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BACK TO THE (ARENA) FUTURE see Frontlines, page 10

SN&R VIDDIES

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SECRETS OF OAK PARK see Arts&Culture, page 24

I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU HUSBAND AND WIFE QUILTERS see 15 Minutes, page 55

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The much-loved Oak Park Farmers Market kicks off in a week; contributor Guphy Gustafson takes readers for a walk through the neighborhood. Also this week: Jonathan Mendick oils his chain for May Is Bike Month, Greg Lucas enjoys the Thai salads at Siam Restaurant, Nick Miller chats with on-the-roadsters Musical Charis, and Shoka quizzes husband-and-wife quilters.

Popsmart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Secret history of Oak Park . . . . . . . . 24 Scene&Heard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

GREEN DAYS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

NIGHT&DAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Spear factor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 An Inconvenient Ruth . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Eco-Hit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Events Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Rollin’ around the river . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Hit trees with sticks, but not hard . 16 Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 This Modern World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Guest Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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Siam Restaurant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 The V Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Dish Listings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Eat It and Reap. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Food Stuff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

COOLHUNTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32 ASK JOEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33 STAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34 All Summer in a Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Sorrows and Rejoicings . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Now Playing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

FILM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 Chico & Rita . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

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MUSIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 Musical Charis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Sound Advice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Eight Gigs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Nightbeat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

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Contributor Fred Branfman reflects—in an open letter to best friend Ralph Brave, a former SN&R writer and editor who died in 2007—on the legacy the baby-boomer generation is passing on to the young. From the climate crisis to lowered living standards and rising need, to a failed foreign policy, to threats to democracy, Branfman explores the feats and failures of two generations with a friend he finds hard to let go.

No one likes Facebook’s Timeline, but everyone loves a good Maloof-KingsMayor Kevin Johnson-arena-deal timeline.

Nick Miller lays out the give-and-take of the proposed downtown-arena deal that wasn’t, isn’t—but still just might be?

Also this week: Raheem F. Hosseini spends time at the embattled Southside Park clubhouse, Miller reports on an environmental lawsuit challenging Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg’s AEG companion bill (that could have saved the Kings arena), and Kat Kerlin braves the spear factor at a local asparagus field.

Back to the (arena) future . . . . . . . . 10 Beats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Off target . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 You are Here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

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Re “Onward, sprawl” by Cosmo Garvin (SN&R Feature, April 19): Cosmo Garvin’s article describes the sprawl problem facing the Sacramento region. Such edge-city development continues to lengthen commutes and increase congestion, while 20 years worth of infill land remains undeveloped.

Some maintain the market dictates this outcome, but that is far from true. The region’s most valuable real estate is in McKinley Park, a pedestrian-friendly, mixeduse traditional neighborhood—definitely not sprawl.

So why the sprawl? The biggest reason is the “unearned increment”—the profit a land speculator (a.k.a. “developer”) gets when some local government rezones the land. Outlying agricultural land often becomes 50 to 100 times more valuable once it has been rezoned for development.

Rather than subsidizing sprawl, the Germans require that LETTER OF THE WEEK developers sell the land to the local governments at the agricultural land price. Then the developers must repurchase it at the rezoned, developmentland price. The government retains the unearned increment. For a little perspective, the arts budget for the city of Berlin in Germany exceeds the National Endowment for the Arts in the U.S. Other motivations exist, but the bottom line here is that sprawl is the physical manifestation of the redistribution of society’s benefits to the 1 percent.

Mark Dempsey Orangevale

Pay attention, Elk Grove Re “Onward, sprawl” by Cosmo Garvin (SN&R Feature, April 19): Excellent article! Our group, Elk Grove Grasp, will be sharing this with members of the community. We continue to gather petition signatures to present to the Sacramento Local Agency Formation Commission the night the Elk Grove sphere of influence is a public hearing item for a LAFCo decision.

I hope you will consider a follow-up article introducing the region to Elk Grove Grasp (www.elkgrovegrasp.org).

Lynn Wheat Elk Grove

Hiding the cost of sprawl Re “Onward, sprawl” by Cosmo Garvin (SN&R Feature, April 19): Great work, Cosmo [Garvin].

Here’s the problem: The developers continue to create “suburbs” that rely on cars. Cars cost us time, energy, pollution and health.

If it were a truly “free market,” the developers would be required to include the cost of light rail, buses, walkable shopping and recreation areas in each housing subdivision. That’s right, build it in instead of waiting for the city to do it at taxpayers’ expense. Suddenly these “suburbs” and “exurbs” wouldn’t be so affordable and appealing. The real cost of sprawl is hidden by the way that developers shift the responsibility for

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making these developments appealing and livable.

Of course, Midtown, Land Park and East Sacramento all manage to make themselves both appealing and walkable. But they’ve already got the infrastructure: public transport, parks and shopping areas are all walkable and in place.

Bain is ‘no-fault Communism’

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Re “Bain’s benefactors” by Darwin BondGraham (SN&R Frontlines, April 12): The owners of the New York Mets agreed to pay $162 million to settle claims that they willfully blinded themselves to Bernie Madoff’s epic Ponzi scheme, but Mitt Romney is saying that ignorance to his own profit making with Bain in China is to be ignored? I never heard of no-fault Communism.

Jan Kline Sacramento

Show some respect to Bruce Lee Re “Beyond Bruce Lee” by Anthony Nathan (SN&R 15 Minutes, April 12): I was appalled to read what Terry Maxwell had to say about Bruce Lee. He “wouldn’t be able to beat a C-level fighter”?

I don’t know who this guy thinks he is, but he needs to show some respect to the legend. Sure you might be able to beat him wrestling around onr the floor with your fancy jiujitsu, but good luck even getting your arms around him.

Bruce Lee’s striking speed from 3 feet away was five-hundredths of a second.

How can you grab him when he had already kicked your feet off the ground?

Oh, and Chuck Norris wasn’t even in Enter the Dragon.

Matt McLaughlin via email

Sacramento City Council candidate Dave Turturici, who participated in the April 16 District 4 forum at Hart Senior Center, was incorrectly identified as Kai Ellsworth in the April 19 SN&R’s You Are Here photo caption.

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Confusing review, good cannelloni Re “Pass the cannelloni” by Greg Lucas (SN&R Dish, April 5): I read the review of Vince’s Ristorante and seem to be confused about what the author is trying to say. This is one of my favorite restaurants, and I don’t have gray hair, though I can be considered to be a senior citizen. [Greg Lucas] chooses words like “paltry” and “mundane” to describe what I think is a compliment, but I’m not sure.

I had dinner there [recently] with some friends to celebrate a birthday and the food was wonderful, the service was professional, and the owner came around to the tables to make sure all was well with his patrons. I highly recommend this restaurant to everyone I know.

I am not sure what Mr. Lucas was trying to do with his review.

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FRONTLINES MARCH 6 • City council approves arena financial term sheet with 7 to 2 vote • Also, sometime in March, Maloof attorney files Public Records Act request with city of Sacramento regarding arena discussions

MARCH 1 City releases term sheet without inclusion of Maloofs concerns from February 29 emails and attorney letter

MARCH 20 • Officials from AEG arrive in Sacramento. This is first meeting with Kings; AEG head Tim Leiweke tells reporters he doesn’t think NBA is helping Maloofs with $73 million arena share.

• Sacramento Taxpayers Opposed to Pork launch petition drive to put arena financing plan on November ballot

MARCH 29 • Maloof spokesman Eric Rose says team will not pay predevelopment expenses, as has been the Kings’ position since day No. 1, he argues • NBA’s David Stern announces it will “advance” the Kings predevelopment expenses

FEBRUARY 29 • First, George Maloof sends email to NBA with concerns over final term sheet • Then, the NBA tells Maloofs in email that city does not want most concerns included in term sheet for “political reasons”; they will have chance to further negotiate and “opportunity to pull out” of deal in future • Finally, a letter from Maloof attorney cites predevelopment costs, collateral on loan as two of many points that need further negotiation

FEBRUARY 27

Maloofs, NBA and city agree to nonbinding handshake deal on arena. Mayor Kevin Johnson calls it “game over.”

FEBRUARY 26 George Maloof tells reporters that arena talks have been “productive” but that there are still “big issues”

FEBRUARY 24 City officials arrive in Orlando to prepare for weekend arena negotiations

It appears that the Maloofs were never bargaining in bad faith. Perhaps when it comes to business deals, the Sacramento Kings by Nick Miller owners are just bad.

But maybe the city of Sacramento, led nickam@

by Mayor Kevin Johnson, understood newsreview.com that the city and the National Basketball Association could never truly seal a new arena deal with the family.

So, in lieu of forging an honest pact, did the city and the NBA mix up their messages and lure the Maloofs into a public-relations nightmare?

Private emails between George Maloof and the NBA, which SN&R obtained last week, reveal that while the Kings owners went along with the February 27 Orlando handshake deal— Bites will be back next week. tears and all—the arena pact was anything but “game over.”

Consider: Less than 48 hours after the Orlando press conference, NBA executive counsel Harvey Benjamin, a liaison to both the city and the Kings during the year-long arena negations, wrote to a 10

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concerned Maloof family that there would still be a chance to say no to the deal.

The private email reads: If “things are not worked out to your reasonable satisfaction, you will have the opportunity to pull out” of the agreement.

The timeline of the deal’s unraveling goes back to the morning of Wednesday, February 29. Sacramento officials were busy preparing a term sheet for city council’s approval in a week’s time. Joe and Gavin Maloof were actually sleeping, according to George Maloof, who was up, awake—and hastily firing off an email to the NBA: “The following represents our responses to our meeting in Orlando.

These need to be addressed in the term sheet with the city,” George wrote.

“Hopefully I included everything.”

George’s private email included 13 points of concern—not unlike the items in the oft-cited “redlined term sheet,” which the mayor called “deal breakers” last week.

NBA counsel Benjamin, however, didn’t describe these concerns deal breakers. In a February 29 email reply from Benjamin to George, he repeatedly

If “things are not worked out to your reasonable satisfaction, you will have the opportunity to pull out” of the deal.

Harvey Benjamin executive counsel National Basketball Association, in a February 29 email to George Maloof stated that the family’s issues—pertaining to collateral on the 1997 loan, cost overruns, predevelopment expenses, Comcast’s TV deal, VIP parking spaces,

the zoning of the Natomas land and even an NHL team coming to Sacramento—still would have the chance to be “ironed out.”

The NBA’s assurances come in direct conflict with Mayor Johnson’s statements that the arena term sheet was non-negotiable.

In fact, the NBA’s email states that almost all the Maloofs’ “redlined” sticking points could still be worked over.

Even collateral on the existing Maloof loan with the city.

Benjamin wrote: “[W]e hope we will be able to put off a final decision regarding the [loan] collateral until some time in 2014, by which time the City will be so far down the road on the project that they will be reasonable regarding the collateral, especially if AEG is well into the sales process and the City sees that the arena revenue streams are very real.”

The mayor and the city, meanwhile, have scoffed at any possible negotiation pertaining to collateral on the 1997 loan.

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Media, including Sacramento Bee columnist Ailene Voisin, ponder Maloofs motives.

“What are they plotting?” she asks.

Mayor Johnson announces plan to build downtown arena “with or without” the Kings

APRIL 13 • At press conference in New York City, Maloofs outline concerns with arena deal and accuse city of acting in “bad faith” • NBA commissioner Stern says “there’s nothing further to be done” to save deal.

Stern announces NBA would have paid for $67 million of Maloof’s $73 million share.

APRIL 3 • Mayor Johnson tells Maloofs the city will not be “jerked around” and calls Maloofs statement that they never agreed to predevelopment costs “disingenuous” • City council votes 7 to 2 to commit $6.5 million in predevelopment costs

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• 25 local business owners send letter to NBA asking for new Kings owners • Mayor Johnson’s letter to Maloofs contradicts NBA’s stance. “Under no circumstances will the City make material adjustments to the current terms of the deal” Johnson writes.

Maloof attorney sends letter to city of Sacramento reiterating points of February 29 NBA letter, voicing need for further negotiations

After days of texting, Mayor Johnson flies to Las Vegas unannounced for meeting with George Maloof

Former Councilman Robbie Waters files public-records request with city of Anaheim

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Private emails between the NBA and the Maloofs reveal arena negotiations rife with mixed messages, political maneuvering

To follow up this NBA-Maloof email exchange on February 29, attorney Scott Zolke, of Loeb & Loeb in Los Angeles, sent an official memo to the NBA outlining the Maloofs’ concerns with the term sheet. Specifically, Zolke wanted to formally identify “material terms” for further “discussion, clarification, compromise and mutual agreement.”

In other words, continued negotiation.

Of course, none of the Maloofs issues cited in the February 29 email were included in the nonbinding term sheet that was approved by city council on March 6.

As cited in last week’s SN&R, Benjamin explained that the city did not want the Maloofs’ provisions in the term sheet “for political reasons.” (See “Let’s fake a deal” SN&R Frontlines, April 19.)

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which might have doomed its passage at city council.

But one city official, who spoke with SN&R on background last week, opined that the term sheet was streamlined without the Maloofs’ concerns so as to get it passed by council and discourage any opponents from running against Mayor Johnson, who is up for re-election this June.

The council vote approving the arena 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 mayor was March 8.

Assistant City Manager John Dangberg told SN&R last week he had never seen any of the Maloofs complaints before April 13, and that he was “shocked” by the brothers’ laundry list of concerns. He called them “obvious deal breakers.”

Dangberg would not comment on the NBA’s use of “political reasons.” A spokesperson from the mayor’s office

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also would not comment on the email.

NBA vice president of marketing and communications Michael Bass did not return SN&R’s multiple calls.

The Maloofs argue that the city and the NBA ignored their term-sheet concerns for weeks and finally had to fight back. The standoff came to a head the week of March 26, when the Maloofs refused to pay $3.26 million in predevelopment expenses.

On April 12, Mayor Johnson wrote in a letter to the Maloofs that, despite assurances from the NBA, “under no circumstances will the City make material adjustments to the current terms of the deal.” And the next day, Friday, April 13, in New York City, the arena deal officially fell apart.

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jeopardized the project’s targeted 2015 opening date.

Here’s how: Last year, Assembly Bill 900 was introduced on the second-to-last day of the legislative session. Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg ushered the bill through both houses in less than 48 hours—some say under environmentalists’ noses—Gov. Jerry Brown inked it, and the new law now allows for unique exemptions to the California Environmental Quality Act. Specifically, it permits the governor each year to cherry pick a handful of certain large-scale, hundred-million-dollar job-creating projects, possibly industrial solar or urban infill— think Kings arena—to bypass superior court CEQA review and be brought directly to the court of appeals if a lawNo exemptions. suit is filed against it.

Proponents of A.B. 900 say this will expedite certain pro-environment developments, such as the proposed Anschutz Entertainment Group NFL stadium in downtown Los Angeles, which had its own CEQAexemption bill last year, Senate Bill 292. Or even a new downtown sports and entertainment complex, which Mayor Kevin Johnson still wants to build, even without an anchor tenant.

Steinberg recently stated that he was prepared to ensure that the Kings-arena project would quality for expedited CEQA review. This was before the project hit the skids (see the “Back to the (arena) future, page 11), but Steinberg has denied that A.B. 900 was written specifically for the proposed Kings arena.

Anyway, there’s no longer an arena deal. But there’s still that A.B. 900 lawsuit.

Filed by the Planning and Conservation League—the 47-year-old environmental-advocacy outfit that helped draft and pass CEQA in 1970—on Monday, it argues that A.B. 900 unconstitutionally violates the separation of powers between lawmakers, the governor and the courts.

“It’s the Legislature telling the courts how to do their business,” summed up PCL executive director Bruce Reznik.

He told SN&R that while he likes some things about A.B. 900 and appreciates Capitol leadership for writing a stronger bill than previous CEQA-related legislation, it’s still unconstitutional for executive power to supersede the judicial process, despite possible best intentions and environmental protections.

Because it’s not always black-and-white when it comes to green. A project such as large-scale industrial solar in the desert might be great for renewable-energy production, Reznik pointed out, but could wipe out certain species and habitat.

“One person’s idea of a really green project,” Reznik reminded, “isn’t another person’s.”

Mark Hedlund, press secretary with Steinberg’s office, reasserted that the law maintains environmental protections and also is good for the economy. “There’s nothing in A.B. 900 that weakens environmental law or weakens environmental policy,” he told SN&R. He also added that the Kings arena was a likely candidate. “We think that the proposed entertainment and sports complex project definitely would have qualified,” he said. (Nick Miller)

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to one of Sacramento’s 15 community centers.

And the proverbial dancing orphans and gruff authority figure aren’t getting along.

Members of the Southside Park Neighborhood Association say they can no longer afford to hold meetings in the clubhouse they spent a decade running, and claim the nonprofit that took it over in October is no longer returning their calls.

It all started late last year, when the city appointed Target Excellence to operate the Southside Clubhouse. The nonprofit has yet to offer any of the promised youth programs or activities that made it the city’s “No. 1” choice to temporarily inherit the center.

And now, after years of paying nothing to the city, Target Excellence is asking the SPNA to fork over $35 an hour to access the Sixth Street facility.

“We think it’s outrageous,” said SPNA president Bill Magavern. “They actually want to make money off our neighborhoodgroup meetings.”

While the city charges the same rate to rent out clubhouses across Sacramento—and as much as $100 an hour for its larger ones,

according to a parks and recreation department document from October 2011—the SPNA never paid any fees during the decade it occupied and volunteered work hours at the clubhouse.

The city’s financing of the long-sought-after clubhouse in 2001 helped ease the community’s tensions toward a controversial transitional housing development, recalled SPNA vice president Paul Trudeau. It also gave its association board a respectable place to meet after years of cramming into unsuitable city facilities, like the women’s locker room at the Southside Pool.

For roughly 10 years, the clubhouse was where the association held monthly board meetings, planned community events and facilitated a youth program, until grant money dried up a couple of years ago. Now that the fat times are over, SPNA is having a rough time adapting to new private management.

“For years they had free reign, going in and out when they wanted to. Not one year, not two years, but many years. And I think the change has been difficult,” opined city neighborhood-services director Vincene Jones.

In October, city officials chose Target Excellence to take over the Southside Clubhouse in part because of a pledge to offer an after-school youth-business academy, weekday tutoring and beginners’ reading programs, a city staff report states.

However, six months into its two-year lease, the nonprofit has yet to offer any of the above programs, as well as others mentioned on its website. (The website still refers to procurement of the clubhouse as an event occurring in the future, and also lists an old phone number for the facility that directs callers to a parks and recreation official who formerly oversaw operations.)

Sacramento officials began looking to temporarily unload community-center leases in August 2010. Aside from the Southside Clubhouse, East Sacramento residents successfully raised $45,000 to keep the Clunie Community Center open. Jones said many others are works “in progress,” and the city hasn’t been able to find any suitors for the Oak Park Community Center.

Jones points out that there is still demand for these facilities. The George Sim Community Center, for instance, averages 175 young visitors a day and has seen as many as 259 cram into the building for activities. A schedule change last year resulted in the center closing its doors to the public Thursday through Sunday.

“We’re in really hard times,” Jones said; her division has eliminated half of its positions since the recession began, and the city is staring at another $16 million deficit this fiscal year.

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Target Excellence concedes that it is not running any programs out of the Southside Clubhouse just yet. Other than a grand opening in October, the center has been utilized for Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous meetings and a handful of rental events, explained Target Excellence CEO Keith Herron.

attendees, board members say. And at a time when the association has been scheduling one-on-one meetings with potential citycouncil candidates, who would be seeking to represent the Southside Park neighborhood in the District 4 race.

SPNA’s Magavern says it’s been weeks since anyone at Target Excellence has responded to the neighborhood association’s request to negotiate.

“We’re certainly willing to talk to them about it, but they don’t seem willing to talk to us,” Magavern said, adding that Target Excellence “has done a very poor job of reaching out or even communicating with our community.”

“They’re definitely on our list of people to get back to,” said Target Excellence administrative-operations manager Rene Hamlin.

As for the seemingly exorbitant clubhouse-rental rate of $35 an hour, Hamlin said “there have been discussions … to accommodate everyone’s needs.” But the extra money, she noted, could help cover costs.

That’s help Target Excellence could apparently use. Hamlin says the nonprofit is still seeking funds for programs that were promised when it took over the center last year.

“It’s not as easy as it looks. Everything costs.

People don’t understand that,” Herron added.

“I’m sympathetic to the fact that the city is strapped for funds,” Magavern offered.

But the neighborhood association, he added, has the “longest and strongest ties to this building. … Target Excellence is not from this community.” Ω

“We think it’s outrageous.

They actually want to make money off our neighborhood-group meetings.”

Bill Magavern president Southside Park Neighborhood Association “Nothing as structured as we’d like,” he acknowledged. “It’s a longer process than I thought.”

He says the biggest challenge has been raising money. And—he laughed—getting the phone lines established.

“It’s the little things that always come up,” he added, “but we’re moving along.”

Not quickly enough, though, for the SPNA, which has been couch-surfing through different meeting spots over the past nine months. The group’s nomadic existence has made it difficult to attract and keep

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So trending While Aunt Ruth believes it is time to banish the word “trending” from the cultural vocabulary—the phrase is a little

smug—there is no doubt about it: The idea that we should work, play and eat a little closer to home has taken root. Perhaps just the shallow roots of an idea “trending,” but still.

Better fresh fruit from a local farm than something shipped across multistate lines. Better a bike ride to the local store than a long car trip to the city. Better, on so many levels, to telecommute to a job and Spend it dispense with the car altogether. within 50 miles?

Why, then, not apply the same logic to your own financial investments?

Our writer gets up from the table to visit the farm Asparagus is not for commitment-phobes. If you are looking for instant gratification, perhaps lettuce or radishes will by Kat Kerlin be more your style. Those come up in just a few days.

I waited until we bought our first home before planting my first bulbs of asparagus. I mounded up beds of soil and tucked them in. Then I waited, patiently, until slender stalks poked skyward. When they looked mildly edible during the first year, I withheld every gardener instinct to cut them. Then I did the same thing The next farm tour is Saturday, May 12, at again—sigh—the next year. Waiting, Capay Organic, 23808 waiting. But on that third year, they State Highway 16 in were ready. (We moved that summer, Capay; $4-$8, kids but let’s not talk about that.) under 12 are free.

Ever since, my attitude toward asparagus is nearly reverential. It Join Capay Organic for takes three years to grow, and then Cinco de Mayo. Mexican it’s here for just a brief time—the food and drinks, straw- season, by the way, is now—to grace berry picking, live our plates and make our pee smell music, dancing and more on Saturday, May funny.

That’s why I felt almost like a 5; $20-$25 per car; www.farmfreshtoyou.co thief recently while standing in a m. field of asparagus at Capay Organic, slicing off spear after tender spear.

Kat Kerlin blogs at My family came to this farm in the http://farmophile. Capay Valley, about an hour west of wordpress.com.

Davis, for its monthly farm tour.

Many visitors, particularly the kids, had likely never seen asparagus grow. It’s one of the more curious vegetables around. The spears shoot straight up through the soil—like hands buried alive or, less morbidly, green fingers pointing at the sun Green Days is on the with a shape that would make some lookout for innovative sustainable projects women blush. I was amazed.

Farm manager Thaddeus Barsotti throughout the Sacramento region. told the group lounging about how Turn us on at his parents, Kathy Barsotti and sactonewstips@ newsreview.com. Martin Barnes, founded Capay Organic in 1976 and turned it into the valley’s first organic farm.

Martin helped found the Davis Farmers Market as well and was instrumental in starting the Davis Food Co-op.

After 15 years on the farm, he and Kathy divorced and she took over Capay Organic until her death in 2000 from breast cancer, leaving the farm to her sons.

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Capay Organic co-owner Thaddeus Barsotti (right) chats up a tour group.

The farm delivers to grocery stores, farmers markets and restaurants such as The French Laundry in Yountville, Greens Restaurant in San Francisco and Grange Restaurant in downtown Sacramento. But a key component of its business is its community-supported agriculture program, Farm Fresh to You, which comprises 450 acres in Northern California and 150 acres in Southern California, with about 500 year-round employees.

“Our vision is not that this is a small, quaint system for an elite group of people. This concept is something everyone can have access to.”

Thaddeus Barsotti owner Capay Organic Kathy began the home-delivery service in 1992, a time when most CSAs had a you-get-what-we-grow program. At other CSAs, customers signed up for a season or year-round commitment. Sick of too much kale in the winter? Too bad—subscribers chose to support the farm, with the idea the farm would make it up to them with more variety come spring and summer.

Today, Farm Fresh To You makes about 25,000 deliveries per week and grows roughly 100 different varieties of fruits and vegetables. Several of its members made up the farm tour’s participants.

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“Our vision is not that this is a small, quaint system for an elite group of people,” Thaddeus said.

“This concept is something everyone can have access to.”

Farm Fresh to You invites its customers and the general public out to these farm tours, which are held monthly March through October.

Arts and crafts, a big bubble station, hula hoops, a petting zoo for the kids, wine tasting for the adults, live music for everyone—they know how to do these farm tours right.

But the highlight was the food— walking delicately past spears of asparagus, so as not to smash them, and slicing their ends off with a knife. Or wiping off my daughter after inevitable slips in the mud. I did feel a little guilty picking the delicious little stalks, which took years to get here. But now that they’re established, they’ll be back next year. And with thoughts of asparagus frittatas, pizza and creamy soups in my head, I know I will put every spear to good use. Ω

The book is called Locavesting by Amy Cortese.

Published last year, Cortese followed up on the question posed by Woody Tasch, the founder of Slow Money: What would the world look like if we invested 50 percent of our assets within 50 miles of where we live? Helluva question.

On her website, Cortese notes: “A dollar spent at a local independent business, on average, generates three times more local economic benefit than a dollar spent at a corporate-owned chain. … Just 1 percent of the money flying around the stock market goes to funding businesses through public-stock offerings; the rest is trading and speculation. … If Americans shifted just 1 percent of their investments to locally owned companies, more than $260 billion would be injected into the Main Street economy—without costing the government a dime!”

(And never mind how skilled the members of the Fortune 500 are at not paying taxes, a nimbleness Auntie Ruth imagines only the very rich can afford. Even if most governments can’t.)

The concept has a lovely regional manifestation.

Solar Mosaic, a Berkeley-based company, crowd sources

investors in support of worthy solar projects: a panel of solar panels on the roof of St. Vincent de Paul in Oakland (where hot meals and job training are provided to those in need), the People’s Grocery and the Asian Resource Center, also in Oakland. (And, OK—beyond these three local ventures, they’ve invested in a couple of nonlocal, if irresistible, projects like the Murdoch Community Center in Flagstaff, Ariz. Purity is for the politically uncertain.)

What’s the return like? While, according to Bloomberg, Warren Buffet and Google are gobbling up solar-energy development, attracted to the 15 percent returns, Solar Mosaic will offer investments this summer that S.M. president Billy Parish estimates will pay 5 to 10 percent returns.

Think globally, invest locally. Helluva idea. Ω

ECO-HIT Scenery and cinema

This film festival focuses on the environment.

The Wild & Scenic Film Festival tour will make a stop at the Crest Theatre this Friday.

Held in Nevada City every January, the festival shows films highlighting various issues in the environmental movement. This touring show will include a customized selection of films from the festival. It benefits the California Heartland Project, which aims to protect Central Valley agriculture and wildlife. A reception will begin at 5 p.m., with local food from the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op. Tickets are $10 for the films, or $15 for films and the reception. Films begin at 6:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.caheartlandproject.com.

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What do I have? Zip, zero, nada, niente.

So pathetic that I have butterflies and begin to sweat as I approach the house of my son (Ab’s dad).

At the house, Ab’s parents review the essentials: food location, phone numbers in case of some emergency I can’t handle (doubtless there are many), on-site games and the like. Suddenly, some insight of unknown origin leads me to blurt out, “Ab, what would you like to do today?”

Deep in thought, finger to her chin, Ab responds, “Grampy, let’s go to the park,” referring to a beautiful greenbelt, fields, playground and nature preserve nearby.

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“Grampy, don’t you get it yet?”

Finally, after several hours of this sheer joy, a kind of blissful meditation on the magic of childhood, she keels over—well, not literally, but pretty close: It is nap time. Ω

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Good food news Food is a basic human right, not a privilege.

That’s why we’re encouraged to learn that nearly twice as many eligible Sacramento residents have been getting food stamps (now known as CalFresh) as did in 2007, according to the California Department of Social Services.

Some 246,000 Sacramento-area citizens participated in CalFresh during the month of January, compared to 139,000 during the same month five years ago. Some of this is due to the economy, but much of We’re encouraged to it can be credited to new efforts learn that nearly to get eligible people to enroll in twice as many eligible the program.

For a long while, California Sacramento residents eligibility rates for CalFresh, a have been getting federally funded, state-run program, were woefully low with food stamps recently only half of qualified people as did in 2007. participating. Millions of people who needed food aid—most of children and the elderly—were simply not getting it. But Read more SN&R reporting on this thanks to efforts by food-access advocates and governtopic by following the ment officials, the enrollment process has become Food Access link at somewhat less intimidating. www.newsreview.com.

Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature last January on Read a February report from the Assembly Bill 6, which removed the requirement of fingerprinting to participate in the CalFresh program went a California Food Policy Advocates on the long ways to setting things right. There’s no need to argue eligibility subject at about this one. If people are hungry, we need to see that www.cfpa.net. they get food. Ω

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As a native Sacramentan, it’s beyond difficult to describe since AEG would have only received a fraction the past year of highs and lows regarding the of revenue on game nights, it could still be an Kings. Sacramento rallied and responded to the attractive investment for them. world that the Kings are our team. While the Without the Maloofs’ contribution, we’ll need Maloofs’ decision not to proceed with our to make up that shortfall. Possibilities include public-financing package is frustrating and sadasking AEG to invest more in return for more dening, we need to remember Mayor Kevin control of revenues. Perhaps CalPERS and Johnson’s original message that a new entertainCalSTRS are interested in making an investment, ment and sports complex since the venture would is not only about the provide hundreds of jobs Kings. It’s about us as a and the revenue splits can by community. be structured to help hit The future prosperity, Paul Friedman The future prosperity, required returns. a native Sacramentan, growth and direction growth and direction for Corporate supporters Kings fan, UCLA Sacramento is in our for Sacramento is in our might invest in return for graduate and is a student at the UC hands, not the Maloofs,’ hands, not the Maloofs’. ownership or future Davis Graduate School and it is our duty to properks. We could also conof Management ceed with our vision. The sider public sale of Maloofs are our guests; ownership interests, with we have supported the Sacramento Kings owners’ names memorialized and possibly being through wins, losses, signings and trades, ownerexempt from some surcharges.

By continuing with the development of an Have a comment? ship transitions and the tenuous process of Express your views developing a new facility.

ESC, our city will do what is in our best longin 350 words on But the Maloofs do not control nor dictate term interest. At the same time, we would most a local topic how we proceed.

We need to now focus our likely place pressure on a relocation committee if of interest. and when the Maloofs choose to file. If the Send an e-mail to attention away from the team and back toward Kings decide to become a tenant in the future, editorial@ the future of revitalizing downtown. Sacramento newsreview.com. must continue progress on building an ESC, a their lease will be adjusted accordingly. vital piece for the future prosperity of the region.

This is no longer about trying to save With AEG as a partner, Sacramento will be able the Kings. Let’s focus on our future. Here to have first-class entertainment and events, simwe build! Ω ilar to the Sprint Center in Kansas City, and BEFORE

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When Washington pundit Hilary Rosen told Anderson Cooper last week that Ann Romney, the candidate’s wife, is no expert on economic issues because she “has actually never worked a day in her life,” she set off a firestorm.

What Rosen later said she meant was Romney had never worked a day outside the home for wages, which is true. But by then her comment was being batted around like a softball, and clarification had no weight.

There’s no doubt Ann Romney works. Any family as rich as hers—income of $20 million last year—is a major enterprise. In addition to her five kids, she’s got three or four houses (and their staffs) to manage and the myriad responsibilities of an important politician’s wife. She’s got paid help, lots of it, but it’s still a big job.

But it’s not a job in the marketplace; there Romney lacks experience, just as Rosen said. And it’s the marketplace where the recession has hit hardest. What does Ann Romney know about the fear of losing a job or being unable to pay your bills or mortgage because your husband was laid off?

If Ann Romney is going to speak for women, she might want to speak to issues she knows first-hand. As a breast-cancer survivor, she could have weighed in on the issue of defunding breast-cancer-related services provided

by Planned Parenthood. Or she might address her husband’s own announced determination to defund Planned Parenthood altogether.

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LEG T WO OLD FRIENDS— ONE DEAD, ONE LIVING. A CORRESPONDENCE ON WAR, C L I M AT E C H A N G E AND TWO G E N E R AT I O N S B E T R AY E D .

DEAR RALPH, I HAVE FOUND MYSELF TALKING TO Y O U F R E Q U E N T LY S I N C E Y O U R D E AT H Fred Branfman has published widely, was director of research for California Gov. Jerry Brown from 1979-82, and worked closely with former SMUD chair Ed Smeloff on promoting renewable energy at a national level. He also created the website www.trulyalive.org.

Ralph Brave, a former SN&R writer and editor who died in 2007 at the age of 54, spent several early decades as a political activist and advocate.

He then became a journalist specializing in biotechnology and climate science. He was a best friend of the author of this piece.

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ALMOST FIVE YEARS AGO, AND SO WRITING YOU THIS LETTER NOW S E E M S J U S T A N E X T E N S I O N O F T H AT. I’ve been thinking about 1971, when we first met, you an 18-year-old Georgetown University student, me a 29-year-old anti-war activist directing Project Air War to oppose the United States bombing in Indochina. (This was long before your fate brought you to Sacramento as a political activist, legislative staffer and, finally, a writer for SN&R.) I just turned 70 and have been thinking increasingly about the legacy we baby boomers are leaving our young. I wish you were here to talk about it with me. I feel a tremendous degree of sadness about what we are passing on to future generations—the climatechange catastrophe, lowered living standards and rising need, a failed foreign policy, and to threats to democracy that we never thought possible.

In one sense, I envy young people. The dangers posed by climate change and a declining America give them what none before have known: an extraordinary

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Your work was part of a generation that spawned giant movements for peace, social justice, women’s rights and the environment; liberated sexuality from millennia of hypocrisy and repression; experienced a creative revolution in the arts; saw humanistic psycholIn many ways I remain a child of the sixties, and the ogy and a new spirituality that sought to transcend the point is to make the world a better place, not to earn divisions perpetrated by traditional religions. dough or be famous or whatever ... I know that for me But we both experienced the dark side of the opportunity to live a life of meaning. Human beings the single biggest influence was the Holocaust. My ’60s, too. have always sought to live lives that transcend their entire time growing up I obsessed on why hadn’t someWe felt betrayed by the elitism, sexism, factionalism physical deaths. None before us, however, have had so body done something? When Vietnam came along, I and power-seeking that destroyed many of the “New great an opportunity to live lives of supreme (not parwas going to do something, particularly since it Left” organizations we had believed in. Our anger, initial), authentic (not invented), long-lasting (not seemed to be my own country that was playing the part tially liberating, came to alienate us from many in the temporal) and universal (not limited) meaning. of the oppressor. public at large and many of our friends. Only in our 20s, I believe the drive to lead a meaningful life that tran—email from Ralph, May 2, 2003 we didn’t know how to create lasting institutions that scends death is universal—whether we do so by having could replace those children, believing OF ALL THE IRONIES WE SPENT OUR LIFE EXPLORING, THE SADDEST we abhorred. The in religion, making a drugs we took both lasting mark in our I S T H AT W E , M E M B E R S O F A B A B Y B O O M E R G E N E R AT I O N W H O F E LT to spur our creativprofessions, helping ity and kill our pain our community or B E T R AY E D B Y O U R PA R E N T S , A R E T O D AY B E T R AY I N G O U R O W N Y O U N G . eventually took too seeking to make hisgreat a toll. As close as you tory. This drive has often On a deeper level, I suppose we fundamentally and I were, we did not know how to deal with unconbeen perverted by the false heroics of nationalism or bonded over an issue that affected millions of our comscious resentments, childhood hurts and a generalized ideology. But there is no serious downside to a heroic patriots: our deep sense of generational betrayal over the anger that periodically cropped up between us over the effort today to avert catastrophic climate change. Doing Vietnam War. Some of us came to it sooner, others later. decades we knew each other. so would not only save hundreds of millions of lives and But the so-called “generation gap” in those days We were particularly jarred by what occurred in keep the biosphere livable for all life for all time to stemmed from our realization that our elders supported a Indochina after the war. come, it could also lay the basis for a new wave of ecowar in Vietnam that violated everything they had taught When we learned that the new Indochina leaders nomic prosperity through the clean-energy economic us to believe in. were as corrupt as the ones they were replacing, it was revolution, and preserve the democracy I believe is We really had grown up believing that America shattering—though also liberating. We realized that the threatened by inevitable authoritarian responses to ecostood for democracy, freedom, respect for the individreal problems of society—war and peace, environmental nomic breakdown. ual, international law and human decency. And when despoliation, social injustice—did not fundamentally Any young person who works today to end climate we saw not only our government but a majority of our stem from a given economic or political system, whether change—either directly with the environmental moveelders supporting a war that violated every one of these “capitalism” or “communism.” Their causes clearly went ment or indirectly by seeking to change the power precepts, as we realized to our horror that they were deeper and required understanding the human psyche structure that perpetuates it—can live a life of meaning violating the Nuremberg principles for which we exeitself. Feeling betrayed both by American and communist beyond any previously dreamed of, one that will revercuted Nazi leaders and, above all—as we watched a leaders led both of us—and many more of our generaberate as long as human beings walk this Earth. body count that eventually reached more than 3 million tion—to move beyond narrow politics into psychological When we first met, Ralph, you had already been Vietnamese alone, of whom countless hundreds of thou- and spiritual inquiry that might explain why all economic demonstrating against the Vietnam War since you were sands were innocent civilians—we were not only and political systems become corrupted.

15—long hair in a tangle, indifferent to your dress or horrified, we were thrown into a moral and intellectual other material things, a stone-cold Dylan freak, as abyss by the disparity over what our elders preached earnest and excited as a child when you discussed your and practiced in Indochina. latest insight from a book you read at the bookstore This generational betrayal unleashed tremendous where you worked, spending more time reading than positive energies in the ’60s. serving customers. We were also in tune not only about I still remember how you spent most of your time the war but, like Holden Caulfield, by our disgust at organizing an impressive group of Georgetown students I had an amazing experience this morning. I met with “phoniness,” inauthenticity, hypocrisy, whether of govworking against the war, Ralph. I remember how you this kid from California after observing him give a short ernment leaders or anyone else. read deeply to develop your own answers to what talk on the environment. I was astonished—I was lookI admired you tremendously. I had been living in Vietnam was really all about, worked with the Indochina ing at [myself] at age 24, a totally committed political Laos the previous four years and come to love Lao vilMobile Education Project upon graduation, and then activist, completely idealistic, a totally admirable, pure, lagers, so it was relatively easy for me to oppose the war. became politically active for decades. Among other caring soul, who knew all the facts, but with only the But you worked tirelessly day and night for years against things, you worked with the Campaign for Economic most limited ability to actually connect with anyone. a war you never personally witnessed. You never got Democracy to win rent control in Santa Monica, I drove away caring for this kid so much. your name in the papers, and indeed had an aversion to California, served as Assemblyman Tom Hayden’s chief —email from Ralph, October 26, 2005 putting yourself forward. You opposed the war because of staff, and helped Ed Smeloff win election to the board you cared. It brings tears to my eyes to remember this— at SMUD. not only about you but hundreds of thousands of others who spent so many years demonstrating against a war they never saw, on behalf of a people they never met.

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W H E N W E F I R S T M E T, W E W E R E IN TUNE, LIKE HOLDEN CAULFIELD, BY OUR DISGUST AT “ P H O N I N E S S , ” I N A U T H E N T I C I T Y, H Y P O C R I S Y, WHETHER OF GOVERNMENT LEADERS OR ANYONE ELSE.

Although most of the responsibility for this decline clearly rests with America’s economic, political and natural security elites—who, after all, are in charge of these failed policies—it seems to me that in the end, our failure is a generational one.

The fact is that those of us (certainly including myself) who care about climate change, economic security, democracy and safeguarding America are not fighting as we must if we are to save human civilization and our society.

You weren’t around for President Barack Obama’s victory, but I often thought back to our conversations then as I watched a young, technocratic, results-oriented president take office and try to grapple with the impossible legacy we had bequeathed him and his generation.

I know this betrayal of our young pained you as much as me. I remember how much time and care you put into nurturing young activists and journalists over the years, the times you would call me to give this one advice or introduce that one to someone who could help them. I often saw the genuine satisfaction you received from helping young people.

Given that, I expect that you would be as moved and touched as am I by the Occupy movement, such groups as Code Pink and the 1,000 people who got arrested opposing the Keystone XL Pipeline. I am sure you would have been present when the UC Davis students were doused with pepper spray. I know you would have been particularly pleased at how the Occupiers and other activist groups today try to avoid many of our generation’s mistakes—the power tripping, factionalism, egomania, publicity seeking—produced by hierarchy and leaders ultimately only responsible to themselves. And we would have been inspired, above all, by the culture of inclusiveness, kindness and openness that it has initially embodied.

I believe this transition began when you got cancer in your early 30s. I vividly remember two video interviews I did with you at that time. The first occurred a few days after you learned you had cancer. You were disheveled, frantic, whacked-out. The second occurred a few years later, after bouts of chemotherapy, when you learned that the cancer had gone into remission. You were wearing a sport jacket and tie, were composed and focused, and talked movingly about how dealing with your illness had led you to appreciate life in ways you never had before. I asked you if the choice was living as you had been, or having cancer and gaining the new life you had; whether you could possibly say, “I’m glad I got cancer.” I will never forget your long pause in response, your clearly thinking it through, and then answering, solidly and simply, “Yes, I am.”

In later years, you began therapy and started both longlasting meditation and Heidegger study groups in Sacramento. Your reading and the issues you thought about changed. During this period, you worked for SN&R and wrote many memorable cover stories on subjects including climate change, biotechnology and university investments.

Another milestone occurred when you left Sacramento to return to Baltimore for several years to look after your mother because, as you wrote me, “I couldn’t live with myself leaving my parents without support.”

What most impressed me was that after your mother died, you plunged into “grief work” as seriously as you had everything else in your life. It taught me the immense importance of daring to feel one’s grief fully and work with it.

PHOTO COURTESY OF FRED BRANFMAN

Feel like I’m doing some of my best writing ever right now. ... Life, now, for me, literally is too short for even minor Of all the ironies we spent our life exploring, laughing or bullshit. If I’m not living from my truth, and especially in bemoaning, the saddest is one we never dreamed of: that we, my writing, I experience myself literally throwing away my members of a baby-boomer generation who felt betrayed by time—and my entire organismic system revolts against it. our parents, are today betraying our own young.

—email from Ralph, July 2006 It is incontestable that our generation is bequeathing a deteriorating biosphere and an America in decline. The quesThe most interesting period of your life, from my point tion of climate change is a highly technical, scientific one, of of view, occurred as you slowly branched out from full-time which I believe only climate scientists are entitled to have a political activism to explore psychology and spirituality and credible opinion. And the vast majority of them say that if we become a professional writer. do not reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 25 to 40 percent by 2020 and 80 percent by 2050, we will destroy human civilization as we know it—even as we now AFTER MEETING IN 1971 AS FELLOW ANTI-WAR ACTIVISTS, FORMER SN&R WRITER dramatically increase these emissions. And the United RALPH BRAVE (LEFT) AND FRED BRANFMAN BECAME LIFELONG FRIENDS AND CORRESPONDENTS. BRAVE DIED IN 2007 FROM LUNG CANCER. States has clearly entered its season of decline as the world’s incontrovertible “super power”; polls show 75 percent of Americans know this all too well.

It was also after your mother died that you started to seriously work on the fascinating implications of the new bioscience, spurred in part by your study of Nazi doctors during the Holocaust. Through you, I came to appreciate the importance of this new field and all the questions it raised.

If humans could design their babies, should they? What did it mean that bioscience would likely give people enormous information about their potential future diseases without offering them any cures? I was particularly impressed by the exhibit you and your partner Kathi put together on the substantial eugenics movement in California in the early 20th century, a forerunner to the Nazi eugenics program.

As your friend, however, what struck me most about this phase of your life was how you developed as a person, particularly after your grief work. You were noticeably more relaxed, less stressed, more alive.

IF I KNEW THEN WHAT I K N O W N O W I’m pretty fried from putting a cover story to bed on global warming. Really got into it and really came away just heart-broken and frightened. And, just like in the anti-war days, so impressed with and encouraged by the determination and spirit of some of those who have taken on the global warming issue full time as combatants.

—email from Ralph, July 10, 2006

It’s been funny turning 70.

When I first met you, Ralph, my pain over the murder of innocent people in Indochina, combined with the maelstrom of our anti-war work, made every week feel like a lifetime. And the years after the war—so full of people, events, experiences—also felt rich and full. But now, as I look back, it feels like those 40 years passed in an instant. I find this “looking back” perspective quite useful, a way not only to sort out my past life a bit but to gain perspective about the future. I will confess that I hope the stripes on my back could be useful to young people today. I understand if they don’t feel they have much positive to learn from us given our failures. But they certainly have much to learn from our mistakes.

Here are some thoughts that arise as I look back on our lives: Balance the political with the personal: Given the atrocities that were going on in Indochina in our name, we really had no choice but to work 24-seven against the war. But we then took this style and mindset into domestic politics, continuing working 60 to 80 hour weeks, abusing our bodies, focusing on work more than our relationships, failing to have kids, and so forth.

I wouldn’t change my life during the anti-war years but, in hindsight, I would have sought a far better balance between my political and personal life thereafter. Any young person interested in political work today, for example, likely faces a lifetime of political struggle. Just trying to prevent climate change, or dealing with its consequences if we don’t, will go on indefinitely. Best to dig in for the long run—get a livelihood, build a decent personal life, be regularly engaged in political struggle for some hours or days a week—rather than plunging in full-time in a way that leads to burnout or dropout.

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I U N D E R S TA N D I F YOUNG PEOPLE DON’T FEEL THEY H AV E M U C H TO LEARN FROM OUR G E N E R AT I O N GIVEN OUR FA I L U R E S . B U T T H E Y C E R TA I N LY H AV E M U C H TO LEARN FROM OUR M I S TA K E S .

DURING HIS TENURE ON THE EDITORIAL STAFF AT SN&R, RALPH BRAVE WROTE COVER STORIES ON THE TOPICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, RENEWABLE ENERGY, BIOTECHNOLOGY, AND FINANCIAL OR ETHICAL MISCONDUCT BY PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.

And just as political activists need to develop their personal sides, of course, so too do the “nonpolitical” need to also make a similar regular commitment if civilization is to be saved.

Study and explore psychology: I am pleased that, though late in life, both of us engaged in years of psychological selfexploration—in my case, focused on understanding how my childhood defenses against emotional pain, particularly about death, still affect me. But as I look back on my life now, I wish had studied psychology far earlier. It not only would have led to far deeper personal friendships and romantic relationships, it would have produced far greater satisfaction and effectiveness in my political work.

Although I do not regret my political years—because I can at least live with myself for trying my best to oppose injustice—they were not happy years. There was infighting, competition and self-interest disguised as altruism that politics inevitably involves. During the last decade, I have found a group of friends who manage to work together and treat each other decently by devoting serious time to open and honest discussion of their psychological issues with each other, overlaid by an ethic of kindness. I would certainly advise any young person contemplating political work to do therapy aimed at understanding and working with unconscious painful feelings and to bring its insights into political organizing.

Move beyond ideology: I feel that just as you wanted to put science first in dealing with scientific issues, we need to focus on our common humanity, and then look at politics from that perspective. When I look at things from a human point of view, for example, I personally respect tea-party activists, however much I disagree with their analysis or fear they are manipulated by fossil-fuel magnates, unscrupulous politicians or Fox News. At least they care enough BEFORE

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about society to work politically to change it. I only wish all those who agreed with me worked as hard.

It seems to me important for all camps to stop demonizing one another, and not only because I don’t see how America can hold together otherwise. I believe that doing so will make possible necessary post-ideological coalitions in coming years—whether tea partiers and liberals opposing the executive branch’s power grab to spy on, imprison or murder any American citizen they wish, or working together to oppose future bank bailouts and support local, community-owned banks.

Considering the new and unprecedented challenges to saving civilization and America over the coming decades, rational adults need to leave much of their ideologies at the door and start a new and sensible conversation about the practical measures needed to avoid climate change, maintain decent living standards for the many, preserve American democracy and help those in need.

The most significant political event of my life, one still engraved in my memory 47 years later, was a 15-minute conversation I had in the fall of 1964 with a neighbor who was on his way to deliver an anti-war talk to a church group in western Massachusetts several hours away. I said I believed the United States and North Vietnam were equally guilty in wanting to conquer South Vietnam. My neighbor listened respectfully to my comments and then, in an equally respectful and kind way, explained he believed the 1954 Geneva Accords stipulated that Vietnam would be united by elections two years later, and that it was the United States which had violated them by installing the Diem regime. He then warmly shook my hand and, with a gentle smile, drove off in his old car.

What struck me most was not what he said but how he said it, not his “stand” but who he was. He was clearly a sincere, kind, honorable person who was driving six to eight hours round-trip to speak about an issue he felt deeply about. And who he was made me want to look into the issue more deeply myself. I thus think you’re really right, Ralph, when you write that the key to a politics that can succeed is communicating its “values and their embodiment in the people propounding that program.”

It seems to me the key to whether or not we avert climate change, or see America reverse its present path or at least decline gracefully, is for all those who think as we do to embody the values we espouse.

I remember well the early ’60s, when many in an idealistic young generation did indeed live many of its values—risking their lives to fight for civil rights in the South, opposing an unjust war, going into northern ghettoes to try and work with local residents to improve their lives. And I also remember what followed as frustration with a government that kept murdering Indochinese despite the peaceful marches and earnest pleas—saw idealism turn to anger, love to bitterness, a desire for community to factionalism.

My greatest hope these days is that a younger generation will at least learn from our mistakes, and be able to sustain their present attitudes of tolerance, inclusion and decency in the difficult years to come.

You were one of those who somehow managed to maintain your youthful idealism and pain over injustice over the years. I love and respect you for that, and you will continue to inspire me the rest of my days.

Your final illness happened suddenly and without warning.

From a hospital bed in Sacramento, surrounded by a handful of people who loved you, you only had time and ability to dictate a brief final note to your friends. You said: “I wish I had more grand final words about ‘peace’ and ‘love’ and such that would forever impart my life’s learning to everyone and to all whom I cared about. I think Raymond Carver’s final poem ‘Late Fragment’ does a pretty good job.” You ended with the poem: A N D D I D YO U G E T W H AT YOU WANTED FROM THIS LIFE, EVEN SO? I DID. A N D W H AT D I D YO U WA N T ?

TO CALL MYSELF BELOVED, TO FEEL MYSELF BELOVED ON THE EARTH.

BELOVED ON THE EARTH Can a left, or any political force, ever genuinely, lastingly succeed in transforming a nation without being fundamentally based on honesty, optimism, humility, truthfulness—really, when you get down to it—on love?

I increasingly don’t believe so.

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ARTS&CULTURE POPSMART Girl trouble When I first heard about Lena Dunham’s new TV series Girls, I was sure I’d love any show described as the anti-Sex and the City.

And then I watched it.

Not only is the half-hour comedy, which airs Sunday

by RACHEL LEIBROCK nights on HBO, not the anti-Sex and the City, it’s actually just an updated, slightly low-rent version of that modern, urban fantasy.

As such, it’s incredibly problematic in its depiction of young, self-absorbed and spoiled white women.

Girls chronicles the lives of four young post-collegiate women living in Brooklyn. At the center of this story is Hannah, an aspiring writer. In the show’s pilot episode, Hannah’s parents inform her that, because it’s been two years since she graduated college, they’ll be cutting her off financially. No more rent money, no more food money, no more anything.

Instead of realizing that her parents have been, heretofore, very generous, Hannah pouts and protests their decision—how can she become a successful writer if she has to, like you know, work? How can she gather experiences for her memoir if she has to actually live like a responsible, bill-paying adult?

“I may be the voice of my generation,” Hannah tells her parents. “Or at least the voice of a generation.”

Is she, though? Are young women really so steeped in attitudes of privilege and entitlement? Are they really so lacking in any kind of diversity? The four main characters on Girls seem to differ only by slight It’s just too bad variations in personality (one is uptight, one is promiscuous, one is an overanxious virgin). that, given the Otherwise, they are all white, pretty and wellpower of her educated. Only Hannah—slightly overweight, slightly frumpy—seems to stand out at all. platform, that Dunham, who created the show and plays Lena Dunham’s Hannah, has become sort of the de facto poster child for a certain type of woman and world is so her debut film Tiny Furniture, awarded Best shallow, self- First Screenplay at the 2010 Independent Spirit Award, mined similar plots and themes. absorbed and, It wouldn’t matter as much if she weren’t ultimately, trying to sell Girls as a real-life, gritty depiction of young adulthood. uninteresting.

Stripped of cultural context, Girls is at times wryly comical and revealing. At its very best, the show represents diversity in how women view sex and relationships. Its depiction of one character’s reaction to getting an abortion, for example, is at once a startlingly funny and eye-opening glimpse into generational mores.

But once you move past such scenes, Girls is hardly groundbreaking. Rather, the show depicts a pop-culture standard: relatively affluent, attractive women who, thanks to their upbringing, educational options and the sheer luck of being born white, are offered abundant career opportunities.

Such shows already exist ad nauseum: New Girl, Whitney, Gossip Girl.

Where are the TV shows about women who are cash-strapped and desperate (and, no, 2 Broke Girls doesn’t count)? Where are the shows about minority women trying to navigate a white-centric landscape?

It’s difficult to feel any empathy for Hannah when she begs her parents to front her $1,100 a month for two more years. It’s tough to care when Hannah bombs a job interview because she’s so narcissistic. It’s virtually impossible not to intensely dislike the character after she flippantly jokes that she might want to contract HIV. Yeah, tell that to the thousands of African-American women currently living with HIV. According to the Centers for Disease Control, one in 32 black women can expect to be diagnosed with an HIV infection during their lifetime. That’s no laughing matter.

Ultimately, Girls is just entertainment—another fictional fantasy world devoid of minorities, gays and lesbians or people living in poverty—and Dunham really has no responsibility to create anything other than what she knows.

It’s just too bad that, given the power of her platform, that Dunham’s world is so shallow, self-absorbed and, ultimately, uninteresting. Ω Smarted by Popsmart? Got something to say? Let Rachel know: popsmart@newsreview.com.

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Touring the once majestic, now re-emerging neighborhood as its popular farmers market returns The farmers market in Oak Park isn’t one of those one-size-fits-all markets the rest of the city gets. There are bands, free massages, food by Guphy trucks. The atmosphere speaks to an elatedGustafson ness that has more to do with the joy of having something healthy and fun happening in the neighborhood than it does to heritage photos by tomatoes.

Derrick Davis And the farmers market shows that the citizens of Oak Park are starting to see the light after decades of darkness, and are quite happy to enjoy the party. And the cup gets fuller: McClatchy Park is being renovated to better The Oak Park Farmers Market returns soon, to accommodate the Oak Park Farmers May 5, on Saturdays Market; there will be a new arch and an at McClatchy Park, improved layout when it reopens on May 5.

35th Street and Oak Park is a bit bigger than half of the Fifth Avenue; Midtown-downtown grid, but there is a lot to 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; www.nwsac.org/ see in this forgotten corner of the central city. oakpark While Midtown was focusing on luring farmersmarket. suburban eaters and drinkers, East Sac was Check out Sacramento becoming the family dream and Curtis Park State professor was closely watching their neighbors (and Robin Datel’s Oak their home values), Oak Park quietly decayed Park walking tour at www.csus.edu/ over the decades. Its bad reputation overshadgeog/Robin. owed majestic Victorians and rows of Sacramento bungalows lining leafy, tree-lined streets. Fences went up and the neighborhood went into hiding.

But now Oak Park is just starting to emerge, again—and there is a lot to rediscover. Starting at the farmers market at

McClatchy Park, there’s a view that offers a glimpse of the last 100 years of Oak Park’s history.

Look to the northwest: The former city library, built in 1930, hints at the neighborhood’s former splendor. Directly to the north are housing projects built on the land of the former neighborhood shopping district, which was plowed over in the ’70s.

The library on 33rd Street and Fifth Avenue is one of Oak Park’s architectural treasures. It is not open to the public, and, formerly a city branch, the McGeorge School of Law adopted it and its upkeep, saving it from the awful fate known as urban renewal—a euphemism for complete destruction.

Some other local buildings weren’t so lucky; the urban-renewal movement popular in the ’70s bulldozed the stores, pharmacy and art gallery that once lived on 35th Street and replaced them with public housing. The community has taken decades to recover from this disturbance of its social fabric. But it is slowly coming back.

Today, for instance, it is hard to imagine the bustle that formerly existed in the multiblock area surrounding the 40 Acres project when it was first built in 1915. But the stretch along Broadway and 34th Street is still home to several old churches, which stand testament to the area’s former density.

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And many of these churches are re-inventing themselves as a consequence of aging, shrinking populations and demographic changes. Plus, some of Sacramento’s most stunning churches are for sale, available to be adopted by a caring flock. Among the more attractive are the mid-century Shiloh Baptist Church on 3565 Ninth Avenue, and the first English Presbyterian on the corner of Fourth Avenue and 39th Street.

On the other hand, the Spanish-speaking Seventh Day Adventist Church on Fourth Avenue, the Samoan one on Fifth Avenue and 36th Street and the Tongan United Methodist church on 36th Street and Broadway are jumping. As is the Catholic church just east of Alhambra Boulevard on Broadway, where Mexican snacks are for sale after services on Sundays. Get the pupusas.

Oak Park also has secrets, such as the Hell’s Angels’ den on a pot-holed dirt road that Google identifies as the Seventh AvenueNinth Avenue Alley. Wander down this uninviting lane to view a two-story hog house with an orange fence labeled “Hell’s Angels” in Old English script.

Another nearby piece of history is a weathered farmhouse on Seventh Avenue, where the road is narrow and unpaved. The home was built in 1910, has three barns, a huge lot and is clearly among the first houses in this part of the city. It is hidden and surrounded by newer structures, such as the Sara Lee bakery, but it still stands.

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Nearby First Avenue is a great place to walk and discover Oak Park. It is home to many Sikh families and smells of onion cooked with an untried spice entice.

This aroma, and the extremely friendly children who swarm up with all the gossip of the street, make it seem like a distant country.

Second Avenue is also worth a stroll near the boarded-up Fairmont Grocery, at 3922 Second Avenue. It looks as if it has been shuttered since the ’70s. But rumor has it that it is still furnished and ready for business.

Well, if it had electricity.

The true hidden treasure of Oak Park, however, is its residents.

The neighborhood near the rejuvenated Guild Theater is included in Sacramento State professor Robin Datel’s wonderful Oak Park walking tour. She leads people past here, as well as the local post office—friendliest in town—which is the building that formerly housed Esther’s Pastries, Ron Vrilakas’current and future developments, and more. The tour is available online, but you can’t beat the camaraderie of meeting a group for the excursion when it’s offered.

Another interesting place for an amble is the triangle north of Broadway and west of Sacramento Charter High School.

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house is often decorated for the holidays. One Halloween, the yard was dug up and made into a mock grave.

Prior to Mary, the mural was of Bob Marley, so it’s always worth checking out. Who will be immortalized next?

South Oak Park is divided from North Oak Park by Fifth Avenue, which basically is McClatchy Park, and the two neighborhoods are like night and day. The south has a higher crime rate and the typical home is still surrounded by a chain-link fence, and every few blocks there is a pile of garbage made by some illegal-dumping asshole.

But it is just starting to open up some, and there are definite signs of a bright future to come. For instance, “Rancho Luna” on 23rd Avenue, not far from Del Norte, looks to be a slice of paradise. It’s a huge 19th-century house with a wrap-around porch, vintage El Caminos in the driveway and a relaxing yard that shows that someone feels like the area is a nice place to reside. Mazes of empty lots are very close to reverting to a native habitat.

Wandering through this landscape, it wouldn’t be too big of a surprise to see a vernal pool, as improbable as that might be.

The true hidden treasure of Oak Park, however, is its residents. These are the citizens who make Sacramento the most diverse city in the nation. People who paint their houses turquoise or chartreuse and buck chicken and front-yard-garden bans.

Neighbors that are not afraid to stand up to city council in great numbers when they see injustice.

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More than 100 people took 15 times the prescribed dose of caffea cruda—a homeopathic medicine used to treat sleeplessness and … ahem … anal itching—at the SkeptiCal 2012 conference in Berkeley last Saturday.

The SkeptiCal conference, in its third year, is cosponsored by the Sacramento Area Skeptics and the Bay Area Skeptics. There were a number of speakers, including a scientist with the NASA Ames Research Center, who spoke on the concerns about a 2012 apocalypse related to the Mayan Long Count Calendar.

You’d have expected mass narcolepsy.

Instead, a wide-awake crowd listened to Jay Diamond, founder of Reason4Reason, a group of Bay Area skeptics, explain how homeopathic medicines are produced.

Homeopathy, Diamond explained, is based on the Law of Similars and the Law of Infinitesimals, as described by the inventor of the process, Samuel Hahnemann, in the early 1800s. According to the law of similars, if a substance produces symptoms in a healthy person that are similar to the symptoms that a sick person is experiencing, then the substance can be used to treat the sick person’s illness.

Or, “put a man in a den with a lion and he will get brave,” said Diamond.

The Law of Infinitesimals holds that the more you dilute something, the stronger it becomes.

Of course, there’s more to it than just diluting the substance, Diamond said. “There’s the process of succussion,” he told the crowd, “which is shaking [the liquid] at every stage, including shaking vigorously against a leather-bound Bible,” which will give the water memory.

The caffea cruda—sold at many drugstores, supermarkets and natural-foods outlets—was produced according to precise directions from a crushed coffee bean and some cherry brandy, along with distilled water used to dilute the original substance to what homeopaths call 30C (1 x 1060 parts)—or a

0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000001 percent solution.

Yeah, if you think that’s nothing, you’re right. It’s far beyond the Avogadro Constant (1023), the mathematical point at which there’s nothing left of the original substance. Seriously, try it with whiskey and see how drunk you get.

But, as Diamond pointed out, considering that other 19th-century medical practices including bleeding, purging and cupping—the practice of putting hot metal cups on the skin of the sick person—at least homeopathy is less painful.

Diamond and his accomplices—er, associates— passed out cups containing 15 doses each of the “medicine” for conference attendees, and a mass overdose ensued. Diamond himself drank one of the cups and followed it with several “professionally” prepared doses purchased from the local Whole Foods Market.

In the end, no one fell asleep, nor did anyone confess to a cessation of their anal itching.

“There is a side effect to this stuff, though,” Diamond told the crowd. “You may need to pee sometimes today.”

—Kel Munger

kelm@newsreview.com

For more information about Reason4Reason, visit http://reason4reason.org.

For more information about homeopathy, visit www.1023.org.uk.

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Sacramento French Film Festival presents a screening of the comedy La Conquette (The Conquest).

The film follows current French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s rise to power while his highly publicized second marriage was secretly unraveling. Film followed by a champagne and cake reception and postscreening discussion.

Th, 4/26, 7pm. $20. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.; (916) 455-9390; http://sacramento frenchfilmfestival.org.

Special Events FORUM ON PUBLIC SPEAKING: This event will focus on the art of public speaking as taught by experts from Toastmasters.

Public speaking is a skill almost every professional needs to exercise at some point in a career, whether it’s giving a speech, teaching a class, making a presentation, or giving a new business pitch. Th, 4/26, 5:30-7pm. $25. Drexel University, 1 Capitol Mall; www.eventbrite.com/ event/3006649971.

Classes EXTREME COUPONING WORKSHOP: The Sacramento Public Library will help consumers learn to use coupons as a way to save hundreds of dollars every month on grocery and household items. Th, 4/26, 6pm. Free. Sylvan Oaks Library, 6700 Auburn Blvd. in Citrus Heights; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

Concerts LITTLE ANTHONY: Take a trip back to the great R&B sounds of the ‘60s when Little Anthony & the Imperials perform live at Jackson Rancheria. Th, 4/26, 7pm. $40. Jackson Rancheria Casino Hotel, 12222 New York Ranch Rd. in Jackson; (800) 822-9466; www.jacksoncasino.com.

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DON’T MISS! QUEEN OF THE SUN: Bees

pollinate more than 70 percent of the world’s major food crops. The recent decline of bee populations, called Colony Collapse Disorder, threatens our food supply. The award-winning film Queen of the Sun, takes an in-depth look at this critical issue, revealing both the problems and solutions. F, 4/27, 6:30-8:30pm. $5.

Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op Community Learning Center & Cooking School, 1914 Alhambra Blvd.; (916) 455-2667; www.sacfoodcoop.com.

Special Events STOCKTON ASPARAGUS FESTIVAL: This charity event features a fun run, musical entertainment, circus performances and lots of cooking with asparagus

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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BLACK PHYSICIANS FORUM: The purpose of the forum is to connect physicians with colleagues throughout Northern California to discuss physician leadership and potential collaborative roles in chronic disease education, policy change, prevention, and improve health equities in communities of color. Attendance will include clinicians, medical students, nurses and other health professionals. F, 4/27, 6:309:30pm. Call for pricing. UC Davis Medical Center, 7301 14th Ave.; (916) 470-2337; www.sac culturalhub.com/events/ black-physicians-forum.

NEVER ALONE TOUR: The nationwide Never Alone tour will be coming, featuring talks about long-term anarchist prisoner support. Focusing specifically on the cases of Eric McDavid and Marie Mason, the tour will mark the spots where the events of these cases unfolded, using multimedia presentations to bring the facts of these cases to light. F, 4/27, 8pm. Free.

Lavender Library, 1414 21st St.; (916) 492-0558; www.neveralonetour.wordpress.com.

Kids’ Stuff AZTEC PINOCCHIO: Aztec Pinocchio is a bilingual puppet show that tells the story of Maldo, the magician, and how he turns his marionette boy, Pinata, into a real boy using a butterfly for a heart F, 4/27, 4pm. Free. Fair Oaks Library, 11601 Fair Oaks Blvd. in Fair Oaks; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

Concerts BRAVO BACH FESTIVAL CONCERT 4: Bravo Bach Festival’s fourth concert will feature Anyssa Neumann who will be playing keyboard music by Bach, Handel, and others. This concert is sponsored by Sherman Clay. F, 4/27, 7:30-9:30pm. $15. St. Marks United Methodist Church, 2391 St. Mark’s Way; (916) 483-7848.

FREE JAZZ CONCERT: The Chateau on Capitol Avenue, a Hank Fisher Properties senior community, will host Rio Americano High School’s award-winning jazz band and combo. The community is invited to attend this free concert, which will take place in the lobby of the Chateau. F, 4/27, 4pm. Free. The Chateau on Capitol Avenue, 2701 Capitol Ave.; (916) 447-4444.

GUITAR, CLARINET DUO: Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman and guitarist Eliot Fisk join forces for their first West-Coast tour as a duet with a performance at Sacramento State. The artists offer music that captures the flavors and folk melodies of Europe and America, with works ranging from Bach and Bartok to Steve Reich and Robert Beaser. F, 4/27, 7:30pm. $5-$25. Sacramento State Music Recital Hall, 6000 J St.; (916) 278-5155; www.csus.edu/music.

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DON’T MISS! ADULTS-ONLY UNDERGROUND

TOUR: The Sacramento History Museum is getting in the spirit of Obscura Day— an international celebration of unusual places—with a special adults-only Underground Tour. Sa, 4/28, 5:30pm. $20. Sacramento History Museum, 101 I St.; (916) 808-7059; www.historicoldsac.org.

Concerts BRAVO BACH FESTIVAL CONCERT 5: The Joe Gilman Jazz Ensemble players return after a sold-out concert last year. Enjoy lively and probing realizations of baroque themes. Seating will be cabaret style and refreshments will be served. Sa, 4/28,

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SACRAMENTO MARCH FOR BABIES:

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

Join the March of Dimes March for Babies. The money you raise funds important research and programs that help babies begin healthy lives. Sa, 4/28, 9am-noon.

Call for pricing. California State Capitol Building, 1315 10th St. west steps; (916) 922-1913; http://marchforbabies.org.

Kids’ Stuff KIDS DAY IN THE PARK: The annual Kid’s Day in the Park returns. A petting barn, train rides, kid’s stage and jump houses are part of the children’s entertainment. There will also be food trucks and health screenings for the whole family. Sa, 4/28, 11am-3pm. Free. Hagan Park, 2197 Chase Dr. in Rancho Cordova; (916) 273-5704; www.cordovacouncil.org.

ALL IN THE FAMILY SCRAPBOOK: Create a simple scrapbook and learn about decorative techniques to individualize the book using collage stenciling, embellishments and more to tell a family story. Sa, 4/28, 2pm. Free.

Carmichael Library, 5605 Marconi Ave. in Carmichael; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

YMCA HEALTHY KIDS DAY: The YMCA Sacramento service area is holding a community event to help parents begin thinking early about ways to keep their kids both physically and intellectually active this summer. It will feature a variety of activities, community organizations and resources available in the Sacramento area. Sa, 4/28, 10am-2pm. Free.

Sacramento Area YMCA, 2021 W St.; (626) 452-9622, ext. 116; www.ymcasuperiorcal.org.

WRITING WORKSHOP: The Sacramento Public Library invites writers to meet and hone their word craft.

Attendees are encouraged to bring samples of their writing to share, offer ideas and feedback on others’ projects, and participate in free-writing exercises to jumpstart their creativity. Open to adults and older teens of all writing levels.

Sa, 4/28, 2pm. Free. Antelope Library, 4235 Antelope Rd. in Antelope; (916) 264-2700.

Sports & Recreation GUIDED PHOTO WALK: Lead by trained volunteer naturalists and expert photographers, you will walk along the trail, learning about nature photography and how to use your camera to capture the best shots. Sa, 4/28, 9am-noon. Free. Cosumnes River Preserve Visitor Center, 13501 Franklin Blvd. in Galt; (916) 870-4317; www.cosumnes.org.

VAUDEVILLIAN NIGHTLIFE EVENT: This event, dubbed The Karosuel III: Ice Ages, features DJ Nomad, DJ Allz-One, and LuvMut; performances by the Movement Alliance and Locomotion Circus; go-go dancers, live artists and vendors. Sa, 4/28, 9pm-2am. $1220. The Stonehouse, 107 Sacramento St. in Nevada City; (530) 268-5248; www.bounce bazaar.com/karousel3.

MUSIC AND WINE IN DAVIS: Join Marty Cohen and his musical Sidekicks for an afternoon of fine wine and fine music. The Happy Thursday Event at Rominger West, will present the acoustic trio performing original acoustic folk-pop songs. Stone Soup Catering will be there with appetizers for a late afternoon snack. Sa, 4/28, 1-4pm. Free.

Rominger West Winery, 4 602 Second St., Ste. 4 in Davis; (530) 747-2044; www.romingerwest.com.

THE SHEETS: The Sheets are a San Francisco-based band that gained quite a lot of notoriety in the Bay Area in the ’80s. The group will take the stage in lead singer Chris Domino’s home town of Woodland for his birthday. Sa, 4/28, 9:30pm. $3.

The Stag, 506 Main St. in Woodland; (530) 668-8373; www.myspace.com/thestag.

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DON’T MISS! FESTIVAL DE LA FAMILIA:

Families throughout Northern California are invited to experience one of the most festive family cultural events in California. In honor of it’s 21st year, this multi-ethnic event will celebrate more than 21 Latino cultures all in one place. Su, 4/29, 10am-6pm. $7-$10. Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Blvd.; (916) 359-0594; www.Festivaldelafamilia.org.

Special Events 7-MILE HIKERS PARADISE: The trail begins by winding around the north end of Rancho Seco Lake along willow scrub and riparian marsh habitat. As the trail leaves the waters edge, it travels up onto a flat terrace supporting a mosaic of vernal pools and grassland habitat.

Su, 4/29, 8:45am-12:30pm. $10.

Rancho Seco Recreational Area, 14440 Twin Cities Rd. in Herald; (916) 870-4317; www.cosumnes.org.

K9 CANCER WALK IN ELK GROVE: Join Morris Animal Foundation and Northern California dog lovers for the Morris Animal Foundation K9 Cancer Walk at Elk Grove Regional Park. The event will benefit the Foundation’s Canine Cancer Campaign, an initiative to fund research to prevent, treat and cure cancer in dogs. Su, 4/29, 8:30-11am. $15-$30. Elk Grove Regional Park, Elk Grove Boulevard and Elk Grove-Florin Rd. in Elk Grove; (800) 243-2345; www.k9cancerwalk.org.

MEET AND GREET WITH TERRY SCHANZ: Join neighbors and their pets for a meet and greet with Terry Schanz, candidate for Sacramento City Council, District 4, and his dogs Winnie and Nelson. Bring your family and four-legged friends for free hot dogs and canine treats. Su, 4/29, 1-3pm. Free.

Land Bark Pet Supplies, 3200 Riverside Blvd.; (916) 448-8020; www.terry schanz.com.

WALK FOR A WORLD FREE OF M.S.: Walk M.S. is the rallying point of the multiple sclerosis movement, a community coming together to raise funds and celebrate hope for the future. Your participation in Walk MS moves the group closer to a world free of MS. Su, 4/29, 7:30am. Call for pricing. California Capitol, west steps, 10th St. between N and L streets; (800) 034-4486; http://walkcan. nationalmssociety.org.

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

Now Playing WILL THE BEST MAN WIN?: The Best Man portrays the ugly fight between two political candidates for the presidential nomination of their unnamed party. Each man has a secret in his past, which if brought to light would end his political

career. The original production of The Best Man ran for 15 months in New York in 1960, and it is amazing how little things have changed in the last 40 years. Su, 2pm through 4/1. $12-$14. Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento, 2425 Sierra Blvd.; (916) 489-4248; www.theaterone.org.

Concerts MOTHER LODE HOT JAZZ PARTY: The 34th annual Mother Lode Hot Jazz Party will fill the Jackson Rancheria Hotel with feel good music. Headlining is the Red Skunk Gypsy Band, who rock a room in fur coats with retro equipment. The party continues with Hot Jazz favorites Catsnjammer, Jasscity, Natural Gas, Midnight Rose and Pat Yankee. Su, 4/29, 11am-5pm. $20-$25. Jackson Rancheria Casino Hotel, 12222 New York Ranch Rd. in Jackson; (800) 822-9466; www.jacksoncasino.com.

BRAVO BACH FESTIVAL CONCERT 6: Jack D. Miller directs the Festival Orchestra and soloists.

Pianist Kevin Sun, plays Bach’s Keyboard Concerto in F Minor.

Violinist Chase Spruill, plays Bach’s Violin Concerto in E

Minor. The orchestra plays Handel’s Water Music Suite No. 1 and other pieces. Su, 4/29, 4-6pm. $30. St. Marks United Methodist Church, 2391 St. Mark’s Way; (916) 483-7848.

Symphony), presents all the glories of Rachmaninov’s magnificent second symphony.

Combined choirs including the Slavic Chorale join for Borodin’s thrilling Polovetsian Dances. Su, 4/29, 3pm. $20-$40. Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, 9399 Old Davis Rd. in Davis; (530) 823-6683; www.auburnsymphony.com.

WITH LOVE FROM RUSSIA: The Auburn Symphony, with guest conductor Peter Jaffe (music director and conductor with the Stockton

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DON’T MISS! MULCH MADNESS:

Volunteers are needed to help care for a park by applying mulch rings around the park trees.

Mulch is provided by the City of Sacramento Urban Forestry Service. The Sacramento Tree Foundation will have extra wheelbarrows, gloves and rakes. Meet at the big mulch pile behind the Shepard Garden and Art Center. M, 4/30, 5-6:30pm.

Free. Shepard Garden & Art Center, 3330 McKinley Blvd.; (916) 924-8733; www.sactree.com.

NOON CONCERT ON THE QUAD: The Sacramento City College Commercial Music Ensemble will be performing selections by the Who, the Doobie Brothers, Carrie Underwood, Feist and more. Tu, 5/1, noon-1pm. Free. Sacramento City College Quad, 3835 Freeport Blvd.; (916) 558-2243.

BOOK READING AND PANEL DISCUSSION: Join author Judie Fertig Panneton and several Sac State alumnae who are featured in Proud Americans: Growing up as Children of Immigrants. An informal panel discussion will follow the reading of some story excerpts and will focus on experiences and memories of growing up in the United States as children of immigrants. M, 4/30, 7pm.

Free. Sacramento State, 6000 J St., Hinde Auditorium; (916) 278-6997; www.csus.edu/onebook.

SOCIAL GAMES, FOOD AND DISCOVERY: Asobuyo’s GoBuyo

Every time May comes around, those bubbly lyrics from Queen’s “Bicycle Race” pop into my head: “I want to ride my bicycle / I want to ride my bike / I want to ride my bicycle / I want to ride it where I like.”

Yes, another May Is Bike Month celebration arrives this week, the eighth incarnation of the annual regionwide event. The event is more of a series of events than a single event. It could even better be described as a multiregion initiative to get people on bikes, promote bike culture and challenge citizens to ride as much as possible. Online, participants can pledge to ride miles, keep a log of miles covered during the month, find events and enter to win prizes. There are even team challenges where businesses and groups can compete to ride the most miles. Check out www.mayisbikemonth.com for the full details, but just to get you started, here are three events happening this week to help kick off the month.

1. Bike Month 2. Bike3.

BREAKING KICKOFF maintenance class AWAY This mini bike festival in Fremont Park officially kicks off the month. It will feature informational presentations on how to pick a bike, how to fix a flat tire and how to lock your bike properly. A few local bike shops will be on hand for free safety inspections. Coincidentally, it’s the first day of the seasonal Fremont Park farmers market, so you can shop for fresh produce while you’re there. Tuesday, May 1, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Attend this class to find easy ways to fix your bike. Bring your bike to Mike’s Bikes any Wednesday evening in May, and a mechanic will provide hands-on instruction. It’s a great way to get yourself and your bike in gear for the rest of the month. Every Wednesday in May, starting May 2, at 5 p.m. Mike’s Bikes, 1411 I Street; (916) 446-2453; http://mikesbikes.com.

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Nights are intimate social events that bring people together through play and discovery. If you’re looking for a social alternative that provides more depth and face-to-face interaction, then come and check it out.

Registration required.

M, 4/30, 7-9pm. Free. Blue Cue, 1004 28th St.; (916) 672-2112; www.bluecue.eventsbot.com.

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DON’T MISS! A CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE CABARET: Local

music director Graham Sobelman brings his cabaret show back to the Cosmopolitan Cabaret for one night. This month he features local actress and singer-songwriter Nanci Zoppi in a show they’ve been planning over the last two years. The audience will determine the outcome of the evening. Tu, 5/1, 7pm. $20-$25. The Cosmopolitan Cabaret, 1000 K St.; (916) 557-1999; www.california musicaltheatre.com.

Special Events CAR SHOW AND STREET FAIR: The “High Octane Street Fair” on Vernon Street in downtown Roseville features live bands playing every Tuesday, food, a beer and margarita garden, a farmers market and fun zone for kids. A classic car show features more than 120 classic cars from before 1973. Tuesdays, 5-9pm, through 7/31. Free. Downtown Roseville, Vernon St.; (916) 786-2023; www.2025events.com/ 5701/index.html.

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House of California is to serve for the welfare of Tibetans all over the world, to help Tibetan people in preservation of their culture and to promote their culture, educational and social advancement. Tu, 5/1, 5pm. Donations accepted. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 2620 Capitol Ave.; (916) 572-3276; https://thcal.us.

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Looking for something to do? Use SN&R’s free calendar to browse hundreds of events online.

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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SAC STATE SENIORS DIRECT DANCERS: Sacramento

State dance majors put their finals on stage with the Senior Dance Concert.

The annual performance presents original dance numbers by graduating seniors who have choreographed a piece, conducted auditions, and designed lighting and costumes.

5/2-5/6. $5-$8. Dancespace, 6000 J St. Solano Hall 1010; (916) 278-6368; www.csus.edu/dram.

Kids’ Stuff MY COLORS, MY WORLD/MIS COLORES, MI MUNDO: Using the book by Christina Gonzalez as inspiration, children will create small paintings featuring their favorite colors with watercolor and oil pastel. The paintings will be bound into their own book with a clever stick and elastic binding. W, 5/2, 5pm. Free. North Sacramento-Hagginwood Library, 2109 Del Paso Blvd.; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

Sports & Recreation BIKE MAINTENANCE BASICS: This class is an informative presentation that will teach you how to lube a chain, fix a flat tire, and make other minor adjustments to your bicycle. No experience necessary. This is not a hands-on class. W, 5/2, 7-8:30pm. Free. REI Sacramento, 1790 Expo Pkwy.; (916) 924-8900; www.rei.com/event/37588/ session/47377/06082012.

ONGOING Special Events TIMELESS FASHIONS: The Nevada City Elk’s Ladies of 518 is hosting a Fall Fashion Show. It features timeless fashions, from vintage to contemporary styles. Preregistration required. Through 9/30. $20.

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Double dates with Tom and his wife Mary were the introduction to Siam, long years ago. And although Tom’s pal has returned to Chiang Mai, Thailand, the caliber of the cuisine is still worthy of exploration.

It’s nice to renew the acquaintance, and it’s particularly heartening seeing that the bulk of the patrons here are of Thai descent.

Siam exists as an oasis in a somewhat forlorn stretch of Franklin Boulevard.

Across the street is the bank-owned Water Tech Systems company. Parking is iffy.

But all that pales once inside. The mustard-walled interior is well-lit and surprisingly spacious, dominated by a wall-length mural depicting soldiers, a palace and refreshing gardens in its different panels. To the right of the dark wood, canopied register—looking a little like a life-size spirit house—are two wooden maidens with palms pressed together greeting customers with a silent “wai.”

It could take many months to work through Siam’s lengthy menu. Maybe that was part of Tom’s attraction—he’s keen for a good challenge. Dinner is served all day, so the greater adventure is to skip the lunch specials despite a very reasonable $6.95 price tag that includes an entree, salad and a mound of Jasmine rice. There’s red, green, yellow and panang curry, pad Thai—of course—drunken noodles and, another 14 stir-fry options with tofu, chicken, pork, beef and eggplant. There are also big bowls of chicken and beef noodle soups, which are essentially pho. Again, at $6.95, a reasonable and filling entree.

If sticking to the lunch menu, the spicy rice with squid is monstrously portioned, flavored with a steady Thai burn that leaves lips and tongue tingling (that would be “mediumhot”). Chunks of red and green bell pepper and onion slices are buried throughout.

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Here, the combination is warm shrimp, calamari and mussels on the half-shell, scattered willynilly in a thicket of crisp squares of iceberg and jumbled with lemongrass, dry chilies, cashews, onions, mint and cilantro, with some squirts of lime juice for good measure. There’s probably enough for two, but it’s too good to share.

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Also intriguing is Moo Yang—barbecue pork with a sweet-and-spicy chili sauce reminiscent of Vietnam’s nuoc mam, a large salad and a generous bowl of rice. The pork is dead on, chewy but not shoe leather, and there’s plenty of it. From the specialties list, Invisible Duck is marinated, battered and served with sweet sauce. It comes without salad or rice and would be more enjoyed if the aforementioned were ordered along with it.

Servers are attentive but seem to be saving their reservoir of charm for regulars. The large pint-sized glasses of Thai ice tea come in handy for dowsing the heat. A little like Tom, Siam is still a delight after all these years. 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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Very authoritative. American.

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

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

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Make your pee smell The wacky Stockton Asparagus Festival is this weekend, Friday, April 27, through Sunday, April 29; 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.—hours of spear-tastic fun.

Now, I love asparagus—especially the sweet Delta variety that briefly graces our markets. But if you really love these prehistoric-looking veggies, then get your tickets now for the festivities.

In Asparagus Alley, you can find spargle in burritos, tri-tip sandwiches, pasta, and deep-fried batter. Last year, more than 36,000 pounds of asparagus were sold. Chef demos and competitions will

end with a Chef of the Fest coronation, and

Canstruction artists will create sculptures out of canned goods, later to be donated to Stockton’s Emergency Food Bank. (Visit www.canstruction.org to see some of the incredible uses of cans as sculpture.)

The Asparazone for kids will feature a circus, sea lions and Tyson the Skateboarding Bulldog. At the “Spear-its of the Valley” structure, you’ll find cheladas (Budweiser and Clamato—yum?) and Stockton-based Hula Girl Beverages. For some reason, none of its flavors includes asparagus. I think it’s missing an opportunity; don’t miss yours!

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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

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

Land Park/ Curtis Park

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

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

They are nuanced. Brewed with artisanship. In some cases, for hundreds of years. There’s the usual panoply of French dip, hot pastrami, Reuben and so on.

Among the signature offerings is The Gobbler. Turkey, natch.

Cranberry sauce, natch. Then red onion, several roma tomato slices, a thicket of green leaf and pepper jack cheese, all shoehorned into a big baguette. Brewpub. 2743 Franklin Blvd., (916) 454-4942. Dinner for one: $10-$20. ★★★1⁄2

North Sac

Enotria Restaurant and

Wine Bar 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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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. ★★★★

Rancho Cordova Ichi Maki Ichi Maki looks decep-

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

Craving some Cambodian My Cambodian-American fiancée and I have been together for nearly eight years now. After developing an early fondness for her mother’s cooking, a recent monthlong visit to Cambodia solidified my love of Cambodian food. After returning from that trip, I discovered that a Sacramento grocery store called Chhun’s Supermarket (6701 Franklin Boulevard) offers Cambodian hot-food items, along with produce and Asian groceries. But I still craved a hot, sit-down Cambodian meal. Thankfully, my prayers were answered when a cigarette-and-alcohol-scented karaoke hot spot called Bamboo Noodle House (6070 Stockton Boulevard) changed ownership a few months ago. Bamboo now serves quality homestyle Cambodian fare including Phnom Penh-style noodles (often dubbed “Cambodian pho”), lok cha (a stir-fry noodle dish) and lok lak (a peppered beef stir-fry). And no, Cambodian food isn’t just a botched parody of Thai or Vietnamese food: It’s a centuries-old cuisine that packs bolder flavors than both of them.

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Smell like Grandma Yu-Be Moisturizing Skin Cream Normally, I’d be loathe to want to smell like a senior citizen, but there’s something oddly comforting about the medicated aroma that Yu-Be Moisturizing Skin Cream gives off. This thick, gylcerin-based ointment, invented in the ’50s by Japanese pharmacist Yoshikiyo Nowatari, is enriched with vitamin E, vitamin B2 and camphor. It’s the latter ingredient that gives it a pleasantly grandmalike smell. Lather it on dry hands, elbows, lips—whatBEAUTY ever—and it’s almost like Nana herself dropped by to give you a hug and make it all better. Yu-Be products are available via Amazon.com and Sephora, or through the company’s website, where a mere $4.95 nets you a nifty little sampler pack. www.yu-be.com.

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Get down with the swine La Esperanza Bakery The line tells the tale. On weekends, there’s often one snaking out the door of La Esperanza Bakery. Some people are buying tamales, some are buying 50-pound bags of masa, but FOOD most are here for the carnitas. Sold in fist-sized glistening chunks for $6.25 a pound, this puerco is some of the tastiest around. If you really want to get down with the swine, La Esperanza has sheets of house-made chicharrones the size of a large pizza. Take some carnitas to your next potluck along with some tortillas (made in house) and a pint of the green salsa.

You’ll be the hit of the party. 5044 Franklin Boulevard, (916) 455-0215.

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Read ’em and drink ’em ThinkHouse Collective Book Club Pub Crawl There are book clubs. And there are pub crawls. But what about a book-club pub crawl? That’s what the people at ThinkHouse Collective, a Sacramento-based co-working community, decided to do. Each month a new book is posted on the collective’s website, and a corresponding pub crawl is scheduled for the fourth Thursday of that month. The books are normally centered around networking and building a business. Although ThinkHouse, which offers office space for people on the go, is membershipBOOKS & BREW based, anyone can attend. The crawl starts at the ThinkHouse Collective, located at 1726 11th Street, and then ventures off to a scheduled list of bars. See the group’s website for more information on the book and brews. http://thinkhousecollective.com/category/books.

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I met a 40-year-old man online, and he asked me out for dinner.

He lives out of town, but drove up to take me out. We had an amazing date. He kept saying how happy and lucky he was to have met me. When he was leaving, he kissed me goodnight and hugged me like I was the love of his life. Then he told me that he was able to meet because he was headed to Tahoe. He planned to stay in a cabin with a group of mostly younger women. He had not met any of them yet but answered an ad on Craigslist that said they needed one more person to share a ski cabin. Two weeks have passed with no word from him. I really thought this guy and I had potential.

Don’t use one date to dive into the murky waters of misery. Yes, you and this guy had potential. It was fulfilled by the date. Be grateful! He sounds like a man after this own heart. Dinner with you was a convenient diversion on the way to his destination.

His objective, a few nights in a cabin with complete strangers, tells you a lot about his character. He may have snapped up the room share because it fit his finances. He could be a ski junkie. Or he imagined playing the leading man in a ski-babe

Don’t use one date to dive into the murky waters of misery. fantasy. Does it matter? Not at all! Your life intersected with his for a few hours. The experience allowed you to scout out a few more qualities to develop further in yourself and to seek in a man worthy of a long-term commitment. Let it be that simple.

My wife has had two miscarriages, but she wants to keep trying to have a baby. Both of those losses were devastating for us. She was depressed for so long, I thought I would never get her back. I have tried to tell her that I don’t want to keep trying,

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Sweetheart, you are depressed and understandably so. You have suffered the devastating loss of children you planned for and welcomed into your life. You are also burdened by the ruptured intimacy in your marriage. Your wife’s desire for children has temporarily deafened her to your needs. This is not a situation that can be resolved without a neutral third party to help you sort through the pain. Working with a competent marriage therapist, you and your wife can rediscover the capacity to pursue a path together. Without support, you will likely continue to see each other as obstacles instead of partners. That behavior leads couples to divorce. Your inclination is to leave hints in that direction, but don’t abandon your marriage.

Invest yourself in surrendering to the messy task of loving someone who, at the moment, is difficult to love. Yes, I mean you.

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You often write about the importance of close friendships with people of the opposite sex.

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Nothing, it’s just a learning curve for some of us. So practice these principles: 1. See each other sans gender. You are human beings first and female or male second. 2. You must treat each other as equals.

3. Interact beyond stereotypes.

Each of you can initiate plans, for example, or pay. 4. Abstain from sexual activity together.

Sex interrupts the rhythm of friendship, sprinkling expectations, jealousies and emotions that have no place in a platonic friendship. Ω

Meditation of the week: After 20 years of dating, Jerry Seinfeld observed, “That’s a lot of being fascinated.” How do you distract yourself from your life purpose?

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Lisa Ross has been thinking about Ray Bradbury’s short story “All Summer in a Day” since she saw a PBS adaptation of it in an eighth-gradeEnglish class. This weekend, Ross and the Red Bucket Dance Theatre, a company she by Jim Carnes co-founded in 2010, will premiere a fulllength dance based on the work.

Bradbury’s story takes place on Venus, where a young Earth girl named Margo and her parents have come to live. In the story, Venus is cloudy, and it’s raining all the time—except for a two-hour period every seven years when the sun shines. Margo, still “new” from Earth, remembers the sun, though her young classmates have never seen it. She tells them of this wondrous thing, and they, in jealousy, decide to deny her the privilege of seeing it again by locking her in a closet. Ross’ dance uses this background to explore the world of technology.

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All Summer in a Day, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday; $15. Red Bucket Dance Theatre at the California Stage, 2509 R Street; (916) 541-0053; www.redbucketdancetheatre.org.

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The program is “an interactive journey,” Ross said, including a Skype-equipped Lunar Lounge in the theater’s lobby and downward projections created by Teague Fortis in the performance space. Ω

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“Are we as a society becoming more connected or painfully isolated?” Ross said in a recent interview with SN&R. “The show was, in a way, a desire for me to discuss the idea of communication, not only within the [dance] company but in society.”

Ross conceded that there can be “issues” in a collaborative outfit such as Red Bucket with “three intelligent and original thinkers” at its core (Ross, dancer-choreographer Tung “Tony” Nguyen; and Nolan T’Sani, a dancer, choreographer and teacher).

“Part of what Red Bucket has been struggling with is how to be on the same page, creating a space where individuals can come in with an idea and together make something out of nothing.”

For All Summer in a Day, Ross said, “I definitely had the idea for the show, but in the process, Tony … had ideas, and some were developed out of my giving the dancers ideas and they came together on the stage.”

After apartheid Sorrows and Rejoicings

Apartheid in South Africa is a topic that, for many, hits home hard. The 1990 release from prison of Nelson Mandela signaled a key shift in the country’s political structure and what would happen later in South Africa under his presidency. Celebration Arts’ current production, the legendary Athol Fugard’s somewhat problematic 2001 play Sorrows and Rejoicings, takes place in 1999 and deals with the social changes that came from the years during and after apartheid ended. James Wheatley directs.

The story centers on the deceased white liberal poet Dawid (Jeff Bagley) and his two lovers: his white English wife, Allison (Carolyn Gregory), and his black African mistress, Marta (Alana Mathews). They must discuss their intertwined lives, connected through Dawid, in flashbacks, and must also accept the fate of the political actions and racial divisions that forced them all apart.

Mathews takes the cake as Dawid’s mistress, having a neurotic knack for keeping his room exactly as he left it. All players give impassioned performances, including the nearly mute, light-skinned illegitimate daughter, Rebecca (La Keisha Star Mondy).

Gregory’s posh Englishwoman is evident in the character: the clothes she wears, the words and manner in which she talks.

Everything shouts “English.” Unfortunately, both Gregory and Bagley’s English accents leave everything to be desired. When accents are good, they add another layer to the play. When they are bad, they detract severely enough that scenes drag persistently and the actors’ performance suffers.

Nonetheless, this Fugard one-act is a powerful statement about the affairs of South Africa, and one that deserves to be seen.

—Maxwell McKee

Sorrows and Rejoicings, 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday; $8-$15. Celebration Arts Theatre, 4469 D Street; (916) 455-2787; www.facebook.com/CelebrationArts.

Through May 26.

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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 12:30 & 6:30pm; Th 6:30pm; F 8pm; Sa 2 & 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 5/8. $15-$38.

Sacramento Theatre Company, 1419 H St.; (916) 443-6722; www.sactheatre.org. J.H. Big Idea pulls out all the stops in this murder-for-hire dramedy, and when it says “no children admitted,” take it seriously. Tracy Letts’ play about a sociopathic hit man and the dysfunctional family that hires him has profanity; verbal, physical and sexual violence; and stupidity galore.

It’s also engaging, provocative and thoroughly adult theater, under the fine direction of Scott Divine and with a fantastic ensemble cast (Rick Eldredge, Wade Lucas, Shannon Mahoney, Justin Muñoz and Kat Wolinski). Th, F, Sa 8pm; Su 2:30pm. Through 5/5. $10-$15. Big Idea Theatre, 1616 Del Paso Boulevard; (916) 960-3036; www.bigideatheatre.com. P.R.

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CATS production of this Tony and Pulitzer prize-winning show avoids the “yellowface” that marred the film version, instead delivering a delightfully surprising postwar comedy. Directed by Diane Fetterley, the show gently mocks American stereotypes and explores cultural miscues in U.S.-occupied Japan. Th 7pm; F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm.

Through 5/5. $23-$28. Community Asian Theatre of the Sierras in the Nevada Theatre, 401 Broad St., Nevada City; (530) 273-6362; www.catsweb.org. J.H.

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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.

City Theatre at the West Sacramento Community Center, 1075 West Capitol Ave., West Sacramento; www.citytheatre.net. J.C.

Short reviews by Jim Carnes, Jeff Hudson, Maxwell McKee, Kel Munger and Patti Roberts.

Longer reviews of these plays are available online at www.newsreview.com/sacramento/home.

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Authorship of Chico & Rita is attributed to Fernando Trueba and Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, but that credit must also belong to composer Bebo Valdés, the by famed Cuban pianist and bandleader who wrote Jonathan Kiefer this film’s original music and gave it a life story to gently jazz up.

We might as well assume that Valdés, or a version of him, once spied an enchanting young singer in some Havana nightclub and said, “Man, she’s just what I need,” meaning both personally and professionally. And that a half-century-spanning whirlwind of romance, ambition, world travel, and (creatively useful) heartbreak ensued.

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by Emar Xor Oña) and Rita (voiced by Limara Meneses), whose capricious careers-at-cross-purposes love affair, set like a jewel within the momentous mid-century Afro-Cuban jazz profusion, seems surprisingly genuine—especially for a cartoon musical. Really, like any movie, or any worthy jazz band, this is an ensemble effort, equally impossible without the contributions of animator Tono Errando and designer Javier Mariscal, who also share directing credit with Trueba (who won an Oscar for 1992’s Belle Epoque). The point is that they’ve got a very tight ensemble, well-matched with the given repertoire.

“Yesterday’s Melodies” is how one softspoken radio deejay describes it in a present-tense prologue, putting on a song that takes old-man Chico back—his fingers instinctively arpeggiating on the windowsill—to the tuneful deco clarity of his young man’s life in Havana, 1948. And the simple retro-mural style of animation, mostly drawn by hand, is eager to receive him there, which is all the better for getting into this movie’s special groove of languid sensuality. In a live-action alternative, all the come-ons and cigar smoke and Caribbean breezes surely would be too much to take.

Chico remembers how he and Rita separately wound up in New York, and how their paths crossed there; the paths themselves offer no

shortage of visual and aural pleasures. The same goes, later, for Los Angeles, Paris and even Las Vegas. Making the most of cameos by musical luminaries including Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Tito Puente, and Chano Pozo, Trueba and company manage somehow never to let their story seem stalled out.

Of course, historical-period appropriateness also extends to pat Hollywood formula—complete with all manner of montage, such as neon town painting, whirling-headline pileup and lonely urban roam over stringy interlude to tender flashback highlight reel. This not actually being a Hollywood movie seems to make a difference.

(See also: The Artist.) Possibly some enrichment is inherent in the process of cultural translation, but maybe it’s just the difference between affection and desperation.

One reason for its Oscar nomination must be that Chico & Rita clearly is a cartoon for adults. Not in the way of recent Pixar Animation Studio films, where concessions are made to kids’ interests as well, and certainly not in the way of, say, anime porn. The art itself is plainly rudimentary by the standards of the former, but the content, certainly by contrast to the latter, seems quite sophisticated.

There is nudity here, and even eroticism, which only can occur with a preliminary investment in actual human feeling. And for all the outward décor, there is inner-life directness.

If Chico & Rita has politics, they must be inferred from romantic nostalgia for prerevolutionary Cuba and from flat resignation to racist, pseudo-sophisticated urban America.

If Chico & Rita has politics, they must be inferred from romantic nostalgia for prerevolutionary Cuba and from flat resignation to racist, pseudo-sophisticated urban America. Similarly, the movie’s style might or might not itself be a claim that shrill 3-D digital complexity has tainted something fundamental about why we respond to animated stories in the first place.

But in any case, Bebo Valdés now is nearly a century old, both a product and co-creator of a golden cultural age. A more strenuously current framework for any tale built around his music would be wrongheaded and pretentious. Thus the real and basic beauty of Chico & Rita is the keen understanding shared by its core creative combo: that the music was and is the thing, and that it’s still as fresh as ever. Ω

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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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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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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, inconclusive ending and an obnoxious, irrelevant musical score by Amit Poznansky. J.L.

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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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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

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Larry (Sean Hayes), Curly (Will Sasso) and Moe (Chris Diamantopoulos) set out to raise $830,000 to save the orphanage where they’ve lived (unadopted) for 35 years. Writerdirectors Peter and Bobby Farrelly and co-writer Mike Cerrone do a reboot-cum-homage to the long-running slapstick franchise, a sort of movie equivalent of a tribute-band performance.

Such things are almost always a mistake (remember 1994’s The Little Rascals? Me neither.), but the Farrellys defy the odds. They understand the structure and spirit of the old Stooges shorts, but even more, their three stars are the pitch-perfect incarnations of Larry Fine and Curly Howard and Moe Howard—after all, the slightest mistake of body, face or voice would have sunk the whole show. Larry David, Jane Lynch, Sofia Vergara and others offer game support. J.L. 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.

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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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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 hardboiled dialogue, and he digs into it with a relish that’s hard to resist. The outlandish story makes the movie interesting, and Pearce makes it fun. J.L.

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On his last tour in Iraq, a Marine (Zac Efron) finds a picture of a woman (Taylor Schilling) that becomes a good-luck charm for him. Back home and mustered out, he walks from Colorado to Louisiana to find her, then can’t find words to say what brought him to her—but they fall in love anyway.

Another maudlin, contrived movie from a Nicholas Sparks novel, this one adapted by Will Fetters and directed by Scott Hicks (Shine).

Sparks and Efron’s less demanding fans may be entertained by the Hallmark-card photography (heavy on golden sunsets, shimmering waters and lush foliage) and the general moony romantics. Efron and Schilling are OK in themselves, but there’s little chemistry between

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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.

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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.

Four couples (Michael Ealy and Taraji P. Henson; Romany Malco and Meagan Good; Jerry Ferrara and Gabriel Union; Terrence J and Regina Hall) travel the rocky road of romance, with the women taking tips from Steve Harvey’s book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man. Keith Merryman’s script isn’t an adaptation of Harvey’s book, it’s a commercial for it, and a none-too-subtle one; Harvey makes several guest appearances, of course, and we half-expect him to say, “Operators are standing by.” Director Tim Story huffs and puffs trying to juggle all the stories, and things tend to bog down in the third act. Still, the actors are all extremely appealing (Henson and Union, as usual, particularly shine), and the movie goes down easily enough. Kevin Hart, as a newly divorced pal of the guys, has most of the best lines. J.L.

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MUSIC View for the road Sacramento’s Musical Charis chimes in while on tour Musical Charis, one of the city’s more popular and prolific bands, is currently out of town on a self-booked, 63-day tour of the United States. by Called the For Love of Music Tour, the band Nick Miller started out with locals Zuhg in Arizona and nickam@ Texas, then shot through the deep South, newsreview.com Florida, up the East Coast to New York City, then through the Midwest on its way back home in a 1990 Ford Econoline cargo van.

Sounds like a cool, epic journey—complete with $40 hotel stays, last-minute gigs at openmics and nice paydays. The band’s Blake Abbey and Jessie Brune caught up with SN&R via email to share their view from the road.

One thing we are sorely lacking in the Sacramento music and art scene is the ability to properly promote the shows that are going on in town. Any time a flyer for a concert, event or art show is posted in Sacramento, it is ripped down by the city within 24 hours. It’s demoralizing for artists to spend $2 on a colorful, eye-catching poster just to see it thrown away by the city. In over 90 percent of the cities we play in, the streets are covered in show posters. … In Lincoln, Neb., for example, there are designated kiosks on several street corners with flyers, not to mention the countless bulletin boards in each local business with flyers and event calendars.

The result? Packed-out bars, venues and galleries.

People say your band plays too many local shows.

Members of Musical Charis and Zuhg on the morning news in San Antonio.

Do you make good money while touring?

We spend six months in advance booking our tours. In some cities, they’ve never seen anything like our show before, and they are more likely to give us a $500 to $1,000 guarantee, because we’ve traveled so far to play there and it’s an event to look forward to.

Tell me about an awesome experience on the road.

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We played in Rockford, Ill., at a place called the Kryptonite [Bar]. There was a crazy storm, and it was a Sunday night, the bar was completely dead except for the bar owner and a couple of his friends. At the end of the night he gave us $150 just because he loved our band so much from the year before and was glad to see us again.

You’ve seen a lot of music scenes throughout the nation.

What’s the best thing the local scene has going for it?

The best part of the Sacramento scene is that there are so many venues to play that all offer something special and unique. Some cities in America only offer three to five venues in town and it is sometimes difficult to find locals to play with.

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We play music every day because we love it. We also treat it as a profession, as a means to make a living at doing what we love.

Somehow, bands embrace the idea that they should only play a gig per month to increase “draw,” but that means you would only play 12 shows per year! At that rate, it would take your average band five years to play as many shows as we play on a two-month tour. This not to say that we’re any better, or that this is a competition; it’s just to show that the “one-show a month” logic is off.

Can you think of any other job that requires only 12 days of work per year? It’s absurd. We play a healthy 150-plus shows per year, both local and national, and though it’s a lot of hard work, the payoff is worth it.

Tell me the best meal you’ve had on the road so far.

Magnolia Café in Saint Francisville, La., [and the] barbecue plate and jambalaya. Or Record Bar in Kansas City, Mo.: best pizza. Home Team BBQ in Sullivan’s Island, S.C.: best wings and barbecue ribs.

What do you miss most about Sacto when you’re on the road?

We miss our friends and family. We miss the Beatnik Studios. Jessie misses working at Capitol Garage and teaching music lessons to her students. We miss our band that can’t tour with us: Jeremy Dawson, Brian Jennings, Byron Tobin, Isabel Solomon, Jarrod Affonso, Jason Martin, Erik Fidel, Dave Middleton, Shawn King, Jack Matranga and everybody else whom we’ve had the pleasure of playing with. Ω

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Die-hard Bruce Cockburn fans will always argue which album should be recommended to those learning his repertoire. With so many records dating back as far as 1970, the choice is often difficult. I was introduced to Cockburn via the magnificent Dancing in the Dragon’s Jaws, dating back to 1979. From the album’s opener, “Creation Dream,” to the long-winded “No Footprints,” there really is no dud on this one. He’s received countless accolades from his native FOLK ROCK Canada and has proven himself one of the best songsmiths on the planet. A ticket to this show, no doubt, would be your best introduction possible.

314 W. Main Street in Grass Valley, www.brucecockburn.com.

Some genres refuse to fade away, and ska is a perfect example. Flip the Switch, one of the few ska bands in the area, SKA has kept its music buzzing throughout Sacramento for more than 10 years now. Keeping true to the classic ska formula, Flip the Switch boasts upbeat tempos mixed with a three-piece horn section that includes trumpets and baritone sax. Plus, the group does a cover of Nelly’s “Hot in Herre,” so how can you deny that? If your ska sense is tingling, join the band along with the Secretions, the Barfly Effect, and the ever-satiric and hilarious Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits. 1050 20th Street, www.facebook.com/fliptheswitchska.

—Eddie Jorgensen

With songs like “Punk Funk Skunk in the Trunk” and “Interspecies Love-Rhombus,” you might think Sacramento’s Former Animals is some goofy punk band. In fact, the group is neither goofy nor punk. It is strictly weird, experimental music—instrumental songs that meander through bizarre guitar finger-tapping patterns, reverberating noise-scapes, EXPERIMENTAL dance grooves and prog-rock jams. Some parts repeat, others don’t. Why? No reason. It’s all organized improvisation. Rumor has it the group has a singer now. Go check out how F.A. managed to wedge a singer’s voice into its musical anarchy. 2416 16th Street, www.facebook.com/formeranimals.

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Every time there’s a Blow Up USA event, local deejay Roger Carpio messages with this uncontrollable enthusiasm. Yes, I’m gonna write it: He blows up for Blow Up, London’s longstanding Brit-pop club night, (since 1993), and its stateBRIT POP side incarnations, including what are now regular parties in Sacto. This Saturday’s Blow Up 916 club night includes performances by Cellar Doors (pictured) from San Francisco, deejay sets by Carpio and Blow Up founder Paul Tunkin, cool ambience by local light-show extraordinaire George Holden, art by Galine Tumasova and even some Ben Sherman giveaways. 1517 21st Street, www.facebook.com/blowupusa.

—Nick Miller

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SATURDAY, APRIL 28

TownHouse Lounge, 8 p.m., $7

The Javalounge, 8 p.m., $6

Luigi’s Fun Garden, 7 p.m., $5

Center for the Arts, 7 p.m., $45-$50

Cellar Doors

Former Animals

Flip the Switch

Bruce Cockburn

1417 R Street, Sacramento, 95814 www.aceofspadessac.com

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Mickey Avalon

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Damage Over Time

6/17

My Darkest Days

6/19

Mayer Hawthorne & The County

6/22 Arden Park Roots 6/28 Who’s Bad (Michael Jackson Tribute) 6/29 Johnny Craig 7/17

Reverend Horton Heat

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Moonshine Bandits

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Great White

8/25 Full Blown Stone 9/5

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Binay Pathak If you missed Anoushka Shankar’s show earlier this month, here’s another mashup of Indian and flamenco music. Local Hindustani (Northern Indian) singer and teacher Binay Pathak, from Sacramento’s Sohini Sangeet Academy, will perform with the Beats, who blend flamenco and Sardinian music.

Flamenco, of course, comes from the Romani people (gypsies) of Spain, whose roots trace to India. While I’ve yet to hear Pathak perform, I have a soft spot for WORLD cross-cultural world music as well as Ghazals, those infinitely emotive (often eternally sad) poem-songs—the kind you hear during sad parts in Bollywood films.

Ghazals are definitely in Pathak’s repertoire.

2791 24th Street, www.sohinisangeet.org.

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Yo La Tengo

Sacramento State Union Ballroom, 7:30 p.m., $10-$15

24th Street Theatre, 3 p.m., $15

As soon as I posted a link to the upcoming Hieroglyphics show on Facebook, I knew someone was going to say it: “They’re not the same without Del.” It took HIP-HOP about 15 minutes. Don’t get me wrong, Del the Funkee Homosapien—a guest on many Gorillaz tracks and creator of many solo albums—is the biggest success of the group. But, in my opinion, it’s about time the group tries to see what it can do without him. Members Casual, Pep Love, Souls of Mischief, Domino and DJ Toure are talented in their own right. It’s time for them to come Full Circle. 6000 J Street, www.hieroglyphics.com.

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I’ve always loved Weezer’s earlier albums and feel Rivers Cuomo is simply a great talent who lacks heart. I believe Matt Sharp, former Weezer bass player and leader of the Rentals, is less talented, but all heart. To boot, he INDIE ROCK always seemed to surround himself with great talent; Saturday Night Live veteran Maya Rudolph was a touring member, and in 2005, Sara Radle— opening for Girl in a Coma this Monday—was a part of the Rentals with Ben Pringle of Nerf Herder and Ryen Slegr of Ozma. Even if I hadn’t already loved Radle’s solo work (I do), in Sharp I trust.

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For more than two decades now, Yo La Tengo has redefined the concept of indie rock, melding blistering feedback with sweet jangly pop, artsy new wave with honky-tonk, and classic rock with dreamy soundscapes. The band’s current Freewheeling Yo La Tengo tour pays homage to its members’ encyclopedic knowledge of rock for a INDIE POP show that’s equal parts VH1 Storytellers and MTV’s Unplugged. Expect the band to dig deep into its famed bag of covers (this is the trio that released an album called Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics, after all). Even better, YLT will ask for audience requests. 314 W. Main Street in Grass Valley, www.yolatengo.com.

—Jonathan Mendick

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BADLANDS

Tipsy Thursdays, Top 40 deejay dancing, 9pm, call for cover

Fabulous and Gay Fridays, 9pm, call for cover

SUNDAY 4/29

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 4/30-5/2

Saturday Boom, 9pm, call for cover

Sin Sunday, 8pm, call for cover

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

BLUE LAMP

1400 Alhambra, (916) 455-3400

TY’QUAN, NICK BIANCO, ADDER, LANDON WORDSWELL, GARIN REESE; 9pm

TURBONEGRA, RAD!, BEER CAN, URBAN WOLVES; 9pm, call for cover

WANNABE BARNABY, SOUTH LOT, STREET URCHINZ; 9pm, $5

Wax Appeal: DJ and hip-hop night, 8pm, no cover

THE BOARDWALK

9426 Greenback Ln., Orangevale; (916) 988-9247 SIK, KICKUINDATEEF, 2HK; 8pm, $10-$12

MARS, THE DRP, CYCOTIC, TROLL, LIL

HOODS, HAVENSIDE, HAMMERFIST, MAYA OVER EYES; 8pm, $10-$12

YUKMOUTH, DRU DOWN, LEE MAJORS, WORK DIRTY, REGIME; 7pm, $25-$27

BOWS AND ARROWS

Adult Spelling Bee, 8pm, $7-$15

G. GREEN, BURGERS, 8pm, $5

CENTER FOR THE ARTS

BRUCE COCKBURN, 8pm, $45-$50

KEN WALDMAN, KEVIN CARR & RAY BIERL, EVIE LADIN BAND; 8pm, $18-$20

CLUB 21

Salsa Fridays, 9pm, $5

Industrial and EBM dance night, 9pm, $3-$5

BOB WOODS, 8pm, $7

DJ Willis M, 9pm, $5

2003 K St., (916) 448-8790

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LA FLEUR FATALE, HONYOCK, MONDODECO; 8pm W, $5

Latin music and Top 40, 9pm, $7

Big Band Swing DJ, 8-11pm Tu, $6; Top 40, R&B, House, 10pm W, $7

THE COZMIC CAFÉ

Open-mic, 7:30pm, no cover

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1016 K St., (916) 737-5770

VERDUGO BROTHERS, CHELSEA BELLA, Deejay dancing, 9pm, call for cover DIEGO VALLE, FREDDY SILVA; 9pm

FACES

Deejay dancing and karaoke, 9pm, $3

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

FOX & GOOSE

1001 R St., (916) 443-8825

BRENDAN PHILLIPS, JENN RAWLING & BASHO PARKS, KEVLAR JAMES, 8pm

FRIENDSHIP, VANDERSLICES, 50 WATT HEAVY, RICH DRIVER; 9pm-midTHE ROOFTOP UNDERGROUND; 9pm, $5 night, $5

THE GOLDEN BEAR

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

HARLOW’S

THE SKATALITES, THE INCITERS; 8pm, call for cover

TAINTED LOVE, 10pm, $15

THE AGGROLITES, 10pm, $12-$15

ANTHONY COLEMAN II & SIMPLISTIC BIG BAND, 7pm, $10

JAVALOUNGE

KELSEA LITTLE & THE 78S, MIKEY MUFFINS; 8pm, $5

FORMER ANIMALS, DESARIO, BARREL FEVER; 8pm, $6

THE HUNGRY, CALENDAR KIDS; 4pm, $5; HUMAN TOYS, 8pm, $6

VAMPIRATES, THE COMMUNITY; 8pm, $5

LUNA’S CAFÉ & JUICE BAR

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

MARTY COHEN, ROCCO, LOOP 243; 8:30pm, $6

DAVID HOUSTON & STRING THEORY, GABE NELSON; 9pm, $6

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

MARILYN’S ON K

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

NIMBLESCRIMBLES, RELIC 45, THE THREE WAY; 9:30pm, $8

OLD SCREEN DOOR, MASSIVE DELICIOUS; 9:30pm, $7

BOB WOODS DUO, 5:30pm Tu, no cover

NAKED LOUNGE DOWNTOWN

World’s Worst Doctors Comedy Improv, 8:30pm, $5

EMILY KOLLARS, OMP, ABBEY RHODE; 8:30pm, $5

ISAAC BEAR, TAO JIRIKI, CLOUDS ON STRINGS; 8:30pm, $5

Jazz session, 8:30pm M, no cover

OLD IRONSIDES

SUTTER JUNKIES, BELL BOYS, GORGEOUS GEORGE; 9pm, $5

REBEL PUNK, BLACK MACKEREL, SANS SOBRIETY; 9pm, $5

SOULCIALITES, T-DUB & THE INTERNATIONALS, THE INSIDE STORY; 9pm, $5

STRAPPED FOR CASH, NUANCE; 7:30pm M; Karaoke Tu; Open-mic, 8:30pm W

THE PALMS PLAYHOUSE

MUMBO GUMBO, 8:30pm, $20

JIMMY THACKERY & THE DRIVERS, 8:30pm, $20

THE PARK ULTRA LOUNGE

Dirty Kitty with DJ Eddie Edul, 9pm-2am, $15

DJ Peeti V, 9pm, call for cover

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1901 10th St., (916) 442-3504 13 Main St., Winters; (530) 795-1825 1116 15th St., (916) 442-7222

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

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

Dragalicious, 9pm, $5

Open-mic, 7:30pm M, no cover; Pub Quiz, 7pm Tu, no cover

GIRL IN A COMA, PINATA PROTEST; 9pm M; DIEGO’S UMBRELLA, 8pm W

Asylum Downtown: Gothic, industrial, EBM dancing, 9pm, call for cover

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AUBURN RODEO, SADDLEBACK RIDGE; 9pm, $5

PJ’S ROADHOUSE

Karaoke with DJ Jimmy, 9pm, no cover

DJ Trent, 9pm, no cover

Lotvlove charity event, 8pm, $5

PO’ BOYZ BAR & GRILL

Jam with Roharpo, 7pm, no cover

POWERHOUSE PUB

HONEYHONEY, 7pm, $10

THE PRESS CLUB

THE FOXTAILS, 50 WATT HEAVY; 8:30pm, Top 40 w/ DJ Rue, 9pm, $5 $5

140 Harrison Ave., Auburn; (530) 885-5093 5461 Mother Lode, Placerville; (530) 626-0336 9580 Oak Avenue Pkwy., Folsom; (916) 987-2886 614 Sutter St., Folsom; (916) 355-8586 2030 P St., (916) 444-7914

INSPECTOR 71, 10pm, $10

SOPHIA’S THAI KITCHEN 129 E St., Davis; (530) 758-4333

STONEY INN/ROCKIN RODEO 1320 Del Paso Blvd., (916) 927-6023

PETE STRINGFELLOW, TWO STEPS DOWN; 9pm, $10

SUNDAY 4/29

NICK MOSS BAND, 9pm, $12

Blues Jam, 2pm, no cover

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

ROLLING HEADS, 10pm, $10

PINKIE RIDEAU, 10pm, call for cover

DJ Alazzawi, DJ Rigatony; 10pm Tu, $3; END OF DAYS, GERANIMO; 9pm W, $5

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

Sunday Night Soul Party, 9pm, $5

DJ Andy Garcia, 8:30pm M, $3; MARK SEXTON BAND, 9pm W, $5

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

BIRDS & BATTERIES, FOXTAILS BRIGADE, SHENANDOAH DAVIS; 9:30pm, $5

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

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

Country dance party, 8pm, no cover

SKYNNYN LYNNYRD, 5pm, $5

ROAD 88, 3-7pm, $5 Blues jam, 4pm, no cover; CROSSING THE RIVER, 8pm, $5

5871 Garden Hwy, (916) 920-8088

TORCH CLUB

X TRIO, 5pm, no cover; JELLY BREAD, 9pm, $5

PAILER AND FRATIS, 5:30-7:30pm, no cover; KAYE BOHLER, 9pm, $8

JOHNNY KNOX, 5pm, no cover; LAURIE MORVAN, 9pm, $10

TOWNHOUSE LOUNGE

Live music and deejay dancing, 9pm, no cover

PERSEPHONE’S BEES, 9pm, $5

Pop Freq w/ DJ XGVNR, 9pm, $5

PETE STRINGFELLOW, WILL CRAIG; 9pm, $5

CHRIS GARDNER BAND, 9pm, call for cover

1517 21st St., (916) 613-7194

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She joined People Reaching Out and Walk Sacramento to become a Youth Block Reporter and started improving her community by raising awareness about the problems plaguing it and starting a dialogue among community members.

She heard about the Youth Block Reporters last year while participating in another summer program offered

by People Reaching Out. She and a couple of her friends completed the training with Walk Sacramento then began conducting walk audits, observing their environment and pinpointing problem areas.

“Kids who walk to school always have the danger of cars because of speeding and lack of crosswalks and sidewalks,” Nina said. “Litter doesn’t necessarily make it unsafe, but people feel unsafe because it looks dirty.”

Nina values her education and wants to feel safe going to and from school. She is on the honor roll in eighth grade and excels in advanced math classes – though she is quick to point out that she isn’t a “nerd” because she is also outgoing and has many friends. After school, she and many of her classmates walk to community centers and after school programs to further their learning and Nina worries about the safety of these routes.

Becoming a Youth Block Reporter enabled Nina to take action on her concerns. Nina and her friends, along with some new block reporter friends, photographed and documented the streets surrounding their school and homes. Documenting the problems made her more aware of them, even some she never really noticed before, like the prevalence of graffiti.

“It really disappointed me,” she said. “It is a good community. We have a lot of good people. But the look of the graffiti really brought our image down.”

After their audit, Nina and her peers created a PowerPoint presentation of their photographs and observations and presented it during a community meeting. Nina thinks the project has impacted the neighborhood – she is already observing cleaner streets and less street fights. She believes raising awareness has made people try to improve conditions.

“I think people are changing,” said Nina. “I’m noticing a lot less violence in our community. People are not littering or tagging as much. The community is aware of it and they want to help.”

Nina hopes the work of the Youth Block Reporters will lead to big changes in the future, like sidewalks along 65th Street so she and her friends can walk to school without worrying about arriving safely – she would rather focus on staying on the honor roll.

Neighborhood walking conditions impact Nina’s health too. She would like to take more walks with her family’s three dogs to get exercise but doesn’t feel safe enough to do it regularly. She enjoys walking with her father, but he is only available to walk with her on the weekends.

Creating a Walkable Community Founded in 1998, Walk Sacramento is a nonprofit community organization working to create walkable communities. For 30 years, People Reaching Out has promoted healthy communities by empowering youth to make healthy choices. The two organizations’ missions converge around the issue of safe pedestrian routes for youth like Nina.

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FOR THE WEEK OF APRIL 26, 2012

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “True life is

lived when tiny changes occur,” said Leo Tolstoy. I agree. It’s rare for us to undergo rapid, dramatic transformations in short periods of time. That’s why it’s delusional to be forever pining for some big, magic intervention that will fix everything. The best way to alter our course is slowly and gradually, by conscientiously revamping our responses to the small daily details. Keep these thoughts close at hand in the coming weeks, Aries. Be a devotee of the incremental approach.

Step by step. Hour by hour.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “What

people really need and demand from life is not wealth, comfort or esteem, but games worth playing,” said psychiatrist Thomas Szasz. I love that thought, and am excited to offer it up to you right now. You have been invited or will soon be invited to participate in some of the best games ever.

These are not grueling games foisted on you by people hoping to manipulate you, nor pointless games that exhaust your energy for naught. Rather, they are fun challenges that promise to stretch your intelligence, deepen your perspective and enhance your emotional riches.

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

ceivable that you’ve gotten a bit off track? As I close my eyes and ask my higher powers for a psychic vision, I get an impression of you staring at a blurry image of a symbol that is no longer an accurate representation of your life goal.

Now of course there’s a chance that my vision is completely unfounded. But if it does ring at least somewhat true to you—if it suggests a question worth asking yourself—I invite you to meditate on the possibility that you need to update your understanding of what your ultimate target looks like.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): From an

astrological point of view, it’s prime time for you to attend a networking extravaganza or collaboration spree. Likewise, this is an excellent phase in your long-term cycle to organize a gathering for the close allies who will be most important in helping you carry out your master plan during the next 12 months. Have you ever heard of the term “Temporary Autonomous Zone”? It’s a time and place where people with shared interests and common values can explore the frontiers of productive conviviality. It might be a dinner party in an inspirational setting, a boisterous ritual in a rowdy sanctuary or a private festival for fellow seekers. I hope you make sure something like that materializes.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): To begin one of his

performances, comedian and musician Steve Martin ambled on stage and told his audience what to expect. “Before every show,” he said, “I like to do one thing that is impossible. So now I’m going to suck this piano into my lungs.” That’s the kind of brag I hope to hear coming from you sometime soon, Leo—the more outrageous the better. Why? Because I’d love to see you cultivate a looser, breezier relationship with your actual ambitions. To make boastful jokes about wacky or farfetched goals might inspire you to be jauntier and friskier about those real ones. And that would rouse a burst of fresh motivational energy.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The text for

this week’s oracle comes from Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), a great American statesman who, after escaping slavery, became a leader of the abolitionist movement. “Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation,” he said, “are people who want crops without plowing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. …The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand.” Please apply these thoughts to your own situation, Virgo.

You have entered the liberation phase of your cycle.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I’m about to list some declarations that I hope will come out of your mouth at least once in

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3. “No one’s ever done that before.”

4. “Squeeze my hand when it feels really amazing.” 5. “It’s like we know what each other is thinking.” 6. “Can I have some more, please?”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A political

strategist told me one of her most important rules: To win an election, you have to help your candidate choose the right fights. I think that would be an excellent guiding principle for you in the coming weeks, Scorpio. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will be getting invitations to spar, joust and wrangle. Although it might be exciting to leap into each and every fray with your eyes blazing, I suggest you show careful discernment. Try to confine your participation to those tangles that will downplay your weaknesses and highlight your strengths.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In

the famous children’s book The Little Prince , the hero lives on an asteroid with three volcanoes, two active and one dormant. One day he decides to leave home and travel to other realms. Before departing, he meticulously scours all three volcanoes. “If they are well cleaned out,” the narrator reports, “volcanoes burn slowly and steadily, without any eruptions.” I recommend that you take after the Little Prince, Sagittarius.

It’s high time to attend to the upkeep of your volcanoes. Make sure they will burn slow and steady in the coming months, even when you’re not at home.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): One

of the classics of ancient Sanskrit literature is the Kama Sutra, which gives practical advice about erotic love. The most popular edition of the book offers instructions on eight kinds of kisses and 64 sexual positions, with additional tips on styles of embracing and caressing.

This would be an excellent time for you to get inspired by information like that, Capricorn. Your relationship with the amorous arts is due for expansion and refinement. You don’t necessarily need to rely on book learning, of course. You could accomplish a lot of empirical exploration simply by getting naked and firing up your imagination.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Singer-

songwriter Tom Waits was strongly influenced by Bob Dylan’s down-to-earth album The Basement Tapes. “I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in,” Waits testifies. “The noise and grit” of Dylan’s rootsy, intimate songs, he says, creates a mood of “joy and abandon.” That’s the spirit I wish for you in the coming weeks, Aquarius.

Wherever you are and whatever you’re doing, get down to the gritty, organic core of things. Hunker down in the funky fundamentals. Hang out where the levels of pretension are low and the stories are fresh and raw.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You’re not

really breaking the rules, right, Pisces?

It’s more like you’re just testing their elasticity; you’re helping them become more supple and flexible. I’m sure that sooner or later people will thank you for how you’re expanding the way the game is played. It may take a while, but they will eventually appreciate and capitalize on the liberties you are now introducing into the system. In the short run, though, you might have to take some heat for your tinkering and experiments. Try not to let that inhibit your eagerness to try creative risks.

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Main squeeze It’s a familiar tale: Boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, boy confides to girl he wants to quilt. That’s the story in a nutshell of Two Accordions’ Joe Gallegos and Ruth Hansen. Now married, their interest in the craft began with a gift from Gallegos’ grandmother. It was a simple design with clean lines—not a stereotypical, calico-pinwheel oldlady blanket. And so are the designs of the Accordions, whose quilts are a perfect fit with contemporary and mid-century modern aesthetics.

When did you first think about quilting?

Gallegos: I had this quilt my grandmother made me. I had it since I was like 13 or 14. It was predominately black, and it had these stripes of blue and red and turquoise, and she told me that it was called an Amish quilt, and I thought it was kind of odd, because … I didn’t know Amish quilts were real simple, real plain, real geometric. … But the thing was, it was falling apart and I realized I had to fix it and I didn’t know how. ...

So I started to make squares for [a quilt] and never finished, because [Ruth and I] were together, and we were being in love and stuff. Then I told her what I was doing. I didn’t know what the hell she would think.

Hansen : Well, the first time that you told me, we were at work [at University Art], and I don’t even know if we were dating yet, but we liked each other, so he told me in strict confidence. I couldn’t tell the other guys that he wanted to quilt. I didn’t think that was crazy.

What’s the collaborative process like?

Hansen : We kind of design differently.

We’re just lucky that we have the same aesthetic. I usually let Joe pick the color palette—he’s really great with colors—and with that same color palette, we both design two different quilts, and we just go from there. …

He’s starting to do more of the quilt tops and giving them to me to quilt, which I really enjoy doing. So I’m glad he’s finally relenting control of his baby to me to finish.

Gallegos : Finishing the quilt is the most tedious part in this whole process. Making the top part for me is kind of fun. The process of combining the whole thing together is kind of messy, because we use this heavy natural cotton, so there’s a lot of particles, and you can breathe them in, and it’s really gross.

Hansen : It’s fun, but it is tedious. I will literally be at the machine for five hours straight before I finish a full queen-size quilt, but you get into the groove.

You held a workshop in February.

How did that go?

Joe Gallegos (left) and Ruth Hansen are clearly in love with each other and with quilting.

What did you do?

Gallegos: We designed a little 24-by-36 [inch] throw.

Hansen : Just so they’ll learn how to cut the fabric, to iron it properly, to see how cotton does stretch a little bit when you iron it improperly; just the basics of quilting.

Are you having another workshop?

Hansen : Definitely. One the next holiday, which is in May, Memorial Day.

What materials do you use?

Gallegos : Just cotton and all solid [colors].

At this point, I don’t have any interest in using prints or synthetics.

Hansen : We have been exploring silk screening, so if anything, we’d use our own design. … I think a lot of the quilters right now are just about sensory overload, because they can do so much with the sewing machine now. They’re all computerized. It’s just a lot of stuff going on at once, where I feel like ours is like an exhale, [an] exploration of negative space.

Hansen : It was a lot of fun. We had six people—who weren’t friends or family members! (Laughs.) It went really well. Joe is a great teacher.

Gallegos : Ruth was a great teacher.

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Do you make other items, too?

Gallegos : We do coasters and bar mats. …

We do placemats. If we can think of other quilted products to make, we will definitely indulge in it. Like, I made a laptop cover for [a friend]. He didn’t seem interested at all. …

I’ve definitely been toying with the urban poncho. I bet if we get one person who’s kind of cool to put on a poncho, and wear it around town— Hansen : If we had all the time in the world, we would make anything quilted, but I think we’re just trying to focus on our designs. … I think quilts, in general, have to be treated like a work of art. Even though we use our quilts every day, we take really good care of them.

Gallegos : I do hate seeing them on walls. I mean, I understand if you have a 200-year-old thing, but I don’t like the idea of people putting blankets on walls. They’re supposed to be there to keep you warm.

It’s not comforting to see a wall with a blanket on it.

What if the wall is cold?

Gallegos : If you lived in the tundra, I’d totally understand.

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