create more shoppers for that mall,” he said. Eaton used to be director of the Cosumnes River Preserve, just a few miles from Elk Grove’s proposed new southern boundary.

The farmland that is being proposed for annexation is a core part of a complicated habitat-conservation plan that is being developed between local governments and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Cranes and hawks and other birds use the farms for foraging before returning to the wetlands south. The farms also provide an important buffer between the suburbs and the preserve, and the floodplains of the Cosumnes River and nearby Deer Creek. The farms also provide an important buffer between the suburbs and the Cosumnes River.

“The city wants to urbanize everything that’s not right in the floodplain,” says Eaton. “But if we build right up to the floodplain, that’s going to doom the cranes and the hawks.”

City officials readily acknowledge that there will be significant environmental impacts if the area is developed. But they say that those will be addressed as plans get more specific. For now, the city wants to bring the land into its sphere as part of a long-range plan to create more jobs in the city. Right now, the city has 150,000 residents, but only about 30,000 jobs.

The city says the new land is needed to help address that imbalance between jobs and housing.

“We’re looking 30, 40, 50 years out,” says Elk Grove Mayor Gary Davis, who says the new land will be high density and job centers, “not rooftops.”

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way up to Kammerer Road, at some point, it’s going to develop. This plan puts the city in the driver’s seat. Not the developers.”

But Elk Grove’s own market study, commissioned by the city and carried out by the Center for Strategic Economic Research in 2010, notes that the city already has 3,000 acres of vacant land available.

At most, according to the study, Elk Grove needs an additional “200 to 1,400 acres” to accommodate modest growth in retail and office construction over the next 20 years. That’s far less than the 8,000 acres of farmland it’s looking to pull into its sphere of influence.

Eaton says there are better way to solve the jobs and housing imbalance. The city is struggling with foreclosures, gasoline is more than $4 a gallon, again, it’s increasingly difficult for local government to provide basic services.

“And Elk Grove’s solutions is— drumroll please—more sprawl!” says Eaton. “I truly believe that what they are doing is criminal.”

Folsom annexation blues

The cows munching grass along White Rock Road didn’t go to the city. The city came to them.

Back in February of this year, the city of Folsom put up new city-limit signs along a 3,500-acre rectangle of farmland and oak-studded hills south of Highway 50, nearly completing the process of annexing these pastures into the city.

“Elk Grove’s solution is—drumroll please— more sprawl. I truly believe what they are doing is criminal.”

Mike Eaton former director Cosumnes River Preserve

Environmental and Folsom-citizen groups fought the city’s growth-annexation plan for years and years. The city completed a “sphere of influence” process, similar to what Elk Grove is attempting now, more than a decade ago.

In 2004, residents managed to get a ballot measure qualified that would have blocked growth south of Highway 50. But the city got it thrown out in court. Tooker voted to support Folsom’s sphere of influence years ago, and the annexation this year.

“I don’t think it’s sprawl. Not in the context of Folsom. They really had nowhere else to go,” says Tooker, noting that the city is

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And the city agreed to several conditions. It has to follow more modern-planning principles, invest in public transit, and preserve a third of the land in open space.

Figuring out how to bring water to the urban frontier will be trickier.

The city is right on the American River, but is already using all of the water from the American that it legally can, and can’t draw more without robbing its downstream neighbors or hurting flows for salmon and other native fish.

There’s not nearly enough groundwater to help. The local water table is already overtaxed by existing development.

So Folsom has struck a deal with Natomas Central Mutual Water Company, which happens to own some water rights on the Sacramento River, near the town of Freeport— clear across the county.

The idea is to build new pipes to pump 8,000-acre feet of water from Freeport to Folsom. The pipes will cost of about $250 million, mostly paid for by Folsom ratepayers.

Along the way, those pipes will travel through miles of rural east Sacramento County. “And chances are, those pipes will be sized to induce even more growth,” said David Mogavero, president of the California Planning and Conservation League.

Rancho’s college town

Traveling south from Folsom’s southern frontier, White Rock Road hooks up with Grant Line Road. The twolane Grant Line runs south, then southeast all the way to Elk Grove.

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If you Google “Cordova Hills,” the first thing that comes up in the search results reads “Cordova Hills is a proposed project located within the Urban limit lines of Sacramento County.”

In fact, the would-be developers of Cordova Hills—a proposed 2,700acre master-planned community—even highlights the importance the two-decade-old boundary as a selling point for their project: “Cordova Hills lies within this long-established USB.” But only just. In fact, until recently, this land would have been considered too far from the existing urban area to qualify for development. But recently, the county board of supervisors—considered by some to be the most pro-growth board in many years—loosened the rules a bit.

New-growth areas now can be approved outside what is called the “urban policy area,” but still within the USB, if they meet certain criteria. Projects can get credit for including higher-density housing or public transportation, and efforts to comply with clean-air and climatechange laws.

Cordova Hills, as it’s drawn up now, checks off several of those boxes. A big part of the reason the county board of supervisors agreed to consider the Cordova Hills project was a promised 6,000-student university, to be operated by Catholic group the Legionaries of Christ.

“The board was intrigued by that,” said county planner Tricia Stevens. But the economic collapse and sexual-abuse scandals have taken their toll on the church, too, and last year, the Legionaries announced they were pulling out of project.

The developers insist that a university will still be an integral part of the project. But they want to the keep the project moving forward while they look for another partner.

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“Our issue is that this development is just too premature. We need to give infill and close in development more of a chance to succeed,” says former planner Burness. There are thousands of acres along Jackson Highway, for example, that are closer to infrastructure, closer to transit and less environmentally damaging, he says.

But “premature” is not a checkbox in the county’s new criteria point system for approving new growth.

“We’re looking at whether or not it meets the criteria,” says Stevens.

The outer ring

If you drive Grant Line Road today—probably best to pick a Sunday—it’s a somewhat bucolic drive along a two-lane country road.

During the week, the road gets congested with commuters making their way from Elk Grove and Folsom and the Highway 50 connector.

Enter the “Capital SouthEast Connector”: a $500 million highway proposed to join the sprawling frontier of Elk Grove to the sprawling frontier of Folsom—and beyond, to El Dorado Hills.

Backers of the project—which would be 35 miles long, and four to six lanes wide—say the roadway is desperately needed to give some relief to those commuters.

“There’s more and more congestion on the freeways, and that system can’t be expanded anymore,” says Tom Zlotkowski, director of the Capital SouthEast Connector Joint Powers Authority. The JPA is a partnership between the county, Elk Grove, Folsom, Rancho Cordova and El Dorado County.

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The city of Folsom is almost finished annexing 3,500 acres of farmland south of Highway 50. It put up new city-limit signs in February.

Zlotkowski says the connector will relieve some of the congestion on highways 99 and 50, and also offer “congestion-free” travel between the new-growth areas in the east county.

But critics say the new lanes will fill up as fast as they are built. “We can’t build our way out of congestion. We just can’t,” says Mogavero.

He may be onto something. Zlotkowski noted that the plans for the connector don’t anticipate new expansion south of Elk Grove, right next to the proposed southern end of the connector. The plans also don’t take into account a major development at Cordova Hills, even though the two projects are side by side.

“It will probably congest the connector a little more than it should,” Zlotkowski acknowledged.

Line Road along the proposed route of the connector outside the USB. They feared the new highway, traveling right along the growth boundary, would promote sprawl throughout the east county.

As it’s designed now, the connector— Zlotkowski calls it a “parkway”—would have 14 interchanges over its entire length. “We’re trying to control the access as much as we can,” he says. Control the access, and perhaps you can control the sprawl. With the roadway, and without better planning, the sprawl will be worse, says Zlotkowski.

“It’s not perfect, but it’s better than what’s going to be out there if we do nothing.”

But the growth-inducing impacts of the connector are almost certain to be fought over in court.

Today, Grant Line is a country road. But it’s not too hard to imagine it rebooted as future suburban expressway—traveling along the outer ring of sprawl.

Turn back, says Mogavero, that kind of development is not the future we want.

He’s been an architect, specializing in infill development, and an environmental activist in Sacramento for decades. Recently, he’s been talking to more developers and planners from around the state.

“The market is changing,” he says.

“Developers don’t want to be anywhere but the built urban areas. I think that’s got to rub off on Sacramento eventually.”

Late last year, the Urban Land Institute did a study of the state’s real-estate picture, specifically in Sacramento, the Bay Area, Los Angeles and San Diego. The report, “The New California Dream,” asserts that none of the traditional large-lot, single-family homes need to be built in the state to meet demand—because demand is falling, and inventories are still high.

Which is why people like Mogavero and Burness are trying to get local electeds to stop building the outer ring of suburbs before its too late.

“You can see the jurisdictions and the developers and speculators lining up,” says former county planner Burness. “It’s just so premature. There’s a lot of vacant land.

The market is stopped in its tracks.

“Why not give infill a chance?” Ω

“The market is changing.

Developers don’t want to be anywhere but the built urban areas. I think that’s got to rub off on Sacramento eventually.”

David Mogavero president Planning and Conservation League

About $115 million of money needed to build the connector comes from a countywide half-cent sales tax for transportation projects, which was approved by voters as Measure A back in 2004. Another $200 million comes from a pot of state and federal money divvied up by the Sacramento Area Council of Governments in the area Metropolitan Transportation Plan.

That leaves a little more than $100 million left to make up. Zlotkowski says the shortfall could come from developer fees, or from users fees such as a toll. Or it could come from another tax measure that would go to voters.

Call it “son of Measure A.” That could be a tough sell politically.

Environmentalists split on Measure A back in 2004, when voters approved it; many opposed it because it favored roads and highways heavily over public transit.

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ARTS&CULTURE The Arjun Singh.

Goodbye, Cynthia Dall I only met Cynthia Dall a few years ago, and to be honest, I really didn’t know her that well.

Yet news of her death not only shocked me, it left me feeling indescribably bereft. In a way, I felt as though I’d known the 41-year-old local artist forever. In a way, I had.

Dall died April 5 in her home; the cause of death,

by RACHEL LEIBROCK according to her family, is still unknown.

I’d first heard of Dall, born in Roseville and raised in Sacramento, in the mid-’90s when she worked with her then-boyfriend Bill Callahan. Callahan played lo-fi moody pop under the name Smog, and Dall appeared on some of his singles and albums, including The Doctor Came at Dawn, the 1996 soundtrack to my life.

That same year, Dall released a solo album on the Chicago-based indie label Drag City Records. The untitled disc didn’t feature Dall’s name anywhere on the packaging— something I would have found pretentious if the resulting album wasn’t so captivating.

Songs such as “Christmas (California)” and “Grey and Castles” were at once mysterious and brooding, arty yet accessible.

It’d be several years before Dall released another album—2002’s Sound Restores Young Men—and eventually, I sort of forgot about her, memories of her music tucked away into my subconscious.

Until three years ago when a friendly woman struck up a conversation with me at a Friday Night Concerts in the Park show.

The band Dog Party was playing and, impressed, the woman turned around to ask me—anyone, within earshot really—the name of the band. She had chestnut hair pulled into a girlish ponytail and brown eyes that sparkled with excitement and seemingly relentless enthusiasm. She wanted the band to play a political fundraiser—what could I tell her I tried to hide about them? How could she get in touch with their manager? the slight sense We ended up talking for about an hour and of awestruck eventually, upon exchanging introductions, I tried to hide the slight sense of awestruck foolishness that I foolishness that I felt upon meeting someone felt upon meeting who’d contributed, not insignificantly, to the musical backdrop of my 20s. someone who’d Not that it mattered to her—Dall was still contributed, not making music but, these days, it seemed, she was more interested in grassroots insignificantly, organizing. She had come out to Cesar to the musical Chavez Plaza, in fact, to register voters—an impressive task considering she lived in backdrop Curtis Park and epilepsy prevented her from of my 20s. driving. Indeed, she’d walked miles in the blazing heat, and as the sun finally started its dip behind the trees, she waved off offers for a ride and started on her journey back home.

In time, Cynthia and I became friends of sorts—dinner and beer, email exchanges, texts, Google chats and Facebook posts. At first, I wanted to profile Dall for this paper and although she initially agreed, whenever I broached the subject in future conversations, she’d artfully change the subject.

That was fine. Eventually, I realized, I’d rather be Cynthia’s friend than a neutral observer in her life. Sometimes we discussed politics. Periodically, she talked about a boyfriend whom she missed. Occasionally, she offered details about the epilepsy often left her tired and prone to sudden seizures.

Always, she spoke with an enviable passion and vitality. She was moody and funny, angry and sweet, driven but able to stop and admire the beauty that surrounded her.

Over the last year, our exchanges became less frequent. I was busy, she had stuff going on. Life happens. Recently, however, we briefly chatted online and agreed we needed to get together again. Sometime. Soon.

I didn’t know Cynthia Dall very well, but her death leaves me sorrowful and yet also glad I had the chance to spin, however briefly, through her orbit.

Goodbye, Cynthia—you will be missed. Ω Smarted by Popsmart? Got something to say? Let Rachel know: popsmart@newsreview.com.

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hen 29-year-old Arjun Singh chose the name The Public Access Show for his absurdist sketch program, it wasn’t to make fun of the format. Sure, the fact that his show was on public access made for a few good laughs. But the main intent behind the name was to urge people to rethink the entire concept.

“If you were to turn on your publicaccess station, you’d find something religious or a cooking show where the audio sounds horrible,” Singh says.

“Everybody writes off [those shows] because there has been such crappy content over the years. But it can be an outlet for genuine content that’s entertaining and interesting.”

This is precisely what Singh hopes his show will demonstrate. The Public Access Show isn’t anything like what most people probably expect from such programming.

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It’s edgy and weird, and Singh’s sense of humor leans toward the ridiculous—he rarely goes for the overt yuk-yuk laughs.

Instead, his sensibilities are strange and his humor dry—the kind of understated comedy you’d find on shows such as Flight of the Conchords, Portlandia and Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! “I like stuff that isn’t clearly funny off the bat,” Singh says.

With just two episodes under his belt, Singh, who also plays drums in the indie dance band Wallpaper, has already secured The Public Access Show spots on four community stations (not to mention the Internet).

The show first aired on a Roseville TV cable station in August. In September, the show debuted on Davis Community Television, and in October he added Access Sacramento and the Community Center of Marin to his list of carriers.

Singh says he’s surprised by the reaction.

“A lot of people have been liking it. A lot more than I thought,” Singh says. “You can always get your friends to listen to a track or watch a video, but to get your friends to watch something and want to share it with

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their friends, that’s a huge success for me.”

Singh knew that friends were sharing it because the first episode got more than 800 views on YouTube, and the second one nearly doubled that number.

Before starting The Public Access Show, Singh says he had virtually no prior video experience. He’d made a few short videos in college and some vlogs here and there, but that was it.

What he did have is a lot of experience playing drums—his work with Wallpaper is the most notable entry on his musical résumé. Wallpaper appeared recently on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, played a gig at the South by Southwest music festival in March and is currently scheduled as part of this month’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival lineup.

While he loves playing drums, Singh says it means he’s always had to play the supporting role to someone else’s creative vision. So, when he got the idea for a cableaccess show, Singh jumped in with both feet.

“It’s the ultimate creative outlet, because it has me doing musical things, it has me drumming, it has me acting, it has me writing sketches—all these things that I really enjoy on a creative level, and [putting] them all in one place in one cohesive entity,” Singh says.

Plus, by doing the show, Singh adds, he’s learning what elements from his personal experiences makes for good comedic fodder.

One obvious idea that came to mind was to incorporate his drumming skills. So Singh created a reoccurring bit, “Advanced Drum Techniques”—a parody of those drum

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instructional videos that are prevalent in every musical instrument store in America.

“I take all the things that rub me the wrong way about drummers in the world and teach them as if that is the right way to do it,” Singh says.

In one episode, for instance, Singh spends the entire lesson teaching people how to properly twirl drumsticks.

The idea stemmed from his experiences touring with Wallpaper and seeing and meeting tons of terrible, pretentious drummers.

Arjun Singh’s sense of humor leans toward the ridiculous—he rarely goes for the overt yuk-yuk laughs. Instead, his sensibilities are strange and his humor dry.

Turning such experiences into sketches proved cathartic.

“Everyone has these ideas, whether you have a fucked-up situation and you try to make the best out of it, or something that’s so weird that it’s funny,” Singh says.

The overall idea for the show was set in motion after Singh learned that his local Roseville public-access station offered a course in television production. At first the musician was too busy with Wallpaper to take the class, but last year, during some down time, he enrolled. “[T]he class was the spark and everything came together,” Singh says.

In addition to the drumming skits, music plays a distinct role in Singh’s show. It makes

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sense, of course, considering he’s played his whole life. For years in fact, Singh says he’d been writing weird little comedy songs but didn’t have an outlet for them.

Now he has a place to showcase them, whether it’s the piano ballad about how difficult it is to be 24’s Jack Bauer or the sad song, “Pandas Are People Too.” The latter plays over a video in which a panda slowly walks to his car after getting fired from his big corporate-office job for not wearing clothes.

In fact, music is all over Singh’s show.

Still, for some reason, Singh says it was hard for him to write a theme song. So, instead, he wrote perhaps his weirdest sketch yet, a surreal scene in which three different versions of himself and a puppet sitting around a writer’s table trying to write the show’s theme song. One of the versions of Singh suggests they make a dubstep song. So the four of them all test out this idea by performing an a capella dubstep song—only to have a different Singh suggest that maybe a theme song wasn’t needed after all.

For his second episode, Singh announced for weeks before the show aired that he would be having Cake on the show. And indeed he did, but it was an actual cake—the kind you eat, not the band. For the record, the baked good did perform a song.

“Everyone assumed that through my magical musical connections, Cake was actually performing on my show. I do know people that know people that are in Cake. It’s not so far out,” Singh says.

For the show’s upcoming third episode, loosely scheduled to air in mid-May, Singh is raising his personal bar for creativity—or any other public-access show for that matter—by filming the entire episode in 3-D. And, he’s doing it the hard way.

“None of this George Lucas bullshit where you add it later. I am actually filming it with two cameras and editing with two cameras at the same time,” Singh says.

Singh says he has no plans to try to turn The Public Access Show into something more than it already is—a fun creative outlet. Currently, Singh works as a temp doing Web administrative and multimedia production. The biggest gift his local public-access-TV station has given him, he says, is an outlet and the ability to explore his new-found love for TV production.

“Video is a whole new world for me,” Singh says.

“It’s comforting to know that you can find something late in the game that you really are passionate about.” Ω For information on when and where to see The Public Access Show, visit www.thepublicaccessshow.com or www.facebook.com/thepublicaccessshow.

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Janky does it On Saturday, a group of past editors and freelance contributors to monthly free magazine Midtown Monthly gathered in the Hollywood Park, home of blogger and contributing writer Sarah Singleton. Midtown Monthly abruptly closed shop in March when Capitol Weekly, the publication with which it shared support staff, became an online-only publication.

We had come to mourn the death of MidMo, as it was affectionately known. This nickname was coined by Chris Woodhouse, a local musician once featured on the cover with his long hair completely covering his face, Cousin Ittstyle. Who else but MidMo would have a cover like that, or for that matter, a cover with performance artist Mom on it, or long-dead, sozzled be-bopper Bobby Burns?

Singleton prepared a retro spread for the group: canapés topped with egg salad and smoked salmon, deviled eggs, herbed shrimp. There was also some powerful punch, prompting editor Tim Foster to quip, “There’s a bowl of alcohol with a little bit of punch in it.”

His wife (and former MidMo editor) Liv Moe, sporting a vintage cocktail dress and suede boots, reminisced that when she first took over as editor, she was so inexperienced that she panicked about a blank page and filled it with scanned punk-show flyers and a picture of “a dog dressed as a leprechaun.”

Indeed, most of MidMo’s staff comprised amateur writers (our day jobs include social worker, cartographer, neuroscientist and a handful of historians) brought together by a love and passion for Sacramento as it exists, not as a future fever dream of abundant parking and luxury lounges conjured by developers and suburbanites—kind of like the anti-Sactown Magazine.

The “Keep Midtown Janky” issue, published in 2010, perhaps best embodied this ethos, to some controversy. Singleton’s profile of Melanie Dinos, the woman behind the slogan and the brilliant bumper stickers, garnered more than 40 comments on MidMo’s usually moribund website. The magazine’s writers were accused of being “hippie-minded slackers” who made Sacramento look like a “cow town” and might as well have said “Keep Midtown Gross.”

On the contrary, these critics misunderstood a tongue-in-cheek attempt to repurpose this word to encompass the Midtown’s scruffy charms, both past and present. For frequent contributor William Burg, Java City of the late ’80s and early ’90s was the ne plus ultra of such jank.

“It was my image of Midtown when I was a teenager; superhuman people in cat-eye glasses and leopard jackets,” Burg said. “[I thought:] ‘That’s what I want to be when I grow up.’”

Burg said his 2011 article on that bygone scene as his favorite and, accordingly, we started picking out our favorite covers and stories, leafing through the piles of back issues that Foster brought with him. Remember that photo of John Waters (high priest of jank) posing with MidMo? Remember that Ganglians interview before they hit it big? Mayor Heather Fargo posing in front of a mural

by Skinner? And the William T. Vollmann profile? We chuckled over the typos, which one contributor noted that we were “known for.”

As the punch flowed and the hours sped by, the gettogether resembled a celebration much more than a wake.

I barely knew some of these folks five years ago when I started writing for MidMo; now they’re my friends. The night was such a success, that we’re already planning the next one. MidMo is dead; long live MidMo. —Becky Grunewald

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DON’T MISS! DANCE SAMPLER: Savor a

taste of dance styles from around the region with the 2012 Sacramento Dance Sampler, featuring works from local professional dance companies such as the CORE Dance Collective, Linda Bair Dance Company, S/BAD, Philip Flickinger/Dig, Red Bucket Dance Theatre, E:motion Dance Ensemble, Project Engine and Lorelei Bayne/Projects. Th, 4/19, 7pm. $10. Solano 1010, Sacramento State, 6000 J St.; (916) 278-6368; www.csus.edu/festival.

Special Events BRIDAL OPEN HOUSE: Arden Hills Resort Club & Spa invites brides, couples and event planners to a bridal open houseù where they can enjoy appetizers and refreshments while touring the site. Th, 4/19, 5:307:30pm. Free. Arden Hills Resort Club & Spa, 1220 Arden Hills Ln.; (916) 482-6111; www.ardenhills.net.

DINNER & AUCTION: Freedom Christian School invites you to participate in its annual dinner and auction. Dinner is hosted

by The Elephant Bar and Restaurant. All proceeds from this event will assist in efforts to impact the lives of children and teens in the greater Sacramento area. Th, 4/19, 6-9pm. Free. Fair Oaks Presbyterian Church, 11427 Fair Oaks Blvd. in Fair Oaks; (916) 962-3247; www.fcs-online.org.

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Art galleries and musems, family events, education classes, film and literary events, church groups, music, sports, volunteer opportunies—all this and more on our free events calendar at www.newsreview.com.

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THE GAY MAFIA: Catch an improv comedy show by the acclaimed Los Angeles-based sketchcomedy troupe. Th, 4/19, 7:30pm. Free. Sacramento State University Union Ballroom, 6000 J St.; (916) 278-6997; www.SacStateUNIQUE.com.

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DON’T MISS! SOUL QUENCHER: A SPOKEN-WORD NIGHT: Are

you a young adult looking for a place to meet new people and enjoy a night of inspiring poetry? This event features slam poet Heather Christian, a musical performance by Izreal Graham and an open-mic from 7 to 8 p.m. F, 4/20, 7-10pm. $5.

Underground Books, 2814 35th St.; (916) 737-3333; www.facebook.com/events/ 384523578238116.

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a nuanced point of view, this documentary tells the story of Daniel McGowan, an Earth Liberation Front member who faces life in prison for two multi-million dollar arsons against Oregon timber companies. A discussion begins at 7:30 p.m., film at 8 p.m. F, 4/20, 7:30pm. Free. Lavender Library, 1414 21st St.; (916) 492-0558.

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Film 420 TRIPLE FEATURE: Apprehensive Films presents the 420 Triple Feature, celebrating some of the best, most idiotic, hilarious and absurd educational films on the subject of marijuana use. The three films to be screened are Drug Addiction (1951), Keep Off the Grass (1969) and Marijuana (1968) hosted by Sonny Bono. F, 4/20, 11pm. $10.50. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.; (916) 442-7378; www.thecrest.com.

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420 BASH: Join a special 420 bash showcasing reggae and hip-hop acts J Ras & Lady Grace, Cappy Franti & Sunchild, and deejays Vision, Shera and Puff.

F, 4/20, 9pm-3am. $8-$10. Haven Underground, 228 Broad St. in Nevada City; (916) 390-3154; https://www.facebook.com/eve nts/298203490248535.

BRAVO BACH FESTIVAL CONCERT 1: Jack D. Miller directs the Bravo Bach Festival Orchestra, chorus and soloists in G. F. Handel’s Messiah Parts 2 and 3 (the so-called “Easter portion”). Following the practice of Handel, when performing his oratorios, the program will also include an organ concerto.

The orchestra and singers will employ baroque performance practice. F, 4/20, 7:30-9:30pm. $30. St. Mark’s United Methodist Church, 2391 St. Mark’s Way; (916) 483-7848.

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DON’T MISS! SACRAMENTO STORYTELLING FESTIVAL: Storytelling guilds

from Sacramento, Auburn and Placerville team up to present Sacramento’s first Storytelling Festival. The festival features storytelling via a story slam, liars’ contest, spoken word, a kids’ place and cultural performances. Sa, 4/21, 10am-10pm. Free. Carol’s Books, 1913 Del Paso Blvd.; (916) 205-3970.

Special Events BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS FUNDRAISING WALK: Join Save Ourselves, a local breast cancer organization on a leisurely walk along the American River Parkway. SOS is a local, all-volunteer allsurvivor organization that offers peer counseling, a 24hour hotline, support groups and educational events for those living with breast cancer and their loved ones.

Sa, 4/21, 8am. $35-$40. Watt Avenue Access Park, American River, La Riviera Drive and Watt Ave.; (916) 786-4673; www.save-ourselves.org.

Let’s get straight to it: The Earth is having trouble sustaining its 7 billion human inhabitants. Naturally, Earth Day will be celebrated with much more than a day’s worth of events. This week is full of earth-friendly activities and events highlighting ways that we can treat the Earth better.

Here are 12 cool and unique ways to celebrate in and around Sacramento:

THE MES AMIS VINTAGE ANTIQUES SHOW: The Mes Amis Vintage Antiques Show is an antique market in the heart of Roseville produced by Sandy Bryan of The Olive and Rose. Using her family’s vintage 1963 Shasta as her home base, Sandy hand-selects more than 40 quality vendors and vintage designers and they set the street with vintage furnishings, inspired art and jewelry.

Sa, 4/21, 8am-4pm. Free. The 400 block of Oak Street, between Taylor and S. Grant in Roseville; (916) 206-9144; www.theoliveandrose. blogspot.com.

OPEN GARDEN: The Sacramento Historic Rose Garden will be in full bloom for the annual Open Garden. Join one of the free tours of the roses, and visit the perennial and California native plant gardens. Sale of historic roses and roserelated merchandise, and a silent auction will raise funds for maintenance of the rose garden. Sa, 4/21, 9:30am-2pm.

Free. Old City Cemetery, 1000 Broadway; (916) 264-7839; http://oldcitycemetery.com.

Classes HOW TWO CAN EAT HEALTHY MEALS: Specialist Chris Chisholm will teach you how to improve your health, mood and weight by preparing nutrient-dense foods free from preservatives and dyes, save time and money by preplanning meals, and prepare quick and easy meals using healthy, inexpensive ingredients. Sa, 4/21, 2pm.

Free. Arden-Dimick Library, 891 Watt Ave.; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

Film PREMIERE CINEMA EXPERIENCE: The Sacramento International Film Festival invites you to discover former governor Pat Brown in an exciting tale of

political power and a family dynasty. The California State of Mind: The Legacy of Pat Brown, premieres on opening night of the festival. Sa, 4/21, 7:30-9:30pm. $12. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St.; (916) 524-5138; www.sacramentofilm festival.com.

Kids’ Stuff DIA CELEBRATION: Guitarist Felipe Ferraz performs a selection of songs in English and Spanish that entertains and delight.

The audience is encouraged to participate and sing along.

Sa, 4/21, 11am. Free. PocketGreenhaven Library, 7335 Gloria Dr.; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

Literary Events AUTHOR AND POET DR. ANDY JONES: California Writers Club, Sacramento Branch presents Dr. Andy Jones, a poet, author, UC Davis faculty member and radio talk show host, at its luncheon meeting during National Poetry Month. Sa, 4/21, 11am-1pm. $12-$14. Tokyo Buffet, 7217 Greenback Ln. in Citrus Heights; (916) 213-0798; www.cwcsacramento writers.org.

Meetings & Groups DOWNTOWN SOCIAL HIKE: This will be a social and urban hike followed by social drinking. The goal is partly to exercise but mostly to socialize, get to see the city and have some beers at the end. Do not worry too much about your physical condition as it’s just a few-mile hike. Sa, 4/21, 1pm. Free.

Ambrosia Cafe, 1030 K St.; (415) 269-3586; www.comehike.com/hikes/scheduled_hike. php?hike_id=280.

Poetry CROSSROADS: The Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento presents Crossroads, a reading series featuring distinctive poetic voices, hosted by Trina Drotar and Sandy Thomas. The series is dedicated to enriching the interplay between literary and visual artists. The second presentation in the series will feature Susan Kelly-DeWitt and Lisa Dominguez Abraham.

Sa, 4/21, 3pm. Free. Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, 1519 19th St.; (916) 498-9811; www.ccasac.org.

Concerts ANNIVERSARY CONCERT: The Capitol Pops will present its 15th anniversary concert.

Since 1997, the Capitol Pops has performed a diverse portfolio of high-quality, well-prepared music for thousands of concert-goers throughout Northern California. Sa, 4/21, 7:309:30pm. Free. Rusch Park, 7801 Auburn Blvd. in Citrus Heights; (916) 257-1188; http://capitol pops.org/calendar.

BRAVO BACH FESTIVAL CONCERT 2: Hear music for brass quintet, percussion and organ. This concert is co-sponsored by the American Guild of Organists. Performers include Scott Macomber, Michael Meeks, Cameron Kopf and more. Sa, 4/21, 7:30-9:30pm. $15. St. Mark’s United Methodist Church, 2391 St. Mark’s Way; (916) 483-7848.

OPERA FOREVER: The Camellia Symphony Orchestra presents Operas Forever, featuring arias and love songs. Doors open at 6 p.m. followed by

wine tasting from regional wineries, a silent auction, a Camellia Juniors concert and a pre-concert talk by Maestro Allan Pollack. Sa, 4/21, 6pm. $8-$28. Memorial Auditorium, 1515 J St.; (916) 929-6655; www.camelliasymphony.org.

RECITAL OF RONDALLAS: Enjoy a nice evening of of Latin romantic music, including performances by several Mexican Rondalla groups and the hometown Rondalla de Guadalupe. This Rondalla festival is all ages, and is unique due to the fact it is the only event of its type here in the United States. Sa, 4/21, 6-10pm.

Call for pricing. Hiram Johnson High School, 6879 14th Ave.; (916) 202-3155; www.rondalladeguadalupe.com.

22SUN DON’T MISS! 1000 VEGAN CUPCAKES FOR CHARITY: After the

Sacramento Earth Day celebration, the Sacramento Vegan Chef Challenge invites you to join this event featuring a display of 1,000 vegan cupcakes from 10 local bakeries. Local celebrities will serve as guest judges for the competition. There will also be a raffle.

Proceeds will go to three local charities. Su, 4/22, 4-7pm. Call for pricing.

Tower Bridge Bistro, 100 Capitol Mall; (916) 704-1868; http://sacvegan challenge.com.

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WWW.DONTDRIVEDIRTY.COM Quick Quack Car Wash takes pride in being environmentally friendly by conserving and recycling its water. Quick Quack reclaims 100 percent of the water used in its 100-foot car-washing tunnel due to a piece of filtering equipment that allows soapy rinse water to be reused. Only their spot-free final rinse uses fresh water, bringing the average fresh-water consumption down to 8 gallons per vehicle. That’s about one-tenth the amount of water used to wash a car in the driveway, which Quick Quack estimates uses between 50 and 150 gallons of fresh water.

Quick Quack Car Wash uses only biodegradable and nontoxic soaps which break down naturally in the sewer system without harming wildlife.

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Quick Quack also wants to encourage people to stop washing their cars at home. Washing a car in the driveway sends runoff into storm drains, where toxic soaps are then flushed into natural drainage areas. This pollutes groundwater and local waterways, which often end up in major rivers or the ocean.

Many touch-free full-service car washes rely on harsh chemicals and corrosive acids to remove dirt, which can be harmful to the environment as well as Quick Quack employees.

Quick Quack is also a proud member of WaterSavers, a car wash industry program dedicated to raising awareness for water conservation and environmentally friendly practices at professional car washes. Quick Quack Car Wash was also the first Sacramento area car wash to be certified as a green car wash by the Sacramento Business Environmental Resource Center (BERC).

In addition to being environmentally friendly, Quick Quack Car Wash is also known for its free self service vacuums and unlimited “wash all you want” car wash memberships starting $14.99 per month. Quick Quack has seven conveniently located Sacramento area locations. More information can be found online at DontDriveDirty.com or on the Quick Quack Car Wash mobile app for iPhone and Android.

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What is ECOS and what organizations does it support?

The Environmental Council of Sacramento (ECOS) is a coalition of 17 member organizations and more than 100 individual members who care about the environment and promote sustainable living in the Sacramento area. ECOS supports government agencies like the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District and the California Air Resources Board, as well as nongovernment organizations like the local chapter of Sierra Club, Breathe California and WALKSacramento. Our member organizations are: Stone Lakes Nat’l Wildlife Refuge, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Sierra Club Sacramento Group, Sacramento Housing Alliance, Sacramento Old City Association, Sacramento Natural Foods Coop, SEIU Local 1000, Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates, Gray Panthers, Sacramento Audubon Society, Save Our Sandhill Cranes, Sacramento County Young Democrats, Sacramento Vegetarian Society, Save the American River Association, Sacramento chapter of California Native Plant Society, Sacramento Green Democrats and Ubuntu Green.

What is Earth Day? Earth Day is a celebration of our efforts to protect and preserve our planet for ourselves and future generations. It was started in 1970 and many consider it the birth of the modern environmental movement. Sacramento was one of the cities across the nation that had an Earth Day celebration that first year, and ECOS was born from that effort. 1970 brought the death of Jimi Hendrix, the last Beatles album, and Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water.” Protest was the order of the day, but saving the planet was not the cause.

Although mainstream America remained oblivious to environmental concerns, the stage had been set for change by the publication of Rachel Carson’s New York Times bestseller “Silent Spring” in 1962. The book represented a watershed moment for the modern environmental movement and raised public awareness and concern for living organisms, the environment and public health. Earth Day 1970 capitalized on the emerging consciousness, channeling the energy of the anti-war protest movement and putting environmental concerns front and center. Remember, this is not so much for ourselves than for our children and our children’s children—a change of world view from “me” to “we”—we have no other choice to enjoy our planet as we have known it.

How did you first get involved in hosting Earth Day? Ten years ago the group of local environmentalists that had been supporting Sacramento’s Earth Day celebrations went on to other things, so it was natural for our nonprofit environmental organization to take the lead in causing an Earth Day celebration each year. ECOS solicits sponsorships from Sacramento area organizations that care about preserving our planet and living sustainably to underwrite the cost of staging the Earth Day celebration, which is free to the pubic.

How is this year’s event different from years past?

Our theme for Sacramento Earth Day 2012 is “Build a Greener Future.”

Every Sacramento Earth Day celebration is different due to a different mix of vendors, entertainers and participants each year. One of the favorite familyoriented features is Radio Disney, which interactively teaches youth about environmental responsibility. We will have amplified entertainers from the stage throughout the day—who perform for free as their way of contributing to Earth Day.

Where do you see ECOS in five years?

In five years, I see ECOS as an even stronger environmental advocate with a larger number of both organizational and individual members, as well as increased revenue that will result in more staff for our nonprofit.

When we challenge development and other projects that will hurt the environment, ECOS is “consulted with.” We want to continue to be successful in challenging unwise plans that will irreparably damage the Earth in the Sacramento area through litigation, so proponents will take our admonitions even more seriously.

DiD yOu knOW? • Americans use 2,500,000 plaStiC bOttlES every hour, most of which are thrown away.

• By far the most important non-CO2 greenhouse gas is mEtHanE, and the number one source of methane worldwide is animal agriculture.

What are some of the ways our readers can support the mission of Earth Day year-round?

• Methane is 21 timES mOrE powerful a greenhouse gas than CO2.

What each of us can do is become educated about how we can live more sustainably without significantly changing our lifestyles and share those changes with friends and neighbors. Youth is the key to our future, so parents and grandparents should develop habits that can be observed by kids like recycling, buying locally, using cloth bags when shopping, biking / walking, not wasting water and driving more environmentally friendly motor vehicles.

Come to the April 22, 2012 Earth Day celebration at Southside Park and learn how you can do these things.

• Unlike carbon dioxide which can remain in the air for more than a century, methane cycles out of the atmosphere in just eight years. So, lower methane emissions translate to a quicker COOling of the earth.

How can our readers support ECOS and get involved?

ECOS can always use more members. Our individual memberships are $36 per year and family memberships are $60 per year. People can become members at the Earth Day celebration, that is where my wife and I became ECOS members. One can also visit www.ecosacramento.net to become a member. Remember, all these costs are tax-deductible. We can also use people to participate on one of our committees—Land Use; Habitat; Organizational Development; and Transportation / Air Quality / Climate Change—where policy advocacy is discussed. We elect 10 at-large board members each year, and many come from our committees.

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• If just 25 percent of U.S. families used 10 fEWEr plaStiC bagS a month, we would use more than 2.5 billion fewer bags a year, thus less of these terrible, nonbiodegradeable bags will be disposed of into our environment • We could feed 3.7 billiOn malnourished humans if we fed them the grains that we feed the animals.

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Sac Green Cleaners, LLC is a local small business aiming to provide much needed cleaning services while being environmentally conscious. For us, consuming fewer PETRO products is imperative. We use a silicone-based working fluid branded Green Earth Cleaning. Unlike its counterpart, Green Earth Cleaning contains no volatile organic compounds (VOCs), almost all of which are toxic and harmful to humans at high levels. Also, our silicone-based fluid actually leaves clothes feeling softer, looking brighter, and smelling better. All of our water-based soaps and conditioners for laundry and wet cleaning are environmentally friendly, too.

To encourage recycling, we have a hanger-recycling program. In exchange for good SGC hangers, customers will receive $1 off toward their order. This will help reduce the waste of 3.5 billion wire hangers, which adds up to more than 315,000 pounds of steel per year! Our poly

bags used to cover your cleaning are 100 percent recyclable and can be recycled through the blue bins provided by your county recycler. And for our premier clients, we use natural wood finished hangers and re-useable clothing bags.

In addition to our product line being environmentally conscious, our facility takes the highest standard in being green.

Instead of air-conditioned rooms, we use a thermodynamic water fan. Instead of refrigeration, we use cooling towers to bring cold water to our dry clean machine. Even our boiler is a green, more efficient burning machine that uses half the energy needed for the same power output. All these features and more help us reduce cost and CO2 production.

Let our staff show you what we call Sac Green CARE! We treat your garments better than our own! No Lint, No Spots, No Missing Buttons, No Double Lines!

OUR VISION is to provide the best value of any sewage collection utility in California, as measured by cost and level of service.

OUR MISSION is to efficiently collect sewage from homes and businesses within the Sacramento area.

The Sacramento Area Sewer District is a local utility that provides sewage collection service 24/7 to more than one million people in the Sacramento region, including the unincorporated areas of Sacramento County; the cities of Citrus Heights, Rancho Cordova, and Elk Grove; and portions of the cities of Folsom and Sacramento.

Sewer Problems?

Call the district first at 916.875.6730 As our customer, you pay a monthly utility rate for sewer service.

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We own and maintain 4,300 miles of sewer pipes and collect about 110 million gallons of sewage every day from homes and businesses with the Sacramento area – that’s enough sewage to fill a football field more than 25 stories high – and we respond to about 6,000 sewer service calls every year!

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Visit our booth at one of the following community events throughout the Sacramento region in 2012.

• Fair Oaks Spring Festival, May 5 & 6 • Russian Yamarka Festival, May 19 • Safetyville Family Safety Expo, June 16

• Elk Grove Giant Pumpkin Festival, October 6 & 7 • Safetyville Halloween Festival, October 20

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El Milagro Ballet Folklorico of Sacramento Ballet Folklorico El Milagro’s traditional folk dances have been featured at many church events, educational institutions and community events. The group consists of a variety of members ranging from ages 4-18 who are proud to share their life experiences by performing traditional dances.

Gorgeous George/ JD Valerio In early 2012, Valerio joined forces with Matt Remenar (drums), Dare (guitar), Robert Folger (bass) and Lynnae Vana (vocals) to form Georgeous George. The best description of Gorgeous George is accoustic rock with a flare of folk.

Fo’shange Fo’shange is a Caribbean funk ensemble led by the poetry of Vincent Kobelt. The band features Russell Brown on guitar, Clark Goodlow on the keyboard, Bink Wills on drums, Pastel on flute, Larry Lee on base, Jaroba on saxophone, and Brotha Mac on congas. Fo’shange’s 2012 fall release will be entitled “Pinch of Salt.”

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James Israel & Friends

Be Brave Bold Robot is a collection of people who are known to joyfully weep wispy ghost tears of music in any given area where they might happen to find themselves being allowed to be, for the enjoyment of people who might happen to be mulling around said given area, wondering what to do with themselves for that particular time being.

James Israel is a singer-songwriter who plays original music with a bite. From up-tempo rock to whimsical folk to bittersweet blues sounds, James has been captivating audiences in and around Sacramento since he moved down from the foothills near Nevada City in 1993. He plays guitar and harmonica.

Jen Rogar & The Adorables Jen Rogar is a singer-songwriter who has performed ina and around Sacramento since 1997.The Adorables (how that name came about is top secret!) include an incredible lineup of immensely talented Sacramento musicians and SAMMIES hall-of-famers Mike Farrell on electric guitar, Kristine David on back-up vocals, Carol La Dou on bass and Neil Franklin on drums / cajon.

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w? o N k U o dId y • 3.5 BIllIoN people live on less than $2 a day in a world of opulence • Glass produced from RECyClEd GlASS instead of raw materials reduces related air pollution by 20 percent and water pollution by 50 percent.

• 70 percent of the RAINfoREStS have been burned to raise livestock, either for raising them or growing grains for them.

• It takes 20 GAlloNS of water to produce 1 lb. of soybeans and other grains, but it takes 5,000 gallons of water to produced 1 lb. of beef.

• Every year we throw away 24 mIllIoN toNS of leaves and grass; leaves alone count for 75 percent of our solid waste in the fall.

• Replacing each 75 watt light bulb with energy EffICIENt bulbs results in one less ton of carbon dioxide released into the athmosphere.

• Every ton of recycled office paper saves 380 gallons of oIl. • About 1 percent of U.S. landfillspace is full of dISpoSABllE dIApERS, which can take 500 years to decompose.

• Animals raised for food in the US produce 130 times the amount of waste that people do. The wAStE, containing vast amounts of nitrates, pathogens and hormones, is stored in huge open cesspools, euphemistically dubbed by the meat industry as “lagoons.”

• Every second in the USA, chickens, pigs, turkeys, cows, sheep produce 89,000 lbs. of excrement.

• ENERGy saved from one recycled aluminum can will operate a TV set for three hours and is the equivalent to half a can of gasoline.

• 55 percent of fRESh wAtER use in the USA goes to the production of livestock.

• At the current rate the hUmAN population on Earth is using 1.3 Earth’s worth of resources.

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The City of Rancho Cordova continues to lead as a green city.

The city of Rancho Cordova is committed to sustainable living practices and continually strives to be a leader and a resource for the community.

As a result, the city proactively implements various policies and programs to improve the quality of life for residents, as well as provides education and incentives to qualified homeowners and businesses.

The city of Rancho Cordova continues to lead as a green city within the region.

Promotes Citywide Sustainable Building

Green Building Codes and City Policies

As a community leader in sustainability, the city regularly promotes green building and design. Rancho Cordova City Hall is a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified building and the city is currently pursuing LEED Silver for the renovation of their Police Department. Within the city limits there are seven LEED certified buildings and 25 Energy Star buildings. The City was awarded grant funding for Brownfield developments and completed the first lowincome rental project in the region utilizing solar panels.

The city of Rancho Cordova offers reduced permit fees to any ongoing building projects within city limits that include solar panels.

The city also provides a flat residential rate of $250 for solar inspections for community members who have installed solar panels.

Sustainable Public Works and Citywide Projects The city has installed LED and solar technology on street lights throughout the community and has made notable improvements to streets such as International Drive Extension and Folsom Boulevard.

The city has put more than 84 miles of overlay made from the rubber of recycled tires. Rancho Cordova also utilizes water efficient landscaping throughout the city.

Waste Reduction and Recycling Policies The city applies recycling ordinances for multi-family housing units and businesses. City Hall also employs regular recycling policies and practices throughout it’s building. Rancho Cordova continues to support businesses and community groups that organize E-waste events throughout the year in coordination with California Electronic Asset Recovery (CEAR). The city also offers services to residents to pick up and recycle hazardous materials for free.

Alternative Transportation and Community Connectivity Rancho Cordova has also focused on connecting the community by increasing access to alternative modes of transportation including: 10 miles of bike trails along the American River Parkway, new sidewalks, walkways and bike trails. The city has also made the light rail more accessible by providing five convenient light rail stations throughout the city, as well as subsidizing shuttle rides for commuters.

Green Awards and Energy Efficient Programs The city is partnering with SMUD and plans to install electric vehicle charging stations at City Hall and the Rancho Cordova Library, furthering its commitment to environmental sustainability. City Hall was awarded an Energy Star Award for it’s green building. The City of Rancho Cordova was awarded the Business Environmental Resource Center (BERC) award in 2011 for sustainable business practices. SMUD offers residents Voluntary Curtailment Programs (VCP) as well as online energy profiles (EPO) to residents, which helps residents and businesses monitor thier energy use and control their energy costs.

The city also has energy management programs for residents and was funded grants to install sub-meters throughout the community.

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he retail outlet stores operated by Habitat for Humanity are officially called ReStores. But when Ken Cross, the CEO of Sacramento Habitat for Humanity, discusses these warehouses that sell donated, reusable materials to the public, he calls them “win-win-win-win situations.”

“It’s really a win-win-win-win for everybody,” Cross said. “From the people who donate the products, to the people who shop here to the people who build Habitat for Humanity homes to the environment. It’s really kind of a no-brainer for making it all work for the community.”

Cross is exceptionally enthusiastic about the new and third location of the ReStore in Sacramento. Although the soft opening of the store has already occurred, the grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held Saturday, April 21, at the new location at 819 N. 10th Street. Cross said there are a lot of folks who are going to benefit from the ReStore.

“We discount the products by 30, 40, 50 percent and sometimes by as much as 70 percent off the retail price.”

“Many people and organizations prosper from the Sacramento ReStore because of all of the sources we can generate income from,” Cross said. “The Sacramento store is our way of being able to leverage product. It’s not uncommon for us to get product from anyone you can think of—a manufacturer, corporation or some business that has the corner market on some product.”

While every ReStore outlet is slightly different, most focus on home improvement goods like furniture, home accessories, building materials and appliances.

The outlets accept donated goods from manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, contractors and from individuals.

Common donations include windows, doors, plumbing fixtures, hot tub basins, tile, grout, furniture.

But unique items, like a grand piano to antiques to oneof-a-kind widgets, aren’t uncommon.

“It’s a little bit of everything,” Cross said. “It’s amazing what comes through. A lot of people when they first hear about it think it’s some sort of thrift store-type of place. It’s not. The products we get are really good quality. We don’t accept it otherwise because then we’d have to turnaround and get rid of it. It would cost us money to dump it.”

The Sacramento ReStore is open Tuesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The ReStore is open to the public, but those

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who benifit most from the price breaks are local, lowincome families.

“We discount the products by 30, 40, 50 percent and sometimes by as much as 70 percent off the retail price,” Cross said. “Our goal is to cover 100 percent of our overhead and administrative costs with proceeds from the ReStore, so that when we build a home, all of our sponsorship money goes into that home.”

Also, ReStore resale outlets provide an environmentally and socially responsible way to keep good, reusable materials out of the waste stream while providing funding for Habitat’s community improvement work.

“Virtually all of the products we have would have gone to a landfill, because there just isn’t any other outlet in our community for those kinds of products,” Cross said. “So we will divert literally millions of pounds of landfill a year.”

The ReStore idea began more than 20 years ago in Canada when an affiliate for Habitat for Humanity had products donated that were too high-end for its home-building projects. After receiving permission to sell the donated goods, the ReStore idea was born. The first Habitat for Humanity ReStore in the United States opened a couple of years later in San Antonio, Texas.

Much has happened since. Among the estimated 1,500 Habitat for Humanity affiliates, there are more than 750 ReStores, with many affiliates operating multiple ReStore locations.

The new Sacramento location is the result of an extensive search of more than 120 potential locations.

The new facility, Cross detailed, is about half of the size of a Home Depot, approximately 45,000 square feet.

“Until people walk in the door and look at what we have, they wouldn’t know,” said Cross. “But when they do, they’re amazed at how much we really have and how good the deals are. Most people hear about us and what we have through word of mouth. People come in because they hear about what a friend got and what they paid for it.”

In addition to great deals, the new ReStore in Sacramento is also seeking donations. Materials and products must be new or in like-new condition, working, clean and rust-free. Items containing multiple pieces must be packaged in clear plastic bags or boxed.

For more information about the new ReStore for the Sacramento affiliate for Habitat for Humanity, including donation requirements and ineligible merchandise, phone (916) 440-1215 or visit the website: www.shfh.org.

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by CORRie PelC A few months ago, Greg Antonucci was asked if he could help a wheelchair-bound senior living by herself in a single-wide mobile home. Her kitchen floor had almost completely rotted away, but she could not afford to have it fixed.

After surveying the situation, Antonucci—who is the owner of A.l.b.O.e. (A little bit of everything) Handyman Services in Citrus Heights—went in and put an entire new linoleum floor in the woman’s kitchen free of charge.

What made this job possible, and numerous others like it, was Sacramento Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore—a resale outlet that sells reusable and surplus building materials to the public.

Antonucci says he currently spends about a quarter of his time each month helping homeowners in need at no charge, and the ReStore makes that possible.

“At the ReStore we can walk in and say ‘you know what, i can put out $100-200 out of my pocket to do this $4,000 job as long as we can donate our time,’” Antonucci says. “And, my guys, they’re willing to donate some time.”

At the ReStore, Antonucci has been able to find building parts such as windows and doors, plus furniture, tiles and carpeting, just to name a few.

He says much of the inventory at the ReStore are donations—the ReStore staff examines everything that comes in and then puts usable items on the floor for sale.

Antonucci says he just started frequenting the ReStore about a year and a half ago and wishes he had found it sooner. “i can’t tell you how much money i could have saved consumers that are just barely holding on to their properties or people who are just barely making it where we could have gotten them merchandise for one-third the price,” he explains. “And it’s great merchandise. Some of it’s used, some of it’s new, but overall there’s nothing in the store that somebody couldn’t take back home and use.”

And Antonucci loves the fact that while he’s helping someone, his purchases at the ReStore are further helping Habitat for Humanity do good in the community.

“The best part about all this is really everything you pay here goes right into helping Sacramento Habitat for Humanity build other homes and help other communities,” he says. “And that’s what we need to do. We need to stay in our own country, we need to work on putting houses up and helping all the people here that need help.”

Rebuilding the American Dream

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s Sofia Monteiro drew a bath for her four small children 10 years ago, she had no idea that a seemingly innocent candle in

her living room would change her family’s life forever.

Sofia still remembers every detail of this January day; one second this stay-at-home mom was wrapping up her nightly routine, and the next she was watching her rental house—her family’s world—burn to the ground. One-year-old Ricardo and his twin sister Rosalia were caught in the fire and suffered severe internal burns and smoke inhalation.

The family spent eight days at Shriner’s Hospital where Sofia and her husband, Richard, were forced to face the reality that their son may not make it. Donations poured in from the community to help this family who literally lost everything but the clothes on their backs—clothes, food, toys. And miraculously, Ricardo recovered.

Now, the Monteiros could go home. But where was that? For the next year the Monteiros moved eight times, living in various rentals or with family members in cramped quarters.

“We didn’t even have furniture,” Sofia said. “No kitchen table, no couch. Just beds for the kids.”

Eventually they settled in with Richard’s mother at her two-bedroom house. The family lived in one of the bedrooms with only a queen bed and some bunk beds for the children. Sofia said she and Richard tried to make their children’s life seem as normal as possible.

With so many people living in such close quarters, Sofia tried to keep the kids outside and pretend everything was normal. Sofia said she broke down a few times, but ultimately her faith kept her going.

“I just had to sit there and put on façade that everything is OK and everything is going to be OK,” she said.

“Something tragic that happened, you can’t dwell on it.

You just have look forward and hope to God that it gets better.”

In October 2005, the Monteiros found their glimmer of hope when they attended an orientation for Sacramento Habitat for Humanity. Sofia explained after being interviewed extensively, the family qualified for the Habitat program and was able to build a new house.

“Every step was getting us closer to our new life,” Sofia said.

The family and Habitat for Humanity built a twostory, four-bedroom, two-bathroom house just in time for the addition of baby Gabriel. Sofia recalled her children counting the number of steps, watching the walls get painted and standing in their own rooms.

“They were so excited. They knew this was their new home.”

Now the Monteiros try to help other people who are in need get a home through Habitat.

“Don’t wait for help,” Sofia said to struggling families.

“Go help yourself. There is a program out there for you that is always willing to help. Habitat was for us. We didn’t know we qualified and look where we are now.”

Sofia and her family are so proud of their house and so grateful for this new life.

“We are living the American dream. I don’t have a white picket fence,” she said, laughing. “It’s an iron gate, but it’s our family’s dream.”

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• All products are discounted 30, 50, or 70 percent off suggested retail price.

• Most materials are brand new and are appropraite for both old and new décor.

• Name brands, like Ashley Furniture, Anderson windows, etc., are available.

• There’s something for everyone. You never know what you’ll find; even some things you didn’t know you needed!

• The ReStore is more than 40,000 square feet, almost an acre, of retail shopping space under one roof.

• The ReStore is open to the public!

• The location is easy to find and travel to, located between I-5 and Highway 160.

• The ReStore has a “green” factor since millions of pounds of perfectly good materials are diverted from the landfill each year.

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at the store: • Doors • Windows: new vinyl dual-pane Anderson windows • Tile • Paint: recycled at competitive prices • Electrical: lighting fixtures and bulbs • Carpet • Plumbing products: bathtubs, toilets, etc.

• Wood products • Cabinetry • Furniture • Appliances • Much, much more…

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• Sales revenue supports Habitat for Humanity’s mission of eradicating poverty housing one family, one home at a time.

• In Sacramento, 86 homes have been built for low-income families in Sacramento.

• The ReStore is managed by friendly, helpful staff.

• If you qualify, donations may be written off your taxes.

• Pick-up and delivery services are available. If you don’t have a truck, ReStore Staff will pick up donations and deliver purchases for a small fee.

• Volunteers are welcome. Help make a difference in your community!

• Past volunteers – Easter Seals, at-risk youth with the Sacramento County Juvenile and Adult Work Projects and, Boy Scouts working on merit badges & Eagle Scout special projects & many others.

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A second chance

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few years ago, Paul Sousa was a homeless drug addict with a huge financial debt and a bleak future.

But one night at dinner following a Narcotics Anonymous meeting, a friend suggested the opportunities available through Sacramento Habitat for Humanity.

With little to lose, Sousa applied to the organization but was denied because of his severe financial woes. A year later, however, after working with a financial assistance company, Sousa applied again. This time, he was accepted into the organization whose mission in part is to build homes for those in need.

Sousa’s life was forever changed.

Last June, Sousa, his wife Jennifer, their daughter, Alannah, and the couple’s infant son, moved into their new North Sacramento home. The husband and wife each committed 500 hours of “sweat equity” (labor) into building the home during the five-month process.

“My story is nothing short of miraculous,” said Sousa, 44, now a student at American River College and a public health counselor at a midtown Sacramento clinic. “I went from being homeless to being a homeowner. We put a lot of time in our house. But I’ve helped build a lot of other houses, too. My wife primarily worked on our house. But I did a little bit more roving than my wife did.”

The Sousas, who share the responsibility of raising their infant son, is expecting their

Aerojet’s printers find new hAbitAt Two years ago, Aerojet had a problem. An internal study found that its computers, printers and other related peripherals were using too much energy. Printers posed the largest problem, according to Tim murphy, the director of corporate responsibility at Aerojet. “in the industry, the standard is to have one printer for every 11 to 12 employees,” murphy said. “We had one printer for every two employees.”

These printers were on all day long, and a lot of them wouldn’t be turned off at night, so they’d be constantly using energy. And in addition to the energy usage, replacing ink and toner cartridges was another cost. murphy said that as part of Aerojet’s sustainability philosophy, he didn’t want to just throw away these extra printers, some of which were almost brand new. So, he and a colleague began reaching out to the nonprofit community and invited those interested to take as many as they’d like.

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Unfortunately, due to Aerojet’s status as a department of defense facility, security requirements for the nonprofits to get on their site for pick-up were cumbersome, and the logistics of having people take their printers became difficult.

Luckily, Taud bagwill, the director of business development at the Habitat for Humanity, had a solution for murphy’s logistic problem. bagwill took murphy on a tour of the Habitat’s Restore where bagwill showed murphy a large, empty space that would be perfect for storing printers. Utilizing this space for printer storage, murphy could begin processing other items to donate. And after giving first right of refusal to other nonprofits, bagwill could sell any printers that other nonprofits didn’t want.

As murphy and bagwill’s process hit its stride, murphy had a realization.

“Well, we didn’t just have printers,” murphy said. “We had office furniture, desks, file cabinets, couches and chairs all in great condition.”

Habitat was happy to take the other surplus office equipment. Some of it they repurposed internally and the rest they sold, the financial benefits of which go on to help the families within Habitat’s mission.

“So, it’s not just a win-win,” murphy said. “it’s win-win-win.” murphy did some research and discovered that there were Habitat Restores within 30 miles of Aerojet’s other nine facilities across the country. His model could be applied to those facilities and make that much more of a difference. meanwhile, bagwill said the Restore is ready for more partners like Aerojet, even if room became an issue. “i would find more space,” bagwill said. “i would get a second warehouse. We are always looking for opportunities, and there are so many different businesses with so many different products that a little bit from everybody would fill the store.”

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third child. Paul works until mid afternoon.

When he returns home, Jennifer, a culinary expert, goes to work at an upscale Sacramento restaurant.

Life in Sacramento wasn’t good to Paul Sousa from a young age. Drugs were everywhere. He attended nine different elementary schools. He became an addict, attempted suicide and was repeatedly incarcerated.

“When I had no more options, I turned to 12-step programs and that saved my life,” Sousa said.

Ken Cross, CEO of Sacramento Habitat for Humanity, believes Sousa’s story serves as an ideal testimonial.

“Everybody deserves at least a second chance in life, and maybe a third and fourth chance,” Cross said. “Paul is an example of somebody who took advantage of that second chance in life. Multiple organizations helped him when he was in need. He reached out, and he’s an example of someone who has turned his life around.”

Sousa, who often serves as public speaker at Habitat for Humanity functions, doesn’t take his good fortune for granted.

“What Habitat for Humanity has given me is place to have a family. A safe place to raise a family,” he said. “It’s something I never had and something I never thought I would have. I have it now, and I am so incredibly grateful.”

Home is where the heart is

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s a single mother with five children—including one already in college—Sacramento resident Ayanna Fabio was unable to purchase her own home. A family advocate for River Oak Center for Children, Fabio works every day helping to support families in need.

While researching different programs for clients, she came upon Sacramento Habitat for Humanity’s program that builds affordable homes for Sacramento County low-income families, and decided to apply for the program herself.

“They had me sit down with a consultant, they ran a credit report, and they told me what things I needed to do in order to prepare to buy a home,” she recalls.

Fabio was accepted into the program, and she and her family are now working on the 500 “sweat equity” hours they need to complete in order to receive their home. These are required volunteer hours they are putting into building both their own home and other homes in the community.

“We do anything from painting to hammering.” Fabio explains. “We get up on the scaffolds, put roofing on, things like that. [We’re] learning a lot about how to maintain a home and how a home is built, as well as interacting with volunteers and other homeowners that are completing their hours.”

Once her hours are complete, Fabio will receive her home with a no down payment, zero interest mortgage where Sacramento Habitat is both the builder and the bank. As such, her monthly

mortgage plus property tax and insurance payments do not exceed 30% of the family income, making it affordable and giving her an energy-efficient home large enough to accommodate her family.

Fabio says the Habitat for Humanity program has given her the opportunity to give her family a home while still having money to live.

“It just gives that stability for the kids to be able to come back later to a home they lived in and not moving around all over the place like they had been doing before,” she says.

By going through the Habitat for Humanity program, she can now tell the families “[We’re] learnin she helps support g a lot about through her job about how to maintain a home and her experience and how a home is b uilt, as well show them if she can a s in te ra cting with volun do it, they teers and other homeo can do it as well. w n er s that And Fabio feels her are completing th ei r hours.” journey through Habitat for Humanity has allowed her and her children to connect more with their community and learn about volunteering and why people volunteer.

“We get to learn all the reasons why people came out, meet really interesting people, and just help that cohesiveness of being part of a community,” she says.

Ashley furniture restores with hAbitAt for humAnity

by SukHi bRAR Three years ago, Ashley Furniture was looking for an opportunity to donate to a worthy charity when one employee suggested a partnership with Habitat for Humanity. After looking into the organization, Ashley Furniture President edward Corn, Jr. found that Habitat’s ReStore program was a perfect fit. “in our business, we are about helping people make their homes the ideal place they come home to at night,” Corn said. “We want our customers to enjoy life, and Habitat for Humanity ReStore helps bring that same experience to those who do not have a home.”

Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore is a program that collects donated goods and sells them to the public at locations called ReStores. The ReStores offer high-quality products at a fraction of regular retail prices. Most ReStore locations focus on home improvement goods like furniture, home accessories, building materials and appliances. The proceeds from the ReStores are used to fund Habitat for Humanity’s home building projects in the community.

Giving to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore actually benefits Ashley Furniture’s business because it allows the furniture company to clear out discontinued or slightly damaged furniture pieces that can no longer be sold but are still nice quality products that people can enjoy. “it makes more sense for us to clear the warehouse to waremake room for new items versus leaving them in a ware house and taking up valuable space,” Corn said. “Habitat damfor Humanity ReStores have staff that can touch up dam aged items and bring them back to brand new condition before they are placed on sale.”

Giving to the Habitat for Humanity Restore program Furniis not only a smart business decision for Ashley Furni ture in terms of clearing up warehouse space, but Corn explained it is also very rewarding for Ashley Furniture as business to be able to give back to the community. environment—es“unfortunately, in today’s business environment—es corpecially big businesses like ours—people see us as a cor porate, greedy entity and not as individuals who care about the community,” Corn said. “We understand that shelter is a basic need we all share and Ashley Furniture is a company composed of a group of individuals who care about helping people in the community.”

Corn feels great about helping improve people’s lives and sincerely appreciates the importance of Habitat for Humanity’s cause.

“Habitat for Humanity doesn’t receive enough credit for all that they do to help those that are in need of the safety of having their own home,” Corn said. “The differReStore program makes a world of differ ence to families and allows them to have a normal life and to push forward toward bettering their lives and achieving the American dream.”

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Volunteer efforts

While many retail stores are operated by dozens of paid employees, the Sacramento Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore doesn’t have that luxury.

“Volunteers are the backbone of the ReStore,” the Director of Business Development Taud Bagwill said. “They make up 60 to 70 percent of the total hours worked at the ReStore.”

Volunteers are needed for duties that include stocking, pricing, clean up and the like. But, according to Bagwill, the most important service they provide is their interaction with the customers.

“Most of our customers are return customers, and without the interaction with our volunteers, they might not come back.”

If you are interested in volunteering in the ReStore, please contact Taud Bagwill at (916) 440-1215 ext. 1107 or Christine A. Roybal at (916) 440-1215 ext. 1115.

AcceptAble DonAtions We are always looking for new and gently used materials to add to our inventory. However, since these items will be going toward the building and furnishing of people’s homes, we do have some guidelines for what makes an acceptable donation.

We ask that all donations be new or in like-new condition. All donations must be in working condition, clean and free of rust. Please place any items containing multiple pieces in a clear plastic bag or box in order to keep all components safely together.

To ensure quality, all donations are subject to visual inspection and approval by a ReStore staff member. Donation pick-up fees start at $25 and vary based on donation size and location. *Pick-up scheduling could take up to two weeks depending on request volume—last minute pick-up requests may not be served.*

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• Mirrors • Interior and exterior doors • Carpet • Tile • Vinyl dual-pane windows • Hardwood flooring • Vinyl / linoleum flooring • Toilets • Plumbing hardware • Electrical components • Cabinetry: all doors / drawers in tact • Lighting: Please remove light bulbs and package separately; no 1970s / 80s glass fixtures.

• Hardware • Tools • Lumber: clean, straight, without nails and more than 3 feet long • Insulation (R-13 and up) • Miscellaneous household items: sofas, chairs, dressers, tables, patio furniture, books, dishes, blinds, etc.

• Appliances: clean, a maximum of 5-7 years old, although we will make exceptions for vintage / antique items in good condition

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The city of Citrus Heights will be throwing its first ever Earth Day Celebration with food, entertainment, seminars and earthfriendly products on display. Saturday, April 21, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Free. Skycrest Elementary School, 5641 Mariposa Avenue in Citrus Heights; (916) 207-7960; www.citrusheightsgreenteam.com.

This Loomis Earth Day celebration will feature a variety of green businesses, live animals, green information and entertainment. A parking-lot yard sale begins at 8 a.m., and Earth Day events begin at noon. Saturday, April 21, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

Free. Loomis Train Depot, 5755 Horseshoe Bar Road in Loomis; (916) 652-8606.

Help the Cosumnes Community Services District clean up the Elk Grove and Laguna Creeks. Those who participate will receive a free lunch at Miwok Park.

Saturday, April 21, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Multiple locations; call (916) 684-7550 or visit www.yourcsd.com/events for more information.

The Discovery Museum Science & Space Center will teach kids how to build crafts using provided recycled materials. April 21 and 22, 12:30-4 p.m. $5-$8. Discovery Museum Science & Space Center, 3615 Auburn Boulevard; (916) 808-3942; www.thediscovery.org.

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Presented by Sacramento’s Department of Parks and Recreation, this celebration features green information, local vendors, carnival games and family-friendly entertainment. Thursday, April 19, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free.

Cesar Chavez Plaza, 910 I Street; (916) 808-6525.

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Organized by the Environmental Council of Sacramento, this is a large celebration featuring a diverse array of vendor booths with practical information, goods and services. There will also be food, entertainment and activities. Sunday, April 22, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free.

Southside Park, 2115 Sixth Street; (916) 444-0022; www.sacramentoearthday.net.

BIRD SONGS LEARN ABOUT EARTH-FRIENDLY GARDENING

The regular meeting of the Sacramento Audubon Society will feature naturalist David Lukas speaking on the mysteries of bird song. Thursday, April 19, 7 p.m. Free. Effie Yeaw Nature Center, 2850 San Lorenzo Way; www.sacramentoaudubon.org.

As part of the American River Natural History Association’s ongoing lecture series, Cheryl Buckwalter will be speaking about eco-landscaping and water efficiency. Friday, April 20, 6:30 p.m. $5. Effie Yeaw Nature Center, 2850 San Lorenzo Way; (916) 489-4918; www.sacnaturecenter.net.

Folsom Lake College has a number of free events scheduled this week in celebration of Earth Day. Some of the highlights are lectures, films and a “green” fair. For a complete list of events and locations, visit www.flc.losrios.edu.

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Cordova Senior Activities Center will be hosting a plant sale and swap that will feature seedlings, bulbs, full plants, tools and décor.

Friday, April 20, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Cordova Senior Activities Center, 3480 Routier Road; (916) 366-3133; www.crpd.com.

Check out a unique art exhibition of works dubbed “maggot art” on display at the Bohart Museum of Entomology as part of UC Davis’ Picnic Day. These pieces are created by dipping a maggot in a nontoxic water-based paint and letting it crawl across a piece of paper. Saturday, April 21, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Bohart Museum of Entomology, 1 Shields Avenue in Davis; (530) 752-0493; http://bohart.ucdavis.edu.

Beginning in 2009, the California Automobile Museum has been permanently displaying some green-friendly vehicles. Check out a 1913 electric car, a General Motors EV1 and even a hydrogen-powered BMW. Open Daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is $4-$8. California Automobile Museum, 2200 Front Street; (916) 442-6802; www.calautomuseum.org.

of-the-20th century California living history. The State Capitol will be turned back to the years between 1899 and 1917 with volunteers costumed in the attire of the period portraying Governors Henry Gage, George Pardee, James Gillett, and Hiram Johnson.

Guided tours run every 15 minutes. Su, 4/22, 10:30am-3pm.

Free. California state Capitol, 10th and L streets; (916) 324-0333.

Sports & Recreation PADDLE AT COSUMNES RIVER PRESERVE: Join a leisurely paddle along the Cosumnes River. The Cosumnes River Preserve’s Volunteer Naturalists will be awaiting your arrival at the visitor center. Once you have your canoe or kayak unloaded, lifejackets on, and boats in the water, be prepared for a breathtaking experience along the Cosumnes River. Su, 4/22, 8:30am-12:30pm. Free.

Cosumnes River Preserve Visitor Center, 13501 Franklin Blvd. in Galt; (916) 870-4317; www.cosumnes.org.

Concerts BRAVO BACH FESTIVAL CONCERT 3: The Camerata Capistrano, under the direction of Lorna Peters, will perform the third concert of the Bravo Bach Festival. Su, 4/22, 4-6pm. $15.

St. Mark’s United Methodist Church, 2391 St. Mark’s Way; (916) 483-7848.

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Center of Sacramento will host its 21st annual Feast for the Streetsù Gala. Join 40 of Sacramento’s finest restaurants and caterers, along with six wineries, two brewers, and several other business partners who will pull together a feast. W, 4/25, 5:30-8:30pm. $50 per person.

Scottish Rite Masonic Center, 6151 H St.; (916) 443-2646; http://francis housecenter.org.

Classes LEAVE NO TRACE TRAINING FOR ADULTS: Join the Subaru/Leave No Trace Traveling Trainers for an interactive program that provides the necessary tools to educate people about responsible recreation and active stewardship. W, 4/25, 10:30am12:30pm. Free. REI Sacramento, 1790 Expo Pkwy.; (916) 924-8900; www.rei.com/event/35742/ session/44965/06082012.

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Kids’ Stuff FOLKLORIC DANCE: Enjoy a performance of folkloric dance by the Victoria Mendoza Dancers. The group specializes in Mexican folklore dance and features children ages 5 to 11. The beautiful art of folkloric dance is shared with the dancers in colorful costumes and accompanied by joyful recorded music. W, 4/25, 3:30pm. Free. Elk Grove Library, 8900 Elk Grove Blvd. in Elk Grove; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

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MICHAEL T. SOLOMON BUILDING: Crossing the Line, Operation Protect and Defend is a program which was created by retired Judge Frank Damrell based on his observation that students lack sufficient civics training, especially with respect to the Constitution.

The fine art contest is a gallery exhibition showing student work as it pertains to immigration and the 14th Amendment. M, 4/23, 5-8:30pm. 1017 25th St.; (916) 520-5299.

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mix master will host a party night at the Mix Downtown. DJ Gabe Xavier opens the night. DJ Homicide has a long and influential history in the music industry.

His deejay skills have provided him with the creative freedom of working with hip-hop as well as rock groups while flexing his artistic vision on air in the radio arena. W, 4/25, 8:30pm-2am. $10.

Mix Downtown, 1531 L St.; (916) 802-3036; www.mixdowntown.net.

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SACRAMENTO WEAVERS & SPINNERS GUILD: Alden Amos will present a program on the invention of the spinning wheel. Tu, 4/24, 10am-2pm. $3 donation.

Shepard Garden & Art Center, 3330 McKinley Blvd.; (530) 887-5471; www.sacweavespin.org.

have been added to this year’s program: a staged reading of Caridad Svich’s The Way of Water and Hour of 5’s Performance Work which will feature fiveminute acts such as scenes, monologues, dances and songs. This year’s festival will again feature solo explorations, Main Stage dance, undergraduate one-acts and midnight sing-along screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Through 4/22. $10 per event.

Wright Hall, 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.

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Mezcal, the Sacramento taqueria—not the agave elixir—is celebrating its third birthday by merely offering flan to its patrons.

Management is making no major changes in the friendly formula that has kept it dishing out items, such as shrimp molcajete and good ol’ chile relleno, during a three-year period in which any number of eateries have bit the big one. Part of this success is steady take-out traffic. It’s no wonder the convivial cashier at the register (from which all orders flow) asks first if the food is for here or to go.

Here is a spacious, mustard-walled space with a glass front that faces the parking lot of a Natomas strip mall. There’s a row of roja, amarillo, naranja y azul sombreros high on the wall to the right of the register; a spindly succulent in an arched alcove by the door; and flat screens that appear to showcase the unbridled majesty of fútbol during every single second of each operating hour.

On this visit, a longtime pal Carroll Wills, spokesman for the California Professional Firefighters, is spotted filling up a phalanx of Mezcal’s hauntingly smoky tomatillo salsa.

Seeing him elicits an “I guess all the cool people eat here,” which, in turn, engenders an “I love this place” endorsement. But, he adds, there’s nothing but soccer to watch.

Relative to the Spanish-language soap operas that often grace the screens of many Mexican taquerias, soccer might be preferable, although trying to unravel the sordid and sinuous plotlines of the telenovelas can often be more riveting than waiting for a goal.

The term taqueria hasn’t been devalued as a description, but its application has been expanded beyond merely characterizing a place specializing in tacos. Originally, a taco stand. Or, reluctantly, a Mexican fast-food joint. Numerous places still cling to the traditional taqueria notion. Hole-in-the-walls with often delectable fare abound from south Sacramento to Folsom. But the term has now been appended to places far broader in sweep. What seems to be constant is the concept of swiftly served food at a relatively reasonable price.

Mezcal falls into the latter category. If the monstrous molcajete—topping the menu at $14.95 for one and $24.95 for two—isn’t clue enough, than the shrimp diabla, chicken fajita salad and lime-infused fried tilapia, mojarra frita, should settle the issue.

There still are $2 small tortilla tacos in many variations: asada, cabeza, carnitas, chili verde, chorizo, lengua, molida, pastor y pollo. The limes, radishes, pickled jalapeños and three salsas found at the condiments bar all add to their enjoyment, as well as that of other dishes.

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Among the specialties is a tasty arrachera.

The thin-but-expansive citrusy steak with a wilted green onion lying across it like a rose on a coffin is artfully grilled. It’s etched with black zigzags but devoid of excessive carbon. It rests on a bed of sautéed red peppers, onions and— surprisingly—mushrooms. Short work with the steak knife creates strips for a regal, handmade taco—better with corn than flour tortilla—that doesn’t need much of a salsa slathering to light up the palate. Elsewhere on the list is a carnitas plate that falls in price from $8.95 to $9.95 when showcased as a daily special. The pork is nicely seasoned, although salty and flaky but not overdone. There’s a big mound of the meat, too, throwing off lots of steam. Some pico de gallo and guacamole sit in a corner, and the rest of the plate is consumed by rice and beans.

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Mezcal’s rice is fluffy and flavorful. One forkful and the diner will forever after start with the arroz, devour every grain, and, if space remains, take to the frijoles. The taquitos are just taquitos, and the tortilla soup accompanying it, remarkably bland.

A fountain with various drinks including guava and tamarindo juices and horchato is endearing, adding an air of authenticity.

Mezcal isn’t a date-night destination, but it is reliable and unpretentious. Ω

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

Midtown

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 Porch The Porch is light and white with a vibe that suggests the airy sweep of an antebellum Charleston eatery. One can only envy the extensive on-site research conducted by chef Jon Clemens and business partners John Lopez and Jerry Mitchell, creators of Capitol Garage. The most enjoyable menu selections

are salads or seafood sandwiches or entrees. Slaw on the barbecue pork sandwich elevates its status, and its pickled vegetables are sweet and tart, adding an additional dimension. The shrimp and grits dish, while laden with cheddar and gravy, is a synergistic mélange— perhaps The Porch’s trademark dish. Also in the running is the purloo, the low country’s version of jambalaya, with andouille, crunchy crawfish appendages, and the same sautéed bell peppers and onions that also appear in the grits.

Southern. 1815 K St., (916) 444-2423.

Dinner for one: $20-$30. ★★★

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 stripes of peppers awash in olive oil.

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 Red Rabbit Kitchen and Bar Resistance is futile when it comes to Red Rabbit’s desserts. The berry-infused ice-cream sandwich is bright and refreshing with a chewy shell that dovetails neatly with the smooth fruity interior. But there’s less effusiveness for the

entrees. The Bastard Banh Mi doesn’t improve on the original. A number of items from the “Farm to Plate,” “Tasty Snacks” and “Buns” sections of the menu land high in the plus column, however. Any place that offers chimichurri rocks hard. Here it enlivens the Farm Animal Lollipops snack—particularly the lamb—and the mayorof-Munchkin-City-sized lamb bocadillas. American. 2718 J St., (916) 706-2275. Dinner for one: $20-$40. ★★1⁄2

Sampino’s Towne Foods

Thir13en From the start—and, lo,

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

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.

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Dinner for one: $12-$20. ★★★★1⁄2

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

by GARRETT MCCORD

Canine and dine As a brand-new dog owner who still loves to go out and eat, I’ve suddenly become a lot more aware of places I can take my dog. But I’ve noticed the total lack of good behavior on the part of dog owners when it comes to their best friends. (No! Bad owner! No latte for you!)

If your dog makes a mess, it is your job to clean it, not the waiter’s. (The first time I saw someone just leave it there under the table for the waiter or next customer to discover, I was too shocked to speak.)

Bring a collapsible dish for water. If the restaurant can provide one, then that’s kind of them and a plus for excellent service, but they aren’t required, so don’t feel indignant if they say no.

Have a toy handy and some treats to keep the pooch occupied. It saves you and every other diner a bit of headache, which brings me to the last note: Your dog should be socially trained. Your dog should not walk up to other diners to beg for food, petting or anything else. He needs to sit at your side and nowhere else. If he sits quietly, but needs be muzzled to not bite someone, he shouldn’t be at a crowded restaurant at all.

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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. 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

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, whateverthe-impulse-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. 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

North Sac

Enotria Restaurant and

Wine Bar 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

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relish. American. 715 56th St., (916) 455-0497. Dinner for one: $10-$20. ★★★★

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. ★★★★

there are more than 50 types of rolls, along with a sizable selection of sashimi: Hamachi, salmon and tuna being the most obvious. In the maki bull pen there’s avokyu—a bargain-basement $3.50 avocadoand-cucumber roll—and the aptly named Sumo—featuring shrimp tempura, spicy tuna, bell pepper, hamachi, avocado and more, with the whole kit-and-caboodle landing near the $14 mark. Most of the rolls lie within the $10 range.

Overall, a good value and a good time. Sushi. 11291 Folsom Blvd., Rancho Cordova; (916) 635-8880.

Dinner for one: $10-$20. ★★★

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 is any indication, pumpkin and other squashes play a major role in Laotian cuisine, which, in turn, plays a major role at Sabaidee. 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. 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.

Sabaidee is a quality meal for the price. Thai/Laotian. 8055 Elk GroveFlorin Rd., (916) 681-8286. Dinner for one: $10-$20. ★★★1⁄2

Roseville

Yard House Everything about Yard House is big. It’s a big brick building in the big Fountains at Roseville shopping center. The beers are big, even the samplers.

Some can be served in those big vase-shaped “yard” glasses. On the menu, there’s a big selection of wines, designer martinis, burgers, pizza, seafood and steak—and even a big selection of garden offerings; and a trademarked soy, wheat-and-so-forth meat substitute. While colossal, the 1,665-calorie barbecue-chicken salad— there’s a reason the calorie count is not on the menu—has disparate ingredients that combine artfully.

Yard House is over-the-top, a bit overwhelming and mustn’t be overlooked. American. 1166 Roseville Pkwy., Roseville; (916) 922-6792. Dinner for one: $20-$40. ★★★★

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tively small from the outside, but enter through the front doors and look past the sushi bar into a lengthy dining room. Given the maki in the name, it’s no wonder

Canine cuisine My dog often eats healthier than I do. In addition to a regular dry kibble, we feed him organic salt-free meats, fresh fruits and veggies, such as carrots, sweet potatoes, broccoli, apples, mangos and peaches. It’s healthy for him, convenient for us (since we often eat the same things), and handy because he eats comfortably sans dog food when we’re traveling with him. We make sure he gets proper nutrition by sticking to a diet much like the one in Rick Woodford’s new book Feed Your Best Friend Better. The book gives simple advice—such as what human foods are good (and bad) for your dog—as well as gourmet recipes for your furry friends. It even has practical advice on what to feed your dog when it’s ill; I agree wholeheartedly with the author’s suggestion of chicken congee—it helps my dog’s upset stomach tremendously.

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My aunt and I had a disagreement and didn’t communicate for three months. In the meantime, she hosted a baby shower for my cousin. Due to the tension between us, I chose not to attend, but I did leave a gift on her porch. Now, my entire family is pissed. They think I am being petty, especially because the shower was for my cousin, who I get along with and who was not involved in the disagreement. I was just trying to avoid any problems that might result from my aunt and I being together. She did call me before the shower, but I didn’t feel like she understood my side of the situation.

My dad said that since she sent me an invitation, I should have attended. Everyone else in my family did, apparently, even the guys. What do you think?

Yes, it would have been easier to go. You probably embodied more stress justifying your projected absence, than you would have by interacting with your aunt. Do you know why you imagined the conflict center stage at the baby shower? It’s because the argument with her has been your focus. That’s right. By placing a spotlight on the problem in your own thoughts, you assumed other people would be similarly distracted. But you might have been the only person at the baby shower thinking about the disagreement. (OK, take a breath and admit: It is possible).

By placing a spotlight on the problem in your own thoughts, you assumed other people would be similarly distracted.

When you convinced yourself that not attending the celebration was a mature decision, you hindered your healing process. That’s why the wound still feels raw.

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Oh, honey! Your boyfriend’s behavior is strange. If he truly cared about you, he would never allow his buddies to behave like you’re community property. And he would never demand that you tolerate being treated like a toy. A man who cherishes you wants to protect you from harm. He would be invested in your happiness.

Your boyfriend cares more about earning approval from his friends than he does about you. It doesn’t matter if the connection is good in other ways. Your boyfriend does not see you as his equal. Heck, he doesn’t even think you are worth listening to. If he did, he would take your concerns seriously. His behavior is a ginormous red flag.

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BIT recognizes the challenge this dicey play presents; director Scott Divine describes the company as embracing it “with conflicting emotions of fear, affection and revulsion.”

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local bounty hunter, and manages to creep, charm and finally sicken the audience).

The cast has no outstanding member because they all rise to the occasion, each bringing a strange pathos to their believably outrageous characters. Combined with a delightfully accurate set and creative lighting and sound, Killer Joe kills, in all aspects, and leaves you shaking your head at what you just saw. Ω

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That said, this white-trash black comedy is funny, mesmerizing, horrifying and unforgettable, thanks to a total commitment from a talented director, cast and crew. For this strange and alluring play to work, there must be no compromise or hesitation, which— thankfully—everyone associated with this production understands as they leap down this deep and murky rabbit hole with all their guts and gusto.

From the very start, you find yourself laughing even when you know you shouldn’t at this trailer-park family who casually decides to knock off a family member and share in the life-insurance policy. The play opens with Chris (Justin D. Muñoz, combining innocence with ridiculousness) stumbling into the family trailer high on drugs and adrenaline, trying to escape the thugs he owes money. He’s greeted by his quirky family—dad Ansel (Wade Lucas, with not an ounce of physical or emotional shame), stepmother Sharla (a sly, funny Shannon Mahoney) and a sister aptly named Dottie (Kat Wolinski, in a wonderfully nuanced performance).

Despite the apparent lack of any redeeming qualities, you find yourself rooting for this creepy clan as they scheme to hire a police detective who moonlights as a professional hit man: Killer Joe (Rick Eldredge, who channels a blend of Ron Burgundy and a legendary

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A nice surprise Teahouse of the August Moon

Most folks identify Teahouse of the August Moon with the dated 1956 film starring the miscast Marlon Brando (in “yellowface” makeup). It hasn’t held up well. But the 1954 Broadway version netted the Tony and the Pulitzer Prize. Surely the original script had something going for it.

Indeed it does. This well-balanced revival

by Community Asian Theatre of the Sierra celebrates this postwar comedy’s gentle charms, and helps explain why it’s rarely attempted.

Quite simply, it’s a challenging show, requiring a large cast, abundant costumes, multiple set changes, a live goat and what looks like an army Jeep (which had to be reassembled onstage here). It also needs Asian performers, speaking many lines in Japanese (which this cast has memorized with varying degrees of success).

Set during the American occupation of Japan following World War II, the humor rises naturally from the cultural miscues that inevitably accrue as the Americans and Okinawans learn to get along. It’s a romanticized picture to be sure, colored by prurient assumptions Americans then harbored about “geisha girls.” But overall, the presentation of the culture clash is sympathetic and sincere, and the debunking of lockstep military thinking is humane, not strident. Director Diane Fetterly does a fine job sustaining spontaneity—this show is two-and-a-half hours long (two intermissions) but it flies by swiftly.

Standouts include Dennis Yen as the sagacious Sakini, Lyra Dominguez as Lotus Blossom (her Japanese is pretty good), and cut-ups Danny McCammon and Darryl Stines as Americans “gone native.”

—Jeff Hudson

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As John Barrymore, Gregory North brings gallant, impulsive, alcoholic talent to STC’s production of this show about one of the great American actors of the last century. Barrymore was both exceptionally volatile and exceptionally talented. This intimate production in the Pollock Theatre does the show justice. W 12:30pm & 6:30pm; Th 6:30pm; F 8pm; Sa 2pm & 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 5/8. $15-$38.

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Playwright Jane Martin writes 11 monologues in a variety of women’s voices, Resurrection Theatre provides the 11 local actresses. It’s an intriguing, insightful show—a theater buffet where both the writing and performances vary in strength, but you leave satiated and satisfied. Wonderful to witness so many talented women in one production. Th, F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 4/21. $12-$15. Resurrection Theatre at the Artisan Theatre, 1901 Del Paso Blvd.; (916) 838-0618; www.resurrectiontheatre.com. P.R.

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This musical biography of the troubadour of the working man gets a workmanlike production at the hands of City Theatre. Great songs, fine music— but several actors who need to grow into their roles. F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 4/29. $12-$15.

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The Three Stooges, directed by the Farrelly brothers and written by them and Mike Cerrone, is essentially the movie equivalent of a tributeband performance. These things are almost always ill-advised—the shelves at Netflix distribution centers are bulging with unwanted copies of The Little Rascals (1994). But Stooges defies the odds; the Farrellys understand the structure and spirit of the original Stooges, and, to extend the “tribute band” metaphor, they’ve assembled a trio of first-rate “musicians.”

Two trios, actually. We first see them as babies dumped in a duffle bag on the doorstep of the Sisters of Mercy Orphanage, discovered by cranky Sister Mary-Mengele (Larry David in drag). Ten years later, they’re played by Lance Chantiles-Wertz (Larry), Skyler Gisondo (Moe) and Robert Capron (Curly), then finally, 25 years after that, by Sean Hayes, Chris Diamantopoulos and Will Sasso.

When Larry, Moe and Curly learn that the orphanage (where they’ve lingered for 35 years because no parents would ever adopt them) faces foreclosure unless they can come up with a quick $830,000, the boys strike out to earn the money and save their home.

Look out, world.

The plot is cribbed from The Blues Brothers, a clever ploy to rope in the same demographic that transferred their childhood Stoogemania to Jake and Elwood Blues in the 1980s. Cerrone and the Farrellys also structure

their script as three connected episodes, with punning titles like the ones for the original Stooge shorts for Columbia—“More Orphan Than Not,” “The Bananas Split” and “No Moe Mister Nice Guy”—an idea that never occurred to the real Stooges when they went from shorts to features in the late 1950s. And like Jules White, the Stooges’ original producer-director, they surround the boys with a bunch of serious straight men and women (Jane Lynch, Jennifer Hudson, Sofia Vergara, Craig Bierko) to set off and underline the rambunctious slapstick.

The movie necessarily stands or falls on the performances of the Stooges themselves, and we can only thank heaven that some of the names floating around during the movie’s 10 years of development hell (Sean Penn, Jim Carrey, Benicio del Toro, Johnny Depp, Johnny Knoxville, etc.) didn’t stay attached to the project. Hayes, Diamantopoulos and Sasso simply are the Three Stooges, and in all the cockamamie shenanigans the subtlety of their impersonations shouldn’t go unnoticed. I mean, with all that grimacing and nyuk-nyuk-nyuk-ing, if so much as one tiny facial muscle or vocal inflection was out of place, it would stick out like a wax banana to fans who grew up watching the real Larry, Curly and Moe do this stuff 300 times over. I was particularly struck by the way Hayes duplicates Larry Fine’s raspy nasal voice. And Diamantopoulos nails Moe Howard’s scowling New York snarl exactly right—especially for an actor whose first language was Greek.

It’s funny in exactly the “stoopid” way that the original Three Stooges were, and it reminds us that these three dopes once made us laugh our little heads off.

In case children are tempted to try this at home (never an issue when I was a kid), the Farrelly brothers come on at the end to caution them against it. Only it’s not really the Farrellys, it’s two handsome hunks (Justin Lopez and Antonion Sabato Jr.) impersonating them, and we buy it just as happily as we bought those other guys filling in for Larry, Moe and Curly.

For a movie that, let’s face it, didn’t really need to be made, The Three Stooges is one of the most delightful surprises to come along in years. It’s funny in exactly the “stoopid” way that the original Stooges were, and even if we kids grew up to prefer our comedy from Woody Allen or the Marx Brothers—or for that matter, Noël Coward or Oscar Wilde—it reminds us that these three dopes once made us laugh our little heads off. Ω

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Not that you asked, but here’s what’s going on with the American Pie class of ’99. The hapless Jim (Jason Biggs) and horny Michelle (Alyson Hannigan) are cordially married but sexually disconnected. Sweet beefcake Oz (Chris Klein) settled into sub-ESPN sportscasting after losing a TV dance contest. Nonentity Kevin (Thomas Ian Nichols) compensates for Real Housewives date nights with a gently manicured beard. Pseudo-sophisticate Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas) has fashioned himself as a bohemian drifter, and rude-boy Stifler (Seann William Scott) grumbles his way through corporatetemp subservience. Getting collectively sentimental about the shame-based comedy of crude bodily functions, they reconvene for some cathartic and quaintly raunchy regression. With presiding father figure Eugene Levy ever game and in good form, writer-directors Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg labor over a lot of setup and a lot of wrap-up to carry off one big soso sequel heap of millennial nostalgia. J.K.

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Blue Like Jazz

A Texas teenager (Marshall Allman) leaves his Bible Belt cocoon for Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where his evangelical upbringing is tested by the semi-anarchic anything-goes atmosphere of left-of-center academia. Reportedly based on a memoir of spiritual discovery by campus ministry leader Donald Miller (written by him, Ben Pearson and director Steve Taylor), the movie must be highly fictionalized because it seldom rings true—two-dimensional characters, trite and stilted situations, and awkward, arch dialogue. Allman is an appealing screen presence, but neither the script nor Taylor’s direction serve him well—he and the rest of the cast of unknowns always seem to be glancing at the camera out of the corners of their eyes. Still, the Portland locations are interesting for those who know the city. J.L.

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Bully

Director Lee Hirsch’s well-intentioned documentary soberly depicts the emotional toll of bullying in the lives of five American families. It’s utterly heart-wrenching stuff, but only superficial in structure and in rigor, short on revelation, and tailored to an already wisedup audience that won’t get much from it beyond validated indignation, although that is something.

(Also, some jittery focus distracts from otherwise usefully intimate digital cinematography.)

What’s saddest, but again no revelation, is the sense of bullied kids being let down by the adults in their lives, including parents, school administrators, and, come to think of it, crusading documentary-makers too. There is some hope to think that if they can make it through (and not all of them can), these brave young souls might themselves one day improve our lousy pseudogrown-up-addled world. J.K.

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The Cabin in the Woods

Five 20-something pals take off for a weekend retreat, where they are set on by murdering zombies. Producer Joss Whedon (who co-wrote with director Drew Goddard) has built a career on making silk purses out of sow’s ears, but sometimes a pig’s ear is just a pig’s ear. Here the hog gristle in question is the same dumbass slasher-movie hokum as last year’s Shark Night 3D, with cliché characters walking around marked “Kill me first” and “Kill me next.” Press materials warn reviewers against disclosing the movie’s “secrets,” but anyone with an IQ larger than their shoe size will see it all coming an hour ahead of time. Whedon is on probation now; he’d better be extra-good from here on out. Chris Hemsworth, Kristen Connolly, Richard Jenkins, Sigourney Weaver and others struggle to make this turkey fly. J.L.

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Footnote

A simmering conflict between a father (Shlomo Bar-Aba) and son (Lior Ashkenazi), rival professors of Talmudic Studies at a Jerusalem university, boils over (as much as anything in academia ever comes to a boil) when one is chosen to receive the prestigious Israel Prize. A twist in writer-director Joseph Cedar’s script leads to a situation where the father goes out of his way to humiliate his son at the exact moment his son is going out of his way to avoid humiliating him. In Cedar’s hands, what might have made a roiling domestic melodrama (think All My Sons) becomes instead a sort of comedy, albeit a bitter and mordant one that evokes winces instead of laughs. It makes for a very interesting movie, marred only by a muddled,

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Jiro Ono is widely reported to be world’s best sushi chef, and as this documentary reveals, he sets an elegant if also daunting example for devotion to deliciousness. The title of director David Gelb’s reverie does not exaggerate, and the unexpected elation of Jiro Dreams of Sushi comes from being made hungry not just for the master’s creations—yeah, good luck getting a reservation—but also for the pride and glory of artisanal excellence. The film’s prevailing aesthetic is slow-motion austerity, with many shots of highly skilled hands at work and glistening fish-flesh closeups, plus glimpses of family history, supplier subcultures and other useful bits of context. As compelling as the man himself is Jiro’s patient and industrious staff, not least the older son, still an apprentice at age 50, who works by his side and evidently forever in his shadow. Pleasure taken seriously does have its consequences, but they also include a reciprocity of zeal. Certainly, by now, sushi dreams of Jiro, too. J.K. inconclusive ending and an obnoxious, irrelevant musical score by Amit Poznansky. J.L.

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The Hunger Games

Adolescents from a dozen districts of some future former America annually are chosen by lottery for a woodsy death match on live TV. Two of them, played by Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson, hold our interest. This comes from the first book of Suzanne Collins’ bestselling sci-fi trilogy, and the script, by Collins, Billy Ray and director Gary Ross, has its own battles to fight against pseudo-suspense and other bloating filler. Reportedly inspired by Collins’ experience of flipping channels between war coverage and reality TV, it seems appropriately more mind-numbing than groundbreaking or actively satirical. Peripheral notquite-characters are played with brightly costumed monotony by Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson, Toby Jones, Stanley Tucci, Lenny Kravitz and Donald Sutherland. But Hutcherson commits to his sudsy subplot, and Lawrence anchors it all with enough presence and genuine vulnerability to reward the patient attention of those many people who’ve been waiting in line to watch since before you began reading this. J.K.

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The Kid With a Bike

Sibling Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne bring their customary immediacy and unsentimental compassion to this naturalistic fable of an at-risk kid (Thomas Doret) who finds himself abandoned by his dad (Jérémie Renier) and taken in, practically at random, by a surrogate mom (Cécile De France). The magic of the Dardennes’ frugal style is an apparent detachment that gradually reveals itself as complete commitment. Long, nonchalantly attentive takes, punctuated only by a few choice bits of Beethoven, allow for a powerful and welcome clarity of human expression. This lithe and solemnly kinetic little-blond-boy hero seems like an obverse of Spielberg’s depthless The Adventures of Tintin; his story is conveyed through rivetingly decisive moments of indignant determination, guileless self-deception, and touchingly credible moral reckoning. J.K.

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Lockout

In 2079 America, where the worst criminals are kept in suspended animation in an orbiting maximum-security space station, a humanitarian visit by the president’s daughter (Maggie Grace) triggers a riot and hostagetaking among the awakened prisoners, and it’s up to a disgraced CIA agent (Guy Pearce) to sneak aboard and rescue her—and find the evidence that will clear his own name. The script by directors James Mather and Stephen St. Leger and producer Luc Besson is short on logic, science and understanding of the U.S. Constitution, but long on video-game action and obstacle-course twists and turns. It also gives Pearce a heaping plateful of snappy

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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

The Brothers Grimm story of Snow White (Lily Collins) and her wicked stepmother (Julia Roberts) gets a Fractured Fairy Tales retelling, courtesy of director Tarsem Singh and writers Melissa Wallack and Jason Keller. The dialogue is more wisecracking than witty, but still pretty funny, and the story is surprisingly sweet and charming. Roberts sashays through her Cruella de Vil turn with relish. Collins’ Snow White is smart and spunky, and Armie Hammer, as her handsome prince, shows an unexpected flair for square-jawed Dudley Do-Right comedy.

Nathan Lane, Mare Winningham and, of course, the seven dwarves (Jordan Prentice, Mark Povinelli, Joe Gnoffo, Danny Woodburn, Sebastian Saraceno, Martin Klebba, Ronald Lee Clark) round out the eager cast. Tom Foden’s scrumptious production design is another huge plus. J.L.

In Jakarta, a police raid on a gang lord’s tenement headquarters goes terribly wrong, leaving the survivors of the invading SWAT team trapped and out of ammunition, forced to fight their way out with bare hands, flying feet and whatever weapons come to hand. The result, in writer-director Gareth Evans’ hands, is like a martial arts tournament with “real” blood, injury and death—everybody comes on one at a time to get his neck snapped, throat cut, or chest skewered in whatever way Evans and fight choreographers Yayan Ruhian and Iko Uwais (the real stars here) have devised for them. Evans seldom stops for dialogue, and never for plot or characterization, so the names of actors hardly matter. The action is literally wall-towall and floor-to-ceiling, and all you could want if you like this sort of thing. J.L.

A British fisheries expert (Ewan McGregor) is approached by a publicrelations consultant (Emily Blunt) to help a Yemeni sheikh (Amr Waked) realize his dream of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to his homeland.

Writer Simon Beaufoy and director Lasse Hallström turn Paul Torday’s novel into a thoroughgoing delight. McGregor and Blunt make an engaging team—they’ve always been able to bring out the best in their co-stars, and here they bring out the best in each other. Waked plays the sheikh with just the right blend of exotic dignity and friendly warmth, and Kristin Scott Thomas has wicked fun as the no-nonsense press secretary to the prime minister, giving the movie an edge of political satire that nicely balances the sheikh’s visionary mysticism and the blossoming romance between Blunt and McGregor’s characters. J.L.

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I’d like to say that the annual Record Store Day in America has a little bit of something for everyone. But I’m not so sure that’s the case: Consumers— by ever wary of actually paying for music, let alone Nick Miller non-digital sounds in the form of CD or vinyl or nickam@ cassette or whatever—no longer pore through newsreview.com aisles or dig in crates. The intimacy of the hunt for most, expired long ago. And it’s a sad state—especially for Sacramento, once a major hub of music retail. With the convenience of a download comes an album or song’s increased disposability, right?

sale in the shop. There will be baked goods (Sac Urban Dharma) and coffee (Insight Coffee Roasters). And the owners are planning to get every Record Store Day special edition release, so get there when the shop opens. 2312 K Street; shop opens at 10:30 a.m., music at 1 p.m.; more info at http://phonoselect.com/blog.

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in the history of modern sound seems to put out an exclusive Record Store Day release.

Beginning with the letter “A,” for instance, even Animal Collective (sounds from its 2010 Guggenheim Museum installation, called Transverse Temporal Gyrus). Other enticing limited releases: a Beach House’s 7-inch featuring new material, the Grateful Dead’s 40-minute version of “Dark Star” from the Europe ’72 tour, Jimmy Fallon doing Tim Tebow-David Bowie, and Refused’s The Shape of Punk to Come in limited-edition color. Find out more at www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialReleases.

3. Local stuff: Punk-rap trio Death Grips’ major-

label debut, The Money Store, will be available for the first time this Saturday. Correction: available for the first time in physical form; the band dropped the album last week on SoundCloud and YouTube. Find more info at www.thirdworlds.net.

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Store Day first releases, including Odd Future’s The OF Tape Vol. 2; a rerelease of Patti Smith’s debut, Horses; a 12-inch of Battles’ remixes, Neon Indian’s “Hex Girlfriend” single; Wilco’s The Whole Love Deluxe Box Set; Childish Gambino’s “Heartbeat” single on red vinyl; a Flaming Lips double-LP collaboration called Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends; and on and on.

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If every Midtown denizen forks out 10 bucks for an album on April 21—the So, yes, Record Store Day is a weird day, sixth-annual Record Store that third Saturday of April each year where all the cloud-cataloging, iTunes embracing, torrent- Day—local shops would ing bastards actually hit up a brick-and-mortar rake in approximately and buy a real, tangible record. But look at it $400,000 in sales. this way: If every Midtown denizen forks out 10 bucks for an album on April 21—the sixthannual Record Store Day—local shops would rake in approximately $400,000 in sales. Here’s five reasons to make that possible:

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5. The parties: Like most shops this weekend,

everyone’s favorite Midtown record shop Phono Select will pull out all the stops for this year’s Record Store Day. There will be local bands—Knock Knock, Nacho Business, Lee Bannon, Appetite, the Four Eyes, Aly & Miek Sneak—and each performer has records for

1. Surprises: If you find yourselves at one of the eight Dimple Records locations on Saturday, there’ll certainly be giveaways aplenty (www.dimple.com). Same goes for Records on Broadway (1618 Broadway, www.rarerecords.net) or Armadillo Music (205 F Street in Davis, www.armadillomusic.com).

Or the surprise may be your new favorite album; I recommend Interstellar by Frankie Rose, if you’re into guitar music, or Fin by John Talabot if beats is your game. Ω

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4/20 gettin’ out of control: OK, I get it: Marijuana and music are forever. Like boating on the Sacramento River and Sublime’s greatest hits. Or drunk clubbers and La Garnacha. Or hologram Tupac.

But Sacramento, you went a little bit overboard with this year’s 4/20 shows, eh? Yes, the weed can do great things for really bad chronic pain and really bad music. But did you have to go and book more shows for this Friday’s “holiday” than any other day of the year? I mean, there are more bands in town this weekend than at Coachella. Just look what you’ve done: First, it’s no surprise that most parties on Friday begin at 4:20 p.m., including the top-shelf of local cannabis throwdowns, the Sacramento Cannabis Movement’s big smoke out at Harlow’s (2708 J Street). The day party begins with a graffiti battle (I’m not sure, either), and Lou Selekta and Sleeprockers will mix all night, and hip-hop troupe Live Manikins and dub-rockers Arden Park Roots will headline beginning around 9:30 p.m. OK, so this actually is a unique, cool-sounding event, and one that bridges the local hiphop/rock gap. And all for $25—or just $12 to see the main acts. Just keep your red eyes peeled for the feds. Who’s on lookout?

Down the block, more stoney sets: Murderlicious, Black Mackeral and the Stalking Distance take over Blue Lamp (1400 Alhambra Boulevard; 8 p.m.; $8).

This year’s Freedom Fest sets sail at Old Ironsides with Private Criminals, South Lot, Funk.Defied, Blaquelisted and OneLost MC (1901 10th Street, 9 p.m., $5).

Pregnant, Nick Sinetos and Burbank International get mellow at Bows & Arrows (1915 19th Street, 8 p.m., $5). Defyant Circle, Motordrone and the Trees buzz at Javalounge (2416 16th Street, 8 p.m., $5).

And Dean Haakenson’s Be Brave Bold Robot headlines at Fox & Goose with Jackie Greene’s guitarist Nathan Dale and San Francisco troupe Caught in Motion (1001 R Street, 9 p.m., $5).

And there’s even more smoke off the grid. The Get Blown Birthday Bash at On the Y combines what apparently are the Sacramento

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male’s two favorite pastimes— cannabis and fellatio, natch—and features (you guessed it) headliner Blown Load, plus Sour Diesel, California Medication and Evil Plan (670 Fulton Avenue, 9 p.m., $5). White Minorities take over Callison’s Bar and Grill (2878 Fulton Avenue, 9 p.m., no cover).

And a band I’ve never heard of, Hell Rooster, drops its new single “She Dropped a Deuce on My Heart”— a track to avoid like moldy weed—at Rancho Cordova’s Straw Hat Pizza. Yes, really, Straw Hat (2929 Mather Field Road, 8 p.m., no cover). DJ Erik Lobe heads up the Ultimate House Party at Roseville’s Onyx Club (116 Main Street, 9 p.m., no cover before 11 p.m.). Jras and Lady Grace, plus

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the Soulifted band headline Haven Underground’s 4/20 bash in Nevada City (226 Broad Street, 9 p.m., $8-$10).

Plus, don’t forget the major smoke outs: The second-ever How High party goes down at Plinky’s on the River with U.K. dub outfit Truth, Deep Medi, Wheel & Deal, Disfigured Dubz, Boka, Argon, and Aquatic Lab (6995 Garden Highway, 7 p.m., $5-$15). And the City of Trees reggae festival takes over the Rio Ramaza RV & Event Center for the entire 4/20 weekend (10000 Garden Highway, Friday through Saturday, $25-$60).

Ah, Sacto. I got a contact high just writing about this.

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20FRI 20FRI 21SAT Music, Art, Cannabis Festival Harlow’s, 4:20 p.m., $25

The Sacramento Cannabis Movement presents this festival to raise funds for its organization as well as the Inkd Artists Association. Though the festival starts in West Sacramento at 10 a.m. with a graffiti battle—call (916) 642-6146 or email saccannmove@gmail.com for details—it moves to Harlow’s for the graffiti battle’s award ceremony, live music and deejay performances. Artwork created during the battle will be HIP-HOP/REGGAE auctioned. On top of that, there will be free gift giveaways and live performances by Arden Park Roots (pictured), Live Manikins, Sleeprockers and DJ Selekta Lou will help light up the crowd.

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Roach Gigz Ace of Spades, 8 p.m., $12 Can’t afford to see Wiz Khalifa on 4/20? Me either, but you know what? Roach Gigz possesses that same energy and stage presence for a fraction of the cost. The San Francisco native has shown HIP-HOP the Bay Area a good time with lyrics and beats that don’t stray far from sex, drugs and partying. Having performed alongside other Bay Area heavyweights like San Quinn, the Jacka and Kreayshawn, it’s no wonder he’s also known as Roachy Balboa. Tracks like “Gina”, “Goomba Pimpin” and “Can I Rap” are sure to get you lifted if you’re not already.

Playah K and K-Mac open this show.

1417 R Street, www.roachgigz.com.

—Anthony Nathan

Luigi’s Fun Garden, 8 p.m., $7 Picture Atlantic is one of the few bands that writes radio-friendly mainstream-accessible music but holds onto a DIY punk ethos.

We’re talking larger-than-life, stadiumworthy indie rock in the vein of the Killers, Death Cab for Cutie and Coldplay. Speaking of, did you know Picture Atlantic scored an opening spot for Coldplay in 2008 PUNK after winning a band contest on San Francisco’s KITS 105.3 FM, Live 105?

Despite pretty-boy mod-fashion sensibilities and incredibly catchy songs, the group thinks it’s Black Flag. Picture Atlantic puts out its own albums, books its own tours and plays bimonthly shows in hometown San Jose. Hardcore. 1050 20th Street, www.facebook.com/PictureAtlantic.

—Aaron Carnes

21SAT Random Abiladeze Marilyn’s on K, 8:30 p.m., $10 About a year ago, Random Abiladeze hopped off of the light rail near O Street and told me that he was HIP-HOP working on a set with a full live band. Well, now that backing band, the Bread Fam, will join the popular emcee for this record-release launch. Bring a can of food for the Sacramento Food Bank, get $2 off admission. James Cavern, Zebulon, Sleeprockers, Tais—big hip-hop hitters will be in the house. And the aforementioned record will be B-sides and outtakes from Random’s 2011 release, Indubitably!, which featured guest spots from Sister Crayon and Dusty Brown. 908 K Street, www.randomab.com.

—Nick Miller

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The Shins Long before Christina Hendricks starred in the Broken Bells’ “The Ghost Inside” video, James Mercer, vocalist and one half of that side project (along with Danger Mouse), was releasing incredibly well-crafted, clever and catchy pop songs with his band the Shins. March marked the release of the Shins’ fourth album, Pot of Morrow, and tracks on it such as “The Rifle’s Spiral” have such a powerful and enthralling drive, they would even make the toes on a phantom limb tap. The new album also POP marks a lineup change, but stay calm: Mercer and his mystifying falsetto remain at the helm. 9399 Old Davis Road in Davis, www.theshins.com.

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Davis Bike Collective, 8:30 p.m., $5

Mondavi Center, 8 p.m., $35

Harlow’s, 9 p.m., call for cover

Memorial Auditorium, 7:30 p.m., $38-$70

Madigan Shive honed her musical skills in the Northwestern riot-grrrl band Tattle Tale.

These days, armed with a FOLK-PUNK cello, she’s the force behind Bonfire Madigan, a baroque-pop ensemble that draws on elements of folk, punk and dance. The result is a sound that showcases Shive’s achingly insistent vocals.

Over the years, Bonfire Madigan’s rotating members have included Elliott Smith and Jolie Holland, but it’s this trivia we find most interesting: As a teenager, Shive spent time as an “artistic housemate” with actress Hilary Swank and actor-director Miranda July. One can only imagine the conversations that went down. 1221 Fourth Street in Davis, www.bonfiremadigan.com.

The Celtic Woman touring troupe will return to Sacramento yet again. For those not in the know, this show is a full-on production, replete with larger-than-life mystical backdrops and an immensely talented group of musicians and singers. The series, also available on CD and DVD, has become somewhat of an overnight franchise and gets featured WORLD regularly on public-television station KVIE. For those who like to dream far beyond the limitations of planet Earth, this show is the perfect retreat. And while those in attendance are mostly women, that’s all the more reason for more men to show up en masse. 1515 J Street, www.celticwoman.com.

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Before Reel Big Fish and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and even before Madness and the Specials, the Skatalites pioneered ska in the ’60s. Those who’ve missed the fickle genre’s presence the last 50 years, the Skatalites’ name is not a reference SKA to some scatological satellite floating in orbit, but one of the early examples of the ska bands’ unfortunate practice of pun use in their names (see Bim Skala Bim).

It’s hard to fault the band that popularized both the practice and the genre itself; and besides, these guys still know how to pick it up, pick it up, pick it up, pick it up. 2708 J Street, (916) 441-4693, www.skatalites.com.

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BLUE LAMP

1400 Alhambra, (916) 455-3400

The Session: local hip-hop and rock acts, 9pm, $5

CURA COCHINA, MURDERLICIOUS, STALKING DISTANCE; 9pm, call for cover

THE BOARDWALK

LAST NIGHT IN TOWN, TAKE PRIDE,

TAG YOU’RE DEAD, BECOME THE ORACLE, THOU, THE GIANT; 8pm

BOWS AND ARROWS

Live figure drawing, 6pm, $10

9426 Greenback Ln., Orangevale; (916) 988-9247 WOLF BRONSKI; 8pm, $10 1815 19 St., (916) 822-5668

Champion Sound Reggae, 10pm, $5

CENTER FOR THE ARTS

CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE, COCO MONTOYA; 8pm, $25

1500 K St., (916) 444-3633 314 W. Main St., Grass Valley; (530) 271-7000

JAMIE’S ELSEWHERE, LIGHTS AHEAD OF US, WINTER FORMAL; 7:30pm, $12-$14 Nerd Night (hosted by Drew Walker), 8pm W, no cover Papasotes’s Karaoke Explosion, 9pm, no cover PETER WILSON, MOE DIXON, MOUNTAIN JOHN; 8pm, $10-$12

LISA LOEB, 7:30pm, $22-$25

PRIME D, ISAAC BEAR; 8pm, $5

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DJ Vincent Salas and Dr. Freezy, 9pm, call for cover

Deejay dancing, 9pm, call for cover

DJ Ritz, 9pm, call for cover

Gogo Competition, 9pm W

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THE MIKE JUSTIS BAND, 8-11pm, no cover

BE BRAVE BOLD ROBOT, CAUGHT IN MOTION, NATHAN DALE; 9pm, $5

FELSEN, JILT VS JONAH; 9pm-midnight, $5

Open-mic, 7:30pm M; Pub Quiz, 7pm Tu; STEVE MCLANE, 8pm W, no cover

POOR MAN’S POISON, DOC’S HOLIDAY; 10pm-1:15am, no cover

Dj Smilez, 10pm-1:15am, no cover

ELEMENT OF SOUL, SINIZEN; 10pm1:15am, no cover

1016 K St., (916) 737-5770

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DJ Shaun Slaughter, 10pm, call for cover

DJ Crook One, 10pm, call for cover

DJ Whores, 10pm, no cover

Industry Night, 9pm, call for cover

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Baked: A Cannabis Cabaret, 9pm, $12$15; GROUPLOVE, 6:30pm, $18

ARDEN PARK ROOTS, 10pm, $12

MIDNIGHT PLAYERS, 9:30pm, $12

EVIDENCE, 9pm, call for cover

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DANNY SECRETION, TONY SILVA, LUKE ANDERSON, TRAVIS LATRINE; 8pm, $5

DEFYANT CIRCLE, SASQUATCH, MOTOR- MAGIC BULLETS, BAD HAND, 4pm, $5; DRONE, THE TREES; 7pm-midnight, $6 CHIKADING!, 8:30pm, $6

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Joe Montoya’s Poetry Unplugged, 8pm, $2

RICHIE LAWRENCE & THE YOLOS, SCARVES; 8:30pm, $6

PENNY HARDING, KATHY BARWICK; 8:30pm, $6

Nebraska Mondays, 7:30pm M, $5-$20; Comedy night, 8pm W, $6

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“Rock On” Live Band Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

TEN MILE TIDE, DAD’S LPS; 9:30pm, $10

RANDOM ABILADEZE, BREAD FAM, JAMES CAVERN, ZEBULON; 9:30pm, $10

HOT CLUB DE CARMICHAEL, 5:30pm Tu, no cover

NAKED LOUNGE DOWNTOWN

MASON REX, AUTUMN SKY, SEAN FLEMING; 8:30pm, $5

CONFLICT MINERALS, OLD SCREEN DOOR, BOUND; 8:30pm, $5

JACK RABBIT SPECIAL, ADRIAN BELEW; 8:30pm, $5

OLD IRONSIDES

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

Acoustic bluegrass jam, 7:30pm, no cover

ONE LOST MC, FUNK.DEFIED, PRIVATE CRIMINALS, SOUTHLOT; 9pm, $5

Darkness w/ DJ Natalie Liquior, 9:30pm, $5

ON THE Y

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

EVIL PLAN, BLOWNLOAD, CALIFORNIA MEDICATION, SOUR DIESEL; 9pm, $5

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

THE PALMS PLAYHOUSE

CURTIS SALGADO, 8:30pm, $20

SOURDOUGH SLIM WITH BOB ARMSTRONG, 8pm, $20

THE PARK ULTRA LOUNGE

DJ Gabe Xavier, 9pm-2am, $15

DJ Scene, 9pm-2am, $15

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Because “trees” is slang for cannabis, I giggle every time I hear someone say City of Trees. Out west of Sacramento, the Rio Ramaza Marina RV & Event Park (home of the Pirate Fest and Sacramento Hempfest), will be hosting a three-day reggae and music extravaganja this weekend. Heavyweights Mystic Roots, Pyrx, La Noche Oskura and many more bands will be there. You can camp out and enjoy tunes from Squarefield Massive and King of Hearts. Leaf the Comedian will also be there to host and emcee. Friday, April 20, through Sunday, April 22, at the Rio Ramaza Marina RV & Event Park, 10000 Garden Highway; 4 p.m.; $25-$60; all ages; www.cityoftreesmusicfestival.info.

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you know what these exquisitely individuated luminaries have in common: Salvador Dalí, Martha Graham, Stephen Colbert, David Byrne, Maya Deren, Malcolm X, Willie Nelson, Bono, Dennis Hopper, Cate Blanchett, George Carlin, Tina Fey, Sigmund Freud. Give up? They are or were all Tauruses. Would you characterize any of them as sensible, materialistic slowpokes obsessed with comfort and security, as many traditional astrology texts describe Tauruses? Nope. They are or were distinctive innovators with unique style and creative flair. They are your role models as you cruise through the current phase of maximum self-expression.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In December

1946, three Bedouin shepherds were tending their flock near the Dead Sea. They found a cave with a small entrance. Hoping it might contain treasure hidden there long ago, they wanted to explore it. The smallest of the three managed to climb through the narrow opening. He brought out a few dusty old scrolls in ceramic jars. The shepherds were disappointed. But eventually the scrolls were revealed to be one of the most important finds in archaeological history: the first batch of what has come to be known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Keep this story in mind, Gemini. I suspect a metaphorically similar tale may unfold for you soon. A valuable discovery may initially appear to you in a form you’re not that excited about.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The devil

called together a committee meeting of his top assistants. He was displeased.

Recruitments of people born under the sign of Cancer had fallen far below projected totals. “It’s unacceptable,” the dark lord fumed. “Those insufferable Crabs have been too mentally healthy lately to be tantalized by our lies. Frankly, I’m at wits’ end. Any suggestions?” His marketing expert said, “Let’s redouble our efforts to make them buy into the hoax about the world ending on December 21, 2012.” The executive vice president chimed in: “How about if we play on their fears about running out of what they need?” The chief of intelligence had an idea, too: “I say we offer them irrelevant goodies that tempt them away from their real goals.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “If you don’t run

your own life, someone else will,” said psychologist John Atkinson. Make that your motto in the coming weeks, Leo. Write it on a big piece of cardboard and hold it up in front of your eyes as you wake up each morning. Use it as a prod that motivates you to shed any laziness you might have about living the life you really want.

Periodically ask yourself these three questions: Are you dependent on the approval, permission or recognition of others? Have you set up a person, ideology or image of success that’s more authoritative than your own intuition? Is there any area of your life where you have ceded control to an external source?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Here are the

last words that computer pioneer Steve Jobs spoke before he died: “Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Oh, wow.” I’d propose that we bring that mantra into as wide a usage as Jobs’ other creations, like the iPhone and iPad. I’d love to hear random strangers exclaiming it every time they realize how amazing their lives are. I’d enjoy it if TV newscasters spoke those words to begin each show, acknowledging how mysterious our world really is. I’d be pleased if lovers everywhere uttered it at the height of making love. I nominate you to start the trend, Virgo.

You’re the best choice, since your tribe, of all the signs of the zodiac, will most likely have the wildest rides and most intriguing adventures in the coming weeks.

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COSTELLO PHOTO BY KAYLEIGH MCCOLLUM

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A starfish

that loses an arm can grow back a new one. It’s an expert regenerator. According to my understanding of the astrological omens, you are entering a starfishlike phase of your cycle. Far more than usual, you’ll be able to recover parts of you that got lost and reanimate parts of you that fell dormant. For the foreseeable future, your words of power are “rejuvenate,” “restore,” “reawaken” and “revive.” If you concentrate really hard and fill yourself with the light of the spiritual sun, you might even be able to perform a kind of resurrection.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Too much of

a good thing isn’t necessarily good. (Have you ever hyperventilated?) Too little of a good thing can be bad. (Have you ever gotten dehydrated?) Some things are good in measured doses but bad if done to excess. (Wine and chocolate.) A very little of a very bad thing may still be a bad thing.

(It’s hard to smoke crack in moderation.)

The coming week is prime time to be thinking along these lines, Scorpio. You will generate a lot of the exact insights you need if you weigh and measure everything in your life and judge what is too much and what is too little.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Sculptor Constantin Brancusi had a clear strategy as he produced his art: “Create like God, command like a king, work like a slave.” I suggest you adopt a similar approach for your own purposes in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. With that as your formula, you could make rapid progress on a project that’s dear to you. So make sure you have an inspiring vision of the dream you want to bring into being.

Map out a bold, definitive plan for how to accomplish it. And then summon enormous stamina, fierce concentration and unfailing attention to detail as you translate your heart’s desire into a concrete form.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “If

there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through,” writes novelist Anne Lamott, “you must. Otherwise, you’ll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you’ve already been in.” I think the coming weeks will be your time to slip through that forbidden door, Capricorn.

The experiences that await you on the other side may not be everything you have always needed, but I think they are at least everything you need next. Besides, it’s not like the taboo against penetrating into the unknown place makes much sense anymore. The biggest risk you take by breaking the spell is the possibility of losing a fear you’ve grown addicted to.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When rain

falls on dry land, it activates certain compounds in the soil that release a distinctive aroma. Petrichor is the word for that smell.

If you ever catch a whiff of it when there’s no rain, it’s because a downpour has begun somewhere nearby, and the wind is bringing you news of it. I suspect that you will soon be awash in a metaphorical version of petrichor, Aquarius. A parched area of your life is about to receive much-needed moisture.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Forty per-

cent of Americans do not know that the dinosaurs died out long before human beings ever existed. When these folks see an old cartoon of caveman Fred Flintstone riding on a diplodocus, they think it’s depicting a historical fact. In the coming weeks, Pisces, you need to steer clear of people who harbor gross delusions like that. It’s more important than usual that you hang out with educated, cultured types who possess a modicum of well-informed ideas about the history of humanity and the nature of reality. Surround yourself with intelligent influences, please.

Vic Preciado and his client Drogo, owned by Frank Varbel.

Call of doody Vic Preciado has already covered plenty of miles in his new Doody Guy Toyota Prius. Preciado, 31, works a full-time sales job in addition to running Doody Guy, the pet-waste-disposal business he founded in 2009. Preciado has to be fast to pick up more than 250 pounds of poop per week—while sometimes dodging angry rottweilers—but now that his phone number’s printed on his car, he promises to at least slow down behind the wheel.

How long have you been driving the Doody Guy car?

Since February 9. I really wanted to go with a Prius because it’s the green thing to do. It took about two weeks to get a reaction. I was worried I had made a mistake wrapping my car [with a graphic installation], but then I had a huge vet clinic respond because of the car.

What’s the public reaction?

I’ve met people who have called me a crazy driver. I think by having a wrap, you have to pay more attention to what you do and drive perfectly. Better than perfectly. I had a woman call in to report bad driving by an employee. I was like, “Did you see the license plate? Car number what?” Then I told her, “I’m sorry: It was me. I just got this car. I’m totally going to be a better driver.”

How much doody do you collect in a week?

Two-hundred-and-fifty to 400 pounds a week.

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All from dogs?

Most of my customers are dogs only. I have one new customer out in Orangevale that has emu, alpaca, sheep, pigs and all kinds of dogs.

How do you combat the smell factor?

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I have two pairs of shoes that are in another bin, too. People have ridden in my car, and they’ve never mentioned anything.

Was this your favorite chore as a kid?

I never had a dog until about three years ago. It was after about four or five months into the business. …

About four years ago, I was on unemployment, and I was looking for work—jobs in the money sector, like in sales. I’ve always had that background. But I was trying to come up with ideas for little stuff on my own. I know this sounds funny, but—I used to be in a lot better shape—and I was like, “How about we do an all-male cleaning crew that just wears shorts?” My friends would laugh, but I said, “If we really market this and we start small, it will build up.”

Economywise, I haven’t had anyone cancel.

I work in some neighborhoods where you might think people could not afford it, and they are giving me $20 tips with my pay.

Or there will be college kids, five of them in a house, and they each chip in a few bucks, because they don’t want to do it themselves.

What’s the best poopscooping implement?

I use my hands! I’m just quick and agile.

When you use a shovel, it doesn’t go as quickly. I use these nitrile latex gloves.

They’re really strong. I bring spares, but I’ve never had one rip in the heat of action.

How do you deal with aggressive dogs?

No, but it has such small start-up costs! A business license and some cleaning supplies: You’re talking less than $500 to start up a business like that.

A rottweiler in Woodland tried to eat me, but I just jumped on the fence and got out of there. … A couple of my clients have Yorkies—little dogs—and they are the most protective dogs. I’ve been bitten by two Yorkies in the toe, but it’s through clothes, so it doesn’t really hurt too much.

How did you decide on Doody Guy instead?

Have you had any frighteningly huge jobs?

I’m a big fan of USA Today. I read it on my iPad every day, and my favorite section is the business section. About every week they’ll feature a business guy who went from nothing to something by doing something no one ever does. … So I read about this guy who had a business called DoodyCalls out in the Washington, D.C., area, and he started doing it for his professors, and it kind of blew up.

I had these students in Davis; they’re still my customers to this day. When they called me, it was a one-time deal followed by a weekly thing. So I asked, “How many piles do you have back there—20, 50, 100?” And he was like, “Eighty.”

Did you launch the sexy cleaning crew?

Do you worry about attracting customers in this economy?

Wow! Eighty’s nothing. I can do that. They had about 365 piles. I had to come back with extra gear.

So they are the record holders. Ω For more information about the Doody Guy, call (888) 943-6639 or visit http://doodyguy.com.

Nope. I’m completely growing. I could easily buy another car right now. I want to be smart, though. That car wrap is the best thing a business can do, I’ll say that. |

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